The bomber commander who led the air raid on the manor was Mark Hawthorne, a former southern African and amateur aviation enthusiast who obtained his flying qualifications from an aviation club in Cape Town.

While in Southern Africa, Mark Hawthorn applied to join the Southern African Air Force many times, but was repeatedly rejected due to technical problems.

Becoming a real pilot was too tempting for Mark Hawthorne, so after the Luftwaffe began recruiting pilots, Mark Hawthorne returned to Germany without hesitation and became a bomber pilot.

Although bombers are not as good as fighter jets, Mark Hawthorn is still happy as long as he can fly the plane into the sky.

Mark Hawthorne's Junkers Big Ma was numbered 103. It formed a formation with two other Junkers and carried out this mission under the protection of four He-51s.

Mark didn't know that it was Alvin who lived in the manor.

Intelligence from the National Army stated that the manor was heavily guarded, and the guards were all professional soldiers. Armored vehicles often came and went from the manor. Therefore, the National Army judged that the man must be a big shot in the Republican government, so the air raid was carried out.

"We are about to arrive at our destination and will launch an attack in five minutes." Mark used airborne radio to communicate with the ground. Aircraft in southern Africa had begun to use radio ten years ago, but it was a new technology for Germany.

This is not surprising. The German Air Force had just been established and there was no need for airborne radios at all.

"Received, I wish you success in completing your mission, and long live the empire." The ground radio signal was intermittent, and the technology still needs to be improved.

"God bless" Clark prayed next to Mark, who had trained in Russia, Russia and southern Africa, the two main ways for the Luftwaffe to obtain pilots.

After the World War, due to similar situations, Russia and Germany have maintained very close cooperation, and a large number of German pilots received training in Russia.

In Southern Africa, there are mainly amateur pilots who received training in aviation clubs. Few military pilots have returned to Germany. The patriotic education provided by the federal governments of Southern Africa at all levels is still effective.

"Don't worry Clark, there is no air defense position at the target, and there is no field airport nearby. We quickly reach the target and drop the bomb. The battle will be over in five minutes." Mark was in a good mood. The People's Guard lacked air defense capabilities and the field troops were

There were few anti-aircraft machine guns.

Not to mention anti-aircraft guns.

"How does our Aunt Juncker compare with the bombers in southern Africa?" Clark deliberately found a topic to relieve his nervousness.

Unfortunately, the effect was not good. Mark didn't want to answer such a mentally retarded question.

southern african bomber

The world's first heavy bomber was born in Russia.

However, bombers were developed in southern Africa.

The southern African heavy bomber is nicknamed "Thor" and is the world's first heavy four-engine bomber with an all-metal fuselage.

Regarding the specific performance of the "Thor", Mark is not clear, but the maximum range of the previous generation heavy bomber has exceeded 5,000 kilometers, the maximum speed is 500 kilometers per hour, the maximum range bomb load reaches 1.5 tons, and the practical ceiling is 8,500

rice.

For reference, the German He-51 has a maximum speed of 330, a maximum range of 570, and a practical ceiling of 7,700.

As for "Aunt Juncker", its maximum speed is only 275 kilometers per hour, its ceiling is 5,900 meters, and its range is 1,285 kilometers.

This also means that Germany's most advanced fighter jets cannot catch up with the previous generation of heavy bombers in southern Africa. Not only are they unable to catch up in speed, but there are no other fighters that can fly high and have short legs. The gap is all-round.

Thor's performance is stronger than the previous generation.

What makes Mark even more embarrassed is that the armament system of the previous generation bomber in Southern Africa was ten 12.7 mm aviation machine guns, located in the nose, tail, back, and spherical turrets under the belly of the aircraft.

Therefore, unlike the "Aunt Junkers" who must rely on fighter jets for protection during missions, the Southern African bombers can perform missions independently. Even if the He-51 can catch up with the Southern African bombers, it will still have to face dozens of 12.7mm machine guns at the same time.

All-round three-dimensional attack.

The bombers were definitely not acting alone. Mark and his crew were in a three-plane formation this time. If they were replaced by the Southern African Air Force, they would probably be in a six-plane formation, which would have sixty machine guns.

What's more, the "Junkers" is an excellent transport aircraft, but not an excellent bomber.

"Aunt Juncker" was slow, had low defense, and had an inferior bomb load. It was precisely because of the poor performance of "Aunt Juncker" on the Spanish battlefield that Germany continued to develop the He111.

The He111 is not a heavy bomber, but a medium bomber.

Like "Aunt Juncker", He111 also has problems such as insufficient defense, insufficient flexibility, and too slow speed.

At the beginning of the world war, because the fighter jets of various countries were not strong enough, the He111 achieved good results.

With the rapid improvement in the performance of fighter jets from various countries, the He111 suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Britain.

Later, although the Luftwaffe continued to improve the He111, the He111 never achieved the brilliant results it had at the beginning of the war.

Five minutes go by in a blink of an eye.

