Chapter 305: Hailar Air Battle

The plane took off from the territory of the Soviet Union and Mongolia in several ways, and soon after entering the territory of Manchuria, it was discovered by the border guards, and the telegram soon reached the border garrison of Hailar, and the border garrison troops quickly reported this information, and the staff of Hailar immediately issued an order, the air defense troops were prepared, and the aviation units were immediately lifted into the air. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Soviet aircraft were Il-16 and SB-2 bombers.

I-16 is also known as I-16. The I-16 fighter is known as a milestone for Soviet fighters, and was the first Soviet fighter with a cantilevered lower wing and retractable landing gear. The prototype TSKB-12 began to be designed in 1933. About 7,000 were produced in the thirties, and they were very successful in the Spanish War, in the battlefield of aid to China.

The SB-2 was the first all-metal aircraft in the Soviet Union with a fuselage and skin forming an integral load-bearing structure. The initial model was equipped with two M-100 engines to drive two metal fixed-pitch propellers. The engine radiator is located at the front of the engine, so that several vertically arranged tempering louver blades can be seen from the outside. The aircraft flew faster than most of its contemporaries, and in the mid-30s it was an advanced bomber.

According to the direction of the plane, Hailar judged that it was coming to bomb Hailar, and hurriedly ordered the fighters to rise into the air.

The Japanese army dispatched the Nakajima Type 97 fighter. Part of the 97 light bombers, in order to avoid being bombed on the airfield, also rose into the air.

The Nakajima Type 97 fighter, codenamed NATE by the Allied Forces, referred to as the 97 War, numbered KI-27, is a single-engine, single-seat light fighter developed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the late 1930s, and is also the first type of fighter with a single-wing structure equipped by the Japanese Army.

In the early days of the Pacific War, the aircraft was widely used in the Sino-Burmese and Indian theaters, and was gradually replaced by more advanced models, such as the Type 1 Land Battle, and the surviving aircraft were mainly used as trainer aircraft, and were also used in suicide attacks by kamikazes.

The Type 97 fighter was designed and produced by Japan's Nakajima Aircraft Company, and was also produced by the Tachikawa Aircraft Factory and the Manchurian Aircraft Factory, with a total output of about 3,386 aircraft. Due to its excellent horizontal maneuverability, it is also known as the "ultimate light fighter".

Ki-30 Mitsubishi

The 97 light bomber, put into production in 1936, in 1938 a large number of Chinese operations, the Pacific War was also very active in the early days, at the end of the war was mainly used as a suicide aircraft, the 97 type light bomber is a very important bomber of the army, mainly used to carry out more accurate dive bombing.

By this time, Soviet planes had already reached the skies over Hailar.

The pilots saw the city below and sighed in their hearts that the intelligence was too accurate.

The focus of Soviet bombing was on the airfield, and by this time the fighters had already reached the airfield, several planes and the Japanese planes that had risen into the air had already gone to war, and several other fighters, as planned, fired at the runway with the cannons of the planes.

The anti-aircraft guns fired, strings of shells rose into the air and exploded in the sky, and clouds of white smoke appeared in the sky. The plane was doggling in the air, not high above the ground, and the whole of Hailar heard it. The sound was too loud.

The bombers flew and aimed at the airfield and began bombing.

Several Japanese planes that had just risen into the air rushed towards the bombers, and the fighters escorting the bombers immediately rushed up and fought with the fighters.

At this time, hundreds of aerial bombs exploded on the airfield. The most bombs fell on the runway, and several planes that were taking off flew and rushed out of the runway, and one plane happened to be hit by aerial bombs, and immediately exploded and caught fire.

Bombs landed on aircraft bags on the edge of the runway and on airplanes waiting to take off in the open air. Japanese planes began a series of explosions.

At this time, a Soviet bomber was shot down, and the pilot urgently pulled the plane to the east and parachuted.

The second wave of Soviet fighters has arrived. A dozen or so planes that rose into the air were quickly shot down several times, as did the Soviet ones. The few remaining Japanese planes were surrounded by Soviet planes to fight more and fight less. The Japanese planes in the sky were no longer capable of making trouble with the bombers.

The first wave of bombers began to leave the battlefield, and the second began to bomb the airfield and nearby barracks.

A barracks was hit by several bombs, and the devil soldiers in the barracks who came out to watch the battle were like ants doused with boiling water, dying and running

At this time, the third wave of aircraft arrived.

Today, the airfield, positions near the airfield have been bombed, and the third wave of aircraft began to bomb warehouses and barracks north of the airfield. By this time, more than a dozen planes in the sky had already been shot down. The only way for the Japanese to counterattack was anti-aircraft guns.

Three minutes later, the third wave of aircraft bombardment also ended. The bombers began to withdraw, and the fighters circled a few times and also left.

Only 20 minutes before and after the air raid, the Hailar airfield was blown up, and more than a dozen warehouses and five or six military camps were destroyed.

Ten minutes after the Soviet plane left Hailar, Arshan's plane arrived, saw the Soviet plane fly away, and chased it westward.

