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However, even if they could not participate in the war, the air force of the Soviet Caucasus Military District still won the final victory in the air battle of Baku under the leadership of Pokryshkin, although because of the previous loss too badly, the overall exchange ratio was still slightly lost, but the Luftwaffe was finally forced to stop the bombing of Baku, the purpose of defending Baku was achieved, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was also reduced to 2:3, which was already a major victory for the Soviet army that had a miserable record before

The victory in the air battle of Baku gave great encouragement to the Soviet military and civilians, but because Pokryshkin entered the war too late and did not equip them with haode planes in the early stage, Baku's oil field facilities were still greatly damaged. According to the Soviet government's rough statistics, during the Baku air raids, the direct losses alone amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, and tens of thousands of oilfield workers and cadres were killed or wounded, and the indirect economic losses were difficult to calculate. Even the most optimistic estimate among experts is that in 1943 the Baku oil field produced only 60 percent of the previous year's crude oil production, and without foreign aid, it would be at least the first half of 1945 until production capacity was fully restored

You must know that the annual output of Baku oil fields before the war accounted for more than 70% of the entire Soviet Union, and now that a large area of the Soviet Union has fallen, Baku's oil is even more important. After realizing the unfavorable situation that followed. Stalin became even more resentful of the old Air Force leadership for all this, and soon took advantage of the recent minor victories to restore his prestige to a major purge of the Air Force's top brass that, although somewhat alarming to some within the Air Force, objectively swept away the resistance to Air Force reform. Thanks to the joint efforts of Novikov, the new commander of the Soviet Air Force, and outstanding Soviet pilots such as Pokryshkin and Kozhdub, who were increasingly valued by Stalin, the Soviet Air Force, which now has just over 7,000 aircraft, has embarked on its own road to revival with difficulty

It must be noted that in fact, since the beginning of the Soviet-German war, the total number of Soviet aircraft losses has been no less than 20,000 aircraft, but in these months the Soviet aircraft factories have been working overtime to produce at least 2,000 new aircraft every month, which has maintained a certain scale. It's just that the quality of the aircraft can't be guaranteed. Even the Caucasus Military District, which Stalin focused on, was no exception, and he was so angry that he had always had a very good temper, and Pokryshkin could not help but scold the military industrial department of the cheating father

In addition to shoddy production in pursuit of maximizing production, the Soviet Union's aircraft variety became increasingly monotonous, as the immediate priority was to regain air supremacy. Therefore, the production of fighters is listed as a top priority. And the production sequence is at the top of the list is the new fighter La-5, which has just entered service this year. This is partly because this aircraft is really good performers. But the main reason is that the La-5 is a wood-framed aircraft, and using it as the main fighter can save a lot of precious aluminum alloy

Due to the late outbreak of the Soviet-German war. The La-5, an even better fighter, was already in service, resulting in a much lower status of the Yak-1 fighter, which had historically become a mainstay in the early days of the Soviet-German war. However, because the Yak-1 fighter has better high-altitude performance and good handling performance, it is more suitable for novice rookie piloting, so there is still a large number of equipment in the Soviet army.

Lilia, a talented female pilot who had already made a name for herself during the aid to China, could not be called a novice, but she was also assigned to fly this type of aircraft, because she was a bomber pilot when she was in China, and now the Soviet Union needs fighter jets more.

Although Hu Weidong said at the beginning that Lilia's personality was too emotional and not suitable for flying fighters, the needs of the motherland were orders, and Lilia resolutely began a difficult transformation. Thanks to her hard work and talent, and the fact that she was not a complete novice pilot, Lilia quickly became a qualified fighter pilot and was rewarded by her superiors for shooting down two enemy planes in the air battle of Baku. After the war, Pokryshkin decided to form a women's air force as she did when he aided China in the Anti-Japanese War, and Lilia, who was young but already a "Hero of the Soviet Union", became the captain of this air force.

While her career is going well, this genius girl has also gained her first real aiqing - Solo, who is also an ace pilot. Martin, the relationship between the two developed quickly, and they got married after making an appointment to repel the German invaders, but Lilia sometimes unconsciously recalled the "uncle" in the far east that she had never been able to see through, and the girl's intuition told her that Hu Weidong's rejection of her was not really "no feeling", but because of factors other than feelings, this unfounded subconscious guess made Lilia feel faintly uneasy. The news from China during this period proved that China and the Soviet Union were more friendly than ever, but Lilia's inner turmoil became more intense

China's early repayment of loans helped the Soviet government to solve its urgent needs, but in the case of oil, China itself still needs to import, naturally it is not of much help, can only be obtained from the United States, although the Soviet government has some foreign exchange and precious metal reserves, but the shortage of materials have to be purchased, the Soviet Union is absolutely unbearable, so despite the complaint, Stalin still bowed his posture, and sent envoys to the United States many times, hoping to persuade the US government to fulfill its original promise.

But the Soviets did not know that the failure of the US government to fulfill its promises was in fact entirely due to the short-sightedness of the members of Congress, who feared that the Soviet Union would lose to Germany and did not want to take risks. In President Roosevelt's personal opinion, if the United States still wants to win the Great War, it must vigorously assist the Soviet Union, and even after the Soviet-Japanese treaty was half angry, Roosevelt still had no intention of giving up on the Soviet Union. Because Congress refused to pass a resolution on providing assistance to the Soviet Union, Roosevelt, in order to prevent the Soviet government from being unable to hold on to surrender, could only change his original plan, and decided to take advantage of the current Allied forces in the Atlantic to open a second battlefield in advance to share the pressure of the Soviet Union

However, the U.S. Army was afraid of the German Army, which was invincible on both the Western and Eastern Fronts, so instead of landing on the Western European continent to die, they chose the Arab Federation, which they saw as much easier to deal with (to be continued......