Before Mark's "Aunt Juncker" arrived at its scheduled location, the faster He-51 was suddenly attacked by ground anti-aircraft fire.

Alvin's guard was selected from the Secret Service of the Palace of Justice.

Anti-aircraft machine guns are also the latest and most advanced models.

The He-51's top speed is only 330 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than a car. Compared with southern African fighter jets, it is almost as slow as a snail.

Coupled with the fact that the two He-51s that had calculated mentally and unintentionally conducted a close reconnaissance of the manor in advance, after the anti-aircraft machine gun opened fire, one He-51 was blown up in the air, and the pilot did not even have a chance to parachute. The other He-51

51 was seriously damaged, and a lot of smoke came out of the tail of the plane. The pilot tried his best to pull the plane up, but failed, and the plane crashed into the woods near the manor.

Fighters smaller and more agile than the "Aunt Juncker" were all shot down on the spot, and Mark was almost heartbroken.

"What the hell is going on? Didn't it say that there is no anti-aircraft firepower on the ground?" Clark's voice was filled with tears, and huge fear enveloped him.

When a fighter jet is shot down, the pilot still has a chance to parachute.

The bomber was shot down and the pilot didn't even have a chance to parachute.

Considering that the bomber is equipped with bombs, the probability of being exploded in the air is greater.

The iron coffin in the air is also well-deserved.

"Pull up, pull up the plane." Mark almost broke the handle wheel, but the effect was not obvious.

The climbing speed of "Aunt Juncker" is a bit slow, about 3 meters per second.

At this time, the manor has already appeared within the visual range. Even if it climbs at full strength, it can probably be lifted up to twenty or thirty meters.

At this distance, it is certainly impossible to escape the range of the anti-aircraft machine gun.

The anti-aircraft machine gun equipped by the Alvin Guard has a caliber of 20 mm and is mounted in four units. According to European standards, it is basically a machine gun.

Only the southern African military, which suffers from the fear of insufficient firepower, is so frantic.

"Aunt Juncker"'s defense was seriously insufficient to begin with.

So when the anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground opened fire, a "Junkers" was blown up in the air, the tail of a "Junkers" was smashed, the plane spun and fell, and after falling to the ground, fuel and aerial bombs triggered

In the explosion, the plane was blown to pieces.

Mark had better luck. The left wing of the "Junkers" he was driving was damaged and the engine on the wing was directly blown off.

Mark reacted quickly. Although he had not yet reached the sky above the manor, Mark opened the magazine in the belly of the plane, dropped all the aerial bombs, and at the same time opened the fuel tank to throw aviation fuel to prevent the plane from exploding when it crashed.

"Hurry up, throw all the bombs out." Mark tried his best to keep the balance of "Aunt Juncker", but the fuselage was still severely deflected.

"We haven't reached the bombing position yet," the observer was yelling, and the sweat on his head was like a shower head.

"Throw them all away, we are about to crash" Mark's voice was filled with tears, and now he regretted it extremely.

Why don't you go back to Germany? Wouldn't it be better to stay in southern Africa and enjoy a peaceful and peaceful life?

It's a pity that there is no if in life.

The moment the plane crashed, a steel plate penetrated Mark's body, almost cutting him in half.

All the passengers on the plane died and no one was spared.

Alvin was very excited.

He personally shot down a He-51 and was then dragged back to the basement by Li Yan.

Regrettably, when the two He-51s protecting "Aunt Juncker" at high altitude discovered that there were anti-aircraft weapons in the manor, they didn't even think about revenge and simply took a detour and fled.

"Evacuate immediately, the Germans will definitely retaliate." Li Yan's face turned livid. Just now, Alvin escaped from Li Yan's control. This was Li Yan's dereliction of duty.

"Don't worry, the German planes will kill as many as they come!" Alvin was full of confidence. It was okay for the German planes to be used to attack the Spaniards, but it would be a dream to use them to attack southern Africa.

Li Yan didn't waste any time, and worked with other guard members to load all the packaged items into the truck, and then evacuated quickly.

The head of the convoy was an "Alligator" armored vehicle.

Not long after leaving the manor, the convoy was forced to stop. The road ahead was blown up and the convoy had to make a detour.

Then turn around, change from defender to forward, and look for other paths.

Before the "Alligator" that Alvin was riding in completed its U-turn, gunshots suddenly came from the forest beside the road.

The fifth column finally took action.

Alvin has now regained his composure, and the "Alligator" can easily handle this level of harassment attack.

It's really easy.

The attackers probably wanted to force the Guard members to abandon their vehicles.

But they ignored the powerful attack power of the "alligator".

The "Alligator" has either a 12.7mm caliber machine gun or a 40mm caliber automatic grenade launcher.

Both weapons are great weapons for light infantry.

Especially the 12.7mm caliber machine gun. Don’t look at the movie. The 12.7mm machine gun is not very powerful and cannot even penetrate a wall.

In actual combat, a person holding such a thick tree would be easily interrupted by a 12.7mm machine gun.

So after the "Alligator" opened fire, the woods instantly turned into a Shura field.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like