Of course, the Allied forces outnumbered the Soviets on the border, and this is only in the future tense.

As for now, the German troops, totaling 450,000 in the second batch of reinforcement plans, have not yet set off. Negotiations for a military alliance with the Finnish government are also underway. As for Italy's 200,000 Allied troops, it is estimated that they are still busy eating pasta at home.

Therefore, the existing strength of the German army on the Eastern Front is actually 100% inferior.

In addition, Reinhardt's intelligence using his prophetic advantage showed that the Soviet army would have about 10 million regular troops in reserve. Once the two sides went to war, the Germans, who were unable to concentrate their full strength because of Operation Sea Lion, had no chance of winning.

It is precisely because of this that Reinhardt, who has always been arrogant, chose to tolerate it, pretended to turn a blind eye to Stalin's malicious acts again and again, and even made that kind of decision......

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(2 days ago)

"Call 554, this is 553, I was ordered to take over your plane on the cruise mission, please return!"

"554 received, I can't return, you keep going, repeat, you keep going!"

Over the Baltic Sea, an over-the-air radio conversation resounded in the sky.

It happened after Stalin saw through Reinhardt's strategy of using Japan to contain the Soviet Union.

At Reinhardt's behest, the Germans on the Eastern Front were in a state of toleration. After all, Reinhardt did not want to put the Germans in an unnecessary military conflict with the USSR on the eve of the attack on Britain.

However, Stalin regarded Reinhardt's forbearance as weakness, and repeatedly touched the bottom line of the German army, and the Soviet-German front was once full of gunpowder, as if it had reached the point that as long as there was a spark, it would ignite a skyrocketing fire.

There was a reason for Stalin's arrogance.

After seeing through Reinhardt's methods, Stalin quickly sent Molotov to personally preside over negotiations with Japan, and signed a Soviet-Japanese Prime Minister's Treaty.

The treaty explicitly states that "if one of the contracting parties becomes the object of war of one or more of the third parties, the other side shall remain neutral throughout the course of the conflict." ”

In other words, it was almost like the Soviet Union was saying, "Once we start a war with Germany, little Japan, you don't want to engage in any sneak attack." ”

What is even more frightening is that because of the successive defeats of the Japanese Army, which represents the Northern Expansion faction, the Southern Expansion Navy, which has always adhered to the principle of opposing the Army, has recently gained a large number of gains and has begun to prepare for the opportunity to advance southward to seize the sphere of influence of Western countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Adhering to the Japanese Army's proposition of opposing this glorious tradition, the Japanese Navy overturned the Army's plan to advance north to the Soviet Union for the second time, and at the same time came up with a diametrically opposed plan for the southward expansion, and even obtained the final consent of the Japanese base camp.

Therefore, the Japanese base camp finally began to seek to adjust relations with the Soviet Union in order to consolidate security in the north.

Japan even took the lead in proposing the "Japan-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact" and appointed Lieutenant General Miji Kenkawa as the new ambassador to the Soviet Union to visit Molotov.

As a result, Jianchuan and Molotov almost hit it off, and finally settled on a "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact" that Stalin demanded to be renamed.

The reason for the name change is, of course, because the name "non-aggression" is unlucky.

The Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact, but the Soviet Union still had to do something against Germany. You said that if the Soviet Union signed another treaty with Japan with the same name, would the dwarfs be able to feel at ease?

With this treaty as a basis, Stalin, who had settled the rear, finally became confident and began what he had wanted to do for a long time.

So, at 10:39 a.m. on January 12, 1941, a Soviet reconnaissance plane, under the orders of the Soviet border guards, penetrated deep into the German airspace over the Baltic Sea, preparing to go around to the defensive positions of the German Eastern Front and collect relevant information on the deployment of the German defensive positions.

The warning radar built by Germany in the northern part of the Polish occupation zone successfully discovered the Soviet reconnaissance plane, so the German air defense department immediately sent a Me-109 fighter into the air to intercept it.

When this Soviet reconnaissance plane encountered a German fighter that came to intercept it in the airspace of the Baltic Sea, the front fuselage and vertical tail of the German fighter were painted with a big red "554", which was particularly eye-catching!

It came up from the left rear of the Soviet reconnaissance plane from the direction of the open sea, and as soon as it came up, it was aggressive.

For the German ME-109 fighter, it was the first time that the Soviets had observed it at such a close distance. During the approach, the German plane began to slow down and closely monitored the Soviet reconnaissance plane, which was imposing.

From the window, it looks like a golden eagle with wings outstretched, fierce and furious. And the Niu-7 Soviet reconnaissance aircraft, with its short and stubby fuselage, resembled an ugly, clumsy duck.

