() "Fire was spotted at 3 o'clock! It's artillery!" Arthur shouted on the radio, and began to lead his four-machine formation to the direction of the fire. But at the next moment, he was surprised to find that almost all directions

There was a flash of light on the screen, which looked a bit like the muzzle flash of a cannon.

"Damn! What's going on! How can there be so many artillery firing?" Arthur was almost stunned for a moment. But he quickly realized that each type of artillery due to its caliber and barrel structure,

The difference in the amount of powder and artillery muzzle brakes results in different muzzle flashes. Most of the muzzle flashes that appear now are different in shape from the artillery that he is familiar with. Obviously, most of them have different muzzle flashes.

It's a false target.

"No, those flames in the 10 o'clock direction are the real artillery! Follow me!" Arthur issued the command again. The fleet quickly flew to the 10 o'clock direction. By this time, the flames at that position had disappeared.

.Obviously, the "enemy" also listens to

Using musical instruments and the like, he judged their arrival. Arthur, the leader, first dropped a string of illumination bombs. Under the bright white light of the illumination bombs, Arthur saw a group of people on the ground busy hanging several cannons.

On to the tractor--apparently, they were ready to move.

"Attack!" Arthur shouted excitedly. At the same time, he still habitually looked towards several locations where anti-aircraft guns might be placed. The light from the illumination bombs was limited, and those locations were still buried in darkness. But it didn't matter.

What's terrible is that the flare is ignited at a height of more than 100 meters above the ground. Also because of the distance problem, it will not illuminate itself very brightly. If the anti-aircraft gun wants to attack itself in such a dark night sky,

That's almost impossible.

But Arthur, who was cautious by nature, still took his fleet to avoid those dangerous positions and swooped in as much as possible. Now, the crowd that originally surrounded the artillery had dispersed, and they all abandoned the artillery and towing equipment.

The car ran away. The appearance of the flares meant that bombs or rockets would fall from the sky at the next moment. Now the artillery could definitely not be saved, so it was better to save the personnel as much as possible.

Arthur did not choose to use rockets. Firstly, using rockets would expose the aircraft's trajectory. Although the time was short and the chance of the anti-aircraft artillery reacting was very small, he was still unwilling to give the enemy such a chance. Secondly,

The rockets will be reserved for attacking tanks later. So his choice is bombs. There are 6 250-pound aerial bombs hanging under the belly of his aircraft, which is enough to solve the problem.

…

Just as Toskin's tank troops approached the assembly point, they heard the engine sound of the B-25 bomber in the distance. Toskin decisively ordered the tank group to stop advancing and shut down the engines. Two or three minutes later, the assembly point in front

There was the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground - of course the bombs dropped during the confrontation exercises were things that would not explode.

Robilio, the B-25 navigator and bombardier, had just dropped the bomb when the plane tilted violently, causing him to almost sit down in the cabin.

"What's wrong?" Robilio asked.

"Night fighter!" Captain Cagliari replied succinctly. At this time, machine gunner Turner had already begun to control the machine gun and shoot into the night sky.

However, Turner's firing was basically useless. Because he couldn't see the night fighter hidden in the darkness, he could only guess its current location based on the firelight when the night fighter just fired and blindly fired.

Just hit.

Of course, such an attack would have no effect. After completing a round of attacks, those mosquito night fighters went around in a circle and came back again...

…

The sky gradually brightened, and the night's confrontation had passed. But the real confrontation had just begun. Under the cover of night, the simulated enemy tank troops had entered the starting position, although not without any losses.

However, their losses were limited and they were still able to launch a decisive offensive.

Under the reddish light of the morning sun, about 30 tanks and a larger number of armored vehicles began to form a battle formation and attack the target! At this time, the attack aircraft still hovering over the battlefield were also attacking these tanks.

Pounced over.

Arthur had already dropped 6 250-pound aerial bombs when he attacked the artillery group before, but his arsenal was still very rich: there were 12 rockets hanging under his wings, and

There is also a 37mm cannon in the nose that is powerful enough to directly destroy tanks.

However, among the tank clusters, there is also the thing that Arthur hates the most - self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.

Due to the pressure brought by the Soviet IL-2 on the Soviet-German battlefield, and the performance of the German Air Force in many cases, the Army was not reassured. Therefore, the German Army has always attached great importance to self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery, and the types of self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery equipped

and quantity are very large. Judging from the caliber, there are not only 20

There are small calibers like 30mm, medium calibers like 37mm, and even large calibers like 88mm - but this is really not suitable for use in conjunction with air defense. As far as the chassis is concerned,

Some use crawler chassis and some use half-track chassis.

