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Sergei Ivanovich Grisewets, who had just gotten off the landline, was warmly welcomed by two old superiors - the standard two Russian bear hugs!

"Comrade Andrei, Comrade Andlupf, a total of 24 pilots of the Lanzhou support force came to report, and the leader of the team, Sergei Ivanovich Grytsevets."

After the bear hug, Sergey reported to the two as usual.

"I take your command." Since Sergei did what he did, Lin Jun also had to be interesting.

"Sergey, how could you lead the team? Aren't you in Moscow? Although it was already known in the telegram that he would come, Andropf still wanted to find out what was going on.

"According to the order of Comrade Arxnis, Minister of the Air Force, I was originally asked to go to Lanzhou to temporarily take charge of the training of Chinese pilots there, but I received a new order just two days after I arrived."

Seeing that Lin Jun and Andlupf's faces were different, "The original order only asked me to work in Lanzhou for three months, because Lanzhou urgently needed experienced commanders, and then I transferred to the Far East to serve as the aviation commander of the fighter unit there, and this time it was just a few months to temporarily postpone the time to go to the Far East."

Sergei's words dispelled Lin Jun's doubts: Stalin transferred most of Lin Jun's original subordinates in Spain back to Moscow to give him a heavy task, not to send him abroad to fight. If Sergei is only going to China, then Lin Jun should ask Alexander if there is an update on the situation in Moscow.

"Comrade Andrei, the pilots I brought this time are all experienced fighter instructors, all of them are veterans, comparable to our first fighter group in Spain."

Patting Sergei on the shoulder, Lin Jun turned to the pilots lined up and said, "Comrades, welcome to Nanjing. The troops of the little Japanese were less than 120 kilometers from the airfield, and their planes could appear over the theater of operations at any moment. Comrade Andlupuv and I should all know each other, and the two of us and your leader, Comrade Sergei, were comrades-in-arms of the same fighter brigade when we were in Spain. All the fighter pilots who arrived in Nanking before you had shot down enemy planes in air battles, including me, and there are four Heroes of the Soviet Union here, and I would like to tell you that the fifth or sixth Hero of the Soviet Union in the Air Force for China may be one of you. For the glory of the Soviets, I ask you: strike hard at the Japanese fascist army! Defeat them! Destroy them! Use the corpses of fascists to prove that you are the best fighter pilots in the whole world! ”

"Serve the USSR!" The 23 pilots replied to Lin Jun's imposing shout.

"Landscot, bring me what I've prepared."

"Yes, Comrade Andrei."

Landscoch pulled out a large tray that had been prepared long ago, on which were twenty-four parrot swords.

Lin Jun personally handed over the parrot sword to each pilot, "This is a parrot sword given by the *** Air Force, and it is the standard sword for friendly pilots." I am sending it to you to tell you that we are here not only to fight for the glory of the Soviets, but also for internationalism, for the good Chinese people. ”

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After the welcoming ceremony, the officers above the squadron leader level also held a brief meeting.

"Captain, there's something to report to you separately." Sergei found Lin Jun after the meeting.

Lin Jun took him to his office, "What's the matter?" “

"Plant 301 in Moscow successfully trial-produced a new fighter in October, and I also took part in the test flight work on the order of Comrade Arksnis, and its performance completely exceeded my imagination. It's still an experimental model, but its performance is completely superior to any of our existing fighters. ”

"Is it from the Lavochkin Design Bureau?"

"Yes, we tentatively called it the I-22 testing machine, and there were only two prototypes before I came and left Moscow. Comrade Andrei, it is incredible, an aircraft with an all-wood fuselage can have a maximum speed of more than 600 km, and its horizontal maneuverability is superior to that of the I-16. ”

When he thinks about the feeling of flying the I-22, Sergei feels excited, "Comrade designer is really a genius, this is even better than the best 109 of the vultures we have encountered in Spain." Before coming to China, Comrade Arxnis asked me to tell you the news separately, saying that the new aircraft is still a top secret, but it is estimated that it will be ready for mass production by the beginning of next year. ”

"Then you still come to Nanjing?"

Pilots who know such secrets are not simply able to go abroad, and it will be troublesome if they fall into the hands of the enemy, so Lin Jun asked.

