A copycat version of the C-47 flew up, and Ron looked out the window to see several P-81 fighters in a neat queue to escort the plane. Closest to the window was a fighter with twenty beautiful women painted on its fuselage. It was Squadron Leader Harry's landline.

Speaking of which, the shooting down mark on the neat painting on the fuselage is a typical Soviet feature. This kind of arrogant approach is not necessarily a good thing for the pilots themselves, it is almost like shouting at the enemy, "It's kind of to play with Lao Tzu". When you fight in this way, you will receive special attention from your opponents, and the difficulty of achieving results will naturally increase. But this also has the advantage of greatly intimidating the enemy and boosting morale.

When Pokryshkin took off in the Kuban air battle, he drove his P-39 painted with red five stars into the air, and the German radio was full of exclamations of "Be careful, Pokryshkin is in the air." In the original history, Kozhdub, who was accustomed to flying the No. 13 fighter, also received the same honor, and the Soviet radio station would even call the "Eagle 13" several times, regardless of whether he was actually in the air or not, in order to scare and scare the Germans.

This act of heroism immediately influenced some American pilots, who at first painted blue stars on their planes, or smashed-out swastikas, and later, painted everything. There was a guy who called himself a saint of love who painted roses, and someone painted red lips, and Harry, who had studied art for a few days before enlisting in the army, simply did something more difficult - painting the Spring (River Crab) Palace.

At the beginning, Harry set himself a grand goal, deciding to draw a new pose for each enemy plane, until he had gathered 42 enemy planes and painted all the 42 scattered hands he had collected by various means. Some Soviet lads at the airport often ran to his plane to drool under the pretext of maintaining the plane, and every time Harry came back from a mission, a group of people would gather around him and ask if there was a new shot down today.

This situation made Harry very proud, but it caused strong resentment among Soviet political workers. How can these Yankees corrupt our fighters with the decadent ideas of the bourgeoisie? So these people, while holding an internal organization meeting within themselves, demanding that the young men consciously resist the erosion of the decadent ideas of the bourgeoisie, approached Ron and asked Ron to prohibit the Yankees from painting the spring (river crab) palace on the plane.

Ron himself felt that Harry had gone a little too far. If he really wants to make the future Edo 42 Sanshou into an Army Airlines 42 Sanshou, Ron's reputation will probably be affected. Under his persuasion, Harry reluctantly gave up his unfinished business, lowered the painting spring (river crab) palace to a level, and turned it into a beautiful woman. In order to be able to account to the Soviets, these beauties had to be so-called "art". For example, miniature facsimiles of "Venus" and "Spring". In this way, when the Soviets protested again, Ron could respond with a sentence of "you don't know art". In fact, in the eyes of the Russians, the Yankees are nouveau riche who lack artistic accomplishments. It would be nice to deal with them like that.

Escorted by these P-81s, the Li-2 transport aircraft flew steadily at an altitude of 4,000 meters. A little more than an hour later, the plane reached the skies over the Smolensk airport.

The transport planes began to descend in altitude, preparing to land at the Smolensk airfield, while those escorted P-81s, continued to fly westward, and their targets were on the territory of Poland.

This time is different from the last time, in order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, the cluster adopted a low-altitude or even ultra-low-altitude breakthrough method, and this time, these fighters swaggered over from a height of 6,000 meters. This was done because the Germans had previously sent fighter jets to patrol areas that were difficult for radar to take care of. Once they are encountered at low or ultra-low altitudes, and are attacked by their condescending command, it is difficult to guarantee that even the P-81 with excellent performance can escape in its entirety. In addition, after the success of the first raid, the Germans would not be as defenseless as that, so the P-81s now simply entered directly from a high altitude.

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At an airfield on the territory of Poland, a large group of planes is preparing for takeoff. Today is another good day, and the sky looks exceptionally blue and high in late autumn. At altitudes below 8,000 meters, there are no clouds, and only at altitudes of 8,000 to 10,000 meters do there be a faint feathery clouds.

"Vulture 3 asks to take off!" Captain Vogts carefully checked the data of each instrument and sent a take-off request to the airport tower.

"Vulture 3, permission to take off!"

