Chapter 689 689 The War That Changed Its Taste
Hartmann, piloting his own fighter jet, was familiar with a Soviet fighter jet, and he was familiar with the capabilities of his opponent's aircraft, and his experience with Soviet fighter pilots was enough to be described as very sophisticated compared to his less familiar American counterpart.
For him, everything in front of him was back to his usual appearance, familiar with the familiar livery of his opponents, and he was used to using his aiming device to trap his opponent's plane, and then easily open fire, shooting down these poor creatures who were constantly making useless struggles. Looking at the slightly bulky and old grass-green plane exploding in the air with brilliant flames, Hartman felt that life was still familiar to him.
In the skies of the Eastern Front, the Luftwaffe had few opponents, and even when the fighters of the two sides encountered each other, the cheap Soviet pilots were completely unable to pose a mortal threat to the German fighters, and now the battle became that the Soviet pilots protected the bombers and the Germans attacked wantonly, and there was no suspense at all - the whole battlefield became a feast of slaughter, and the German fighters chased and killed the Soviet fighters and bombers everywhere, like a flock of eagles chasing a flock of sparrows.
German fighters had a clear advantage in speed, so both Soviet and American pilots used horizontal maneuvering to get rid of the faster German aircraft, and sometimes even Soviet pilots even descended in altitude to lure inexperienced German pilots into low-altitude dogfights in order to counteract the German aircraft's maneuverability advantage in speed and vertical.
But now that the American and Soviet fighters have been kidnapped by bombers to the high-altitude combat area, which is the combat area where German fighters excel, the consequences are doomed. Anyway, Hartmann had never attacked a Soviet plane so easily, he easily accelerated and dived, easily smashed the opposing Soviet fighter to pieces with his cannon, and then didn't even bother to pull the plane up again to regain his altitude, and he was entangled with another Soviet fighter.
He adjusted the direction of his flight with a beautiful turn, and in the process of turning his nose aimed at a Soviet bomber, and then he used his experience to suddenly fire at a strange angle, because the maneuvering action was too violent, the tracer shells mixed with the cannon shells flew out of the barrel and showed a rather arctic flight angle, but after a short flight, the shells seemed to have eyes, and hit the poor SB-2 bomber.
Without even glancing at the smoky Soviet bomber, Hartmann drove his plane to another target, and the smoky bomber began to fall to the ground, and the smoke billowed into a dazzling fireball before it crashed. The culprit here is already firing at the second SB-2 bomber, achieving another record.
If there is any difference between today and the past, it is that at any ordinary moment, the Soviet Air Force could not have assembled so many planes to send warmth to the German pilots. But today this kind of thing is happening in real life, and on such a large scale, it seems that it has not happened since the air war that began in 1938 after the start of the Soviet-German war.
It wasn't just Hartmann who was slaughtering his opponents, but other German fighters were continuing their assault and killing, flying their fighters back and forth through Soviet bomber formations, shooting down Soviet twin-engine medium-range bombers one after another. The English abbreviation code name of this bomber is SB-2, but the performance is not bad, but compared with the American B-17 bomber that the German pilot has just attacked, it is obviously a grade worse, the self-defense weapon of this aircraft is obviously not as comprehensive and powerful as the B-17, and in most cases there is only a waiting for death in the face of German fighters.
Moreover, this aircraft is not as strong as the B-17, and there is no need for German fighters to waste 30 mm ammunition to attack such medium bombers, in fact, 20 mm cannons can effectively damage such aircraft, and the effect is similar to that of attacking smaller fighters. With just one short shot, such a bomber crashes with smoke and rarely.
Hartmann eventually reluctantly flew his plane back into the air, looking down at the messy and smoke-filled Soviet bomber formation, and reluctantly joined the returning army, where he used up the few remaining rounds of ammunition from his plane during the last dive attack, shot down a heavy and slow SB-2 bomber, and completed all his battle for the day.
