Chapter 4 Forced Landing
“What day is today?”
"What, General?"
"I'll ask you what day it is today?"
"What happened to General on May 21, 1940?"
"fine."
Xu Jun felt powerless, "Have you caught up with that famous small-scale tank massacre. Bloody and legendary. Rommel hit the iron plate for the first time. Do you want to meet Rommel? I originally hoped to be in a restaurant in a high-end restaurant while drinking champagne, but I was not going to drive a plane full of holes in front of him on the fierce battle battlefield."
Xu Jun looked at his watch and it was 2:20.
"The battle has begun, and the British launched an attack at two o'clock. That Wolf was silly leading me to the battlefield."
Thinking of this, Xu Jun planned to ask Wolf to find a safer place for him to land. Before he could speak, suddenly, the engine on the right made a blast, and a ball of black smoke emerged from the engine's fairing, and then the tongue of flame began to eject from every gap in the engine. The plane sank down like a step on someone.
"Damn it! Damn it. How could something happen here?"
After finally re-controlling the plane, Xu Jun shouted to the radio: "My engine is on fire, I want to land immediately."
"Wait for a moment, General, I see that there are enemy troops in front 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're just discovering it now!" Xu Jun also saw dense black spots appearing on the ground ahead. There were groups of tanks and trucks, and there was an artillery position in front of the left, constantly raising waves of white smoke, as if the cannons were being fired. The infantry and various vehicles on the ground were dragging rolling dust, and in the air it looked like a long dragon made of dozens of steel. A little further away was the smoke of gunpowder and countless black smoke columns. The rumbling explosions came from afar that could not even cover up the sound of the roaring engine.
While cursing his bad luck, Xu Jun 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 tail rudder has lost its function and I cannot 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 out. The enemy's position will not be too thick. I hope the aircraft can persist to land on the 7th Division's position."
The fire extinguishing bottle of the engine on the right has been automatically opened, and the white carbon dioxide is constantly ejecting. The flame is slowly extinguished. A long white smoke is dragged behind the engine.
"I understand, General. We will always cover you." Wolf replied.
Xu Jun pushed the left engine throttle to the bottom and then began diving at a small slope. He must maintain sufficient speed. Otherwise, when the left engine stops, the plane will stall and crash immediately, and there is no chance to glide. The altitude is slowly decreasing, and the me110s on the side are also following closely.
The British army on the ground heard the roar of the plane engine. When they looked back, they saw a German medium bomber dragging white smoke and a group of fighter jets and rushed towards them. At that time, it was a mess below. The infantry, who had been marching in an orderly formation, were now scrambling around looking for concealment. The officers waved desperately with the revolver, shooting at the plane while kicking the soldiers lying on the ground to get up and resist. Several brave machine gunners set up machine guns and began to shoot in the air. When they heard the fierce machine gun sound, the infantry finally recovered some courage and began to shoot rifles in the sky in groups of three or three.
Xu Jun was still descending, and he could clearly see the figures on the ground. Sequential strings of tracer bullets flew past the window, and the rifle bullets hit the casing and making noises.
"Wolf, cover me and clean up my route." Xu Jun shouted.
Wolf calmly answered from the headphones: "I understand, everyone will follow me." Then several me110s began to swiftly dive and fired at the infantry on the ground ahead of Xu Jun. The 20mm machine cannon and 7.9mm machine gun bullets made the ground full of dust, leaving behind the fighter jets with incomplete bodies.
Xu Jun turned on the phone and called, "Hans, come here, I need your help. Others find a place to fix it themselves, and we will make a forced 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 navigator's seat, yes, that's it, just turn it down. Don't forget the safety belt. When I land later, you need you to help me control the ailerons and elevators. You just need to pull the pole backwards before we touch the ground."
"I understand, general." Hans held the side arm of the driving rod tightly, then looked at Xu Jun, as if he wanted to say something.
"Is there any problem?" Xu Jun glanced at Hans.
"Ah, no... nothing." Hans quickly looked away.
At this time, Wolf's voice came from his headphones, "General, I am already above our army's position. Just 5,000 meters ahead of you, there is a large open space where you can land. Note that behind the small woods in front of you, there are enemy tanks and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns. That is the enemy's front line."
"Understood."
Xu Jun gritted his teeth and leveled the plane again. "Hold on, there are still five thousand meters, you won't let me down." Xu Jun said to the left engine. The left engine immediately replied to Xu Jun. It spitted for a few times and stopped. "Damn, am I really so unlucky?" Xu Jun roared angrily: "Then let you see, I won't just admit defeat so easily."
At this time, the plane had lost all its power and could only glide barely. Fortunately, the plane still had enough speed and should be able to hold on for a distance. The British army on the position below watched a German bomber silently passing over their heads, dragging white smoke behind them.
"The height seems not enough." Xu Jun thought to himself, "It seems that life is almost over this time. Whether it is a failed forced landing or being captured by the British, the outcome will be the same. I can only fight for it!"
The plane had already flown over the woods, and was flying against the treetops. Xu Jun gritted his teeth and said with the cabin communicator: "Please pay attention, we are about to make a landing. Whether the landing is successful or not, I will thank everyone for flying with me. May God be with us." As a result, a "Long live the head of state" sound came from the back cabin, which made Xu Jun almost let the plane take it to the ground.
Suddenly the woods under his feet disappeared, and an empty field appeared in front of Xu Jun. Several tanks were burning on the field, and the black smoke was rolling, so it was impossible to tell which country it belonged to. On the other side of the field, Xu Jun saw a small earth slope. The smoke was rolling on the slope, and the wreckage of a fleet of vehicles was burning across the slope. British artillery shells were constantly exploding near the earth slope. At a corner of the earth slope, Xu Jun found that there was a German flag/38/20mm anti-aircraft cannon in the thick smoke. The guy was shooting at him frantically, and the baseball tracer bombs kept sweeping past the cab. The shadows below the slope were also gray-green figures shaking. That was the German position.
"Wolf! Tell them not to shoot at me!" Xu Jun shouted.
"General, I can't contact them. I have no choice." Wolf replied anxiously.
At this moment, Xu Jun's plane had landed at an altitude of only more than ten meters, and it was still six or seven hundred meters away from the German position. Xu Jun shouted: "Everyone is ready to collide! Hans, right now, pull!"
The plane fell head-on to the battlefield where the fire was being exchanged under the public eye of the soldiers on both sides.
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Chapter completed!