Episode 3 Shoot down
The pilot turned the nose of the plane, flew dizzily for a while, and suddenly patted his head, glanced at the flight chart, and exclaimed:
"Huh? That's not right! Flying like this, didn't you fly into Qingyu's arms? ”
Xiang Xiaoqiang was dizzy: You just know?
He stood up, leaned on the roof of the cabin and walked briskly forward, staring at the flight board and said:
"Can't fly along 255,"
The pilot was shocked and turned his head to stare at Xiang Xiaoqiang.
Xiang Xiaoqiang ignored him, still staring at the drawing board, tapped his finger on it, and said:
"Listen to me, adjust the course, 275, or directly 280, you can do it - fly directly to the Dongjiang base."
The pilot hesitated:
"But...... The Japanese want us to ......"
Xiang Xiaoqiang is on fire:
"Japanese, Japanese! Little Japan didn't have a good heart, they didn't want to beat us down themselves, so they let us go to death! ”
The pilot was stunned for a moment, and his face changed greatly.
"Besides," Xiang Xiaoqiang pointed to the dashboard, "Go back now, is there enough fuel?" ”
This is true, this aircraft has a maximum range of 1360 km, and now it is almost 1000 km. If you don't refuel, you won't even be able to go half of it when you go back.
The pilot shook his head and pointed to the board:
"If you fly 255, you can follow the original plan, **Bohai, and throw you into the sky above Huanghua."
Xiang Xiaoqiang was depressed, thinking about how to send such a big radish. 255, it's not as good as 250!
"That's the original plan, what is the 'original' plan? Now that's changed! Little Japan and the Qing Dynasty breathed out of one nostril, and now that they have discovered us, why don't they tell us to land on the spot, but drive us to the side of the Qing Dynasty? Do they know that we have a task and are afraid of delaying us? ”
Xiang Xiaoqiang made a series of cannons, and the pilot was speechless. Xiang Xiaoqiang exhaled and said:
"The air defense in the area of Beijing and Tianjin is already strong, and our original plan was to attack it unprepared, and as soon as we entered the land, we would drop it and then turn around immediately. Now that we have such a play, how many chances do we have? ”
The pilot nodded, gritted his teeth, and pulled the joystick, and the plane deflected to the right.
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On the radio, another whisper of Japanese was heard, and the tone was high-pitched and threatening.
The pilot glanced at Xiaoqiang in a daze. Xiang Xiaoqiang said coldly:
"Ignore him and keep flying."
……
There was a roar, and the sound of the motor behind his head swept overhead, rushing to the front.
The Japanese language continues to erupt, becoming more and more tough and short, as if doing an ultimatum or something.
"How...... What to do? The pilot looked up, and big drops of sweat flowed down.
Xiang Xiaoqiang's sweat also came down, and continued:
"Fly yours."
……
In the last burst of Japanese, the tone changed, as if it was not said to them, but rather standard, and the last word was:
"Hi Yi !!"
And then a terrible word pierced out:
"Hello !!"
"Holy!" shouted to Xiao Qiang, "Get down!" ”
Then he threw himself on the ground and punched the pilot:
"Get out of the way!"
Before the pilot could react, in the night sky in front of the window, two small flashing bright spots appeared, which quickly grew larger, and in a blink of an eye, they became a fighter jet, and those two bright spots were machine guns firing on the wings.
"Bang Bang!"
There were three large white dots on the front glass, and there were a few "clanging bells", the roof of the cabin was opened a few times, and the wind howled in.
"Da-da-bum-"
Only then did I hear the sound of the opponent's machine gun, and the sound of the motor passed overhead.
There was a cry of terror, and everyone fell to their stomachs. The pilot's face turned pale, and he desperately pulled up the control stick, and the ground in the cabin tilted.
It's like a roller coaster again, weightless, earache, and howling winds. Xiang Xiaoqiang grabbed the bottom of the seat and shouted backwards:
"Is anyone hurt?"
shouted a few times, and then shouted: "No! ”
"Fuck you......" Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the roof of the cabin and muttered, "How dare you shoot......"
……
Suddenly—
"Jingle Bell!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang felt lying on the ground, and the right wing was hit two or three times.
Then, through the front glass, I saw that two strings of bullet marks outside were shaking and passing by.
"Hum—"
The Japanese fighters swept forward from overhead again.
