1069 Late Warning

?A Soviet soldier standing on the east bank of the Volga River, rubbed his sore eyes, and then continued to look at the distant sky in boredom. This is an air-to-air lookout post of the Soviet Air Defense Force, providing early warning for the long Volga River defense line Anti-aircraft warning.

After all, the radar aided by the Americans is a sophisticated and expensive thing. Although the Soviet Union is hurrying to imitate it, there is really no way to spread this kind of thing throughout the Soviet-German defense line. Soviet air defense early warning in most areas still relies on manpower, using equipment from the era of World War I to provide relatively vague early warning.

In some places, large horns facing the sky are used to collect the sound from aircraft engines to judge whether enemy aircraft are coming. In some places, air defense guard posts are arranged to provide such information by means of lookouts. These artificial sentry posts spread all over the entire Soviet-German front line, providing the passive Soviet army with information on early German aircraft dispatches.

It is a pity that with the rapid defeat of the Soviet ground forces, this kind of early warning system also collapsed. There are too many temporary defense lines without such air defense posts, and the Soviet army has become more and more indifferent to the movements of German aircraft. . After all, sometimes if a person can’t even eat enough, he doesn’t have the heart to care about whether there are new sheets at home. The Soviet army is also the same now: they can’t even stop the German ground troops, so they don’t have the mind and energy to care Where did the German bombers fly?

The strategic bomber unit of the German Air Force actually had a very limited role on the Eastern Front, because even if the German planes could take off from Ukraine and fly to the hinterland of the Soviet Union through countless mountains and rivers along the way, they would probably have been surrounded by Soviet anti-aircraft artillery units. Almost killed. They do not have the cover of the sea, so they cannot afford greater casualties and higher bombing costs.

So even if Hitler allowed the German army to have strategic bombers in another time and space, it is unlikely that the German army would go to the Eastern Front to find trouble with the Soviet Union. After all, the price of bombers paid by the Allies was unbearable for the shallow Luftwaffe. If hundreds of pilots were lost every day, it would not be until the beginning of 1945. It is estimated that by the end of 1940, the Luftwaffe would have existed in name only.

However, the current Akado and the Third Reich Air Force under him are completely different from the situation in another time and space. They have crude oil extracted from Libya as consumption reserves, and their outposts are the Caucasus region and St. Rudolf. They can attack the important rear industrial base of the Soviet Union without flying a long land route.

So the Soviet watchman who finished rubbing his eyes and looked at the sky again saw some indistinct black spots appearing above the clouds in the sky. He frowned, then continued to stare at that distant place. His lookout post was not equipped with binoculars, so he had to use his own eyes to observe suspicious targets in the distance.

It didn't take long for him to see those black shadows becoming more and more clear, turning into black dots bit by bit. Now the Soviet lookout soldier can confirm that it is a German plane, but he is still staring there, trying to identify the specific number of German planes.

One after another, German planes flew rapidly at an altitude of 10,000 meters,

They started to take off in formation in the early morning, and now they finally crossed the Volga River and flew towards their distant goal. The sound of the engine roared, causing the space above the clouds to reverberate with the buzzing sound. The German planes trembled slightly with the airflow here, like eagles, proudly patrolling their territory.

"My God, what's wrong with this time?" The soldier in the Soviet lookout post finally saw the number of German planes in the distant sky. He couldn't count the exact number of those planes, but He knew absolutely a lot. So he hurriedly started to shake the manual anti-aircraft siren in his observation post, reminding the surrounding Soviet positions to pay attention to concealment and evacuation.

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu black dots. It was a German plane, and it looked like flying insects surrounded by lights in summer, so dense that it made hair stand on end.

"It didn't bomb us. If it came to deal with us, there should be countless Stuka 2 bombers howling and swooping down to drop bombs at this time." An officer comforted the nervous soldiers around him, speaking with a very peaceful voice. The tone analyzed: "It is a large German bomber, and it seems to be bombing the rear city."

