With the temporary transfer of the commander of the Sergei division, Pokryshkin once again assumed the post of acting commander of the 1st Guards Fighter Division, and made minor adjustments to the troops. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Summing up the experience of the air battle in Minsk, each regiment organized one or two "squadrons of top pilots", which gathered about a third of the air combat aces of each regiment and served as safari missions in the "leisure time" of each campaign.

Lin Jun knew about Pokryshkin's decision -- the First Division was his hometown, and he had to report on any moves: Lin Jun did not support or oppose that very "knightly" decision, but only emphasized that once the situation required it, such a "top squadron" must not be separated from the overall operation.

However, Lin Jun still stressed that it is better that such a situation is still rare in the whole air force, and commanders should not just patronize to see how many combat heroes their units can produce -- just like the guiding opinions on sniper operations: advocating, but reminding all commanders not to engage in any "sniper competition," forgetting that the war depends on the whole to win.

"Safari" is a very morale-boosting style of combat formed during World War I, but very few pilots can enjoy this treatment. As a fighter pilot at heart, Lin Jun also likes this kind of tactic that can give pilots a lot of freedom, but at the same time, as a senior commander, he must control the promotion of this kind of tactic and limit it to the extent needed.

Some people are for it and some are against, there is a long history, and the first person to come out against this tactic may be the fat Goering (he was not fat at that time, twenty ace commanders who personally flew the plane into the air). -- In the latter part of World War I, he was resolutely opposed to that tactic, and he attached great importance to the effectiveness of the collective, and made a lot of complaints about the aces of a gang of men.

Obviously, the aces' achievements will skyrocket in the "safari", but at the same time, it may also cause other pilots to not get enough opportunities to fight, and the allocation of materials will also be unreasonable. This is not a good thing for the Air Force as a whole, or even for the war.

However, the first fighter division is already "tendentious", and the pilots are basically excellent, even if the organization of a few "top squadrons" will not have much impact on the overall effectiveness, Lin Jun can even agree.

Everything is based on the actual situation, this will be the most inexperienced front-line fighter regiment in the Soviet Air Force, and when there is no major action, it will basically send several planes to patrol every day: it is the same on both sides, and what is there to fight, whether it is in the sky or on the ground. The "safari formations" of the two sides in the air met unexpectedly, and a fierce battle broke out on a front of thousands of kilometers every day. As for fighter planes and attack planes, air raids, transport convoys, railway locomotives, and so on, there are countless of them, and most of these actions are "safaris."

It was under such circumstances that Alexei Solomartin and Lilia Litwiak were recruited into the "top squadron" at the same time, and volunteered to cooperate with the duo as a double plane. War can't stop love, and the two have already rubbed the spark of love in their combat life, so the combination of superiors agreed: the two-plane combination of two "Heroes of the Soviet Union" would be a nightmare for the fascist air force!

Lilia has 15 little red stars drawn on her landline, not counting her collective record, and Solo Martin's landline has reached 21 little red stars!

On the flanks and behind the two-man fighters, there were two more two-plane formations, apparently with the same idea as Solomartin - to take out the German bombers!

"The target is 6 aircraft, the height is 3000, and the speed is about 400. Attention, it's the Junkers 88! Solomartin heard the wingman's report clearly. Lilia is not only known as the 'Lily of Minsk', but also has an unofficial nickname of 'Airborne Radar': the little girl often finds targets before anyone else, and her ability to identify them is also superb!

Two rags pounced at high speed from the north side at a dive angle of 30 degrees!

With the engine roaring, Solomartin chose the most suitable angle of attack - the Junkers 88 has 6 MG81 aviation machine guns with an astonishing rate of fire, and if attacked from above, the twin MG81 reached a terrifying rate of 3,200 rounds per minute, and the bullets fired were no joke!

The air was already flying tracer bullets, and the Germans were maneuvering the MG81Z in parallel, and the dense bullets were shooting in the air like a raging storm!

Solomartin stared at the sights, and the Junkers he was staring at dived to the left - there was no time to get any closer!

Hold the cannon excitation machine steadily, and at the same time press the large-caliber machine gun firing button with your thumb! The plane roared, and golden shells rained down from the plane!

The 23-mm high-explosive bomb and the 12.7-mm armor-piercing tracer bullet instantly hit Junkers' "big flower room", and even bulletproof glass could not block such an impact, and the entire Junkers cab was splashed with fragments! Almost at the same time, two dense streams of bullets focused on the left engine of the target - dragging black smoke out for a while and then began to fall downward!

Without a long reminder, Lilia, who hit the target engine, swung the joystick to the left and pedaled at the same time, and the lager detached to the left at high speed!

At least 4 Junkers were falling, but what Lilia didn't see was that the other two Junkers dropped their bombs and turned to the right: the troops below were blessed, and the planes of both sides were right over the battlefield, and God knows who the Germans would hit with the bombs and the downing planes!

