"Da Da Da"

Li Haitao took the lead and swooped down on the Soviet long plane, and a string of bullets shot out but disappeared from the enemy plane, Li Haitao was wondering, but suddenly found that the other party had climbed to the top of his head, and the muzzle of the machine gun was aiming here. It can be seen that the Soviet pilot was a very good pilot with rich combat experience, and he operated the fighter plane at the first time, and one jumped into the black cloud.

Seeing the danger, Li Haitao pulled the nose of the plane violently and quickly occupied a favorable position, and Su Ji did not show weakness and rushed head-on. Li Haitao crashed into the opponent at full speed, seeing that he was about to die with the Japanese plane, Li Haitao quickly pulled up the fighter with the advantage of the speed of the fighter, and then made a perfect spin.

Under the astonishing gaze of the Soviet pilot, Li Haitao "bitten" the "tail" of the enemy plane, and although biting the tail of the opponent's plane in an air battle could hit it nine times out of ten, Li Haitao did not dare to be careless, and he knew that the Soviet pilot with whom he was entangled was an extremely good pilot. Having learned the lesson just now, Li Haitao operated the fighter plane to quickly approach the Soviet plane, and then closer, until he saw the back of the Soviet pilot's head clearly, and he fired a string of bullets. Then the enemy plane burst into flames and fell headlong.

After shooting down the enemy plane, Li Haitao had the heart to observe the entire battlefield. At this time, the Soviet fighters were in a mess throughout the battlefield, and Li Haitao was surprised to find that the Soviets seemed to have gone crazy. Although the overall performance of the new Soviet planes was far inferior to theirs, these Soviet pilots were extremely ferocious when attacking, and they rushed to crash with them at the slightest unfavorable situation, which was simply a "bayonet fight in the air."

But Li Haitao knew better that the Soviet fleet was just a struggle before death. The fighters they sat on were inferior in performance to the Northern Air Force. The number of fighters is also much worse, and this air battle was not a fight of equal strength from the beginning.

The air battle was in full swing, and the fortune who received Liu Nijia's report personally rushed to the command headquarters of the Northern Air Force to take command, and when he learned that the Soviet Air Force had sent a new fighter to participate in the war, the fortune was also taken aback, but after listening to the specific news from the front-line pilots, the fortune was no longer worried.

According to the description of the returning pilots of Sainshanda, Fortune can conclude that the new fighter that the Soviet Union is proud of is the MiG-3. This fighter is an improved version of the MiG-1, the first type of MiG fighter, and its biggest advantage is that it flies fast, setting a speed flight record of 684.5 km/h in the first test flight. It was the fastest flying plane in the world at that time. The MiG-3 is an improved version of the MiG-1.

But what surprised Chen Feng was. Historically, the MiG-1 was only developed in 1938, and the design goal was the world's leading high-altitude and high-speed interceptor. In December 1939, they submitted a design for the I-200 fighter. The program was quickly received by the Central Committee. Approval of the People's Commissariat of Aviation and the Air Force. The development work began.

The aircraft uses a hybrid structure of plywood, wood, and metal, with a cantilevered low monoplane layout. By March 30, 1940, the first work of the design bureau had already built a prototype. On April 5, 1940, the first test flight of a prototype called the I-200 was carried out at Moscow's Khodyka airfield, and the test flight proved that the aircraft was an interceptor with excellent performance, especially in the test flight on May 2, reaching a speed of 684.5 km/h (6900 M), which was the fastest flying aircraft in the world at that time. In December 1940, the machine was awarded the production number: MiG-1.

The MiG-3, an improved version, was put into production much later, and the first production version of the MiG-3 entered service with the Soviet Air Force in April 1941. That's a full 10 months ahead of history.

Although the Soviet Union developed the MiG-3 fighter in advance, Chen Feng was not worried at all, although the MiG-3 is advanced and the performance is superior enough, but this fighter has great defects, first of all, the landing gear of the MiG-3 often cannot be put down, and the pilot has to forcibly use the belly to taxi for forced landing, in addition, the equipment above the landing gear is often damaged during landing, especially the emergency landing often causes damage to the exhaust pipe of the aircraft radiator, and the exhaust pipe is difficult to replace, which leads to a great reduction in the empty time of the aircraft.

In addition, due to the unreliable performance of the MiG-3 cockpit lock, the Soviet pilots had to open the cockpit cover when performing the mission, and the open cockpit cover affected the speed and range of the aircraft, and at the same time, because the endurance of the aircraft was not high, it was also unable to perform reconnaissance missions, because once an air battle occurred during reconnaissance, the fuel of the MiG-3 would not be able to guarantee its safe return.

What's more, the Soviet Air Force has just been equipped with the MiG-3, not only is the number of equipment small, but the pilots have not yet fully mastered the piloting skills of this aircraft.

More importantly, the main fighters of the Northern Air Force at this time are J-5 and J-6 fighters, and even the J-5 fighters with poor performance are imitation Soviet fighters, and the original prototype of its imitation is the Soviet MiG-17, which is completely a battle between the old grandfather and the little grandson, and the Soviets are undefeated.

