Chapter 420： It's not easy to fool the Royal Air Force

"The distance is fifty kilometers." From the radar station, new target data came.

It is 50 kilometers away from the radar, and it is only about 200 kilometers away to our side. Neuer wrote his fist and said to the Klimu beside him: "Fire!"

ignition!

Following the order, a famous oil worker lit a torch dipped in gasoline with a match and a lighter in his hand, and then threw the torch into a half-length oil barrel.

Immediately, smoke and dust billowed, and all the oil drums were lit!

When the crude oil is extracted, it is black and viscous. These crude oils need to be refined to obtain various finished products, such as diesel, gasoline, kerosene, heavy oil, asphalt, etc.

Both gasoline and kerosene can be ignited directly, but diesel and heavy oil cannot be ignited directly. The problem is the structure of the oil.

Lightweight fuels can be ignited directly, but heavy fuels can't.

Putting it on crude oil is the same. Heavy crude oil cannot be ignited directly, but light crude oil can.

Now, to be safe, light the torch first, and then use the torch to ignite the crude oil, then it can be lit.

When the torch was thrown into the oil drum, within a few seconds, the flame inside was blazing, and huge black smoke came out at the same time.

All the fire spots were ignited, and the thick smoke quickly became dense, covering the entire oil field and nearby areas.

A rumbling voice has been heard in the distant sky.

The British bomber force has arrived!

Philip's bomber flew at the forefront of the entire formation. The weather was very good along the way. He was full of confidence in the bombing.

In particular, the entire fleet flew across the border and into the desert without any obstacles, so he was even more confident.

You know, Libya is full of deserts, and the population is mainly concentrated in coastal areas.

In these oil fields like the inland, apart from the oil workers, only the oasis is inhabited. Therefore, although they have flown all the way from Egypt along the inland, they don’t have to worry about being discovered.

The sky was clear and it was good weather for bombing.

"About to enter the sky above the target." Behind him, the navigator said to him.

You are about to enter the sky above the target, use the incendiary bomb you carry to set the entire oil field on fire! Philip thought in his heart and couldn't help but looked at the land far away.

This view made his heart cold.

what is that?

As far as Philip's field of vision was, there was a billowing thick black smoke, which was spreading towards the sky. The black smoke was quite rich, and the area was quite large!

"Damn, these Germans!" Philip could not help cursing.

Of course Philip knows that these thick smoke do not appear naturally, they are definitely directed by humans.

What are the Germans doing?

Did they know that they had come to bomb, so they deliberately lit the oil well? If you really want to do this, you can only say that the Germans are too cruel, cruel to the enemy, and cruel enough to themselves.

In order to prevent Britain from exploding, did they light it up first? What's this?

"Attention, order the entire squadron to lower the height, let's go down and take a look." Philip shouted.

In a three-seater arrangement, in the last seat, there was a radio operator and backseat machine gunner. After hearing Philip's order, he immediately adjusted the radio and gave Philip's order.

"Attention No. 2 Squadron, immediately descend the altitude, immediately descend."

The "combat" bomber lowered its altitude from a height of 3,000 meters to more than 100 meters. At the same time, it was getting closer and closer to the dense smoke.

Doubts grew in Philip's heart.

This place is too important to the Germans, are they willing to light it? Maybe it was the smoke they deliberately released, trying to make them return without success!

If this is the case, then the Royal Air Force would be underestimated!

Your own flight technology is quite superb. If the other party deliberately releases a smoke screen, which smoke screen can you pass through!

You know, the higher the dense smoke, the larger the spread area, and there will definitely be gaps in the lower places, which can be drilled through!

At a height of 100 meters, you can easily see the fire source in the distance. It seems that there is definitely a problem. Continue to lower the height!

"What they lit was not an oil well, but an oil barrel. They flew in, looking for an oil well to attack!" Philip suddenly shouted.

The pilot's eyesight was quite sharp. Philip had already seen the fire sources in the outermost layer. There was no kowtow machine on the fire source, which meant it was not an oil well!

Moreover, based on the height of those fire sources, he judged that they were oil drums!

Fly in and attack!

If they were flying too high just now, they would definitely pass through the thick smoke, causing them to return without success, but now, at a very low altitude, drill in, search for oil wells, and attack!

The distance between the fire source and the fire source is large enough to allow his bomber to pass through easily, lowering the aircraft to a height of fifty meters, with a surging auraPhilip’s bomber , Got in first!

It is not so easy to fool the Royal Air Force!

With this superb technology, Philip's bombers are interspersed in the gap between the fire sources. He wants to find the oil well!

Behind him, the other bombers, like him, dived down flexibly, and then got in.

Only those dual-engine bombers, not as flexible as this single-engine, dare not come down, can only hover in the air.

The engine of the "combat" bomber made a rumbling sound, and the propeller stirred the airflow. From time to time, a stream of black smoke flew by. Philip's attention was very tense. If he flew directly into the black smoke, once the engine swallows the smoke, it might The flameout, at such a low height, after the flameout, it definitely fell.

Fortunately, this light bomber is as agile as a biplane, and it doesn't matter if it goes back and forth in the flames.

However, as he moved forward, the anxiety in his heart increased.

According to his plan, when his plane got into these flames, it should be easy to spot the kowtows of those oil wells, but now, after passing through dozens of flames, there is still no discovery!

what happened?

The more he flew forward, the stronger the anxiety in Philip's heart became. He plunged in, looking for the oil well, but failed to find it. What does this indicate?

The oil field is probably not here! Here is a trap set by the Germans!

What should we do now? Can he pull it up directly, cross the smoky area, and fly to high altitude? No way! In that case, his engine would definitely stall because of swallowing a lot of black smoke, and he couldn't go back in a circle. It would easily collide with the aircraft coming in behind. He could only fly forward!

At this time, Philip had lost the confidence he had just now, and he felt more and more terrible.