490 Eagle over North Africa (Season 6)

"November 13th, fine. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)"

"It's a sunny day again, but I like the sun today."

"Because I'm ready"

Zhu Houbin quickly wrote a few words in his notebook, and after stuffing it to his good friend Xiao He, he patted his beloved war eagle and asked, "Xiao He, is the machine gun ready?" ”

"Don't worry, it's enough to kill four or five Italian planes"

In the temporary base camp formed by Enville, east of Benghazi, Zhu Houbin and Xiao He began to inspect the war eagles before departure.

Everything is in good condition, the only thing he hates is the light machine gun mounted on the top of the nose, the box of two hundred and fifty rounds is enough, but this way of shooting is really not used to it, according to the test, it really takes some luck to hit the opponent accurately.

Fortunately, the flight crew finally managed to come up with a special cartridge casing collection box, otherwise they would have killed themselves just by scattering the shells.

After sitting in the cabin, looking at the long yellow sand outside, he couldn't help but feel a trace of anticipation and nervousness in his heart.

This is a real actual battle, although the opponent is not very good, the equipment is not a level, but the actual combat is the actual combat, no one knows what kind of trouble will be encountered, not to mention that the weather environment here is not much better than Kuwait, and the stability of the aircraft itself is also a great test.

For a year, he and his partners have been waiting for this day, waiting for a rival to appear in the sky.

Now, the Italian pigeons are coming

Zhu Houbin shook his head and skimmed off his distractions, today's task is to work with the captain to help the Enville army reconnoiter the port of Brega located fifty kilometers away, where it is said that a number of Italian planes were discovered, and two large airships appeared yesterday.

If that's the case, I'll have a good opponent today

The war eagle slowly left the big tent under the impetus of the air crew, and the dry sand provided a good take-off flat ground, and when the air crew turned the propeller hard, the engine immediately emitted a puff of black smoke, and the sudden sound was like someone striking iron in the ear.

After Zhu Houbin quickly put on his helmet and windproof goggles, he just raised his thumb to the air crew to indicate that he could take off, and the captain Tian Yun's fighter plane had already started, and as the No. 1 vulture quickly got rid of the restrictions of the earth, he also pushed the throttle stick to the bottom.

The sound of roasting beans burst out of the engine, and the propellers flapped the sand all around, and as the speed increased, the plane began to jolt violently, until he felt the lift, and he pulled the plane up violently.

The howling wind wrapped in fine grains of sand, beating his cheeks painfully, and to get out of this trouble, he had to rise quickly, until he had climbed to five hundred meters, and the interference of the sand and dust gradually disappeared.

At this time, the sky is as blue as washing, but looking down is like a different scenery, the vast desert is like a golden stall, constantly extending to the horizon.

Seeing Zhu Houbin take off smoothly, Tian Yun drove the No. 01 Condor over, and when the wings of the two planes were about to approach, he pointed to himself, and then quickly flew towards the coast with the fuselage sideways.

There was no radio help, so everyone returned to the way of sign language communication in the sky, seeing this representative following his gestures, Zhu Houbin also hurriedly tilted the joystick, and the war eagle quickly made a big circle in the sky, and then flew west along the coastline.

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"Hi Gavoti, well done."

"I've heard that you blew up those Ottomans with cannonballs." In front of several planes behind the Italian positions on the west side of Port Brega, two second lieutenants of the Italian Army talked and laughed about the fact that the pigeon reconnaissance planes had dropped artillery shells for more than ten days.

"It's nothing, but unfortunately there are too few shells, and next time I'll decide to bring a basket." Gawtti smiled and waved his hand and asked, "Moizo, how's your Newport doing?" ”

"Thanks, it's okay already." Moyzuo smiled and waved his hand, he was flying a Newport plane, which was hit by several bullets not long ago, fortunately it was only the wing, otherwise God knows what would have happened, so he secretly rejoiced twice and asked, "Gavoti, have you heard about the Navy?" ”

Speaking of the navy, Gavoti's slightly smug smile suddenly disappeared, and he nodded excitedly: "Yes, it's really damned"

"Those yellow-skinned pigs, who actually handed over three battleships to the Ottomans, God, and they lied that they were trading before the war, poor Roma and Margaret, they were so wronged"

"And our Admiralty didn't even know anything beforehand, these bastards, I heard that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has protested to the Chinese, fortunately General Nilsa has blocked the Dardanelles, otherwise we wouldn't want to chat here"

