Modes died, having been shot in the cockpit before the crash. His body was soon found by nearby Red Army soldiers, who at first did not know that they had found a "big man", but his colonel's uniform attracted the attention of the soldiers. Soon the body was handed over to the NKVD, who rushed to hear the news, and then the identity of Modes was revealed.

Soon this news attracted the attention of the Military Commission, after all, Modex is a big star constantly promoted by the Germans, and in the words of later generations, he can be regarded as a superhero. Killing the enemy's superhero is undoubtedly a major benefit, which can not only boost morale, but also fight the enemy, which is worth writing about!

But soon the question arises, who exactly killed Modex by? The Germans adamantly refused to admit that Mortes had been killed by the Red Army, and they did not even admit that Mordes had died. And the Red Army's side is also fighting over the fat of Modex. The Army believed that the Mortes had been shot down by their field anti-aircraft guns, and they took the trouble to make up a story.

The Air Force scoffed at this, and they directly debunked the Army's trick: "Within a radius of twenty kilometers from the crash site of the Modex plane, your army does not have a single anti-aircraft gun, and witnesses on the ground have also proved that the Modex was shot down in an air battle, so this result belongs to the Air Force!" ”

The Air Force soon announced that they had found the hero who shot down Mortes, the son of a high-ranking Air Force general, a handsome and stylish young man, and with the bonus of his old man's background, this was the most suitable person for the Air Force.

Well, the Air Force couldn't figure out who shot down the Modex because there were many aerial engagements in the airspace at the time. There are also quite a few records of downed. It's a mess anyway.

Soon the Air Force reported this great victory for credit. But what they didn't expect was that it was bad for the criticism and ridicule of the Military Commission, and Li Xiaofeng said directly: "The Air Force wants to take credit because it wants to go crazy!" ”

Why? Didn't I say it earlier, the organizational relationship of Tariel has been transferred to the lone wolf squadron under the KGB, and it has nothing to do with the Air Force for a dime, so this result is KGB's!

The Air Force, of course, was not convinced, and they retorted: "It's a joke that a group of single-handedly malignant tumors and thorns can shoot down Modex." It's clear that you KGB want to take credit! ”

However, when Li Xiaofeng threw out the evidence, the Air Force and the Army did not dare to speak, and the so-called evidence was the photos taken by the camera gun in the nose of Tariel's plane in the air battle, which clearly recorded the complete process of the downing of the Mortes plane. There's no way to fake it!

But then the question arises, how to promote Tariel? This child is sensitive to identity, and his dead ghost Lao Tzu is a thorn in the hearts of ****** and **********, and he doesn't want to mention it at all. On the other hand, there is the maverick personality and the bad past, and if all the big guys learn from him, it will be a nightmare for the Red Army.

At one time, ********** had the idea of erasing the results of the battle against Tariel, so it was better to simply admit that it was shot down by the Air Force. It's easy and convenient to find a real role model to promote. However, this view was resolutely resisted by Li Xiaofeng, Lenin and Trotsky. These three think it's good to be realistic. Anyway, Taliel has already changed its name, so it doesn't matter if you don't mention its background. As for his personality, can't he be praised for his bad personality and merit? What kind of truth does this have?

In the face of strong opposition from these three, ********** had to give in and awarded Tariel the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of the Golden Star against his will. However, the "advanced deeds" report meeting that they had scheduled to blow the conch was canceled. Tariel's personality really doesn't fit into this set.

Tariel finally won the honor he deserved, and his glorious achievements are worth mentioning, but Li Xiaofeng is not too interested in this, and he is not even particularly happy, because the air battlefield has been showing more and more bad signs after entering October 1943 -- the fighters of the Red Air Force are gradually losing their technological superiority, and the German army has gradually caught up and completed the overtaking.

Since October, the Red Army pilots have not been able to overwhelm the Germans by the disparity in flight performance, and the new BF-109 and FW-190 are gradually overpowering the Red Army's Lager and Yak, and Soviet aircraft designers have to step up.

