The decisive battle against the Third Reich - #934 - Chapter 931 ME163 (asking for monthly ticket)

Soon, the bomber group crossed the English Channel and entered the Dutch coastline.

Colonel Roy stuck his head out and looked down. He didn’t know whether it was the clouds or the smoke from the fighting below. He couldn’t see anything in the gray area.

“Very good!” Roy said to himself: “This way the German anti-aircraft guns can’t see us, but it’s best not to be like this when we arrive at the Ruhr, otherwise we can only lower the altitude to identify the bombing target. !”

Colonel Roy is worried about the German FLAK40 128MM caliber heavy anti-aircraft gun. Its firing height is between 10,000 meters and 14,000 meters. It is specially designed for high-altitude bombers.

However, the Allies basically ignored this anti-aircraft gun.

The reason is simple. Anti-aircraft guns will never be an effective method to deal with aircraft. It inevitably has several fatal flaws:

First, the larger the anti-aircraft gun, the more obvious the target.

For example, the FLAK40 heavy anti-aircraft gun has a barrel length of 7.8 meters and a base and rear loading system of 9.13 meters, which is as high as several stories… This is undoubtedly a nightmare when the German army does not have air superiority. Allied escorting bombers and fighters could easily spot them and destroy them.

Secondly, anti-aircraft guns are difficult to deploy in appropriate places.

Ground anti-aircraft guns are always slow-moving units, especially heavy-duty anti-aircraft guns, with a total weight of 12 tons. Such a stupid guy cannot maneuver and deploy according to the route and heading of the enemy aircraft. They can only stay in a certain position and “wait.”

This defense method is passive. Unless the Germans can densely deploy a circle of heavy anti-aircraft guns along the entire defense line, it will be difficult to pose a threat to the flexible, mobile bomber group that can choose its own breakthrough direction at will.

Even so, Colonel Roy was still worried that there would happen to be several German heavy anti-aircraft artillery positions below.

But now it seems that they can rest assured, because even if there are heavy high-altitude guns below, their gunners can only see a gray sky.

Colonel Roy was right about at least one thing. It wasn’t the large-caliber heavy anti-aircraft guns he had to worry about.

The bomber group continued to approach the target. Soon, the sky gradually became clearer. With a telescope, the buildings below could be vaguely seen, and the target seemed to become clearer the further forward.

One pilot exclaimed: “Colonel, whatever you wish for is yours!”

“Today is our lucky day, guys!” Colonel Roy said.

The pilots laughed happily. There is nothing luckier than hearing the word “lucky” on the battlefield.

But they soon discovered they were wrong…

Because at this moment, a flying object with a long tail flew past everyone’s eyes with a “swish” sound.

“Enemy situation, enemy situation!” Colonel Roy shouted: “Get ready for battle!”

“God, what is that?”

“I don’t know. It’s so fast that I can’t even see what it is?”

“It didn’t hit us, did it?”

…

Roy quickly changed his position and raised his telescope toward another observation hole, and then he was horrified to find that the “thing” was turning.

“I doubt it!” Colonel Roy said. “It’s not a cannonball, because it’s turning and flying towards us again!”

“Oh my god? Is that a plane?” the pilot responded in fear: “This is impossible, I have never seen such a fast plane! And if it is a plane, why doesn’t it fire…”

“I don’t know either, Adam!” Colonel Roy was a little disgusted with his subordinates’ nagging out of fear: “Shut your mouth and concentrate on flying the plane, do you understand?”

“Yes, sir!” Adam replied, but he couldn’t help but look left and right.

Generally speaking, pilots should have better psychological qualities than ordinary people, but as mentioned before, the US military has too many aircraft of various types, especially those that are mass-produced for war, so many pilots cannot meet the standards.

Take Adam, for example. Before training, he was just a farmer who flew a small plane to spray pesticides.

Adam once expressed his protest against this:

“I’ve only flown the AT400, sir! I don’t think I’m suitable for flying a bomber!”

The AT400 is the early model of the American agricultural and forestry aircraft. It is characterized by low technological content, easy driving, and large load capacity. Although it has the disadvantage of slow speed, it is not a disadvantage but an advantage for agriculture and forestry, because only in this way can the driver have more Much reaction time.

“Have you ever sprayed pesticides?” the instructor asked.

“Of course, sir!” Adam replied, “I did it for two years!”

“Very good, Adam!” The instructor raised his eyebrows: “Then you are already an experienced bomber pilot, because in the past two years, you have flown the plane to drop pesticides on pests again and again!”

Adam was speechless.

The instructor continued: “Now, all you have to do is replace the pesticides with bombs, and then drop them on the enemy!”

The instructor patted Adam on the shoulder: “Do a good job, I’m optimistic about you!”

With a “boom”, a bomber beside him burst into flames, and the shock wave generated by the explosion made the bomber driven by Adam tremble.

Adam watched in horror as the bomber dragged black smoke and made a hoarse, unpleasant whistle like an old man on the verge of death.

“Sir!” Adam couldn’t help but exclaimed again: “It hit the ‘naughty child’, it hit it…”

“I saw it, Adam!” Colonel Roy replied impatiently, grabbed the phone and ordered: “All units, if you discover the enemy’s unknown air defense equipment, be prepared to respond!”

“But…sir!” The confused voices of other officers came from the walkie-talkie: “How should we respond?”

Roy couldn’t answer this question because he didn’t know.

Adam said next to him: “I hope they only have one of these!”

But before he finished speaking, something “swish” appeared below with long tails flying at high speed. There were at least a dozen of them.

Colonel Roy looked at Adam helplessly and said, “I told you to shut up, Adam!”

At this time, Qin Chuan is looking at the sky with a telescope below. This completely asymmetrical battle scene…

ME163 flew into the air one by one, and then hit the target accurately.

Those bombers known as “Flying Fortresses” have become targets at this time. Some were hit on the wings and lost their balance and fell. Some caught fire in the air and then exploded. Some were even blown up and disintegrated in the air. It broke into several pieces and fell from the sky.

The German soldiers cheered loudly. They had been bombarded by US B17s for many years and had nothing to do. Seeing the B17s being beaten in such a mess, they all felt the pleasure of letting out a loud breath.

Colonel Slain said to Qin Chuan from the side: “It seems that the era of Americans bombing us at will is over!”