"By the way, I also heard that the Admiralty has decided to build four more battleships to make up for the losses. 【 I want: super fast update ]"

Seeing Gavoti gushing so excitedly, Moizo had to wait for him to finish and continue to ask: "What a sad day, but I don't want to talk about the Battle of Triek, but the Chinese plane." ”

"Airplanes?" Gavoti thought for a moment and suddenly patted his head: "You mean the one Alfonso encountered?" ”

"Yes." Moizuo's expression was solemn: "It is much faster than us, and it is also very agile, and even rode on Alfonso's plane"

"So I'm worried that when the Chinese sell battleships, will they also sell planes?"

"So what's there to worry about?" Gavoti smiled, leaned on the plane and looked at the beautiful sky, and said with a smile: "Moizuo, you think too much, if the Chinese sold the plane, then why haven't we seen it now?" And it's too far from Istanbul for planes to fly over. ”

"That's right." Mo Yizuo thought about it, and was just about to get up when he suddenly saw two huge airships rising in the distance, and said in surprise: "What is Andrew going to do again?" ”

"Go and bomb the Ottoman positions outside the port, haven't you heard? A guy from Germany named Enver has formed a revolt coalition in Cyrenaica and is recruiting warriors to defeat us. ”

"Beat us? Is it just the peasants? Idiot"

"You're right, so Andrew said, go and teach them a deep lesson." Looking at the two airships slowly rising into the air, Gavoti smiled: "That guy, the ** that has been loaded with three meals" After speaking, he grabbed a handful of sand from the ground and was about to play with it, but suddenly found that something flashed behind the airship.

"Three tons? God bless those poor guys."

Moizo, who was praying to the Ottoman soldiers, was suddenly pushed down, only to see Gavoti pointing to the sky behind the airship and shouting, "What is that?" ”

When Moi turned his head to look at it, an ominous feeling suddenly rose in his heart, and when the two black dots got closer and closer, his face suddenly froze, and he ran desperately towards the plane, shouting: "Damn, it's a Chinese plane"

"Chinese planes? How did they fly over? Gavoti stayed for a moment, and after a while shouted, "These damn pigs, they really sold the plane to the Ottomans, damn it, fly up and inform Andrew"

Gavoti and Moy flew left to start the plane, then stuck their pistols in their waists, and with their efforts, the two planes began to slowly glide along the road.

Inside the airship, Andrew was looking at the map with his head down, he already loved this big baby, although it was a product of the bastard country that had just helped the Ottomans sink two of their own battleships, but it still couldn't change this affection.

Especially when he saw the shells piled up in the cargo hold out of the corner of his eye, he was all excited, because of this big guy in Tripoli, he had beaten the Ottomans away, and now he could kick the ass of another group of bastards.

The sound of the buzzing engine was particularly good to hear in Andrew's ears, and when his fingers had just found a place to bomb, there was a sudden shout from the pod: "Andrew, come, it's an Ottoman plane"

"Idiots, the Ottomans don't have planes." Andrew got up lazily and grabbed the monoculars, of course he wasn't going to check it, if he wanted to use this to teach the screaming observer a hard lesson.

But when he staggered to the porthole and swept the tips of the observer's fingers, he froze.

I saw that two planes with Ottoman symbols on the fuselage were rapidly approaching, one of them was even parallel to him, and the guy sitting in it was wearing a helmet and eyes, which made it difficult to see, but the fuselage was indeed the Ottoman flag.

"How come the enemy also has planes?" Before Andrew could figure out how the Ottomans could have planes, he saw one of them fly away and fly towards his partner, and the pilot in front of him suddenly waved to him.

"He's saying hello to me?" Andrew looked at the observer, and subconsciously beckoned with a smile to give the enemy a good memory, but suddenly saw the beckoning guy stretch out his hand, and then slammed the iron pipe on the nose of the machine and turned it towards himself.

"That's" Andrew subconsciously glanced at the ammunition bay next door, and his face suddenly turned dead: before he finished shouting the word machine gun, he saw a tongue of fire suddenly erupt from the Ottoman plane.

"Da-da-da-da."

The crisp sound of machine gun fire was mixed with the roar of the engine, for fear that the power of the bullet would not be enough, Zhu Houbin still held the trigger for ten seconds, and kept swinging the muzzle, just to open a few more holes in the huge airbag.

