At night, on the edge of the quiet airport runway, one after another FW-190 fighter jets are parked, and not far away, a row of hangars is still brightly lit. It was a huge field airfield in the Netherlands, originally a large airfield for the British and French air forces, and now it is one of the main airfields of the German air force in the Netherlands.

Farther away, a row of undulating black shadows loomed, as if something larger was parked there, revealing a suffocating deterrent. No one knows what those weapons were, as they had been garrisoned by countless soldiers since they arrived at the airport.

"Long live Führer Accardo, long live Rudolph!" the two mechanics who were busy saw the man walking over and hurriedly stood upright, and the two men were still holding wrenches in their hands, and they were in a hurry for a while before they could complete the etiquette.

"Long live Führer Accardo, long live Rudolph!" the visitor raised his hand to return the salute, looking meticulous, and after he returned the salute, he squinted at the behemoth behind the two mechanics, stunned.

It was arguably one of the most fearsome aerial weapons he had ever seen, and it could simply be said to be the backbone of the Luftwaffe's offensive power for years to come. This is the German version of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, which the German Führer Accardo himself named "The Butcher".

Don't underestimate this bomber, this is a German version of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, a super-strategic bomber weapon of the United States in another time and space, which Accardo personally participated in designing, at least at this stage, the appearance of this bomber is not good news for its target, Britain.

It was a huge wingspan of more than 30 meters long, a huge body of 22 meters long, and a huge plane almost 3 stories high, and even Dick had to admit the shock that this huge plane brought him. He had seen such planes flying high into the sky with his own eyes, but even he had never seen them himself, and it was a spectacular sight to see 44 of them flying in formation.

Before this kind of aircraft was produced by the German aviation enterprises, Dick did not believe that bombers could resist fighter attacks, but after seeing this huge guy, he had to admit that this kind of aircraft did not need to rely on speed to evade any interception, as long as it relied on its own force to smash the provocative fighters.

Dick was given this confidence by nothing else, because the aircraft was equipped with 13 13 mm machine guns and 20 mm cannons that could fire at different angles. Installed in all corners of the aircraft, it is possible to fire almost in any direction of the aircraft. Such a massive plane is simply an aerial gunboat, enough to wreck a fighter approaching at any angle halfway.

The spherical turret can be used inside the turret to sit with a gunner curled up, who uses the sight in front of his left eye to aim at the target, and uses the joystick and foot pedal to control the rotation and pitch of the turret. Due to the very small space inside the turret, the gunners of the belly turrets of the 44 Butcher strategic bombers were all German women.

The female gunners enter and exit through the hatch behind the guò turret, which is also an emergency escape hatch in the event of a malfunction. The turret is turned to a face-down position, allowing the gunner to enter the turret from inside the aircraft when the hatch can be opened from the inside of the aircraft, and the turret is turned to a horizontal position with the door completely exposed to the outside of the fuselage, allowing the gunner to enter the turret from the ground.

However, as long as the gunner enters the turret from the ground, this means that he can only stay inside during takeoff, and the ground clearance of the turret when the aircraft is on the ground is only 32 cm, and it is impossible to turn the turret to a downward facing position. Experiencing take-off or landing at just 32 centimeters above the ground is never wonderful, and the consequences of a landing gear failure are devastating, so the Butcher's instruction manual strictly stipulates that all belly gunners must enter the turret from inside the fuselage after liftoff.

The premise is that there is an aircraft that can fly to the altitude of the aircraft to intercept it - the aircraft can climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters and drop its own bombs at this altitude to attack ground targets. Although the bombing accuracy of this was not high, the Germans had always had a good track record in sight research, so they were confident that the new sight could compensate for the accuracy of high-altitude bombing.

In addition, although this butcher bomber is born from the B-17 bomber, it has some slight differences from the B-17, for example, because of process problems, the German butcher bomber uses a flower room cockpit with flat glass, which reduces the use of most curved plexiglass.

And the aircraft gave up 2 tons of payload due to engine performance problems and the pursuit of range considerations. That is to say, when performing a long-distance bombing mission of about 3500 kilometers, the loading weight of this butcher bomber is only 6 tons,

The only thing that made the commanders of the Air Force a little frightened was that the plane needed 10 pilots, and although there were 5 machine gun self-defense personnel who did not need to be very precise, the cost of using this aircraft was too expensive for Germany.

