On the afternoon of the sixth day, dozens of mechanics and ordnance were busy in a neat row of newly built hangars along the permanent cement runway, 10 kilometers east of Liepaja, Latvia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Rows of beautiful, advanced and expensive MiG-3 long-range fighters line up in the hangar, and mechanics are making a final pre-hit check for them and attaching standard 150-liter empty auxiliary fuel tanks to them. At noon, pilots kept coming in to check on their beloved planes - this long row of hangars contained 24 MiG-3s from three squadrons.

The Red Army's long-range fighter squadron was somewhat smaller than that of a regular fighter squadron, and the three squadrons were mixed: two from the long-range aviation reserve, which was originally stationed in Belarus, and the other from the Baltic Front. The ground crew is mainly the MiG-3 unit of the former Baltic Front -- the ground crew was originally a brigade in Lithuania, but when the aircraft are full, it is considered a squadron.

With enough ground crew, there is no need to transport them from Belarus over long distances, which saves a lot of trouble -- and this will make the ground crew comrades most proud: in addition to the two substitute pilots of the squadron that originally belonged to the Baltic Front, the eight pilots with their own fixed planes are "Heroes of the Soviet Union"!

In such a situation, there was probably only one squadron in the Soviet Air Force! - Captain Pavel Mikhailovich Kamozhin was immediately sent back to Lithuania with his subordinates after receiving his medal in Moscow, and flew north to the new station, and the ground crew was moved to Grobina.

However, this is not "one big family", and the other two squadrons are also "starry"! Just like the deputy captain of the aviation squadron of the reserve of the two base camps and the leader of the first squadron, Captain Dmitry Borisovich Glinka: before the war, he participated in the Northern War, air raids on Romanian oil fields, after the start of the Great Patriotic War, he has already participated in 91 combat sorties, personally shot down 27 enemy aircraft, four collectives, "Hero of the Soviet Union"!

Among the 16 pilots of the two squadrons commanded by Glinka were himself, a total of five "Heroes of the Soviet Union", one of whom was his own brother - Lieutenant Alexander Borisovich Glinka, who shot down 17 fascist planes.

The other pilots all have a record of shooting down more than two enemy planes, and all of them have been awarded the "Order of the Red Banner"!

These two groups of pilots who are a bit "awesome and coaxing" are stuffed together because of a mission, and how to coordinate seems to be a problem, but in fact, there is no need for the higher-level commanders to worry at all: although they are the elite of the long-range fighter unit and different units are mobilized, they are all comrades-in-arms during the bombing of the Ploiesti oil field in Romania last year, and the younger brother of Sasha, who is affectionately called Sasha by Captain Glinka, the young Lieutenant Glinka, has just received his medal in the Kremlin with Captain Kamozin.

Captain Glinka had the highest rank and the most records of all the people, and he was awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" last year, and he was also the oldest and most experienced, and he became the undisputed acting leader of this "mixed brigade", and everyone else, including the freshly baked hero, "Soviet Eagle over Berlin" Kamozhin, was also convinced.

The mechanics were busy, the carts were bringing ammunition and fuel tanks, and the hangar was bustling with activity—four pilots had walked in together—a lieutenant, a captain, and two lieutenants, all with a glittering gold "Gold Star Medal" pinned to their chests.

Here came the Glinka brothers, Kamozhin and Oleg: Kamozhin's squadron was temporarily organized into the third squadron, which would have eight fighters lined up to the left of the hangar, next to the first squadron under the direct command of Glinka.

The hangar was a steel-framed structure with an open interior – and the mechanics complained about it: the cold wind would pour from beginning to end, even though it would be April. Save materials, there is a canopy above the head that does not need to be drenched in the rain and look at the stars, and the mechanics have complained for two days, which is better than in the field, although the fire prevention will be unqualified.

Fireproof? That was the pre-war standard, and how could there be the resources to build a sturdy partitioned hangar? That's good.

Just now, the pilots had a short pre-war meeting in the conference room, where Glinka and the others came to the hangar to determine the situation of the landline, and it was the old habit to talk to the mechanics about the situation of their landlines.

After a high-intensity sortie, each aircraft would have been more or less problematic, and this time the mechanics put a lot of effort into ensuring that each fighter was in the best possible condition.

Since it was estimated that the German air defense in southwestern Norway was mediocre, there was already a small airfield 10 kilometers north of Knaben that could have been exploited by the Luftwaffe - Air Force Commander Vasily Nikolayevich Zhdanov, Air Force Commander of the operation, ordered three squadrons of MiG-3 fighters at Grobina airfield on the Liepaja side to carry rockets and annihilate the possible presence of German fighters at that airfield five minutes before the bombing campaign began.

Strafing the airfield, if the airfield is not Luftwaffe, then from 24 MiG-3s to the south from low altitude attack the mine, and then rise to altitude to escort the return bombers.

"Kamozin, the side effects of your bombing of Berlin." Captain Glinka pointed to the 8-tube rocket launch nest that was being installed on the wings of the planes of the Third Squadron and said, "But it's okay, I guess the Luftwaffe doesn't have that much for us to share this time." ”

If the formation was lucky, it would cross Swedish airspace and cross the Oslo Fjord northeast of the Skagerrak Strait, approaching the southwest coast of Norway before being spotted by the Germans - provided that there were German radars turned on in that area. If so, the MiG-3 fighters of the Germans, who descended from an altitude and attacked the airfield from an ultra-low altitude in the face of the near land, would not have had time to take off!

Five minutes, because the bombers entered 3,500 meters from an altitude of 3,500 meters, the time difference would not have caused any problem of losing the suddenness of the air attack - unless the Germans were blind and deaf, they should have noticed a large formation approaching from the middle of the air.

For the bombers, the biggest difficulty would not be the surprise attack and bombing, but the return section - it is estimated that the entire Luftwaffe fighters stationed in southern Norway and even northern Denmark will touch the interception formation. At that time, the real test of the pilots such as Glinka will come, and the formation will face the frantic attack of German fighters!

Taking off from Grobina airfield, it will fly over the Baltic Sea, from Götland to Cape Hubrien in the south, then turn 15 degrees to the northwest, return to its original course north of the northern cape of Erland Island, fly non-stop across southern Swedish airspace and enter the Oslo Fjord, and soon enter the bombing route after landing again.

The return journey is simple - fly non-stop! Fighters disperse and shoot down any non-Red Army aircraft that dares to block the formation in the way, no matter what country you belong to!

"Even if there is a mosquito harassing the bomber formation, I will be beaten down!" This is Lin Jun's order to escort the fighter troops.

The two wings of Kamozin's plane and the cannons and machine gun access covers in the nose were opened, and three armorers were behind the nose, one standing on the ladder and two standing on the ground, and the three of them worked together to load the two 12.7 mm large-caliber machine guns above the engines with long chains - the armor-piercing incendiary tracer bullets painted red and black and the blasting anti-personnel bullets painted white on the top of the warhead were extremely conspicuous!

(Yesterday I said that there were more yards today, but I was going to break my promise, no way, one word - busy.) The renovation of the house has entered the final stage, spending money like water, buying furniture, electrical appliances, ...... But there is no "alas", because tomorrow I will go to get the marriage certificate, hehe, happy! By the way, try to ensure that it is updated every day, at least five days and four watches, and the New Year plus marriage preparations, and you will be busy flying fast, hehe. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )