A bright moon hangs high in the night sky, illuminating the dark and dreary world with a soft pale yellow light.

At the edge of the woods, a handful of bloated and lean Resistance members, led by a Union Army mechanic, inspect and maintain the planes before take-off. In a nearby field camp, Weiss and his new partner, Captain Paddy, a Federalist flight captain who had been ordered to support the resistance behind enemy lines, surrounded a kerosene lamp and made a final discussion of the flight route on the Union's standard military map.

It didn't take long for everything to be ready. Weiss put on his fur hat and stretched out his hand to Captain Paddy: "This is our first air raid behind enemy lines, it is of great significance, I wish us success!" ”

Coming to the first air raid in enemy-occupied territory, Captain Paddy personally flew the plane, and the degree of attention is needless to say. He shook Weiss's hand and grinned, "Although my driving skills are a little worse than Nikolai's, you can rest assured, Colonel, I will bring you back safely!" ”

Weiss smiled: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent." ”

Speaking of which, the young flight captain is actually the younger brother brought out by Nicolas Lebold, and knowing that Weiss and Nikolai are classmates and lifelong friends, Captain Paddy's friendliness towards him has automatically risen to a perfect score. In the eyes of this flight officer, Nikolai is an important founder of the Federal Flying Force and a great flying ace, but it is a pity that the plane crashed in the first battle of Aocheng, and there is no news of him, which makes people sigh a lot.

Of course, leaving Nikolai aside, Captain Paddy and his companions were already full of admiration for the armed resistance in the enemy-occupied area, so they came voluntarily. In their opinion, only the most loyal and courageous patriots dared to resist in the face of the guns and bayonets of the Norman Empire, and after arriving at the secret camp of the "Lorraine guerrillas", they saw the intelligent and industrious side of the resisters, and admired the group of resisters behind enemy lines. Here, military production is carried out in a secret state, and in addition to conventional firearms and ammunition, there are also mortars, mines, time bombs and other guerrilla warfare weapons. Now with the help of aircraft engineers and mechanics, and with the blueprints of fighter jets, it won't be long before this resistance group can even produce combat aircraft in small batches!

The first air attack focuses on mental attacks, and it needs to use the maze step to confuse the enemy, so the strategy of single-plane attack is adopted. Flying from Federal-controlled territory, this behind-enemy task force is manned in the back seat by technicians rather than trained bombardiers, and needs to be picked from among the resisters to take on this role. This time, Captain Paddy was driving, and Weiss was responsible for observing the bomb dropping, although the number of joint exercises was not much, but the most basic tacit understanding was already possessed.

With a loud roar, the E-bomber began to glide over the grass outside the woods. This biplane is considered the second generation of combat aircraft installed by the federal army, and its speed, range, and bomb load are much higher than the original "toy plane", and it is equipped with a mechanical bombing sight and bomb controller. As a result, the Federal Flying Unit has significantly improved its hit efficiency when attacking enemy air warships or ground targets. During the battle, a total of 35 attack aircraft squadrons and 74 bomber squadrons were invested, and with the combat strategy of "ants bite elephants to death", the invincible Norman Empire flying fleet was defeated, thus winning this crucial battle to save the fate of the Federation.

Despite the much improved performance and efficiency, the E-bomber has not undergone qualitative changes compared to its predecessors in terms of construction. The open cockpit is noisy and cold during the flight, and even wearing extraordinarily thick fur is not enough to withstand the freezing cold. After a while, ice slag had accumulated on Weiss's face, even so, the fighting spirit in his heart had not diminished in the slightest, and the fighting spirit was always burning in his chest.

Fighting snakes and fighting seven inches, the first air raid, Weiss set the target at the headquarters of the 1st Marine Division of the Norman Empire, and it is also the most important personnel and material transit point of the Norman army in the Lorraine area, the mountain city of Slien. In an era when navigation was largely compass-based, there were natural technical difficulties in flying at night, but the Normans' vigilance provided an excellent reference for the two "Night Sky Rangers" – the bright searchlights provided excellent guidance to Slane before they even approached.

Speechless all the way, holding back a little uncomfortable, seeing that the target was in front of him, Weiss patted Captain Paddy on the shoulder: "Let's go to the airport in the south of the city first, and see how our luck is tonight!" ”

Captain Paddy turned his head sideways: "Picking peaches three times, no matter how big or small the results are, it is certain that some Normans will definitely be tossed and crazy by us!" ”

"Haha!" Weiss laughed heartily. The arrival of Captain Paddy and his entourage made the separation of the resistance behind enemy lines from the federal government and the military completely history. Through their mouths, the resisters finally realized what a remarkable impact their efforts and sacrifices had created - borrowing the enemy's communication code, sending a telegram in the name of the Norman army against the Norman Dynasty, which led to some unknown changes within the Norman Empire, most of the senior generals of the Norman army on the front line were rotated, and many important command positions changed, so the start of the Battle of Françon was delayed by at least half a month. Weiss's jump of three levels in a row, from reserve captain to guerrilla colonel, has a lot to do with this miracle - the enemy code book he asked the correspondent to bring and the description of the process of disturbing the enemy made the federal military have a reasonable inference about the cause of the enemy's movement in the early stage......