A barrage of bullets swept into the hard shell of the airship, penetrated the airbags, and tragedy struck when one of the bullets rolled sideways and hit the steel wire used to reinforce the interior

I saw a flame suddenly burst out of the airship, and then it spread to the entire boat in just a few seconds, and the fierce flames frightened Zhu Houbin to quickly deflect the fuselage, and he was able to avoid the spitting fire.

On the ground, countless Italian soldiers and ordinary people saw this terrifying scene, as if an orange-red sun suddenly appeared in the sky, and when the other airship also burned a few seconds later, everyone was stunned, and there was only one thought left in their minds.

"God"

The airship that lost its airbag was like an iron lump, not to mention that they still had a few tons of ** in it, and when the two airships slammed into the ground, two loud noises almost at the same time made Moizo and Gavoti, who had just taken off, all stunned.

I only saw two huge mushroom clouds, rising from the ground, and in the thick black smoke, two Ottoman planes were like falcons foraging for food, shuttling back and forth around the mushroom clouds, and then.

"Get out of here"

Gavoti yelled at Moizo, who was not far away, and when Moizo finally came to his senses and looked at his fingertips, he saw that the two Ottoman planes were already flying towards him.

"Get out of here," Gavoti shouted again, and immediately turned around and prepared to leave, but his speed was too slow, and seeing that the enemy was about to catch up with him, he quickly drew his pistol, and was about to teach the bastard a lesson, when he felt a gust of wind pass by his ears, and his plane swayed as if it had lost its balance.

"Damn, he's better than me" In just a few minutes, Gavoti was already sweating, and finally stabilized the plane with both hands holding the joystick, and saw another Ottoman plane in the distance, suddenly circled behind Moy's left, and then spat out a series of tongues of fire

God, who are they?

Countless bullets hit the Newport on Moy's left, directly knocking out several large holes in the left wing, and quickly lost altitude. Fortunately, it's not far from the ground, Moizuo is a lucky guy, he avoided the bullet from the ground last time, and he should be able to do it this time.

Gavoti pulled the joystick hard and looked around to find the guy who had attacked him, but when his eyes turned to Moizuo who was about to reach the ground again, he felt his heart jump out, and his eyes were quickly bloodshot.

Because he saw that the plane with the machine gun had circled behind Moy's left again, and this time Lady Luck was completely scared away, and the flames from the nose of the plane pierced the wooden wings with countless bullets, and then swept into Moy's cockpit.

Newport is like a drunken vagabond, plunging headlong into the sand.

"I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you" Gavoti pulled his pistol and repeatedly pulled the trigger on the departing Ottoman plane, but after a few shots, there was a sudden sound behind him.

Turning his head, the guy who had just chased him got out of nowhere, this time it was less than ten meters away from his tail, and before he could raise his gun, he saw the flames gushing out, tearing everything apart in an instant.

In just ten minutes, two airships full of ** and two planes that had terrified the Ottomans before became debris all over the ground, and this scene stunned even the most experienced Italian soldiers.

While they were still in the shock of the scene, two vultures flew over them and ran out a barrage of grenades.

"Boom, boom." A series of explosions rose from the ground, and the Italian soldiers, having enjoyed the preferential treatment they had given to the enemy a few days earlier, finally came to their senses and raised their guns, but the two warhawks had already risen to unimaginable heights and began to make their way back.

The soldiers stared at the sky in horror, unaware of what the first air battle in human history at the port of Brega port.

On 14 November, the Twelve Condors, bundled grenades in groups of four, visited the port of Brega again, and the dense bombs made the Italian soldiers suffer enough.

On 15 November, five planes that had just arrived from Tripoli joined the reconnaissance and monitored the air, but in the evening they were again attacked from the sky, with the exception of one of the five pigeon reconnaissance planes being shot down, and the other two grounded on the ground were blown into planks with grenades by the whizzing vultures.

On 25 November, after a long ground haul, six condors suddenly appeared over Tripoli, shot down two Italian reconnaissance planes, and repeated the scene in Port Brega, causing three Italian airships to fall into flames.

Although the Italian army also had planes, due to the short flight distance and the lack of weapons, there was no way to contend with it, and it could not find where the other party's lair was, so it could only watch this mysterious flying force inform the skies of North Africa.

Under the guidance of a wave of vultures, Enver also immediately launched a large number of Arab guerrillas to launch a counterattack against the Italian army, killing and capturing more than 3,000 Italian soldiers in just a dozen days, and successfully ignited the struggle of the whole of North Africa to resist Italian aggression.

