Chapter 123 A Sudden Air Battle
The flying squadron was led by Carter and consisted of 6 fighters carrying machine guns and 12 bombers carrying rockets, all of which were "Avro" models.
The consistency of the aircraft models is intended to make it easier for fighter jets to distinguish between friend and foe.
Otherwise, in a dazzling and extremely fierce air combat, you pull the trigger at the target, and the bullets "da da da" will smash it to pieces. When it falls, you will find the tricolor flag paint on the tail of the plane, and it will be too late to regret.
If all of them were "Afro", you could avoid similar troubles.
Pilots can quickly identify friend or foe by aircraft type, which is especially important for Carter and his crew who have never been on the battlefield and have no combat experience, but are carrying two heavy machine guns and firing indiscriminately in the air.
Charles' order to Carter was: "Seize air superiority, find opportunities to suppress enemy artillery and infantry, and be careful to avoid enemy infantry firepower!"
Carter could understand the meaning of the last two sentences: Kill them, don't be killed by them!
Not understanding the previous sentence, he asked on the phone: "What is air superiority, Lieutenant?"
Charles replied: "It's to kill all the enemy's flying things in the sky. The fighter planes will go first and be responsible for shooting down the enemy's planes, and the bombers will follow and be responsible for blowing up the balloons!"
"Understood, Lieutenant!" Carter muttered after hanging up the phone: "I should have said that earlier!"
As he spoke, he waved to the fighter pilots who were ready and shouted, "Come on, let's teach the Germans a lesson!"
The pilots responded excitedly, climbed onto their planes, and maneuvered them into the sky one after another. Some of them cheered loudly during takeoff, as if they were looking forward to the upcoming war.
Until then, they had not yet realized the cruelty and pressure of war. To them, this mission was like a vacation or a trip around the world with friends. Some of them even dreamed of becoming a hero like Charles and being admired by thousands of people. Almost no one realized how cruel the battlefield waiting for them would be.
Twenty minutes later, when they flew over the battlefield, they were instantly frightened by the hell on earth below and turned pale.
Rows of artillery shells exploded on the battlefield. Looking down from the air, it looked like a pot of boiling water with bubbles constantly bubbling out, except that these "bubbles" were carrying soldiers into the air. They were already incomplete when they were thrown into the air. In the smoke, one could clearly see a flash of red when their blood spurted out, which was shocking.
In the gaps between the shells, rows of soldiers continued to rush forward, densely packed like ants. The enemy and us fought hard in the gunfire, with people constantly falling down and others constantly stepping on the corpses to continue moving forward...
The pilot couldn't help but sigh at the fragility and cheapness of life. Before becoming a soldier, each of these people had struggled hard for decades, and now they finally had the ability to survive independently. But here they were only worth a bullet or a piece of shrapnel, and then everything disappeared, leaving nothing without a trace.
Carter looked down and shook his head slightly. When he looked up, he suddenly found that there were several German "Pigeon" and "Albatross" flying around.
Carter was startled. He looked around nervously and found that there were five planes following him. They were so close that he could see the faces and expressions of the German pilots.
The German pilot seemed to be observing the wing of the Avro, looking around with a look of confusion on his face.
Carter soon realized that these German pilots thought they were coming with rockets and originally planned to crash them to protect the balloons. However, when they got closer, they found that these "Avro" were not "armed."
This thought made Carter's heart skip a beat. He couldn't imagine that death was so close. Just in that moment of distraction, they were almost knocked down by the enemy and plunged into the pile of dead bodies on the ground below.
Thin Cornelus on the left wing signed to Carter, asking what to do.
Carter didn't respond. What else could he do? Didn't he know that he almost died once before? If he didn't kill the enemy, he would die with these crazy guys!
Carter responded with action. He pulled the nose of his plane to catch up with a German "Albatross" flying in front of him, slowly accelerated and approached with the nose of the plane pointing at its tail.
The German pilots still did not feel any danger, and they were even a little curious about Carter's following actions.
The next second they understood...
Carter pressed the controller in front of the cockpit, and two machine guns spewed flames forward, and the bullets, with several bullet lines in the drizzle, hit the target fiercely.
The wooden tail of the "Albatross" made a series of crackling sounds, wood fragments flew everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, the tail wing was cut off in half.
The pilot should have been killed as well. The penetrating power of the Vickers machine gun could easily penetrate the fuselage and seat back, and then shoot the pilot into a sieve.
It's just that I couldn't see the pilot clearly because of the angle.
Soon, the plane lost its balance and rolled towards the ground irregularly like a wooden stake. The engine was still emitting black smoke, and then there was a loud "boom" and a flash of fire appeared on the ground.
This scene shocked everyone, whether in heaven or on earth.
The German pilots thought they had seen it wrong. They were stunned for a moment, and then someone screamed in German: "That's a machine gun. They installed a machine gun on the nose of the plane. God, how did they do it?"
He meant that the bullet had to hit the target without breaking the propeller, which seemed impossible to them!
At that moment, the German pilot even forgot to escape, and also forgot that there were five "Avro" planes beside him, which also had machine guns installed on the nose, two of them!
By the time they finally realized it, it was too late; the planes were biting closely on their tails.
The speed of the "Avro" was faster than that of the "Dove" and "Albatross". No matter how the German pilots maneuvered and evaded, they could not break free. In the end, they could only be shot down amid the sound of machine guns, emitting screams of fear and despair!
The infantrymen who were frantically fighting for positions on the ground did not realize anything at first. They thought that one or two planes were dropped due to a malfunction or a collision.
Soon they realized something was wrong. There was a burst of intense machine gun fire in the sky, and planes fell one after another and burst into flames. The key point was that all the planes that fell were German planes.
A German soldier hiding in a bomb crater screamed: "It's a French plane, they've installed machine guns!"
Someone soon responded, "It's Charles, it must be Charles!"
This shout was immediately recognized by the German soldiers. Since Charles could bring cannons onto the plane, he could certainly bring machine guns as well.
For a moment, the German soldiers were in danger. They were worried that the planes with machine guns overhead would target them. What could be more terrifying than this? It was useless for them to hide anywhere!
The Belgian soldiers cheered into the air and some shouted Charles' name.
Thanks to Maoxuan and Beiyang Duohaojie for the reward! Thank you very much!
(End of this chapter)
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