The time came to the morning of the next day, and the troops in the front line on the positions of the 16th Army at the front received orders to prepare for a night counteroffensive, but some commanders were very puzzled, because of the continuous defeat and retreat in front, the losses of the Soviet army's strength and technical weapons were very serious, and with the current strength to attack the German army at its peak, even if it was a night attack, it would not be good, of course, I didn't understand it, of course the order still had to be carried out, and some commanders and fighters were gearing up to teach the Germans a hard lesson. And the commander of the army group headquarters Rokossovsky was also in front of the map, thoughtful As an excellent general of the Soviet army, he knew very well that tonight, whether the operation could go smoothly or not depends on the special forces and air force in the rear, but as long as the air attack can be successful, then he can learn a good lesson? The Germans can also help the special forces behind the enemy to retreat in time, and not only the battlefield situation, but also the role of improving the morale of the army cannot be underestimated!

And here the order of the Air Force command came to the airfield, and when Porykshkin saw the order, he was very excited, and he shouted to the pilots with joy:

"Comrades, the fascist air force bombed the beautiful Motherland and massacred our people, so that we lost countless comrades-in-arms. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoI know you've been holding back for a long time, and it's time for the German fascists to taste the bomb! The High Command decided that at 9:30 p.m. on November 5, all planes would be dispatched to attack the Germans at night! ”

The pilots who listened to Porykshkin's announcement cheered, they all had the technology and experience of long-range night raids, and the bombing skills were also excellent, and as long as the plan was reasonable and perfect, the night raid was very likely to be successful. Despite the difficulty of the night bombing, the pilots were convinced that they could do it, because they were also good pilots, and this time they had to teach the Germans a hard lesson.

All the airfields were mobilized for the decision of the higher-ups, and the General Staff provided the most detailed aerial charts and geographical coordinates, and even the complete plans of the German targets provided by the forward scouts. In the conference room of the airport, Porykshkin and the other leading cadres worked out a well-developed attack plan and attack line.

Due to the long distance of this raid, which has already reached the limit of the attack radius of the Yi-16 fighters, there will be no too much entangled fuel when the group returns home, which requires other aircraft to respond.

The entire task of receiving the aircraft was given to the remaining ten I-16s and twelve I-15s, which were located 150 kilometers away from Moscow. The assault squadron at this airfield flew two pilot aircraft with flares on them, Porykshkin and Sergei, and the other airfields were organized into several attack squadrons with I-16 and attack aircraft bombers, which raided different targets.

All the bombs have been loaded, and each squadron has 10 planes with 200-kilogram incendiary bombs, three IL-16s with 200-kilogram explosive bombs, and some IL-16s with 6 rockets. The bombs loaded in the entire air raid plus the respective machine guns and machine gun firepower were enough for the Germans to enjoy.

At 9:30 a.m., Porykshkin was the first to take off, all the I-16s took off, and then bombers and attack planes flew into the night sky.

The flight will be accompanied by half-range radio silence, with no signal from any aircraft until the target is reached, and each squadron will be guided by two pilot aircraft. On the back of the guide aircraft is a navigation light that other aircraft will use as a guidance mark, while all navigation lights of other aircraft are turned off to prevent observation by ground personnel.

It is very dangerous for an aircraft formation to fly in the dark night sky with only a small amount of starlight without turning on the navigation lights, which is a test of the pilot's technical and psychological qualities, and this one-way attack will take more than an hour, which requires all pilots to maintain a high degree of mental concentration at all times. Combined with the characteristics of the above aspects, the difficulty of this night attack can be imagined, this is not something that ordinary flight units can do, but all the participants in the operation are the best pilots in the Soviet army now, and they are not afraid of these difficulties at all.

The fleet has always maintained an altitude of 4,000 meters, and Porykshkin's plane is positioned slightly lower in order to allow other aircraft to see the only navigation light.

Only this one light flickered in the dark night sky, and the pilots could only see the outline of nearby planes through the cockpit glass, and they heard nothing but the roar of motives.

In charge of the raid on the headquarters of the 137th Division was the assault squadron of Porykshkin.

Porykshkin kept his eyes on his dashboard, marking against the charts.

The night was dark, but the outlines of some geographical coordinates on the ground could be seen, and Porykshkin knew that his course was not deviating according to the instructions on the aeronautical chart.

For the project of night flight, Porykshkin has always been very talented, he has a very strong sense of direction, plus with the help of aeronautical charts and instruments, it is basically impossible for him to get lost, so he volunteered to take on the responsibility of piloting the aircraft.

