Shcherbakov saw the two guards shouting loudly, and lifted Stalin up with all his might, and Stalin did not seem to be injured, but his ears were bleeding continuously, and the blood ran all the way to his shoulder, apparently like himself, the eardrum was broken. A dazed look appeared on his face, as if he had not recovered from the damage caused by the violent tremors.

Shcherbakov tried to move his body, he felt a sharp pain all over his body, let out a groan that he couldn't hear, and then two guards rushed to pick him up and carried him to the stretcher.

Shcherbakov, who was lying on the stretcher, turned his head with great difficulty, and he saw that Stalin, Mekhlis, Molotov and Kalinin were also carried on the stretcher. The guards carried them and hurried out of the office of the Supreme Leader.

Shcherbakov understood that it must have been the Chinese's bomb that had caused great damage to them just now, and it was a powerful bomb.

It's just that Shcherbakov didn't know that this kind of bomb that almost killed their gang was absolutely more powerful than he imagined.

On the "Gaokong No. 1" flying saucer, Yang Shuoming was carefully watching the fierce bombing of Moscow by the "Hongyan" strategic bomber group through the porthole.

A huge "rolling thunder" bomb broke away from the belly of a "Hongyan" strategic bomber and fell straight to the ground, and soon, the dark red fire rose up, mixed with heavy smoke, Yang Shuoming could clearly see that with the explosion point as the center, the huge shock wave extended around, and the ground seemed to be boiling, and wherever the shock wave went, everything was wiped out.

The "Rolling Thunder" bomb is the largest type of bomb that China has developed and equipped its troops with, with a staggering weight of 6,043 kilograms, a length of 7.4 meters with a tail wing, a maximum diameter of 1.065 meters, and a ratio of length to diameter of 6.95. The interior was filled with 3,200 kg of mixed aluminium powder, which accounted for 47% of the total weight of the bomb. Due to the incorporation of aluminum, the explosives burn more fully and violently, and the explosion pulse lasts longer, exceeding 50% of the power of TNT explosives of the same weight. During production, the aluminum-minced mixed explosives were melted into a slurry and carefully poured into the inside of the inverted cartridge casings.

Wu Wenxi, a famous Chinese engineer, designed a slender and slender streamlined figure for "Rolling Thunder", because the shape of the projectile body resembles the mallet used by Lei Gong in ancient China, so it was named "Thunder's Mallet", commonly known as "Rolling Thunder". The "Rolling Thunder" can be dropped from an altitude of 6,000 meters at a speed of 270 kilometers per hour, reaching a speed of more than 1,320 kilometers per hour when it reaches the surface, and can penetrate a concrete layer 6 meters thick, creating a crater with a diameter of 40 meters and a depth of 32 meters. But the high speed also creates a lot of tricky problems. First, high velocity generates a huge amount of impact energy, and a violent impact can cause the projectile to deform, fail the fuse, or explode prematurely. In order to solve this problem, Wu Wenxi put on a hard "armor" for the "rolling thunder" - a hard reinforced steel shell, and the head of the bomb shell was also designed with a specially strengthened steel cone, and the thickness of the head cone was more than 10 centimeters. In this way, the penetration of the "rolling thunder" is guaranteed; Secondly, it was found in the experiment that the "rolling thunder" is difficult to maintain stability during the descent process, and will always "turn its heels" inexplicably. After analysis, it was found that "Rolling Thunder" loses its balance when breaking through the sound barrier. Correspondingly, Wu Wenxi slightly twisted the tail of the bomb by 7 degrees to strengthen the gyroscopic effect, so that the bomb always rotates around the central axis during the falling process, which will not appear pitch and deflection, and also improves the accuracy of the "rolling thunder".

