When the German Stuka bomber was raging throughout Western Europe, the Soviets in the east were also thinking, and when the German HS129 appeared as a flying tank, the Soviets were even more shocked.

The Soviets also had to have the same weapons as Germany, which had a very powerful effect on ground support!

So, under all kinds of pressure, the department under the Central Design Bureau of the USSR (TsKB) led by Sergei V. Ilyushin worked on a new model called the TsKB-55 two years ago, which the military gave the name Bsh-2, that is, "armored ground attack aircraft." ”

The original design requirements were for a single engine, two seats, a combined engine and crew weight of no more than 700 kg, and that it must be fitted with 4 to 7 mm thick nickel-molybdenum alloy steel armor plates, with all-metal wings, while the fuselage was a mix of metal and wood, with the rear of the fuselage made of wood.

The engine is a Mikulin AM-35 with 1,350 horsepower.

A year later, a prototype was built, with four 7.62mm ShKAS machine guns mounted on the wings and one at the rear of the cockpit; The magazines inside the wing can carry 4 100-kg bombs, or they can be replaced with 2 250-kg bombs hanging under the wing.

Unfortunately, the performance of the aircraft at this time was not satisfactory, especially with the increasing weight, the aircraft reached 4.7 tons, which overwhelmed the AM-35, an engine specially developed for high-altitude flight.

After an emergency modification, the aircraft adopted a modified 1,550 hp AM-38 engine, and at the same time, the flight crew was reduced to one, and in this way, the performance requirements were finally barely met, and the initial production model, named the Il-2, was equipped with the 4th Ground Air Strike Group.

There are still a lot of problems to be solved from the flying tanks behind, and this is just the initial model.

Now, after receiving the order, the air regiment that had been transferred from the field took off immediately.

These days, they have been studying how to attack the Brest Fortress, every strategic point in it, every strong fortification, is the target of their research, and they have become confident.

However, before taking off, they received a new order to find a terrible cannon hidden behind the Brest Fortress and destroy it, this cannon, at least the 406 naval gun!

The regimental commander Varysi was the first to take off, puffs of black smoke came out of the engine in front of him, and the fighter plane slid down the runway until the end of the runway, and he pulled up, and the fighter slowly rose with a slope.

Although the new engine was replaced, the maneuverability of this kind of aircraft was still very bad, before they changed to fly this kind of aircraft, they all flew biplane Polikarpov planes, that kind of aircraft is maneuverable and flexible, compared with the two, this is simply like cement in flight, too difficult to fly.

Any action must be careful, because the engine power is insufficient, accidents often occur, and, more terrible, all kinds of mechanical failures, this newly equipped aircraft, there will always be some inexplicable problems.

After climbing to about five hundred meters, he turned his head and glanced back, the follow-up planes were slowly taking off, and now, they were going to attack!

At this time, they didn't know that their take-off had been seen by the German agents who were ambushed at the airport, and almost when he had just taxied onto the runway, the Germans on the opposite side also took off.

They are all F190s, state-of-the-art fighters! Under the nose, a 40-mm Bofors cannon, glittering.

The pilot, Colonel Werner Mulders, sitting in his cockpit and looking out at the eastern sky, knew that the battle was about to begin.

As a veteran flyer, Werner's most glorious battle was in Spain, when he fought against Soviet planes, and the I-15 and I-16 were not his opponents.

But when he came back from Spain, his performance did not improve much, because he had a lot of experience in the skies over Spain, and after he came back, he became an instructor in the aviation school, teaching a group of rookie air combat combat, which made him very depressed, and he also wanted to show his skills on the battlefield like other pilots.

He had made countless reports, but they were all lost, and just like that, watching the battle on the Western Front end, he finally had the opportunity to be transferred out of the aviation school and serve as the commander of an aviation regiment on the Eastern Front.

And his landline has also become the latest F190, and the BF109 at this time is almost on the verge of being discontinued, and the Messerschmitt company is said to produce newer jets.

And when he entered the aviation regiment, he suddenly understood his experience in the aviation school, Germany needs aces, needs pilots like him, but it needs experienced pilots to teach by word and deed, and drive the emergence of more ace pilots.

There were five or six cadets in his aviation regiment who had shot down more than five, and when the pilots told them how they had achieved results according to his training, Werner knew that his efforts were meaningful.

And now, he has to strictly follow orders.

If he could, he led the team to fly over and could destroy the opponent's planes to the ground, but the superiors gave a death order, and air battles could only break out in their own airspace, and those downed fighters could only land on their own territory.

At this time, he is no longer the young young man who only knows how to fight, he knows more about the political considerations of his superiors, this is just a border friction, not a battle of life and death, the war of invasion against the Soviet Union, has not yet begun, after his own side, some are fighting.

Soon, there were bright spots in his field of vision, and sure enough, the height of the other party was very low, and he was going to enter directly at an ultra-low altitude!

"Attention, target spotted, in the direction of three o'clock, prepare to dive, fire after the opponent crosses our fortress!"

They also could not enter the sky above the fortress, which was the area of operation of ground-based anti-aircraft artillery, to avoid being accidentally fired.

They could only wait at the back of the fortress.

The Il-2 strike aircraft did not pass over the fortress, but went around in a circle, passing through the swampy area in the south of the fortress, and this action alone made Vilna admire the cleverness of the opposing commander.

The northern part of the fortress is a forest, where anti-aircraft artillery can also be arranged, but the southern part of the fortress is swampy, and it cannot be arranged there.

This was exactly what Varisi had in mind, even if he wanted to bombard the fortress, he did not intend to brave the heavy anti-aircraft artillery of the fortress and go straight up from the east, and also bypass the swamp in the south and go around to the back of the fortress.

The anti-aircraft artillery on the fortress is almost always arranged in the east, so it is easiest for your side to sneak attack from the west, and the loss is small.

And now, they are not going to bomb the fortress, but to find that terrible cannon in the back!

However, just as they flew over the fortress, in the sky, in the clouds, terrible fighters, swooped down!