Chapter 194: Air Raid (Medium)
"Air strike...... Air raids......"
But how could the shouts of this duty officer be compared with the huge explosion, and before he could run out of the telecommunications room, a 100-kilogram aerial bomb roared and fell down, and with a loud "boom", the three-story telecommunications building was directly razed to the ground, in addition to the flying dust and the broken bricks flying all over the sky, the 100-kilogram anti-aircraft bomb was not very powerful, and such a brick-concrete structure building could not bear it at all, and directly turned into slag.
As for the radar arranged by the British, the British radar at this time had just been installed in the experiment, and they also detected a huge group approaching, but the result quickly disappeared from the original screen of the radar, and they thought it was a radar failure! So I didn't report to my superiors. The main reason is that Witt is constantly lowering the altitude when he is about to reach the target of the air attack, which is for the accuracy of the bombing, but he inadvertently evades the detection of the radar. (The British radar began to be equipped in large quantities after August 40, and the British radar detection range at this time was only a few kilometers, and after the invention of the magnetron in February 40, the radar detection range became farther and farther.) )
The defenders of the Maynland airfield were still asleep, and suddenly there was an overwhelming aerial bomb whizzing down, and the first to be attacked were two wide flight runways, and four or five planes blew out several huge holes in the two runways, and there were countless debris splashing on the runway, and there was no way to take off on such a runway, and the planes that dropped their bombs directly strafed hundreds of planes parked on the tarmac at an ultra-low altitude.
A 100-kilogram aerial bomb can destroy at least all planes within a radius of 30 meters, which is almost the area where more than a dozen planes are parked, and the sound of "boom" explosions is continuous, and the fuel on the blown up planes burns violently, and thick smoke and flames rise into the sky, forming a huge black cloud over the airport.
Then the oil depot where the fuel was stored was hit, and the power of tens of thousands of tons of fuel soon burned up, which was earth-shattering, and the flames rose two or three hundred meters high, and no one dared to stand within five hundred meters. The British soldiers, awakened by the explosion, rushed like headless flies, and the anti-aircraft artillery erected around the airfield was like an ornament. It was the German air raids that came too hard.
The commander of Maynland Airport is Major General Reilinger, who was still sleeping in the bed, was suddenly shaken out of bed by a violent shake, and fell so that Reilinger only called "oh oh", Reilinger thought it was an earthquake, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion, Reilinger immediately understood that this was an air raid, and Reilinger, who was wearing pants, didn't care so much, and ran directly to the basement.
Below Maynland's headquarters was the air-raid shelter, which was still very strong, Ringer was running, and the other people were also awakened by the explosion to check the situation, and some female soldiers were so frightened that they cried, and the male soldiers were much better, shouting "air raid, all go to the basement", and helped the frightened female soldiers to run to the basement.
Ringer also ran and shouted:
"Quick, quick, all go to the basement, air raid...... Air raid ......" Although Lehringer shouted, he did not stop for a moment, and the vibration from the ground made people stand unsteadily, and it was continuous, and the sound of the explosion was deafening. Reilinger, who rushed into the basement, hurriedly ordered the air raid siren to be sounded, and quickly sent a report to his superiors to report the situation, Reilinger could only say that the Maynland airport was attacked by the air, and he did not know who the enemy of the air raid was.
About ten minutes after the air raid was carried out, the sound of anti-aircraft artillery sounded around the Mayenland airfield, firstly, many of the anti-aircraft guns had been destroyed, and secondly, many of the soldiers guarding the airfield were sent to God in their sleep, and this anti-aircraft artillery did not pose much threat to the airplanes, and the entire airfield had become a sea of fire and ruins, and there was not a single intact British plane on the ground.
Seeing that the airfield on the ground and the planes had been completely destroyed, Witt did not stop and immediately ordered:
"All fighters immediately climbed to an altitude of five thousand meters, ready to search for enemy aircraft carriers."
No sooner had Witt given the order than the planes on the perimeter reported:
"Incoming enemy planes were spotted, in the direction of nine o'clock, and there were huge numbers."
It seems that the carrier-based aircraft on the British aircraft carriers began to attack, because Witt's attack was earlier than another airfield, so all the carrier-based aircraft of the four British aircraft carriers came to besiege the more than 120 BF109s led by Witt.
"What model can I see clearly?"
"There are nose tube swallow carrier-based aircraft and Swordfish carrier-based aircraft, as well as some Sea Fighter carrier-based aircraft."
The "Nose Tube Swallow" is a relatively good British carrier-based fighter-bomber aircraft in the early days of World War II, and the Swordfish is a torpedo bomber, which can also be used as a fighter if it does not carry bombs, and the Sea Fighter is a specialized fighter. It seems that the British have no choice but to send out all the planes on their aircraft carriers at once, whether they are fighters, bombers or torpedo planes, to fight the German planes that sneak attack.
The real threat to the German BF109 fighters are those Hurricane and Spitfire fighters that are blown up on the ground, the performance of these British carrier-based aircraft is really poor, and they are not the opponent of the BF109 at all, only when Britain replaces a large number of its carrier-based aircraft with Hurricanes and Spitfires, can it be on par with the German BF109.
The British planes came very quickly, and as soon as Witt and his own group of planes rose to 3,000 meters, more than 160 British carrier-based planes swooped down, and the British carrier-based planes were completely in an advantageous position at this time, and at the same time they were still coming in the direction of the sun. That is to say, to the east behind the British planes, behind them is the red sun that has just emerged from the horizon, fortunately the sun's rays are not strong at this time.
And Witt and they must face the direction of the sun to meet the dive attack of the British carrier-based aircraft, and now the sun's rays are not dazzling, otherwise Wittur's losses will be very large, unimaginably large.
"Dada...... Da Da ...... Buzz ......"
In the first wave of head-on charge, the British had a great advantage, and swooped down from a high place like lightning, and Witt's fleet had just formed up and could only meet it head-on. The battle started in an instant, the bullets shuttled through the air, the orange bullets pulled out the whip that often stirred in the air, and the performance advantage of the BF109 was wiped out at this moment, depending on whose cannon hit who first.
There were constantly planes "whining" and smoke rising from the sky, some British, some German, the planes were relatively charged, and they missed in an instant. In this wave of confrontation, Witt actually lost eighteen planes, while the British only lost twelve, which made Witt vomit blood.
Now there is no need for Witt to issue any orders, the staggered German planes immediately climb vertically, and then dive, this set of actions is specifically to bite the tail, and the British carrier-based aircraft will not easily let the German aircraft bite their tail attack, and hurriedly make various technical actions such as rolling or climbing.
In an instant, the sky was full of planes chasing each other, rolling, climbing, and diving, bullets from machine guns flying in the air, and planes were constantly being beaten down.
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