Chapter 584 The Gap in Equipment (Plus 4)
Historically, the British air battle ended in the defeat of Germany, because Germany was mainly the offensive side, and they needed to fly over the United Kingdom, and the BF109 at that time had a serious shortage of range, so they could not let go.
Moreover, no matter how good a pilot is, there will always be times when they miss. For British pilots, it doesn't matter if they fall, as long as they don't fall to their death, pat the soil on their bodies and fight again.
However, for German pilots, it will not work. Once parachuting, they will either die or be captured. Therefore, from the personnel point of view, Germany can only be continuously consumed.
Now, the situation is different. The airspace where the two sides are fighting is only the narrow English Channel. Over the strait, hundreds of fighter planes have gathered, rolling back and forth, fighting, making people dazzled.
It was obvious that a plane was chasing, but in a flash, it became attacked by other planes, and fighter jets continued to drag black smoke and fell from the sky.
At this time, even those who were quickly operating their own ships on the sea were looking up intermittently, watching the battle in the sky, it was really too intense!
"No!" Fisherman Bailey shouted loudly on his fishing boat. He looked up at the sky, and fighter planes painted with blue, white and red circle logos kept falling down.
Of course he recognized that it was his own fighter jet!
The crash of one after another is quite bad. Can our own air force defeat the Luftwaffe?
He looked up, looked at a pilot, jumped out of the cabin, and then a white umbrella blossomed in the air. He immediately changed direction and drove towards the direction where the other party fell.
He couldn't help but save.
If the pilot was still alive when he jumped down, he might have been rescued if he jumped into the sea, but if he jumped off, he would be injured, and he might be in a coma when he fell into the sea.
In this way, the other party has no hope of surviving, and the parachute rope will wrap around him, wrapping him like a zongzi, causing him to be engulfed in the sea.
Saving anyone is saving. As an old fisherman who has been floating at sea for decades, Bailey's face is bronze, and his beard is still covered with crystal water droplets. His eyes are full of concern. .
As Churchill advertised, these people are like his children, whether it is an expedition on the other side or an airplane in the sky.
"Crash." At this moment, an exhausted and naked man climbed up on his boat.
This man had obviously been swimming in the sea water for a long time. His whole body was red, and his chest kept heaving. After he got up, he lay there and couldn't get up again.
"Who are you?" Bailey asked.
"Expeditionary Force, 3rd Infantry Division, Division Commander, Montgomery." Montgomery said to the fisherman: "Please observe the sea more, my people should be nearby."
Montgomery finally swam over. At this time, he had reached the center line of the strait. The swimming for more than ten kilometers had almost exhausted his whole body.
You must know that those who crossed the English Channel in later generations were fully prepared and had enough physical strength, but what about them? Hastily marching, fighting, until the final defeat, before jumping into the sea.
When they entered the sea, in fact, most of their strength had been consumed.
The coverage of the rockets allowed them only a few people to swim, and some of these people, in the process of swimming, lost their physical strength and were eventually swept away by the waves and disappeared without a trace, like Montgomery. , It was entirely by survival instinct that he persisted.
He hoped to rescue his subordinates, but when Bailey looked around, he couldn't see anything at all. No new swimmers were found on the sea.
Montgomery was lying on the fishing boat, looking at the sky, this aerial battle was going on fiercely, but the German side had the upper hand!
Within ten minutes, more than a dozen Spitfires fell, but only one German fighter was injured. This ratio is absolutely unacceptable to our side.
Without air supremacy, it would be even more difficult for the expeditionary army to save its own side.
"Wow." The pilot who fell into the water was pulled up by Bailey. He drank a lot of seawater. Now, lying on the boat's side, he spit weakly, and it would be better if he spit it out.
"It's not that our pilots are not brave, it's the difference in the performance of our fighter jets." Montgomery said regretfully, just like on land, it's not that his fighters are not brave, but the performance of his own tanks is too poor , simply cannot compete with the Germans.
This is true on land, and it is true on the sea.
"Yes." The rescued pilot on the side was also gnashing his teeth at this time: "The German plane is simply too terrible. They can directly perform negative-G maneuvers. If we want to do it, we can only roll over and overturn first. Then go into the dive to maintain a positive G to prevent the engine from stalling due to a fuel cut."
Just now, he was shot down by other German fighter planes because of his slow movement because of such a maneuver. In the past, they never knew that the German fighter planes must not use carburetors. !
This small gap alone makes the German fighters invincible. When their own side catches up with the other side and then aims to fire, the other side makes such a maneuver and throws itself off!
And once one's own side is bitten by the other side, there is almost no possibility of escape!
Our own fighter jets have enough power, climb fast, and go around in circles horizontally, but the German fighter jets simply don't take the bait.
It can be said that there are already a large number of old fritters among German pilots!
Montgomery finally gave up watching in the sky and closed his eyes silently.
He can already guess that the UK is really going to lose. If the expeditionary force cannot withdraw, then the UK will be seriously injured. Can the narrow English Channel stop the German attack?
Do not! God will not let that madman rule all of Europe!
God will help the British Empire, even if the island of Great Britain is conquered, the United Kingdom will not perish, and the British have imperial subjects overseas, and they will continue to fight until the new world, when God sees fit, has all it has. The power to save and liberate this old world!
At this moment, he remembered Churchill's speech, England, will never be conquered!