Early in the morning, this weather information quickly informed the pilots who got up early that a large amount of detailed information must be mastered if the operation is to be executed perfectly.
Because operating a dive bomber requires strong overload, eating too much breakfast during the dive will make you uncomfortable. The pilots, including Paul, only ate a small piece of bread to cushion their stomachs, and they met after completing the mission.
Come back for a feast!
Did anyone think of being killed in action? Not one.
Paul made a careful plan for this air strike. They had a way to completely avoid the enemy's ground fire and reach the target directly to fight!
The sun actually rose at five o'clock in the morning local time. At this moment, twenty planes were lined up on the long runway.
The ground crew completed the final adjustments overnight, and all participating aircraft were in optimal condition and were now waiting for the pilots to get into the cabin.
After all, this was the first battle after the return of the aviation group, and it was hard for Koch not to pay attention to it. Now, the aviation group has regained its strength, every pilot is high-spirited, and every fighter plane is loaded with bombs. Who dares to say that this is not a powerful force?!
In this scene, perhaps all the pilots drank a glass of strong wine at the end, which made them more heroic. After all, they are German soldiers and they have special etiquette.
The chaplains of the German army were dressed like officers. The large crosses hanging around their necks and the Bibles they always carried in their arms proved their unique identity.
The military chaplain muttered blessings to the twenty pilots. After the ceremony, they quickly boarded their cars.
Today Paul will assume a FW190. According to the mission, he will be at high altitude at all times and use radio to direct his men's actions. He has also made an alternative plan, that is, if the radio encounters another unexplained disturbance, then he will use traditional methods to command.
He is the navigator and the frontline commander of this battle, and he also takes the lead in taking off.
The FW190 fighter jet is the best "electric fan" of the German army. It can be used by excellent pilots to achieve unparalleled dogfights in the air. Almost all the German aces have achieved three-digit results by driving it! For ground attacks,
This is its side job.
Amid the cheers of the garrison, fighter jets began to glide, gradually turning into a group of vultures, flying eastward toward the sun.
"Okay! Gentlemen! We will fly against the sun, bypass Gomel, then turn southeast, fly toward Chernihiv for a while, and finally, under my order, we will all fly southwest!
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While Paul was trying the radio, he repeated the tactics again.
The radio voice was clear, and he did not dare to take it lightly. He emphasized again: "There may be magnetite underground in the target. Once the signal is interfered, each combat group will act according to my wing orders!"
Therefore, the flight trajectory of the German army will be a counter-clockwise arc, which is also a left hook aimed at the sulfur mines of the Guerrilla Republic.
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The German attack wave was already on its way, and the Soviet army really knew nothing about it.
Yesterday's hustle and bustle is over, the enemy won't come back to investigate today, right?!
The Soviet troops deep in the mine were under great pressure. As a new eight-gun anti-aircraft machine gun was transported to the mine by truck, Joshua's tense nerves relaxed a little. There was only one anti-aircraft machine gun, and the other
The firepower is still too weak, and its biggest drawback is that it cannot reach higher enemy aircraft.
She also knows the fact that there are three eight-gun anti-aircraft machine guns in the arsenal, and they are working hard to produce them. With the strong productivity of the arsenal, they will be completed as soon as June 2!
The Germans would never launch a sudden air attack after completing their reconnaissance, giving the Soviets a long or short period of preparation time.
According to Yang Mingzhi's plan, strengthening the mine's air defense is the top priority at this stage. The smoke-free transformation of all factories and workshops that emit smoke will take time. During the day, the amount of smoke can only be reduced by reducing production.
The Soviet officers always emphasized to their subordinates that "the enemy will not sleep." Now, everyone really hoped that the enemy was dozing off, and no one could predict that the enemy's attack would really start on May 30.
The world seemed peaceful. Early in the morning, all the prisoners of war started their excavation work again after eating breakfast.
Whether Germans or Romanians, they all wore gas masks. The Soviet army classified them according to their ethnic differences and treated them differently.
