I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the Japanese also "welcomed" Tukhachevsky's arrival in their own way: just a moment after the new command was chosen, Tukhachevsky and Nikishev had not yet left the front line, and the whistling Japanese artillery shells began to fall on the Soviet lines. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After observing it with a telescope for a moment, the Japanese shells did not seem to be accurate, and the shelling was scattered, and they were simply firing blindly in the general direction.

"It's been two days in a row, and the original artillery positions of the Japanese are 50 meters lower than ours, so there is no real threat. Yesterday our artillery also taught them a hard lesson, these should be the heavy artillery of the Japanese, their mountain artillery positions have been destroyed by our artillery yesterday, it is estimated that the new arrival of support troops. ”

The briefing was given by the commander of the 149th Motorized Rifle Regiment, Major Remizov, whose unit was responsible for the front-line positions in this defense zone.

"Immediately let the observation machine in the back determine the position of the Japanese heavy artillery position, this threat must be eliminated."

Less than 20 kilometers behind the position, there was a newly completed field airfield, which was actually a flat meadow, a refueling truck, a tree root weather vane, and two P-5 observation planes stationed there. In order to protect the plane, the engineer comrades also built a mud shelter for it, and if a Japanese plane dared to attack the airfield, it would not be able to strafe it.

The blind shelling is not terrible, but it also makes the people on the position fearful, God knows if there will be a shell that does not have long eyes to hit their heads, which is a threat to morale, and it is estimated that the Japanese think so too.

The firing range of the Japanese artillery of the same level is basically inferior to that of the Soviet army, and the mountain artillery and field artillery positions with a short range are in the field of vision of the Soviet observation posts, while the Japanese army cannot observe the position of the Soviet artillery positions due to the terrain. After a week of intermittent artillery battles, the Japanese became honest and no longer harassed Soviet positions with suicidal shelling, and it seemed that reinforcements had arrived this time.

A Gies SUV drove quickly towards the airport, and after more than half an hour, a P-5 appeared in the air, circling near the line of fire from a height of 4,000 meters. With an eye in the air, it was the turn of the Soviet 122 and 152 mm howitzers to speak, and a sea of shells whistled over their own positions and smashed towards the Japanese heavy artillery positions 10 kilometers away.

Only two salvos were fired, and the Japanese artillery, which had been harassing intermittently, was dumbfounded, and the voice of the aircraft observer came from the intercom: "Well hit, all hit!" ”

Tukhachevsky was already in the headquarters of the heavy artillery regiment at this time, and although he was more than 300 meters from the artillery position, he could still feel the ground trembling. The salvo of large-caliber grenades on one's side is already an earth-shattering movement, and the current situation of Little Japan's position can be imagined!

P-5 bravely penetrated into the sky above the Japanese positions from the air to observe the destruction of the Japanese artillery positions, and the Japanese troops below were helpless against the Soviet observation planes at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, and their anti-aircraft guns were still in Qiqihar.

After the observer came back, it reported in the air: "I just thought that we were shelling the camouflaged artillery positions of the Japanese army, and there were only a few cannons, and the rest should be false targets camouflaged with wood." ”

"It seems that the Japanese army is just trying to find out the location of our heavy artillery position, and it is estimated that there will be a fierce battle tomorrow. How is the air defense of the positions prepared? ”

Tukhachevsky has already received reports that for several days in a row Japanese planes have come to strafe and bomb on a small scale, and now the Japanese positions have been severely beaten on their side, and their planes are estimated to be idle -- it is estimated that the forward airfield of small Japan is not far from here, and this will be there, otherwise with that P-5 here, the Japanese will not have a good time, and the entire depth of more than ten kilometers will be the bombardment range of their artillery.

The front is now in a stalemate, both sides are waiting for backups, and today's situation makes Tukhachevsky more confident that when all the troops are assembled, he will take the Japanese positions in one go and fight a beautiful encirclement and annihilation battle.

