Chapter 996 The 997 bombardment has just begun

"Suddenly, suddenly!" On the backs of the German bomber group, the twin 30 mm cannons had strong firepower and excellent ballistics. Put the enemy plane in the center of the circle on the sight, and the heavy fire will most likely pay off. As the cannon opened fire, the entire turret trembled slightly, and the shells fell under their feet, clanging beautifully.

Tracer bullets still shine in the daytime sky, and these ammunition rush in a straight line at their fastest speed. As the gun turret rotated and the plane moved forward, these warheads, which were supposed to fly straight, drew a strange arc in the air.

"Buzz...... Buzzing. Captain James flew his fighter jet over his cockpit canopy, feeling the slight tremor of his engine from the thin air outside. His plane was not in the best condition, and he knew from a long time that his plane was not suitable for fighting his opponents at such altitudes.

However, the current situation did not allow him to think too much, after all, the Germans were not vegetarian bullets. The German bombers flying in dense formations on the opposite side naturally fired ten times more bullets than the dense ones, like a big net, enveloping him and the fighters behind him.

"No. 4! No. 4! Climb! Climb up!" In his headphones, the voice of his friend suddenly sounded, and Fighter No. 4 was his friend's wingman. Before the friend could say anything more, he had to roll to the right to avoid the munitions strafing by enemy planes.

He didn't even have time to warn his wingman behind him, so he had to quickly push his joystick to the right so that his plane could be as fast as possible and avoid the ammunition flying in front of him, and when he stabilized his plane slightly, his headphones were filled with overlapping shouts and pleas for help.

James shot down a German DO-217 bomber over London, and at that time he was promoted to lieutenant and awarded a medal. So he knew how terrible the guns on the German bombers were that fired everywhere.

It's as if the Germans were facing in another time and space: the fighters were no longer facing the opposing pilots, but a huge air fleet, a whole bunch of machine gunners who tied themselves to their turrets with belts, infantry in the sky. These soldiers no longer relied on superb dogfighting skills, but on dense and orderly firepower.

A figurative analogy is that the dense self-defense weapons on strategic bombers opened the prelude to trench warfare in the air, and these planes relied on their harder structures and more stable platforms to compete with the enemy's fighter units for attrition -- and in this process of mutual attrition, it was clear that the bomber units that carried out bombing missions by the way had the upper hand.

James managed to rush through the dense net of fire, and then aimed at a German bomber and opened heavy fire, his bullet punching two rows of bullet holes in the enemy plane, but it did not play a role in shooting down the opponent. Unfortunately, the Butcher Bomber is stronger than the D0-217 bomber and is a bit more tolerant of damage.

"Sir, Fighter No. 4 has been shot down!" said the No. 2 wingman, who had rushed through the fire network of the German bomber formation with him, loudly recalling what he had seen. The wingman managed to fly past the barrage when he saw the poor No. 4 P-40 fighter break its wing and crash to the ground.

As if the disaster had just begun, a dive attack did not mess up the German bomber formation, but instead these British Air Force fighters crashed into an iron plate like a ball of mud, and smashed themselves to pieces without hurting the iron plate. By the time the 19 British fighters rushed through the German bomber formation, only a pitiful 11 remained, and the remaining 8 planes, needless to say, had been shot down by the self-defense fire of the German bombers.

James knew that the Luftwaffe was not easy to mess with, but he still led his men to attack bravely, but the reality was so cruel that he lost 8 planes, but still did not shoot down a single German plane. Fancy flight and agile reflexes are no longer needed in this war, what is needed now is a large-caliber cannon, the larger the caliber, the more damage can be inflicted on more and more sturdy aircraft at long distances.

The American P-40 fighter is armed with 12. 7 mm machine guns, obviously these machine guns did not cause fatal damage to German bombers, but the 13 mm machine guns and 30 mm cannons on these butcher bombers were more than enough for P-40 fighters.

