The aircraft's maintenance took longer than Sergeant Mishayevich expected, and it was already a week before Eva and I took to the skies again.
During this week, I was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force and received my second First Class Order of the Red Star. I enjoyed this honor because I shot down two new Nazi aircraft, one of which was a Nazi ace pilot.
Driving.
My large photo was published on the front page of newspapers such as Air Warrior and Minsk Defender. The article accompanying the photo referred to me as the "air wolf from the ice field."
I quite like this title.
In a short period of time, I was turned into a well-known aerial hero by the Confederate propaganda machine - of course my record was worthy of this title. Before taking the photo, Eva forced me to pin the pansy flower on the collar of my military uniform, which was also quickly recognized by the pilots.
became popular among them.
Because of this, before Eva and I took off for the second time, all the pilots and ground crews in the entire Lar Air Force Base who had no missions gathered in front of the hangar of the Fourth Group, and Mishayevich gave everyone, including me,
A big surprise for everyone including Eva.
He painted my phone silver white, and also painted a pair of blue, piercing eyes and a big mouth with fangs on the front of the phone.
"I turned your plane into a direwolf, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel."
It was precisely because of Mishayevich's self-assertion that I soon earned the nickname "White Devil" among the Luftwaffe pilots.
When I was driving this all-white plane onto the runway of the airport, Eva's voice suddenly came from the intercom: "Is it okay to make the plane look so ostentatious?"
"No problem, I won't be shot down."
"...Hey, I remember what you said a week ago was different from what you said now..."
"You remember it wrong, it must be."
As I said that, I pushed the throttle and let the plane gradually accelerate on the runway. After a while, we rushed into the blue sky.
Our mission is to patrol the prescribed airspace for one hour, but the patrol airspace assigned to us is not the area that Lahr Base is usually responsible for. Our patrol airspace is far away from the battle line. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that the purpose of this flight is to
Eva and I continued to get to know each other, and the three Yaks that took off with us were actually our escorts.
After arriving in the patrol airspace, I immediately asked Eva to activate the rune system and perform various standard actions according to the regulations on adaptive flight in the doctrine. Eva's performance was fairly stable, although not as good as Aksinia's.
Precise, but much better than Natalia's performance during the running-in period.
One of the three Yakks traveling with us has been following closely behind us, while the other two have gained altitude and are on standby above our heads.
There were a lot of clouds in the sky on this day. If an air battle broke out, the large amount of clouds would bring huge variables. It also meant that the focus of the air battle would shift from tactics and experience to flight technology and adaptability.
More clouds also mean that backlighting is no longer the only option for sneak attacks.
Because I clearly understood this, when I was flying the fighter plane through the clouds, I always paid attention to the direction in which the enemy planes might make a sneak attack.
The moment we flew close to an altocumulus cloud, I caught the fleeting reflection from the edge of the cloud with the corner of my eye.
I immediately threw away the auxiliary fuel tank and jerked the control column backward, but Jacques's reaction to me was far beyond my imagination. The aircraft actually somersaulted backwards and turned into a dive.
Eva's shout came from the earphone: "The enemy plane is coming! The enemy plane is coming!"
I tried my best to stabilize the plane, which had become a frightened bird like yesterday, and shouted into the microphone beside my mouth: "Eva, close your eyes!"
"Huh? But according to the Air Force tactical doctrine, I should assist in detecting enemies in the back seat and make up for the driver's blind spot..."...
"Don't worry about it, just close your eyes! By the way, turn up the volume of the internal speaker to the maximum!" I pulled hard on the vibrating joystick and looked back at Eva in the back seat, my eyes looking through us
The glass partition between them met Eva's eyes. I stared closely into her pupils, trying my best to instill my thoughts into her eyes, and begged Eva word by word: "Believe in me, okay, Eva?"
baby."
Finally, Eva nodded.
I watched her turn the volume switch on the dashboard to the maximum, close her eyes and lie down completely on the back seat, then turned her head back.
The aircraft's response was slightly more stable than before, but not enough.
I had to calm down Eva. In desperation, I decided to try singing a song. Anyway, I couldn't think of any other way...
So I cleared my throat and started to sing an air force war song that was rewritten from the cavalry song. After I sang three lines, Eva's laughter came from the earphones: "Grisha, you can play the leaf flute very well."