"Originally, I didn't plan to come to Nanjing, this doesn't require the best pilots, and Moscow probably didn't think about it so much." Sergei knew the meaning of Lin Jun's words.

"I think it's Alksnes who is doing it himself." Lin Jun thought, "The speed of Lavochkin, Gorbunov and Gudkov is really fast, and soon the Soviets will have the world's most advanced fighter equipment troops." I wonder when MiG and Jacques will come out? ”

In fact, Lin Jun also has a concern about the Soviet Union's aviation equipment, that is, all the aircraft models he knows are not suitable for carrier-based aircraft, and the Red Navy should have noticed this, and should not let his fleet aircraft carrier be equipped with the temporarily modified Yi-15 when it is in service.

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Lin Jun, who received support, reorganized all the fighters into four fighter squadrons, and the new pilots stepped up to familiarize themselves with the terrain and prepare for a decisive battle with the Japanese Air Force over Nanjing.

On the 17th, the Japanese launched a full-scale attack on the first line of "defense line", and broke through the defenders' first-line positions on the same day. Chen Cheng ordered the troops to withdraw to the front line of Changshu, Xinglong Town, and Fushan. On the 18th, the defenders and the Japanese army fought fiercely again, and after two days of bloody fighting, the Japanese army was temporarily repulsed, and the battle situation temporarily entered a stalemate.

On the morning of the 21st, the Japanese army crossed Yangcheng Lake with the 3rd Division to attack Suzhou, and with heavy artillery fire as the lead, concentrated its forces to launch another attack in the direction of Changshu and Fushan with the 13th and 16th Divisions and the Shigeto Detachment. The fierce battle lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon, and the defenders were forced to retreat to the line of Wuxi and Jiangyin.

On the 24th, the 9th, 11th, and 16th divisions of the Japanese army attacked the direction of Wuxi in a multi-way attack. On the same day, 12 SB-2 bombers and 12 I-16 fighters escorted by Lin Jun attacked the Japanese ground forces in the direction of Suzhou.

Kidalinsky, who commanded the sortie, resolutely ordered the bomber unit to continue to return home, and the 12 Yi-16s, under the command of Sasha, the newly appointed leader of the 1st Fighter Squadron, repeatedly strafed the Japanese motorboats on the lake for 20 minutes.

The 12 fighters returned to Nanjing before the Japanese fighters arrived, followed the 16 Japanese 96 ships in pursuit, and encountered the 24 Chinese and Soviet fighters who were waiting for them in the sky over Jurong, and the Japanese planes took the initiative to retreat after being shot down 7 planes, and a Soviet Yi-16 forced landing at Jurong Airport, and the pilot was injured.

The motorboat was the Japanese Akiyama detachment that planned to cross the Taihu Lake and make a detour to Changzhou in an attempt to form an encirclement of Wuxi. As a result, the detour did not achieve its goal, but instead became the best target for Soviet fighters on the lake, and the Japanese lost more than 500 people, many of whom were drowned after the motorboat was shot through the hull by machine guns and fell into the water.

On the 28th, Wuxi fell. Chen Cheng, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Left Wing Army, had to order the main force of the troops to retreat to the mountainous areas of Zhejiang and Anhui. The Japanese army took advantage of the victory and attacked in the direction of Jiangyin with the 11th and 13th divisions.

Jiangyin is the gate of the Yangtze River and Nanjing, the terrain is dangerous, and the river is only two kilometers wide. The army had sunk 28 old warships and merchant ships loaded with stones here to block the shipping lanes and prevent Japanese ships from going up the river. As a "big lock" of the Yangtze River, Jiangyin Fortress has a total of eight forts, including Dongshan, Xishan, Huangshan, Xiaoshan, and Goeshan, and a total of 37 shore defense guns are deployed, some of which are the latest 88 mm and 150 mm cannons purchased from Germany.

Xu Kang, commander of Jiangyin Fortress, at the pre-war mobilization meeting, said "We must live and die with Jiangyin Fortress!" The slogan inspired the defenders of the fortress to defend the throat of the Yangtze River to the death.

