Chapter 1770: Perseverance
Don't underestimate the power of rockets.
The 7.62 mm machine gun, hit on the fuselage, is a row of small holes, even if it is hit on the fuel tank, due to the self-closing technology, it can also ensure safety. The 20mm cannon is a hole when it hits, and the ordinary small plane is finished, but the large bomber can still carry it hard.
However, a 55-mm rocket, which is absolutely unbearable, can be said that as long as one hits, it will definitely be shot down, there is no doubt about it!
At the same time, if it is an ordinary warhead, it needs to be a hit to explode, but the warheads of these empty-to-air rockets, in order to increase the hit rate, have a proximity fuse developed by Germany in it, and they can explode as long as they are close to a certain distance!
The lead plane tumbled and fell, and when one wing broke, it could no longer keep its balance.
The long plane that piloted fell, and the commander of the entire bomber force, fell down with the bomber.
This is just the beginning.
Dense rockets shuttled through the entire fleet, and the fearless American pilots were still maintaining a steady flight posture, trying to get a chance to drop bombs.
A rocket flew in, right in the middle of the fuselage.
"Boom!" In the huge explosion, the fuselage broke from the middle, and at the same time, the channel connecting the front and rear pressurized cockpits was also completely broken.
"Oh! Damn it! "When the airtightness of the pressurized cockpit disappears, due to the high internal pressure and low external pressure, in an instant, a huge airflow is formed, and the airflow in the pressurized cockpit is flowing outward rapidly.
The two pilots were still sitting in their chairs, their seat belts were tied and they couldn't move, but they felt that in an instant the hats on their heads flew off, the headphones flew off, and their hair began to fly backwards.
The mechanic, who was sitting in the back, was in great trouble, and the violent air currents attracted him, and immediately sucked him into the part of the passage, and his head hit the side hard, although it was wrapped in cowhide, and still made his eyes shine for a while.
With the action of the air current, the air in the pressurized chamber was passing rapidly, and before the temperature could drop, the oxygen that slipped away rapidly, leaving everyone unconscious.
They did not have the ability to get out of the cockpit and, with the broken bomber, fell downward.
One and another.
There were constantly bombers being hit, tumbling and falling downward, and the effect of this German attack was not bad, and when this round of attacks was over, there were only six bombers left in the group below!
"Three squadrons, take out the remaining bombers, and the rest, follow me to intercept the next bomber group!"
There were too many bombers coming this time, and just after killing this bomber group, you can see the second one following later, so Novotny can only separate his group, leaving a part, and the rest hurry to intercept the next group.
At this time, the 444 Bomber Group had become alone, and the remaining bombers continued to fly forward with perseverance.
Holmes's eyes were a little moist, although his eyes had been fixed on the Norton bombing sight, but his headphones could hear the sound, and the screams of the other bomber crews were constantly heard, as well as the explosions around him, he knew that many of his colleagues who had set off with him were destined not to be seen again.
The rest of the people still have to continue to fight.
Holmes's mouth was still counting down: "Ten, nine, eight..."
At this moment, the turret on the back of the plane suddenly heard the sound of gunshots.
A jet, swooping down from the sky at incredible speed, almost vertically as it swooped towards the B-29.
The turret on the back of the aircraft was facing the sky, and the twin 12.7mm machine gun bullets were roaring upward, and it seemed that the bullets had been able to shoot the plane, only to see the nose of the fighter plane, bursts of flames.
"Tom tom!"
The 20-mm shells fired fiercely at the bombers below, and one after another the 20-mm high-explosive shells accurately hit the fuselage.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Every bullet turns into a hole, and now, one hole after another, more than a dozen holes appear almost instantly.
"Boom!" Suddenly, the bomber burst into flames in the sky, turned into a large fireball, and fell downward.
A 20 mm cannon is enough to deal with a fighter, but it is still too much to deal with such a big guy!
If only one shot was fired, then the other party could resist, and now, after more than a dozen shots, the other party was finally blown up.
At the same time, there were also some small holes in the fuselage of this jet, which were hit by machine gun bullets on the turret of the opponent's back, and in the same way, machine gun bullets could not pose a particularly big threat to it, although some small holes were punched, but they were harmless.
One bomber after another, one bomber fell, but the rest of the bombers were still flying, as tough as a paramecium that didn't know pain.
However, the rest is still advancing.
"Bomb dropping!" Finally, the last bomber was hit by the opportunity to drop the bomb, and with the loud shouts of the bombardier, the bomb button was pressed, and the bomb bay door in the belly of the plane opened, and a series of bombs fell from the sky.
Of all the bombs, the one with a glitter on the tail was the most dazzling, and he was hidden among the others, seemingly inconspicuous, but in fact, it was the most terrible weapon of mass destruction.
The bombardier continued to hold steady and began to push the small lever next to him, trying to control the bomb's trajectory so that it landed accurately on the target carrier in the middle of the formation.
Even if you can't blow up this one because of a mistake, there are five or six aircraft carriers next to it, you can always hit one, as long as your own bomb can be controlled, then it's no problem at all.
The biggest premise is that your own bomber cannot be shot down until it hits the target.
At this time, since the bomb has been dropped, there is no need to keep the original course still, and it is enough to be beaten fixedly, as long as it remains in the air near here, the bomber can do various actions to dodge.
Hold on, be sure to hold on!
However, in the next second, the bombardier sensed that something was wrong, what was going on? With its own operating stick, it seems that it is impossible to control the trajectory of that bomb?
The VB-1 guided bomb, with a light flashing at the tail, was now, like an ordinary aerial bomb, moving along a parabola, and in an instant, the bombardier felt sweat on his back.
Could it be that something is wrong? Damn, after paying so much sacrifice and dropping so many bombers, now it's so easy to drop bombs, and the result is uncontrollable?
What the hell is going on?
The bombardier did not know, and for the Americans it was still a secret.