What did Li Xiaofeng think of? Lenin ordered him to make a fanfare to Berlin to attract the attention of the Entente and relieve Tukhachevsky's pressure. But a certain immortal only managed to make a big splash, as for the feint? Instead of approaching Berlin at all, his troops marched westward as originally planned, tossing the northeastern part of Germany into a miasma.

Of course, this is risky, and once the Politburo knows that someone is not carrying out orders, the consequences are unimaginable. So how to fool the Politburo? It is not enough to just do "fanfare", after all, this is false, the Entente can be fooled for a while, not for a lifetime, once they see through the truth and no longer worry about Li Xiaofeng's flank attack, then Tukhachevsky will definitely be cleaned up very badly.

And in this way, the Politburo will immediately know what tricks a certain immortal is doing, and then the diorama will be dismantled.

Therefore, it is not safe to just play with mouth cannons. You have to take some practical action, and you have to put a little pressure on Berlin, otherwise the play won't be able to go on. So how to put pressure on Berlin? As Lenin said, sending ground troops to play deterrence on a large scale is to kill and send sheep into the tiger's mouth.

Li Xiaofeng only has such a little vitality in his hand, how can he throw it into the water? So putting pressure on Berlin has to be done in a special way. The big army will never go, but the small group of harassment must not stop.

And playing harassment is the strength of the GRU, this unit has been the so-called special forces since its establishment, playing special operations, and before putting them into frontal combat as ordinary infantry calls, it is really a tyrannical thing.

And now this kind of raiding and harassment operations deep behind enemy lines is what the GRU does best. Of course, GRU alone is not enough. After all, the GRU has too few troops. There is no advantage at all in front of the superior Allied armies, and if they really fight alone, they may be able to occupy a temporary advantage, but the effect will definitely not be good in the long run.

However, Li Xiaofeng never intended to let the GRU fight alone, or even let them serve as the main force to harass Berlin. The GRU can only play a supporting role, and the real main force is still Sukhoi's aviation.

From Szczecin, Berlin was completely within the combat radius of Sukhoi's air forces, and Li Xiaofeng's wishful thinking was to let the GRU conduct reconnaissance. Then lead Sukhoi's Air Force to strike. This would not only avoid the fearless fighting and casualties of the GRU, but also make the Air Force's strikes more efficient.

In fact, a similar method of warfare has already been implemented in Finland, and for a time the logistics lines of the German Expeditionary Force have been messed up, and this time a certain immortal is just repeating the old trick.

Of course, although it is a rehash of the same old tune, it is not completely without new ideas. After all, this kind of land attack is not possible with the air force alone, because the accuracy of horizontal bombing is too low, and it is difficult to destroy point targets. In order to adapt to the new tactics of warfare, Sukhoi had to put the newly formed dive bomber regiment into battle.

The newly formed dive bomber regiment had 28 dive bombers developed by the Moscow Central Design Bureau, codenamed Polikarpov-Tupolev-Petlyakov-Sikorsky-1. Are some comrades dizzy when they see this name? Actually, there's nothing dizzy. The reason why this aircraft has such a long name is also very simple. Because this aircraft was designed jointly by the four famous aircraft designers mentioned above.

Of course, according to Russian tradition, the official name of this very long-named aircraft was the Lenin I bomber. The aircraft is equipped with a 120-horsepower engine, a maximum level flight speed of 120 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 300 kilometers when carrying a 100-kilogram bomb, and one member. The main armament is two 12.7 mm machine guns with 500 rounds of ammunition.

Truth be told, the performance of the Lenin 1 was quite improvised, the maximum speed was slower than that of many "heavy" bombers of this year, and the bomb load was also on the low side. But there is no way around it, who made this a dive bomber? In order to achieve dive performance, the aircraft had to strengthen the weight of the structure, and in order to be able to hover and strafe ground targets, the wing area of the aircraft was relatively large, so the acceleration and maximum speed must be tragic.

However, for a "dive bomber", maximum speed is not a key performance and can be sacrificed. As the first aircraft in this year that could dive and drop bombs at an angle of more than 45 degrees, it really couldn't be too demanding.

In any case, Lenin-1 was generally able to meet the demand, and in the hands of a veteran like Sukhoi, it was able to dive at a 65-degree angle, and compared with the horizontal bombers of the time, the bombing accuracy was qualitatively improved.

Of course, not all pilots can dive bomb at a 65-degree angle, but it's good for a novice to dive bomb at a 45-degree angle and then pull it up. Because the bulky wings of Lenin I were not suitable for dive bombing, and it was quite strenuous to operate, if the pilot entered the dive too fast, the result would be a headfirst crash into the ground.

During the test flight of Lenin-1, two test pilots kissed the earth because they were too hilarious. Therefore, for a time, the finalization of the aircraft could not continue (the prototype was completely destroyed). Therefore, the aircraft only completed the test flight and put it into production in June 1919, and by the end of August, with the help of a certain immortal to open the golden finger, only 36 aircraft were barely saved. Eight of them remained in Moscow as trainer aircraft to train pilots, and the remaining 28 were all sent to East Prussia for real-world testing.

