The Kwantung Army Command believed that the proposal of the Second Air Force was within the authority of the Kwantung Army Commander and was a tactical means to defend the border, but the General Staff Headquarters of the base camp did not consider it to be a tactical means. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The base camp was worried that the bombing of the deep Mongols would make the scale of the war difficult to control, and that it might develop into a full-scale war in Manchuria, that is, a war that would affect the war of aggression against China, which was not allowed!

According to the military attache in Moscow, the Soviet Union has sent a steady stream of reinforcements to the Haraha River: the opponent is well prepared, and the Soviet Union is not as "vulnerable" as originally expected.

What made the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese army headquarters most uneasy was that Moscow was carrying out propaganda on the war with great fanfare, and it was Tukhachevsky, known as the "God of War," who commanded the Soviet troops -- this made Prince Zaihito Miyaya, the chief of the General Staff Headquarters, most uneasy.

Zairen knew that Tukhachevsky had been purged in two years and relegated to the Far East as a warehouseman, but he did not expect that Stalin would reactivate this powerful general.

"Gentlemen, Stalin put aside the old contradictions, and the Russians are thinking that they must win this battle." These are the words of Zai Ren and his subordinates during the meeting.

And the news that made the General Staff Headquarters uneasy was endless: the Russians also sent two Deputy People's Commissars of Defense, two commanders of arms and one deputy commander as members of the "Tushi Staff Regiment", which included not only the Spanish heroes and the "Tsaritsyn Artillery King", but also the Andrei who caused heavy losses to the North China Dispatch Army and the Imperial Navy in the East China Theater!

Moscow made a high-profile propaganda that the Japanese knew that this was not just a momentum, but also a build-up to Stalin's successor, which was rumored at the top of the Soviet Union, and that the Russians were bound to win this battle.

Stalin's dispatch of his first cronies to oversee the war is enough to show that the Kremlin now regards the war in Nomenkhim as a top priority, and in view of this, Jae-in believes that it is safe to control the situation at the level of a border conflict.

On the night of the 26th, the General Staff Headquarters sent a telegram back to the Kwantung Army: In the border disputes in western Manchuria, the enemy army should be routed within the territory, and every effort should be made to avoid the expansion of the situation, and it was not allowed to bomb across the border. In order to strengthen operational liaison, Special Liaison Officer Arimanaka Sasa took a flight to you on the 27th.

"Bastard! A bunch of cowards! ”

General Kenkichi Ueda, who received the callback, was furious about the attitude of the General Staff Headquarters: "The Kwantung Army is the flower of the imperial army, and after two years of preparation, it is necessary to compete with the Russians, and now there is such a good opportunity, but the bastards who only know how to hide in the office have to endure it!" As soon as he hit, he cowered, how could this be the emperor's soldiers! ”

"Commander, this time the Russians sent their first general, Tukhachevsky, we have to take this opportunity to have a good fight with him, so that the Russians know that our Kwantung Army is powerful, we are not the Koreans who can only suppress bandits!"

The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, fanned the flames on the side, and he had always believed that the defeat at Lake Hassan two years ago was the result of the uselessness of the North Korean army.

"Judging from the previous encounters, the Russians' infantry is no match for us, and their honor is only air power. As long as the surprise attack destroys their air power, the ground war will be in our favor! ”

The two in the command hit it off and threw the instructions of the staff headquarters behind: the Kwantung Army has always had a big fist and a thick neck among the Japanese factions, and it is not the first time that they have disobeyed orders, which is also a tradition.

"Isogu-kun, call Dalian and ask them to hold that Youmo behind."

"I will ask Dalian to take him to have a good tour of Dalian, and ensure that he will not be able to leave for a few days even if he arrives in Dalian."

Kenkichi Ueda wrote another order by hand, "Send the chief of the war section, Masashi Terada, and the combat staff officer, Hattori Nakasa, to take a plane to Hailar at dawn tomorrow morning, hand over this order to Lieutenant General Toru Saga, and urge the Second Air Force to fight quickly." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander!"

On the 27th, he received an order to be delivered by "airplane express" for the sake of secrecy, and Totsuji Saga was extremely excited. The telegram was written by the senior general himself: Our army has made up its mind to destroy the Soviet air base in Outer Mongolia, and your unit will seize the opportunity to attack the flight bases near Tamchag Burak, Sambes, and Tanghe Ayila and destroy all enemy planes.

