Chapter 22: Defenders of the Air

From the moment the two fighters came into contact with the enemy plane, every conversation between Lin Jun and Andlupuf touched the hearts of countless people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Because Lin Jun uses a high-power radio station and has been adjusting the communication distance to a range of about 100 kilometers, every conversation between the two will be transmitted to the Madrid airport tower of the same frequency, and the airport commander Grande directly connected the signal to the airport's tweeter, so that everyone at the airport can feel the battle situation at the first time. Every conversation between the two fighters was transmitted to the airfield at the same time, making everyone feel the intensity and passion of the battle.

In fact, this is also the idea that Lin Jun came up with, learning the practice of the US military commander in the Pacific Theater, using this way to let the personnel in the rear feel the passion of the battle and improve morale, and judging from the nervous looks of everyone at the airport, this approach is very successful! Every time they hear the news that two air warriors have shot down an enemy plane, everyone will cheer wildly and hug each other!

The people in the southwestern suburbs of Madrid were more excited than the people at the airport, because they had seen the fierce battle in the air with their own eyes. Everyone is on the rooftop, in the trench, in the open space, risking the danger to cheer on the two warplanes in the air! Whenever a rebel plane fell in the air, everyone cheered, and nearby soldiers and civilians would go to the crash site as fast as possible to check the situation. Everyone prayed for the two pilots, hoping that they would destroy more enemies and that they would be safe.

The whole of Madrid is watching these two fighters with red five-star flags in the sky!

This time, it was a CR32 that was targeted by the two "killing gods", which was increasing the throttle and fleeing to Badajoz in the southwest, and the pilot plane was the leader of the fighter escort formation for this air raid. In the air battle just now, he was the first to launch a counterattack, but unfortunately in the first round, he found that the CR32 in his hand was not the opponent of the two single-wing Yi-16 at all, and judging from the maneuvering actions and fierce style of the two Yi-16, this time it was kicked to the iron plate. His wingman has become a victim of these two Yi 16s, which makes the squadron leader completely lose the courage to compete, and chooses to "retreat", no longer paying attention to those "stupid geese" like Juncker, in his opinion, it is important to let the people above know the latest situation.

It's a pity that this squadron leader never had a chance to return to Badajoz, and the two I-XVI have already caught up.

Lin Jun and Andlupf split left and right and pounced on the CR32 in front of them. The first to attack was Lin Jun, and when he rushed to a distance of 200 meters, he pressed the machine gun firing button, but at this moment, the CR32 in front of Lin Jun turned to the left sharply, escaping the machine gun bullets fired from behind, but it fell into Andlupf's "bloody mouth" again, at least hundreds of bullets hit the CR32, and the unlucky squadron leader was beaten into a hornet's nest.

"One more!" Lin Jun was extremely excited. After estimating the ammunition situation, the shells are almost gone, but there are still six or seven hundred rounds of machine gun ammunition, and the situation on Andlupf's side may be similar to his own, and it should be no problem to solve another one.

There were no other planes at low altitude, and the two Yi-16s raised their noses and flew to high altitudes.

After 10 minutes, Lin Jun found two Junkers in front of him, one in front of the other and one behind them very close to each other. In the cabin, Lin Jun raised his right hand and made a double-arc gesture to Andlupf on the side, and Andlupf nodded. This is a gesture of the "bracket" attack tactic, the most effective way to attack a two-plane bomber.

The two Junkers have also found two I-16s, and Juncker leaned closer, trying to exert the self-defense firepower of the twin planes to repel the two chasing I-16s.

"Andre, I can't do it, it's too dangerous!" With the two Junkers close together, aircraft attacking from either side will receive a threat of fire from both turrets.

The air was littered with ballistic traces from the tracer bullets fired by Juncker.

"Brother, start from above. Follow me. ”

The two I-16s climbed rapidly to a height of about 5,000 meters, and swooped down to the two Junkers at a dive angle of 60 degrees.

"Andrey, solve it all at once!"

The captains of the two Junkers apparently did not have time to make new countermeasures, and the two Il-16s began to fire fiercely at a distance of five or six hundred meters. This left the shooter on the Juncker's turret out of reach, and it was obviously futile to shoot at a fighter diving at a 60-degree angle with a 7.92mm MG15 machine gun at this distance, but he struggled desperately、、、、、、

Extremely fast dives, salvos of machine guns and cannons. In an instant, the cannons had already run out of shells, but the two ΠŸΠ’-1s were still spewing flames that devoured everything!

Lin Jun stared at Juncker in front of him, ignoring the tracer bullets flying around, and pressed the machine gun firing button tightly, watching the trajectory of the bullet devour the target in front of him.

Andlupf, who was behind Lin Jun, also widened his eyes and did the same thing.

