Chapter 280: The Decisive Battle in Africa (Part II)
The British "Army Group Nile" quickly realized that this was a full-scale German attack, and immediately organized all its planes to deal a fatal blow to the invading German armored forces, but the British aircraft group was soon captured by German radar.
When German radar caught the huge British fleet, they immediately ordered all the fighters of the second and third groups to immediately take to the air to support the first group, and the fighters of the supplementary training aviation regiment took off to guard the perimeter of the airfield.
These supporting "BF109s" will arrive in the airspace of the engagement in about twenty minutes, and if the British Air Force is still entangled with the "BF109s" in the first group by then, it will be a matter of time before it is completely annihilated.
Baker's 80 fighters quickly completed the formation and flew towards himself at twelve o'clock. Because of the limitations of radar performance at this time, the detection range was about 120 kilometers, and the two sides went hand in hand, and five minutes later the two sides met in the air.
"One group, enemy planes in the direction of you at twelve o'clock, altitude 4000, sunny weather, light breeze three levels."
Receiving the report, Baker quickly made his own tactical arrangements, and Baker divided his group into three tactical groups.
The 1st Tactical Group met the enemy head-on, the 2nd Tactical Group outflanked on the left flank, and the 3rd Tactical Group outflanked on the right flank, and all the planes were lowered to 6,000 meters.
After receiving the enemy, it is a dive attack, which can maximize the use of the speed advantage and disrupt the formation of the enemy aircraft, and Baker gave his men an order, that is, hit and run, come back and continue to fight.
Although the British aircraft were not bad, most of the old aircraft were armed with two 7.62 mm machine guns, and the latest Spitfire and P40 were armed with two 12,7 mm machines.
How could a British aircraft be an opponent of a 30-mm gun, it can be said that a British aircraft would be "out of class" if it was hit by a shot, and the "BF109" would be fine as long as it did not penetrate the fuel tank and engine with steel plates.
Beck personally led forty fighters to approach the enemy from the front, their height was six thousand, while the height of the British army was 4,000, and the British planes were in front of the German radar, thinking about the woman without pants, Beck could start wherever he wanted.
Of course, the British army also had radar, but in order to ensure the safety of the radar, Montgomery placed the radar in the rear of the Egyptian defense line, and the radar detection range in the early stage of World War II was not far.
Baker calmly gave the order:
"A formation of enemy aircraft was detected, about two hundred, and there were a considerable number of bombers in the formation of enemy aircraft."
"The first tactical group attacked, Germany won 10,000 wins, Long Shuai won 10,000 wins."
Rommel's armored assault group also crossed the Egyptian border and was immediately spotted by British sentries, who immediately informed their superiors by radio.
"BF109" is very fast, the British planes are still flying in large formations with swagger, bombers in the middle of the entire group, fighter escorts on both sides, and there is no way to count the specific number, fighters and bombers are about half of the points.
Baker immediately made a decision, commanded the fighters to immediately enter the battle, "BF109" began to dive, the 1st and 2nd squadrons served as the main attack, and the 3rd squadron was responsible for covering, and in an instant, a fierce air battle began.
The Luftwaffe used all BF109 fighters, and the main fighters of the British army were 40 Spitfire and P40, these two aircraft were good in the early days of World War II, but there was still a gap compared with the German BF109G fighters, and the British army still had a lot of teacher fighters, so needless to say, it was not the opponent of the German BF109G at all.
The air warriors of the 1st Tactical Group of the 1st Group of the 4th Air Division bravely rushed to the British fleet with a sense of responsibility for the security of the country and the nation.
The 1st squadron of Daller, Anruod formed a 2-plane formation first bitten a British PZLP.11 vintage fighter. The two men covered each other, fought in coordination, and shot them down after a fierce pursuit.
After Dahler and his comrades opened the record, they immediately found several British planes chasing the Luftwaffe's returning bomber formation, and the situation was extremely critical.
Without hesitation, he made a sharp turn, turned the nose of the plane, increased the throttle, bit one of the British planes, and fired a fierce shot, which exploded in the air. At this time, another of his comrades-in-arms also shot down a British plane.
At the same time that the 1st Squadron was engaged in a struggle with British aircraft, the 2nd Squadron was also engaged in a struggle with 12 British aircraft.
6 British planes bit the front 2 planes of the 6th squadron from the rear behind, and another 6 British planes bit the 5 planes behind.
At this time, the British aircraft had only a numerical advantage, but not in speed and power, and were also in a passive position in tactical positions.
In the face of a favorable situation, Captain Baker calmly commanded the 2nd Squadron to maneuver with the British aircraft, and they relied on the firepower and speed advantage of the "BF109" to engage the British aircraft in aerial dogfight.
After a round or two, a multi-plane melee situation was formed, and the sky was full of planes scurrying up and down, and British combat civilians covered their own bombers to rush towards Rommel's equipment troops.
How could Baker let the British bombers break through his own defenses, he immediately ordered all fighters to immediately abandon the combat airfield with the British army and attack the British bombers with all their might.
The Germans turned around and attacked the British bomber formation, and from time to time British bombers came down in the air with thick smoke, and the British fighters could find an opportunity at this time, and they were chasing the German BF109 in the air.
The German BF109's advantage was thus lost, and the BF109 fell in the sky from time to time along with the British bombers.
Both sides are desperate, the German BF109 is desperately organizing the British bomber group, and the British army is fighting desperately to prevent the German BF109 from attacking the fighters in the engine room, the whole sky is raining bullets, from time to time there are sister's planes rushing to the embrace of the earth, there are German planes, there are also handsome planes.
More than ten minutes later, just as the British bombers were about to break through the German interception, the 2nd Tactical Group arrived, and they immediately joined the team battle.
It was a large-scale air battle between planes and groups, with nearly 400 planes from both sides scuffling over the Egyptian defensive line. From an altitude of 5,000 meters to a few hundred meters above the ground, countless planes flew up and down, chasing and fighting each other.
The roar of the engines, the sound of gunfire, and the sound of explosions were intertwined, the air was filled with gunsmoke, the rain of bullets shuttled, and one after another British planes dragged the smoke into the embrace of the earth, and one parachute after another shook and fell from the air to the ground.
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