On combat readiness duty of the 1st Fighter Group, two squadrons of aircraft were on the airfield at any time waiting for a sortie, a total of 24 fighters. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThese include 16 I-16 and 8 I-15. The other planes are hidden in the woods on the edge of the lawn and can be dispatched in 20 minutes if necessary.

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket." -- This is Lin Jun's consistent style.

According to Lin Jun's arrangement, a two-plane formation will take off to patrol every two hours, with six shifts a day to ensure an "air presence" of more than 10 hours during the day. In this way, it was possible to prevent a sneak attack by the enemy, to maintain the morale of the troops and to improve the morale of the army of the Republic near Madrid.

The original establishment of the three squadrons has been broken up and reintegrated, and according to the requirements of Lin Jun's two types of fighters, two twin planes and four aircraft detachments, the new squadron is all 8 Yi-16 and 4 Yi-15. Of course, there is no need to be bundled together during combat, and it can be flexibly handled according to the actual situation. 1st squadron leader И-I-Kobets, squadron codename "Wolf Warrior"; Captain of the second squadron Sergei Ivanovich Grisesvets, the squadron was codenamed "Golden Eagle"; The commander of the third squadron, Vasily Aleksandrovich Zaitsev, was codenamed "Destruction", and all three squadron leaders were very skilled pilots.

Lin Jun and Andlupuf were independent of these three squadrons, formed a separate two-plane formation, codenamed "Eagle", and ordered that if an accident happened to himself and Andlupf, Kobets would become the first leader of the brigade and lead the troops. For this future commander of the Air Force, Lin Jun is relieved, this squadron leader has convincing leadership skills.

At that time, air combat was still dominated by two-plane formations, and there were no later three-plane formations and two-plane tactics, although Lin Jun wanted to promote the latest and more effective tactics, but at present, the fighter models in his hands are not uniform, and the performance is single, and it can only remain the same. At present, the logistics unit of the brigade has also been put in place, seven reserve pilots and 10 spare fighters have also arrived at the airport, and the ground crew is busy assembling the aircraft that has been disassembled into parts.

Now Lin Jun has a fully equipped and high-spirited army in his hands, just waiting for the rebels to patronize Madrid!

On October 1st, it was cloudy.

At 9 a.m., the sirens at the Madrid airport, which had been idle for several days, remembered the poignant and piercing sirens of air raids!

All pilots on combat readiness duty were ready for takeoff within 5 minutes, and for a time the airfield was filled with the roar of engines.

"Eagle, Eagle, I'm the Tower! The patrol planes encountered a large group of rebel aircraft 150 kilometers from Madrid in the direction of Badajoz, with an estimated 30 fighters and 20 bombers, the fighters were German Henschel-51s, the patrol planes had already launched an attack, and they asked for support!" The person who spoke was Commander Grande.

"Damn, these two guys are ruthless enough, they dare to fight two to fifty! How are there so few bombers, there may be a problem! Lin Jun in the cab thought.

"Tower, Eagle receive! All note, the "Golden Eagle" and "Doom" squadrons took off with me to attack the enemy group of aircraft in the direction of Badajoz, and the pilots were ready to fly the assembled aircraft to come to support. The "wolf warrior" is in charge of the house, the number of enemy bombers is too small, there may be problems, to prevent the enemy from sneak attack! "Golden Eagle", "Destruction" take off with me! Lin Jun decisively gave the order, "Tower, quickly let those two patrol planes out of the battle, just keep an eye on the direction of the enemy aircraft group." There are too many enemy aircraft, they are not opponents! ”

"The tower received it, and immediately summoned them out of the battle."

"Hopefully, it's still too late!" Lin Jun was thinking. The two patrolling planes were the I-16s of the 2nd Squadron, and if they wanted to withdraw from the battle, the Henschel-51 would not be able to catch up.

Twin planes took off in formation, passing through the city of Madrid and heading straight to the southwest. The "Wolf Warrior" squadron and 5 reserve planes that remained at the airport were also preparing for takeoff. Fifteen minutes later, under the leadership of Yakov, five reserve I-16s also took off and went to the southwest to support. Taking off behind them were two twin formations of the "Wolf Warriors" squadron, which patrolled in two directions to prevent rebel aircraft from sneaking up on the airfield.

Madrid citizens who heard the air raid sirens had already entered the nearest air raid shelter, while the air defense personnel on the ground were in their positions and closely watching the situation in the air.

The soldiers and civil defense members on the air defense position looked at the group of planes flying in the air to the southwest, and they were silently blessing them: looking at today's posture, this should be a real vicious battle, and I hope the brave pilots have good luck!

14 I-16 are at an altitude of 6000, and at a slightly lower altitude of 500 meters behind are 8 I-15s, heading southwest. Lin Jun, who was at the forefront of the group, turned on the intercom: "All pay attention, judging from the situation of the enemy aircraft group, they should not have 109, after receiving the enemy, all Yi 16 will impact the bomber group once, and resolutely disrupt their formation, Yi 15 must ensure the safety of our back during the first attack, and after the impact is completed, all the enemy fighters will fight, don't care about those bombers, the reinforcements behind will block them." All understand that there is not! ”

There was a "understood" answer from the headphones.

