The crater had destroyed the runway, and it was no longer possible to take off fighters to intercept German aircraft.

Now, Yevgeny can only count on other airports. Unfortunately, the news came back very badly, and other airfields were also attacked by German bombers.

"The Voroshilov airfield was also bombed by the Germans with heavy losses! A lot of planes have been destroyed, and the specific loss figures are still being counted over there! An officer with a face blackened by the flames squinted and stood in front of Yevgeny and reported.

"Then let people hurry up and count! Voroshilov airfield is our most important field airfield, it is impossible to completely destroy it! Get in touch! Yevgeny ordered in despair.

Just as he was roaring, another officer ran over and reported the equally devastating news: "The Timoshenko airfield has been destroyed!" The last news over there was that they had been attacked and could not take off any planes......"

Voroshilov Airport, as well as Rokossovsky Airport, as well as Timoshenko Airport, were among the main airports named after the fallen marshal in the Soviet Union.

These airfields are capable of taking off more than 100 aircraft and are staffed by the main aviation forces.

These included the newly formed 1st to 7th Guards Aviation Regiments, as well as bomber units and attack aircraft units.

Now that the airports of Timoshenko, Rokossovsky and Voroshilov have been attacked, the losses are absolutely indispensable.

A casual estimate of the losses would have cost the Soviet army more than 200 aircraft. This loss was enough to paralyze the entire Soviet Air Force units stationed on the front line in Ukraine, so that they could not return to the battlefield for a short time.

What is even more terrifying is that 200 is only a conservative estimate - the loss of more than 100 fighters of various types at the first front-line field airfield in front of General Yevgeny's eyes may be more than 100.

Coupled with the loss of some pilots, this time the Soviet Air Force was paralyzed on the ground by its own opponents......

The German planes in the sky began to return one after another because they ran out of ammunition. The fires on some buildings at the airport have not yet been extinguished.

The ground crew was trying to find a way to salvage the plane that was still necessary to salvage, and General Yevgny was in shambles.

People were in a hurry, and the wounded and dead bodies were everywhere. From time to time, aerial bombs using time-delay fuses explode, interfering with subsequent rescue efforts.

"General! The call has been received in Building 3, where half of it has collapsed, but there is another half that can be used. "After a lot of hard work, we were able to clear out a working office.

Instead of standing on the lawn to give orders, Yevgeny took his staff and guards and entered Building 3, which had been temporarily converted into a command building.

It is said to be a building, but in fact it is only two floors, covered with camouflage nets, and the corridor and the building are outside the building, which is a very simple architectural form.

However, with the phone, Yevghny was able to grasp the news of other airports in the distance more quickly.

It's just a pity that these news from other airports in the distance are actually not good news.

Putting down the phone, Yevgny's chief of staff said with a sad face: "The No. 3 alternate field airfield cannot be contacted, and the adjacent army units saw German planes dropping bombs, and there was a fire in the direction of the airfield. ”

Hearing this, Yevgeny knew that most of the airfields today would probably not be spared: the fighter unit on which he relied was going to suffer this time!

The Germans carried out a planned counterattack, and focused on the devastating blow to the Soviet field airfields!

The tactics used in this raid were the same as those used by the Germans to paralyze the field airfields of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, and it was simply a small-scale replica of that operation.

Unfortunately, more than four months later, the Soviet Union still did not find a way to deal with this tactic, and this time it was defeated by the surprise attack of the German army.

Yevgny's airport is still being cleaned up, and the fighter jets that used to be neatly parked on the airport tarmac have now become piles of wreckage.

An officer reported on the latest clean-up of the airfield, apparently not progressing very quickly: "The Germans seem to have dropped some incendiary bombs, which were used in conjunction with ordinary aerial bombs...... The whole airport is on fire! Damn it! ”

There are about 150 aircraft of various types, some of which are full I-16 fighters, but many more are elite MiG-3 fighters.

Now most of these planes can no longer take off - probably more than half of them have been completely destroyed, and a few of them are covered with bullet holes from shrapnel and cannot fly at all.

The news brought by another officer is still suffocating: "The news just came! Comrade General! The commander of the 7th Guards Aviation Regiment was killed in an air raid, his planes were destroyed, and the entire regiment was incapacitated! ”

When the chief of staff heard this report, he angrily threw away the pen in his hand: "Oh my God! We lost half of the airport...... No, not half! It's most of the airports! ”

The officer in charge of answering the phone just put down the phone, looked at the annoyed chief of staff, looked at Yevgeny again, and reported with some apprehension: "The No. 1 reserve airfield has also sent a distress signal, and there are too many planes from the Germans!" ”

"Oh my God, did the Germans send all the planes that can fly in our direction?" Hearing his report, the captain of the guard next to him, who was in charge of the general's security, pouted and muttered.

Of course, it was impossible for Germany to throw all its aircraft into this attack. In fact, the strength of the aviation units invested by the German army was not very large.

Because, just when Yevgeny and others were complaining in the command of the Soviet Red Army Air Force, the second batch of German planes responsible for bombing had already taken off from their respective airfields.

Compared with the emphasis on air strikes, and the skillful use of the air force, Germany is much stronger than the Soviet Union.

Under Li Le's emphasis, the construction of German bombers, especially long-range bomber units, was countless times more than in history.

The current Luftwaffe can take off thousands of bombers of various types in one go, and its scale is completely beyond the imagination of the Soviet Air Force commanders.

"Let the airports count the losses as soon as possible! Immediately send a telegram to General Zhukov to report on the Luftwaffe's counterattack! Fast! "Yevgny, who already knew that nothing could be done, could only give an order to report the loss this time.