"Comrade Yevgny! This is the statistics of the enemy plane shot down by our army today, and you may be taken aback! An officer of the Soviet Air Force, handing his commander a report, said with joy on his face.

As soon as the Germans began to move south, the battle in the air began, and while the German ground forces were still gathering near Tula, the air forces of both sides were already fighting.

Obviously, this time the German planes did not take advantage and even caught the Soviet Air Force by surprise and suffered a slight loss.

On the Soviet side, about 15 MiG-1 and MiG-3 fighters were shot down, while the Germans lost 7 planes in today's air battle.

With such combat data, several commanders of the Soviet Air Force even believed that they were capable of fighting for air supremacy when the Germans moved south.

"Shot down 7 enemy planes? That's great news. The general, whose name was Yevgny, nodded, satisfied with the results of the first day's engagement.

Although the Soviet fighters still lost more than twice as many German aircraft, this was already the closest ratio of fighter losses between the two sides in an air battle.

As long as it could exchange losses with the Germans in a two-to-one ratio, the Soviet Air Force could interfere with the German bombing mission and make the air support of the opposing side less timely.

"That's good! As long as we keep going! Their ground advance will be affected! General Yevgeny took the report, clenched it in his hand and continued.

The level of mechanization of the German army was actually not very high, and a large number of troops could not ensure mechanized advancement. Self-propelled guns are even less pitiful, and there are not many artillery that can keep up with the advance of the German armored forces.

This also limited the application of German support firepower, after all, following the tank to advance has already exhausted the artillery, and timely artillery support can only be said to be a good wish.

Therefore, when the German armored forces were advancing rapidly, the most reliable support firepower was actually the bomber force from the air.

To be more precise, it is actually the high-precision bombing support provided by the Stuka dive bomber.

Without the Stuka dive bomber, the German tank forces would not be able to rush up, and they would not be able to give full play to the strategic penetration advantage of high mobility and ultra-long range.

But the speed of the Stuka dive bomber is not very fast, and the self-defense ability of this aircraft is not very good.

That is, once Germany loses air supremacy, then the sorties of Stuka dive bombers will be limited, or even impossible to take off for combat at all.

In real history, the Stuka dive bomber was also eliminated by Germany because of the increasingly bad air environment.

In order to allow the Stuka dive bomber, which has a huge number of equipment in Germany but has fallen slightly behind in performance, can continue to be used, the Führer Li Le, who came through it, can be said to have tried his best.

The most direct and effective way is to develop high-performance fighters and firmly grasp air supremacy on the battlefield.

"In today's battle, the courage shown by our pilots is very touching, very good! We should uphold the heroic tradition of daring to fight and beat the German aggressors! After checking the report form, General Yevgeny encouraged everyone around him passionately.

He took the report and went to see General Zhukov in the General Headquarters. With such good news, how can you not quickly inform the higher commanders?

So, soon, this report was placed on Zhukov's desk. Zhukov watched the air force combat shoot down on the first day, and the vague tension on his face dissipated a lot.

Now he knows that the new fighter developed by the Soviet Union can already compete with the annoying F-190 and ME-109 fighters of the German army.

With this information, he could then go free and gather armored forces to compete with the German tank forces.

As long as there was no threat from the air, the Soviet tank forces could play a numerical advantage and play a key role in key places.

"Excellent! Let the newspapers get the news out! I'm going to see the newspaper tomorrow! The people need encouragement so much! We want to publicize our great victory as much as possible! Zhukov said.

The victory of the Soviet army is really too precious, although the German army has not yet declared a full occupation of Moscow, but everyone knows that it is almost close to falling.

Once Moscow was occupied by the Germans, the pressure on Zhukov's side was even greater, and the number of German troops he had to face increased exponentially, making it even more difficult to achieve victory.

Even if he exaggerated some of his achievements, he must now encourage morale and give the millions of Soviet Red Army in his hands the confidence that he can defeat the German army.

"Let's just say that we annihilated 10 German fighters at the cost of losing 19 fighters! The great Soviet Air Force, regained its victory! He looked at Yevgeny and commanded.

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"We were shot down 7 planes! This number is very worrying...... "In the German front-line air command, the major general who was guarding the radar sighed worriedly with his hands behind his back.

Just now, on different battlefields, 20 German fighters faced 30 Soviet fighters, and the battle loss ratio turned out to be close to two to one!

If this battle loss ratio had been over Britain against the British fighter forces, the German commanders would have felt that it was commonplace, and there was nothing to make a fuss about.

But this was on the Soviet-German battlefield, facing the Soviet Air Force, which often had a battle loss ratio of ten to one, which was really uncomfortable.

"If this continues, there will be a mistake in air supremacy...... Bomber units will also be affected accordingly! The Major General looked at the map, on which there was a combat radius of fighter jets, outlining an area where the Luftwaffe controlled air power.

According to the normal situation, the areas within the combat radius of these German fighters are all places where Germany controls air power.

In these places, the Luftwaffe could take off Stuka dive bombers at any time and anywhere to attack enemy defensive positions and assembly areas.

But now that the Soviets' new fighter jets have appeared in these places, it means that the Stuka dive bombers will face the dilemma of enemy fighters being intercepted when they go to the front line to bomb targets.

Unable to take off the plane directly, the commanders are stuck in a choice, and indecision can easily lose the chance to win...... It seems like an endless loop.

"Suzu! Bell! Bell! At this time, the phone on the table rang, and the telephone clerk in charge of answering the phone immediately picked up the microphone: "Hello! Be...... Be...... Yes, sir! ”