Chapter 870: Tragic Air Battle
Dong Ku asked Zuo Boyang to give up following Guo Weiquan to grab the territory and rein in the underground momentum, and took him and the guards at home to quietly rush to Cuba, but they were on their own freighter, and they wanted to enter the country secretly.
This time, he personally rushed to Cuba in order to stir up the situation, to give command to the nearest place, to make chaos there, and to the extent that the United States has to pay attention to it, otherwise it will be difficult for the United States to have ideas if the movement is small.
By the time he set out, Britain and France had already begun to plan a joint attack on Germany, blowing up those airfields, so that the reinforcements of Belgium would not suffer from conservative bombing, and could assemble a large army to block the German army from entering France.
Soon, Churchill and de Gaulle reached an agreement to gather all the planes and bomb the German territory, then bomb the German troops in the Ardennes with planes, and then the infantry to intercept and destroy the main German army.
London is still in a mess, the tragic situation of the explosion and the disappearance of banks and museums have made Churchill unable to calm down, this is the rhythm of destroying the country!
At 10 o'clock in the middle of the day, a large number of planes took off, and together with the French planes, they swooped down on the airfields in the Netherlands and Germany, destroying the German air power first.
The successful bombing did not make Lao Xi get carried away with excitement, he knew very well that Britain and France would retaliate, and the most direct was bombing.
He had already built up defensive positions against all strategic objectives, especially the exposed airfields, lest the internal affairs of Paris and London should happen to him.
At the same time, a large number of aircraft were transferred back to the German mainland, so as to avoid excessive damage caused by insufficient air defense in the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Just after lunch, the army attacking France was still marching in the gorge, and the British and French planes flew over the road and over the Netherlands. A focused bombing of the airfield there was launched.
The British aircraft carriers sailed to the coast near the Netherlands, and the replenishment of aircraft could be completed quickly, as for the aircraft by land, several hours a round trip, continuous bombing, Churchill believed. It was enough to inflict heavy damage on the airfields of the German army.
The arrival of the planes was just as he had predicted, a large number of planes could not be intercepted by a dozen enemy planes, and in the Netherlands, before the German fighters had made any gains, the German troops who took off to meet the enemy were bombed one after another, and at the cost of four bombers and three mosquitoes, they seized air supremacy.
"Fire!!"
"Don't stop the machine gun !!"
In Udelez, the Germans shouted frantically. Shells were fired into the group, anti-aircraft machine guns were tommed incessantly, and strings of red dots pounced on the planes.
British fighters and bombers were hit one after another, and thick smoke and shrill engine chirps were heard in the sky. One by one, the fires burst into flames, and before the bombing began, the British lost four bombers and more than a dozen attack planes.
But at the same time, the screams of the bombs rang out. Immediately after that, huge fires lit up, and gunsmoke and dust rushed into the air. On the runway, hangars are bursting with bricks and tiles, flames are rising, large craters appear, and in a short moment, the airport in Utrecht is in ruins.
The group of planes quickly dispersed and bombed all key points indiscriminately. Although it is strange why there are not many warplanes, it must be destroyed here, and the province is used as a springboard for the bombing of London.
With a loud bang, bombs were dropped, and Utrecht was plunged into flames. The Germans were equally vulnerable to the bombardment. The barracks that had just been cleared, the military installations were reduced to rubble in the light of the fire.
If it weren't for the fact that all the armored troops had disappeared into the forest and approached Rotterdam, I am afraid that ignoring the huge body would not have been able to withstand such a wild and indiscriminate bombardment.
The Germans fired desperately, and in the rain of bullets, one plane after another was shot down, but then attack planes and bombers were recruited, and in just a few seconds, the air defense position turned into a sea of fire.
The bombardment lasted nearly twenty minutes, and Utrecht, which had no windowsills damaged under the German attack, was in ruins under the ravages of these hundreds of planes, and there was not even a third of the complete building, and the whole city was covered in dust and smoke, and the buildings could not be seen from high altitudes, let alone the sun, which could not be seen from inside.
In less than an hour and a half, the carrier-based aircraft took off again, and with the arrival of the second group of aircraft on the mainland, they were preparing to attack the German mainland.
At this moment, the French bomber group was devastated. The planes that Lao Xi withdrew to the Netherlands were not to avoid losses, but to prevent air attacks on the large army that was about to enter the territory of France, and they had to strictly ensure the safe movement of this force, otherwise the enemy forces piled up on the Maginot Line would put an end to the entire attack.
The withdrawn planes took off in groups to intercept the French fleet as they flew over the Ardennes. The fleet that flew to the Maginot Line also turned around and flew back, directly at the large group of French planes.