Both Junkers' back turrets were dumb, and a fighter diving from above had an absolute advantage in this situation. Seconds later, I-16 rushed underneath Juncker. When the two Yi 16s turned over beautifully and resumed their level flight again, Lin Jun saw that the two Junkers were falling with black smoke.

"Brother, return!"

When two Il-16s passed over the city of Madrid from a height of 1,000 meters, the whole city poured into the rooftops and squares to greet and cheer these two air warriors! The history of Madrid's undefended air is over!

Lin Jun and Andlupf, who landed at the airport, were once again greeted by the crowd, and people held the two heroes on their shoulders, and countless people were cheering "Hurray"!

The two pilots did not lose their minds like the people at the airport, trying to get off the shoulders of the crowd, because they knew that the real test would begin when the rebel planes returned to Madrid!

Thanks to Grandi's efforts, the welcoming crowd finally calmed down and put the two heroes down. As soon as Lin Jun and Andlupuf reached the ground, they had to "break through" the crowd to inspect the plane.

"Comrade Air Force, the logistics personnel are already inspecting the planes and replenishing ammunition and fuel." Grande was already prepared.

Lin Jun carefully inspected his landline and found that there were dozens of scratches on the fuselage and wings that were scratched by the fragments formed by the explosion of the enemy plane, but fortunately, the damage was not very bad. Airport ground crews also found three hits on Lin Jun's plane, one hit mark on the propeller and two holes in the wing.

There were more than 20 bullet holes in Andlupf's landline on the side, which should have been left during the storming of the second Junkers, but fortunately, all the bullet points were not in the critical parts.

"Andrey, it seems that my luck is good." This is what Andlupuf said to Lin Jun later.

The damage to the plane was not very serious, and the ground crew said that it would be completely repaired by dawn tomorrow.

Refuel the aircraft as quickly as possible to prevent retaliatory air strikes from the rebels. In fact, judging from Lin Jun's thoughts, Madrid is safe these days, and enemy planes will not come to Madrid on a large scale until Germany and Italy bring in new fighter jets. But in any case, the two pilots remained by the fighters with a first-class combat readiness attitude to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall, because they were now the only air defense line in Madrid.

An hour after Lin and the others landed, Lin Jun saw Grandqi running over, and before he arrived, he shouted: "Comrades, the statistics have come out, the troops southwest of Madrid have found a total of 9 wreckage of enemy planes, and they have also captured 5 rebel pilots!" ”

"Comrade commander-in-chief, Andrei shot down 5, he is already the first ace in the skies over Spain!" Andlupf gave Lin Jun his own half of the record, and he knew how much this Andre longed for the title of "trump card".

Lin Jun didn't refuse, he also knew his brother's intentions.

The ground crew sent paint and paintbrushes, and Lin Jun and Andlupf took it upon themselves to paint a red five-star representing the battle under the cockpit canopy of their fighter plane. When Lin Jun finished drawing the five five-stars, he looked at the blood-red five-star, "You are the trump card!" ”

When night fell, many people came from Madrid, all of whom came to congratulate and thank these two heroes, which made Lin Jun and Andlupf extremely honored.

At 8 p.m., he was informed by Granchi that Largo Caballero, Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic and Minister of Army, would come to the airport to present medals to two defenders of Madrid. This made Lin Jun a little surprised and curious, because Lin Jun in his previous life had never learned about the important medals of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

Standing in the spotlight, Largo Caballero presented Lin Jun and Andlupuf with the prestigious Gold Medal of "Defender of the Republic".

"In recognition of your courage and outstanding achievements, on behalf of the Spanish Republic, I award you the Gold Medal of the Order of the "Defenders of the Republic", two brave pilots. Do not be surprised, because this is a medal that the Government of the Republic has decided to establish on the occasion of the afternoon, a medal awarded to the most valiant soldiers. Because of the rush of time, the production was impromptu, so it was a little rough. ”

The words of the Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic and Minister of War cleared up the doubts in the minds of Lin Jun and Andlupf, because they had just discovered that the medal was like a handmade object in a private gold shop.

In fact, Lin Jun did not have a good impression of Largo•Caballero in front of him, because in November, the rebels from the north and south and the German and Italian fascist forces formed a siege of Madrid, and when the enemy army approached Madrid, the Prime Minister of the Republic, Minister of War and Socialist Party leader Largo•Caballero and other leaders would panic and flee in a hurry, moving the capital of the Republic to Valencia.

But Lin Jun is still very happy to be awarded this gold medal of "Defender of the Republic". Just now, this Largo•Caballero said that this was a reward for the most heroic soldiers, and the title of "Defender of the Republic" also made Lin Jun very happy. Defender of the republic, this should be the best tribute to a warrior who fought for his ideals.

At midnight, the logistics convoy finally arrived.