After two weeks of special intensive training, 132 P-2s of the two aviation regiments were transferred to three airfields near the southern border. In the www.biquge.info past 10 days, each plane has conducted an average of 20 sorties for more than 10 days, and the pilots are no strangers to oil wells.

Different from the vigorous training of the pilots, in the past two weeks, the ordnance experts and comrades of the petroleum department also conducted several tests, and found that the effect of using solidification ****** for such a "dangerous" point target as an oil well is also very good -- a large area is blown up, and as long as the 200-kilogram solidification ****** hits within a radius of 30 meters, the small oil well will definitely not be spared: it will be burned into a pile of scrap metal without the help of oil! Of course, the refinery still has a good effect on blasting bombs, and a bomb goes down to a roaring large area, where the facilities are full of flammable oil.

Due to logistical considerations, Porenin decided to mount two FAB-250 explosive shells and two 200-kilogram solidification ****** under the wing of the P-2 to ensure that the target could be completely destroyed in a single attack, and he threw live ammunition during the last few days of training.

The aircraft has to bear huge overloads during large-angle dive bombing, so once the P-2 performs a large-angle dive, it must throw away the underwing load, otherwise it will be extremely dangerous to pull up, otherwise it will not be necessary to drop four bombs on a point target at once. Another point is that, regardless of technical difficulty, production process or source of raw materials, the cost of using solidification ****** for the Soviet Air Force is much lower than that of ordinary high-explosive bombs - most of the mass-produced solidification ****** use mild steel shells, in order to save aluminum, which is probably a Soviet characteristic.

Because of the difference in the material of the shell, the solidification ****** used today is not broken, but shattered - once exploded, even the worst quality gasoline can destroy everything.

The 48 Pe-2s of the 15th Brigade of the Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps did not immediately start training after arriving at the two large airfields in the Crimean Peninsula, they had to wait for the arrival of the logistics units, and there was no local technology and equipment to maintain these behemoths.

Although he did not immediately go into training, the brigade commander and brigade commander Vasily Nikolayevich Zhdanov was not idle, organizing the pilots to familiarize themselves with the materials at hand.

Two days later, a squadron of newest MiG-3 long-range escort fighters arrived at Zhdanov's airfield, and it was clear that the pilots of both sides were equally fascinated by each other's planes -- the fighters were amazed at the size of the Pet-2, and the bomber pilots were told that the 12 fighters would escort their 24 fighters: all-metal fighters were a rarity.

100 kilometers to the north, four other squadrons of MiG-fighters have already landed -- the 60 MiG-3s at the two airfields are the only long-range escort fighter units in the Soviet Union that are capable of fighting at present, and this time they will make joint sorties.

These 60 fighters were the entire escort force of his 48 heavy bombers and an incoming DB-3 long-range bomber regiment, and Zhdanov, who served as the air commander of the attack mission at the southern oil refinery facility and transit station, was a little uneasy at first, because he did not know what was going on with the MiG-3 that he had never seen, but he immediately gained confidence after seeing the real aircraft.

Vasily Nikolayevich Zhdanov, veteran commander of the Soviet bomber unit, joined the Red Army in 19, joined the Communist Party in 39, graduated from the Kacha Aviation School in 23, and later received advanced training in flight tactics, advanced training in Zhukov in 29 years, and again in Zhukov in 38 years, which was very much appreciated by Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Comrade Andrei.

As an air force commander valued by Lin Jun, his 15th Air Regiment was the first to change to the Peter-8 and served as the detachment commander for this raid.

Lin Jun's evaluation of this 45-year-old middle-aged commander is: He has all the excellent qualities and abilities required of an Air Force commander, and he is as good as Porenin!

Lin Jun did not exaggerate Zhdanov's ability at all, in history, he became an air force general like Polenin, an air force commander of the actual combat faction, the same bravery, and when he was the commander of the Eighth Army of the Air Force, he personally took to the air to direct the troops to carry out tasks. Although he seems to be a little out of his post, the task given to him is not unfinished!

Those MiG-3s also aroused Zhdanov's interest, for which he asked Glinka about the MiG-3 when he was reported to him by the leader of the fighter squadron, Dmitry Borisovich Glinka.