That is, this month, Li Xiaofeng held a special meeting on the armament work of the Central Military Commission, calling for speeding up the research and development of new fighters, and that better fighters must be produced as soon as possible, otherwise the air force will fall into passivity in the future.

This meeting was a wake-up call for Soviet aircraft designers, especially Lavochkin and Yakovlev, who were the most active fighter designers in the Red Army, and Li Xiaofeng's dissatisfaction with the technical performance of the active fighters was tantamount to dissatisfaction with both of them, and the dissatisfaction of the ****** boss was a disaster for a design bureau.

Soon the two of them were in action, and Lavochkin was the fastest, and he had just finished designing the La-7, and he immediately designed the La-9 on the basis of the La-7. With an all-metal structure and laminar flow wings, the overall performance of the La-7 has been improved, especially in terms of range.

In November 1943, the prototype of the La-9 began to fly test, and the Air Force was more satisfied with the La-9 by comparison, but the La-7 had just begun mass production, and it was too hasty to switch to the production of the La-9 immediately, so the Air Force decided to let Lavochkin continue to improve the La-9 and strive to squeeze out the last potential of the La-9 series.

Lavochkin got off to a good start, taking the lead, and was a bit proud. Because he heard that his old rival Yakovlev was not satisfactory in the improvement of the Yak-3, it seemed that there was no progress at all, except for the preparation of the replacement of the more powerful VK-108 engine, there was almost no action in the aerodynamics.

This made Lavockin a little proud, and he felt that he was going to fight a turnaround battle in the next round of competition, but it didn't take long for Lavochkin to stop laughing. The reason is simple, Arksnis told him a very unexpected news: "The new generation of premium fighters must use jet power!" ”

This news left Lavochkin dumbfounded, and his La-series clung to the ASh-5FN engine from the La-82 onwards. All the way to the La-9 and even the La-11 behind it is an improved version of this engine. Jet engines were never intended. And now this sudden request caught him a little off guard. Because it meant that he had to overturn the entire original design and start from scratch.

The worse news is that Lavochkin also heard that the reason why his old rival Yakovlev has not continued to dig deeper into the potential of the Yak-3 is that he is designing a new jet fighter, the Yak-4.

Well, Lavochkin knew that he was lagging behind again, and hurriedly threw away the La-9 and began to develop a completely new La-10. In fact, the La-10 cannot be said to be a completely new fighter, it is actually a hybrid freak, that is, the La-9 is based on a VRDK ramjet engine. To put it bluntly, this is a hybrid fighter.

In fact, it was not only the Soviet Union that engaged in this so-called hybrid engine back then. The United States has also engaged in it, for example, Ryan's FR-1 Fireball hybrid fighter. But unlike its American counterparts, the Soviet Union's hybrid fighter is special, the VRDK ramjet engine of the La-10 does not have the ability to be used alone, it must rely on the ASh-82FN engine in front of it to do the work, and use a slender propeller shaft to input power into the VRDK to drive its work to its role.

The La-10 with this hybrid is not actually a pure jet, and its performance is quite acceptable. So why did Lavochkin do this? The reason is very simple, on the one hand, it is so simple, there is no need to overturn the basic design of the La-7. It can be used with just a VRDK engine in the tail. Second, the jet power of the Soviet Union at that time was not actually mature. Lots of questions.

For example, Lavochkin's old rival Yakovlev, who developed the Yak-4, ran into a bunch of engine problems, and finally its pre-installed engine was simply dismounted, forcing Yakovlev to switch to another jet-powered Yak-5.

This taught Lavochkin a lesson, he felt that it was easy to pull the egg if he took too big a step, so he simply ran in small steps, first seized the "market" with a simple and mature engine, and then took a good position.

