October was a dull season, and after two full months of busyness, the German Navy was still playing with its planes in the Baltic Sea, the German Army was still idle on the Eastern Front, and the German Air Force was still invincible in the skies over England. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Inside a church in France, a man dressed in a priest's garment, leaning his back against a cross, prays for dozens of German pilots sitting below.

This was not an easy job, as German pilots died every day, and today's prayer was held for the 1,000th pilot lost in the Battle of Britain.

No bombing mission is a one-sided crush, and the kind of war with zero casualties seems to have only become popular after the Gulf War in 1990.

Today's wars are accompanied by blood, and in the process of going on, they have been soaked in blood, which can only be described in words such as tragedy.

When the German bombers attacked Britain, they inflicted incalculable damage and disaster on the country, and they were also suffering losses, staggering losses.

In the real World War II, the British bomber pilots lost the second highest proportion of all the participating units, second only to the German Navy's submarine forces......

It can be seen from this that the great wars that we all talk about today are actually not possible to see up close.

The wolf pack tactics are classics, and those German U-boats hidden in the deep sea are swimming in the enemy's fleet as they are now, stabbing the deadliest sword!

However, most of the fate of these ferocious wolves was sunk under the turbulent waters of the Arctic Ocean, and they never surfaced again.

Thousands of submarines were sent into the ocean, and in the end, only a tenth of them continued to fight, and how many good men slept on the cold bottom of the sea?

The Allied bombing of Germany was equally exciting, destroying the horrific industrial production capacity of the Third Reich and draining the blood of the German war.

It is a pity that when the Lancaster bombers that took off in the evening flew back to Britain again, their fuselages were covered with dense bullet holes.

And most of the planes that took off together, flew together in the sky in formation over Germany, and did not make it back......

Is war pretty? It's not pretty! If you zoom in on every detail of the whole war, it will be a boring and suffocating picture of people who don't stop dying and not stopping.

Is war pretty? Pretty! If you look at it vaguely, then it is an epic for men, a carnival of iron-blooded men.

"There is no end to this world in everything that passes quietly." Directly in front of the cross, the priest was reciting almost fixed lines in a low but rhythmic tone.

It stands to reason that when the church holds the funeral of different people, it is necessary to write a specific eulogy according to the life of the deceased, but unfortunately because the number of people who died in battle is too large, every day, so it can only be written in a fixed sentence.

Many of the pilots who died in the skies over England, or in foreign lands, were under the age of thirty, so there was nothing to write about......

You can't say in the church that "his voice was brilliant, he killed 22 enemy soldiers, shot down 37 enemy planes, and destroyed 52 buildings", right? Is this to pray for the dead to go to heaven, or to ask God to let him go to hell?

Therefore, in the end, I can only use some beautiful words to piece together such an almighty eulogy: "Rest in peace, people of God, the most loyal soldiers of the Empire!" Your soul will endure. ”

The pilots below sat peacefully, after all, most of them had attended more than one such funeral.

Most of the people who came to the funeral were officers of the unit to which the deceased belonged, and some good pilot comrades. Many comrades-in-arms were temporarily added or deployed, and perhaps they did not know the deceased.

The air raid on Britain was a dangerous thing, and the novice pilots who were added were often killed in battle, and the old pilots had occasional accidents, so everyone had no negative emotions such as "sadness".

In its place is numbness, indifference. Everyone just watched in silence as the priest prayed on the stage, and the expression on his face was no different from that of a dead man.

Most of the time the coffin was the pilot's luggage, a used military uniform or a cup lunch box or something like that...... If you have a wife, you may have a wreath made by your wife.

Because they had to fly over the Channel to fight over the British, they were either taken prisoner or their bodies could not be found.

Some planes even crashed in the English Channel due to breakdowns or injuries, and most of the pilots would freeze to death in the icy waters, and only a few could be saved.

This is the brutal war, and this is a brutal way for the Luftwaffe to train novice pilots.

Under Goering's initiative, one-tenth of the 30,000 newly recruited air force pilot apprentices have actually experienced the test of war and become soldiers who can take charge of themselves.