It's so good, but the singing is... I can't say it's unpleasant, but it still feels weird... You'd better whistle!"
At the same time as Eva's voice came, I clearly felt that the joystick in my hand was not vibrating so much.
There is a door.
I took a deep breath, looked up at the two enemy planes that were chasing my wingman, and then I whistled an ancient melody that was spread on the westerly tundra.
After a while, Eva's humming came from the headphones. The melody hummed by her sweet voice sounded like she was playing freely, but it perfectly matched the beat of the ancient tune flowing from my mouth.
The music we played together was so sweet, it seemed that even our steel "car" couldn't resist its charm, and gradually became more stable - it still seemed a little "allergic" compared to normal conditions, but this is good for me
It's not a big problem, as long as Quan Dang drives the improved model of Jacques.
I whistled and pulled up the dive plane, and then rushed into a large cloud and mist, which allowed me to escape the enemy's pursuit. After rushing out of the cloud and mist, I bit an enemy aircraft without any effort.
The tail of the machine.
"I'll take the next one, Eva." Looking at the enemy plane trailing smoke downwards, I calmly reported the results of the battle to my partner, who had his eyes closed.
At this time, the other two Yaks that had been waiting above us dived down, catching the enemy by surprise. Two more enemy planes rushed to the ground dragging thick smoke, and the remaining enemy plane tried to escape at full power.
This airspace.
I pushed the control stick and rushed towards the only remaining enemy plane.
This air battle was won so easily, which should be a good thing for Eva and I. It will be a good start between us.
Just when this thought passed through my mind, a sad cry came from the earphones: "I've been hit, help..."
The call came to an abrupt end. I quickly turned around to observe the situation of the friendly aircraft following me. I saw that the Jacques flying at the end of our formation turned into an orange-red spark, and then a red phantom passed through the explosion.
Thick smoke rushed toward us menacingly.
I don’t know who shouted the red phantom’s nickname on the radio: “Red Baron!”
Another enemy plane passed through the smoke barrier and appeared in our field of vision. It looked like the wingman of the Red Phantom.
"There are only two enemy planes, let us outflank them!" I stopped chasing the fleeing enemy planes, pulled up the nose of the plane and calmly ordered the other Yaks, "Suvoro goes to the right, Mikoyan follows me..."
"No," my words were interrupted by an unexpected person. I turned around and saw that Eva had opened her eyes and was looking at the red devil chasing us, with determination shining in her red eyes.
Light, "Grisha, the red one is our prey."….
After saying this, Eva closed her eyes again and sat back on the back of the seat. Her mouth opened and closed, and the passionate "Bujoni Cavalry Battle Hymn" came through the internal line.
I understood Eva's intention in an instant.
Yes, as long as we defeat that red existence, our tomorrow will be different, that's what I'm sure of, and Eva must also think so.
"Change of orders, I'm here to meet the Red Baron!"
I broke away from the formation and circled to the right. While shaking my wings, I used the radio to call out the name of the pilot of the red plane on the public frequency band.
"Manfred von Richter is happy!"
The red Messerster turned towards me as expected, and his wingman did not follow him - it seemed that this guy had a strong sense of knighthood.
Richter already had a positional advantage, and in order to enhance the effect of provocation, I cut into the right circle that the Messerster 109 is good at, so it was only natural for him to bite my tail. He was in the 300th position.
He fired several bursts at me from a distance of 30 meters. Later I found out that this was Richter’s habit. He liked to remind his opponents before launching a formal attack so that they could avoid them. His famous saying was “Even war can be done.”
Proceed with decorum", he is an incorrigible lunatic.
Of course I would not disappoint Richter Hofen's reminder to me. At the moment when the distance between him and me was about 150 meters, I pushed the joystick sharply to the left and steered the plane straight
It crashed into the clouds nearby. I vaguely heard the sound of gunshots and the sound of bullets hitting the iron shell of the plane, but there was no strange feeling from the control stick and rudder, and no fire was seen, and the fuel gauge readout
Normal - Apparently Richterhofen's first attack missed the vital point.
