August 9th.
early morning.
There is a bit of light fog over the English Channel.
After 8 o'clock, the fog dissipated, the sun rose, and golden snakes danced on the water. The German fighter-bomber group launched an all-out attack on Britain in multiple directions. You can clearly overlook the British Isles from the air. At this time, the empire that once protected the sun never sets continued to prosper. The everlasting English Channel, below the German bomber pilots, looked like a small green river that could be easily flown across.
The sky is infinitely clear, and the white clouds are as clean as fluffy and soft. Wherever the fighter bombers go, they must leave behind milky white condensed trails on the background of the blue clear sky.
The white condensed contrails slowly spread out in the air, like white landscape paintings hanging in the blue sky, misty and ethereal.
The Second Luftwaffe of the German Air Force first dispatched a fleet of 92 aircraft to destroy the CW9 fleet that entered the Strait of Dover in the early morning and was escorted by the Royal Navy.
The CW9 fleet is composed of hundreds of large and small cargo ships. It is vast and carries all kinds of living supplies needed by the British people, some of which are military supplies.
Different from the single-plane air combat between July 10 and early August, which was full of individual heroism, starting today, the German Air Force appears in large groups. It no longer advocates single-plane heroic combat, but launches attacks led by formation tactics. The main purpose was to use its super bombing capabilities and destructive power to attack major strategic locations in Britain, so that Britain could not bear the weight of the war and was forced to surrender.
The German fighter-bomber group is still deployed, and the most popular three-dimensional attack formation is moving forward. The 36 Death Stur bombers of the 1st Group are flying at an altitude of 3,000 meters. They are the initiators and terminators of the attack, two kilometers behind the Death. Here are 20 Destroyer Bf110 fighter jets of the JG51 Group flying in the air at 4,500 meters. Their main task is to suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the British Royal Navy escort formation. They can also carry out sea-to-ground strikes at 6500-8500. The last flight in the air was 36 Messerschmitts from the JG26 Condor Corps, whose main task was to expel British fighter jets.
Every time a German fighter plane takes off, the Royal Air Force knows it immediately and is fully prepared in advance because they have a secret weapon to win - radar.
At this time, Germany had not yet discovered that British radar technology had developed to the point where it could know how many fighter planes the Germans were taking off from French airports at any time.
Radar is not only the most brilliant achievement of military technology in the 20th century, but also one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.
British people of insight have long regarded radar as an extremely valuable right-hand arm in the Royal Air Force and air defense.
During the Battle of Dunkirk, the British organized a large number of elites to study day and night. Finally, before the Battle of Britain began, the British radar was able to accurately detect flying objects 120 kilometers away and played a role in the defense of London. played a decisive role.
Although Germany also knew the importance of radar, its misfortune was that the plan to develop the radar system was handed over to the navy. Although Hitler's naval admirals also believed that this equipment was very useful in maritime reconnaissance, they did not realize that His importance in air combat.
Before the Air Battle of Great Britain, the Germans also secretly sent spies to monitor the progress of British radar research, but the British discovered it and used a trick to deceive the German spies, allowing Göring to obtain false information.
When the German Air Force took off from various airports in France, the German planes were spotted on the big screen in the large operational radar monitoring room of Bentley Abbey. The British commander calculated the exact arrival time of the German planes, and the Royal Air Force fighter jets arrived one step ahead. The Germans were waiting in the air above the target they were about to attack.
At this time, the number of German fighter-bombers participating in the invasion of Britain was approximately 4,500+, and they could take turns to launch attacks on British ports, docks, factories, political centers, and military positions.
The Royal Air Force has a total of 2,900 fighter-bombers, but it is obvious that it is fighters rather than bombers that can defend British territory. In home defense operations, the role of bombers is minimal or even negligible, while the British Spitfire and Hurricane fighter jets The total number of troops is less than 1,000.
In other words, the United Kingdom must use less than 1,000 fighter jets to intercept the 4,500 German fighter bombers. For British pilots, this means that their flight combat time is at least three times that of German pilots.
There is another very uncertain factor that is also testing the Royal Air Force, that is, half of their pilots are rookies. Compared with the experienced German pilots, they are not only inferior in experience, they also lack in air combat tactics and personal abilities. of more.
Zhou Zhihan received the interception order and immediately led the 302nd Hurricane Squadron and 304th Spitfire Squadron of the Allied Regiment to take off. At the seaside, he and the Royal Air Force's 200th Spitfire Squadron and the 12th Group's Digby Wing's 109th Squadron's Dauntless Fighters took off. The squadrons reunited, with a total of 48 fighters, heading to the port of Dover to intercept a group of German fighter-bombers.
303 Squadron and 305 Squadron are on rotation and are on call at Brighton Airport at any time.
After more than a month of development, the Allied Fighter Regiment's fighter squadrons have increased to four. Half of the veteran pilots from the 303 and 304 Squadrons have been transferred to form a backbone team in the newly formed 302 and 305 Squadrons, with the old leading the new.
Among them, the fighters of 302 and 303 Squadrons are Hurricanes, and the fighters of 304 and 305 Squadrons are Spitfires.
A huge fleet appeared on the blue sea not far away. Before it reached the port of Dover, which was the only way to go, a group of German fighter bombers appeared from a distance, so Zhou Zhihan led 4 fighter squadrons to immediately greet them. Go up.
At this time, the air battles over the straits in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and other places were already very fierce. The German Air Force fighter units, covering the bomber units, went to the British mainland to bomb various strategic locations. The British Royal Fighter Unit could only Fighters were dispatched to fight. From a distance, they looked like small model airplanes. They shuttled in pursuit in the air, with red bullet traces flying in the blue sky. From time to time, fighter jets were hit, or left the battlefield with thick smoke billowing, or exploded and crashed.
Seeing the German fighter-bomber group from a distance, Zhou Zhi's first words before the cold war were: "Everyone, quickly increase the speed and accumulate the energy of the fighter planes, and then each squadron will quickly occupy positions, and strive to be the first to contact the enemy. Just shoot it down, then pull it up and continue to gather energy.”
"receive……"
The squadron leaders of the four squadrons took turns to answer.
Zhou Zhihan pulled back the control stick and pushed the throttle forward at the same time. The A214 Spitfire flying at the front was the first to pull up at a high speed, and made three morale-boosting jumps in a row. In the blink of an eye, it jumped more than 500 meters. Look. The morale of the members of the four squadrons has greatly increased. With such a commander leading the way, it is difficult not to win the battle.
Just with these three consecutive jumps, it would be difficult to find another person in the world who can do it.
All fighters follow the commander-in-chief's speed increase.
The A214 Spitfire took the lead and took the shortest route to intercept the German fighter-bomber group that was attacking the large fleet:
"The Hurricane Squadron went to intercept the Bf110 Destroyer. The Dreadnoughts of the 109th Squadron swept away the Death Stukas that broke into the fleet's fire network in the middle of the fleet. The two Spitfire squadrons followed me to an altitude of 8,500 meters to face the Messerschmitt. Special, forcing them to move up with us and destroying their three-dimensional offensive formation in one fell swoop."
