The cold weather is completely over, and the birds are singing happily in the early morning. The earth is slowly recovering from the rising temperature, and everything seems to be so beautiful.

But at this moment, the silence of nature is broken by man-made noise, and one German bomber after another shuttles through the clouds, weaving into a huge net, as if to envelop everyone who disobeys them in the terror of this huge web.

Thousands of German planes appeared on the battlefield, and although they were of different types and heights, they did have the effect of blocking the sky, and the nearby light was dim. The DO-217 bomber was surrounded by FW-190D fighters, which was the most "playful" tactic adopted by the United States and Britain in the later stages of the war in another time and space, turning the German army's favorite combat into an endless positional war of attrition.

The Germans divided the fighters into three combat batches, the small but elite Ta-152 fighters flew at the highest altitude, maintaining altitude to prepare to meet the Soviet fighter units rushing to participate in the battle, and the large number of FW-190D liquid-cooled high-altitude fighters accompanied the butcher bombers to fly in higher airspace, they were responsible for bombing the Soviet depth, mainly covering Stalingrad, and finally flying below were DO-217 and Stuka 2 bombers, these aircraft were escorted by FW-190D air-cooled fighters, and the goal was to destroy the living forces of the Soviet army on the front line。

The Soviet front-line anti-aircraft guns opened heavy fire, but unfortunately it looked a little thin in front of a bomber group of this size. Soon these anti-aircraft artillery positions were killed by the Stuka 2 attack aircraft that the Luftwaffe swooped down, and many exposed Soviet front-line supply stations and command nodes were greeted by these German bombers one by one.

A D0-217 bomber dragged a long stream of black smoke to the ground, and the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery attack was not without success. But the Luftwaffe still dominated the skies, dropping bombs on their targets with impunity.

The sky was full of engine roars and howls, entangled like ghosts, compared with the scale of thousands of Luftwaffe planes appearing over the battlefield at the same time, the scale of the Soviet Air Force's air force sorties can only be described as shabby, dozens of fighters have not yet approached the German bombers, they have been entangled by German fighters several times their size, and over time, these Soviet pilots have all become the achievements of German fighter pilots, and they have exploded into a cloud of flames in the air.

As if everything was recovering, the Luftwaffe, which had not been dispatched on such a large scale throughout the winter, reminded the Soviets of the terrible scenes they faced when they were in Poland. After a winter of accumulation and development of the Luftwaffe, both in quantity and quality, it can be said that it is not what it used to be.

As the temperature rose and the fuel supply was in place, the Luftwaffe finally showed their sharp fangs and sharpened their knives to launch the most disparity of strength against the Soviet Air Force.

In the southern part of the Eastern Front, the Luftwaffe used more than 7,000 aircraft of various types to cover the operations of the four armies, including a full 1,700 fighters used to escort the army. These Luftwaffe elites faced the 1st Army of the Caucasus Air Force, which was formed by the Soviet Union, with 713 aircraft of various types, including more than half of the old I-16 fighters that were temporarily produced.

Like the Soviet Army, the gap between their air force and the German army was even greater, and the only courage that supported them not to give up was their love for their homeland. However, it is a pity that with one enthusiasm, it was impossible to defeat the Luftwaffe, which had been leading in technology for three years.

In particular, in addition to having the world's most advanced fighters, the Luftwaffe also possessed fanaticism for their homeland and adoration of the Führer - and what was even more terrifying was that they had something that their opponents did not have: piloting skills.

One German plane after another, painted with Iron Cross exploits painted on the fuselage under the cockpit glass of the plane, swooped down in the clouds. The airflow is cut by the sharp wingtips of the aircraft, which together with the engines emit a screeching sound. Each of these German aces was a German gem, and most of them had shot down Soviet planes during the long winter.

This is not a group of rookies, they are a flock of ferocious vultures and eagles, they are men who stand under this sky, at the top of the food chain, and they have shot down thousands of enemy planes. If Soviet pilots were a group of drivers who had just gotten their licenses, then Luftwaffe pilots were a group of F1 drivers, a group of old fritters with ten years of driving experience.

