Chapter 304: Landing in the Peloponnese

The coalition forces on the beach are still making large-scale landings and are advancing inland one after another. The soldiers watched this four-plane game with curiosity, not feeling the threat of war to their lives at all, let alone seeing the entanglement in the sky as a fierce air battle.

In fact, Minevina was already a very safe place, with the Greek Army completely besieged around Sarajevo and the Navy immobilized in the harbor by the coalition forces.

In order to break the siege of the coalition forces, Greek military planes would often fly to a radius of hundreds of kilometers around Sarajevo to conduct intelligence reconnaissance, but they were repeatedly discovered by the Germans and intercepted or attacked.

The commander of the coalition forces, Major General Maximilien von Weix, under the instructions of the top management, deployed the armies of other countries in relatively safe places as the second echelon, and later, according to the law of Greek aircraft patrols, arranged the second-level combat-ready coalition units to Minevina, so that they could watch the "air force actual combat" performance when they had time to show the strength of the Luftwaffe.

None of the countries have expressed any objection to this arrangement, and there will be no casualties and a piece of the pie.

"God, look, those are two Greek warplanes, and they're coming this way!" An American soldier suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted. Although the planes flew high, he still saw the Greek fighter signs, and the two planes were indeed flying towards them.

The coalition soldiers, who were watching the excitement, hurriedly looked around for cover, trying to avoid the frontal strafing of the plane.

"01, 03 Attention, Newburgh 28 may have to escape, now you can find the right time to shoot it down." Standing on a tower halfway up the mountain, Udet calmly gave an order into the air: "Let them come and go!" ”

At this time, wingman 03 accelerated 60 degrees to the port side of the enemy aircraft to attract the attention of Newburgh 28, and the long plane 01 quickly rose upwards and bit the opponent's wing.

Udet took the walkie-talkie and shouted: "The game is over, you have to play beautifully, don't embarrass me in front of the coalition forces, okay my warriors, it's up to you now." ”

"Don't worry, sir, the enemy planes can't escape, and now my machine gun has completely bitten them to death." The reply in the air made Udet smile happily.

Although Udet is still very young, he is a veteran German elite of many air battles, and he can treat the battlefield as a game, and he will not hesitate to choose the latter, after all, the current Greek military aircraft are like toys in front of the BF-10.

The No. 01 fighter adjusted its angle and followed closely, while the No. 03 fighter deviated from the course to the left according to Oudet's instructions, and suddenly rushed to the left side of Newburgh at an angle of 60 degrees.

The flight speed of the BF-10 far exceeded that of the Newburg 28, and the German No. 01 completed the tactical maneuver and quickly followed, at this time, no matter how hard the two Greek military aircraft tried, they could not escape.

"01, please fire!" Instructions were sent from the air.

"Fire!" Udet calmly ordered over the walkie-talkie, expressionless.

With Udet's command, several white clouds of smoke appeared in the sky, like a series of mushrooms blooming, which were bullets fired from the MG-10 machine gun of the BF-20.

The wingman of the Newburgh 28 was shot in the wing, the fuselage tilted, and then, around it, a series of blooming mushrooms, at this time, due to the effect of inertia, the Newburgh 28 disintegrated in the air, and the tail began to catch fire, dragging thick smoke and flames towards the Mediterranean.

Seeing that the wingman was shot, the Newburgh 28 saw that the wingman had been shot, and suddenly deflected to the left, preparing to pass under the belly of the No. 03 plane, and took the opportunity to leave the battlefield. At this time, the No. 01 long plane, which had already shot down an enemy plane, also quickly made a big return in the air, forming a left and right attack with the No. 03 fighter, and flanking from both sides. At this time, the cunning enemy commander suddenly dived and rushed directly into the mountains, leaving 01 and 03 in the air.

The BF-10 was extremely fast, and it was easy to collide with the top of the mountain in the mountains, and Udet did not guard against such a move by the Greek fighters, so he immediately ordered No. 01 not to chase after him, and he could quickly pull up to observe the movement of enemy aircraft. 01 lost its target and was forced to temporarily leave the battlefield and resume its search. At this moment, the enemy's long plane suddenly followed No. 01 to quickly follow, and at this moment, the two fast and slow planes in the nose of the Newburgh 28 long plane spit out two red flames.

The enemy aircraft chose to open fire decisively, and the whistling bullets grazed against the flank of No. 01. Seeing that the situation was critical, No. 01 hurriedly came to an air "dead fire", which sharply reduced the altitude of the plane and forced the accelerating Newburgh 28 to overtake him in front of him.