While I was controlling the plane to fly in the clouds, I was estimating the Red Baron's flight path and calculating the time to leave the clouds. Unexpectedly, the cloud was much smaller than expected, and I rushed out of the clouds in the blink of an eye.
The moment I broke out of the clouds, the red Messerst occupied my entire field of vision.
I firmly pushed the joystick to one side, and the Messerster in front of me immediately tilted the fuselage.
The intersection occurred between lightning and flint, and the violent vibration caused by the mutual interference of the rune power systems almost made the joystick slip from my hand, and the blue track left by the Messerst flashed outside the cockpit.
I turned around and saw the faint blue light twisting into a flickering light ball where our paths intersected. Beyond the edge of the light ball, I could see the red machine shadow pulling two blue trails behind it.
Turn.
I laughed. In terms of hovering performance, this side has the advantage - whether it's going left or right.
Taking advantage of Jacques's circling radius, which was one circle smaller than that of the Messerster, I bit the Red Baron's tail, and he immediately started climbing, hoping to get rid of me by relying on the Messerster's vertical maneuvering advantage.
But at this moment, my Jacques is slightly different from other Jacques. Because of Eva, it is more agile than other Jacques. More importantly, judging from the experience of the last flight, Eva can make the rune system run smoothly.
Thrust output has also been greatly improved.
The performance of the Yak I am driving now is comparable to that of the new Axis machines. The Red Baron obviously does not know this.
I controlled the plane and followed the red Messerster into the climb. Instead of increasing, the direct distance between us slowly shortened.
I put the red machine shadow into the aiming aperture.
Just before I was about to pull the trigger, an icy chill hit the back of my head. Soon enough, I saw a white mist rising behind the main wing of the red Messerster. I immediately realized that it was because
A vortex was generated in the rear half of its main wing. The low pressure caused by the vortex greatly increased the condensation temperature of water vapor in the air, forming this white mist...
At this time, vortices will be generated in the rear section of the main wing, which has only one meaning, and that is that the aircraft is about to make violent maneuvers - such as the trick I am proud of.
I tried my best to make the plane roll sideways - the design of the Jacques made it difficult to directly reverse the vertical maneuver, and if the plane rolled accidentally during the climb, it might stall and crash.
I was only halfway through my first roll, and the red Messerster fell backwards like a wooden stake dropped from a high altitude. The tongue of flames shot by the rearward-turning nose licked my belly.
, the rune system's buzzer alarm screamed, telling me that at least one additional rune block had been hit.
I don’t know if it was affected by the rune block being hit, but the output of Jacques’s rune system fluctuated greatly in an instant, and the plane also entered a semi-out of control state. After a dizzying spin, I finally stabilized.
I stayed on the plane, but lost more than a thousand altitudes.
I once again flew through the gaps in the sea of clouds.
"Eva!" The first thing I did was to check the status of my fairy. The girl in the back seat had a row of fine beads of sweat on her forehead. It seemed that she had spent a lot of time just stabilizing the rune system.
She was very energetic, but her face was quite calm, and the singing voice that continued to come through the headphones made me feel relieved.
I looked up and searched the sky, and found that the red shadow was now above and behind me, swooping towards me menacingly.
Attack and defense alternate in an instant.
That guy is indeed at the same level as me. Take the maneuver just now, for example, it is less difficult to complete than my ultimate move, but it is more practical: its timing requirements are not as demanding as my unique move.
The speed lost is not that much, and after the attack is over, you can directly switch to a dive to escape.
The strange excitement made my hand holding the joystick tremble slightly. I thought of the winter when I first tried my hunting skills with my father. When the spring came the next year, my father’s coat was made of direwolf fur.
The cloak was transferred to my shoulders - that was proof that I was the best hunter in the village.
Let's see who is the best hunter, Richter scores!
Just like Richter tried to get rid of me through vertical maneuvers, I relied on Jacques's excellent hovering performance to lead the red stalker in circles in the clouds. I kept swaying left and right, using the clouds to
to block the opponent's sight and look for opportunities to counterattack.
But the red Messerster is indeed an experienced hunter. It followed me closely, and the distance between it and me was never more than 300 meters.
It did not fire again, but concentrated on waiting for the moment when it would kill with one hit, which frustrated my plan to waste its ammunition.
