The air at the seaside is always moist, and the salty smell is still fresh in my memory.
The night battle hurricane climbed to 8,000 meters, and there was still a faint smell of gunpowder and the rotting smell of dead bodies in the cabin.
As the weather gets warmer, the smell of corpses is like the wet air on a rainy day, floating around people, sticking to the skin and being greasy and inescapable.
For several days, the two sides launched an offensive and defensive battle around Dunkirk. Within a hundred miles, there were only human corpses and discarded weapons. Fortunately, the smell of gunpowder in the air covered up the smell of corpses, otherwise it would be more offensive.
The soldiers on the battlefield have long been accustomed to being in the corpse odor for a long time. The pilots have the urge to vomit as soon as they fly over the battlefield. They leave after an hour as soon as they get used to it. When they fly back after a while, the stench becomes even more overwhelming. Bear.
Zhou Zhihan took out a cigarette, broke it into two pieces and stuffed it in his nostrils. He immediately felt much better. This was a method taught to him by the veteran Yang Guai during the Songhu Battle.
About ten kilometers away from the German artillery position, the Night Fighting Hurricane stalled and slid forward like a ghost at high altitude.
There is a reason why Zhou Zhihan flew the Night Fighter Hurricane alone for reconnaissance. This is because when the Night Fighter Hurricane with radar detects the Night Fighter Messerschmitt during mid- and low-altitude reconnaissance, it is often discovered by the opponent at the same time, and may even be discovered by the opponent in advance.
Since we were here to reconnoiter the artillery positions on the ground, we could only fly low. It was completely dark from a high place down and we couldn't see anything.
Only by meeting a strong person can the potential of the strong be unleashed.
When the Luftwaffe attacked Poland, the weak Polish Air Force posed no threat to the Luftwaffe. It was not until they met the British Air Force that the Germans finally met their opponent. They fought all the way to Dunkirk. While the pilots of both sides suffered heavy losses, the surviving pilots also suffered heavy losses. It became even more sophisticated. The Germans defended important military locations such as heavy artillery positions very tightly, and Allied reconnaissance planes could not approach them during the day.
In the early days of Dunkirk, several airports deployed by the German army near Calais were attacked by Zhou Zhihan aircraft. The German army learned from the experience and strengthened its defenses. Now, it will be difficult for the Allied forces to make sneak attacks again.
In fact, the Royal Air Force headquarters gave the Allied Legion this reconnaissance mission just to get Zhou Zhihan to come.
The reconnaissance missions are all assigned to reconnaissance planes, but none of them are assigned to hurricanes. The reconnaissance planes have people taking pictures.
However, the reconnaissance planes could not get close to the German artillery positions during the day, and they could not see them at night. Moreover, sending reconnaissance planes at night would be in the middle of nowhere. Therefore, this task could only be given to Zhou Zhihan, a "genius" with experience in night fighting.
Zhou Zhihan readily accepted this, which also proved his value and was irreplaceable in the Royal Air Force.
Zhou Zhihan opened the transparent helmet.
Without the transparent helmet purchased in the system, looking down at such a high altitude, even if Zhou Zhihan had excellent eyesight, it would still be pitch black.
The German artillery positions on the ground were clearly visible in the helmet.
Three thousand meters above the sea, there is a Bf110 night destroyer and three night-use Hs126 reconnaissance aircraft with radar.
The Bf 110 Night Fighter Destroyer hovered over the middle of the two artillery battalion positions. Three night reconnaissance aircraft patrolled five kilometers outside the artillery position in a triangular formation. Their radar bands were connected end to end. While the radar bands were detecting the enemy's situation, , can also detect its own people. As long as there is something abnormal in one of the reconnaissance planes, it will be immediately noticed by the other three.
"Tsk! Zhou Zhihan was speechless," the Germans became smarter after suffering several big losses. Fortunately, no one else was sent, otherwise they would have been discovered by a German reconnaissance plane before they reached the outskirts of the artillery position. "
Zhou Zhihan first glided to the sky above the German artillery position at Leshuters, which was about seven kilometers away from the coast.
Sure enough, 10 170mm K18 cannons and 8 210mm MRS 18 heavy howitzers were arranged in reeds more than two meters high. Not to mention at night, even during the day, it would be difficult for a reconnaissance plane to fly over the artillery group and find it. Several bundles of reeds are difficult to spot even if someone stands more than ten meters away and looks at them.
The night battle hurricane circled Les Hutes several times in the air. The transparent helmet displayed the specific location of the artillery position and the coordinates of each gun in detail. Zhou Zhihan remembered everything without missing a beat.
The night battle hurricane flew over Le Crippon. Sure enough, the same battalion of heavy artillery as Les Hutes was also deployed here. Zhou Zhihan carefully memorized the location and the coordinates of all the cannons.
Night Fighting Hurricane hovered above the Bf 110 Night Fighting Destroyer for a while, without the other party noticing it. Just as he was about to leave, another artillery position suddenly appeared in Zhou Zhihan's helmet.
This artillery position is located in a depression between Le Crippon and Les Hutes. Although there are no tall reeds as camouflage, it is covered with waist-deep grass. The muzzle of the cannon is flat in the grass. , and then covered with grass to camouflage it, the reconnaissance plane could not be seen from a distance during the day.
