.“ Is that Hadrian's Wall for the Russians? ”

When he saw the photos taken from the air, Feng . General Rundstede's first impression was of the Scottish Wall from the air, but in fact it was the southwestern line of defense painstakingly managed by the Russians.

"General, that's much stronger than Hadrian's Wall, but we're not Scottish barbarians either, and the Russians probably thought that our Krupp 420mm siege guns, Skoda 305mm siege guns and 280mm heavy howitzers were all disposed of as scrap, and our powerful train guns would show them how powerful they were!"

General Rondested's staff officer, von Rondested. Colonel Loeb was an artillery specialist, he served in the Bavarian artillery unit in his early days, was admitted to the Artillery and Engineering School, trained at the Bavarian Military Academy, served in the Bavarian General Staff Headquarters, the Artillery Shooting School and the Field Artillery Unit, participated in the Battle of France, the second phase of the Battle of England and the invasion of Austria-Hungary, but failed to go to North America to participate in the war against the United States.

"Those 16 train guns are already in place!" Feng. Rondestede refers to the two 420 mm, four 365 mm and 10 280 mm train guns assigned to them to the 3rd Army, which were developed before 1914 and have since participated in a series of combat operations on the Western Front of the German army, and have made some detailed modifications, such as increasing the range of body tubes, installing hydraulic buffer equipment to increase the rate of fire, etc., from the results of previous tests and actual combat, they are very suitable for bombardment of fortresses and strong defensive lines.

"Yes, General, the ammunition is also in place, just wait to enter the firing position and fire!"

Feng. Colonel Loeb said as a staff officer hurried in from outside the tent.

"General, Your Majesty will read out the edict of declaring war on Russia at 12 o'clock sharp!"

"Oh?" Feng. General Rundstede pulled out his pocket watch, "It's 11:57!" Turn on the radio! ”

In a less conspicuous corner of the tent was a large wooden radio, which was not often used by the staff officers at the front. Today is an exception, as citizens of all Germany are told that this is a very important oracle, and the radio station in Warsaw will also transmit radio signals to nearby areas.

At this time, the German 3rd Army was deployed in the Vistula River valley south of Warsaw, more than 100 kilometers away from the Russian border, and as soon as the command issued an attack order, more than 300,000 officers and men and more than 1,000 artillery pieces of this group army would move according to the plan.

The staff officer then turned the radio to the frequency of the announcement, and the army march came over the radio, a few moments later. The music stopped, and from inside came the voice of Chancellor Gustavnoske, who stressed that the message would be read by His Majesty the Kaiser himself, before the sonorous voice of the Kaiser himself came out on the radio.

"It is with a very heavy heart, subjects of the German Empire, that the culprit of the bombings of Washington in 1915 was not our long-standing enemy, the British Empire, but the Russians, who had been hiding among us as allies, the Russian Empress Diana I! What a cruel truth, but blood shows us the true face of the enemy! Just a day earlier, we had delivered an ultimatum to the Russian government. They are required to make amends for their mistakes by handing over the murderer, trying the murderer, and punishing the murderer. But it's a pity that they refused, they decided to shield the murderer! We have no choice but to defend justice and dignity with the weapons in our hands. We will pay tribute to the memory of the deceased Empress with the blood of the enemy, and to all the German citizens of that bombing! ”

"In view of the fact that all means of settlement of the matter by peaceful means have failed, I declare now, in my capacity as Emperor of the German Empire, that the German Empire and the Russian Empire shall be at war with immediate effect! Long live Germany! Long live German! ”

Countless cries resounded throughout Berlin, throughout Prussia, and throughout Germany, and the Germanic people were now standing together regardless of party affiliation, creed, rich or poor, high or low, standing on the front of the German shame and the revenge of the Empress.

A minute after the Kaiser read out the edict declaring war, all the German troops received a telegram in clear code: Barbarossa!

The Great Operation Barbarossa begins!

At Kolavo Airport in eastern Finland, the entire airport fell silent for several seconds after the broadcast ended.