"I'm sorry, I can only tell you very little information, and like your bombers, the MiG-3 is classified. Equipped with two 23 mm running guns and two 12.7 mm machine guns, it has powerful firepower and performance that fully meets the requirements of this mission. In addition, all the pilots who flew the MiG-3 were excellent pilots with a lot of experience, there were no novices, and they basically participated in the Haraha River operation and the Northern Campaign. ”

The handsome young man can only say this, he can't say that the range of his plane is almost close to 3000 kilometers! And the fact that the maneuverability can fight with the Rag-5 when it is less than two-thirds of the fuel is discipline - the performance of the fighter needs to be kept absolutely secret! Who would have thought that in the family of Soviet fighters with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, a monster with a range of nearly 3,000 kilometers would suddenly appear?!

Chinese pilots once suffered a big loss in misestimating the range of the Japanese Zero in the skies over Chongqing, and the ultra-long range is one of the magic weapons of the fighter unit!

Before receiving the order from the regiment, Glinka could only say this, if he wanted to penetrate the performance of the MiG-3 to Zhdanov, then the order would have to be given by Lin Jun or Arxness, and even Porenin did not have this right.

Air commanders need to know the performance of all the aircraft under their command, and Lin Jun has not forgotten this, after the mobilized troops are basically in place, several detachment commanders and Porenin have obtained the equipment parameters of all the units participating in the operation, so that they can actually carry out effective deployment.

Those Pi-8 and MiG-3 are Lin Jun's treasures, and the selected troops and pilots are also the best of the best, although they are not as good as Sergei's regiment, but they are also outstanding. It's like Captain Dmitry Borisovich Glinka: Although he is only 24 years old and has only one old reconnaissance plane of the Finn, Lin Jun's potential as a young man - 50 in history! And this is still the official record, and like Pokryshkin and Kozhdub, Glinka often conceded his results to his subordinates.

41 of Glinka's historical records were shot down with relatively clumsy P-39s, and now the MiG-3 in his hands is not a stupid duck in the mouths of the Americans! Glinka also has one thing to praise: he was twice a Hero of the Soviet Union in history, and the Hero of the Soviet Union surnamed Glinka was not only Dmitry, but also one, and that Hero of the Soviet Union was also a fighter pilot, Dmitry's brother!

On February 12, 1941, the DB-3 of an aviation regiment landed on the airfield where Zhdanov was located, and this huge permanent airfield became full - Zhdanov personally went to greet the newly arrived commander of the aviation regiment, and his "temporary subordinate" made him feel a little indescribable, because although the regiment commander was only promoted to the commander of the long-range aviation regiment at the end of last year, he had already won the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" in 38 years, and his reputation in the air force was very loud. He is only 31 years old this year, but he is already a veteran pilot and commander, and his family background is also well-known in the Soviet Air Force, and his father is Grizodubov, one of the first Russian aircraft designers and pilots.

Who the hell is it? The commander of the regiment was a comrade - a Honored Female Pilot of the Soviet Union, who in 1938 served as a captain, and together with Malina Mikhailovna Raskova and Polina Denisovna Osipenko, she flew the "Motherland" and completed a non-landing flight from Moscow to the Far East, setting an international women's long-distance flight record (6,450 km in 26 hours and 29 minutes). Lieutenant Colonel Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova!

Polina Denisovna Osipenko died in the line of duty in 39, and Captain Raskova is now with Lieutenant Colonel Grizodubova as the navigator of the aviation regiment.

The arrival of two famous "Heroes of the Soviet Union" (both received the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" on November 2, 38. Zhdanov unconsciously went to greet him personally, showing respect for the decorated female pilots, instead of waiting for them to report.

Although there is no special women's aviation regiment, there are already many outstanding female pilots and female flight attendants serving in the Soviet Air Force, which is inseparable from the vigorous development of the Soviet aviation industry in the past ten years.

The chief navigator of the long-range aviation bombers that will be launched from the Crimean peninsula this time will not come from Zhdanov's aviation brigade, but will have Raskkova as the unanimous opinion of Lin Jun and Porenin, and none of the navigators at hand is better than this female comrade, and the units of other excellent male navigators are not suitable for this operation.

On the tarmac, two female pilots emerged from the cabin of the leader's DB-3 bomber, saw Zhdanov in front, and saluted him at the same time: "Hello, Comrade Zhdanov, the 22nd Bomber Regiment of the Long-Range Aviation Forces has come to report, we are all full, the commander of the regiment, Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova. ”

"Hello, Comrade Grizodubova, Comrade Raskova." Zhdanov accepted the command.

At the liaison meeting that day, all the male officers unconsciously focused more on the two female comrades, not because Grizodubova and Raskova were standard Russian beauties, but because of the glittering "Order of the Golden Star" on their chests - that is the honor that every pilot wants to receive! (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.) )