An air force base in Le Havre, France "General Graeme, this is Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Feipeng and his companions from China." A German major introduced Xiao Feipeng and his fifteen men who had just arrived to the base commander.
companion.
"Hello, Major General Graham," Xiao Feipeng saluted.
"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Feipeng, on behalf of the base and the Fifth Air Force, I would like to extend a warm welcome to your arrival." Major General Graeme said solemnly with a unique German look on his face.
"Lieutenant Colonel Xiao, you and your companions have come all the way. We should have let you have a rest and held a cocktail party to entertain you in the evening. However, the situation is urgent. Yesterday, we had more than 30 young men stay permanently.
We are over the English Channel, so please forgive me for not being so polite."
Seeing the serious look on the face of this forty-year-old major general, Xiao Feipeng and his companions behind him couldn't help but smile bitterly. The rumors that the German guy was old-fashioned and serious seemed to be true.
"General Graeme, you are too polite. We are here just to work, aren't we?" Xiao Feipeng smiled slightly.
Major General Graeme glanced at Xiao Feipeng in surprise, and felt a fondness for this crisp-looking colleague.
Under the leadership of Major General Graeme, everyone quickly arrived at the German headquarters. Before entering, they heard the sound of ticking radio transmitting and receiving reports, which reached everyone's ears. After opening the door, Xiao Feipeng and his party
Immediately, he saw more than a dozen staff officers busy inside. Looking at their busy and unhurried work, Xiao Feipeng nodded secretly. It was said that the quality of the German staff officers was the best in the world. It seemed that they were well-deserved.
After everyone arrived in the spacious war room, Major General Graeme directly brought Xiao Feipeng to the huge sand table and said straight to the point: "Lieutenant Colonel Xiao, our current situation is very bad. Although on the surface, regardless of the number of aircraft,
Both the quality and the quality of the pilots are superior, but in battles, the British can always detect the size and route of our aircraft with their radar, so our losses in battles are often much higher than those of the British.
We are at a great disadvantage, and the Americans have recently sent planes and American volunteer pilots to the UK via sea routes, so that we cannot destroy the British air force in a short time. I heard that your country was the first to put radar
Countries that use it in actual combat, so I want to hear if you have any good ideas."
"Say, they brought us to the war room right after we got off the plane without even having a drink of water. They really treat us like coolies." The faces of the dozen or so pilots behind Xiao Feipeng showed a hint of anger, but Xiao Feipeng was very calm.
, he smiled gently and said: "General Gretel, of course there is no problem. We are here to help you solve your problems this time." After hearing this sentence, the German staff officers around him showed a trace of shame on their faces. When are you brave?
The German Air Force was reduced to the point where it needed to ask China for help.
Xiao Feipeng took off a small bag he was carrying on his back and put it on the table to untie it, revealing a bunch of white things. He smiled faintly and said to General Grete: "General Grete, this is how we deal with radar.
A sharp weapon."
"This is" Major General Grete grabbed a bunch of things and said in surprise: "This is chaff."
"Yes, chaff," Xiao Feipeng replied in an affirmative tone, "chaff is a device made of metal foil, metal wire or metal-coated media that is used to passively interfere with enemy radars. His cost
It is low-cost, easy to use, easy to obtain wide-band characteristics, and can simultaneously interfere with multiple radars in different directions, different frequencies, and different systems."
Major General Gretel and the German staff around him took a breath of cold air, "Are these chaff really useful?"
Xiao Feipeng smiled faintly, "General Gretel, we will see tomorrow what the effect will be."
In the early morning of August 5, 1940, four Me109 fighter jets flew quietly from the sky above Le Havre to the English Channel. The planes sailed at an altitude of 8,000 meters, with Xiao Fei and Pengfei in the lead. The planes flew for twenty
A minute later, Xiao Feipeng raised his left hand and looked at the Leighton luminous watch on his wrist, with a faint smile on his face. He reached out and turned on the intercom and said: "Attention all units, start to gradually release the interference chaff."
Following Xiao Feipeng's order, a dark box fell from the bomb hanging points on the wings of the four aircraft at the same time. The box fell down for more than twenty meters and then suddenly spread out, with countless shiny white strips.
They scattered one after another, and the sky was filled with these chaffs in an instant.
The British radar station is deployed on a small island 30 kilometers away from the mainland. Two radar soldiers are staring at the screen in front of them. They are the first pair of clairvoyants deployed by the British overseas. Germany took off from Le Havre.
