The fire was blazing, and everyone at the airport was waiting for the night flight to return. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The Info12 Rags, piloted by the best fighter pilots, have all been dispatched, and all anyone who remains at the airport can do is do a good job of showing the runway.

Landing at night is much more difficult than during the day, not only because of the location of the runway, but also because of the estimation of altitude - a mistake of 5 meters can be dangerous when the plane lands.

Sergey's plane was the second of the first take-off fighters to return to the airfield, and he did not deviate from the course, and the landing strip was clearly indicated by the bonfire lit on the airfield.

The plane landed cleanly, turned off the engine and jumped out of the cockpit, and the cold air outside the cabin made him sneeze a few times.

The mechanics came up to tow the trucks into storage, and Sergei said to them: "When all the planes come back, we will be here tonight, ready to take off before dawn, and all the people and planes who can be on duty must be ready." ”

Striding towards the tower, seeing that the pilots were still waiting, he glanced down at the luminous watch: "Except for the person who maintains the fire and the person on duty, everyone goes to sleep and gets up at 6 o'clock tomorrow!" ”

It was only 8 o'clock, but Sergey no longer planned to change planes to take off again: night flights were much more physically demanding than during the day, and they still waited for a big battle tomorrow. It's not a good thing that those young people are all here to make a scene, so go to bed when they should sleep. But he himself had to wait for two hours, at least after all the planes had returned to make a report.

Seeing that the girls were at the door of the lounge next to the command tower, Sergei paused: "Tomorrow will be very busy, go to bed early." With that, he walked up to the conning tower.

The mechanics who dragged the plane into the hangar found two small bullet holes in Sergei's wings, which appeared to be traces of a 7.92 mm machine gun bullet, but did not damage the structure and only needed to be filled and repaired.

An hour later, all the planes returned to the airfield, not a single one was lost, and Sergei, who got off the tower, had a short meeting of night pilots: in addition to him, there were 5 other people who had achieved results tonight, and Pokryshkin reported shooting down three twin-engine German planes in the air, and also encountered his own twin-engine night interceptors in the air, and almost misunderstood and attacked.

At that time, Pokresh King Kong piloted the plane into the combat airspace, spotted a plane flying diagonally from a distance of 1 km, and immediately drove the plane in pursuit. When the distance was less than 500 meters, he suddenly saw the target plane turn and pounce on a group of German planes, because of the angle and light, Pokryshkin could not see the target model clearly, but realized that it might be his own people, so he did not pursue further in a straight line.

Sure enough, it was his own Pe-2, and when it approached a distance of about 300 meters, the target launched an attack on the German planes, and tracer bullets identified themselves.

According to the pilots, the difficulty of attacking at night was much higher than during the day, which led to the fact that half of the pilots did not get the results of the battle - in fact, it was not true, and some pilots also had the results of damaging German planes, but they did not want to report it, and felt that it was not necessary.

Blind battles with black lights simply cannot prove each other what the air combat situation is, everything depends on the pilot's consciousness: wounded? I'm embarrassed to say!

Now the German army in the encirclement is in a difficult situation, more than 500,000 people! The encircled Germans themselves calculated that they needed at least 1,300 tons of supplies per day to be sufficient, and if all the horses in the encirclement were killed and fed, it would also cost more than 800 tons per day, and every drop of gasoline and every bullet had to be brought in from the air. The Luftwaffe transport department calculated that at least 1,000 Junkers would be needed to basically meet the needs of airlift, and this would only have about 750 Junkers 52s in service in the entire Luftwaffe!

The weather was the enemy of the Germans again, and there were finally a few days of fine weather, and the Luftwaffe had to do its best! To this end, Goering even mobilized all the planes that could be freed up in the country and could be used as transport planes to fly to the Eastern Front, participating in an unprecedented huge airlift plan.

Because of the complexity of the numbers of troops and superior units in the encirclement, and the fact that von Bock, who was far outside the encirclement, was a little beyond the reach of the whip, the German High Command appointed the commander of the 9th Army, Army General 1st Class Adolf Strauss, with full authority to command the encircled troops.

Lin Jun was wrong, Zhukov was wrong, and Chuikov was wrong - the Fourth Army was temporarily under the command of the Chief of Staff, and Adolf Strauss became the unified supreme commander of the units of the two armies in the encirclement. The main forces of the Ninth Army had retreated to the second line of the Minsk campaign, but Adolf Strauss was in the encirclement, and as the highest-ranking commander among them, Strauss was justified in this position.

Adolf Strauss is trying to protect the airfields he still controls, which are his best hope of survival, while commanding his troops to resist the multi-directional encroachment of the Red Army!

The Germans are already starting to kill horses and fill their hunger, but they can't kill them all at once, the ice and fog some time ago caused a large number of non-combat casualties, in fact, the troops are already slowly starving to death, trapped to death!

Sergei was right, the big battle was still to come -- in the next few days, the 1st Guards Fighter Division set a new record for the frequency of sorties by fighters of the Soviet Air Force!

Sergei and his subordinates not only set a sortie record, but the total record of the 1st Division continued to grow at a high rate in the exhausting sorties! When heavy snow fell on the Belarusian land again, Sergey raised his personal record for crashes to an astonishing 170 aircraft! Among them, on the 17th, he made four sorties in one day and shot down 11 planes!

The airlift of the Germans was constantly consuming the air power of the Soviet and German sides, and the Minsk meat grinder would turn into a desperate fight in the air! The Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses, and so did the Soviets - the fighter units on both sides did their best, and Sergei's troops lost more than a third of them in four days!

The fighting in the air is consuming the blood of both sides, and the German troops in the Minsk direction are getting closer and closer to the end like planes on both sides that are constantly falling in the sky! The time for the final assault is getting closer, and a war of annihilation is about to break out in the devastated Belarusian plain that is bound to go down in history!

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