Chapter 593: Air Combat (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Tickets, Asking for Various !! )
Because of the sudden addition of 20 fighters under Chen Feng's department, this air battle has attracted the attention of the Soviet high-level. The Soviet high-level of the air force under Chen Feng's command has long heard of it, and when Chen Feng's unit formed the air force, it was still the support of the Soviets, and the fighters and pilots were all helped by the Soviets.
However, since last year, this air force can be regarded as breaking away from the support of the great Soviet Union and embarking on the road of independent development. Just a few months later, the two sides clashed and faced off in Outer Mongolia, where the Soviet Air Force suffered an unprecedented defeat, with 1,400 fighters shot down and a large number of aircraft wounded in less than two months, including the latest Soviet Yak fighters.
First of all, the reason why Chen Feng's unit was so strong was that it was equipped with an advanced fighter, which not only completely destroyed the most advanced fighter of the Soviet Union in terms of speed, but also far surpassed the main fighters of various countries in the world in terms of firepower and protection capabilities.
Stalin repeatedly sent requests to Chen Feng, hoping that Chen Feng could provide the Soviet Union with this advanced fighter, but Chen Feng refused, so although the Soviets had speculations about the performance of Chen Feng's new fighters, few people had seen it with their own eyes, so after learning that Chen Feng's air force was in the air, Stalin took Zhukov and Novikov and others out of the underground fortifications and watched the air battle outside.
The Luftwaffe fought well over Moscow, at least their commander Goering was artificial, so that the large pores caused the Luftwaffe considerable losses. But the damage inflicted on Moscow is even greater, not only militarily, but also economically and in various other aspects.
Today's air battle was the same, this time the Luftwaffe came prepared, although the Soviet Union sent two aviation divisions to intercept it at one time, but it still failed to prevent the Luftwaffe from wreaking havoc in Moscow.
However, just as the Luftwaffe was preparing to make a big move, inflicting heavy damage on these two Soviet aviation divisions, or even killing them, more than 20 fighters that they had never seen before suddenly rushed out from the east.
These sudden uninvited guests were very fast, and they joined the war group in the blink of an eye. I saw that the fuselage of these new fighters was silver-gray. There is a huge wolf's head printed on it, and on the other side is an eagle, although the habits of various countries are different, but the answer decoration of the fighter is still similar. One side of the pattern represents identity. The pattern on the other side represents meritorious service.
That wolf head undoubtedly represents identity. It's just that they don't know what the identity of the wolf head represents. The large number of eagles on the other side is intriguing, and if it is really a meritorious battle, it will be too terrifying. Because the general meritorious deeds are calculated according to the downed enemy planes, generally a pattern represents a downed enemy plane. And any of these fighters that suddenly appeared had dozens of patterns on the fuselage. That is, any one of these fighters has a fighter that shoots down dozens of enemy aircraft.
You must know that even Germany, which has the most developed air force, can be called an ace pilot as long as it shoots down five enemy planes, and in the Luftwaffe, every ace pilot is a treasure and is highly valued by the air force command. Even so, there are really not many ace pilots who can shoot down dozens of enemy planes, but I didn't expect to see so many here at once, could it be said that this air force team composed of only more than 20 fighters is a secret Soviet team.
As the Luftwaffe thought, Li Xuebin and others are indeed the secret team of the Air Force, but they are not affiliated with the Soviet Union, but under the Northern Air Force of China, they are all carefully selected by Liu Nijia from more than 3,000 pilots in the Northern Air Force, not only have requirements for combat performance, but also have certain requirements for loyalty and family background, these ace pilots have a total of only 38 people, and the main task is to escort Chen Feng.
Li Xuebin and others did not give the Germans a chance to think crankily, and they launched an attack a few kilometers away from the battlefield, and the J-6 fighter equipped with a 23mm sprint and other weapons opened fire at the same time.
"Bang Bang Bang"
"Boom Boom"
Li Xuebin and others did not disappoint Chen Feng, since they joined the battlefield, the Soviet Air Force obviously felt a lot less pressure. By 8:20 a.m., the Luftwaffe had shot down 142 German fighters, and an equal number of German planes had returned injured.
Soon the results were counted, and seeing the statistics of the results sent by the Moscow Air Force Command, Stalin and others were silent.
Returning to the underground headquarters, Stalin looked at Zhukov and the others and said: "I have seen all the air battles just now, and the results have been counted, so let's talk about them?" ”
Novikov was the first to get up and said: "Great Comrade Stalin, we must reassess the strength of this Chinese general, this powerful air force alone is enough to shock us, and we in the USSR have no air force unit that can compete with this air combat squad." ”
Novikov's words surprised everyone, to say that a year ago Novikov was a person, not many people knew the truth. At the age of 40, he was only transferred to the post of chief of staff of the Air Force Aviation Brigade in 1933, and he had only been in the combat sequence of the Air Force for seven or eight years.
