"Quick, move fast."

In Hudaili County, Linhe Airport, one of several field airports, has already been cleaned of the cement runway of snow slag, and the planes that will take off in the first and second waves are already in place.

As one of the large number of field airfields on the Sino-Soviet border, in order to maintain high-intensity air superiority over Siberia, one or several airfields are completely insufficient, and a large number of field airfields began to be built rapidly, and the requirements for take-off are not high, only one or several cement runways, and then equipped with auxiliary facilities such as spare parts centers, oil depots, ammunition depots, etc., and the necessary airport staff and engineers, and garrison troops, it has become a good field airfield.

The four nearly 1,000-meter-long field runways at Linhe Airport are already the standard for medium-sized field airfields. After the Sino-Soviet air war officially began, the runway was quickly filled with planes of the first and second waves.

Two waves of planes lined up nearly 100 meters long at the end of the four runways, and these were all fighters that were about to take off at the first time, the fuel was filled, the ammunition was loaded, the planes were inspected, and the preparations for take-off were completed.

More airport engineers and mechanics are preparing more planes for take-off on the parking stands, and ammunition trucks and refueling trucks are busy at a rapid pace.

"Report, Lieutenant Colonel, the No. 1, 2, and 3 airfields in my Hudaili territory have begun to take off the first and second waves of combat aircraft, and the superiors have asked us to make final preparations and wait for the take-off order."

In the tower command room, the airfield commander anxiously waited for the order to take off, and the signal corps reported the order he had just received from the Kulen Air Combat Command Center.

"Returning to the command, our airfield is ready for the first and second waves to take off, and 60 combat planes can take off at any time."

Lieutenant Colonel Gu Dezhong said quickly, but his eyes were fixed on the four runways in front of the tower, and there were 15 combat planes parked on each runway, arranged in front and back, and on the four runways, a long queue of planes was parked.

The pilots of the Jian-2 fighters, all of which are silver-white on their bodies, are emblazoned with iron-blooded military insignia and a five-pointed star symbolizing victory, and the pilots have long since closed their cockpits, completed their final inspections, and are ready to take off at any time to form a large-scale air cluster with planes from neighboring airfields.

None of them were bombers, all fighters and bombers were still on the stand, and when there were at least partial results in this big air battle that might last for half a month, they would take off to bomb all the important targets on the front line of Ulan-Ude, so as to provide unprecedented air support for the land offensive forces to launch a general attack on Ulan-Ude.

In this era of winning by both quantity and quality, the Wehrmacht Air Force has been practicing for many years in long-distance and complex conditions, and can ensure that fighters at multiple airports can be quickly grouped after takeoff. This is also thanks to radiolocation technology, stand-alone communication technology, and the deployment of radar early warning aircraft.

In terms of large aircraft group operations, the Soviets were able to organize large-scale or even super-large air fleets from weak to strong through pure Soviet-German battlefield experience.

Ten minutes later, the signal corpsman put down his headset, turned around in his seat and reported loudly, "Lieutenant Colonel, the command ordered us to immediately take off the first and second waves of combat aircraft and join the 3rd operational group in the E airspace. ”

"Call back command, we understand."

Lieutenant Colonel Gu Dezhong walked to the command position, faced the microphone, and gave a clear and steady order, "I am the Baikal Air Battle, and the commander of Linhe Airfield, Lieutenant Colonel Gu Dezhong, is ordered by the Kulen Air Combat General Command, the first and second waves of fighters will take off immediately and be incorporated into the 3rd Combat Group ...... in the E airspace."

As soon as the order was given, the group of planes immediately reacted, and the fighters in the first place immediately started, and after a while, the entire airport was full of planes that were constantly taking off, and as propeller planes, the take-off interval was required to be very small.

At the same time, the Soviet troops, hundreds of kilometers away, were frantically taking off fighter planes at several airfields in Ulan-Ude.

As rear airfields, airfields in Irkutsk, Ust-Oldensky, and even Chita in the Transbaikal Military District are also frantically taking off planes. From the oldest Yi-15 aircraft to the newer Il-5 fighters, La-5 fighters, La-7 fighters, and MiG-8 fighters (an improved version of the Soviet-made MiG, the latest Soviet propeller fighter).