You must know that this plane flew into the sky to carry out combat missions, but it sent tons of expensive steel and alloy metals and ten soldiers to the airspace over the enemy-occupied area, which was actually a very risky move for a country like the German army, which was hard-won by every pilot.

If it weren't for the fact that this combat mission was so tempting, and if it weren't for the fact that this combat mission was so meaningful, Dick, as the deputy commander of the Air Force, would not have agreed to such a hasty organization of such a crazy offensive plan.

"The bombs are all loaded, General. An officer who followed Dick reported: "The pilots of these bombers have undergone rigorous night flight training, and this mission will enter enemy airspace at night and return during the day." ”

In order to prepare for this bombing, Germany mobilized almost all the warplanes in its hands and drew up a huge battle plan.

The first is the timing of the flight. These strategic bombers will take off in formation at night and then fly to London, the capital of the United Kingdom, which will be bombed, and these planes will rendezvous at sea with naval fighters who have taken off early in the morning on aircraft carriers, protected by these escort fighters, to raid London for bombing missions.

Then the naval fighters will start to return because of the fuel problem, and the bombers will climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters, throw off the intercepting British fighters, and start to return home. Halfway through, the bomber group will be taken over by an army fighter formation that has taken off from the Netherlands and returns to the Netherlands under the escort of the fighter group.

44 butcher bombers will carry a full 260 tons of bombs, which will be dropped on the British capital. Bringing fear and disaster to the British government. The plan for this operation was named "Samsara" by the Air Force, and the purpose was very simple: to retaliate for the assassination of Accardo Rudolph by British spies.

Accardo was silent for a long time when he learned of Catherine's plan of action, knowing that the Luftwaffe had lost its tactical advantage in the air battle of Britain during World War II because of retaliation.

In Accardo's mind, the Luftwaffe should use its technological superiority to bomb British airfields and factories and undermine Britain's war potential. And not for the sake of retaliation, to show their teeth and claws at useless London houses.

So Accardo told General Catherine what he was thinking, hoping that he would understand him. General Catherine also told the Führer after listening to Accardo's concerns that the Luftwaffe's bombing would definitely be aimed at factories and airfields in the future, and that this retaliation was carried out entirely for Accardos.

So Accardo had no choice but to nod his head in agreement, and just in case, ordered the air force and navy to fully cooperate with the air raid operation. Of course, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the navy and air force, Accardo even personally ordered Dönitz to transfer three submarines to return to the sea to reconnoiter the naval route in advance.

Such a plan can be said to be seamless: the submarine force will reconnoiter the movements of the British Navy and open the way for the aircraft carrier fleet; the aircraft carrier will take off carrier-based aircraft to escort the strategic bombers, and then quickly gather the planes and return to the Netherlands; and then the bomber force will return to the battlefield under the cover of the road-based fighter unit.

一qiē will start tonight, and it seems that 1 qiē will also end tomorrow. Dick thought to himself. He nodded, patted the Air Force colonel on the shoulder who introduced the progress of the work, and said, "I know that tonight, you will create a miracle in the history of the Luftwaffe." I wish you every success. ”

"Mr. General! We will do our best to complete the mission! The Führer will bless us!" said the colonel, "I will personally lead the fleet to complete the mission, and the British will pay the price for their assassination of the Führer!"

"With these good pilots...... Come back alive!" Dick said softly as he looked at the huge four-engine strategic bomber beside him.

Soon, Dick was escorted by the guards and returned to the control tower, where he took advantage of the lights on the runway as one huge "butcher" after another began to take off, and the roar of the four engines could be heard clearly even in the control tower.

"Revenge 1, I'm Revenge 2, I can see your night flight lights! The field of view is very good! It's no different from night flight training!"

In a short time, 44 planes had completed their formation in the sky not far away, and they maintained a safe flight distance from each other, and in the dark point air, relying on the command of the navigator, they flew towards the combat target of their current operation.

"The flight formation has been assembled! Operation Reincarnation has officially begun!" The colonel, who was the commander of the front-line formation, reported to General Dick in his headset: "I hope we can complete the mission!"