Chapter 1120: Giant Slayer
"Mr. Colonel, my brigade and I will send you in, and the rest will be up to you." The voice of an American pilot was heard on the radio of Haidongqing Brigade Captain Wang Yue.
"No problem, everything goes according to plan, we'll fly 1,000 feet above the opposing bombers, and then launch the first wave of attacks, you just have to make sure that you can stop the opposing fighters before launching an attack." Wang Yue thought for a while and said.
"Good luck to you, the opponent's self-defense machine gun is not vegetarian." After a moment, the other replied. At this time, in front of the Entente and Huaxia fighters were as many as ten squadrons of escort troops, which were distributed in the front, flanks and above the Lancer squadron, and the Germans, based on previous experience, let some fighter squadrons enter the field in advance to disrupt the opponent's formation at a long distance. Moreover, this wave of interception forces does not have any advantage, and it is almost impossible to completely drag down the opponent's hundreds of fighters, but fortunately...... The fighter squadron responsible for the cover only had to block it temporarily, and then the fighter squadron that took off from the sea to the west would crush the German escort forces with them!
"It's too much, it's too messy!" This was the first feeling after the fighters of both sides bumped into each other. "I was surrounded by planes from front to back, from Austrians, from the Allies and Italy, and fighter planes passed me from time to time. My wingman and I tried to bite into one of the planes and firmly fit it into the crosshair with the scope, but just as I was about to get closer to knock it down. Two tongues of fire slashed diagonally behind me, and I subconsciously rolled to the left and dodged to the side, while my wingman was one step slower and was hit. Wait until I get rid of my opponent. I looked back and saw at least 5 planes behind me, and I didn't even know that it was the guy who shot the black gun. Mayuse, who was fighting for the first time, recalled..........
Fighter groups from both sides collided together. Fighting in a small airspace, where a full squadron engagement in just a few minutes immediately turned into a chaotic scuffle, radio in this era was inherently unreliable, and in the heat of battle, only the wingman could keep up with his long plane. As for squad coordination and squadron coordination? Let's wash and sleep. Nearly two hundred fighters engaged in the air, with both sides firing from machine guns and cannons at a distance of less than 300 meters. Countless arc-shaped projectiles flew through the air. Even some people don't have time to tell whether the plane in their scope is the other party's or their own. (It's normal to recognize the wrong plane in an air fight, especially in a heated dogfight.) Whenever many rookies see a plane fall into their field of vision, they subconsciously aim the nose of the plane at the other party, and then pull the trigger.
From the ground, from time to time, there are planes dragging smoke to the ground. Even within seconds, several fighters were hit by multiple tongues of fire fired from the volley. The pilot didn't even have time to parachute before he turned into a ball of fire. As the war progressed, more and more new weapons were used in the war, and the new shells with white phosphorus incendiary would explode and burn as soon as they hit the aircraft, and many aircraft that were not equipped with self-sealing fuel tanks could almost turn into a fireball ......... once hit.
The determination of Italy and the Entente terrified the Germans, and when both groups were fully engaged, they were still unable to completely stop the offensive of the other side, and under the cover of escort fighters, the interceptors of the four squadrons finally entered the intended course. A squadron of Rhino volleys and a squadron of Seagull fighters flew past from an altitude of about 500 meters above the opposing bombers, and then opened the magazines and threw out small "anti-aircraft bombs" one after another, in just a few tens of seconds. One by one, small parachutes with small parachutes tied to their tails fell in pieces, blocking the path of the German bombers! …。
"This TM is a bomb!" At first, the Germans thought they were dazzled, but when the timed fuse detonated the bomb, they found that these small things that changed and fell were so terrible, and the fragments produced by bombs with a charge of about 1 kilogram could cover a range of more than 20 meters. Although it is almost impossible for these things to hit when they fall, they will only hit when they are particularly unlucky. But it is undeniable that the Germans, who faced this attack for the first time, were still under great pressure at this time! I'm afraid that these little guys will collide with their own planes.
Explosions rang out in the air constantly. "Fireworks" continued to bloom in the air, and the German bomber group crossed this blockade line with a hard head, and at first they were able to maintain their formation, but when one of the hapless bombers was unloaded by the shrapnel of two bombs, some people who were not strong enough were shaken! Although the order says that it is absolutely not allowed to disband the formation, when it comes to actual combat, there is a question mark over how much such an order can be carried out. After all, the rockets and hedgehog-like firepower of the German assault aircraft in the face of history were ...... Quite a few American bomber crews were also unable to maintain their composure ..........
