Chapter 180: Admiral Lee's Visit 3
Over the Balkans on the morning of December 1, 1940
The four-plane formation has been flying continuously for 20 hours, and no one doubts that they will be able to fly directly to Berlin at this time, and the wooden fuselage, fighter engines, and aviation fuel from northern Shaanxi have all withstood it, and the 20 hours of continuous heavy-duty flight is a severe test of the aircraft's comprehensive performance.
In the cockpit of the No. 1 aircraft, the pilot has been replaced by a cadet, while Wang Yue and Chen Zhigang are wrapped in sleeping bags and sleeping on the side, in order to store a large number of tube equipment, the cockpit designed by Mikoyan is large enough for the two of them to sleep comfortably in it.
Compared with the rear cabin close to 0 degrees, there is the heat emitted by the tubes in the cockpit, the temperature is close to 20 degrees, plus a special oxygen supplement system, a hot water system, a constant temperature heating furnace, and an electric seat, in this time and space, it is definitely the ceiling of the cockpit of a large aircraft, of course, this is also to take care of the pilot, after all, the plane is too rough, Mikoyan is also worried about the pilot's evaluation of the aircraft, in their opinion, the most direct evaluation of the aircraft is those pilots.
Soothing music was playing on the radio, the horizon was already brightening in the distance, the pilot adjusted the plane to autopilot mode, began to study the plane manual, and everything seemed so relaxed.
At this time, Wang Yue opened his eyes suddenly, although he was asleep, he still used a wisp of divine thought to control the system to scan the surrounding situation, after all, the radar performance of these planes is very limited, and it is impossible to really effectively achieve all-round monitoring.
Just now, he found that fighter jets were taking off from nearby farms one after another, if it was just fighter jets from Balkan countries taking off, Wang Yue's reaction would not be so big, but after scanning the cockpit, he found that the pilots were actually Asian faces, sanitary beards, rising sun straps, yellow military uniforms, Nima, what is this not a little devil?
The little devil suddenly appeared in the Balkans, and organized so many fighters, and he came in his own flight formation, not rushing to the heavily defended mountain city, but trying his best to carry out operations in the Balkans, and to make a surprise attack, if it were someone else, I am afraid that he would really be hit. Even the Li-2 transport plane in his hand is useless, after all, the transport plane that is not a fully enclosed cabin can't keep high altitude and high speed all the time, if that's the case, I'm afraid that all the people in the cockpit will be hung up.
Naturally, Wang Yue would not have known that this guy Yamamoto Kazuki began to plan this ambush operation as soon as Hans invited Li Yunlong to visit, analyzed and judged the route of the visit, coordinated the secret service to contact the local forces, organized the purchase of equipment on the spot, mobilized the operation personnel, and transferred equipment and facilities, just to kill Li Yunlong with one blow and completely solve the problem, and Yamamoto Kazuki even contacted the naval aviation despite the opposition of Admiral Yoshio Shinozuka.
"Climb, climb quickly, climb to 10,000 meters!" Wang Yue bounced up from the floor, grabbed the intercom and gave a loud order,
Immediately after that, the battle alarm in the engine room was sounded, and everyone woke up from their dazed state, and at this time they showed the quality of the commanders and fighters of the provisional 68th Division, without the slightest confusion, tidying up their clothes, checking equipment, reinforcing vehicles, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.
"Comrades, the enemy plane intercepted it was found in the front, and they all caught it." At this time, Wang Yue's voice sounded on the radio.
At this time, there were already 12 Devil fighters in the air, 8 P-11 and 4 P-24, which swooped down on them from three directions, and learned the previous lesson, and the Devil planes kept climbing when they came up, and the Devil fighters had taken the lead in reaching an altitude of 8,000 meters.
Seeing that the transport plane formation was already climbing, they also quickly pounced, with their previous experience, they didn't know that the transport planes of the Eighth Route Army were likely to be far faster and higher than their fighters, so they had to pounce as soon as possible and fight with those transport planes, even if they didn't shoot down those transport planes, they had to stop them from continuing to climb and speed up.
Just as it was about to reach the firing distance, the devil plane found that the fighters in front of it suddenly made a ninety-degree overload turn and rushed in the direction of the alliance, obviously trying to get rid of them as soon as possible. However, the fighter formation did not panic, because although the transport aircraft formation was still speeding up, the speed was still very slow, and it was not possible to get rid of them for the time being.
Wang Yue was also very annoyed in the cockpit, careless, the transport aircraft formation had been flying at economic speed before, and he didn't take into account the situation that he might be besieged, and at present, several planes were still in a state of heavy load, and now it's okay, the speed in a hurry is really impossible to go up all at once, and it is very difficult to climb, which gives the devil a chance
"Lao Chen, you come to command, I'll go to the rear cabin!" Wang Yue handed over the driving rights to Chen Zhigang and ran to the back, and when he came to the back, he patted Li Yunlong and went down to the bottom warehouse. After a while, he carried out two Browning M2HB 12.7mm heavy machine guns and several boxes of bullets, these two machine guns were commissioned by him to Tasha to customize, the barrel of the machine gun is made of special steel that only existed in the laboratory in the 1940s, and the sleeve of the later M60 is the same material, even if the barrel is red, there is no need to replace the barrel, so these two machine guns are not even prepared for spare barrels and asbestos gloves.
When the cargo door of the transport plane was opened, a string of bullets swept over, clanging and splashing a string of sparks on the cargo door, but it did not cause any damage. It's too far, the devil pilot can't even aim at all, it's just shooting aimlessly, the large-caliber machine gun bullet can't even penetrate the bulkhead of the plane, Colonel Rudolph gently knocked on the bulkhead of the plane, his eyes were full of excitement, this thing can really block the bullet, although the effect of the armor-piercing incendiary bomb has not been tested, but it can only block the large-caliber stray bullet This is considerable, after all, even the skin of aluminum alloy or thin steel plate can't block the armor-piercing incendiary bomb.
Set up the Browning M2HB machine gun, in Li Yunlong's unbelievable eyes, Wang Yue set fire to the devil fighter formation three thousand meters away, and the armor-piercing incendiary bomb drew a beautiful arc in the air, and pounced towards the devil fighter.
These bullets are special bullets with charges, and the original Browning M2HB can't withstand it at all, but there is no problem at all with the customized heavy machine gun with all-over special steel. The effective range of the original Browning M2HB is 2500 meters, the maximum range is 7000 meters, although it can also hit at a range of 3,000 meters, it is difficult to say that the dispersion range and accuracy are different, but it is not the same after replacing special ammunition.