He also knew the importance of Jiangyin, and ordered Liu Xing, deputy commander of the garrison chief's department and commander-in-chief of the Jiangfang Army, to sit in Jiangyin and command the operation in a unified manner.

In addition to the fortress guards, the main force guarding the Jiangyin area also included the 103rd Division and the 112th Division, and the 111th Division was stationed in Tianshenggang in Jiangbei. These troops were all fully equipped and fresh, with high morale, ready to fight to the death against the Japanese army on the Jiangyin front.

On the day of the fall of Wuxi, the last group of personnel and supplies of the China Aid Air Force that had evacuated Nanjing ahead of schedule boarded the ship from Chaotianmen Wharf, and Vuginskaya also went to Nanchang on the same ship.

On the morning of 30 November, the Japanese army, supported by the artillery bombardment of warships in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, began to attack the Jiangyin area, and Lin Jun, who was sitting in the colonel's factory, sent 24 bombers to support, but only 12 escort fighters were dispatched, and the remaining 40 fighters were on alert at the airfield, ready for a decisive battle with the Japanese air force at any time.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Porunin squadron successfully bombarded the Japanese ship formation stationed on the Yangtze River downstream of Jiangyin at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and the 2nd squadron led by Kidalinsky blew up the Japanese 13th Division, which was attacking the outer positions of the 103rd Division.

This will be the last time that the bomber group of the Soviet Air Force for China will make an attack from the Daxiao Factory, and the air ammunition stock at the airport has been completely exhausted, and Lin Jun has also ordered the transport aircraft unit to no longer send supplies to Nanjing, but to keep the supplies at Nanchang and Wuhan airports.

At 9:30 a.m., all the sortie planes returned safely to the skies over Nanjing, and in accordance with the plan formulated in the early stage, Kidalinsky led the bomber formation to fly directly to Nanchang Airport alone without stopping. In this way, only 20 bombers were left at the Colonel's Plant as the last transport aircraft to retreat.

At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, a report was received from the defenders of Changzhou: a large number of Japanese aircraft formed in the air, heading for Nanjing.

"Comrades, remember the victory of September 11?!"

Before the attack, Lin Jun asked his pilots.

"We remember, Comrade Andrey!" Soviet pilots gave a resounding answer.

"Well, let's make today the second September 11th! Let's go! ”

After the translation, the Chinese pilot also knew what Lin Jun said, and everyone was enthusiastic! 156 to 10, the brilliant achievements of the Chinese and Soviet pilots who fought side by side will surely be staged again in the skies over Nanjing.

Sergei took part in real combat for the first time since Spain returned to the Soviet Union, which excited the ace who shot down 24 enemy planes in Spain. Honor is secondary - he is already a Hero of the Soviet Union, and it is his greatest "joy" to go to war again under the command of his old boss! Only with the blood of the enemy can you prove the value of your existence - this is the life credo of Sergei Ivanovich Gricevets.

The first wave of Japanese planes dispatched this time were all fighters, and the Japanese First and Second Air Squadrons poured out: Now victory in the ground battle is in sight, and Nanjing is just around the corner, but the Japanese naval and land air forces are still carrying a huge burden of shame -- they have not completely defeated their opponents in air battles, but have been defeated many times by Chinese and Soviet pilots, and each time they have been defeated.

Since the arrival of the Soviet Air Force in Nanjing, Japanese planes have no longer been able to appear in the sky over Nanjing, and such a shame must be washed away in the city of Nanjing--the commander of the Japanese Air Force, who commanded the two teams, went crazy, and he wanted his troops to defeat their opponents in a dignified manner before the Chinese and Soviet air forces withdrew from Nanjing, instead of relying on the victory of infantry handouts.

However, he still miscalculated the combat strength and number of the Chinese and Soviet armies, believing that the number of Nanjing fighters at present was at most 30, while the total number of fighters of all types at its disposal was more than 50, and it was confident that it would defeat its opponent and gain air supremacy in Nanjing before the ground forces occupied Nanjing.

It's a pity that it was wrong, Lin Jun's 52 fighters of all kinds are in full array, ready to meet the Japanese fighter formation.