As he spoke, he put on his shirt in no hurry, and his big beard trembled as he spoke, making him look a bit like Stalin. This beard style was popular in the Soviet Union, just like a certain hairstyle of a pop star today. The officer obviously made a lot of sense, so everyone no longer tensed up, but looked up at the enemy's strategic bombers flying in the sky with a feeling of gloating.

"Where is the bad luck again?" The officer put on his clothes, muttering to himself and walked back to his officer's bunker: "The Germans haven't used strategic bombers on such a large scale for a long time. It seems that this time, the cities and factories behind us are going to be in trouble."

This time the German army took off a full 400 butcher bombers, carrying a large number of bombs and incendiary bombs, and went straight to an important transportation hub and industrial base Ulyanovsk behind the Soviet Union. There is a Soviet tank production factory here, and it is also an important factory area for the production of su-76 self-propelled anti-tank guns.

Of course, this is still an important metal smelting and processing plant area in the Soviet Union. Although it does not directly produce other military products, it is providing raw materials such as non-ferrous metals for a large number of Soviet military enterprises. Once the German army destroys this production link, it will inevitably make the Soviet industrial system that has begun to reduce production even worse.

After investigation and analysis, the top brass of the Luftwaffe found that the direct bombing of Chelyabinsk was too far away, making it easy for the Soviet Union to pose a threat to the German bomber force. Both Catherine and Dick felt that it was too risky to bomb Chelyabinsk now, so they directly selected a more important bombing target, but the Soviet Union did not have the power to tightly fortify the area. These planes took off from more than a dozen airports near St. Rudolph, bypassed the heavily guarded central theater of the Soviet army, cut behind Moscow from the south, and flew directly to Ulyanovsk.

The scale of this bombing completely exceeded the scale of the German planes dispatched during the bombing of London. At that time, the Luftwaffe's family was not as rich and powerful as it is now. Even if the -217 bomber is counted, the German bombing force in London cannot match this time.

The purpose of dispatching so many planes at one time was to destroy the industrial production cycle chain behind the Soviet Union as much as possible, and relieve the pressure on the increasingly tight German frontline troops. The proliferation of cheap Soviet self-propelled guns has begun to threaten the German tank forces, which is not the situation that German commanders want to see.

"Ring...Ring ring!" In a bright room, the phone rang suddenly, but there seemed to be no one in the room, so the phone kept ringing, but no one answered it. So the bell rang stubbornly, until finally a hand picked up the receiver from the phone body: "Hello? This is the duty room of the Air Defense Command of the Supreme Command. Do you have anything important to report?" ?”

The officer on duty asked the caller slowly with a long voice. The work here is really hopeless recently. The Germans bombarded the west of Moscow not far away, but they have to spend hundreds of kilometers here There is no point in a certain German air strike other than that, isn't it?

"...Huh? Can you be clearer? You mean that you confirmed that you saw a large German bomber, not the -217, but a bigger butcher strategic bomber?" After hearing the report on the phone, the officer said, He suddenly asked in a sharp voice: "In the Volga River Basin? 40 minutes ago? How did you report it? Damn it, don't hang up the phone, wait for me."

He dropped the phone receiver in his hand, pushed open the door of the office, and rushed to the end of the corridor. While running desperately in the empty corridor, he shouted loudly the information he had just received: "German strategic bombers are in Stalingrad! They are dispatched! Dispatched!"

"Hello? I'm... what? I need to evacuate the factory and the employees immediately? They are working. I'm afraid this will not be an easy task." A Soviet general in Ulyanovsk held a microphone and spoke to the phone General Vatutin over there said: "This place is full of raw materials and factories...I can't move everything here in ten minutes! Comrade General."

Before he could finish what he wanted to say, the air defense sirens in the city echoed. It was obvious that some distant guard posts had spotted the German aircraft and sounded the sirens to remind the people in the city.

"Comrade General, your notification is too late... In theory, we should have received the news 30 minutes ago, but now that the air defense alarm has sounded, I only know that the German plane has arrived." The general said helplessly. He continued: "If, as you said, there are more than 200 German aircraft, then Ulyanovsk is now over."

After saying this, the general in charge of Ulyanovsk's production and defense closed his eyes, letting the sound of the explosion drift from afar.