"The snow stopped. Looks like we're busy today. A Luftwaffe ground crew member looked at the weather outside and shook his head in disappointment. For the past two days, the entire sky over Crimea has been covered in clouds and bad weather, so Air Force pilots and ground crews have had a rare recuperation time to play cards in their offices and talk about the whole situation.

German planes have always been in an overwhelming position on the Eastern Front, and the number and quality of fighters are almost more than their Soviet counterparts, and as for the level of pilots, it is even more college students who abuse and kill schoolchildren, even German planes that fly in the sky on missions never take Soviet planes seriously.

Compared with the German fighter unit, the pilots who carried out the German ground attack mission were hard work. They often work overtime, flying planes to and from base to target. They dropped bombs on their targets' heads, poured out their ammunition, and then returned home.

However, they often had to face Soviet ground artillery attacks, sometimes the Soviets even used rifles and machine guns in their hands to counter the German attack planes that dropped bombs at low altitudes, and often the planes flew back to their bases with scars and bullet holes, and sometimes the bulletproof steel plates behind the pilots were even embedded with dense bullets.

The relatively new ground attack aircraft of the German army is the Stuka 2 aircraft, which is a general purpose aircraft that does not fly very fast, it can dive and drop bombs, but it is not as specialized as the Stuka, it can carry a large number of bombs, but it is certainly not as many as the professional bombers, and its flight speed is about the same as that of the Stuka, and its hovering ability is slightly stronger...... In short, every feature of this aircraft seems to be not very distinct, it is just very easy to produce.

Yes, easy to produce, as soon as this Stuka 2 aircraft was born, it almost affected the entire German industrial system, many parts of this aircraft are made from leftovers from the production of fighter jets, and the engine is also a mature technology of the second line, which does not occupy any production capacity of first-line weapons at all.

Inspired by the production process of the Stuka 2, the industrial myth of the Odin helicopter was born, and the famous helicopter manufacturer Frank Ellstoner was born. After half a year of exploration, Germany finally began to experiment with the semi-automatic production line process on a large scale on the King Tiger tank, and Germany also embarked on the fast track of industrial production.

The Stuka 2 is like a trainer, very easy to fly and particularly smooth to fly. One of the very good advantages of this type of aircraft is that it is sturdy. Almost all of the aircraft are reinforced with steel plates and equipped with advanced self-sealing fuel tanks, which is one of the reasons why it can replace the Stuka as the German army's active attack aircraft. On the contrary, the Stuka is not as strong as the Stuka 2, although the gap is not large, but it is true that the Stuka 2 aircraft has a lower battle damage rate.

Although Stuka was more accurate in dropping bombs, it had design limitations that were difficult to overcome. The Stuka had too little bomb load to carry only one large bomb on a bombing mission, while the Stuka 2 could carry two of the same bomb and was also able to carry a number of other small bomblets. Similarly, the Stuka has nothing to praise other than dive-and-shoot accuracy, and the Stuka 2's hovering capabilities allow it to maintain fire over its target at all times.

Another reason why the Luftwaffe fell in love with the Stuka 2 was that the Stuka 2 used a new engine, which was quite fuel-efficient, and although it was not satisfactory in terms of flight speed, its reliability and economy were really hard to refuse.

Of course, there is another aspect of the Stuka 2 that beats the Stuka better, and that is the ease of piloting of this aircraft. The pilot tutorial of this kind of aircraft is very simple, and novices can drop bombs near the target after simple training, and it is precisely because the operation of this kind of aircraft is so simple that the Air Force generally sends the graduated fighter flight cadets directly to the front line, and let them fly this kind of attack aircraft first to train in actual combat flight.

