When Herman. Ensign Graf and his ace wingman Erich. When Hartman flew his respective FW-190A-4 fighter over Vovomin, the ground was in the middle of a fierce battle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 From 2,000 meters and 3,000 meters in the air, I saw that the warring sides had pulled out a line of fire four or five kilometers long on a large green plain that could not be seen but dotted with small woods and scattered villages and towns. German and Soviet tanks were shelled with artillery at distances of several hundred meters, and infantry on both sides attacked each other with a variety of guns and light artillery. Farther away, there were artillery positions on both sides, which roared from time to time, and the shells tilted on the battlefield as if they didn't want money.

Explosions, burning, steel wreckage, human corpses, tanks and infantry firing at each other, and rising fireballs make for some of the most terrifying and magnificent scenes in the world.

"Second Lieutenant, can you see who has the upper hand?" Erich. Hartman's voice came from the earphones, and Ensign Graf didn't have the heart to look for the GC warriors in the sky at this time, and all his attention was focused on the ground.

Looking down from an altitude of 2,000 or 3,000 meters, it is very difficult to figure out what is happening on the two sides below. However, Graf, a veteran pilot, could tell, and many German tanks were covered with a swastika flag on the back of the body, while the Soviet side was covered with a sickle-hammer flag. And there must be more people on the Soviet side, they are a sea of tanks and a sea of people!

"We have the upper hand!" Graff exclaimed, "The Soviets suffered greater losses than ours, and most of the destroyed tanks were Soviets!" ”

"Enemy planes! Enemy! "Suddenly there was Erich. Hartmann's urgent cry, "4 Yak-1s, we must pull up!" ”

The Yak-1 is a very agile aircraft with the advantage of low altitude. Except for the Fokker Zero, other German planes could not please the Yak-1 at an altitude of two or three thousand meters.

Ensign Graff trusted his "ace wingman" (in less than 10 days of combat, Hartmann had already won six battles, and had cooperated with Graf to shoot down three enemy planes, hence the nickname "ace wingman"), and when he heard his prompt, he immediately raised his altitude and flew up to a medium altitude of more than 5,000 meters.

"Comrade Deputy Group Leader, 2 enemy FW-190s have come up!"

Just as Graff and Hartmann were flying the plane upwards, they were already spotted by two MiG-3 fighters at an altitude of less than 6,000 meters. The two planes were piloted by Captain Pokryshkin, a deputy group leader of the 55th Soviet Fighter Aviation Regiment, and his wingman Utkin.

The 55th Fighter Aviation Regiment is equipped with MiG-3 and MiG-5, and is a fighter aviation regiment that mainly focuses on medium and high altitudes. Over the past few days, the regiment has taken on extremely heavy combat missions, not only to support the combat missions of the Western Front in Poland, but also to be responsible for the air defense of Minsk. The latter is almost impossible to complete the task, no matter how much weight is reduced, the MiG-3 and MiG-5 cannot fly above 11,000 meters to deal with the Ju-288.

And they will also encounter the "mosquito killer" He-219 at high altitude. If at a slightly lower altitude, such as around 8000 meters, the MiG-3 is not afraid of twin-engine aircraft like the He-219. But above 10,000 meters, the HE-219 high-altitude version with a turbocharged engine can simply beat the MiG-3. However, no one in the 55th Fighter Aviation Regiment dared to "fear the battle", and they all went up to beat the He-219 in the past few days. So the casualties were very large, almost all the pilots had a record of being shot down, even the future Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain Pokryshkin, who had just jumped back into the parachute yesterday evening and broke his foot and neck, and today he limped out in the plane.

"Two MiG-3s, at 6 o'clock and at an altitude of 6000 meters, are diving towards us!" Hartmann, who was sharp-eyed again, spotted the MiG-3 diving in the air, and he already had a countermeasure at the same time as he discovered it. "Ensign, open the afterburner, rush at them! Fight with them! ”

"Good! That's it! ”

The MiG-3 has good performance at extremely high altitudes, but now it is at medium and high altitudes, which is exactly the airspace where the FW-190A-4 plays. Moreover, the FW-190A-4 piloted by Graff and Hartmann is still firepower-enhanced, with four 20mm cannons and two 7.92mm machine guns. The MiG-3 has only 3 machine guns, and the consequences of face-to-face firepower can be imagined.

But what happened next took the two Nazi pilots by surprise. The rain of bullets quickly knocked the two MiG-3s into smoke, but one of the two Soviet planes (wingman Utkin) tumbled and fell, and one pilot parachuted out. But the plane piloted by Pokryshkin slammed into Graf's plane!

