Chapter 532: Chaff
An air base in Le Havre, France" General Graeme, this is Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Feipeng and his companions from Huaxia. A German major introduced Xiao Feipeng and his fifteen companions to the base commander.
"Greetings, Major General Graeme!" , Xiao Feipeng saluted.
"Okay, Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Feipeng, on behalf of the base and the Fifth Air Brigade, I would like to extend a warm welcome to your arrival." Major General Graeme said with a solemn look on his face that was characteristic of the Germans.
"Lieutenant Colonel Xiao, you and your companions have come from thousands of miles away, and we should have let you rest and hold another drinking party in the evening to entertain you, but now the situation is urgent, and yesterday we had more than thirty young men left forever over the English Channel, so please forgive me for being inconsiderate."
Looking at the serious look of this forty-year-old major general, Xiao Feipeng and his companions behind him couldn't help but smile bitterly in their hearts.
"General Graeme, you're so polite, we're here to work, aren't we?" Xiao Feipeng smiled slightly.
Major General Graeme glanced at Xiao Feipeng with some surprise, and had a good impression of this neat-looking colleague.
Under the leadership of Major General Graeme, the group soon came to the headquarters of the German army, and before they entered the door, they heard the endless sound of ticking radio reports from inside, which reached everyone's ears.
After pushing open the door, Xiao Feipeng and his entourage immediately saw more than a dozen consultants inexhaustibly busy inside, looking at their busy and stable work, Xiao Feipeng secretly bowed his head, and it was rumored that the quality of the consultants of the Germans was the first in the world, and it seemed that it was really worthy of its reputation.
After everyone came to the wide war room, Major General Graeme directly took Xiao Feipeng to the huge sand table and said straight to the point: "Lieutenant Colonel Xiao, our current situation is very poor, although we have an advantage in terms of the number of aircraft, quality and quality of pilots, but in the battle, the British can always detect the size and route of our aircraft with radar, so that our losses in the battle are often much higher than the British, which is very unfortunate for us. In addition, the Americans have recently sent planes to Britain by sea along with American volunteer pilots, so that we will not be able to defeat the air force of the lost British in a short time. ^”,
"As soon as we got off the plane, we didn't even drink saliva and pulled us to the war room, really treating us as coolies!" , A trace of gloom appeared on the faces of the dozen pilots behind Xiao Feipeng, but Xiao Feipeng was very calm, and he smiled gently: "General Gretel, of course, there is no problem. We're here to help you solve your problems. When the surrounding German advisers heard this, a trace of shame appeared on their faces, when did the brave German Air Force fall to the realm of needing to ask Huaxia for help.
Xiao Feipeng took off a bag he was carrying behind him and put it on the table to untie it, and pulled out a bundle of white flower tools. He smiled faintly and said to General Gretel: "General Gretel, this is a weapon we have for radar. ”
"What is this?" , Major General Gretel grabbed a bundle of tools and said in surprise: "This is chaff?" ”
"Yes, chaff!" Xiao Feipeng replied in the affirmative, "Chaff is a device made of metal foil, wire or metal-coated medium to passively jam enemy radars. It is inexpensive and easy to use, easy to obtain wide-band characteristics, and can simultaneously interfere with multiple radars that do not meet the standard, do not meet the frequency, and do not conform to the system. ”,
Major General Gretel and the German advisers around him gasped, "Do these chaff really work?" Xiao Feipeng smiled faintly, "General Gretel, we'll see tomorrow what the effect is." ”,
In the early morning of August 5, 1940, four ME-109 fighters quietly flew from Le Havre to the English Channel, and the planes sailed at an altitude of 8,000 meters, with Xiao Fei and Peng Fei in the lead. Twenty minutes after the plane flew, Xiao Feipeng raised his left hand and looked at the Layton luminous watch on his wrist, and a faint smile appeared on his mouth. Stretched out the intercom and said, "Attention all units, start gradually releasing the interference chaff." ”
With Xiao Feipeng's order, the hanging bomb points on the wings of the four planes fell at the same time, and a black box fell down for more than 20 meters, and then suddenly dispersed, and countless shiny white strips of objects were scattered one after another, and the sky was filled with these chaff strips in an instant.
