. The Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters  Volume 4: The Death of France  Chapter 54: Their History (Sixth)

The St. Ommelder Air Force base is full of bombers waiting for takeoff orders on the airport takeoff runway. The bombers in the first echelon are not the Stuka dive bomber that scares the enemy, but the Henkel large bomber known as the Lion Eagle. The Luftwaffe compares this large bomber to the large Stuka because Henkel has both the models designed to perform dive bombing as Stuka.

The talented German technicians really wanted to design large bombers as models with dive bombing capabilities. It was really a bit inexplicable. They would want to design dive bombing maneuvers, mainly because the design of Stuka dive bombers achieved great success in actual battlefield combat.

Genius people are always born among some paranoid people, and this sentence is also a bit inexplicable, but it doesn’t matter. There is an old saying in the West: Only paranoid people can succeed.

In other words, only scientific and technological personnel who are paranoid about the same research have their perseverance of being unyielding, uncompromising, and unsuccessful in a certain field.

Henkel wanted to have dive ability, and this whimsical idea was really created and practiced, but unfortunately, the crew members who drove this large bomber refused to use Henkel's dive maneuverability.

Anyone with a little common sense of flight knows that every bomber has its own functions. After many test flight tests, the crew found that Henkel's ability to dive bomb is simply a waste of time, because Henkel's altitude was above 7,000 meters when performing his mission. Imagine how long it takes for a large bomber to land from an altitude of 7,000 meters to a height of 500 meters that can adapt to dive bombing. Moreover, its size is so large that the dive effect may be really shocking, but in large bombers with a height of less than 200 meters on the actual battlefield, it can be said that it is the best prey for anti-aircraft guns to hunt.

To reiterate, the refusal of Henkel crew members to perform such dive maneuvers, however, does not mean that they oppose such functional design. The reason is very simple. The fuselage design and welding strength of a model that can perform dive bombing are so trustworthy that it can make dive bombing maneuvers, which itself shows that the fuselage of this aircraft is very excellent, at least it will not cause the fuselage to disintegrate due to the influence of high altitude airflow. This is the main reason why the crew does not issue a report to apply for the cancellation of the dive function.

Henkel uses the R1 body design, the r4 has a wingspan of 6 and a wing area of ​​102 square meters, an empty weight of kilograms, and a maximum take-off weight of kilograms. It uses the latest engines developed by Mercedes-Benz and Siemens. Its maximum speed is increased to 580 km/h, a cruising speed of 500 km/h, and a wing load of 354 kg/square meter.

The fuselage adopts casting technology, which also strengthens its practical ceiling to a range of 6,600 kilometers.

The equipment is a machine gun at the nose, a millimeter cannon at the front of the turret below the nose, and a double-mounted machine gun at the rear. The turret at the front fuselage is a machine gun, and the tail of the machine is a machine gun. Each of the machine guns is equipped with ammunition, the turret at the front fuselage is equipped with ammunition.

Henkel is different from other bombers. It has its own defensive weapons. The lower abdomen of the body is also converted into a bomb-type abdominal cabin door, which can be used to drop 510 kilograms of bombs. The load capacity depends on the task requirements. For example, now, they are not equipped with ammunition for bombing. Instead, some deep-water bombs, mines that attack surface ships (drifting, anchoring thunder, sinking bottom thunder, magnetic water mines). This time, they are conducting an airdrop deep-water bomb mission.

Behind the two squadrons of Henkel are two neatly arranged squadrons of Donier interceptors and two squadrons of Messer-Schmid interceptors of the aviation unit, the mission is to escort Henkel to the waters near the Calais Strait z route.

The z route is the closest route to the Dover waters in the United Kingdom. There are often British fighter jets here, and it is also the most unsafe sea area considered by the German and Italian naval submarine forces. The reason is that the submarine forces are now too shallow, and submarines under the sea can be found from high altitudes. Then, the few British locals will react and shell the waters where enemy submarines are discovered. The British Navy will even send battleships to throw deep-water bombs at less than a cost, and ship-based guns will also carry out blind shelling, with the intention of driving enemy submarines into its own encirclement.

