Keeping the plane at an altitude of 800 meters, Lin Jun's plane dropped two flares as soon as it entered the sky over Badajoz Airport, and then piloted the plane to hover over the airport, dropping one every 20 seconds. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The airport was nowhere to hide under the blazing white light emitted by the flares, and seeing the neatly arranged rows of planes below, Lin Jun knew that he had made the right bet today!

Zaitsev's squadron's original targets were aircraft repair shops and tarmacs, and the squadron's 10 aircraft carried 200-kilogram incendiary bombs were handy for these targets. It can be said that the neatly arranged planes on the tarmac below made him "excited". The squadron was divided into two parts, four went to "burn" the aircraft repair plant, which had already turned several workshops with tin roofs into purgatory.

Zaitsev controlled the aircraft at an altitude of 200 meters, entering the attack line with an inclination of less than 5 degrees. Staring at the planes lined up in front of him, he pressed the cannon and machine gun firing buttons fiercely, flew to the middle of the target and hurriedly moved his thumb from the cannon firing button to the bomb dropping button. With the press of the bomb dropping button, a black flickering incendiary bomb fell to the ground, and exploded violently at the moment it hit the ground, and the huge fire mass and 2000 degrees of heat mixed with the incendiary agent inside engulfed everything nearby! The team behind him was doing the same thing, lighting up one fireball after another in the middle of the plane on the ground.

After flying over the tarmac, Zaitsev made a 180-degree turn, pounced back on the airfield, and continued to strafe the planes on the ground. The planes in a neat line exploded and caught fire after being hit by bullets and shells: they were all full of fuel and ammunition, which caused a chain reaction on the tarmac, like dominoes, one after another exploded and caught fire.

The people at Badajoz airport were overwhelmed by the flares, and the vast majority of them had not been trained to respond to night air raids and had no idea what to do now. After the planes in the air began to bomb and strafe, the people on the ground were even more chaotic!

But there were also very few calm people in the panicked crowd, and they ran to the location of the anti-aircraft guns. It's a pity that there is no longer a chance: half of the aircraft of the Sergei squadron are reserved for anti-aircraft fire, and now they are beginning to solve those anti-aircraft positions with bombs and machine guns.

In fact, all the anti-aircraft fire on the airfield is fired, and the threat to night attack aircraft is not great: how many can you hit by shooting an aircraft that passes by quickly under the cover of the black night sky? And with the illumination of flares, it is clear from the air to look down at the ground, this is simply a one-sided massacre.

Sergei himself was leading four planes to the airfield oil depot, and as four 200-kilogram bombs fell, a huge oil storage tank on the ground exploded violently, and the night sky was reddened by the blazing fire. Since the night attack could not carry out dive bombing, Sergei gave up the attack on the airport's underground oil depot, and even if it was attacked in the daytime, his 200-kilogram aerial bombs could not destroy the underground oil depot buried deep underground and protected by a solid reinforced concrete structure. However, the underground oil depot at Badajoz Airport is not large, and its ground fuel reserves account for 9% of the airport's total fuel, so even if new support aircraft arrive at the airport, they will also "settle" for a period of time due to lack of fuel.

Two other planes of Sergey's squadron dropped bombs on the airfield control tower, and after two violent explosions, the command system at the Badajos airfield was finished.

Lin Jun and Kobets, who were hovering over the airport, dropped the last 50-kilogram anti-personnel bomb at the airport, and then dived down and strafed two rounds. Seeing that the heat was almost over, Lin Jun decisively gave the order to retreat: "Attention all planes, I am the captain Andre, don't fall in love with the battle, return home, return home!" Attention all aircraft, don't fall in love, return, return! ”

Hearing the captain's call and looking at the crowd of people scattered and dodging below, the pilots finally pressed the machine gun firing button, "It's cheap!" "Turn around and return.

None of the 24 I-16s that took part in the night raid were lost, leaving behind them the devastated and blazing Badajoz airfield.

The process of returning home can be said to be "safe all the way", without any rebel fighters coming to intercept them. The command system of the Badajoz airport was destroyed at the first moment of the air strike, and by the time the air force commander in Seville learned of the air attack on the Badajoz airport, it was already half an hour after the end of the air strike.

Although the commander judged at the first time that it was a plane from Madrid, it was already beyond the reach of the whip, and it was too late to pursue. It takes 30 minutes to prepare for take-off at night, and the planes that attacked Badajoz are already almost in Madrid. In fact, even if the time came, the Italian officer stationed in Seville would not have sent his own fighters: first of all, his pilots did not know how to fight at night, and the strong combat effectiveness of the troops at the Madrid airport was already deeply understood. He could only rejoice: Seville was far from Madrid compared to Badajoz, and the Soviet planes had always had "short legs", so the air strikes did not fall on his head.

The landing raider group was warmly welcomed by the ground staff at the airport, and the "reserve" pilots in the raid group, who had not had the opportunity to participate in the station last time, were even more happy: they were finally no longer the ones who "took the medal for nothing".