Although the Soviets did not have as many advanced air command equipment as the Chinese Wehrmacht Air Force, they had many years of experience in Soviet-German air warfare, and large formations were easily formed, and the vast airspace of Siberia was not at all like the narrow English Channel.

From garbage fighters with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour to MiG-8 fighters with a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour, the Soviets almost wiped out their own funds and pulled out more than 4,000 fighters to gather in the Siberian Military District. And in this big air battle, there are about 3,000 aircraft that can participate in the battle.

The Soviet Army's Belga Lake Air Combat Command Center, which was established in Ust-Kut, nearly a thousand kilometers away from Ulan-Ude, is passively coping with this super-large-scale air battle provoked by the Chinese.

"Marshal Novikov, I have just received a report that scouts lurking to the Sino-Soviet border from the Chita direction have also spotted a large group of Chinese aircraft."

At the Air Combat Command Center, a major general is reporting to Marshal Novikov, deputy defense commissar in charge of the Air Force, on the progress of this large-scale air battle.

Novikov nodded, seeing more and more senior officers coming in, he waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down, and then nodded to the major general, "You tell me about the whole situation of the big air battle." ”

"Yes, Marshal."

After the staff officer of the major general, Levisky, coughed twice, attracting the attention of many air force generals, walked in front of the huge Sino-Soviet map, tapped the map with his baton, and said:

"Comrades, the great air battle in the Belga area, which has just begun, is a premeditated super-large-scale air battle launched by imperialist China.

They aim to use this air battle to wipe out most of our air forces in the entire Lake Belga region and in the Trans-Belga Military Region, providing air support for their subsequent full-scale offensive and occupation.

Although our preparations are not perfect, once the Chinese plot succeeds, then the strategic targets of Ulan-Ude, and even Chita and many other cities, will be in ruins, and the more than 600,000 Red Army troops gathered in the entire Lake Berga area will be subjected to endless bombardment.

How powerful the Chinese air force is, I think you can see from the previous bombings.

They have not used much force, but they have uprooted most of the strategic objectives of Ulan-Ude, and we have suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, in this air battle on Lake Belga, we must concentrate all our forces to defend the Siberian sky. ”

"I would like to interject that Comrade Stalin ordered us to resolutely counterattack, that the Belga region is very important for the security of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and even for the whole of Siberia, and must be defended. Otherwise, what awaits us will be political sanctions. Marshal Novikov interjected, then motioned for him to continue.

"In this super-large-scale air battle, imperialist China first took off a fleet of hundreds of planes with the intention of bombing our airport, military factory, barracks, and fortifications in Ulan-Ude, and these targets had narrowly escaped the bombing of the Chinese before.

In order to defend Ulan-Ude, we took off more than 400 fighters, because actual combat proved that air combat with the Chinese must rely on numbers and concentrate forces to contend with it.

However, a number of our scouts who infiltrated the Sino-Soviet border sent us a secret telegram saying that they had found a tendency for Chinese planes to take off on a large scale at multiple airports.

We think they are trying to save their raid fleet.

After basically ascertaining the number of reinforcements from the Chinese, we immediately took off the second batch of aircraft at numerous field airfields in the rear, and the total number of planes in the front and rear was nearly 1,000. ”

Major General Levisky paused and continued, "But just now, according to the intelligence of various aspects, we found that the Chinese raid group was not a mixed group, but composed entirely of fighters. And the number of their two batches of take-off fighters also reached a terrifying number of 1,000.

At the same time, in the Chita direction, in the Irkutsk direction, a large number of Chinese aircraft with mixed bombers were also spotted, which, we predict, were intended to paralyze strategic targets in these places while fighting on the main battlefield of the air battle on Lake Belga.

In order to keep the Belga area, we had to concentrate our forces to deal with the main air attack direction of the Chinese, otherwise, behind their fighters would be hundreds of bombers flying after them.

According to the latest intelligence, the Chinese's main attack aircraft group over Lake Belga, the aircraft capable of fighting in the air at the same time, will reach a terrifying number of 1,500, and it is expected that they will have 1,000 follow-up wave aircraft, and the Chinese fighters in the entire main battlefield of Lake Belga will reach 2,500.

