This is an air battle between Germany's BF109 and the British "Hurricane".

Both sides chose the battlefield above the 21st Armored Division at the same time.

For the British army, the purpose of this is to attract the main force of the German Air Force to come and face the challenge. The British army who likes traditionally are not good at flexible tactics, such as ambushing, sneak attacks, etc., are better at setting up a formation and then launching a charge, just like the matchup in the Knights era.

The Luftwaffe had to fight because the 21st Armored Division was their main cover mission. Not responding to the battle means that the 21st Armored Division would suffer a heavy blow, so the German attack on the Alamein Line was nowhere to be discussed.

At the same time, the Luftwaffe is also happy to fight because the air defense forces of the 21st Panzer Division will provide them with the necessary air defense firepower.

Just as Qin Chuan saw, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were set up immediately and bombarded into the air. Most of the anti-aircraft guns were "Bofors" anti-aircraft guns... The Germans were reluctant to use the 88 anti-aircraft guns as air defense because they found that this thing was more suitable for tank attacks.

It is actually very dangerous for ground troops to do this. Soon they are attacked by enemy fighters... Several "hurricane" fighters dived down, and with the roar of machine guns, the bullets drove several German troops from an anti-aircraft machine gun position into sieves.

The ground troops are very powerless against the air high-speed and flexible fighter jets. Qin Chuan, as a sniper, knows this very well.

You may find several fighter jets and target them, but in fact the bullets and shells fired are difficult to hit the target. The reason is that the aircraft moves at high speed, unless you can judge the distance and speed of the target and accurately shoot the advance... In fact, this is difficult to do. The background of the aircraft is the sky and there is no reference for reference.

And even if you guess correctly or you may be right, as long as the goal turns or pulls up, your calculations and luck will disappear.

As a result, several anti-aircraft machine gun positions and anti-aircraft gun positions were destroyed by British fighter jets and bombers. Fortunately, these shooters and gunners were well-trained. After they judged that they would become the enemy's target and would inevitably be destroyed, they immediately threw down their equipment and fled... Experienced soldiers knew that they should avoid the shooting line of enemy fighter jets when they escaped.

The so-called shooting line is the direction where the enemy fighter plane dives. This direction is basically the direction where the bullets are fired, and the bullet will also shoot a bullet line on the ground in a long line.

If you run along the direction of this line... then you are finished, a 7.7MM machine gun bullet will ruthlessly pass through your body.

The well-trained German soldiers knew to run towards the longitudinal direction of this line, so some survived.

Of course, the Luftwaffe would not allow the British army to attack the ground forces unscrupulously, so they immediately dived down and joined the battle group. The fighter jets of the two sides soon fought together and started a tense and fierce battle.

The performance of the German BF109 is better than that of the British "Hurricane" fighter, which is mainly reflected in the fact that the BF109 has faster speed... Speed ​​is always the first indicator, especially in the era of fighter dog fights. Having a faster speed can always escape the enemy's biting tail or even go around the target and destroy it.

(Note: The maximum speed of BF109 can reach 686 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed of the "Hurricane" fighter jet is 505 kilometers per hour)

But this is not the most important thing. What is serious is the relatively backward formation tactics of the British army... The British army has always adopted a dense formation of three aircraft "V" characters, that is, the aircraft is in front, and the two wingmen are on both sides and behind the aircraft. The wingmen and aircraft are about 100 meters apart.

The British army believes that the largest observation angle covered by such dense formations is most suitable for air combat... As for the iron triangle, as long as every pilot pays attention and is vigilant about the part he is responsible for, he can perfectly discover and solve enemies approaching from all directions.

But in fact, this is just the British's idea of ​​slapping their heads, just like they came up with "infantry tanks". Even because of the British tradition and conservatism, even though it was proved in actual combat that this formation was not suitable for air combat, the British Air Force was always unwilling to correct its mistakes.

The results of actual combat are exactly the opposite of what I imagined: because the formation is too dense, the wingman pilot must fly very carefully, and his main energy is to keep a formation distance from the troop and have no time to pay attention to the rear. When it comes to maneuvering actions such as sharp turns, the British commander must be more careful and must spend a few seconds enough to determine the outcome in air combat to prompt the wingman to prepare. Because at such a close distance, two aircraft will collide if they are not careful.

The chief aircraft thought that there was wingman protection in the rear, so he could rest assured. Often, it was bitten by German fighter jets and opened fire. The British army found that there was a tail behind and even the wingman had been shot down, but it was too late to discover it.

The German army originally adopted this "V" formation.

However, on the one hand, because the number of BF109 is small, it has to be configured in a dispersed manner, so a two-machine one-line horizontal formation method with a spacing between the two machines is gradually formed.

As a result, the Germans found that this one-line horizontal formation was much more maneuverable and flexible than the "V" three-machine formation, so they used the two-machine formation without hesitation.

As a result, the BF109 showed its power in the air. Amid the whistling of fighter planes and the sound of machine guns, one after another, the "hurricane" fighter planes fell straight from the sky with black smoke and strange roars.

This is the first time Qin Chuan has watched an air battle up close as a third party... In fact, Qin Chuan cannot be considered a third party, but at this time he has completely entrusted his life to the driver, so he is almost a crowd who is watching the show.

In his eyes, air combat is like a bunch of kites flying around in the sky, and from time to time, several of them fall off due to damage or entanglement.

This doesn't make people feel cruel... Although Qin Chuan knows that this is not the case, because it can be imagined that the pilots flying those fighters are nervously chasing the target while trying their best to avoid becoming targets of the enemy.

But at least there is no blood, nor is there any disgusting and spitting broken limbs. Some of them are just a fighter plane crashing, a fighter plane breaks down on fire, or a fighter plane falls to the ground due to a mistake...

Of course, most of the shot down were British fighter jets.

This made the German soldiers who had had enough of the British bombing and were full of anger.

“Beautiful job!”

"Give these guys some good looks!"

"Wow, did you see it? They destroyed another one!"

...

This reminded Qin Chuan of a man, a legendary German ace pilot Marceu.

The pilot confirmed a record of 158 personal destruction, of which 151 were obtained over North Africa. What is incredible is that it set a record of shooting down eight enemy aircraft within ten minutes.

It takes about this time to shoot down eight enemy planes in ten minutes, even if they line up and let them fight as targets!
Chapter completed!