The consequences of the great purges of Soviet Russia are intuitively reflected on the battlefield! As a crucial war weapon in the 1920s, aircraft, capable countries all over the world, are desperately trying to invent and manufacture aircraft that are faster and faster, with more and more firepower.

When it comes to fighter aircraft, they have caused a large number of projects with very good starting points to be seriously delayed due to political issues. For example, the Yak 1, Su 1, MiG 1 and other founding models have very amazing design data, but most of them were launched in 1938.

It was launched in 2016, and until now, the prototypes are still on the production line.

As a result, in the sky of the Red Empire, the world's largest territory across the Eurasian continent, only backward models such as i153 and i16 were protected. Fortunately, the whole of Europe was controlled by Hitler, and with China

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The million square kilometers of Mongolia, the Ural region, the Tyumen Oilfield and other industrial cores are thousands of kilometers away, providing natural security due to geographical location. Otherwise, their airspace would have been ravaged by advanced fighter jets from China and Japan.

Incomplete body!

To say that they are completely unaware of such a huge gap would be a lie. The old guys have always spared no effort in collecting intelligence from China and Japan, but whether it can be taken seriously is anyone's guess.

Especially in recent years, China and Japan have been at war one after another. Observers, military attaches, and soldiers from all over the world have learned a lot of precious military information from various channels, and fed it back to their equipment improvements, which can be said to have benefited a lot. Soviet Russia has benefited a lot.

Although they have been excluded, they have a good relationship with the central government after all. There is no problem in obtaining some second-hand information.

However, attitude determines the outcome. They also misjudged the true combat effectiveness and equipment performance of the Japanese army, especially the pilots who had been killed for a generation. The same lax and contemptuous mood spread among the Soviet army in the Far East and it was not ordinary interests!

Under the planning of Kanji Ishihara, who is very good at forbearance, the Kwantung Army has not shown its real claws against the Soviet army in the past few years. This time, Japan suddenly launched an attack, and they were miserable!

In the sky over the Mongolian Plateau, the Japanese army's high-speed fighter planes happily slaughtered their opponents who were more than a hundred kilometers slower than them. Their powerful firepower output and range that was several times longer than their opponents directly wiped out the poor i16.

A few of them were hung on the auxiliary fuel tanks, equipped with 12.7mm heavy machine guns, and used experimental rockets. Only after they were fired collectively with cold weapons, a few Japanese aircraft were killed.

And even these guys who succeeded in sneak attacks could not escape the pursuit of the Japanese ki43 fighters. Their range after adding fuel tanks was only 1,200 kilometers. It was still not as good as the improved version of ki43.

After many years of fighting against the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese army finally suffered a loss and gained experience. They are no longer stingy in firepower. Basically all 7.62mm heavy machine guns have disappeared from the field, at least 13.2mm large-caliber ones, and even 20mm cannons.

At this time, the additional hundreds of horsepower were consumed to bear the extra weight. However, what it brought about was the increase in firepower and the improvement of the protection ability of key parts. Although it was still incompetent against the navy version of the "Flying Shark" machine gun,

No power to fight back.

The battle was one-sided from the beginning. In less than half an hour of the first round, nearly fifty Soviet fighter planes in the first batch were all killed and could not escape! The total Japanese losses were only five!

Such a disparity in the results shocked the Soviet army! The armored forces, who thought that the air force would not have any problems, were miserable when they attacked at the same time! Not only was the tank group headed by T26 unable to penetrate the Japanese army, at least it was also the 95th and 97th changes.

Waiting for medium tanks over 18 tons

The front armor of the Japanese army was almost all modified from 75mm field guns. Their 15mm armor, which was worse than the previous Japanese army, could not even withstand large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets. The Japanese army's rubbish shells could still penetrate easily.

Blast into scrap metal with one shot!

The bt7, which is slightly improved than the t26, is not much better. In addition to the replacement of a 450-horsepower engine, which brings a speed of up to 60 kilometers per hour, its same 45mm caliber tank gun is quite confident in dealing with the side armor of Japanese tanks. That 46 times the body

The armor-piercing capability provided by the tube is sharper than the Japanese army’s early 75mm castrated tank gun. No.

It is a pity that after the Japanese army was forced to scrap two generations of armored fighting vehicles on the Chinese battlefield, the series of models that are now the main force are all enhanced versions. After the welding technology was successful, the ones riveted with ordinary carburized steel were replaced.

The protection capability brought by the front armor has been greatly improved. The thickness of at least 55mm looks particularly strong on the 18-ton vehicle body.

Quality, quantity, and all-round lagging behind; air cover was even less available. The 11th Tank Brigade, which was on the battlefield for the first time, confidently drove up to the small earth-packed highland on the plateau, and was immediately attacked by the Japanese army at a fixed point 1,000 meters away.

The Japanese Army's accurate long-range shooting did not miss even the armored troops. More than 50% of the tanks actually achieved hits at such a long distance!

Without the fire control auxiliary system, this was almost a miracle. The most outrageous one actually hit the target 1,500 meters away. After being sawed off, the 90-type 75mm field gun still had a 32-fold barrel. This

The excellent weapons originating from French Schneider exert amazing power!

