The bridge was blown up, and for the Germans, it was absolutely terrible news, a large number of tanks and armored vehicles were crowded on the east bank of the Sudost River, and once surrounded, the consequences would be unimaginable!

This difficult situation made a considerable number of German officers desperate, how could they not despair without seeing hope? But there was never Guderian among these desperate crowds, and he never gave up.

"Concentrate all the sappers and erect the pontoon bridge as fast as possible!" This was Guderian's order.

However, this order was difficult to carry out, and the sappers complained: "The enemy is constantly attacking from the air, and the pontoon bridge we have erected will not last for two hours!" ”

"I don't care!" Guderian was also angry, "Even if you can only hold out for an hour, or even half an hour!" Now, I just want you to carry out the order! ”

Under Guderian's strict orders, the sappers could only reluctantly carry out bridge erection operations, braving the artillery fire and air raids of the Red Army, they erected pontoon bridges again and again, and then watched them be destroyed again and again, and the casualties were simply staggering.

The small movements of the German army were soon discovered by Rokossovsky, who naturally did not allow the duck to fly like this, and repeatedly asked the air force to strengthen the air attack, and must cut off the enemy's lifeline for escape.

The struggle between air raids and counter-air raids, destruction and construction, began, and before Polbin and his boys could taste the joy of success, let alone remember and mourn their dead comrades, they plunged into the fierce battle again.

Not only Bolbin, but also some other legendary aerial heroes who took part in this fierce battle. For example, the most beautiful women in the Soviet Union, the famous female pilots of the 587th Bombing Aviation Regiment. Among them are the famous "White Rose over Stalingrad" and "Night Witches".

Half the sky in the Soviet Union was more active in the war than other women in the belligerent countries. Much more "man". Please forgive me for using the term "men" to describe them. To be honest, the female pilots of the Soviet Union really went to the battlefield with real knives and guns, not just engaged in ground work like American and British women, let alone Hannah in Germany. Leitch and Merry. Schiller, like him, although he was in the limelight, was just a show and never went to the battlefield. As for Japan, for the devils. Having a woman fly a plane is simply unthinkable.

In the Soviet Union, before the outbreak of the war, there were already three female pilots who left their names in the history of world aviation. Raskova, Valentina. S. Glizodubova and Polina Osefinko.

At the age of 19, Raskkova entered the Zhukovsky Aviation Military Academy and received her pilot's license in 1935. Glizodubova's father was a pioneer of Soviet aviation, having designed one of the first Russian airplanes. As for Oshefinko, although he was born poor, he also flew into the blue sky with his hard work and talent.

The three girls broke all women's flight records at the time, including a 5,928-kilometer flight without landing in 1938, spending a total of 26 hours and 29 minutes in the air and crossing 11 time zones. After landing, the three girls together became the first women to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Of course. There are also regrets in this, Oshefinko with her husband a month before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. Serov, also an air hero in the Spanish Civil War, was killed in a plane crash.

Later, Glizodubova became the commander of the 31st Regiment of Guards Bomber Aviation, the most outstanding of which was Raskova, with her good popularity in the People's Commissariat of Defense, she founded the first female combat aviation regiment in the Soviet Union, and in the Great Patriotic War, nearly 1,000 women participated in the Red Air Force, 24,000 sorties, 30 of whom were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Note that Raskova's final position was none other than the aforementioned commander of the 587th Bombardment Aviation Regiment. And this 587th Bombardment Aviation Regiment was quite formidable, giving birth to the "White Rose over Stalingrad" Lydia. Vladimirlovna. Litva and Kaya. Budanova, as well as Mecklin, a female pilot who flew a thousand sorties on the battlefield, Fedotova with a swallow painted on the nose, and Doria, who flew the Pe-2 and shot down a BF-109 and an FW-190 at the same time.

In those days in September 1941, in the skies over war-torn Kyiv, a woman named Valentina. Kravchenko's navigator had a bird's-eye view of Kyiv for the first time, and she saw a scene like this: under the wings, countless columns of smoke rose intermittently and haphazardly from the endless light of the fire. Until the air was blown apart by the cold wind. She thought at the time: "This is Kievan Rus, this is the mother of Russia!" ”

The city of mothers was also imprinted in the eyes of the front-seat pilot Katherinanova, who saw the whole city burning, but refused to surrender!

The Mother City witnessed the courage of the Russian female pilots, who calmly steered the planes in the black fog formed by the explosion of the anti-aircraft guns, and said to themselves: "A little to the left, a little lower!" As he dives down towards the target, the navigator and bombardier aiming at the reticle will scream: "Two degrees to the left, to the left, now...... Bombing! After pulling up the nose of the plane, the girls did not forget to look around at the movements of the sisters in other planes.

The female pilots who had gone through the battle in Kiev improved rapidly, and soon they received the same treatment as the male pilots - participating in the Bryansk air strangulation operation.

