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Erich Rudolphle is a young pilot who is actually a super aerial ace who has destroyed a full 220 aircraft in real history.
But now, in 1940, he is still a young pilot who can't be more young, or even a novice fighter pilot with a low record.
So far, he has only shot down two British aircraft, one of which is a reconnaissance aircraft with almost no counterattack power. Such a record can only show that he is not a rookie who has just entered the sky, and other aspects cannot explain any problem.
However, he also shot down fighter jets on the French battlefield, and now he is a quasi-ace pilot. At least he is much stronger than his wingman.
Now, he was flying his me-109e fighter jet above the clouds, carefully flying with other fighters.
At their feet, more ju-88 bombers were flying, and these bombers were in groups, ready to destroy some places near London, England and thoroughly.
Although the bombing against London, England has become a bit unworthy of its share of its targeted attacks around London, it is still a relatively cost-effective thing to do.
The Luftwaffe also hopes to use this seduce combat to seduce the opponent's fighter jets to fight. Under the premise of understanding the performance of the opponent's fighter jets, this hunting excites German fighter pilots.
"Erich! Oh, no, I mean sir! Do you think we will encounter British fighters this time?" Erich's wingman, a rookie pilot who had just been on a mission, asked.
This is the first time he has followed the real combat troops to carry out the combat mission of covering bombers after his training.
Looking at the densely packed friendly fighters around and hundreds of Ju-88 bombers that could hardly be seen, the novice pilot was extremely excited.
He kept asking this and that, making Erich Rudolphle unsure of how to deal with it.
"Shut up your mouth and think carefully in your mind about how to get rid of the entanglement of the opponent's fighter jets, and then cover me as much as possible..." Rudolfler said helplessly.
Soon, the voice of the front-line commander came from the radio, and all the chatterers closed their mouths.
"The enemy's radar has discovered us! There is a radar illuminating us..." After obtaining the information provided by the radar warning aircraft, everyone became nervous.
The principle of radar is very simple after all, it is actually just a radio beam. Since humans can receive radio, they can detect this beam.
The only thing that makes the receiver a little headache is that the radar, frequency, etc. of these enemies are unknown, which makes this kind of reception somewhat troublesome.
However, the German aircraft carrying detection equipment mixed with bombers, have tested many commonly used frequencies and mastered the frequencies of most British radars.
Although time is tight and no simple radar warning system is installed on most aircraft, it is still possible to install such equipment on several aircraft to provide early warning to the bomber group.
"Be prepared for battle! The British may open fire at any time!" The land of Britain was already under his feet, and Rudolphler reminded the novice wingman who followed him.
"Bang!" At the height of the bomber flying, an explosion suddenly came from a distance. The shells fired by the anti-aircraft gun exploded at about the same height and turned into a ball of flame.
Because the radio near-fighting fuze has not been manufactured yet, the anti-aircraft gun shells are still timed fuzes.
This kind of air defense method seems very outdated today. First, the observation station on the ground must calculate the approximate altitude of the enemy plane's flight, and then set a timed fuze to finally fire and attack the enemy plane.
At a fixed time, the shells will fly to a fixed height and then explode, using ammunition to kill and injure enemy aircraft.
The appropriate height explosion of shells in the sky is entirely estimated by time, so the hit accuracy is very low.
"The British are firing! The British are firing!" On the radio, the Luftwaffe bomber troops began to inform them of their attack.
With the sound of shell explosions, German bombers began to increase their flight altitude and try to maintain their original flight formation.
"It's ground artillery fire! Increase the flight altitude! Let the bomber formation fly to our current altitude!" The fighter's commander issued an order to increase the flight altitude.
With this order, everyone began to fly their planes toward higher sky. Because they were not impatient, everyone performed the entire height-raising movement in an orderly manner.
After the aircraft's altitude increased, the enemy's anti-aircraft gun explosion soon became less and the other party was obviously adjusting, but this adjustment took time.