A few minutes later, Lin Jun had already seen a group of enemy planes at 11 o'clock, and the bombers were all Junkers 52, and the altitude was slightly lower than Lin Jun's plane. Due to the cloudy weather, the sun did not help either side, and both sides spotted their opponents almost at the same time.

"Comrades, I am invincible! For the sake of the Soviets, follow me! Lin Jun roared loudly in the intercom, pushed the throttle and took the lead in rushing towards the enemy bomber group, and behind him was Andlupf and 7 other Yi-16 twin aircraft formations that followed closely.

I saw a group of one-winged I-16s rushing into the Junkers group, all the fighters ignored the barrage fired from the Junkers turret, and fired a salvo of machine guns at their chosen targets, leaving traces of tracer bullets everywhere in the air.

Lin Jun, who was at the front of the group, rushed until he was 200 meters away from the Junkers at the top before pressing the gun and machine gun firing buttons at the same time, which can basically be said to be a head-to-head shot, which directly turned the Junkers cockpit into a sieve. Andlupf behind him also set his sights on the one next to the Junkers, and instead of attacking head-on, he made a slight turn to the left and fired four volleys at Junker's right flank, leaving hundreds of large and small holes in the right fuselage and right wing of this Junkers.

The load-bearing structure of the Junkers wing, which was hit by Andlupf, was completely destroyed by 20-mm shells, the right wing snapped in an instant, and Junkers began to fall to the ground at great speed.

In an instant, the I-16 group had already crossed the rebel bomber army, and 9 Junkers in the bomber group began to fall, while the other bombers targeted by the I-16 also had varying degrees of damage.

It is worthy of being called "the best fighter group in the whole Soviet Union", and it shot down nearly half of the enemy's bombers and damaged many of them in the first impact.

Lin Jun raised the nose of the plane and turned sharply to the left, and there were two Henschel-51s on its left side that were shooting at him fiercely, and Lin Jun had already felt the sound of bullets hitting the shell of the plane. In an instant, the two sides crossed each other.

I turned a corner at great speed, and saw that the two Henschel-51s were also making a sharp turn. At this time, Lin Jun chose to climb at a large angle, because the vertical performance of the Yi-16 was higher than that of the dual-wing Henschel-51. I don't know what the reason is, these two Henschel-51s did not choose to pursue Lin Jun, it may be that they also realized that the climb performance of their aircraft is not as good as that of the Yi 16, and now the 60 fighters on both sides are in a mess, and they can find the next target anywhere.

"Since you don't come, then I don't bother to pay attention to you!" After a quick look at the surrounding situation, he saw that one of his own I-15s below was chasing a Henschel-51, and a Henschel-51 was closely behind its butt.

Lin Jun pressed the nose of the plane and pounced on the Henschel-51 behind him.

The Soviets suffered in terms of the number of aircraft, so a situation often arose in a small area between two Henschel-51s and one Iraqi fighter. The Henschel-51 in the back was firing fiercely at the Soviet fighter in front of him, but its pilot was now very angry, because he failed to hit the target in front of him several times in a row, it was too nimble, and it was still chasing after its own long plane!

The Henschel had no chance to shoot again, and the driver's attention was completely focused on the target in front of him, not noticing the threat from behind.

Lin Jun rushed to a distance of 50 meters from the Henschel before pressing the machine gun launch button, and at this distance, he could clearly see countless bullets hitting the cockpit of the plane in front of him.

With a push of the joystick, the E-16 rises at high speed. At the same time that Lin Jun detached, the Henschel lost its balance and entered a spiral state, its driver already being beaten into a hornet's nest by the machine gun bullets fired from behind.

The headset was so cluttered with sound that it was hard to hear who was calling. At this time, there were three Henschels in front of them fighting with two Yi 16s, "Damn, Lao Tzu is here!" Before he could reach the target area, he saw one of the I-16s maneuvering in a beautiful S-shape, and it slowed down at the same time, and went around behind Henschel, who was threatening his tail, and with a machine gun, Henschel in front was hit before he could react, and fell to the ground with black smoke.

"Beautiful!" Mentally shouted, but there was no time to pay attention to who he was, because the second Henschel had already appeared in front of him at a 30-degree dip of less than 500 meters.

The Henschel pilot had sensed the threat behind him and was trying to get rid of it. Lin Jun was willing to let him go, staring at him.

The pilot of this Henschel should be a veteran, and Lin Jun missed several shots. The more he couldn't hit, the more calm Lin Jun became, "I'll stare you to death!" ”

As the distance between the two planes shortened, Henschel in front made a fatal mistake. It wanted to make an S-shaped action to the left with the horizontal maneuverability of its biplane, which had a slight advantage, but unfortunately due to the huge psychological pressure brought by the close distance, the action was not fully completed, and the nose of the aircraft had a little rising angle, which made its bomb surface larger. The machine-gun bullets fired by the I-16 hit its tail wing, shattering its rudder into rags.

As the rudder broke, the plane's maneuvering became extremely sluggish, and the machine-gun bullets fired from behind continued to hit its tail fuselage, and the pilot had to choose to parachute.