In many other directions, they also took off more than 1,000 fighters, and according to our estimates, the Chinese are likely to concentrate nearly 4,000 fighters of all kinds in the direction of Mongolia to launch the most violent air attack on us in modern history. ”

Hearing this, most of the generals present couldn't help but exclaim, and an air force lieutenant general stood up directly and said in disbelief, "How is it possible, according to our estimates, the total number of Chinese aircraft will not exceed 10,000, and in the Far East and Central Asian directions, they have concentrated at least 2,000 aircraft, plus these 4,000 aircraft, will they leave less than 4,000 aircraft to defend the huge territorial border??" ”

"Lieutenant General Uralmov, I can give you an approximate figure, although we have more than 15,000 aircraft, but only 13,000 can actually fight, and more than one-third of our aircraft are gathered here to resist the Chinese. Their aircraft cannot be counted purely by quantity. I can assure you that their 100 aircraft are enough to defend against any enemy attack of 150 or more aircraft at the moment. ”

Marshal Novikov is well aware of the gap between the air forces of the two countries, and he considers himself a rare enlightened faction in the Soviet army, and he also has a high enough understanding of the Chinese air force, "Their main aircraft group J-2 fighters and J-3 fighters are enough to fight any of our fighters, even the latest La-7 fighters and MiG-4 fighters, which have also been proved in actual combat to be completely no match for the Chinese J-3 fighters. The Guniu's fighter is almost an invincible fighter, and its surname can surpass the Zero fighter of the Germans, the BF111 fighter of the Germans, and I estimate that only the P-51 Mustang fighter, which the Americans have not yet massively equipped, can be compared with it. ”

Although Novikov also believes that the top-secret verification jet fighter MiG-9 and the propeller MiG-10 fighter to be equipped under research may be able to compete with it, at present, the most advanced MiG-8 in the hands of the Soviet army, although there has been great progress in speed, maneuverability, and firepower, is still not enough to confront the Chinese.

For example, in terms of speed, the maximum speed of the MiG-8 is close to 750 kilometers, but the maximum speed of the Chinese is believed to exceed 800 kilometers, and even their second-generation J-2 fighters have reached the standard of the MiG-8.

And God knows, this J-2 fighter was the goods of the Chinese almost ten years ago.

"How many advanced fighters do the Chinese have? Will they have jet fighters? They did not have more advanced fighters to participate in the war, because they thought that with these J-2 and J-3, they could destroy the Soviet Air Force? ”

Novikov did not understand, he did not get any information in this regard, the Chinese Air Force, like an iron barrel, did a very good job of secrecy.

Although occasionally spies secretly photographed some mysterious flying machines, limited by the surname of the camera, the target flew too high, completely blurred, and it could only be judged that the Chinese had a very terrifying flying machine.

The discussion in the war room continued, and more and more intelligence and reports began to converge on the center, and Novikov had already read at least five reports from the front.

"Marshal, our aircraft group in Ulan-Ude has already started a war with the Chinese's lead group, and it has been confirmed that the Chinese's lead group is about 350 J-2 fighters and J-3 fighters."

A colonel's staff officer walked in quickly and reported loudly, and the scene suddenly fell cold.

Novikov waved his hand and said loudly, "According to the plan, the planes will take off in an orderly manner, let's look forward to a victory against imperialism." They are not Germans, but we will fend off their attacks as well. ”

Subsequently, many high-ranking air force officers returned to their headquarters one after another, and some Red Army air force division commanders even had to lead the follow-up combat aircraft groups to take off and command.

The remaining high-ranking officers of the Soviet Air Force began to wait for the results in the huge war room.

“…… At the beginning of the air battle, Chinese took the lead in firing, 15 planes of our army were shot down, and many Chinese planes were shot down and damaged......"

“……”

However, as the 'results' continued to come, Novikov's brow never relaxed, even if he knew that his fighters were redundant to the Chinese, but when the other side's follow-up group had not yet arrived, and his side obviously had dozens of more planes, it was still so unfavorable, and he had a huge sense of foreboding.

…… Kulen, command center of the Lake Belga campaign of the Air Force of the Chinese National Defense Forces.

Deputy Air Force Commander Liu Yaya and Air Force Chief of Staff Li Xianghong were sitting in front of a huge battlefield map, watching the staff officers constantly update the battlefield losses of the enemy and the enemy.

After putting down the radio headset, a staff officer loudly reported, "Just shot down another 10 Soviet fighters of the 10th batch, our army ......"

