Chapter 684

Soon after, Hartman had bypassed the edge of the US bomber formation and approached the US aircraft from the other side. The poor American fighter had just pulled out more than a dozen fighters when Hartman penetrated the defense of his fleet from another direction.

"Suddenly! Suddenly This time, because the distance is closer, so this time, Hartmann shot a long shot, and shot a full 10 rounds of 30mm machine gun shells. Almost all of them hit the fuselage and wings of a B-17 bomber.

The two engines on the left side of the B-17 immediately emitted thick smoke, which was even more pitiful than the predecessor who slowed down and flew at the descending altitude. Unfortunately, a shell hit the flap of the plane and flew the huge lift flap on the wing, resulting in the uneven thickness of the wings on both sides of the plane.

In addition, the two shells hit the wing root, which may have damaged the load-bearing support of the huge bomber. In a few seconds, the wing of the aircraft hit by the shells was broken because of the air resistance. After the broken wing, the aircraft began to spin and fall, and the smoke and burning oil were thrown everywhere.

"My God! FireStarter! FireStarter! Self defense weapons on all bombers, free to fight back! " Although a B-17 was hit just now, according to the radio, the plane had only been hit by three holes, and it was not as serious as the crash. Therefore, depending on the huge size of its own plane, some American bomber pilots who underestimated German fighters were not too nervous, They feel that the weapons on the other side's fighters will not cause irreparable damage to their aircraft, so everyone is waiting for their escort fighters to crush the two flying German flies.

But now the situation suddenly becomes different, that German plane shot down a B-17 bomber fiercely with a short shot, and it actually fell down. The visual impact on all people is huge, and it is just collapsing.

So the commander of the bomber called out the order just now. He ordered his own bomber troops to start shooting freely and prevent the other fighter planes from approaching the bomber formation. However, he obviously overlooked one thing, that is, the people on the bomber are not elite soldiers of all wars. They can only be said to be recruits with excellent training.

So with a command, the fort shooters on these American bombers began to use their own way to drive away their inner fear, and they began to pour their ammunition madly at the target with their weapons.

"Suddenly! Suddenly, suddenly Because Hartmann's fighter plane made a pull-up action, almost all the shooters in the electric rotary turret on the back of the American bomber could see the German plane still in the distance, so hundreds of 30mm machine guns were aimed at their targets, and then the tracer bullets swept in the direction of the enemy plane like a torrential rain.

"God! 035, you almost hit me The pilot of a B-17 plane swore loudly in his headphones, but before his voice dissipated, another pilot complained that the man in front of him opened fire fiercely and nearly flew his plane's nose.

In fact, this is not the most helpless problem. The most important problem is that the other side's plane, because of its high speed, is no longer within the attack range of the dual electric turret on the back of the B-17. However, the American bombers are still firing fiercely, wasting their precious self-defense ammunition.

"Fool! He's out of range! What kind of fire? Aim at the other side and follow the position of the other side! Wait until the other side rushes over, and then fire to interfere with the other side's attack! " An American veteran who took part in the bombing over the North African battlefield loudly reminded his teammates, but unfortunately his intercom can only be connected to the soldiers of other gun positions on the plane, unable to communicate with the whole formation.

"Shut up! I can't hear the captain's orders! Hey The pilot in the cockpit is obviously not used to this kind of big scene. Although he is also an old pilot who has experienced war in North Africa, in fact, he has only carried out three flight missions. The most terrible one was bombing Tobruk. However, although he was heavily attacked by German ground artillery, he was unexpectedly attacked by a small number of enemy planes.

However, it is obvious that he is not very lucky today. He was arranged outside the bomber formation. After all, the United States rarely carries out such long-range bombing missions. Therefore, pilots with combat flying experience like him are arranged outside.

Unfortunately, the only plane that flew outside of him was just shot down by Hartmann. Now he has to face the attack of his opponent directly. However, from the action of the German fighter with black tulip on the nose, it seems that the opponent is obviously an experienced fighter. It is a nightmare to fly outside to deal with this kind of enemy.

The good news is that after a round trip, the other side was driven out of the attack range by its own fighters, and the turret of the distant B-17 bomber finally stopped shooting. God knows whether it was because they saw that the other side was not in the attack range, or because they ran out of bullets.

Before he was relieved that the German fighter with black tulip on its nose left, the American pilot saw that the two P-40 fighters pursued by the friendly forces were bitten by the tail by a beautiful somersault of the other side. The attacker immediately became a lamb to be slaughtered, only to see the fierce fire of the other side, Two new American fighter planes became fragments in the air and exploded into a group of gorgeous fireworks“ Don't leave the queue. There are very few planes from the other side. We are very close to the target. He uses a large caliber aircraft gun, which is similar to the zero type. So this guy doesn't have enough ammunition to shoot down many of our planes. Try to keep the formation and force him to waste ammunition by covering each other. Soon these two planes will return home! " The veteran pilot with rich combat experience, the commander of this bombing mission, loudly reminded his comrades how to deal with this kind of trouble. Although the Americans have maintained a large number of air forces in the Middle East and also participated in the combat with German aircraft, there are not many such large-scale aircraft combat. If they carry out bombing missions in places like Africa where birds do not poop, they will be temporarily cancelled in most cases if they are intercepted by the other aircraft, So it's rare for large-scale fighting to break out. Although the Americans suffered a lot from the few combat contacts, they were more willing to believe that they were the trump pilots deliberately transferred to North Africa by Germany, and they did not represent the general combat level of German pilots. As for the intelligence from Britain's allies and the Soviet Union, and how powerful the German air force is, the US pilots subjectively attribute it to US pilots who are not too strong opponents, but too weak to make excuses. Therefore, American pilots don't know much about German pilots, especially the German pilots on the eastern route. A few minutes ago, they despised their counterparts and believed that most of the German pilots relied on the high performance of fighter planes, not on their own driving level. However, when countless pairs of eyes saw the German fighter plane, which was just like the graceful leaves floating back and forth in the wind and killed again not far from the American bomber formation, these American pilots knew that they had made a mistake, a huge mistake: the overall quality of the original German pilots was already very high, It's high enough to be terrifying. Just under the gaze of the American pilot, Hartman made another risky flight. He dived and accelerated, approached the periphery of the American bomber with the fastest speed, and then rolled to avoid the back turret of the other side's fire. He directly opened five holes in the cockpit of the third B-17 bomber, making all the pilots and pilots in it mud. There was no suspense. The American bomber lost control, swayed back and forth twice, then suddenly turned left and fell into the sky. In the process, the out of control plane also crashed the wing tip of another B-17. All the American pilots found that their palms were beginning to sweat, because they remembered the scene in front of them, as if they had seen it somewhere. Some people think of a shark swimming around a school of fish. Even if there are hundreds of small and weak sea fish, they are all food in shark's eyes. What they didn't know was that Hartman felt that this kind of battle was more difficult than the original fight for air supremacy. He used up almost half of the ammunition of his 30mm caliber axial guns to achieve the exact results of two B-17 bombers. In fact, although the first B-17 was damaged and returned, it was not shot down according to the situation, and the B-17 with its wing tip smashed was still flying well in the formation, so it didn't mean to leave at all“ damn! These American bombers are stronger than they think! We don't have enough ammunition! " Hartman complained to his wingman squadron leader as he pressed the joystick to avoid the two American fighters“ Hartman! We can only interfere with them. Originally, two planes could not shoot down all of them. From the beginning, we knew that there was not enough ammunition! " The squadron leader covered Hartman to shoot down an American fighter plane and answered with a bitter smile as he pulled it up to seek altitude.