At the end of the First World War, most of the entire Soviet tank brigade was destroyed. If it weren't for the powerful long-range artillery groups that bombarded the Japanese army and barely covered the retreat of the remaining forces, they might have been defeated by the Japanese army.

I'll swallow it up completely in one gulp!

The huge failure left the 57th Army in a state of chaos. From the corps commander to the division commanders of each division, everyone's face was pale. The clouds of the Great Purge seemed to have shrouded their heads. I don't know when the special commissioner from Moscow will come.

Appear like ghosts, arrest them, and shoot them! Comrade Steel has never shown mercy or tolerance to defeated generals!

Opportunity! The chance to survive is to defeat the Japanese army in front of you.

But it can be clearly seen from this battle that the Japanese army is not the small-scale friction in the past. They are fully committed to a big one, whether it is to show the people, the German allies, or even

It is a threat to the rapidly expanding Chinese people. In short, the Kwantung Army wants to carry out this war in a big way. And they have no way out!

"We must find a way to kill them!" The commanders of the Soviet Far East quickly reached a consensus. While temporarily retreating to stabilize the situation, they desperately mobilized various aircraft from all over the country. In just three days,

We gathered together 150 flying objects of various colors, including 20 four-engine TB3 heavy bombers!

After a little preparation, in the early morning of April 7, a huge lineup consisting of half an armored brigade, a motorized infantry division and a cavalry division was dispatched to attack in a semi-encirclement posture from several places upstream and downstream of the Halaha River.

At the same time, more than a hundred fighter planes took off from three airports and swarmed towards Ganjur, General Temple, and Hailar where the Japanese army was heavily concentrated!

"Report! The 'Moonlight' reconnaissance aircraft has discovered great changes in the Soviet Air Force and determines that it may launch a bombing of important targets of our army!"

A crisp and powerful shout interrupted Itagaki Seishiro's thoughts. As the specific executor of the "Northern Advance Plan" and the commander of the front army, he had not slept well for half a month, despite the battle reports he received every time.

It was all good news for success and progress, and he still did not dare to slack off at all. After all, whether he could turn around and continue to upgrade in the army until he became the pinnacle position of Minister of the Army. The key depends on whether this battle can achieve the strategic goal.

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Just like today, the earlier in the morning, the more alert he became, because this was usually the critical moment when the battle began. Sure enough, the report from the front came.

Nodding calmly, Itagaki Seishiro ordered the combat staff to quickly repeat the message. Then he came to the huge map and stared at the few targets found by the night reconnaissance plane. After thinking for a moment, he grabbed a pencil and scratched a few lines on it.

He circled "Hyrule" three times in an arc, and finally gave it a hard poke. He said decisively: "It's not about to happen, it is about to happen! Order Hyrule's 'x' mechanism, and they can prepare for action!"

"'X Organization'?!" Several combat staff officers looked confused and didn't know what they meant. However, the commander of the First Division, Naosaburo Okabe, suddenly raised his head and shouted in surprise. "Commander Itagaki, are you sure?"

Are they going to expose their existence now? You know, the one at the base camp is clearly intended to be used as a decisive weapon!"

Itagaki Seishiro twitched the corner of his mouth, revealed a sinister smile, and said in a low voice: "No matter how powerful the weapon is, it must be tested in actual combat to determine whether it will work. Now is a good opportunity, otherwise once the war expands, we will have to

No matter what goes wrong, it won’t be easy to solve!”

"Understood!" Naosaburo Okabe frowned and said nothing. In fact, in terms of qualifications, he is not as good as the core of the young group in Itagaki. He understands the significance of this battle better and is unwilling to affect the overall strategy due to disputes.

,Besides, he doesn’t really understand those things, so just let them do whatever they want.

After the staff officer issued the order, Itagaki Seishiro added: "Let the entire flying regiment be ready for mobilization. They must all set off before dawn. This time, we will eliminate the entire Soviet Russian army in the Far East in one fell swoop and seize the absolute initiative!"

A few minutes later, in a heavily guarded military base in Anban Aobao, not far north of Hailar, a steel frame structure with a height of forty or fifty meters took off its camouflage skin. Under the dim light, it spanned like a giant.

The skeleton of the entire rammed earth plateau looks particularly majestic.

On the top of the iron frame is a giant palm made of lightweight alloy keels with a width of more than thirty meters. The slightly concave rectangular frame is inlaid with a layer of gray aluminum alloy cortex, with clusters of inlaid feet on it.

There are about thirty groups of long pipes in varying numbers, pointing to the center from all angles. The sharp protruding four-cornered shelf in the middle extends into the air twenty meters in front, converging into a strange structure with a sharp angle like a pot lid.

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Cables as thick as an arm hang down from the back of each cluster of pipes, gathering on the ground into a large pile as thick as an arm, twisting like a giant snake and stretching into the distance, until it reaches a half-buried building a few kilometers away.

In the underground substation, there are more than a dozen high-power diesel generators imported from Germany, making a dull roar at maximum power.

At 4:40 in the morning, more than 30 fighter jets of the Soviet Air Force escorted 10 TB3 four-engine heavy bombers and flew 20 kilometers away. At the same time as the warning from the front came, the huge iron frame "creaked" slowly swung and adjusted.
Chapter completed!