Chapter 174: Hurry up and inform our flying troops to meet the enemy
At noon, the weather suddenly changed a little chilly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Alan sat in his P-40 fighter again like he had done yesterday, looking at the cloudless sky that he didn't know when it would change, and he couldn't help but be nervous and excited.
Because he knew that the 1,000-plane bombing operation at noon today was about to begin, and he would definitely not be called to stop as suddenly as he did before yesterday evening.
Moreover, in this combat operation, there are many P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and P-51 Mustang fighter groups as escort troops.
Alan liked and appreciated these new fighters very much; At the same time, he is also a pilot who envies and hates to fly these excellent fighters.
"I wish I could fly such an advanced fighter jet to avenge James and Parnard!"
Allen from the spherical cockpit of his own fighter jet, towards those P-47 Thunderbolt fighters in the distance; and the P-51 Mustang fighter group, gazing enviously into the past.
"If I hadn't died on the battlefield in this combat operation, I would have to apply to the commander for transfer to learn how to fly these advanced fighters!"
After a few moments, Alan made up his mind.
Then he focused all his eyes on the flying team in front of him, because at this moment, with the assistance of the logistics personnel and maintenance engineers; There were already quite a few fighter jets, as well as the 'B-24 Liberator bomber, and the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, as well as the P-40 fighter jet taking off.
In fact, Eisenhower and Admiral Arnold were originally preparing to carry out a night attack.
But because their P-61 "Black Widow" fighter has not yet been delivered, and mass production, in addition to the British army's night fighter Mosquito fighter, and other types of night fighters are not in place, so they changed to attack Pantelleria Island during the day.
In addition, a large number of battleships and destroyers were dispatched to shell the island of Pantelleria at sea.
Because the British and American allies have decided to use large-scale air strikes and warships to cover them with artillery fire within two days; and bombing to force all German and Italian forces on the island of Pantelleria to surrender completely, or to annihilate them completely.
It's just that they don't know that the German troops on the island of Pantelleria have been quickly evacuated by Chen Yanlong.
Because Chen Yanlong's character is different from Hitler's, the British and American troops did not think that Hitler, who had always fought for every inch of land, would suddenly withdraw quickly when he won the battle.
Of course, the main reason was that all the reconnaissance planes of the British and American troops were driven away by the fighters dispatched by Chen Yanlong to intercept them, so the British and American troops had no way to reconnoiter the slightest useful information; And did not know that the German troops on the island had all been evacuated.
Half an hour later, Allen also flew into the air with his P-40 fighter jet, followed by his flying group to escort a large group of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers.
Behind him was a large group of P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, escorting a group of B-24 Liberator bombers.
There was also a group of P-51 Mustang fighters, to his right was escorting a group of B-24 Liberator bombers, heading south.
The British and American air forces raided Pantelleria Island this time with the intention of bombing from four directions at the same time.
Conduct the densest and most comprehensive carpet bombing campaign in order to break the will of the enemy forces on the island of Pantelleria as soon as possible.
"It's finally time to strike, God bless me! I must blow up the Germans of Pantelleria and avenge my comrades and friends who died in the sky! ”
Alan looked at the increasingly spectacular air force in front of him, and his eyes were firmly determined.
Then he sped up and followed his own flying party towards the north of the island of Pantelleria.
At this moment, the Italian army on the island of Pantelleria was divided into two factions.
On the one hand, the troops were preparing for the evacuation of the ships, and on the other hand, they insisted on staying on the island and defending it.
"Hey! Are you really not going to evacuate here with those cowards? Alchid! ”
An Italian soldier named Agostino asked another soldier named Alchide beside him.
"No withdrawal! If they evacuate without the approval of the above, I'm afraid Prime Minister Mussolini will never let them go! ”
Alcid immediately shook his head and shook his head.
"Hey! You're right! They're going to die! ”
Agostino also nodded in agreement.
"But even if we don't evacuate with them and stay here to fight, in case we lose; Wouldn't it have been annihilated by the British and American forces, and the bombing was because the higher authorities said that we had lost the battle and wanted to punish us! So I feel like they're a little smarter than us when they choose to leave! ”
At this moment, another Italian soldier named Antonio also suddenly interjected with great interest.
"Even if you want to die in battle, it's better than being killed by your own people with a deserter on your back!"
Agostino retorted, disagreeing.
"And our Italian army has always been very peaceful, and there are very few cannibalistic things! Oh! Of course, if we can't defeat the enemy, we will do a lot of things to surrender! ”
Alcid echoed the words.
"Or may! But if it's not our commander Gao Lan? If Visjek stays, I will definitely choose to leave here immediately, my wife is still waiting for me to go back in Rome and live a good life! So I don't want to die here in vain! ”
Antonio shook his head.
"Tsk! You! Why is it today, I always talk about dying on the battlefield and other obscure words, can't I say something auspicious? And how can we fight to the death with the British and American forces? Wouldn't it be okay if we could just surrender as usual when we couldn't beat them? ”
"After being taken prisoner by the British and American troops, can't we also have food and drink? At least it's better than being a prisoner of the Germans and the Soviets! ”
As soon as the words fell, Agostino immediately retorted dissatisfied.
"This ......"
In this regard, the corners of Antonio's mouth twitched and he was speechless.
As for Alcid on the side, he was also embarrassed and smiled bitterly.
"Hey! Look, there seems to be a large black cloud coming towards us on the north side! ”
At this moment, Benedetto, an Italian soldier behind several of them, suddenly shouted in surprise.
"Oh! Oh my God! Those are not dark clouds, they are bombers and fighter groups of British and American forces! ”
Antonio suddenly screamed in shock.
"Hurry up and inform our flying unit to meet the enemy!"
Alcid followed suit and said in horror.
"Our flying team was wiped out some time ago, and the new supplementary flying team hasn't arrived here yet!"
Agostino was also panicked.
“……”
After hearing this, Alcide and Antonio were speechless for a moment.
"Then go and inform Gao Lan? Commander Vesjek, and our anti-aircraft artillery team will return fire to the enemy! ”
After a moment, Alcid immediately continued to shout.
"No, they're fighting the enemy! Oh! It seems to have been bombed indiscriminately by the planes of the British and American troops! ”
Agostino also said with a pale face of horror.
“……”
Hearing this, Alcide and Antonio were once again speechless.
At the same time, they couldn't help but want to rush over and beat up Agostino immediately, so that he would not tell so much bad news.