One day in mid-March 1935, the Moscow Ceramics Factory received a production task directly from the Central Executive Committee, which was unprecedented in the history of the factory. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The "Top Secret" indication on the INFO briefs and drawings made everyone involved in the production feel the importance of the requested special products.

On the day of receiving the production task, the Moscow Ceramics Plant organized politically reliable and skilled comrades to set up a public relations group, and a few hours later detailed production arrangements were made, because the Central Executive Committee demanded that all products be completed within half a month.

After 5 days, the factory welcomed a group of important guests. They were a group of naval and air force officers led by Voroshilov, a member of the Central Executive Committee, and comrades from the military factories who came to assist in the production, and Lin Jun was also in this group.

What important products are going to be produced in the factory this time, so many people are laboring hard? The mission book and drawings indicate a "ceramic" bomb with a volume similar to a 500-kilogram aerial bomb, but weighing only a third! Of course, the bomb did not have a fuse, and the charge was 50 kg of secondary flour produced by the Moscow Flour Mill.

After Stalin established the naval and air force confrontation exercises, trouble ensued. Because an exercise is a drill, the results of an attack can only be judged and judged, and sometimes it is difficult to be convincing. Moreover, when the generals of the navy and air force sat down to hold a liaison meeting, they quarreled endlessly over the methods of research and judgment during the exercise. The reason is simple, if the Air Force wants to "bomb" the warships of the Red Navy, how many of your fleet will be shot down before the attack, and how can this number be determined? And how many bombs will fall on the heads of the comrades of the Red Navy from the planes that remain?

The meeting lasted eight hours, and as the commander-in-chief of the air force for the exercise, Lin Jun made a major concession: only 40 percent of the dive bombers could be considered to have flown over the target. You know, this was on the premise that the battleship was not accompanied by an aircraft carrier, and that 60% of the attack aircraft were shot down by its own formation, which proved to be an "impossible mission" in later wars. And the number of anti-aircraft guns on warships in 1935 is not comparable to the anti-aircraft firepower of warships in the late stage of World War II. But in order to convince a group of veteran admirals to lose, Lin Jun could only give in. In terms of the total number of attack planes, Lin Jun also made concessions, only using the attack aircraft group of two large aircraft carriers on his side as the standard, and in 1935, it meant that Lin Jun had about 110 dive bombers and torpedo planes in his hands, and only a pitiful 40 planes capable of attacking.

In the ensuing meeting, the Air Force and Navy began to argue again about how many bombs could hit. Stalin, who came to inspect the meeting, was furious: "Since our naval comrades have shot down 60 percent of the enemy planes, let all the comrades on the surface of the warehouse go into the cabin and hide, and the warships only make evasive actions and bombard them with live ammunition with special bombs that are not lethal!" ”

But the admiral of the navy said: This will still destroy the weak links on some warships.

"If you break some of the pans and cans, you can go to the shipyard and fix them. The cost of repairs is specially approved by the Central Executive Committee! Stalin was the final word.

The meeting finally decided that the "bomb" used a ceramic shell, charged with striking flour.

Air Force comrades reacted: The latest light dive bomber will not be put into service until next year, and whether it can be replaced by the I-16 this time?

Despite the opinions of the Navy, Stalin agreed to the proposal of the Air Force. The reason Stalin pointed out is very simple: this exercise is to simulate the preparation of a war in three to five years' time, when we will have dive bombers with very good performance, and this comrade in the navy knows very well, because you also have aviation and know about the development of our aircraft. Moreover, the development of the aircraft carrier will begin immediately, and it will be a few years later at the earliest, and it will be possible to replace the existing dive bombers with the high-speed I-16. In addition, the I-16 could have been used as a light dive bomber, so we built some "500" kilogram ceramic bombs that weighed less than the standard and were about the same size.

Of course, the contents of this liaison meeting and the last meeting made by Lin Jun on improving the direction of army building were classified as first-class top secrets. The whole process of the exercise was also top secret, and it was absolutely impossible for spies of other countries to detect it -- this was a decision made by Stalin.

"Alright, comrades, go and get ready. At that time, I will go to the fleet with other comrades of the Central Executive Committee to observe the exercises. ”

"I'm sorry, comrades in the navy, you will all be" white rats ", you must be very white! Lin Jun was very happy and thought to himself.

In the following time, the generals of the air force and navy were busy.

The navy has carried out a "major refit" of the warships that will participate in the exercise: it has removed some protruding parts that are not very important and have fragile structures, and has also laid sandbags on the weak parts of all the warships' steel plates to prevent accidents under the attack of "ceramic" bombs.

As for the Air Force, the leaders of the various aviation divisions showed a high degree of enthusiasm and temporarily lent their best pilots to Lin Jun. A week later, Lin Jun and more than 100 other pilots rushed to Murmansk, and the improved I-16 was shipped directly from the aircraft factory. All of them began to train with great intensity to attack navigation targets. Three days before the date of the exercise, Lin Jun decided on 43 pilots who would attack with him, and as his wingman was Andlupf. More than 60 other planes flew without bombs.

As for the configuration of the aircraft model, Lin Jun played a clever trick: although he knew that the actual attack effect of the battleship with a dive bomber would not be very good, in order to make the visual effect better, he decided to use the Yi-16.

