Chapter 42: Shoot down
There is no doubt that the opening of the Allied fighters bought them precious time to escape.
Three fighters circled the sides of the planes before firing, while the remaining five adjusted their angles and spat out bullets while aiming at the two German jets without hitting their own people.
"Da Da Da!"
The originally silent night sky was then broken by the whistling of planes and the sound of bullets bursting through the air.
In the face of oncoming bullets, the two ME262s tried to dodge with a roll somewhat clumsily, and as a result, the jet swayed like a drunk, compared to the previous flight of piston planes such as the FW190, the barrel roll of the ME262 can be said to be very painful.
The bullet weaved a curtain of light that shrouded both planes, and then dodged the barrel despite its clumsiness. Compared with the ME262, the Allied pilots were a light barrel roll, avoiding the bullets fired by the Germans, and the P51 was the most outstanding fighter in the late World War II period.
And the "Spitfire" did not fall into the prestige of the British, the same flexible dodge bullets, the two sides immediately passed by, the two ME262 at first planned to continue the pursuit, but was dragged by the Allies like this, the Ju-52 has been like a black fish, flexibly drilled into the Allied bomber group, disappeared without a trace.
"Damn it! He ran away! ”
Pilot No. 5 scolded hatefully, if they still wanted to find the Ju-52 at this moment, they could only rush forward. However, this time they will have to face not eight fighters, but dozens!
No matter how low the accuracy of the cannon is, such a large fleet only needs a few salvos. It's enough to make me262 have nothing to hide, nothing to hide. And since the two sides are flying opposite each other, if the Allies do not give way, there is a high chance that the two sides will collide and explode into a fireball on the spot.
The two pilots realized that the mission had failed, and after a fruitless attempt at pursuit, they resolutely abandoned the mission. In the face of the oncoming bomber group, a few shuttle bullets were swept away, and while the opponent's bombers were dodging, the two immediately pressed down the nose of the plane. The wings quickly moved to the lower left, and the whole plane instantly swept diagonally towards the left rear as if it was being blown away by the wind, obviously preparing to escape.
"The fighter stepped forward to stop him! It's coming. Can't let them run anymore! ”
Major Padley's eyes widened. Staring at the two somewhat unfamiliar German planes, he gave the order.
The next moment, a full half of the fighters left the formation and rushed towards the two ME262s at the same time, although the speed was much slower than the other party, but because the two ME262s were diving first and then disengaged, they had already begun to reduce their speed, otherwise they would continue to dive when the guide had a negative angle of attack. ME262 is in danger of disintegrating on the spot.
"God forbid, we survived!"
Faced with a dense group of bombers. Joseph's eyes widened, and several fighters in front of him took the initiative to get out of the way, just enough for Ju-52 to pass through.
"The right wing has been shot."
Zhang Yang noticed that the fuselage was slightly shaking, and when he was dodging ME262 earlier, several cannons bit the right wing of the plane, piercing several holes in it, but fortunately, it did not hit the key parts, and there were no casualties.
"It's not a big problem, as long as you slow down a little bit, it's no problem to stick to London."
Palen followed Zhang Yang's gaze, and then came to a judgment, at this moment, the navigator was already frightened into a cold sweat, he was surrounded by several death light curtains, and he once thought that he was going to die on the spot.
The entire plane passed through the bomber group and reached the relatively safe rear, and the group immediately blocked the passage just now, cutting off the me262's desire to continue the pursuit, and at the same time entered the range of fighters and bombers, firing almost simultaneously.
The fiery red trajectory was particularly conspicuous in the night, and such a salvo soon came good news, a ME262 was climbing and detaching, it was hit by eight fighters that turned around head-on, and then a burst of black smoke rose from the tail, obviously something was not good.
The tail was shot, which immediately affected the balance of the me262 fuselage, and at such a critical moment, a P51 Mustang flew up quickly and made up for the fatal shot. Several bullets hit one side of the ME262's engine head-on, and the engine immediately flashed, and the whole plane suddenly circled like a bird with broken wings, and began to fall, entering a deadly tailspin.
If you don't beat the water dogs at this time, when will you wait? The pilot of the P51 rushed up to make up a few more shuttles, and then climbed higher, and after a few seconds, the pilots in the sky saw a huge fireball exploding below, and with the help of the firelight, they could see that there was no pilot parachuting around, and it was obvious that the German pilot did not have time to escape.
