Three hundred and seventy-five, the courage of every man and the strategy of being handsome
Shortly after Zhou Zhihan led the Spitfire and Hurricane Squadron to leave, a pilot from the Fearless Combat Squadron who was performing a defensive mission over the Port of Dover suddenly saw a school of fish appearing to be swimming quickly in their direction on the sea several kilometers.
How can these fish swim so fast?
This is not right.
He took out his telescope and finally saw clearly that it was not a group of fish, but more than twenty Messerschmidt fighters painted similar to the ocean background.
They are all old enemies who know each other well. Just look at the back of the fighter planes and know that these are Messerschmitt.
He judged in the next second that the target of Messerchmit, whose fuselages were painted in the ocean background, was not the blocked CW 9 large fleets of ships in the Port of Dover, because the flight direction of the German aircraft was not here.
Time is tight, and the fearless fighter pilot did not tell the squadron leader the news first, but immediately reported it to the ground airport.
More than ten seconds later, the news that Messerchmidt, two squadrons, was spread to the command of the British Royal Air Force.
Bentri Abbey.
In a large radar combat conference room.
Upon hearing the airport's report, General Dowding and the Air Force Minister immediately knew that the Germans had found a loophole in the British radar.
General Hugh Dauding looked at the Minister of Navy, and thought to himself that there was something big in trouble.
At present, there are far fewer British fighter jets than Germany, and they rely on radar. If the power of the radar is seen through by the Germans, it will be even more difficult for the British army.
So all the commanders in the war room came to the combat map and speculated where the targets of these mysterious fighters of the Germans were.
After more than ten seconds, the person who had been talking to the ground airport asked the official report: the two squadrons of Messmit fighters did not attack the CW 9 large fleet that was stuck in Dover Port, but easily bypassed the Fearless Fighter defending over the fleet and headed straight to the British coast. The Fearless Fighter had no time to intercept and could not catch up with the lightning-fast Mei.
"Radar!" Admiral Hugh Dowtin stared at several radar base stations near the Port of Dover on the map. "The Germans' target may be radar! Due to the lack of early warning, the anti-aircraft artillery of the radar station did not have time to intercept."
Two months ago, after the Dunkirk War came to an end, Zhou Zhihan flew a few laps around the British coastline and wrote several reports to the Royal Air Force Operations Department.
Based on experience on the Chinese battlefield, Zhou Zhihan believes that starting from the British Coast, a "secret lookout" should be set up by well-trained people. In case of a radar failure, these secret lookouts at the forefront can play an important role. Moreover, secret lookouts can also be discovered where some radar bands cannot radiate. After all, people are also keen and can find many places that radars cannot search during World War II.
But at that time, the Royal Air Force headquarters believed that there were at least seven or eight or even dozens of radar antenna towers in each radar station. Even if one or two of them failed, it would not hinder the normal operation of other radar antenna towers, so there was no need to waste labor and arrange secret lookout posts from the seaside to the inland.
Since the Royal Air Force headquarters said this, Zhou Zhihan did not say much. After all, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, China had no radar stations, so it could only set up many secret lookout posts a few dozen kilometers outside the airport. The Royal Air Force's facilities were many times stronger than the simple Chinese Air Force. In particular, the radar is currently at the forefront of the world, and Zhou Zhihan didn't know much about radar. Since the Royal Air Force's authority denies its suggestions, it would be useless to say more.
Just then, an officer reported:
"The four German aircraft squadrons that took off from Pien Airport arrived in the middle of the strait, and the troops were divided into three groups.
A squadron detoured to the left and flew southwest along the British coast.
A squadron separated from the brigade and headed towards the direction of Limney Beach.
The remaining two squadrons of enemy planes continued to move forward.”
Upon hearing this, the generals standing in front of the map looked even more severe, and the atmosphere in the entire combat room instantly solidified. The German squadrons suddenly divided their troops and changed directions. This is rare, and it also shows that the Luftwaffe had conspiracy.
The generals quickly judged that the Luftwaffe suddenly changed its formation, which was most likely an attack radar.
Radar is the lifeblood of Britain.
Since the Luftwaffe raids at low altitudes and it was a detour, it is estimated that even if the anti-aircraft artillery arranged between the radar and the coast is prepared, it is useless. The Luftwaffe must have bypassed the anti-aircraft artillery and directly entered the radar area to find the radar.
Due to the Battle of Dunkirk, Britain threw too many large weapons in France, and the arsenal made every effort to build fighter jets and had no time to make artillery, so there was a serious shortage of anti-aircraft artillery. One can only arrange an artillery defense between the radar and the coast, and the other three sides were as if it were false. If the German aircraft knew the truth, it could easily break through.
In order to prevent being bombed by the Luftwaffe during the day, the radar base is very hidden. It is difficult to find the Leita if you don’t know planes fly over the radar base. However, the Germans rushed directly to the radar base, indicating that they knew there was a radar there and would be found soon.