More than an hour later, flying over the target, Porykshkin saw a ball of light rise in the distance: the target was right in front of him!

According to the position of the target, Porykshkin had already determined the position of the target, corrected his course and slowly lowered the flight altitude. Behind was a group of attack aircraft that followed closely.

At a height of 300 and a distance of less than 5 km, Porykshkin broke the radio silence: "All attention,. Act according to the original plan, and do not fall in love with the war. Attack all! ”

"Understood!" The pilots' answers came from the headphones. At the same time, the planes of Porykshkin and Sergei began to climb, while the others turned on their navigation lights and each pounced on the intended target according to the predetermined plan.

The flare just now caused the Germans to start a search for the vicinity, and at this time, someone seemed to hear the sound of an airplane in the air.

"Strange, why are there planes flying so late?" Someone thinks so.

Poor man, the war has been going so smoothly and arrogantly that they have forgotten what an air raid is

And when the Germans began to react

It was too late, and huge bright spots suddenly appeared in the air, which were flares dropped by ground guidance and aircraft, and flares with small parachutes fell slowly, illuminating the entire German camp as if it were day.

Revenge began.

Maintaining the plane at an altitude of 700 meters, Porekshkin's plane dropped two flares as soon as it entered the 137th Division headquarters, and then piloted the plane to hover over the target, dropping one every 20 seconds that echoed the flares and flares on the ground.

The division headquarters could not hide under the blazing white light that emanated from the illumination, and seeing the German camp below, Porykshkin knew that the time for revenge had come today!

The squadron was divided into two parts, four of which went to "burn" the camp on the right side of the Germans, turning several tents and business into a living purgatory, and the Germans on fire fluttered in the snow.

The rocket-armed aircraft was controlled at an altitude of 200 meters and entered the attack line at an inclination of less than 5 degrees. With his eyes firmly fixed on the target, he pressed the gun and gun buttons fiercely, flew to the middle of the target and hurriedly moved his thumb from the gun button to the bomb button. With the pressing of the bomb dropping button, one after another black flickering rockets were fired at the German army on the ground, and they exploded violently at the moment they hit the ground, although the incendiary agent mixed in it did not have a high temperature of 2000 degrees like the incendiary bombs, but it was enough to make the German target crush to pieces! The team behind him was doing the same thing, and rocket after rocket shot to the ground.

After flying over the tarmac, Zaitsev made a 180-degree turn, pounced back on the airfield, and continued to strafe the planes on the ground. The planes in a neat line exploded and caught fire after being hit by bullets and shells: they were all full of fuel and ammunition, which caused a chain reaction on the tarmac, like dominoes, one after another exploded and caught fire.

The Germans were overwhelmed by the sight of the flares, and the vast majority of them were not trained to respond to night air raids and did not know what to do now. After the planes in the air began to bomb and strafe, the people on the ground were even more chaotic!

But there were also very few calm people in the panicked crowd, who ran to the positions of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns. Unfortunately, there was no chance anymore: half of the planes of the assault squadron were reserved for anti-aircraft fire, and now they began to solve those anti-aircraft gun positions with bombs and machine guns.

In fact, all the anti-aircraft fire is fired, and the threat to night attack aircraft is not great: how many can you hit an aircraft that is passing by with the black night sky as a cover? And with the illumination of flares, it is clear from the air to look down at the ground, this is simply a one-sided massacre.

And on the ground, when Andrey's group was guiding, they saw their results with their own eyes Originally, at the beginning of the raid, the German patrol had come to the edge of the jungle, but the disaster in the camp made the German patrol stunned, but Unit A began to attack, Andrei picked up his sniper rifle, and the German division headquarters and peripheral affairs had been knocked out by the aviation during the air raid just now, and now to eliminate the patrol, it is time to go to the German camp to clean up the mess!

At the same time, the counterattack of the XVI Army also began, after the bombardment, the shelling began, General Katukov's tank brigade took the lead in opening up the position after the artillery shelling, and the infantry then rushed out of the position to watch their own air raids, and now the Soviet officers and soldiers were full of strength to charge the Germans.

And after the bombing, the Soviet raid group quickly returned, and the strange thing was that the Luftwaffe did not appear, which made everyone puzzled, and later Andrei learned that the Luftwaffe in the original vicinity was in a state of exhaustion because of the high load of operations, and it would be too dangerous to force a night flight.

And the Luftwaffe did not make a sortie, laying the groundwork for the huge losses of the German army.