On the other side, Suzhong Zuo was warmly welcomed by the officers of the Kwantung Army as soon as he arrived in Dalian, and he visited famous places everywhere, and at night was a luxurious banquet and ball, and he was very happy to have fun, and he still regretted not coming to Manchuria for business earlier, and it is estimated that he will not be able to go to Xinjing (Changchun) tomorrow.

On the same day, the Second Air Force will rush out and make all-out surprise attacks on a total of eight airfields at the three Soviet aviation bases. Tetsuji Saga was vengeful, and this time he pressed the old Ben on the ground: a total of 137 aircraft, 47 heavy bombers (Japanese names), 10 light bombers, and 80 fighters. Leading the team will be the commanders of its three flying brigades: the 7th Flying Brigade Commander Treasure Temple and the 9th Flying Brigade Commander Shimono will lead the bomber formation, while the 12th Flying Brigade Commander Nagashi will lead the fighter formation.

This was the first large-scale air raid by the Japanese since the Battle of Songhu, and Tetsuji Saga and his officers and pilots were full of ambition to eliminate the threat of the Soviet Air Force in one fell swoop early tomorrow morning.

At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 28th, at Hailar Airport before dawn, the engines of more than 100 planes made a huge roar. The commander of the 7th Flying Brigade, Major General Takakuji, wore a flight suit and got into the cabin of the Iraq-100 heavy bomber. After checking the condition of the crew, he pulled the lever and took off.

Twenty minutes later, the formation over Hailar was completed, and it flew southwest in a huge diamond shape: the fighter group at the front, the heavy bomber group at the back, the light bomber group, and finally the fighter group at the rear.

The sun had risen, and the golden sunlight shone brightly on more than 100 planes, and all the Japanese pilots were excited, in their opinion, the Russians were doomed this time!

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If these 137 planes were really allowed to break through the airfield without warning, it would have been a devastating blow for the Soviet Air Force in this area, but would Yakov have been unprepared?

The news of the cross-border air raid on the 26th had already been learned when Lin Jun arrived in Abakan on the 27th, and Stalin wanted his love to know the situation of the battle ahead at any time, and the news was notified to Abakan by several telegrams. When Lin Jun learned the news at the station, he immediately asked Gusev to send a report to Ulaanbaatar: "Order: The Japanese army is very likely to launch a large-scale retaliatory air raid within two days, and our army's airfield must be on first-level alert, especially in the early morning, we must have our patrol planes patrol the route from the Japanese army's Hailar to our airfield!" ”

That night, Yakov and Tukhachevsky saw this encrypted message marked "urgent" on their respective marching beds, and the sender column turned out to be: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, Commander-in-Chief of the Halakha Air Force Andrei Nikolayevich Prenyakov!

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, this order must be carried out immediately, otherwise Comrade Andrei would not have signed it like this."

Tukhachevsky also knew that Lin Jun would not sign like this for the sake of show, obviously to use his power to make the person who received the telegram understand: This is an order, a dead order that must be carried out without the slightest delay!

Seeing that Tukhachevsky did not answer immediately, Yakov was a little anxious: "Comrade commander-in-chief, Comrade Andrei must have his reasons, be quick!" His judgment was never wrong! ”

Tukhachevsky did not want to delay the order, but thought a little about the reason why Lin Jun, who was thousands of kilometers away, issued this death order, and judged so confidently: "Comrade Yakov, you immediately go and prepare, and start this morning, and the search airfield will be carried out according to Comrade Andrei's order. ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander-in-Chief."

Yakov turned around and went to give the order, leaving Tukhachevsky alone to look at the map and think about this seemingly extraterrestrial order: "Why did Andrei suddenly come to this move? What kind of aerial retaliation will the Japanese army carry out? ”

"Judging from the air battles of several days, the Japanese fighters are not the opponents of their own air force, and they have always avoided the battle. Intelligence shows that the Japanese army left only a large air base in Hailar near the border, but will they be desperate? ”

Thinking of this, Tukhachevsky also took into account Lin Jun's rich experience in fighting against Japan: "I am weak in air combat, and it seems that Comrade Andrei's judgment is very likely to appear, and the Japanese army may risk the outbreak of a full-scale war and make a desperate bet." ”

At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 28th, the airfields of the Soviet army were ready for battle. When they received the order in the second half of the night, some pilots still did not understand: Did the Japanese come back?

Everyone was tired from waking up so early, but the order had to be carried out to the letter. At the Tamchag Burak field airfield, Sergei and the fighter pilots were eating bread and ham delivered by ground crews next to their planes. In the distance were scattered bombers and anti-aircraft guns in anti-aircraft formation.

"Commander, will the Japanese come?"

