"Eagle's Nest! Eagle's Nest! This is Hawkeye 4, reporting regularly. ”

Go back a little bit.

Behind the French line in Verdun, with white clouds floating in the blue sky and green woods constantly passing under his feet, if it weren't for the sporadic cannon sound behind him, Ensign Jung would rather hypnotize himself, and now he is in the position of driving a movement before joining the army. The good times of the plane flying in the forests of his hometown of Bavaria, because not doing so really couldn't kill him the rest of the boring time.

The reconnaissance aircraft unit in the German army aviation is the unit most closely related to the ground forces among all the aircraft units, because the German army has abolished the equipment of artillery observation balloons, so the observation of ground targets and the guidance of artillery bombardment are carried out by the reconnaissance aircraft unit, so each army group has two squadrons of reconnaissance aircraft directly under its jurisdiction.

Second Lieutenant Jung's squadron, like the airship unit, arrived the day after the German attack on Verdun, and spent the rest of the day conducting boring reconnaissance operations. After successfully occupying the outermost four heights of Verdun, the German artillery had completely suppressed the French artillery with the 6th Army's body-barreled artillery in place.

Most of the artillery in the French fortress was short-barreled field guns that could not reach the Germans, and the small number of long-barreled guns deployed outside the fortress had already been discovered by reconnaissance planes during the previous return fire, and then the artillery was called to kill them. So now, except for half a squadron left in the skies over Verdun to patrol in turn in case there are fish that slip through the net, the rest of the planes are arranged to expand the scope of reconnaissance.

In order to facilitate the marking of positions, the reconnaissance range of the German reconnaissance aircraft at this time was divided into more than a dozen longitudinal blocks, each of which was indicated by letters, and then the blocks were divided horizontally into ten small square areas represented by numbers, each with an area of 100 square kilometers. According to the regulations, reconnaissance planes must follow a zigzag flight path to reconnoiter the two adjacent blocks, and Jung has been flying in the C and D blocks for the past few days.

The scenery here is indeed good, but Jung has been flying in this beautiful French sky for 3 days, and nothing has happened, which makes him feel unreal about this war. Shifts every 3 hours. Wanting to spend the boring 3 hours really made him want to find something to do, even if a French fighter plane appeared to attack him, so that he could show off his excellent flying skills.

In fact, Jung did not need to show his flying skills at all, the Me-2A-3 reconnaissance aircraft equipped with a 170-horsepower engine had a maximum level flight speed of more than 150 kilometers per hour, except for the Germans' own aircraft, now no aircraft in the world can catch up with it, so Jung only needs to keep the throttle maximum. And Jung forgot that he still operated a Makqin in the back seat.

Then the back seat opened his mouth to raise his presence: "Eagle's Nest!" Eagle's Nest! This is Hawkeye 4, reporting regularly. ”

"Okay. Finally, a third of the time has passed. Jung muttered to himself that his partner in the back seat reported to the back every 30 minutes, and now it was only the second time, and the time ahead was really long.

"Hawkeye 4, according to the scheduled flight route, has now arrived in the C-7 area, no anomalies have been found, repeated. No anomalies found in the C-7 area, done. ”

"Hawkeye 4 received. Complete. ”

"The Eagle's Nest guys are probably bored right now." Hearing the line in the back seat, Jung spoke.

"They can at least go to the toilet." The same boring voice of the radioman Digro came from behind him: "And you can go and drink water!" ”

Because they had to fly in the sky for three hours, all the reconnaissance crews could only eat something without much water before setting off early in the morning, and they did not dare to open up the little water in the kettle they carried with them, so now both of them are thirsty, and complaining about this is the daily routine of all reconnaissance plane pilots.

"Let's go to D-8 next." Jung said lazily.

The plane began to tilt. Adjust the course, however, they didn't fly long before they discovered the situation.

"What's that!" Digro raised his voice: "Seems to be a human? ”

"Where? What do you see? Jung craned his neck to look ahead, but as a pilot, he didn't have a telescope, so he didn't notice anything.

"My view is blocked! You're flying towards 10 o'clock! I'm going to take a closer look from the right! Digro shouted, "Speed up!" ”

Jung pushes the throttle valve. Me-2A-3 began to pick up speed, and soon, Digro saw an astonishing sight through the telescope.

"God, it's the French army! There are cars! There are infantry! Those French infantry are advancing like ants in the direction of Verdun! Digro exclaimed.

"How many people? How long is the line?! Jung asked aloud.

