Chapter 357: The Barbarossa Project Begins

April 20, 1940 at 5 a.m.; 30, the German-Soviet border is silent, the stars in the sky have been hidden in the sky, the light below the horizon shines into the sky, and there is a trace of light on the ground when it is reflected on the ground. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, there was a lot of snoring in the barracks of the Soviet army, because the Soviet Union was located in the north, so everyone got up late, and on the German side, countless cannons had faded their gun coats, and the huge muzzles were held high, and countless German soldiers were lying on the wet ground, waiting quietly.

The rear airfields in Germany have long been busy, more than a dozen large airfields and hundreds of field airfields, all of which are brightly lit, all the planes are fully loaded and neatly parked on the runway, and the pilots of the planes have already boarded the plane, but they have not closed the cabin, they are also waiting for orders.

The air force was the first to start this German attack on the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union did not have a radar system, and Britain and the United States did, but it was impossible for these imperialists to sell radar, an advanced weapon, to the Soviet Union.

In order to deal the most fatal blow to the Soviet Air Force, Rommel ordered ninety percent of all aircraft to take off at one time, and another ten percent to guard the airfield.

Army Group North and Army Group Center had a total of 5,600 planes, Army Group South was more than 2,700 planes, and Germany used a total of more than 8,000 planes to attack Soviet airfields and railway hubs, and it was imperative to destroy the Soviet Air Force at the first time, and Germany dispatched more than 7,000 planes at one time, which was the first largest-scale air raid in human history.

The current Barbarossa plan is not exactly the same as in history, the direction of the strategic offensive in the early stage remains the same, and from the middle stage, the three German army groups will not attack Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad in three directions, but will concentrate their forces to attack Moscow.

Kesselring's air force headquarters is located in the Polish city government, where the communication facilities are complete, and all kinds of conditions are relatively good, and now it has long been converted into a standard air force headquarters, and the telecommunications room, logistics office, dispatch office, sand table deduction group, staff office, etc. are all busy.

At this time, it was only April, and the temperature outside was only about ten degrees, and Kesselring, who was looking at the time on the wall, was still a little nervous, the importance of this strategic plan, Kessellin did not understand, it was precisely because Kessellin understood the importance of the "Barbarossa" plan, so he was nervous.

The success of Kesselring's air force's surprise attack will determine the success or failure of the "Barbarossa" plan, and if Kesselring's air force does not achieve major results, the Soviet army with air force support will definitely not be easy to fight.

"Report, the first airfield is ready."

"Report, the second airfield is ready."

"Bell...... Bell ......"

The hand of the clock of the Luftwaffe General Headquarters pointed to 6, and the wall clock made a crisp chime, Kesselring shook his hands, and then gritted his teeth and picked up the microphone in front of him, Kesselring felt that the microphone seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

"All take off, carry out the set tasks, and wish my soldiers a triumphant journey."

"Bang bang bang...... Whew......huhu"

Three red signal flares rose into the sky, and countless planes on the airport that were ready to take off immediately turned their propellers, the roar of the engines was deafening, and the smoke emitted by the planes formed layers of pitch-black oil smoke over the airport, which drifted away outside the airport under the blowing of the breeze.

Countless planes began to accelerate, faster and faster, and then took off and pierced the blue sky, this time Germany prepared and built a lot of airports, a field airport arranged at most two brigades of aircraft, that is, eighty, large airports are generally arranged bombers such as large aircraft, but the number will not exceed 3 brigades, this is the overall dispatch of more than 8,000 aircraft, if the coordination is not good, it is very likely to be extremely chaotic.

That would have resulted in the loss of a lot of planes during take-off and landing, which was a serious dereliction of duty for the serious Germans, as had happened in the last Wehrmacht airborne landing on Crete, and after the Wehrmacht's vigorous rectification and summarization, and now with Kesselring, the commander of the Air Force, there were no accidents in today's take-off, and all took off smoothly.

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

After the formation of the air force, the German planes rushed towards their respective targets, and the target of the group was very clear, and the charts had already been issued to the air force commanders on the front line.

Amini, the commander of the 1st Aviation Division of the Far African Legion, is now the commander of the Air Force, and he has no choice but to stay in the army headquarters and command the troops.

This time, there are more than 900 planes in Amini's hands, which is enough for two full-fledged aviation divisions, Amini has a big killer weapon in his hand, and Rommel previously ordered and produced 50 ju89 long-range heavy bombers, all of which are in Amini's hands.

At this time, there was no need for the JU89 to attack the border areas of the Soviet Union, after all, the German JU89 was only 50 of them, and the production of such aircraft was not high, so Rommel strictly forbade Amini to send the JU89 out to fight at this stage.

"Report of the 1st Air Division: Our division has all taken off and is now flying over the Soviet border, and no Soviet aircraft have been found."

"Understood, the task of your division is to bomb all the airfields around Odessa, are the detailed tasks properly arranged?"

"Everything is deployed."

"Executed as originally planned."

"Yes"

There are not many bombers in the First Air Division, there are 480 aircraft in the division, "BF109" accounts for 200, and there are 128 JU87 dive bombers and 84 transport planes, the transport aircraft is Aunt Juncker, of course, it can also be used as a horizontal bomber, but this bomb load is a bit tragic only 2 tons.

Now it doesn't matter what the bomb load is, as long as you can fly, you have to load the bomb, even all the "BF109" are hung with two 250 kg bombs, no matter how big the target at the airfield, you can just throw it down.

Of course, there will be some "BF109" in all the formations, their task is to escort the bombers, but they hang bombs, the same escort, if they encounter the Soviet planes interception, "BF109" will directly throw away the two aerial bombs on the wings.

This is in the Soviet Union, and the German pilots don't care whether the bomb hits civilians or not, and the "BF109" that drops the bomb will immediately accelerate to intercept the Soviet plane.

Germany is on the Polish border, but more than a dozen radars are deployed, and as soon as the Soviet planes enter the detection range, all kinds of data of the Soviet planes will be immediately reported to the air force command, and the air force command will immediately arrange for interception, and the time will not exceed five minutes.

Lieutenant Colonel Hansen was awarded the Iron Cross of the First Class for his bravery in the North African battlefield last time, and his rank was also upgraded by one level, and now Hansen is a colonel and the deputy commander of the 1st Air Division, Colonel Hansen's mission today is to lead a raid on a military airfield in Odessa.

Rommel only ordered Amini not to go to the battlefield in person, and the other officers below Amini, Rommel didn't care, Catherine's air force, Rommel would not interfere, how to organize air raids, that was Catherine's authority, Rommel, the former enemy commander-in-chief, was not good at commanding the air force, so he would never interfere with Catherine's command. (To be continued.) )