According to the data on the Internet in later generations, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Baku oil field was not only the largest oil field of the Soviet army, but also the highest oil field in the world, so it became the most important oil base of the Soviet army and was famous for the "oil city".

After the October Revolution in Russia, due to the large-scale exploration and development of oil development in the Caspian Sea, the city of Baku was not only renewed, but also became a modern city with high-rise buildings and green trees.

Moreover, in 1940, oil production reached more than 70% of the total oil production of the Soviet army at that time, so once the Soviet army lost such an important oil base, I am afraid that the Soviet army will have a shortage of oil tanks and aircraft.

Because the Baku oil field accounted for almost half of the world's oil production in 1901, it can be seen how important this oil field was to the Soviet army.

In addition, Baku is also the most important railway hub and shipping center in Transcaucasia, and many railway lines in the Caucasus are concentrated here.

In addition to oil and gas exploitation, various industries such as machinery manufacturing, metallurgy, mining, machine tools, electrical machinery, shipbuilding, and automobile repair are also gradually developing from scratch.

In particular, their light industry is developing well.

For this reason, when the first round of Soviet airborne battles in the Leningrad-Novgorod campaign began, Moder followed Chen Yanlong's instructions to contain all the Soviet army's attention here in Leningrad.

As a result, Kesselring dispatched the aviation units of two air armies to the Baku oil fields to carry out devastating bombing.

Because on July 23, 1942, Hitler issued Instruction No. 45, implementing the battle plan codenamed "Rat Grass", did not encircle and annihilate the Soviet troops south and southeast of Rostov-on-Don and achieve the goal of capturing the North Caucasus.

As for the more than 20 Turkish divisions deployed on the Soviet-Turkish border, there is no way to get in touch with them and invade the Near and Middle East together.

The reason is that the Soviet army in the North Caucasus defensive battles, a large amount of German vitality was consumed, and successfully resisted the overwhelming attack of the German army.

Therefore, in order to avoid a long and arduous defensive war of attrition with the Soviet army again, Chen Yanlong directly dispatched large-scale Il-28 bombers and long-range strategic bombers B-52 bombers.

This B-52 long-range strategic bomber is equipped with the AGM-28 "Big Hound" cruise missile, the first strategic air-to-surface missile of the United States.

And these huge 4-million-ton "Big Hound" cruise missiles are on the PY-52 launcher suspended under the inner wing of the B-1 long-range strategic bomber.

When the Germans, under the command of Moder, used 1,800 artillery pieces to carry out a carpet counterattack on the positions of more than 2,000 artillery groups of Soviet troops, they fired 124,000 tons of shells at each other on the first day, bombing the entire outlying area of the city of Leningrad into a sea of fire and blood-red, mixed with a thick smell of black smoke and gunpowder.

At the same time, the bomber group of the German 8th Air Force also fired more than 160,000 incendiary bombs in a row, and heavy incendiary bombs and rockets were fiercely burning at the Soviet positions like a storm.

Under the bombardment of incendiary bombs, many trees and Soviet officers and soldiers were burned and wounded.

Of course, under the counterattack of the large-scale incendiary bombs of the German Air Force, the Soviet Army also took the initiative to drop more than 200,000 various aviation bombs on the German garrison positions, which also killed and injured many German officers and soldiers.

Therefore, for a time, the Soviet and German armies fought fiercely on the Leningrad Strip, but the killing was dark, and the casualty data on both sides increased sharply.

In such a war situation, in the rear of the battlefield far from Leningrad, groups of Il-28 bombers and long-range strategic bombers B-52 bombers, escorted by more than 200 Sabre fighters, took off one after another from several large German rear airfields.

Under the well-trained command of the logisticians, these aircraft are able to take off quickly and safely, and are well loaded and inspected without any loopholes.

And when these planes secretly took off and went to the Baku oil fields to prepare for bombing operations; Here in Leningrad 8 German infantry divisions, 6 Romanian divisions, more than 250,000 men; As well as about 3,200 artillery pieces and mortars, 310 tanks and assault guns, and 218 aircraft, they took off from Romanian airfields and rushed to Leningrad for support operations.