The Cossack Army mobilized 600,000 troops from all 20 armies and 1,440 aircraft of various types from 18 air wings, and the Iranian Empire also tore up the armistice agreement with Russia, and they also dispatched the strength of 14 army units and 11 air wings to advance to the Russian Caucasus Military District, and a large-scale local war was about to begin.

Russia has always been suppressed by NATO's powerful military strength, so while carrying out economic construction at home, they have not relaxed their efforts to build up their military strength, and have maintained more than 5 million soldiers all year round. Therefore, most of their troops are not stationed on the front line, but only carry out half-soldier and half-civilian production activities in urban and rural areas relatively close to the rear, which can not only produce social value, but also quickly assemble in an emergency and go to the front line in the shortest possible time.

The Boston Empire only provided weapons to it, and was not interested in providing loans to support its economic construction of the Boston Empire, because they also knew very well that once the Chinese Empire became serious, not only would their loans not only not be recovered, but also the danger of capital enemies, so until this time, the economic situation in Russia was much worse than that of the Cossack Empire supported by the Chinese Empire.

The Russian army does not have a military industry in the country, and its weapons and equipment are all from the Boston Empire, which is slightly worse than the Cossack Empire and the Chinese Empire, but because the army is much larger than other countries, and the number of air force planes also exceeds 4,000, the Russian Supreme Commander Ulyanov is still relatively relieved about national security.

The Russian Red Navy, which consisted of only a few torpedo boats, was not in Ulyanov's consideration, after all, the northern seas of the Chinese Empire and the Cossack Empire were large ice fields and ice floes, which were simply not navigable. It would have been too far to bypass the Yad Sea by sea, so Russia's sea was relatively safe, and Russia could safely obtain supplies and weapons from the Boston Empire.

Ulyanov's so-called security was only relative, and it was on August 14, 919 that the NATO alliance of the Chinese Empire, the Cossack Empire, and the Iranian Empire made him realize that no matter how many soldiers Russia had, as long as he had a land border with the Chinese Empire and its allies, it would be insecure.

In the early hours of the morning, the NATO coalition forces launched a simultaneous attack from two directions, first of all, the combined air force of the Chinese Empire and the Cossack Imperial Air Force, which sent a large number of aircraft to break into Russian airspace and prepare for an intensive bombardment of its warehouses, troop assembly areas, transportation hubs, airfields and radar stations.

Although the Russian radar is a relatively backward Boston product, it can still be quickly discovered by several large aircraft groups of the NATO coalition forces that have not concealed their whereabouts in the slightest, and more than 1,000 P51 fighters from the Russian front-line airfields quickly took off and headed for the NATO coalition aircraft group.

Due to the proximity to the front line, the first to meet with the Russian interceptor group was the Imperial Istanbul Air Force, under the prompting of the air early warning aircraft provided by the Chinese Empire, the Imperial Iraqi aircraft group had already known the general direction, altitude and speed of the opponent's interceptor group, and the bomber group immediately began to turn to avoid the opponent's fighter group, while the Empire's lightning fighter group met it head-on.

Having spotted the enemy earlier, the Lightning fighters took advantage of the height, bypassing the Russian fighter formation above the clouds and launching a surprise attack with airborne rockets from the tail of the opposing group.

The Lightning fighters used by the Empire were slightly different from those sold to the countries of the Western Continent, each of which had a conformal nest loaded with thirty-three rockets under the wings.

This kind of nest is Fang Xiaoyu's inspiration from the conformal fuel tank of the American Super Hornet carrier-based aircraft on the earth, this kind of nest can not only increase the carrying capacity of rockets, but also have little impact on the aerodynamic layout of the body, and is a very practical weapon. This is also the biggest achievement that only Fang Xiaoyu, who is a pseudo-military fan, can do in the Air Force.

The Iraqi Air Force, which had sufficient ammunition, did not hesitate to launch a large number of rockets, and in the face of the overwhelming rockets, the Russian Mustang fighter group was caught off guard, and soon more than 30 planes were hit by bullets and caught fire, but the Russian pilots who reacted were not mediocre, they took advantage of the good circling performance of the Mustang fighters to quickly disperse, and quickly turned the fuselage and pounced on the lightning fighters of the Iraqi Empire.

The Lightning with two 1,475-horsepower engines had more power, thicker armor and more firepower, but the Mustang with a 2,000-horsepower engine had more flexibility.

The engines of the Lightning fighter are on the sides of the fuselage, and its nose has no propellers, which allows the nose-mounted weapon to fire in a straight line without regard to the propellers, and has a longer range than the Mustang fighter with six 12.7 mm machine guns mounted on the wings for rifled aiming fire. (Rifling aim fire can only be carried out when the opponent is about 250 meters away from the nose of your own aircraft.)

