Three Hundred and Thirty Six Butchers

At night, on the edge of the quiet airport runway, there are FW-190 fighter jets parked one after another, and not far away, there is a row of hangars that are still brightly lit. △￠This is a huge field airport in the Netherlands. It was originally a large airport where the British and French Air Forces were stationed. Now it has become one of the main airports for the German Air Force in the Netherlands.

Farther away, a row of undulating black shadows loomed, as if something larger was parked there, exuding a suffocating deterrent force. No one knows what those weapons are, because since they arrived at the airfield, it has been garrisoned by countless soldiers.

"Yuan Akado? Long live Rudolph!" The two busy mechanics quickly stood at attention when they saw the person approaching. They still held wrenches in their hands, and they were in a hurry before completing the etiquette.

"Yuan Akado? Long live Rudolph!" The visitor raised his hand to return the salute, showing a meticulous look, and after he finished the salute, he squinted his eyes and looked at the behemoth behind the two technicians, in a daze.

It was arguably one of the most fearsome aerial weapons he had ever seen, and would be the backbone of the Luftwaffe's offensive power for years to come. This is the German version of the b-17 air fortress bomber, and the German Yuan Akado named it "The Butcher" himself.

Don't underestimate this bomber. This is a German modified version of the B-17 Sky Fortress bomber, a US super strategic bombing weapon designed by Akado himself. At least at this stage, such a bomber appears. For the target UK, the news is not good.

That is a huge wingspan of more than 30 meters long, a huge body of 22 meters long, and a huge aircraft that is almost three stories high. Even Dick has to admit the shocking power that this huge aircraft has brought to him. He has seen this kind of aircraft fly high into the sky with his own eyes, but even he himself has never seen it. A total of 44 such aircraft flying in formation is a spectacular sight.

Before this kind of plane was produced by a German aviation company, Dick didn't believe that bombers could resist fighter jet attacks, but after seeing this huge guy, he had to admit that this kind of plane didn't need to rely on speed to dodge anything at all. To intercept, one only needs to rely on one's own force to smash up the provocative fighter jets.

What gave Dick this confidence was nothing but the fact that the aircraft was equipped with 13 13mm machine guns and 20mm cannons that could fire at different angles.

Installed in every corner of the aircraft, it can fire in almost any direction of the aircraft. Such a huge aircraft is simply a gunboat in the air, enough to destroy any approaching fighter jet in the middle.

The interior of the spherical turret allows a gunner to sit curled up. The gunner aims at the target through the sight in front of the left eye, and uses the joystick and pedals to control the rotation and pitch of the turret. Due to the very small space inside the turret, the gunners of the belly turrets of these 44 Butcher strategic bombers are all German female soldiers.

These female gunners enter and exit through the hatch behind the turret, which is also an emergency exit in the event of a breakdown. When the turret is turned to the downward position, the hatch can be opened from the inside of the aircraft, and the gunner can enter the turret from the inside of the aircraft; the turret is turned to a horizontal position, the hatch is completely exposed outside the fuselage, and the gunner can also enter the turret from the ground.

But as long as the gunner enters the turret from the ground, this means that he can only stay inside during takeoff. When the aircraft is on the ground, the turret has only 32 cm of ground clearance, and it is impossible to turn the turret into a downward position. The feeling of taking off or landing at a place only 32 centimeters from the ground is definitely not wonderful, and once the landing gear fails, the consequences will be unimaginable, so the butcher's instruction manual strictly stipulates that all belly gunners must take off from the fuselage after the aircraft is lifted into the air. Inside access to the turret.

The premise is that there is an aircraft that can fly to the high interception of this aircraft-this aircraft can climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters and drop its own bombs at this altitude to attack ground targets. Although the bombing precision of this method is not high, Germany has always performed well in research on sights, so they are confident that the new sights can make up for the impact of high-altitude bombing.

In addition, although this kind of butcher bomber was born out of the b-17 bomber, it has some slight differences from the b-17. The use of most curved plexiglass.

Moreover, due to engine performance problems and the pursuit of range considerations, this aircraft gave up 2 tons of payload. In other words, when performing a long-distance bombing mission of about 3,500 kilometers, the butcher bomber has a loading weight of only 6 tons.

