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Those things that fell from a high altitude ordinary pilots didn't know what they were, but Li Mei vaguely knew the inside story. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Last week, the British secretly flew a prototype of the Meteor jet fighter, and although the Britons were hiding and refusing to share it, the U.S. military still knew about the situation, and someone from the Eighth Air Force also went to observe and communicate internally, and Li Mei, who was at the level of brigadier general, was just enough to be communicated.

He had never seen the scene or seen the pictures, but he kept in mind several of the characteristics he had recounted: twin-engine, no propeller, jet engine propulsion, and extremely fast speeds, reaching a maximum speed of about 950 km/h.

Reminiscent of the scene when the British were so awesome that they almost didn't their tails to the sky, Li Mei hated it so much: Let you show off! Let you brag! Let you hide it! You are still a prototype, the Germans directly pulled the jets out to fight, and it was not a semi-finished product of one or two, it was more than 200 directly. What does this mean? This shows that the German army is not only far ahead of the Allies in the jet field, but has also formed a real combat operation.

"Send a telegram to the lieutenant general, we are intercepted by German massive jets...... The loss could be big today, and if I can't come back, ask him to take care of my family. Li Mei suddenly explained to the telegraph operator.

Lieutenant General Carl Andrew Spatz, as he speaks of it, currently serves as the Supreme Commander of the Eighth Air Force. (Author's note: According to the original historical trajectory, he was supposed to go to North Africa to command operations after Operation Torch, but due to the cancellation of the plan, he remained in Britain to command the Eighth Air Force, which acquired more aircraft than the same period in history - these planes were supposed to be deployed in North Africa and Italy.)

The telegraph operator sent the telegram in a hurry, and then saw the shocking scene:

More than 200 ME-262C swooped down from a height of 10,000 meters in a thunderous attitude, with a speed of more than 1,000 km / h, and almost in a blink of an eye, they flew to the same height as the bomber group, but slightly inclined to a position of dozens of meters, and began to charge to the side after leveling, the bomber group speed was about 400 km / h, and the speed of the storm bird group was about 800 km / h. Not to mention the flexibility to change direction - it is not a B-17 that can do it.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and when the distance between the two sides was about 1,200 meters in a straight line, the bomber machine guns opened fire with all their might, trying to resist the impact of the enemy planes with bullets like a rainstorm, but at this time they were still in the effective range of the 12.7mm aviation machine guns.

Li May didn't know that there were even more terrifying things in the more than 200 planes that fell: including Heinz Barr, Günter Lall, Novotny, Marseilleu, Buckhorn and so on, at this time, Germany's super ace pilots were all inside, and the Storm Bird concentrated 7 of the top 10 of the Luftwaffe's shooting down record, 36 of the top 50 (Hartmann's record was not significant at this time, not enough super ace), and there were a total of 48 pilots who acted as instructors in the entire team, and the record was ranked in the top 100.

This unit was so important that the wing commander was personally the commander of the fighter, Air Force Lieutenant General Garland, and Lieutenant Colonel Heinz-Barr was the deputy and responsible for field command and day-to-day work. Storm Bird generally does not participate in air defense, only as training instructors, each instructor as a squadron leader and responsible for leading 16 cadets, according to the plan drawn up by Jeshunek, Germany's first batch of jet pilots will be about 800 people, but now there are only more than 300 jet planes that can be used, and the trainees take turns to use during training, and this sortie allows an instructor to take four of the best students to face the battle.

In Hoffman's eyes, the value of these ace instructors is equivalent to 5 armored divisions, not ordinary armored divisions, but the level of the guard flag team and the imperial division. The whole contingent was so valuable that the combat sortie required the personal nod of the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Hoffmann, not to mention the chief of the General Staff, General Jeshunek, and even the first deputy commander of the Air Force, Field Marshal Kesselring, was not qualified to approve the sortie.

"Don't be afraid, they won't hit us." Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Barr encouraged his men on the radio, "Let's keep charging!" ”

"Long live the Führer!"

"Ready! Put! ”

Li Mei knew that the comer was not good, but he didn't expect the attack technique on the opposite side to be so simple and rude, the pupils of all the machine gunners contracted violently, and a large ball of flames suddenly erupted from under the wing of the enemy plane, which was the R4M rocket mounted under the wing of the ME-262C was continuously fired, and at this moment you could see clearly from the air defense tower: the air seemed to be covered with meteors at that moment, and it seemed that the fireworks set off during the festival were bursting out violently.