Saha, the wingman pilot on one side, asked.

"It's going to come, and it's either today or tomorrow. Also, if you ask such a question again to repair the plane for Lao Tzu, this is an order personally issued by Comrade Andrei, and it will not be wrong. ”

Saha, who was on the side, did not dare to say anything: the regular pre-war meeting just now said that this was an order from the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, but Comrade Andrei was not here, how could he be so sure? He also knew that the regiment commander had almost blind trust in that Andrei, and hoped that the Japanese would really come, otherwise he would have gotten up in vain so early.

At 5:55 a.m., the air over the airport remembered the terrible air defense siren, and the moment they heard the air defense siren, all the pilots jumped into the cockpit as quickly as possible, and a loud call from the tower came from the intercom: "The patrol plane found a large formation of Japanese planes, in the direction of 1 o'clock north-northwest, at a distance of 50 kilometers, and at a height of 3,000!" ”

The tower kept repeating the call, and Sergei replied after he understood: "I am Sergei, understand, the distance is fifty kilometers, and the height is three thousand." ”

Start the engine, turn up the speed, "We are Sergey, all of us took off urgently, and the whole regiment followed me and attacked according to the plan." ”

With a push of the joystick, Sergei was the first to take off, followed by 68 fighters closely following, and the same scene was being played out at several airfields at the same time.

The side only has 10 minutes at most to climb the formation, and when the fighters of the whole regiment finish the formation at an altitude of 4,000 meters, they will encounter the Japanese planes.

As soon as Sergey climbed to an altitude of 4000, he found that a large group of aircraft appeared less than 10 kilometers in the direction of one o'clock ahead, and the number of aircraft was more than 100!

"I'm Sergey, a large group of friendly fighters attacking enemy bombers, let those stupid geese taste your secret weapon! The second and third brigades went all out to disperse the Japanese fighters! ”

The pilots just wanted to answer by the air raid spoken by the regiment commander, but Leng Buding heard another sentence from the regiment commander in the headset: "Haha!" My darlings, here I am! ”

This sentence made the "understand" of dozens of pilots change their answers, and the regiment commander was heard shouting in the headphones: "Hit Lao Tzu hard!" Don't let me go! ”

This regiment commander is good at everything, but as soon as he goes to the battlefield, he is like a brave and ruthless gangster, and everything will come out of his mouth, and he does not have the appearance of an old Communist Party member at all. But the pilots are also used to it, and Sergey proudly told them: "This is a stunt learned from Comrade Andrei, when you are desperate, the enemy is afraid of you, and the bullets will hide from you!" ”

Regardless of whether Sergei's reasons are right or not, now that the captains have begun to scold the scolding callers for their own troops to form a team according to the orders of the regimental commander, Sergei's habit is still very contagious.

A large squadron of 21 I-16s, each with six secret weapons under its wing - PC-82 air-to-air rockets! This will be the first time that this secret weapon has taken part in real combat.

At this moment, a formation of forty or fifty fighters also appeared on the right side of the Sergei group, and apparently the troops of the Sambes side also arrived.

When a large group was 600 meters away from the Japanese aircraft formation, they simultaneously fired a salvo of rockets at the Japanese aircraft formation, which was an attack according to a predetermined plan -- it was better not to seek a hit rate, as long as it could disrupt the Japanese aircraft formation, of course it would be better to hit a few rounds.

For a while, hundreds of smoke bands appeared in the air, and the rocket salvo was completed in a few seconds, and the Japanese formation over there was obviously taken aback by this sudden strange phenomenon, and the formation immediately became chaotic.

A full 126 rockets not only disrupted the formation of Japanese aircraft, apparently there were also a few direct hits, several bombers had already fallen, and two unlucky Type 95 fighters blossomed in the air on the spot!

In the blink of an eye, three huge formations collided together, planes flew in all directions, bullets and shells flew wildly.

With his eyes rounded, Sergei shot a Type 95 into the air with the first shot, pushed the joystick forward to the right, and a twin-engine bomber appeared in his field of vision.

"You go die!"

The machine gun machine gun fired a three-barreled salvo, and the three ballistics accurately hit the fuselage of the Yi-100 in front of him, and the Yi-100 instantly appeared from the tail with three lines of bullet holes the size of a fist, straight through-head!

At this time, the air was already in a melee, and the Japanese bombers had obviously been frightened by the first wave of terrifying attacks just now, and they did not expect their own fighter group to disperse the Soviet planes, so they turned around and wanted to run.

The huge battle group of more than 200 planes is no longer what the air commander can command how to fight: he can fight as much as he can!

