October 4, 1936, 7:10 p.m. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAt this time, there was a busy scene at Madrid Airport, 24 I-16s were neatly lined up on the airport's restored runway ready to attack, and all ground crews were doing the final inspection of the aircraft.

Andlupf, who was put on a stretcher by the ground staff, looked at Lin Jun who was standing beside him, "Andrey, how sure are you today?" ”

"I'm absolutely sure it's time for Franco to be punished, they would never have imagined that we would dare to attack his airfield at this time, and the time is still night." Looking at the dark clouds in the sky, "The moon is dark and the wind is high on the night of murder, it is a good weather!" ”

Lin Jun decided to attack the Badajoz airfield controlled by Franco's rebels at night, and the best defense was to attack.

Lin Jun decided on this plan the day before yesterday, but he did not tell the other pilots at that time, but called Vasily, the head of the logistics machinery team, to his office, explained some things, and asked him to keep it a secret.

When Vasily heard what the captain wanted him to do, the experienced sergeant major knew: the captain was going berserk!

What does Lin Jun want him to do? He asked Comrade Vasily to lead other ground crews to modify the bomb delivery systems of the two I-16 fighters within two days, so that the modified planes could be equipped with more than 10 10-kilogram flares and could be dropped separately.

The requirements of the group leader are a bit harsh, you must know that this will mean that the bombing system of the two Yi-16s needs to be revised, and many places need to be improved, which is a big project. It stands to reason that such a major change to the aircraft is not something that a logistics unit at the level of a fighter brigade can do, and Lin Jun is demanding that the time for completion be tight, but for Vasily and his subordinates, it is not difficult for them, otherwise they would not be the most experienced aircraft logistics personnel in the whole Soviet Union.

That night, Vasily and a few veteran sergeants dragged two Il-16s into the maintenance room of the Madrid airport, closed the door and began to tinker. They installed five homemade bomb hangers on each side under the wings, retained the bomb hangers on the belly of the fuselage, and rearranged the aircraft bomb delivery control circuit. With this improvement, the aircraft can carry 10 10-kilogram Soviet standard flares, and a 50-kilogram small anti-personnel projectile can be placed on the middle bomb hanger. Due to technical and equipment limitations, the order of bombing is to press the bomb button next to the cannon fire button to throw a flare, press again to drop another projectile, and press the eleventh time to drop the anti-personnel bomb.

After two nights of night work, two modified planes appeared in front of Lin Jun.

"Well, he deserves to be a well-known mechanic in the whole Soviet Union, well done Comrade Vasily!" After learning about the performance of the modified aircraft, Lin Jun was very happy. Looking at the few sergeants in front of him who had to repair battle-damaged planes during the day and worked overtime at night, and now they were all exhausted, "Comrades, I will ask for credit for you then!" ”

He and Kobets flew the two planes in the morning of the same day, and also conducted a throwing test with flares without fuses, and the modification was very successful.

While Vasily and his men were still busy in the maintenance workshop, Lin Jun told all the pilots about the decision to attack Badajoz Airport at night, and the pilots unanimously supported him.

"Comrades, the fascist air force bombed beautiful Madrid and also destroyed our airfields. In a few days, Comrade Yakov will bring back the ashes of his fallen comrades to the motherland, and there is a saying that the time has come for the fascists to taste the bitter fruits of waging war! I decided that at 7:30 p.m. on October 4, 1936, the whole brigade dispatched all the Iraqi 16 night raids on the Badajoz airfield! ”

After listening to Lin Jun's speech, the pilots cheered, they all have the technology and experience of long-range night raids, and the bombing skills are also excellent, as long as the plan is reasonable and perfect, the night raid is very likely to succeed. Moreover, in terms of the technical level of the aircraft at that time, night bombing was extremely difficult, and in fact, there were very few successful examples of night bombing, which would have surprised the rebels.

The entire Madrid airport was mobilized for the captain's decision, and the commander-in-chief of the airport, Grandge, provided the most detailed aeronautical charts and geographical coordinates, and even included a complete plan of the Badajoz airport. In the wards of the airport hospital, Lin Jun, Andrupv, Yakov and the squadron leaders of the three squadrons 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.

Yakov was given the task of receiving the attack, and he would then lead the remaining ten I-15s to meet the air raid group 150 kilometers from Madrid. The two pilot planes loaded with flares were piloted by Lin Jun and Kobets, and the other I-16s were temporarily organized into two attack squadrons, led by Sergei and Zaitsev respectively.