The outcome of this air battle was already doomed, so Chen Feng lost patience after staying in the temporary command of the Northern Air Force for a while, and just as he was about to return to the temporary command of the army, the radar soldiers reported another news, more than 200 Soviet fighters taking off from the Saiyin Shanda airfield flew towards Zonmod, apparently preparing to reinforce the Soviet Air Force in the direction of Zonmod.

In fact, it was precisely like this, less than half an hour after the start of the war, the Soviet Air Force was shot down more than 100 fighters, and at this time the Soviet Air Force commanders also saw that the performance of their new fighters was far behind the fighters under the seats of the Chinese Air Force. In desperation, Zhukov had no choice but to order the 6th Aviation Division, which had just finished the air battle at Sainshanda, to immediately land at the Sainshanda airfield, and immediately rush to Zonmod after refueling to reinforce the 9th Aviation Division.

However, by the time the 6th Aviation Division arrived in Zonmod, the 9th Division had already shot down two-thirds of its fighters, and less than a hundred fighters were still struggling to hold on. And the losses of the Chinese Air Force seem to be very limited, and the sky is full of Chinese fighters painted with the heads of steppe warriors. In addition, the city of Zonmod, not far away, was also under heavy bombing by Chinese bombers at this time, and hundreds of Chinese bombers dropped a large number of aerial bombs on the positions of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces and the Zonmod airport, and the city was full of gunsmoke and war.

Although the Sixth Aviation Division was a new force joined, the form on the battlefield did not change much, and the Chinese Air Force was extremely happy to see hundreds of Soviet fighters coming, and they operated their own fighters to meet them

The air battle in Zonmod lasted until 12 o'clock at noon, and if it were not for the lack of fuel for the fighters of the Northern Air Force to continue the operation, I am afraid that this extraordinarily large air battle would have continued. However, by 12 o'clock, the Soviet Air Force in the direction of Zonmod had been shot down 375 fighters, and the Zonmod airfield had been blown up, and less than 160 fighters had successfully returned to the Sainshanda airfield.

In addition, less than half an hour after the end of the air battle in Zonmod, the air raid in Ulaanbaatar also came to an end, because all the fighters of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army were transferred to the southern front to fight, so the air power of Ulaanbaatar was extremely empty, only the air power of less than one battalion of the Mongolian Defense Forces, and the 37 backward Yi-15 fighters were all blown up in the hangar before they took off, and the entire airport was turned into ashes.

So far, the 6.8 air battle can be regarded as a complete end, this air battle in a row in the four battlefields of Saiyin Shanda, Ergen, Zonmod and Ulaanbaatar, the Soviet army invested a total of 2 complete new equipment aviation divisions, 2 dilapidated old aviation divisions and 1 heavy bomber brigade, a total of 770 fighters, counting the Mongolian Defense Forces' 37 Iraq-15, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces invested a total of 807 fighters.

The Northern Air Force invested a total of 3 fighter brigades and 3 bomber brigades to participate in the war, in this battle the Soviet Air Force was shot down 531 planes, 201 were damaged, only 75 fighters were intact, and the two most important military airfields in Mongolia were destroyed, and the losses were extremely heavy.

Chen Feng's department was different, they were shot down a total of 132 fighters in this big air battle, including 179 B10 bombers, and only less than 23 new fighters were shot down, and only 8 of the 23 downed fighters were shot down by the Soviet Air Force, and the rest were all crashed because they failed to prevent the brutal collision of Soviet pilots.

After the results of the 6.8 air battle came out, the top leaders of the Soviet Union and Mongolia were completely stunned, and they simply could not accept such a result, especially the Soviet Union. As the largest country in the world across the Eurasian continent, and as the first industrial country in Europe and the second largest in the world, the Soviet Union would never allow itself to be defeated by China, let alone a small warlord in China.

After receiving Zhukov's telegram, an enraged Stalin smashed the furnishings in his office so hard that he even broke the large pipe that Lenin had given him in two.

In just eight days, the Soviet Union lost one and a half air groups in the hands of the Northern Air Force, and this speed was extremely astonishing. You must know that the Soviet Union has only formed a total of 6 air force armies, but I didn't expect to lose a quarter so easily.

At the same time, Stalin was more worried about where did Chen Feng's new fighter come from? If it's the United States, that's fine, but if it's Germany, then the problem is serious. According to the intelligence gathered by the intelligence officers, the only countries that had equipment deals with Chen Feng's department were the United States and Germany, apart from the Soviet Union.

Stalin was not worried, after all, the United States was a democracy, and the United States had no territorial claims to the Soviet Union, so the Soviet Union was not worried that the United States would be unfavorable to the Soviet Union. But if it were Germany, then the national security of the USSR would have been challenged like never before. Despite the existence of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Stalin, like not believing in Japan, never believed in Germany, and if German fighters were really so powerful, then Stalin would have to reconsider relations with Germany, and even more so the future of the Soviet Air Force. (To be continued......)