Who is the number one ace in air combat in history? Undoubtedly, Germany's "ace of aces" Major Erich Hartmann, whose proven shot down record of 352 aircraft is unmatched (probably only his compatriot, the "indestructible pilot" Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel, can be compared to his compatriot and "indestructible pilot" Colonel Stuka: "Colonel Stuka completed 2,530 combat missions and destroyed nearly 2,000 ground targets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info includes 519 tanks (some sources say 530, enough to form five integrated Soviet tank armies!). ), 70 landing craft and more than 150 defensive positions, the battleship "Marat" (damaged the battleship "Red October"), 2 cruisers, a destroyer, and also shot down 13 aircraft (including the Lager, which was completely superior in performance). In total, he flew 600,000 kilometers in battle, dropped 1 million kilograms of bombs, fired 1 million rounds of machine gun ammunition, more than 150,000 rounds of 20-mm shells, and more than 5,000 rounds of 37-mm shells, and was shot down 32 times (several times deep behind enemy lines, which was very lucky). ）。 In early 1945, Rudel was awarded the Luftwaffe Joint Diamond Gold Pilot/Scout Medal and the Diamond Gold Air Force Ground Support Medal, the highest combat honor, as well as the 2,000 ornaments made of platinum below, and was the only recipient of the Golden Oak Leaf, Sword and Diamond Ornament on the Knight's Cross in Nazi Germany. ）！

If you ask which fighter unit is the most brilliant in history? Many people will tell you that it was the JG52 wing of the Luftwaffe in World War II - close to 11,000 aircraft! Hartman has been with this wing since August '42, and he and his wing have created two records that are absolutely unprecedented!

The JG52 was one of the first units to be equipped with the Bf 109G, and the BF109's piloting skills were as pure as fire, and many pilots had already accumulated enough combat experience in operations on the Western Front. The JG52 has its own characteristic: the black and white markings on the hood - the Soviet summer terrain is so well-defined that this livery scheme is only a sign of self-expression or self-exposure. But the pilots of the JG52 wing are even more indifferent to exposing themselves.

But now the German pilots met a fighter unit of the Soviet Air Force that was even more "self-exposed" than they were: from the first encounter in the early morning, the Germans clearly knew that the Soviet Air Force was not useless, and this time it was considered to have hit an iron plate! With the same excellent fighters and the same excellent pilots, the Germans faced an opponent who was completely different from the fighter pilots of France or the British Royal Air Force -- there was not the slightest "chivalry", and the pilots who had fought on the Western Front felt that last year's air battle was like a civil war with courtesies!

As long as the situation allows, the "air circus" in the war will hit the target in the air before stopping, and it will be a never-ending posture as soon as it comes up! This left the Germans with no choice, and the bloody competition in the air, and the "chivalry of the air" of the First World War was completely thrown away early on the morning of June 3 - either you die or I die!

All the fighters of the 109th Regiment made more than two sorties in one morning, and there was no time to repair the bullet holes in the planes -- because the airspace of air combat was relatively close to the airfield, many pilots entered the fierce air battle as soon as they went up to run out of ammunition, and they did not need to refuel when they returned to the airfield.

Sergei was already in the air for the third time, but there was only one wingman by his side - the order of sorties of the squadrons at the three airfields was completely out of order, as long as they were ready, whether they were two planes or detachments, they would immediately take off into air combat - the Germans seemed to be in the same situation, completely out of order, and enemy planes could be spotted in the air, and the airspace in this area had become purely a battlefield where two fighter units fought each other, and there were no other types of aircraft!

Sergei was very satisfied with his wingman - he had already shot down 5 opponents in two sorties, and two of the German fighters were still standard and accurate in the air, and such a record was obtained under the cover of himself! Sergei himself didn't count how many opponents he had killed, anyway, it should be no problem for him to reach 70 red stars on his landline: all the problems will be discussed when the opponent's confidence is destroyed.

"The Germans are also good pilots!" Sergey and his men knew that those guys with white heads and black striped heads were also very good, and they were much more difficult to deal with than the little Japanese and Finnish air forces! Every time he returned to the airport, he would ask the ground crew to count the situation of the planes coming back - the 109th Regiment had already lost almost half of its planes in two sorties, and it wouldn't be long before his regiment commander would become the squadron leader!

The 109th Regiment is the best pilots, and even if they are shot down, there will be a few who can return to the troops, but this kind of attrition makes Sergei, the regiment commander, worry in his heart - excellent pilots cannot be replenished overnight. The words of the captain have become a reality: the Germans' Second Air Force is really powerful, but he and his troops can only go down: the Germans are also fighting less and less, and their losses are much higher than their own!

