After hearing the message from the radar station, Dowding frowned in confusion.

During the day, the German army dispatched thousands of bombers to carry out random bombing raids. What does the dispatch of only nine bombers at night mean? Moreover, some eyewitness reports said that they "saw several bright horizontal flames flying across the sky", which made him even more confused.

The enemy aircraft was very fast, exceeding 600 kilometers per hour. Judging from the speed, it should be the German mosquito bomber, which is famous for its speed. But what happened to the flames? How can a plane have flames? Could it be that those planes were on fire? Don't fall down if it's on fire.

But it was obvious that those planes had no intention of falling; as the headings of these planes were constantly updated, Dowding's face became more and more ugly. They were heading straight for London!

"Take off the night fighters!" Dowding had to give the order. After all, he couldn't just watch London being bombed by planes. Being shelled and bombed were two different things.

The British night fighters were far less advanced than the Germans. A combination of ordinary fighters and pilots who were good at instrument flying formed a night fighter combination. The fighter used was a Hurricane night fighter equipped with four 20mm cannons. The biggest difference between this type of fighter and a day fighter is that the entire aircraft is sprayed with dark matte paint, and the engine exhaust pipe and cockpit windshield are equipped with glare-blocking protective panels.

At this time, two more V-1 missiles in the formation fell and exploded due to malfunctions.

The remaining seven missiles are less than 50 kilometers away from London. According to their flying speed, they can fly into London in less than 5 minutes.

In an air-raid shelter in London, citizens Arnold and Carter quickly walked out of the air-raid shelter and ran not far away. They are not escaping here. After all, they can't find a safer place than a bomb shelter at this time. They just want to go home and get some food. The food allocated in these days was getting less and less, and he was not very full. Arnold thought that there was still some dry food at home, and Carter still had some canned food at home. The two of them decided to go out together to get them back.

They had been planning for several days.

German artillery fire occurred approximately every eight minutes. Arnold's home is five minutes away from here, while Carter's home is a little further away, about ten minutes' walk from here.

They planned to go to Arnold's house to get rations and dodge a round of artillery fire, then go to Carter's house, dodge another round of artillery fire and return the same way.

They squatted at the entrance of the air-raid shelter and counted the German shelling until the tenth shell fell in this round. They walked out of the air-raid shelter and ran quickly towards Arnold's house.

Although the shelling has not stopped these days, London is a big city after all, and since the bombs are only 150 mm caliber, it is far from being desolate.

However, their neighborhood was relatively unlucky. They were hit by five artillery shells. Three shells made three not-so-large craters on the roadside. The other two shells destroyed two houses in half.

Just as the two of them ran to Arnold's house out of breath, in the sky on the outskirts of London, ten Hurricane night fighters took off and followed the guidance of ground radar to the airspace where the target was about to arrive.

"God, what is that?!" John, the night fighter pilot, watched in shock as several bright flames rushed past in the distance, and murmured subconsciously.

Through the light of the flames, he could vaguely see the outline of what was indeed an airplane. Although it was not a mosquito bomber, the opponent's speed was obviously over 600 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed of the fighter they drove was only 540 kilometers per hour. It's impossible to catch up when you're young. "Command, command, the interception failed! Their speed is too fast, we can't catch up at all! They are not mosquito bombers!"

"..." Dowding's frown deepened. Wasn't it a mosquito bomber? So the German army has developed a bomber with a speed of over 600 kilometers per hour?

If fighter jets can't intercept it, they can only rely on air defense positions on the ground. However, as mentioned earlier, due to the serious shortage of anti-aircraft artillery in the UK, the defense of London and other cities had to be temporarily sacrificed and the anti-aircraft artillery deployed in more important places.

There was only a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun position in front of the V-1 missile. The searchlights on the ground suddenly turned on, and bright lampposts shined into the sky.

In fact, without turning on the searchlights, the anti-aircraft artillerymen on the ground could see the tail flames of the V-1 missiles with the naked eye. However, before a few rounds, the V-1 missile formation flew over the anti-aircraft artillery position and broke into the city of London.

The mechanical timer inside the missile activates the oil circuit cutter, cutting off the oil supply. The missile loses power instantly and can only rely on inertia to fly forward. At the same time, the spoilers that were opened greatly decelerated the missiles, and the missiles dived downward one after another.

At this time, Arnold and Carter were loading dry food into bags when they suddenly heard a strange noise in the sky outside.

They were startled, thinking it was a shelling, but then noticed that it was not the screaming sound of falling shells. Thanks to the round-the-clock bombing, many British people can now distinguish the sound of falling artillery shells and even roughly hear the direction of the falling shells.

"What's the sound?" The sound sounded like a motorcycle equipped with two motors running at full speed, but the motorcycle did not fly in the sky.

The two of them curiously went to the window and looked outside, and suddenly saw a bright flame falling from the sky and hitting the ground hard.

"boom!!"

The V3 cannon's 150mm high-explosive shell has a charge of about 6 kilograms, while the V-1 missile warhead is loaded with 850 kilograms of high-explosives. Its power can be imagined.

The earth-shattering explosion even woke up Prime Minister Churchill who was napping in his underground office.

"what sound?!"

Churchill woke up suddenly and heard explosions one after another. The light bulbs on the ceiling flickered, as if they were about to go out at any time. He quickly picked up the phone and called Dowding. "What happened with this explosion? Was it a German bomber?"

Dowding said a little unsure. "Uh, probably so."

Hearing this sentence, Churchill was furious. What does "should be" mean? Just when he was about to get angry, Dowding on the other end of the phone spoke in a somewhat disbelieving tone. "It seems to be a new type of German bomber. When our radar detected them, there were nine of them, and two of them crashed halfway. The remaining seven rushed into London. Their speed exceeded 600 kilometers, and our night fighters could not catch up with them. But they After flying over London, it dived straight down, hit the ground and exploded."

"What?" Churchill was also a little confused when he heard that. What's going on? "Could it be a plane failure?"

"Probably not, Mr. Prime Minister. I think the Germans did it intentionally." If this is a malfunction, the failure rate is 100%. The Germans would be crazy to equip such an aircraft.

"Intentional? Is it a suicide attack?" After saying this, even he felt ridiculous. The Germans now have the advantage. How could they launch such a crazy suicide attack? "Is it a drone?" As the first country to develop a target drone, Churchill immediately thought of this aspect.

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