USSR 1941

Shulka began the deception scheme the next night.

The reason why I did this the next night was mainly because such a trick of confusing the real with the fake needs enough "false" to allow the "true" to fish in troubled waters.

Otherwise, if the German fuel, ammunition, and fighter planes are available enough to destroy all the Soviet landing ships, no matter whether they are fake or many, or block them on the east coast, then the Soviet army will not be able to defeat the enemy no matter how they play. .

So Shulka waited patiently, and Shulka did not start the first step until more than 200 landing ships from the navy joined the team.

That is to say, the first batch of more than 300 fake landing ships were thrown into the Volga River.

The 300 fake landing ships were divided into five batches, each batch was about 60 ships. According to the plan, there were three transportation lines in the north and two transportation lines in the south, and then they started running back and forth between the east and west banks in a hurry.

In fact, these false landings cannot run back and forth between the east and west banks, because they are not amphibious like amphibious landing ships.

So, the landing ships on each shipping line are divided into two parts... bisected by the sandbar and then go back and forth in their respective waters.

To add to the deception, some landing craft were also built on the sandbar, and soldiers from the 33rd Guards Rifle Division even fitted old wheels to it.

But of course they cannot be moved on the sandbar, they can only be pushed by soldiers.

If the Germans were on land, these scams would be easy to spot.

But it was night and the German army was in the air. More importantly, once an enemy plane dived, the soldiers pushing the landing ship would of course disperse and hide, so it was not easy for the German pilots to find anything.

Colonel Fred of the German Army is full of confidence in carrying out the mission.

In fact, Paulus fired a celebratory fire for Colonel Fred and his men in the early hours of the same day.

Although it was a celebration, in fact, Colonel Fred could only invite a limited number of officers, and the other pilots each added a piece of ham and a little honey.

Paulus drank red wine, then knocked on the glass with a spoon, and when everyone was quiet, he got up and said: "Gentlemen, first of all, welcome to come! I think it is not only me who welcomes you, but also all of us. Warriors who fought at Stalingrad!"

Everyone will laugh.

They could understand what Paulus meant... The main reason why the German army had been unable to attack Stalingrad for a long time was that it could not completely block the supply of Stalingrad, but Fred's night air regiment completely changed this situation.

"You may not know what this means!" Paulus continued, raising his glass to Colonel Fred, "but I know...you have filled the gaps in our nights, so that we can be together day or night. Blockade of Russian transport lines from the air! We doubted this, but... Colonel Fred and his pilots proved it by their courage and flying skills: they made only two attacks, Just let the Russians give up their transport! Know what that means? Stalingrad is ours!"

As Paulus raised his glass, his subordinates also raised their glasses to congratulate each other.

Then Paulus changed the subject and said: "However, Colonel Fred, we must not be too careless! I think you have heard of the 'breakout hero'!"

"No, I haven't heard of him!" Colonel Fred replied with a teasing expression: "Our air force only needs to care about the enemy's pilots!"

The officers around couldn't help laughing.

This sentence shows that Colonel Fred has actually heard of "Breakout Heroes", but he didn't take him to heart, because... pilots don't need to take infantry to heart.

This is true in some ways, as there seems to be no intersection between pilots and infantry.

If anything, it was the pilots pouring bombs and bullets on the infantry on the ground who were trying to bring the plane down with anti-aircraft fire.

And this struggle often ended in a disastrous defeat for the infantry.

However, what Fred didn't know was that he and the "Breakout Hero" had already secretly competed.

Paulus nodded and said, "Perhaps you are right, he should be the one I need to worry about!"

"Now you don't have to worry about him, General!" Colonel Fred raised his glass.

If it is said that Colonel Fred has maintained a cautious mind just after he arrived in Stalingrad, the two attacks last night that easily cut off the Russian army's transportation line made him feel a little underestimated.

This is not surprising, because Colonel Fred knew that the Russian army did not dare to carry out normal transportation after the two attacks, which proved that the Russian army either did not have an effective way to deal with night fighters, or there were not enough amphibious landing ships.

Or both.

As Colonel Fred reported to Paulus: "They can't stop us, we always have air superiority! Also, there's no cover on the Volga. Night bombing is difficult, but we're veterans of night combat... as long as If they dare to transport, it is impossible to escape our interception!"

Colonel Fred was right.

At this time, there were already five night air regiments in Germany.

The larger the serial number, the later it was compiled, and of course the less combat experience.

The 3rd Night Aviation Regiment was formed before the outbreak of the Soviet-German War last year, and it has been nearly a year now.

Many pilots in this aviation regiment are veterans with rich combat experience, and then they will undergo night combat training for several months... The training of German night fighter pilots is very demanding, because it often requires pilots to detect the enemy with only a little light or moonlight At the same time, we must always worry about whether it will hit the ground. In addition, we must be able to quickly distinguish between the enemy and the enemy from the outline of the aircraft in the dark, and so on.

(Note: Night combat often relies on the target to block the background light source and show the outline for identification. For example, if you look from bottom to top, it is the outline reflected by the moonlight, and from top to bottom, it is the light)

On this basis, Fred thought it would be easier to attack ship targets on the ground.

What it needs to pay attention to is the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and the distance between the fuselage and the ground.

Fred had great confidence in his subordinates in this regard.

Therefore, on the second night, when Fred received a report from the reconnaissance plane that he had found a large number of Russian transport ships, Colonel Fred immediately jumped out of his chair excitedly.

"It's time for us to behave, boys!" said Colonel Fred. "It seems that the Russians have amnesia. They have forgotten what we taught them last night! Now, let's remind them!"