Immediately after that, the voice of the base commander came from the radio, the order of words was a little confusing, but it was very real:

"Young men, I don't know how to express my inner feelings at this time, no matter what, for the sake of our admired Empress, for the dignity and honor of Germany, for the sake of His Majesty the Kaiser, for the sake of German. For the sake of the Motherland, give me a beating of those shameless, despicable, obscene, hateful, damned, indebted Russians! Well, now, boys, strike! ”

In the cockpits of fighter and attack aircraft, some cheered, some had serious expressions, some raised clenched fists in the air, and some gave thumbs up to their partners.

"Good luck!"

"Good luck!"

The first to take off from this airfield were 129 fighters from the Luftwaffe's 5th Fighter Wing, which was led by Manfred von Brown, the third ace pilot in the Luftwaffe. Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Richthofen, he recorded 45 enemy aircraft, including 11 French, 19 British, and 15 American, behind the number one German ace pilot, Max. Richthofen, who had participated in the South American War. Lieutenant Colonel Imelman was assigned to the Southern Front with the 2nd Fighter Wing under his command at this time, and this time the German-Russian war would be a great opportunity for them to greatly improve their performance.

"It's really the era of the rampant volunteer army!" When he pulled up his Messerschmitt training, the baron muttered indignantly, listening to the previous declaration of war and the indignant words of the base commander, he was also very eager to beat those Russians at this time, but the Russian fighters he was about to encounter were probably Japanese. According to estimates by German intelligence services, Russia has imported about 300 planes of various types from Japan in the past three months, and quite a number of Japanese pilots have piloted fighter planes for the Russians in the name of "volunteers."

After circling over the airport for more than a dozen times, the baron saw that the fighters of his wing had basically taken off, so he pressed the communicator in his throat, "All squadrons report the situation!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the voices of the squadron leaders came from the communication headset one by one:

"The 1st Squadron is assembled! Flying at an altitude of 800 meters on the left flank of the formation! ”

"The second squadron is assembled! Flying at an altitude of 500 meters on the left wing of the formation! ”

"The 3rd Squadron is assembled! Flying at an altitude of 1000 meters in the middle of the formation! ”

"The 4th Squadron is assembled! Flying at an altitude of 700 meters in the middle of the formation! ”

"The Fifth Squadron is massing!"

It seemed that only the last group of fighters was still being assembled, and the baron pressed the throat communicator again: "The formation is flying east at cruising speed!" The 5th Squadron caught up as fast as possible! ”

In the current Luftwaffe. Because there are abundant fighters and pilots, the establishment of various air units is usually at full strength, and in wartime it is possible to expand beyond the strength of the air force because of actual needs, and this situation is particularly common in the huge bomber force. In terms of establishment, a fighter wing has three fighter groups and nine fighter squadrons under its jurisdiction, and each squadron has a total of 25 fighter squadrons, and each squadron is composed of a two-plane formation and a three-plane formation, with the squad leader commanding the three-plane formation. In the entire wing. The wing commander also personally commanded an independent wing headquarters, and such a standard combat wing basically had about 230 fighters.

Manfred von. Baron Richthofen's formation consisted of only five squadrons of fighters, because the remaining four squadrons would take off in about 20-25 minutes as a second wave, which would increase the continuity of the air battle and be ready to respond to unexpected situations.

After a while, the Baron's 5th Squadron had finished forming and joined the large formation, and it wasn't long before another, even larger group of planes appeared in their sight, which was a group of fighters and attack planes that had taken off from the Calhoula airfield, according to the predetermined plan. Manfred's wing will be responsible for clearing aerial obstacles. And the group behind will directly attack the front-line airfields of the Russian army.

From the ground, the scene of two large groups of 100 planes flying at medium and low altitudes is extremely spectacular, and the elegant lines of the German fighters are breathtaking. The silver-white body reflects the weak light in the sun, and those attack planes that look a little clumsy, and the round bombs under the body are not decorations - according to the actual combat experience in the German-American war, the German side has improved many weapons, and the pilots have reported that the 150 kg bombs carried by the dive bombers are not powerful enough, and after a series of tests and improvements, the aerial bombs of the land-based Vulture II attack aircraft have been replaced with 250 kg under the belly and 30 kg on each wing, The shipborne Ju-II eliminated the small bomblets under the wings and increased the one under the belly to 300 kg, and the speed of the two dive bombers when carrying bombs each decreased by more than ten kilometers per hour, but basically did not affect the combat performance.