Finally a German bomber tried to dodge the bombs that began to slide from under the upper tribe. At this moment, they were very close to the target, and the dissolution of the formation could also be interpreted as preparing for bombing. He began to break out of formation, and his formation, perhaps thinking it was about to start bombing, may have begun to disperse with the same idea of dodging the attack. Anyway, these bison, who were originally huddled together and covered each other with their own dense firepower, have now become lonely bison. And the bison that have left the protection of the herd have become the best targets for the lion pack!
A German tail machine gunner vigilously operated the twin 13mm machine gun in his hand, and after the last battle, he knew very well that the opponent liked to bite the tail to attack, and he vigilantly aimed the machine gun in his hand diagonally upwards at the aircraft hovering in the air. But he didn't notice a figure slashing from below him, quickly entering his field of vision, and after a few seconds, he could hear a sound like an air hammer hitting a steel plate, and then the entire plane was constantly shaking.
A rhinoceros interceptor successfully cut through the lower part of this bomber, and attacked this bomber with two 20mm oblique cannons, because the formation has been dispersed, the belly of this plane has a large dead angle, so there is no way to face this guy who bites like a locust, and the two 20mm cannons fired a series of explosive shells and burning shells at a rate of fire of more than 600 rounds per minute, several of which pierced the belly skin, and ignited the fuel tank inside, in just a few seconds, There was a loud bang, and the plane broke in two from the middle of the fuselage, and then exploded into ......... fragments.
However, more people still like to use the powerful nose firepower to eliminate these big guys. Especially when pilots find it difficult to pose a threat to their frontal armor with their 13mm machine guns! A Seagull interceptor bit a DO11 heavy bomber. Four 30mm guns let out a deafening roar, huge brass shells were thrown out of the gouging ports, and four tongues of fire nearly 2 meters long flew straight towards the target 300 meters away. The huge recoil force made the pilot feel the plane tremble, and he even wondered if it would break the plane if it continued like this.
4 guns fired nearly 100 shells in a matter of seconds, and the dense rain of bullets took an oval-shaped walk to completely bring the poor bomber in front into its own range, the explosion of shells and the cracking of the body were constantly heard, and the powerful 30mm cannon smashed the tail of this bomber in just a few seconds! The plane's crew was still trying to keep their balance, but it was certain that no matter how hard they tried, the bomber would never return to Germany. …。
Without the cover of fighters, in the face of these fierce and thick-skinned interceptors, the bombers immediately became the weaker side, and the fire of the machine guns was still fierce, but this kind of thing was really nothing to a twin-engine aircraft in heavy armor. If they wanted to pose a serious threat to these big guys, then the Germans would need to replace at least 13mm machine guns with 20mm machine guns. But this is just talk, a bomber has more than 10 self-defense machine guns (there are more in the United States, and there are fewer HE177s in Germany. )。 Even if we replace all the machine guns with 10 20mm guns, one 20mm machine gun plus spare ammunition and all kinds of miscellaneous pieces...... The weight is more than 60kg. 10 guns are at least more than 600 kilograms, not to mention economic problems, this weight gain alone is a troublesome matter, not counting the weight of the gun carriage. If you do all the calculations, it is estimated that you can replace a bomb of more than 800kg..........
Of course, there are unlucky ghosts everywhere in real combat, and a twin-engine fighter that can theoretically defend against an opponent's attack may actually be hit by an opponent's 13mm machine gun at close range to the bulletproof glass, and if the angle is a little stronger. There is a high probability that the pilot will be interrupted by a direct stop. And the engine and cockpit are fine, it doesn't mean that there are no problems elsewhere, so when the opponent's dense fire is concentrated on the wing and fuselage parts, it is still possible to be shot down because of too many bullets. In the first stage of the melee between the two sides, after the Haidongqing Brigade shot down no less than eight heavy bombers, four fighters were shot down and two were seriously damaged and forced to return.
Seeing that as soon as he entered the target area, his own bombers began to fall down one by one, Grim finally couldn't sit still. Each of these bombers had 6 crew members, and the cost of this bomber was about 500,000 marks! As a result, it took less than a minute for the other side to break the crew that the empire had painstakingly cultivated for several years and the planes piled up in marks into a pile of pieces. Grim felt his heart bleeding, but fortunately, the fighter jets arriving from elsewhere were able to stop the interceptor. A large number of fighters surrounded these rough-skinned and thick-skinned guys and constantly attacked ..........
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