Chapter 563: Marshal Offensive 13 - Deadly Blast
Two black bombs roared down, coupled with the terrifying effect brought about by the bomber's dive just now, everyone who noticed this scene unconsciously lowered their bodies!
Not to mention the Germans, it was the Red Army itself, and the closest personnel to the target building were probably less than 150 meters!
The earth-shattering explosion, the two bombs accurately hit the roof directly, only about seven or eight meters apart! The high-explosive projectiles weighing half a ton smashed through two floors before they exploded, each of them filled with about 180 kilograms ******* explosives, and when the fuse activated the detonating charge, the violent chemical reaction instantly burst the thick shell!
In front of the Red Army soldiers in the distance, two groups of explosions of astonishing scale appeared, and the violent sound swept across like a wall, and those who were a little closer even felt the wave of air generated by the explosion!
The two bombs combined amounted to about 360 kilograms of explosives, and the violent explosion instantly destroyed the frame structure of the building! Right in front of the soldiers, the explosion knocked off half of the building in an instant, and even the exterior walls were shattered! When the smoke fell, the soldiers saw that there was still a small part of the building, but even that part was only a broken frame!
In a matter of seconds, a reinforced concrete building that was quite strong just now disappeared, along with at least one company of German troops who were still resisting inside!
And that's not all, the second Peter-2 bomber came down again! The Red Army soldiers had to wait for the charge, at least until the rack bomber above them flew away!
Instead of using the 55-degree dive angle of the deputy division commander, it was much more softened -- the pilot dropped six 100-kilogram "small bombs" when the plane reached an altitude of 600 meters, and immediately pulled the plane up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
If you use a large-angle dive, then carry nearly a ton (500 kg of aircraft bomb does not necessarily weigh 500 kg, but around this "500 kg", generally slightly off. It's hard to pull up - the building is no longer worth using FAB500 high-explosive bombs, but there are still some German fortifications around it that have not been completely destroyed, and the pilots use 100-kilogram aerial bombs to dive at a small angle, so that the impact points of the six bombs will spread out a little, and the killing effect of the opposite target will be better. It's just that it's more difficult to control the impact point of the bomb in this way, and it will be miserable if one of them is thrown on your own head!
The pilot's skill and audacity still frightened the Red Army soldiers below - this explosion point was much closer than the two 500-kilogram bombs just now! Bow your head and lean down, hiding behind the concealment, this shrapnel did not cause the city gate to catch fire and affect the pond fish!
6 100-kilogram aerial bombs, just like 6 203-mm grenades fell on the German positions at the same time, and a huge wave of air swept through everything with shrapnel! The pilot's audacity and the caution of the soldiers paid off: when Polbin pulled up and looked down, he just saw the effect of the bomb dropped by the No. 2 machine - it was very good, there was no need to drop the bomb again, and the target and the German fortifications around it were like a directional blast, and they no longer existed!
The explosion swept through everything, and the ground commanders who raised their heads to observe clearly saw that the obstacles in front of them had been completely cleared! (The kind of aerial bomb in the movie that explodes a few meters away from uncovered personnel, and the "Rambo" with the personnel still walking like a flight does not exist, that is the clumsy acting skills of a foolish war movie director who does not enter the stream - a 100-kilogram aerial bomb falls a few meters away, and the explosion effect is not something that a small ******* explosive block used as a prop can simulate, and people will not even have a slightly complete part left!) )
A little farther away, the planes of the other two squadrons did even more simply, both of them dropped eight aerial bombs in one go, and completely destroyed the target cleanly!
But in Polbin's opinion, it was a bit of a waste, too much to kill.
"I'm No. 1, each looking for a target and dropping other bombs, and the 3,000-meter altitude will meet!"
Adjusting the course slightly, the target was a two-story building a little farther away, and after half a circle, he dived down at 35 and dropped six 100-kilogram bombs in the magazine at an altitude of 800 meters. The explosion point was like a "bomb street", and the entire row of houses was destroyed in a violent explosion!