Soon, the two sides met, and while Utrecht was in flames, the French fleet was attacked like never before.
More than 500 French planes were slaughtered in front of nearly twice as many German planes. The flamingo's powerful attack power and flexible flip make it have no one in the air, as long as it locks on, it is destined to be blown up. Tusca is not weak, although it is a bomber, but the same attack power can be, plus it is difficult to lock, and it dives straight to get rid of the lock at every turn, making it difficult for French fighters to work.
The engines roared in the sky, the French fleet had been scattered, and the bombers were like lambs to be slaughtered, and in the desperate escape, several German fighters that were being chased struck the ground in smoke and fire, and the engine screeched into the ground, and then exploded.
Explosions resounded in the sky, and the smoke was so thick that it was difficult for the pilots to find the target, and even worse, when they panicked and dodged, they couldn't see clearly ahead, causing no matter whose plane was on the opposite side, they didn't hesitate to crash into it.
The tragic air battle losses hit the French army, the German losses were not large, the air battle was less than half an hour, the sky was slowly cleared up, even a third of the French planes escaped, a total of less than 100 German planes were shot down, and on their own side, there were not many more than 200 attack planes left, and each of them was wounded, and there was not a single one of the more than 300 bombers, all of them were shot down. In the mountains and forests, the wreckage of the plane was burning fiercely everywhere beside the river valley.
When the British learned of this news, they knew that the opportunity had come, as long as they took advantage of the chaos to bomb the German airfield, those returning fighters would be left on the airfield before they had time to take off.
They will not support the French, their goal is to bomb the airfield, it is to annihilate the German planes.
But they also didn't know what to say, the German planes were already on standby, waiting for news of their appearance.
And those fighters who had finished the air battle flew quickly to the nearest airfield, quickly replenished and ammunition, and were ready to meet the British fighters at any time.
The British fighter group flew over Utrecht, which was still full of smoke, and did not waste any time and headed straight for the German mainland.
This is a decisive battle, this is Churchill's irrepressible anger, and it is the only plan that can contain the German army, otherwise, once the German army grabs air supremacy, it will be a disaster for them.
But he never expected that the number of his planes gathering across the sea was already limited, with only more than 600 bombers and more than 300 attack planes, which was not much compared to the German Tusca, not to mention more than 300 flamingos and the original attack planes.
Their wooden pens are the two forward airfields of Messeldorf and Cologne, and after the bombing of this place, the German springboard was dismantled, and the planes on the Berlin side could not reach London.
The idea is good, the reality is cruel, after the German army got the news, the aircraft group roared into the air, and the group of formations pounced on the British army's aircraft group, and in less than half an hour, they met on the Dutch border, and then, it became a grave in the air, and the battle unfolded fiercely.
The German attack planes of one color, the rain of bullets tore apart the British escort in an instant, leaving the bombers exposed under their fangs.
The flamingo flew nimbly, chasing one bomber after another, as long as it was locked, there was no survivor under the machine gun. From time to time, thick smoke rose from the sky, and one bomber after another either broke off its wings and tumbled and fell to the ground, or it caught fire in the air and exploded after falling less than a few hundred meters, or dragged a long line of smoke and plunged headlong into the ground.
There were white clouds floating in the sky, and although the pilots who parachuted knew that this was an enemy-occupied area, they had no choice.
The pilots of the British escort planes were blood-red and desperate, and one after another the planes attacking the bombers were hit by them, and they also burst into dazzling flames in the air. They didn't know how many of them shot down, but until, if they didn't fight hard, none of these bombers would be left.
The erection of the two sides was extremely tragic, in the sky, the battlefield was getting bigger and bigger, and the British formations had already been chaotic, flying in the smoke and smoke in the sky, and even passing by the enemy, and they could not be found when they looked back.
The wreckage of the shattered plane was like a rain of cherry blossoms, falling continuously, and the debris was scattered all over the sky, and although the pilots jumped out of the plane, they did not necessarily have a chance to survive.
The two sides who have already killed the red eye, as long as they see the pilot as long as they are not their own people, Da Da is genetically responsible, and then sweep by, leaving a rapidly falling corpse, or a parachute domineering damage, free fall where the figure screams in terror, chasing the enemy plane.
The air battle lasted for more than 40 minutes, the German planes were fine, the British planes were short of fuel, not to mention the heavy losses, even if they were to be scattered now, they were very reluctant. Therefore, one plane after another left the battlefield and flew towards Huihui.
As for the bombers that escaped by chance, they looked for targets in the clouds to unload their bombs and return lightly, otherwise landing would be a problem.
But they obviously won't have too much, the German anti-aircraft artillery has not yet been used, and they will have to pay a price to get some results. (To be continued......)