Hartman immediately bit Xu Rui's plane, and the two sides were entangled. Sometimes you attacked me, and sometimes I attacked you. It was impossible to tell the difference. The two of them drove the plane and kept pulling it up to reduce their speed as quickly as possible.
Gain altitude and then turn and dive to bite the opponent. Under the current circumstances, altitude determines the final success or failure of an air battle.
Both sides are constantly performing horizontal maneuvers. When bitten, they pull up to let the other party rush over. If they are faster than the other party, they use their speed to occupy a favorable position.
This was a thrilling air battle. The two combatants were the best pilots in the world. The dazzling air combat skills of the two people shocked all pilots. What about Inman-McKinnon maneuvers, pounding, barrel rolls, side rolls, etc.
Roll, move horizontally...
The battle between the two was a feast of performance, which amazed the other pilots. Many pilots even forgot about the battle. The air battle between the pair of ace pilots had become the focus of the entire battlefield. For a moment, no one could do anything to the other.
Half a catty, the tip of the needle met the wheat awn.
Seeing the air battle between Xu Rui and Hartmann, many pilots couldn't help but think, God, it turns out that air combat can be fought like this.
Xu Rui and Hartman actually felt a sympathy for each other while they were fighting. At this moment, both of them felt that the person opposite them was their lifelong rival, their lifelong enemy.
Hartmann thought that the performance of his BF109 aircraft should be better than that of the Soviet YAK-1. Logically speaking, he had the advantage, but there was nothing he could do against the yellow-skinned Soviet pilot opposite him. There was only one possibility.
, this yellow-skinned Soviet pilot’s air combat skills are by no means inferior to his own.
Why did the Soviet army suddenly have so many ace pilots? The Soviet plane that had run out of bullets just escaped from under his eyes, and the pilot of this plane was even more awesome. He actually fought evenly with him.
Regardless of the top or bottom, I originally thought that with my superb skills, I could sweep across the entire Soviet air force. But now it seems that I was still too careless. There is no shortage of real air combat masters in the Soviet army, but I have not encountered them before.
While Xu Rui and Hartmann continued to fight, the battle between the remaining Soviet fighter planes and the German fighter planes also began to determine the winner.
Although the German pilots had better combat flying experience than the Soviet pilots, as the saying goes, too many ants will kill the elephant. More than fifty Soviet fighter jets still formed a siege on more than thirty German fighter jets, and
At this moment, more than twenty remaining Soviet aircraft that had been expelled by the Germans also flew back. As a result, seventy to eighty Soviet fighter jets launched a siege on the German aircraft, basically two or three.
Have a fight.
A good tiger cannot stand up to a pack of wolves. Under the siege of Soviet fighter planes, German fighter planes continued to be shot down. Seeing that he was about to suffer, Hartmann no longer wanted to fight with Xu Rui and began to command the German fighter planes to break out.
"Chase, don't let them escape!" Xu Rui shouted.
During the breakout, Xu Rui saw that more than a dozen German fighter planes were shot down by Soviet fighter planes. As a result, only eight German fighter planes, including Hartmann, escaped back.
Xu Rui gained the upper hand and immediately ordered a pursuit. The German planes flew all the way over Bologoye, trying to use the German 88mm anti-aircraft cannon to deal with the Soviet fighter planes. The Soviet fighter planes also chased Bologoye and faced them.
The German anti-aircraft guns and Soviet fighter planes raised their flight altitude and still pursued them.
When Hartmann saw that he could not land at the airport, he flew away.
Just when Xu Rui was leading most of the fighter planes in a bloody battle with the Germans, the third wave of Soviet fighters and bombers had already detoured to Bologoye Airport. More than 20 German bombers were seen staying at Bologoye Airport.
Continuously escaping, the Soviet aircraft immediately pursued the German bombers.
The German bombers lost the cover of the fighter planes, and in the end they all became targets of the Soviet fighter planes. The ones on the ground were destroyed by the bombers, and the ones flying up were shot down one after another. Only two German bombers and one reconnaissance plane took advantage of the chaos to escape.
, the remaining twenty-seven bombers and five reconnaissance planes were all destroyed. So far, the Soviet aircraft had won a complete victory in the air battle over Bologoye, destroying more than fifty German aircraft in total, and only lost their own.
Less than thirty.
After this battle, the Soviet army finally won the air superiority on the battlefield from Bologoye to Tver, which created conditions for Xu Rui to defend Tver in the next step.
Tver, also called Kalinin, is the capital of the Kalinin Oblast in the Soviet Union. It is guarded by the Soviet Kalinin Front. The Kalinin Front was established to unify the command of the troops covering Moscow from the northwest. It governs the 22nd Right Wing of the Western Front,
29th, 30th, and 31st Army.