The U.S. military captured some German self-propelled anti-aircraft guns in battles in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Among them, the main ones obtained in North Africa were single-barreled 20mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns using half-track chassis. In Sicily and Italy, the U.S. military also captured

We got some half-track self-propelled anti-aircraft guns with four 20-gun mounts. It was just relatively

The number of the former and the latter is much smaller. Therefore, there is only one "Reverse Cross" here for sample purposes. In the exercise, these things are all made of the US military's own M16 air defense, which is also a quad-mounted one.

It's dressed as a tank, although the M16 anti-aircraft tank is only equipped with a 12.7 mm caliber machine gun.

In addition, according to intelligence, the US military knew that the German army had also developed a 37 mm caliber self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. However, the US military did not have relevant samples, so the "Reverse Cross" directly used the US military's own 40 mm twin-mounted self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.

Come and use this thing. In order to be lenient to the enemy, the number of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns equipped by the "Reverse Cross" to this armored unit is much higher than that of the authentic German army.

Therefore, when Arthur dives towards those "enemy tanks", he must first consider the threat of these anti-aircraft weapons. Even the 20mm anti-aircraft cannons, their effective range is far inferior to the rockets under his wings.

, as long as you can identify these guys and attack them first, their threat to you is very limited. But the 37mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is different. Although its specific xin is not known

g performance data, but based on the data of the US military's own 40mm anti-aircraft gun with a similar caliber, the effective range of this thing is no closer than that of rockets. Of course, the nominal range of rockets is still farther. But

Everyone knows that with the precision of a rocket, if the launch distance is a little farther, it can go from the Vatican to Italy. Therefore, you really need to take some risks to deal with this guy.

Arthur looked around the battlefield, and he first spotted a 40mm self-propelled gun hidden among the tanks. Arthur gritted his teeth, overcame himself, and dived towards it.

The self-propelled anti-aircraft gun also began to fire at Arthur. Of course, it fired only blank bombs, which did not really threaten Arthur's plane. But now Arthur felt that the blank bombs were more annoying than live ammunition.

.There is a tracer bullet every few rounds in the live ammunition. The trajectory it pulls out is

On the one hand, it is convenient for the shooter to adjust the trajectory, and on the other hand, it is also convenient for Arthur to make corresponding evasive actions. But now that there is no such thing, Arthur can only dodge with his own imagination. As a result, Arthur feels even more nervous.

, the hand holding the operating rod was a little sweaty.

Arthur made several side slides, barrel rolls and other actions in succession, approaching the 40mm cannon. After completing a barrel roll, Arthur put the gun into the firing halo, and then fired in one breath

6 rockets were fired.

Of course, this simulated rocket will not really be fired. But Arthur can be sure that if it is a real thing, the half-track vehicle will definitely be dead. And the rocket will be released soon on that vehicle.

There was white smoke, and it seemed that the director and staff staying nearby also concluded that the tank had been destroyed.

But Arthur no longer cared about this. Just when he was about to pull up, he suddenly discovered that there was an M-16 anti-aircraft tanker a little to the left in front of him! Now, the four 12.7 mm machine guns on it

is turning towards him. If it were really on the battlefield, relying on the modified version of P-38

The armor, the power of the 12.7mm machine gun is simply negligible, but here, this guy is simulating a 20mm caliber German product. Although some parts of the modified P-38 can withstand the attack of the 20mm gun, it makes the four

The 20-gun cannon was fired head-on, either dead or disabled.

Fortunately, Arthur is an old pilot, and he is also a master known for his dodges. At this critical moment, Arthur took the lead, pointed the nose of the plane at the opponent, and then used the two 20-mm cannons in the nose of the plane to attack the opponent.

He fired a long shot at the M-16 anti-aircraft tanker. Then, he made a sharp turn to escape from its threatening range.

After pulling up the plane at a safer distance, Arthur looked back. He saw that there were already four self-propelled artillery in the enemy tank group raising white smoke. Two of them were his own results.

At the same time, the voice of Dubin, the pilot of his subordinate No. 04 attack aircraft, also came from his earphones: "Captain, they said my plane was seriously damaged and ordered me to return immediately."
Chapter completed!