The Rise of the Third Reich

"Rise up, great country, and fight to the death to eliminate the evil Nazi forces and all evil bandits..."

The high-pitched and passionate singing woke up Major General Ilya Oktyabryski, political commissar of the 3rd Army of the Red Army, who was dreaming - someone was also singing in his dream, but it was "The Internationale". The Red Army soldiers Singing this song that inspired proletarians all over the world to fight, they marched majestically and high-spirited through the streets of Paris to pay tribute to the heroes of the Paris Commune...

Unfortunately, it was just a sweet dream, and it was woken up by the girls of the 3rd Army Art Troupe who were lining up. He looked at the clock hanging on the wall. It was just 6:15 in the morning.

Of course Comrade Oktyabryski is not in Paris or Berlin now, but he is not trapped in Warsaw either. Because his 3rd Army was a combined army with mechanized troops, it was not arranged to besiege Warsaw. Instead, it was transferred from Poland to Minsk during the Minsk Defense War. After the "victory" in the defense of Minsk, he was transferred with the 3rd Army to Smolensk, where the new headquarters of the Western Front was located.

The so-called Battle of Minsk, which the Germans call the Battle of Belarus, was the battle in which Stalin's precious son Yakov "betrayed the revolution." According to official Soviet propaganda, this battle successfully defeated the German army's attempt to occupy Minsk and defended East Belarus, so it was a great victory. Together with the Battle of Leningrad and the Battle of the Dnieper River that took place from the end of 1942 to the beginning of 1943, they are known as the three important turning points of the Great Patriotic War.

This was also one of the three key turning points in the world's anti-fascist and anti-Nazi wars - the other turning point was the Battle of Panama in March.

After the four major turning points, the 43-year Patriotic War will of course move from victory to victory. Therefore, the current political work of the Red Army is to instill this kind of thinking into the soldiers and cadres at the grassroots level.

Oh, it should be two thoughts.

The first is the Great Patriotic War - this is more difficult to deal with. When the war started last year, there was talk of world revolution. Now those art troupes sing "Holy War" every day because of this. The holy war is the Patriotic War, not the liberation of all mankind.

Second, the problem of propaganda moving from victory to victory does not seem to be a big one. Now the Germans are basically blocked. Except for surrounding Leningrad, which is close to the border, and occupying Pskov, which is also on the border, they have never set foot in the "homeland" of the Soviet Union (referring to the Soviet land before 1939).

"Honey, were you woken up by them too?"

When Oktyabryski sat up from the bed, his wife Maria opened the door and came in. Unlike most senior cadres in the Red Army who like to leave their wives behind, Oktyabryski has a very good relationship with his wife and has always been inseparable. So after the troops were stationed in Smolensk, he took his wife over.

"Well," Oktyabryski kissed his wife on the cheek and said with a smile, "Labor Day is coming soon. This is the first Labor Day since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. The cultural troupe must perform well. one time."

"Oh, it's a pity that we can't celebrate the initial victory of the world revolution in Paris." Maria sighed softly while helping her husband take the military uniform.

"Maria," Oktyabryski suddenly told his wife in a serious tone as he took over the military uniform, "You can't say this outside!"

World revolution...no more! It had never happened before. What broke out on June 1, 1942 was the Great Patriotic War. It was a "preventive war" launched by the Supreme Command of the Soviet Union when it realized that imperialist Germany was about to invade the Soviet Union. It was the Great Patriotic War. The first stage of!

After successfully smashing the German offensive plot, the Red Army took the initiative to switch to defense and severely damaged the German army in the Defense of Leningrad, the Defense of Minsk and the Defense of the Dnieper River...

"Yes, I know how to talk outside." Maria pouted a little aggrievedly. She was also a member of the Bolshevik Party and had a high level of consciousness.

"By the way," Maria added at this time, "the Army Headquarters called three minutes ago and asked you to go there immediately."

"Immediately?" Oktyabryski took a breath. He is now the political commissar of the army group. If there is no emergency, there is no one in the army headquarters who can make him rush there "immediately".

Maria nodded, "Yes, right away!"

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The reason why the 3rd Army Headquarters called Oktyabryski to rush there immediately was because there was an emergency.

At around 6 a.m. on April 29, the Air Force radar station affiliated with the Western Front used advanced American radar to detect a large number of enemy planes flying from the direction of Baltica!

Just as Major General Oktyabryski, political commissar of the 3rd Army, hurried to the Army Headquarters, on the outskirts of Smolensk, the 286th "LeMay" Fighter Regiment of the Red Air Force (named in commemoration of the great international Over the airport where the 73rd Fighter Squadron of Comrade Li Mei, a communist fighter, was stationed, sirens were already blaring.

