The pilots of the Habufsburg Kingdom Government Army, led by Major Buka, were also veteran pilots who had participated in countless air battles, and although they had not yet fully adapted to the performance of the aircraft in their hands, the advantages of the Lightning fighter in terms of strong firepower, thick armor, and high survivability were quickly displayed.

The Russian pilots faced this kind of aircraft for the first time, and as soon as they encountered them, the Russian pilots were surprised to find that these strangely shaped fighters were so durable, even after being shot, they did not appear to be injured much, and they still used their speed much higher than that of the Kitty Hawk fighters to rush left and right in the Russian fleet, and ran rampant.

Major Buka quickly adapted to his plane, and after contacting his teammates, he joined the band again in his car. Seeing several of his teammates surrounded by a large group of Kitty Hawk fighters, Major Buka aimed at the rebel plane and pushed the afterburner, the turbo increaser made a dull sound, and his plane maintained a large inclination dive, and plunged straight down from the sky. Major Buka spotted an opposing fighter and pressed the firing button of the 12.7mm machine gun without hesitation.

Major Buka is worthy of being the ace pilot of the government army, the shooting efficiency is quite high, the four machine guns emit four chains of fire, accurately whipped on the fuselage of the Kitty Hawk fighter, the large-caliber machine gun bullet submerged into the cockpit, and the pilot was directly beaten into a pile of minced meat, and the plane was also disintegrated in the air, and the scattered fragments even injured other Kitty Hawk aircraft nearby.

"Another one." Major Buka fiercely highlighted a breath of turbidity, he found that shooting with a machine gun is more refreshing than a machine gun, now he likes his plane more and more, flexibility and firepower are not to say, with a twenty mm cannon in the distance, the opponent's plane is almost dying if it is touched, close to the machine gun, no one can run away from the density of fire, plus the thick armor protects his absolute safety, and the maximum speed of his aircraft is much higher than that of the other party, so that those helpless rebel pilots can not carry out tail biting attacks at all.

In addition to Major Buka, several other pilots quickly adapted to the new aircraft, piloting their own fighters to begin a massacre against the rebels. Wherever the lightning fighters went, the Kitty Hawk fighters were defeated one after another, and in a short time, thirteen Kitty Hawks and eight Martin bombers were shot down, and seeing that the bombers had basically completed their mission, the leader of the rebels immediately gave the order to retreat.

As soon as the tormented rebel pilots heard the order to retreat, they immediately started to flee in all directions at full speed, and they didn't say anything about the formation, they looked like they were fleeing. Major Buka and his teammates pursued for a while, and after shooting down a few more opposing planes, there was not much fuel left.

This was also the only drawback of the Lightning fighter, and due to the use of self-closing fuel tanks, the fuel capacity was naturally somewhat limited. This fighter uses two engines, and the aircraft is too heavy due to the armor, and the range is indeed long in normal flights, but in the event of fierce air combat, the fuel consumption is much higher than those light aircraft, and now everyone's aircraft fuel tanks have bottomed out.

There was no way back to the airport, where the runway could not be repaired in such a short time, so they had to repeat the same trick and make a forced landing on the road. Fortunately, the pilots are veterans, and the road construction of the Habsburg Kingdom is indeed not bad, six lightning fighters have a dangerous forced landing on the nearby undamaged road, but they do not know the road, this air raid marks the official beginning of the civil war in the Habsburg Kingdom.

The rebels' air raids were only a prelude to the offensive, and after the Great War, the Chinese Empire's combat model was fully learned by other countries, and they also imitated the steps of the Chinese army, first using planes to knock out the opponent's airfield and then launch a ground attack.

With the bombing of bombers and the roar of artillery, more than 200,000 rebels launched an all-out attack on Schar Fort under the cover of wave-made M2 tanks. Determined to regain the lost territory, the Bouvimen were extremely brave, and they took the government troops in the trenches by surprise with their rifles, but these government troops were veterans who had only been out of the battlefield for a few years, and they quickly began to fire back.

A fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides, and the heavily armored M2 tank advanced rapidly, relying on its 45mm long-barreled guns and 7.7mm coaxial machine guns to desperately sweep the government troops in the trenches. Not to be outdone, the government forces responded violently with imported 76mm anti-tank guns, and at the same time sent Grizzly 1 tanks with some backward performance to confront them, and both sides devoted all their forces to fighting desperately in a small area.

