600 Wings (Part I)

December 25, morning. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

290 nautical miles east of the Maldives and 150 nautical miles south of Colombo.

"70 meters!"

The deck of the Jinsha River was extremely busy, and the soldiers quickly turned the depth charge on the depth charge, and as the clockwork was turned two and a half times, the small oil drum-shaped depth charge was quickly thrown into the sea by the launcher.

At the same time, one of the destroyers that coordinated with him also dropped depth charges.

The sound of the thump into the water was very clear to the listener's ears, but he didn't dare to get too close to the headphones because he knew what was going to happen soon.

"Boom......."

The originally calm sea began to boil like a bulging balloon, and countless terrifying waves appeared on the sea in an instant, and when viewed from the sky, it was like a sea god's ceremonial flower.

"Second round."

The white, clear spray of the waves disappointed the sailors, and the battleship slowly circled at a speed of 5 knots, until the listeners noticed the strange sound of the bottom again, and 24 second wave of depth charges began to be dropped.

Anti-submarine tactics need to be very detailed, in addition to capturing the sound signal of the opponent and positioning it roughly, the drop of depth charges also needs to be dropped at fixed times and intervals until the entire sea area is covered.

The rumbling explosion carried the water column and continued to flash on the surface of the sea, until everyone cheered when a mass of water mixed with oil stained 100 meters away on the starboard side exploded and the sea surface was blackened.

On the bridge 20 nautical miles away, the staff officer breathed a sigh of relief: "Sunk, no radio signal was emitted." ”

An Entente submarine couldn't frighten Le Fei, nodded and asked, "Is the reconnaissance plane back?" ”

Mou was just about to speak, but a telegram handed by him interrupted him, and after a few quick glances at the telegram, he squeezed his eyebrows and reported: "The telegram of the reconnaissance plane, the Allied Indian Grand Fleet has not been found in Colombo Harbor. ”

"Oh? Absence? ”

"Yes, there is only one Nelson-class battleship, two Danton-class battleships, and a Spanish-class battleship in the harbor, and three cruisers, and the rest are torpedo boats and boats."

Le Fei raised his eyebrows, since the end of the Battle of False Bay, the task force has been hiding in the southern Indian Ocean, drifting for two months and maneuvering here last night, in order to at least inflict heavy damage on the Indian Grand Fleet that has been in Colombo at the beginning of the horn sounding, I didn't expect that three days ago it was confirmed that the enemy's main force in Colombo was gone, which is indeed a bit unexpected.

Zhu Houbin, who was checking the bombing plan at the back of his side, was also nervous, the deck was already full of planes, and the torpedoes had been taken out of the ammunition depot and lifted onto the deck.

"Order the Jinshajiang to lead the 1st Destroyer Squadron to search and advance west of Colombo."

"Order the Lijiang and Lena River to lead the 2nd Destroyer Squadron to maneuver to the Maldives Island for reconnaissance."

"Turn on the radar!"

After Le Fei gave the order, he turned to Zhu Houbin: "Are you ready?" ”

"Well, the first wave of 24 Hornets and 50 Ospreys." Zhu Houbin paused, thought for a while, and said, "Do you want to reduce?" ”

"Don't!" Le Fei looked at his watch, raised his head and glanced at the eyes cast on the bridge: "The Air Force should have set sail, although we didn't meet the Indian Grand Fleet, but it's still the same sentence!" ”

"Don't give them a chance!"

"Yes!"

In the midst of the loud cheers, heavy torpedoes began to be pushed under the belly of the plane, and the soldiers slowly lifted them up with a manual oil pump and pasted them on the pylons, carefully hung them, and after checking several times that they were correct, they pulled out the safety latch.

One by one, the pilots climbed aboard the warhawks, waiting intently for the flag in front of them to be waved, and the golden dragon wing emblems on the fuselage and wings gleamed in the rising sun.

When the flight controller standing on the foredeck suddenly waved the red flag in his hand, the iron barrier on the first take-off line, which was only 110 meters away from the bow, was quickly released, and the four hornets that had already turned on their engines roared and rushed to the end of the deck. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The howling deck wind gave the wings enough lift, and when the wheels left the deck, the fuselage began to sink violently, and the pilot calmly pulled up the joystick.