That's it. Two huge groups of planes quickly flew towards the Russian border, one after the other, aiming directly at the Russian capital region.

From "who is the murderer" to Germany's ultimatum to the declaration of war on Russia, although there were only three short days during this period, the Germans launched the war this time with "complete procedures", and the Russians also used these extremely precious three days to prepare for the war as much as possible. When the Kaiser read out the edict declaring war, hundreds of thousands of Russian army units managed to rush to the "Sokolov Line" in the southwest, bringing the total number of Russian troops stationed in this area to one million, and this number increases even more if you add the reserve soldiers urgently called up in Belarus and Ukraine.

The distance from Finland to the Russian Capital District has always been a major concern for the Russian government.

Russia has accumulated a large number of troops, a large number of fighter units and the Baltic Fleet on the Russian-Finnish border all year round, in order to warn the Finns not to participate in the German operations, but the fact that the Luftwaffe units and the Baltic Fleet are stationed in the Finnish base makes the Russians have no choice, when the war began, the Russian ** team stationed on the Russian side of the Russian-Finnish border reached nearly 400,000 people, as long as the Finns were eliminated from the land, the German offensive on this side was basically defused.

No, as soon as the German fighter group crossed the Russian border, the ground anti-aircraft fire of the Russian ** team began to roar, and the sound of artillery announced the beginning of the battle, but the baron and his fighters ignored the Russian anti-aircraft guns on the ground, and he ordered the formation to disperse in squadrons, and the scheduled mission remained the same - to shoot down every Russian fighter that took off, and cooperate with the attack aircraft behind to attack the Russian front-line airfields. - After the Kaiser declared war, his fighter jets took off from the airfield in eastern Finland, which is very close to the Russian border, and now it is less than 1 o'clock, that is to say, it is only a few tens of minutes before the declaration of war, Manfred is a little curious, whether the Russian fighters will all take off to meet the battle, or most of them will be destroyed on the airfield before they have time to take off. Soon, the black dots in the air ahead answered the baron's question.

"Attention squadrons! Attention squadrons! After receiving the enemy, you are free to look for targets, pay attention to the coordination between tactical formations, and the battle begins! After giving the order, Manfred released his throat communicator, gripped the joystick with both hands, increased the throttle, and rushed towards the enemy with a new anger and a calm heart.

A large and thick "cloud" was formed from the sky, ready to devour at any moment those enemies who dared to engage them head-on.

Manfred's guess wasn't entirely off, and as the distance got closer, he found that there were fewer than 50 fighters on the side, which meant that there were still more fighters on the airfield or trying to take to the air. In this way, the 57 fighters in another German group could completely cover the 122 attack planes that took advantage of the fierce battle between the fighters of both sides to cross the enemy's air interception line, and they should have gained a lot on Russian airfields.

At a distance of 500 meters, some of the German fleet of Messerschmitt first opened fire with their own 20mm cannons, which were armed with only one 20 mm machine gun and had only 100 rounds on reserve, but only one shot hitting an important part of the opponent was enough to crash or withdraw from the battle, and the four 7.92mm machine guns on the wings could also make any aircraft that dared to approach within 400 yards of the skin of the flesh.

The Messerschmitt had only 2 initial short shots - the rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute allowed their guns to last a total of 12 shots, and no one intended to run out of ammunition for their important weapons at the beginning of the battle, and this frontal fire, although not very effective, also caused two Russian fighters who had no time to escape to be hit head-on, one of which was hit by a 20-mm machine gun shell in the cabin, and the pilot inside was killed instantly, while the other was slightly more lucky, The 20-mm machine gun shell just scrapped his fighter engine, and before the fighter plane fell with white smoke in tow, the pilot parachuted out, but the small body and small short legs didn't look like a Russian like a big bear!