Six Hundred and Eighty-Nine Changes in the Flavor of the War

Hartman drove his own fighter jet and locked on a Soviet fighter jet with ease. He was familiar with the performance of the opponent's aircraft. Compared with the less familiar American opponents, his experience in dealing with Soviet fighter pilots was enough to use the word "very sophisticated" describe.

For him, everything in front of him has returned to its usual appearance, the familiar painting of the familiar opponent, he is used to using his aiming device to cover the opponent's plane, and then easily shoots down these planes that are constantly struggling needlessly. Poor people. Looking at the slightly cumbersome and old grass-green plane blasting a ball of gorgeous flames in the air, Hartman felt that life was still the same as he was familiar with.

In the skies on the Eastern Front, the Luftwaffe seldom encountered opponents. Even when the fighter jets of the two sides encountered each other, the cheap Soviet pilots were completely unable to pose a fatal threat to the German fighter jets. Now the battle has become that the Soviet pilots protect the bombers and the Germans If you attack wantonly, there will be no suspense at all-the whole battlefield has become a massacre feast, with German fighter jets chasing Soviet fighter jets and bombers everywhere, just like a group of eagles chasing a group of sparrows.

German fighter jets have a clear advantage in speed, so both Soviet pilots and American pilots used horizontal maneuvers to get rid of faster German aircraft, and sometimes even Soviet pilots descended to lure inexperienced German pilots to engage in low-altitude dogfighting. In order to offset the German aircraft's maneuvering advantage in speed and vertical direction.

But now the fighter jets of the United States and the Soviet Union have been kidnapped by bombers to high altitude, the combat area where German fighter jets are good at, and the consequences are doomed. Anyway, Hartman had never attacked a Soviet aircraft so easily. He accelerated and dived easily, and easily smashed the opposite Soviet fighter into pieces with a cannon. Fighting with another Soviet fighter.

He adjusted his flight direction with a beautiful turn. During the turn, he aimed his nose at a Soviet bomber, and then he used his experience to suddenly fire at a weird angle. After the tracer bullets mixed in the cannon shells flew out of the barrel, they showed a rather large arc of flight angle. However, after a short flight, these shells seemed to have eyes and hit the target. That poor sb-2 bomber.

Without even taking a look at the Soviet bomber emitting thick smoke, Hartmann drove his plane to chase another target. The bomber emitting thick smoke began to fall to the ground, and the smoke billowed Before it crashed, it burned into a dazzling fireball. The culprit here is already firing on the second sb-2 bomber, achieving another victory.

If you insist on saying that today is different from the past, it is that at any given moment, it is impossible for the Soviet Air Force to gather so many planes to send warmth to German pilots thousands of miles away. But today this kind of thing really happened, and the scale is so large, it seems that it has never happened again since the air battle after the start of the Soviet-German War in 1938.

It's not just Hartmann slaughtering his opponents,

Other German fighter jets also continued their attack and killing. They drove the fighter jets back and forth in the Soviet bomber formation, shooting down the Soviet twin-engine medium-range bombers one after another. The English abbreviation code name of this bomber is sb-2, but its performance is not bad, but compared with the American b-17 bomber attacked by German pilots just now, it is obviously inferior. The self-defense weapons of this aircraft are obviously inferior The b-17 is so comprehensive and powerful that in most cases it can only wait for death when facing German fighter jets.

Moreover, this type of aircraft is not as strong as the B-17. There is no need for German fighter jets to waste 30mm caliber ammunition to attack this medium bomber. In fact, a 20mm cannon can effectively damage this type of aircraft, and the effect and attack volume are relatively small. fighter jets are about the same. With one short shot, the bomber would smoke and crash, with rare exceptions.

In the end, Hartman reluctantly drove his plane back to the high altitude, overlooking the messy and smoky Soviet bomber formation, and reluctantly joined the returning army. He used up the few rounds of ammunition left on his plane, shot down a heavy and slow SB-2 bomber, and completed all his battles today.