The main purpose of Henkel's mission is to cover the Dover Sea with floating bombs and deep-water bombs to stop the British fleet's departure. Time is the key to the war. If the British fleet does not leave the port for a day, the weak German navy will have more time to set up a matrix in the Strait of Calais. The task of bending the mine is just a prelude. The subsequent plan is how to force the British fleet to enter the battle area scheduled by the General Staff Headquarters. The German Navy will fight to the death with the British fleet in that narrow waters!

The order to take off began to sound in the horn of the Air Force Base. Henkel was driving on the runway at high speed. Its huge body was not clumsy at all. The front pulley of the fuselage trembled slightly, and the pulley floated up. Then the double-sided mechanism airflow wings could move the wing body to make a change of the airflow. The front of its fuselage slowly raised...

Two large Henkel bombers took off and took off. They hovered over the air base and were waiting for the escort Donier interceptor to take off. Two completely different aircraft models merged with each other and changed their formation in the air. Donier protected Henkel in the center of the three-dimensional defensive formation. The formation was formed, and they circled the air base and flew towards the purpose.

The two brigades of Messerchmidt B also began to take off five minutes after the first air formation took off. Their purpose was also the Calais Strait, but they were not to carry out escort missions. The purpose of the two brigades was to the east of the Calais Strait near the western sea of ​​the North Sea, where they would launch an air battle with the British local air force, with the purpose of completely cutting off the air supply line of Dunkorke's besieged Allied forces, and to fully control the air supremacy of the Calais Strait - the western waters of the North Sea. They were not the only two air forces carrying out this mission. During their return, they would meet their own troops taking off from Ypres, and Ypres's air base was responsible for the interception and command of the second wave.

Azbrook Air Force Base.

The flight runway here is also full of aircraft, and the huge number of Stuka dive bombers (type A) are preparing to take off. The combat radius limit reaches over London, the British mainland, and cannot bomb industrial areas in the north of Britain. They cannot stay over London for too long. If the time limit exceeds the time limit, there may not be enough fuel to return to the Air Force Base.

The weakness of the German Air Force is that its combat radius is too short, and the weakness of land combat is not very obvious. However, once cross-sea operations are carried out, such as flying across the English Channel to reach the British mainland, this limitation is very obvious. This is also the main reason why Germany did not bomb the British mainland in time. No one hopes that the German Air Force will be consumed over the enemy country due to insufficient navigation fuel.

This may be a bit incorrect; when the German Air Force planned the combat plan, the task of bombing the British mainland was added to the combat plan. The purpose of the Air Force was to retaliate against the bombing of the Allied Air Force on the German mainland. The anger made people lose their rationality, and they could tolerate huge losses to engage in a retaliatory air war.

The combat plan was passed to the Imperial General Staff. At that time, Xu Yang happened to be in the General Staff as an observation member of the German Military Commission. Seeing the Air Force's combat plan, Xu Yang was immediately stunned. He finally knew why history called the Germanic nation: a nation that was prone to madness!

There is absolutely nothing to talk about in the process of rejection, that is, Xu Yang deliberately suppressed the document that was enough to make the Third Reich lose the war victory. The staff at the General Staff Headquarters did not even find such a dangerous thing missing in the document cabinet. Later, Xu Yang personally called Keselin and urged Keselin to give up this suicide-style retaliatory bombing, immediately planned a new combat plan, and positioned the combat target: trying to intercept the Allied Air Force in the airspace outside the country, and use the advantageous air force to eat the Allied Air Force that dared to fly over the German mainland. The missing, the remaining aircraft of the Allied Allied can be handed over the German local air defense forces to solve the problem. All the Air Force Department needs is to intercept most of the Allied Air Force aircraft over the sea, and the single remaining Army air defense forces can handle it.

Most of Kesseling agreed with Xu Yang's suggestion, but refused to ask the army for help. His original words were: The Air Force Department would not allow any enemy fighter planes to escape over the Third Reich!

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The air forces of the three air bases have all taken off the air. While a large number of aircraft are carrying out their missions, the SS troops have also entered the combat area. The attacking formations on three sides are ringed to cover the entire Dunkorke seashore. After the German Air Force is bombed, the horn of the attack will be blown toward it.
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