Chapter 567: All-Out Air Raid (I)
However, the German heavy fighter BF110 has an altitude of 11,000 meters, which is several hundred meters higher than the flight altitude of the B17. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This time, there are eight BF110s in Peters' fleet, Peters will not let these planes go to war, their task is to protect the ju89 strategic bombers hidden at high altitude, ju89 is too precious, the whole of Germany is now only more than 150 planes.
"Understand, the BF110 combat group immediately climbed to an altitude of 10,000 meters, your task is to protect the JU89 strategic bombers, no matter how brutal the battle is below, don't forget your duty, other aircraft, immediately meet the enemy."
The "buzz......ing" aircraft engines rang out, and Peters led the entire group of planes to rush head-on against the British and American coalition planes, and only the more fierce the fighting between the two sides, the less chance the British and American coalition forces had to discover the high-altitude JU89 strategic bombers.
"Click...... Woohoo......"
In an instant, the two groups met, and both sides opened fire in unison, and at this time everyone was flying in relative parity, and even if they had a flying advantage, it was difficult to give full play.
Countless ammunition shuttled through the air, and the screaming sound of "whooshing" was terrifying, and soon several planes at the head were emitting thick smoke and fell headlong, including British and American troops and German troops, and the first ones were damaged by each other.
When the British and American fighters and the German fighters made a mistake, the bombers protected by the German army were exposed, and some of these British and American planes directly attacked the bombers flying in formation, while the other half of the British and American planes immediately made an emergency turn to intercept the German fighters that turned around.
The German bombers are very bulky, and the protective force is not very strong, they simply do not have the B17 which kind of hedgehog-like anti-aircraft weapons, fortunately, the German bombers are in close formation, or have some self-defense capabilities, but under the belly is their weakness, because the German bombers have no air defense towers under the belly.
This is also the main reason for the great losses of German bombers in history, and the self-defense firepower of German bombers is generally weak.
At this time, the German bombers were basically surrounded by forty or fifty British and American fighters;
"Click...... Woowoo woo ......"
In a very short period of time, the British and American allied planes dropped six German bombers, some of them rolled in smoke, and some of them were blown up in volleys, but fortunately, the discipline of the Germans was strict, and the remaining bombers did not run around, but urgently approached their own fighter group while resisting desperately.
The fighter group led by Peters quickly turned the nose and rushed towards the coalition fighters who attacked their bombers, and the other half of the British and American coalition planes that also turned around certainly could not let Peters get his wish, and hurriedly came to intercept them.
Peters had no choice but to split half of his fighters to entangle with these British and American aircraft, and the other half to fight immediately against the British and American fighters who attacked his bombers.
The whole sky was filled with planes flying up and down, the sound of the "whirring" wind, the "clicking" sound of machine guns, and the "whining" of the planes' mournful roars, intertwined. The German BF109 and FW190 were still better than the Anglo-American fighters in terms of performance, but Peters they had the task of protecting the bombers and did not dare to fly the bombers too far away.
This makes the strength of both sides about the same, and they can only brutally fight bayonets in the air, and there is another most important problem, that is, the quality of the pilots, the pilots of the German army are all veteran pilots who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and although the pilots of the British and American forces are well trained, they have not participated in several actual battles, and their actual combat experience is insufficient.
In just 20 minutes of fighting, the British and American forces lost more than 80 of the 200 fighters, and the Germans also lost more than 50 planes. The British and American coalition forces did not dare to entangle, they did not have much ammunition, so they had to retreat, and the situation of Peters and them was not much better, the ammunition consumption was extremely serious, and some fighters had already exhausted the ammunition they carried, so they could only choose to return.
Excluding the returning planes and downed planes, Peters' fleet was left with just over seventy aircraft, more than a dozen bombers, and more than fifty fighters.
Although Peters only had this plane left, he still could not return, and his mission was to blow up the military airfield in Paris, and the JU89 on their head was the focus, and they were just bait to attract enemy fire.
At this time, Peters's fleet still had 20 minutes to fly from Paris, and when they had just flown out for more than 10 minutes, they were about to approach Paris, when the British and American coalition planes appeared again, this time it was two 200 planes, and it seemed that the British and American air forces wanted to completely eat Peters's entire fleet.
The fierce air battle started in an instant, and these were almost four or five British and American allied forces surrounding a German plane, and the disadvantage can be imagined, but all the German planes suddenly made a big turn at this time, turned around and began to flee, and at the same time all the bombers opened their magazines and bombed them indiscriminately.
Bombers can't fly fast with bombs, as long as the bombs are thrown, the speed of German bombers is not much slower than that of fighters, not to mention that they still have the cover of German fighters, and there is not much problem in escaping.
As soon as Peters chose to flee in shame, the British and American planes immediately launched a pursuit, and Peters resisted and retreated, and the losses were of course inevitable, but what the British and American forces could not have dreamed of was that Peters was actually luring the British and American planes away from the Paris airport and attracting their attention at the same time.
Under the cover of several BF110 heavy fighters, the high-altitude JU89 successfully broke through to the sky above the large military airport in Paris and began to reduce the altitude by means of the clouds.
When tons and tons of bombs "slammed" into the sky, the earth-shattering explosion of "booming ......" woke up these British and American allied troops, and they hurriedly ran to the gun position and fired fiercely at the JU89 in the air, but it was too late at this time.
The JU89 carried ten tons of bombs, each of which was of the 500-kilogram level, and the Germans also used a delayed fuse, a 500-kilogram bomb, which fell from a height of 6,000 meters, could penetrate the one-meter-thick cement pavement of the airport runway, and then drill into the ground for more than 10 meters, before exploding violently.
Then such a 500-kilogram bomb can blow up a large crater about 25 meters deep and 100 meters wide, and a single bomb on a runway can completely blow it up. This large military airport in Paris has only four runways in total, and two JU89s carry twenty tons of bombs, which is more than enough.
…… (To be continued.) )