Chapter 59: Initiation

Clamping the joystick between his legs, he took off the leather glove on his right hand, stretched out his thumb and dipped some saliva, and vigorously wiped a little stain on the corner of the reflector lens of the Revi12 optical sight.

"It's black, it's sticky, like a dead bug, why didn't you notice it before you took off." Rolf. Second Lieutenant Allen pondered.

Although this small stain will not affect aiming and combat at all, it can't be remembered in the eyes, it is very eye-catching, and if it is not wiped off, the second lieutenant will always feel uncomfortable.

"Well, it's clean." The second lieutenant looked at the re-cleaned scope with satisfaction, and then began to take his handkerchief from his pocket with great effort, and wiped his thumb clean.

"Black No. 7, what are you busy with?" The headset came with a call from a long plane.

Alan quickly turned his gaze to the left and saw that the pilot of the long plane was tilting his head to look at him. "The scope has some stains, and it's been cleaned." Alan hurriedly pressed the throat microphone and reported loudly.

"Watch out for formation, black number 7."

"Understood." Alan hurriedly wiped his thumb, tucked the handkerchief back into the leg pocket of his flight pants, then put on his leather gloves and re-grasped the joystick.

"Ah, the weather is so nice, I hope it doesn't rain on my birthday at the end of the month." Looking at the clean reflector, Ensign Allen was in a very comfortable mood, the clouds were so white, and the sunlight was a little brighter than just now.

The second lieutenant turned his head to look at the long plane, adjusted the positions of the two sides slightly, and then looked to the right side of the engine room, where the other two four-plane formations in the squadron flew steadily next to him.

The 54th Flying Wing was almost in full swing this time, and the three brigades removed the necessary airfield reserves, and there were 80 ME109s, and fifty four-finger formations were arranged in a wavy line, uneven in front and back, layered up and down, and formed a huge three-dimensional phalanx in the air.

Allen and his four-plane formation were in the vanguard of the formation. His captain was Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang, the technical officer of the wing, and the iron cross emblem was preceded by the identification mark of the technical officer's broken line and circle. And the wing commander, the brave Hans. Colonel Trauft took the lead, flying at the forefront of the entire fleet with his four-plane formation.

On the left flank of the phalanx was a large formation consisting of an absent group of the JG52 fighter wing and a group of the JG77 fighter wing, also numbering as many as 60 aircraft.

At the back of the large group of planes is the third group of the famous JG26 fighter wing, and their dazzling group leader Mickey Mouse Garland leads a formation of 40 planes to accelerate above the group, go forward for a thousand meters and then begin to turn around, and then pass diagonally at high speed over the group. About a kilometer after reaching the side, turn back to the back of the fleet and repeat again.

This is a new type of escort tactic formulated by the high command, and the command has named this escort tactic "swarm", which is very vivid, because the escort fighters dance like bees on the top of the bomber formation the whole time.

Yes, the JG26 is escorting the "bomber group". Captain Allen turned his head with all his might, looking through the gap between his head against the bulletproof steel plate and looking towards the tail, where the thing was still there, dangling. The silvery wings fluttered in a hurricane traveling at 380 kilometers per hour.

It was a huge box-shaped tin foil kite, six meters long, with nine complex diamond-shaped tetrahedral components tied horizontally and vertically in a tic-tac-toe shape in the box-shaped frame, and a ten-meter-long cable tethered to the fighter plane's bomb pylon. Fixation on an untie hook. This thing is the magic prop that can turn a ME109 into a HE111, which the command documents call a towed radio wave angle reflector and the pilots call it a "liar kite".

It can gather the chaotic radar waves that hit it and reflect them back. A strong feedback signal is displayed on the radar receiver, which makes the radar crew misjudge the size and volume of the target. The volume of a small fighter towing a corner reflector kite on the radar looks like a large aircraft, if you look at the route, speed and altitude. As well as the formation interval according to the parameters of the bomber flight in formation, the fighter group will become a bomber group on the radar.

This tactic was initially experimented with by the eggs piloting captured French fighters, twenty-four fighters disguised as an unescorted bomber squadron, flying over the center line of the channel at the cruising speed of the Dornier 17, and successfully luring a British six-plane Spitfire formation. Judging by the reaction of the British, they were dispatched exactly in accordance with the procedure for intercepting groups of unescorted bombers. If they had identified the camouflage of the fighters, there would have been absolutely no more than two squads in the sortie.

After confirming the success of the experiment, the bird egg squad turned around and returned home before the arrival of the British fighters, and a squadron of fighters who responded had already taken off and moved along the center line of the coast, if the British fighter squad dared to chase across the strait, then they would not want to go back alive, and in the end, the tired British did not choose to track, and the experiment was a complete success.

