The fog is relatively weak, and as the sun continues to rise, it will be clear today.
What a great day to fight!
The German pilots got into their cars one after another. Before taking off, everyone checked their onboard radios and looked at the fuel and ammunition tables.
The time for takeoff finally came. At seven o'clock in the morning, the first dive bomber, ready for departure, began taxiing.
The first to take off were dive bombers, followed by fighter jets, reconnaissance planes, and three Junkers 52 transport planes, which slowly taxied to take off after other aircraft cleared the space.
Operation Avenger will carry out two missions, one is to conduct a large-scale bombing of an area three kilometers in front of the German positions, and the other is to air-drop supplies from transport aircraft. On this trip, the 24-ton bomb is a "gift" to the Soviet army.
Four tons of ammunition and military rations were a great gift to the German army.
One by one, the old eagles flew into the blue sky. After making a big turn over Gomel City, they took the nearest route and headed toward the fighting area.
The actions of the German Air Force were known to the Soviet Army when the first plane took off.
Perhaps this was the last quiet morning before the war. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in the Soviet army positions woke up one after another with the rising forest fog.
Their mission today is only one - wait.
For tomorrow's decisive battle, everyone must maintain an excellent mental state. Everyone must stick to their posts and guard against possible German breakthroughs or crazy attacks.
Radar soldiers can get up earlier than ordinary infantry soldiers. They obey the commander's fatal order, that is, when the sky turns blue, sleep will end immediately.
Liu Hongxiu yawned and had to get up. She quickly rolled up the blanket and washed her face with cold water. Her whole body was shocked.
She and the other radar soldier girls had no complaints. We had been here for a long time, and it was worth enduring some hardships for victory. Not to mention that the show forced them to work hard.
Deanna clapped her hands and shouted in the radar platoon camp: "Get up, you slackers, if only the sun would rise! It's a sunny day, and if the enemy air force launches an operation, it will be today!"
After hearing this, who dares to delay? More than thirty people work together to operate a huge radar, and no one is allowed to slack off in every link.
As usual, the girls of the radar soldiers began to take turns on duty, and the radar antenna also began to rotate autonomously to scan the sky. Even as the fog gradually spread, they were still working diligently.
Suddenly, Liu Hongxiu, who was on duty, heard a heartbreaking noise from the earphones she was wearing. She threw them away subconsciously, and after a two-second pause, she was shocked to see the light-emitting diode flashing red crazily.
"She actually got it right!"
The girl stamped her feet, immediately opened the iron wood, and shouted to the outdoors with her high-pitched and childish voice: "Comrades! The enemy plane is coming!"
The enemy plane is really coming!
Now it was Diana who was monitoring in person. After the radar antenna was fixed in one place, she heard a louder noise than before. Because there was no oscilloscope, the staff could only judge the size of the enemy aircraft by the size of the noise.
This time, the greater physical noise and a woman's intuition made Diana very convinced that this time the German army had dispatched the most powerful air power, a large-scale air force, and was heading towards Homnich to kill
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Diana was just an officer with a small promotion of assault. She didn't know strategists. After learning about the enemy plane, she instinctively concluded that the enemy plane was planning to attack the Blacksmith Village.
The radar platoon warning was first conveyed to the Soviet troops in Homnich, and almost comradely to the army headquarters in Blacksmith Village.
The entire Guerrilla Republic is in a state of shock!
The three major collective farms sounded air raid sirens, so that work in the arsenal had to come to a halt.
"Damn it, what I was most worried about actually happened!" Yang Mingzhi stamped his feet anxiously in the headquarters.
Yevlov said worriedly: "Should we also take refuge?"
"There is nothing we can do. If they bomb here, although we won't have many casualties, the loss of important equipment will be irreparable."
Yang Mingzhi knew that he had no time to think about it. Theoretically, the enemy aircraft fleet could reach the sky above the Blacksmith Village within half an hour! He decisively issued a series of orders, especially targeting the arsenal and fertilizer plant.
Regardless of whether the modification was completed or not, the truck immediately drove into the forest. The chimney of the arsenal was immediately covered, and all the stoves were turned off. All workers stopped working, even if they picked up their rifles, they had to participate in anti-air combat for a while.
The remaining air defense troops seized advantageous positions and prepared to fight.
The Soviet army's preparation efficiency was quite high. Knowing that after doing this, Yang Mingzhi could only pray that the so-called German air strikes would not hit important targets.
However, before he could be transferred with other members of the headquarters, the correspondent suddenly announced an urgent message from the front line.
"Report! Comrade Commander, urgent call from Homnich. The German Air Force..."
"What? What happened to the German Air Force?!" Yang Mingzhi asked forcefully.
"We are under enemy bombardment! Right at Homnage!"
When Yang Mingzhi quickly understood the current situation, he immediately returned to the map that had not yet been folded, poked his finger at Homnich's position, and yelled: "Damn it, we were cheated! They bombed this place!"
Homnich is only more than fifty kilometers away from the German airport in Gomel, and the Stuka army can reach here in as little as ten minutes.
The German bombing group formation appeared, and they made a huge noise when they flew, making the German soldiers who were holding on look at the sky happily. They took off their helmets and hats and cheered towards the blue sky.
Because the previous Soviet artillery bombardment left particularly obvious traces on the German positions - large and small craters. The sun was shining brightly today, and when the German planes arrived at the war zone, the fog had dissipated a lot.
In this battle, the captain of the first squadron served as the navigator. He was already very familiar with the environment here. With his keen eyesight, he saw the strange landforms clearly and immediately issued orders to the other two squadrons.
"Team 2 and Team 3, pay attention. The crater on the ground is our army's position. The forest area to the west is the possible hiding place of the Soviet army according to the intelligence. The air strike operation is now launched! The transport aircraft unit is now hovering in the air and on standby!"
Most of the pilots of the two newly arrived aviation squadrons are novices, and only the squadron leader is a veteran. They are all disciples and grandsons of the Red Baron, and they have all passed the various assessments of domestic military training.
This "Avenger Operation" is the first battle for most pilots!
Under the leadership of the squadron leader, each squadron's five three-machine formation began to dive with the forest as the target.
The Soviet troops on the ground immediately realized that they were not going to bomb the Blacksmith Village at all, the target was actually themselves!
Roshakov's whole body was trembling. He never expected that the German army could do this.
He roared heartbreakingly: "Brothers! Avoid air strikes!"