As soon as Captain Mueller got into the driver's seat, he began to check his dashboard.

At the same time, he heard the radioman communicating with the tower: "Tower, I'm 485. ”

"485, please." The sound from the tower was heard soon - the B17's internal communication setup was as follows: the radio receiver was connected to everyone's headphones, so everyone on board could hear the radio immediately, but the radio transmitter was operated by the operator.

Some B17s also carry radios to communicate with the command over long distances, and these aircraft generally serve as command aircraft in the air. But German pilots would be aware of the first antenna attack of the high-power telegraph, and carrying the telegraph meant that they would take more German firepower.

"Hey, look what that is." Eric, who had just entered the cockpit, patted Muller on the shoulder.

"What?"

"The new aircraft on the tarmac over there looks like there have a lot of turrets."

"It is said that the aircraft modified to provide escort, called YB-17, has twenty-five machine guns, but this time it should not go with us, because it only flew from the United States yesterday and is still undergoing maintenance." Muller paused, "Each station reports the situation. ”

"The bombardier is ready."

"The navigator is ready."

"The top machine gun is ready."

"The tail machine gun is ready."

"Radio ready."

"The machine gun on the left side is ready."

"The machine gun on the right is ready."

"I'm a spherical turret gunner, and I'll have to wait until I'm flying to get ready."

Mueller smacked his lips and said, "I know, you don't have to say that every time you take off." ”

The B17's spherical turret has two ways to enter, when the turret is turned horizontally, the turret hatch is completely exposed to the outside of the body, so it can be opened directly to enter and exit from the outside, and when the turret is turned vertically, the turret hatch can be opened to the inside of the fuselage, and the gunner can enter and exit the turret from the inside of the fuselage. But if the B17 is on the ground, then the spherical turret does not have the space to turn completely vertically, so when the B17 is on the ground, the spherical turret cannot enter and exit from the inside of the fuselage, and if the gunner enters the turret from the outside, then he can only stay inside until the plane takes off.

So most of the gunners will get into the plane first, and after takeoff, they will enter the turret from the inside of the aircraft.

And because of this, the short man who was in charge of the spherical turret became the most idle person before takeoff, he didn't have to do anything, and he couldn't do anything.

He often laughed at himself for this.

Muller ignored Bourne's chatter from the inside line and concentrated on the final inspection before takeoff with the co-pilot Eric.

"Brakes?"

"Normal."

"Fuel rods?"

"Normal."

"Engine oil circuit?"

"Unblocked."

"Alright, alright guys, we're ready to take off."

At this time, the green flare rises into the sky from the direction of the tower.

"Take off signal, we're on our way." With that, Mueller started the engine, the plane's battery worked normally, and it didn't take much effort to complete the engine ignition, the engine's exhaust pipe spewed a faint trace of smoke, and then the propeller began to accelerate slowly.

In the order of parking on the tarmac, the Morpheus Macho will take off in the third, and after liftoff, he will become the formation base aircraft of the entire formation.

"Check the hatch closed."

"The nose door is closed."

"The middle hatch is closed."

"There is no problem with the aft emergency hatch."

At this time, the ground crew pulled the wheels that held the B17 in place and quickly left the plane. Mueller turned his face sideways as he looked at the ground sergeant standing on the side of the plane, and after the sergeant waved his hand to make sure that there was no one on the plane's wheels or anywhere else that might have hit someone, he began to push the throttle up slightly.

The fuselage began to slowly slide forward, and the two B17s in front of it drove onto the runway.

The entire take-off process lasted only ten minutes, and all sixteen B17s flew into the sky.

"According to the flight plan, we should climb as we fly and climb to the north of Cape Dover to join up with the other groups of aircraft participating in the air strike." The navigator's voice came into Mueller's headphones, "So now we're flying north, climbing high as we fly." ”

"Understand flying north, climbing high as you fly."

After Mueller responded to the navigator, he turned his head to look at the sky outside the cabin.

"It's so blue, the sky today."

"It also means that we are directly exposed to the eyes of the Germans." Eric muttered quietly, "You know, my high school classmates are in another flying team, and they can hear the English radio broadcast from the French side, and the radio says that they have something called radar, which can detect us directly from hundreds of kilometers away, so our losses are so heavy, because the Germans know where we are, how high and how high, how fast, and their fighter fleet directly grabs the best position to attack us." ”

"If the Germans really have such advanced detection equipment, then you should appreciate the blue sky without any pressure, right, anyway, whether it is a blue sky or not, we will be discovered by them at a distance of hundreds of kilometers."

Mueller's words left Eric speechless for a moment.

