"Look! Planes of the British! ”

When the ship's observers shouted, the yellow-green figures of the British fleet had just appeared on the shoreline. The German battleships were moving at full speed through the waves, the sailors on the deck and on the sides of the ships were already in their positions, the guns of various calibers could fire at the first order, and the sailors standing next to the 40-mm and 20-mm machine guns and the navy's Maxim water-cooled machine guns were holding long belts of ammunition, ready to "feed" ammunition to the guns at any time.

Chen Tian on the bridge of the "Border Governor" did not move, nor did Admiral Scheer next to him, none of these naval and army generals wanted to miss this wonderful battle, especially since everyone knew that the first target of the British was the three most conspicuous aircraft carriers.

"I think it's time to equip the sailors with steel helmets, and the M16 helmet for our infantry is good!" Chen Tian pointed to the sailors wearing light gray inflatable life jackets and flat cloth hats on the open-air combat positions and said, at this time, it has only been 2 months since the first batch of standard steel helmets equipped with army units, and at present, only every soldier of Chentian's group army has worn M16 steel helmets, and other units are still completing their equipment. For sailors fighting in non-enclosed positions, a steel helmet may save a precious life at a critical moment.

"This method can indeed bring better protection to the sailors to a certain extent, when the two ships exchange fire, they often use heavy shells, and the huge impact and high-speed moving fragments can easily wipe out a life! Stronger naval guns, better armor, more air protection, so you can save most sailors! ”

Scheer was obviously not too interested in this kind of steel helmet, which could only be inferior to bullets and small pieces of shrapnel, and perhaps a super-strong battleship like Yamato was what he wanted. In the eyes of many German admirals, the air attack on Pascafro's air force only wounded and angered the British Grand Fleet, and most of the British battleships were sunk by the battleships of the High Seas Fleet after all, and the aircraft carrier was just a very effective auxiliary ship, and the naval battle was ultimately solved by the battlefleet. However, Chen Tian knows that the sea of the future will no longer belong to these big ships and cannons, but people often have to experience it themselves before they accept this reality.

While Chen Tian and Scheer were talking, the carrier-based aircraft units lined up in two echelons flew over the battlefleet and bravely met the British aircraft group, of which the fighter squadron was in the front and the attack aircraft squadron was in the rear, and they would form the first and most important defensive line at a distance of five nautical miles from the aircraft carrier.

At this time, some British and German fighter pilots who were fighting fiercely over Bonemouth also spotted a group of British planes flying towards the German aircraft carrier formation, one in front and one in the back, and the two waves of planes were painted with the unique camouflage paint of the British army, and they were lined up in a formation similar to the shape of arrows and skimmed the sea at a low altitude, while the two waves of German planes in a similar formation were rapidly approaching in the higher airspace.

"Isn't that our 2nd and 3rd squadrons? What are they going to do? "After Jimmy was shot down, Lieutenant Carey had taken over the command of the 1st Fighter Squadron, but in an era when planes could only communicate with each other through shouting and gesturing, the squadron leaders were basically unable to direct other aircraft to carry out specific combat missions in air combat, and most of them were only responsible for directing formation flights.

After the 4th Fighter Squadron entered the battlefield, the British fighter force was able to take the initiative to attack repeatedly with numerical superiority at first, but the British pilots soon found it difficult to shoot down the small and agile German fighters, and the opponent occasionally suddenly bit themselves from behind.

By the time the much-anticipated British 2nd and 3rd Fighter Squadrons appeared, there were less than 20 British fighters left over Bonemouth, and no more than 10 German fighters had been lost. It was as if the British pilots had returned to the days when they were fighting each other's machine guns with their bare hands, and those who dreamed of defeating the German air forces finally gave up this luxury in the face of the harsh reality.

Before Kari could complain that the guys in the 2nd and 3rd squadrons were not joining the air battle, a gray shadow fell into the corner of his eye - he was targeted by a German "hummingbird"!

"Hell! ****！ Rotten! ”

Kari searched for all the words to describe this terrible situation, he had managed to get rid of the attack of this hummingbird fighter twice, but he also paid the price of two wingmen, and what made him even more depressed was that he only had the last bullet left, and it was impossible to stuff an infinite number of bullets in the cockpit of the "eagle", not to mention that his own fat body took up a lot of space.

After a few sharp turns, Kari was a little disheartened, this kind of action could not get rid of the German fighter with superior speed, and the disgusting hum of the "Hummingbird" engine became louder and louder, which also meant that the German fighter behind him was gradually closing the distance. When the sound of machine gun fire came from not far away, Kari really thought that he was going to hang here, and the accuracy of the Germans' shooting accuracy at a distance of 300 meters was somewhat terrifying. For the same reason for the difference in gunnery between British and German surface ships, while British pilots played cards on the ground, German fighter pilots practiced shooting in various conditions, with balloons and seabirds being their targets. In order to ensure the accuracy of the pilots' shooting, the German navy, army and air force were not stingy in terms of ammunition, and if more than five days a week were suitable for flight training, a fighter squadron could consume 100,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition. Of course, the French people have also made great contributions in this regard, and many French military factories have begun to produce weapons and ammunition for the German army in large quantities after being renovated, and some French-made German-style weapons have even been exported to Asia, Africa, Latin America.

