USSR 1941

The air attack by the German army seemed to be massive and caused a riot in the Soviet army. After a while, the formation of the Soviet army was in a mess, with flames, car parts, corpses and stumps everywhere, but in fact it caused losses to the Soviet army. But very limited.

The reason is that basically all valuable things of the Soviet army, such as tanks and ammunition vehicles, were parked on the side of the road, and those bombed by the enemy in the middle of the road were actually vehicles used by infantry or artillery to pull artillery.

As for the soldiers who were killed... these are hardly considered "losses". As long as the Soviet army needs it, a bunch of soldiers can be pulled up to supplement it at any time.

However, the Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses. Eight fighters, thirteen bombers, and twenty-five attack aircraft were destroyed in the battle.

The reason why the "Henschel" attack aircraft has much more casualties than the "Stuka" is because it needs to straf the target at low altitude and close range, and at the same time it needs to slow down to increase the hit rate when strafing or bombing the target.

This will undoubtedly give the Su fighter a good chance to shoot it down.

The Stuka is different. Its way of attacking the target is to dive at a high speed and a large angle. This makes it difficult for Su fighter jets to keep up with it, or it can be said that it requires considerable flying skills. Knocked down.

Of course, the Soviet Air Force also lost more than 30 fighters.

Most of these fighter planes were shot down by German fighter planes. In other words, if the battle between Soviet and German fighter planes is really counted, it would be eight to thirty-three, and the battle loss ratio even exceeded 1:4. Usually, the battle damage ratio of one to three points is higher.

The reason for this is that the Soviet Air Force adopted a tactic: not to entangle with German fighter planes, but to find enemy bombers and attack planes.

This is a bit similar to Tian Ji's horse racing tactic of "bad horses against good horses". Fighter planes can only attack the enemy's weaknesses if they can't beat others, especially attack planes.

As a result, the Soviet Air Force exchanged forty-six enemy aircraft.

When the news reached Manstein, Manstein was furious.

"These idiots, don't they know that the enemy will definitely have air cover?" Manstein said: "They should send more fighter jets to escort!"

The German Air Force did exactly that. In the second wave, fighter planes from two air brigades were sent to escort.

However, the results were still not ideal.

Even Manstein found this result a bit unbelievable.

Why is the German Air Force clearly able to crush the enemy's air force, but the end result is that it has a similar exchange ratio and cannot achieve the goal of preventing the enemy from advancing.

The reason is actually very simple, it is because of the previous "bad horse vs good horse" tactic.

The goal of the German Air Force is to attack the ground, but the bombers and attack planes that are facing the ground are always suppressed by Soviet fighters or attack aircraft, so the effect on the ground is not good.

To put it simply, the Soviet army was actually exchanging aircraft for the safety of the ground troops. They were almost in front of the German fighter planes and aimed their machine guns at the enemy's attack planes regardless of casualties and their own safety.

After going back and forth like this a few times, the Luftwaffe seemed to have learned how to behave, and they had two waves of attacks with only fighter planes.

But this also disappointed the German army.

The Soviet Air Force didn't even pay any attention to such air strikes by the German army... The Soviet reconnaissance planes detected a large number of German fighter planes from a long distance, so the Soviet fighter planes stopped taking off.

The German fighter planes had no choice but to use their machine guns to shoot at the Soviet troops on the ground and then walk away.

Fortunately, the German airborne troops finally landed in Karachi on time, and used a glider to transport a batch of anti-tank guns to the 91st Infantry Division... Gliders are the means of transportation for the German airborne troops. landing on more complex terrain.

Major General Moritz immediately deployed these anti-tank guns in the defensive line and dug anti-tank trenches.

"They will block the enemy's attack!" The adjutant said: "The enemy has only one armored division!"

No wonder the adjutant said so, an ordinary Soviet armored division is nothing in their eyes.

But Major General Moritz didn't think so.

"The enemy's armored division is no ordinary armored division, York!" Major General Moritz said.

"You mean this armored division is equipped with a large number of T34s?" the adjutant asked back.

"No, it's more terrifying than T34!" Major General Moritz replied thoughtfully: "I've never seen such a battle. Marshal Manstein is in a hurry. Have you seen it?"

"No, no!" replied the adjutant.

"That's right!" Major General Moritz said, "It's the enemy's commander, understand? I don't know who, he tricked our armored division from Karachi to Miloway, and then attacked here with heavy troops... But Manstein has nothing to do with him! This is the most terrifying thing!"

After a pause, Moritz continued: "If Marshal Manstein can't deal with him, do you think we will still be his opponent?"

The adjutant was speechless.

The bombing of the Luftwaffe had no choice but to give up as it got dark... During this period, Manstein considered sending out night bombers, but he was strongly opposed by the air force commander.

"It's too dangerous, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Air Force Major General Yannick said, "And it won't do anything!"

Manstein knew that Major General Yannick was right, because Karachi's terrain was more complicated, with mountains, power lines, and tall buildings, which were nightmares for night fighters. There is an obvious difference in fighting in flat areas...Fighting in flat areas only needs to know the approximate height, and usually the aircraft will not crash into anything and people will be killed.

However, in the Karachi area, fighter planes operating at low altitude at night will not pose much threat to the enemy, but will cause heavy casualties to themselves.

"Anyway!" said Manstein, "send your plane up there, just drop a few bombs on the target!"

"Yes, Marshal!" Major General Yanick replied helplessly.

As a result, as Manstein said, the German Air Force only dropped a few bombs on the Soviet convoy from the air... Due to the high altitude, these bombs even deviated from the target by a few miles.

For the Soviet army, this is also a refreshing fireworks.

But the Soviet tank soldiers really need this, because they have been marching almost non-stop for more than fifteen hours, and they have to keep going... Driving a tank in this era is a kind of hard work. Driving a tank for several hours can knock people down. Not to mention ten hours.

If they had a break, it was during the bombing by enemy planes.

Therefore, the tank driver even hoped that the Luftwaffe would bomb a few more times.