When Polbin leveled again, the navigator shouted: "Three o'clock in the upper left, German planes!" Height 3000! ”
Polbin looked up and saw a few black dots coming down on his side! "I'm No. 1 Polbin, all of you are out and returning at low altitude! Repeat again, all disengaged, return home at low altitude! ”
The escort fighters met the German fighters, and not only this formation, but also a group of Soviet fighters from the high altitude to meet the German planes. Polbin: They don't need to worry too much, their Pe-2 is not a slow bomber, or at low altitude, that is, slightly slower than the German fighter - the Germans should not play with their lives to pursue their own deep pursuit! Besides, their own bombers still have self-defense machine guns that are not weak, and with the cover of fighters, they will soon be able to get out of danger.
The German fighters at high altitude pounced on Polbin and their bombers, but this would be the same as the colonel's estimate, and the Soviet fighters would be enough for them to have a headache, and they could not care about pursuing the bombers.
Among the three Soviet fighters that pounced on the German fighters was a lone rag, piloted by a queen card, Lieutenant Lilia Litwiak.
Last night, the Shiwen Jonis Field Airport was working overtime, and even the maintenance of the battle-damaged attack plane returning from her own airport was temporarily postponed, and the maintenance personnel gave priority to repairing the damage on the wing of her landline overnight.
A large part of the wing surface was replaced, and the middle few damaged support beams were also replaced. Lilia woke up early this morning at 5 o'clock, and the fighter jet, which had been repaired and still smelled of half-dry paint on its wings, was parked on the tarmac.
The fuel tank has been refilled to 90 percent, the ammunition is replenished, and it is ready to strike. Lavnenko and others, who built and repaired the fighter at a better time than scheduled, did not rest, and repaired the broken wing of an Il-2 in the hangar.
Yesterday, the airport received the world's No. 1 air queen card as a guest of honor, and took out the best things that the airport could get to entertain the heroine. An hour after she arrived at the airport last night, the airport received a call from the field hospital of the 144th Infantry Division, Alexei Solomartin was undergoing surgery, the injury was not serious, and he could leave the hospital in a few days after recovery, but he would have to wait a month to fly the fighter again.
The lover was basically safe and sound, so that Lilia could sleep peacefully in the single bedroom let out by the airport commander. Originally, the airport had to send a car to take the queen to the hospital, but Lilia refused.
Many of the other pilots at the airport had chatted with her last night, and her fame and appeal were really great: she usually said that others listened, but this made Lilia a little uncomfortable, and in the end she listened to the "stories" of the attack pilots attacking German ground targets with relish.
Two Il-2s also shot down German fighters, thanks to the backseat machine gunners -- just as the fighter pilots and the fighter pilots shared their experience with each other and improved each other.
If the plane can be repaired, then she will continue to fight, and Alexei will not want his lover to ignore himself and fight. In addition, the airport has been informed by her superiors that early tomorrow morning, some fighters of the 1st Guards Division of fighter planes will arrive in the airspace over Nemenchny to carry out a mission, so that she can meet her comrades-in-arms in the air.
In yesterday's air battle, the 1st Division lost 7 fighters and lost 3 people, and it is estimated that about 12 German fighters were shot down. Kozhdub took off twice for combat and once again added three to its own achievements, and the report of the 1st Division discovering the new German fighter planes also aroused great attention from the upper echelons of the Air Force -- there was no need for the pilots to worry, the Soviet Air Force fighters were not slow to be replaced, and the more advanced Lager-7 fighters would soon be able to equip the troops.
Moreover, the actual operation of the first division showed that the new German fighter was not a difficult opponent to deal with, at most a little faster than the existing fighter, but its very good vertical maneuverability was obviously in the same vein as the German fighter, including the lack of relative circling ability.
Lilia saw the unusually conspicuous "Red Devil" a few kilometers away, but from the inherent communication frequency of the 1st Division, it was not the commander of the Kozhdub Regiment -- Acting Division Commander Pokryshkin who was piloting the "Red Devil" today.
Pokryshkin, unlike Kozhdub's style, does not use himself as a squadron leader - today their mission is a "mass safari", and they do not need to cover a particular bomber formation, but they deliberately wait here for the new German fighters to duel!
After returning to the airfield of the 1st Division in Minsk yesterday after the second sortie, Kozhdub and the pilots who had returned summed up their combat experience in detail and made some speculations about the performance of the new German fighters.
Because yesterday the 1st Division sent out basically all the top pilots, and generally used two-plane or even single-plane dogfights, which is also the tactic that the aces like: but this also leads to confusion for a short time when encountering unfamiliar opponents.
