Groups of He-218 dive bombers and Ju-188 medium bombers swept over the Caspian Sea under the cover of Bf-219, bombs and incendiary bombs were dropped on the Soviet array as if they didn't want money, and the retreat of nearly 70,000 people was not Manstein's breath, and the transfer could be successful in the next minute, and enough time must be left. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

While the bombing was still underway, the Fw-190 series, carrying strafing suits, rushed to the battlefield again, sweeping away all suspicious places below with heavy and dense fire. Hoffman once positioned the Fw-190 as an air superiority fighter, requiring that "not a kilogram of weight is allowed for ground attack", but with the Do-412 and Ta-152 being put into use one after another, the status of the Fw-190's main fighter began to waver, and the high-altitude volley is not as good as the Ta-152, the medium-altitude combat is not as light as the Do-412, and the low-altitude horizontal grappling is not as good as the Bf-219 。

Wolf had hoped that Dr. Tan Ke could launch a lightweight version of the Fw-190 and replace it with a new engine to compete with the Do-412, and even wanted to enter the carrier-based aircraft market, but after careful analysis, Dr. Tan Ke thought that this was not of much significance, not only was it too late in time, but also faced with strong competition from Do-412, and he might not be able to win, after all, he was quite familiar with all aspects of Do-412's data performance. However, the 190 has its own unique advantages over the previous generation of "all-round fighter" Bf-109: large body, heavy weight, improved upgrades and large space redundancy.

Finding a different way, he quickly found a good place for 190 - ground attack. The Fw-190F series was developed with the addition of armor, enlarged fuel tanks, and reduced speed, and 70% of the parts can be used with the Fw-190A series, which increases the value of the original production line. Not only did it continue to win orders for the company, but it was also able to expand the Air Force, and the Ministry of Armaments was very satisfied with this improvement, and changed all the reduced orders for the A series to the F series.

The improved 190F series has a maximum range of nearly 1,300 kilometers, can carry 2 250 kg bombs or 48 R4M rockets, or neither, and hangs a fire pod under the belly to carry out anti-tank missions, and with the 4 MG213 aviation guns on the wing, the fire density has exceeded that of the cannon bird modified with Ju-87. Although the performance of anti-aircraft combat is somewhat inferior, it is still not a big problem to escape. If you encounter an opponent's Il-2 fighter or a lone bomber, the F-series, which was born out of fighters, can still win in air combat.

In fact, the strength of the Soviet fighter unit, which has been repeatedly hit, is already very weak, and it is rare to see a large-scale air group armed combat, at best, it is only a sneak attack, and in the case of an increasingly large battlefield range, there is an urgent need for more powerful ground support combat aircraft, and the F series has seized the opportunity.

Now only the Bf-219 has not yet completed the upgrade, in the face of the reality that the Do-412 (purple electric reform) has been on the ship and has achieved good results, and at the same time seeing the successful breakthrough of the 190F series, the R&D team led by Jiro Horikoshi carefully selected the plan for fine-tuning. The technical positioning of the Bf-319 (Gale Moddy) has been changed from a high-performance all-round fighter to a low-altitude horizontal maneuverable first and long-distance escort fighter, which combines the horizontal maneuverability of the 219 with the large range of the P51B, with a perverted fuel of 1330 liters and a maximum take-off weight of nearly 5 tons.

Just such a big guy of more than 4 tons, at a low altitude of 3000 meters, can fight with the Bf-219 of less than 3 tons, and at 3000-5000 meters of altitude and Do-412 have their own advantages, at most it can only be said to be slightly inferior, if it reaches a low oil state (the last hour of oil), even 412 can not be stopped. The maximum range of the carrier-based version is 1,600 km, and the maximum range of the land-based version is 1,800 km. It can also hang two 250 kg bombs or two 350-liter fuel tanks or a 650-liter large fuel tank, and the maximum range can reach 2,600 km (land-based) after hanging the fuel tank, which is three times that of the Bf-109 with short legs. And this range is still achieved at an altitude of about 6,500 meters, and if the altitude can be raised further (with the new 901 engine), the range can be increased by another 10-15%.