On the wide deck, there are three take-off lines, when the first batch of Hornets take off, on the second take-off line 150 meters away from the bow, the subsequent Hornets do not have to rely on sniper iron, and release their brakes to accelerate out of gravity.

The rear 180-meter flight line is intended for torpedo aircraft and future attack aircraft, which no longer need to block afterburner at this distance, and the extra tens of meters are enough to ensure that the engine is pushed to the strong.

As the eagles took off into the air, in just 20 minutes, all 74 warhawks had already left the deck, and the flight deck, which was still as crowded as a can, suddenly seemed lonely.

Immediately after the group, two long-range Hummingbird four-seater twin-engine seaplanes slowly left the water, not only the eyes of the fleet, but also the weapons of rescue pilots.

"Prepare the bombs and carry out the second wave of bombing missions as soon as the planes return." As soon as Le Fei took care of Zhu Houbin, the first mate pointed to the east and shouted: "Guam and Medan are here!" ”

Raising his head, he repaired one in the distance, and two Guam-class battleships with four Defense-class destroyers and glittering cold metallic luster in the sunlight appeared behind him.

The corners of Le Fei's mouth quietly hooked, and he took a deep breath: "Banner, welcome to join the task force!" ”

Under the harsh sunlight, the silver wing logo on the fuselage shone brightly.

This kind of two silver wings, sandwiched by a circle, the black eagle head in the circle faintly powerful pattern, this is the air force's silver wing totem.

In the rapidly rotating propeller light curtain, Zhou Fu suddenly saw that the silver wing logo on the fuselage of the wingman next to him seemed to be a little dirty, and he couldn't help frowning, and he said in his heart that he must criticize this rookie who doesn't know how to care for the totem after he goes back.

Sitting in the cockpit, the white clouds seemed to be within reach, the escort formation composed of 48 wild horses was neat and fast, watching the countless silver wings shining in the sun, Zhou Fu even felt that there was an electric current swimming in his body, which made him tremble.

Downward, the first attack wave is composed of 60 tusk torpedoes/horizontal bombers carrying heavy "fish bones", relying on wide wings and powerful wing flaps, this aircraft can complete the assault at ultra-low altitudes, this ability can not be done even by the Mustang, after all, people have put special emphasis on low-altitude sea-skimming performance in the design.

However, because of the wide wings, which limited their maneuverability and high-altitude performance, they could only be used for horizontal bombing when not using torpedoes.

There are also some small black dots behind them in the distance, which are the pride of the Air Force, 80 Dragon's Tooth tactical attack aircraft, 500 kg of bombs make them look a little hobbling now, but if the bombs are removed, their nimble and small fuselage can even play air combat with the Mustang.

It's a pity that the slow and huge Kunpeng bombers were not included in the first wave of attacks due to concerns about anti-aircraft artillery, which is a little regrettable.

Zhou Fu glanced at his watch, although it is only 380 kilometers from the Linga Islands to Gapo, and the Mustang can arrive in 50 minutes, but because of the need to protect the slow fangs, he must wait patiently for a while.

However, as soon as he thought that after the cluster arrived, the British would no longer be able to see the sky, the corners of his mouth began to crack rapidly, but before they could crack to the bottom, he suddenly saw a stirring of fangs below, and the edge of the neat big triangle formation suddenly split into five, whistling and continuing to rush down.

The radio station, which had been silent, also suddenly sounded.

"We've been discovered."

The voice suddenly made Zhou Fu's heart throb.

"A little bit on the surface of the sea." With the roar of the engine, Tian Yun's voice wafted in every cockpit, and hearing the voice of the number one North African eagle, who is now the commander of the 1st Air Division, the pilots all clenched their joysticks.

"The British will understand in a moment that camels are not supposed to fly in the sky!" Tian Yun held the microphone, and his relaxed tone and jokes filled the channel with laughter.

"Don't be reckless." His voice changed abruptly, serious and high-pitched.

"The Camel F1 is agile enough, so you need to reduce aerial combat and use more height and speed to impact them!"

