The Rise of the Empire

"That's how one of our artillery batteries ended? Is that so?" Little Maoqi said with a solemn face.

"The first long-range artillery company has been judged to be destroyed." said a staff officer next to him.

Compared with Xiao Maoqi's indifferent description, the brothers of the first long-range artillery company on the front line were moved and moved by the black smoke rising in the distance, the shaking of the earth, and the bomb that dropped a ball with a diameter of more than 20 meters. The craters and the like were nothing. They now had a more direct experience. After all, it was the first air raid. There were still planes that missed the bomb. An incendiary bomb landed less than 500 meters away from the artillery position. In this place, the weight of the bomb was a bit heavy, and there was a bit of wind. Hundreds of kilograms of napalm splashed away. The wind helped the fire, and a line of fire rushed towards the artillery position!

"Just one special incendiary bomb can disable half of the 75MM artillery battery. This is definitely a devil's weapon. The flames with napalm are scattered on the ground like raindrops, and a sea of ​​​​fire will soon form." An officer who witnessed the fire-fighting operation and had half of his hair burned off reported this.

"The effect is good, but it still needs improvement. When the napalm bomb explodes, the range is not too wide, resulting in a huge waste of lethality. In fact, we can make the bomb completely barrel-shaped. Then design a horizontal The pylon, press the stabilizer wings on both sides, and when it is thrown, the bomb will roll like a floating stone, and then the internal incendiary will be evenly spread over a large area... "Huck concluded after returning home.

At the same time, several other teams quickly found the target. Needless to say, they succeeded in attacking fixed units by throwing bombs into the designated area. In a very short time, the Bavarian Black Hawks were killed. A 150MM long-range artillery company, a logistics supply point, and another 210MM heavy howitzer company.

The last team focused on a moving Prussian mobile artillery detachment. Accompanied by a battalion of soldiers, two companies of 77MM rapid-fire guns were moving forward along the newly renovated road towed by trucks, and At this moment, the German bomber force arrived.

In this attack, the Bavarian Air Force for the first time verified several concepts of low-altitude land licking and bomb attacks in the face of troops marching down open terrain... The first point is that in the face of a large number of soft targets, small bombs that cover a larger area and are more numerous are more effective than large bombs. Second, prolonged and repeated machine gun fire can instantly collapse the morale of an infantry unit, even if the bullets cannot hit the opponent.

In order to avoid damage, all the aircraft almost attacked a strip area parallel to the convoy. The dull air explosion of shrapnel came from the distance. A second later, a flower of death formed by flying steel balls and shrapnel exploded over the bushes. , looking from the air, the patches of shrubs seemed to be directly crushed by a pair of huge hands. The shock wave and shrapnel generated by the explosion easily shattered everything they encountered.

The huge pressure brought by the whistling of machine guns and the explosion of bombs overwhelmed the soldiers who had witnessed the air raid at close range for the first time. Some of them ran in the opposite direction, some relied on instinct to find bunkers, or simply lay on the ground and died. They got up, and several vehicles trying to escape also fell into the mud puddles or swamps beside the road in panic and were unable to move. Officers attempted to restore order, but were unable to do so until the aircraft were withdrawn. Unsurprisingly, this team was ruled out.

And just when the four bomber squadrons were returning home, there was such an episode,

Several Prussian planes encountered a small group of Black Hawk bombers that were returning home. When the opponent tried to launch a tail-biting attack from behind, they discovered that the Black Hawk bombers, which had thrown away their bombs and used ordinary fuel, were even faster than the fighter jets. Even faster. Seeing the distance getting wider and wider, the Prussian pilot shook his head helplessly.

Richthofen was a special case. He used excellent prediction and excellent maneuvers to successfully fly in front of the German aircraft on a shortcut, and at the same time took advantage of his height advantage to start a shallow dive attack. "Get closer, get closer!" The future Red Baron stared at the target in front of him carefully. He chose a Black Hawk bomber on the left side of the opponent's fleet as the target, and the simple ring sight gradually locked onto the opponent. "If it were an actual battle, you would be dead by 200 meters." Richthofen was about to pull the button of the camera next to him as a record of knocking down his opponent.

However, just as he approached 800 meters, tongues of flame suddenly flew out from the side, instantly forming a fine fire net. This was at least the firepower that could only be fired by more than ten machine guns. The roar of the machine gun, and the bullets flying from the side The sound of whizzing by made the newcomer panic, and when a 12.7MM bullet rotated and bit off a large piece of the wing, Richthofen finally recognized the situation and began to escape.

"Damn it, I didn't intend to hit him!" Huck was also scared and sweating profusely. He just wanted to scare this stupid young man. He really didn't intend to hit him, so he chose to Fired from a longer distance, but the ballistic trajectory of the 12.7MM machine gun was very good, and the firepower density was also very high. In addition, the speed of aircraft in this era was too slow, and Richthofen was too unlucky, so it happened unexpectedly. Fortunately, the bombers stopped quickly. In the end, the future famous pilot plunged his plane into a mud puddle, and he also learned the first lesson of air combat. Never charge alone, have strong self-defense firepower, and form a formation. Flying bomber formation.

In the end, 35 of the 36 bombers successfully returned to the base. One of the bombers had a problem with the fuel supply equipment on the road and made an emergency landing in the field. It was then dismantled by a team of engineers and transported back to the base in pieces. After successfully destroying 2 artillery batteries, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a material storage warehouse, they also took away 3 Prussian aircraft and 2 artillery observation balloons on the way back. The results can be described as brilliant.

After returning to the base, the Black Hawk bomber formation spent more than an hour preparing. After completing refueling and hanging bombs, the second batch of pilots immediately ran onto the aircraft. According to today's preparation speed, a round trip would take more than 2 hours. Time, it was less than 12 o'clock when we set off again. If we're lucky, we'll be able to do it again before dark today. Three times a day. The prince was very satisfied with this attendance rate.

Ever since, while Moltke was having lunch, the second wave of attacks from the Bavarian Air Force finally came, and by coincidence, one of the waves of bombers flew over Moltke's head... .. Seeing the huge shadows cast by these planes moving rapidly on the ground, Little Maoqi felt bad all over.

"Get ready for the meeting, our original plan is no longer needed!" Little Maoqi said as he threw the spoon in his hand.

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