For the Luftwaffe, which was already fighting farther and farther on the Eastern Front, this kind of ultra-long-range fighter was obviously necessary. It is believed that whether Hainan Airlines uses it or not, they definitely need it, so that in the future, they will no longer have to take off from the outermost airport in Portugal (which is easy to be raided) by transferring to the Azores or going to the Azores for reinforcements, and they can completely use the airfields located in the deep zone of Spain and Portugal, which greatly improves the survivability. At the same time, Jiro Horikoshi also sent a telegram to Japan, believing that due to Japan's lack of strength, it could not establish a multi-airspace optimal fighter joint combat system like Germany, and could only select a comprehensive fighter as much as possible, that is, Germany used Bf-319 + Do-42 + Ta-152 + Me-262 combined fighter system, Japan had better use Bf-319 to carry out a variety of tasks, at most at high altitude interception equipped with some Ta-152 or jets.

Because the United States has not been able to obtain a reliable offensive base in the Pacific theater, and because the Indian route has been cut off and B-29 bombers cannot be imported in the direction of Chinese mainland, Japan has not felt the pain of strategic bombing. The United States proposed to set up such a bombing base in the Far East of the Soviet Union, but Stalin, who had been thinking about it for a long time, refused: It would take a long time to use bombing to force Japan to surrender, but if Japan knew that the Soviet Union provided a bombing base for the United States, the Kwantung Army and even the Japanese Navy would definitely kill it as soon as possible, and he would not dare to take this risk.

Of course, Stalin's father is also a treacherous and cunning man, so he naturally cannot give up all his concerns, but tells the US side in a high-sounding manner: "Japan and the Soviet Union are now in a neutral state, and although there is constant friction, the surface situation can still be maintained, and this situation is still favorable to the contemptible country." Your country could consider establishing a similar base in China, as long as some supplies are sent to China by air from the Far East......"

After evaluation, the Joint Chiefs of Staff held that this proposal could not be fulfilled: Although the Soviet Union had a huge border with China, the main railway network connecting the two countries was entirely in the hands of Japan, and it could only rely on air transportation, and all the materials consumed by the Soviet Union had to be allocated from the supplies to the Soviet Union. Since 40 percent of the protection money exists, two out of every five supplies allocated to aid the Soviet Union will fall into the hands of Japan, and the greater the consumption of materials, the more profits Japan will make -- only a fool would do this.

The military observers stationed in Chongqing and Yan'an also disagree with this, because the KMT and the CPC are currently bent on engaging in friction, and both sides have no time to buy arms and supplies from Japan. And the Kuomintang is now very desperate for fuel, to the point of unscrupulous means, if they get oil, they will definitely use it to fight the Communist Party instead of dealing with Japan. Therefore, this whimsical plan was rejected, just to continue to hang the tone of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, so that they would not easily fall to Japan, and the United States also sent a little shortage of materials and medicines to both sides by air, which was not in large quantities and had more symbolic meaning.

It turned out that penicillin, which had been transported all the way to China, was found in the Shanghai black market within a few days, and the price was very expensive. Someone said: "Since they want to sell so much, then we don't want to help for free, just sell it at a clear price, and we can make some money." ”

At the moment when the Soviet side was advancing rapidly, the German army was starting to retreat: "Hurry, hurry...... Load the armored car onto the ship. ”

"Sibel landing craft...... Let's go! ”

German units after German units boarded ships and headed south, where they were to land on the shores of Iran and go to Tehran at the same time.

After several days of delay, coupled with the fact that the Germans were using ground forces to block Soviet units that were advancing too quickly, the momentum of the Red Army's rapid advance was forced to slow down. On 19 February, at the cost of nearly 20,000 casualties, the Red Army finally reached the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, but the Germans had retreated cleanly.

"We found a fascist warehouse of supplies, there were all sorts of supplies."

"What? Let's take a look. Chernyakhovsky was so excited that he and several leading officers immediately went to check it out. Now the officers and men of the Red Army are counting in an orderly manner, although the march along the way has been exhausted, plus a lot of sacrifices have been paid in the battle, but at present the capture is so huge, it still makes the officers and men of the unit feel extremely excited, they have been retreating, scattering, and defeating, everyone has been tortured to the point of almost numbness, but did not expect to obtain such an exciting result.

"Comrade commander, we found an oil depot, the enemy retreated in a hurry, and it was too late to blow it up."

"Report to the commander, we found a large amount of flour and other grains and even forage, at least 3,000 tons, and the enemy actually forgot that they were burned."

"Report, we found some of the vehicles abandoned by the Germans, without any signs of damage."

When news came one after another, the staff officers burst into laughter, but Chernyakhovsky's brows became tighter and tighter, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared. Everyone noticed that something was wrong with the commander, and the cheerful atmosphere of joking slowly fell silent.

He muttered: "If I guess correctly, these materials are not that the enemy retreated too late to destroy them, but that they were deliberately left for us ......."

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer this sentence.