Chapter 1802 Ambush 4
"What's going on?" Suddenly, Lieutenant Colonel McCarten found that his plane shook violently, and then a series of red photoelectrics flew up from under his feet. He couldn't see the direction of the attack due to vision problems. He could only accelerate and pull up the plane in an attempt to break away from the contact. According to his experience, the effective range of the anti-aircraft machine gun was very short, so as long as he ran fast, it would not be a big problem. But unfortunately, this time, the Germans were deployed around He fired two 40MM cannons and four machine guns, and after shaking off the life-threatening whip behind him, he was caught red-handed by the oncoming 40MM cannon!
This time, this British royal ace pilot who has shone brightly in history was unable to turn decay into magic again. A shell hit the cockpit, and the violent explosion simultaneously shattered him and his plane into pieces. , but the German pilot in front of him who was lucky enough to escape didn't know that he had "cheated" a British ace to death!
The worst thing in a war is that one's side steps directly into the opponent's preset battlefield without knowing it. Every step is calculated and targeted by the opponent. The British's seemingly large 4 fighter squadrons were depleted by the attacks of Bavarian air and ground forces. At this time, the Red Baron's interceptor force will directly face the British bomber force, and the remaining 40 or so large bombers are cowering in the air like fat sheep surrounded by wolves. When they saw the K4M interceptor approaching quickly from a distance, the British felt that their blood froze! And as the spearhead of the entire fleet is a fighter jet painted in gold-red paint!
"It's the Red Devil! He came to the Western Front!" Although Richthofen spent most of his time on the Eastern Front and the Balkans, his name spread throughout the Allied pilots, especially his cool livery. , became synonymous with death in the eyes of Allied pilots!
"This is the easiest hunt I've had in three months." Looking at the scattered Camel fighter jets around him that were entangled in his own battle, he looked at the heavy bombs in front of him struggling to prepare for the group again. of bombers, Richthofen said happily. And the four 20MM cannons at the nose of his plane are already hungry!
Compared with the battle between fighter jets, the competition between bombers and interceptors pays more attention to protection, firepower and speed. It gives people a sense of head-to-head confrontation, but in fact, before the end of World War II, the confrontation between bombers and interceptors was like this. The American B17 will be equipped with a large number of armor plates, and will be controlled through a unified internal fire control system. Several machine guns. The German interceptors will also be equipped with hundreds of kilograms of armor protection, and at the same time, they will put as many larger-caliber aircraft cannons and even 280MM rockets on the aircraft as possible! Under normal circumstances, if there is no fighter cover, bombers will be very cheating when facing interceptors...
For example, now! After comprehensive optimization, the K4M interceptor looks like a fire hedgehog with its whole body on fire! There are four 20MM machine guns on the nose, and there are two 12.7MM machine guns on the fuselage. In the back seat driver's position, there are two 12.7MM machine guns that are controlled by the back seat driver (radio)! Although this kind of firepower is not as good as an F190A8 assault aircraft in World War II. (In addition to the four 20MM cannons and two machine guns on the 190A8 assault aircraft, it can also be equipped with two twin 20MM cannon pods.) But now, this kind of firepower is enough to tell the British what it means to be shattered into pieces. Got it!
The first wave of impact was a formation of more than 20 interceptors that forcibly broke through from the front of the British bomber force. When the two sides approached 600 meters, the British could clearly see a tide of flames quickly coming from the front of the German fleet. Looking from the front, the steel storm composed of thousands of artillery shells easily shattered the British bomber at the front into pieces.
Accompanied by a series of explosions, countless fragments and flames jumped up and down in the British bomber group. The powerful firepower instantly disintegrated the British resistance and psychological defense lines. The British pilots desperately operated the aircraft, trying to escape from the group.
How do you say something? Facing the lion, you just need to run faster than your teammates. So some people hope to avoid being hunted by their opponents through luck, but unfortunately, this time they are not facing lions, but Germans. The opponent's goal is not to fill their stomachs, but to kill them all!
More than 20 interceptors successfully shattered the entire British bomber group in the first wave of attacks. Behind the interceptor fuselage, there was a path of destruction extending out of flames and debris. Just the first round of collision, At least 8 more British bombers were directly destroyed, and at least 10 more British bombers suffered more than moderate damage.
However, no matter how hard the British bombers who were still struggling in the air tried, their end had been decided. Most members of the British bomber force, which had penetrated about 180 kilometers into the German defense line, would never make it back alive! Such a far distance is enough for the "Tracers" to kill them several times!
"It seems that our bait on the ground is in vain. The British bombers can't fall on our heads at all." Looking at the sky in the distance that has turned into a pot of porridge, listening to the gunfire coming from the distance A German ground air defense personnel said relaxedly as he watched the flame flowers blooming in the sky from time to time.
When the British bomber group finally collapsed, another squadron of interceptors also entered the battlefield. They were the Rangers, responsible for chasing the fleeing British bomber force and intercepting the K4M interceptors with a maximum speed of more than 220 kilometers. Under the attack of the aircraft, even if the bombs were dropped, most of the British bombers would not escape. These ferocious aerial hunters easily caught up, and then easily killed the British bombers worth tens of thousands of pounds in a few seconds at a distance of about 500 meters. Click to kill!
In the final battle, which the British called the "Torch Massacre", only 8 of the 72 bombers returned safely. The remaining bombers were either shot down or injured and made forced landings and became prisoners of the Germans. There were also a small number of bombers. It struggled to fly to its own side, and some members were saved, but the plane was completely destroyed. Of the nearly 80 Camel fighters that accompanied the cover, only 20 returned in the end, and three entire fighter squadrons were wiped out! In the entire battle, the British lost a total of more than 430 crew members!
In the army, this is nothing. Maybe one hour, a small battlefield is enough to make both sides pay such a heavy price. In the navy, it is nothing, it is just the number of personnel on a cruiser. But this is the Air Force! Every pilot is very valuable! This is equivalent to almost completely abolishing the air cover of at least two armies!
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