The Rise of the Empire

However, what Ruprecht and the top German Army officials did not expect was that the biggest losses in this attack were not the Allied long-range artillery units, but the immature air forces of Britain and France. Facing the first wave of large-scale German air offensives, , the British and French air forces were hit in the air and their heads were bruised.

"Oh God! Are we allowed to shoot down those wild geese by sparrows like us?" When Second Lieutenant Mondale led his squadron to the battlefield according to the guidance on the ground, he happened to stop in front of a formation of bombers from the squadron. On the opposite side, at least 18 bombers formed 6 three-plane squadrons. These squadrons formed a strange shape in the three-dimensional space. How should I put it, it looked like a wall from the front and a multi-layered cake from the side. But it is such a group formation that makes Mondale a little helpless!

Not everyone has Mondale's mind and realizes that there may be another mystery in this never-seen formation. To say that Mondale saw anything is an absolute bragging. After all, this time the K-4 bomber It was the first time it was used on a large scale. It had only appeared sporadically before. It was the first time for Mondale to see this kind of twin-engine bomber. He didn't understand the performance, let alone the famous box formation and machine gun hell in later generations. He could realize that there was a problem. That only It can be said to be a sixth sense.

Just when Mondale was hesitating, a large group of Falman F20 fighter jets rushed into the battlefield. This type of aircraft is an early type of fighter jet. It has a rear engine and a total of two pilots. One person in the back controls the aircraft and one in the front. A man controls a machine gun…. In an era when the power of fighter jet engines has not reached three digits, you actually dare to arrange two pilots on an aircraft used for air combat! What kind of suicidal spirit does this require? If it were a historical war, it would be okay to do this. After all, everyone has done such a thing.

But now, after Ruprecht, a little butterfly, flaps its wings, this kind of design is backward, has extremely poor perception, has a speed of less than 3 digits, has a large target, and does not have strong firepower. If this guy goes to the battlefield, It can only be described as a tragedy!

When this group of planes flew over at a speed comparable to that of a car at 60 kilometers, they were greeted by an overwhelming rain of bullets. This was a real rain of bullets. The French chose to charge head-on, seemingly for the purpose of exerting themselves. Advantages of a front-seat shooter? However, the 36 12.7MM large-caliber machine guns of the 18 aircraft on the front fired thousands of rounds of bullets in a very short time at a distance of less than 500 meters.

Readers here, please imagine the scene now. The two sides are basically moving at the same height, and then you drive a car directly opposite another car on the opposite side, and the relative speed of the two sides is about 130 kilometers. Then the opponent suddenly pulls out dozens of large-caliber machine guns to attack you! This feeling is so sour!

Bullets like a sandstorm instantly covered the front hemisphere of the entire bomber formation. Bullets as long as 10 mm effortlessly tore apart unprotected planes, or even three-ply planes, into pieces. Many bullets It even came in from the nose of the plane, killing two pilots sitting together and damaging the engine. The M2 Heirloom, which can still be used after the second battle, was a brutal attack on fighter-level units in the first battle aerial combat!

Armor-piercing incendiary bombs were originally used to deal with cars, and it is even easier to hit a plane. As long as one hit, the entire plane will turn into a burning fireball! Even ordinary bullets can easily tear these aircraft into pieces. As the bomber formation moves, the bullets fired are like the cone-shaped flames breathed by a giant dragon, easily burning all enemies in front of them to ashes! In just a few minutes, a squadron of French aircraft was crushed to pieces!

"We dive from above or attack from below!" Mondale ordered his subordinates,

The layout of the Falmant fighter finally showed some advantages when attacking from the bottom up. Compared with aircraft with fixed machine guns, the Falmant F20 fighter can shoot the machine gun diagonally upward, thus eliminating the need to climb. But even so, it is difficult for them to hit the more deadly cockpit position of the K-4 bomber, and the bombardier in the middle can also control the machine gun to shoot diagonally downwards. Coupled with the bread-like formation, these aircraft Even in a complementary situation, the French still suffered heavy losses.

"Damn it, our Shaosha machine gun is not powerful enough!" Mondale couldn't help but cursed after watching the shooter in front of him open several holes in the huge K-4 bomber body. Although it has a wooden structure as the main body, it is undeniable that for this multi-ton aircraft, the power and firepower sustainability of the Shaosha machine gun are problems. You know, although the early models of Spitfire were also ordinary machine guns, they also had 8 of them! Moreover, it is still fed by a belt, but the Shaosha machine gun has a 30-round curved magazine... This firepower is not on the same level at all.

What made Mondale even more frustrated was that after their plane missed the head-on attack, it was actually difficult to launch an attack from the rear, not because of the opponent's machine gun as deadly as a scorpion's tail, but because in the face of The bomb-loaded K-4 bomber and the two-person Falman F20 fighter jet are not fast enough...

The British de Havilland fighters performed fairly well, but they were first intercepted by the peripheral Sparrowhawk fighters. Thanks to better engines and the lighter burden of a driver, the British were much more capable than the French.

"Don't go around in circles with the opponent. Our advantage is speed. We fight when we have the chance. It doesn't matter if we don't have the chance. It's difficult for them to take down those big things." After killing a British fighter with a shallow dive and precise bursts, the Red Baron Said to his deputy Green.

"I guarantee that if the pilots of those bombers hear you say that, they will definitely beat you up!" When approaching again, Goering shouted to his lead plane.

The two-plane formation of the German fighter force is obviously more suitable than the British three-plane formation or the single leader. It is flexible, the cooperation between the lead plane and the wingman, coupled with the knowledge and rich experience, in this round of air combat. Even the exchange ratio with the British fighter force is very favorable.

And in the end, some cunning pilots also learned to use bombers. Sometimes they would deliberately let go of some of the opponent's fighter jets. After the attack of the opponent's fighter force was completed and the energy was at its lowest, these cunning pilots swarmed in to solve it. . Although this was against the regulations, it was acquiesced until the firepower of British and French aircraft came up. Even the bomber force believed that it was their duty to kill a few fighter jets.

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