The models on both sides are patchwork "miscellaneous armies": Lin Jun has three types: Yi 16, Yi 15 and ****; The Japanese had 96 Ship Battles, 95 Ship Battles, Ki-10 and a small number of Type 90 fighters. Relatively speaking, the performance of the Japanese fighters is more uneven, although the Japanese pilots are vengeful, but their quality is obviously inferior to the Soviet Army: Lin Jun has all experienced veterans in actual combat except for the group of "instructors", and each of them has a few combat records, and some of them can already rise to the level of "air butchers", such as Prokofiev and Sergei. And those "instructors" are not novices, otherwise they would not have been sent to Lanzhou as instructors.

The area of engagement chosen by the menacing Japanese army formation is within the control of the defenders, although it may be occupied by the Japanese army in a week, but now it is still its own chassis, and the Soviet army has a psychological advantage - before the fight, the revenge plan of Rokuro Dig Jiang is already doomed to lose!

Le Yiqin and Li Guidan drove two Yi 15 as the leader of the 10 **** planes, because their landline was equipped with a radio station and could receive instructions from the school factory. The 12 Chinese pilots were all elites left behind after several air battles, including Liu Cuigang, and the "Three King Kongs" were all determined to fight to the death against the Japanese planes.

Half a month ago, Lin Jun's move to "give away planes" was also full of enthusiasm among all the Chinese pilots, including Le Yiqin and Li Guidan, and they truly felt that the Soviet Air Force aiding China regarded them as their own. Le Yiqin and Li Guidan have rich experience in piloting, and they can already skillfully fly the Yi 15 with only a few takeoffs and landings, although they are not as handy as the original ****, but it is not a problem to participate in air combat.

The "Chinese squadron" was organized into a separate group, and their main task in air combat was to engage in a grapple with the Japanese planes with the I-15, and those high-speed 96 ship battles would have the Soviet I-16 to deal with.

At a quarter past 10 o'clock, the two groups of planes met in the sky over Jurong.

The 34 Yi-16s, which had been climbing, dived at a high speed towards the Japanese aircraft group from a height of 4,500 meters, striving to disrupt the Japanese aircraft formation, while the **** and Yi-15 approached the Japanese aircraft formation from a slightly lower altitude.

Sergei took the lead and fired a four-pronged salvo at the oncoming 96 carrier-based formation from a distance of 300 meters. The formations of both sides swept by at a relative speed close to 800 km. Without paying attention to whether or not to concentrate on the target, he swung the joystick to the upper left and turned the nose of the aircraft.

Seeing that the group below was in a melee, and the Japanese fighter pilots who were catching up were obviously unable to keep up with their own rhythm, Sergei pressed the nose of the plane and swooped down on a Japanese fighter with two wings.

The Japanese planes were trapped in a struggle with the good maneuverability of the Yi-15 and the ****, and the vertical maneuverability of the 96 ship battle was obviously not as good as that of the Yi-16 III, and the Japanese monoplane fighters that rushed to the high altitude could not return to the battle group.

Sergei's skills are not covered, in history he once shot down 42 enemy planes individually and collectively in the battle of Spain and Nomenkan, and if it were not for the accidental death, it is very likely that he would have achieved a more brilliant record in the Great Patriotic War than Duzh Kob.

A few seconds can decide a lot of things, Sergei firmly put the ring in the sight in front of the Japanese machine, pressed the machine gun fire button hard, and two lines of clear ballistics hit the Japanese machine, causing its engine to smoke.

There was no time to pay attention to whether it had fallen, and from the afterglow I saw the Japanese monoplane fighters coming down! With a push of the joystick, the I-16 dived at high speed to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese planes behind, and when Sergei made a clean S-shaped reflex, the Japanese plane behind was on fire all over his body, and it was obvious that other pilots had just adopted their own tactics -- high-speed assault, diving away.

Prokofiev was a little unlucky today, and in the first hedging his own plane wing was hit, fortunately there were no major problems, but when he rushed through the formation and broke away at high speed, he simply checked the situation of the landline, and then turned the nose of the plane, and found that the big melee ahead was basically two of his own planes pestering a Japanese group of planes chasing and fighting -- in just over a minute, the victory and defeat were already decided.

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