In fact, there were not a few people who had the same idea as Lavochkin back then, such as the MiG Design Bureau, Mikoyan and Grevich were unlucky to come home and did nothing successfully. Now that they heard that the new generation of fighters was going to be replaced, they also hurried to keep up, and for the same reason as Lavochkin, they also chose the VRDK line and developed the MiG-13 hybrid fighter, the twin brother of the La-10.

In this time and space, the battle for Soviet jet fighters was first fought between Lavochkin and MiGs. Of course, it is not without subsequent contenders, such as Yakovlev, for example, Sukhoi.

This battle for advanced fighters has been going on with ups and downs, and for a time there were twists and turns. Let's go down slowly, as mentioned earlier, Yakovlev was pitted by the engine and had to abandon the original Yak-4 in favor of the Yak-5 with the RD-1 engine. At that time, Yakovlev also found that his progress was lagging behind his old rival Lavockin, so he also thought of a way to develop the Yak-5 on the basis of the original Yak-3.

Let's put it this way, this so-called Yak-5 is the replacement of the VK-107 engine of the Yak-3 with the RD-1 turbojet engine, which is the product of new wine in old bottles.

Not to mention that it was the easiest and quickest to do, Yakovlev saved up the Yak-5 with almost no effort, and its prototype flight was even faster than the La-10 and MiG-13 in front of him. The flight of this saved Yak-5 is quite stable, and after changing the jet power, the performance has been greatly improved compared with the Yak-3, with a maximum speed of 786 km/h and even a cruising speed of 700 km/h. The only thing that is not satisfactory is that its range is even more tragic than that of the Yak-3, which is only 600 kilometers, which can be regarded as a veritable defender of the airport.

When this plan of how fast and easy to save was put on Li Xiaofeng's desk, a certain immortal couldn't cry or laugh, because this Yak-5 was simply the same as the Yak-15 in history, it was exactly the same. The Yak-15 was the first jet aircraft of the Soviet Union, and this Yak-5 is also the NO.1 of the current Soviet Union.

Li Xiaofeng doesn't like the historical Yak-15 or the current Yak-5, in his opinion, this short-legged thing is useful? So at first he did not approve the entry of the Yak-5 into service, but ordered Yakovlev to show his real skills and not go around in circles.

At the same time as the Yak-5 test flight. Another designer, Sukhoi, who was not particularly lucky, also threw himself into the development of a new fighter. But interestingly, Sukhoi also fell into the big pit of hybrid power at the beginning. He designed the Su-5 with a VK-107A engine to drive a TsIAMCJE ramjet. It belongs to the same path as the MiG-13 and La-10.

However, this is really not a good way, because the ramjet engine driven by the piston engine does not work for a long time at all (the VRDK only works for ten minutes, and the TsIAMCJE only works for eight minutes), and generally only uses it for a short time during takeoff or acceleration, which is really meaningless.

So when the baby developed by these three designers was placed in front of Li Xiaofeng's eyes, a certain immortal said that he was not disappointed, it was really fake, what was the use of these garbage? So with a stroke of his pen, he sentenced the Su-5, La-10 and MiG-13 to death, and all of them were dismounted. Then he set a dead frame for the new Soviet fighter jet. The maximum speed must not be less than 800 km/h and must be purely jet powered.

With the Nazi jet fighter Me-262 put into active service, and with the increasing number of strategic bombers of the US military, the Soviet Union really needed a working jet fighter, so the Yak-5 that was dismounted before was resurrected, and the fuselage size was increased according to Li Xiaofeng's requirements, and the name of the Yak-15 was used first after increasing the fuel tank.

The Yak-15 is slightly larger than the original Yak-5, with a maximum speed of 730 km/h, a maximum range of 900 km, and an RD-1O engine. Production began in August 1944. In terms of its performance. Quite a little worse than the Me-262 (after all, the Yak-15 has only one engine). After 150 Yak-15 units were produced, an improved version of the Yak-17 went into production. About 300 units were produced, after which they were replaced by the winners of the real Soviet project of advanced powered fighters.