"Pay attention to coordination, and be wary of the anti-aircraft artillery around you when entering a low altitude! Don't be attacked by the British! ”

"Today is our holiday!" Tian Yun took a deep breath and pushed the oil rod to the bottom, the Battle of False Bay made the naval aviation famous, and now it is time to let the world know that in addition to the dragon wings in the east, there are also silver wings that make them tremble and protect the sky!

"Let's go!"

With the shouting of the division commander, Zhou Fu also pushed the oil pole to the bottom with his left hand, and the war eagle that had just been docile like a tamed military horse roared suddenly, and the violent neighing made it a real rampaging wild horse.

In the blink of an eye, a hazy black line appeared on the horizon in the distance.

Shrill whistles rang out over Gapo, an island that had become almost inhabited and a war machine, suddenly became noisy and tense, the huge shore guns ripped off their armors, the small anti-aircraft guns turned, and many soldiers burrowed into the pillboxes and trenches, nervous.

The enemy has finally arrived.

The hippodrome on the side of Bukit Timah Hill has been converted into an airport, rows of camels start to turn their engines, air crew soldiers nervously push the planes onto the runway, and when the pilots arrive, they immediately start the propellers, and after a puff of pungent green smoke, the camels begin to accelerate into the sky.

Defoe and Sampson punched each other, and the two had known each other for less than a week, but a shared love of flying brought the pair of pilots from the United Kingdom and the United States together.

"Defoe, fuck their asses!"

Sampson sat in the cockpit and shouted, and the unrestrained American cowboy made Defoe a little unaccustomed, beckoning: "Actually, I like their wings." ”

Towed by a 180-horsepower engine, the lightweight fuselage of just 430 kilograms quickly broke away from gravity, and by the time Defoe and Sampson began to climb hard, the rumbling sound of cannon was already coming from the coast.

The two turned their heads to look, only to see that in the direction of the fortress more than ten kilometers away, there were already black cannon sparks, and dozens of sharp silver rays in the cannon sparks were rushing towards them like lightning.

"...... that?" Defoe stupidly watched a monoplane with flashing silver wings pass by at high speed not far away, and his brain suddenly showed off.

Metal? Metal monoplane?!

"God, fire!"

Sampson was the first to react, leaning up on the nose of the plane and firing at a rushing Mustang that swept by, although the millimeter machine gun kept spitting out tongues of fire, but the speed of the opponent was too high, and all the bullets hit the air.

"Sister!"

Zhou Fu pulled the joystick hard, and the open wing flap drove the wild horse to turn a corner dexterously, and he was able to avoid the bullets fired by the camel, he was already trembling with anger, but he didn't expect that he had just given these birds a chance to avoid the anti-aircraft artillery.

"Follow me."

Zhou Fu shouted, and the wingman quickly approached, and after quickly pulling up and turning in front of Sampson's eyes, two wild horses roared and rushed towards the camel that was firing at him.

In the face of the roaring wild horses, Sampson knew that his plane's performance was inferior to that of the other party without looking at it, and immediately deflected the fuselage and flexibly made a corner, and the dexterity of the biplane became extremely agile under his rough manipulation techniques.

"Damn." Defoe also saw this scene, and immediately secretly said that it was not good in his heart, and quickly drove the plane closer to Sampson, trying to bite the monoplane metal plane that he had never seen before, but he turned over the fuselage, and felt a whistling behind him, and turned his head to see that a Mustang had locked behind him.

A 25mm cannon and two 762mm machine guns roared violently at the same time, Defoe only felt that he and the plane seemed to have fallen into a raging storm, no matter how he dodged, there was the sound of a shuttle bursting through the air, and when the fuselage shook violently, the left wing had broken into two, and the plane involuntarily fell down.

"Defoe."

Seeing this scene, Sampson's eyes were red, he didn't expect that the British partner he knew was shot down without firing a shot, and in his rage, the sound of bullets shuttling around him also sounded, and he had no time to continue to grieve and be angry, so he had to press the nose of the plane and try to use the dive to avoid the enemy.

