Chapter 1,422 The Balkan Sky 2

Chapter 1422 Balkan Sky 2

The three finally reached a unified opinion, asking for the French air force to come over, and continuing to complain to the Allied High Command. Before the Balkans Allied Forces General Command issued orders to the air force, Trenchard would be under unified command of the Army Air Force, huh. However, the day after the three reached an agreement, when General Trenchard was about to leave for the Balkans again, Lieutenant General Harrell, commander of the Balkans Theater of the Bavarian Air Force, personally commanded, code-named "Thunder Strike" The offensive has officially begun!

"The Imperial Wing is ready and can take off."

"The Dragon Slayers are ready and can take off."

"The Assassin Wing is in place and ready to take off."

Along with telephone and radio transmissions, more than a dozen airports located throughout the Balkan Peninsula have completed final preparations, and a total of 160 K-6 bombers and 240 fighter jets are ready for departure. And this is just the first wave of attacks today! After nearly nine months, the Bavarian Air Force once again had a large-scale collision with the British and French Air Forces.

"I don't know if the level of the British and French air forces has substantially improved during this period. I'm looking forward to it." Lieutenant General Harrell said, touching his chin.

Does bombing really mean that the plane takes off and then flies directly towards the target? This is possible when fighting the Russians, but not when fighting the British and French. In fact, when the war shifts from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, there is even more room for play. As for Lieutenant General Harrell, who has been in the industry for 5 years, fought from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, and then from the Western Front back to the Eastern Front, and now has moved to the Balkans, he naturally knows what to do when facing a difficult enemy. !

The target chosen by Harar is Thessaloniki, a city in northern Greece. The city itself is a seaport city and one of the most important land and sea transportation hubs in the long and narrow eastern region of Greece. More than 60% of the materials shipped to the front line will be transferred here. 160 bombers, considering the attack distance and optimal firepower matching, can carry 200 tons of bombs. 200 tons of bombs may seem like a lot, but for an Allied Powers, it is strong. Fortifying the core area is far from enough. Let alone bombing the city, a lot of ammunition will probably be wasted on suppressing anti-air fire. The British 2-pounder gun (40MM rapid-fire gun), the French 75MM anti-aircraft gun (the M1897 barrel was replaced with a gun mount) and the numerous machine guns are not easy to mess with.

However, even so, the entire fleet was divided into several parts. Only 80 K-6 bombers and 180 various fighter jets were actually attacked. They became a group that stretched for several kilometers and was distributed from 2,500 meters to 3,000 meters. The huge fleet of aircraft in the vertical airspace flew towards the target.

"The British have discovered us." On a specially improved K-6J bomber, a German noncommissioned officer took off the headphones on his head and said to the officer sitting in the main seat.

"The British radio communications began to operate at a high level 15 minutes ago. Their communication density is very high. Judging from the radio positioning results, more than 60% of them come from the airport we have located."

"Yeah, I'm afraid some of our methods on the eastern front may not work. We obviously took off at dawn and then entered Greece under terrain cover. Why were we discovered?" The officer fell into deep thought.

"It may be listening devices. The British have deployed listening devices on the periphery. The flight altitude of current aircraft is not very high, and we all have a large fleet. There are hundreds of them out at once, and the early warning range of the listening devices will be very large. , so it is normal for the British to be prepared." Another officer said.

"It seems we won't be very lucky in this air raid." The first officer said with a wry smile.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, this time, we mainly rely on Team B to achieve the results. Our task is to contain and test." The second officer smiled and turned back and began to continue monitoring the British radio communications.

"The German aircraft fleet is coming, and it is very large. Due to the obstruction of light and terrain, we cannot determine the specific size of the target, but according to the feedback from the frontline listening station, this fleet has at least hundreds of aircraft."

"They have entered the B5 area and are continuing to fly in the direction. If nothing else happens, their chosen target should be Thessaloniki."

"Our reconnaissance plane has discovered the target. The number of enemy aircraft is at least 200. We have seen large bombers." Messages were quickly gathered through the radio and telephone networks at the Allied Balkan Theater Aviation Command in Athens. Under the command and coordination of Air Force Major General Rosses, the air force in the entire northern Greek theater began to gather, and an air hedging was inevitable.

Just as Ruprecht expected, the British's level is several times higher than that of the Russians! If the Russians have not developed even the most basic visual air warning system, the British have already developed an air boundary system that can provide long-distance early warning.

This system is composed of air monitoring stations deployed in layers on the front line. The use of a so-called amplified listening device makes it possible to detect enemy aircraft groups from beyond visual range. (Interested readers can look up the radio listening device. Japan used this device for early warning before the outbreak of World War II.) Information is then transmitted through complex radio equipment and telephone networks. The British used this system to form their own nerve system. network. The airports scattered throughout Greece are the iron fist of this giant.

As for why the prince is so clear, on the one hand it is because he is a time traveler, and on the other hand, the Bavarian air warning system is essentially the same. It is very simple to judge others by yourself! However, the Bavarian Air Force naturally has a way to break through this system. This time, it will test the British's dispatch and vision. After all, the decision-makers of this system are still human. If the commander's judgment is biased, Then lose half of it first!

"All aircraft groups began to climb. The flying altitude of bombers increased to more than 3,200 meters, and the flying altitude of fighter jets increased to 3,500 to 4,000 meters." Major General Canning, who was in charge of frontline command, issued the order. Then, in the surprised eyes of a group of British reconnaissance pilots, the flying altitude of the German fleet rose instead of falling!

"This is something wrong. If you want to bomb, in order to ensure accuracy, you must lower the altitude. How can you increase the altitude when you are close to the target? This is not in accordance with the principle!" The British said it was difficult to understand.

The sudden unexpected situation threw the entire British deployment into chaos. The most feared thing in the war was that the other party did not follow common sense, and he had no plan to deal with it...

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