In the battles that followed, although the Chinese Air Force also suffered great losses, losing 473 combat aircraft of various types, it was undoubtedly much smaller than that of the Soviet Air Force. In order to minimize losses, the Chinese Air Force High Command decided to move the air strikes on Moscow to night. On the evening of February 22, a huge fleet of more than 1,000 planes took off again, and they were about to bring death into Moscow again. The dark night became the helper of the bombers of the [***] team. At night, a large number of Chinese bombers successfully flew over Moscow and other Soviet cities. Chinese planes roared in the night sky. The bombers in front dropped incendiary bombs on the target area, and the bombers behind them looked for flames and dropped various anti-personnel bombs. On the streets of Moscow, in crowded ghettos, in food stores in the capital, in one of the largest cities in the world, there was a loud explosion of bombs everywhere. The incendiary bombs turned the streets and alleys of Moscow into rubble, and shards of glass abounded.

Night air battles created new problems for the Soviet Air Force. Although the Soviet Air Force took off and intercepted with all its might, the initial results were not ideal. The Soviet Air Force also lacked sufficient experience in night city air defense. Of the remaining fighter units of the Soviet Air Force at that time, only 8 fighter squadrons could be used for night interceptions. Among them, 2 squadrons "PE-3" and 6 squadrons "I-16". These two types of aircraft are not good at surname, and they are not effective in air combat with the enemy during the day, let alone used in night battles. And the number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns and searchlights deployed near Moscow is already seriously insufficient, of which only 92 are heavy anti-aircraft guns. At that time, there were only 32 heavy anti-aircraft artillery batteries with a firing height of 25,000 feet, and only 22 light anti-aircraft artillery batteries with a firing height of 6,000 feet, only 14 searchlight companies, and a beam of light that could only shine to a height of 12,000 feet. The power of these anti-aircraft weapons is limited and far from meeting the requirements of such a large city.

What is even more difficult is that the "clairvoyant" radar network, which the Russians have helped to provide, which has always played a major role in air defense operations, cannot help it. Because Soviet radar stations were mainly deployed in industrial areas, most of them had already been destroyed by the Chinese Air Force during the month-long fighting. Information on the activities of Chinese aircraft over the interior of the Soviet Union could only be provided by the air observation posts scattered all over the country, but at night, all the air observation posts could only look at the night sky with black holes, and could not do anything.

The anti-aircraft operations of the Soviet army fell into a great passivity. Night bombing made the bombing of the Chinese Air Force a success, and the loss rate of the bombers of the Chinese Air Force was significantly reduced. Only 125 aircraft were shot down in February, far below the 362 in January.

The fierce bombardment of the Chinese Air Force has brought endless suffering to Moscow. Sometimes, 10,000 or 20,000 people died overnight because their houses were bombed or burned, and sometimes hospitals packed with people with stumps and broken arms were suddenly bombed by Chinese planes, and they could not escape but remained in flames; In some cases, sewers were blown up and lighting, power, and gas supplies were paralyzed; At times, thousands of exhausted people crammed into bomb shelters that were both unsafe and unhygienic...... At the beginning of the air battle for Moscow, the fighting and hard work of the whole of Moscow remained able to hold out. Nearly 1 million people enter and leave Moscow every morning and evening, and are able to go to work on time. But by the last week of February, Chinese planes continued to bomb hard. The huge casualties brought the morale of the Moscow populace to the brink of collapse and demoralization, and large numbers of people began to flee Moscow despite the death threats of the Soviet commissars.

In order to carry out the order of the Chinese High Command to "maintain political and military pressure on the Soviet Union", the Chinese Air Force dropped hundreds and thousands of tons of bombs on Moscow and other Soviet cities almost every night, and each large-scale attack killed thousands of Soviet soldiers and civilians, the number of wounded increased exponentially, and the number of people who lost their homes increased tenfold.

On March 2, the bombing of Moscow by the Chinese Air Force once again reached **. On this day, the Chinese's planning and experience were all used in this bombing. It can be said to be a typical act of arson. The focus of the air strikes was on the central district of Moscow. From the very beginning, the Chinese Air Force used heavy Lie bombs with parachutes to sabotage the main pipes of running water. As many as 6,500 places were blown up and caught fire. The railway station and the dock were badly damaged, and the Moscow City Party Committee office was destroyed by bombs and fires.

By mid-March 1945, China had made more than 200,000 sorties, 356 of which had been shot down, while Moscow had suffered the most complete damage and had become a volcanic hell. Other cities near Moscow were also damaged to varying degrees.

