Even if the real situation now is that Soviet Russia cannot do without China's help, in the eyes of the vast majority of Soviet Russians, China is still synonymous with ignorance and backwardness. Therefore, in their view, Soviet Russia's need for assistance from the Chinese will only be Temporary phenomenon, if they want to defeat Nazi Germany, they have to rely on themselves in the end. The equipment of the Chinese Far East Expeditionary Force seems to support their thinking. The expeditionary force has been fighting the Japanese army in the northwest for a long time. Because of the distance problem, logistics supplies have always been The problem is, after Jiang Tiezhang figured out that fighting must be a battle, the soldiers of the expeditionary army became more accustomed to Japanese weapons, and gradually deviated from the equipment direction of the student army. For this reason, the Supreme Command changed their equipment when they Instead of replenishing the active equipment at once, we adopted the method of changing equipment while adapting, and replaced the equipment for them step by step. This resulted in that after the expeditionary force entered Soviet Russia, at least a quarter of the troops still used it. They were all Japanese-style weapons, which naturally made the Soviet Russians look down upon them. In Soviet Russia, from Stalin to the ordinary private soldiers below, they all regarded the expeditionary force as cannon fodder, just to consume German ammunition for them. Yes, so there was, when the expeditionary force defeated the Germans again and again, their process from doubt to shock,
The Army Aviation Force attached to the Expeditionary Force is the most original among the various branches of the Expeditionary Force. The Soviets were envious and strange words appeared, "If these fighters were ours, we would have defeated Germany long ago." The people were beaten away."
"It's a pity that if these fighter planes are used by the Chinese, their pearls will fall into dust."
"There are only so many fighter jets in China. The Chinese may have shipped half of them to our country. It seems that our sacrifice of the Far East has played a certain role."
Although the Soviet Russian government strictly blocked information about the Sino-Soviet Chongqing Agreement, there was no airtight wall in the world, and the news still leaked out. The Soviet Russian system determined that Soviet Russians would not dare to do so even if they were resentful. Publicly criticizing and criticizing, and then secretly saying weird things has become a way for most people to vent their anger.
Kozhidub had never said such strange things, but his thoughts were no different from those of these people. The expeditionary army had won consecutive battles. At first, he could still understand that it was luck, but now, Hartmann was defeated in Chen Chong. From now on, he knew that he had to change his impression of the Chinese people.
In human history, some names are always closely linked to the destiny of a certain period of time or a certain country. For the Germans, although they may not realize it, Hartmann is undoubtedly such a key figure. In the Osa air battle, China and Germany had always maintained a balance of power before, but after Chen Chong killed Hartmann, this situation changed. On the day Hartmann died, the Chinese and Soviet air forces defeated the German air force because they lost air superiority. , the German troops that were assembling towards Osa were brutally attacked by the Chinese and Soviet air forces, losing more than 4,000 men in one day, including an established tank regiment.
After the battle, Manstein did not dare to act rashly. At his strong request, Germany's newly established rocket force began to accelerate towards Osa.
After about half a month, China, the Soviet Union, and Germany had three large-scale air battles in the Osa region. The results were all unquestionable defeats of the Luftwaffe. Chen Chong shot down eleven German aircraft during this period. The plane gradually became the focus of surveillance by the Germans. At first, some ace pilots of the German Air Force also ambitiously wanted to defeat him so as to avenge Hartmann. However, as they were defeated successively by Chen Chong, even After he died in battle, the German pilots no longer had the courage to face him directly. Later, whenever he took off, the German ground crew would remind their pilots: "Be careful, Chen Chong is in the air."
Chen Chong's air combat skills have improved comprehensively thanks to the battle with Hartmann. He launched missiles during a rolling maneuver. This was originally an emergency measure taken by Chen Chong in desperation. In other words, he had no intention at all at the time. Hope, the missile flew out, he glanced at it habitually, and then suddenly entered a wonderful state. This feeling was not humane, and the change that Chen Chong experienced was that after that, his control over the landline reached His mastery of the battlefield situation has reached a whole new level.
For the Germans, every day in May and June of 1944 was extremely dark and long, and the first half of June was even more of a nightmare for them. The air force was completely suppressed, and the price of losing air supremacy was that the enemy could move around as they pleased. They could only defend passively. Originally, this was nothing. However, as some of the air fortresses of the United Nations troops were airdropped from long distances and transferred to the front line, the end of the Germans was coming. For a week in a row, the Chinese Air Force dispatched air fortresses to attack the German troops on the Osa front line. Repeated bombing of positions and fortresses caused serious casualties to the German army and its subordinate army. For the first time after entering Soviet Russia, the Germans experienced the humiliation of being passively beaten and unable to fight back.
When our own air force just showed a defeat, Manstein could still keep calm. He firmly believed that China would not be able to invest more troops as it did in the Pacific War, and the Soviet Red Army had been crippled, so even if the air war It began to develop in a direction that was not conducive to his own side, but given time, when he gathered a certain number of troops, it was only a matter of time before he defeated the Chinese and Soviet generals standing in front of him. As a veteran general, Manstein believed that modern Although the war cannot be separated from the air force, the air force cannot decide everything, so the final victory or defeat will still be decided by the army. "Let the Chinese and Soviet Russians be proud for a while. When our rocket troops are in place, they will face our thunder A similar counterattack." At the regular military meeting on June 7, in order to appease the morale fluctuations caused by the overall defeat in the air battle, Manstein released this sentence,
Manstein's still confidence at this time was related to a telegram he received earlier that day. This telegram came from Berlin. The content of the telegram was to report the successful test launch of a new type of rocket.
Perhaps in order to emphasize the superiority of the Aryans, the Germans still called all similar weapons rockets when the Xuebing Army had separated missiles from the rocket family. Their so-called new rockets also followed the tradition of V2 , named V3,
The V3 rocket, to be precise, the V3 missile is a surface-to-air missile. We have to admit that the current level of development of the German military industry is affected by the Xuebingjun Thunder series and Poseidon series missiles. At the same time, we do not want to follow Xishi's example. Germany People took an unusual path and began to study surface-to-air missiles, and it only took eight months to achieve a breakthrough. With the successful test launch of the V3 rocket, this also means that the V2 rocket can learn from related technologies to obtain higher strike accuracy. When the German army began to be at a disadvantage in the Far East War, the advent of the V3 rocket naturally boosted Manstein's confidence.