At that time, several commanders, including Pokryshkin and Kozhdub, decided: In the skies over Nemenchne, instead of adopting the tactic of double-tapping the small group of top pilots to attack, they would use another well-known tactic of the 1st Guards Fighter Division -- the "Minsk windmill"!
The formation of 8 planes, in a group of two planes with their backs to the sun, this tactic, which was originally called the "Minsk shelf", was renamed by the old captain who thought it was better to call it the "Minsk windmill", and from the effect, it is obvious that the pilots also like to call it "the big windmill".
At present, the "big windmill" tactic conceived by Pokryshkin has been popularized throughout the air force, and all fighter aviation schools have even taken it as one of the compulsory subjects: they want to use this tactic to compete with the new German fighters, and see who can come out alive after the "big windmill"!
Yesterday before the meeting was over, a telephone call directly from Moscow was transferred to the conference room through several exchanges, and the officer on the other end of the phone was an officer of the Technical Intelligence Department of the Air Force Committee.
Lin Jun combined the actual contact of the pilots, his own analysis and the intelligence sent back from the United Kingdom by the intelligence officers, and was very sure that the new German fighter that appeared was the Volker-Wolf 190. When he reported to the Air Force Committee, he learned that the Air Force Committee also thought so - the British did a very good job of keeping the performance of their own aircraft secret, but the prediction of the German FW190 was quite generous, and the Air Force Committee had already reported the predicted performance of the FW190 from the British.
Immediately report to all divisional aviation units so that they do not encounter any further confusion.
It seems that the Red Army intelligence department is a bit negligent in its duties at this speed, because the report given by the British is not a day or two, and it makes the front-line troops feel like they have discovered a new continent. In fact, it is normal to be in a war - if there is any disturbance on the other side of the continent, this side is very concerned, then there is no need to do anything else, just listen to the rumors!
Besides, the British did not want their "Spitfire" V to be beaten to the point that everyone knew about it, and the intelligence department of the Air Force Committee only knew that the Germans had new fighters for air combat on the Western Front, just like an experimental nature, and did not know how good it was.
This will allow Pokryshkin to pilot the division commander's plane, which is as familiar as his own, to drive Kozhdub back to his own "Eagle 13", and to ask Comrade Regimental Commander to command the second formation to attack, which will still be on the ground in Minsk.
Mixed in the group, they are all in a large formation of four groups of twin machines, the standard "Minsk windmill".
"I'm Eagle 12, 1 point direction, altitude 3000, German fighter! All of them are attacking! ”
Two formations of 8 planes roared and pounced on the German group, and the Germans also spotted them and met them!
The Germans are also full of enthusiasm -- the German pilots were a little illprepared by the sudden appearance of the "Red Devils" in Lithuania yesterday, and today they are also full of strength to fight the male and female, for fear that the Russians with all their bells and whistles will not come!
Soon, the two fighters were intertwined, and from the other side several Soviet fighters joined the melee, and the planes flew up and down over the battlefield, sometimes crisp, sometimes dull shooting with black smoke rising everywhere, and planes constantly falling with the yellow bullet casings!
The Germans are mixed formations, and there are not only FW190s, but also Mercedes Mitt 190s; And the Soviets were the same, with Lager on one side and Yak-3 on the other.
It can be seen that the Soviet planes are divided into two tactics -- the more one is two eight-plane lager formations, no matter how they fly up and down, as long as they catch fire, the German pilots will find that there is always a threat from Russian fighters behind and above, and they will not be able to aim and shoot at the target in front of them without threat! And those Yak 3 use the method of two twin machines covering each other, and after the hand-to-hand combat, it is a standard two-machine grappling.
In just a few minutes, the German pilots noticed that something was wrong with the situation - the formation of those rags was like a big rotor that was difficult to get out of once it was entered!
The German pilots were also experienced, and instead of engaging in a wheel-like grapple with Rag, they separated in a two-plane formation and circled farther away.
As soon as he saw that the German planes had dispersed, and that Pokryshkin's formation had just gained the upper hand, he resolutely ordered it to disperse -- now that it was dispersed, the own fighters in the formation could basically occupy the "rear-end advantage" in the initial stage of air combat, and the twin planes were dispersed: the purpose of the "big windmill" had been achieved, and the Germans had to disrupt their initial tactics.
(2nd update) (To be continued.) )