Grisewetz looked at the blue sky and was melancholy, it was said that he was already a Hero of the Soviet Union, and he had just been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he should be happy that his career was successful, but he was not happy.

There were two reasons for Griseevet's displeasure, the first was the sudden outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, and only a veteran like him, who had participated in the Battle of the Haraha River, the Spanish Civil War, and the Zhanggufeng conflict, knew how cruel the war would be.

Griseswets no longer knows how many good brothers and good comrades have been lost, and it was only a small local war, and the casualties of a world war would be a hundred times more brutal. And now most of the pilots in the Red Air Force are young men in their early 20s, and the thought that a considerable part of these energetic young people will die makes him feel a pang of pain in his heart.

As a senior flight instructor, what could be more cruel than seeing the apprentices he taught single-handedly die? Anyway, Griseswitz is unacceptable, especially the strict order of his superiors to prohibit him from taking to the air to fight, which makes him even more uneasy, there is no reason to let these novice rookies fight hard, while these elite old people can only watch, right?

In fact, there is no way to do this, a pilot with extraordinary combat experience like Grisewetz is too valuable, and it is the biggest waste to let them take to the air to fight. In order to train as many qualified pilots as possible, seeds like Griseweitz are needed.

It's just that Grisewetz himself has little interest in being a seed, and he desperately wants to take to the air to strike at the enemy. Normally, his wishes would not have been fulfilled, but this is no longer the case. Just as Tukhachevsky was concentrating his forces on a counterattack codenamed "Saleva River", Kyiv was already on the verge of attack.

As a pilot at the Kiev Air Force Training Base. At the request of Shaposhnikov. All pilots had to throw themselves into the great decisive battle to defend Kyiv. At the first moment of obtaining this order. Grisesweitz took to the skies in a MiG-3.

There may be comrades who will be surprised, as the number one air ace of the Soviet Red Army at the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, how Grisewetz piloted an edge fighter, no, an interceptor to be exact. This is not at all in line with his status as a seed instructor, okay? Who is the Red Army stingy, and can't be stingy with the number one ace? Give the Yak-2 and you'll die!

Is it the lack of Yak-2 in Kyiv? That's really not, the reason why Griseswets chose the MiG-3 is quite simple. His best model is the MiG-3. The MiG-3 may be difficult for other pilots to handle, but in Griseswets's view, this is like a fish in water, and from the first time he entered the war, he formed a deep friendship with the fighter designed by Polikarpov.

At the Haraha River, he flew the I-16 to beat the Japanese, and in the Spanish Civil War, he was the first pilot to achieve results with the MiG-1, and until the MiG-3, Grisewetz achieved most of the results on Polikarpov's fighters.

And. At the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the MiG-3 performed well on paper. The 7800 can reach a speed of 640 km/h at altitude, and the maximum range can barely reach 1000 km, which seems to be a bit bright and blind compared to the short-legged and much slower Jacques system.

However, this is only the performance on paper, in fact, the aircraft is complicated to control, and there are a bunch of miscellaneous problems, and there are very few pilots who can give full play to the superior performance of the MiG-3. But fortunately, Grisewetz is one of them.

In the blue sky, Griseweitz comfortably opened the window to drive his war eagle, which he had developed since the time of the I-16, although the cold wind was very biting, but he always felt that this was the closest to the sky, and the most free and comfortable. On this flight, Grisesevitz's regiment was tasked with covering the Il-2 and SB-2 air strikes on the first group of enemy tanks. The Great Patriotic War had been going on for more than a month, and the front-line aviation of the Red Army was really aggrieved and simply did not show its due strength.

And now, the enemy has penetrated deep into Kyiv, and the air force officers and men fighting at their doorstep no longer have to worry about the trouble caused by the short legs of the fighter unit, and can finally give the German armored troops a little color under the cover of their own fighters!

