A Soviet soldier standing on the east bank of the Volga River rubbed his sour eyes and then continued to look at the distant sky boredly. This was a Soviet air defense force's air defense post, providing early air defense warnings for the long Volga River defense line.

After all, the radars assisted by Americans are a precise and expensive thing. Although the Soviet Union was hurrying to imitate it, it really had no way to spread this thing throughout the Soviet-German defense line. In most areas, the Soviet air defense warning still relies on manpower to use equipment originating from the First World War era to provide relatively vague early warnings.

Some places use loudspeakers facing the sky to collect the sounds from the aircraft engines to judge whether the enemy's planes are coming. Some places arrange air defense guard posts to provide this kind of intelligence by looking out. These artificial sentries are spread throughout the Soviet-German frontline, providing information on the early German aircraft dispatching for the passive Soviet army everywhere.

Unfortunately, with the rapid defeat of the Soviet ground forces, this similar early warning system collapsed. There were too many temporary defense lines without such air defense posts, and the Soviet army became increasingly indifferent to the movements of German aircraft. After all, sometimes if a person cannot even eat enough, he will not have the heart to care about whether there is a new sheet at home. The Soviet army is the same now: they can't even stop the German ground forces, so they have no heart and energy to care about where the German bombers are flying.

The role of the strategic bomber troops of the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front is actually very limited, because even when German planes can take off from Ukraine and fly through countless mountains and rivers along the way to the heart of the Soviet Union, they are probably surrounded and killed by the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery troops. They have no cover from the sea, so they cannot bear greater casualties and higher bombing costs.

Therefore, even if Hitler gave the German army strategic bombers in another time and space, it was unlikely that the German army would go to the Eastern Front to find trouble for the Soviet Union. After all, the bomber price paid by the Allied forces was unbearable for the poor German Air Force. If hundreds of pilots were lost every day, it would not take until the beginning of 1945, and by the end of 1940, the Luftwaffe would have been dead in name only.

However, the current Acardo and his Third Reich Air Force faced completely different situations from another time and space. They had crude oil mined from Libya as consumption reserves, and their outposts were in the Caucasus region and St. Rudolph and they could attack important rear industrial bases in the Soviet Union without having to leap long land routes.

So after rubbing his eyes, the Soviet lookouter in the sky once again looked at the Soviet lookouter in the sky, and saw some blurry black dots appearing above the clouds in the sky. He frowned and continued to stare at the distant place. His lookout was not equipped with a telescope, so he had to use his eyes to observe the suspicious targets in the distance.

Not long after, he saw the black shadows becoming clearer and clearer, turning into small black dots bit by bit. Now the Soviet lookout soldiers could confirm that it was a German plane, but he was still staring at the other side, trying to identify the specific number of German planes.

German planes flew rapidly at a height of 10,000 meters. They took off from the early morning and now they finally crossed the Volga River and flew towards their distant target. The sound of the engine roared, causing a buzzing sound to echo in the space above the clouds. German planes trembled slightly with the airflow here, like eagles, patrolling their territory proudly.

"My God, where are you going to be unlucky this time?" The soldier in the Soviet observation post finally saw clearly the number of German aircraft in the distant sky. He could not count the specific number of those aircraft, but he knew that it was definitely a lot. So he hurriedly began to shake the manual air defense alarm in his observation post, reminding him that the Soviet positions around him were concealed and evacuated.

"Woo...wow..." A shrill alarm echoed over the Soviet position again. Many soldiers who were still washing their faces walked out of their hidden barracks and looked up at the black dots as small as flying insects in the sky. They were German planes, which looked like flying insects surrounded by lights in summer, so dense that they made people's hair stand up.

"It's not bombing us. If it's for dealing with us, there should be countless Stuka 2 bombers howling and diving down and dropping bombs." An officer comforted the nervous soldiers around him and analyzed in a very peaceful tone: "It's a large German bomber, it seems that he was bombing the city behind him."