Lin Jun deliberately lined up all the reserve pilots who did not take off into the air last time into the raid group, in order to make the cohesion of the group higher, and also to cheer up these reserve pilots. They are all good pilots, but they only served as "preparations" for a few days because of their work assignments, and they missed the big air battle, and now they are also pilots with actual combat records and actual combat experience, which is good for their self-confidence and future development.

Of course, the team members were clear and understanding of the arrangement of the team leader, so when Lin Jun asked someone to voluntarily stand up and participate in the receiving unit before the war, many comrades who had a record of shooting down several planes last time chose to join the receiving detachment, and they wanted to leave the opportunity for meritorious service to those comrades who had not yet achieved a record.

Lin Jun was very satisfied with the performance of the team members, and he knew that this unit already had a strong spirit of cohesion and collectivism, which was very important for a combat unit! Fighter flight units need to have to be heroic personally, which will give everyone an example to learn from; But the spirit of collectivism is more important in order to win the battle! A unit with this kind of spirit basically can't be dragged down or defeated!

Lin Jun, who got off the plane, urged the ground crew to immediately inspect all the planes, refuel and reload: he knew that from today onwards, the night sky in Spain would not be calm. Today's air raids are like opening a "Pandora's box," and the air forces of all countries will begin to use the dark night in Spain as a testing ground for training their ability to fight at night. In this way, the combat environment of the troops will be more difficult, and even at night it will be necessary to start guarding against the enemy's sneak attack.

Lin Jun's speculation was correct, and the day after the air raid, Goering, who was far away in Berlin, ordered the formation of a night battle unit of the "Condor". The "trump card" of World War I, now the commander of the air force of Nazi Germany, was furious about the losses caused by the night raids of the Soviet Air Force! The fighters and bombers of the two brigades that had just arrived at the Badajoz airfield were basically destroyed, plus the few planes that were originally at the airport, the whole 70-odd planes were completely destroyed and more than 50 were completely destroyed, and even those left behind were in tatters. In addition to the burned fuel on the airfield, the blown up command system, and other supporting facilities, even if Goering sent planes to the Badajoz airfield, the "vultures" would not be able to form an effective combat force in a short period of time.

What annoyed Goering the most was that he lost a large number of excellent German pilots and mechanics in the air raids. When the air raid began, most of these people were in the maintenance workshop and warehouse at the airport to help the Spaniards assemble and inspect the planes, and the noise in the workshop made it impossible to hear the sound of the engines of the air raid planes arriving over the airport, and these places were the first to be attacked by incendiary bombs, and as a result, none of the people inside escaped alive.

The plane can be repaired or built if it is destroyed, but excellent pilots and mechanics cannot be trained in a moment, and the damage caused to the Nazi Air Force, which is still in the early stage of development, can even be said to be a small disaster! And in the maintenance workshop of the airport, there are still a few large crates that have not had time to open, which contain the latest Bf109B numbered V3, V4 and V5 three prototypes, because the He51B fighters originally equipped by the troops are not at all the opponents of the Soviet-made Polykarpov I-15 and I-16 used by the opponent, so the V3, V4 and V5 equipped with weapons were urgently packed and shipped to Spain, wanting to complete the final test in actual combat, but I didn't expect to be burned into a pile of scrap aluminum before it was assembled! This would push back the time for the Bf109B to equip the troops by a full few months, something that neither Goering nor Hitler would allow to happen!

It's just that the wreckage is still telling them that they can only face reality.

Lin Jun, who had just returned to the airport, didn't know that he had pushed back the date of the Bf109B equipping the German army by a few months, otherwise he would definitely find someone to have a good drink to celebrate.

The telegram replied from Moscow the day before yesterday and contained a secret telegram: It was a top-secret telegram written by Stalin himself to Lin Jun, which stated that several Soviet aircraft design bureaus had designed several of the latest fighters, all of which were developed in accordance with the Mercedes-Schmidt Bf109 that appeared in the German army at the Berlin Olympics and a new fighter designed by Britain as potential opponents. The prototype is estimated to be able to fly at the end of this year or early 1937, and before the finalization needs to go to Spain for actual combat testing, this important task will fall on Lin Jun's head.

Stalin admired his subordinate Andrei very much on the development of a new fighter, because last year he had proposed to him to develop a new fighter with average speed, maneuverability and endurance to deal with potential threats from other countries. However, the comrades of the Central Executive Committee and the Air Force at that time were basically still in the joy of the I-15 and I-16 equipment units, and did not pay enough attention to Andrei's proposal.

However, Stalin still ordered the "Cheka" to do its best to find out about the opponent's new aircraft, and he believed that Andrei, the "genius", must have his reasons.

The "Cheka" also lived up to Stalin's expectations, and finally obtained the general technical parameters of the latest fighter nicknamed "Spitfire" developed by the German Bf109B and the British developed by the United Kingdom. And these two reports on the technical parameters, which were placed in front of Stalin and the members of the Central Executive Committee at that time, surprised the comrades who knew aviation technology: their performance was completely superior to the existing combat fighters of the Soviet army!