There are about 80 anti-aircraft guns in the position where the Soviet planes broke through, and these anti-aircraft guns can not only be used to fight aircraft, but also to attack infantry and Soviet tanks, such as 88mm anti-aircraft guns, which are the "can openers" of tanks, and a single shot will directly ascend into the sky. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ground-based anti-aircraft artillery began to fire heavily at these Soviet aircraft, and at this time the Soviet army still had more than a hundred fighters and seventy or eighty bombers.

When the Soviet aircraft group is attacking the air defense network, the fighter planes will fly over the bombers, and whether they can break through the German air defense network depends on the heavy-load bombers, even if only one bomber breaks through the German air defense network, it can completely destroy the Kotsk airfield built by the German army.

Countless shells "whizzed" at the Soviet bombers and tilted their ammunition, and the Soviet bombers ignored them, still lining up in a neat bombing queue to break through the defense.

The few remaining Soviet bombers were suddenly beaten down by more than 20 planes, and the remaining 50 or so Soviet planes soon flew over the infantry's air defense positions and ushered in the German bomber blocking group.

Soviet planes flew over the infantry's anti-aircraft positions, just entering the edge of the city, where the anti-aircraft artillery was more dense, coupled with the German bombers' blockade, the two sides launched a fierce battle on the edge of the city, and the Soviet fighters also swooped down to enter the battle.

One by one, the planes were knocked down, the Soviets had fighter planes, and of course they had an advantage in the air, although the Germans had ground artillery support, but the German bombers still suffered 2 to 1 losses in the air battle.

"Click...... Woowoo...... Bang bang bang ......"

The sky over Kovsk was like boiling water, the swarthy planes fell like wounded birds, and the pilots who parachuted out were like dandelions blooming in the air.

Three German bomber groups were fighting their lives to buy time for refueling and reloading the returning German fighters. The German logistics personnel at the airport ignored the Soviet planes that were about to fly over, desperately helping their planes refuel and reload, and every second decided the victory or defeat of both sides.

A few minutes later, the German bombers also lost more than 60 units, a total of 120 bombers were removed by half, the German fighters began to take off one after another to join the team battle, the Soviet surprise attack was no longer meaningless, retreat was no longer possible, the Soviet bomber planes could only fall like meteors in Kokovsk, and the remnants of the Soviet fighters retreated without righteousness.

The first Soviet air raid ended after fifty minutes, but the losses on both sides were unacceptable to each other, the German "BF109" lost a third of the "BF109" and half of the bombers, while the Soviet losses were even heavier, losing more than half of the aircraft, and this was only the first air raid of the war.

Vasilevsky hurriedly sent a telegram to Stalin, explaining the situation here, and requesting that planes continue to be sent to reinforce him, and Steiner also asked Guderian for planes.

……

The General Command of the German Army in Petrovsk, Guderian and Manstein were arguing fiercely, the first heated argument since Guderian and Manstein cooperated:

"My deputy commander-in-chief, in order for Steiner to continue to hold on, he should be sent planes to reinforce him, and we will send as many as he needs."

"General Guderian, I will never agree with your approach, since Steiner is the bait we throw, they should fight until the last moment of their lives, and now the Soviet Union is obviously supported by Britain, France and the United States, and even the Spitfire and P51 planes have come out.

You are sending planes to reinforce Steiner in such a continuous manner, that is just a tactic of adding fuel, and it is purely a fight with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. ”

Guderian was in a hurry, but Steiner was sent out by himself to act as a decoy, in this case, Guderian really couldn't do what he threw Steiner and didn't care, Guderian was still trying to convince Manstein, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front.

"My deputy commander-in-chief, I know that Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union have colluded together, and their Atlantic organization is a good proof of this, and I also know that the refueling tactics are wrong, but we can't just leave Steiner alone, tonight, it's always okay to send more anti-aircraft artillery and weapons and ammunition to the JU89 and helicopters in a row.

"No!!"

Manstein, the deputy commander-in-chief, again bluntly rejected Guderian:

"Why!!" This made Guderian very bad.

Guderian couldn't think of proposing Steiner's supplies, and Manstein's deputy commander-in-chief refused, which made Guderian suddenly unable to figure it out, and hurriedly asked why, Manstein directly retorted without thinking about it:

"General Guderian, you are the commander of a million-strong army, and you must not put an entire million-dollar army in a dangerous situation because of your personal feelings, even your artillery bomb washing tactics have caused dissatisfaction with the other two army groups, and have also brought great pressure to the German production and transportation departments, if everyone wants you to fight like this, Germany will not be able to support it, my brother, you understand.

Since we do not have the ability to fight for attrition among the three countries of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, in this case we should immediately treat Steiner's troops as bait and dead chess, and what we need to do now is to immediately withdraw all the planes in Kowsk.

Our precious JU89 aircraft will also stop sending any supplies to Kovsk, because the Soviet Union already has advanced fighters, and in this case our JU89s can only be sent to death.

My General Guderian, ju89 I don't think I need to explain much about what it means for us, and at the same time we will immediately provide the Führer with a detailed report. ”

Guderian now fully understood what Manstein meant, and what Manstein meant was that he didn't care about Steiner's life or death, that is, he completely used Steiner as a dead chess, and even the Air Force had to avoid a war of attrition with the Soviet Union.

Manstein's meaning Guderian understands everything, Manstein and Guderian have cooperated for so long, Guderian's character Manstein still knows very well, Guderian is a good person, and his command of war is also very clever, and Guderian's only shortcoming is that he is too soft-hearted, which is a taboo for senior generals. As the saying goes, "mercy does not lead the army".

"Well, my deputy commander-in-chief, you convinced me, I agreed to withdraw all the air forces in Kovsk, and that boy from Steina must hold on!!"

After talking with Manstein, Guderian did not directly order the German air force stationed in Kolsk to retreat, but took advantage of the evening time to fly directly to Koivsk with a group of forty planes of the "BF109".

After arriving in Koivsk with a brigade "BF109", Guderian continued to stay in the air for more than ten minutes, overlooking the defense and terrain of Kovsk by the moonlight. (To be continued.) )