"Get out of here! Go around and climb in the distance! We must attack again!"

James felt his heart twitch, but he held back his heart that was about to break, and gave the order to continue the attack: "Be careful not to get too close!

Those fresh beings who had just eaten with themselves, those comrades-in-arms they were familiar with, left this world in a short time of a dive attack. James was no longer a new pilot on the battlefield, but this moment was the most uncomfortable he had ever experienced. Even in the brutal air battle of London, the RAF did not lose so many fighters in such a short period of time.

He piloted his plane and made a big circle before once again reaching the front of the flank of the German bomber. To intercept the opponent's bomber formation, speed and climb rate are the most critical performance, and it just so happens that the P-40 Rolls-Royce improved is very ordinary in both aspects.

"John, I'm going to avenge you!" James knew the pilot of Fighter No. 3, and this close friend of Jacoes's best friend had been beaten into parts during the dive attack and crashed into the sea along with his plane, which was more fragments than parts.

He accelerated to attack, aimed his weapon at the German plane, and then accelerated to the target without dodging, and then opened fire at a dangerous distance. His aviation machine gun spewed tongues of fire, leaving dense bullet holes in enemy aircraft.

Bullets grazed the turret of an aerial gun on the back of a German bomber, knocking holes in the transparent plexiglass. The German female shooter inside was shot in the head and collapsed in her seat, and the German bomber, which had been attacked by two P-40 fighters in succession, was finally overwhelmed and began to slowly descend to its altitude in smoke.

With a boom, the lid of one of the engines was lifted open by the flames inside, and the butcher bomber caught fire and burst into flames, enveloping its entire wing in a cloud of smoke. James's forces finally achieved their first victory of the day after paying a heavy price.

Along with the explosion of this German bomber, there was another German bomber, which was hit in its cockpit, the aviation machine gun that 12. The 7 mm bullet pierced the glass cockpit, killing everyone inside and smashing the dashboard.

As a result, the plane also began to fall slowly, and eventually began to circle and crash because of the increasingly strange flight attitude. However, along with these two German bombers, there were five British P-40 Rolls-Royce improved fighters.

By the time James had turned around and found the position to attack, only five planes were following him. To shoot down two German bombers, the fighter unit of the British Air Force paid the price of 13 aircraft. This had to be said to be a frustrating thing, and the British had to be forced to face the sad fact that the fighters could not beat the bombers.

And it was at this moment that something happened that made James rejoice, and higher up, one after another, a new British fighter appeared with a rapid dive, these super fighters with roaring engines, far more powerful than their Allied counterparts.

These planes have terrifying speeds of nearly 700 kilometers per hour, and they also have large-caliber guns mounted on the nose - compared to the messy P-40s, Hurricanes and even P-51 fighters, this is a true super interceptor.

With a whistling sound, these planes smashed into the German bomber formation, and the originally strict German formation began to loosen, and in just such an instant, two German bombers disintegrated and exploded in the air. Obviously, these British Meteor jet fighters, which quickly cut into the battlefield, were very suitable for attacking the German bombers.

"Keep in formation! Keep in formation! Don't panic! Don't leave your position!" The sudden attack made the Luftwaffe front-line commander, who was already relaxed, feel a hundred times more energetic. This new type of aircraft appeared in front of everyone with devastating speed and fierce firepower, and instantly shook the entire German bomber formation.

A novice-controlled bomber broke away from the huge formation, and was soon surrounded by a P-40 plane piloted by James and others. Soon the bomber was shot down, dragging its long tail and crashing towards the coastline of Iceland.

After such a long period of entanglement, the German planes had approached the interior of Iceland, and the target of the bombing was not far ahead, and as long as a large number of bombs were dropped there, the German bombing of Iceland was a complete success. Although the appearance of the jets caused some panic among the Germans, the weakness of these jet fighters was also obvious - there were too few of them!

There will be a make-up tonight, but it may be a little late......