Haskovo, the capital of Bulgaria's southern region, is located on the northeastern slopes of the Rhodope Mountains and has a population of just under 100,000. Located in a fertile agricultural area, it is famous for its tobacco production.

After the outbreak of the war, it was also the southernmost point of the German army as it swept across the Bal Peninsula, less than 300 kilometers from the Turkish Strait.

The Nazi Air Force's Operation Longsword chose this location as a staging and command base because of an abandoned airfield outside Haskovo. German sappers worked day and night to clear the airfield's runway and ram it for jet takeoff in a matter of days.

The high quality of the German pilots and the excellent communication performance of the "Black Knight" fighters made it possible to complete the command function by retrofitting the communications center with an armored command vehicle at the temporary airfield in Haskovo.

In the field of early warning aircraft, Germany's research and development is relatively late, and in the world, only the United States has followed the pace of the big man and joined the "early warning aircraft club".

In the temporary airport, there is only one road available. It took nearly two hours for more than 100 fighters of various types to take off and assemble in the air, which made the air marshal, who was already uncomfortable because of his slightly fat body, who was nestled in the command vehicle, even more unhappy.

There was simply no suitable airfield for the air force in southern Bulgaria, and for the sake of secrecy before the operation, Goering chose this abandoned airfield instead of a civilian airfield that could easily leak information. But in retrospect, this was a big mistake. German fighters have historically had the defect of "short legs", and the build-up time was too long, which prevented them from staying longer in the battlefield.

But on the other hand, Goering's plan was also a success. The Turkish side has not yet noticed the abandoned airfield of Haskovo, and the actions of the Nazi air force have almost reached the suddenness they needed before the war...... If, on the eastern shore of the Turkish Straits, there are not so many radar stations.

What is even more fatal is that for the tactical brigade of the Air Force in Turkey, General Long Xiaotian of the Royal Air Force has transferred four "Spinosaurus" early warning planes to conduct a 24-hour uninterrupted patrol on the east coast of the strait and receive information from radar stations.

Goering's plan for an "abandoned airfield" turned out to be useless. Because the "Turkish Air Force" did not care at all where and when the Nazi attack aircraft group took off, the radar station had enough monitoring distance for the Eskicher airbase to react and take off fighters to intercept it.

In particular, after the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet conducted the Sea of Marmara, the "Spinosaurus" patrolling in the air at the same time has become two, and four "Raptor" fighters are accompanying it. The power of the "dragon and phoenix" may be relatively unfamiliar to those arrogant German pilots, but in Britain, the United States and other Allied countries, it has long become synonymous with "death". "Lock-and-shoot" has become the highest standard for the advancement of the new generation of air-to-air missiles.

The "Dolphin-6" Doppler pulse mechanical scanning radar, which can lock on to six targets at a distance of 80 kilometers and attack four targets at the same time, has become more practical after adding the coordinated command of early warning aircraft. Even if there are only four "Raptors" patrolling the air, their striking capabilities should not be underestimated, and at least the "Black Knights," which only carry short-range combat missiles, may not be able to take advantage of these four "Raptors" commanded by early warning planes.

In the battle against the Soviet Air Force, the Nazi Air Force pilots, who had a brilliant record, became arrogant and arrogant.

After the take-off and assembly at the old airport in Haskovo, two or three hundred kilometers is only a matter of ten minutes for these sonic or subsonic aircraft. But almost as soon as they took off, the radar station on the Turkish-Bulgarian border had already captured this huge group of aircraft. When the news of the discovery of the German aircraft group came by the early warning planes, Air Force Lieutenant General Wang Jingyi, who was at the Eskichel Air Base in Turkey, decisively ordered the patrolling four-plane "Raptor" plane formation to go out to intercept it, and at the same time issued an order to the tactical group in the base to take off to meet the enemy.

The early morning silence at the base was shattered by the shrill ringing of bells, and the pilots who had just woken up were fully equipped in a matter of minutes. It wasn't until after the assembly that they learned that this time the mission was to shoot down all the warplanes that had invaded Turkish airspace.

The expressions on the faces of the pilots suddenly became wonderful, and some of them finally understood why they had been training these days to deal with enemy planes with good speed and maneuverability. Some people think about it relatively simply, and they are surprised at this moment; Of course, it's more about excitement and eagerness.

The loneliness of being alone and seeking defeat is not something that everyone is qualified to feel. But there is no doubt that that feeling is understood by the pilots of the Chinese and German air forces.

The duty of a soldier is to obey, and even though there is much confusion, it is an order to shoot down all enemy planes that invade the airspace of the allied Turkey!

Lieutenant General Wang Jingyi watched the take-off of one fighter plane after another by the floor-to-ceiling window of the airport tower. The heavy fighter J-41 "Raptor" is still extremely powerful, the slender and elegant "Swift Dragon" is agile and agile, and the Tianlong fighter, known as the "beautiful man", is as chic and elegant as ever. They are all the glory of the empire and the pride of His Majesty.

It's just that the imperial prides who changed into the dark gray paint of the Turkish air suddenly turned into low-key "Cinderella", which made the lieutenant general of the Air Force, who was accustomed to the dazzling golden light, obviously unaccustomed to it, "Your Majesty's trick is really yin enough!" ”

With mental calculations and unintentional, and unprepared to fight, Commander Wang Jingyi is not worried about the result, and he knows very well what kind of combat power these young men under his command have.

