On the shores of the Black Sea, the Crimean Peninsula can be said to be the nest of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. The entire Black Sea Fleet of the USSR, 1 new Soviet-class battleship and 3 cruisers formed the core of the Black Sea Fleet. Although this fleet is blocked by Turkey in the Black Sea, it is not as honest as it seems.

A few days earlier, the fleet had also stormed the bay of Odessa, an important port city in Ukraine occupied by German troops, shelling buildings and civilians there. Thanks to the support of road air planes from the Crimean region, the flotilla returned safely to Sevastopol after 10 minutes of shelling.

This is definitely a provocation to the patience of the German commanders, although the German army is preparing for the battle in the Balkans, but it must not allow the Soviet Navy to wreak havoc on the Romanian coast and the coastal waters of Ukraine. Since the ground offensive could not be carried out for the time being, retaliation was put on the agenda, and the navy was obviously weak, so this time the task was given to Catherine's air force.

So this time, Dick was ordered to carry out the attack mission, and the unit that carried out this attack mission was the butcher bomber unit that had not appeared for a long time. After two months of accumulation, the scale of the butcher bomber force has become even larger, and the German army now has a total of 600 such long-range strategic bombers, which can be said to be a very large strategic bomber group.

"This bombing mission doesn't look ordinary. A ground crew member sighed to the people around him while using a bomb-mounted machine to hang one bomb after another 500 kilograms into the bomb bay of the plane.

"Isn't it, I heard that all 40 butcher bombers in the base are about to take off, except for the bombing of Leningrad a few days ago, there have not been so many bombers dispatched for a long time. A ground crew apprentice nodded approvingly: "I don't know where I'm going to be unlucky again, all 500 kilogram aerial bombs." ”

The ground crew commander next to him was identifying his bomb targets from the photographs brought back from the long-range reconnaissance plane, including the ship's repair shop, various fortresses and batteries, airfields and anti-aircraft gun positions, and even water works and power plants in several nearby areas. The Butcher Reconnaissance Aircraft can bring back reconnaissance photos at an altitude of 15,000 meters, but these photos are not easy to identify and can only provide a rough analysis of the terrain. German pilots would fly low to 8,000 meters to take pictures when they felt safe, and the photos were clearer at this time, but they were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire.

"Dropping bombs at an altitude of 9,000 meters, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed, and our bombs may miss the target by several hundred meters, and there is no threat at all. A bomber bomber discusses the attack procedure with the commander: "After aiming at the target, it is best to drop the bomb at an altitude of about 7,000 meters, so that more than half of the bombs can hit the target." ”

"No, Victor. The scale of the bombing is much larger than you think, you only need to attack the target with the most accurate bombs, as long as you destroy about half of the targets, and the subsequent bombing missions can take care of these enemies who have escaped your attack. The commander waved his hand and said, "It's okay to take a dense formation for bombing and try to ensure the accuracy of the attack, understand?"

"Sir, how many planes did we use to bomb Soviet targets on the Crimean Peninsula this time? How do you feel mysterious, and the scale sounds bigger than the bombing of Leningrad?" The captains of several planes looked at their ground tower commanders with questioning eyes.

"The specific scale is only known to General Dick, I only know that the butcher bombers at the four nearby airfields are going to take off for missions, so if you count them, there are 150 of them, right?" The commander didn't know the specific scale, but when he went to the combat mission deployment meeting, he saw the commanders of several nearby airfields, so he knew that the scale of the German air force dispatched this time was quite large.

"That's a lot. "Several captains walked to their planes, and some of the bombers had already started to engine the four huge engines on the wings. For a moment, the entire airport was filled with the roar of machinery, and pilots were reporting their fuel counts, checking tank pressures, and making sure communications were open.

"Tower! This is No. 141, can you hear me?" the captain pressed the throat intercom to confirm to his ground commander that his radio equipment was working properly.

"Plane 141, I can hear your voice very clearly, as soon as it is normal, your take-off order is ranked first, please taxi to the standby runway. "On the ground tower, the commander held a walkie and gave various orders loudly, and the planes began to taxi one after another, and soon, the first plane flew up on the long runway, followed by the second, then the third. In the end, all 40 bombers at the airfield took off successfully, forming a formation in the sky that looked quite spectacular.