According to incomplete statistics, in the "Battle of Moscow" that began in November 1944, the Chinese Air Force dropped a total of 260,000 tons of bombs on the Soviet Union, causing 847,000 Soviet military and civilian casualties and destroying more than 500,000 houses. Just as Yang Shuoming had predicted, the horrific bombing of the Chinese Air Force had shattered the fighting spirit of the Soviet people, and the unprecedented unity and hatred of the entire Soviet people had disappeared. Moreover, in this war, the Soviet Air Force lost 3733 aircraft, almost 2000 pilots. China lost 925 combat aircraft and 312 pilots. The heroic and combative Chinese pilots inflicted unbearable losses on the Soviet Union.

Berlin, March 10, 1945.

On the boulevard of Hitlerstraße in Berlin, a Russian approached German Chancellor Strassel, who was strolling, and suggested having lunch with him while discussing something that might involve both interests. His expression was utterly benign, and there was no sign of uneasiness on his face that would normally result in a robbery or arrest.

"I ask for the best dishes." He added, "What do you think? ”

The leaves of the German plane trees that line the wide boulevard have begun to turn yellow, becoming metallic, taking on the color of Chilean honey. However, there was no autumn at all, and the weather was warm, and Strassel, facing the soft sun, shrugged his shoulders strangely for some reason, and replied softly: "Why not go?" ”

"For some reason, I think you'll refuse."

Strassel looked at the Russian in front of him again: "A man of great physique. He thought, in general, that they were very healthy, and it was understandable that they did not understand the war, that they lived far away from the tragedy, that they were young, that they were decades old, that they were not adults, they were just children.

He remembered the drizzle vividly. Local newspapers published speeches made in Moscow by Stalin, the "great commander-in-chief". The fact that the Supreme Leader of the Soviet Union was introduced to the audience in the Reichstag was none other than the German Foreign Minister Count Papen himself, which gave Stalin's speech a special significance. In black and white, a whole set of plans was put forward in one speech.

Reading Stalin's speech, Strassel put down the newspaper, struggled to get up from the squeaky chair (there were three chairs in the cabin of his so-called "guest room") and went out into the street.

In March, despite the cloudless sky, there was still a drizzle of Fifi, people hid under umbrellas, passed puddles in the middle of nowhere, and only real knights strode down the streets with their heads and solid coats - rain is not bullets, and it is not terrible. The first thing to consider is your appearance, and you must not behave indecently to avoid anything, let alone shelter from the rain.

He wandered around the city aimlessly. After reading the newspaper article, he could not concentrate. So when he found out that he had walked to the city center, he couldn't help but be shocked. Opposite is the Soviet Embassy. The tall building is frequented by people coming and going from time to time. It's already 9 o'clock and I'm going to work. Strassel stood by the newsstand, browsing through newspapers and magazines, and the newspaper seller pressed his wide beret to his brow like a pirate. One of his eyes was white, and Strassel's whole body shook whenever he heard his hoarse cries.

"Look at Stalin's speech, he will fight China to the end."

Strassel looked at the Russians who had entered the embassy. These people are tall and strong. It seems to be wearing a uniform: because of the large leather shoes, mesh socks, tight trousers, and a narrow tie, the cloak is short, and looks rough and ugly, usually camel or gray.

They walked and talked pleasantly with each other. Strassel understood somewhat what they were talking about, and he felt – judging by their facial expressions – that they were talking about trivial things: some were talking about how to spend the weekend in Munich, some were talking about the impressions left by the trip to Hamburg, and some were simply saying that the shoe on his right foot was a little pinched and had to be sent to the shoemaker, and that he was working on the corner of the street, and his craft was not bad and the fees were not high.

They are not ordinary people, wandering the streets, going to cafes, going to taverns, singing in theaters, treating patients in clinics - they are special people, some people who have been drawn into the political class - none of them are worried, frowning, depressed, and no one - judging by their expressions - does not seem to understand what happened yesterday in Moscow.

"It's—some clerks." At the time Strassel thought,. They can't see anything beyond the documents, and they lack the talent to look to the historical future. He knew that he had no right to judge all Russians by their expressions, although he was now more interested in the decision-makers, and the reproaches of the real propagandists would be naïve. He was thinking about how weak and powerless they were for the only socialist system on earth, the red [***] of the Soviet Union...... But there everything was decided by those who entered the Kremlin, and fortunately the country had Stalin. God decided to punish the country, recalled Lenin and put Stalin in his place. In Strassell's opinion, this man could not understand what Lenin had done......

Strassel frowned, for for for a moment he had a strange vision, and instead of a vibrant, clean-shaven face, he saw a dead body, a skeleton faintly visible through the gray bucket sutra. The mass death of mankind still depends on the knowledge of one man, who holds his own ideas as classics as a milestone in the rapid transformation of history. Yesterday in distant Moscow, Stalin spoke in that beautiful and quiet old building, and what did he read between the lines that frustrated Strassell?

Apparently, he understood, and to his shock was Stalin's talk of helping to build a fraternal alliance of 'good nations' in order to confront China. Such an alliance can be considered a special relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union. Stalin stressed that the fraternal alliance demanded not only the growing friendship between the same social systems, but also the maintenance of military relations and the joint use of all military bases, thereby strengthening the Soviet Union and increasing the armed forces of Germany.