All the bombs have been loaded, and the 10 planes of Zaitsev's squadron are 200-kilogram incendiary bombs, while the 12 planes of Sergei's squadron are all 200-kilogram explosive bombs. The bombs loaded by the entire air raid department, plus the fire of their respective machine guns and machine guns, were enough for Franco to drink a pot.

At 7:30 a.m., Lin Jun was the first to take off, and all Yi 16 took off into the air and flew into the vast night sky.

The flight will be a half-range radio silence, and none of the planes will be allowed to communicate until the attack is launched, and the other 23 planes will be guided by Lin Jun's pilot plane. On the back of Lin Jun's plane, there is a navigation light, which other aircraft will use as a guiding sign, and 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 above characteristics, the difficulty of this night attack can be imagined, this is not something that ordinary flight troops can do, but Lin Jun's subordinates are the best pilots, and they are not afraid of these difficulties at all.

The group has always maintained an altitude of 4,500 meters, and Lin Jun's plane is positioned slightly lower, in order to let the other planes see the only navigation light.

Only this lamp flickered in the dark night sky, and the pilots could only see the silhouette of nearby planes through the cockpit glass, and they heard nothing but the roar of the engines.

Lin Jun kept looking at his dashboard and made marks against the aeronautical chart. Today's flight reminds him of the night rescue operation on the sea of Chukotka in those years: the same night, the same monotony. But there is also a difference from that time, today there are comrades-in-arms behind him who will go with him to avenge the sacrificed comrades and the Spanish people who died, and today's Lin Jun is no longer alone.

The night was dark, but you could still see the outline of some geographical coordinates on the ground, small hills and dimly lit settlements. According to the instructions on the aeronautical chart, Lin Jun knew that his course was not deviated.

For the night flight of the aircraft, Lin Jun 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, Lin Jun saw a large light in the distance: Badajoz was right in front of him!

The arrogant Franco rebels and the German-Italian fascists did not expect at all: there would be planes that would dare to come to the air raid at this time! Therefore, there was no light control in Badajoz at all, and the lights of the city became the best "navigator" of the night raid formation.

According to the location of the city of Badajoz, Lin Jun had already determined the location of the airport, corrected his course and slowly lowered the flight altitude. Behind was a group of attack aircraft that followed closely.

The height is 300, and when the distance is less than 5 kilometers, Lin Jun broke the radio silence: "All attention, I am the chief captain Andrey. According to the original plan, it is necessary to fight quickly, and do not fall in love. Attack all! ”

"Understood!" The pilots' answers came from the headphones. At the same time, Lin Jun and Kobets' planes began to climb, while the other planes turned on their navigation lights and rushed to their intended targets according to their prior plans.

The Badajoz airport was as brightly lit as it was in peacetime, and since the rebels occupied it, German and Italian aid planes and pilots have been stationed. Although the planes that flew from here on October 1 suffered a crushing failure, and only 6 of the 54 planes that flew that day returned, the rebels, who were constantly replenished, now gathered more than 40 fighters and 30 bombers at the airport, filling the small airfield with the intention of bombing Madrid in a few days to retaliate for the last fiasco.

The airport is now brightly lit, and there are ground crews on the tarmac who are working hard to inspect and maintain the planes that have just arrived today. Some of the planes came to Badajoz in boxes, which needed to be reassembled, and mechanics were working on it in the airport's maintenance workshops and hangars.

While everyone was working overtime, someone seemed to hear the sound of an airplane's engine in the air.

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

Poor man, the war at the beginning and the comfort and arrogance for so long have made them forget what an air raid is, it's like "when the RB attacked Pearl Harbor, there were American naval officers who were still complaining: Which bastard flew the plane so low, I'm going to find out!" "It's just as ridiculous. The difference is that the RB people threw a criminal bomb on Pearl Harbor 5 years later, but this time Lin Jun sent a righteous punishment!

Finally someone reacted, "Air raid!" It's an air raid! "This is the pilot of the Condor, who lived through the flames of the First World War and remembers the terrible air raid sirens of the time.

It's a pity that the Spaniard next to him hasn't reacted yet, just looking curiously at the shouting German in front of him.

Looking at the blank look of the Spaniard on the side, the German pilot ran quickly towards the air defense sirens at the airport. Unfortunately, it was too late, and huge bright spots suddenly appeared in the air, which were flares dropped by airplanes, and flares with small parachutes slowly fell, illuminating the entire Badajoz airfield as if it were daytime.

Revenge began.