Smith's combat characteristic is that he takes the lead, he absolutely can't say the words "brothers give me up", and he himself shrinks to the back, Smith is not the kind of commander, and leading the way is Smith's honor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The battle began in an instant, and Smith's forty "BF109s" swooped down against the Soviet piston swarm, which was a British Spitfire.

"Click...... Woowoo woo ......"

Smith was the first to hit a Spitfire, which plummeted to the ground in smoke, and Smith's comrades shot down more than a dozen Spitfires.

The fact that such a large result could be achieved in a single assault was entirely due to the command role of the German radar, which allowed Smith to be the first to know the altitude and position of the Soviet aircraft.

"Buzz...... Buzz ......"

In an instant, Soviet planes were scurrying around, this is the performance of rookie pilots, and when they meet a surprise attack, they are immediately in a mess, like headless flies, how can such a rookie pilot be an opponent of German pilots.

The formation of this Soviet aircraft group was completely disrupted, and it has to be said that the flexibility of the Spitfire battle, the performance of this piston aircraft is completely comparable to that of the German BF109.

The Spitfire flying around was very flexible to escape from Smith's attack range, but the bombers following behind the Spitfire began to be exposed in front of Smith, how could Smith be polite, and hurriedly accelerated to rush towards the bulky Soviet bomber.

"Click...... Woowoo...... Buzz ......"

The machine guns on the bombers were also firing fiercely at the "BF109", and the "BF109" used its speed and agility to shoot fiercely at the bombers from all directions, and suddenly more than a dozen Soviet bombers were shot down.

"Click...... Woowoo woo ......"

The Soviet Spitfire fighter who fled just now is not right at first glance! His mission is to protect the bombers to destroy the German-built airfield in Kovsk! If all your bombers are knocked out by the Germans, then they will bomb a fart! No, turn around and protect your bombers.

The desperate counterattack of the bombers, of course, also had an effect, at that time, three "BF109s" were shot down, whimpering and planted to the ground, at this time, those Spitfires who were disrupted in formation also rushed over and began to join the ranks of protecting their bombers.

Smith had to temporarily disengage from the contact of the Soviet bombers, the speed of the "BF109" was fast, but the Soviet planes did not pursue at all, but tightly protected their planes and continued to fly towards Kovsk.

The goal of these Soviet planes is very clear, that is, to protect the bombers to bomb your chicken coop, Kovsk is a temporary airfield, once the runway is blown up, all the planes there will not be able to take off and land, and the result can only be blown up on the ground.

Smith, who had no choice, could only turn the nose of the plane again and rush towards the Soviet planes, but there was no suddenness at all, it was completely hedging, Smith wanted to hit the Soviet bombers, and the Soviet Spitfire caught up, desperately trying to protect their bombers.

Although the Soviet pilots had only received the British and American planes, and had been trained for less than 30 hours, they quickly adapted after a short period of confusion.

Learning to fight in war is definitely not an empty phrase, and it is completely different between soldiers who have been tested in actual combat and soldiers who have not participated in actual combat.

"Click...... Woowoo woo ......"

The Soviet Spitfire was three times as large as Smith's, and the speed advantage of the "BF109" in the hedging battle was greatly reduced.

Nearly 1,000 planes roared in the sky, strangled together, and from time to time planes fell from the sky with thick smoke, of course, the Soviet Spitfire losses were larger, about 3 to 1 battle loss rate.

Twenty minutes later, Smith found that his plane had no ammunition, and hurriedly contacted his teammates to prepare to retreat, but he didn't know if he didn't contact, and when he contacted Smith, he almost cried, and his side lost twenty planes.

The Smith brigade alone killed the Soviets and lost about seventy aircraft, and even if Smith wanted to continue the battle, it was impossible, so Smith could only use his speed advantage to accelerate the retreat and then return to the Kovsk airfield to reload ammunition.

The fierce battle in the air continued, but more and more German planes began to return home, because the German planes ran out of ammunition, and the Soviet planes still had at least half a base of ammunition.

In this case, the German BF109 is equipped with weapons, the BF109G is equipped with a 30 mm cannon with only 600 rounds of ammunition, and two 12.7 mm machine guns with 1200 rounds each.

And the Soviet planes, whether they are Spitfires or P51 Mustangs, are equipped with 12.7mm machine guns with 6,000 rounds of ammunition.

The firepower of Soviet aircraft is not as good as that of German aircraft, but they have more ammunition! Halfway through the battle, they ran out of ammunition and had to return to the airfield to reload.

At this time, Steiner was also in a hurry, the Soviet Union sent planes from all directions to raid the city of Kovsk, according to the analysis of intelligence sent from the front line now, the Soviet Union put in more than 600 fighters at one time.

Steiner's five flying groups have been completely dispatched, and if there are Soviet planes, Steiner can only let three bomber groups take to the air without carrying bombs, which means that Steiner has planned to use bombers as fighters.

There is no commander-in-chief who will send the plane, and this kovsk airfield must not be blown up, otherwise it will be a big trouble.

"Report, Soviet fighters in the southeast have broken through our blockade and are coming towards Kovsk, and our fighters have completely lifted into the air, requesting bombers to take to the air for combat."

The commander of the Air Force, Colonel Drey, sent a request, Steiner had already thought of a countermeasure, since the Soviet army wanted to use surprise attacks from all directions to deal with the German air superiority, this really hit Steiner's soft underbelly, because Steiner did not have enough planes! There were only five fighter groups, but they had to deal with more than 600 Soviet troops, which was almost a ratio of five to one.

"Colonel Drey, you are in charge of the Air Force, you can fight as you want, you don't need to ask for instructions to fight, I believe you."

"Thank you, General Steinner."

Colonel Drey commanded his own bombers to take to the skies, and these 120-odd bombers did not carry aerial bombs, so they were much more flexible, but compared with the fighters, the gap was still very large.

Soviet planes began to fly to the German positions outside Kovsk, these ground infantry positions, which were not the target of the Soviet planes, but the airfields, and these ground positions had to wait until the German air force was eliminated.

"Aim...... Shooting ......"

"Bang bang bang...... Woowoo woo ......"

When these Soviet planes flew over the German positions, the various anti-aircraft guns of the German aviation division began to roar.

Rommel's emergency transfer of anti-aircraft artillery to Steiner played a big role, and with the addition of anti-aircraft artillery made up by Steiner's other units, Steiner had more than 300 anti-aircraft guns of various kinds in his hands.

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