Chapter 931: Decisive Battle (1)

March 17, 1942.

The sky had just brightened, and the German front-line airports were shrouded in the dull roar of engines.

The German army built more than 200 front-line airports, and the number of deployed aircraft exceeded 30,000. This is a very astonishing number. In the original time and space, the number of aircraft assembled by the German army in the Moscow Battle was only 1,390. Today, the number of aircraft has increased more than 20 times, and there are more than 10,000 fighters alone. Among them, 2,000 are the legendary ultimate piston fighter Ta-152!

In fact, the current German Air Force does not have too urgent demand for Ta-152. After all, the existing BF109 and FW190 are already crushing the enemy. Moreover, the original design of the original time and space Ta-152 was intended to fight against American high-altitude bombers. At that time, the German Intelligence Agency learned that the US B-29 was about to be put into service. The combat altitude of this bomber was in the stratosphere. Germany did not have a fighter that could reach the same altitude, and even if it could barely reach it, it would completely lose its combat capability. So the designer Kurt Tank began to lengthen the fuselage and wings based on the FW-190D-9, and added nitro compound injection afterburners (GM-1) and methanol injection afterburners (MW-50). With afterburners turned on, the maximum speed of this fighter can reach 760km/h, which is almost the limit of piston fighters.

It is rumored that Kurt Tank (he is not only a designer, but also a test pilot) personally drove a Ta-152 from Hanover to a meeting. On the way, he encountered four Allied P-51 "Mustang" fighters. Kurt Tank calmly pressed the MW-50 afterburner button, and the Ta-152 sprayed a cloud of blue smoke and disappeared in the shocked eyes of the P-51 pilots.

Unfortunately, when the Ta-152 appeared, Germany was already on the decline. The shortage of aviation aluminum and the destruction of the factory slowed down the production of the Ta-152. In the end, only 43 (some say 150) were produced. At that time, the priority of German fighter production was the Me-262 jet fighter. The reality that the piston aircraft was replaced by the jet aircraft was inevitable.

Yannick felt that it was a pity that such an excellent fighter was buried in history, so he ordered people to produce a batch and put it into the battlefield; it was also the last glory of the piston fighter.

One after another, fighters took off from various airports, forming a huge formation and flying towards Moscow.

At the Moscow front-line command center, a staff officer nervously reported to Zhukov. "Comrade Commander, the radar station ahead has discovered a German fleet, and the number is too numerous to count!"

Zhukov stood up. "The Germans are going to attack!" Because the temperature began to warm up these days, the Soviet high-level officials also guessed that the Germans would launch an attack at any time. Although they did not know the specific date, the troops had already entered the highest combat readiness state. Zhukov looked at the Air Force Commander-in-Chief Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov and ordered. "Comrade Novikov, send out our fighters to fight."

Commander-in-Chief Novikov hesitated for a moment and reluctantly ordered the fighters to be dispatched. "Comrade Zhukov, I'm afraid our Air Force will suffer a lot in this battle." Moscow now has more than 2,000 fighters deployed. Although it is not known how many fighters the German army has, Commander-in-Chief Novikov also knows that his fighters are far behind in performance. Only the latest Yak-9 can fight against it.

The Yak-9 fighters of the original time and space did not seem to be inferior to the advanced German fighters, and after the pilots gradually matured, the Soviet Air Force began to slowly control the air supremacy in the European battlefield. At that time, this Yak-9 fighter could be said to be the mortal enemy of the German Air Force in the medium and low altitude areas. Although the two were evenly matched, the Soviet Union produced this Yak-9 fighter crazily during World War II because of its very low production cost. According to statistics, during the entire World War II, the Soviet Union produced a total of nearly 17,000 Yak-9s, which was also the most important weight for the Soviet Union to gain an advantage in air confrontation.

Unfortunately, there are only 30 Yak-9s in Moscow today, and this number is probably not enough to fill the gap between the opponent's teeth.

"Yes." Zhukov sighed deeply. He knew the performance gap between the two fighters, but now it was the final battle. If these fighters were not taken out to fight, they would either be destroyed on the ground or become the trophies of the opponent; it would be better to fight for the country vigorously.

The distance between the two sides' defense lines was only 50 kilometers. It took less than ten minutes for the German fighter group to fly over at a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour. When the Soviet fighter group just took off and formed a formation, the German fighters had already killed them, and then the two sides started a fierce fight. To be more precise, the German fighter group launched a one-sided massacre.

Tut tut tut!

A German BF109F bit a Yak-1 fighter, and the four 7mm machine guns in the wings sprayed four long tongues of fire. The ballistic trajectory formed by the tracer bullet easily covered the Yak-1 fighter. Watching it dive down with black smoke, the BF-109F fighter pilot did not want to fight, and relied on the remaining energy advantage after diving down from high altitude a moment ago to climb up again.

At this time, two nearby MiG-3 fighters targeted the climbing BF109F and immediately caught up.

But before they could catch up to the range, an FW190 fighter plane came out from the side and swooped down on one of the MiG-3 fighter planes, with the cannon inside the wing flashing with sparks of fire.

"Boom boom boom!"

The MiG-3 was blown into a ball of fire, and the other MiG-3 hurriedly rolled to escape, but the next second, dense bullets poured down from the sky, hitting the MiG-3 with holes all over its body, and several bullets even hit the cockpit, causing a bloody mist.

The first wave of Soviet fighter planes took off had more than 700, while the number of fighter planes sent by the German army was 3,000.

The Soviet fighter pilots were really left with despair in their hearts when they used fighter planes with inferior performance to fight against an enemy that was four times their own.

"There are too many enemy planes, we need reinforcements!"

"Oh my God, I'm being chased by three enemy planes! Someone help me!"

The desperate cries of the pilots were transmitted to the headquarters through the radio. Air Force Commander Novikov glanced at Zhukov. "Comrade Commander, continue to send fighters?"

Zhukov's deeply furrowed brows seemed to be knotted. "How much are our losses?"

An Air Force staff handed the statistical file to Novikov. "The number of fighters sent by the Germans exceeded 2,000. After 10 minutes of fighting, our army lost more than 200. That is, in 20 minutes at most, our first wave of 700 fighters will be wiped out."