Go into the clouds and get rid of it?
But that would just restore the situation to a few minutes ago, and the only effect would be to prolong the inextricable aerial battle. Besides, now that I know the enemy has that special skill, even if I break into the clouds to get rid of him
After that, I successfully bit his tail. As soon as he climbed up, I could only follow him from a distance - I didn't want to fall victim to his trick again.
In this case, let him try my trick!
At this time, I hesitated for a moment, and the faces of Aksinya and Natalia flashed through my mind, followed by Eva's smiling face.
Should I do this maneuver? What should I do if Eva dies because of this maneuver?
Before I could give an answer to this question, my hand was on its own and pulled the control stick, causing the plane to enter a climb.
The enemy behind you must be defeated, so...
I turned around and made sure that the Red Baron was following me obediently, then I glanced at Eva in the back seat.
This action itself will not make the elf die from overwork, because I have done this action many times with Natalia and Aksinya in training. As long as I don’t do unnecessary things, it will be absolutely fine!…
.
Thinking like this, I tightened my grip on the joystick in my hand that was shaking slightly due to the sharp climb.
In order to let the enemy get closer, I relaxed the throttle slightly.
At the moment when the enemy was close enough to shoot me down if he opened fire, I released the speed brake of the aircraft and jerked the control column backward at the same time.
The familiar feeling of weightlessness suddenly enveloped me.
I tensed every muscle in my arms, and I put layers of shackles on my arms with my own will, tightly restricting their movements. At this moment, I suddenly understood that Eva was going to weld.
The feeling of holding on to the ejection lever and the cherishment of the girl in the back seat made me tense up every muscle in my arms harder.
You must never push the control stick, and you must wait for the aircraft to reset naturally.
Gravity slowly returned to my surroundings, and the rudders, which had seemed light and fluffy due to the stalling of part of the wing surface, also regained their texture - the aircraft was reset!
But the joy of success cooled down in an instant!
Because there is no shadow of the enemy plane within the aiming circle!
A faint blue trajectory passes through the entire aperture from bottom to top!
I looked up along the trajectory. The red fighter plane blocked the sun's rays and cast a shadow in my cockpit. I could actually clearly see the black octagonal cross painted on its wings!
That guy——Li Xithuo divided him and made exactly the same maneuver as me!
And looking at this posture, after he completes his reset, the distance between him and me will be so close that he can shoot me down with a pistol.
"Don't think this is the end!" I shouted subconsciously, and then pulled the emergency bolt to abandon the rune module.
The rune blocks that fell off the fuselage were thrown towards the resetting Messerst. If it was my luck to destroy an enemy plane by abandoning the module last time, if the Red Baron hadn't been killed by me this time,
It's his luck to smash it!
The red Messerster dragged a faint black smoke and rushed towards the earth exposed between the gaps in the clouds below.
I leveled the plane, panting heavily while letting my eyes follow the fallen red fighter plane.
I saw that the fighter plane also abandoned the rune module, and then its pilot stabilized the plane again, and the black smoke from the plane gradually disappeared.
Do we have to fight another round?
As soon as this idea came up, I dived down, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy's condition had just stabilized to fire two more shots.
The enemy never dodged and allowed me to put him into the aiming circle.
"Half of my tail rudder is broken. Do you want to yell at me, brave red soldier?" The familiar broken Confederate language floated out of the headphones.
In fact, he didn't need to tell me to tell that the prey in the aperture had no ability to resist at this time.
I released my finger on the trigger, pushed the control stick, and stabilized the red fighter on the right side.
"I thought you were more... more like a Nazi soldier." I turned the power of the radio to the lowest level. After all, if the next words were heard by other troops, especially the Cheka listening station, it would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
question.
"'Only the loyal chariot will give us a steel tomb', is that right?" The lyrics of the Axis military song came from the earphones, but because the poor Confederate language was too funny,
The feeling makes the originally tragic and decisive lyrics sound like a joke.
"perhaps."
"I don't think survival is a shameful thing. You can ask those who were shot down by me. I have never aimed at the cockpit." After a moment, the famous saying that later spread throughout the world jumped out of the earphones.
, "Even war can be conducted with etiquette."
I smiled unconsciously, and found that I quite liked this enemy...
