A fierce air battle broke out suddenly, and an hour later, the Soviets were shot down, destroying more than 500 Il-2 attack aircraft, while the Germans lost only 18 Sumig-15s and F-86 Sabre fighters.

Because not long after the battle began, the German Ar-234 jet bombers, Me262 jet fighters, and ta152 fighter groups also joined the various air combat battlefields, and the Soviet army's various types of aircraft, desperately tore apart.

For such a disparity in losses, the hearts of the commanders of the Soviet Aviation Department were dripping blood and pain.

As a result, they could only temporarily issue an order for their aviation units to temporarily withdraw and adjust to prepare for the second round of attacks.

However, the Germans immediately dispatched a large number of Ar-234 jet bombers to pursue the Soviet army to life and death; In addition, the Soviet troops in the vicinity of the Dnieper River were bombarded indiscriminately, as well as military facilities and barracks.

For the anti-aircraft artillery that was supposed to destroy the Germans, as well as their fighter groups, counterattacked! Those who fully evaded air supremacy and paved the way for the large-scale counterattack of the Soviet army's land forces, who knew that now they were killed by the Germans without leaving a single piece of armor, and they were defeated and retreated, losing their troops and losing their generals.

At the same time, the German army also launched the most ferocious counterattack at random, with heavy machine-gun fire and artillery groups rumbling under cannon fire; Grenades are also flying wildly in all directions, and mortars, anti-tank guns, and rocket artillery counterattacks are also densely packed; Not to be outdone, it smashed on the positions of the Soviet army like a raging storm, reaping the lives of one Soviet soldier after another.

On the Soviet position, every second, every minute, a large number of Soviet soldiers were killed or wounded.

And the surviving ammunition and weapons and equipment on their bodies were either looted by the large Ukrainian forces that assisted the German army in the fight, or they were recovered by the remnants of their own troops and used to fight against Germany.

While the army's infantry and artillery groups were in full swing, the tank and armored groups of Germany and the Soviet Union also fought very fiercely and suffered heavy casualties.

Tank after tank was dumped on the battlefield with flames blazing or smoke billowing out, or they were either destroyed in place and turned into piles of scrap metal.

And this battle was after the 1st SS Panzer Division, the SS Skeletal Panzer Division, the 5th SS "Viking" Panzer Division, the 6th SS "Northern" Mountain Division and other elite SS units, sitting on C-47 and C-5 transport aircraft groups were successfully airdropped onto the battlefield, and began to enter the most white-hot battle and the most tragic desperate struggle.

But the SS units were unusually strong, and one division could defeat two or three Soviet divisions; At this, the Soviet military top brass was also shocked and stared in disbelief; He constantly inquired about the situation on the front line in order to verify the truth.

But in any case, the Soviet army, which was menacing like a tide, changed from the intervention of the SS and German aviation units, and was defeated and retreated, and even lost almost all the occupied areas of the Dnieper that they had just occupied.

It took less than two hours of fighting for the Germans to drive most of the Soviet troops away from most of the Dnieper, thus allowing the Germans to regain control of the Dnieper region.

And in this fierce and fierce battle, the bravery and desperate style of the Ukrainian troops were shocking and shocked the eyes of the German and Soviet troops, because they also did not expect that the Ukrainians were desperate and so fierce, it was not much worse than the most elite troops of their two great powers on the battlefield.

Of course, it is also because of these great benefits and benefits, and the large army formed by the Ukrainians who hope to become an independent country, and the desperate efforts of the Soviet army, can make the German army on the verge of losing the Dnieper, give the counteroffensive a success, and regain the initiative.

"How can this be! How could the Ukrainians suddenly be so tough, and they were so fully committed to assisting those German troops in the fight? ”

"What benefits did the Germans give them? Aren't the Germans usually cruel to them? How did it suddenly change, and I don't know it! ”

After the news that the Soviets had suddenly succeeded in a German counterattack and had almost lost all the areas of the Dnieper that had been captured with great difficulty, Comrade Stalin roared in a deafening rage from the Kremlin in Moscow.

Many people were silent about his anger and roar, fearing that the disaster of killing would suddenly fall on them from the sky, leaving them to die, or they would not even know how to die.

Because Comrade Stalin's bloody purges have always had an indelible shadow on them, which has been lingering in their minds for a long time.

"No matter what the cost, we will never be able to give the few remaining areas of control of the Dnieper to the Germans to hide back in! In addition, our air force will be sent to fight to the death with those new German fighter groups; Since our performance is not as good as theirs, then pile them to death with numbers, I don't believe that they will have more pilots than us! ”

Then Comrade Stalin angrily gave new orders for battle.

All Soviet aviation commanders were bitter about Stalin's orders, because such orders meant that they and the Germans would desperately consume their vital forces until the pilots on both sides were exhausted.

The army commanders of the Soviet army, especially Marshal Zhukov, shook their heads helplessly, sighed deeply, and then fell silent, and more calmly commanded the Soviet troops who were evacuating, and carried out a defensive war against the German army. and quickly build defensive positions, delaying and countering the increasingly ferocious attacks of the German and Ukrainian armies.

"I really can't imagine that these German troops still have so many new weapons and equipment to fight us, and even the troops have used airborne operations, which is really getting more and more difficult to deal with! It seems that if we do not have new weapons and equipment to resist the advanced weapons and equipment of the German army, I am afraid that the future trend of this war on the Eastern Front will become more and more unpredictable! ”

After the Soviet army began to gradually be able to resist the desperate counterattack of the German army and the Ukrainian army, Marshal Zhukov stared at the scene of corpses strewn all over the ground in front of him, thick smoke billowing out, fighting raging, tanks and armored cars turned into scrap metal one by one, and discarded aside, he had an inexplicable feeling of uneasiness in his heart, which instantly surged into his heart, making him can't help but worry.

It's a pity that other Soviet generals and commanders didn't take his worries to heart; Because they were all frightened by Comrade Stalin's anger, they were trying to resist the German offensive and not let the entire Dnieper be completely occupied by the Germans.

It's just that the area of the Dnieper that they can control now is only a few small towns; Such a small territory is of little use at all.

Because now the air supremacy of the Soviet army on the Dnieper River has been gradually seized by the German aviation forces.

That is to say, the German army can dispatch a large number of bomber groups anytime and anywhere to carry out a 24-hour bombing attack on the Soviet army's land forces and artillery units, and the Soviet army's army units will become live targets for indiscriminate bombardment without air supremacy, and it will easily cause heavy casualties.

And when the Dnieper River was gradually under the full control of the German army, it was in Buckingham Palace in London, England.

King George VI also held the information from his hands with a solemn expression.

Because the German army has been carrying out large-scale V2 rocket missile attacks and large-scale air raids on major British cities in the recent period; 38,000 people have been seriously injured, and 12,000 thousand people have died.

There were even more than 10,000 V2 and V1 rocket missiles that crossed British fighter groups and interceptor balloons; has been bombed into the center of London, and many areas of London have been bombed.

"This is a severe test of life and death, and I and all the citizens of London, and indeed the people of all England, are going through a great test of war!"

When King George VI read the reports of the horrific casualties, he also looked solemn and muttered to himself with anxiety in his heart.

"If we and the U.S. military have a way to destroy the 'rocket artillery coast' set up by the German army in northwest France and other places, then we will be able to temporarily evade the attack of these rocket missiles by the German army!"

Then King George VI said softly as a result of his own thinking.