Chapter 197 The Great Destroyer

The 250-kilogram aerial bomb mounted on the belly of the BF109E3 fighter jet was first dropped directly towards the Soviet air defense position after the fuselage shook. These sky war eagles, born for agility and speed, urgently need to get rid of these heavy encumbrances in order to return to their peak mobility.

The power of an aerial bomb containing a 125 kilogram warhead charge is naturally different from that of an ordinary large-caliber howitzer. The aerial bomb that exploded instantly swept away everything around it like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, including those closest to the center of the explosion. Several 25mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns were fired immediately, and were blown up into a pile of steel twists stained with a strong smell of blood and gunpowder.

After diving and dropping bombs, they immediately flew horizontally and accelerated to escape. The BF109s, who planned to show off and run away, failed in the end. The Soviet anti-aircraft gun crews who were bombed into a mess on the position were furious and shook their hands desperately. The seat ring steering machine then aimed the black muzzle at the enemy plane at the fastest speed.

"One o'clock, Kraut's ass! Fire!"

Dong dong dong dong——

The 25mm 72K fully-automatic anti-aircraft gun, which uses a twin-mounted arrangement to enhance its firepower output, has a single firepower projection of 480 rounds per minute. This is among the various small-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the same type in 1941. That's pretty good data.

The barrage of 25mm fragmentation tracer bullets coming straight at a firing distance of less than one kilometer instantly turned the fragile tail of the BF109 without armor protection into a hornet's nest and shattered it on the spot.

After losing the entire tail rudder, BF109 lost control on the spot. Thick black smoke and hot tongues of fire dragged the remains of the BF109 body, which only had the front half, and immediately crashed into the oncoming earth.

Scenarios like this are not just isolated cases.

The BF109 fleet, which had forcibly closed the firefight distance by swooping down to attack the air defense position, could not escape the organized barrage of firepower at the level of the air defense position no matter how excellent its maneuverability was. To put it bluntly, it was like walking along the river. The principle of not getting wet shoes is similar.

After just completing a dive attack, they were directly covered by anti-aircraft barrages at a height of less than 500 meters from the ground. The BF109 pilots, who suffered irreversible damage instantly as their bodies were shattered, could not even parachute at such a low flying altitude. No chance.

After just a blink of an eye, he crashed to the ground together with his car, leaving a huge explosion and thick smoke echoing over the battlefield.

The organized and tight air defense positions in the city are obviously not as easy to deal with as the Soviet division-level air defense positions in the field. The BF109s who risk their lives to open up attack channels for their own bomber groups must pay corresponding losses and prices. .

This has nothing to do with the skills and equipment of the German pilots. It is simply due to the war truth that if there is a war, there will be casualties.

After losing several fighters again, the BF109s opened up a far enough attack distance, and immediately turned their noses and used their extremely excellent turning radius to correct the direction of their noses, once again heading towards the Soviet air defense. The position was once again filled with killing generals.

After experiencing the baptism of aerial bombs just now, there have been losses, and the originally dense air defense barrages suddenly became much sparser.

Although the remaining Soviet 25mm twin-mounted 72K fully automatic anti-aircraft guns tried their best, the salvo anti-aircraft barrage after losing many fire support points had become much sparse. The keenly aware German pilots immediately They rushed straight through the gaps in these exposed anti-aircraft barrages and aimed two 20mm aerial cannons and two 92mm aerial machine guns at the unprotected Soviet soldiers on the gun mounts.

Dong dong dong——

Da da da--

A series of crackling barrage volleys hit the Soviet anti-aircraft guns until sparks flew out and blood splattered. The 20mm aircraft cannon, which was much more powerful than those anti-material heavy sniper rifles of later generations, directly tore apart the fragile flesh and blood. Became bloody fragments.

The Soviet soldier who was directly hit in the chest and torso by the 20mm shell was like a watermelon thrown from the fifth floor. It exploded into a pile of blood, flesh and broken limbs on the spot.

After a fully deployed air defense position suffers a strike loss, a firepower gap will appear, resulting in a decrease in firepower density. After the firepower output is weakened due to damage, the air defense position will be unable to block the subsequent second wave of enemy aircraft attacks, and will be attacked again. The strength of the attack was further damaged and reduced, and the firepower density became sparser, until the third wave of enemy attacks continued.

In a vicious cycle, the Soviet army's peripheral 25mm anti-aircraft artillery anti-aircraft positions were quickly wiped out by the BF109 fleet, which lost nearly ten fighter jets.

After solving the biggest problem, the BF109 fleet became even more wanton. The 76mm and 85mm anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns used to deal with high-altitude bombers were simply too heavy to ignore in the eyes of the low-altitude circling BF109. The more rampant ground-attack machine guns and machine gun firepower followed. After turning the plane's nose, it poured out instantly.

Seeing that the Soviet army's main large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery position, which had always been a serious threat, was dragged down by its own fighter jets, the German bomber group, which had struggled to maneuver at high altitudes to avoid Soviet anti-aircraft artillery fire, immediately began to take action.

The densely packed Heinkel HE-111 and Dornier DO-217 bomber fleets then began to drop bombs loaded with belly magazines onto the dock that had not yet been evacuated.

In order to cause the most serious irreversible damage to the solid docks made of concrete and masonry, the two German bombers that came to perform this bombing mission both adopted the most powerful weapon mounting scheme, with a single heavy-duty weapon weighing up to 1 ton. Aerial bombs are undoubtedly powerful weapons worthy of the name, and it is precisely this type of heavy-duty aerial bombs that can be said to be heartbreaking, and they are falling like hailstones at a flying altitude of three thousand meters towards the pier below.

Although the bombing was carried out in a horizontal flight attitude at an altitude of 3,000 meters from the target, the accuracy of this one-ton heavy aerial bomb raining down was unambiguous.

Whether it is the Heinkel HE-111 or the Dornier DO-217, these two main front-line bombers of the German Air Force adopt a transparent frame canopy design that wraps the entire nose. A special bombsight with good visibility is used by the bombardier in the crew to perform special aiming and bombing operations to ensure the accuracy of high-altitude bombing.

These one-ton heavy aerial bombs falling straight down from an altitude of 3,000 meters would not be easy to hit such a huge target as the dock.

The 1-ton heavy-duty aerial bomb containing a full 600 kilograms of warhead charge was so powerful that the dock, where a large amount of materials that could not be transferred in the future were piled up, was destroyed in a huge explosion and fire in the blink of an eye. The black mushroom cloud of the one-ton heavy aerial bomb shot up to an altitude of more than thirty meters and released its devastating power.