695 The bigger one

Just as they were celebrating each other, one plane after another flew in the sky. Because of the height, the tail of these planes is barely visible, and it looks as if it is a cross next to each other.

"Oh my God...... With so many planes, is our Imperial Marshal going to destroy a city? "See the plane overhead, William? Herman sighed.

"Maybe these planes weren't there to bomb." Hearing William say this, his companion shrugged his shoulders and said.

Indeed, ahead of them, there are many, many, large areas of occupation. Field airfields have also been established in these places, which can accommodate all kinds of aircraft.

Therefore, it is possible that these bombers are going to bomb the enemy, or they may just be flying in transition.

But even if it's just a transition flight, the momentum is already very scary. There were almost a hundred bombers in the sky, and they looked densely packed like swarms of bees.

"It's nice to be able to fly...... like many soldiers, when he looks up at the sky, William? Herman would also give out an envious admiration.

It's like the armored soldiers in the tank, when they see the plane flying overhead, everyone is envious of the pilots who come and go like the wind.

"yes, that's good. If you are shot down and fall from a height of 6,000 meters, your mom will also feel good when she sees your fragmented body. His colleague didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and directly poured a basin of cold water.

"Okay, what you said is weird and scary, I'd better be honest as my railroad soldier!" William? Herman was as good as a stream, and quickly spoke.

To be honest, he has also seen pilots who parachuted, but most pilots in this era prefer to choose the escape method of forced landing.

Unless their own planes are disintegrated and shattered in the air, otherwise, the survival rate of fighter jets in the era of World War II is still greater.

This has to do with the speed of the aircraft itself, because the aircraft of this era are slower and easier to control.

Even if it is hit by a bullet, the plane weighing only a few tons slowly slides to the ground, and the pilot can control the plane, find an open space, and put down the landing gear, which is no different from an airport.

If the aircraft loses power and the landing gear cannot be put down, you can also use the manual mode to lower the landing gear, which is very convenient.

As for parachuting, because there is no such magical invention as the ejection seat, fighter pilots have to choose their own angle and speed to jump out of the cockpit.

Before opening the parachute, the vertical tail and horizontal tail behind the aircraft, as well as the sharp radio antenna, will become a sharp knife that the parachute pilot must dodge.

The famous German fighter pilot Marseilleu fell to his death on the ground because he was knocked unconscious by the tail and did not open his parachute.

"Don't envy those planes, we have big guys, they don't either!" That colleague was scaring William? Herman then opened his mouth to show off his knowledge.

When he was a railroad soldier, was he better than William? Herman had been on duty for a long time, and he had been on duty for a few days before, and he had also seen some William? Good things that Herman didn't see.

"Remember that fork in the road yesterday?" Looking at his colleague William, the old railroad soldier mysteriously opened the topic.

"Remember, what's wrong?" William heard his colleague gossip and answered with great interest.

"Yesterday, a K5 railway gun passed by there, my God, a dozen carriages, the barrel is as long as a chimney!" Hearing William's question, the old railroad soldier exaggerated a long note while gesturing.

Hearing his companion lift the railroad cannon, William immediately came to his senses. He'd seen railroad cannons, but the railroad cannons he had seen. It is a new type of mortar developed by Germany in order to attack fortifications.

The cannon wasn't big, it kind of looked like a giant mortar. The caliber is not small, more than 300 mm, but the visual impact is not much shocking.

The K5 railway cannon is different, it is a behemoth. And when this thing shelled Dover, England, on the other side of the English Channel, it showed its terrifying range.

The barrel length of this gun is more than 25 meters, which is a little longer than 5 current private cars.

Together with the troops escorting the artillery, plus the wagons loaded with shells, and the locomotive, such a force looked mighty and quite impressive.

"You see K5? Tell me about it! I heard that the cannon was big, really big. "Speaking of the superweapon about the railroad, William? Herman was quite excited.

Because the railroad soldiers had few weapons and equipment for combat, they were protected by the surrounding armies and had very little time to touch the weapons.

Although they also had their own rifles, they could only use them when they were training to shoot.

And those higher-end railway weapons and equipment are not often used by railway sappers. For example, German armored trains, for example, German railway guns.

Now Germany has almost 20 K5 railway guns, because the Führer did not like other types of weapons of the same class, so the K5 became the standard for German railway guns.

This does have certain advantages, that is, it is very convenient to train artillerymen, as long as the original K5 railway artillery unit is transferred from the original manpower, you can mix in the new recruits to form a new team.

Moreover, the logistics and maintenance are also more convenient, and the storage, use and transportation of artillery shells are also very convenient, in short, there are many benefits.

"Don't you know, I see a bigger ...... It's just that I don't know why.,It's never been used.。 The old railroad soldier continued to show off what he had seen.

You know, soldiers are not afraid of leaks, and sometimes the gossip is more accurate than actual information.

The bigger one he was talking about was the legendary Gustav railroad gun. Anyone who is familiar with this cannon knows how huge it is.

In fact, the weight of this cannon is about the same as that of a small warship in World War II. And its caliber is a full 800 mm, which can be regarded as the hegemon of the artillery world.

It's just that this cannon was only built in 1942, and it has been kept secret until then.

However, the size of the carriage was too huge, and the railroad soldiers had to lay special rails during the experiment. So the old railroad soldiers saw the huge figure, but it was unfinished.

Li Le's crossing did not prevent the birth of the Gustav railway cannon - in fact, he crossed a little later, and the main project of the railway cannon had already been built.

If it is demolished at this time, it will be called the real gain outweighs the loss. So Li Le could only pinch his nose and recognize the existence of this German artillery king.