The 109th Regiment has now been used as a "universal fighter" unit, and the fighting on the western border of Volkwisk has entered a white-hot stage, and all the support that can be obtained is urgently needed by the ground forces! The fierce battle between the Stalinist eagles and the Luftwaffe greatly boosted the morale of the ground troops, and more importantly, the low-altitude strafing launched by the cold and cold against the German troops -- every dive of the Lagers would make the fascists lie on the ground for a while, because the pilots of the 109th Regiment were not only first-class in air combat, but also good at dealing with ground targets!

Instead of targeting the Germans on the front line, Sergei and Kozhdub crossed the border and fired wildly at the Germans on the Polish roads - it was worth more to take out a German truck and destroy a small oil storage site than to shoot at the Germans in the strafing position!

Having run out of ammunition and returning to the airfield, in the air Sergey saw a squad of fighters landing at the Volkovysk airfield, "Reinforcements are finally coming!" ”

This is a lager group, about 30 fighters landed in turn, Sergei in the air saw that as soon as the plane landed, ground crews went up to meet it, refueling trucks were already busy refueling on the tarmac, and most of the pilots did not even come out of the cockpit - this unit was always ready to fight. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Finally, it was Sergey's turn to double planes, and immediately after landing, a ground crew ran up, and the crew leader shouted at him (no, no, the airport is very noisy. "The regiment commander, a brigade of support aircraft, all from Moscow for a long time!" ”

The leader of the group reported to Sergei about the situation: 36 Lag-5s, transferred from the Air Force of the Moscow Military District to the Western Front by order of the Supreme High Command, arrived via Smolensk and Minsk. The order given during refueling in Minsk was to be subsumed into the sequence of the 109th Fighter Regiment under the command of Sergei. All the pilots have more than one year of experience in flying Lager fighters, and although they have no actual combat experience, they are quite elite.

After accepting the command, Sergei temporarily ordered the pilots to rest on the tarmac -- there was a "big-eyed" indication that there was a 20-minute warning time at the airport, and there were transport planes in the sky, but when there were patrol planes and observation posts on the ground, it was basically impossible for the Germans to sneak attack from a low altitude, and there was no need to be so nervous.

Sergei is the god of the air in the hearts of the newly arrived pilots, and the sudden voice of the airport command on the radio has boosted the morale of the pilots!

"Comrades, our heroic regimental commander Sergei has shot down 11 fascist planes today!"

The record of the first ace of the Soviet air made the entire airport boil, and today there are still many pilots who have made great gains, and basically all of them have a record of crashing alive! But the regiment did not have time to report on the merits of the battle, and the regiment commander's results were still counted by the pilots, and Sergei only laughed at it - he didn't care much about how many battles he shot down: what he valued was whether the whole regiment could defeat the Luftwaffe offensive.

For an hour, a whole hour on the airfield there was no battle alarm - Sergey did not send any more fighters in this hour, the boys needed to rest, and the intensity of the battle consumed a lot of their physical strength.

But the absence of alarm for such a long time made Sergei a little uneasy: "The Germans are also waiting for reinforcements? ”

Officially, JG52 is not iron-clad, its losses are greater than that of the 109th regiment, and if there is no "truce", it will be fought out! The 2nd Air Force was deploying forces to support the JG52 Wing, but because Army Group did not want to turn to Berlin for support, it was unable to obtain enough aircraft for the time being.

"Ivan, it seems that I can't fight today."

Kozhdub nodded: there are still a few hours before sunset, but today's daytime fighting is over: he survived and endured the most difficult day. For most of the day, Kori Dub was already accustomed to air combat, knew how to shoot down opponents in the air, and how to survive air combat!

The battle in the sky during the day is over, Sergei and the pilots have recovered their strength after a simple late lunch, Sergei will not be so idle: the army at the front is desperate, and the 109th regiment cannot nest behind as a spectator!

"Ground crew, all the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd squadrons will be loaded with solidified ****** at one moment, and all the new four squadrons will be loaded with anti-personnel bombs!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The whole airport is busy again - the Germans are going to be out of luck!

Such an air attack on the enemy would attract the Luftwaffe, and the "truce" would end. Perhaps it will be difficult for the Germans to understand for a moment why the Russians broke the "calm in the air" - this did not happen at all on the Western Front last year, but there was a tacit understanding between the two sides.

Sergey doesn't care about that - he has some hunch that he will have to change the airport in a few days, and he will give full play to the value of Volkovysk Airport: no fighter will let go of any fighter, how can there be a "truce and rest"?!

