Chapter 018: Strategic Victory
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Lieutenant Rudolph's plane quickly climbed to 10,000 meters with its strong horsepower, a height that is very small in the eyes of others. At this terrifying altitude, anti-aircraft guns are unlikely to hit, and fighters generally lose their performance at this altitude because the air is very thin. At this height, people will generally be scrapped due to lack of oxygen and other reasons. But because there is a pressurized cabin, every qiē is a floating cloud. And the fat angel Marshal Goering also boarded the plane, and it happened to be Rudolph's plane, which was in the center of the box-shaped formation.
Thanks to the pressurized cabin, it is also very simple to install equipment such as heating in the cabin. The temperature in the cabin can be maintained at about 10 degrees Celsius, which is very strong at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
As the formation flew over the perennially ice-free port of Murmansk, Goering watched with a high-magnification telescope next to the bombardier. When he saw that there were P-40, P-39, and P-47 planes of the US military below, he directly slammed the cabin.
The whole plane shook, obviously this was not something that Goering's forces could do, it turned out that a huge anti-aircraft bomb exploded below, and then the whole plane was blown up by the huge air wave generated by this shell. Fragments from the explosion of the shell entered engine No. 2, and the engine began to leak orange fuel vapor and brown oily substances - the oil pipeline ruptured, and then the oil began to leak.
But now the planes in the entire formation can only turn off their engines, but this will affect the results of their own bombing, and will endanger other bombers.
Lieutenant Rudolph silently turned on the autopilot and entered the bomb dropping route.
The power provided by the eight engines was already very powerful, but this was still carrying more than ten tons of bombs, when all the bombs were dropped, the whole group began to rapidly increase the altitude in the order in which the bombs were dropped, and when the pilot switched the plane to the balanced altitude, the plane had risen 500 meters.
After dropping the bomb, Rudolph's mission was to return home, but the situation with engine 2 was not optimistic, and something big could happen at any time.
Just when Rudolph was worried, the navigator, who could just see the wing, exclaimed: "Captain, engine No. 2 is on fire, oh my! ”
With the help of the co-pilot, Rudolph cut off the oil circuit, turned off the supercharger and turned on the fire extinguisher, but for various reasons, the fire extinguishing was not successful.
Rudolph immediately asked the squadron commander for instructions to leave the formation, and after obtaining permission, he began to carry out the most effective method of extinguishing the fire - dive. The Super Flying Fortress is built to be sturdy enough to fly at speeds of up to 1,000 km/h, at which point it can barely perform some tactical maneuvers.
The remaining seven engines of the Super Fortress provided plenty of power, and its own gravitational acceleration quickly increased the speed to the 500 km mark, but the fire was still not extinguished, but there was a slight beat. At this time, the altitude was already 7,500 meters, which means that they had already dived 3,000 meters.
Rudolph continued to dive, because if the fire could not be extinguished, the entire wing would be destroyed, and then it would be fun for the commander-in-chief of the Air Force to be captured on Soviet soil.
Ji Feng forgot to design a safety device for these planes - carbon dioxide fire extinguishers. Rudolph couldn't extinguish the fire because the fire extinguisher was frozen at high altitude, and if there was a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, the carbon dioxide would be able to extinguish the fire. Although this is a very fast flying flight, as long as a low-oxygen environment can be created, no matter how big the fire can be extinguished.
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By the time the fire on the wing was extinguished, Rudolph had already dived to an altitude of 5,000 meters, and he still had a few hundred kilometers to leave Soviet soil. But now there is a group of Soviet fighters coming to intercept it, some old I-15, I-16, La-5, La-7 and so on, an extremely large group, but fortunately they do not have heavy armor plates, or radio equipment that can communicate between aircraft, and there are no cannons of more than 20 mm caliber.
Even if the Super Flying Fortress was besieged by these guys, they couldn't let the plane suffer much damage, but the terrible thing was that the Soviet pilots had the same suicidal thoughts as the Japanese pilots. During World War I, many planes of the Second Reich were shot down by Russian pilots in the form of suicide attacks.
The planes did not attack the Super Flying Fortress, but circled outside, all in circles, and from time to time a few fighters forced Rudolph to make some very potential-consuming moves.
Rudolph understood: the purpose of these fighters was to drag their own planes. So he ordered the machine gun to open fire, and a La-7, which was a long plane, was hit, dragging black smoke and falling down, and the pilot did not parachute. Probably killed on the spot.
Goering obviously couldn't bear the sound of firing in the pressurized cabin, but as a former World War I pilot (Goering was still a small ace at the time), he forced himself to calm down.
Soon there were a lot of shells on the ground, and Marshal Goering was about to go to the radio operator to look for reinforcements, when Rudolph suddenly pulled up the plane, and Goering stepped on a pile of shells without standing firmly. Then Goering slammed it to the floor. A small viewing window in Golinton Guò saw a string of shells and a Soviet version of the P-39 "Razer" fighter (the P-39 was armed with a 37mm cannon and 4~6 12.7mm heavy machine guns, plus a rear-mounted engine, which was very popular with Soviet pilots).