“yes! We shot him down! ”
The P51 pilot, who fired at the other side, shouted excitedly over the radio.
"David, well done!"
Major Lucas did not hesitate to praise him, although it was not David's own credit for the fall, but the final number of crashes was counted on his head.
"Kids, take down the rest of the fight!"
Seeing that the American pilot took the lead in making meritorious contributions, Major Padley on the British side was a little anxious, and then the speed of several "Spitfire" fighters increased a few points again, and the cannons on the plane barely stopped, and at the same time blocked the escape route of the remaining ME262.
However, the seemingly flawless trap has only one problem, that is, these bullets are fired from the rear, and the speed of the flight is far lower than the speed of me262 itself, and the hot bullets chase after me262 for a distance in vain, and finally can only watch me262's ass fall helplessly, falling into the sea under the action of the earth's own gravity.
"Damn it, let him run away!"
Major Padley also saw this scene, and the two non-mainstream jet engines on the other side burst out at a speed far faster than any piston plane, which made him a little chagrined.
The P51, which caught up from the side, chased after the Spitfire fighters for a while, but could only watch each other get farther and farther away. On the other side, the No. 6 pilot of this ME262 had time to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead at this moment.
When No. 5 was downed, he realized that something was wrong, so he forcibly changed the trajectory of the plane under the condition of suffering a huge overload, dodging the subsequent cannon bullets, and he could even detect some abnormal vibrations of the aircraft when turning at high speed, as if it was about to be three.
Doing such a high-speed maneuver in such a short period of time, the huge overload made the No. 6 pilot black-eyed, and he kept desperately pushing the airplane's throttle valve to the bottom, and the ME262 burst out with a huge speed, finally allowing him to escape death.
"Damn, it's just a terrible roll!"
No. 6 was very dissatisfied with the previous barrel roll, but this could not be changed in a short period of time, thinking of No. 5, who had just been sacrificed, No. 6 was a little gloomy, and then silently drew a cross on his chest.
"No. 5, I hope you go all the way, and I will truthfully explain your merits to the base."
However, at this moment, No. 6 noticed that the left side of the fuselage suddenly trembled violently, and then his heart chuckled. Looking out of the porthole, the jet engine under the left wing suddenly emitted thick black smoke, as if it had stalled due to a lack of oxygen at high altitude.
"Damn it! Could it be .......?"
No. 6 subconsciously felt that it was not good, but before he could finish speaking, the engine emitting black smoke suddenly flashed and exploded directly in mid-air, and the left wing was directly blown off, and then the plane was immediately affected by these factors, and immediately began to shake and rotate violently.
The scene outside the cabin suddenly began to rotate, and after the engine exploded on one side and the wing was blown off, the whole plane quickly slowed down from the high-speed movement, and the mutilation of the fuselage broke the balance of aerodynamics, one turn, two turns...... A deadly tailspin is inevitable.
No. 6 can confirm that there was absolutely no sign of being shot in the plane before, and the only explanation is that his luck was too good, and he encountered a 1 in 10,000 engine failure, and even more severe zhòng explosion probability, which Colonel Filin and the real yàn personnel had already sternly told him when he first flew this plane.
Number 6's heart was filled with fierce unwillingness.
He managed to escape from the Allied fleet, but dramatically, he ended up dying on his own mount, indirectly at the hands of his own men.
He didn't parachute, with the icy English Channel below, and it was difficult to get rescue in the dark night, not to mention the Allied bomber swarms above his head.......
It didn't take long for the two Spitfires who found that there was a problem with the me262, and they stubbornly caught up, although it was not clear what happened to the me262, but the reaction in the hand was not slow, and a few shuttle cannons swept over, and the me262 that had entered the stall was obviously unable to change, and once again followed in the footsteps of No. 5 and exploded into a fireball.
"We hit him!"
The two Spitfire pilots looked very excited, just when they thought that the other party had successfully escaped, one of the other side's engines suddenly exploded, no one would have thought that it was this kind of peak and loop situation, and then the two who reacted relatively quickly grabbed the credit for shooting down a plane.
The specific number of shootdowns will be counted by someone, and this ME262 is considered to be shot down by two people, and the pilots of both sides will each record half of the number. (To be continued......)