Tiksi.

The cold Arctic Ocean breeze blows down the coast onto the land, and the air smells of tides.

Although most of the western part of the Soviet Union had fallen, it had been quiet in the Far East, and since the Battle of Nomenkan, the islanders have accepted the terrible results of the battle, knowing that their strength cannot compete with the Soviets, so they have abandoned their attempt to advance north, and since then, they have never thought of the Soviet Union again.

This fully illustrates the truth that the fist is the boss in the world of hooligans, teach the other party once, teach the other party a lesson, and be honest in the future.

In the eastern part of Tiksi, not far from the small town of Sokolovka, there is a newly built air base of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, at this time, in the setting sun, silver bombers are flying over the eastern sea.

When the wheels came into contact with the dirt runway, the huge fighter continued to slide forward, and it continued to slide for more than a thousand meters before slowly coming to a stop.

The cabin door opened, and a famous pilot jumped out of it, although it was summer, the temperature here was less than 10 degrees, and as a port city in the Arctic Ocean, it was frozen most of the time.

"Commander, after we refuel, it's time to continue flying, right?" When he got off the plane, the pilot, N. S. Liebergo, asked his captain, A. G. Wasltzjego, who was also the commander of the entire flight regiment.

No one knew where to fly, only to the Far East, and who would have thought that instead of landing on the Kamchatka Peninsula or in Vladivostok, they flew into the Arctic Circle, where they landed at a base near a port city in the Arctic Ocean.

At most, this is a temporary stop, and when the fuel is filled, it is time to fly to the destination, and in Liebergo's mind, although they will not be arranged to Moscow, they will definitely be a city within 500 kilometers behind Moscow, from which they can fly to the German mainland.

It's too far here.

"No, this will be our base from now on." Exhaling a breath of cold air, Wasltzyego said.

Use this as a base? In an instant, Brother Li's eyes widened: "Commander, are you kidding?" ”

It's in the Arctic Circle, it's cold all year round, and at the same time, the supply is not smooth, so how can you take off and bomb? The worst thing is that according to the range of the B-29, if you take off from here, you will at most be able to reach Belarus, and you will not be able to hit the Germans at all.

Tiksi, eastern Soviet, at the mouth of the Lena River, just at the mouth of the Laptev Sea, the geographical location here, in any case, is not good, there is no railway, it can only be transported by inland waterways, it is quite slow, and it seems unlikely to supply a bomber force.

For the sake of these newly received Tu-4 bombers, they deliberately set up the 890th Bomber Regiment, and Brother Liber looked at the current regiment commander and felt that he was joking.

"Certainly not kidding." "Now, all the pilots, go to the conference room at once, our bombing mission will begin in twenty-four hours," Waslz said. ”

The conference room is newly established, ready-made from the surrounding woods, directly made of logs, and the whole conference room looks new, with a smell of pine.

"Our first bombing mission was Munich." When Waslsjego said this, everyone present looked at him as if they were looking at him like idiots.

"Commander, do you know the range of our current bomber?" One pilot couldn't help but shout: "Are we going to make a one-way flight?" We can carry out orders, we are not afraid of death, but I don't think it is appropriate to throw a plane like ours into such a suicide operation. ”

From here, flying to Munich? It was definitely a one-way voyage to find death.

"Of course not." "I didn't expect that my men would be a bunch of rice buckets, and you couldn't even figure out such a simple truth, why did we have to take this straight line, why couldn't we go around in a circle?" ”

After speaking, Wasltzyego's hand gestured on the map: "That's it." ”

Go around in a circle, but get closer!

If you look at it on a flat surface, this is absolutely impossible, on a flat plane, the straight line between two points is the shortest, this is too simple an axiom to be proven, it is directly correct.

In the three-dimensional world, it's not, there's a shortcut, which is to go around in a circle, and for the Northern Hemisphere, to the north.

If you look at the map, it seems to be farther away, but if you put it on the globe, you can clearly see that when you go around the high latitudes, the distance will be closer because of the small circle of latitude.

(As a simple example, taking a plane to the United States, from the map, it seems that it is good to fly directly over the Pacific Ocean, but in fact, there are no flights like this, they all detour to the North Pole, that is, Alaska, and then fly over, so that it will be closer, and readers who don't understand it are greatly recommended to take a globe to see.) ）

Flying in a straight line is out of reach, but if you go around in a circle and pass from the North Pole, it will be closer, and at the same time, there is another advantage, that is, you can use the high-latitude circulation over the Arctic to achieve the most economical way of flying.

Why did you choose this place as your base?

The Germans' reconnaissance planes could fly over Soviet territory at will, and they could even fly at an altitude of more than 15,000 kilometers, at which no Soviet plane could reach, so they were undefended, that is, most of the Soviet territory would be clearly visible to the Germans, and the airfields in those places would be easily discovered by the Germans, and after that, they would be bombed terribly.

On the contrary, no one will notice here.

Secondly, in addition to the fact that it is safe as a base, the Germans would never have imagined that they would fly thousands of meters over the North Pole and then fly over Finland via Poland and Munich from here.

Munich is an inland city in Germany, and its defense is weak, and the focus is on the east, and there is no defense against the planes coming down from the north, so the possibility of a successful surprise attack on one side is quite large.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we must win our first battle, and this is a matter of life and death for our Soviets." Waslsjego continued: "This time, we will use a special bomb and destroy the whole of Munich! Everything the Germans did to us in Petersburg, now we have to pay back! ”