Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 452: One-sided air battle

After the furious Isov shot and killed two Mongolian army officers and a dozen soldiers who took the lead in fleeing, he ordered the Soviet army to rely on the fortifications to continue to block the attack of the squadron.

Perhaps it was the effect of the act of killing chickens and monkeys just now, and the weapons and equipment deployed on the second line of defense were obviously much stronger than the first line of defense, so the first attack of the 222nd Division was quickly suppressed.The Soviet army who had learned the lesson did not do that stupid move this time. After the 222nd Division withdrew, they also retreated to the air-raid shelter urgently, leaving only a few sentries in charge of monitoring.

When the war on the front line of the Second Company was in full swing, the whole of China was completely boiling. The special issue of Saibei Daily, Saibei Economic Daily, and the Eighth Theater Military Daily published a shocking news on June 1940, 6, that the Sino-Soviet war had begun.

The newspapers published the reasons and process of the Sino-Soviet war and the current situation between the enemy and the enemy in a large format on the front page.All the people in the country know that these three newspapers are media directly under the provincial government of Sebei Province, which represents the provincial government of Sebei Province and the Chief Department of the Eighth War Zone, so the news published from these three newspapers will generally not be false. What's more, it was published in the form of headlines on the front page.

According to reports from newspapers and media in northern Serbia, the Sino-Soviet war was completely caused by the Soviet side abandoning the "Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty" and signing the so-called "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" with Japan alone, and some of the agreements seriously violated China's Territorial sovereignty is suspected of carve-up of Chinese territory, which is why this large-scale military conflict has been caused.

In addition to reporting on the causes of the war, the three papers also reported on the fighting of the previous night.However, what is inconsistent with the reality is that in the reports of these three newspapers, after nearly 7 hours of bitter fighting in the eighth war zone last night, they finally defeated the Soviet puppet army that entered the eighth war zone and wiped out more than 4 enemies. The remaining Soviet and puppet troops were all surrounded on a small hill [-] kilometers north of Erlian.

However, the losses in the Eighth War Zone were also extremely heavy. More than 8 officers and soldiers were killed in battle, and as many as 600 people were injured, almost one to one with the casualties of the Soviet army.

As soon as the news came out, it shocked people both at home and abroad.Some people praised Chen Feng and the eighth war zone for their fearlessness of power.Dare to fight against any country and force that violates China's sovereignty can be described as the mainstay of China.However, there are also some people who believe that Chen Feng disregarded the national security, without the permission of the central government of the national government, because of his own selfishness.Go to war against a powerful country like the Soviet Union.Simply lawless thugs.Such a person is simply not worthy of serving as the provincial chairman of a province and the commander-in-chief of a theater.

In addition, some people cheered happily, because the Eighth War Zone had won the battle anyway.There are also some people who are worried that the casualties in the eighth theater will be too large, which will seriously affect the strength of the eighth theater.I am even more worried that the Japanese army will take this opportunity to attack the Eighth Theater with the Soviet Union, which will lead to more serious consequences.

In response to the turmoil from the outside world, the provincial government of the entire Sebei Province and the top officials of the Eighth War Zone did not respond. Except for the true and false news in the newspapers, everyone in the Sebei Province and the Eighth War Zone focused their attention on Second company.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Major General Isov finally got the aviation unit he was waiting for, a total of 2 aviation divisions with 668 fighters, half of which were fighters and half bombers.

Chen Feng had long been on guard against the Soviet Air Force, and the Soviet Red Army never thought that when they took off from Kulun Airport, Chen Feng knew about it.Under the 3000-kilometer search radius of the defensive radar, the number and formation of Soviet aircraft were presented in front of Chen Feng's troops without reservation.

After receiving the report from the radar soldiers, Chen Feng ordered the First Fighter Brigade that had arrived at the front line of the Second Company and the Second Fighter Brigade at the Sunit Right Banner to be ready for combat at any time. When the Soviet Air Force was less than 150 kilometers away from the battlefield, Chen Feng ordered The two aviation brigades of the Northern Air Force immediately took to the skies.

At ten o'clock sharp, after receiving a telegram from the Far Eastern Military Region Command, Major General Isov ordered all ground troops to immediately enter the combat state, and only waited for the air force to arrive and break out immediately, heading all the way north.

When the humming engine of the fighter plane was heard in the air, Major General Isov boarded an armored personnel carrier with big strides, and then commanded the troops to immediately break through to the north.Because according to the observation just now, there is a Chinese army stationed ten kilometers north of the battlefield, but since the distance has exceeded the effective distance of the telescope, it is temporarily impossible to judge how many Chinese troops there are in the north, but it is far away. It can be seen that there appear to be tanks there.

According to Major General Isov's idea, the air force will carry out carpet bombing of the Chinese troops in the north as soon as they arrive, especially the Chinese armored and artillery units. A group charge is bound to severely damage the army in the north.

However, the plan can never keep up with the changes. As soon as Isov's order was issued, the Soviet aviation division that had just emerged in the sky was attacked by the Northern Air Force that had been ambushing in the sky for a long time.

