Chapter 341: Be Prepared
The Kremlin is brightly lit tonight, and its offices are still busy until midnight -- the war should not stop for night, especially since the war has been going on for less than a day and night, and the two sides are still exchanging fire with all their might. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The lights were only on the inside of the building, all the rooms were blocked by thick curtains, the lampposts on Red Square were no longer bright, and the whole of Moscow looked dark from the outside - from tonight Moscow and all the cities further west of the Soviet Union were under the control of lights.
Germany did not vigorously develop long-range bombers, and from the perspective of the development of the war, this was Hitler's biggest mistake in the Luftwaffe strategy: the Red Army withstood the first wave of German attacks, and there were no German bombers from the west to threaten Moscow, but according to Lin Jun and Andlupf's calculations: if it attacked from the Finnish border, Moscow would still be within the radius of the attack limit of Heinkel He111.
In the morning, Lin Jun issued a light control order, and all factories, mines, enterprises, and households in Moscow mobilized to put cross-shaped tape on the window glass, and pasted newspapers with paste if there was no tape (to prevent more casualties caused by splashing glass during the bombing). )。 Rooms that may be lit at night are covered with thick curtains, and if the curtains are not enough, use anything that can block the light, such as bed sheets.
The power department did not turn on the street lights and all public lighting after dark, and for the first time in more than a decade, Moscow entered "night". Of course, Lin Jun did not think that the Germans would risk bombing Moscow today, only he would take such an adventure, but it was always right to be prepared.
Comrades of the district and neighborhood committees of Moscow organized patrols after dark, and workers' pickets were urgently formed: tonight was to check the implementation of the light control and help all units and families to meet the required standards of light control. In fact, during the day, any resident who has a family problem or does not know what to do can ask the comrades in the street for help. Tonight, the patrol is to help those families and units that have not met the standards, and if there are any mistakes tomorrow, the "Lighting Control Order" will not be polite -- if factories, mines, enterprises, and individuals violate the "Lighting Control Order" tomorrow night, the responsible person will have to "explain the reasons" to the people's committees at all levels, and that will not be a joke!
Muscovites know that the Lights Control Order is not a joke, and whoever does not take it seriously will be shot - the very simple and most serious crime: treason! The legal process can be simplified, and the people in the Ministry of the Interior are familiar with this.
Lin Jun believes that Muscovites are all good, and if a "Lighting Control Order" is not done well, it will not be called Muscovites! Now even the special cars of senior leaders and marshals and generals are driving in Moscow at night to pick them up, and no one is an exception! Tomorrow night, if any daring driver were to turn on the lights on the streets of Moscow, it would not take half an hour to be in front of the bullet wall where the condemned prisoner was executed!
As during the day, war reports on the Western Front were constantly delivered to the Kremlin, and everyone was in a state of high mental tension, and Lin Jun was no exception: within two hours of receiving Porenin's call, he signed an order for the transfer of 56 divisional units to the Western Front, and issued dozens of documents to increase the production of military supplies.
The time was almost there, and Lin Jun was a little nervous and waited for the telegram from the bomber unit: although he knew that the Germans should not be prepared to be bombed, his air attack on Romania had already let the Germans know the long-range attack capability of the Soviet Air Force, and he had to worry.
There was a knock on the door, and it was Gusev who walked in: "Chief, received a telegram from Major General Zhdanov: target Berlin, the bomb has been dropped, the mission is complete!" ”
Exhaling deeply, I could imagine what it was like in Berlin now, "Luck is needed!" ”
The Kremlin constantly receives telegrams: Rostock, Stralsund, Novobrandenburg...... Good news after good news, the Germans were simply defenseless!
In addition to Berlin, the other targets are important factories near the city: shipyards, bearing factories, tank factories, aircraft factories....... Lin Jun wants to maximize the actual effect of a bombing! Tomorrow night he will also send long-range bombers to bomb German strategic targets, but only twice, from the Baltic "northern front" to bomb the Manrenahin factory near Rostock and the fleet of planes taking off from Ukraine, and to bomb the industrial area near Prague in Czechoslovakia.
After tonight, Hitler, who was on fire in the backyard, would definitely let the fat man from Goering strengthen the air defense of the German homeland, and the "northern front" because of the cover of the Baltic Sea, the air raid on the Manrenagane factory not far from the sea still had a high probability of success, and the "southern front" was located in Czechoslovakia, because the industrially developed military industry of Czechoslovakia had been completely integrated into the German war machine, and for the Soviet Union, the effect of bombing the heavy industrial area near Prague was the same as that of bombing the industrial area of Hamburg.