The frantic battle of machine guns and artillery, planes and chariots continued, and despite the numerical superiority of the rebels, the government forces held their ground with strong fortifications and air reinforcements from the rear airfields.

The offensive lasted for a month, the weather here was getting colder and colder, the rebels who had no fortified shelter suffered from the harsh winter, and the government forces, who had gradually gained air supremacy, began to use bombers to raid the rebel positions frequently, and the rebels had to hastily end the attack, and the whole army retreated eastward.

Although the month-long battle of Sharf was only a partial battle, it caused nearly 100,000 casualties on both sides, and although the government lightning fighters suffered heavy losses in the early stages of the campaign, they were widely praised for their excellent performance and the resistance air force.

Especially in the case of a surprise attack, the six lightning fighters that took off by luck could destroy dozens of opponents' planes without a single fall in the face of an enemy ten times their size. Although two of the planes were scrapped after landing, they were enough to be reassured, at least any pilot would have felt reassured in flying such a survivable aircraft, and Major Buka and his teammates were promoted.

Although he took a big advantage, the envoy of the Boston Empire changed color after receiving the war report. This time the Boston Empire's support for the rebels was originally to test the performance of its own weapons, and now it seems that its own efforts for several years still cannot be compared with the Chinese Empire, especially the lightning fighter and the 76mm anti-tank gun, which gave the Boston Empire fighters and combat vehicles great casualties, and the Boston Empire also began to sort out the materials, learn from the experience gained on the battlefield, and began to develop more advanced P40 fighters and M3 combat vehicles.

Fang Xiaoyu was still a little worried about this, and after enduring a headache and scanning the opponent's air force laboratory through Xiaofeng, he was relieved to find that the new aircraft plan did not have too many new ideas. After all, no matter how well these propeller planes are developed, they can't compete with jet aircraft, but fixed-point scanning makes Fang Xiaoyu ignore the civilian laboratory, in the laboratory of an aircraft company called Grumman, scientists inadvertently started the research process of jet engines in the Boston Empire.

The harsh winter is long, especially in the northern part of the western continent, and there are often snowstorms, but all this cannot stop the offensive footsteps of the Russian volunteers. Russia is closer to the Arctic Circle than the Habsburg Kingdom, so they are more experienced in dealing with such severe cold climates, and despite the extreme cold and frequent snowstorms, the Russian soldiers decided to launch a pure ground attack with limited light artillery support.

On December 25, 914, Russian volunteers, braving the bitter cold, took the attack on Schar Fort by surprise and launched another attack. The Russians were very experienced in the freezing temperatures of more than 30 degrees below zero, and not only did they wear thick winter combat uniforms, but even their rifles and artillery were covered with cotton covers to protect them from the cold, and they were also heavily equipped with skis and snowboards.

Without the knowledge of the government troops, the Russians quickly found the outlying positions outside the city, and most of the troops here had withdrawn to the city due to the severe cold, except for some of the remaining garrisons, and even the remaining garrisons had taken refuge in pillboxes, baking braziers to keep warm, and no one thought that they would be raided by the enemy in such weather.

The Russian attack was so successful that without the government forces noticing, the Russians took positions and eliminated and captured thousands of officers and soldiers. Government troops woke up to the gunfire, and by the time they spotted the Russians in rebel uniforms, they were less than five kilometers from the edge of the city.

The government forces in the city were also fairly well-trained, and they quickly organized themselves and began to fight back with the help of the barricades that had already been built. The Russians used a small number of small-caliber artillery to carry out targeted clearances on the barricades, but they were quickly retaliated by the large-caliber artillery of the government army, and then the government army also pulled the chariot out.

Although they did not have the antifreeze lubricant and gasoline antifreeze that were unique to the Chinese Empire, the chariot could not be started in the bitter cold, but with the Grizzly 1 with a 50 mm long-barreled cannon, it was still very easy to use as a turret, at least it did not have to worry about being destroyed by the opponent's small-caliber artillery.

Although the severe cold reduced the combat effectiveness of the government forces of the Habsburg Kingdom a lot, the Russians did not take advantage of the artillery superiority. After a period of firefighting, the fierce Russians rushed into the city at a heavy cost of heavy casualties, and fierce street fighting ensued. The Russians were notoriously fierce, but the Habsburgs were no worse either, and these veterans of the Great War were equally murderous, and both sides fought extremely fiercely.