Chapter 367: The Assault Begins in the Air (Part I)
That would have resulted in the loss of a lot of planes during take-off and landing, which was a serious dereliction of duty for the serious Germans, as had happened in the last Wehrmacht airborne landing on Crete, and after the Wehrmacht's vigorous rectification and summarization, and now with Kesselring, the commander of the Air Force, there were no accidents in today's take-off, and all took off smoothly.
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
After the formation of the air force, the German planes rushed towards their respective targets, and the target of the group was very clear, and the charts had already been issued to the air force commanders on the front line.
Hartmann was now the commander of the Air Force, and he didn't have to think about flying the planes himself, so he had to stay in the Air Force Headquarters of Army Group South and command the troops. This time, Hartmann's hands are more than 2,100 aircraft, which is enough for the strength of two full-fledged air forces, and there are 50 JU89 bombers, originally Germany had 160 JU89 that could be used for war, but 110 were divided between the North and the Central Army Group, and 50 were left to Li Mo, which is considered consoling, these 50 JU89s can be of great use, and now Germany's other aircraft, the combat radius is basically only 600 kilometers, and the airfields in the depth of the Soviet Union have no way at all, Now they'll be JU89's dishes.
"Report of the 1st Aviation Division of Army Group South: Our division has all taken off and is now flying over the Soviet border, and no Soviet aircraft have been found."
"Understood, the task of your division is to bomb all the airfields around Odessa, are the detailed tasks properly arranged?"
"Everything is deployed."
"Executed as originally planned."
"Yes"
The 1st Air Division of Army Group South did not have many bombers, 500 planes in the division. "BF109" accounts for 200 units, and there are 150 JU87 dive bombers and 150 transport aircraft, which is Aunt Juncker, of course, it can also be used as a horizontal bomber, but this bomb load is a bit tragic only 2 tons. Now it doesn't matter what the bomb load is, as long as you can fly, you have to load the bomb, even all the "BF109" are hung with two 250 kg bombs, no matter how big the target of the airfield, you can throw it down.
Of course, all the formations will have some unloaded "BF109s", whose mission is to escort bombers. Even if they put bombs. The same escort. In the event of an interception by Soviet aircraft. "BF109" will directly throw away the two aerial bombs on the wing, which is in the Soviet Union, and German pilots will not care whether the bombs blow up civilians or not. The "BF109", having dropped the bomb, would immediately accelerate to intercept the Soviet planes, over the Soviet border of Army Group South. However, five AWACS aircraft and more than 30 radars were deployed. As soon as the Soviet planes entered the detection range. All sorts of data from Soviet aircraft would be immediately reported to the Air Force Command, which would immediately arrange for an interception, which would take no more than five minutes.
Lieutenant Colonel Hansen for his bravery on the battlefield in Norway last time. He was awarded the Iron Cross of the 1st class, and his rank was also raised by one level, and now Hansen has the rank of colonel, and is the commander of the 1st Aviation Division of Army Group South, and Colonel Hansen is tasked today with leading a raid on a military airfield in Odessa.
Colonel Hansen with a large group of aircraft, thirty "BF109", fifteen Junkers bombers, and fifteen JU87 dive bombers, when Hansen's group just flew to the Soviet border, he saw a sudden flash of flames in Romania, orange ballistics flew towards the territory of the Soviet Union, some shells also had a long tail flame, the shells with tail flame were definitely German six-barrel rocket launchers, the firing distance was not far, only 8 kilometers, but that power and density, It is absolutely unprecedented, and the position under the fixed-point bombardment of a rocket artillery battalion, not a solid reinforced concrete fortification, has no hope of survival.
A few seconds later, there were countless explosion points in the Soviet Union, violent explosions with all kinds of broken scum flying all over the sky, the territory of the Soviet Union that was still clearly visible just now was instantly covered by all kinds of violent explosions, and some combustibles were also ignited, Hansen could not see the ground clearly on the plane, and in just a few seconds, the Soviet side was covered by gunsmoke, and the sleeping Soviets had absolutely no hope of surviving from this level of shelling.
It seems that the ground forces have begun to prepare for the shelling, Hansen sees only the tip of the iceberg, Germany deployed seven million troops in the territory of the former Poland, and launched an artillery bombardment on the border of 3,000 kilometers at the same time, the earth-shattering momentum cannot be described in words, the important thing is that the Soviet Union is still asleep, countless shells fell in their barracks, and how many of the 3.9 million soldiers deployed by the Soviet Union on the border can survive, it is really difficult to say.
Hansen did not have time to care about the artillery bombardment and steel torrent below, but to find a way to destroy the Soviet planes on the ground before they took off, of course, the air force command also considered when formulating the air raid plan, thousands of planes flew over the Soviet border at the same time, it was impossible not to be detected, and the result was that the army had the upper hand, and after the German planes flew together, they began to shell, in this case, the Luftwaffe was likely to lose the opportunity to sneak attack, from a sneak attack to a strong attack.
As the division commander of the first line, Hansen felt that the opportunity for a surprise attack was about to disappear, and hurriedly ordered all his "BF109s" to rush to the set targets at full speed, without escorting the bombers, and these "BF109s" who rushed to the set targets in advance must blow up the runway of the Soviet airfield as soon as possible, and be clear about the anti-aircraft artillery around the airfield.
Hansen was betting that the Soviet fighters had not yet reacted, there was no large-scale take-off, and it would not cause damage to his bomber group, Hansen took one of his squadrons "BF109" to attack the Odessa military airfield at full speed after giving the order, this airfield is a large military airfield on the Soviet border, there are nearly 200 Soviet planes alone, if these Soviet planes are allowed to take off, it will definitely be a big trouble for Hansen.
It is absolutely wrong not to think that Soviet planes were powerless against German planes. According to the current cost-effective calculation, the Luftwaffe made a special assessment, and the loss ratio of German fighters and Soviet fighters was 1:3.
Today's air raid Colonel Hansen intends to continue the glory of last night's quilt, strive to get more than 500 rounds of it, and must clean all the 500 rounds of cannons on the "BF109". Until the "BF109" runs out of ammunition.
The speed of the "BF109" exploded instantly, and the speed of the "BF109" soon reached 800 km/h. Odessa is located more than two hundred kilometers from the Soviet-German border airfield, and Hansen only needs fifteen minutes to reach the sky above the Soviet military airfield in Odessa.
"Huhuhu...... Whew......huhu"
Hansen's squadron swooped down as fast as it could to observe the situation on the ground, and Hansen was worried about Soviet anti-aircraft fire on the ground, but not a single shell was fired into the air as he flew over.
…… (To be continued......)
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