Chapter 347 Soviet-Finnish War (14)

On this day, the Soviet troops stormed the Mannoheim defense line again and again, but were repulsed again and again. Until evening, corpses and tank wreckage were left on the ground in front of the position, and the white snow was stained dark red with blood. color.

The Finnish army on the opposite side only wasted some ammunition and suffered very few casualties.

Upon receiving the news that the attack had suffered another setback, Gorelenko, commander of the Soviet Seventh Army, was shocked and angry. At the same time, he was afraid that Stalin would blame him.

Fortunately, the soldiers who retreated brought news that the opponent's anti-tank gun had a caliber of about 50mm. This made him determined to use his trump card tomorrow and teach the Finns a lesson!

At around three o'clock in the morning the next day, the Soviet army's fierce artillery fire once again covered the Finnish army's positions. There were flames everywhere, and the explosions were earth-shattering, one after another, in an endless series.

Until daybreak, the Soviet artillery fire still showed no intention of stopping. The Soviet artillerymen were busy moving shells, stuffing them into the barrels, then closing the breech and pulling the fire.

Suddenly, bursts of discordant roars were heard amidst the roaring sound of artillery. Several Soviet artillerymen looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dozen bombers heading towards the enemy in the distant sky. Fly here quickly.

"Enemy plane! Oh my god, how could the enemy plane fly here?!"

The Soviet army did not have air-to-air radar, and because the artillery positions were in the rear, they did not deploy many anti-aircraft guns. In addition, in order to maintain high speed, these mosquito bombers were only loaded with 500 kilograms of bombs. Before those few anti-aircraft guns had time to react, the bomber group flew over, which can be said to be quite unscrupulous!

"Let us fly over the heads of these furry bears! I'm going to blow off the hats of these furry bears!" The commander leading the team shouted arrogantly while looking at the chaotic Soviet army below. And they did exactly that. Their current flight altitude is less than 200 meters.

Soon they saw more than twenty large-caliber artillery pieces on the artillery position directly ahead. "It seems to be Mao Xiong's M1937 152mm field howitzer. It's them, ready to drop the bomb!"

Not far from those cannons are mountains of ammunition and transport vehicles!

"Start dropping bombs! Don't blow up those shells yet. Such a close distance will affect us!" 12 bombers lined up in a bombing formation and started dropping bombs. One after another, 50-kilogram high-explosive bombs fell from less than 200 meters in the air. Huge columns of smoke rose into the sky, and flames and smoke instantly covered the entire position.

An M1937 152mm field howitzer was directly hit by a high-explosive bomb. Although it was not blown into parts, the barrel was obviously distorted by the explosion, and it was obviously completely scrapped.

As for the Soviets next to them? The 50 kilogram aerial bomb with a lethality radius of up to 30 meters can completely tear apart any flesh and blood creature exposed to it! You must know that the charge of German high-explosive aerial bombs is generally 75% of the bomb weight, and the charge of a 155mm heavy howitzer is only about 6kg!

"Other crews leave here, I'm going to blow up those shells." After speaking, the commander controlled the bomber to start climbing until it reached an altitude of 500 meters and began to hover.

"Drop the bomb!" As the bombardier pulled the wrench hard, bombs fell one after another toward the piles of ammunition.

"Boom!" Accompanied by an earth-shattering explosion, the entire artillery position was blown up into the sky by a violent explosion!

A powerful shock wave was wrapped in flames, sweeping everything around with a devastating force. Even the mosquito bomber at a height of 500 meters was knocked several meters away by this shock wave. Seeing the huge mushroom cloud rising, the commander finally managed to stabilize the turbulent plane. He couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his face. "It seems that next time you bomb the ammunition dump, you have to fly higher!"

In any case, this artillery position was completely destroyed, and the Finnish army sent not only this bomber formation, but also four other bomber formations to attack Soviet artillery positions elsewhere.

As a result, the unprepared Soviet artillery position suddenly lost hundreds of cannons of various types.

"What?!" Meretskov from the Leningrad headquarters almost collapsed on the ground when he heard the news. "How could this happen? How could this happen?!" After a while, he slammed the table and roared hysterically. "Revenge! Revenge! Let the bomber force blow Helsinki into rubble!!"

His order was well executed, and a large number of Soviet bombers took off towards Helsinki.

Not long after these bomber units crossed the border, they encountered a group of BF-109F aircraft that came to intercept.

Because all the fighter jets that had been supported previously were destroyed, "Spain" sent another batch of fighter jets to support them yesterday. If you look closely, you can see that the paint on the Spanish national emblem on the fuselages of these fighter jets has not yet dried.

Yesterday, those fighter jets were scattered across a long defense line, resulting in being outnumbered. But this time, they assembled 50 BF-109F fighter jets to intercept them.

These pilots took full advantage of their fighter planes and played hide-and-seek with the large number of Soviet fighter jets.

It dived at high speed and escaped with one blow, and the Soviet fighter jets it hit could only stare.

Two swooping BF-109Fs bit an I-16 fighter jet.

The leader pulled the trigger, and four 7mm machine guns sprayed out a stream of bullets, which accurately penetrated the I-16 fuselage. Then the unlucky I-16 began to fall downwards with thick smoke.

After the successful attack, the two BF109Fs did not linger in the fight. With the remaining energy advantage after diving down from the high altitude a moment ago, they once again raised their heads and climbed to the high altitude.

The Soviet pilots were really angry to the extreme because they had the advantage in numbers but were shot down one after another. Seeing the two BF109Fs climbing after the sneak attack, two nearby I-16s immediately chased them.

But the angry Soviet pilots did not realize that they had fallen into the trap of the opponent.

The I-16 fighters, which were chasing after the two BF109F fighters, soon had difficulty in maneuvering and heavy noses due to the exhaustion of the body energy. It was even difficult to lift the nose to aim at the German planes and continue to climb and chase. To put it simply, it can be summarized by the professional term "stall".

Realizing that the situation was not good, the Soviet pilots quickly leveled their fighters and left the climbing state, but this made them fall into the enemy's trap.

Seeing this, the two BF109F pilots who had an absolute altitude advantage in the higher airspace immediately stepped on the rudder and controlled to dive straight down again.

The two BF109Fs, which once again gained the advantage of diving acceleration, rushed towards the two I-16 fighters that had just leveled like two arrows in the blink of an eye.

Boom boom boom!