As the best performing Lager, Sergei and the pilots of the three major squadrons tried to attack the nimble Japanese fighters as much as possible, while the powerful I-16 was chasing after the surviving bomber group!

The slow-moving bomber wanted to turn around, but it fell into the encirclement of the I-16s, and under the attack of 20-mm guns, one after another I-100s fell.

The Japanese fighter pilots in the air were already red-eyed, and the infallible air raid had become an ambush circle that crashed into the Soviet fighters, and the terrifying wave of smoke and dust just now had destroyed more than a dozen of their own planes, and from time to time their own planes were shot down, which stimulated the fighter pilots of the Second Air Force, who regarded themselves as the number one in the world, to forget the danger and desperately want to destroy their opponents.

No matter how the Japanese planes fought, Sergei and his rags ignored this set: approaching and attacking at high speed, disengaged, and attacking again! In front of Lag, who is completely superior in performance, the Type 95 fighter, which is far behind in speed, is like a juggling monkey, and it is not powerful at all.

Planes were constantly falling in the air, and it was clear that Soviet fighters were gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Japanese planes were fighting fewer and less.

Finally, some Japanese planes couldn't hold on and began to retreat, followed by a domino-like effect, and dozens of Japanese planes that were still fighting also turned their noses and wanted to run.

"I'm Sergey, the uninjured plane is chasing me!"

The red-eyed Sergey has already left the ban of the previous days behind him: "It's all blown up on our heads, go to it for 20 km!" ”

More than 80 fighters pursued all the way, and finally shot down the last visible Japanese Type 95 fighter over Hailar, and did not retreat until the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery guarding Hailar Airport spoke.

When dozens of Soviet fighters appeared over Hailar airfield, Tetsuji Saga knew that his air fleet was finished. It asked the chief of staff to send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Command: The surprise attack failed, and our sortie group was completely annihilated.

Half an hour later, Tetsuji Saga sliced open his stomach with the heirloom knife in his hand, and the moment it shouted "Long live the Emperor", the staff officer behind him cut off its head.

"More than 130 Japanese planes were shot down, and our side lost 21 fighters and lost 15 people."

Lin Jun on the train read the battle report sent and handed it to Zhukov on the side.

Now Zhukov looked at him with the eyes of a fairy: "Andrey, I learned a proverb in China, and now it is just right to use it on you." ”

"Which one?"

As soon as the staff officers on the side heard the two "China experts" talking about Chinese proverbs, they all came over to listen to them.

"Strategize and win!"

"Haha, Comrade Zhukov, I'm all guessing. It should be said that it is a blind guess on the sleeper, and good luck follows. ”

Only by understanding the consistent style of the Kwantung Army Command can there be orders in the early hours of yesterday morning, Lin Jun is not an immortal who can pinch and calculate.

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At Tamchag Burak Airport, the pilots were celebrating each other's results, many of whom had achieved their first results today, which was the most exciting thing to be a fighter pilot. Although there are comrades-in-arms sacrificed, destroying more enemies is the best answer for the sacrificed comrades.

Sergey is the star of stars today, as he has already risen his personal record to 48! And what is indispensable is that the pilots listen to his old-fashioned boasting, but today's regiment commander's nonsense has become so reasonable.

"I said comrades, now you know how powerful Comrade Andrei is! This is the ability of the best pilots, and of course the best commanders, who can command troops thousands of kilometers away, and the little tricks of little Japan cannot escape the palm of Comrade Andrei's hand at all. I learned all this skill from Comrade Andrei, and the boys learned a little bit. ”

If he did not express a different opinion on the three things of the regiment commander, it would be difficult to say that Comrade Regiment Commander began to blow nonsense again, counting on Comrade Sergei to finish blowing and leaving, but I didn't expect him to say: "Hehe, then again, the comrades did a good job today and fought beautifully." ”

The comrades finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the evening, Yakov inspected the Tamchag Burak airfield and commended the pilots for their exploits.

"Comrades, today is a verbal praise, and if we continue to strive for greater victories, the Soviets will give the heroes the honor they deserve."

After listening to the words of the deputy director of the Air Force, the ranks of pilots erupted in earth-shattering applause.

Yakov glanced at Sergei, who was smiling beside him, "Comrades, I have good news for you, I just received a telegram from Comrade Andrei, Deputy People's Commissar of Defense on the train: Comrade Andrei will award the title to your regiment commander, Comrade Sergei Ivanovich Grytsevets, Hero of the Soviet Union, for the second time!" (To be continued.) )