Chapter 245: Bomber Squadron

Major Inmelman hid in the clouds and never took action. He looked at the battlefield below with satisfaction. His First Squadron was killing the unsuspecting French aircraft.

He knew that these French planes were organized by Joffre.

Charles's fighter planes were "Avro", which were the enemies that needed to be "treated with caution", and these were just targets for practice.

However, Major Inmelman discovered that one of the fighter planes was able to launch a counterattack in an ambush and successfully shot down a German fighter plane!

Inmelman said "hmm" with interest, then lowered the nose of the plane and drove the fighter plane to dive towards the "Newport 10".

(Note: The tactic of using clouds to conceal oneself and dive against the enemy during World War I was invented by Immelman, but in the end Immelman was shot down by British fighter planes because of this tactic.)

Soon, Immelman found that this "Newport 10" was a little different. Its flying movements were very agile, sometimes left and sometimes right with no regularity, and a series of false movements could almost deceive himself.

This is a flying elite, Major Immelman thought, I should try my best to keep him here, otherwise he will become a potential danger.

Major Immelman didn't know that Major Goldover, who was bitten by him, was so scared that his hands and feet were weak. He had tried his best but couldn't get rid of the tail behind him.

Suddenly, the fighter plane behind opened fire.

The bullets flew almost close to Major Goldover's scalp, and the fuselage and tail were hit by several bullets. The flying wood chips even hit his face, which was very painful.

Fortunately, these bullets did not hit the vital points, and Major Goldover was still able to control the plane.

This is the experience that Goldver has accumulated over the years. As long as the wings vibrate a little, he can sensitively detect what is wrong with it and know whether it is still under his control.

At this time, Major Goldver knew that the plane was fine, and he planned to continue flying the plane to escape.

But he changed his mind and thought that the tail behind him would not let him go. There would be only one result: death.

Unless the "tail" ran out of bullets and he was still alive.

But this was impossible.

Suddenly, Major Goldver had a flash of inspiration. He slowed down slightly and controlled the plane to "fall" to the ground.

This is a trick that Goldver often plays in flight performances. The purpose is to cause the audience below to exclaim, and then suddenly pull up when the plane is about to "fall".

This trick won Major Goldver a lot of applause and francs. Many people came here just to watch this thrilling and exciting scene.

Major Goldver used this trick in a hurry.

He was also taking a risk, because doing so required slowing down. If the "tail" behind him didn't take the bait and continued to attack, Goldver would be dead.

Fortunately, the "tail" didn't catch up, and it turned to chase other fighters.

Goldver breathed a sigh of relief, and after the "tail" flew away, he suddenly accelerated and recovered his normal posture and left the battlefield.

Major Yin Meiman on the other side also noticed this. After he found out that he was fooled, he couldn't help but muttered: "Coward, you actually used this method to evade, what's the difference between this and deserting the battlefield!"

Major Yin Meiman thought that this opponent was not worthy of being a soldier.

But Goldver didn't think so much, he just wanted to survive, just wanted to escape from this terrible place and never come back.

In the end, only 3 of the 29 fighters returned to the airport alive, and the 3 fighters that returned were all with bullet holes. One of the pilots was shot in the shoulder and bleeding. Even if he could be rescued, he had to say goodbye to the life of a pilot.

But Colonel Iger still asked Godfer innocently: "Where are the others? Have they been separated from you?"

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Once the German Air Force showed its fangs, it pursued the French Air Force relentlessly.

They seemed to be very familiar with the situation of the French Air Force, and they attacked three French airports close to the front line within one day.

These airports were too close to the front line as Charles said, most of them were 10 kilometers away from the front line, and some were only 7 kilometers or even closer.

This made them unable to guard against the sneak attacks of the German Air Force, and batches of fighter planes were destroyed on the airport or runway before they could take off.

One of the airports was even hit by the oil depot and a raging fire was ignited.

The fire burned all night, and many planes that did not have time to take off were buried in the sea of ​​fire.

This also ignited the anger of the French people, who angrily criticized Joffre:

"We should hand over the planes to those who know how to command them."

"This is the end of the army owning planes. This practice is a waste of planes and the lives of pilots!"

"Facts have proved that Joffre was wrong. Now, should Joffre be held responsible for his mistakes?"

...

But at this time, the media controlled by capitalists continued to speak for Joffre:

"It may be that the Germans have surpassed us in the training of pilots. They have found an effective way of fighting."

"There may be another reason for this situation. The performance of the newly invested 'Albatross B' fighters by the Germans is far superior to that of our fighters."

"Their performance is likely to surpass the 'Avro' used by Charles!"

...

The underlying meaning of these remarks is: Joffre did lose the battle, but facing the new German fighters and new tactics, Charles's First Flying Squadron may not necessarily win, so it is not Joffre's fault.

Galieni saw these reports in the newspaper and thought the time was ripe. He smiled and raised his head to Charles: "Are you ready?"

"Ready for what?" Charles asked back: "Deploy the First Flying Squadron to fight these German pilots? No, I won't do that!"

Galieni looked at Charles in confusion. Wasn't this planned before?

Charles explained: "I have a better way to defeat them, General. They are also planes."

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In the early morning of the next day, Charles' Caproni Bomber Squadron took off from Paris.

The bomber squadron had a total of 20 planes, which were divided into two squadrons, each with 10 planes, flying to the German Humesson Airport and Ercle Airport respectively.

These two airports were exposed when the German army fought with Joffre's army aircraft. Most of the German aircraft and pilots were concentrated here. There was also a newly opened flight school at Humesson Airport, where there were more than 200 new and old students as well as instructors and teachers.

Charles ordered the bombers to fly to the target openly during the day, without any hiding.

He knew that people in this era were not prepared for bombers. They thought that bombers were just some small shells that pilots manually threw at the ground. These shells had a low hit rate and low power, and could hardly cause any damage to the target.

The Germans saw ten "Capronis" flying towards them from a distance and thought they were transport planes delivered to their door.

What they didn't expect was that Capronis could indeed be regarded as a transport plane, just a "transport plane" that "delivered" bombs to them!