Just like last time, when Zhou Zhihan arrived at the airport, all the combat pilots had also arrived at their respective bombers, and they were all checking their flare guns, stimulant tablets and other escape equipment for the last time.
"Everyone spent the last five minutes going to relieve themselves, but the car door was welded to death..."
Amidst Zhou Zhihan's shouting, all the crew members laughed and went to squeeze out the last drop of urine, while Zhou Zhihan began to check his own plane. He had just driven the A214 Spitfire under the camouflage net and hid it, and got off the plane. Then we did everything in the grass.
He took out a small flashlight, holding the lamp head hidden in the palm of his hand. A faint light emerged from between his fingers, and he circled around the bomber. The body of the bomber was normal.
With the help of the ground crew, Zhou Zhihan and the crew entered the bomber. Today, the crew was reduced to four people, and there were not as many bombs as last time. In order to reduce the weight of the aircraft, they could quickly break through the prepared German defense lines.
Entering the cockpit, Zhou Zhihan immediately checked the oil level. The oil needle indicated that the oil was full.
The bombers took off one after another, climbed slowly inland, and assembled at the seaside. During this flight, Zhou Zhihan once again checked the aircraft performance and various indicators on the instrument panel. All were normal.
Zhou Zhihan thought to himself that maybe it didn't harm him last time. The people behind the scenes were worried about being discovered and restrained themselves. Even so, he secretly warned himself to be careful everywhere.
Six bomber squadrons formed six large four-finger formations. When they flew halfway across the strait, the escorting night combat hurricanes followed up and escorted them at close range.
During the first raid on Berlin, the fleet flew a straight route, passing over the Netherlands and heading straight into Berlin.
This time, the bomber group circled Oldenburg to Berlin, where Germany's KG25 fighter group was stationed.
The escort fighter jets reached the top of the combat radius and returned. Captain Malan, the leader of the team, turned on the cockpit light of his fighter jet and gave Zhou Zhihan a good-luck gesture for the journey. They had often fought side by side in the past and established a very good friendship.
The escort fighters left, and Zhou Zhihan ordered six squadrons to form a large four-finger formation to move forward. On the last two sides of the formation, two bombers were arranged to act as rearguard "weavers" to prevent enemy planes from suddenly attacking from behind. This tactic is widely used in China During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Zhihan often used it when flying in large formations, and the effect was very good.
Still twenty kilometers away from the defense zone of the KG25 Fighter Group, Zhou Zhihan took the lead in climbing to a high altitude and then turned off the engines. More than seventy bombers were like ghosts, gliding over the KG25 Fighter Group silently.
The Germans would never have dreamed that the British bombers would go the other way and break in through areas with weak air defenses, instead flying over the defense zone of the highly capable KG25 fighter group.
After successfully passing Oldenburg, Zhou Zhihan turned left and led the bomber group to fly in the direction of Huels. Using the same high-altitude taxiing method, he broke through the defense zone of a fighter squadron in Huels, and then headed straight for Berlin unimpeded.
General Zhou Zhihan led the team to fly this route, which was opened by himself. It was completely beyond the expectations of the Germans. All the bomber pilots were also secretly stunned. Genius is genius. In the dark night, there is no way. Radar navigation, Colonel Zhou from China is really amazing, and the title of "God-level Ace" couldn't be more appropriate for him.
Hitler and Goering never thought that Berlin would one day be attacked by air, so Berlin's defense was far behind London's.
After Zhou Zhihan led his team to high altitude and easily broke through the first shabby defense line composed of dozens of defensive balloons, Berlin was right in front of him.
Tonight, the sky over Berlin is still covered with dark clouds.
Before entering the sky over Berlin, Zhou Zhihan ordered all bombers to disperse and prepare to drop bombs.
Tonight, every bomber carries three types of bombs - high-explosive bombs, dispersive incendiary bombs, and time-delay bombs.
As soon as the bomber entered the sky over Berlin, the prepared Germans heard the sound of propellers and engines and knew that the British were coming to visit. So the air defense alarm was raised. After more than ten seconds, the entire Berlin fell into darkness, and ground artillery fire began to fire artillery into the air. , hoping to serve as a deterrent to bombers.
Before departure, the Royal Air Force headquarters had formulated tactics. All bombers would drop bombs above the clouds. Each plane could do whatever it wanted, as long as it dropped the bombs, it did not need to hit the target accurately.
