Chapter 422: Battle of Orsk
In an instant, Soviet planes flew around, and their formations were completely disrupted, and it has to be said that the flexibility of the Spitfire combat, the performance of this piston aircraft can be compared with the German BF109.
Although the Spitfire flying around was very flexible, the bomber following behind the Spitfire began to be exposed in front of Carpenter, how could Carpenter be polite, and quickly accelerated to rush towards the bulky bomber.
"Click...... Click...... Woowoo...... Buzz ......"
The machine guns on the bomber were also firing fiercely at the "BF109", and of course the "BF109" used its speed and agility to shoot fiercely at the bomber from all directions, and suddenly more than a dozen Soviet bombers were shot down.
"Click...... Woowoo woo ......"
The Spitfire, which was closely guarding the bombers, began to fight back desperately, and at that time, three "BF109s" were shot down, whimpering and falling to the ground, and at this time, the Spitfires who were disrupted also rushed over and began to join the ranks of protecting their bombers.
The speed of "BF109" is fast, but those Soviet planes do not chase you at all, but tightly protect their planes and continue to fly towards Orsk, the goal of these Soviet planes is very clear, that is, to protect the bombers to bomb your chicken nest, Orsk can be an airfield, once the runway is blown up, other planes have no way to take off, and the result can only be blown up on the ground.
Carpenter, who had no choice, could only turn the nose of the plane and rush towards the Soviet planes, but there was no suddenness at all. Completely hedged, Carpenter wanted to hit the Soviet bombers, and the Soviet Spitfire caught up, desperately trying to protect their own bombers.
"Click...... Click...... Woowoo woo ......"
The Soviet Spitfire was three times that of the Carpenter, and in the hedging battle, the speed advantage of the "BF109" was greatly reduced, and nearly 200 planes in the sky were roaring and strangling together, and from time to time planes were falling from the sky with thick smoke. Of course, it was the Soviet Spitfire that suffered large losses. That's about a 2-to-1 battle loss ratio.
Ten minutes later, Carpenter found that his plane was out of ammunition and hurriedly contacted his teammates to prepare for retreat. Upon contact, Carpenter almost burst into tears. On their own side lost more than two dozen aircraft. The Soviets lost about fifty fighters, and even if Carpenter wanted to continue fighting, it would be impossible for him to continue. Carpenter could only use his speed advantage to speed up the retreat.
The "BF109" wanted to run, but the Spitfire piston aircraft still had no way to catch up, so they could only watch the remaining twenty "BF109s" fly away.
At this time, Vincent was also anxious, the Soviet Union sent planes from all directions to raid the city of Orsk, according to the intelligence analysis sent from the front line now, the Soviet Union put in more than 600 fighters at one time, including more than 100 P51 combat fighters, Vincent's five flight groups have been completely sent, if there are Soviet planes, Vincent can only let three bomber groups, without carrying bombs to take to the air to fight, that is to say, Vincent has planned to use bombers as fighters.
Without the commander-in-chief, the plane will be delivered, and this airport in Orsk must not be blown up, otherwise it will be a big trouble.
"Report, in the southeast, Soviet fighters have broken through our blockade and are coming towards Orsk, and our fighters have completely lifted into the air, requesting bombers to take to the air for combat."
Soon the commander of the Air Force, Colonel Drey, sent a request, Vincent had already thought of a countermeasure, since the Soviets wanted to use surprise attacks from all sides to deal with the SS's air superiority, this really hit Vincent's soft underbelly, because Vincent did not have enough planes! There were only five fighter groups, but they had to deal with more than 600 Soviet troops, which was almost a ratio of five to one.
"Agreed, Colonel Drey, you are in charge of the Air Force, you can fight as you want, you don't need to ask for instructions to fight, I trust you."
"Thank you, General Vincent."
Although Vincent was an Italian SS general, the German SS would also respect Vincent according to the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and the German SS would not disobey Vincent's command because Vincent was Italian. There would never be such a situation within the SS, and in Limer's words, the SS was one family all over the world.
Colonel Dre commanded his own bombers to take to the skies, of course, these more than 120 bombers did not carry aerial bombs, so they were much more flexible, but compared with the fighters, the gap was still very large.
"Aim...... Shoot...... Bang bang bang...... Woowoo woo ......"
Soviet planes began to fly at the SS positions outside Orsk, and these ground infantry positions were not the targets of the Soviet bombing, their targets were airfields, and these ground positions had to wait until the SS air force was eliminated.
When these Soviet planes flew over the SS positions, the various anti-aircraft guns of the SS aviation division began to roar, and the air division that Limer urgently transferred to Vincent now played a big role, and the number of anti-aircraft guns compiled by Vincent's other units was very large, the total number was about 1,000.
There are about 80 anti-aircraft guns in the southeastern position, which can be used not only to fight aircraft, but also to attack infantry and Soviet tanks, such as 88mm anti-aircraft guns, which are the "can openers" of tanks, and a single shot will go straight to the sky.
Ground anti-aircraft artillery began to fire fiercely at these Soviet planes, and the few remaining Soviet planes were immediately beaten down by more than a dozen of them, and the remaining fifty or so Soviet planes soon flew over the infantry's air defense positions and ushered in the SS bomber blocking group.
Soviet planes flew over the infantry's anti-aircraft positions and into the edge of the city, where the anti-aircraft artillery was more dense, and SS bombers blocked the fighting, and fierce fighting ensued on the edge of the city.
One by one, the planes were knocked down, the Soviets had fighters, of course, they had an advantage in the air, and in the air battles the SS bombers suffered 2 to 1 losses, but the SS bombers had the help of anti-aircraft artillery on the ground, and as a result, the two sides turned into a war of attrition, and the fight was evenly matched.
"Click...... Woowoo...... Bang bang bang ......"
A few minutes later, all the remaining Soviet planes were shot down, and the SS bombers also lost more than sixty units, a total of one hundred and twenty bombers were removed by half, and the SS bombers lost a little more than the Soviet planes, but finally saved the airfield.
Air battles in other directions are also in full swing, because the Soviet Union already has the United States P51 combat fighters, when the unknown Colonel Dre only sent a "BF109" brigade to meet more than a hundred P51s, almost not all the troops were wiped out, Dre heard that the Soviets actually had a brand new combat fighter, almost did not scare out the heart attack, and hurriedly sent another brigade of planes to reinforcements, 80 "BF109" against 160 P51, and the result was a 2 to 1, GermanThe "BF109" was developed early, the aerodynamic shape is reasonable, and the performance is better than the American P51 in all aspects.
…… (To be continued......)
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