Soviet aircraft lost five, four pilots parachuted. According to the plan, before the skydive, they all flew as far east as they could. They knew that there was someone answering from the east.

Several Japanese planes, following Soviet fighters, were also shot down on the east side of the airfield. More than a dozen downed planes, seven parachuted. The eleven parachutists all drifted to the steppes of Hailardong.

The Japanese troops on the ground saw it and dispatched three search teams to lead the wolf dogs, one was to rescue and the other was to arrest people.

Dodonov was the last Soviet pilot to parachute.

Last night, when drawing up the battle plan, the General Staff repeatedly stressed that if it was hit, it must jump to the east of the airfield. Friendly forces are in response to you in the east. He covered his comrades for parachuting, and after shooting down a Japanese plane, he was hit by a Japanese plane. And the plane that hit him was also hit by him, parachuting almost at the same time as him.

Dodonov flew his parachute eastward, and the Japanese pilot followed.

Dodonov saw that the guy actually operated a parachute with only one hand, pulled out a pistol with the other and shot at himself.

This madman! Don't you know that the effective killing distance of the pistol is only a few tens of meters?

Dodonov hurriedly turned. Trying to get rid of this guy. Two men quickly descended in mid-air. The Japanese pilot fired a few shots, but seeing that it had no effect, he simply put the gun away.

Both men were focused on each other, oblivious to a few people running rapidly in the sparse woods below, running in the direction of where they fell.

No wonder, the man who wrote about running had strange clothes, like a bundle of grass.

Dodonov landed first, he untied the parachute line, judged the direction in which the Japanese landed, and ran towards the east. I had just run a few steps when I heard the sound of running.

Could it be the Japanese? There was only one Japanese pilot, how did three or four come?

Dodonov hid in the bushes, pulled out his pistol, loaded the bullet.

At this time, the man came from the west, dressed like wild grass, and searched as he walked, and whispered in his mouth: "Hala Shao." Hala less. Another said, "He's right here, isn't that a parachute?" ”

Dodonov observed, rejoicing, this is a friendly army, because he knows that the signal of the Chinese friendly forces looking for them is to say two words in a row Hello, Russian. The answer is a sentence of hello, Chinese.

Dodonov stood up and said, "Hello. He knew that the friendly soldiers were wearing strange clothes and their faces were painted in strange colors.

And the three men saw him, and met him. Despite the color on their faces, Dodonov was happy to see them.

The four men were a few steps away, and suddenly, a man suddenly pounced on Dodonov and threw him to the ground. Dodonov was furious, what's going on? However, when he heard the gunshots, he realized that someone had saved his life. At this point, two other people threw themselves behind him and held one of them down.

The man who knocked Dodonov down: "Don't kill him, the commander has an order, catch him alive." ”

Another said, "Yes." Isn't this alive. ”

Dodonov, of course, did not understand what they were saying, one patted himself on the shoulder and said a few words, one tied up the Japanese pilot, and the third ran away.

After a while, the man who ran away came back with two parachutes. Dodonov is strange, why take a parachute?

Those people didn't care about his questions, took him with them, and escorted the Japanese away. The Japanese did not leave, and was knocked down by a punch from a fighter, and his body was arched in pain. The soldier didn't say a word, put the Japanese up and go!

A few people ran for more than three hours in the boundless prairie, and finally reached the foot of the mountain. At this time, several people came to the woods. Took them in.

After walking in the woods for less than an hour, over a small mountain beam, Dodonov saw that there seemed to be people in the woods at the foot of the mountain, and after walking a few steps, he saw several people running over, and the first three turned out to be his comrades-in-arms, Soviet pilots who parachuted before him.

A few people were naturally very happy to meet.

Dodonov asked: "Did you send a telegram?" ”

One of the Soviet pilots told him that a telegram had been sent. The Soviet command has confirmed that the three of us were rescued.

At this time, a friendly soldier pulled him to a telegraph and told him to send a telegram.

After Dodonov sent the telegram, he saw that the fighters were waiting for him. Not far away were eight Japanese pilots, and a friendly soldier was giving them a speech in Japanese he did not understand.

After resting and for a while, Dodonov had already eaten and figured out the process of the rescue of his comrades. At this time, friendly soldiers continued to gather, and by now there were about fifty people.

At this time, a friendly soldier ran over and said a few words. The commander of the friendly army led by him waved his hand, and everyone understood that the devil search team was coming and retreated.

Soon, they entered the mountains and threw off the Japanese.

The Soviet pilots rested for a day and, escorted by friendly troops, set out on their way back. The friendly forces did not know where to find some local Tatars, and there were quite a few horses. Everyone rode horses, and it took more than ten days to make a detour to return to the territory of the Soviet Union. Along the way, in addition to the poor sleeping conditions, the food was very good.

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1, Soviet pilot Valentin

Dodonov was shot down while fighting Japanese fighters with an I-16 fighter during the Battle of Songhu, and later hid in a Shanghai residential house, where he was later discovered and captured by searching Japanese soldiers. The captured Soviet volunteer pilots were not shot by the Japanese and were not able to return to their homeland until the end of World War II.