Chapter 696 It May Be a Trap (Plus More)

"Why, don't let us take off?" At this time, in the air base near Berlin, the night fighter squadron stationed in Berlin was complaining loudly.

There are two veterans of the German night fighter unit, one is Werner-Streeber, and the other is Major Wolfgang-Falk. Now Falk's record is not high, and only shot down 7 enemies during the day. fighter, but was an excellent leader and organizer, who founded the night fighter force that would later become famous.

And now, Falk is already the commander of the night fighter squadron stationed in Berlin. This evening, they got the news that the alert level was raised, and they were quite happy. After training for many days, they all wanted to really To create some credit in the night.

However, they were ready and waited for the launch to fight, but they never got the order to allow launch, so they stayed in the flight preparation room, waiting in full flight gear, and complaining at the same time.

Falk is also gloomy on the side, what is going on? He still remembered that in the evening, he had just received an order from the Air Force Commander to let his troops take off and intercept.

But now, he was ordered not to take off. What happened?

"Major Falk, please go to the Air Force Command immediately." At this moment, a ground crew found him and said to him.

To Air Command? at a time like this? Falk looked at the subordinates who were gearing up around him and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."

Riding the barrel car of the base, Falk quickly came to the headquarters. When he called to report in, he only saw a fat middle-aged man standing in the commander's office.

In an instant, he could not help but scream.

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As the height continued to decrease, looking at the instrument in front of him, Craig couldn't help but wonder if his instrument was about to break.

Now, it has been lowered to a height of 500 meters.

The bomber was circling in a radius of about twenty kilometers. He could clearly see the river, trees, and villages in the moonlight below. There was no doubt that this should be German territory, but there was no city.

Could it be that it was really his own instrumentation error? There is a serious error between the airspeed and the actual speed, causing your own plane to get lost?

"Our meteorological department has predicted that there is no strong convective weather over Germany now, and even if there is a slight wind, it will not seriously affect our voyage." The navigator still firmly believed in his own judgment: "Berlin, it must be In our neighborhood, let's widen our search and we'll find, maybe, this is the suburbs of Berlin, that river, the Spree or the Havel."

If there is a strong airflow, it will lead to a wrong flight, but now, the problem is that the meteorological department has already predicted that there is no strong airflow!

Moreover, their flight altitude has exceeded seven kilometers. At this altitude, the flow of air is not very obvious, so he insists on his judgment!

Berlin, it must be nearby, and we can definitely find it!

Craig lowered his head and looked at his fuel gauge. At this time, the fuel was more than half consumed.

It was empty when they went back, so they could go back with less than half of the fuel, but now, the circling has already consumed a lot of fuel for them. If they continue to fly, it is very likely that they will not be able to fly back to the UK!

How to do? Continue the search, or abandon the bombing, drop the bomb here, and return?

Thinking of Churchill's expectant gaze before leaving, Craig finally made up his mind, even if the plane ran out of fuel, he would still complete the mission of bombing Berlin!

Keep searching!

The bombers continued to fly at ultra-low altitude, searching, they didn't know, at this time, they were more than 100 kilometers away from Berlin! When they checked the coordinates over the Netherlands, they were already wrong!

All of this is also a well-designed conspiracy, and it's one link after another!

Just as the bomber here expanded its search range, the other five planes were also confused at this time.

According to the navigator's judgment, due to the influence of the headwind, they were tens of kilometers later than they expected, but when they continued to fly forward for tens of kilometers, there was still nothing in front of them.

There are no city lights, no clear and clear targets in the imagination, and there is nothing but darkness around.

In the sky, the stars seemed to laugh at them.

"It seems that we have to descend." Haske, the captain of the team in charge, said to himself: "Navigation, can we determine our current position?"

"According to what we heard on Berlin Radio, Berlin should be right in front of us," the navigator replied.

In contrast, he believed more in Radio Berlin, which was emitting radio waves day and night, and never stopped!

Judging from the orientation of the signal source, it should be directly in front of his side, but the navigator has no idea how far it is.

"I suggest that we continue to fly forward, maybe we will see soon," the navigator said.

Keep flying forward?

Haske could only trust his own navigator, and at the same time, he also pushed the nose and began to lower the altitude, which they could easily miss if there was a real blackout in Berlin.

Time passed little by little, and five bombers were flying in the night sky, their altitudes continued to drop, and at the same time, they continued to fly forward for dozens of kilometers.

Still didn't see anything.

The radio broadcast signal, however, showed that Berlin was still ahead.

"Either our meter is broken, or there is something wrong with this radio station." Haske finally made his own judgment.

What a joke! Now, it has flown more than 100 kilometers forward! what does that mean? The wind speed needs to reach one-tenth of their speed! how can that be?

The headwind at high altitude cannot be so strong. In this case, our own judgment may be wrong, and the signal of Berlin Radio is still ahead!

This radio station, I am afraid the problem is even bigger! The Germans set up a radio station in front of their own route, which seems to be a beacon in the dark, guiding them, but in fact, they are deceiving themselves!

This method is simply too despicable!

However, if all this is a conspiracy of the Germans, what exactly are the Germans trying to do? Could it be that there are pre-buried anti-aircraft artillery positions in front of the route, waiting for our side?

Can't be counted!

"Turn around and meet with the second team." Finally, Haske no longer insisted, go back and find the second team!

Berlin is likely to be on the way back to their own side. Now, they have to fly low and try to find the hidden city on the ground visually!