Now, it is definitely too late to intercept fighter jets from other airports.
Admiral Hugh Dowding reached out to grab the map baton and knocked on the map: "This is the Pevensi radar station...This is the Ray Radar station...This is the radar station near Dover."
Everyone took a breath of air conditioning, and the Luftwaffe was almost attacking these three radar stations.
General Xu Daoding was very decisive: "Come to me immediately!"
Communications officer: "Yes. General... has been connected with Colonel Zhou Zhihan!"
"Col. Zhou, we took the German plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Now I concluded that the Luftwaffe wanted to sneak attack our army's Pervensy radar station, Rai radar station, and radar station near the Port of Dover. Now you three squadrons will return immediately and go to the above three radar stations to return to defense. I hope God will bless you to it!
Zhou Zhihan immediately replied: "Yes! We have just left there for three or four minutes, and I hope we can turn around and rush back."
After Zhou Zhihan finished speaking, he switched the call back to each fighter squadron:
"All fighters immediately turn around quickly. The Luftwaffe may raid our radar station and everyone will return to defense as quickly as possible.
The 302nd Hurricane Squadron went to the nearest Dover radar station. The enemy may send out this time not bombers, but new fighters that can carry bombs. Don’t fight them head-on. You should mainly stop them from dropping bombs and wait for reinforcements;
The Royal 200th Spitfire Squadron headed to the Pervenci radar station, where the terrain was complex, and it took a lot of trouble for the Germans to find the radar. They would definitely hover at low altitudes. You quickly lifted up, caught them off guard, and then fought with them, waiting for reinforcements;
The 304th Spitfire Squadron assigned half of the fighter jets to the Royal 200th Spitfire Squadron, and the remaining fighters followed me to Rai Raida Station.
After turning around, everyone turned on the growth rate and moved forward at full speed."
The three squadron leaders each replied: "Received!"
Then all the fighters quickly turned around and flew to their respective defense areas at full speed.
On the sea.
Captain Heinz, the German ace pilot, suddenly stepped forward and led two experimental special combat squadrons to fly almost against the sea. From a distance, he saw the fearless fighter jets on duty in the air in the Port of Dover. He turned the nose slightly and easily broke through several slow, clumsy fearless fighters coming to intercept. After one minute, they flew to the coast, and all the fighters began to lift up.
According to the previous agreement, if all fighter jets arrive at the British coast smoothly, they will immediately pull up and turn on the communicator.
Heinz: "Lt. Lutz!"
"Sir! Lutz received it!"
"We are divided into two groups here. You lead the Third Special Forces Squadron to attack the British Radar Station. I lead the Fourth Special Forces Squadron to bomb the Pervensy Radar Station. We are divided into two groups here. Good luck!"
"Luz received it! Good luck! Sir!" Lieutenant Luz, the squadron leader of the Third Special Operations Squadron, turned around during the lifting and led 12 fighter jets toward the Ray radar station.
Bentri Abbey.
Large radar combat room.
After General Hugh Dowding ordered Zhou Zhihan to lead the aircraft team back to defense, he ordered three Hurricane fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force to take off and go separately to intercept four other German fighter squadrons.
The three hurricane fighter squadrons each arrived above the designated interception location. Only one squadron of Stuka bombers appeared above the large shipyard on the coast of Limney. When Stuka saw the hurricane fighter from a distance of more than ten kilometers away, he immediately turned around and flew back. This made the British pilot feel inexplicable. Where did the German guy play?
At this moment, the intelligence officer reported to Admiral Dowding: "The other three German fighter jet squadrons suddenly turned, and one of them separated from the fleet again, avoided the interception of the Hurricane Squadron and flew along the coastline. The purpose and direction were unknown..."
General Hugh Dowding stood in front of the map and looked at the map with all the generals and pondered deeply. The Germans suddenly changed their tactics today, which made people restless.
It turned out that the Luftwaffe dispatched a large group of aircraft to bomb the CW 9 large fleet of Port Dover at the beginning. Then, based on time, when the air battle at Port Dover was not over, four fighter squadrons were sent to swagger and cover two special operations squadrons to fly low on the sea.
Two special operations squadrons went to bomb the British radar station, while the long-range Stuka bombers performed experiments on disturbing the enemy.
After a few months of air combat, the Luftwaffe roughly felt the British combat deployment, because every time German aircraft took off and arrived at the attack site, British aircraft would set up formations there, which would directly strangle the Luftwaffe's raid.
Therefore, Major Adolf Garland, who was both brave and talented, offered advice to Marshal Kessel and Marshal Sbiel, sent a group of bombers to fly along the British coast, forcing the Royal Air Force fighter troops to take off and intercept.
The bomber troops found that the Royal Air Force came to intercept and ran away. If the British Air Force chased, their defense would be empty, and the German Air Force could send fighter troops to take advantage of the situation.
If the Royal Air Force does not pursue it, it will definitely send out war zone fighters to take off and intercept it.
Chapter completed!