The Il-2 quickly found the location of the German armored unit, and as the long plane shook its wings, the Black Death began to dive with a roar, and the rocket nests under the wings began to smoke and spew fire, and strings of rockets began to plow the ground with a sharp whistling.

The German tanks No. 2 and No. 3 on the ground did not react much at all, because they had been accustomed to fighting without the harassment of the enemy's air force, and even at one point they were very suspicious that the Russians had air force at all. And now the ironclad facts are in front of them, the Soviet Air Force is not only there, but it is also very powerful, enough to make them a fool!

Soon several tanks No. 2 and No. 3 began to burst into flames and explodes, and Grisewetz could see several panicked tankmen opening hatches and escaping from the burning iron coffin. He was quite satisfied with this, and if it weren't for the fact that combat discipline required him to stay in the air, he would have wanted to rush down and sweep two shuttle bullets.

Soon the Black Death pilots did the work for Grisewetz, and the 7.62mm machine guns began to fire fiercely, nailing the damned Germans to the ground one by one.

In just fifteen minutes, the enemy on the ground who was close to a tank battalion disappeared under the furious fire of the Black Death, and this efficiency was simply amazing, in fact, the Germans had already jumped to their feet: "We were attacked by air, it's the Russians!" We need air support, yes, immediately! ”

Now it's the Luftwaffe's turn to have a headache, their BF-109 and FW-190 are actually short-legged fighters, but at the previous stage, the main German forces had not penetrated deep into the territory of the Soviet Union, and this disadvantage was not too obvious. And when the first group of tanks arrived in Kyiv, the Luftwaffe felt that it was not powerful.

They also wanted to move the fighters forward, but under Li Xiaofeng's construction, the "broken leg" operation, organized and carried out by Arksnis himself, dealt a heavy blow to their attempts. The so-called leg breaking operation was actually a concentrated long-range aviation attack on the former Red Army airfield that had fallen and destroyed its facilities. So that the Germans could not take advantage of it.

For example, on July 18th. Under the cover of the MiG-3 and Pe-2. One hundred Pe-8s, two hundred Tu-3s and nearly five hundred Il-4s rained down the Red Army's airfields near the borders of Romania and Czechoslovakia. The bombs dropped not only blew up the aviation fuel storage tanks, terminal buildings, and hangars around the airport, but also dropped a large number of time bombs and anti-runway bombs.

Let's put it this way, the airfields that were attacked were bombed one by one, and the runways were not only gnawed by dogs, but also left behind a large number of timed unexploded bombs. It can be said that the Germans will not want to use these airports for a short time.

This also directly led to the fact that the Luftwaffe fighters were unable to cover the armored forces all the time, and as for the Luftwaffe's tactical bomber groups similar to those of the Red Air Force, such as the Stuka and the Ju-88, they could not be as wreaking havoc as they were in East Poland. This also indirectly relieved the enormous pressure on the ground forces of the Red Army.

Of course. This is not to say that not a single German fighter cannot be seen in the sky over Kyiv, it is impossible, as this time, when the Il-2 group had just finished regrouping and was ready to pounce on the next target, the BF-109 arrived.

"Ten o'clock, watch out for enemy aircraft!"

Grisesvets quickly pulled up the hatch, then roared over the radio, and immediately began to accelerate the climb, for the MiG-3. This high-speed dive-pull-somersault-dive tactic is the simplest and most practical.

The high-altitude performance of the BF-109 was mediocre, and the German pilots did not seem to take the Russians seriously. They took it for granted that they pounced on Il-2 like wild dogs that had seen poop. And this kind of behavior seemed to Griseweitz to be tantamount to death, he found a target, and then began to dive!

The speed of the MiG-3 was already fast, almost exceeding the BF-109E3 by a large margin, and in the blink of an eye, Grisewetz was in front of the enemy plane, and at this time, the German pilot had not yet figured out what was happening, and by the time he noticed the MiG-3 that had pounced, it was already too late.

Sudden ...... Sudden ......