The same experiment was carried out several times, all mixed with feints, which greatly strained the British fighter command, the number of German bombers increased dramatically, and the Germans must have transferred new reserves from home. Large-scale groups of planes have been moving back and forth on the edge of the strait, constantly crossing the center line of the strait, some of them abruptly retreating before approaching the coast, and sometimes taking advantage of the exhaustion of the British fighter planes, they suddenly drove straight into the gap in the defense, razed everything in the target area, and then retreated, leaving the belated and physically and mentally exhausted British fighter pilots to roar in the air.

"See the shoreline, Black No. 7, look directly below, that's the beluga whale you've always wanted to see!" Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang's voice remembered in the headphones, Allen excitedly looked down against the cabin glass, and he excitedly pressed the throat transmitter: "Where, where?" Where is Beluga Dick? Ah, I see, sir. It's spectacular! ”

Just two hundred meters below the group, a dazzling behemoth was suspended in the air majestically, with a huge volume beyond people's visual imagination, elegant and simple lines, this guy was born with a kind of majesty that overlooked everything.

The massive Led Zeppelin was painted pale gray throughout, with a striking area of pale blue and white folded camouflage in the middle, resembling an air cruiser, with a pale gray Iron Cross badge painted on the five-story tail fin, and a one-man tactical designation ODW02 and a shield on the sides.

Led Zeppelin LZ127, according to the original history, at this time because of Goering's stupidity, it was dismantled into a pile of aluminum and sent to the furnace of the Mercedes factory. But in this time and space, the Count Zeppelin has a new look, floating majestically over France, and the reason for this must not need to be explained.

Now off the coast of France, three huge zeppelins were tasked with the most important task of the entire aerial campaign, and these aerial behemoths became the key to the Luftwaffe's victory in this battle.

The Count Zeppelin, a world-famous luxury airship, received the call "Moby Dick" in the Air Force command system. The 236-metre-long aerial beast has been completely converted into an aerial fortress, with two quadruple 20mm gun emplacements mounted on the back of the massive monohro-hull hull, and a row of aluminum antenna towers between the turrets, with five rows of cables towed between the towers directly to the tail. A section of the lookout protrudes from the waist, and a twin machine-gun nest hangs at each end of the lookout.

The most eye-catching is the gondola under the hull, which has been modified beyond recognition, the original huge aluminum pod was divided into two sections, the cockpit of the first part is equipped with a streamlined and very sci-fi flower-shaped glass fairing, the rear section of the cockpit is concave, and two huge trapezoidal tower-like brackets hang a pot-shaped frame antenna with a diameter of eight meters, with the slow rotation of the motor drive, the rear pod is four times the volume of the cockpit, and a row of large and small windows are opened, There are many angular and whip-shaped antennas on the bottom and sides, and behind the pod are the four famous Mercedes-Benz engine pods, as well as the huge four-bladed propellers, which are now stagnant, and six huge steel cables extend from the airship pods and the hull to connect to the ground.

Alan looked back and saw that there were a number of planes parked on the airfield on the ground, and two small black dots had just left the runway and were climbing upward.

The Zeppelin early warning airship, or the airborne radar base station, relied on the Wirzburg Führer's improved prototype radar suspended under a huge airship hovering at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and the detection range reached an astonishing 200 kilometers, with an altitude error of less than 100 meters, and a distance error of less than 500 meters. With the modified Freya long-range radar deployed on the Count Zeppelin II and LZ131, the airborne radar network composed of three airships can cover an airspace of about 200 kilometers, plus a row of shore-based radar stations along the coast, every move of the British Air Force is in the hands of the Luftwaffe.

Under the monitoring of the airship radar, the Air Force General Command can obtain real-time basic information on the course, altitude, speed, number, and type of aircraft of the aircraft formations of the enemy and us, and through the newly established command and communication system, command and command any squadron in the air to start a fierce battlefield game with the British Air Force.

"Attention everyone! Heading 010, the height is four thousand five, the rats are out of the hole, and all accelerate to climb and climb! The voice of Colonel Traoft, who served as the chief air commander, sounded in the headphones of all the pilots.

Allen gently pushed the throttle, and the Messerschmitt fighter followed closely on the flanks of the long plane, and began to slowly climb upwards.

"Speed up, unhook!" The captain of the group sent an order, and the fighters in the group opened the release hook one after another and threw away the kite behind them.

Directly ahead, in the snowy white clouds reflected in the sunlight, a dense black machine shadow came out in three layers, changing the formation and approaching quickly. Garland's 3rd Group swept through the group diagonally behind the plane like lightning, and pounced on the British group.

Years later, Colonel Allen, who has become a super ace, remembers vividly that day, when the eagles were flying and the clouds were burning. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)