Commissar Nikishev on the side looked at his watch: "It's coming, the plane from Little Japan will arrive in 10 minutes, it was like this for the first two days, and the swallows behind are also about to arrive." ”

As long as there is an artillery battle here, it will not be long before the planes of the Japanese Air Force arrive, drop a few small bombs and strafe them for a while before running away, as if rehearsed by a director. Such a scene had already occurred four times in two days, and the Soviets had already taken countermeasures after suffering their first losses -- as soon as the artillery on this side returned fire, they would use a specific call sign by radio to call the Tamchag Burak airfield 120 kilometers away, and the 109th Flying Regiment, which was directly under the 57th Special Army, would send fighter planes to wait for the Japanese Air Force over the defensive line.

The group walked out of the bunker of the headquarters, and Tukhachevsky found an open position to see a possible air battle.

Sure enough, as expected by Comrade Political Commissar, Tukhachevsky saw through his telescope some small black dots in the eastern sky, which were Japanese planes.

"The swallows have arrived." Nikishev said, pointing behind him.

The comrades of the artillery regiment moved an artillery mirror, and they used this to see the group of aircraft in the distance more clearly

Tukhachevsky observed for a moment: "How can we have planes so fancy?" ”

Although the altitude is at least more than 3,000 meters, and the distance is more than ten kilometers away, after 30 times the magnification of the field of view, Tukhachevsky can still see that the leader is bright red, like a big target!

"It was the plane of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Major Sergei Ivanovich Grisesvets, commander of the 109 Flying Regiment, the ace of the first fighter of the Soviet Air Force, who has a record of forty individual shootdowns from the beginning of the aid to Spain to this day. Since he was transferred to the army at the beginning of last year, he has been painting his landline like this, and recently he painted a huge golden dragon of oriental mythology on his plane, which was allowed by Comrade Andrei, Deputy People's Commissar of National Defense, and we did not interfere. ”

Nikishev could hear that Tukhachevsky was a little dissatisfied with the pilot's ostentatious passage through the market, so he had to explain: This is the descendant of the "crown prince", and we can't do anything about him.

Unexpectedly, Tukhachevsky, who was still a little dissatisfied just now, actually showed a smile on his face when he heard his explanation: "No wonder, he is an excellent pilot, Comrade Andrei told me about him, when he was in Spain, he was the squadron leader under Comrade Andrei, a super-first-class pilot. ”

Now without binoculars, it is clear that the fighters on both sides of the east and west are already flying in the direction of the subject, and it is clear that there is going to be a vicious fight, and the position of engagement will be near the line of fire.

The Soviet troops on the entire front stood up and waved their flags and shouted to cheer for their war eagles, and the situation on the ground was even more lively than in the air. As soon as the two sides first clashed, some planes fell with black smoke, and some were even beaten into the air!

Tukhachevsky watched nervously at the battle in the air, picking up the telescope on his chest from time to time to observe. The planes of both sides had already been scuffled in the air, killing from an altitude of four or five thousand meters to an ultra-low altitude of one or two hundred meters, and the air was full of traces left by tracer bullets, and the ears were filled with the sound of machine guns and machine guns.

Suddenly, the fiery red fighter appeared in everyone's field of vision, and it was biting a Japanese fighter plane, and it shot at a position less than a kilometer away from the artillery position, and the airspace of the Japanese plane exploded!

"Well played!" Tukhachevsky also had to applaud the ace's excellent flying skills.

In other words, the battle in the air was over in less than ten minutes, and several Japanese planes hurriedly retreated, and did not chase after this, and formed a formation and circled around at an ultra-low altitude before returning home. Several pilots also opened the cockpit and poked their heads out to greet the people in the positions below, needless to say that today was another big victory, otherwise the pilots would not have been so interested.

The Swallows' cool behavior was warmly welcomed by the commanders and fighters on the ground, and not only did everyone cheer and shout at the whizzing fighter jets, but some even threw their hats into the air in a fit of emplace.