However, to Carry's great surprise, the sound of machine gun fire lasted for a full ten seconds, and there were no strings of bullets around him, and when Carry turned his head, he realized that the German fighter had disappeared, and a British "eagle" was flying quickly behind him.

"Brother, thank you!" Kari breathed a sigh of relief, he realized that his title of "lucky kitten" was really not for nothing, and in the ten minutes of fighting just now, three friendly planes rushed out to drive away the rear-end German plane for him. He waved gratefully to the British fighter, but the next scene made him dumbfounded: the German fighter in front of him did not seem to be in a hurry to get rid of the other party's pursuit, it just made a few simple actions to avoid the opponent's bullets and continued to fly downward, but its wingman, another "hummingbird" quietly appeared behind the British fighter, and the poor British pilot was completely attracted by the German plane in front of him, and it was not until two strings of bullets were fired behind him that he knew that he had become a praying mantis in the mouth of a yellow finch.

It took less than 3 seconds for the Germans to shoot two rows of deadly bullet holes in the British fighter, and the lower part of the right wing of the "Eagle" type broke instantly, and finally fell to the ground helplessly like a sparrow with folded wings. What made Kari even more chilling was that the pilot of the plane never climbed out of the cabin and eventually fell to pieces with the plane.

Looking around, Cary found that the battlefield was full of British fighters at this time, and the German fighters in pairs showed quite tacit understanding, which was the difference between the bird that had been staying on the ground and the eaglet flying high in the wind every day, and it was also the best embodiment of the strength of the British and German air forces. Kari had given up on turning the tide, having shot down a German attack plane in a previous battle, and he could still be his hero if he returned to the airport safely.

Kari clenched the sweat-soaked joystick with both hands, and the "eagle" immediately climbed up as fast as he could, what he wanted to do now was to use the ceiling advantage to escape from the battlefield, as for how many planes in his squadron were still stranded on the battlefield, it was no longer his concern. In this way, he follows the path that Jimmy has taken, step by step towards the death trap.

Among the three mascots of the British 1st Fighter Squadron, only the "undead little strong" is still fighting with German fighters on the battlefield. The pale-faced Lieutenant Gabi stared at the German fighter in front of him, his right hand gripping the joystick and his left hand pressing his bleeding abdomen. It was the German fighter that wounded him, and although a volley of bullets from the other side just now did not damage his plane, it penetrated his cockpit and body from the rear. However, Xiaoqiang, who can't shoot to death, will not die easily, although the bottom of the cockpit has been soaked in blood, Gabi is still desperately persevering.

The German fighter in front seemed to be taunting the British ace pilot, and instead of rushing to use its speed to get rid of Gabi, it swayed left and right so that Gabi could not aim at him, and waited for his wingman to take up an attack position and attack from behind Gabi.

"God, let me shoot down one, and one will ......"

As his visual and tactile abilities gradually weakened, Gabi gritted his teeth and pulled the shooting stick, and the three Lewis let out a final roar at the same time in an instant, and the flying shells fell to the ground with endless regret. The heavens were cold and merciless many times, and after the German fighter pulled it up lightly, three strings of bullets fired aimlessly into the empty space. After this, Gabi's hand was still tightly gripping the shooting stick, and the Lewis machine gun did not finally stop screaming death until it was exhausted.

In the blood-colored cockpit of this "eagle" fighter, Gabi's body was already immobile, his empty eyes stopped in the void in front of him, and his face was sprinkled with golden sunlight.

Lieutenant Colonel Madonie sometimes really envied those fighter pilots because they were the best wind chasers of their time. In contrast to the ruthless aerial killing machine that can be transformed into the most beautiful dancer in their hands, the Seahawk II attack aircraft is like a clumsy ugly duckling. Although Madonie can rely on his experience and skills to be able to train against fighters, he can do better if he is flying a "Hummingbird". However, Madonie never had the idea of applying to join the fighter unit, because he liked this kind of all-round attack aircraft, and the "Sea Hawk II" was a veritable "guardian" of the three armed forces.

This kind of attack aircraft can be regarded as a combination of fighter and bomber, and the attack aircraft pilot has to pay more sweat than others, practicing bomb dropping in the morning and air combat in the afternoon.

Perhaps as time goes by, some of the past will be forgotten, but whatever happened, Madoni is convinced that he will always remember the gesture he made in the air with his right arm raised high and made two circles in the air over Pascafro, and in a sense it was from that order to attack that the German Navy began to rise.

