Enraged, Isov shot two Mongol officers and a dozen soldiers who had taken the lead in the flight, and ordered the Soviets to continue to hold back the Chinese attack by relying on the fortifications.

Perhaps it was the effect of the act of killing chickens and monkeys just now, and the weapons and equipment arranged on the second line of defense were obviously much stronger than those of the first line of defense, so the first attack of the 222nd Division was quickly defeated. And the Soviet troops, who had learned the lesson, did not make that stupid move this time, and after the 222nd Division withdrew, they also urgently withdrew to the bomb shelter, and only a few sentries in charge of monitoring were left on the position.

On June 1, 1940, the special issue of the Saibei Daily, the Saibei Economic News, and the Eighth Theater Military Newspaper simultaneously published a shocking news that China and the Soviet Union had started a war.

The newspaper published the reasons for the Sino-Soviet war, the course of the war, and the current situation of the enemy and the enemy on the front page. All the people of the country know that these three newspapers are media under the direct jurisdiction of the provincial government of Saibei Province, and they represent the provincial government of Saibei Province and the Governor's Department of the Eighth War Zone, so the news published from these three newspapers is generally not fake, let alone published in the form of front-page headlines.

According to the reports of the Saibei newspapers and media, the Sino-Soviet war was completely caused by the Soviet side's renunciation of the "Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact" and the signing of the so-called "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" with Japan alone, and some of the agreements seriously violated China's territorial sovereignty and were suspected of dividing up China's territory, which led to this large-scale military conflict.

In addition to reporting on the reasons for the outbreak of the war, the three newspapers also reported on the fighting that took place last night. However, what does not correspond to reality is that in the reports of these three newspapers, after nearly seven hours of hard fighting last night, the Eighth Theater finally defeated the Soviet puppet army that had entered the Eighth Theater defense zone, annihilating more than 40,000 enemies, and at the same time encircling all the remaining Soviet puppet troops on a small hill 20 kilometers north of the Second Company.

However, the losses in the Eighth Theater were also extremely heavy, with more than 8,600 officers and men killed and more than 3,000 wounded, almost one-to-one with the Soviet casualties.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately shocked both home and abroad. Some people praised Chen Feng and the Eighth War Zone for not being afraid of power. The courage to struggle against any country that violates China's sovereignty can be described as China's mainstay. However, there are also some people who believe that Chen Feng disregarded the safety of the country and did not have the permission of the Central Committee of the Nationalist Government because of his own selfishness. Just go to war with a power like the USSR. It's just a lawless thug. Such a person is simply not worthy of the post of provincial chairman of a province and commander of a theater of operations.

There were also some people who cheered with joy, because the Eighth War Zone had won the battle anyway. There are also some people who are worried that the casualties in the Eighth War Zone will be too large, which will seriously affect the strength of the Eighth War Zone. It was even more feared that the Japanese army would take this opportunity to flank the Eighth Theater of Operations with the Soviet Union, which would lead to more serious consequences.

In response to the disturbances from the outside world, the entire provincial government of Saibei Province and the high-level leaders of the Eighth War Zone did not respond, except for the true and false news in the newspapers, the attention of everyone in Saibei Province and the Eighth War Zone was focused on the second company.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Major General Isoff finally waited for the aviation unit he was waiting for, a total of 668 fighters in 2 air divisions, half fighters and half bombers.

Chen Feng had long been on guard against the Soviet Air Force, and the Soviet Red Army had never imagined that when they had just taken off from Kulen Airport, Chen Feng would know what was going on. Under the 3,000-kilometer search radius of the defense radar, the number and formation of Soviet planes were unreservedly presented in front of Chen Feng's department.

After receiving the report from the radar troops, Chen Feng ordered the 1st Fighter Brigade and the 2nd Fighter Brigade of the Sunit Right Banner, which had already arrived at the front line of the 2nd Company, to be ready to take to the air at any time, and when the Soviet Air Force was less than 150 kilometers away from the battlefield, Chen Feng ordered the two aviation brigades of the Northern Air Force to immediately take to the air for combat.

At ten o'clock sharp, after receiving a telegram from the command of the Far Eastern Military District, Major General Isov ordered all ground forces to immediately enter a combat state, and only wait for the arrival of the air force units to immediately break through in the direction of all the way to the north.

When the sound of the engines of warplanes was heard in the air, Major General Isoff strode onto an armored personnel carrier, and then commanded the troops to immediately break through to the north. According to what I have just observed, there is a Chinese unit stationed ten kilometers north of the battlefield, but because the distance is beyond the effective distance of the telescope, it is impossible to tell how many Chinese troops there are in the north for the time being, but it can be vaguely seen from a distance that there seem to be tanks there.

According to Major General Isov's idea, as soon as the air force arrived, it would carpet bomb the Chinese troops in the north, especially the Chinese armored troops and artillery units.

However, the plan could never catch up with the changes, and as soon as Isov's order was issued, the Soviet Air Division, which had just emerged in the sky, was attacked by the Northern Air Force, which had been in ambush for a long time in the sky.