In fact, nothing can be detected, because there are not many pilots who can fly Lenin-1, and the rookies who have just flown Lenin-1 for more than ten hours are included, and only barely 30 pilots are gathered. That is to say, almost every pilot of Lenin I is exclusive, and I have to say that this is really a luxury.

The problem with Lenin 1 was not only the difficulty of flying and the lack of pilots, but also the lack of trust. For example, in the previous air raid on Kiel, the dive bomber regiment was excluded from the operation at the beginning, and the other pilots did not like this slow and stupid bird, and did not think that there was any point in dive bombing.

The main reason for this phenomenon was that the pilots could not perform the performance of Lenin I, only a very small number of people were able to dive and drop bombs accurately, and most of the other rookies dropped the bombs without entering the dive. The results were naturally unsatisfactory.

In the eyes of others, this so-called dive bomber is no different from horizontal bombing. And the bomb load is still small. Naturally, I won't like this kind of aircraft.

However, Li Xiaofeng was not swayed by this view, and even when Sukhoi, who had always been extremely fanatical about flying guys, did not have confidence in dive bombing, he insisted on continuing to give Lenin I and his pilots a little more patience, even if they did not show any signs at all during the bombing of Kiel.

So is Lenin No. 1 good at the bombing of Kiel? It should be said that it is still disappointing, after all, the plane and flight technology are there, how can there be a sudden explosion of character? Twenty-four of the 28 Lenin-1 of the dive bomber regiment arrived over Kiel, and the remaining four returned home due to a malfunction, and 20 of them completed their bombing. The results achieved were zero. Almost all the bombs missed.

This kind of table is not comparable with horizontal bombers, and the horizontal bombers responsible for bombing the port area have made a lot of limelight, and some pilots even broke out and accurately hit the warships parked in the harbor with bombs.

The unexpected good fortune of the horizontal bombers made the dive bomber regiment even more embarrassing and embarrassing, and if it were not for Li Xiaofeng to protect them, the regiment would have been directly disbanded, and Lenin I would have been forced to return.

"We have no way out," said Ivanov, the head of the regiment, to his young man with a grim expression, "and if we can't show ourselves in the future, then the troops will be disbanded, and we will become a laughing stock!" I ask you to devote 120,000 to your training, and any act of passive sabotage will be regarded as counter-revolutionary! ”

Ivanov is playing with his life. His young man took out the pre-World War II Japanese Navy Yueyueshui, Civil Engineering, Gold and Gold Training Dafa, which was really a desperate practice. Because the training intensity is too high. So much so that in the remaining days of September, there were three crashes and fatalities, as well as the scrapping of five Lenin-1s.

That is, by the time the dive bomber regiment was actually put into combat at the end of September, there were only 20 flying aircraft left in the regiment. Truth be told, this little bit of aircraft is simply not enough to cause much trouble to the Entente group.

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng ordered the rear factories to produce Lenin No. 1 at full capacity on the one hand, and on the other hand, he did not put all his hopes on them. After all, his aviation was already weaker than the Entente, and only twenty Lenin-1 fighters were not enough for the Entente fighters to fly. Therefore, Sukhoi's air force must be dispatched in its entirety, fighters escort the bombers, and bombers must go out to drop mines even if they cannot complete the dive bombing and circling strafing missions.

You read that right, it is indeed a mine, and what is lost is a veritable mine. For example, the aforementioned butterfly mine, this light anti-infantry mine has a very good effect and caused a lot of trouble for the infantry on the ground during the bombing operation of Kiel. There is no reason to attack the supply lines of the Entente today without such weapons.

Not only butterfly mines, but also a kind of "bag mines" that are similar to butterfly thunders but are cheaper. What kind of mine is this? In fact, it is a small cloth bag filled with more sensitive picric acid or black sokin explosives, as well as glass ballast and iron filings, and even the fuse is saved. After being airdropped, this kind of small cloth-like mine can be said to explode at the touch of it, or even at all, for example, a bomber disintegrated in the air because of the explosion of this sensitive mine.

To be honest, the safety performance of this kind of mine is very problematic, and it will explode if you are not careful during storage, and the US imperialists in history used it in Vietnam for a while and then quickly eliminated it, the reason is that this thing kills 1,000 enemies and loses 800 self-damage, and who can be killed depends entirely on character.

The reason why Li Xiaofeng wants to use this kind of mine is very simple, first of all, it is cheap, much cheaper than butterfly mines, and it almost costs nothing; The second is that the production is simple, nothing more than a cloth bag, what is the technical content of this thing? Not to mention copycat factories, as long as there is a supply of explosives, every household can produce it, which is not much different from the production of two kicks. Of course, this thing is much more dangerous than the second kick, and if you don't do a good job of safety production, the house will collapse in three days.

As for the storage problem, which gave the US imperialists a headache, Li Xiaofeng didn't think about any storage at all, and as soon as the cloth bags produced that day left the "production line", they were directly loaded onto the plane, and then they were widely spread on the transportation line between Warsaw and Berlin.