Before Graff could understand what was happening, he heard a muffled "canopy", and then the plane shuddered violently, and suddenly lost control, tumbling and falling down.

"Oh God! Lieutenant! Lieutenant! Lieutenant...... Jump fast! ”

I don't know where my head hit, and Ensign Graff, who was starry in front of him, was in a semi-unconscious and half-conscious state for a while, and he was about to sit in a plane that had been damaged (in fact, it was just a wipe) and fell into a pulp. In the headphones, he remembered Hartman's screaming, which finally brought him back to his senses. He hurriedly pulled open the hood, loosened the seat belt, and then fell out of the cockpit, and after more than ten seconds he opened the parachute again.

Only then did he come back to his senses a little, and he thought back to what had just happened, and felt that it was not likely to be a traffic accident, but a deliberate mid-air impact!

The pilot on the MiG-3 fighter that he was wounded deliberately drove the plane into his FW-190!

This is to find themselves and die together, are these GC fighters crazy?

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"Ulla! Ulla! Ula ......"

Gustav. Captain Schwarzenegger had just pushed open the hatch on the top of the tank and leaned out half of his body with difficulty, when he heard "Ula!" Ulla! The scream. This is thousands of Soviet Red Army fighters launching a general offensive!

"Comrade, come out quickly!"

A Nordic superman of the "Viking" division saw Captain Schwarzenegger coming out of the burning tank and shouted at him while firing at the attacking Soviets with an automatic carbine.

Yes, Captain Schwarzenegger's tank No. 4 was broken!

Although in the battle on the morning of June 10, 88 Type 4H tanks of the 5th SS "Viking" Division showed their might, and more than 160 T-34 tanks and KV-1 tanks of the 16th Soviet Mechanized Corps suffered heavy losses, the small number of KV-2 tanks belonging to the 16th Mechanized Corps did not participate in the assault because they rushed into self-propelled guns, so they were mostly intact.

But the 1st tank brigade of the 1st Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army rushed to the battlefield close to noon to join the battle. The number of Soviet tanks that could still fight on the battlefield suddenly reached more than 230! At that time, the number of No. 4 tanks and No. 3 assault guns that could still fight on the German side was already less than 90 units.

The Soviets, who had an absolute superiority in the number of tanks, began to outflank the left flank of the German armored cluster. At this point, the speed advantage of the T-34 began to be revealed, and the tanks quickly outflanked the Germans to the left and shelled the thin flanks of Tank No. 4 and Assault Gun No. 3 with their main guns.

In this case, the Germans began to retreat to Legionovo according to the plan - there were still 110 Tiger tanks and 110 Panthers there!

And Gustav. The tank in which Schwarzenegger was riding was hit in the butt by the pursuing T-34 at the beginning of the retreat, but fortunately climbed out of the car in time.

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"Comrade commander, you must pursue, you can't let go of the hateful Nazis!"

Terekin, the political commissar of the 4th Army of the Soviet Red Army, was very excited, although the losses of the 4th Army were very heavy, more than 150 tanks were damaged, more than 200 artillery pieces of various guns were lost, and thousands of Red Army soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, but the Germans fled with their tails between their legs after all!

This was the first defeat of the German Army since the beginning of the world revolution, nay, it should have been since the rise of the Third Reich - the defeat of the German army in Ireland in May was not a real defeat, because it was only a small number of paratroopers repulsed by the British, who outnumbered them, and the Germans eventually kept Dublin.

"Comrade Commander, we have just defeated a German Panzer Division!" Terekin stood on the seat of an open-top GAS 61 and pointed to the German armored cluster that was fleeing. "This is the first time in the history of the German Panzer Division that it has suffered a defeat! Or defeated by our Red Army in the USSR! Don't...... Are we going to let the Germans go like this? Are we going to watch the evil Nazis continue to do evil? ”

Major General Korobkov, commander of the 4th Army, and Major General Sokalov, commander of the 16th Mechanized Army, glanced at each other, and both had some scalp tingling!

Because the two knew that it was not an armored division that they finally defeated, but a German tank battalion, two assault gun battalions, two panzergrenadier regiments, and a rocket artillery brigade...... It's almost a small number of troops, and it's okay to say it's a division-level cluster, but it's definitely not a serious armored division.

If it is an armored division, then there are at least 2 tank battalions, and the number of tanks No. 4 is not more than 80, but more than 170. In addition, the number of assault guns No. 3 will be several times higher! Then the 16th Mechanized Corps will not survive at all if the troops of the 1st Tank Army arrive, and it will be defeated!

The combat effectiveness of the German armored forces was so strong that it was really beyond the imagination of the two senior commanders of the Red Army, Korobkov and Sokalov. (To be continued.) )