Chapter 54: The Angry Child

The noise at the door alarmed the people in the command, and a general walked out with someone, and the noisy British pilot suddenly quieted down when he saw this general, he was the commander of the British Royal Air Force Fighter Aviation Command, Hugh? Air Admiral Dowding. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The old man had gray hair, a tired face, and deep-set eyes, but his brown eyes were bright. Being stared at by him, I couldn't help but feel a little cramped, this should be the so-called superior momentum.

"It seems that the boys haven't been knocked down by the Germans yet, and they are quite energetic. Tell me what I have here? ”

This old air force who came out of World War I is still very kind to the juniors. The British pilots around you look at me, I look at you, and finally they all set their eyes on me. As if in the darkness of being shrouded in a spotlight, I walked out with some nervousness. These Brits are really unreliable at critical moments.

"Report sir, we have some opinions on formation operations and would like to talk to you"

Admiral Dowding thought for a moment, as if he understood the reason why we came here, and there must still be a few brushes to get into the position of commander of the Air Force.

"Tell me your name Corporal"

"Tian Yu"

"Oh, I know you, I heard that you have shot down two enemy planes, nice lad"

"Report sir, it's three!"

"Haha, okay. When you become an ace pilot, I will personally award you a medal! ”

"I'm looking forward to that day!"

"Alright, it's time to tell me what you're here for."

Dowding motioned for us to follow him to the dining room, which became a zero-hour venue.

I expressed my opinion on the V-shaped formation, and Admiral Douding did not agree or oppose it, and when I finished speaking, he directly gave an order.

"From tomorrow onwards, you will be the vice-captain of a large squad of the 11th Fighter Group. I command you to teach your tactics to all the pilots of the group within two days, and soon a major task will be entrusted to you."

I didn't shirk it, I took on this task, and I had to seize the opportunity when it came. It's not that I like to be an officer, it's just that things are more favorable to me to complete the 40 wrecks according to my command.

At the beginning of the second day, the whole brigade began to get busy. Because they are all old pilots, they only need to explain the principle clearly, and these old birds who "have survived a hundred battles" have mastered it very quickly. The rest depends on how well they play in actual combat.

Only three days later, the great task that Admiral Dowding said came to pass!

According to the intelligence of British spies, the Germans will send a large number of bombers to attack the major airfields and radar stations in Britain. Our mission was to protect the two airfields near London and to ensure that they were not destroyed by the Germans.

At 9 a.m., the radar station spotted the first German aircraft. The huge fleet of aircraft came straight to our defense area, and all the planes of the 11 squadrons of the 14 fighter group rose into the air, bravely leading almost twice as many German troops as us.

Not far from London, we found German planes. This time, the 11 fighter group all adopted a two-plane formation, and the casualties after encountering German fighters plummeted compared with the past.

This time, our main target was the German bombers, so only a small number of planes were assigned to harass the German escort planes, and the other fighters flew directly at the bombers in the sky.

The Germans did not seem to anticipate our tactics and were managed by us to break through the bomber group. Taylor and I worked together to destroy two German bombers, and the German fighters made a surprising move.

These German fighters completely ignored the bomber group with heavy losses, and instead accelerated to get rid of our entanglement and went straight in the direction of the airfield.

Not good! It occurred to me that the German BF109 fighters had been modified to carry several small bombs, and if it was as I had guessed, then these bombers were simply discarded, and perhaps they did not even carry bombs, but only to attract our firepower with their thick skin.

Even if I found out about the intentions of the Germans, it was too late, the German fighters couldn't catch up at full speed, and the bad thing was that there was no radio on my plane to alert my teammates, and I couldn't beat it when I went back with Taylor's two planes.

I put aside my worries and attacked the bombers with all my might, hoping that my prediction was wrong.

When we got back to the airfield after dealing with these bombers, we were stunned by what we saw. The buildings at the airport were blown into rubble, and the runway was full of craters, making it completely unusable.

The ground crews on the ground were very conscientious, clearing the grass next to the runway as soon as the bombing was over, and creating two emergency runways, so that we would not run out of fuel in the air and crash.

The attack on our hometown made us all hold back the fire, and we suffered such a big loss under carelessness. The British army was almost severely damaged by destroying six radar stations, four airfields, an air force headquarters, and an aircraft assembly plant.

In the afternoon we made another sortie, this time to no avail, as the German planes fled as soon as we arrived, and we had to return to the airfield in a state of resignation.

At night, the German bombing reached its peak, and our planes had no ability to fight at night, so they could only watch dryly. From here we can see many dark shadows floating over London, which are British balloons, and at night, the main means of air defense of the British army are only anti-aircraft artillery units and anti-aircraft balloons.

That night, an accident changed the tide of battle.

Two German bombers lost their way and mistakenly broke into the sky over London. The British anti-aircraft artillery units hurriedly attacked, and in the panic, the German bombers dropped bombs.

In the middle of the night, we were awakened by a violent explosion, and we lost our dormitories and camped in the wilderness, and we watched in shock at the raging flames in the city of London. The British pilots burst into tears as if their parents had died, and their anger spread throughout the barracks to the whole of Britain.

The Germans have always been careful not to carry out large-scale bombing of the British capital, after all, they only want Britain to submit, not to provoke the whole British people to fight to the death.

In fact, after a long period of air raids, the Germans were only one step away from success. Before the bombing of London, the British Air Force was already weak, and capitulationism in Britain was beginning to rise, and if the situation continued to develop, it was not necessarily that Britain would soon give in.

However, everything changed after the bombing of London, and the British people could not accept it whether Germany did it deliberately or not, and whether the British top brass intended to give in or not.

The chaos in the city of London continued overnight, and several soldiers in the city tried to leave the barracks but were forcibly stopped, and there was almost a riot in the barracks.

Early the next morning, the damp fog had not yet lifted. A transport van arrived at the barracks at the airport, and I and a few of the stronger pilots received orders to leave. Military vehicles picked us up directly and drove to unknown places.

The car did not stop except for one refueling trip, and ran all the way until noon, taking us to a secret military airfield, where dozens of pilots had already arrived.

As soon as he got out of the car, Admiral Dowding came over, and the continuous deterioration of the situation made the old pilot even more emaciated.

"Bringing you here is a secret mission entrusted to you, you are all our carefully selected elites, and you are the pride of the Air Force!"

At this point he paused, his eyes looking at us with satisfaction, regret and other uncertain emotions.

"Tonight you will cross the Channel and go straight to Berlin, Germany! Bring our anger, our indomitability, our bombs to Hitler and his people! ”

"Hooray!"

The simple words detonated everyone present, except me. Cold sweat wet my back, it was a life-and-death task, and a thankless task.

Regardless of whether Britain could succeed or not, even if the bomb was dropped on Berlin, there would only be one consequence, and that would be to anger Hitler's madman!

I don't understand why the British upper echelons made this plan, this is not a military operation, it is more like a child's gambling behavior. Angering Hitler would only attract more bombs to fall on the heads of ordinary British people, and the German bombardment would be more violent and indiscriminate.

Thinking of this, a terrible thought appeared in my head, could it be that this is the plan of the British upper class? It's too ruthless!