So how effective are bagrays? It should be said that it is great. This thing is scattered in a big piece. One wave of bombers was enough to keep the Allied sappers busy for several days. Even not every bag mine can land accurately on a road or railroad. But I can't catch up with the volume!

In many cases, before the sappers of the Entente countries had cleared the mines of the previous wave, the mines of the next wave fell directly on their heads, and for a time the sappers of the Entente countries suffered heavy casualties. Of course, it was the Polish people who suffered more casualties, and it was normal for this thing to be thrown from the air without accuracy, and it was normal for it to fly around and hit flowers and children. Anyway, the Poles who were on the lines of communication at that time were living in a precarious life, and maybe one day they just went out and fell into their heads.

After discovering the inexpensive effect of the Cloth Bag Mine, Sukhoi and his boys immediately used their brains, they were no longer satisfied with the results they had achieved so far. How to maximize the lethality of bag mines has become the main content of their daily discussions.

I have to say that Sukhoi, a mustache who looks like a nobleman, is actually insidious, but he has come up with a lot of bad moves. For example, when a bag mine is thrown into the field, the end of September is the harvest season, and the Polish and German farmers are ready to enjoy the fruits of a year's labor, but when they go down to the fields to harvest, the discordant explosions destroy their dreams.

This trick is too damaging, the bag mine has no fuse, and if you want to eliminate it, you can only destroy it directly, and you can still use a gun or directly use explosives to get it away when you throw it on the road or in the field. But how do you get it if you throw it in the farmland?

Hit with a gun? Dense wheat obscures the view. How can you fight if you can't see it? And that goes straight to the explosives? I'll give it a damn, this can solve the problem of landmines. But what about the wheat? In this way, it is almost impossible to achieve results.

So the sappers of the Entente and the local farmers were blind, and they sighed for a long time when they looked at the golden wheat fields, and they had no other way but to keep greeting the eighteenth generation of the ancestors who came up with this bad trick.

Sukhoi's devised move was a devastating blow to Polish agriculture, and if nothing else, there would have been a famine in Poland in the coming year without relief from the Entente.

With Sukhoi making a good start, various damage tactics followed, such as in order to deal with the demining operations of the Allied sappers (bag mines and butterfly mines are airdropped, not as hidden as ordinary mines), they used real and fake mines to deal with each other.

Anyway, from the outside, Bubaolei is a bulging little cloth bag, and if you don't try it, who knows if it contains explosives or dirt? After that, every time the bag mines were dropped, the ratio of real mines to false mines was one to ten, so that the amount of spread was even more amazing, and for a while the Poles did not dare to go out, and the streets were full of cloth bags, which was really shocking!

What's even worse is the Allied sappers, they can't catch up with the speed of Sukhoi's airdrop 24 hours a day, and the railways and highways are paralyzed for a while, Foch's troops and materials on the front line are getting tighter and tighter day by day, and naturally their pressure on Tukhachevsky is getting smaller and smaller day by day.

"We must hurry up and find a way to change this passive situation, let the enemy lay mines, and the Polish economy and our troops on the front line will be ruined together!" Foch yelled at the Air Force.

In the old man's opinion, the reason why he is so passive is that the air force is too weak, and he can only watch the Russian flies run wild. He asked the Air Force to be a little more powerful, preferably to get rid of those pesky flies at once!

However, the Air Force said that it could not help it: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, I have to regret to tell you that this is impossible. Now that we have lost air supremacy around Berlin, it is completely impossible for our air force to destroy the adversary! ”

"How is this possible!" Foch was surprisingly angry, and roared: "Is our air power not as good as that of backward Russia, a country that relies on most imports of aircraft to defeat the three most powerful industrial countries in the world, are you eating dry food?" ”

Naturally, the Allied air forces were not dry, although their strength was much stronger than that of the Russian air force, but they were not powerful. From the very beginning, Sukhoi, on the instructions of a certain immortal, made the airfields of the Entente a key target.

Although it is impossible to completely destroy the enemy's airfield with Sukhoi's strength, blockade and restriction can still be done, and the easiest way is to lay mines, and with the huge and very cheap bag mines, Sukhoi can be willful. Suffice it to say, only a third of the bags were thrown on the heads of the Poles, and the remaining two-thirds were all hailed at the Allied airfields in Germany.

Even if the Allied air forces tried their best to clear mines, they could not guarantee the attendance, the attendance rate fell, and no matter how many planes there were, it was also a decoration. Therefore, during this period of time, although Sukhoi had few planes and poor performance, it miraculously seized air supremacy.

"Is there no other way?" Foch's throat was on fire, and the old man shouted frantically, "Can we just let those air tractor drivers run wild?" ”

So did the military strategists of the Entente have a way? It should be said that there is, but for some inhumane and mysterious reasons, they have not "remembered" for the time being. And for another female spy who is not a military strategist, it is too simple to find a way out of the predicament...... (To be continued......)

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