Launching a sneak attack when the other side was not serious, only to fall into a total passivity after the other side became serious, this experience made the Soviet Air Force wake up from a dream and realize the real gap between itself and its opponent.

The illusion of relying on improved fighter performance to close this gap was completely shattered when Germany's new fighters and elite pilots appeared in the skies over the battlefield.

The question then arises as to whether they will expand the scale of the battle and put more fighters into it, after losing a full 10 fighters.

"There are also MiG fighters, but they are not our most advanced fighters! We also have the Yak-1, and we can compete with the Germans! A commissar clenched his fists and shouted encouragement to everyone in the command.

The fighter he said, in fact, everyone knows that the performance is indeed advanced, but the important production line of the Yak fighter is in the city of Vladimir......

That is, the Germans had already destroyed part of the industrial capacity of the USSR, including Vladimir, but also Smolensk and other regions.

If Moscow is included, the losses of the Soviet Union's industrial zones can be described as devastating, although Ukraine is still in the hands of the Soviet Union, but the production capacity of the Soviet Union has been greatly reduced.

Historically, the Soviet Union relied on the support of the United States and Britain to tide over this difficult situation in this passive situation.

At that time, on the battlefields of the USSR, there were many P-40 fighters in the sky, and there were also Churchill infantry tanks on the ground, and there were M4 Sherman tanks......

But now, under the attack of Japan, the United States is exhausted and has no time to reinforce the Soviet Union. Britain, the other ally, had now become a German-controlled client state.

"Although most of the production base of Yak fighters is being transferred to Chelyabinsk, the fall of Vladimir has caused us to lose too much production capacity for Yak fighters." Yevgeny sighed gloomily.

The sudden occupation of Vladimir by the Germans actually cost the Soviet Union a lot of things, for example, some machine tools, which were completely lost to the Germans because they did not have time to retreat.

What is even more depressing is that the new, just-produced Yak-1 fighter was also captured by the Germans in Vladimir.

Dozens of Yak fighters were parked in warehouses next to the production plant, and no one even destroyed them, so they were abandoned to the Germans.

Similarly, the performance of the Yak-1 fighter, which was originally more advanced, was no secret to the German army.

"So what? We also have hundreds of Yak-1 fighters! We can also compete with the Germans for air supremacy! The commissar's face turned red, and he was still arguing desperately.

Yes, Yevgeny also knows that if he finds any excuse this time, Zhukov and Stalin will not be able to explain it.

The Air Force finally had a little combat capability, but now it has become a shrunken turtle after encountering a setback, and it is simply unreasonable.

Even if it is reasonable, the Air Force has indeed suffered losses, but the Army is also constantly losing, which unit is not suffering losses? Don't go out for fear of loss? No war?

Whoever says this kind of reason will not agree with it. Soldiers should go to war, they should go to battle. Retreating in order to preserve strength is a shame in itself.

"Alright! Continue with the battle plan I drew up earlier! The mission remains the same! Try again and see if you can paralyze the advanced German fighters on the ground! Gritting his teeth, Yevgeny insisted on his orders.

However, he soon added: "Inform the reserves to prepare to take off more fighters to escort the Il-2 attack aircraft on bombing missions!" ”

The sudden appearance of German fighters made everyone uneasy. They knew that a few hours later, the team carrying out the bombing mission might encounter a frenzied siege by the Germans.

But what they didn't expect was that before they could gather their forces again to attack the German field airfield, the German planes appeared in their field of vision.

"Air raid alert! Air defense alert! The German aircraft group crossed the defensive positions of our troops! Putting down the phone in his hand, the officer on duty reminded his subordinates loudly.

These men quickly sounded the anti-aircraft sirens beside them, and the terrible sound of the machinery echoed over the Soviet field airfields closest to the front line.

The Soviet fighter pilots, dressed in their flight suits, ran desperately towards the fighters with camouflage nets.

And right above them, dense German bombers, still flying above the clouds. Just looking at the numbers, these German planes were enough to make the hairs of the Soviet pilots stand on end.

At least 200 heavy bombers, the German version of the B-17, the JU-118 bomber, flew above the clouds in the direction of the deeper part of the Soviet Union.

These horizontal bombers, which targeted several Soviet field airfields farthest from the Soviet-German front.

The JU-118 bombers had not yet flown all over here, and under the shorter clouds, more German bombers were lined up in neat formations and flew off into the distance.

There are more of these JU-88 bombers than the JU-118 bombers, and just by looking at the almost invisible fleet overhead, you can see that they have more than 200 planes, to say the least.

The dense JU-88 bombers flew below the JU-118 heavy bombers, making the German fleet look even denser, almost to the point of being airtight.

"Oh my God! So many German planes, the first time I saw so many German planes! Are they going to bomb Kharkov? Seeing the group of bombers overhead, one of the Soviet pilots sighed.

Just seeing the German planes that were like locusts passing through, many Soviet pilots on the ground no longer had the confidence to compete.

Their fighters, I'm afraid, are not as numerous as the enemy's bomber forces. Not to mention the terrible German fighters that flew above the bombers, which they could no longer see.

"Let's hope they went to bomb Kharkov......" When talking about this, the ground crew standing next to the Soviet pilot felt a little gloating.

With such a large fleet of aircraft, bombing any target can almost paralyze all the effects of the target. Whether it's bombing a city, or bombing some defensive positions, it's enough to be deadly.

"The Germans' planes, did they have such a long range?" Another young ground attendant, looking at his ground crew master with strange eyes, suddenly asked.