In Bryansk, the most beautiful women left behind battle poems, such as Kravchenko, who recorded in his diary:

"Everything was in order at the airfield, and after receiving the order to attack, the navigator marked the target on the flight map, estimated the flight time, and the pilot listened to the ground crew's report on the condition of the fuselage, fuel and ammunition. We were all busy, and the crew worked together to help the ground crew sisters load the bombs onto the plane. ”

In an instant, the place was filled with the roar of the engine, and the air flow from the propeller blew the grass that was still stained with morning dew to the side. The planes began to take off one after the other, and to those behind them, they looked as if they were strung together by a rope. Each aircraft takes off according to standard procedures. Then form a perfect formation in the air. The sisters who remained at the airport would not have doubted. We will fly straight to the target accurately. Strike a fatal blow at your enemies! ”

The "fatal blow" stretched from Orel over Smolensk, Vythebsk, Borisov and Lake Masuria. The 587th Regiment was first attached to the 4th Air Army, and later transferred to the 16th Air Army and the 5th Guards Air Army, where it was assigned to the Belarusian Front.

During the aerial strangulation of Bryansk, a new female pilot flag began to emerge, and she was Maria. Ivanovna. Doria. The girl, who came from remote Siberia, was just 21 years old at the time, but she joined the Air Force very early, having previously flown the U-2 (not the reconnaissance plane of the American imperialists) in the 296th Combat Aviation Regiment.

The U-2 was not an easy task, as enemy planes were fond of attacking such easy targets. But Maria did a good job, flying safely for 150 hours in the first three months of the war. Then she was taken by Raskova, joined the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, and then created a legend.

Maria participated in all periods of the regiment's operations, flew 72 dive bombing missions, and had several brushes with death. For example, in the aerial strangulation battle in Bryansk, Maria and the fighters escorted by friendly planes were scattered, and the latter was entangled by enemy planes as soon as they emerged from the clouds. The Su-1, on the other hand, continued to approach the target alone and tenaciously, then dropped bombs and returned home. Among them, Maria's plane was hit on one side of the wing. The engine was almost completely destroyed, with only one engine. The tenacious girl still got into the dive and successfully dropped the bomb!

Even more surprising was when the enemy planes found her again on the way back, and then her only intact engine was hit, igniting the oil circuit, and Maria's wings burned on both sides under the action of the wind. However, in this suffocating and desperate state, she relied on her superb flying skills to maneuver around the enemy planes, and commanded the radioman and machine gunner in the back seat to shoot down two enemy planes - a BF-109 and an FW-190!

By this time, the plane was in terrible condition, and Maria instructed her companions to parachute quickly, but they refused, saying that they would never abandon their captain. After that, Maria used all her strength to keep the lost plane as stable as possible and slowly lowered its altitude into gliding, and finally succeeded in making a forced landing on her own front, and the plane soon began to burn, while the three girls were unharmed.

Of course, Mary was lucky, but not all girls were so lucky. For example, Lyuba. Gubina, after the fatal damage to her landline, clutches the joystick to hold on to the altitude to buy time for her sister in the back seat to skydive. But when it was her turn, the plane had no altitude, and she just crashed headlong into the ground.

When comrades died, the laughter and laughter that had belonged to the 587th Bombardment Aviation Regiment that night were replaced by silence. In the middle of the night, the girls will also sing softly and clearly, wishing their comrades a good journey.

Throughout the Great Patriotic War, the 587th Bombardment Aviation Regiment, later renamed the 125th Raskova-Borisov Guards Dive Bombing Aviation Regiment, carried out 1,134 combat missions and dropped 980 tons of bombs. On the regimental flag were embroidered with the motif of honor of the Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov of the 3rd degree.

One of the most beautiful men of all these men was best said by a pilot from Free France: "Even the placement of all the most beautiful flowers in the world at your feet does not express my infinite reverence for your heroic battles!" ”

When this fierce battle broke out in December 1941, the Red Air Force not only far surpassed the Luftwaffe in the number of fighters put into service, but also began to surpass in the quality of aircraft. Most of the fighters are relatively new models, so it is generally believed that this is a major turning point in the transfer of air supremacy in the Soviet-German war.

In this stage of air warfare, the Red Air Force not only gradually took the lead in the quality of its aircraft, but also had a tendency to catch up with the Air Force in terms of its strategic position and tactical application and cognition. The Red Air Force firmly pursues the purpose of serving ground operations, and all operations are carried out around specific ground targets, and a detailed tactical system has been developed accordingly.

In Bryansk, the ground forces of the Red Army received unprecedented air support, and the Su-1/2 and Il-2 always appeared at the right time and dropped bombs of considerable size. This is the kind of "treatment" that the infantry and armored capital of the Red Army enjoyed since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.

And against the Red Air Force. Even the best units of the German army on the Eastern Front. For example, experienced pilots of the JG3 "Oudet" wing. In the face of the Red Army's 4th and 5th Air Armies and the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, they gradually felt powerless.