"Attention, there are enemy flying warships over the target!" Captain Paddy reminded loudly.

Weiss did not hesitate to open up special horizons. The red dotted box that jumps into the eye indicates that the flying object above the target is the enemy's second-class frigate. In addition to those communications special service ships and transport ships, this is the weakest combat effectiveness of the Norman Empire Air Force's flying ships, the tonnage is usually about 1000TA, like the second-class frigates of the Federal Army, with small-caliber naval guns and machine guns as the main weapons, positioned in the air alert patrol and transport escort, in the face of tough battles generally only waving the flag and shouting.

Seeing the reality of the target, Weiss replied in a loud voice: "That's the Norman second-class cruiser!" Whatever it is, act as planned! ”

In this case, Captain Paddy did not have time to get to the bottom of it, but gave full trust to Weiss, and he turned his head again: "Colonel, our flight may be a little bumpy next, sit tight!" ”

As soon as the words ended, the plane's piston engine roared even louder. Under the skillful control of Captain Paddy, it is like a tame and vigorous war horse, showing a heroic posture of running in the cold wind. Apparently to guard against a ground attack by the resistance, the Norman cruiser hovered less than 2,000 feet, with neither speed nor altitude, and was an ideal bomb target in the eyes of a skilled and experienced pilot. You must know that the ultimate combat load of this E-type bomber is 2,200 pounds, and the most lethal weapon of the Federal Army's flying forces is the 2,000-pound heavy aviation armor-piercing bomb. If a target was dropped from a height of thousands of feet, this bomb, nicknamed "death", was enough to severely damage the Norman flying battleship, and there were also cases of killing the Norman cruiser in one fell swoop on the battlefield. However, Captain Paddy led a task force squadron behind enemy lines that flew more than 800 miles from Federal-controlled territory, carrying additional fuel with payloads in addition to carrying technicians and necessary repair spare parts. In this night raid, the plane's bomb pylons were hung with light aerial bombs made by the secret Clumber-Haysen factory with existing equipment, each 45 pounds, and a total of 20 bombs were carried. This kind of light bomb, slightly more powerful than mortar shells, is mainly explosive and fragmentation killing, and it is like tickling when used on enemy warships, but if you throw a brain in the enemy's barracks or arsenal, the sour feeling is pleasant to think about......

Taking advantage of the unsuspecting enemy ships, the daring Captain Paddy "ran amok" within the range of his naval guns. First, he swooped through Victory Square in the south of the city at a small angle, the lowest point was less than 100 feet above the ground, not to mention pistols and rifles, the Normans had a chance to shoot down the plane by throwing stones, but except for two Norman soldiers who fired with their rifles, the rest of the Normans did not react at all!

Seeing that the first target was empty, with neither enemy transports nor undocked cargo, Captain Paddy circled the mountain castle again. The roar of the engine woke up the Norman troops stationed here, and the terrible sirens sounded in a hurry, but the ship's guns and ground anti-aircraft guns were not fast enough, and the Norman soldiers could only attack the uninvited guest with pistols, rifles, and their eyes......

As the fighter planes flew around the city, Weiss once again opened up a special vision. Viewed from the perspective of flying, it looks like an ant nest below, with thousands of red ants, some gathered in a heap, some scattered in all directions. He quickly zeroed on to a crowded spot, shouted to Captain Paddy to adjust his course, and lost no time in dropping the first set of aerial bombs. This series of explosions resounded through the mountain city of Slane, and in the manner of a resistant, announced to the occupiers that the invasion would not stop every day, and the fighting would not stop every day!

After the first bomb drop, Captain Paddy pulled up the plane and climbed upward. When the Norman warship hovering over Slane appeared in the crosshair of the mechanical bombing sight, Weiss moved the lever and dropped a second set of bombs. Although only one bomb hit the Norman battleship, causing negligible damage, attacking the Norman battleship in front of the Norman marines was not only a provocation, but also an arrogant contempt!

For the last set of aerial bombs, Weiss selected the Norman barracks southwest of Slien. After the bomb was dropped, the fighter plane did not hide or hide, left behind the belated enemy artillery fire, flew straight to the southeast, and waited until it left the enemy's line of sight before turning back to the north. The Norman corvettes can barely compete with the speed of the Union fighters at full power, but the power is not comparable at all, not to mention that from hovering to full speed, it is impossible to do it in less than half an hour. In the process, the plane has long since disappeared.

In addition to the difficulty of grasping the route and finding the target, the process of such a night air raid is simpler than grabbing children's candy. With this air raid alone, the Normans probably couldn't even figure out where the enemy planes were coming from. d