Chapter 405: Come, Hurt Each Other (Add. 4)
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Britain is conservative, in the era when monoplanes, fully enclosed cockpits have appeared, they still hold on to the swordfish torpedo plane, in their eyes, biplanes, with two wings, are safer when flying, and once one wing has a problem, there is another wing, which can continue to fly.
Like now.
This Swordfish torpedo machine was lucky, because it was just the upper wing that was smashed, the engine, the propeller, were all intact, at this time, Charlie couldn't care too much, got this plane out and took off!
Seeing Charlie so insistent, other ground crews can only do it.
A ground crew truck was driven over, which was actually an ordinary truck, and several ground crews tied ropes to the plane, and then, the truck was driven.
Under normal circumstances, the plane can come out of the hangar with a push from a few ground crews.
But not now, because the hangar has collapsed, and there are several ruins, blocking the front, and the slope is sorted out with a shovel and then pulled out by truck.
Black smoke was coming from the truck's exhaust pipe, the engine was roaring, and the Swordfish torpedo machine behind it was being pulled out little by little.
This is the largest slope, and after pulling it, you can enter the runway.
Although the runway is full of potholes, Charlie has no other choice, he must take off!
"Quick, hard!" Charlie walked a few steps quickly, came to the side of the fuselage, and pushed the plane together, this slope is too big to be pulled by the truck alone, and it must be done by everyone!
The wheels got stuck on a large brick, and a dozen people, shouting trumpets, were going to push the plane over.
Once, twice, the fuselage shook more and more, and finally, the fourth time, the wheels managed to roll over the stones!
Everyone was tired and sweaty, Charlie wiped the sweat from his forehead, and suddenly, his ears stood up.
What was that?
In the distance, there was a dull humming sound, this sound, so familiar...
Following the sound, Charlie saw a bright spot appear in the southeast sky, shining silver.
Plane!
"Watch out for air defense!" Charlie shouted loudly, the one flying at an ultra-low altitude in the distance was definitely a plane, and the plane that appeared at this time must be German!
The airfield here was attacked by a sneak attack, and when the Junkers-88 dived and dropped bombs, it was in a panic and could not carry out effective air defense at all.
But now, they have reacted, all the personnel are in place, rescue the fighters, extinguish the fire, and at the same time, they are also preparing.
The anti-aircraft artillery positions were destroyed at the first time, so they could only salvage a few anti-aircraft machine guns from the warehouse.
Near Charlie, there was an anti-aircraft machine gun emplacement.
Seeing the other party approaching, Charlie knew that if he wanted to take off in his own plane, he would have to kill the German plane that flew in!
So, shouting, he ran towards the machine-gun position.
"Quick, reload!" Charlie shouted loudly, there were not enough people, there were only two people in the machine gun position here, and now, Charlie ran over and immediately acted as a machine gunner, letting the people next to him reload.
This is the Vickers MKIII. machine gun, which is the naval version of the 0.5-inch Vickers anti-aircraft machine gun, and it is also the most successful of the three versions of the gun, land, sea and air.
The air-cooled barrel, with a heat dissipation hole on the outside, looks a little hideous, and four such barrels look even more terrifying.
Yes, this machine gun, it is quadruple.
At that time, after careful comparison, the British Navy finally chose this weapon, quadruple assembly, firepower is crazy, and it can provide 914m wide and 18m high fire coverage at a distance of 15m. It can be said that as long as you are targeted by it, you will definitely not escape.
At the same time, the machine gun is fed by drums, and two large drums are arranged on each side of the machine gun mount, each drum can provide 200 rounds of ammunition for the corresponding machine gun, and the four drums can be loaded with a total of 800 rounds of ammunition.
The plane on the other side is quite strange, it is not in the air and then dives down to attack like other planes, it is originally flying at an ultra-low altitude, probably to search for targets in the thick smoke.
This is better, their own machine guns, to destroy ultra-low-flying targets, is the best, according to the technical manual, this 4-pack Vickers MKIII machine gun can be used against aircraft flying in the altitude range of 1371m and below.
The plane approached quickly, and as a naval pilot, Charlie was quite familiar with any kind of aircraft equipped by the Germans, but now, this flying plane, far exceeded his knowledge.
Haven't seen it.
Monowing, with engines on both sides, this layout, it was supposed to be a bomber, but, looking at the size of the other side, it is much smaller than a bomber, what kind of plane is this?
In the nose, a shark's mouth was drawn, which looked a little hideous.
It doesn't matter what kind of plane he is, open fire and kill the other party!
This place is very secretive, and behind here is the swordfish torpedo machine and the truck that towed it, and the attention of the opposing pilots must have been on it, and they didn't see it, so they suddenly opened fire and killed the other party!
The other party was rapidly approaching, and just as the distance reached a thousand meters, Charlie pressed the trigger fiercely.
"Tom tom," the four-mounted machine gun, the firepower is extremely fierce, every muzzle, there are flames, one bullet after another, forming a huge barrage, just like the ancient rain of arrows, flying towards the opposite plane.
The machine gun has a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, and now, in order to take out the opponent, Charlie has almost no pause, holding down the trigger, he is waiting for the opponent to smoke.
The bullets were spilled into the air, and at this time, the pilot in the cabin, Ensign Steinkamp, realized that he had made a mistake.
There are actually hidden anti-aircraft machine gun positions on the ground, which I didn't find out about! When I saw the Swordfish torpedo machine, I focused on it!
How could you make such a low-level mistake yourself!
This is a 12.7mm machine gun bullet, mixed with armor-piercing rounds, if it is an ordinary plane, surrounded by this rain of bullets, it will be shot down.
Almost at the same time, Second Lieutenant Steinkamp heard the sound of bullets colliding with his own plane, and the sound coming from the bathtub was so crisp, but he was fine!
Such an aircraft, a tank flying in the air, cannot even be harmed by a thump cannon, let alone an ordinary anti-aircraft machine gun!
If it were an ordinary plane, it would have to climb away immediately, and when it climbed, the weakest belly was exposed, and Ensign Steinkamp was even quicker after discovering that he had been attacked.
Of course, instead of pulling up and running away, but diving down!
Pushing the lever and the nose downward, the HS129 was facing the four-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun, and then Second Lieutenant Steinkamp pressed the red button on the lever.
Come on, hurt each other!