"I don't know, the team keeps stretching! I think there might be a division! What's in front of us?! Digro shouted.

"yes, oh, damn it, I think about it." As a pilot, Jung had to record the flight route and the landmarks to pass along the route, and then combine them with the names of places on the map to ensure the accuracy of the flight direction, but at this time, he was so nervous that he couldn't remember the name of Baledik.

"It seems to be called Ba...... Bar...... What is ...... Palestinian! Baledka? Barretke? Oooh oh! Baledik! In front is Baledique, a city for the French! Jung finally remembered.

"Eagle's Nest! Eagle's Nest! This is Hawkeye 4! Emergency! Repeat! Emergency! Digro immediately began to call the rear.

"In the D-7 area, find the French troops on the move! There are a lot of cars and infantry! The number is at least one division! Presumably from the direction of Baledik, it is highly likely that there will be follow-up troops!

Repeat! In the D-7 area, spot the French troops on the move! There are a lot of cars and infantry! The number is at least one division! Presumably from the direction of Baledik, it is highly likely that there will be follow-up troops! Complete! ”

"Hawkeye 4 understands, continue to monitor, over!" After the radio call, Digro shouted at Jung, "The Eagle's Nest wants us to keep an eye on it here!" Let's get closer! ”

On the ground, Private Conte was following his troops on the grass beside the road, and then looked with some envy at the artillerymen sitting on the cars that kept passing on the road dozens of meters away. But looking at the sappers who bent over and ate the exhaust fumes from the cars, and the dust raised as they drove by, with a doggy expression on their faces, I felt a little better.

The Baledique-Verdun road is extremely narrow, it is a one-way road at all, and the road surface is also very bad, so these sappers began to tinker and widen the road here a few days ago, but such a large amount of work is not at all possible to be completed in a short time, so it is widened first, and as for the road surface or something, it is impossible to care. So in fact, the guys sitting in these cars are not as cool as Conte imagined.

The bumps in the road and the technical level of the French cars, and such a long convoy, the distance between each car is about 1 meter, so the speed of the convoy is not very fast, the front convoy is also driven to the D-6 area divided by the Germans, but because of Jung's zigzag flight path, they just missed when entering the C-6 and C-7 areas, but now, they have been discovered.

"What's that?" "That's our plane?" The commotion coming from the queue in front attracted Conte's attention, and he looked back at the front of the line, and then noticed that many people in front of him were looking up at the sky to the right, following their gaze, Conte turned his head to look over, and then quickly noticed something they were concerned about in the blue sky, a small thing moving in the air.

"Our plane?" Conte asked suspiciously, "Why are they flying here?" ”

In 1911, Foch, then president of the French Military Academy, once said: "An airplane is an interesting toy, but it has no military value." "The deans of the military academy have this attitude, and it is conceivable what the military branches think. Except for a small number of reconnaissance planes, airplanes were not as important in the French army as airships, after all, the German airships had played several bluffing bombing exercises.

But it's not normal for a reconnaissance plane to appear here, and it's not flying in the right direction, right? Also, the color seems to be a little wrong.

Finally, the plane looked like a French soldier on the ground, and the light gray paint looked rustic, but it did make it not so easy to spot. The design of the upper and lower wings was definitely different from the single-wing Morana that the French army was equipped with at this time? The Sony L-shaped reconnaissance plane, and more importantly, the piercing black cross on the side of the fuselage indicates that this is a German plane!

"It's a German plane!" I don't know who shouted first, and then the French troops on the ground immediately became a mess. "Shoot!" "Knock it down!" Shouts and so on, and then MLE1886 sparse gunshots rang out.

"Stop shooting! Stop shooting! The officers shouted, trying to restore order to the troops: "There are no weapons on the plane!" They can't attack us! Stop shooting! Don't waste bullets! ”

With the roar of the officer, and the screams of the soldiers who had been beaten by the officer, the gunfire in the French column finally stopped.

"The French guns have stopped, do you think we should go down and shoot?" Jung instigated.

"Don't bother me! My Maxim only has 300 rounds of ammunition, so I have to keep it for myself in case I encounter a French plane. The Eagle's Nest wants us to watch, not for us to rob FFA alive! ”

"But now that we don't have the FFA Wing coming, what's the use of telling us to wait here and continue to monitor? Do you want the airship troops to come over? Jung had some doubts.

And at this time, in the command of the German 6th Army. "Your Excellency, Commander, it looks like we have something to do." Reinhardt said to Ruprecht with a smile. (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: My God, Sports. What the hell is the plane river crab?