The most miserable thing here is the traitor prisoners. They don't even have gas masks. The Soviet army deliberately let them die in pain as revenge for their treason. The second most painful thing is the Germans. Because of the previous commotion, the Soviet army
They lost faith and now the men were tied to each other by ropes to work.
The best ones were the Romanians. On the one hand, Yang Mingzhi issued the relevant orders. On the other hand, they maintained restraint and cooperated as much as possible during the riot, which objectively helped the Soviet army quickly calm down the situation.
No matter what their lives were, they were still prisoners, forced to work in this sweltering mine. If there were not machine guns and bayonets everywhere, they would have given up their jobs long ago.
No one wanted to die, and at this time they could only listen to the Soviet army's promise to work hard and go home after the war. Some prisoners of war never imagined that they would indeed not die at the hands of the Russians!
The German "bombing army", led by Paul, made a beautiful "left hook", so that some strongholds of the German 634th Division in Chernihiv also discovered abnormal roaring at high altitudes. This area
Because the Germans shared intelligence, they all knew that this was their own fleet, and all they had to do was take revenge.
Therefore, Paul shouldered the responsibility of avenging many troops. After seeing several unique turns in the Dnieper River, he ordered everyone to turn around.
The Stuka did not make a terrifying roar when flying straight. As the pilots gradually saw a huge yellow-white area in the forest ocean, each combat team gradually lowered its altitude.
Under the mine, Ding Ling was a prisoner of war chipping away at the ore, unable to notice anything unusual in the sky.
As a defender, Joshua's female barracks heard noise for the first time, and the noise was louder than yesterday. Joshua stood outside the camp headquarters and listened. As time went by, she gradually realized that this was
What!
"It's an air strike! The enemy's aircraft fleet is coming! Everyone, prepare for air defense operations!"
Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. Joshua is obviously unprepared now. These girls have never seen a large-scale enemy air raid. After they received the firearms and ammunition, what should they do next?
The only eight-gun anti-aircraft machine gun is still in the mine. It is under the charge of the newly formed air defense battalion. The three soldiers quickly entered the battle preparation state. There are a total of eight machine guns, each with 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and another eight soldiers are ready to replace them at any time.
Barrel. Therefore, this kind of anti-aircraft machine gun has eleven people in charge, and its firepower is enough to equal a German company!
However, the number of machine guns and ammunition kept in the mines were not satisfactory. Besides, the most useful weapon at this time was anti-aircraft guns, but unfortunately, the Soviet army did not have any.
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"That's it now! Team one, team two, team three, bomb the mines and shoot the crowds. Team four, team five, team six, bomb the enemy buildings!"
Paul finally saw the target clearly and issued the bombing order, and the Soviet army was shocked to see a formation of enemy planes in the sky that looked like a group of wild geese!
They were indeed enemy planes, because the Stuka's characteristic death-shout dive began.
Whether it was a Stuka or a FW190, they descended rapidly from an altitude of three thousand meters and dropped all the bombs at a nearly vertical angle.
Compared with 500kg bombs, a large number of 100KG bombs are dispersed and released, and the fire coverage area is actually larger. Furthermore, for soft targets such as dense crowds, a large number of small bombs are very effective. Unfortunately, the Stuka models Koch has on hand have not yet been used
After modification, it cannot mount a large number of small bombs of only 10KG. This type of bomb is really an excellent weapon for enemy infantry positions and military camp targets!
The German Air Force was accustomed to a three-aircraft formation, with the three combat teams totaling nine aircraft, to attack the mine. They invested a total of thirty-four aerial bombs, thirty of which were big ones weighing 100kg.
The explosion occurred in an instant, just like the magma bursting under the mine!
The explosion set off a large number of rocks, and also destroyed the underground hot spring channel. There was no black smoke here, but there was a huge white mist that quickly rose a hundred meters into the air. At first glance, it looked like a mushroom cloud! This
It's because the hot spring instantly turns into steam under the high temperature of the explosion. In terms of damage, these high-temperature steam actually cause more terrifying damage!
Many prisoners of war did not die from bombing shrapnel and impact damage, but were immersed in 150-degree steam and scalded to death!