In this regard, the Germans wrote in their battle logs: "From December onwards, we used all our forces, but they were not enough to fight the Russians, and our troops suffered great losses...... We were pinned down by the enemy. ”

The Military Commissar praised it: "In the Bryansk air strangulation operation, our air force played a major role. It delayed the enemy's escape by means of intensive attacks and forced the enemy air force to reduce the enthusiasm of its activities. Sufficient cover and coercion of the ground forces! ”

Of course, in the midst of these high-sounding praises, there is actually a fact that the Military Commission is not satisfied with the results of the Bryansk counterattack operation, and the Air Force has indeed done its best to cause great trouble to the German army, and it can be said that the Red Air Force at this moment is on par with the German army, and even slightly more than one.

However, compared with the Air Force, the Army's problems are still very large, and there is still a gap between it and the German Army. So in this pursuit operation, the ground forces dropped the chain. When two mechanized corps broke through the interception of the German blocking forces. By the time they arrived at Pochop out of breath, most of Guderian's and Kleist's main forces had already gone, and most of the rest were "cannon fodder" left behind the palace.

In this regard, Rokossovsky was also extremely disappointed: "Our army has quite a lot of problems in terms of equipment and personnel quality, and it seems that there is no possibility of a full-scale counterattack for the time being. It still needs to be tempered and trained, and it seems that the most optimistic estimate will have to wait until 1943 to defeat the Germans. ”

When Rokossovsky summed up the lessons, what was Li Xiaofeng doing? In fact, it is also summing up lessons, but it is just helping the Air Force to sum up. In Li Xiaofeng's view, the air force was certainly very brilliant in this Bryansk air strangulation battle, and many heroes were born, for example, just now, he heard a new "mythical" story, and the protagonist of the story is the Polbin regiment commander mentioned earlier.

Oh, it's not quite right, it should be corrected, it should be the Polbin division commander. In view of Polbin's excellent command, he was promoted to colonel and promoted to division commander. And when he fought in the air for the first time after he was promoted to division commander, he was very powerful.

At that time, Polbin led a squadron of Su-2s who had just returned from a bombing mission, but was informed by the tower that the airport was being attacked by German dive bombers, and the tower wanted him to land at another airfield.

If it were someone else, then it would probably be under the command. But Polbin is not an ordinary person, he immediately greeted him, in his words: "My machine gun is already *** unbearable!" ”

Polbin gave an order in the style of Polbin: "The escort fighter goes to deal with the German escort fighters, and his dive bomber goes to pick up the German dive bombers!" ”

The Su-2 faced Stuka, and a dogfight between dive bombers was born. At that time, there was one more Stuka than the Su-2, but it was not at all an opponent of the Su-2, the twin-engine Su-2 was faster, and the Su-2 after bombing was not loaded.

The outcome of the battle was almost one-sided, with Polbin and his boys chasing Stuka all the way to the butt and punching hard, shooting down several Stuka not to mention, and even Polbin chased all the way to the German front-line airfield. A total of 13 Stuka were shot down in this air battle, two of which went to Polbin. And the Soviet side lost only one Su-2, and after returning to the base, Polbin was as happy as a child.

Li Xiaofeng, the combat hero, naturally will not be stingy with praise and awards, but after all, he is here to talk about problems, and in his opinion, this tragic aerial strangulation battle should learn more lessons and lessons.

"Launching an attack on a target with a solid air defense facility proved to be quite dangerous. This time the enemy deployed only two anti-aircraft artillery regiments and shot down about a hundred of our bombers and attack aircraft. What does this mean? This shows that once we carry out air strikes on enemy cities or enemy heavy groups, it will be more challenged. There is a good chance that we will have to pay a much heavier price! ”

Li Xiaofeng took a breath and said very seriously: "Can we only fill this hole with the lives of pilots?" I don't think it's going to work! We need aircraft with better performance, we need more accurate weapons, preferably weapons that can avoid enemy anti-aircraft fire and deliver precision strikes at long distances! ”

Well, Li Xiaofeng's speech seems to the Air Force to be almost a dream and crazy talk, how can such a weapon exist?

"Of course it exists, but our generals are imprisoned by the current air raid pattern, thinking that bombing is just bombing or strafing. The development of science and technology will change the inherent mode of air attack, we should pay more attention to the development of guided weapons, and we should invest money in this direction! ”

Yes, this is Li Xiaofeng's real purpose, in fact, in 1938, he discussed the development of guided weapons with Arxness, but unfortunately the latter did not have much interest. The reason is simple, at that time, both radar guidance and television guidance were in their infancy, everything was theoretical, and Alksnik did not see the meaning of guided weapons at all.

Moreover, more importantly, at that time, the Air Force's funds were also quite tight, and advanced fighters and bombers swallowed up a large amount of funds, and the Air Force could only pay attention to the issue of refitting with new fighters, and had no extra funds for other research.

However, the situation is different now, the Bryansk air strangulation battle has made the Central Military Commission see the strategic role of the large air force, and the reason is to allocate more funds to the air force...... (To be continued......)

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