Chapter 225: Alamein's Gunfire (3)
In this way, Heydrich was in charge of domestic security, and Canaris was in charge of foreign intelligence collection, and under the coordination of Li Ming, the two intelligence systems that were originally incompatible have been optimized and reorganized, and have become more efficient! With their fruitful work, the eyes of the Third Reich have been polished!
Strategically, Africa, occupied by the British, was positioned as the first German overseas base. Therefore, the British army must be completely annihilated in Egypt! And to ensure that the more than 200,000 French soldiers in Africa could not become enemies. In other words, Africa must be stable and secure.
It was in this environment that Rommel's offensive began, and what he did not know was that the war in Africa had escalated into a strategic goal that had to be achieved. The reinforcements he was about to receive were much more than that, and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th airborne divisions were ready to fly to Africa with jet carriers.
These elite airborne troops are armed with world-changing individual weapons! They are all equipped with new rifles, military uniforms, various light weapons, and anti-tank heavy weapons designed by weapons expert Xiao Nan. They had been training for more than a month in another secret training ground in the mountain camp, and now that the tiger had come out of the mountain, it was time to test the power of its sharp teeth!
Just when more than 100 assault guns of the 90 Light Division were fighting and retreating, a large number of British planes in the sky had already flown here. For the first time, they used so many planes in a concentrated manner, contrary to the previous tactics of attacking in small detachments! It seems that this time Montgomery has eaten the scales and has an iron heart. He was planning to exhaust Rommel's limited armoured forces, and then use his armoured forces to wipe out the Afrika Army's infantry clusters on flat terrain. In the case that the quality of weapons is not superior, Meng Geer is bent on fighting with the enemy in quantity. Even if two people fight one British, they can afford to fight, and the cannon fodder they looted everywhere is enough in exchange for the living force of the Germans. The more than 500 planes assembled this time were ready to wipe out the attack force that hit the front peak in one fell swoop.
Half of the fleet consisted of Spitfires with 40 guns, then 150 Wellington twin-engine bombers, and then Mustang fighters with 40 guns. It can be said that this cluster concentrates the most elite air strike forces of the British army!
Rommel did not expect that the British commander, who had always been cautious, would play such a desperate trick! They launched this unguarded attack when they didn't know where the opponent's air power was, and this move made Rommel fall into a passive position at once. I have to say it's a clever move! Rommel, who had always thought that he had won the battle in the sky, had long entrusted the battle in the sky to Mathery and Frenzen, and Mathery, who had always sent troops strangely, not only had excellent flying skills, but also made the British scratch their heads even in tactics. The Royal Air Force, which had nowhere to detect the movements of enemy aircraft, simply gave up its efforts to continue the search, and since it could not find it, it did not look for it.
You hit yours, I'll hit mine. Anyway, enough anti-aircraft guns have been prepared, and tomorrow they can be delivered to the front. At that time, you will be able to block all the skies of the El Alamein Line, and it would be strange that you can hit the bombs accurately at a height of 3,000 meters! The Royal Air Force, which had prepared a lot of ammunition, developed a tactic from the beginning to use the enemy's armored weapons as the main target. They were already ready to go, waiting for the Germans to come to the door. This time, the reconnaissance work of the Afrika Korps was very inadequate, and they used a lot of means to learn about the British air raid this time. The British also did a good job of secrecy, and they did not even inform the pilots in advance of what the mission was.
It's just that the pilots are trained over and over again to use 40 guns to hit the tanks on the ground, and enough fuel and ammunition are enough to train capable pilots. They already have a lot of experience in fighting tank covers. Now the German tanks are going to suffer!
The Afrika Star Air Superiority Group received information from the German battlefield early warning aircraft in time, and they immediately boarded the plane and flew to the battlefield. At the same time, the 10 BF109HSXs that were routinely patrolling in the sky also flew to the southern theater with full horsepower.
Originally, the 90th Light Division was a raid combat mission, the purpose of which was to determine the real and false minefields of the British troops, and at the same time to test the depth of their defensive firepower. I don't want to encounter the 4th Armored Brigade first, and after a period of retreat and heavy bombardment, I am ready to leave the battlefield. Unexpectedly, a large number of tank nemesis - bombers flew into the sky!
150 heavy** aircraft are undoubtedly lethal to tanks, and they can easily hunt tanks with nowhere to hide in flat desert terrain. Even if the gunners in the No. 3 assault gun climbed out of the hatch one by one and kept firing with anti-aircraft machine guns, it would be useless! They quickly caught up with the desperately fleeing tanks and bombarded them! Suddenly, 100 assault guns fleeing in all directions were beaten in disarray. Originally, they had the cover of the plane, and this time they were ruthlessly hunted by the opponent's plane!
