Chapter 984

It is not easy to fly in formation in the dark sky. If it is in the daytime, then the pilot can use their own line of sight to adjust their own flight speed and altitude, as well as the distance from other surrounding aircraft. But at night, the line of sight is very blurred, so keeping the flying formation is a technology worth studying.

The first is the most skilled pilots, who will fly in front of the whole bomber formation in a three plane formation. Then there are more airplanes, using three aircraft formation to follow behind the three airplanes. The rest of the aircraft extend on both sides of this axis to form a larger triangular formation. Such a huge formation is to keep their respective planes from being lost in the night sky. When they fly close to the Norwegian coastline, they will be divided into several formations, and attack the whole Norwegian steel processing enterprises and mining enterprises at the same time.

In the dark, a B-17 followed by a B-17 bumped in the air. In order to carry as much fuel as possible, these planes only carried a small amount of air bombs, and the excess load was carried with fuel, so that these planes could return to the Icelandic naval base.

Pilots are nervously driving their own aircraft, maintaining their flying posture in the huge formation. Because they only need to follow the pilot plane, most people don't care about their flight direction. They just need to concentrate on controlling the plane and keeping the relative position with other planes.

These planes are loaded with large caliber self-defense machine guns, and the numerous gun barrels make these planes look like dense hedgehogs. When flying in dense formation, they can effectively deal with the threat of German aircraft, which is the main reason why the US military is determined to bomb Norway. They are full of confidence in these modified bombers.

The roar of the engine was monotonous and obvious in such a silent and dark night sky that few people spoke, because they knew that it must be the German artillery fire all over the sky waiting for them. It's a test of life and death. It will test whether everyone will be pitied by the goddess of fate.

"Keep heading!" In the pilot's bomber, after comparing the compass and chart, the pilot raised his head to the senior pilot who strictly controlled the flight speed and said, "we will be over Norway in 35 minutes."

On the rough sea, on the command tower of a German submarine, the sailor on duty in a leather windbreaker looked up at the stars. Because of the waves, he could not hear the sound of the engine of the plane, but he could see the warning lights on the planes that kept flying distance clearly with his telescope.

"We found the target! Send this information back to the Norwegian headquarters immediately! Come on The chief officer on duty orders the sergeants around him loudly that the waves are beating the command tower, splashing a piece of cold water. The water splashes on the sergeant's face, with a trace of bone chilling.

"This is u-240! We found the plane! Lots of planes! They're flying in the direction of Norway! come again! This is the u-240 submarine. We found a lot of American planes! Heading for Norway! Heading for Norway The telegraph operator frantically sent out coded messages, hoping to send everything he found to his headquarters as soon as possible.

In the German provisional air defense command in Norway, a Naval Liaison Officer snatched the code from the telegraph operator and rushed to the code translation room, where the interpreter translated the emergency information as quickly as possible.

Then the Naval Liaison Officer ran madly to the side of admiral Catherine and group I commander Kleist: "find the target! U-240 has found the target

"Mark their positions! At once Catherine hastened to order. Not far behind him, a female sergeant with a huge putter neatly pasted a red mark on the map next to the location of the u-240 submarine.

"The Americans are approaching the Norwegian coast! They'll be in our core air defense position in 20 minutes Catherine looked at the map and deduced the speed and route of the American bombers: "if it's daytime, we can take off fighters to intercept now. Unfortunately, it's night and it's a long time before the day. "

After listening to Catherine, a professional air force commander, analyzing the enemy's possible movements, general klester asked, "have all the air force anti-aircraft artillery units been deployed? Can we disperse the bombers over the protected area? "

"Only relying on air defense firepower is not the way... What we can do now is to pray that our night fighter forces can achieve better results!" Catherine took a look at general klester and answered his question: "this is their first large-scale deployment. I hope our huge investment is not in vain!"

