The German attack finally unfolded, March 1920+20! After more than a month of preparations, the Allies finally completed their preparations for war against Britain, and this time, the Germans were bound to win, and the navy and air force were in full force! When the first rays of sunlight cross the sky, the roar of planes can be heard from hundreds of airports in an arc that stretches for hundreds of kilometers, from Bretzel and Campet, the westernmost part of France, to Brussels in Belgium, to the Ruhr area of Germany, and even the suburbs of Berlin. In the first wave of the offensive alone, the Germans will launch an attack with nearly 10,000 sorties!

The roar of nearly 10,000 planes resounded in the sky, and the German planes flying from all directions gathered towards the English Channel, and all the German planes assembled in the air according to the air force formation, and in the skies over the English Channel, as long as you looked up, you could see the German planes painted gray and black, and the exhaust gases from the engines formed white traces after cooling in the air. The sound of tens of thousands of engines roared like thunder. A storm is gathering over the sea, the only difference is that it is man-made!

"All the units involved in the battle retreat to the north of the Channel, and we meet the Germans in the skies above the British land!" In the face of the menacing Germans, the British Air Defense Command withdrew the fighter group to the skies over the mainland after a brief hesitation, at least here, the air force could get more effective support on the ground, and the pilots had a good chance of surviving as long as they successfully parachuted. The British were not only short of fighters, but also overstretched in terms of pilots.

"If necessary, we can abandon some non-critical nodes, and we will concentrate superior forces locally to inflict heavy damage on the German aviation forces." And with the issuance of the second order, this is undoubtedly equivalent to the death sentence in some areas. It is impossible for the British Air Force to guarantee that every place is safe. You have to give up some, which is also a helpless thing.

At a time when the Germans were gathering strength and preparing to strike hard. The RAF and friendly air forces were also deployed in the air, and the first wave of the British came up with nearly 4,500 single-engine fighters and 1,000 twin-engine fighters. The fleet was divided into three parts, with two air units totaling more than 3,000 aircraft responsible for launching air strikes against the two German air forces, while the other air force was responsible for defending key nodes such as London. When the time came to 9 o'clock in the morning, the Germans finally flew across the strait! The collision of two huge aircraft groups is on the verge of breaking out! Great Britain is finally in its darkest hour!

"This is really a tidal attack, I will never forget the scene of the first day of the British air battle, although this day of offensive is not the most violent, but it is the first time I have seen tens of thousands of planes crammed into such a narrow area! I was surrounded by planes in front of me, left and right, and the fleet on both sides stretched from an altitude of 4,000 meters to 8,000 meters! At the top is the American P47, and then in the middle is the Chinese Stone Tea Falcon. At low and medium altitudes was our Spitfire, behind us were twin-engine fighters with rockets and large-caliber cannons, and behind us were some auxiliary aircraft. We moved forward like a wall, I thought that such a line of defense was impregnable, but when I saw the planes of the Germans, I knew that today thousands of tons of bombs would fall on my homeland! We simply could not stop all the planes, a large number of German planes passed through our wings, and they were hardly stopped by any air. Hundreds, if not thousands, of planes flew over like this. Blanket the city like a dark cloud, and then rain down the city into ruins! "From the memoirs of a British pilot, we can see how desperate the British were when they saw the powerful air force of the Allies! But even so, they still met it without hesitation!

In this case. The usefulness of any tactic is so great that the two swarms almost collide like two swarms of bees, and the survival time of a pilot may only be measured in minutes. If one pilot accidentally breaks away from the formation, then good. He gave an example of death that could be only a few tens of seconds, in this brutal air battle. At least more than half of the pilots had no idea where the shells were coming from before they were shot down! As the battle continued, a dozen or even dozens of planes were shot down almost every minute, and the flames and scattered debris from the explosion of the planes were like fireworks in the air. Because of the tactics of concentrating forces, the German commanders of the Third Air Force found that they had more enemy planes in front of them than they did!

The situation at the beginning of the game, like squeezing cans, changed after ten minutes, and the huge sacrifices of both sides made the originally dense formation loose. There are still some fighter jets left in the air. But it was no longer on a scale, and the commander of the Third Air Army, Lieutenant General Pasosen, found that in less than half an hour, the fighters of the 2 wings that provided cover for the follow-up bombers were actually knocked out by more than half! The remaining planes simply could not stop the twin-engine fighters that the opposing side would then attack.

"Damn it! Why are the British eyeing me! "He had just finished complaining when he found out that the interception attack on the equation had begun! First, a salvo of aviation rockets, and then heavy aircraft pigs like air tanks burst by, fighting bayonets with large-caliber aerial guns at a distance of several hundred meters!

The tactics are still the same tactics, they have not changed since the Iranian war, the key to determining the outcome is the early warning, the quantity and quality of the aircraft and the quality of the pilots, it is a pity that the Third Air Force was unlucky, it collided with an interceptor unit of the British Royal Air Force, under the attack of the opponent's superior fighters, the Third Air Force suffered heavy losses, and in nearly 2 hours of air combat, the 450 various aircraft of the Third Air Force Group could finally come back no more than 250! In just one day, this aviation army was almost crippled!

However, the Allied aviation forces were limited after all, and when they gained the advantage of some battlefields, they were bound to be inferior in other directions, and most of the German air force found that there was almost no interception force in front of them! They calmly swam in the skies of the British, until they passed the British anti-aircraft artillery positions and were violently intercepted. Countless orange fireballs and black smoke rose from the ground, and the dense shells almost created a barrage in the air, and the German bombers passed through the barrage in a neat formation.