The improved R4M rocket weighs 3.2 kilograms and uses a 55mm warhead containing 520 grams of black so-gold, which is almost guaranteed to kill in one hit. The rocket body consists of a simple steel tube with a reversing stabilizer wing to maintain spin stability. After the engine thrust is increased, the ME-262C can carry two groups of 24 on each wing, and usually launch in two parts, and after a single launch, it can form an explosion mass of about 25 meters square at a distance of 1,000 meters, which can completely envelop the heavy bomber -- there is nothing that cannot be missed.

After this round of "fireworks" was set off, more than 100 heavy bombers "fluttered" down, and what was even worse was that several B-17s, which had suffered the overlapping explosions of two batches of rockets, were broken several times on the spot, and flesh and blood flew everywhere -- after all, rockets were only probabilistic weapons, and they could not strike accurately, and the wind speed and air flow could easily cause position deviations, and it was not impossible for the two groups to run together. Moreover, there is a falling process during the launch of the rocket, and the reason why it is launched at an altitude slightly higher than the bomber group is based on the principle of automatic compensation for the fall after launch.

After the launch of tens of thousands of R4M rockets, only two dozen unlucky ME-262s were hit and fell, and the rest were all led by instructors to dive away, a fleeting speed that machine gunners could not catch at all, and even if they saw it, it would be useless - the bombers' downward fire was almost the worst.

Just when everyone was frightened and glad that they were still alive, the stormbirds that flew away quickly climbed in the distance and then gathered in an army and flew back, and now the entire bomber group is not covered by escort fighters, and it cannot interfere with any movement of the opponent at all, Li Mei can only sigh helplessly and shake his head.

"They're coming at us......"

"Babble! Come on! ”

This time, instead of aiming at the flanks of the bomber group, the Stormbird climbed and began to dive head-to-head from diagonally above.

"Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! Swoop down with me! Swoop! The instructors radioed their students to encourage them, "Press and hold the cannon switch and don't let go, and you will get out of the light when you light it!" Shine and get out! ”

"Tubu!"

The storm birds sprayed fire from above, most of them were shells fired by the MK-108, this 30mm cannon is hugely powerful, more than 4 rounds in the B-17 are basically finished, and 1 round in the P-47 can be reimbursed, and each ME-262 cadet aircraft is equipped with 4 guns, and a single door has 120 rounds of ammunition. However, the shortcomings of the MK-108 are also obvious, the ballistic drop is very powerful, the fall distance is more than 30 meters after a flat shot from 1000 meters away, it is not good to deal with maneuverable fighters, but it is just right to deal with the bulky and bulky B-17.

The ace instructors pondered for many days and summed up the tactics of high-altitude dive and intensive probabilistic shooting -- almost 100,000 shells were fired out after 200 ME-262s ran out of ammunition, and if an average of 1,000 shells shot down one bomber, 100 enemy planes could be killed -- and the actual results seemed to be slightly more.

"Hit! Hah, I hit him! ”

Watching one B-17 crash after another, the first-time trainees were so excited that they couldn't help themselves, and even desperately held down the launch button when the shells ran out.

"Climb out of it, climb out of it!" The instructors had to remind this group of overexcited guys that more than 20 planes had crashed just now, but compared with the results, it seemed to be very good.

In the dive fire just now, of course, the instructors also found the target to attack, for example, Marseilleu seized the opportunity to kill 2 planes, but their shooting methods were generally very reserved, and they absolutely did not need to shoot violently for a long time.

At 15:44, the large group of ME-262 dispersed and separated, Li Mei seemed to climb up from the edge of the cliff of life and death, let out a long breath, his back was soaked, and there were only more than 300 planes left in the entire group, and the formation was so sparse that it was not visible. But he knew that he could not give up, and the task of bombing Berlin was not yet complete. He gritted his teeth and said: "Today is to die and die on the way to the bombing!" ”

Just as he ordered the team to descend further and prepare to drop the bomb, the radio exclaimed: "Here they are again!" ”

There was nothing abnormal in front of me, but when I turned my head, my eyes were cracking, and my eyes were about to drip blood. More than 40 jet fighters flew up and down in the rear, rushing left and right, recklessly harvesting those planes that had broken away from formation, had no cover in dense formation, or had been wounded and had to turn back, and one bomber after another was falling in flames.

After watching a large number of students leave safely, the 46 super aces (2 people were shot and fell and parachuted) can finally show their top combat power without distractions...... (To be continued.) )