They are often the first to detect an aircraft and sound the alarm.
"Henry, look, the German planes are out again. Record the model and number of their planes and report them to the command center." A radar soldier pointed at the signal that started to appear on the screen and shouted excitedly. Some time ago, the British
The Air Force fought more with less and achieved brilliant results, which made their confidence begin to grow.
"Okay, I'll record it immediately, ten, fifteen, thirty, God, one hundred, three hundred, five hundred. I lost count. Thousands of enemy planes appeared on the screen.
"
"Idiot, what are you doing? Hurry up and report to the headquarters." Henry, who was shocked, quickly grabbed the phone and said, "Command, this is the No. 1 radar station. We found that the number of German aircraft is extremely large, thousands of them.
There are so many planes that we can’t even count them.”
Located at the British Air Force headquarters in London, Lieutenant General Dowding, the commander of the British Air Force, was surprised when he received an emergency alert from the radar station ahead.
"Why did Le Havre discover thousands of German fighter planes?" Lieutenant General Dowding was shocked, with a glint of disbelief in his eyes. "Are the Germans crazy today? They only have more than two thousand planes in total. Could it be that today?
Did you send half of the planes out? Can Le Havre accommodate so many planes?" Lieutenant General Dowding was stunned for a moment.
"Sir, since almost all the Germans have been dispatched, we have to fight back. Otherwise, if so many Germans come to the skies of the British Empire, we will be blown to ashes." The staff officer on the side saw this.
Lieutenant General Daoding was stunned and reminded loudly.
"Okay, I order all fighter planes to take off immediately, targeting the route from Le Havre to the English Channel, all"
Before Lieutenant General Dowding finished issuing the order, the panicked voice of the signal soldier came from the side, "Sir, radar station No. 6 reported that more than a thousand fighter planes were found in the north heading towards the British aircraft."
"Sir, radar station No. 15 reports that thousands of planes have been spotted in the west, flying towards London."
"Report, the radar station reported that a large number of German aircraft were sighted in the south."
News after news hit everyone's mind like a bombshell. There were planes everywhere, and there were a huge number of planes. According to the data collected by the radar station, this time the Germans used a total of more than 5,000 planes.
A huge fleet, this number far exceeds the current number of aircraft in Britain and Germany combined.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Lieutenant General Dowding suddenly stood up. "The Germans definitely don't have so many planes."
The staff officers in the war room were also dumbfounded. Reports of detecting a large number of aircraft came in from radar stations all over the place, which made them panic. There were more than 5,000 aircraft, and if a whole honeycomb of them all came over, the British Air Force wouldn't be able to do it.
After a fight, let's surrender collectively.
But this obvious deviation from the facts makes everyone unable to believe this fact. It is obvious that the Germans used some method to deceive their own radar, otherwise such a ridiculous thing would not have happened.
"Everyone pays attention, and all planes at airports in various places are ordered to take off, and reconnaissance planes rush to the area for reconnaissance."
During this period, with the help of radar, the Royal Air Force was able to calmly mobilize its forces to pursue, intercept, and even lay ambushes the German aircraft. But now that it has lost the eyes of radar, the Royal Air Force is suddenly in disarray.
The war once returned to the previous air combat mode. No, it was even worse than before. At least in the past, the British always had reconnaissance aircraft patrolling and warning in the sky 24 hours a day. Now there are enemy situation warnings everywhere, but the reconnaissance aircraft do not know what to do.
Where did you go to scout?
Lieutenant General Dowding has thousands of aircraft in his hands but doesn't know where to dispatch them. "Blinded" refers to the current situation of the British Air Force.
Half an hour later, Lieutenant General Dowding received the first battle report. Liverpool in the northwest was violently bombed by the Luftwaffe, causing heavy losses. The Germans threw a large number of incendiary bombs, and the entire Liverpool turned into a sea of flames.
"These bastards who deserve to go to hell, when did the German incendiary bombs become so powerful that they could burn most of Liverpool?" Lieutenant General Dowding couldn't believe his ears. The Germans had not used them in previous air raids.
They had tried incendiary bombs, but their incendiary bombs didn't seem to be that powerful. This time, even the stone houses were almost burned to lime.
Before Lieutenant General Dowding could recover from the shock, another report came from the side, "Your Majesty Lieutenant General, the Fifth Group reported that they did not find any large-scale German aircraft in the direction of Le Havre, but only four German aircraft.
Planes, now they are flying towards the Le Havre defense line."