While he spoke, he was not eager to wear his top. The beard he had with him shook and looked a bit like Stalin. This beard style was popular in the Soviet Union, just like a hairstyle of a pop singer today. The officer obviously made a lot of sense, so everyone no longer had a tight expression, but looked up at the strategic bombers of the enemies flying in the sky with a gloating mood.

"Where is going to be unlucky again?" The officer put on his clothes and walked back to his officer's bunker with a muttering voice: "The Germans have not used strategic bombers on such a large scale for a long time. It seems that this time, there are factories in the cities behind us, so there are troubles."

This time, the German army took off a total of 400 butcher bombs, carrying a large number of bombs and incendiary bombs, and hit an important transportation hub behind the Soviet Union and an industrial base Ulyanovsk. There is a Soviet tank-producing factory here, and it is also an important factory area for producing Su-76 self-propelled anti-tank guns.

Of course, this is still an important metal smelting and processing plant in the Soviet Union. Although it does not directly produce other military products, it is providing non-ferrous metals and other raw materials to a large number of military-industrial enterprises in the Soviet Union. Once the German army destroys this production link, it will inevitably make the Soviet industrial system that has begun to reduce production even worse.

After investigation and analysis, the senior management of the Luftwaffe found that the range of directly bombing Chelyabinsk was too long, which could easily cause the Soviet Union to threaten the German bomber troops. Both Katherine and Dick felt that bombing Chelyabinsk was too risky, so they directly selected an area where the bombing target was more important, but the Soviet Union did not have the strength to defend closely. These aircraft took off from more than a dozen airports near Saint Rudolph, bypassed the Central War Zone guarded by the Soviet army, cut from the south into Moscow, and flew straight to Ulyanovsk.

The scale of this bombing was completely beyond the scale of German aircraft dispatching when bombing London. At that time, the Luftwaffe's Air Force's wealth was not as rich as it is now. Even if the do-217 bomber was included, the German troops bombing London could not match this time.

So many aircraft were dispatched at once, in order to destroy the industrial production cycle chain in the rear of the Soviet Union as much as possible, and to relieve pressure on the increasingly tight German front-line troops. The large number of cheap Soviet self-propelled artillery has begun to threaten the German tank troops, which is not the situation that German commanders hope to see.

"Ring...Ring!" In a bright room, the phone suddenly rang, but there seemed to be no one in the room, so the phone kept ringing, but no one answered it. So the ringtone rang stubbornly until one hand finally picked up the earpiece from the phone: "Hey? This is the duty room of the Air Defense Command of the Supreme Command. Are there any important things to report?"

The officer on duty asked the other party who called with a long tone. The work here has been desperate recently. The Germans bombarded the west of Moscow from a short distance, but they were asking about a German air raid hundreds of kilometers away here. It was meaningless, right?

"...Huh? You're saying it's clear? Are you sure you've seen a large German bomber, not a Do-217, but a larger butcher strategic bomber?" After hearing the report from the phone, the officer suddenly asked in a sharp voice: "In the Volga River Basin? 40 minutes ago? Why did you report it? Hell, don't hang up the phone, wait for me."

He dropped the telephone receiver in his hand, pushed open the office door, and rushed to the end of the corridor. While running desperately in the empty corridor, he shouted loudly about the information he had just obtained: "The German strategic bomber is in Stalingrad! They are dispatched! dispatch!"

"Hey? What am I...? I need to evacuate the factory and the employees immediately? They are working, and this is probably not an easy task." A Soviet general from Ulyanovsk held a microphone and spoke to General Vatujing on the other side of the phone: "There are raw materials and factories everywhere... I can't move everything here in ten minutes! Comrade General."

Before he could finish what he wanted to say, the air defense alarm in the city echoed. It was obvious that some remote guard posts found German planes and sounded the alarm to remind people in the city.

"Comrade General, you informed too late... In theory, we should have received the news 30 minutes ago, but now the air defense alarm has sounded, I know that the German plane has arrived." The general continued helplessly: "If it is really as you said that there are more than 200 German planes, then Ulyanovsk is now over."
Chapter completed!