Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 4: Crash landing
"What's the date today?"
"What, General?"
"May I ask you what date is today?"
"May 21, 1940, what happened to General?"
"It's okay."
Xu Jun felt weak, "Let yourself catch up? The famous small-scale tank massacre. Bloody and legendary. The place where Rommel hit the iron plate for the first time. To see Rommel. Already? I had hoped that I was talking to him about Africa while drinking champagne in the restaurant of a high-end hotel, but I was not ready to drive a plane full of holes in front of him on the battlefield of fierce battle."
Xu Jun looked at his watch, and it was 2:20.
"The battle has started, and the British attacked at two points. That Wolfe is silly leading me to the battlefield."
Thinking of this, Xu Jun plans to ask Wolfe to find a safer place for him to land. Before he could speak, suddenly, the engine on the right blasted and a cloud of black smoke emerged from the engine cowling, and then flames began to spray out from every gap in the engine, and the plane seemed to be stepped on. It sank down like a kick.
"Damn it! Damn it. How could something happen here."
After finally controlling the plane again, Xu Jun shouted into the radio: "My engine is on fire, I will land immediately."
"Wait for the general, I see that there are enemy troops ahead of us! Oh my God, they are attacking the 7th Division! We broke into the battlefield, there are many troops, you can't land here!"
"You only found out now!" Xu Jun also saw dense black spots appearing on the ground in front of him. There are also groups of tanks and trucks, and there is an artillery position in the front left, constantly raising waves of white smoke, which seems to be firing. The infantry and various vehicles on the ground dragged the rolling dust, and looked like dozens of steel dragons in the air. A little further away is the sky of gunpowder and countless black plumes of smoke. There was a rumble of explosions in the distance, and even the roar of engines couldn't hide it.
Xu Jun secretly cursed his bad luck, and replied: "Then we can only pass through the enemy's position. The direction of their attack must be our army. I can't hold on for long. The rudder has been Lost, I can’t change the course, my fuel tank is empty, and the left engine will stop at any time. Now I can only move forward, and I have no way of retreating. The enemy’s position will not be too thick. I hope the aircraft can stick to the position of the 7th Division. Landing."
The fire extinguishing bottle of the engine on the right has automatically opened, and white carbon dioxide is constantly spraying. The flame was slowly extinguished. A long white smoke trailed behind the engine.
"Understood, General. We will always cover you." Wolfe replied.
Xu Jun pushed the throttle of the left engine to the bottom, and then started a small dive. The speed must be maintained. Otherwise, when the left engine stops, the plane will immediately stall and crash, and there will be no chance of gliding. The height is slowly dropping, and the ME110s on the side closely follow the left and right.
The British army on the ground heard the roar of aircraft engines. Looking back, they saw a German medium bomber dragging white smoke and a group of fighter jets towards them. At that time, there was a mess below. I saw the infantry marching in a neat formation now scurrying around looking for concealment. The officers wielded desperately with the revolver, shooting at the plane and kicking the soldiers lying on the ground to make them resist. Several brave machine gunners set up their machine guns and started shooting into the air. Hearing the fierce machine gun sound, the infantry finally recovered a bit of courage, and started shooting indiscriminately with rifles in twos and threes.
Xu Jun is still descending. He can clearly see the figure on the ground. A string of tracer bullets swishes from outside the window of the machine, and the rifle bullet hits the case. .
"Wolf, cover me and clear my route." Xu Jun shouted.
Wolf's calm answer came from the earphones: "Understand, everyone will follow me." Then several ME110 swarms began to accelerate and dive down, and fired at the infantry on the ground in front of Xu Jun. The 20mm machine gun and 7.9mm machine gun bullets hit the ground in dust, leaving an incomplete body behind the fighter.
Xu Jun turned on the intercom and called: "Hans, come here, I need your help. Others find a place to fix it by themselves, and we will make a crash landing after passing through the enemy's attacking position."
Hans rushed into the cab and asked: "General, what do you want me to do?"
"You sit in the pilot’s seat, yes, that’s it, you just turn it down. Don’t forget the safety belt, you need to help me control the ailerons and elevators when I land, you Just pull the pole back hard before we touch the ground."
"Understood, General." Hans gripped the side arm of the steering column tightly, then looked at Xu Jun as if he wanted to say something.
"Is there any problem?" Xu Jun glanced at Hans.
"Ah, no... it's nothing." Hans quickly looked away.
At this time, Wolf’s voice came from the headset, "General, I’m already above our army’s position. Just 5,000 meters in front of you, there is a large area where you can land. Pay attention to the one in front of you. Behind the grove are enemy tanks and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns. That is the enemy’s line of position."
"Understood."
Xu Jun gritted his teeth and leveled the plane again. "Hold on, there are still five kilometers, you won't let me down, right." Xu Jun said to the left engine. The left engine immediately gave Xu Jun an answer. It spat a few times and stopped. "Damn it, am I really so unlucky?" Xu Jun roared: "Then let you see, I won't give up so easily."
At this time, the plane has lost all its power and can only barely glide. Fortunately, the plane still has enough speed, it should be able to hold a certain distance. The British troops on the lower position watched in amazement as a German bomber passed over their heads silently, with white smoke trailing behind them.
"It seems that the height is not enough." Xu Jun thought, "It seems that this life is almost over, whether it is a crash landing or a British captive, it will be the same~ IndoMTL.com~ It’s just a fight!"
The plane has flown over the grove, and it is flying against the treetops. Xu Jun gritted his teeth and said with the cabin communicator: "Attention everyone, we are about to make a crash landing, no matter whether the crash landing is successful or not, I am here to thank you all for flying with me. May God be with us." There was a cry of "Long live the head of state" from the rear cabin, and Xu Jun was so angry that he almost didn't let the plane land on the ground.
Suddenly the woods under his feet disappeared, and an empty field appeared in front of Xu Jun. Several tanks were burning in the field, and the black smoke was billowing to see which country it was from. On the other side of the field, Xu Jun saw a small soil slope. Smoke billowed on the slope. The wreckage of a group of vehicles was burning along the slope. British artillery shells continued to explode near the slope. At a corner of the soil slope, Xu Jun discovered that there was a German FLAG/38/20mm anti-aircraft gun in the thick smoke. The guy was shooting wildly at him now, and the baseball-big tracer was constantly passing by the cab. Below the slope, there was a gray-green figure shaking. That is the German position.
"Wolf! Tell them not to shoot at me!" Xu Jun shouted.
"General, I can't reach them. I can't do anything." Wolfe replied anxiously.
At this moment, Xu Jun's plane had dropped to a height of only a dozen meters, and it was still six to seven hundred meters away from the German position. Xu Jun shouted: "Everyone is ready to collide! Hans, just now, pull!"
, the plane landed on the battlefield where the fire was being exchanged under the eyes of the soldiers on both sides.