"These seem to be our latest fighters." Tukhachevsky has seen this type of fighter in internal materials, which is very different from the main fighters of several years, the I-16 and I-15.

"It is the latest Lager-1 fighter, and it has only been three months since it was reequipped in the army, and the comrades of the Air Force say that the performance is much higher than that of the original model, and judging from the results of several air battles, the main fighter of the Japanese is not its opponent at all." Nikishev said.

Tukhachevsky had just arrived today, and although he had already learned some about the situation of the 57 Special Army, he still had time to understand some things: "Return to Tamchagbulak immediately, and I want a detailed report of the whole army. Also, the day after tomorrow, I want you to be stationed in the new command headquarters, and I want you to establish a new command network within two days. ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander!" All the commanders on the side answered in unison.

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Last year, he heard that several military districts in the west had begun to replace them with new fighters, but there was no movement at all, and they were still using the original I-16 and I-15.

"The captain is the captain, give what you want!"

A day later, he received a call back from Comrade Andrei asking him to send a group of pilots and mechanics to Moscow for training for two months, just three months earlier the 109 Aviation Regiment was equipped with the first batch of 24 Lager 1.

Clashes broke out at the beginning of this month on the Haraha River, and little Japanese planes appeared over the front within a few days. As the only air force in the entire region, the 109th Regiment was immediately put into operation.

Sergei had long handed over his tactics to his pilots when he was in China to deal with little Japan, plus the latest fighter jets in his hands, and beat the little Japanese Air Force to the point of crying, and his own side of the lager only lost 2 planes, although he also lost 5 Yi 16 planes, but compared with the shot down of more than 40 planes, it was a big victory, and he also crossed the threshold of 40 planes in his personal total.

Forty planes, except for a few aces in World War I, who else can get such a record in such an environment now?! Sergei has indisputably become the first trump card of the Soviets.

But Sergei did not get carried away, and when his pilots congratulated him on the 40th shooting down record yesterday, he told them very modestly: "There are many pilots like me in the Soviets, and every pilot in the 1st Fighter Brigade of the Soviets Aid to Spain had flying skills like me, and I was just lucky." We also have a lot of good hands in our air force to aid China, not to mention Comrade Andrei, Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, and Comrade Andlupv, Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District, whose flying skills are better than mine. ”

Every time he talked about the battles in Spain and China, Sergei would be full of energy: "Defending Madrid will be when we are fighting against the best flying wing of the Germans, the captain rushes to the front every time, the pilots of the Germans are much more powerful than these little Japans now, but in front of the captain, they are as vulnerable as a group of stupid geese, that is the best pilot!" ”

To be honest, the "boasting" of the regiment commander is the same as the old three, and no matter how wonderful the story is, it is boring to listen to too many stories, and Sergei is very happy about it, and the pilots are used to it. Besides, for pilots who have not participated in combat, real air combat is always desirable, not to mention that the shining "Golden Star Medal" on the chest of the regiment commander is an honor that all pilots dream of.

Since Sergei became the commander of the regiment, the training of the 109th regiment was carried out in full accordance with the mode of real combat. While maintaining basic discipline, Sergei also allowed pilots to "personalize" their landline livery, if they were not afraid that they would become enemy targets in battle.

As Lin Jun's descendant, he got Lin Jun's consent when he changed his outfit Rag 1, he could paint his landline red, as long as he left a place for the Air Force insignia, and also gave Lin Jun's own unique "Golden Dragon Emblem" to Sergei, so that he could carry forward the fine tradition of the Chinese Air Force.

"In the future, I will only have fewer and fewer opportunities to fly on the front line, and the spirit of the First Fighter Group and the China Aid Air Force must be carried forward, Sergey, you must build your unit into another First Fighter Group!" This was what Lin Jun told him personally.

"Forty-two!" Sergei, who was returning, was talking to himself. (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.) )