Chapter 350: Good Friday in London
As Zhou Yu had predicted, in the days that followed, the German bombing brought unprecedented disaster to London.
Nazi planes turned the city of London into a sea of fire, even at night, and even the waters of the River Thames seemed to be evaporated.
The firefighters in London didn't know where to start when they watched the raging fires raging everywhere, and even if they tried a lot to extinguish the fire, it would only take a bomb to drop and there would be several more burning fires around them.
"Damn the Nazis! Damn Hitler! Are they going to ruin London once and for all? Churchill, you go mobilize all our fighters and shoot them all down the next time they come! We want the Nazis to know our determination that we will not surrender! ”
Like an angry lion beating his combat command table, Williams sent people around to extinguish the fire and treat the wounded, and at the same time moved all the intact fighter planes in his hands to the vicinity of the strait, so as to intercept the Nazi planes more quickly and effectively.
However, the effect of his move was immediate, and on the same day, his Royal Flying Group forced the German bomber group to return in vain, and even lost several bombers.
The Spitfire and Whirlwind squadrons were ordered to fly over London to stand on guard, and when the German formation of bombers flew into the skies over Dover, the long-awaited Royal Flying Squadron quickly pounced.
The British fighters were designed to attack the enemy's bombers, ignoring the other planes next to them, and their duty was to intercept them with all their might, so that not a single bomb could be dropped on London.
However, countless planes shot at each other, exploded, and crashed over London, and despite the heroic resistance of the British pilots, the Germans managed to drop many bombs.
In the days that followed, German planes continued to break into the skies over the London area at all costs, wreaking havoc on the city.
According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 1,000 large fires in the bombing of London in the past few days, nearly 10,000 citizens died, more than 100 houses in the urban area were blown up, and people lacked water, electricity, gas, food, and medicine, but there was no shortage of corpses.
After such nightmarish days, RAF radars detected another German flying group crossing the channel.
Enraged, the British immediately decided to send fighter jets to intercept the German air force formation on the coastline and prevent them from entering the skies over London.
Williams sent all the air forces in his hands into the sky, and the 11th and 12th Fighter Groups, a total of 24 squadrons, nearly 300 aircraft, took to the air in batches, and all the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters formed a steel line in the air south and west of London.
When these heroic pilots saw the German planes, they were like hot knives plunged directly into the Nazi bomber formation, turning the German aircraft fleet into a pot of porridge.
Dozens of Spitfire fighters broke up in formation and fought separately, and the pilots pressed the firing button to spark, and the muzzles of the guns spewed wildly, because of the large number of enemy planes, they hardly had to aim, only to shoot according to the most dense formation of the opponent.
In a few minutes, a succession of German bombers crashed down in black smoke, and hundreds of planes over south London were entangled and fighting, especially British planes, they kept shooting until they ran out of ammunition, and even some people fired real fire, and without bullets, they would drive their own planes into the enemy bombers.
The German bombers did not have much resistance in the face of the enemy fighters, especially since the other side felt like they were fighting to the death today, and this was not the kind of battle they wanted.
In the end, under the orders of the leader of the bomber formation, the Luftwaffe no longer entangled with the other side and chose to retreat, and today's bombing mission was also declared a failure.
"Go back, German devils! If you dare to come, the crashed planes below will be your fate! ”
The RAF pilots excitedly shouted on the channel that this was the first time since the Nazi bombing of London that they had successfully defended off the enemy and blocked the Germans from the coastline.
"Well done! That's how you want to fight! We have not yet fully controlled our airspace, and we want the Nazis to know that we will not surrender even if we die! ”
Williams roared and shook his fist, a big victory for their air force.
The next day, on the streets of London, the streets of ruins were published in large letters in the front pages of the newspapers, with the headline "185 German Aircraft Annihilated."
In the face of this victory, the citizens of London, after being devastated and feared, were finally inspired to take to the streets to celebrate as if they had won the war.
However, the failure of this bombing mission also made Green realize that not only was the British air force not completely wiped out by them, but it seemed that there was a lot of hidden strength, which made them face more serious losses.
And his conceit also caused him to fall out of favor in front of Hitler, the Nazi Imperial Air Marshal was scolded bloody, and the entire Sea Lion project was basically a complete failure.
During this time, it was always the Air Force Air Force, planes flew around, and bombs were dropped, but the Nazi infantry could not set foot on British territory at all.
After that, Green planned another massive air raid, this time at night.
This time, more than 1,000 planes were again, and the dark and dense group of planes took advantage of the darkness to arrive over London, and they dropped incendiary bombs on their targets to illuminate the night, while the bombers behind them looked for flames and dropped all kinds of extremely lethal bombs.
In London docks, in crowded residential areas, in the remnants of food stores, in one of the largest cities in the world, violent explosions resounded everywhere.
The streets of London were in ruins, and the Nazi night raids caused great trouble and problems for the British.
Since their fighters were inferior to the Germans in terms of performance, they did not have the upper hand against the enemy during the day, let alone at night.
The number of anti-aircraft guns and searchlights deployed near London is also seriously insufficient, including only 92 heavy anti-aircraft guns, and only 22 light anti-aircraft guns with a height of 6,000 feet, and only 14 searchlights.
However, the assistance of the Dragon Traveling Chamber of Commerce finally arrived at this moment.
They took the water route and sent anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, and boxes of food and medicine to the city from the north of London.
Of course, Williams paid for these things directly from the Bank of Canada's reserve of gold.
After receiving a large amount of assistance, the Royal Air Force learned its lesson and adjusted its deployment, placing anti-aircraft artillery divisions brought by the Dragons Chambers of Commerce all over London, and raising a number of balloons over the enemy's offensive line.
At this time, if the Nazi planes dared to invade again, the whole city would be sounded with piercing air raid sirens, and the lighting control would suddenly darken the neighborhood, hiding the whole city in the night.
At this moment, the searchlights of the ground anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns to search for targets would shoot into the sky like a sharp sword, turning the sky over London as bright as day, and even more dazzling than daytime, and those German pilots could not see the targets below clearly, so they could not complete the bombing according to the mission.
However, as soon as the searchlights illuminated the Nazi planes in the sky, hundreds of anti-aircraft guns rumbled into the air, and shells roared in all directions, weaving a cobweb of bullet chains in the sky.
Although the effectiveness of the night fire of the anti-aircraft guns was sometimes not very obvious, and not many planes were knocked down, the deafening sound of the artillery still greatly satisfied the residents, and the number of German invading planes shot down began to increase greatly as the gunners became more skilled and improved in their shooting skills.
In such a kind of extreme pull that makes people live like years, the pilots who were sent from the British mainland to the Longhang Military Academy for assault training have finally returned to their homeland.
Williams was ecstatic, he didn't expect that the speed and cycle of Zhou Yu's training of pilots there would be so fast and so short, he couldn't think about how the other party did it, and immediately used this batch of pilots in actual combat.
Yes, he wants to retaliate, he wants to launch revenge against Nazi Germany.