It took only two shots for Gricevetz to reap the rewards, and his wingman shot down another enemy plane.

The Red Army pilots were greatly encouraged to follow the tactics given to them by Professor Grisewetz, and after completing the dive, they did not entangle the Germans too much, especially avoiding the struggle such as rolling (in this respect, the BF-109 and FW-190 were much stronger than the MiG-3, and even the Spitfire and Mustang were no match for the German fighters). Fast in and out, the MiG-3s began to climb again, gathering strength for a second wave of attacks.

The Germans were a little confused, similar tactics were unfamiliar to most German pilots, whether in Poland or Norway or France, or even in the skies over London, their opponents would not avoid fighting as they did now, and they were all entangled with dogs and dogs without exception. And the excellent maneuverability of the BF-109 and FW-190 convinced them that as long as they entered the dogfight, they would win.

Today, however, they had no chance to fight, and there were two ways for the German pilots to climb and bite down their opponents, while the other was to ignore the Russian hooligans and continue to attack the Il-2s.

In the end, the Germans chose a compromise route, with one part chasing the MiG-3 and the other attacking the Il-2.

Let's not talk about the unlucky guys who chased the MiG-3, let's talk about the Germans who tried to bully the Il-2. The Il-2 is not a soft persimmon to be manipulated, because there is no human interference in this time and space, the Il-2 is a two-seat type from the beginning, and there is a 12.7mm machine gun in the back seat.

And the firepower of BF-109E3 is really not very strong, and it is relatively difficult to expect this firepower to explode the chrysanthemum of Il-2. What's more, the Il-2 is also equipped with a very special weapon, the AG-2 air grenade.

The AG-2 air grenade is not a secret weapon made by Li Xiaofeng, but the Red Air Force's own creation in World War II, which is an air grenade with a parachute, to put it mildly. This weapon is about 129~132 mm long, 82 mm in diameter, and weighs 1.8 kg. The body was made of cast iron, in which 82 grams of K2 explosives were loaded. The explosives and the fuse are separated by thick cardboard, and the fuse is the UZRG fuse used by the Red Army on the F-1 and RGD-5 grenades in large quantities during World War II. However, because the fuse delay of the F-1 grenade is long, it will affect the explosion height of the grenade. Therefore, the designers shortened the fuze from 6 seconds to 3~4 seconds.

AG-2 grenades are fired mainly from DAG-5 and DAG-10 launchers. The transmitter is similar to the shipment device of a vending machine. One by one, AG-2 grenades could be thrown out of the fuselage.

After the AG-2 grenade explodes, it can produce 100~130 pieces of shrapnel, which can form a spherical area with a radius of 8~10 meters in the air (in fact, the fragments can fly about 50 meters away), which can cause severe damage to enemy aircraft in this area.

Navigator Uteepin, who served in the 16th separate regiment of the Red Army Guards reconnaissance aviation, recalled his experience with the AG-2: "After we accepted the AG-2 and its DAG launchers, the aircraft of the whole squadron were converted in two days, and in order not to affect normal combat missions, all the modifications were carried out at night. All the pilots were proficient in using the DAG on the ground......"

"I used this weapon for the first time during a reconnaissance mission to Sheff in Bangkok. We depart from the airport around the IELTS card in Vayaro-Bo. Fly deep into the enemy's depths and take pictures while following the planned course. The enemy's anti-aircraft fire on the ground was very fierce at one time, and the shock wave from the explosion of anti-aircraft artillery shells made it difficult for pilots to control the aircraft. There was a brief silence after flying over the difficult anti-aircraft fire belt, but we knew that it must have been an enemy fighter taking off to intercept it! ”

"Soon, 4 FW-190s caught up from behind, and in order to get rid of these tails, the driver immediately dived and accelerated, but they were getting closer and closer. I saw two enemy planes approaching from above, and needless to say that the other two must have been approaching us from below...... I immediately pulled the trigger of the pistol and kept aiming at the two above to shoot. At this moment, I suddenly noticed two 'black clouds' in the direction of the tail of the aircraft. I was stunned for a moment before I realized that it was a radioman operating the AG-2 to launch an attack on the enemy. The Germans, apparently taken aback, began to perform evasive maneuvers. Take advantage of this opportunity. We hurried to speed up our escape. After that, the Germans caught up again, and then we repeated this defense twice, insisting on flying back to the airspace controlled by our side......"