Facing the enemy plane that floated left and right like leaves, Zhou Fu's teeth were about to be crushed, he didn't expect this kind of biplane to be so flexible, and at this moment, the wingman's anxious shout sounded in the earphones.

"Four o'clock, two!"

"Damn it, pester them and give me 20 seconds!"

Zhou Fu took a deep breath, let himself calm down quickly, his eyes were fixed on this guy with good skills, and he kept counting silently in his heart.

When he counted to 3, the camel that had repeatedly dodged was finally locked into the crosshairs, and the moment his finger pulled the trigger, the cannon and machine gun at the nose and wing root hissed at the same time, and the moment the bullet case burst out, Sampson's plane seemed to be cut through the middle, and the nose and fuselage fell separately in the explosion.

"Pull it up."

It is said to be long, but in fact, it is only more than a minute, when the two wild horses quickly pulled up the nose of the plane and drilled into the air almost straight into the air, Zhou Fu saw that one after another, one after another, such as seeing a school of fish and ibis, kept diving, pulling up, and diving again in groups of twos and twos.

That's the advantage, the advantage of a metal plane!

From the beginning, Tian Yun did not plan to play the kind of transmission technique called "dog fighting" by the emperor with the British, although the Air Force also conducted a lot of this kind of training, but war does not need to be fancy!

Taking advantage of the altitude, the potential energy is converted into speed in the dive, and then it returns to the height before the attack, and the tactical attack action of dive-attack-climb-observation is repeatedly carried out.

Simple, straightforward, and effective!

But this seemingly simple method of attack, for those camels that have just climbed up is a catastrophe, even if they are maneuverable and flexible enough, but the British pilots mostly found that the opponent did not give them the opportunity to show their best aerial combat, and finally rushed to a good position, the opponent's back seemed to have eyes, and immediately pulled up and detached, that kind of speed they had never seen before, not to mention chasing.

But once it is bitten, it is a certain death, and it is not good for the angry person to learn that the other party dives, because the camel F1 is a wooden fuselage, once the dive exceeds the critical point, it will quickly disintegrate, and several of them are chased after the fuselage breaks and crashes.

This is not an air battle at all, it is a massacre!

But Zhou Fu liked this feeling, the British had tormented China with opium for so many years, and now it was his turn to torture them with speed and bullets!

"Keep up with me!"

"Kill!"

In the roar, the two mustangs aimed at the camels that had just risen, and the fuselage quickly deflected to the left, letting out a piercing roar, and engaged in what the surviving British pilots later called "they were hunting turkeys".

The fiasco in the sky made the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground dare not delay any longer, even if the cluster had been strangled into a ball, they were ruthless, gritted their teeth and began to roar.

One by one, the cannon flowers bloomed in the air, and countless black smoke swept across the sky with fragments, but after only a few rounds, they could no longer care about rescuing fewer and fewer camels, because there were already more silver wings in the sky.

"Keep it high!"

Balls of smoke exploded next to the No. 201 tusk torpedo machine piloted by Zha Zhenyun, and columns of water rising from the sea surface obscured the vision from time to time.

The wrist gently controlled the war eagle, and the "fish bone" under the belly of the plane was ready, and the old man star thousands of meters away had become Zha Zhenyun's only target.

"Boom......."

Beside him, a fangs were hit and turned into a ball of fire and plunged into the blue waves, but Zha Zhenyun only twitched the corner of his eye, and his expression was indifferent to the eternal iceberg.

When the shadow of the ship grew bigger and bigger, when the British sailors on the deck shouted frantically, when the stern was flooded with countless water bubbles, when the bow was already deflected, the "fish bone" suddenly came out of its sheath, like a black lightning bolt, jamming all sounds.

"Kill!"

In the frenzied shouting, the fangs brushed the battleship's mast, and when he turned back, there was already a sky full of fire!

: I don't want to explain anything, the continuous holiday entertainment a few days ago made the hippopotamus break a lot of things, I thought about simply breaking it, but breaking it will make people lazy, so I can only grind it slowly, the number of words deleted in the past few days alone is tens of thousands, and as the usual rhythm starts again, some things seem to be slowly coming back.

Thank you all for your patience and support, Hippo loves you!

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