"Buzz, buzz." As the starter roared, puffs of black smoke came out of the exhaust pipe, and the Allison V-1710-63 engine was successfully started, and as it started, the turbine whistled like a whistle.

This engine has also been strengthened, the turbine has been modified, and the United States has indeed made a great contribution to the Soviets to win the war.

Then, Leonid slowly pushed the throttle stick forward, and as he accelerated, the whole plane began to involuntarily want to move forward.

At this time, the ground crew felt that something was abnormal, and he shouted outside: "The engine is normal, it can be turned off." ”

At this moment, Leonid released the brakes, and the P-39 began to slide forward.

"No, you can't take off without an order!" The ground crew ran a few steps and chased forward, but could not catch up with the plane.

After a turn in front, the plane was aimed at the runway, Leonid pushed the throttle stick to his head, and in the roar of the engine, the maximum power of 1,325 horsepower burst out, the propeller in front turned wildly, and the fighter began to slide down the runway.

"Not good, Lieutenant Leonid is defecting!" The ground crew shouted loudly, out of breath.

Yes, it is to defect!

In Leonid's heart, there was no loyalty to the Soviets at all, and as a second-generation who was born and raised in a family of eunuchs, he had a gentleman's style.

In his early years, he had the experience of mixing with bandits, and later, he did something even more powerful, killing people.

The official version is that at a military gathering, a group of young people drank heartily. One of the sailors heard that Leonid was very good at marksmanship, and purged Leonid to show his hand: he knocked off the bottle on his head with a pistol.

As a result, Leonid could not resist the stubborn entanglement of the sailors, so he picked up his pistol and knocked out the bottleneck of the bottle. But the sailors who drank too much thought that this was not enough, saying that they had to hit the bottle to count. Leonid had no choice but to re-fire, but it hit the sailor's eyebrows, and his brain suddenly exploded.

Look at it this way, it's just that this sailor is too cheap, pestering and begging to be shot, as long as you move your brain a little, you know that this is nonsense at all, an ordinary sailor dares to provoke the second generation of officials?

The truth of what happened at that time can never be known, in short, according to discipline at that time, Leonid needed to be shot.

As a result, Khrushchev begged Stalin, and finally let Leonid go, turned into a pilot.

After entering the flying unit, Leonid restrained himself a little, flew and trained seriously in the unit, and did not make any more trouble.

However, today, he has embarked on the road of no return without hesitation.

He didn't want to die.

According to the Germans, tomorrow, the German bombers will come to destroy the whole of Moscow, and their high-altitude fighter force will inevitably be ordered to intercept it.

This is quite scary, the Germans will pour out their nests, a large number of F190 fighters will pounce, and they here, around Moscow, can dispatch no more than 200 high-altitude fighters.

What does this mean? It's time for them to spill blood in the sky, and after they finish the shells, even if they just hit, they must continue to hit the enemy planes!

Leonid didn't want this, he wanted to live, after all, being alive is the best thing.

Then, there is only one way left to defect.

Although in tomorrow's air battle, he will definitely take off by plane, and the defection will be smoother, but he does not dare to take risks, after all, tomorrow, there will be fighters everywhere, even if he hides at a low altitude, he will be caught up and killed by the Germans.

So, only now.

Before the arrival of the big war, he flew his own plane, at an ultra-low altitude, to land in the defense zone recognized by Germany, and even he had already found a landing target in advance, and in Kalinin, north of Moscow, there was a field airfield for the Germans, and he only had to fly along the railway line to get there.

Now that he has taken off, there is no way out, he just wants to live, besides, even Yakov has defected to the enemy, why can't he be? Even, when you get there, will you be entrusted with a heavy responsibility? What a position to be given in this territory in the future.

Although his heart was still a little trembling, he still took off, the throttle of the engine was opened to the maximum, and after the plane took off, he began to climb upwards.

At the same time, in the back, the others were also stunned.

Varisi did not expect Leonid to defect, he just fooled himself to refuel, that was all rhetoric, and now, Leonid did not give the order to forcibly take off, and there was no air raid siren, except for defection, there was no second reason.

So, he was furious.

"I'm going to chase him!" Leonid shouted: "Quick, start the engine for me." ”

I have to say that the way the P-39 opens the door on the side, which is still beneficial, that is, he gets on and off the plane quickly, he almost steps into the plane with a brisk step, and then quickly flips the various electric doors and starts the engine.

With a rumbling sound, a puff of black smoke burst out, and his engine was already started.

"Report to your superiors that Leonid has defected, I'll go after him!" Varisi poked his head out and said to one of his men.

Vitaly Ivanovich Popkov did not expect that this would be the last time he would see Varisi.

The throttle was wide open, and he slid onto the runway, and the second P-39 was also in the midst of an emergency takeoff, and at this time, two minutes had passed since the first Leonid's plane took off.

Watching Varysi leave, Vitaly couldn't help but stomp his feet on the ground, this regiment commander is really naïve, he should send someone else to chase after him, and stay here to sit here, his approach is not in line with the identity of a regiment commander at all!

"Leonid, please reply if you receive it." While speeding up to take off, Varisi turned on the radio and shouted to Leonid in front: "If you return now, I can act as if nothing happened, I order you to return immediately!" ”

"No, I don't want to go back and die, as soon as I get off the plane, someone will arrest me, and I will be shot." Leonid's desperate voice came over the radio: "Moscow is going to ruins, the Soviets are going to perish, I don't want to give the Soviets a funeral!" ”

The radio of the entire flight regiment was on one channel, at this time, on the control tower of the airport, the flight squadron leader Dolgushin, who rushed here after learning the news, couldn't help but smash his fist against the wall, Leonid was a pilot in his squadron, and he usually didn't see anything, but he didn't expect that at such a time, it would be such a coward!