The two Lager-5s climbed to an altitude of 4,000 meters, and fighter jets were fighting each other in the distance - today it is a death wheel that is difficult to stop for both the 109th Regiment and the JG52 Wing! You've got lucky and a lot of skill when you come out, but you're going to have to throw yourself into this wheel soon!

"Eagle 13, follow me! Fight the airspace in front of the target, hit hard! ”

"Understand the captain!"

Five kilometers away, two rags were engaged in a struggle with two Messersmit, and Sergei doubles were approaching at high speed with the throttle on the ground -- Red Army artillery on the ground was shelling German positions more than 10 kilometers away, and there were craters and burning black smoke from the destruction of vehicles everywhere below.

The Germans had not yet noticed that the "Red Ghost" was approaching at high speed - all the pilots of the JG52 Wing who could return to the airport alive after two encounters knew that the bright red fighter was not easy to mess with, and none of the Messesmitt could last three minutes in a solitary confrontation with it! What's worse is that the wingman behind it is also a wolf in the air: this is a pair of opponents that must not be provoked without absolute superiority!

However, there were also German pilots who did not believe in evil!

"Wolfern, left, Red Devils!" The German captain saw two lagers approaching at high speed on the flanks in the afterglow, "That's the Russian Sergei!" Shoot him down! ”

Shooting down Sergei would destroy the morale of the Russian Air Force - the German captain Gunse-Lal immediately made the decision to leave the opponent in front of him and make a sharp turn to get rid of the threat of the Red Devil first.

Gunther Lahr, Walter Wolfern, the superaces of the JG52 team in history, shot down 275 in one! Another crash record 137 planes!

"Watch out for the Red Devil's wingman!"

"Understood!"

Here, Sergei saw that the two German fighters wanted to compete with him regardless of the target when they had an advantage, and the Germans' skillful tactical movements knew that he had met a veteran, "Eagle 13, it's a veteran, beware!" ”

"Yes, Captain!"

This time, Kozhdub will not act separately from the long plane - to protect the tail of the regimental commander!

The four fighters divided into two teams and entangled in the air to start a big battle, trying to bite each other's tails, but for a while neither could take the advantage.

Sergey is not in a hurry, such a contest is not to see whose skills are better, but to see who makes mistakes first!

Suddenly, two rags approached from the flanks at high speed - the pilots of a large group did not want to let the regimental commander only show the chivalry: "group fighting" was the consistent style of the 109th squadron, and defeating the opponent was the truth!

The two Messersmitt had to turn at high speed to the left to avoid the incoming shells, and Sergei was not going to waste this opportunity - Rag dived down to the left and then turned at high speed to the right, just biting the tail of the German wingman!

300 meters! Pressing the launch button hard, the 23mm cannon and the large-caliber machine gun roared at the same time, and the dense bullets hit the tail part of the Messersmit, tearing the entire tail off!

There was no effort to beat the fallen enemy plane into the air, and the German long plane, which was even more difficult to deal with, was in front of it, and it was clung to it!

Sergei quickly followed the German plane's movements and manipulated the joystick, trying to put the German machine into the aiming aura, but the German machine did not give Sergei a chance at all!

Competing with a strong opponent is the dream of aces, and now Sergey has found an opponent worthy of his attention, and he must not let it go! But Sergei had no chance: the siege of the other three rags deprived Gonse-Lal of his chance to become famous all over the world - almost at the same time, two large groups of fighters and bullets fired from Kozhdub's plane, which burst into flames!

"Well done!" Sergei will not blame his subordinates for snatching the honor of shooting down the master from his hands, because he has always taught his subordinates - we are not lonely knights in the air, we are wolves in the air!

What tricks do wolves use to hunt them? The most powerful is of course the group attack!

There was a slowly descending parachute in the air below, which was supposed to be the German wingman pilot who had just been shot down by himself. The rags were in no mood to attack a pilot, who had no ability to resist - either to shoot down an opponent in the air and destroy the opponent, and the 109th Regiment did not bother to do such an immoral thing as attacking a parachute.

There was no sign of German planes nearby, and Sergei asked a large group of two planes to return first, "Eagle 13, take out your ability to hit ground targets and follow me!" ”

With a 30-degree dive angle, two rags pounced on the battlefield below from a distance of 3,000 meters. (To be continued.) )