This is precisely the Soviet army's unique "sea of people" tactic, and it has doubled its power after it was upgraded to a "sea of tanks". Although the West often used this name to ridicule the Soviet army's simple tactics in later generations, before the end of the Cold War, the people of Western European countries had been living in fear of the torrent of Soviet armor, which is enough to see that the Soviet army's "sea of people" tactics were not as unbearable as the West preached

However, to the surprise of the Soviet commanders and fighters and even Stalin in Moscow, the Germans had very few troops on the front line, and the remaining troops did not make any decent resistance and retreated one after another, and the Soviet armored group rushed forward almost bloodlessly for nearly 200 kilometers, so that Stalin regretted sending bomber groups to blow up those airfields on the enemy's front line, otherwise they could have used it directly

However, just when the Soviet planes that had completed the bombing mission returned to the front-line airfields in the Soviet-occupied areas of Poland, nearly 100 airfields along the eastern border of the German mainland flew one after another Luftwaffe FW190 fighters, because whether it was the early model or the latest model, the FW190 series fighters were faster than the Soviet planes, so when the Soviet planes had just flown back to their respective airfields and began to prepare for landing, they were shocked to find that they were chasing a large number of uninvited guests behind them

Now the Soviets immediately fell into confusion, since the enemy planes are coming, the Soviet fighters will definitely take to the air to meet them, but the problem is that the planes returning from the bombing mission are landing, almost occupying all the runways. The planes on the airfield, which were supposed to participate in the second wave of bombing, could not take off at all. In desperation, the ground command of the Soviet army could only let the fighters in the returning aircraft turn back to meet them, but the performance of the Soviet fighters was slightly inferior to the FW190 series, and now there is little fuel left.

Moreover, the situation in which the planes of the two sides were fighting each other greatly limited the role of the ground anti-aircraft artillery fire at the Soviet airfield, not to mention that even if they opened fire with all their might without hesitating accidental damage, the Soviet army's ground anti-aircraft artillery fire was still obviously insufficient. Due to the extremely large number of planes invested in the front line, the Soviet high command chose to focus on small field airfields for fear of arousing the alarm of the Germans too early, so the idea of building airfields was "small but many". Only in the Soviet-occupied zone of Poland. There were no less than 200 airfields built by the Soviets, and in addition to the vast territory of the Soviet Union, those large cities, transportation hubs and military important places also needed to leave a certain amount of air defense troops, so the number of anti-aircraft artillery that the Soviet high command could allocate to each front-line airfield was naturally relatively insufficient. And although it has been localized. However, the production cost of artillery sighting radar, which has not been reduced for the time being, is even more difficult to popularize

Outcome. After the German fighter group defeated the oncoming Soviet planes without much effort, they unceremoniously bullied the weakness of the Soviet anti-aircraft fire on the ground and strafed the enemy planes at the airfield with artillery guns and bombs (Note 1). It was only after the cannonballs were almost exhausted that Shi Ran returned victoriously. The Luftwaffe counterattack was extremely sharp, destroying more than 2,000 Soviet planes in just three hours and paralyzing almost all airfields in Soviet-occupied Poland.

The reason why the German army's targeted elimination operations were so precise and efficient, and the accuracy of the intelligence contributed to it, was that in addition to the objective reason that the Soviet Union had a large proportion of field airfields and was not easy to hide, some Polish whistleblowers also played a direct role in helping the German intelligence services.

Although the Poles were very resentful of the Germans who destroyed their homeland, the Soviets who fell into the trap were also the objects of their hatred, so there were still many Poles who provided information to the Germans, some of them did so to make the two invaders eat dogs, some of them were indeed pro-German and hateful to the Soviet Union, and of course there were many Poles in the German-occupied areas who thought the opposite

Before the first wave of attacks was completed, the second wave of German planes, with bombers as the main force, had already penetrated into the depths of the Soviet Union and began to bomb the airfields, bridges and railways in the enemy's rear, which were more emptily defended, further expanding the results of the battle. When night came, the total number of planes lost by the Soviet Union had reached more than 3,000, and even if it was as resolute as Stalin, it could not help but turn pale for a while after receiving the report from the front

Although Stalin has been out of the military front line for many years, he still quickly realized the greater danger, some information collected by intelligence officers showed that the range of Soviet aircraft was shorter than that of Germany, and now almost all the airfields in the Soviet Union within a depth of 300 kilometers were destroyed by the enemy, plus more than 200 kilometers abandoned by the Germans, it was enough for Soviet planes to be unable to support the troops on the front line in the short term, while German planes were still able to continue to bomb facilities in the Soviet Union. Such a situation would undoubtedly inflict unimaginable losses on the Soviet Union, but it was not the most fatal

The air supremacy of a vast area of more than 500 kilometers combined by the Germans means that the supply lines of more than 3 million Soviet troops that have penetrated deep into the German-occupied areas of Poland and even East Prussia are always under the threat of the Germans.

Strange to say, unlike the German Army, which was extremely aggressive but often had to be repaired for a long time after each major battle, the Luftwaffe showed a superior ability to sustain operations, both historically and in this time and space, and their pilots were like tireless monsters, generally able to endure more than twice the horrific attendance of their Allied counterparts. No, the second wave of German aircraft has not yet completed its mission and returned, the third attack wave of the German army will follow one after another, and most of the pilots who flew these fighters have participated in the first attack, which makes people have to sigh at their vigorous energy and tenacious will, unlike the first two waves of attacks that only cleared the obstacles, the third wave of attacks really cut to the theme, and also announced the complete defeat of the "heavy thunderstorm jihua".

Note 1: About one-third of the FW190 carried bombs to carry out bombing missions, and the reason why bombers were not sent to do this work was because the H-1, which lost one less plane after severing diplomatic relations with China, was reluctant to use it to carry out such a combat mission with a high loss rate, while other bombers were relatively slow and easy to delay fighters. Anyway, the bomb load of the FW190 series fighters is not small, and it is okay to work part-time (to be continued......