Ma Jue's insistence on accompanying him left Zhou Hexuan helpless.
Everyone transferred to a plane, and after two days of bumpy flight, they finally saw the English Channel. At this time, France was almost completely occupied by Germany, and the plane passed by the southwest corner of France. Zhou Hexuan was afraid that a few German planes would suddenly appear.
Fighter interception.
In fact, it is not safe to go to the UK by boat. Germany began exploratory bombings in early June, with the main targets being British air bases and passing ships at sea.
No matter what you were afraid of, just halfway across the English Channel, a German plane suddenly appeared in the sky and fired a barrage of machine guns.
"Oops!"
Wang Rizhang shouted in panic: "Everyone has their parachutes on their backs. Brother Yiqiao, please protect Mr. Zhou!"
Ju Yiqiao immediately protected Zhou Hexuan and said, "Mr. Zhou, get down quickly. Brother Sun, Brother Zhu, let's surround Mr. Zhou."
This was the intention of the three bodyguards to voluntarily serve as human shields for Zhou Hexuan. Zhou Hexuan lay on the ground and shouted: "Leave me alone, everyone get down. Protect Miss Ma!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Hexuan heard a sound coming from the wing, which was obviously hit by a bullet from a German plane.
The two planes passed by each other, with a distance of only more than 20 meters. Zhou Hexuan could even see the German plane's swastika logo through the porthole.
After all, Zhou Hexuan had donated so many aircraft and already knew a lot about fighter aircraft from various countries. He quickly comforted everyone: "Don't be afraid, this is just a German reconnaissance aircraft, and the firepower is not fierce."
"ah!"
Ma Jue suddenly screamed and covered his mouth, but the window glass of the plane was broken, high-altitude air flow crazily poured into the cabin, and the plane also experienced continuous violent turbulence.
Ju Yiqiao quickly pulled Ma Jue and Wang Rizhang over, and pushed them to the floor together with Zhou Hexuan. The three bodyguards immediately lay on top of them as human shields.
The German BV-141 reconnaissance plane is equipped with four machine guns, respectively fixed at the nose and tail. The bullet that just broke the window glass was fired from the tail. I saw the reconnaissance plane suddenly lifted up, flipped half a circle and caught up.
Fly to the top of a British airliner and swoop down.
"Da da da da..."
There was another series of strafing, and the bullets penetrated the cabin roof and entered. Ju Yiqiao, who was lying on Wang Rizhang, suddenly let out a muffled groan.
Wang Rizhang hurriedly asked: "How is brother Yiqiao?"
Ju Yiqiao gritted his teeth and smiled bitterly: "The calf was bitten by a bullet, it seems to have been penetrated."
"boom!"
The plane shook violently and then plunged toward the sea.
This is a special passenger plane, rented for a fee from Egypt (a puppet government under British control), and the pilots are also two Britons.
"Fake!"
The co-pilot cursed and hurriedly unbuckled his seat belt. The main pilot was already dead and had been shot in the back of the head. He had to rush over to take over.
Feeling the rapid fall of the plane, Ju Yiqiao shouted: "Open the cabin door, open the cabin door quickly, prepare to parachute!"
Take a parachute jump. There is the sea below. If you jump, you will either drown or be shot to death by a machine gun in mid-air.
Zhou Hexuan shouted: "Let me go quickly!"
Zhu Guozhen knelt down and said, "Sir, I'll ask the British guy to open the cabin door."
Zhou Hexuan quickly climbed to the cockpit: "Don't move, I'll go to the front to take a look."
Sun Yongzhen shouted: "It's dangerous, come back quickly!"
Wang Rizhang also shouted: "Mr. Zhou, don't go there."
Zhou Hexuan turned a deaf ear and stumbled towards the cockpit. As a result, the door was closed from the inside. He slammed the door and shouted in English: "Open it quickly, I can fly the plane!"
"Click!"
The cabin door opened, and the co-pilot's voice came from inside: "Come and help me... uh!"
“Ding ding ding ding!”
The bullet hit a string of sparks on the hatch. Zhou Hexuan subconsciously lowered his head to avoid it. When he entered again, he found that the co-pilot had also been shot.
Fortunately, this man was not dead yet. He pulled the operating lever and said, "Come and help me. I was shot in my right arm and I don't have enough strength!"
Zhou Hexuan quickly pushed away the body of the main pilot, pulled the joystick and said, "I will drive, and you will assist me."
"Damn German!" the co-pilot cursed and sat back down.