On the morning of April 16, 1935, Stalin and members of the Central Executive Committee arrived in Murmansk and boarded the battleship "Marat", the flagship of the Northern Fleet. Subsequently, the battleships "Marat" and "Frunze", accompanied by more than 20 escort ships, sailed out of the port and headed for the predetermined sea area.

At 2 p.m. at the Murmansk airport, all 110 IL-16 fighters had already started their engines, took off from three runways at the same time in the form of two planes, and flew toward the Barents Sea after completing their formation in the air.

At 3,500 meters in the air, the No. 001 aircraft piloted by Lin Jun has been flying at the front, maintaining a cruising speed of 240 km/h, and smoothly leading the group to fly to the destination.

"I hope this is my last exercise, and the world will not be calm again from next year." Lin Jun was thinking.

An hour later, a report from the intercom came from the detected planes that had been dispatched in advance, and that they had spotted the fleet. The squadron leaders of their own formations were informed of the location of the target, and the planes of the entire nine squadrons were divided into three groups, dispersed according to the predetermined plan, and each chose its own route and flew farther and farther.

More than 10 minutes later, Lin Jun had already discovered the fleet in the sea below at 1 o'clock, more than 30 kilometers away.

"All pay attention, according to the predetermined plan, cooperate with the fleet to withdraw from the enemy five thousand meters away, and attack the fleet to attack!"

At this time, the fleet on the sea had also spotted the air swarm, and a terrible air defense siren sounded from the siren. Unlike the usual exercises, all the personnel of the anti-aircraft artillery positions did not take their places, but entered the cabin as quickly as possible.

The whole fleet began an S-shaped anti-aircraft maneuver.

Stalin in the command room of the armored bridge of the "Marat" was using large binoculars to observe the direction of the "enemy aircraft" through the thick bulletproof viewing window.

"Strange, why is the fleet so small, less than 50 aircraft, what is Andre doing?" Stalin found something strange.

At this time, the voice of the air defense observation post came from the intercom in the ship: "The enemy aircraft is located at 12 o'clock in azimuth, at a distance of 5000, at an altitude of 3000. It was determined that the downed plane had returned home. ”

The admirals in the command room were very nervous, because it was absolutely uncomfortable to be "smashed" and not be able to fight back. But they also know that the "shootdown rate" of 60% is already very high, and the following can only count on the ability of the captains to operate the ship.

Suddenly, the intercom came again: "At 6 o'clock, enemy planes are diving towards our ship!" The voice was tense and unexpected. Because that was the direction of the sun, the "enemy aircraft" roared down under the cover of the sun.

When Lin Jun formulated the attack plan, he divided the 44 planes into 3 attack groups, and only divided 3 two-plane formations to attack the auxiliary ships, and prepared 18 planes for each of the two battleships to "take care of". And the planes attacking the battleship attacked from three different directions.

Now Lin Jun's goal is the flagship "Marat". In order to ensure the hit rate of the bomb, Lin Jun chose a dive angle of 70 degrees and swooped down on the "Marat" below from an entry height of 3,000 meters. Behind Lin Jun, Andrupf also took the same dive angle as Lin Jun.

The plane made a terrible sound, and as the speed became faster and faster, the hiss of the high-speed air flow became more and more thoughtful, which strongly stimulated the pilot's nerves. Lin Jun felt his adrenaline rush in secretion, which made him feel very excited.

The red altitude warning light flashed, which told the pilot that the plane was below the altitude of 1,000 meters for bombing. Lin Jun ignored it, but continued to dive, firmly putting the aiming cross ring in the middle of the hull of the "Marat".

When the altitude was almost 300, Lin Jun pressed the bomb dropping button fiercely, and the ceramic bomb fixed under the belly of the aircraft broke away from the body and roared down. Pulling the joystick up violently, increasing the throttle to the maximum, the huge overload pressed Lin Jun's body on the seat, and the Yi-16 slowly raised the nose of the plane, and the plane was pulled up only a few dozen meters away from the mast of the "Marat". At this time, Lin Jun saw that Andlupf behind him had just raised the nose of the plane.

"Well done!" Lin Jun said to Andlupf psychologically. You must know that at that time, few pilots dared to drop bombs at such a low altitude.

Lin Jun didn't know that the people in the armored bridge of the "Marat" just now had been taken aback by him! The two planes, which diveted to an altitude of 300 before dropping bombs, also tested their nervous endurance. And they watched as the two white "bombs" smashed into the warship at a rapid pace, directly hitting the No. 2 turret and the lower part of the bridge, making a "crisp sound", and at the same time raising a white fog, surrounding the entire front of the warship.

In less than five minutes, all the attacking aircraft that launched the attack had dropped their bombs. Of the 44 "bombs" dropped, 25 hit, the rest missed. Of these, 12 were hit by the "Marat", 10 by the Frunze, and the other 3 were smashed on an unlucky cruiser, because the six pilots were all eyeing this third piece of "fat". Interestingly, the captain of the cruiser "Red Caucasus" was none other than the later famous Marshal Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.

Ten minutes later, Lin Jun flew over the fleet.

"Hehe, if it's a real guy, if you still have combat power, I'll write your name upside down!" Seeing the several capital ships of the "White Flower Flower" below, Lin Jun really wanted to laugh.