Chapter 556: Great Power Game (6)
"Hartman, don't be impulsive, if we act recklessly, it's easy to give the other party a chance to take advantage of." Colonel Dams, who was in charge of leading the bomber unit, comforted him.
Hartmann shook his head: "Now that the defeat of the Grand Duchy of Rees is decided, we will soon withdraw to the Kingdom of Sero, and before that, I must destroy the Axis Volunteer Air Force, otherwise we will suffer heavy losses when we retreat." ”
Colonel Dams muttered, "I know your concerns, but there is a huge disparity in strength between the two of us. Although we have shot down more than 1,000 Axis planes, they still have at least 600 fighters and more than 400 bombers, while we have only 270 fighters and more than 160 bombers. ”
"Yes, we can't win a direct confrontation, so I'm going to start a night fight." Hartman Road.
"Night fights? This is impossible, even our most elite air force has never been trained for night battles, and it is undoubtedly suicidal to rush into such a battle. Colonel Dames immediately objected.
Hartman sighed and said, "The Imperial Air Force of China has conducted several successful night air battles as early as the last World War, and we have not been able to carry them out until now. ”
Colonel Dames comforted him, "Those are the work of the elves, they have night vision, which we cannot compare." ”
Hartman said: "My ideal is to be like the elven pilots of the Chinese Empire, to become an absolute elite pilot, to become the king of the sky, now what I lack is only the record of night battles, I must do it." ”
Colonel Dames said, "Are you crazy? How to return to your airport and how to land in the dark of night with our planes. ”
Hartman laughed: "That's right, you're talking about all our difficulties, so I'm going to have the Condor Legion take off at four o'clock in the morning, and we'll raid the Axis Air Force field airfields in a low-altitude flight, and by the time we return victoriously, it's already dawn, and we won't have any problems landing." ”
"That's right." Colonel Dames also smiled and said, "That's a good idea, let's prepare for action immediately." Hearing Hartman's idea, Daems felt suddenly enlightened, although it is equally dangerous to take off at night and fly in formation, but in the eyes of these elite pilots, they can still do it reluctantly, and choose the most difficult night landing to solve it, and Hartman's plan has the possibility of implementation.
After the two commanders unified their thinking, the Air Force's logistics personnel began to overhaul the planes overnight, refueling all the participating planes and preparing them for battle. In order to make take-off easier, all runways have been equipped with a long indicator light, and all aircraft have been equipped with electric lights on the nose, tail and wings for identification purposes.
Under Hartman's order, the various combat planes of the Condor Corps began to row the runway one after another, and one after another rose into the sky. Trying to grasp the steering stick, Colonel Hartman did not dare to be careless at all, he could only rely on the spirit level and electronic compass to adjust the direction and flight status, and try to keep the plane as steady as possible, once his hand shook slightly, it was likely to hit the ground.
All the Yaman pilots had the same difficulties, but fortunately they were elite pilots, and their skills were very good, and they were barely able to do such night flights. What's more, Colonel Hartman and Colonel Dams, who have the best skills, fly at the front to lead the pilot, and as long as the others look at the tail lights of the pilot plane in front, there will be no major mistakes.
Half an hour later, the Condor Legion's fleet began to separate, and they became five small mixed groups of fighters and bombers, each heading towards their respective targets. The airfields of the Nantes Volunteer Air Force were not far away, so after only ten minutes they had already found their target.
Hartman and Dames reported this operation, and the Jarman Empire government also took it very seriously, they activated a number of spies in the Grand Duchy of Rees, and recruited a number of volunteers to navigate the plane on the ground, these people disguised as wanderers, lit a lot of fires in the wasteland along the way, and followed the instructions of these fires, the Vulture Legion quickly found the location of the airport.
Since there was no concept of night air raids, and there was no light control at the field airfields of several Axis powers, the brightly lit hangars, towers, and dormitory barracks were now the best targets for the Condor Legion.
"Follow me and start bombing." Colonel Dames gave the order and was the first to lower the altitude in his Junkers 87A dive bomber. Since it was night, he did not carry out the most effective dive bombing, but took the ordinary low-altitude horizontal bombing.
The louder and louder sound of the plane's noisy engines in the sky soon woke up the Axis air forces that were still asleep, and they looked strangely at the dark night sky, wondering where these sounds were coming from, but soon they understood.
The huge aerial bomb was first dropped on the runway, and the powerful charge exploded with great power under the trigger of the fuse, blowing up a large crater with a diameter of more than ten meters in the middle of the runway, and the runway was scrapped in a short time.