Next, the ME-109 fighters got closer and closer, squeezing the Soviet reconnaissance aircraft. Recently, the two planes were only 2 meters apart, almost touching the tips of the wings, so that only part of it could be seen from the window.

Soviet pilots could see that the German plane's mounted machine guns were already close at hand, and the sharp leading edges of the wings glowed coldly in the sun.

In their line of sight, the German pilots also looked at them with a cold face, which made the crew of the Soviet reconnaissance plane feel extremely depressed.

What happened later proved that the Soviets' fears were not unreasonable.

At that time, after the two planes flew at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the German fighter plane quickly flew away from the Soviet reconnaissance plane, and the German ME-109 fighter with a high-thrust engine deliberately took advantage of the strong air flow generated when passing at close range, so that the Soviet reconnaissance plane almost operated out of control.

On the other hand, the German ME-109 fighter asked more than once to fire at the Soviet reconnaissance plane, but the German top brass seemed to be afraid of triggering a conflict and did not want to do so, which led to his request being rejected by his superiors on vague grounds every time.

As a last resort, the German fighter could only carry out the task of driving away the Soviet reconnaissance plane, circling around the Soviet reconnaissance plane.

A few minutes later, the German fighters saw that the Soviet reconnaissance plane had no intention of leaving, and had no choice but to press the Soviet reconnaissance plane again at a very close distance.

Seeing this, the captain of the Soviet reconnaissance plane immediately ordered the plane to slow down and pretended to show the German pilots that his plane was leaving.

After that, Soviet fighters disappeared again.

But this cunning Soviet reconnaissance plane did not really go, it went around a long time and then turned back.

At 10:56, when it was 48 nautical miles from the German coastline, the ME-109 appeared for the third time.

This time, it flew straight under the right wing of the Soviet reconnaissance aircraft!

The German pilots again radioed to the command center before proceeding, requesting an attack on the Soviet reconnaissance plane, but the command center told the German pilots that the superior had strictly ordered that the Soviet planes should not be fired, and that they could be driven away by any other means.

That's what the German pilots were waiting for!

"Tell the Führer that I did my best. Tell my father that I still love him. ”

After leaving such a sentence, the pilot pasted the plane up, adjusted its position under the soon-to-be-hapless Soviet reconnaissance plane, and then accelerated sharply......

In an instant, the German ME-109 fighter was like a steel-armored monster, roaring and jumping straight ahead, devastating and unstoppable.

The German pilot's flying skills were very skillful, and he skillfully avoided the high-speed spinning, whirring propellers of the opponent, and his left tail hung like an upright paper cutter, accurately and neatly under the right outboard engine of the Soviet reconnaissance plane.

With the whistling of metal across the metal and the crackling sound of the high-speed rotating propeller being broken, I saw that the engine nacelle of the Soviet reconnaissance plane was suddenly cut open, and one of the propeller blades was broken by 310 centimeters, and the broken propeller was inserted into the fuselage of the Soviet reconnaissance plane like a flying knife, and its right engine quickly stopped, and a puff of smoke drifted towards the tail of the plane with a flurry of metal fragments.

In an instant, the German fighter flew with a neat right roll and disappeared again.

At the moment of its departure, the crew of the Soviet reconnaissance plane shuddered at the sight of the machine gun mounted on the German Me-109 fighter flashing with a cold light.

Will it turn around and strike a fatal blow?

No one in the hearts of the Soviet crews has a bottom. Fear, enveloping everyone.

......

The fighter pilot with the number 553, who was ordered to cover the return of the fighter number 554, shouted: "Call 554, this is 553, I was ordered to take over your plane on the cruise mission, please return!" ”

"554 received, I can't return, you keep going, repeat, you keep going!"

Subsequently, the German plane crashed gloriously in the Baltic Sea, and the pilot was tragically killed due to a parachute failure.

Of course, the Soviet reconnaissance plane was no better, as it began to fall vertically due to a crash of the engine, descended more than 2,000 meters in 30 seconds, and finally sank into the Baltic Sea, leaving all the people on board missing.

When Soviet military planes illegally intruded into Germany's Baltic Sea airspace, under the critical situation that "if we do not fire, the air sovereignty of the Baltic Sea gateway will be lost, if we open fire, the Soviet Union and Germany will fight, and if Germany fights, it will fall into passivity", this young German pilot chose to end the invasion by exchanging his life.

After the incident, both the Soviet Union and Germany announced that it was an accident.

Because there was no exchange of fire, this heroic action successfully turned the military conflict between the two countries into an accidental air crash......