The wingman squadron leader behind him had already run out of shells, so he could only follow behind the long plane, pretending to be menacing, to prevent Hartmann from falling into an isolated situation, and by the way, to help Hartman observe his blind spot. Given that the two of them had long been famous among Soviet pilots, there were really no Soviet fighters who came to them in this way. The fact that the two planes were rampage in the middle of the formation of enemy planes, and there was not even anyone who came up to try to bite their tails to attack, which can be regarded as an incredible legend.
By this time, many German fighters had also run out of ammunition, after all, the ammunition reserve of less than 300 rounds was a little too cramped for a hunt full of enemy planes. So the sky was full of returning German fighter planes, and everyone flew to their respective airports in twos and threes, looking like tourists returning home after dinner.
There were fewer and fewer planes in the airspace throughout the airspace, the Soviets and the United States crashed because more planes had been shot down by German fighters, and the Germans because more fighters ran out of ammunition and drove back with planes. The spectacular scene of hundreds of planes entangled in the air at the beginning has gradually come to an end.
As time went on, American planes eventually flew to the edge of the target, dropped bombs, destroyed some buildings and houses, and caused fire with some limited casualties, which was the first time since the beginning of the war that a Romanian oil field was hit by enemy aircraft, or the first successful strike by enemy aircraft.
In fact, at least three American planes chose to hit their targets that day to complete their planned attack plans, but only two planes successfully hit their targets, and the third plane was not in very good condition, and in the process of crashing or crashing into the target, it broke its own wing, so the direction changed, and it deviated from the target and crashed into a civilian house.
In contrast, the Soviet bomber forces were farther away and less determined to fight, so they did not approach closer to the same position as the American bomber formations. While they were making an effort to get close to the oil field targets, a second group of German fighters arrived on the battlefield, completely extinguishing the last hope of these Soviet pilots.
The second group of fighters were those German fighters who hastily let go of the decoy bomber formation of the United States going north, and the main reason why they were in a hurry to return to their home was that they were ordered to rush back to their bases to replenish fuel and ammunition for a possible second attack. It turned out that Garand's decision was definitely prescient, and if it weren't for the timely arrival of these fighters, maybe the Soviet bombers would have really caused a certain amount of damage to the Romanian oil fields.
The battle began in the sky for the third time, and the German fighters appeared in the sky seemingly endlessly, and the Soviet planes were finally shot down almost entirely in Romania, and the Soviet side recorded the total annihilation, while the German side gave a summary report that about 10 Soviet planes escaped. As for who is more accurate, it doesn't really matter.
In the same way, the losses of the American bomber force were very huge, and it can even be said that it was close to the level of total annihilation, except for a few planes that fled halfway, most of the American planes involved in the operation were shot down, and they used their lives to interpret the duty of a soldier, no matter what kind of task, the soldier will resolutely carry out the orders given to him for victory.
In the same way, this combat attack completely woke up the Luftwaffe lying on the warm bed of the world's invincible. In previous battles, the Luftwaffe had always felt like hunters, taking to the skies, hunting, and using grace and agility to annotate knightly air combat, but all this was broken today. The sky is no longer blue, air combat is no longer gentlemanly, and the enemy's planes do not hesitate to complete distant campaign objectives, giving the whole battle a dark red pathos.
Looking at a civilian building that collapsed and caught fire, watching the broken rubble and glass scattered all over the otherwise neat streets, although this is Romania, the German defenders and officers saw the cruelty of war for the first time, and for the first time felt that the muzzle of the other party's gun was close to them, and it was not so far away.
Not far away, an explosion is taking place in a petrochemical depot stockpile, billowing smoke is visible for kilometers, and the city can hear a terrible explosion and the sizzling of air raid sirens. It's like London a year ago, it's slight, but it's full of gunsmoke, and war has never been so close.
"Send a report to Berlin, this time we really didn't do well. After the workers and the military's emergency repair troops repaired the equipment of the petrochemical company, Garand reluctantly issued his own order, and his tone was full of bitterness.
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Don't go away.,There's still a chapter at night!Yesterday was actually two more.,As a result, the dragon spirit was sloppy.,Forgot to update and slept...... Kneel here and beg for forgiveness, and the third watch in the evening will be presented to make up for yesterday's debts!