When Catherine finished, she asked general klester, "I've done my best in air defense. Now my biggest question is, how can the Americans find the ground targets they bombed in such a mountainous area as Sweden in such a dark environment! "

Kleist is also struggling with this matter. His troops have been fully mobilized. Hundreds of German troops are looking for anything suspicious in the dark mountains. In order to be safe, he even sent out helicopters and a small number of special forces assigned to him.

If you want to indicate the target for high-altitude bombing, the only way you can use now is to light a fire or provide lighting. As long as the other side is prevented from doing this, the effect of the bombing will be greatly reduced, and even completely lose its own goal Just as general Kleist called again to urge his ground forces to search as closely as possible for suspicious areas, a German helicopter was speeding through a dense forest on the edge of the mountain. This is the second time that it has passed through the woodland. Last time, it got nothing from the searchlight. But this time it obviously found something, so after skimming the woodland, it turned the nose and flew back quickly. The huge searchlight is sweeping back and forth on the ground, hoping to encounter the suspicious spot of the reflection just now“ There are suspicious objects below! Lower the altitude! Lower the altitude The soldier who controls the searchlight on the helicopter loudly reminds the companion who controls the machine gun to aim at the precise camouflaged cabin. After hearing the radio warning, the pilot begins to slowly descend the height of the plane. Not far away, the sound of the wolf dog barking came. A group of nearby German patrol soldiers came quickly. The messenger carrying the radio informed the nearby friendly troops of the situation. The atmosphere became tense. After all, this was the first suspicious building they found“ Bang In the hut with a cover on the trench, there was a shot. The bullet hit the helicopter and sparked. The huge searchlight was smashed, and the machine gunner on one side pulled the trigger under his finger without thinking“ Sudden! Suddenly, suddenly The machine guns were blazing fiercely, and the dense bullets hit the roof of the hidden house. The withered branches and leaves scattered on the roof were flying around by the huge force. For a moment, the sound of the broken wood covered the scream of the people inside. The German patrol in the distance had also arrived. They approached the room with rifles under the cover of machine guns. Then the machine guns stopped fire suddenly, and they seized the time to enter the room from the surrounding camouflaged potholes. Inside lay three or five bodies in civilian clothes, surrounded by scattered British Li? Enfield rifle. Fortunately, the German army also found a few barrels of gasoline in the storage groove dug out on the pit wall, and they were not ignited by the machine guns fired from the helicopter. It's clear that these people are going to use these barrels of gasoline to direct the ground targets to the U.S. bomber forces“ Report immediately! Say we found some armed saboteurs hiding around the mining area! " One of the leading officers yelled at the signalman: "come on! Call headquarters! Let them focus on the mountain woodland which is easy to hide! "“ Woo... Woo... "The distant iron ore rough processing plant sounded the fierce air defense alarm, and the loudspeaker in the plant repeatedly played the order to ask all personnel to turn off the lights. The martial law has already begun. All areas, including the city, have to turn off the power and lights to prevent being found by American planes“ Come on! It's too late! Let's get all the troops on the alert! " The officer heard the air defense alarm sounded in the distance and knew that the US plane was approaching the airspace near Norway. So he raised his head and looked at the starry sky with his deep eyes as he gave the order. Just at this time, when everything was going to be quiet with the air defense alarm going out, suddenly guns came from all directions. Those saboteurs hidden in the dark finally launched their deadly attack. The officer of the national defense forces looked at the distance in surprise. Now he knew how large-scale the destruction was tonight. Listening to the intense gunfire, he drew a pistol from his waist, and then glanced at his subordinates: "move closer to the martial law area immediately! If you encounter any suspicious elements, fire directly! " After giving the order, he quickly turned to the place where the gunfire was most intensive, pushed aside the branches around him and walked into the dense forest. Behind him, the German Defense Forces soldiers with rifles, carefully followed not far behind him. The helicopter without the searchlight rose to a safe height and returned to the base for repair.