The two radar men were staring intently at the screen in front of them at the radar station set up by the British on an island thirty kilometers away from the mainland, they were the first pair of clairvoyants set up by the British overseas, and the German planes taking off from Le Havre were often the first to detect and raise the alarm.
"Henry" look, the Germans' planes are out again, quickly record the type and number of their planes and report them to the command! A radar soldier pointed to the signal that began to be presented on the screen, and shouted with some excitement: "Some time ago, the British Air Force began to swell their confidence by fighting more with less and achieving brilliant results.
"Okay, I'll record it at once" Ten, fifteen, thirty, God, one hundred, three hundred, five hundred, oh I can't count, there are countless enemy planes on the screen. ”,
"Stupid uncle, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and tell the command!" Henry, who was shocked, hurriedly grabbed the Hotline, "Command, this is radar station No. 1, we found German planes!"
The number is huge, there are thousands of them, and there are too many planes for us to count! ”,
At the headquarters of the British Air Force in London, the commander of the British Air Force, Lieutenant General Dowding, was taken aback when he received an emergency alert from the forward radar station.
"What? Le Havre discovered thousands of German warplanes? Lieutenant General Dowding was taken aback, and his eyes flashed with disbelief, "Are the Germans crazy today?" They only have more than 2,000 planes in total, so will they send out half of them today? Can Le Havre accommodate so many planes? Lieutenant General Dow was stunned for a moment.
"Lord, since the Germans have almost all sorted, we must also fight back. Otherwise, if so many Germans were allowed to come over the British Empire, we would have been blown to ashes. Lieutenant General Dao Ding, the adviser on the side, was stunned and reminded loudly.
"Okay, I order, all the fighters will take off at once, and the target is the route from Le Havre to the English Channel, all ......" Before Lieutenant General Dowding could finish issuing the order, the frightened voice of the signal soldier came from the side, "The main seat, the No. 6 radar station, reported that more than a thousand warplanes were found coming towards the British planes in the north. ”
"Speaking of the main seat, the fifteenth radar station said that thousands of planes were found flying towards London in the west."
"Say, the radar station says that a large number of German planes have been found in the south!" ,
According to the data collected by the radar station, the Germans used a huge fleet of 5,000 planes, which far exceeded the number of British and German planes combined.
"If you can't do it, you can't do it!" Lieutenant General Dowding stood up openly, "The Germans definitely don't have so many planes. ”,
The advisers in the war room were also dumbfounded, and the reports of radar stations in various places that they had detected a large number of planes made them panic all at once, more than 5,000 planes, if a honeycomb of planes poured over, the British Air Force would also fight, so they would simply surrender en masse.
But this obvious deviation from the truth made everyone dare not believe this fact, and it is clear that the Germans used some kind of trick to deceive their own radar, otherwise such a ridiculous thing would not have happened.
"Everyone pay attention, order all the planes on the airports to take off, and the reconnaissance planes hurry to the area to conduct reconnaissance." During this time, with the help of radar, the British Royal Air Force could freely mobilize its own military strength to chase and cut off or even lay ambushes on the way of German aircraft. But now that it has lost its radar eyes, the RAF is in a mess. The war once returned to the previous mode of air combat, no, even worse than before, at least in the past, Britain always had reconnaissance planes patrolling and warning warnings at 24 hours in the sky, but now there are enemy warnings everywhere, but reconnaissance planes do not know where to go to reconnoitre.
Lieutenant General Dowding has thousands of planes in his hands, but he doesn't know where to deploy, and the situation of the British Air Force is now "blind."
Halfway through the hour, Lieutenant General Dowding received the first report that Liverpool in the northwest had been heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe, and the losses were very heavy. The Germans threw a large number of incendiary bombs, and the whole of Liverpool was set on fire.
"These hellish bastards, when did the German incendiary bombs become so powerful? It was able to burn most of Liverpool down! Lieutenant General Dowding couldn't believe his ears, the Germans had not used incendiary bombs in previous air raids, but their incendiary bombs did not seem to be so powerful, and this time even the houses made of stone were almost burned to lime.
Before Lieutenant General Dowding could recover from the shock, another statement came from the side, "Your Excellency, the Fifth Brigade reported that they did not find a large number of German planes in Le Havre, but only four German planes, and now they have flown towards the Le Havre defensive ground!" ”, @