Chapter 502: Bombing the River Dam

"Commander, another group of planes is coming towards London, with more than 200 planes!" A staff officer reported to Dowding in a panic.

"Again?!" Dowding really wanted to bang his head against the wall and faint, so that he would not be bothered by it. The 50 fighters sent out to meet the enemy yesterday were completely wiped out, and there were only a few surviving pilots. If this happened a few more times, he would really become a commander without troops!

But he couldn't keep these fighters and pilots and wait for Britain to fall. He could only hold the mentality of breaking the jar and sending 100 fighters to meet the enemy.

This time the order was issued a little slower, and the German group of planes had already flown to the edge of the city, and an air battle broke out over London.

Guntrar bit a Spitfire fighter, holding the joystick steadily with both hands. The Spitfire in the sight was getting closer and closer. Lall exhaled lightly and pulled the trigger suddenly.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The 20mm machine gun fired a few shells, short and rapid. He was no longer a rookie who would hold the trigger tightly once he fired, and he knew how to save bullets. The tracer bullets of the 20mm cannon flew towards his target with bright tails. Just when Lar was about to add a kill count, the Spitfire suddenly rolled sideways, and the shells flew past its tail.

"Hey?" Lar raised his eyebrows slightly, but immediately followed the opponent's roll and chased him closely. The FW190's roll sensitivity was the strongest among all World War II fighters, and he easily caught up with the opponent again. However, with the lesson of the empty shot just now, Lar was not in a hurry to fire, and was ready to close the distance between the two sides, while the opponent kept changing his flight direction in an attempt to shake him off.

The advantage of the Spitfire fighter is that the turning radius is smaller, and this advantage is used by British pilots to shake off the opponent's fighter, just like the German fighter pilots used rolls to shake off the British fighter pilots.

"Maybe this guy is also an ace." After chasing for a long time without finding a chance to fire, Lar muttered softly.

Just as the opponent made another turn, Lar's fighter suddenly accelerated and maneuvered under the Spitfire fighter, and then pulled up again.

This is a very classic pursuit action, the professional term is Low Yo-Yo, a standard "trick" of using vertical maneuvers to take shortcuts and shorten the attack distance. When using this technique, you must be unexpected, or when you have other friendly aircraft to cover you, otherwise it is easy for the opponent to seize the opportunity and shoot down at a more reasonable altitude.

In fact, this tactic is to give up your own energy first, release potential energy and take shortcuts to seek a short attack moment. If the opponent is prepared, then this set of actions is equivalent to giving up your own altitude and potential energy in advance, and you will be at a clear disadvantage.

The opponent's pilot did not seem to expect Lar to do this suddenly. Caught off guard, the left wing of the fighter was hit by a 20MM cannon and a big hole was made. It soon lost control, entered a spiral fall state, and fell to the ground.

After a while of the air battle, a British fighter pilot suddenly exclaimed. "Oh my God, what are they doing?!" As soon as he finished speaking, he was blown up by a German fighter plane swooping down from high altitude. However, his words attracted the attention of other British pilots. They looked around and finally found a group of Stuka bombers hovering over the Thames in the distance.

Stuka bombers dived down one after another, dropping large bombs on the belly of the aircraft to the Thames, or to be more precise, the Thames Dam. "Oh my God! Command center! Command center! The Germans are bombing the Thames Dam! Did you get it? They are going to blow up the Thames Dam!!"

The people in the London Wartime Headquarters who received the news were shocked. None of these people were stupid. They guessed the Germans' intentions in less than a second.

Flooding London! !

The most terrible thing is that in the past, it would have been flooded. But now it is wartime, and the German artillery bombards London day and night, and the people in London are hiding in underground air-raid shelters. Even their wartime headquarters is more than ten meters deep from the ground!

Dowding shouted in panic. "Quick! Quick! Stop them, don't let them blow up the dam!!"

The British pilots certainly knew what the consequences would be if the dam was blown up. Unfortunately, they were really powerless!

Churchill and others also knew that they could not stop them, and the Thames Dam would definitely be destroyed. Churchill ordered decisively. "Quickly notify air-raid shelters everywhere to close the doors!"

A staff officer said anxiously. "Mr. Prime Minister, the Germans blew up the power station yesterday, and many places lost electricity. The ventilation system of the air-raid shelter has no electricity. Once the door is closed, the people inside will suffocate to death!"

Churchill's head rang, and he barely stood up with his hands on the desk, and shouted. "Then let the people leave the air-raid shelter and move to higher ground!!"

"But what if the German army launches a large-scale bombing?" Let alone the ongoing bombing by the German army, what if the German army launches a large-scale bombing after the people evacuate from the air-raid shelter? How many casualties will that cost?

"!!" Churchill felt as if something exploded in his brain, his eyes went dark, and he slowly fell down.

"Prime Minister! Prime Minister!"

Fortunately, after Churchill fainted last time, doctors have been following him these days. Immediately, someone laid Churchill down on the ground and checked him again. His face became extremely solemn. "The Prime Minister suffered a cerebral thrombosis and must be allowed to rest!"

At this time, a 250-kilogram high-explosive bomb dropped by a Stuka bomber over the Thames River hit the dam hard.

"Boom!" With the explosion of high-explosive bombs, countless solid clods of soil exploded instantly!

The entire dam shook violently.

In fact, one bomb is enough to blow up the dam. If such a gap is not closed in time, the remaining part of the dam will soon be washed away by the rapid tide. But now, the Stuka bomber group has no intention of leaving, and is still swooping down to drop bombs.

"boom!"

Another bomb hit the river dam, and the entire river dam collapsed completely!

It was the time of high tide, and the raging tide was rolling violently upstream! In later generations, when the tide was strong, it could almost overflow the top of the river dam. This kind of overflowing tide could bring harm to London, let alone now. When such a big gap is blown out of the river dam, the whole of London will be flooded by the tide!

The British pilots in the sky shouted in despair. "The dam, the dam is destroyed!"