Those high-explosive bombs weighing 500 kg are not a joke, and whoever hits them will die!

But the pilots of the 1st Fighter Division no longer cared about this: fighters with monoplanes roared down from a height of 4,000 meters!

German fighters!

"Go in circles with German fighters!" The BF109 is extremely fast and can be at a very bad disadvantage in the first round if you climb high and fight against it!

Through the cockpit, Lilia saw about five or six German fighters in the sky, and apparently also noticed the movement on her side and was adjusting the course.

"Lilia, climb up to 3 o'clock!"

The two ragas climbed at a 20-degree angle at a top speed of nearly 600 kilometers and made a turn to the left at the same time.

Suddenly, the shouts of your own pilot came from the headset: "I'm Eagle 13, attention, attention!" The German fighter is not a Messersmitt 109! Not 109! Unknown model! It's very fast! ”

"It's the regimental leader!" Lilia looked to the right and saw the conspicuous fighter of the regiment commander a few kilometers away chasing a German fighter jet, and two German planes chasing after the regiment commander!

Regardless of the critical situation of the regimental commander, Lilia needed to concentrate on following the movements of the long plane - the two rags avoided the dive fire of the high-altitude German planes, and the dense tracer bullets grazed the cabin and swept away from a distance of less than 10 meters!

Kicking the rudder, Rag made a right turn at the limit of the aircraft's load - two German fighters were in front!

At a distance of 300, the Solo Martin plane roared, and a dense stream of shells and bullets instantly crossed this distance.

"Off!" Solomartin didn't have a chance to adjust the angle of his shot, and the target turned very quickly!

Hands and feet cooperate to prevent the target from escaping from view - although the shot missed a second ago, a few machine gun bullets still hit the wings of the opponent's wingman, and it is clear that his maneuverability has been affected to some extent.

Don't worry about Lilia behind you!

"Advance amount!" Just as this thought flashed through my mind, it seemed like an opportunity appeared in an instant!

Firing again, the landline trembled, and the dense shells hit the middle of the target! Before the huge explosive power of the 23-mm shell, the entire back half of the German fighter was torn apart and rolled in the air!

That's when Solomartin saw the target's appearance - "It's not 109!" ”

Apparently a star-shaped engine, the streamlined front fuselage is a cut thicker than the 109! The speed is very fast, I have increased the throttle to the maximum just now, and the propeller distance is also at high speed, but the speed of the German long plane is obviously a little faster than myself!

Disengaged to the right at high speed, and when I looked up, I saw that the wingman was doing somersaults, still in an arc shape. Solomartin didn't even think about cutting the course to the straight line where the wingman was leveled, as the textbook taught.

Solomartin was right—Lilia was right behind him, and a somersault drove the two German fighters that were catching up at high speed behind him, forcing the Germans to change their movements: if they attacked the Soviet plane, they would have to be shelled by the wingman!

However, Lilia did this at a cost: the plane became sluggish when the joystick was pulled, and the projection was much larger, and the Germans did not miss this opportunity!

At least two 20mm shells hit the wings of her plane, and when Lilia finished her somersault, she saw two holes the size of ping-pong balls in her left wing, and fuel was leaking!

But there was no time to think about the injury, and with a swing of the joystick to the left - the German plane was in front of him! Solomartin's fighter was caught in the middle, and in a matter of seconds, the maneuvers of the four fighters on both sides changed the situation again: on a course with an absolute thickness of 100 meters and a width of 300 meters, four fighters were stacked on top of each other!

Scrimmage! But that's it, Lilia didn't break away from the plane, because the tail of Solo Martin's plane was being bitten by a German plane, and she wouldn't break away until her lover was separated! The holes in the wings seem to be widening, and that piece of plywood is tearing under the winds of more than 500 kilometers per hour!

The first German plane was entangled in the three-barreled salvo of Solomartin concentrated the wing and began to fall, and in an instant, Solomartin's plane also suffered several shells, emitting black smoke! At the same time, Lilia couldn't think much about it, and pressed the cannon and machine gun firing buttons at the same time, and the German plane in front of her obviously didn't want to risk being bitten by the tail of the Soviet fighter that was stubbornly entangled behind her, and dived towards a low altitude and high speed!

"Alexei! How are you?! ”

The plane is still flying, and Lilia is very anxious!

"It's okay, the engine is almost reimbursed!" Hearing her lover's answer, Lilia's heart was half relieved.

The Solo Martin plane began to steer, and just as it was heading north, the engine stopped!

"I'm going to prepare for a crash landing, tell me the altitude, the speed! The dashboard is broken! ”

Solomartin was worse than he had told Lilia - his left leg was bleeding, and there seemed to be something wrong with the joystick, probably a tightrope problem! (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.) )