"It is also very likely that the squadron of the "Raptors" will solve all the German aircraft outside the vision. ”

It's just that after the Germans suffered a big loss, will the mustache vomit blood and hatred, as His Majesty expected, and endure this secret loss?

Secretly shook his head, not understanding why His Majesty had so much confidence, with the extremely arrogant character of the German Führer...... "Is this the difference between a son of God and an ordinary person?" ”

Wang Jingyi smiled self-deprecatingly, turned his head, and focused his attention on the staff officers who were busy summarizing information.

The composition of the Nazi attack aircraft group seems to be the history of the development of the German Air Force in the past two years, in terms of fighters, with the emergence of the "Black Knight" and "Yellow Rose", the Me-262 "Swallow" and "Storm Bird" and other models are gradually retired from active service. But in terms of bombers, the emergence of the Go-229 "Horton" flying wing aircraft could not solve the problem of Germany's lack of long-range strategic bombers, to put it more bluntly, that is, Germany was too slow in the development of large aircraft, so it had to continue to put a batch of old silk propeller bombers and transport aircraft into service, Ju-52 Junker Aunt is a typical representative of it.

After the successful development of the air-launched anti-ship missile V-7, the Luftwaffe painfully discovered that they did not have the air for this advanced missile, but they did not have a suitable launch platform. All fighters and bombers in service were not able to meet the launch requirements of the V-7. Air Force experts remembered the "Junkers", the most successful, famous and most relied on transport aircraft of the Spiral Era, the Ju-52 participated in almost all the operations of the German army in the early days of the war: paratroopers in the Netherlands and Crete, airdropping supplies to the army in the Baltic and Stalingrad regions...... Its high horsepower and rough landing capabilities made it ideal for the many field airfields of war, and its durability earned the German soldiers affectionately calling her "Aunt Junker", while the Allied forces called her "Steel Annie".

But after entering the jet age, no matter how good the propeller aircraft is, it has become outdated, and Aunt Juncker cannot continue to survive in modern air combat with a top speed of less than 300 kilometers per hour.

Until the advent of the V-7. Aunt Juncker's weight of more than 5,000 kilograms and the sturdy airframe design were reminded again by Air Force experts who suffered from the lack of strategic bombers. The modified Ju-52 was rejuvenated and became a dedicated launch platform for the V-7 air-to-surface missile.

However, the "Big Aunt" is an aunt after all, and its speed simply cannot keep up with the "Black Knight" and "Horton" flying wing bombers, which can easily fly at sonic and subsonic speeds.

So the Luftwaffe developed operational regulations for the use of V-7 missiles: "Aunt Juncker" had to have two groups of escort fighters. The first batch is to open the road forward, clean up the "garbage" and ensure the cleanliness of the area where the "aunt" launches missiles; And the second batch of escort fighters that took off a little later is the one that really guarantees the air supremacy of the "aunt" when launching missiles.

It is really helpless to escort "Aunt Junker" in this way. Aunt Juncker's top speed of less than 300 kilometers per hour is simply not able to evade the hunt of enemy fighters. That's why Goering did not hesitate to draw elite soldiers from the most elite and even legendary 52nd Fighter Wing to escort "Aunt Juncker".

The "relay" escort was tried and tested on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, and the V-7 missile's launch range of more than 20 kilometers and its powerful strike capability also made the Soviet Red Army suffer enough.

This time, the all-important "Long Sword" operation was carried out, and with such a good battle plan, Goering certainly would not give up his roots.

However, the first batch of 24 "Black Knights" to carry out the cleaning mission did not run as unscrupulous as they did in the skies of the Soviet Union. The Black Knight carrying the X-7 short-range air-to-air missile is a kind of combat fighter similar to the Draco fighter in the small category of fighters. Against the Soviet Air Force, which had no line-of-sight attack capability, the "Black Knight" was of course invincible with its strong power and excellent maneuverability, coupled with the superb skills of the German pilots.

But when they encountered the Royal Air Force of the Han Empire, especially the "Raptor" fighter with the coordinated command of early warning aircraft, tragedy inevitably happened!

The "Black Knights" who had just flown over the Sea of Marmara did not know that they had already been locked by the radar of the "Raptors" because they were not equipped with a passive radar warning system. As soon as the joy of discovering the Soviet Red Banner Black Sea Fleet on the surface of the sea appeared on his face, the German ace pilot was horrified to find that there were high-speed targets approaching the aircraft group in the radar.

The Phoenix-8 air-to-air missile, which can fly at a speed of Mach 3, only takes a few tenths of a second from appearing in the line of sight to attacking the target, and the German pilots did not even shout out of despair and surprise, and more than a dozen large fireballs have already appeared in the group.

The "Raptor" fighters could only attack four targets at the same time at most, and none of the 16 Fire Phoenix-8 air-to-air missiles launched in the first round of the four "Raptor" formations that arrived on the battlefield missed.

And the rest of the German pilots were also confused while rejoicing, where did the missiles come from? There was no shadow of an enemy aircraft on the radar at all. This is the Turkish Air Force?

Squadron Leader Captain Rupinsky suddenly shouted in the communicator: It's the Han Air Force, the Han Empire has started a war against us!