After the design was completed, the "Rolling Thunder" was handed over to the company "Beiyang Airlines" for production. The company is a well-known aircraft manufacturer in China, where famous aircraft such as the "Skylark" and "Swift" fighters were born. The excessively large size of "Rolling Thunder" is not convenient for assembly line production. In order to meet the high precision of casting and machining, most of the parts are hand-carved by experienced workers. For example, in order to increase penetration, the shell of the "Rolling Thunder" warhead is made of high-strength steel that has been specially hardened. The warhead is required to guarantee a high degree of symmetry at the machining stage to ensure optimal aerodynamics.

Ordinary aerial bombs are thrown away on the return journey of the aircraft to prevent the shock or collision during landing to detonate the bomb. But the "Rolling Thunder" is relatively expensive, so the unused "Rolling Thunder" is often brought back to the base. Whenever the "Hongyan" bomber landed with a "rolling thunder" bomb, the crew members always prayed in their hearts that the bomb would never explode.

"Rolling Thunder" also has a distant relative. On the basis of the "rolling thunder", Beiyang Aviation has developed a "shocking thunder" bomb. The "Shocking Thunder" bomb was successfully developed at the end of 1944, weighing 6,665 kilograms, containing 3,495 kilograms of yellow explosives (accounting for 52% of the total weight), and an armor-piercing core was designed at the head of the shell. At that time, the Chinese side was overwhelmed by the fortresses of the Japanese army on the Pacific islands, and the Chinese [***] team, which had obtained the treasure, planned to use it to clear these forts and clear the way for the amphibious landing of the army and marines. And this time, a large number of "rolling thunder" and "earth-shattering thunder" were used by Yang Shuoming in the bombing of Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Judging by the current situation, the maximum utility of these two super bombs has been brought into play.

"It's terrifying......" Sunyana whispered behind Yang Shuoming.

"I don't think anyone will be able to withstand this kind of bombardment." Yan Shu stuck out his tongue and said, "I really want to know how the Soviets will write their war reports." ”

"Maybe they will just say that one or two hundred planes bombed Moscow with negligible casualties." A staff officer smiled and said, "Their ability to fight is poor, but their ability to lie is first-class." ”

"I'm afraid that after this battle, no one will believe their lies anymore." Said another officer.

In the "systematic bombing" of Moscow, which Yang Shuoming personally watched, the Chinese Air Force used 3,300 bombers of various kinds and 1,600 fighter planes, causing huge losses to the lives and property of the people of Moscow.

The Chinese Air Force first concentrated on assaulting Soviet air bases and air defense radar stations to find and destroy the main force of the Soviet Air Force. Chinese planes began by dropping those deadly bombs on Soviet radar stations. Many of the Soviet radar stations were completely blown up, and they were severely damaged by a series of bombardments, especially those located in urban areas. The function of these nerve centers begins to atrophy.

After that, airstrikes were also inflicted on front-line airfields in Moscow. The fighter command of the Soviet Air Force had its worst day. Batch after batch of Chinese bombers roared in, the airport's warehouses and command buildings were razed to the ground, power lines were cut off, planes were blown up, and people on the ground were killed en masse. On this day, the Chinese Air Force dropped a total of 17,400 tons of bombs. The Soviet Air Force lost 639 aircraft and 424 pilots — the highest casualties since the formation of the Soviet Air Force and the record for the number of Soviet aircraft destroyed in a single day since the Battle of Moscow began.

In the days that followed, storms and clouds never again visited the skies over the Soviet Union, and for several days the sun was shining and the sky was cloudless. For 14 consecutive days, from 23 January to 6 February, the squadron organized a bombing of 1,000 planes almost every day, that is, an average of nearly 1,000 planes were dispatched every day to attack Moscow. These attacks and the resulting air battles reached a great deal here. The battle for Moscow had entered the deciding phase, and the Soviet Air Force pilots had been on high alert for several days, making several sorties a day, many of them were killed, and the living were exhausted. Despite their last-ditch efforts, the numerical superiority of the mid-[***] side was always in play. Not only Moscow, but also 5 forward airfields and 6 theater airfields in Kursk were seriously damaged. Most of the airfields were not available for fighter jets for several days in a row. The main fighter base defending Moscow was bombed six times in three days, the base control room was destroyed, and the ground personnel were killed and wounded, so that for one week it could only be used by one fighter squadron. The fighter defenses of the Soviet Air Force became extremely weak. In this critical fortnight, another 890 Soviet fighters were shot down and heavily damaged. The Chinese Air Force lost 105 aircraft, including 74 fighters and 31 bombers.