Major General Kliman is in a bad mood, and this situation of having nowhere to fight back is really depressing!
The British abandoned the entire battlefield of anti-aircraft fighters, and instead concentrated their forces on one point, the essence of Rommel. They also know that the true meaning of defense is offense!
In any case, there were more than 50 assault guns that were smoked everywhere on the battlefield! The 40 guns were specially chased after the tank's brain, and as long as one and a half guns were accidentally hit, it was enough for the No. 3 assault gun to eat a pot. Not to mention the blockbuster **! That's it, thanks to the fact that the assault gun was replaced with a 3.6-sound supercharged rotary piston engine, 750 kilowatts, 960 Nm of power drove the assault gun to run at a limit speed close to 90 kilometers, and the tank drivers fought hard to play one after another in the flat desert, drifting and cornering
Although more than 50 assault guns were immobilized and smoked, the casualties of the armored corps were not large, thanks to the clever modification of the German professor. He added composite armor plates to key parts of the assault gun, and covered them with large milk blocks, which improved the level of defense without adding much weight. It is equivalent to adding 100 mm thick homogeneous armor. As for the protection of the crew, he put a lot of effort into it, and he fully considered the protective measures when the tank was attacked by the top cover.
The entire member warehouse is equipped with composite armor protection, fire extinguishing devices, air purification, anti-spall coating and other facilities. Under such strict protection, although the level of defense of the No. 3 assault gun is not as good as that of the new tank, it is also twice as high as before! Unless you have the luck of winning the Mark Six lottery and are hit directly by the heavy **, you will not be killed under normal circumstances!
This time, most of the tanks that were knocked down were broken tracks and had to lie down. They playfully pulled the smoke launcher and created the illusion that the tank had been destroyed. Fortunately, both sides of the war have always been clean, and there have never been despicable phenomena such as slaughtering prisoners and beating water dogs. It is enough to be treated humanely with a white flag, which is one of the reasons why the British admired Rommel.
While the British planes were slaughtering the No. 3 assault gun, Mathery and Frenzen had already arrived and set up a position on the periphery. A total of 400 of their planes, under the arrangement of AWACS, blocked all directions where the British could escape!
A battle for revenge is about to begin!
The first to attack was naturally the African star Jochen Masseri. This guy is leading the way and firing all the way. The Spitfire of the British army who had no time to react was a shuttle, and the terrifying fire of six 20mm gun mounts and two 30mm guns directly broke the Spitfire in front into two sections! Then his subordinates joined the warband, and they had little time to prepare, only to get caught up with Spitfire, or the Mustang as quickly as possible, so that the relatively inflexible FW190HSX could attack the more clumsy Wellington
A melee with nearly a thousand machines begins to unfold over El Alamein! The Spitfire and Mustang's 40 guns are more than enough firepower, but their high firepower also reduces their mobility. Under the blow of the nimble and high-speed BF109HSX, they fell into the desert one after another. A small number of German fighters were also shot down in the melee, but their excellent anti-strike ability saved the pilot's life. Even if it is no longer suitable for flying, or it is knocked off, such as rudders, part of the wings, etc., which affects the aerodynamic shape and upsets the balance of the aircraft. The plane still has strong armor to protect the pilots from harm, and the rescue capsule, which is much more advanced than the ejection seat, appeared in the skies of Africa for the first time!
There are also enough parachutes to hold up the entire plane fluttering!
This terrible battle lasted all afternoon, until there was not a single Royal Air Force plane left in the sky!
True, the Germans shot down 15 RAF aircraft at the cost of 109HSX, 8 FW190HSX, 500HSX. Although the rest of the planes are all damaged! Even the sturdy cockpit cover of the yellow No. 14 in Mathury was punched a big hole by the 40 cannonballs, and the shells flew past the tip of his nose! The cracked glass did not affect him to continue shooting down British planes! By the end of the battle, he had the most shells left, 20 more than 52 guns, 30 guns and 120 rounds!
Although the pilots of the Royal Air Force were defeated, they played with momentum! They swept away the decadence of being pressed and beaten by the Luftwaffe, and bravely taught the Germans a lesson with 40 guns, if it weren't for the fact that the previous pursuit and killing assault guns consumed 40 shells, the result would definitely be better! The rescued pilots also received special preferential treatment from the German army, after all, the warriors are entitled to respect!
It was they who shot down the new German aircraft for the first time with a much inferior technical condition, shattering the myth of their invincibility in the world. So that they used 40 guns to open a hole in the German fuselage, and 12.7mm machine guns to shoot one bullet after another! Although they were defeated, they were still glorious in defeat! Because almost every German aircraft needs to be repaired!