Let's put it this way, Yakovlev began to become sparse from that time, the fighter was developed in general, the attack aircraft was also average, the bomber was still average, and the passenger aircraft transport aircraft project was still average, and in the end he could only "exert residual heat" in the field of training aircraft, which he was best at, and was gradually thrown farther and farther away by MiG and Sukhoi.

Continuing to return to the previous advanced power fighter project, after all three hybrid fighters were discontinued, Sukhoi first withdrew from the competition, because he had a new job, which was to develop a newer attack aircraft to replace the Il-2.

In fact, in history, the Sukhoi-designed Su-2/4 also occupied a certain share in the field of attack aircraft in the Soviet Union, but compared with the Il-2, it was too far behind. Historically, the Su-2 was not armoured, and the reason was that its engine power was insufficient, with the Tumansky M-88B having only 1,100 horsepower, while the Il-2's Mikulin AM-38 had 1,600 horsepower, which was a cut short.

However, Sukhoi is not convinced, whether it is in history or in this plane, and always wants to win it back. To this end, he painstakingly developed the Su-6 attack aircraft. In terms of aircraft performance, the Su-71 with the ASh-6 engine is better than the Il-2, an improved version of the Il-10. But why has it been the Il-10 that has historically continued to win?

There are two reasons, the first is that Sukhoi offended Comrade Steel. After Petlyakov's death in a plane crash, Stalin wanted Sukhoi to take over Petlyakov's work, but Sukhoi excused himself by saying that he would have to think about it. This naturally made the great leader angry, and he quickly replaced him with Miyasishev, who disliked Sukhoi very much from then on. And this sentiment naturally brought to the competition between the Su-6 and the Il-10.

Originally, Comrade Steel didn't like Sukhoi and preferred the Il-2, and the Il-10 looked a lot like the Il-2, do you say that with the intervention of the leader's will, Sukhoi had a chance?

Of course, the more important reason for Sukhoi's failure is the engine, the ASh-71 engine used in the Su-6 was the most powerful star engine in the Soviet Union (2400 horsepower), but this unlucky engine is also a giant hole in the history of Soviet aviation, and the unlucky ghosts who fell here include Sukhoi, Polikarpov, and Ilyushin. Anyway, ASh-71 is whoever touches and who dies, and there is no exception in every shot!

Of course, this is the case in history, and in this time and space, because of the intervention of a certain immortal, ASh-71 is not so pitiful, so Sukhoi's Su-6 can be regarded as a smooth birth. Sukhoi, who was busy with the Su-6, naturally did not have time to care about any jet fighter projects. So the final rivalry was between the three of Lavochkin and MiG.

Lavochkin does have two brushes, on the one hand, he is perfecting the La-9 and pre-researching the last La-series piston fighter La-11, and there is still room to develop the La-15 jet fighter.

Mikoyan and Grevich are fighting against the water, they have lost too many times, and they really have no strength or conditions to fail again, because this is their last chance, after working day and day, the MiG, which has fewer tasks, takes the lead, which is the MiG-9 fighter.

However, it is better to laugh early than to laugh last, as a jet fighter, the MiG-9 was not successful, first of all, the straight wing generated a shock wave when approaching the speed of sound, which increased the flight resistance sharply and limited the flight speed. In addition, the large-caliber aircraft gun has a small ammunition load, and the recoil of the gun is large, and the accuracy is poor. What's worse is that the muzzle of the gun protrudes in front of the air intake, and every time the engine is shot, a large amount of smoke will be swallowed and stopped; In addition, its combat radius is also on the small side, only 400 kilometers, and in later words: "it can only defend the wall of the airfield". (To be continued.) )

PS: Bow and thank you to the Wasters, the King of Mending Swords, the Glorious Charter and Comrade Juventus!