Subsequently, German fighters taking off from the surrounding field airfields joined the butcher bomber formation, formed their own cover formation not far away, and accompanied the bomber force to begin to fly towards the target. It didn't take long for the German pilots to see another group of butcher bombers taking off from a nearby airfield, also escorted by a large fighter force.

Followed by more planes coming together, the Luftwaffe's strategic bomber unit now has the ability to bomb in large formations in a long-range formation after a long baptism of the Battle of Britain, brutal drills in British air warfare, and the accumulation of experience in bombing Leningrad and other areas, this time they gathered more than 400 butcher bombers and escorted as many as 350 fighters.

The planes converged in the sky, more and more than anyone could imagine, and the pilots flying on the far left couldn't even see how many planes were flying on their right, while the pilots flying in the middle found that they could not see the edge of the group in their field of vision. The pilots of the fighter planes were stunned by the dense bomber formation, and some even found that cold sweat was oozing from their palms.

Hartman, a fighter pilot on his first escort mission, swallowed a mouthful of saliva involuntarily, and it was only now that he realized that in addition to the sensations of agility and freedom, flight can also have a sense of solemnity and heaviness -- which has nothing to do with agility and elegance, and can only be described as hard and heavy that seems to have nothing to do with flying. The huge flying formation that unfolded in his eyes at this moment reminded him of the words steel and indestructibility.

When the soldiers of the Crimea came out of the barracks and looked up at the sky, they were completely stunned by the scene in front of them, the first time these Soviet Red Army saw such a large-scale air raid, the first time they saw the planes divided into two layers and flying densely in the air, and it seemed that the end of the aircraft formation could not be seen.

Unfortunately, these planes are there to deal with them, and just above their heads, countless bombers have begun to give orders and open the bombing bay doors full of bombs. Bomb after bomb bathed in the cold air high altitude, and the ringing devices above had begun to emit a slightly shrill scream.

"I've found the target area! I can see it very clearly, let's start dropping bombs!" the observer at the front reminded his comrades loudly, and then a series of bombardier responses came from the earphones.

"No. 144 begins to drop bombs!" "No. 142 begins to drop bombs!" "The first bomb has been dropped!" "The second bomb has been dropped successfully!" With the sound of the bomb throwing, the bomb body clicked slightly, and the aerial bomb left the bomber's cabin like raindrops, and began to rush towards the Soviet target on the ground relying on gravity.

"Boom!" Compared with the overwhelming German bombers, the anti-aircraft artillery positions near the fortress of Sevastopol were no different from screams and groans, and they fired only a handful of shells, and the bombs that rained down in the sky were as helpless as a rifle against dozens of machine guns.

The butcher bombers arranged by the Germans to bomb airfields, anti-aircraft artillery positions and civilian facilities in cities were loaded with 125 kg of aerial bombs, but they carried more and were better used to cover the attack, and they were also mixed with a lot of napalm to improve the effect of the bombing.

The Germans attacked the port and also had military facilities and bombers in the fortresses, which were basically carried by 500-kilogram aerial bombs, which were enough to destroy the target areas with strong protection, mainly destroying military targets in Sevastopol and near Chik. There were also two formations of butcher bombers specially carrying large quantities of napalm, covering several large fortresses attacking the Soviet army.

For a time, the entire city of the Crimean Peninsula seemed to turn into hell, buildings were destroyed and collapsed by bombs, barracks were ablaze, and huge craters were blown out of the streets. The anti-aircraft artillery positions were covered and attacked, and after the butcher bombers passed, a formation of 110 Stuka 2 attack aircraft once again patronized these anti-aircraft installations, completely turning one Soviet anti-aircraft gun after another into piles of scrap metal.

The huge crane in the harbor was hit by a bomb, ignited a fire and collapsed, hitting a destroyer moored in the harbor, and in an instant the destroyer broke in two and sank to the bottom of the sea, and the oil depot on the shore was also detonated by the bomb, igniting a fire that covered the sky and the sun, and billowing smoke.

The Black Sea Fleet escaped this unprecedented bombardment because it was near Chike, but the Soviet naval bases near the Black Sea were largely doomed, and the Sevastopol military port was almost in ruins, losing its ability to serve as a port for a short time.

The power of strategic bombers was once again demonstrated, and only this intensive attack allowed the German army to basically destroy the Crimean air defense system, force back the arrogant Soviet Black Sea Fleet, and lay an incomparably solid foundation for the German army to control the air supremacy of the Crimean Peninsula.