The German reconnaissance plane seemed to think that it had shot down the British aircraft. After another round of strafing, it turned around and left in a swagger. Their main mission was not to fight, but to detect the British maritime power. It was sheer unlucky that Zhou Hexuan and others bumped into it.
Under the control of Zhou Hexuan, the plane quickly recovered from the incline measurement, but it still plummeted straight down. The only British flight attendant had been killed, and there were only a few Chinese people left in the cabin. At this time, it rolled into a ball.
Enter the cockpit door.
Wang Rizhang was the unlucky one. He was knocked unconscious and his face was covered in blood.
Zhu Guozhen grabbed the unconscious Wang Rizhang and the injured Ju Yiqiao to prevent them from being bumped again. Sun Yongzhen and Ma Jue climbed into the cockpit and asked in unison: "How can I help?"
Zhou Hexuan pulled the joystick wildly and shouted: "Just don't make trouble. Start it for me!!!!!"
The nose of the plane was raised little by little, and when it was still five or six meters away from the sea, it finally drew a "U" arc, beautifully changing from falling to climbing.
"call!"
The British pilot slumped in his seat, closed his eyes and said: "Thank you, man, my name is Ethan, Ethan Brooke."
Zhou Hexuan wiped his sweat and smiled: "My name is Charles Zhou."
Ethan said: "I know. Before I even got on the plane, I knew that the passenger on this trip was the author of "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes". When will the serialization of your science fiction series end?"
Ethan complained: "When I first started watching "Legend of the Galactic Heroes", I was still in middle school. Influenced by this movie, I decided to become a pilot. I hope to fly a star battleship one day."
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Haha, there will be a day. Our journey is the stars and the sea."
Ma Jue suddenly said: "Sir, your arm is bleeding, do you need my help to bandage it?"
Ethan looked down at his arm: "Oh, Fuck, this is probably a disability, and I won't even be able to fly a plane in the future."
Under Ethan's command, Ma Jue found bandages and bandaged Ethan, Ju Yiqiao and Wang Rizhang very unprofessionally.
After the wound was treated, Ethan suddenly shouted: "Hey, man, you are driving in the wrong direction. This is the direction to the Netherlands! Go thirty to the west... Oh, God!"
Zhou Hexuan also looked at the northeast with his mouth agape. There was a dense group of German aircraft. It looked like there were at least seventy or eighty aircraft.
"Go west, go west quickly!" Ethan was scared to death.
Zhou Hexuan subconsciously pulled the control stick wildly. Before he could fly very far, he was met by six British fighter planes.
Ethan shouted: "Our plane, our plane!"
Zhou Hexuan muttered: "This comparison of power is a bit too disparate."
Zhou Hexuan did not expect at all that he would encounter the first large-scale air battle between Britain and Germany in World War II. 6 British Tornado fighters faced off against 20 German bombers and 50 escort fighters!
Below is the British Coastal Guard Fleet, with large-caliber ship-borne machine guns firing madly at it. Zhou Hexuan can even feel the scorching flames.
Holy shit!
Why did he dive into the air combat battlefield? Zhou Hexuan was about to cry but had no tears.
Fortunately, neither warring party took a passenger plane seriously and allowed Zhou Hexuan to flee the battlefield crazily.
The German aircraft fleet was divided into three levels, with 20 bombers on the lower level, 20 pursuit aircraft on the middle level, and 30 fighters on the upper level. With the enemy outnumbered, six British fighter planes rushed straight towards the German bombers and killed them as soon as they met.
A German bomber was shot down.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise. It turned out that the German pilot accidentally collided with a friendly plane to avoid the attack. The two bombers instantly turned into fireballs.
The air battle had become a mess, with planes rolling and chasing each other everywhere. Six British fighter jets shuttled among dozens of German aircraft, but they were not injured at all. On the contrary, the German aircraft formation was caught off guard.
Germany's attack this time was a sneak attack, with the goal of blowing up the British coastal escort fleet. The current situation made the German pilots think they were ambushed, and they didn't know how many British fighter jets would take off next.
In panic, the German bombers dropped their bombs with their eyes closed, exploding countless water jets on the sea. When the 20 German bombers finished dropping their bombs, none of them hit the British warship. In desperation, they had to return home.
Six British fighter planes also took advantage of the chaos and escaped. Facing 70 German aircraft, they actually achieved a record of 0:3.
This situation made Hitler extremely angry. Six days later, the Führer ordered the implementation of "Project Sea Lion".