Air Admiral Catherine called this aircraft a front-line trainer, and he even said to his subordinates in public: "The design of this aircraft is a feat, and its appearance allows our pilots to make the most direct transition from a trainer to a front-line combat aircraft." ”

"This kind of plane saved my life. The Soviets were shooting at me like crazy on the ground, I dodged left and right, bullets hit my thighs, pierced my wings, and if I hadn't been flying a Stuka 2, I might never have come back. A German attack aircraft pilot said of his plane: "Let me go back to the front, yes." But I only drive it, and it gives me a lot of confidence. ”

Sure enough, it was busy, and while the pilots were talking about today's good weather, an officer walked into the conference room and gave a combat order to support the front-line operation: "The 1st and 2nd squadrons of attack aircraft will attack and bomb the Sevastopol area according to the previously drawn up Meihua-Q plan." The 14 Stuka of the squadron next door are attacking with you, okay, get ready, and take off. ”

"Let's go!" the squadron leader snapped his finger with his hand. Then everyone began to change their equipment, some went to the locker room to change their leather jackets and gloves for work, some began to ask the ground crew to help prepare the fuel and ammunition for the plane, and the whole base was busy, in short, for the Air Force, a sunny day represented a busy day.

"Let's get to work! everyone, be in good spirits!" a group of young Air Force pilots walked towards their planes carrying their fur hats, goggles, scarves, and other things.

Soon, one after another, the Stuka 2 attack aircraft started their engines, the propellers began to turn, and the entire base roared with a buzzing sound. On the straight runway, the first plane has already begun to climb, and not far behind, the second plane is ready for everything.

For the Luftwaffe pilots, this was not the first time that they had carried out a mission, so it was not so much a battle as for them that such a flight was just a job. Soon the attack planes formed a flight formation in the sky, and then they flew like locusts to the area where they were going to attack.

On the ground, a Soviet soldier leaned into a trench and looked at the clear sky in the distance. He had been here for many days, and it can be said that he had been stationed nearby since Khrushchev arrived in Sevastopol, and now he was on the edge of a huge crater from a German shell, surrounded by his comrades.

Several Soviet soldiers pushed an old Maxim heavy machine gun to the crater, using the crater as a machine gun emplacement, placing ammunition in it and digging a retreat channel behind it. They put the excavated earth into sacks and used it as sandbags to reinforce the machine gun emplacement.

"Don't waste any time, the weather is clear now, and in less than half an hour the German plane will be coming. "The Soviet veterans leaning in the trenches looked at the busy young people and deeply felt that it was not worth it for these people to work here. These barely camouflaged surface positions could be completely destroyed with just two damn German bombers.

The Germans had two attack aircraft, the famous Stuka dive bomber, and the other was unknown to ordinary Soviet soldiers, who called the mediocre aircraft "boots", a word with slander and contempt. Unfortunately, the plane, which they called boots, was not mediocre at all, and it caused more damage and fear to the Soviets than its predecessor, Stuka.

"Hey, if we don't set up a machine gun here, you won't even have time to cry when the Germans attack for a while. A young soldier, apparently looking down on his old and well-established predecessors, replied in a mocking tone: "If the enemy comes up from the flank in a moment, we will count on you." ”

"I think it's possible that we won't be able to wait for that time. The Soviet veteran sighed and said: "It's not easy to defend here, the main thing is not to look at me, but to look at the pillbox over there, if it's there, we're safe, if it's gone, then we'll have to study the retreat." ”

The young soldier apparently scoffed at the concerns of the veteran: "Comrade Khrushchev does not allow us to take a step back, and we should not take a step back. This is a war for the Motherland, for which we should fight to the end of our lives. ”

"Believe me, the only thing in this world worth fighting until the last moment is your own life. The veteran looked up and saw something tiny on the white cloud level on the horizon: "Okay, let's not talk about that, damn it, the Germans are coming! Hurry up and hide! Send the machine gun to the pillbox, hurry! Hurry!"

"You're acting like you. How did the Germans come?" the heavy felt that he was too afraid of death after listening to the old man's words, so he didn't have a good impression of him. Now when I heard the veteran's shouting reminder, I laughed and teased: "If you run first, it's more like." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Soviet veteran ran towards the pillbox, and he did not look back, as if he was afraid that he would not be able to occupy a place in the back. The rest of the Soviet soldiers burst into laughter, but some cautious people still looked at the sky, and above the clouds, the small black dots that had been blurred just a moment ago, could now see German planes.

"Air strike!" someone shouted heartbreakingly.