One bomber after another dropped bombs at low altitudes, turning the runway and tarmac into flames. The fighter unit led by Colonel Hartman was also not idle, and the BF109E fighters could also carry two small bombs weighing fifty kilograms, and at the moment they dropped all these inpowerful bombs on the pilot's quarters.
To increase the effect, Colonel Hartman's fighters were armed with incendiary bombs this time. When two 50-kilogram white phosphorus incendiary bombs fell to the ground, they exploded into a cloud of flames, and everything on the ground became clear. Instead of extinguishing the incendiary bombs, they quickly set fire to nearby trees and wooden roofs, illuminating everything from the Axis pilots, including the fleeing Axis pilots.
Seeing these pilots, Colonel Hartman's eyes were red, and as soon as he pushed the lever, the plane dived down at a small angle, chasing the pilots who were running around. The fighter jet went low, and Hartman pressed both fire buttons. Thirty-millimeter cannons and two thirteen-millimeter machine guns rang out at the same time, and three tongues of fire chased the Axis pilots away, splashing a mist of blood.
The pilots who were hit by the 13mm guns were cut in two and died on the grass, while the people who were shot by the 30mm guns were even more miserable, they could not even find the whole body, and when the battle was over, all the people who collected the bodies could find were some broken pieces of flesh.
Seeing Hartmann slaughter the Axis pilots, the other Jarman fighter pilots did the same, and they also started the massacre with the lighting of the mounted incendiary bombs.
This unexpected night air raid almost completely destroyed the Axis Volunteer Air Force. More than 800 planes were destroyed on the tarmac, and the loss of pilots was also as high as 500, which made the top echelons of the air forces of various countries almost collapse.
Originally, the governments of the three countries planned to let them gain a certain amount of actual combat experience on the battlefield, and when they returned home after the war, they could use their rich combat experience to train new pilots in order to improve the overall quality of their own pilots, but the result was all folded here.
Annoyed, the Axis powers immediately ordered their armies to attack, and after capturing Coimbra, the army rushed towards Barreru, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Rees.
After all, the victory in the air battle could not replace the war on the ground, after the bomber group of the Condor Legion attacked the Nantes Volunteer Army several times, the Boston Empire brought a large number of anti-aircraft guns, with these equipment, the effect of aircraft bombing became worse and worse, and after the Nantes Volunteer Army approached Barreru, Hartmann had to order the Condor Legion to transfer to the Kingdom of Sero. If they didn't leave, their airfield would have to face the fire of the Nantes Volunteer Army.
The defeat of the Grand Duchy of Rees is already a matter of time, and the fate of the Sardinia mercenaries is not much better, in the face of the rebels' desperate attacks, these Sardinia people are not strong in their will to fight, after all, this is not a fight for their own country, if they exchange their lives for their lives with the other party, it is not worth it, so under Franco's various attacks, the Sardinia mercenaries retreated to Ojosne to be armed.
The retreat of the Sardinia mercenaries and the crisis of the Grand Duchy of Rees can be a serious blow to the Allied fleet, but the eight aircraft carriers and fourteen battleships of the Boston Storm Ocean Fleet have arrived at the Nantes Empire, and they have completely cut off the sea route of the Yaman Empire to support the Grand Duchy of Rees, and at this time, the navy of the Yaman Empire only has four aircraft carriers and six battleships, and the other new warships are still lying on the slipway like Thar and Nantes, and they can't compete with the Boston Empire at all, and they can only stare dryly.
In order to better understand the situation, the Imperial Joint Command even applied to the Chinese Consortium to move three synchronous spy satellites to the sky over the Grand Duchy of Sero to conduct 24-hour uninterrupted observation of the war there, although the accuracy of the satellites is not high enough, but it is completely enough to observe the large-scale actions of both sides on the battlefield.
After discovering the decline of the Allied bloc, the Joint Staff engaged in a heated debate, and even Fang Ruijun joined in, and after analysis and explanation, everyone agreed that letting the Kingdom of Sero be controlled by the Axis powers was the best situation for the Boston Empire to rest assured that fighting against the Allies.
Therefore, the Chinese Empire only needs to strengthen its economic support for the three Allied countries, so that its national strength can grow rapidly, and it can adopt a laissez-faire attitude towards the Sero Kingdom, so after the first batch of weapons and subsequent aircraft support, the Chinese Empire will no longer support the Sero Civil War, and even after Carlos I sent a written request, the Chinese Empire also blocked back the reason that racism was rampant within the Sero Kingdom and that it was inconvenient for the Chinese Imperial army to intervene, but the Chinese Empire also said to Carlos I that if its regime was overthrown, The Chinese Empire was willing to provide him with political asylum.