After receiving permission from the tower, Vogts released the brakes and the ME-262 began to glide slowly down the runway. Vogts carefully controlled the throttle valve, and the plane began to accelerate slowly. It wasn't until he was almost at the end of the runway that Vogts gently pulled the joystick, and the nose of the ME-262 gradually lifted up, leaving the front wheels off the ground first. The rear wheels of the plane slid on the ground for a while before gradually leaving the ground and flying.

Vogts is the third ME-262 to take off, and behind him, more than a dozen more ME-262s will take off one after another. Their mission was to protect the airfield and intercept the Allied fighters who came on safari.

It turned out that the BF-109 and FXSTXTE-262 hovering near the airfield to protect the ME-262 on the airfield. There are a lot of problems with this approach. First of all, the flight time of the engines of the ME-262 is extremely valuable. The overhaul time for each engine is only 50 hours. If you use it this way, the cost is really ...... As a result of the attacks of the Allies, many strategic materials in Germany were now in short supply. For example, some of the metals used to make jet engines are completely dependent on stocks. The Germans will never be able to afford it in this way. But the result of allowing the enemy to do whatever he wanted over his zone of control was even more unbearable for the Germans. So the Germans hoped that they would be able to inflict an unbearable blow on the enemy with a few attacks, and thus force the enemy to end this offensive safari.

This time, the Allied aircraft did not use the mode of ultra-low-altitude penetration when crossing the Line of Control. In this way, the Germans were given time to give an early warning, although on the Eastern Front, the Germans did not want to arrange an early warning radar network in echelons like on the Western Front, and could not continue to track the target, but based on the intelligence detected by a certain radar, the Germans could still roughly deduce the arrival time of the P-81 group, and let the Me-262 take off before that.

The Germans knew that the ME-262 was not very effective against fighters, and due to the flaws in rolling, even if it had an advantage in altitude and speed, the opposing fighters could dodge its attacks with relative ease. So the Germans devised a new set of tactics for hybrid warfare.

The tactics are as follows: use the BF-109 and ME-262 to operate jointly. Both aircraft had problems against the P-81 alone. The BF-109 is too slow, the high-altitude performance is too poor, compared to the P-81, there is no advantage in climbing, and when confronting the P-81, it will be taken to the high altitude and bullied to the death. As for the ME-262, the roll is too bad, and if it is not a sneak attack, it is like a fly flying in the air with a sledgehammer, and it is basically a waste of effort.

But when combined, they're not the same. The Me-262 can effectively prevent the P-81 from playing spiral climb with its higher speed and good jump, and when the P-81 and BF-109 are in a fight, the Me-262 can also rely on the speed advantage to constantly plunder the P-81. You can imagine when you finally put a BF-109 into the shooting halo and are about to add another star, or a rose, or an unclothed Mona Lisa to your fighter, suddenly there is a sharp whistling sound characteristic of jet engines behind you; Or when a BF-109 is going to be at 6 o'clock in your life, if usually, you can increase the horsepower, easily accelerate horizontally, and throw the BF-109 far away, and at this time, there is a damn ME-262 that constantly attacks you, forcing you to constantly adjust your flight attitude, that is, constantly turning left and right, and as a result, the BF-109 is not only not getting rid of, but even shortening the distance with you, and it can fire at you. You say it's so depressing!

Now the Germans do not have information about the specific location of the P-81 fleet, which makes it difficult for them to directly intercept the P-81 fleet. But the Germans still have a way, and this method is called waiting for the rabbit. The P-81 will definitely find some airfields to go to anyway, so the fleet of aircraft on mixed combat missions just needs to stay over those airfields.

The Me-262, which took off first, began to climb slowly, and the Me-262 had a very good rate of climb, but when it first took off, the speed was not high enough, and the power output of its engines could not change too quickly, so now it can only climb slowly. However, as the speed gradually increased, the ME-262 climbed faster and faster. It didn't take long for Vogts to climb to an altitude of 6,000 meters.

Vogts rolled the plane more than 30 degrees, and then looked down through the side window, and he saw that some BF-109s were also hovering at an altitude of about 4,000 meters. Now, the preparations are in place, just waiting for the Allied P-81s to come to the door.