In this kind of large-scale air battle, it is meaningless to report the results of one or several planes, so the rule of the command is that every time 10 enemy planes are shot down, the front line will send back a battle report.

"Yes, in just 15 minutes after engaging the enemy, hundreds of Soviet fighters were shot down, and the results were brilliant." Liu Yaya nodded, but his own losses were not large, although the battle speed ratio did not reach a very optimistic ten to one, but it also reached five to one.

Li Xianghong said, "As soon as the large group of planes came into contact, 100 enemy planes were shot down, and 20 of our planes were shot down or damaged. Now that we have just engaged in battle, the losses will be greater, and when it comes to the single-player dogfight, the results will be greater. Our single-plane combat surname is able, and the combat capability of the squad is much higher than that of the Soviets.

Their elite pilots are basically concentrated on the Soviet-German battlefield, while our elite pilots have stronger squad combat capabilities.

However, if we put aside some scum cannon fodder planes of the Soviet army, our battle loss ratio should only reach 2 to 1 to 3 to 1. ”

"Of course, the combat effectiveness of the Air Force is reflected in the ability of the aircraft, the training of the pilots, the will to fight, and the tacit cooperation of the squad.

The two of them paid attention to the changes in the entire air battle situation, and on the other hand, they paid attention to the constantly refreshing enemy annihilation figures, and the sky over Ulan-Ude near Lake Belga was the main battlefield of this air battle, and it was also the place where the red numbers rose the fastest, and every time the staff officers stepped forward to update the enemy annihilation figures, it meant that a large number of Soviet fighters were shot down.

Although they could not go to the front line in person, Liu Yaya and Li Xianghong seemed to feel that in the burning sky over the vast Lake Belga, one Soviet plane after another was hit, burning, exploding and catching fire, and then in the distant sky, there was not a complete cloud in sight, whether it was the enemy or the enemy, it had already covered the entire sky.

At this time, the noisy, messy machine sounds in the war room seemed to be far away from the two air force giants.

Liu Yaya couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Lao Li, the National Defense Force Air Force has been building for decades, and it has not shot down as many planes in one day today. The Air Force has the least limelight, but this time it is a time to make enough money. ”

Li Xianghong and Liu Yaya could not go to the front line in person, and could only see the planes taking off and landing almost continuously on the several runways of the huge Kulun Airport outside the window.

Some of these planes were high-spirited, facing the sky, and took off fearlessly.

When some landed, they were covered with injuries, and the wings, belly, and even the windows were broken, but the pilot went against common sense and miraculously flew back.

At this time, Zhang Shusheng, who was far away in Hanjing, was also paying close attention to this large-scale Sino-Soviet air battle in another way.

...... "On the left, there are enemy planes on the left!!" ”

Zhang Shusheng stayed alone in the underground science and technology center, enjoying the service of intelligent servants, enjoying the real-time picture sent back by the compound eye battlefield detection system. Even he couldn't help but be anxious for the pilot.

Of course, the size of such a squadron of more than a dozen planes of the Soviet army, Zhang Shusheng could find out, and the Wehrmacht pilots naturally discovered it, and one of the squadron channels shouted, this J-3 squadron, which had just shot down eight Soviet fighters and lost two of them, immediately pounced.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, because there was no time to pull up or turn, at this time there was only one way to play, rush directly over, take the lead in firing, and fight for piloting technology and the aircraft's micro-surname ability.

Although he is the chairman of the Supreme Power Committee of the Republic, the only air battle that Zhang Shusheng really 'experienced' was the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, at that time, the largest aircraft group was only a group of less than 700 planes that he and the Americans combined, and this time it experienced a super-large-scale air battle.

As far as the eye can see, the air is full of fighters, boundless air, from ultra-low altitude, low altitude, medium altitude, high altitude, ultra-high altitude, there are no chasing fighters everywhere.

People who have never experienced such a super-large-scale air battle can never imagine what it would be like when the sky as far as the eye can see, and even beyond, is made up entirely of aircraft.

The power of the machinery industry is vividly manifested at this moment.

Due to the near-full-view vision of the compound eye system, sometimes, Zhang Shusheng can see multiple planes falling down at the same time in the blink of an eye.

