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Tashkent, smoke of gunpowder.

Blazing artillery fire loomed the entire city, and the pre-war Soviet fortress in Central Asia was in ruins, littered with rubble and wreckage. The fighters of the 137th Division Infantry Regiment huddled behind a stone wall, and a dense stream of bullets and shells constantly fell around them. Tiny rubble rattled against the helmet, and the occasional burst of fireball wounded an unlucky soldier.

A kilometer away, in a three-story solid low building, four Soviet 76-mm guns poked out of the window, and around the artillery, there were seven or eight machine guns intertwined into a dense fire net, and the 76 guns and machine guns that fired continuously blocked the advance of the 137th Division Infantry Regiment. In order to eliminate this point of fire, dozens of soldiers have already been killed during the charge. "Come here, come here!" The regiment commander, Zhu Dakui, had red eyes and loudly beckoned to a Zhenlei 1937 Type 210 self-propelled howitzer that rushed to support. The 38-ton monster, welded to the protective steel shield, received the signal and immediately accelerated, and its wide tracks crushed the rubble and rushed out of a wooden house that had been destroyed by fire.

"Kill it!" Zhu Dakui stepped forward, quickly climbed behind the artillery shield, and pointed to the fire point in front of him and gave a loud order.

At a distance of just one kilometer, the 1,937 thunderbolts did not need to lift the barrel, and after the gunner adjusted the coordinates, the loader immediately stuffed a 101-kilogram high-explosive bomb. The power of the 210-mm self-propelled howitzer at close range was so powerful that the soldiers around them heard only a loud bang, and a corner of the low building several meters thick on the outer wall was blown away, and the flying stones and smoke spread hundreds of meters away.

"Come again! Be careful. ”

After the gunners readjusted the coordinates, the Soviet counterattack arrived. The shield clanged with a dense burst of bullets, and the remaining three 76mm guns opened fire desperately. Although the 76 shells could not damage the thick shield, the shells still delayed the reload. At that moment, a hissing sound sounded in the sky. Two ghost cars with black impermanence painted on the nose of the plane, dive bombers dive down from a height of thousands of meters!

"The Air Force is coming."

"It's black impermanence!"

War is full of danger, boredom and numbness, so hormonal lads will always try to find fun in it. Especially the pilots who are the pride of the sky, they paint all kinds of graffiti on their planes. Among these signs, black impermanence is the preserve of the elite.

So when they saw Black Impermanence volleying down into the sky, the infantry regiment immediately burst into cheers.

Liu Cuigang squinted his eyes, drove the war eagle like a predator falcon, roared down, and accurately threw a 500-kilogram high-explosive bomb into the low building. The low tower, which had held back the infantry regiment for hours, quickly crumbled like an inflated balloon. The machine guns and cannons that were arrogant just now were all destroyed in an instant. "Damn, it's only here now!" Zhu Dakui didn't say that the Air Force was good, and he looked at the arrogant Black Impermanence and cursed angrily. After the wingman also dropped two 250-kilogram bombs, leveling the entire low building, he raised his hand and gave the order to continue the attack.

Liu Cuigang will not care about the army's thoughts. Seeing that the target was destroyed, there was no need to strafe again, and immediately pulled up the plane and returned home with the wingman.

Such scenes can be seen everywhere in the more than 1,000 square kilometers centered on Tashkent. The battle for the southeastern peninsula, the Mediterranean and the intense Cairo talks did not affect the offensive in full swing, and with the formation of the Petropavlovsk encirclement, the Battle of Tashkent finally came to an end after months of delay. Facing the Soviet Union's first fortress in Central Asia, the battle was extremely stalemate. Apanashchenko, who had no way out, led more than 300,000 remnants of the Soviet army, relying on the fortress city and the eastern mountains, and fought very tenaciously. Streets, towns, mountains, mosques, and so on have to be fought over and over again. Meanwhile. After the siege of Petropavlovsk, Stalin, through the Military Council, issued an order for the entire Soviet Union to take action and for everyone to participate in the battle to defend the Soviet Union. Any panicked and cowardly dead person is to be shot on the spot. From the date of the order, every commander, Red Army soldier, and political worker should abide by an iron law: no step back is allowed without an order from the Supreme Command!

Although Stalin ordered to consume China in Tashkent as much as possible, buying time for the Petropavlovsk counteroffensive. But under the indiscriminate bombardment of aircraft and artillery, there was no support. Apanaschenko, which was short of supplies, was still being narrowed.

After the beautiful line landing, Liu Cui just got out of the cockpit. "Captain, the co-captain told you to go to the conference room as soon as you get back."

"Good. By the way, give me another star. Liu Cuigang threw his helmet to the ground crew and pointed to the Venus next to the cabin, which represents the number of effective bomb drops.

"Good guy, I can't even draw anymore." The ground crew nodded, counting the dense Venus, wondering if it was drawn on the other side? Liu Cui didn't care where he painted just now, for him, every mission was a challenge to himself, otherwise he would not have flown a dive bomber. After arriving at the conference room, it was already crowded with partners from all over the war zone, and even Xiong Bofei, who was known as an air tank and had effectively shot down 67 planes, came.

