"Me!" "Me!" A group of ground crews suddenly rushed up.

Albridson and Anneseer also raised their hands and squeezed to the front.

"Let's go!" Albridsen patted the commander on the shoulder.

"You guys?" The commander glanced at the pilot's uniforms worn by the two of them, shook his head and said, "No, you are pilots, you can't die on the ground!" ”

"It's all at this time! Or the earth and the heavens? "If the Count Zeppelin is sunk, we'll all die here!" ”

"yes, let's go!" Albridson's gaze was firm, "We are fighter pilots entering the field to operate the cannon, and the operation of the small-caliber anti-aircraft gun is not much different from the cannon. ”

The commander thought for a moment, but finally nodded. Just like Albridson said, compared with the ground crew, fighter pilots often play with guns after all, and they have to be more accurate than ground crews when they operate anti-aircraft guns.

"Then you guys come with me!" The commander said and found more than twenty more people, and then led them from the safe hangar to the deck.

Most of the 30 men were assigned to the casualty anti-aircraft artillery crew, responsible for handing ammunition to the surviving anti-aircraft gunners, while several pilots with shooting experience, such as Albrisson and Anether, were grouped into groups of two, each operating a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun independently.

The anti-aircraft gun assigned to Anneser and Albrison was a quadruple 20mm anti-aircraft gun, and by the time they arrived, the bodies of the original crew members had even fallen on top of the anti-aircraft gun.

The commander took Albrison and Anether to carry the two bodies off the seats of the anti-aircraft guns and put them aside, and then pointed to more than a dozen bullet holes in the two corpses, and said to Albrisson: "These two lads were killed by .303 machine guns, and the damned British dive bombers did not return after throwing their bombs, but strafed our anti-aircraft positions for several rounds, and many of them died in this way." ”

"We are not afraid, Mr. Captain." Undeterred, Albridson said, "In the past, many Britons also tried to kill us with .303 machine guns, but we shot them down without exception. ”

Anether didn't speak, but gently stroked the three medals on her chest, her face full of pride.

The commander then noticed that both Annether and Albrisson had several medals on their chests.

"Iron Cross of the 1st degree, bronze Naval Aviation Air Combat Medal?" The commander recognized two of the three on Annese's chest.

The Iron Cross is more common in the German army, it is used by the High Command to recognize combatants or non-combatants, generally speaking, as long as you make a combat exploit, you have the opportunity to receive a second-class Iron Cross, so far, the High Command has awarded more than 20,000 officers and soldiers or civilians the Iron Cross of the second class.

However, Anneser wore an Iron Cross of the First Class on his chest, a medal one level higher than the Iron Cross of the Second Class.

Compared with the Iron Cross of the Second Degree, it is more difficult to obtain the Iron Cross of the First Degree, and two conditions must be met to obtain it, one is to first obtain the Iron Cross of the First Degree. Second, it is required to have three to five meritorious performances.

The former was relatively easy to fulfill, the latter was more difficult, and the Supreme High Command had issued less than 2,000 Iron Crosses of the First Class since the outbreak of the war.

The bronze Naval Aviation Air Combat Medal, a medal designed by Lyon himself, was awarded to pilots in naval aviation who shot down more than 10 enemy aircraft.

Of course, there are copper and silver and gold.

The Silver Naval Aviation Air Combat Medal is required to shoot down 50 enemy aircraft, while the Gold one is required to shoot down more than 100 enemy aircraft!

As a result of this demanding requirement, no one in the naval aviation unit has been awarded a medal above the bronze medal, but one has come close to receiving a silver medal.

He was Albrison, who ranked first in the Navy fighter pilot crash list with 42 downs and was also the first ace pilot of the Naval Air Force.

However, as for the third medal hanging on the chests of the two, the captain commander did not recognize it.

"What is this?" He asked, curiously pointing to the medallion.

"This one?" Albrisson touched the special medal, and a proud expression appeared on his face, "This is the Spanish Special Service Medal!" ”

"The Order of the Special Service of Spain?" The captain was stunned.

"Yes! It was personally awarded by Mr. Franco in recognition of our excellence in the Spanish Civil War. Albrison said proudly, "Only fifteen of all the pilots of naval aviation who participated in the war at that time received this medal!" ”

"That's it!" The captain laughed, "Then you can't die here, or the Führer won't spare me!" ”

Just as the three of them were saying this, the sound of SBD dive bombing was heard in the sky again.

"They're attacking!" His face changed slightly, and then he anxiously asked the two of them, "Do you know how to operate this anti-aircraft gun?" ”

"Yes!" The two nodded, "We learned how to operate small-caliber anti-aircraft guns!" ”

"Well, you just need to attack the planes that have dodged the 40mm gun group! I've got to go to the command position! With that, the captain ran to the command position.

At this time, two bombers overhead had already entered a low altitude of 1,500 meters, but they were immediately hit by the dense German anti-aircraft artillery fire.

"I'll control the shooting, and you'll be in charge of loading the anti-aircraft guns, how about it?" Albridson asked Annese.

"Good!" Annether nodded and stood to the left of the anti-aircraft gun, where there were piles of 20mm drums, both light and full.

Albridson sat in a chair on the right side of the anti-aircraft gun, holding two turntables for adjusting direction and pitch angle with both hands, and his feet on the firing pedals, watching the enemy planes in the sky getting closer and closer.

Although the 128mm high-level dual-purpose gun group on the Count Zeppelin was still firing at full strength, the British carrier-based aircraft group had broken through the short-range air defense circle, and the 128mm pitch speed could no longer keep up with the target.

At this time, a medium- and short-range anti-aircraft artillery group composed of more than a dozen twin-mounted 40mm anti-aircraft guns began to exert force, and under the unified dispatch of the air defense command, dozens of 40mm anti-aircraft guns began to tilt their fire at a rate of fire of 160 rounds per minute towards the group in the sky. One SBD after another was quickly beaten down like flies.

However, the German 40mm guns soon overheated due to the continuous firing, and the gunners had to reduce the rate of fire in order to avoid the explosion of the chamber. The British carrier-based aircraft took advantage of this opportunity to break through the barrage of German troops and flew into a dangerous distance of about 1,000 meters.