At the most dangerous time, Tver was threatened by both the German Army Group Center and Army Group North. Now although Army Group Center has retreated, Army Group North has occupied Leningrad, and Tver is facing strong pressure from the German Army Group North.
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Due to the need to defend Moscow some time ago, Tver's 30th and 31st armies were all deployed to defend Moscow. As a result, the Kalinin Front was left with only the 22nd and 29th armies, and these two armies were distributed over a vast area.
Within the area, there is only one division of troops defending Tver. The Soviet army's organization, the number of divisions is not large, only eight or nine thousand people. At this time, the troops of the Kalinin Front scattered around are reinforcing Tver.
, but the Soviet Union was a vast territory and it was impossible for them to reach Tver in a short time.
Therefore, Xu Rui faced a very severe test. Although Zhukov handed over the entire Tver to himself, Tver's troops and weapons and equipment were at an absolute disadvantage compared with the German army.
Fortunately, in the previous air battle, the Soviet Air Force had obtained air superiority over Tver, so life became easier.
Xu Rui, of course, just missed the opportunity to take advantage of air superiority and immediately ordered Soviet bombers to bomb the German armored forces that were advancing towards Tver. Due to the bombing by the planes, the German army's advance slowed down.
Xu Rui got off the plane after a fierce air battle and went to the airport room. While drinking water, he said: "Where is the pilot who still flew back after the plane was injured? Let him come to see me."
After a while, Kuoridubu came to Xu Rui. He saluted Xu Rui and said, "Comrade Xu Rui, Kuoridubu is reporting to you."
Xu Rui looked at Kuoridub. He was a strong young man with a big face and sharp angular lines on his face. He looked particularly heroic.
Xu Rui said: "Young man, you are really good at escaping from Hartmann's plane. Young man, what is your name?"
"Comrade Xu Rui, my name is Kuori Dubu."
"flutter!"
The water Xu Rui drank in his mouth spurted out, all over Kuoridub.
Kuoridub looked at Xu Rui in confusion, wondering what was wrong with Comrade Xu Rui, and why he was so excited when he heard his name.
"I found a treasure!"
Xu Rui was very excited. No wonder this guy could escape from the hands of the world's number one pilot Hartmann. It turned out that he was the Allied number one pilot Kozhidub!
Xu Rui vaguely remembered an article that recorded that Kozhidub was the number one pilot in the Allied Forces. He shot down more than 60 German aircraft in a short period of time, thus becoming an aerial hero of the Soviet Union. The most important thing is that
, Kozhidub has never been shot down once. You know, even the world's number one pilot Hartmann has been shot down many times, but Kozhidub has never been shot down. This is too simple.
Appalling.
It seems that Kozhidub later led a division of the Soviet air force to participate in the air battle to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. In order to protect him, Stalin personally ordered that he was not allowed to fly aircraft to participate in air battles again.
Such a legendary pilot was standing in front of him now. Although his position at this time was just a small captain, Xu Rui knew that this man's future was limitless.
Unexpectedly, he could discover such a treasure by accident. Xu Rui was very happy. He knew that as long as he cultivated this Kuori Dubu well, he would become a legend in the future.
Thinking of this, Xu Rui said: "Kuori is Comrade Du Bu. You performed very well today. I am very happy to have a good pilot like you."
Kozhidub's face turned red and he said: "Comrade Xu Rui, today is my first air combat. Due to my lack of experience, I was almost dropped by the Germans. It is really a fluke that I came back alive."
Xu then said: "Korizdubu, did you know? The person chasing you today is Germany's number one ace pilot Hartmann. He is a legendary figure. He can survive his attack. Kozhidub
, you are proud enough.
You were able to encounter Hartmann in the first air battle and still survive, and at the same time shot down a German fighter plane, Kozhedub, you are really amazing."
"Comrade Xu Rui, you said my opponent is the famous black devil in the German army?"
"The Black Devil is just a nickname given to him by our pilots. His real nickname is the Blond Knight." Xu Rui said.
Hearing what Xu Rui said, Kuoridub's confidence, which he had almost lost, was immediately restored. He was finally relieved and no longer doubted his ability.
"Koridub, next, I will focus on ground operations and air operations. I want to leave them all to your command."
Kuoridub was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, and said: "Comrade Xu Rui, I'm just a newbie in the Air Force. I'm afraid I'm not qualified for this job."
Xu Rui said: "I've always judged people very accurately. I know you can do it, so just go ahead and do it boldly."
Kozhidub cast a grateful look at Xu Rui. He was just a newbie in the air force, but Xu Rui handed over Tver's air force to him. What a great trust it was. At the same time, it was also for him,
It's an excellent opportunity to rise to the top...