Even if Goering was incompetent, he knew that even if such a superfortress was hit by a 37-mm shell, it would definitely fall apart.
Fortunately, the planes had now entered German airspace, and although Garand's 26th Fighter Wing was fighting on the Western Front, the 2nd Fighter Wing (Richthofen Fighter Wing) was not weak, and a good name allowed this unit to obtain more advanced weapons. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this fighter wing is definitely not to be underestimated, and the Soviet army sent hundreds of fighters in order to intercept Goering, the air marshal, although these fighters are very old, but being able to shoot down these fighters can also be counted as a shot down record. It's also useful when choosing trump cards, such benefits don't come every day, maybe there won't be such a good opportunity after this time.
Goering was glad that his troops had arrived in time to rescue him, because it was the most important thing for him.
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When Goering was scared, Ji Feng had already launched an attack. Because the Soviet army attacked too fast, coupled with the brutal rule did not win the hearts of the people. The change in the occupation policy of the German army won the hearts of many peasants, so even if the German army's supplies were delayed, the peasants would voluntarily provide some food for the German soldiers. But since the Soviet army, they have begun to do all kinds of evil, such as burning, killing, looting, and plundering.
Although this was the work of only a small number of Soviet troops, the peasants everywhere in Tongguò had reached the ears of the peasants in almost all of Poland. These simple peasants, of course, knew where the officers that the Soviets had taken with them after the invasion of Poland, and what they had done now, all the peasants began to miss the benefits of German rule. In the area occupied by the Soviet army, the Soviet army, which could not keep up with the logistics supply because it was advancing too quickly, was surrounded for only one day, but this logistics supply had collapsed.
Ji Feng's advance is very smooth, and I believe that this is also the case in other places, because as far as they are concerned, the enemies they face are the same, and their comrades-in-arms cooperate better and more tacitly, if they can't win the victory, they can be ruined.
When Ji Feng entered a small village, he found that the Soviet army had suddenly disappeared, and just as Ji Feng picked up a telescope from under the commander's command tower of the No. 4 F2 tank to observe, a Polish peasant walked over. Ji Feng knew some Polish dialect, and he knew it from the simple peasant: the Soviet armored forces were advancing into the narrow canyon to the west, but it seemed that they were overwhelmed. And the infantry units of the Soviet army hid in the cellars of this small village.
After Ji Feng thanked him, he ordered the 12th Demonstration Panzergrenadier Regiment to engage in street fighting in this small village, and emphasized the need to ensure the safety of the lives and property of Polish peasants.
He led the 1st Demonstration Panzer Regiment and the 11th Demonstration Panzergrenadier Regiment to advance in the direction of the gorge in a coordinated manner of infantry and tanks.
It is obviously a good way for an armored personnel carrier to follow fifty meters behind the tank, so that the tank has no worries. Ji Feng painted a big "ah" on the front of all the combat vehicles of his 1st Demonstration Panzergrenadier Division with white paint, just like Guderian painted a big "G" in his own troops.
Colonel Grigory Ivanovich was a colonel regimental commissar of the 39th Army of the Novgorod Front of the Soviet Union. In this time and space, Ji Feng did not issue the "Political Order", so he didn't have to fight to the end at all. On the contrary, because he always used his personality charm to make the soldiers obey him in peacetime, he had more influence than the regiment commander.
Grigory had already communicated with the Germans, and with his men, they all agreed to surrender to the Germans en masse.
The main reason for such a situation is that Ji Feng ordered preferential treatment of prisoners, and was ready to recruit some "volunteers" of other nationalities from the captives, so that he wanted to establish a puppet government in the future. The government can also be better established.
Grigory led the entire Panzer Regiment to surrender to the Germans, and another Panzer Regiment surrendered as soon as the tide turned.
And most of them agreed on the spot to join the German army.
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The battle was won, not only a tactical victory, but also the annihilation or capture of more than 200,000 Soviet soldiers, and the ability to use most of the prisoners for their own use. This unit was the most elite U.S. armament unit of the Soviet Union, the 39th Group Army.
This battle not only captured these equipment and personnel, but also sent a signal of Germany's "preferential treatment of prisoners" to the Soviet army, coupled with the small number of soldiers who escaped by chance to spread the German bourgeois "** life" in the Soviet Union, more Soviet soldiers began to yearn for Germany, and hoped that Germany could liberate their homeland faster.
The seeds of surrender to the Germans were planted in the hearts of many soldiers, and this phenomenon became even stronger after the German strategic counteroffensive began. Until S. It was only after the infamous Order No. 227 that Obayashi eased, but with the loss of the Soviet Union and the occupation of many parts by the Germans, this phenomenon became out of control, but this is a story for later.
Since the actual prisoners were only about 30,000, the Germans joined the full strength of two panzer divisions - 28,000 men. Therefore, these two armored divisions were given the numbers of the 1st Panzergrenadier Division of the Russian People's Liberation Army and the 2nd Panzergrenadier Division of the Russian People's Liberation Army.
Earlier in the same day, the people. Politics of the main Russia. The government was announced, and three minutes later the Russian People's Liberation Army was officially announced.