At this time, the No. 03 wingman interspersed with the side to catch up, and the machine gun was aimed at the enemy's long plane. The enemy's long plane was hit by a bullet in the wing, and a few red sparks were sparked, but the biplane was not affected much, and still increased the throttle to turn quickly, ready to continue to take the trick of hiding in the mountains.

"This guy must be a tough opponent if he flies our BF-10 fighter." Udet said to the attendant beside him, "With such a disparity in equipment, our crews 01 and 03 did not successfully shoot him down with so much effort." ”

"Can't let him go down again!" Captain 01 also discovered Newburgh-28's ruse, and immediately ordered the wingman to quickly reduce the flight altitude and prepare to intercept in the air.

Just as the Nubao 28 long plane rushed to the valley, it found that the German wingman No. 03 was lying in ambush under the clouds, and immediately changed the flight route, increased the throttle and fled north.

At this time, No. 01 was just in time, and when he saw the opportunity, the machine gun was aimed at the tail of the Newburgh 28 and fired decisively, and with a violent explosion, the enemy commander turned into a fireball, and continued to roll down irregularly and land, and finally crashed into the valley.

The Allied officers and soldiers on the ground watched the thrilling scene with their mouths open, and when the two enemy planes were shot down by the Germans, the Allied soldiers sang and danced with joy as if they had won the battle.

"Well, my warriors, go to Sarajevo! Advance! Advance! Only there is a chance to fight, and as long as you are not afraid of death, the German brothers will leave the Greeks to us. "The commander on the ground loudly ordered the troops to move towards Sarajevo.

"That's amazing! It's wonderful. The American GIs talked with relish as they walked.

The soldiers on the ground did not quickly assemble according to the commander's instructions, and they all guessed that the place where the two Newburgh 28s crashed, without the slightest passion for desperate fighting two years ago. The commander ran at both ends, driving everyone to hurry to the line, but there were still some soldiers who whimsically went to find the wreckage of the downed warplane, and they wanted to find something on it that could be used as a souvenir and take it back to show off to friends or family.

"The planes are burned like that, where can I still make something that can be used as a souvenir. The best thing to do is to sneak up on the airfields of the Greeks and remove some of the parts from their planes that you can take away, which is the capital that you can boast of to your descendants about your participation in the Balkans. "The soldiers seem to have forgotten the purpose of their trip, and they don't seem to have come to fight, but rather to sightsee.

Udet's fighter formation eventually outmaneuvered the Greek Air Force and successfully shot down two invading enemy planes, as No. 01 was slightly injured by a Newburgh 28 long plane, and Udet ordered No. 01 to return immediately. He also directed another formation to take off and continue the search flight to the south, with the task of intercepting any Greek aircraft, especially large transport planes bound for Sarajevo, so that the Greek military commanders would not take the opportunity to flee Sarajevo.

At this time, life in the city of Sarajevo was already very difficult, and the Greek army, which had been trapped for several days, began to loot the food stocks of the residents because of the lack of supplies they carried, and many shops were looted by the remnants of the army. Sarajevo, which used to be neat and clean, is in ruins, and the streets are full of shambles.

After the German vanguard penetrated outside the city, they kept shouting to the city to persuade the Greek troops in the city to surrender, but the Greek troops either shot back or ignored them, and the officers still plundered and plundered, making the people in the city miserable. The Germans launched several strong attacks, because the commandos were small in number, and in addition there was no strong firepower, so that they did not achieve much success.

The repeated persuasion of the German army to surrender was resolutely rejected by the Greeks, not because the Greek army was loyal to its commander, but because the Greek generals as the commander-in-chief had been regarded as heinous demons by the Five-Nation Alliance, and after the war, they would definitely be tried and sentenced to death by the international tribunal as war criminals, because of the massacre of civilians when the Greek army first entered the city.

Knowing that they would not escape death no matter what, it was better to inflict more damage on the enemy, and then they could die "contentedly", this was the only thought of most Greek generals now, so when the German troops approached the city, the two sides were in a stalemate, except for fierce fighting.

The German 29th Motorized Infantry Division in the port of Split was traveling to Patras on ships such as warships, transports, and supply ships from the British, French, and Italian forces of the Five Powers Alliance, a city located in the northern Peloponnese Peninsula and one of the important ports of Greece.

Such a swaggering landing in Greece, and especially such an intra-strait port, is due to the great disparity in forces between the enemy and the enemy. Now, Greece could not even assemble a decent shore defense force, and when the masts of the Allied ships were exposed to sea level, the Greek troops on guard were overwhelmed and scattered, and watched Patras be occupied by the Germans under the cover of the Allied ships' guns.