Chapter 1579: The Burning Fire
Here, it is only the local garrison of the second line, and it is impossible to have the radar used by advanced artillery, and it is already very good that they can maneuver more than 20 kilometers in a hurry and rush here to deploy and arrange positions.
Ten Bofors anti-aircraft guns of 40 mm caliber were all their firepower, and at this time, they were arranged at the foot of the mountain, lined up, aiming exactly in the direction of the north, and when the other side flew over, they either hit the mountain or pulled up, leaving them with a flat belly.
"Tom, tom!" Just after the light of the searchlight covered one of the bombers, several anti-aircraft guns were firing into the sky.
Up to now, the 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun has blossomed everywhere in German weapons and equipment, and is used everywhere, the biggest feature of this gun, of course, is that the rate of fire is high, compared with the previous hand-pulled machine, this kind of continuous anti-aircraft gun, shooting is quite strong.
In the dark night, the muzzles of the anti-aircraft guns on the ground emitted a shining fire, and one by one 40 mm high-explosive shells flew into the sky, and several of them would be mixed with a tracer bullet, and the trajectory of the tracer bullets could be clearly seen, which was accurately intertwined with the bombers in the sky.
"Boom!"
This bomber was hit and exploded in an instant.
When the bomber exploded, countless liquids began to spread outward rapidly, and when they encountered a little spark, they burned violently, so the explosion of the bomber constituted a chain reaction, with the bomber as the center, the fireball was rapidly expanding outward, turning into a more huge fireball, this fireball was incomparably hot, incomparably shining, and the entire night sky was lit up!
The night sky was like day, and the German anti-aircraft artillery on the ground already had a premonition.
What's that thing?
Even if a bomber full of fuel was hit, there would not be such a terrible scene, especially now, the opponent's flight altitude is very low, and the fireball is still spreading, and the radius has expanded to more than a kilometer!
Some of them were blinded for a short time because they were too bright, and the soldiers who remained here saw an even more terrible sight.
Chain reaction.
The bomber was hit, and the explosion was terrible, and when the fireball spread to more than a kilometer, the bomber behind it suddenly encountered a crisis.
"What's going on?" The captain of the bomber behind shouted loudly, and he looked at the dashboard in front of him, and all four engines turned on red lights, and they all turned off!
How is this possible? How can the flames go out together?
At this time, their altitude was too low, and once the engine was turned off, there was almost no possibility of restarting, and the pilot next to him was scrambling to restart the engine.
The captain looked at the engine outside in horror, listening to the sizzling sound of the starter, and all that came out of the engine was black smoke, thick black smoke, as if the fuel could not burn inside at all.
He didn't know that the oxygen concentration outside had dropped to a critical value, and the thermobaric bomb, also known as the air incendiary bomb, was quite domineering.
At this time, he also began to feel a little suffocated and out of breath.
In the past, bombers all needed to wear oxygen masks, and it was quite uncomfortable to wear oxygen masks for long-distance flights, so when it came to the B-29, they were replaced with pressurized cockpits, although they were not as good as the atmospheric pressure on the ground, they could also meet the needs of long-distance flights.
The principle of the pressurized cockpit is also very simple, that is, the cockpit is sealed, and the air compressor blows up, so that the pressure inside increases, so that the thin air at high altitude will not affect the interior.
In other words, although it is pressurized, it also needs to be inhaled from the outside air, but now, the oxygen content in the outside air has been greatly reduced.
His eyes began to slowly darken, and by this time, the bomber had entered an uncontrolled state, and with the loss of power, the bomber fell to the ground.
"Boom!" When the bomber hit the ground, the plane burned, the fuse had been disarmed, and the bomb, which had not had time to be dropped, exploded.
It was only a few hundred meters away from the anti-aircraft artillery position.
"Boom!" In the explosion, the gasified liquid began to spread outward, burning wildly in all directions, and the fireball expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and instantly jumped to the anti-aircraft artillery position.
For anti-aircraft artillerymen, it was not easy to shoot down enemy planes, and some even fired for several years, but none of them were shot down, but now, the heroic second-line anti-aircraft artillery of Germany, the first time they fired, knocked down the next one, and at the same time, the other one also fell, and their results were already good.
At this time, the first leading bomber is facing life and death, and there is a mountain in front of them, and they must climb and climb again!
At this time, the expressions on everyone's faces were full of horror, especially the upper Garnay in front, he was sitting in the nose of the plane, his eyes could almost see the mountain coming, and in the panic, his hand pressed the bomb button heavily.
Just before the bomb was about to be dropped, Brother Liber noticed that there was a big mountain in front of him and hurriedly climbed it, in fact, he forgot that if the bomb had been dropped first at that moment, it would have been easier for them to escape.
What a burden a nine-ton bomb is!
As for dropping bombs, you must fly smoothly, and now, the plane is already in a state of climb at a high angle of attack, and the attitude of dropping bombs is completely wrong.
The pylons were unlocked, and the big bomb had just come off the pylons, and as a result, it collided with the tailgate of the bomb bay.
But according to the procedure, the bomb would not explode until after a delay, so, in the collision, the B-29, which lost control, staggered into the hillside.
Ahead of him, Upper Garnay looked at the hillside and knew that he could no longer hide, so he closed his eyes in despair.
"Bang, bang." The nose collided, and the nose was flattened in an instant, and the upper Garnay inside was also flattened at this moment, and his body became a meatloaf, smeared all over the hillside, and there was red blood everywhere.
Then there is the nose of the machine, almost in a second, and several people in the nose of the machine have the same fate.
Then, under the huge impact, the fuselage was broken violently, and the bomb that was caught also collided with the mountain.
"Boom!"
In the loud explosion, a fireball came out, and the fire burned brightly, and the nearby forest also emitted billowing smoke.
Alps, on fire!