Facing the northeast flight, the sun was very dazzling, Madoni squinted his eyes and looked ahead, the British aircraft group was less than three thousand meters away from him, the fighter squadron in front had begun to disperse in formation, and the first battle to defend the aircraft carrier was about to begin.

Madonie raised his right arm in the air, and after a pause of two seconds, he made that proud gesture again, and the most resolute expression was written on his sunlit face: I am the Guardian!

"God, forgive us our sins!"

Like other British pilots, Captain Keno made a cross on his chest before the battle began, but this time he prayed not for victory in the battle, but for the glorious completion of his mission like Nelson. When the solid ground under the wings was replaced by the vast ocean, Keno felt both happy and disappointed, and both the joy and disappointment came from the two-person bomb under his plane.

It was thanks to aerial bombs that he had the ability to threaten the three German aircraft carriers in his field of vision, which the whole British people cursed day and night, and even if his bombs did not sink them, they would have to lie on the slipway for a long time; Also due to aerial bombs, his plane's combat performance was already weak at this time, and he had to face two imposing squadrons of German carrier-based aircraft.

Keno wondered how the air battle in Bonemouth seemed to be raging, but the Germans had sent a group of planes to intercept it in such a short period of time, and the zeppelins floating high in the sky were like giants who had come to watch the battle, and the dense German ships on the sea seemed to belong to the German world.

After taking a deep breath, Keno made a bold decision, "The 2nd Fighter Squadron dropped bombs to meet the attack to cover the 3rd Fighter Squadron to break through the opponent's block!" ”

However, few pilots heard Keno's order, and the others were even more puzzled by his "bomb" gesture, but fortunately, these people faithfully carried out their squadron leader's orders, and 35 fighters successively left their heavy "baggage" and prepared to meet the battle, while the following wave of British planes buried their heads and continued to advance.

The momentum of 35 150KG bombs falling into the water was amazing, and the subsequent explosion made the entire sea surface oscillate, but neither the British pilots nor the German sailors counted the number of explosions, in fact, more than half of the bombs continued to remain silent after falling into the water, this situation was also encountered by Germany in the initial development of aerial bombs and torpedoes, but unfortunately the British technicians did not have enough time to test and improve.

As the opponent's fighters came into their own range, the "Eagle" and the "Hummingbird" opened fire at a distance of 1,500 to 1,000 meters, except for the two "Eagle" and three "Hummingbird" that were shot and fell or evacuated from the battlefield, the effect of this exchange of fire was still to completely disperse the opponent's group. After staggering, the German fighters mostly pounced on the slow British planes behind, while the British fighters split into two parts, one led by Keno to turn back and entangle the German fighters, and the other to meet the German attack group behind.

When the speedometer hand re-pointed to 130 kilometers per hour, Keno felt much more relieved, and he could finally match the speed of the wind again. But he wiped his eyes, and then he wiped his eyes, and the distance between him and the German fighters did not decrease, so that the second wave of 35 British planes, still with bombs, would soon be exposed to the guns of the Germans. But Keno's engines were running at full capacity, as evidenced by the high-frequency hum, and Keno and the other pilots had no choice but to follow the Germans' butts and pray for their second-echelon planes.

On the other hand, the Madonie squadron's attack planes were unrelenting in the face of more than a dozen British fighters, and they quickly formed a formation of 10 twin planes and took the initiative to take the offensive. The "Sea Eagle II" fired four rounds of bullets in a group, so that the British pilots did not dare to be careless at all, and one after another "eagle" planes made evasive maneuvers in the air.

Under the cover of the wingman, Madonny quickly incorporated the figure of a British fighter into his scope, and after a long shot, the British fighter could not dodge being hit by three of the bullets fired by the German attack aircraft, and its fragile body disintegrated in the air on the spot, and the British pilot's umbrella that had escaped in a hurry fell into the icy sea before it could be opened. If the sailors on the nearby German destroyer had been in a good mood, he might have been rescued in an hour or two, if he had held out that long.

Soon, the German fighters, which were more than twice as fast as the opponent, began to attack the British group behind them, and the small and cute body of the sea "hummingbird" passed between the gaps of the British fighters, this scene surprised most British pilots, so that when two strings of bullets flew from the front, many people even forgot to dodge, and seven planes immediately crashed into the sea with their bombs, at least three bombs exploded, and the three planes and the pilots above could only end up in pieces.

The officers and men of the German surface ships seemed to be watching a wonderful and fierce game, and when the game gradually reached its climax, these spectators were all silent and even held their breath, and at this time the sea was calm, and the only sounds in people's ears were the buzzing of the planes chasing each other in the air and the sound of airborne machine gun fire, and everyone was silently cheering and praying for their sea eagles in their hearts.