The Soviet Union was in danger of disaster, and the whole country was in a panic.

A large number of bombs dropped by the Chinese air force fell on the center of Moscow, a large number of buildings were razed to the ground, and a statue of Lenin in a nearby square was shaken off its pedestal. Countless homes were destroyed and a large number of civilians were killed.

On January 31, the Chinese Air Force High Command decided to continue to shift the focus of the attack to Moscow. The Chinese Air Force did not change the target of the attack and bombed Moscow with all its might, and the Soviet Air Force did not have respite, and the war situation was precarious.

At 19:50 on February 2, a huge squadron of 1,625 bombers and 1,648 fighters crossed the vast land of the Soviet Union from different courses and at different heights and headed straight for Moscow. The Soviet fighter forces somehow miscalculated that the [***] squadron was going to attack the advance base of their fighters, and therefore, took the initiative to take off to defend the air base, thus giving way to a possible passage to Moscow. However, this time the Soviet Air Force was fooled, and the target of the attack of the [***] team was Moscow.

In the first wave, Chinese planes accurately dropped high-explosive bombs on densely populated targets such as the downtown area of Moscow and the Hongqi Military Factory. All of the remaining 13 Soviet fighter squadrons rushed across the Chinese bomber group. Unfold over the vast expanse of Moscow

Fierce battles. But they came a step too late. Hordes of Chinese bombers of all kinds howled and roared in the skies over Moscow, bombing indiscriminately. In just one hour, the squadron successfully poured more than 1,800 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs into Moscow. Moscow suddenly became a sea of fire. The city of Moscow was bombed into burning ruins, and the surrounding factories and towns were completely engulfed in flames. Large and small industrial facilities, transportation hubs, power networks, civilian homes and public buildings were destroyed one after another, and the sound of explosions, collapses, cries for help, screams, and the whistling of police cars and fire trucks was accompanied by black smoke into the sky. The city was reduced to rubble in an instant, the grass and trees were burned to ashes, and the whole earth trembled.

From a purely military point of view, China's first large-scale air attack on Moscow was an unprecedented success.

In the days that followed, the bombing of the squadron brought unprecedented disaster to Moscow. The bombing of Chinese planes turned the city into a sea of fire, and the firelight reflected the sky reddened and illuminated the sky filled with gunsmoke...... But before the firefighters could extinguish the raging fire, the follow-up Chinese bombers roared under the guidance of the firelight, and dropped bombs and incendiary bombs like drops.

At 5 p.m. on 9 February, more than 1,200 bombers of the Chinese Air Force, under the cover of a powerful escort group, went to bomb Moscow for the second time. The Soviet Air Force wanted revenge. Just when the Chinese fleet just flew close to Moscow, the Soviet "MiG-3"

and the I-16 squadrons were immediately ordered to take off and be on alert over important targets in Moscow. When the first batch of bomber formations of the [***] squadron, which was almost surrounded by escort fighters, flew into the skies over Moscow, two Soviet fighter squadrons that had been in the air for a long time quickly pounced, the "MiG-3" fighter squadron specially attacked the Chinese bombers, and the "I-16" fighter squadron made every effort to intercept the enemy fighters. The planes of both sides chased each other in the sky and started a desperate struggle. The blue sky was suddenly painted with white flight trails, which was dazzling. Despite the desperate resistance of the Soviet Air Force, the Chinese Air Force finally succeeded in carrying out the bombing, but this also gave a powerful warning to the Chinese Air Force generals that the Soviet Air Force did not give in despite the heavy losses. It is still impossible for Chinese bombers to reach the skies over Moscow completely without attack.