The instruction given by the Air Force Headquarters was to let Hitler know that we were visiting again and put all Berliners into panic, even if the mission was completed.
The bombers began dropping bombs.
"Woo..."
The bombs fell with a roar, like the evil smile of death, which was breathtaking.
The first batch of roaring bombs were high-explosive bombs. After exploding on the ground, they produced a huge fire, indicating the direction for the bombers flying above the clouds to drop bombs in sequence. At the same time, the fire on the ground would expose the air defense troops, and Feeling uneasy.
In this raid, all bombers did not dive to drop bombs, and the German ground anti-aircraft fire had no target. When the British dropped the second wave of bombs, the anti-aircraft fire did not hit even a single bomber.
The bombers dropped the delay bombs in the second wave. Its lethality was the most terrifying. The second wave of damage it caused was far greater than the first wave. The bombs were delayed for fifteen minutes. When the bombers left, the residents escaped from the bunkers. , what will be ushered in will be the explosion of a delayed bomb.
It was not until the end of the second wave of bombings that two bombers were hit by artillery fire. One of the pilots bailed out and the bomber crashed.
Another bomber withdrew from the battlefield, and the pilot hoped to find a sparsely populated area before parachuting.
If you parachute over Berlin, even if you are not killed by bombs dropped by your own people, you will be caught and beaten to death by Berlin citizens.
For pilots, they would rather be killed on the spot than beaten to death.
The third wave of bombing begins.
The dispersive incendiary bomb was thrown down and exploded in the air about 800 meters away. Dozens of warheads flew around in the shape of huge balls, spread evenly, fell to the ground, hit the ground and generated impact force before exploding and burning. The fire was stronger than The gasoline was even more ferocious, spreading in all directions. Everything caught in it was ablaze and could not be put out.
The impact of dispersive incendiary bombs on Berlin was devastating, because there were no underground air-raid shelters in Berlin, and there were no small air-raid shelters in the rooms of every household for temporary refuge. Within the scope of the power of the incendiary bombs, all residential buildings were not spared and burned one after another. Families were consumed by fire in their sleep.
Since there is no need to drop bombs at fixed points, after just a few minutes, each bomber completed dropping bombs and went to the designated rendezvous point to gather and return together.
Ten minutes later, the once again panicked Luftwaffe flew over Berlin, but the British bombers had already flown away and disappeared. At this time, the time bombs dropped by the bombers began to explode one after another, knocking out those who had finally escaped from the room. The residents who escaped were once again pushed into hell on earth.
This time, the British bomber group lost three bombers, and the remaining ones quickly returned home under the leadership of Zhou Zhihan. Their return route was from Berlin to Schiphol, where two fighter squadrons of the Luftwaffe's JG1 Wing were stationed.
When he was still 20 kilometers away from Schiphol, Zhou Zhihan suddenly led the fleet to fly over the Netherlands, cleverly breaking through the defense gap between JG1 Wing and JG5 Wing. Ten minutes later, he turned again and the fleet unexpectedly turned back. Heading inland closer to the seaside at Schiphol, it was easy to escape the pursuit of fighter jets sent by the JG1 Wing and JG5 Wing.
Under the leadership of Commander-in-Chief Zhou, the bomber group completely escaped the interception and tracking of German fighter jets. In ten minutes, they would be able to see the sea. All the bomber crews cheered. They all said that they could basically fight with Commander-in-Chief Zhou. to ensure victory and survival.
During World War II, pilots did not refrain from drinking. Many navigators, bombardiers, and machine gunners on bombers took out their own flasks and cheered loudly in celebration.
The three crew members on Zhou Zhihan's bomber each took out their personal flasks to celebrate their victory.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Zhou Zhihan noticed that the oil gauge pointer, which had just one-third of the fuel left, was falling like a deflated rubber ball at an extremely fast speed.
How is this going?
Thinking of the last time the bomber's abdomen was tampered with and painted with fluorescent powder, Zhou Zhihan's first reaction was that this time the bomber was tampered with again.
what to do?
At this moment, the navigator said to the machine gunner, "We drink to the dead Billy and wish him no accidents in heaven!"
"Cheers to Billy!"
The other two responded by tapping their flasks against the fuselage.
"Sir Zhou, did you know," the navigator said to Zhou Zhihan, "just an hour before departure from the airport, Billy, the mechanic who inspected the plane for us last time, suddenly died."