"I always have an ominous premonition that the enemy's interception artillery fire seemed to be even more intense this time." Rudolfler flew his own plane and spoke to remind his wingman.
"I understand, sir!" The wingman pilot nervously controlled the plane, followed behind the troop, maintaining a slightly higher flight altitude.
Less than a minute after Rudolfler finished reminding the wingman, a nervous shout came from his headphones: "Damn it! An enemy plane was found at 13 o'clock! An enemy plane was found at 13 o'clock!"
It has been almost ten days since Rudolphle had never heard anyone use such a hurry to report on the situation when they encountered enemy planes.
He looked at the direction of his plane at 13 o'clock, and about 30 British fighters had rushed out of the clouds.
Since the British fighter performance leaked and lost a large number of aircraft and pilots, they seemed to have not dispatched so many fighters to intercept German aircraft at once.
After seeing this, Rudolfler had not had time to sigh, but he saw that at least 30 enemy planes rushed out behind 30 enemy planes!
No wonder the pilot who reported to the enemy plane was so nervous, thinking that from another angle, he might have seen so many enemy planes first.
How long has it been? The British had not taken off so many fighter planes to intercept? Rudolphler was surprised and heard the order to fly over and help dismantle the enemy plane formation.
Compared with German escort fighters, 60 British fighters are obviously not many, but when more British fighters rushed out, German pilots realized that they might be in trouble this time.
Such a huge British fighter intercepting formation may have been the first time that it appeared in the Battle of Britain. The British seemed to have lifted all the machines they could fly, and the sky was filled with Royal Air Force aircraft with bull's eye emblems everywhere.
"Follow me! You are so lucky!" After saying this to the wingman, Rudolphler drove his own plane and rushed towards the British fleet.
There are about 200 British fighter jets, or even more... The fighter jets escorted by Germany are at a complete disadvantage this time, and they only have 110 escorted fighters.
However, the Luftwaffe has both tactical and psychological advantages. They know the weaknesses of British aircraft and have quite mature supporting tactics.
Rudolfler has never found a chance to shoot down his fifth plane, so he cherishes this encounter. He wants to seize the opportunity and make himself a veritable ace pilot!
Soon, he locked in a British hurricane fighter that was forced by oncoming fire and left the flight formation.
Then, he controlled his flexible me-109e fighter and easily bit the other party's tail.
The Hurricane fighter was too bulky than the me-109e fighter, and it took almost no effort. Rudolphler hit the sturdy British fighter with his own shaft cannon.
The large-caliber cannon left a huge hole in the opponent's fuselage, and the plane lost control and fell to the ground below.
When Rudolfler adjusted his plane and began to climb and regain the height, he heard his wingman's anxious shout: "I was bitten! Sir! I was bitten!"
Rudolfler, who was still climbing, changed his flight trajectory without thinking, and used the narrow windows spliced in right angles in the cabin to find the location of his wingman.
Soon, he saw an enemy plane that surprised him a little - this plane was not a Spitfire fighter or a Hurricane fighter, but a fighter he had never seen in the sky above Britain!
While he was shocked to notify his friendly forces on the radio, he was flying himself and continuing to search for his wingman: "Be careful! The enemy has an airplane that we have never seen before! Repeat! Be careful! The enemy has an airplane that we have never seen before!"
When he repeated it to the third time, he saw his wingman being chased by an enemy plane.
This newly emerging enemy aircraft has a huge air inlet under the propeller, making the nose of this fighter look a bit "ugly". This huge air inlet has also become the biggest identification mark of this aircraft different from fire spitting and hurricanes.
The fighter jets that the United States aided the United Kingdom were not the P-40 Tomahawk mass-produced in 1939, but the P-40 Kitty Hawk that was recently improved!
"Trouble with the old ways! Don't get lost! Cover each other and roll away from the path, hell... He is firing at me! Cover me!" The sound from the headphones proved the difficulty of the enemy.
Although the performance of enemy aircraft has been well known, the number of enemy dispatched this time is very large, which puts the German fighter troops at a disadvantage.
Chapter completed!