If the soldiers are unable to sleep peacefully between battles, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be greatly reduced - this is something that all commanders understand. So on the battlefield www.biquge.info commanders will try their best to create as comfortable sleeping environment as possible for their troops.

On the other hand, the opponent will try his best to harass him on the issue of sleeping, so that you can't sleep and can't sleep well! And night attacks are not only a trick to make you sleep unsteadily, but also increase the psychological burden of the opponent, and over time you will be under great mental pressure, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will inevitably be greatly affected.

Since ancient times, the tactic of night attack has been used by almost all military commanders, and in the forties of the 20th century, this tactic was frequently used by the air force, and the Soviet air force and the Japanese naval and land air forces can be said to have used this tactic most skillfully.

In the Pacific, the Americans will soon taste the power of "washing machine Charlie": Japanese pilots, who are viciously called "washing machines" by the Americans, often fly planes over the heads of US troops at night and then drop a small bomb indiscriminately -- the hot and humid environment in the South Pacific and the noise of bomb explosions are simply a nightmare for US troops who are not accustomed to the hot and humid environment!

The "washing machine" itself is also very noisy, and what is even more excessive is that "a washing machine" can harass you for hours a night, and a damn bomb will come down in ten or twenty minutes. I can bear it all night, but "Washing Machine Charlie" comes every three or five times, and it is endless, and the noise makes the American GIs go crazy!

And in the Soviet theater, the same tactics of night air raids were also vividly used. Unlike the Japanese, who generally used long-range bombers as jammers, the Soviet Union's main force for air jamming was the small single-engine Wave-2, an old aircraft that seemed obsolete at first glance in the forties. This kind of ******** with a wingspan of 11.4 meters and a length of 8.17 meters has a range of only 400 kilometers, a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour, a ceiling of less than 4,000 meters, and a maximum take-off weight of less than 900 kilograms.

However, the Bo-2 made its first test flight in 1928 and began mass production in 1930, and the large-scale mass production continued until 1953, with a total production of about 33,000 aircraft!

With 33,000 aircraft, a long production time and a longer service life, it is clear that the Wave-2 has its own successes.

Although the Wave-2 is simple in structure, it has excellent maneuverability, and if it enters a spiral stall, it only needs to completely neutralize the steering stick (release the steering stick) and the aircraft will automatically disengage from the spiral.

Now in the battlefield of the Great Patriotic War, the two-winged Wave-2 plays a role that cannot be replaced by other aircraft, and is used as a liaison aircraft, ambulance aircraft, night bombers (raiders), etc. As a liaison plane, it mainly flew to the guerrilla-controlled areas behind enemy lines, and sent medicine, communication equipment, and liaison officers to the guerrillas. As an ambulance, it will send the critically injured to the rear hospital; A large number of Wave-2s also formed night bomber regiments, which flew to enemy battle lines, airfields and other targets at night to attack and harass.

Although the bombing itself will not cause much damage, it will keep the enemy from sleeping all night. The Wave-2 operates at low altitude at night, and enemy fighters cannot attack at all, and ground artillery fire cannot track and fire, and opponents can often only stare dryly.

The most famous unit in history to use the Wave-2 was apparently the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Air Force, known to the Germans as the "Night Witches" through the gnashing of their teeth.

The Soviet Air Force had more than one night bomber regiment, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, and many other Bo-2 night bomber regiments. Attacking the enemy's camps, airfields, supply warehouses, and other targets every night has no destructive effect, but it has a powerful psychological warfare effect on the enemy by putting the enemy on alert every day and not being able to rest for a long time.

The shadow that now appeared in the field of vision of Gurov and the partisans was obviously a Wave-2, but the two pilots above were clearly not tasked with the Germans' sleep today, but rather the typical uninvited guests of the Christmas Eve celebrations.

The Wave-2 flies very slowly and low, but it is extremely difficult to shoot down! The minimum speed of the German night fighter is much greater than that of the Bo-2, and even if the Bo-2 is found, as long as the Bo-2 makes a turn to the side, the enemy's night fighter will inevitably rush in front of the Bo-2 and have to go around in a big circle to look for it again.

The vast majority of this "cat and mouse" game will end in the defeat of the fighter. Moreover, the Wave-2 flew very close to the ground, almost skimming the ground, and the enemy (its opponents were not only Germans. It is impossible for a fighter to fly so low. This would have been a wish in the upper echelons of the German Air Force that pilots would be awarded the Iron Cross of the 1st class for shooting down a Wave-2 (provided that they had been awarded the Iron Cross of the 2nd class or the EK2 Type 1939 ornament and had accumulated 5 victory points: 1 point for shooting down a single-engine aircraft, 2 points for shooting down a twin-engine aircraft, and 3 points for shooting down a four-engine aircraft). If it is shot down at night, the victory point is double. Obviously, the Wave-2 is as "precious" as a four-shot bomber in special cases! It can also be seen that the German army on the Eastern Front emotionally hated it. ）。

The Bo-2 also has a way of fighting by surprise against the enemy: turning off the engine when it is still far away from the target, relying on the good gliding performance of the Bo-2 to fly over the target, and when the German army hears the whistling of the wind-blowing line between the wings of the Bo-2, the plane is already above his head. After the attack, the Wave-2 starts its engine and flies away from the target.

The Wave 2 that will attack the airfield is using a "silent attack", the pilot dropped four 10-kilogram anti-personnel bombs on the improvised bomb rack under the wings, and the backseat machine gunner even took out a small bomb from the cabin and smashed it directly on the top of the airport hangar below with his hands!

This Wave-2 is clearly "fully equipped" and "modernized"! Because throwing bombs directly by hand by members of the back seat is the "standard way of dropping bombs" for night bomber units equipped with the Wave-2!

The bomb is dropped by hand, the hit rate can be imagined, the bomb is small, and the plane is still gliding! But a harassment is a harassment, and that's enough!

The pilot hurriedly restarted the engine, the Bo-2 had already flown out of view from an ultra-low altitude before the Germans could reflect it, a hangar at the airport was full of people, and the people who ran out of the club were a little messy, and the officers shouted loudly to command the emergency, I don't know how many people in the distance The Russians have begun to rob with fire!

(I drank yesterday and got drunk, but today I am busy with the activities in the unit, and I have been busy until now.) The altar Moutai brought by a friend in Guizhou does not have a headache when drinking, 52 degrees is like boiled water with a sauce fragrance, and one will drink high without paying attention. Oh, good wine, good wine! (To be continued.) )