Finally, Utshepin summed it up this way: "I think that the Germans are more afraid of such small things that explode in the air than machine guns. After the bomb exploded, the enemy planes invariably turned to evade, which won us precious time to escape. ”

This defensive tactic similar to laying eggs in the air did save a lot of planes and pilots, such as this time, when the BF-109 nimbly avoided the Il-2's back-firing machine gun, the machine gunner in the back seat launched the AG-2 at the critical moment. A series of round black grenades fell from the tail of the Il-2, and if you don't look closely, you think that the Il-2 is excreting in the air.

The thrown AG-2s quickly opened their parachutes, and after a few seconds, they turned into large balls of fire. More than a dozen AG-2s exploded in the air, which was quite spectacular, and the BF-109 pilot, who did not know the situation, broke into the advanced at one end, and the sideways fragments instantly hit his landline into a thousand holes, and as the nose of his plane began to catch fire, the poor creature had to quickly open the hatch and parachute to escape.

More than one BF-109 was plotted by the Il-2, and although only one crashed, a considerable number of German pilots were forced to abandon the attack, and some even had to fly back.

At the same time, the battle in the air continued, and under the leadership of Grisewetz, the Red Army pilots calmly and calmly maneuvered with the German planes, and in the continuous dives and pull-ups, one or two enemy planes were always shot down, and the small number of planes added up, and soon the German planes in the air became fewer and fewer, until they disappeared completely.

When air supremacy returned to the Red Army, it was the turn of the Germans to be deflated, and the Il-2, SB-2, Tu-2 and even the Yak and MiG fighters dared to attack the ground, and German tanks and armored vehicles were constantly destroyed. What is even more terrifying is that the supply lines of the German army were also taken care of by the Red Army pilots. When the tanker trucks turned into flames, the German tank cluster had no choice but to stop the previous indomitable assault posture and was forced to stop on the west bank of the Dnieper.

Shaposhnikov was overjoyed by the effect of the air force attack, before he couldn't think of any way to stop the Germans, and now, under the blow of the air force, the Germans were finally blocked!

Even Shaposhnikov regretted that he still had too few planes at hand, most of which were reinforced, and Tukhachevsky's Salefa River operation, and he had too few air forces at his disposal. Especially the Il-2, which is extremely sharp in ground attack, there are only a hundred aircraft in the whole of Kyiv, what is this number enough for?

Shaposhnikov believed that if he had a thousand Il-2s on hand, he would not only be able to interrupt the German offensive, but also smack the Germans with a stick. It is a pity that there are 1,000 Il-2s of Tukhachevsky, and that brother lacks a front-line airfield, and a large number of Il-2s can only watch the 3rd and 10th armies that are surrounded star.

Shaposhnikov and Timoshenko are quite dissatisfied with Tukhachevsky's domineering behavior, obviously you can't use it for the time being! Why don't we give it to those who need it more urgently?

However, Tukhachevsky did not think so, he had blocked all the qiē on the Salefa River operation, in order to achieve the victory of the operation, he concentrated the most elite armored units of the Ukrainian Front and the Belarusian Front, and will also draw a large number of tactical air support, in order to push the Germans back in one go.

It can be said that Tukhachevsky is betting all his life and the honor of his soldiers this time, it is a stud, if he wins, it is a miracle, and if he loses, he will die without a place to be buried!

For such a gambling mentality, Li Xiaofeng was very blind, and he said to Wufeng Jevic: "Tukhachevsky is finished!" (To be continued......)

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