The squadron leader of the wingman who was following him had already fired all the shells, so he could only follow behind the lead plane, pretending to be aggressive, so as to prevent Hartman from being isolated and helpless, and help Hart by the way. Mann observes the blind spot of his vision. In view of the fact that the two of them had long been famous among Soviet pilots, there really were no Soviet fighter jets to trouble them. The two planes were rampaging in the middle of the formation of enemy planes, and no one even came up to try to bite their tails. This can be regarded as an unbelievable legend.

At this time, many German fighter jets had already run out of ammunition. After all, the ammunition reserve of less than 300 rounds seemed a bit too cramped for a hunt full of enemy planes. So the sky was full of returning German fighter jets, and everyone flew to their respective airports in twos and threes. It looked like tourists returning home after a dinner party.

There are fewer and fewer planes in the entire airspace. The reason for the Soviet Union and the United States is that more planes have been shot down and crashed by German fighter jets, while the German side is because more fighter jets have exhausted their ammunition and drove the plane back. At the beginning, the spectacular scene of hundreds of planes entangled in the air has gradually come to an end.

As time went by, some American planes finally flew to the edge of the target, they dropped bombs, destroyed some buildings and houses, and caused fires and some limited casualties. To the attack of the enemy aircraft, or the first successful attack by the enemy aircraft.

The plane piloted by Powell was not the only American suicide bombing attack that day. In fact, at least three American planes chose to crash into their own targets to complete the planned attack plan, but only two planes successfully crashed into it. The target, the condition of the third plane is really not very good. In the process of crashing or crashing into the target, it broke its own wing, so the direction changed, deviated from the target and crashed into a house.

In comparison, the distance of the Soviet bomber force was farther, and the determination of the battle was weaker. Therefore, they did not approach the closer position like the American bomber formation. When they made efforts to get close to the oil field target, the second batch of German fighter jets rushed to the battlefield, completely extinguishing the last hope of these Soviet pilots.

The second batch of fighter jets are the German fighter jets that hastily let go of the decoy bomber formation that went northward from the United States. The main reason why they are eager to return is that they have received an order to rush back to their base to replenish fuel and ammunition to meet the possible second attack. attack. Facts have proved that Garland's decision can definitely be regarded as foresight. If these fighter jets hadn't arrived in time, the Soviet bombers might have really caused a certain degree of damage to the Romanian oil fields.

The battle broke out in the sky for the third time. The German fighter jets seemed to appear endlessly in the sky. In the end, almost all Soviet planes were shot down in Romania. The data recorded by the Soviet Union was that the entire army was wiped out. The summary report issued stated that about 10 Soviet planes escaped. As for who is more accurate in what he said, it is actually not important anymore.

Similarly, the loss of the US bomber force was also very large, and it can even be said that it was close to the level of annihilation. Except for a few planes that escaped midway, most of the US planes involved in the operation were shot down. They used their lives to interpret In addition to his duties as a soldier, no matter what kind of mission, a soldier will resolutely execute the orders assigned to him for victory.

Similarly, this combat attack completely woke up the Luftwaffe lying on the warm bed of Invincible. In the previous battles, the Luftwaffe always felt that they were hunters. They took off, hunted, and used grace and agility to annotate knight-like air battles, but all of this was broken today. The sky is no longer blue, and the air battle is no longer a gentleman. The enemy's planes complete the distant campaign goals regardless of losses, casting a dark red color on the whole battle.

Looking at a collapsed civilian building on fire, seeing the broken rubble and glass scattered all over the clean streets and alleys, although this is Romania, the German defenders and officers saw the cruelty of war for the first time, For the first time, I felt that the opponent's muzzle was right beside me, not so far away.

Not far away, an explosion occurred in an oil warehouse hoarded by a petrochemical company. The billowing smoke could be clearly seen several kilometers away. The terrible explosion and the hissing of air defense sirens could be heard throughout the city. This place is like London a year ago. Although it is slight, the smell of gunpowder is everywhere. War has never been so close to here.

"Send a report to Berlin. Our performance this time is really not good." After the workers and the military's emergency repair team repaired the equipment of the petrochemical company, Garland helplessly issued his own order. In his tone, Bitter taste everywhere.

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