Chapter 4 Forced Landing

"What time is it?"

"What, General?"

"What time is your day?"

"May 21, 1940, what's wrong General?"

"It's fine."

Xu Jun felt powerless, "Have you let yourself catch up?" That famous small-scale tank massacre. Bloody and legendary. The place where Rommel first hit the iron plate. Are you going to meet Rommel? I had hoped to talk to him about Africa over champagne in a restaurant at a fancy hotel, but I wasn't prepared to fly a plane full of holes in front of him in the middle of a fierce battle. ”

Xu Jun looked at his watch, it was two twenty o'clock.

"The battle has already begun, and the British are attacking at two o'clock. That Wolf was stupidly leading me to the battlefield. ”

Thinking of this, Xu Jun planned to ask Wolf to find a safer place for him to land. Before he could speak, suddenly, the engine on the right made a popping sound, and a cloud of black smoke came out of the engine's fairing, and then tongues of fire began to shoot out from every crack in the engine, and the plane sank down as if it had been stepped on.

"Hell! Damn it. How could something happen here. ”

Finally regaining control of the plane, Xu Jun shouted over the radio: "My engine is on fire, I want to land immediately." ”

"Wait a minute, General, I see enemy troops ahead of us! Oh my God, they're attacking the 7th Division! We broke into the battlefield, there are a lot of troops, you can't land here! ”

"You're just finding out now!" Xu Jun also saw dense black spots on the ground in front of him. There were also groups of tanks and trucks, and there was an artillery position in front of the left, constantly raising puffs of white smoke, which seemed to be firing in a row. The infantry and various vehicles on the ground dragged the billowing dust, and in the air it looked like dozens of long dragons of steel. A little farther away was the smoke and countless black columns of smoke. There was a rumbling explosion in the distance, and even the roaring engine could not drown it out.

Xu Jun secretly cursed his bad luck and replied: "Then we can only pass through the enemy's position, there must be our army units in the direction of their attack, I can't hold out for long, the tail rudder has lost its effect, I can't change the course, my fuel tank is empty, and the left engine will stop at any time." Now there is only one way forward, and I have no way back. The enemy's positions will not be too thick, and it is hoped that the planes will be able to hold out and land on the positions of the 7th Division. ”

The fire extinguishing bottle of the engine on the right has been automatically opened, and white carbon dioxide is spraying incessantly. The flames were slowly extinguished. Behind the engine dragged a long strip of white smoke.

"Understood, General. We'll always cover you. Wolf replied.

Xu Jun pushed the left engine throttle to the end, and then began to dive with a small slope, and he had to maintain enough speed, otherwise as soon as the left engine stopped, the plane would immediately stall and crash, and there would be no chance to glide. The height is slowly decreasing, and the ME110s on the side are also closely following on the left and right.

The British on the ground heard the roar of the aircraft engines, and when they looked back, they saw a German medium bomber dragging white smoke and a group of fighters rushing towards them, and there was chaos below. I saw that the infantry who had been marching in a neat formation were now scurrying around looking for concealment, and the officers were wielding their revolvers, shooting at the planes and kicking the soldiers lying on the ground to make them stand up and resist. Several brave machine gunners set up their machine guns and began firing into the air. Hearing the fierce sound of machine guns, the infantry finally regained some courage and began to shoot into the sky with rifles in twos and threes.

Xu Jun was still descending in height, and he could already clearly see the figure on his face, strings of tracer bullets swishing through the window, and rifle bullets hitting the casing.

"Wolf, cover me, clear my course." Xu Jun shouted.

Wolf's calm answer came from the headset: "Understood, everyone come with me." Then several ME110s began to swarm and swoop down, shooting at the infantry on the ground in front of Xu Jun. 20-mm cannon and 7. 9mm machine-gun bullets sent the ground in a cloud of dust, leaving a mutilated body behind the fighters.

Xu Jun turned on the intercom in the plane and called, "Hans, come here, I need your help." The others found their own place to fix it, and when we passed through the enemy's offensive position, we made a forced landing. ”

Hans hurried into the cab and asked, "General, what do you want me to do?" ”

"You sit in the navigator's seat, yes, that's it, you just flip it down. Don't forget the safety belt, I'll need you to control the aileron and elevator for me when I land, just pull that pole back hard before we touch the ground. ”

"Understood, General." Hans gripped the side arm of the steering stick tightly, and then looked at Xu Jun as if he wanted to say something.

"Any questions?" Xu Jun glanced at Hans.

"Oh, no...... It's nothing. Hans quickly looked away.

At this time, Wolf's voice came from the headphones: "General, I am already over the positions of our army. Just 5000 meters ahead of you, there is a large open space where you can land. Note that there are enemy tanks and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns behind the grove in front of you. It was the enemy's front-line position. ”

"Understood."

Xu Jun gritted his teeth and flattened the plane again. "Hold on, there's still five kilometers left, and you won't let me down." Xu Jun said to the left engine. The left engine immediately gave Xu Jun an answer, and it vomited a few times and stopped. "Hell, am I really that unlucky?" Xu Jun roared angrily: "Then let you see, I won't admit defeat so easily." ”

At this time, the plane had lost all power and could only barely glide. Fortunately, the plane still has enough speed and should be able to hold some distance. The British troops on the positions below watched in amazement as a German bomber swept silently over their heads, dragging white smoke behind them.

"Height doesn't seem to be enough." Xu Jun thought to himself, "It seems that this life is almost over, whether it is a failure of the forced landing or being captured by the British, the end will be the same, only fight!" ”

The plane had already flown over the grove, literally grazing the treetops. Xu Jun gritted his teeth and said with the cabin communicator: "Everyone, pay attention, we are about to make a forced landing, whether the forced landing is successful or not, I am here to thank everyone for flying with me." May God be with us. As a result, there was a shout of "Long live the FΓΌhrer" from the rear cabin, and Xu Jun was so angry that he almost didn't let the plane go to the ground.

Suddenly, the woods under his feet disappeared, and an empty field appeared in front of Xu Jun, with several tanks burning in the field, and black smoke billowing out of which country it belonged to. On the other side of the field, Xu Jun saw a small dirt slope, on which thick smoke was billowing and the wreckage of a fleet of vehicles was burning horizontally beside the slope, and British artillery shells were constantly exploding near the dirt slope. In the corner of the dirt slope, Xu Jun found that there was a German flag/38/20mm anti-aircraft gun in the thick smoke, and the guy was now shooting wildly at him, and the baseball-sized tracer bullets kept passing by the cab. There are also gray-green figures swaying under the slope. It was a German position.

"Wolfe! Tell them not to shoot at me! Xu Jun shouted.

"General, I can't get in touch with them. I don't have any way around it. Wolf replied anxiously.

At this moment, Xu Jun's plane had already dropped to an altitude of only a dozen meters, and it was still six or seven hundred meters away from the German position. Xu Jun shouted: "Everyone is ready to collide!" , Hans, right now, pull! ”

The plane plunged headlong into the battlefield where the fire was being exchanged in full view of the soldiers on both sides.

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