The anti-aircraft artillery deployed by the British around the city was guided by the fire control radar, which almost formed a net of fire that penetrated the sky and the earth. Like a spider's web, the German fleet of planes blocked its passage. Whenever the fire control radar successfully projects a radar wave onto the bomber, within a few minutes. Dozens or even hundreds of shells will fly towards the target like moths in the night, in a series of dense explosions. One after another, the German bombers were hit and disintegrated in the air, and some of the planes dragged their scarred bodies and struggled to return, but at this time, they did not know where to rush out a few Spitfires or P47 fighters, chased them over, and left the target on the British soil forever with dense shells!

"Brothers, we are making history! We were the first people in hundreds of years to cross the Channel and bring disaster to the British! "When the German 12th Air Force rushed through the anti-aircraft artillery defenses of the British, they finally found their target, the famous British aviation industrial base, Bristol was right in front of them. The British Royal Air Force used the Brave Warrior fighter jets that were produced in the city's factories, so it was listed as an important target, although the British had moved some of their equipment and personnel from the city before the war, but this still could not change the fate of the city!

In order to completely destroy the city, the Luftwaffe's 12th Air Force, having received reinforcements from two additional bomber wings, brought the total number of aircraft involved in the bombing to 800! The number of HE177 heavy bombers with 4 rounds reached 150 units! A fleet of planes taking off from Caen could drop nearly 2,000 tons of bombs on this poor city in an hour!

German bombers flew over the city in a neat formation like a black cloud. The pilot bombers first determined their bearings and course based on the pre-selected landmarks, and then the first bombing planes quickly moved out and flew over the predetermined route chosen by the subsequent bombers. Several high-explosive and incendiary bombs were thrown, exploding fire points on the ground. Viewed from the air, these firing points form a large irregular pattern that encompasses the targets to be bombed. "We have calibrated the Brestol aircraft factory. Bombing can begin! "With the voice of the pilot captain spreading throughout the bomber unit, the thunder of war is coming!

"Start dropping bombs!" With the command to drop the bomb, the heavy bomb bay door slowly opened, driven by hydraulic equipment. The 250KG and 500KG bombs on the pylons inside were exposed! The bombs were mixed in a ratio of 1 to 1 between high-explosive and incendiary bombs, and the pylons were loosened. A flurry of bombs wobbled and fell from the bomb bay, visible from the air from the side. A series of bombs formed an arc in the air. When more than a hundred German bombers dropped bombs at the same time, hundreds of bombs fell en masse in a matter of minutes! Such an attack would be devastating for a target within a few square kilometers of the ground!

A series of explosions came from the ground one after another, and the huge shock wave from the bomb explosion mixed with the debris of the building formed a white wave of air that spread out in all directions. In just a dozen seconds, the entire bombing target was covered with gray-white dust and bright yellow firelight. The entire target area is like a pot of boiling water! As the German bomber group advances, a rolling barrage begins to stretch forward, and bombs representing death and destruction cover the entire area, and in the face of the carpet bombardment falling from the sky, any buildings exposed on the surface will succumb to this devastating force!

Eventually, when the German 12th Air Force embarked on its return journey, the entire factory area of the Brestol airfield was reduced to a scorched earth. Along with the bombing, nearly 30% of the houses were completely destroyed, and the burned area reached half of the entire city area! Thousands of people were killed in the bombardment because they were unable to dodge or because their bunkers were destroyed. When Germany left, tens of thousands of firefighters and urgently mobilized volunteers were still struggling with the fires caused by napalm. What happened to Brestol is a microcosm of other cities in the UK. During that day, at least 15 British cities were carpet-bombed. Brestol is definitely not the worst of them all!

On the first day of bombing alone, Britain lost tens of thousands of houses and a lot of factories and infrastructure, more than 200,000 people were displaced, and more than 30,000 casualties made this the darkest day in British history. The English Channel was ultimately unable to protect the center of this world empire. If you look at the land from the air, you can see the terrifying black spots in the southern British cities and the smoke that has not yet dissipated over the cities. This is especially true throughout Greater London, where the already foggy environment and the dust from the burning of the surrounding cities create a thick layer of dust. When the German planes departed, a German pilot joked that London would be safe tomorrow, because it would be difficult for German bomber groups to find targets in such a dense fog!

Both sides also lost a large number of aircraft during the day's fighting, with 140 RAF aircraft shot down and 160 damaged in a single day. The U.S. and Huaxia Air Force, respectively, lost 90 and 90 aircraft, respectively, and another 55 and 75 aircraft were damaged. In the day's meeting. Nearly 600 aircraft were permanently or temporarily removed from the combat sequence. And the total number of completely lost units also reached 250! Many squadrons went out with 18 pilots, and when they came back, someone was surprised to find that he was the only one left in the entire squadron cafeteria! Faced with the silence of the terrible restaurant, this only remaining pilot really didn't know whether to rejoice or despair!

The Germans paid a much greater price than the losses of the British! Do not forget that the Germans were on the attacking side, and in addition to the interception of the British Air Force, they had to face anti-aircraft radars and anti-aircraft artillery shells with VT fuses, and by the way, all sorts of accidents! Coupled with the fact that the British used the tactic of concentrating superior forces to fight locally, the Germans completely lost no less than 400 fighters and more than 400 bombers in this day! The outright loss ratio is almost close to 2 to 1!

Of course, this is not to say that the tactical level of the Luftwaffe is really bad to a certain level! Rather, the combat environment is terrible! Among them, the number of planes really lost in air combat is only about 600, considering that bombers account for about half, this air combat exchange ratio is still good, and the other more than 300 were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery or crashed because of accidents, and the British planes can be pulled back for repair after being damaged and forced to land, if the German planes fall on the British mainland, I am afraid that they will only be listed as complete losses, compared to the huge number of damaged planes on the Entente side, the number of damaged planes of the Germans is not much, a total of only more than 200It's not easy for these planes to fly back with injuries!

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