This artillery position must have just arrived at night and been set up shortly, because there are still many German artillerymen on the position carrying artillery shells in the dark and placing them next to the cannon. There are also some soldiers adjusting the position of the cannon muzzle on the sea. 10 guns 155 mm artillery and eight 105mm lefh 18 howitzers. These two guns are slightly less powerful than the 170mm k18 cannon and the 210mm MRS 18 regular howitzer, but have a longer range and can cover the angle between the other two guns. , this is simply a disaster for passing ships. These three artillery positions form a triangle of firepower that can cover the entire sea area. Passing ships cannot escape the fate of being bombarded.
This kind of camouflage was used by Zhou Zhihan during the Songhu Battle. At that time, they hid the No. 214 Type 96 Ship Battle in the grass beside the lake in east Kunshan. Japanese reconnaissance planes flew back and forth countless times, but they were not discovered.
Thinking of the Battle of Songhu, the familiar young faces of the Chinese Air Force appeared in front of Zhou Zhihan again, which made him sad. After the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Air Force was almost completely wiped out.
Although the Soviet Union began to assist the Chinese Air Force in the winter of 1937, those old aircraft were no match for the Type 96 naval battle. Now the Japanese zero battle has been deployed on the Chinese battlefield. There is even less life in front of the fighter jets.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhihan wished he could return home immediately and defeat Ling Zhan.
He stretched out his hands, rubbed his face a few times, brought his thoughts back to reality, turned around a few times in the air, firmly memorizing the coordinates of each cannon in this artillery position, and when he was preparing to return, he thought, remembering that yesterday afternoon, Chris Taylor said that in order to adjust the accuracy of these cannons, Germany used two observation balloons from World War I to adjust the impact point, turning the entire Dunkirk harbor and beaches into a sea of flames.
Where are the two observation balloons now? Tonight, there is an additional artillery position on the beach. Could it be that the two observation balloons have not left yet?
Also, if these two observation balloons exist nearby, the high-power telescopes on the balloons can detect the Allied bombing groups in advance, and Messerschmitt can take off in advance and arrange them around these three artillery positions. high in the sky, hunting Blenheim bombers.
Zhou Zhihan ignited the engine and turned the propeller. The Night War Hurricane continued to fly westward for more than ten kilometers at high altitude. Sure enough, he found a German military airport in the northwest. There were several reconnaissance aircraft parked on the airport runway, but no fighter jets were seen. It should be parked in the woods next to the airport.
During World War II, most combat airports in all countries liked to be built on the edge of woods, and aircraft were parked in the woods. This was a trend at the time. Later, camouflaged hangars were gradually developed.
This is normal. During World War II, pilots looked back at the biplanes of World War I and felt that the Mays, Spitfires, and Zeros that lagged behind World War II were too many, and they were simply not on the same level as each other.
When the jet fighter came out, what did the May, Spitfire, and Zero mean...
Times change people's thinking.
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The Germans have indeed become more sophisticated. They have raised blocking balloons and thin iron chains between the east and north sides of the airport. The radar of the night battle hurricane cannot detect it at all. If any Allied fighter planes want to make a sneak attack, they will be caught in the dark. If you hit the iron fence and get entangled in the propeller, you will definitely fall.
The lower ends of these balloons are fixed on special military vehicles and can be moved at will. The height of the balloons can rise to six thousand meters. There are dozens of iron chains thicker than thumbs stretched between the two balloons. If an airplane hits it, it will be doomed. , just like a big fish entangled in a net, the more it struggles, the tighter it becomes.
Zhou Zhihan knew the power of such high-altitude balloons. There were more than a thousand such balloons in the UK. During the Dunkirk air battle, the UK sent a large number of fighter planes. In order to prevent the German air force from taking advantage of it, they densely populated the coastal areas of the UK. This kind of interception balloon once caused several German night-fighting Hs126 reconnaissance aircraft to take advantage of the opportunity to spy on the British mainland. The propellers and wings were entangled by the balloon. The aircraft fell. The pilot accidentally parachuted and was cut in two by the steel cable. Half.
After searching carefully for several times, there was no observation balloon here. Zhou Zhihan left the German airport and flew south.
Sure enough, an abnormality was discovered four or five kilometers away. There were more than a dozen military vehicles forming a large circle. Several German soldiers were holding guns and smoking cigarettes in their mouths, guarding the surroundings. Among the more than a dozen vehicles, a large group of In the open space, there was something invisible covered under several large tarpaulins.
Zhou Zhihan judged that what was covered under the tarpaulin should be an observation balloon.
After finding one, Zhou Zhihan continued to go south. Three kilometers away, he found another dozen military vehicles forming a large circle with soldiers on guard around them. The ones in the middle were covered with several large oilcloths, which were exactly the same shape as the ones he had just found.
For these two huge observation balloons, Zhou Zhihan could solve them with a dive, but the consequence was that the German army would immediately know that the British army would send bombers after dawn, which would not be worth the loss.
But if these two observation balloons are not killed, the high-powered telescopes above can detect the incoming bomber group dozens of kilometers away.
what to do?
Zhou Zhihan decided not to destroy the two observation balloons for the time being. When the bomber group was dispatched tomorrow morning, he came here in advance and shot down the two detection balloons. Before the Germans could react, the bombers could launch carpet bombing.