"Bofei, why are you here too?"

Although the theater of operations is large, the Air Force is much freer than the Army, and there are often sororities among pilots, so everyone is familiar with it. "I also want to ask you, is it that if your seven teams can't complete the task, you will ask our three teams for help? If you want to help, let's have three bottles of Moutai first. ”

"Robbing while the fire is burning is bold enough. It's a pity that you don't have a chance, we just blew up the last bunkers, and we estimate that the army will be able to finish it in three days at the latest. I still want to apply to go to Petropavlovsk in the afternoon and grab your job. ”

"Then why did you call us?"

"Look, the four teams are here too."

While the pilots were laughing and talking, several more ace pilots of the brigade came from outside. But they, like Xiong Bofei, didn't know anything about the sudden summoning of everyone by the headquarters. Just then, there was a shout outside. "Stand upright!" Yu Lei, deputy commander of the Air Force, and several wing commanders walked in from outside.

"Sit down." Yu Lei is considered an expert in the Air Force's strategic bombing theory. Because he was the first officer to elaborate and conceive the destruction of the enemy with strategic bombing. However, due to the distance to the northwest and the lack of good forward airfields, his theory has not yet been implemented. However, the book "Above the Nine Skies" written by him was widely circulated within the Air Force, and even the European and American Air Powers praised it as another great work of the Air Force after "Air Supremacy."

Yu Lei is a very capable officer, glanced at the pilot who was talking to each other, and said, "Don't guess. I asked you to come here today to select 50 people from among you to lead the British Air Service Group to the United Kingdom. ”

"To England?"

"Deputy Commander, are you going to fight the Luftwaffe?"

"Yes." Yu Lei said: "I have received news that by tomorrow morning at the latest, the president will sign an alliance agreement with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Cairo!" According to the agreement, we will send three fighter groups and one transport aircraft group, with a total of 1,500 pilots and ground crew, to the United Kingdom to ensure the safety of its airspace. Raiden and Yunten, bound for Britain, are assembling in Kashgar and will depart in three days at the latest. I want to warn you! This mission is very different, you are facing the best ace pilots in Europe, so the Chief of the General Staff decided that this time it was all voluntary. ”

As soon as the words fell, the pot exploded in the conference room, and Liu Cuigang bumped Xiong Bofei with his shoulder: "Bofei, are you going?" ”

"I'm not going, I'm going to slaughter that bastard!" Xiong Bofei shook his head.

"What, still thinking about that?" Liu Cuigang knew that in the past year, Xiong Bofei had been haunted by the incident that he almost exposed the crossing of Lake Balkhash, so he always wanted to shoot down Marasev, who was already the ace pilot of the Soviet Union. "I heard that guy moved back to the rear, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait."

"Humph! Then slaughter all the cannon fodder sent and see if he can't get out. Xiong Bofei snorted coldly, turned his head and asked, "Are you going to go?" It's all the German elite over there. ”

Liu Cuigang stretched his waist, as if he didn't hear the warning, and said with a smile: "I won't tell you, I just want to fight the Germans and see who is the number one in the world!" "After the Battle of Persian Ahvaz, the Chinese Air Force was called the first by Europe and the United States on the surface, but many people were not convinced in private, especially after the Battle of France, there has always been a dispute over who is stronger in the Chinese and German Air Forces, and Europe and the United States are more inclined to Germany, so many Chinese pilots, including Liu Cuigang, dream of fighting with the best pilots in Germany.

"Remember to bring me two BF109 and FW190 back." Xiong Bofei laughed and patted Liu Cuigang hard: "If you die, I will avenge you." ”

"Just you? Let's kill Marasev first. ”

"Haha."

On July 3, 1940, the day of the formation of the air service regiment to the United Kingdom, heavy news came out of Cairo!

After five consecutive days of negotiations, Yang Qiu and Churchill reached an agreement to formally sign and publish the Cairo Declaration in front of journalists from all over the world.

In the declaration, the Chinese and British governments said that they would put aside their contradictions, jointly deal with the world war crisis, and work together to defeat the Nazis. At the same time, the Chinese and British governments also expounded their views on the future world structure, how to expand the role of the League of Nations, and how to maintain world stability. Finally, the two leaders also jointly issued a declaration on Japan, which demanded that Japan immediately withdraw its troops from the occupied areas and hand over to the Chinese and British governments Sakhalin, Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and other areas leased after the Paris Peace Conference.

At the same time, according to the agreement behind the declaration, the Chinese government will send an air service regiment to Britain in three days, including 420 Thunderbolts and 118 Y-10s, and at the same time will declare war on Germany and Italy within two weeks, and choose an opportunity to declare war on Japan within a year. At the same time, Britain would also declare war on the Soviet Union after China declared war on Germany and Italy.

With the signing of the Cairo Declaration, the Eurasian war officially turned into a world-class alliance war.

World War II takes shape.

On the day of the signing of the Cairo Declaration, the leaders of 20 countries and regions, including Free France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and North Korea, simultaneously declared war on Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union