Chapter 137 Soviet Army 588 Night Girl Bomber Flying Regiment

"Let's go when the battle here is over! But if you're worried, then you can give me a good relationship with them first! So that I can take over their combat work smoothly and smoothly! ”

Modell smiled nonchalantly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's up to you to handle this matter yourself! Because I would also like to see the progress of our counterattack, the situation here is a little more important than receiving the 2nd Panzer Army! ”

Chief Operations Staff Officer John waved his hand and politely declined.

Modell smiled again and didn't reply, instead turning his gaze to the center of the battlefield and focusing.

At this moment, the blasting sound of the rumbling artillery bombardment of the Soviet army is still staged in shock; At the same time, the night sky, which has gradually darkened, is filled with various colors of light, such as white, red, yellow, and blue-green......

And with the disappearance of these brightly colored lights, on the German position, a terrifying explosion sound like thunderbolt thunder sounded again, shaking the entire Olihovatka theater of war like a magnitude 10 earthquake, making people tremble.

After 60 minutes, the earth-shattering artillery fire of the Soviet army stopped in an instant.

And just now there were quite a few German troops, and the tank units were sparsely bombed, forming a formation in twos and threes, ready to retreat.

As for the soldiers in the first line of German defense, they were not dead lying in double foxholes, or in other bunkers, leaning together and shivering; Either quietly wait for the Soviet artillery to cover it, and then prepare to break out of the bunker and attack the front line, or follow the orders of the superiors to carry out defensive battles.

The artillery watchers, who had not yet been killed or wounded, were crouching behind their trenches; Continue to reconnoiter the latest coordinates of the Soviet artillery and the shelling for the artillery team.

It was just that it had not yet waited for the retreat of the German army and the resumption of all sorts of combat operations; Heavy 150-mm and 210-mm guns and Katyusha rockets, which were deployed further behind the Soviet troops, roared wildly again.

Covered in heavy artillery fire, the loud sound of explosions shaking like mountains, and the red tongues of fire spewing out of the barrels, and the flickering white light; The mud, gravel, rubble and corpses that bombarded the German positions flew all over the sky, and soon there was a stench that made people sick to their stomachs on the smoke-filled land.

In particular, with the roar and screeching of the ensuing mortar group, and the blazing flames of the rocket group, the German combat position instantly seemed to be in the midst of hellish fire.

And look like hail like a sea of mountains and frantically, bombing the shell swarms of the German positions; Rokossovsky, the commander of the 13th Soviet Army, was elated and wanted to shout a few times: 'Ula!' ’。

And when the shelling was about to be completed, Soviet aviation also rushed to the skies over the Germans.

The night attack was carried out by the famous Po-2 Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Army, which was formed in 1942 and was all women.

The targets of their sorties every night are enemy camps, airfields, logistics storage warehouses and other places.

However, the effect they achieved was not as brilliant as the strategic bombing of the British and American forces.

For the main purpose of their attacks is to put the enemy on high alert every day, so that the enemy army will be as tired as a guerrilla war to defend against their sneak attack, so that they will have no time to rest, and the enemy army will be exhausted, so that their main force may have a chance to inflict heavy losses on the tired enemy.

At the same time, the Po-2 night bombers flown by these Soviet female air force were very slow and low, so even if the German army flew the night fighters Bf-109 and Fw-190, there was no way to easily shoot them down with their minimum speed.

In addition, the German ground-based radar or airborne radar did not have much effect on the reconnaissance of the Po-2 night bomber.

Because they flew too low, and could even almost fly over the ground, the German radar signal; Soon they were obscured by the ground clutter, and there was no trace of them.

But the thing that caused the German pilots the most headache and surprise was not because they were all girls; It's because when they fight, they are simply very brave and not afraid of death.

Of course, in addition to these Po-2 night bomber regiments, which were used to carry out night raids, the Soviets also dispatched 65 Pe-3 fighters equipped with Gneys-2 radars; and 64 A-20 series night long-range fighters for cover.

To put it simply, the night flight regiments dispatched by the Soviet Army this time include the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment, which piloted Po-2 night bombers and was known as the Night Witch, and the 45th and 173rd Night Long-Range Fighter Regiments under the 56th Fighter Division.

The total number of aircraft in the three night flight regiments is 190.

Although the planes flown by these flying regiments are not as advanced as the Soviet Army's La-7 fighters and Yak-9 fighters, and their combat effectiveness is strong, they are also the only flight regiments that the Soviet Army can pull out at night.

Moreover, the combat courage and quality of these pilots are not weaker than those pilots of the La-7 fighter and the Yak-9 fighter, and they are even stronger and more courageous than them.

Originally, Commander Rokossovsky had intended to deploy La-7 fighters, Yak-9 fighter groups, and other bomber groups during the day to counterattack Moder's forces.

However, because the German air force has not been seen, and they have carried out three consecutive attacks by the La-7 fighter group during the day, but their hand effect is very subtle, so it is necessary to use these night flight regiments to carry out night raids against the German army after the artillery coverage, to see if they can inflict more casualties on the German army.

and the hope that the German night fighter and bomber groups could also be attracted; Then use the anti-aircraft fire net to annihilate some of them, so that the German air force is a little less alive.

Of course, Commander Rokossovsky was also not confident about the night combat strength of their night flight regiment.

Because he knew that the Soviet army did not have a large, professional night air force like the British and American forces, to carry out large-scale strategic bombing missions against the German army; And it does not have a lot of advanced night aircraft like the other side to fight.