Strassel was first surprised by Stalin's use of the word "empire" twice as proof that the previous policy, that is, Lenin's policy, was over forever. Stalin could have expressed the unique view that he could have made a radical distinction between the Soviet Union's social benevolence and the state socialism of the German Empire, but he did not do so, and he joined the crowd in applauding the arrogant "Uncle Covenant" and expressing his agreement with Stalin's speech every word.

Strassel believes that as a genius and profound statesman, Stalin spoke of creating an excellent national military alliance against China, and this passage was not only a threat to Yanjing, but also a cold guard against France and Italy. Rome and Paris were faced with the fact of creating a new effective alliance. In the following passage Stalin openly stressed: "The Chinese are operating not only in Europe, but in most countries far from the borders of Russia - in the whole world - this is a threat to European civilization." ”

Strassel understood that this meant that by this passage Stalin unequivocally demanded that the Italian and French political axes immediately exclude the opposition figures from the cabinet and unconditionally dissociate themselves from those who had made a great contribution to the struggle against Hitlerism. However, no one can give such orders to the sovereign states of Europe, as has often happened in the past. But it was the practice of Stalin's enemies, and could humanity be so forgetful?

Strassel understood that the past was over, and he read Stalin's speech slowly and word for word without interruption.

Stalin also instigated: "We cannot tolerate a slight superiority in strength." From my contacts with the Chinese, I believe that they are first of all happy with strength, and mutual status with China depends on all European countries and all relations. ”

Strassel understands that Yanjing will not be silent. Obviously, the answer will be drastic, Stalin knew what to do, he was already accustomed to imitating Stalin's surname, looking at things in Stalin's way. It appears that he had carefully estimated the possible objections before taking action.

On this very day, Strassel walked alone in the city. He knew that a problem had arisen that he had never thought of before.

That year, on that rainy day, he also had a terrible feeling of desperation: he was assuming, contrary to the ideals to which he had devoted his whole life, that the far-right forces attacking Germany were making a statement, and Strassel understood that those who openly bowed their knees to Hitler might show up and announce this plan which was unacceptable to Germany. These men were regarded by Hitler as hated enemies of the Reich and had contributed to the victory over the Nazis – humiliating and bitter for Strassel. He counted out 10 pesetas from the change he had saved, walked into a café, ordered a bottle of wine, and drank it all in one go. Drunk, he struggled back to the boarding house where the man who had come from Odesa eight months earlier had arranged for him to stay. He felt cold in his heart, and he didn't move, as if he felt the pain of the bullet in his chest and abdomen that day......

"Are you leaving?" The Russians asked.

"Of course."

"Can I go faster?" said the Russian, "I can go slower." ”

"Well," said Strassel, "it's better to slow down......"

"Please keep going," said the Russian, "not far." ”

"I've often heard people say that the 'Kubera' is a good meal," says Strassel, "and it's around here, turn right." ”

"I only trust the dishes I know...... Let's go, let's go, don't worry. ”

"Wait a minute," Strassel said, "red light." There will be a fine. ”

There were no pedestrians, no vehicles, the time passed when the road was congested, but the traffic lights on the street opened that stupid and irritable red eye, did not blink, stopped, and that's it.

"Maybe the light is broken." The Russians said.

"We should wait."

"To hell, let's go."

"Fines," Strassel said again, "think they ......"

The siren immediately sounded. A policeman who is not young, this sergeant is polite and does not like to talk. He refused to be fined on the spot. He confiscated his Russian driver's license and Strassel's identity certificate. He said he was going to check the address of the illegal lot, then walked to the sidewalk and got into a car without a police sign — he hid and waited to catch the violator.

"Bastard!" The Russians pretended to say, "Don't worry, I'll help you pay the fine." ”

Strassel smiled.

"Can't you go faster?"

"In a hurry?"

"Not in a hurry, but ......"

Strassel patted himself in the pocket, there was no cigarette.

"Want to smoke?" The Russians asked, "Smoking on the street is somewhat dangerous and leads directly to cancer." Nicotine invades the lungs with oxygen, which is a permanent surname, which is called thinking about one's own health......"

"Thanks for the advice."

"You don't believe it?"

"How can I not believe it?"

"You don't have the right to kidnap us......" Strassel said to himself, because I can't get out of here...... People who ignore the possible surnames of failure in the first place are doomed to failure...... I work only for the survival of Germany...... I am deceiving myself, but this deception leads to tragedy...... I had to stop it from happening, I had no choice...... This cannot be seen...... Strassel secretly corrected himself: I am still fighting, I have no right to lose in the fight, this is too unfair......

Is it fair for Bruno to be burned at the stake? He asked inwardly.

(To be continued)