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While Major General Kondlat-Semenovich-Melnik was still cleaning up the battlefield at the barren grass stalls, the 3rd Regiment of the 53rd Independent Cavalry Division adopted the tactics of rapid assault and surrounded the Tomasovka garrison occupied by the Germans from three directions, southeast, north, and south.

Before the arrival of the division commander and the follow-up troops of the third regiment, the cavalry commander personally cut off the heads of 23 prisoners in one fell swoop, not to mention the red-eyed Cossack lads under his command! -- After seeing the situation clearly, Melnik not only did not come up with military law to deal with the cavalry commanders and soldiers who had seriously violated military discipline, but instead slashed two SS infantry lieutenants with a grim face and a sword that had been specially left behind - the cavalry division commander, who was usually very personable, would have become an angry avenger completely!

The location of the cantonment point was a small town with more than a thousand Ukrainian civilians and more than fifty Red Army soldiers, and after the recapture of the three regiments, the Cossacks found only 17 alive! This was not an atrocity committed by SS cavalry, but SS infantry!

The Cossacks were outraged, and if it weren't for the need to get information from the mouths of German officers, they would have hung all the Germans from behind their horses and dragged them alive! The fascist SS slaughtered the entire inhabitants of the town, not sparing even the children, after leaving behind 17 adult Ukrainian men! - Those 17 were specially left to bury the bodies!

While reorganizing the defense, the Cossacks gathered the bodies of all the victims in the town, and after taking photographs as evidence, the Cossacks used all the tools they could find to dig huge graves for the victims.

Standing in front of the corpses of slaughtered civilians lined up in rows, Melnik addressed the Cossacks under his command: "Comrades, I don't want to say anything more, just one sentence!" The 53rd Cavalry Division will no longer accept any fascist surrender, we don't need prisoners, we have to make the fascists pay tenfold, hundredfold! Revenge for the dead compatriots! ”

The sword is unsheathed! "Revenge! Revenge! Revenge! The voice of anger resounded throughout the earth, and the boys' eyes were red, like the furiest roar of a vengeful tiger!

The fierce Cossacks treated the bodies of the dead as if they were their own relatives, and carefully lowered them into the pit one by one, as if they were afraid of hurting them.

Melnik saw a soldier holding the body of a child in his arms, and the young man kissed the child's face, babbling on his lips. The warrior had two small rag dolls in his hands, and he put one of them in the sheet that wrapped the child, and the other blood-stained rag doll into his arms: "This one is dirty, give it to uncle." Sleep well, Uncle will avenge you. ”

Tears unconsciously rolled in Melnik's eyes: from today onwards, his troops will be a real army made of steel! Walking silently in front of the long burial pit, the Cossacks had stopped shedding tears and gently and silently put the remains of their loved ones into the pit.

"Comrade division commander, the prisoner has already been explained." The staff officer ran to report to Melnik. Melnik was silent for a moment after listening to the debriefing, "Bring all the captives and cut them down!" ”

Now that the purpose has been achieved, there is no need for these crumbs! Military? Blood debt and blood repayment, as long as he can avenge his compatriots, Melnik no longer cares! He will report the situation here, and the responsibility will be borne by himself!

If Stalin and Lin Jun, who were far away in Moscow, had known about what was happening here, Stalin might have disciplined Melnik, but it would never have been very severe; What will happen to Lin Jun? He will award Melnik a medal! Those German SS soldiers were no longer people, they were beasts! Fascist beast! There is no qualification to be a prisoner of war at all! The only way to deal with a beast is to use the beast's way!

The sky was getting darker, and the breeze blowing from the great plains of Ukraine blew away the smoke from the woods. The soldiers in charge of burying the remains of their compatriots stood neatly in front of the freshly turned earth, and the remains of 1,258 of their compatriots were buried underneath, as well as the last shred of mercy of the Cossacks towards the enemy.

"Compatriots, we will fight until the day of victory in the war, avenging you with the blood and lives of the enemy, we swear!" The Cossacks took an oath on the day they joined the glorious Red Army, and the soldiers, communists and Komsomol members swore an oath to the military flag, the party flag and the regimental flag at the moment of joining the party and the regiment, and today they are taking an oath to their compatriots who died!

The 53rd Independent Cavalry Division will fight bravely for the party, the motherland, and the people to completely eliminate criminal fascism! (To be continued.) )