He quickly seized the airborne gun emplacement.

This was an MG81 machine gun, a variant of the MG34 modified for aircraft use, capable of controlling two parallel guns with a single trigger, with extremely terrifying power.

“Felix, start the plane immediately!”

Gu Ji shouted as he pulled the trigger of the machine gun, firing a barrage.

Felix couldn’t believe they had actually succeeded and hurriedly dashed into the bunker.

Meanwhile.

Under the suppression of the machine gun fire, the numerical advantage of the Wu army soldiers vanished instantly, forcing them to retreat into the forest.

Seeing that the team had successfully taken the bunker, Apu’s face glowed with excitement.

It seemed he shared in this glory, but soon, when the flamethrower fuel ran out, he had to abandon the equipment and head toward the bunker to regroup with the team.

But during his run.

Bang! A bullet from a Wu army soldier pierced through his chest.

Apu fell to the ground in panic, his eyes filled with fear and helplessness as he looked at Gu Ji seated on the gun emplacement, reaching out with force.

As if seeking help;

Or perhaps trying to grasp the elusive victory dream of the Hans Empire…

The outcome was actually predestined from the start.

The open area in front of the bunker had very few cover options, even Gu Ji himself couldn’t survive the Wu army’s barrage in this vast open area of dozens of meters.

But he had no choice.

Without someone attracting the gunfire, they couldn’t take down two regular infantry platoon formations with just a few of them.

Rumble!

At this moment, the sound of the bomber’s engine filled the bunker behind him, and he faintly heard Ler shouting, “Buddy, hurry up, the plane is about to take off!”

Gu Ji pulled out the last M43 grenade from his waist, pulled the pin, and tossed it at the foot of the machine gun emplacement.

Yes.

He had to blow up the airborne machine gun, otherwise, with the take-off speed of a medium bomber, it would be shot down by Wu army soldiers using the gun emplacement before it even got to mid-air.

Amidst the fire and explosion.

Gu Ji ran into the bunker, its depth extending far, with old tungsten filament bulbs fixed by wire on the concrete walls on either side.

At the deepest part was parked a black twin-propeller plane, exactly the Heinkel He-111 medium bomber Felix had mentioned.

The entire plane was 16.4 meters long, with a wingspan of 22.6 meters, fitted with two gravity bombs, but most notably, its “nose.”

The cockpit of the He-111 was completely transparent, composed of aviation glass and alloy skeleton, providing excellent visibility for the pilot and bombardier and reducing air resistance.

With the machine gun emplacement no longer suppressing.

The Wu army soldiers outside the bunker began surrounding them again from the forest, with one soldier raising a signal gun and firing a red flare into the sky.

Gu Ji turned and fired a few more shots before quickly climbing into the cockpit.

The He-111 bomber could accommodate five people, namely the pilot, navigator, bombardier, front gunner, and rear gunner.

As the cockpit was completely transparent, including the bottom being glass.

It was Gu Ji’s first time inside, and he felt a bit uncomfortable, but he quickly found the machine gun controls and suddenly squeezed the trigger.

Ratatat…

The MG-131 machine gun, with a caliber of 13 millimeters, was an overwhelming presence for a single soldier. The bullets pierced through a soldier’s abdomen in an instant without resistance.

After checking all the controls, Felix glanced back at Gu Ji.

“This medium bomber typically requires coordination with a navigator to fly; please open the flaps for me, 10 degrees will do.”

“Okay.”

Gu Ji seized the opportunity to learn how to operate a plane.

Unexpectedly, this classic WWII scenario came with unexpected benefits; not only did he learn how to operate a tank gun emplacement, but he could also learn to fly a plane.

After opening the flaps, Felix began to gradually push the throttle forward with one hand, and as the plane started moving, he used the other to control the rudder, keeping it straight.

As the plane gradually accelerated, it soon shot out of the bunker.

Through the radio, Gu Ji could clearly hear Eugen’s excited shouts from the gunner’s room, “Die! You despicable Wu Kingdom scum!!”

No sooner had he finished speaking than the sound of machine gun fire erupted from the plane’s fuselage.

The Wu army soldiers on the ground dodged as they launched their final counterattack, and bullets crackled against the bomber’s fuselage.

“Hold on tight!”

Seeing the speed was about right, Felix began to gently pull back the flight control, maintaining the climb rate; the plane’s nose began to lift, and it grazed the olive groves below, ascending like an exponential curve into the sky.

“Woohoo～”

“We’re finally saved, haha…”

Ler was just reveling in the excitement of narrowly escaping with his life, laughing joyously, but soon everyone saw the Astani battlefield again through the transparent observation window.

The coastal troops were being pushed back step by step by the Fog Eagle Alliance Army, and in the Rutana Volcanic Jungle, Wu army armored forces were everywhere, with large numbers of tanks moving through the forest, gradually encircling Astani and advancing toward Messina.

Eugen gritted his teeth and said.

“Lieutenant, let’s fly over the Wu army armored units and bomb these scum!”

“But we don’t even have a bombardier here.”

Luca sat right next to Gu Ji.

Unlike a tank, a bomber had to take into account not only the parabolic angle but also flight speed, altitude, and wind interference, making it much more complex than the former.

“Damn it!”

Eugen could only slam the machine gun handle, pulling the trigger and firing downward from mid-air, venting his unwilling anger.

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