Five hundred and twenty-one peerless master
In order to prevent being discovered by the German night patrol plane, Zhou Zhihan led the fleet into an altitude of 8,000 meters. At this location, the German radar could not detect it.
Since it is a top-secret flight, the lights on the instrument panel in all fighter aircraft cabins are also turned off. Everyone can only keep the purple light emitted by the reflective scope in the cockpit of the fighter aircraft in front to maintain the distance between them.
It is still outside Moscow, and you can use radio. After flying out of Moscow, if there is no important situation, everyone's radio must be silent.
Although the lights are not turned on and the radio must be kept silent after the time, for the old birds, such night flight is not difficult, and they have practiced during the rookie.
"Everyone comes with me!"
When all the fighter planes flew away from the airport for 5 minutes, Zhou Zhihan Pressure Pole, No. 214, flew towards Leningrad first.
All the pilots did not speak and followed silently. From the instructions stamped with General Gromakin, they already knew that this was a top-secret flight. The commander did not tell the specific situation of the mission to be carried out, so they could not ask, this was a military rule.
Zhou Zhihan said: "If I have an accident in the battle, the command will be automatically handed over to Major Pisanko!"
This is also the routine that the commander needs to do before every battle.
The advantage of this is that when the commander is killed or injured in air combat, his successor will immediately take over the baton to prevent the troops from falling into temporary panic.
"receive……"
Major Pisanko answered.
The pilots also answered one by one.
Then, Zhou Zhihan and Major Pisanke contacted each other on one line and told Pisanke about the specific situation of the flight mission.
At this time, you cannot tell all pilots the final destination, because any sudden situation may occur during the flight. If a pilot's plane is shot down or malfunctions, falls on the German positions in the dark and is captured, there will be a risk of leaking the secret, which will put the entire team in trouble.
Major Pisanko was also very curious about why their 14 Spitfires had to protect a bomber, but he didn't ask, and Zhou Zhihan must have no idea.
At this time, there were many German airports around Moscow. If you want to go to Puslav, you must quietly break through the reconnaissance and defense of the German night fighter troops.
After the Battle of Dunkirk and the Battle of London, the German radar technology became increasingly sophisticated, and the range of radar detection above the head of the night war Messer-Schmitt gradually became larger.
All Soviet pilots have long been familiar with the specific locations of each German flight team and know it without looking at the map.
Now everyone wants to know that this ace pilot from China will lead everyone from which German fighter unit will fly over and head to the destination.
After reading the secret command, Zhou Zhihan began to think about whether to fly to his destination from Tver or Smolensk.
These two places are stationed in two German fighter wings.
In the direction of Tville, the jg51 United stationed in Moldes.
On July 12, Richard Prila shot down the 500th Soviet aircraft of the JG51 Wing since the beginning of the Soviet campaign, which was also the 1,200th result of the wing since World War II.
The pilots of this wing are all old birds from the battlefields of Western Europe. The combat experience accumulated in the battle between Dunkirk and London has become the invincible confidence of these old birds. Their fame resounded throughout the entire Soviet Union and was an indelible nightmare in the hearts of Soviet pilots.
In particular, the company commander Lieutenant Colonel Werner Moldes was at its peak. On July 15, his record reached an astonishing 100 aircraft.
The Luftwaffe made a big publicity on this day, resounding over the entire Soviet Union.
This is a terrifying and desperate data to Soviet pilots.
This is a fearsome top ace pilot with a daunting record, directing the 51st German Fighter Wing that makes all Soviet pilots say nothing but feel extremely frightened in their hearts.
Just in mid-September, Moldes pointed the company commander at Major Friedrich Baker, and he served as the position of chief of the fighter armies, which made the jg51 rebel even more.
Because Moldes's fighter arm director is not a free job, he is responsible for the use of the entire German fighter arm, tactical research and development, and fighter jet research.
The road is close to the water and get the moon first, so whenever Germany develops the most advanced tactics, it will be handed over to the JG51 team, and Goring also believes that there is no bone that the JG51 team cannot chew.
In the direction of Smolensk, the jg52 wing was arranged, which was about to suffocate Soviet pilots.
The current fame of this wing is far from Moldes' jg51 wing. The main reason is that they were deployed in the southernmost part of the Soviet front before July, and their main task was to patrol the Black Sea coast.
There were few fighter jets there, and even less air combat, so their record was the least in the entire Soviet battlefield, so that the Imperial Marshal Gore found that the company was dead and the battle was tepid. So the angry Imperial Marshal sent a telegram to the commander of the jg52 wing on July 4:
Your unit has always been unique, and its uniqueness is that it has failed to shoot down enemy planes. How long will it take for Soviet aircraft to enter your airspace without any obstacles? - Goren.
Although the jg52 Regiment is the least famous, Zhou Zhihan is not willing to pass by its air defense, because in this camp, there is a peerless master whom all future pilots need to look up to - Gerhard Barkhorn
A super ace with the second highest record in all pilots in the entire history of human wars.
During the London Defense War, Zhou Zhihan had a fight with the African eagle Marceyou. The top ace was the strongest opponent he had encountered so far, and his strength was definitely above Garland and Moldes. Marceyou had just made his debut at that time, and his air combat skills had not yet reached the peak.
And Gerhard Barkhorn's strength is still above Marceu.
It's so scary!
Zhou Zhihan didn't want to meet this super ace of jg52 United too early, or he didn't want to meet Gerhard Barkhorn today. Even if he had system assistance, he wouldn't want to meet such a super ace.
He is not afraid of one-on-one air battle, but the top-secret mission they are performing now is extraordinary. Once they meet a super ace like Gerhard Barkhorn, it will be difficult to get rid of it in a short time.
Moreover, in this unfamous United team, there were two other super aces, Hermann Graf and Steinhof.
It can be said that no one can survive the joint attack of these three super aces.
Therefore, Zhou Zhihan decided not to break through above jg52 United.
Although there are no super aces like Gerhard Barkhorn, as well as top aces like Hermann Graf and Steinhof in the jg51 United lineup, they have very rich combat experience. In the Luftwaffle, only the experience of the Condor Legion can match it. It is obviously not wise to pass over this wing.
But if you want to avoid these two regiments, you must go east to Yaroslav, and fly over there at least 400 kilometers, and the amount of oil spraying fire is not enough.
Chapter completed!