Mueller continued to observe the blue sky outside the window and the entire fleet flying under the blue sky, and then he realized that the Mother Motherland, which was supposed to be flying in the back on the left, was now out of the front.

"Radio me to the Mother of the Motherland." Müeller instructed the radioman, "Tell them that their position is now outside the formation, that they are flying too far ahead, and that they are getting back into the formation quickly." Alone outside the formation, it would have been a target for the Germans. ”

"Don't worry about the captain, we're in the skies over Britain now, the Luftwaffe is now in the skies over the UK has been greatly reduced, and it's safe to fly over the UK."

As soon as Eric finished speaking, the top Heavy shouted, "Someone is diving overhead!" ”

Before the words fell, the Motherland was shot, and then the black-painted German fighter plane flashed over Müller's field of vision, and the red tail vent left two bright red marks on Müller's retina.

"Damn it, jets! It's the jets of the Germans! ”

Müller craned his neck and pressed his face against the glass of the cockpit, desperately trying to see the movements of the two sea foxes after the raid, and soon the tracks left by the two jets re-entered his field of vision, and the two planes had already run two kilometers away in the blink of an eye, and were now climbing at breakneck speed, looking ready to do it again.

Müller then turned his attention to the Mother Motherland, whose fuselage was severed in the middle, and the tail and front main wings were severed into two disconnected parts, each of which tumbled and fell to the ground below.

Desperate shouts came over the radio: "We are the Mother of the Motherland, help us, who will help us......"

It is very difficult to parachute from such a tumbling broken body, and if you are not careful, you will be stunned by the tumbling body, and it is impossible to succeed without great courage and skill. And the Motherland, like most of the B17s involved in the operation, is a new airframe, and both the airframe and the members are 100% rookies.

"Oh my God." Müller muttered quietly, and then reminded his crew loudly, "Two German planes are climbing, and they want to do it again and find a way to stop them!" ”

"That's the German sea female fox, right? There are war queens sitting on it, how can we stop them with a little bit of a 50 machine gun? ”

"At least it can interfere with the opponent's aimed shooting." Mueller subconsciously raised his voice to the maximum, "Do you want to repeat the mistakes of the Motherland?" ”

"Oh my God, those two sea foxes are going to wipe out our entire brigade......"

"Shut up, Harry!"

"Rushed down!" The top gunner shouted again, "Swooping down on us!" ”

This time, apparently, the top gunner spotted the target at a distance, and it took a few seconds for the whip of tracer bullets to appear in Mueller's field of vision, and the bullets were aimed at the Windy City, which was serving as the pilot.

Black smoke immediately came out of the Windy City's engine on the left side.

"Call the Windy City and tell them that we see black smoke coming out of their engine." Mueller said in a hurried tone, "Very obvious black smoke, let them cut off the oil quickly!" ”

As soon as Mueller finished speaking, the engine of the Windy City exploded, directly blowing the wing into two pieces.

"Oh shit!"

Mueller cursed as he watched the Windy City rush down to the ground, while bombardier Steven said in a low tone, "There are only four of them left that still have combat experience, and I think we all have to kneel." ”

"The enemy is climbing again!" This time it was the co-pilot Eric, "Be careful, everyone, they're going to come for the third time!" ”

"Oh my!" There was a wail from someone in the internal communication, and Mueller couldn't make out whose voice it was for a moment.

At this time, the enemy plane suddenly changed its flight direction, and the enemy plane, which was originally climbing, cut into level flight, and the jet light from the tail nozzle was much brighter.

"They ran away? Why? Eric was very puzzled, "They can knock us all out again and again, but once we fly into the air, they can't do anything about us......"

As soon as Eric finished speaking, Harry, the tail gunner, cheered, "Oh oh! I love you darling! ”

"What's going on?" Mueller asked curiously.

"Kamihime, Shinhime-sama's magic guide armor has appeared." The top gunner was also very excited, "Lord Shenji has come to protect us and scared those two little mice away!" ”

In the next moment, Muller also saw the magic armor of Mistress Shenji, the white and gold coating of the armor was quite conspicuous in the daytime sunlight.

The magic armor flew in front of the Morpheus Macho, and then radio communication came to Müller's headset: "Hello, I am ordered to escort you to the coastline of the Netherlands, and you don't need to worry about the Germans on this way." ”

"Thank you." After Mueller finished speaking, he remembered that he directly said thank you, Miss Shenji, but he couldn't hear it, and he had to ask the radioman to turn on the transmitter first.

At this time, Mueller's headphones were full of the crew's thanks to Shen Ji, and the bombardier was still muttering, "Oh my God, I want to ask her if she accepts the date invitation......"