On the third day of Hitler's war of aggression against the Soviet Union, Novikov, who was the commander of the air force of the Soviet Union's Northern Front, organized a plan and carried out a major counterattack. In this campaign, the Soviet Air Force dispatched more than 500 bombers and fighters to carry out intensive assaults on 19 German airfields, destroying more than 130 German planes in just a few days and nights.
Under the attack of Soviet troops, the Luftwaffe stationed in Finland and northern Norway was forced to withdraw to the large rear airfield, abandoning the immediate plan for the air raid on Leningrad. This was the first air campaign of the Soviet Air Force after the start of the Great Patriotic War, and for this blow, the German army, which was on the offensive momentum, was unexpected. Under the circumstances of the Soviet Air Force and even the Soviet Army as a whole being passively beaten at that time, the victory in this battle undoubtedly played an important role in striking at the arrogance of the German army and enhancing the Soviet army's combat confidence.
This battle also made Novikov's prestige resounding throughout the Soviet Union, so he was sent back to Moscow to take charge of the combat mission of Moscow's air defense, and because of this, his evaluation of Chen Feng's air force was the most convincing.
"Great Comrade Stalin, this Chinese general is very mysterious and powerful, in the process of contact with him, I found that he is a person with a very accurate strategic vision, in his army there are many weapons and equipment that we have never seen before, whether it is the armored troops on the ground, or the aircraft flying in the sky, its performance is more advanced than ours, so the strength of this Chinese general really needs to be re-evaluated!" Zhukov also said.
Stalin also deeply believed that the Air Force was a new branch of the armed forces, and because of this, the Air Force was the best way to reflect the problem. The Soviet Union also attached great importance to the development of the air force, which had an important relationship with the huge casualties of the Soviet Union in the First World War, when the prevailing trench warfare, the casualties caused by its bloody confrontation were a nightmare that the leaders of various countries could not get rid of for a long time after the war, and the fear of a war of attrition forced the countries after the war to vigorously develop air power that was not constrained by the battle line.
Even so, the development of the Soviet Air Force lagged behind. As the cradle of the European theater of war in World War II, Nazi Germany's armed forces stretched beyond almost all countries. The Luftwaffe took part in all the operations of the Great War as the vanguard of the Nazi military machine, and the unbeatable Luftwaffe at the beginning of the war made all nations tremble.
In the course of the German army's operations against Poland and Western Europe, its air force used almost all of its forces in the battle to cooperate with the ground forces and fight for air supremacy, and the Luftwaffe achieved great success in the campaign operations.
Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Stalin still recognized the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Air Force, but at the beginning of the Soviet-German War, thousands of fighters of the Soviet Air Force were destroyed on the ground by the Luftwaffe, and such heavy casualties made Stalin extremely disappointed in the Air Force.
However, they all saw the air battle just now. The invincible Luftwaffe was nothing more than a chicken and a dog in the eyes of the air knights under Chen Feng, and only 20 fighters were worth hundreds of fighters of the Soviet Union, and after World War I, the Luftwaffe was beaten down 142 planes, of which 65 were shot down by the Chinese Air Force.
The most incredible thing for Stalin and others was that none of the 20 fighters under Chen Feng's command were damaged in this air battle, not to mention shot down, even if they were injured. In contrast, the Soviet Air Force was much more miserable, and although the Soviet Air Force gained 77 enemy fighters in this air battle, it paid the price of 97 shot down and 23 wounded.
Originally, Stalin had already attached great importance to Chen Feng's department, but before the negotiations began, Chen Feng taught Stalin a lesson, forcing Stalin to reassess Chen Feng's strength.
In fact, Chen Feng wanted this kind of effect, he watched the whole air battle just now, Li Xuebin and others performed very well, only 20 fighters entered the air combat battlefield where hundreds of fighters fought, not only were they annihilated, but they fought a bloody way, not to mention that they did not damage a single one, and they also shot down more than 60 fighters of the Luftwaffe, which is indeed very powerful.
This air battle gave Chen Feng a general understanding of the air strength of China and Germany, and it can be said that with the same number of fighters, the Northern Air Force can completely destroy the Luftwaffe. Most importantly, after this battle, Stalin had to reassess the combat effectiveness of the air force, which greatly deterred the Soviet high-level, which was very beneficial for the subsequent negotiations. (To be continued......)