What happened here in just a dozen days caused a strong sensation in Europe, and Italy immediately lodged a strong protest after receiving information that these planes and the people who flew these planes were from China, but Feng Qi also immediately showed that the pilots were all hired by Mohammed V, and the planes were also their own evidence and agreements, Italy could only vent all its anger on Osman.

In addition to the redeployment of tens of thousands of troops to North Africa, an additional forty aircraft were also dispatched, and machine guns were also installed on these aircraft, and it was decided to teach the Chinese a good lesson.

A real aerial tug-of-war broke out

According to later statistics, in the years before the agreement between the Ottoman Empire and Italy, 48 vulture attacks participated in 600 battles, of which more than 70 percent were reconnaissance and guidance, including supporting the ground, providing reconnaissance for the Ottoman guerrillas, attacking Italian positions, etc., and 30 percent were strangulation of Italian aircraft.

Within a few months, this unit from China, composed of flying enthusiasts, showed the world the power of airplanes, and they achieved a total of 213 Italian planes and airships, dropped more than 2,000 improvised bombs on Italian positions and camps, and even caused an Italian torpedo boat to be injured.

Of course, they were also scarred by months of non-stop fighting, losing not only 37 Condors, eight of which were shot down, the rest had to be abandoned due to mechanical problems, but also seven of their comrades.

In order to prevent the wreckage of the plane from falling into the hands of the Italians, the accompanying Nighthawk special detachment and local guerrillas also made great efforts to ensure that none of the engines fell into the hands of the enemy.

This scene in North Africa has shown the world the value of airplanes, and there is once again one more target to compete for in the smoke of gunfire in Europe.

France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and other countries have begun to purchase large quantities of aircraft and recruit pilots, and since Europe has been slow to start in this regard, everyone has begun to look for foreign aid.

The first to act was Germany, taking advantage of the good relationship of the last loan, to purchase 300 F2 enhanced aircraft at one time, and Britain also followed closely with the purchase of 300 aircraft, and the Ottoman Empire, which did not attach importance to aircraft, purchased 500 aircraft in one go due to the lack of processing and imitation capabilities, and also invited Chinese pilots to be teachers.

For Li Mo and Hua, in addition to the orders of thousands of planes that have driven the aircraft industry, the technology is simply a big gain, because a large number of valuable first-hand combat materials have been continuously transmitted back to China, so that the engine technology that has been troubled for a long time has been greatly improved.

From materials to wings, from cockpit layout to tactical research, to the engine in the rear core, hundreds of engineers are trying to solve it almost every day, and then inform the North African Eagle by radio and fax to solve the experiment on the spot.

circulate

Using real warfare as a test field, constantly circulating and improving, and in this cycle, various technologies began to appear, such as the ignition technology of empty shells after the ignition of empty shells appeared after the ignition of the air was proposed.

In the subduction, the oil pipe does not supply oil, and the pressurized oil circuit system appears.

The technology of using engine exhaust gases to increase has also been tested on the battlefield.

The problem of stalling caused by fuel spilling in the engine's carburetor during a violent tumbling led engineers to invent the direct injection system.

After the problem of air-cooled engines being prone to gasping and difficulty in cooling down in hot weather was raised, liquid-cooled engines and air-cooled engines with improved heat dissipation systems appeared at the same time.

Wait a minute

When the North African Eagle returned home with a proud record and a large number of aircraft parts that had almost become scrap metal, when European countries finally increased the engine horsepower to 200 horsepower, and began to install external machine guns on the aircraft and study small bombs, a real monoplane quietly took off from the Flight Research Center of the Chinese Empire.

In addition to technological breakthroughs, these pilots with actual combat experience became the treasures of the Air Force and Naval Aviation, and their experience allowed the two young units to grow up.

When he learned that the monoplane began to fly test, he immediately sent a telegram to McKinson, and then the two keels were laid down in Dalian and Dandong at the same time.

Since the appearance of planes on the battlefield began with the battle between the sea and air after the outbreak of the war between the Ottomans and Italy, and the war in North Africa was also the first large-scale use of air force in human history, many people called the mysterious volunteer force from the Chinese Empire and ruled the North African sky with blood and sweat for several months, forcing Italy not to dare to send more planes there, and the Italian soldiers had to look at the sky first when they went out.

"North African Eagle".

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