The only thing that makes the Air Force commanders a little scared is that this aircraft actually needs 10 pilots. Although there are 5 machine gun self-defense weapon controllers who do not need very precise training, but for Germany, the aircraft's The operating cost is also too expensive.

You know, this plane flew into the sky to perform combat missions, but it sent tons of expensive steel and alloy metals and ten soldiers over the enemy-occupied area. This is a hard-won country for every pilot like the German army. In fact, it is a very risky move.

If it weren't for the fact that this combat mission was really tempting, and if it wasn't for the significance of this combat mission, Dick, the deputy commander of the Air Force, would not have agreed to such a sloppy organization of such a crazy attack plan.

"The bombs have been loaded, General." An officer following Dick reported: "The pilots of these bombers have undergone strict night flight training. This flight mission will enter the enemy's airspace at night and return during the day. .”

In order to prepare for this bombing, Germany used almost all the war machines in its hands and drew up a huge battle plan.

The first is the arrangement of flight time. These strategic bombers will take off in formation at night, and then fly to London, the capital of the United Kingdom, which will be bombed. These planes will join the naval fighter jets that took off on the aircraft carrier in the early morning at sea, protected by these escort fighter jets, and raid London to carry out bombing missions.

Then the naval fighters will start to return due to fuel problems, and the bombers will climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters to throw off the intercepted British fighters and start to return. In the first half, the escort mission of the bomber fleet will be taken over by the army fighter formation that took off from the Netherlands, and will return to the Netherlands under the escort of the fighter fleet.

44 Butcher bombers will carry a full 260 tons of bombs and drop them on the British capital. To bring fear and disaster to the British government. The plan of this operation was named "Reincarnation" by the Air Force, and the purpose was very simple, which was to avenge the assassination of Arkador Rudolph by British spies.

Akado was silent for a long time after learning of the action plan drawn up by Catherine, because he knew that the Luftwaffe lost the tactical advantage of the British air battle during World War II because of retaliation.

In Acado's mind, the Luftwaffe should use its technological superiority to bomb British airports and factories, destroying Britain's war potential. Instead of lashing out at useless London homes in an act of vengeance.

So Akado told General Catherine what he thought in his heart, hoping that he could understand him. General Catherine also told Yuan after hearing Akado's concerns that the bombing of the Luftwaffe would definitely target factories and airports in the future, and this retaliatory action was completely carried out for Akado himself.

So Akado had no choice but to agree, and just in case, he ordered the air force and navy to fully cooperate with this air strike. Of course, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the navy and air force, Akado even personally ordered Dönitz to dispatch 3 returning submarines to reconnoite the naval routes in advance.

Such an interlocking plan can be said to be seamless: the submarine force will detect the movement of the British navy and launch for the aircraft carrier fleet; Base fighter units cover and leave the battlefield.

Everything will start tonight, and it seems that everything will end tomorrow. Dick thought secretly. He nodded, patted the shoulder of the air force colonel who introduced the job, and said, "I know, tonight, you will create a miracle in the history of the Luftwaffe. I wish you success."

"Mr. General! We will do our best to complete the mission! Yuan will bless us!" The colonel officer said: "I will personally lead the fleet to complete the mission, and the British will pay the price for their assassination of Yuan!"

"Bring these excellent pilots... come back alive!" Dick said softly, looking at the huge four-engine strategic bomber beside him.

Soon, under the escort of the guards, Dick returned to the control tower, where he relied on the lights on the runway, and one after another the huge "butchers" began to take off. In the tower, General Dick could also hear it clearly.

"Revenge 1, I am Revenge 2, I can see your night flight lights! The vision is very good! It is no different from night flight training!" In the headset, a pilot is trying to fly in formation.

In a short while, 44 planes had completed formation in the sky not far away. They kept a safe flight distance from each other, and in the dark sky, relying on the command of the navigator, they flew towards the combat target of their operation this time.

"The flight formation is assembled! The reincarnation operation is officially launched!" The colonel who is the commander of the frontline formation reported to General Dick in the headset: "I hope we can complete the mission!"