Chapter 751 Falling Like Snowflakes (Plus 5)

Plymouth.

After an intense day of construction, next to the port in Plymouth, an air force base has begun to take shape.

Around the base, there are more than 20 anti-aircraft artillery, guarding the sky. At the same time, the main body of the base is the runway in the middle.

With a road roller, the field is directly flattened, and then there is a special runway spliced ​​with steel plates.

How to quickly build an advance base under war conditions is a topic for German technicians. It takes a week at the earliest to lay concrete, and the German army is advancing very fast. In one week, the runway has just been built, said Probably useless.

Therefore, German technicians have carefully studied and manufactured this kind of runway made of steel plate, which is called "PSP perforated steel plate runway".

This kind of steel plate is not a single piece, but is made up of countless small pieces.

Each steel plate is about 6mm thick. It is about 90 cm long, 60 cm wide and rectangular. The four sides of the rectangle have stamped hooks or holes, and the whole airport is connected to each other piece by piece by these hooks and holes.

In order to improve the strength of the steel plate, evenly distributed reinforcing ribs and reinforcing holes are punched out on the steel plate, and the height of the ribs is 10 mm.

Therefore, the runway is not completely flat. When the aircraft is taxiing on the runway, there will be bumps from time to time. However, at least the question of having or not is quickly resolved!

After all, in order to prevent the British Air Force from taking off, they directly threw sub-munitions at their air base. Germany could not sacrifice engineers to clear mines, and it will become a restricted area in the future.

The base here is being built rapidly. At the same time, last night, the 27th Combat Aviation Regiment of the 3rd Air Force of Germany moved here. Their planes are all FW190s, and they are the FW190s in the entire Luftwaffe. The flying units, the others, are almost all mixed BF109 and FW190.

At this time, it was just dawn, and the Luftwaffe, which had arrived in the British mainland, began to dispatch.

Standing in front of his own plane, Captain Heinz Barr looked at the ground crew aside.

"Captain, the plane has been maintained, full of fuel, full of bombs, and ready to take off at any time." said the ground crew on the side.

The ground crew came here by boat and bumped all the way on the sea. When they got here, they did not rest, they continued to fight, and completed the maintenance of the aircraft. Now, each of them has red eyes.

"It's hard work." Heinz said, stepped into his cockpit, and with the help of the ground crew, closed the hatch and started the engine.

The front 1,800-horsepower high-thrust engine roared. After checking various instrument data, Heinz released the brakes.

"Squadron 3, let's take off, starting today, over Great Britain is our airspace!" Heinz shouted loudly over the radio.

The plane began to fly forward, and the wheels were constantly bumping on the steel runway. As the speed increased, this bump became the bump of the entire aircraft. This was also the weakness of the steel runway. Fortunately, it was acceptable.

It's like sitting on a small boat floating in the waves, um, very comfortable.

Relying on the powerful engine, the speed quickly got up, and the lever was gently driven, and Heinz took off.

Behind him, the FW190s took off. Although there is no battle report yet, it is obvious that the British will not be willing to fail. Today, a large-scale air battle will break out on the British Isle.

Although the FW190 has a considerable range, it is still beneficial to deploy to the front-line base. For example, taking off from here, directly over the UK, they can stay in the sky here for more than three hours!

The nearby British Air Force Base has been destroyed. The main pressure that will be faced today is the main air defense force from the eastern area of ​​11, which is the London area.

The British will definitely rush over!

So, after taking off, they were patrolling in the northeast direction at an altitude of 5,000 meters. When they flew above Exeter, a Junkers-290 bomber happened to fly.

"Where is this going to bomb?" Heinz said to himself, looking at the bomber.

Among the flying troops, there is mutual envy.

Bomber unit, envious of fighter unit, fights smartly, and the aircraft has good performance, and can fly all kinds of difficult maneuvers.

The fighter unit also envied the leisure of the bomber. When they were wearing an oxygen mask and cruising in the air at an altitude of 5,000 meters, they were drinking drinks in the cockpit at an altitude of 8,000 meters.

In particular, bombers like the Junkers-290 have a pressurized cockpit, no matter how high they fly, they do not need to wear an oxygen mask, and the cockpit is quite spacious. They may even have toilets to use if on a long flight.

Now, looking up at the bomber, Heinz is envious. Before taking off, Heinz had already gone to the toilet. During the three or four hours of cruising in the sky, if there was an emergency, he could only hold back. on.

Now, when he looked up at the sky, he saw that the bomb bay door of the bomber's belly was opened, and inside, a lot of things fell.

Not a bomb, that is, a leaflet?

Yes, that's the flyer!

The ink on it was still wet, and it was a hundred thousand copies of the flyers that were printed overnight. Now, these flyers have fallen from the sky and are falling over Exeter.

When they found the bomber overhead, Bernard and others ran out quickly, looking at the altitude of the other party's flight, they knew that they could do nothing.

Too high. One's own light weapons cannot knock down the opponent, and then, the flyers that fell like snowflakes in the sky gradually landed.

what?

Suddenly, a terrible thought popped into his mind, and Bernard shouted loudly: "Quick, put on a gas mask!"

Any veteran who has experienced World War I will have a fresh memory of the poison gas war. At that time, both the enemy and the enemy suffered huge casualties. Once this Pandora's box is opened, it is simply a disaster for mankind.

Even Hitler was temporarily blinded by the gas war.

This world war is very different from the last time. The combat style of positional warfare has disappeared. The Germans have created a new tactic of blitzkrieg. At the same time, poison gas has never been used again.

However, veterans will have a gut feeling.

The Germans retreated late last night, why didn't they fight? Are you waiting for a powerful weapon? For example, will this thing that fell from the sky today emit poisonous gas? Or some other bacteriological weapon?

After putting on the gas mask like a pig's nose, the flyers flew up and landed around them. Bernard took a flyer with his rubber gloved hand and looked through the glass lens of the gas mask. past.

At this moment, the water vapor filled the air, and the lenses of the gas mask were a little blurry. He looked at the flyer carefully, and suddenly he gasped in astonishment. The entire gas mask was sticking to his face.