In the following days, the Chinese air force continued to intrude into the skies over the Moscow region and caused great damage to Moscow, with more than 1,000 fires in the city after being bombed, nearly 100,000 people killed, 95% of the houses in the city of Moscow destroyed, and broken walls everywhere. People lack water, electricity, gas, food and medicine.

Moscow has reached a fateful moment.

The Soviet Fighter Command also made significant tactical changes. The MiG-3 and I-16 fighters no longer fight in scattered squadrons, and they intend to take on the Chinese Air Force in the form of large aircraft formations that can compete with the enemy. The time has come to fight with the "Large Flying Wing". Hundreds of "MiG-3" and "I-16" planes shone in the sunlight and formed a large group of planes across the sky, waiting for the appearance of the Chinese Air Force.

On 15 February, the Chinese Air Force, following two fierce air raids on 14 February, concentrated its greatest strength on another daytime sky attack on Moscow. More than 2,200 Chinese bombers, under the cover of more than 1,600 fighters, pressed towards Moscow in a cover. The Chinese pilots felt that victory was almost within reach.

The Soviet Fighter Command sent almost all of its troops into the sky. Nearly 700 planes were taken off in batches. All these MiG-3 and I-16 fighters built a line of defense in the air south and east of Moscow.

At this moment, these Soviet fighters did not wait to occupy a favorable attack position, but they could not wait to plunge into the Chinese bomber formation from the front like a dagger at the same altitude as the Chinese planes, and immediately stirred up the Chinese aircraft group into a "pot of porridge." Several hundred "I-16" fighters immediately disbanded their formations and fought separately. The pilot pressed the firing button sharply, the muzzle of the gun erupted wildly, and the Chinese bombers were in chaos for a while, but within a few minutes the Chinese fighters stabilized the situation with their absolute superiority, and the Soviet fighters began to crash one after another with black smoke.

Today, both sides did their best to engage in large-scale chaotic fighting.

Just after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Chinese planes flew again like an endless tide, the Soviet Union quickly flew towards the Chinese aircraft group in 12 groups in pairs and 13 squadrons acting in semi-solitary action. The air battle was extremely fierce, and the sky was covered with white smoke. On the ground, the newly formed anti-aircraft artillery group of the Soviet army could clearly be seen firing artillery fire at the Chinese aircraft in the air, and the explosion of shells in the air could be heard. From time to time, the sound of strafing planes, explosions after planes were hit, screams of engines accelerating and screeching of planes in sharp dives.

It's a bloody fight! It's a contest of fire!

On this day, the Soviet side declared a complete victory for the Soviet Air Force. The next day, the Moscow newspaper published the headline "185 Chinese planes were annihilated." People rejoiced and ran to tell each other. Every household in Moscow spontaneously held the red flag of the Soviet Union to celebrate the victory of the Soviet Air Force. Molotov (who was not killed) called the day the largest fierce battle ever seen in the history of air warfare. The Soviet government also designated February 15 as the "Great Moscow Air War Day" to celebrate.

Facts have shown that the Chinese Air Force is the real victor. The command of the [***] squadron was well aware that the Soviet Air Force had not been wiped out since the beginning of the air battle for Moscow. The bombing of Moscow not only inflicted heavy losses on the Soviet Air Force, but also dealt a serious blow to the morale of the entire Soviet Union, which shared the same hatred of the enemy. The horrors that Chinese planes had recently created in other cities of the Soviet Union were being shown in front of the Soviet people. The entire Moscow neighborhood looks like it is in the midst of an unprecedented catastrophe. The complete destruction of Moscow and the heavy casualties of the Soviet military and civilians made many Soviets realize that victory was no longer possible.

(To be continued)