Chapter 1108: Bombing Minsk
In the dark night sky, with the help of advanced radio navigation equipment, Major Helmutpole's bomber gradually flew closer to its target.
Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is still in the dim light of the streets.
The Soviet Union was blinded by this surprise attack, and everything could not react, and a big city like Minsk did not even know about the implementation of light control! It can even be said that the thinking of the Soviets has not yet changed.
In this era, radio navigation can only be roughly guided to the correct direction, and there will be no distance marking, let alone the accuracy of the order of meters like satellite navigation in later generations.
Therefore, when flying close to the target, it also relies on the visual observation of the bomber unit.
Now, for the Junkers-88 bomber unit, this is simply a perfect opportunity, and the bombardiers in front of them shouted with excitement: "Discover Lenin Avenue in the center of Minsk and prepare to enter the bombing route!" ”
The main arsenal they were going to bomb was on Minsk's Central Street, and in the middle of the street was the railway station, and next to the station was an important arsenal for the Soviets, which stored supplies for hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops.
Now, the dim street lamps below, pointing the way accurately, the Soviets are simply stupid!
The plane continued to fly forward, and soon entered the sky over Minsk, and at such a time, not a single anti-aircraft gun opened fire into the sky!
This cannot be blamed on the Soviets, for whom it is still peacetime, the artillery emplacements have not yet been deployed, the anti-aircraft artillery are still asleep, and there is no one to inform them to get up for air defense.
The command was overwhelmed by the various situations coming from the front, how could it take care of a small anti-aircraft artillery unit in the rear.
In fact, the more direct reason is that the Soviets purge of the people, countless excellent commanders who went through the civil war, were killed in that huge purge campaign, and countless new commanders filled in, but they did not have much experience at all, and at this time, they were already panicking.
The Junkers-88 bomber flew into the vicinity of the railway station in great form, and even ordered his own bomber to dive and drop bombs in order to be more efficient in the pursuit of an efficient attack.
The German pilots are extremely skilled, and the Junkers-88, a universal bomber, is absolutely unambiguous in its dive bombing.
"Oh, bombers!" At this time, outside the arsenal, the soldier standing guard heard a noise in the sky, and when he looked up, he saw from the sky that the terrible bomber was diving towards the arsenal where he was!
At such a time, of course, he will not be stupid to continue to wait here, he has almost exhausted his full potential, hurriedly ran out, the arsenal was hit, what were the consequences?
He's going to be blown to ashes!
The Junkers-88 roared from the darkness with a precise dive angle, and when it pulled up, a string of aerial bombs had already been dropped.
"Boom!" The arsenal here is just an ordinary warehouse remodel, there are no solid concrete fortifications at all, and the aerial bombs almost easily lifted the roof, and then, the follow-up bombs, exploded in the arsenal.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The night sky was illuminated, the dim street lamps had long been dimmed, and the whole sky could see the fire burning on the ground, and the flames jumped up hundreds of meters high!
Explosions came and went.
The sentry just now, did not run away, although he moved fast enough, it was still not as violent as the shock wave of the explosion behind him, he was pushed to the ground by a powerful air current, blood flowed from his mouth, and at the last moment of his life, he turned his head and looked at the terrible explosion in the arsenal.
The whole land of Minsk is trembling!
Originally, a flying group was going to take out the targets here, but unexpectedly, one of Major Helmtpole's planes completed the mission, and he shouted on the radio: "Freedom to find targets and bomb!" ”
When they came, of course, they made a lot of plans, and there were enough targets worth bombing in Minsk, arsenals, government buildings, railway stations, power stations, army headquarters, and so on.
Having received his order, the Junkers-88 bombers behind dispersed, murderously looking for their targets.
The shock from the ground made Pavlov stunned for a moment, unlike others, after all, he was a veteran who came out of the front line, he had participated in the brutal Spanish Civil War, this kind of shock, he was quite familiar with.
The explosion, it was a big explosion, and if he felt the direction from which the vibration came, he immediately judged that it was a German bomber that flew to his side!
"Lighting control, quick, full implementation of lighting control, put out all the damn lights for me!"
As soon as Pavlov's words were finished, the noisy telephones in the command room rang one after another, and the adjutant's face changed greatly when he received the call: "General, our arsenal has been blown up!" ”
Nonsense, does this need to be said? You can figure out what's going on with your ass!
Pavlov's heart was very confused at this time, and at the same time, he also knew that this was his last chance.
In the entire Western Special Military District, there are 650,000 troops, and how many troops are the Germans in total? The Germans were small, and this was the biggest disadvantage, because they attacked on the entire front, so they had a local advantage in troops.
"Boom!" At this moment, all of a sudden, a bomb fell from the sky and hit the open space in front of their building, and the air flow from the explosion shattered all the glass in the command room here.
One of the officers was quite frightened and at once got under the table.
"You bastard, come out!" Pavlov kicked him hard in the ass with his leather boots: "Now, you go and find sheets, futons or something, block the windows so that the light does not come out." ”
What kind of situation did you not experience in Spain? Sitting on the bodies of dead people have eaten, Pavlov's composure infects everyone.
Although the Germans launched an offensive on all fronts, it was also focused, for example, the Brest Fortress, which was definitely a key position for the Germans, well, they were blocked from here!
"Order the mechanized 14th Army, reinforcements in the direction of Brest!" Pavlov said: "Let them send back the German troops that came out!" Let the Germans usher in a crushing defeat! ”