"Bang bang bang!"

The muffled sound of the 30-mm cannon not only resounded in the air, but one after another Soviet fighters were shot down or even disintegrated in the air.

There were two aviation divisions in the southward reinforcement operation of the Soviet army, one was a fighter division composed of Iraq-16 fighters and the other was a bomber division composed of medium-range bombers. Because not long ago, a large number of Soviet volunteer pilots served in the Northern Air Force, so the Soviet Union thought that it knew the situation of the Chinese Air Force very well. Because of this, the top brass of the Soviet military believed that at least in terms of air force, they had absolute superiority and could be said to be invincible.

As everyone knows, what they know is in the past, and now the Northern Air Force has already eliminated all those old Iraq series fighters, and now the main fighters of the Northern Air Force are the J-5 fighter, the J-6 fighter, and the Wuzhi-9. After nearly eight months of development, the Northern Air Force now has 726 J-5 fighters, 705 J-6 fighters and 876 Wuzhijiu.

In addition, the Northern Air Force also has 488 strategic bombers and 756 Hercules transport planes, and the number of aviation brigades of the Northern Air Force has also expanded to 10, including 5 fighter brigades, 2 bomber brigades, 3 transport aircraft brigades, 1 reconnaissance aircraft brigade, and 4 army aviation brigades.

The battle in the sky continued, and the Soviet Air Force was horrified to find that the fighters under their seats could not even catch the tail of the Chinese Air Force, compared to the strange fighters under the seats of the Chinese Air Force, which far surpassed their planes in terms of speed and firepower. Coupled with a numerical inferiority, the Soviet Air Force was in crisis from the very beginning.

The Il-16 fighter equipped by the Soviet Air Force was designed by Polikarpov in 1933, and it was the first Soviet fighter with a cantilever lower wing and retractable landing gear. On February 18, 1934, a test flight was carried out by the famous pilot V.P. Chkalov. In 1935, he made his first appearance at a mass rally on Red Square to commemorate May Day, flying in formation over Red Square. Subsequently, the equipment of the troops began.

The I-16 fuselage is stubby, low-wing wooden monocoque, uses a nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled engine that is simply covered with reinforced protection but no drag reduction, uses an open cockpit and retractable rear three-point landing gear, features a two-bladed variable-pitch propeller, and pioneers an armored cockpit. The top speed is 440 kilometers per hour, the ceiling is 9,000 meters, and it takes 6 minutes and 18 seconds to ascend from takeoff to 5,000 kilometers, and the range is 810 kilometers. Armed with two 7.62 mm machine guns.

Although many innovative designs of the I-16 fighter directly stimulated competition in the aviation industry in the thirties, it cannot be denied that this aircraft had begun to fall behind at the beginning of World War II and was left far behind by the mainstream fighters in the world. The reason why the Soviet Far Eastern Military District still has a large number of such fighters is entirely because in the armed conflict in the Normenhan Campaign, the Yi-16 had very good results, and once defeated the Japanese army's Type 95 fighters.

On the other hand, the two main fighters equipped by the Northern Air Force, not to mention the advanced J-6, take the relatively backward J-5 as an example, not to mention anything else, the internal equipment of the J-5 alone is not comparable to the fighters of this era, compared with the simple airborne equipment inside the I-16, the J-5 airborne ultra-short-wave command station, radio compass, radio altimeter, beacon receiver, friend or foe identifier, tail protector, rangefinder, etc. can be called luxurious.

Compared with the Yi-16 fighter, the biggest feature of the J-5 is that it is fast, and the maximum level flight speed: 1145km/h is close to three times that of the Yi-16, plus the maximum ceiling of 16000m and the maximum range of 1560km, which can completely abuse the Yi-16.

The Soviet pilots were much more heroic than the ground forces, and despite their inferiority, they fought valiantly with the Northern Air Force.

However, the huge gap between the fighters could not be made up by mere courage, and by 10:20 the battle had already been shot down by more than 200 Soviet fighters, and dozens more were damaged and staggered out of the battle.

This was a completely one-sided aerial massacre, and in front of the pilots of the Northern Air Force, who flew subsonic fighters that completely surpassed this era, even the Soviet pilots, no matter how experienced in combat and how good their skills were, were still weak. What's more, the air force that went south to reinforce Isov this time only had more than three hundred fighters, and the rest were bombers with a combat strength of less than 5.

In order to completely annihilate this Soviet Air Force, Chen Feng dispatched more than 680 new fighters from two brigades at one time, so there are often two or even more new Chinese fighters in the sky above the Second Company to encircle and annihilate a Soviet bomber.

At 10:40 a.m., all of the 668 Soviet fighters that came to reinforce were shot down except for a dozen that escaped from the battlefield by chance, while only one J-5 of the Northern Air Force was shot down, and the rest were undamaged, and the only fighter that was shot down was because he did not expect that the Soviet pilot would choose to collide with him. (To be continued......)