"Bang bang bang!"

The dull sound of the 30mm cannon not only rang out in the air, but then Soviet fighter planes were shot down and even disintegrated in the air.

There were two aviation divisions for the Soviet army's southward reinforcement operation, one was a fighter division composed of I-2 fighter jets, and the other was a bomber division composed of medium-range bombers.Because a large number of Soviet volunteer pilots served in the Northern Air Force not long ago, the Soviet Union thought it knew the situation of the Chinese Air Force very well.Because of this, the top Soviet army believes that at least they have an absolute advantage in the air force, and it can be said that they are already invincible.

殊不知他们所了解的东西都是过去式,现在北方空军早已经将那那些老旧的伊系列战机全部剔除,现在北方空军的主力战机为歼5战斗机、歼6战斗机以及武直九。经过近8个月的发展,现在北方空军已经拥有726架歼5战斗机、705架歼6战斗机以及876架武直九。

In addition, the Northern Air Force has 488 strategic bombers and 756 Hercules transport aircraft, and the number of aviation brigades of the Northern Air Force has also expanded to 10, including 5 fighter brigades, 2 bomber brigades, and 3 transport aircraft brigades. , 1 reconnaissance aircraft brigade, and 4 other army aviation brigades. In terms of the number of air forces, the Eighth Theater is no worse than the Soviet Union. The Northern Air Force even exploded the Soviet Air Force.

The battle in the sky was still going on, and the Soviet Air Force discovered with horror that the fighter planes under them couldn't even catch the tail of the Chinese Air Force. Still, the firepower far exceeds their landlines.Coupled with the numerical disadvantage, the Soviet Air Force was in crisis from the very beginning.

The I-16 fighter equipped by the Soviet Air Force was designed by Polikarpov in 1933. It was the first Soviet fighter with a cantilevered lower wing and a retractable landing gear. On February 1934, 2, the famous pilot vpchkalov conducted a test flight. In 18, he appeared for the first time at a mass rally commemorating May 1935st International Labor Day in Red Square, flying over Red Square in formation.Then, start equipping the troops.

The Yi-16 has a thick and short fuselage, a low single-wing wooden monocoque structure, and uses a nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engine. The engine is simply covered for enhanced protection but has no drag reduction measures. Point landing gear, with a two-blade variable-pitch propeller, and the first armored cockpit.The top speed is 440 kilometers per hour, the ceiling is 9000 meters, it takes 5000 minutes and 6 seconds to rise from take-off to 18 meters, and the range is 810 kilometers.Armed with two 7.62mm machine guns.

Although many innovative designs of the Yi-16 fighter directly stimulated competition in the aviation industry in the 30s, it is still undeniable that this aircraft had already begun to fall behind when World War II started, and was left far behind by the world's mainstream fighters.The reason why the Soviet Far East Military Region still has a large number of such fighters is entirely because in the armed conflict of the Battle of Nomonhan, the Yi-16 had very good results, and once defeated the Type [-] fighters equipped by the Japanese army.

On the other hand, the two main fighters equipped by the Northern Air Force, not to mention the advanced J-6, let’s take the relatively backward J-5 as an example. Not to mention anything else, the internal equipment of the J-5 alone is not comparable to fighters of this era. In terms of the simple airborne equipment inside the Yi-16, the ultra-short wave command radio, radio compass, radio altimeter, beacon receiver, IFF device, tail guard, and range finder on the J-5 can be regarded as luxurious.

Compared with the Yi-16 fighter jet, the biggest feature of the J-5 is that it is fast. The maximum level flight speed: 1145 kmh is nearly three times that of the Yi-16, plus the maximum ceiling of 16000m and the maximum range of 1560 kilometers, it can completely kill the Yi-16.

Soviet pilots were far more heroic than ground troops, and despite being disadvantaged, they still fought heroically with the Northern Air Force.

However, the huge gap in the fighter planes cannot be made up by pure courage. By 10:20 in the battle, more than 200 Soviet fighter planes had been shot down, and dozens of fighter planes were injured and staggered out of the battle.

This was a completely one-sided massacre in the air. In front of the pilots of the Northern Air Force flying subsonic fighters that completely surpassed this era, even the Soviet pilots with rich combat experience and good skills were still weak.What's more, the air force that went south to reinforce Isov this time has only more than 300 fighter jets, and the rest are bombers with combat effectiveness below 5.

In order to completely annihilate this Soviet air force, Chen Feng dispatched more than 2 new fighter planes from two brigades at one time, so there will often be two or more new Chinese fighter planes encircling and destroying a Soviet bomber in the sky above the Second Company. .

When the battle ended at 10:40, all of the 668 Soviet fighter planes that came for reinforcements were shot down except for a dozen that escaped the battlefield by chance. However, only one J-5 of the Northern Air Force was shot down, and the rest were not damaged. The only fighter that was shot down was because he did not expect that the Soviet pilot would choose to collide with him. Unprepared, the two fighters collided hard and crashed at the same time. (To be continued..)

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