On a Soviet plane, the pilot was horrified to see his long plane torn apart from the side by a German fighter, and the pilot was wrapped in a ball of burning flames and fell, without even having the opportunity to parachute. He was so frightened that he swayed his wings from side to side, trying to find a way to escape the blood-stained sky.

It was a pity that the German pilots would not give him the opportunity to do so, and it took only two seconds for a German plane to bite the tail of the Soviet fighter and let the Soviet pilots wail and scream in the cabin, and the German pilots did not spare the poor fellow.

The shells of the two cannons accurately hit the Soviet plane, one shell pierced the wing of the plane, directly punching a huge hole in the skin on the wing of the aircraft, and the other shell hit the bulletproof steel plate behind the pilot, penetrated the steel plate and then the pilot's chest, and finally pierced the instrument panel and flew into the plane's engine.

The second after the Soviet plane was shot, a wing broke due to damage to the load-bearing structure. The plane spun and began to fall, and the engine burned because of the bullet, emitting thick black smoke.

In the cabin, the Soviet pilot looked at the large hole in the dashboard that had been shot by a cannon shell, and watched as flames burst out of the hole, igniting his leather coat and other items that could be burned in the cabin. He didn't feel pain, and he didn't even shed tears when the cigarette got into his eyes.

He kept shaking with the tremor of the plane, because the seat belt was fixed and he was still sitting on the chair of the plane, but unfortunately his hands were hanging down weakly, but unfortunately he no longer had the strength to close his eyes or shed tears. Eventually he saw the earth rushing upon him, and the darkness taking his place at dawn.

110 Soviet planes took off in a tragic mood to meet the entire 3,000 aircraft of all kinds of the Luftwaffe. As a result, including the anti-aircraft guns, they shot down 22 German aircraft, only 3 DO-217s were multi-person bombers, and the rest were mostly Stuka 2 attack aircraft and fighters.

The Luftwaffe did everything they wanted to do. Stalingrad was once again on fire, and the butcher bombers greeted the city with napalm and aerial bombs, once again enveloping the city in a cloud of burning smoke.

Almost all the German attack planes and bombers that attacked 20 Soviet front-line airfields completed their tasks, 17 Soviet airfields were destroyed or were badly damaged, and all 300 I-16 fighters that could not take off on the ground or were useless after taking off were destroyed.

Before the Soviet ground forces, whose ground facilities were massively damaged, cried, the second wave of German attack aircraft once again visited their airspace. In the same order as an hour earlier, the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery positions once again groaned feebly.

The Soviet anti-aircraft artillery positions, which had been damaged once by the first wave of bombers, returned fire on an even more pitiful scale, often as soon as their shells were fired, the Stuka 2 dive bombers near the clouds could be seen sliding sideways into the dive trajectory. The Soviet anti-aircraft artillery could only watch as these Stuka 2 bombers destroyed their positions, and they did not even have time to salvage the anti-aircraft guns.

If the Soviet Air Force still had the strength and courage to take off to meet the attack during the first air attack, then in the second wave of German aircraft attack, the Soviet Air Force's courage and strength were greatly discounted.

They only took off 10 planes to prove their existence, and 4 of those 10 aircraft were I-16 fighters of no use at all. The planes showed their faces only once outside the defensive circle of the German fleet before they were killed by two German fighters in charge of guarding.

The air raid sirens in Karachi and Volgodonsk did not stop for a day, and people took refuge in bomb shelters, listening to the explosions overhead, and feeling the dust from the roof of the shed fall one after another because of the vibrations. There is only despair spreading in their hearts, only the wail of praying that the suffering will pass quickly.

"Report!" an Air Force colonel walked to the coordination hall of the Wolf's Den Air Force General Headquarters, stood behind Catherine and saluted: "Führer Accardo? Long live Rudolph! The news from the front line has just come back that the second wave of bombers is returning, and our army has lost 16 aircraft!"

Catherine turned around, took the telegram from the front from the colonel's hand, looked at it carefully, and then said: "The third wave of bombardment continues! We must ensure that all the enemy's defenses are destroyed on the way of the attack of the two armies!"

He walked to the front of the map and looked at the more than 30 female officers who were using wooden poles to push the dense plane signs with the number of troops written on the map, and felt that there was a sense of pride in his heart -- the German Air Force was invincible in the world!