Chapter Ninety-Four: Prelude to the Air Battle
The heavy snow finally stopped today, and under the 'leadership' of the officers and men of the engineer battalion, the Chita airport, which had been fought by tens of thousands of Chita citizens for three days without stopping, was finally expanded, and the planes stranded in Ulaanbaatar could finally be transferred.
For a while, the airport was full of the roar of airplanes, and the ground staff of the airport who had just arrived in Chita began to get busy.
"Wang Dongzhi, Commander Su ordered your department to immediately send a few planes to reconnoiter the situation," not long after getting off the plane, the commander of the 3rd Air Division, who had not yet made the bench in the lounge hot, received an order from the tower.
"Why are my people going again? I'm long out of the scout brigade. Please figure it out, I am also a dignified major general and division commander now," Wang Dongzhi, who felt a little aggrieved, complained.
"Who made you from the Scout Brigade?" Leng Yuan's voice came from the side, and I saw him pat Wang Dongzhi's shoulder with a smile and said, "Dude, look at it, now that the reconnaissance team has not arrived, we have the most experience here, who will you not send?" ”
"Didn't I stay in the reconnaissance brigade for more than half a year, as for you guys to worry about it like this?" Wang Dongzhi got up and walked out.
As the Kiev Front approached, the atmosphere in the forward command became more and more tense, and the command was full of busy staff officers.
"Yulia, has the radar station been installed and commissioned?" Since talking to Su Tong Yulia a few times, and after repeated investigations by the Investigation Bureau, Su Tong has also begun to let Yulia get in touch with some more sensitive matters. Yulia also transitioned from the role of serving tea and pouring water to the position of adjutant.
"The radar station has just sent a report that the radar has been installed and has begun to operate half an hour ago. My dear, you are amazing, how did you come up with such a wonderful thing? The longer she came into contact with Su Tong, the more Yulia discovered that her lover seemed to have countless secrets, and people couldn't help but be immersed in it.
Su Tong smiled and said: "This principle is not something we have studied, in fact, in 1887, when the German scientist Hertz confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves, he had already discovered that electromagnetic waves would be reflected back when they encountered metal objects in the process of propagation." It was found that two planes were flying towards Chita, and according to analysis, their models were Su-2R reconnaissance planes of the Russian Air Force. ”
"Hey, the snow just stopped, and I can't wait. Ordered the Air Force planes to take off immediately to 'welcome' these uninvited friends. Su Tong said with a smile.
Second Lieutenant Wang Zhiwei of the 3rd Air Force Division was wandering around at an altitude of 4,000 meters with his wingman, he was very dissatisfied with today's mission, when did the pilot of the P-47 fall to the point of coming out as a reconnaissance plane, when he thought of the situation when he was named by the division commander, the guys next to him snickered, Wang Zhiwei's heart was panicked, what the hell is this called.
At this time, the headset that had been silent suddenly rang: "3158 please note, 3158 please note, 4 thousand meters in front of your right, at an altitude of 2,000 meters, there are three enemy reconnaissance planes flying in, and the command orders you to immediately go to this area to expel or destroy them." ”
"Yes, do it now!" Wang Zhiwei, who was overjoyed, opened the internal channel and shouted, "Brother, we have work to do, come with me." The fat P-47 flipped its wings and flew towards the target area.
The distance of 4,000 meters is actually a blink of an eye for the aircraft, and after a while, under the guidance of the ground radar, Wang Zhiwei and his wingman spotted the two Su-2R flying around below.
"Damn, you're really arrogant, so swaggering." Wang Zhiwei was angry when he saw the leisurely appearance of the two Russian reconnaissance planes, and said to the wingman: "Brother, there is exactly one person and one plane, and the two of us are just enough." ”
"No problem!" The cheerful sound of a wingman came from the headset.
Although he was talking, the movements in his hands were not slow at all, and the two planes swooped down, and the two Su-2R of the Russian army rolled down cleanly before they could react.
"Yay!" Happy, Wang Zhiwei shouted out the mantra that had recently been circulated by the headquarters.
"Haha, those brothers who didn't come are waiting to envy us" Wang Zhiwei, who shot down an enemy plane, had not had time to finish celebrating with his wingman when he remembered the hurried voice of the ground command in his ears. "Three-one-five-eight, a large number of enemy planes have appeared behind you, repeat, it is a large number of enemy planes, you should return immediately, return immediately."
In fact, before they could hear the last sentence, Wang Zhiwei and his wingman had already turned the nose of the plane and flew towards their own airfield, and no one in the 37 th Group Army had done such a thing for a long time under the influence of someone for a long time, without a clear order, to launch a charge against an enemy who clearly had an advantage and send him to death, and Wang Zhiwei was no exception.
Just as Wang Zhiwei was running backwards at a rapid pace, 30 kilometers behind him, more than 100 I-16 fighters of Russia's 23rd Air Division accompanied by more than 70 Pe-2 twin-engine medium bombers were flying toward Chita.
As soon as such a large fleet of planes appeared on the radar screen, the alarm on Chita Airport went off like crazy.
At this time, there was chaos at the airport, which had not yet completed the transition, and the airport was full of planes preparing to land and busy crowds. At present, there are only about 60 P-47s that can take off from the airfield, and the rest of the planes are either not refueled or have not yet been loaded with ammunition.
Under the dispatch of the airport, more than 20 minutes later, more than 60 planes led by Wang Dongzhi took the lead in taking off to meet the enemy and buy time for the fighters behind.
More than 200 kilometers to the west, Major General Grech, commander of the 23rd Air Division, was personally leading nearly 200 planes, including more than 70 bombers, to Chita, and his task was to destroy the Chita airfield before the Huaxia Air Force could react, so that the Huaxia Air Force could not participate in the war, so as to pave the way for the offensive of Timoshenko's Kiev Front.
As for the rumors that the Huaxia Army's new planes are very powerful, he also treated them with an attitude of preferring to believe them rather than believe them, and it was precisely because of his cautious surname that this veteran pilot who participated in the Madrid air battle in 1936 has survived to this day.
Major General Glitsch has always been dismissive of those stunned young men who rely on their blood to fight and rush, because he has seen too many such people in his long military career, and it is often this kind of person who dies the fastest. And under his leadership, most of the Air Twenty-third Division has developed a cautious and suspicious surname.
In the Pingyu exercise, the troops he led had the least results, but the losses were also the smallest, so the 23rd Air Force Division was also nicknamed the Turtle Division.
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