Now Xiang Xiaoqiang has personally felt what a miserable and slaughterable situation it is when a bulky bomber encounters a fighter.
And even if this is not an armed bomber, this plane does not even have a machine gun for self-defense.
But...... Machine gun?
Xiang Xiaoqiang just turned this thought around and dispelled it. Forget it, it's impossible, it's too YY.
He yelled forward:
"Hey—where are you flying now?"
The tone of the pilot's voice has changed:
"How do I know!"
"Damn," yelled at Xiaoqiang, "didn't you fly a plane for the Empress?" That's all you have? ”
The pilot's voice trembled, and his tone was still reasonable:
"My day, I'm not flying a military plane!"
Faint!
Xiang Xiaoqiang climbed up with the bulkhead, stretched out his head to look out, and the engine on the right was on fire, spewing long flames from the gap backwards, mixed with thick smoke.
Push the pilot to Xiaoqiang:
"Hey, the right engine is on fire!"
The pilot looked to the right, and his face was like earth.
"Hey!" Xiang Xiaoqiang shouted close to his ear, "Will you swoop to extinguish the fire?" ”
The pilot looked down at the pitch black, his head shaking like a rattle.
, what then? Pregnant!
Xiang Xiaoqiang shouted again:
"Then will you turn off the oil supply to the right engine?"
The pilot patted his head, reached out and turned a switch, and exhaled:
"That's it!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked out, and sure enough, there was no fire, just dragging a long smoke.
……
After a while, the sound of a motor appearing in the back of my head from far and near, gradually moving to the right. The members were all lying on the right porthole and looking out, only to see the Japanese fighter coming up from the right, full of parallelism, close to this side, probably to see the damage.
The fighter jets are getting closer and closer, probably with the element of showing off their skills, and there are more than ten meters of sticking, almost deflecting the joystick, and they can be scraped together.
That crazy thought flashed in Xiang Xiaoqiang's mind again, swallowed his saliva, and said to himself: Don't blame me, this is what you sent to yourself.
He turned his head and shouted:
"Brothers, pull out our 'woodpeckers'!"
The snail was stunned for a moment and exclaimed:
"Uncle!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang said angrily:
"What uncle, now call it the captain!"
"Team...... Captain, that's a Japanese plane! We ......"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at the fighter outside, weighed it again, and ordered:
"Do you want to die? Do so, I'll be done with it! ”
The snail was stunned, and immediately showed an excited look, and everyone shouted:
"Yes!"
Then they dragged a large cylindrical bag from the rear compartment, opened it, and first pulled out a few things, and then with all hands and feet, they took out a long crate from it, opened it at once, and pulled off the straw, and carried out a black shelf.
A brand new and shiny MG34 general-purpose machine gun. The Chinese name of the Ming Dynasty was the "woodpecker" machine gun. It was the predecessor of the famous gun MG42 in World War II.
In the first half of this year, Swiss arms dealers brought two samples to the Ming Dynasty to sell, but because this is an air-cooled machine gun, and the rate of fire is extremely fast, the barrel has to be changed after ten seconds of continuous fighting, which does not meet the requirements of the Ming army to stick to the Yangtze River defense line. Coupled with the fact that this gun has a complex process and a high cost, the Ming Dynasty military did not take a fancy to it, but just bought samples for research. Now the plane is carrying one of them.
MG34 is a general-purpose machine gun, compared with the traditional water-cooled machine gun, the weight is very light, only more than 20 pounds, one person can carry it, if two people carry it, it is very lightweight, it is very convenient for offensive troops and squads to use. In addition, the firepower is extremely powerful, with a rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute, which is very suitable for them to hijack trains and ambush them. Two days ago, when Dongchang brought Xiang Xiaoqiang to pick up a weapon, he happened to mention that there was such a gun in the library, called "Woodpecker", and Xiang Xiaoqiang heard that it was MG34, so he asked for it on the spot.
As for why it is called "woodpecker", because when the arms dealer demonstrated it, this gun "sawed" down a small tree in 5 seconds. It left a deep impression on the Ming army officials on the spot, and named it "Woodpecker".
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Two of those commando veterans had previously been machine gunners in the original unit. Because the machine gun was particularly good, he was selected for the commando. In the past three days, the two of them have practiced the "woodpecker" vigorously, and they have knocked out three guns with the barrel alone, which can be called quite familiar.