The pilots of the 73rd Fighter Squadron emerged from the underground lounge dedicated to pilots (a bunker) and ran towards the Yak-1B fighter jets lined up on the tarmac.

The Yak-1B fighter is not advanced. It lags behind the fighters currently in service in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom, and it is not as good as the Japanese Zero fighter. However, this aircraft also has its advantages.

First of all, the Yak-1 is a cheap and easy-to-produce aircraft. The fuselage skin is made of aviation plywood and textiles instead of expensive aluminum alloys. It is the best choice for the Soviet Union, which lacks aluminum alloys.

Secondly, while using plywood and textiles, the total weight of the aircraft is also well controlled, with a total combat weight of less than 3 tons. In order to control weight, this aircraft is equipped with only one 20mm cannon and one 12.7mm machine gun. However, the ballistic spread of this gun is small, and the hit rate is extremely high after it bites the enemy aircraft.

The successful weight control gives this aircraft good maneuverability at medium and low altitudes. If it is flown by an experienced pilot, it can maneuver with the German Fokker Zero at medium and low altitudes. Due to the use of an engine equipped with a supercharger, the Yak-1B is sufficient to fight against the Fokker Zero D at medium and high altitudes above 5,000 meters. When the altitude is reduced, the Yak-1B also has a greater chance of using its own flexibility to escape from the Fokker Zero D. Gram Zero D's tail biting.

Therefore, as long as the P-51 (US military aid) responsible for medium and high altitudes can entangle the German Fw-190A-9 fighter, then the Yak-1B can compete with the Fokker Zero D.

However, the so-called "counterbalance" is by no means 1:1 in terms of the exchange ratio between the two parties. Instead, one Fokker Zero D is exchanged for more than three Yak-1Bs - this is when the P-51 can block the Fw-190A- The results are only available at 9.

And once the P-51 is defeated and the Fw-190A-9 with the advanced BMW801F engine kills it from high altitude, the Yak-1B will only be slaughtered!

After the BMW801F engine with ultra-complex design and extremely difficult process (which has reached the pinnacle in both high-temperature resistant alloys and heat dissipation design) was equipped with the Fw-190A-9, this aircraft gained the ability to dominate at medium and low altitudes.

The 2,400-horsepower output of the BMW801F engine gives the Fw-190A-9 fighter jet unprecedented power, allowing the Fw-190A-9 to reach the fastest speed of 740 kilometers despite the enlarged internal fuel tank and increased weight. /hour (without using MW50 system).

Moreover, when this aircraft is equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks, it can obtain the same range as the Fokker Zero D.

Such high speed combined with the one-hit-and-leave-away tactics and the long range allow the Fw-190A-9 fighter jet to show its ferocious appearance as an aerial killer at altitudes below 5,000 meters.

As soon as he sat in the cabin of a Yak-1B fighter jet with a white fleur-de-lys pattern painted on the wing, Lieutenant Lilia Litvyak, a Soviet female fighter pilot, remembered her death while trying to protect herself half a month ago. Her boyfriend Alexei Solomartin is under the muzzle of an evil Fw-190 fighter jet.

Lilia Litvyak, who holds a Moscow residence permit and comes from a working-class family, certainly loves the Bolshevik Party. In fact, she is also an honorable Bolshevik Party member.

She joined the party organization during the struggle to defend the Moscow sky. At that time, she had just graduated from flight school (a school for training fighter pilots). She was a pilot instructor and was the most skilled among all the students, even surpassing Her coach.

Among the 586th Regiment composed of female pilots, she was also the first pilot to shoot down an enemy plane (she was the first female pilot in the world to shoot down an enemy plane). In November 1942, he shot down a Ju88 bomber (belonging to the Royal Croatian-Hungarian Air Force) that violated the Moscow sky. For this, he received the Order of the Red Banner, the Bolshevik Party card and the rank of officer.

However, the most valuable thing she gained in this war was not the medal, party card and cadre status (a lieutenant is of course a cadre), but the love of her boyfriend Solo Martin. He was the squadron leader of the 286th "Li Mei" regiment stationed in Smolensk. After Lilia was transferred to the 286th regiment, the two fell in love at first sight and soon fell in love.

But the man who could still bring happiness and sweetness to Lilia during the cruel war has now left forever, but Lilia still has to face the invasion of fascist planes every day.

"Lilia, it's your turn to take off!" the airport commander's voice came from the American radio installed on the plane.

"Understood!" The young female pilot wiped away her tears, then skillfully pushed the joystick and piloted the plane painted with white lilies into the Soviet blue sky.