Sometimes, the plane carrying the compound eye system flies so high that you can almost see the fighter plane that is full of black smoke and falling into the sky.

At this time, losses and sacrifices are no longer important, the most important thing is who will get the final victory of this large-scale empty station.

Just as the Germans only wanted to bomb Britain across the sea and then gain the possibility of landing across the sea, China and the Soviet Union fought for the railway, for Siberia, and for the entire Soviet Union.

There is no sea between China and the Soviet Union, and in the eyes of the Chinese [***] people, the Soviet Union is just a weak polar bear, injured, and at this time, it is necessary to rush up with the fastest action and cut the flesh.

Whoever moves quickly and ruthlessly will be able to cut the largest piece of meat.

China's first knife will cut off this fattest and most delicious piece of meat -- Siberia.

"Well done."

From time to time, in Zhang Shusheng's field of vision, a fighter plane that had been following him for several minutes once again made an extreme action that a propeller fighter could do with a very eye-catching maneuver, flying in a large angle curve, and finally caught up with a Soviet MiG-8 fighter that escaped with all its might, and then shot it down cleanly with a string of cannons.

"This kid is amazing, he has already shot down two planes in the past three minutes, this speed is enough." Zhang Shusheng estimated that during the plane's time in the air, this ace pilot would be able to shoot down at least 10 sorties.

He couldn't help but think of what he saw some time ago about the ace pilots of the Soviet and German armies, the pilots of the Soviet army, the highest record for shooting down enemy planes is currently 260, while the highest record for the German army is more than 330.

The Wehrmacht Air Force has only just entered the war, but Zhang Shusheng learned that the number of the chief aces in active duty in the whole army has reached 41, which is a remarkable number, because the war has just begun, as long as he is lucky, he may even catch up with the Soviet and German air battle aces soon.

"Will there be more than three hundred of our Wehrmacht Air Force, or even four or five hundred of them? Perhaps, the early debut of jet fighters is the most likely to create such a defiant record. ”

In his field of vision, there have always been fallen planes, Soviet ones, and Wehrmacht Air Force's, until Zhang Shusheng doesn't remember how many planes have fallen, and he doesn't know how many waves of planes have been replaced, he only knows that the battle line is constantly rushing over the city of Ulan-Ude.

An air battle that lasted as long as seven or eight hours, and thousands of planes on both sides suffered great losses. There are not many Soviet planes, except for a considerable number of those that were shot down, and there are also those that are wounded and can be unharmed.

On the Chinese side, the number of people shot down is getting smaller and smaller, on the contrary, there are more and more people who are wounded, or after they go back, they are replaced by another pilot to continue to take off and fight.

The fastest damaged fighter planes can even replace a standard component in just three hours, then replace it with a pilot and return to the battlefield.

"Chairman, the Air Combat Command Center has ordered the bomber group to take off."

When Zhang Shusheng heard this report from the wireless telephone next to the compound eye system, this air battle, which had been fought almost from morning to night, had gradually decided the basic victory or defeat.

China began to prepare bomber groups to fly over Ulan-Ude and other cities, while Soviet planes were being driven north, and even the latest Soviet fighters could only passively retreat.

The Soviets were not yet defeated, but they were not far from defeat.

Zhang Shusheng knew that this big air battle might last for half a month before the final victory or defeat was decided, but as the losses of the Soviet troops became bigger and bigger, even if they could immediately obtain support from the Americans in the northern seas, it would not be so easy for the pilots to quickly replenish them.

And the superior Wehrmacht Air Force can support the army and take Ulan-Ude in one go.

Compared with thousands of Soviet fighters, the area around Lake Belga, which has only more than 600,000 troops, is completely unable to withstand the offensive momentum of the Central Front.

The Soviets still have more troops in the rear, and they can't catch up with the relief of Ulan-Ude.

Although the specific results of the air battle losses are not known for the time being, Zhang Shusheng knows that the losses of the Soviet army on this day have completely determined the next trend of this great air battle.

"We only need one day to destroy the planes that the Soviets took half a year to produce, perhaps, this is how the war should be fought, or perhaps, in the future, no matter how strong the production capacity of the Americans is, they will still succumb to such war damage."

Zhang Shusheng said silently, what came to his mind was the 1,500 jet fighters, which would be China's biggest trump card, and the current big air battle was just an appetizer.

(To be continued)