"Rise up, great country, fight to the death, to destroy the evil forces of the Nazis, and destroy all evil bandits......"

The high-pitched, passionate singing woke up the political commissar of the 3rd Army of the Red Army, Ilya, who was dreaming. Major General Oktyabrysky - in his dreams there were also people singing, but in the "Internationale", the Red Army soldiers sang this song that inspired the proletarians of the world to rise up and struggle, marching majestically and vigorously through the streets of Paris to pay tribute to the heroes of the Paris Commune......

It's a pity that it was just a sweet dream, and it woke up the girls of the 3rd Army Art Troupe who were arranged. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he looked at the clock hanging on the wall, it was just 6:15 in the morning.

Now Comrade Oktyablisky is certainly not in Paris or Berlin, but he is not trapped in Warsaw. His 3rd Army was not assigned to Warsaw, but was transferred from Poland to Minsk during the Battle of Minsk, as it was a composite army with mechanized units. After the "victory" in the defense of Minsk, he was transferred with the 3rd Army to Smolensk, the new headquarters of the Western Front.

The so-called Battle of Minsk, known to the Germans as the Battle of Belarus, was the battle in which Stalin's precious son Yakov "betrayed the revolution". According to official Soviet propaganda, the battle successfully thwarted the German attempt to occupy Minsk, defended Eastern Belarus, and was therefore a great victory. Together with the Battle of Leningrad and the Battle of the Dnieper River, which took place at the end of 42-beginning of 43, they are called the three important turning points of the Great Patriotic War.

These three battles were also the third of the four key turning points in the world's anti-fascist and anti-Nazi wars -- another turning point was the Panama campaign in March.

After the four major turning points, the 43-year Great Patriotic War will of course go from victory to victory. Therefore, the current political work of the Red Army is to inculcate this kind of thinking among the soldiers and cadres at the grassroots level.

Oh, it should be two minds.

The first is the Great Patriotic War -- this is more difficult to do, and when the war began last year, it was said that it was a world revolution. Now those art troupes sing "Sacred War" every day because of this, the sacred war is the Great Patriotic War, not the liberation of all mankind.

Second, propaganda moves from victory to victory, and this problem does not seem to be big. Now the Germans are basically blocked, except for encircling Leningrad, which is close to the border, and occupying Pskov, which is also the border, they have not set foot in the Soviet "homeland" (referring to the Soviet land before 1939).

"Honey, you were woken up by them too?"

When Okjabriski sat up from his bed, his wife, Maria, pushed the door in. Unlike most of the high-ranking cadres in the Red Army, who liked to leave their wives behind, Oktyablisky had a good relationship with his wife, and they had always been like glue. So after the troops were stationed in Smolensk, he took his wife.

"Well," said Oktyablisky, kissing his wife on the cheek and smiling, "it's almost Labor Day, the first since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, and the art troupe must behave well." ”

"Alas, it is a pity not to celebrate the first victory of the world revolution in Paris." Maria sighed softly as she helped her husband with his uniform.

"Maria," Oktyabliski said to his wife in a serious tone as she took her uniform, "you can't say that outside!" ”

World Revolution...... Without! It never happened, and what broke out on June 1, 1942 was the Great Patriotic War, a "preventive war" launched by the Soviet High Command when it sensed the imminent invasion of imperialist Germany into the Soviet Union, the first stage of the Great Patriotic War!

After successfully crushing the German offensive plot, the Red Army took the initiative to go on the defensive and inflicted heavy losses on the Germans in the three major battles of the Battle of Leningrad, the Battle of Minsk and the Battle of the Dnieper......

"Yes, I know how to talk outside." Maria pouted a little aggrieved, she was also a member of the Bolshevik Party, and she was very conscious.

"By the way," said Maria at this time, "three minutes ago the headquarters of the army called and asked you to go immediately. ”

"Immediately?" Oktyablisky took a breath, he was now the political commissar of the army group, and if it wasn't for an emergency, there was no one in the army headquarters who could have made him rush there "immediately".

Maria nodded, "Yes, right away!" ”

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The reason why the command of the 3rd Army called Oktyablisky to rush there immediately was because there was an emergency.

At about 6 a.m. on April 29, the radar station of the Air Force under the Western Front detected a large number of enemy planes coming from the direction of the Polo with advanced American radar!

Just as Major General Oktyabrysky, political commissar of the 3rd Army, was hurrying to the headquarters of the army, on the outskirts of Smolensk, over the airfield where the 286th Fighter Squadron of the 73rd Fighter Regiment of the Red Air Force (the name was given in honor of the great internationalist fighter Comrade Li Mei) was stationed, the alarm sounded.