Porenin will be in charge of the task of attacking the German army's strategic targets starting tomorrow, and Lin Jun will only listen to the report -- today Porenin told Lin Jun that he is personally not optimistic about the strategic bombing of Germany, and of course it is necessary now. It is still the most suitable for the current situation to carry out tactical and campaign air raids. Lin Jun agreed with Porenin's opinion and left the decision entirely in Porenin's hands: he didn't have many long-range bombers in his hands, and at present, Lin Jun signed the emergency air force equipment production order, in which new dive bombers, attack planes, fighters and medium-range bombers accounted for the absolute majority, and the number one in the production order was the Il-2 - Lin Jun knew what the Soviet Union needed most at the moment!
To use good steel on the edge of a knife, we can only temporarily resign strategic bombing to the end.
One of the batches of tonight's strategic bombing operation was carried out by the Tactical Air Force - the bombers of the Baltic Front Air Force bombed the industrial area of Königsberg in East Prussia, and most of the Pi-2 and SB-2 of General Tukhachevsky's Air Force were used.
Stalin was very satisfied with the success of the strategic bombing operation: he was also venting his evil spirits, and he completely listened to Lin Jun in the guiding ideology of the air force's operations, although Stalin wanted to bomb all the cities in Germany to pieces! It's better to blow Hitler to the ground!
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The entire German air defense force already knew that Berlin and many industrial targets were being bombed, all fighters that could take off would take off in a short time, and the few radars of the Germans would be looking for targets all over the sky.
Dmitry Borisovich Glinka and his men clearly saw the great fire rising from Berlin - their difficult task was still to come!
The Germans had night fighter units, although there were not many, and most of them were on the western front, but there was no guarantee that they would not encounter a group of dogs jumping over the wall in a hurry -- the Luftwaffe was scattered on the eastern and western fronts, and most of those in the country were also guarding against the British, and they were not on this side. But if you encounter a group, this weather is like a blind monkey can also spot your own formation 5 kilometers away.
I'm really worried about anything! Less than half an hour after flying from the city of Berlin, the pilot's call came from the formation: "German fighter, azimuth 270, altitude 3500, distance 5 km!" Quantities of six to eight!
When he looked down on his left side, he could see a formation of planes approaching him from a distance, "German night fighters!" I'm Group Captain Glinka, the first and second squadrons come with me, and the third squadron protects the bombers! ”
Glinka immediately made a decision, and the 24 MiG-3s immediately turned to the left at high speed to meet the German night fighters - it was the German Bf110D twin-engine fighters, which were supposed to take off from the airfield north of Novobrandenburg, and before they could intercept the Red Army bombers bombing Novobrandenburg, they happened to collide with Zhdanov's formation.
In fact, these Bf110Ds are day fighters, and the Germans are also dead horses, and they took off 6 at the fastest speed, and now their opponents are 24 MiG-3s that have entered the "best air combat state"!
"Twin-engine fighters are clumsy, but they have great firepower, and they must not be allowed to get close to the bomber formation!" Although he couldn't see the model clearly, Glinka knew it very well. The most difficult thing in the night is to find the target, and if you are not careful, you will lose it - the MiGs have an altitude advantage, and they also have an absolute advantage in maneuverability, and they dive into the German aircraft formation from a small angle at an altitude of 4,000 meters.
The Germans will only then find out that the Soviet bombers were escorted by fighters, and they were single-engined! It was stupid to fight with the same swarm of single-engine fighters, and the battle of Britain had already made the German pilots understand this - not only would it not be a danger to the Russian bombers, but it would put themselves on board!
The German leader decisively ordered the formation to disperse - to retreat! What if you don't withdraw?! There were a few machine guns that were empty, two without machine guns, and the troops did not expect the Russians to come at all, and taking off so quickly can be said to be well trained. Their own Bf110 is still good for dealing with bombers without fighter escort - and fighting with single-engine fighters? That's suicide! Needless!
Only a double-strike formation was able to fire and explode a Bf110, and Glinka stopped his men from pursuing - the task of the escort group was not to wander around in the vast night sky, but to protect the precious bombers returning to the Soviet Union.
A little more than two hours later, the Zhdanov formation returned to the Liepaja airfield without a single loss of all aircraft! Half an hour later, the results of the entire air raid were out - except for Zhdanov's formation, not a single batch of aircraft was intercepted by Luftwaffe aircraft, only a small amount of anti-aircraft fire, and there were no substantial losses. Two DB-3s suffered mechanical failures and returned early, and one was wounded by anti-aircraft artillery fire, and the crew made a forced landing in the Lithuanian-controlled area.
The air raid operation was a complete success! Lin Jun can be regarded as completely letting go of a stone in his heart. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )