Viewed from the ground, the sight in the sky is spectacular.

The terrible sound of anti-aircraft artillery constantly sounded on the ground, and with the sound of anti-aircraft artillery firing, one shell after another, piercing the dark night sky, flew towards the plane illuminated by searchlights.

Each plane will be attacked by more than a dozen shells from the ground, under this kind of blow, it can't run away at all, only to see a beam of light flying towards the bomber, and then, the bomber will either emit black smoke, roll down, or be directly hit in the air and explode!

One bomber after another, in a short period of time, many bombers were shot down, and the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground, looking at the scene in the sky, blossomed with joy.

With the help of radar, they have found the target in advance, and as long as they start to act, they will almost close the net, and this kind of air defense operation is faster and more efficient than before.

It is said that the technicians in the rear are working hard to integrate the system, using fire control radar and anti-aircraft artillery to link, so that the effect of attacking the enemy will be better, and in the future, any bomber who wants to attack their own positions and cities will pay the price of blood.

In the sky, a total of twelve bombers were shot down.

The sound of firing around disappeared, and everyone felt that it was not enjoyable, after all, the fight was very intense, in fact, the whole firing process was less than ten seconds, and the smell of gunpowder could still be smelled in the nose, but the sky was already empty.

"The targets are all gone." The radar hand reported.

According to the instructions of the superiors, this batch of 13 bombers has arrived, and now they have only killed 12 of them, and it seems that there are fish that have slipped through the net, but there are no new discoveries on the radar, and the lookouts have not found them, so maybe the plane that slipped through the net has long been lost, or has already returned.

In short, this air defense operation was quite perfect, with the help of radar, under such powerful shells of the proximity fuse, the invading Soviet bombers have been reduced to fragments!

The entire air defense position was jubilant.

At a distance of an hour from Berlin, the first DB-3 bombers of the Soviet Naval Aviation suffered a devastating blow, and almost the entire bomber force was completely annihilated.

Only one remained, this bomber, the one that had the impact, this plane due to the nose of the plane was hit, which led to an increase in the drag of the aircraft, and after continuing to fly with the formation for half an hour, they finally found that the mission could not be carried out, the fuel consumption was too much, and they could not fly back at all, so they could only interrupt the flight mission, return to the base, and became the only surviving bomber in the entire naval aviation.

The Air Force's Per-8 bombers were still flying, and because they were intercepted, they urgently changed their altitude and course, flying at an ultra-low altitude on the coastline, and for them, the biggest threat was not the German interceptor fighters, nor the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground, for them, the terrible diesel engine of their own aircraft was their biggest headache.

"Engine No. 3 stalled." Less than twenty minutes after entering the low altitude, on one of the bombers on the side of the formation, Lieutenant Petery watched the instrument pointer in front of him return to zero, and reported to the long plane with a dejected voice.

The Pe-8 bomber is a four-engine aircraft, and it is still possible for him to complete the mission with one engine stalled.

However, after ten minutes of continuous flight, there was also a shaking on the other side of the wing, and he looked out and saw that the propeller of engine No. 1 had also stopped rotating.

Both engines failed! Lieutenant Petery's heart was frustrated: "Engine No. 1 is stalled, I already have two engines that do not work, I request to bomb other targets, and then return." ”

In this case, he will definitely not be able to fly to Berlin, but the territory below already belongs to Germany, and finding a suitable target and dropping the bomb can be regarded as a disguised mission.

Mikhail's voice came through the headphones: "Yes, bomb the nearby railroad or bridge." ”

In the formation, there was one less bomber, Mikhail's mood was extremely heavy, there were not many bombers in the first place, and they kept losing bombers, this time the bombing of Berlin, can it be carried out normally?

After takeoff, they lost contact with the Navy's DB-3 bomber unit flying in front of them, and they had no idea what was going on with their Navy colleagues.

As soon as he thought of this, Mikhail felt his plane shake, and the voice of the mechanic came from the headphones: "Engine No. 2 is stopped!" ”

Unexpectedly, it was his turn to have an engine failure so soon, and at this time, Mikhail was completely desperate for this kind of aircraft engine.

He was the captain of the formation, the person in charge of this bombing operation, and it would be a dereliction of duty for him to withdraw because of a plane failure.

At this time, they had already entered the skies over Poland, more than two hundred kilometers from Berlin.

Can't go wrong!

"Attention, prepare for the dive, start the engine in the air." Mikhail shouted to his crew, and then, pushing the lever, the massive Pe-8 bomber began to dive downward.

Aircraft engines on the ground, is started by the outside world, due to the problem of dead weight, most of the aircraft will not have the way to start in the air, after all, a huge battery is a waste of weight.

In other words, in the air, it is difficult for the aircraft engine to restart, because there is no external force to turn the engine up, at this time, you have to think of other ways.

For example, when you dive down, as the speed increases, the propeller will spin under the blowing of the air current.

In the moonlight, Mikhail's plane began to dive downward, faster and faster, Mikhail could see the propeller in the moonlight from his own direction, and as the speed increased, the propeller finally rotated.

There was black smoke coming out of the engine's exhaust pipe, and suddenly, as the black smoke increased, all of a sudden, the diesel engine let out that characteristic roar and restarted!

Leveling the plane, Mikhail breathed a sigh of relief that this engine could finally continue to work.

However, before he had time to climb to the height he had just reached and lead the other bombers to fly together, at this time, the engine that had just started actually snorted twice again and stopped moving.

The air start failed.

"With the rest of the engines, we're going to Berlin too!" Mikhail shouted over the radio.

In this mission, we must do everything we can to achieve success.

After going back, you must report the poor performance of this engine to your superiors, and you must not use this diesel engine again! Even Mikhail was able to think of the cause of the malfunction.

The temperature in the air was low, and the water in the diesel produced by the Soviets was very high, and at low temperatures, the moisture in the diesel fuel would freeze and freeze the pipes, so the engine would stop.

This kind of fault cannot be eliminated at all.

They continued to fly forward with difficulty, closer and closer to Berlin.

"Half an hour to go." The navigator's words, which excited everyone, went all the way around, flew along a tortuous route, overcoming engine failures, and they were finally going to fly to Berlin!

Poznan is right in front of you, and as long as you calibrate your course in Poznan, you can fly non-stop to Berlin!

Little did they know at this point that the nightmare was coming.