Chapter 749: Falling like snowflakes 5)
Plymouth.
After a tense day of construction, an air force base next to the port of Plymouth has begun to take shape.
Around the base, there are more than 20 anti-aircraft guns, guarding the sky. At the same time, the main body of the base is the runway in the middle.
Use a road roller to flatten the field directly, and then a special runway spliced with steel plates.
How to quickly build a forward base under war conditions is a topic of German technicians. It takes as fast as one week to lay concrete, while the German army advances quite fast. In a week, the runway just built may be useless.
Therefore, after careful research, German technicians have created this kind of runway made of steel plates, called the "psp perforated steel plate runway".
This kind of steel plate is not a whole piece, but is made of countless small pieces.
Each steel plate is about 6 mm thick, about 90 cm long and about 60 cm wide, and is rectangular. The four sides of the rectangle have stamped hooks or holes, and the entire airport is made by these hooks and holes connected to each other piece by piece.
In order to improve the strength of the steel plate, evenly distributed reinforcement ribs and reinforcement holes are stamped on the steel plate, with the reinforcement height of 10 mm.
Therefore, the runway is not completely flat. When the plane taxies on the runway, there will be bumps from time to time. However, at least it can quickly solve the problem of existence or not!
After all, in order to prevent the British Air Force from taking off, they threw their air bases directly. Germany could not sacrifice engineers to clear mines, and it would become a restricted area in the future.
The base here is being built quickly. At the same time, last night, the 27th Combat Aviation Regiment of the 3rd Air Force, the 27th Combat Aviation Regiment of the German 3rd Air Force, was transferred here. Their aircraft were all fw190, which were all fw190 in the entire Luftwaffe. The rest were almost all mixed with bf109 and fw190.
At this time, just dawn, the Luftwaffe, who had just arrived in the British mainland, began to dispatch.
Standing in front of his plane, Captain Heinz Barr looked at the ground staff beside him.
"Captain, the plane has been maintained, full of fuel and ammunition, and can take off at any time." said the ground crew member on the side.
The ground crew came by boat and bumped all the way on the sea. When they arrived here, they did not rest and continued to fight to complete the maintenance of the plane. Now, each of them has red eyes.
"Thank you for your hard work," Heinz said, stepped into his cockpit, and with the help of the ground staff, closed the hatch and started the engine.
The 1,800-horsepower high-thrust engine in front roared. After checking various instrument data, Heinz released the brakes.
"3rd Squadron, let's take off. From today on, over Great Britain is our airspace!" Heinz shouted loudly in the radio.
The plane began to fly forward, and the wheels kept bumping on the steel runway. As the speed accelerated, this bump turned into the bump of the entire plane. 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, well, it's very comfortable.
With the powerful engine, the speed quickly got up, and gently drove the pull rod, Heinz took off.
Behind him, one by one, the fw190s took off. Although there is no war 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 Islands.
Although fw190 has a considerable range, it is still beneficial to deploy to the frontline base. For example, taking off from here and 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, and the main pressure we will face today is the main air defense force from the East District 11, which is the London area.
The British will definitely pounce!
So, after taking off, they patrolled the northeast at a height of five thousand meters. When they flew over Exeter's head, a Juncker-290 bomber also flew in.
"Where is this going to bomb?" Heinz said to himself, looking at the bomber.
In the flying troops, they envy each other.
The bomber troops envy the fighter troops, which are easy to fight, and the aircraft has good performance and can fly out of various high-difficulty maneuvers.
The fighter troops also envied the leisure of the bomber. When they were wearing an oxygen mask and cruising in the air of five thousand meters, they were drinking drinks in the cockpit at an altitude of eight thousand meters.
Especially for bombers like the Juncker-290, the supercharged cockpit is not required to wear an oxygen mask no matter how high it is. Moreover, the cockpit is quite wide. If they are flying for a long time, they can even have toilets.
Now, looking up at the bomber, Heinz was envious. Before taking off, Heinz had already used the toilet. During the three or four hours of cruise in the sky, if he had an emergency, he could only hold it in.
Now, when he looked into the sky, he saw the bomber's belly bomb door open, and something was falling from inside.
Not a bomb, that's a flyer?
Not bad, just flyers!
The ink on it has not dried, and there are 100,000 leaflets printed overnight. Now, these leaflets are falling from the sky and falling over Exeter.
When they found the bomber above their heads, Bernard and others ran out quickly. They looked at the height of each other's flight and knew that they were powerless.
Too high. Your light weapons could not be captured by the other party. Then, the flyers falling like snowflakes in the sky gradually landed.
What?
Suddenly, a terrible thought popped up in his mind, and Bernard shouted loudly: "Hurry up, wear a gas mask!"
Any veteran who has experienced the First World War will still remember the poisonous gas war. At that time, both sides had great casualties. Once this Pandora's box was opened, it would be a disaster for mankind.
Even Hitler was temporarily blind in the war of poison gas.
This world war was very different from the last time. The combat style of positional warfare disappeared, and the Germans pioneered a new tactic of blitzkrieg. At the same time, poison gas was never used again.
However, veterans will have intuition.
The Germans retreated in the second middle of yesterday. Why didn’t they fight? Are they waiting for powerful weapons? For example, will the thing falling from the sky today emit poison gas? Or are they other bacterial weapons?
After putting on the gas mask like a pig's nose, the flyers, one after another, landed around them. Bernard took a flyer with his rubber gloves, and looked over through the glass lenses of the gas mask.
At this time, water vapor was everywhere, and the lenses of the gas mask were blurred. He looked at the flyer carefully and immediately, he was so shocked that he took a breath of air conditioning. The entire gas mask was sticking to his face. 7119
Chapter completed!