At the same time, the Lightning fighter with a 20mm cannon is also more powerful, and can destroy the Mustang fighter in one go, while the Mustang fighter uses the higher disc rotation and bending performance to quickly shake off the opponent's tail-biting attack.

Due to the lack of power of the machine gun of the Mustang fighter, it is difficult to hit the lightning fighter in one fell swoop, and they can only rely on airborne rockets to make up for it, but unfortunately the hit rate of the rocket is too low, in order not to affect the maneuverability and minimize the damage to the aerodynamic shape, the Mustang fighter does not carry many rockets, which makes the aircraft of the two sides stalemate, and the battle loss ratio almost reaches one to one.

The main direction of the Russian Air Force's defense is the Cossack Empire, and there are less than 400 Mustang fighters in the Caucasus direction, while the Istanbul Imperial Air Force has dispatched nearly 600 fighters, not to mention that the sneak attack at the beginning has caused heavy losses to the Russian Air Force, and the numerical disadvantage has made the Russian Air Force gradually exhausted.

The worst thing is that because the Russian fighters are all entangled with the fighter units of the Islamic Empire, they have missed the most lethal bomber units of the Islamic Empire, and at this moment they have bypassed the interceptor group, entered the Russian airspace without hindrance, and quickly bombed the Russian army's advance airfield, oil depot, ammunition depot and other important facilities, while the Russian Air Force antiaircraft artillery unit has achieved little success despite its stubborn resistance.

Since the operational thinking of the Boston Empire has always believed that the best way to deal with aircraft is to use aircraft, and there is not much research on anti-aircraft artillery, Russia is not equipped with many anti-aircraft guns, and there is no certain density, so the results of anti-aircraft artillery can be imagined.

Just as the Russian Air Force was gradually losing ground in the direction of the Caucasus, the fighter group of the Imperial Chinese Air Force also met the Russian interceptor group. What stunned the Russian Air Force pilots was that as early as more than 50 kilometers away, the Golden Eagle 5 fighter of the Imperial Chinese Guards Air Force launched the Thunderbolt 3 air-to-air missile.

The medium-range air-to-air missile of the Chinese Air Force adopts a semi-active guidance mode, which relies on the mechanical radar on the nose for irradiation guidance. This kind of missile has a high accuracy, but the disadvantage is that before the missile hits the target, the aircraft cannot do any maneuvering action, if the radar cannot lock the target because the aircraft makes a maneuvering action, the missile will definitely miss the target.

Such a flaw is not a problem at all, because the other side has not yet developed a long-range missile, and launching a missile from a distance of fifty kilometers is enough for these fighters to hold out until the missile hits the target. The Russian pilots had never seen such a weapon at all, and had no idea how to dodge it, so the debut of the air-to-air missile was quite successful, and almost none of the missiles missed, shooting down more than 100 Mustang fighters of the Russian Air Force.

This was the first time to participate in actual combat, and it was still in the nature of testing, so the number of Guards air forces of the Chinese Empire was not large, so the Russian air force was not directly annihilated from a long distance. When the distance was approaching, the ultra-high speed of the Chinese Air Force fighters completely stunned the Russian Air Force pilots, and they realized that their own planes were already too far behind the Chinese Empire.

The hundreds of jet fighters of the Chinese Empire surrounded more than 2,000 Russian fighters, so that the Russian pilots had no temper at all, and there was a huge gap in the design concept, so that the Mustang fighters could not keep up with the speed of the Chinese Imperial fighters at all, and even the bullets fired could not keep up.

The Russian fighter planes fell like dumplings, and those Golden Eagle 5 fighters that still carried air-to-air missiles were reluctant to use missiles, just because the higher authorities asked them to test the performance of the missiles, but in fact, against these propeller planes, it was enough to use machine guns.

Just when the Chinese Air Force was abusing the Russian Air Force, the slower Cossack Air Force finally arrived on the battlefield, which gave the Russian Air Force a glimmer of hope, and it was not good to bully the Chinese Air Force, and it was not good to bully the Cossack Air Force. Therefore, when they saw the arrival of the Cossack Air Force, the Russian pilots rushed to the Cossack Air Force's lightning fighter group as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, regardless of the strafing and interception of the Chinese Air Force.

Just as the Russian Caucasian Air Force fought against the Imperial Istanbul Air Force, the planes of the two sides were also tied, but due to the frequent sorties of superior fighters of the Chinese Air Force, the Russian Air Force had a much higher battle loss rate.