Chapter 207: Tempest (Part II)
The "buzzing" roar was deafening, and Witt's group drew a large ellipse in the air, and then in a dive, it dived down against the British group below, this time it was not a face-to-face attack, but Witt dived overhead the British planes below. The British fleet is not a lamb to be slaughtered, they also pull the joystick and want to climb vertically to meet it, but the Hurricane and Spitfire are not very good.
This time the attack once again broke out suddenly, the sound of "da-da" cannons, the mournful sound of "woo-woo" were endless, and many British planes were beaten down by the diving BF109 before they could pull the fuselage vertically.
Witt was engrossed in operating his plane, he kept adjusting the angle of the dive, just aimed at a British plane that was trying to climb below, the British Spitfire had not had time to climb, Witt's cannon hit his head, the entire cabin glass was shattered by the cannon, and then the plane suddenly burned violently, the pilot of the British plane was killed on the spot, and the Spitfire fighter that caught fire rolled over, "whining" and carrying to the sea.
This time the dive attack on Witt was as cheap as possible, and Germany lost eight planes, while Britain lost more than 30 planes, and now there is not much difference in the number of planes between the two sides, and Witt has no speed advantage, and the two sides can only "fight bayonets in the air". There are many factors that determine the outcome of the air force's bayonet fight, the first is the quality and actual combat experience of the pilots, and the second is the performance of the aircraft; even if the aircraft is advanced, and the pilot is a rookie, it will be the end of death. A small real combat experience that in a matter of seconds will decide who goes to hell and who becomes the winner. However, the German carrier-based pilots participated in the Spanish Civil War, and the Chinese supported the operation, and they had much more actual combat experience than the British pilots.
Orr quickly arrived on the battlefield, and of course the main British aircraft group that bypassed could not escape their glasses:
"Below is the main British group, the first detachment entangles the enemy escort group, and the second detachment attacks the enemy bomber group and attacks the ......"
At this time, the British escort group had no choice, so they hurriedly divided a flight group of more than 160 planes to meet them, and another flight group continued to protect the bomber group and rushed towards Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation.
British bombers are mainly Wellington medium bombers, in addition to some Blenheim medium bombers, Wellington is a kind of medium bomber produced by the British Wicks company, the aircraft uses a reverse thread interwoven short line fuselage structure, effectively strengthened the fuselage structure, compared to the bombers of the same period, Wellington is much lighter, so Wellington is stronger and easier to maintain, while also being able to withstand more hits from fighter jets.
And it has a bomb load of two tons, and the standard bomb load is nine 500-pound (227 kg) bombs. What's more, Wellington was suitable for mass production, which was remarkable during a period of wartime bomber consumption.
The Wellington bomber had eight 7.92mm machine guns, which were placed in the nose and back, and there were no self-defense weapons under the belly, so the weakness of the Wellington heavy bomber was in the belly.
Orr's fighter group was also immediately divided into two groups, the first group of 100 BF109s went to meet the 160 British escort groups, and the remaining 100 or so directly pounced on the British bomber group, the British planes were too many, and even the escort planes were more than the German side. At this time, the British bomber formation actually had a flying regiment to protect, and at this time there were more than 100 planes in Orr, and Orr, who had no choice, could only divide fifty BF109s to entangle those British fighters who were escorting.
As for whether the 50 BF109s of this group can deal with the more than 160 British planes, it is not something that Orr said to consider, and the most important thing now is to beat these British bombers into the sea to feed the sharks, but 50 BF109s can fight 600 British heavy bombers, and the number gap is really too big.
Ignoring it, Orr swooped down with fifty planes, "Da Da...... Da Da ......"
Two groups of BF109 against a Wellington, the BF109 that dived down was extremely fast, like lightning piercing the sky, the long tongue of fire against the Wellington bomber below was a fierce sweep, at that time more than a dozen Wellington were beaten into thick smoke, "woo woo" moaning ¥ planted to the sea, of course, Wellington's back was also machine gun self-defense, there were two BF109 were hit by a rain of bullets and rolled and whimpered, and three were wounded.
Wellington's weapon was a 7.92mm machine gun, and it was generally impossible to hit the BF109 into a volley, and the pilot still had a chance to parachute as long as he was not killed on the spot.
"Fighting from the bottom up, Wellington has no weapon in his belly, pulls up, and each looks for a target to attack."
This time there was no enemy bullet rain counterattack, Orr could attack calmly, Orr and his wingman aimed at a Wellington from below, Orr a burst of cannons over, directly hit Wellington's engine, this attack position needs the least shells, at this time ammunition, that is the straw that saves lives, must pay attention to saving, if there is no ammunition to fight, but the most tragic. Fortunately, before this takeoff, the commander-in-chief only let them load machine gun shells and machine gun bullets, and then there was no other load, so Orr and their ammunition load was the highest value.
Even so, the BF109 can only carry 120 rounds of 20mm cannon shells and 4,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition, and the British 600 bombers do not fight back, let Orr let go of the attack, and it is impossible for him to shoot down all six bombers with 50 BF109, and the British bombers are too many, like a dark cloud pressing down.
The second wave of Orr's attack knocked down more than 20 Wellingtons, and just when Orr turned around and prepared for the third wave of attacks, the British fighters who escorted the escort reacted and hurriedly left a small number of fighters to entangle the German fighters, and the remaining planes all returned to attack the fifty fighters of Orr.
Orr's third wave of attack has not yet been launched, it was besieged by British planes from all directions, countless shells and bullets shuttled in the air, although Orr rose up to fight, but these British planes were surrounded from all sides, and they caught Orr off guard, at that time, Orr's fifty planes were shot down more than ten, Orr almost died, but fortunately, his wingman desperately rescued, so that Orr escaped everything, but his wingman was besieged by several British planes, and was beaten by the British and exploded in the air.
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