The pilots of the 73rd Fighter Squadron emerged from the pilots' underground lounge (a bunker) and ran to the Yak-1B fighters lined up on the tarmac.

The Yak-1B fighter is not advanced, it is inferior to the German, American and British fighters in service, and it is not as good as the Japanese Zero fighter, but this aircraft also has its advantages.

First of all, the Yak-1 was a cheap and easy-to-produce aircraft, and the fuselage was covered with aviation plywood and textiles instead of expensive aluminum alloys, which was a good choice for the Soviet Union, which lacked aluminum alloys.

Secondly, while plywood and textiles were used, the total weight of the aircraft was well controlled, and the total combat weight was less than 3 tons. In order to control the weight, the aircraft was equipped with only one 20mm cannon and one 12.7mm machine gun. However, the trajectory of this gun was small, and the hit rate was extremely high after biting the enemy plane.

Successful weight control allowed the aircraft to maneuver well at low and medium altitudes, and if piloted by an experienced pilot, it was able to maneuver around the German Fokker Zero at low and medium altitudes. Thanks to the supercharger-mounted engine, the Yak-1B is able to fight the Fokker Zero D at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and the Yak-1B also has a greater chance to use its agility to get rid of the tail bite of the Fokker Zero D after the altitude is reduced.

Therefore, as long as the P-51 (US military aid) responsible for medium and high altitudes can entangle the German FW-190A-9 fighters, then the Yak-1B can compete with the Fokker Zero D.

However, the so-called "counter-exchange" is by no means 1:1 in the exchange ratio between the two sides, but the exchange of one Fokker Zero D for more than three Yak-1Bs - this is only the result when the P-51 can block the FW-190A-9.

And once the P-51 is defeated, and the FW-190A-9 with the advanced BMW801F engine is killed from a high altitude, the Yak-1B will only be slaughtered!

After the BMW 801F (which reached its peak in both high-temperature alloy and thermal design) engines equipped with the FW-190A-9 engine, which was extremely complex and process-oriented, the aircraft gained the ability to dominate at low and medium altitudes.

The 2,400 horsepower output of the BMW 801F engine gives the FW-190A-9 fighter unprecedented power, allowing the FW-190A-9 to reach a maximum speed of 740 km/h (without the MW50 system) despite the enlarged internal fuel tank and adding a lot of weight.

Moreover, when this aircraft is attached to the auxiliary fuel tank, it can get the same range as the Fokker Zero D.

Such a high-speed combination with a one-hit tactic coupled with a long range makes the FW-190A-9 fighter at an altitude of less than 5,000 meters, and also shows the hideous face of an air killer.

Sitting in the cabin of a Yak-1B fighter with a white lily painted pattern on the wings, the female fighter pilot of the Soviet Union, Lilia Brown. Lieutenant Litwiak remembered his boyfriend Alexei, who died at the gunpoint of an evil FW-190 fighter half a month ago in order to cover himself. Solo Martin.

Lilia, who holds a Moscow hukou and comes from a working-class family. Litwiak, of course, loved the Bolshevik Party, and in fact she was an honorable member of the Bolshevik Party herself.

She joined the party organization in the struggle to defend the skies of Moscow, when she had just graduated from a flight school (a school for training fighter pilots), and she turned out to be a pilot instructor who was the most skilled of all the cadets and even surpassed her instructor.

And in the 586 regiment, which consisted of female pilots, she was also the first pilot to shoot down an enemy plane (she was the first female pilot in the world to shoot down an enemy plane). In November 42, he shot down a JU88 bomber (belonging to the Royal Croatian-Hungarian Air Force) that invaded the skies of Moscow, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, a Bolshevik Party badge and an officer rank.

However, the most valuable thing she gained in this war was not the medal, party card, and cadre status (the lieutenant was of course a cadre), but the love of her boyfriend Solomartin. He was the squadron leader of the 286th "Lime" Regiment stationed in Smolensk, and after Lilia was transferred to the 286th Regiment, the two fell in love at first sight and soon fell in love.

But the man who brought happiness and sweetness to Lilia in the brutal war is now gone forever, and Lilia still has to face the invasion of fascist planes every day.

"Lilia, it's your turn to take off!" The voice of the airport commander was heard from the American radio installed on the plane.

"Understood!" The young female pilot wiped away her tears, then skillfully pushed the joystick and flew the plane painted with white lilies into the Soviet blue sky. (To be continued.) )