The priest whispered incessantly, making the atmosphere in the church mournful: "Your birth and your existence are only to convey the psalm of hope, forever...... Dedicate these tears to you, this is the motherland praying for you! ”

At the door, a Luftwaffe officer walked into the church with his large-brimmed hat between his hooves, the sound of leather boots echoing through the hall with the priest's words.

He walked to the front row, nodded his head at the priest, and sat down next to an officer sitting alone in the first row.

Ignoring the priest's prayers, the officer, who had just walked in, put his hat on his knees, leaned a little sideways, and said to the officer, "Sir...... Against the attack of the newly discovered radar station, the assessment turned out to be unsatisfactory. ”

"The artillery fire on the ground is so heavy that the British are not sitting there waiting for us to drop bombs and kill them...... What can I do? The Air Force Commander, who was sitting there, did not move his eyes, and replied in a low voice without squinting.

Like Germany in another time and space, Britain has chosen the same approach in this time and space.

When the British air force was suppressed, the British deployed a large amount of ground artillery fire, which was so large that the Luftwaffe felt the pressure.

The artillery fire from the ground was increasing, more intense and more planned, which was not good news for the Luftwaffe, and could even be called a disaster.

More and more German planes were hit and fell by British ground artillery fire, which was definitely a blow to Germany, which was already stretched thin materially.

In the real historical time and space, Germany finally abandoned the Battle of Britain and canceled the Sea Lion Project because of the excessive consumption of air force planes and pilots.

Now, although Li Le has delayed the losses of the Luftwaffe and strengthened the blood transfusion replenishment of the air force, he cannot let this air battle be consumed endlessly.

The fierce resistance of the British made the voices within the Luftwaffe about the cancellation of the senseless air battle of Britain once again loud.

"But the Führer had not yet cancelled the bombing of Britain, so we had to keep fighting...... "The late officer continued.

"This is already the 1000th pilot, we have lost too many planes in Britain, do you understand?" The officer, who was sitting there intently, still said intently.

Because there were a lot of machine gunners and bombardiers on the bomber, these 1000 pilots did not represent 1000 aircraft. But these losses were indeed very heavy, which made Goering feel painful after the statistics.

"We will thank you for the days of peace and happiness you have given me. We will always pray for your soul forever. The priest's voice did not pause, like the background music of a conversation between two officers.

"We destroyed the air defense of the British, but also destroyed their lines of communication, destroyed their factories...... They have more to lose than we do......" The officer who entered the door at the back still defended the operation.

And the officer who didn't squint was still expressionless, and he didn't even look at the officer next to him: "There are more than 600 planes of various types...... Doesn't the Führer count what a huge result he would have achieved if he had used these planes on the Eastern Front? ”

"The Führer led us to victory after victory...... We shouldn't just question him. The late officer's voice was a little overwhelmed, and several officers sitting on the bench on the other side turned their heads sideways and looked at the two who were speaking.

The priest was very professional, and his eyes were slightly closed, and he was still talking: "I walked through the gloomy lawn, but I will not be afraid, for your noble soul will walk with me......"

"German soldiers are to be used in the direction of what is most needed! There is no room for waste in each of them...... As the commander of the Air Force, I think we should present our losses to the Führer and let him consider whether to continue the bombing of Britain. With that, the officer, who had been sitting there for a long time, closed his mouth and continued to listen to the priest's prayer with a blank face.

Then the officer who entered the door sighed, stood up, buckled his hat to his head, put his hands in full position, put his legs together, and raised his arms.

Because it was in the church, and there was a funeral, he didn't shout the slogan, and turned away. The officer, who was sitting there, still looked at the priest and said nothing.

Walking out of the church, the officer turned around and looked at the carved cross directly above the church door, shook his head, and walked down the steps.

"Internal ...... of the Air Force Although more pilots and more advanced aircraft were obtained, the resistance to the bombing of Britain was getting higher and higher......" Sitting in his car, the officer leaned back in his seat and muttered.