On June 22, at Prague Airport in Tamchag, Mongolian People's Republic, 150 Soviet planes were ready to take off one after another. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Running to the side, Manturov, dressed in a divisional commissar uniform, gave the pilots a sincere military salute.

In the Soviet Union, air force pilots were a noble profession, and they received a lot of training in order to be able to fly airplanes in the air, maneuver enemy planes in the air, and defend the country in wartime.

Although the pilots involved in this operation received regular, arduous training, except for the 21 pilots who participated in the Spanish Civil War, the rest had little practical combat experience.

On the other side, the Japanese pilots who participated in the Battle of Normenheim were the elite of the Japanese Army Aviation and had rich combat experience. Among them, a large number of pilots are junior pilots, and their combat effectiveness is amazing.

In the event that the Japanese Air Force dispatched a flying group to launch a counterattack, the Soviet pilots who were dispatched this time would face a huge challenge. In terms of combat experience, Soviet pilots had already lost a notch, and their combat capabilities remained in doubt.

But fortunately, the Type 97 fighters used by the Japanese Air Force at that time were inferior in firepower compared with the Soviet И-16 fighters.

At that time, the I-16 was considered the most advanced fighter, equipped with six rockets, and had world-class speed, but after the start of World War II, with the development of Axis air force technology, the I-16 had begun to fall behind and was gradually replaced by other models. However, at the time, the I-16 was quite powerful.

The Soviet aviation formation, consisting of 150 aircraft, formed a neat queue and flew mightily towards the occupied areas.

At that time, Japan did not have a radar early warning system, and when Soviet planes flew to their territory, the Japanese did not know about it, and not a single plane took off to resist.

Soviet SB-2 bombers dropped bombs on Japanese assembly areas and field airfields, and the Japanese troops on the ground were caught off guard and hurriedly organized resistance.

Several of them lined up and fired at the Soviet plane with the 38 bars in their hands. But the Soviet SB-2 bombers flew too high, and the I-16 fighters flew too fast and were difficult to aim, and as a result, the Japanese did not have any effect on resistance at all.

They didn't miss, and they were beaten by the I-16 in turn.

Seeing the devils on the ground gathered together, several I-16 fighters lined up in a line, quickly dived, and used aviation machine guns to strafe the gathered devils.

"Dada...... Da-da-da-da! "The machine guns were constantly strafing the gathered Japanese infantry, killing them without a single piece of armor.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The bombs dropped by the SB-2 bombers landed and exploded one after another, blowing up the Japanese army's field airfields, barracks, weapons depots, etc., and the devil's base suddenly became a purgatory on earth, but the small Japanese Imperial Army with the spirit of bushido was not afraid, but became more and more courageous, shooting Soviet planes with the only weapons in their hands, and making the greatest weak resistance.

In just ten minutes, the Japanese field airfield was almost destroyed, all the planes on the ground were blown up, the fuel depot exploded, and they were taken by surprise.

Originally, the planes in the field airfield could still be dispatched to resist the Soviet air raids, but the runway of the airfield was blown up by the Soviets into several large and deep craters, and the runway was uneven, and the planes could not take off, and as a result, they could only be beaten on the ground.

The news of the attack on the field airfield soon reached the command. After Michitaro Komatsubara, commander of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, learned of the news of the dispatch of the Soviet planes, he immediately issued an order to the air force of Hailar to make all sorties, and all the Japanese planes poured out of the nest and soon flew over the field airfield.

Just when the Soviet pilots were bombing and the devils on the ground were about to despair, the reinforced Japanese planes arrived over the attack site and immediately launched an attack on the Soviet planes that were attacking the air.

One of the largest air battles in the history of Japan's military began, with 120 fighters deployed to meet a similar number of Soviet Iraq-16 fighters.

Under the control of experienced junior pilots of the Japanese army, the Japanese fighters penetrated left and right in the air, and moved flexibly. Coupled with their original bushido spirit, as well as their long-cultivated team chemistry and combat experience, the Japanese Air Force showed amazing combat effectiveness and did not disappoint the emperor's younger brother.

Not to be outdone, the respected Soviet pilots were not to be outdone, and although they had little combat experience, the professional training of the Soviet Air Force was not a cheat. Moreover, they also used more advanced I-16 fighters, which also showed a certain combat effectiveness, which did not disappoint Comrade Stalin.

The two most powerful air forces in Asia fought to the death, with the Japanese air force, which had a slight advantage and performed slightly better. After more than an hour of air combat, Japan shot down 36 Soviet aircraft, including 26 I-16 fighters and 10 SB-2 bombers.

The Soviet Air Force, which was highly professionally trained and used a new generation of fighters, also shot down 28 Japanese fighters, and the Soviet Sengoku was slightly defeated. But this time the Japanese lost all the junior pilots, and a few of them were aces. The Soviet Union lost all the Lai Bird who had no actual combat experience, and in terms of the loss of combat effectiveness, the two sides actually fought to a draw.

Witnessing the stubborn resistance and superhuman combat effectiveness of the Japanese air force, the Soviet pilots took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield in order to avoid further losses, seeing that the goal of bombing the Japanese assembly areas and field airfields had been achieved.

When the Soviet army retreated, the devil in the sky, considering that the other side also had a certain combat effectiveness and had an advantage in the number of weapons and aircraft, did not choose to pursue the victory and expand the results, but took the initiative to withdraw to Hailar Airport.

The largest air battle ever fought in Asia ended in a win-win outcome. The Japanese army, which performed slightly better and inflicted greater losses on the enemy, won a tactical victory; And the Soviet Air Force, which almost destroyed the field airfields and barracks and assembly areas of the Japanese army, also won a strategic victory.

But if you count the losses of aircraft on the ground, the Japanese lost a total of 50 aircraft this time, and the Soviet Union lost a total of 36 aircraft. On the ground, in addition to the loss of 22 aircraft, the Japanese army was also bombing, and lost a large amount of weapons, fuel and other military supplies due to the bombing of warehouses. Hundreds of soldiers were killed, or killed by aviation machine guns, and several armored vehicles were blown up by Soviet aircraft.

In terms of combined losses, the losses of the Japanese side were even greater than those of the Soviet troops. Manturov won another beautiful victory, achieving his strategic goal of weakening Japan's air and ground forces, and at the same time dealing a lot of damage to the morale of the Japanese.

In the evening, in the Soviet barracks in Prague in Tamchag, while the air force pilots were basking in the revelry of victory, Manturov still had that sad look on his face.

Because he knew that in a few days the Japanese devils would make a comeback, dispatch a huge group of flying planes, and attack his own location -- Tamchag Prague! At that time, it is still unknown whether he will be able to save his life.

He had already begun to make plans for the next battle, preparing to give them a big gift when the Japanese attacked and sneaked in.