Two machine gunners put on their bipods three times and two times, one of them lay flat in front of the hatch with the handle of his gun, and the other half knelt beside him, and turned back and shouted:
"Captain, which bullet to use?"
This time, the woodpecker was equipped with two 75-round drums, three 50-round nylon chains, and two 50-round metal chains. Although the nylon elastic chain is lighter, it can only be used once, and it is stretched after beating. The metal chain is a little heavier, but it can be used again and again, and it can be reloaded after the shot.
shouted to Xiaoqiang:
"Use the nylon bullet chain first, and use the two hangings with the light bullets!"
He grabbed the headset from the pilot's face, put it on his head, and while directing them to open the hatch and prepare to shoot, he covered the headset and pretended to be very frightened, and apologized loudly to the Japanese pilot:
"Miyamon Nasay, Miyamona Nasayi ......" (I'm sorry, I'm sorry)
The kneeling ammunition feeder held two chains of 50 rounds, joined them together, and loaded them into the bolt.
The two chains have one drag light bullet every 15 rounds, so that they can be shot out to form a bright band of light, so that the trajectory can be seen clearly.
Seeing that they were ready, he continued to apologize loudly to Xiaoqiang, and his tone became more and more pitiful and desperate:
"Miyamen Nasay, Miyamen Nasay, I'msorry, I'mverysorry...... Please…… Miyamen Nasayi ...... Ya Mei ...... Ya Mei Lu (don't, stop) ......"
With a wave of his hand, the hatch opened.
The huge air flow roared in, and the cabin was suddenly deafening, and the hands and feet were icy, as if they had reached Mount Everest.
The Japanese fighter was just a dozen meters outside the hatch, and the pilot was tilting his head to look this way, probably curious as to why the hatch was suddenly opened. But there was a black rumbling in the cabin, and nothing could be seen.
"Miyamen Nasay, Miyamen Nasay...... Ready to get started? ”
"Ready!"
"There aren't many bullets, so be sure to hit on time!"
"Don't worry, captain!"
The effective range of this gun with a bipod is 800 meters, but it does not mean that it will not kill people if it exceeds 800 meters, but it is difficult to hit accurately beyond 800 meters. Moreover, this "inaccurate" means that if it is such a small target as a plane, and it is only a dozen meters away, with the two old machine gunners, they can really die.
Glancing behind Xiaoqiang, all the team members were holding the portholes, looking at the Japanese plane, all nervous and excited.
He looked at the headset, and finally said "Miyamen Nasay", and then yelled:
"Hit!"
The howling sound of the wind suddenly caught in a sound similar to that of a chainsaw sawing wood, piercing the eardrum with pain. The hatch was obscured by an orange flash, and in an instant it went dark again, and a string of bright light was thrown out of the cabin, and it was left far behind.
The only thing left in the cabin was the howling of the wind.
Just now the machine gunner fired a burst shot, and not a single bullet landed on the fighter, and it flew behind. He had never shot a machine gun on an airplane, he had no feel, and he didn't count the amount of advance.
A string of Japanese words broke out on the radio, as if he was cursing something, and quickly apologized to Xiaoqiang:
"Miyamen Nasay, Miyamen Nasay...... Beat!!! ”
A few more seconds of sawing wood, a few more flashes of orange light from the hatch, and a ceasefire.
Xiang Xiaoqiang leaned against the porthole and looked out, the Japanese fighter on the right dragged a long black smoke backwards, orange flames erupted from the cockpit, and the pilot tried to push the hatch back while clutching his bleeding arm.
"Bang!"
Ejected out, a white parachute opened in the air in the distance, and was left far behind.
All the members of the team held the portholes and silently watched the fighter plane plant down at a 30-degree angle, dragging a long flame and black smoke like a comet in the night sky.
More than ten seconds later, a small fireball exploded in the pitch-black distance below.
Suddenly, all the members of the cabin erupted in strong cheers, and everyone's faces turned red, and there was a beastly excitement, a strong thrill of revenge.
The snail took the lead and shouted:
"Uncle...... Oh no, Captain - good!! ”
All the members shouted in unison:
"Captain—good!! Captain - Okay!! Captain - Okay!! Captain - Okay!! ……”
Xiang Xiaoqiang was also extremely excited, stood up, took off the headset, and accepted the pilgrimage cheers of his subordinates.