Just when I was about to respond, Eva's voice interrupted our conversation: "Grisha, who are you talking to? Is the battle over?"
"It's over, Eva, we won." I said as I turned around, Eva opened her eyes and met my gaze.
"Won?"
I gestured to Eva to turn on the external communication function of the communicator. She probably turned off this function just now to make herself more focused.
"My new partner has a nice voice." It seems that Eva forgot to turn off the external communication capability of the communicator. Richter's hearty laughter made Eva look confused, and then she discovered the red
The enemy plane is flying next to us.
Her eyes widened in surprise.
But I noticed something else.
"Have you discovered who I am?"
"Of course, how could I forget that maneuver?"
That's right.
"I originally wanted to chat with Nen more, but it's time to say goodbye."
"I can't guarantee that other Confederate pilots won't fire on you."
The red fighter shook its wings in response, but he did not leave immediately. Instead, he opened the canopy backwards.
The roaring wind and Richter's words came through the radio waves together: "I almost forgot the most important thing, I have something to give you!"
Richter suddenly slowed down the fighter, and I was speechless when I realized what he was planning to do - he was trying to throw something to me, in this air!
I also slowed down the plane, let the canopy slide back, and got as close as possible to Richterhofen's plane.
"Catch!" This time his words came through the air, and he threw a shiny object towards me.
I steered the plane toward the flight path of the thing and grabbed it in my hand the moment it passed above my cockpit.
It was an Iron Cross decorated with silver oak leaves and two swords on the ribbon, and a small diamond inlaid in the center of the medal. Later I learned that it was the Axis Powers Honor System and the Confederate Hero Medal.
Medals of Honor of similar rank: Knight's Cross with Diamonds, Double Swords, and Silver Oak Leaves.
"Xiang Nen's honor and skill!" Richter said in a solemn tone, and he and his blond partner saluted me as a military salute.
"To your worthy opponent!" Eva and I returned the greeting.
After we landed at the airport, Suvorov and Mikoyan, who had returned to the airport first, immediately ran towards us with their partners. When I stood up from the cockpit, everyone stared at me and asked me questions with their eyes.
The result of the air battle.
I held the Iron Cross in my hand and didn't know what to say.
Suddenly, Eva leaned over from the back seat. She grabbed my right hand holding the ankh and raised it high.
The silver ankh reflected dazzling light in the sunlight.
After a brief silence, a loud "Ula" sounded throughout the hangar.
Eva and I were surrounded by people, and we were thrown up and down again and again.
***
"The Cross is now kept in the Supreme Military Museum of the Confederacy. I have always felt very regretful that I could not keep it myself." He said this, but Belyakov did not see the old marshal's face at all.
I felt the slightest bit of regret. In fact, the old man's expression was very happy at this moment. "Although the medal is no longer in my hands, the things I got from this respectable opponent have always been with me. I saw from him
He has the appearance of a king who rules the sky. It can be said that fighting with him is the second best thing I have gained in the entire Bird Bird Project, second only to Eva."
At this time, Belyakov noticed that the face of the fairy lady beside the marshal was a little gloomy, and then he took a breath of air.
——Why didn’t I notice it before? In other words, why didn’t I connect these two points together before?
The goblin next to Marshal Gregory at this moment also has silver hair and red eyes like Eva Razgriz in the Marshal's story.
Belyakov quickly lowered his head, fearing that others would notice the strangeness on his face.
Fortunately, everyone is immersed in the Marshal's story at this moment.
Without noticing the change in Belyakov's expression, the marshal took a sip of water and continued: "After that, I told the political officer who came to confirm the results of the battle that I wounded the Red Baron and he made an emergency landing, so I also
We landed to look for him, but we didn't find his body or his body. We only got back the ankh.
"I used a little bit of thinking on the location of Richter's emergency landing. I chose a place where the enemy and our forces intersected, so that the search troops sent by the Confederacy would not have any problem finding the red plane - then
The enemy must have taken it away first.
"Because the Axis powers' propaganda against the Red Baron came to an abrupt end after that day, and he himself did not appear on the battlefield for a long time, my lies were accepted by the top brass of the Air Force as facts."
The marshal paused here, turned his head and glanced around the auditorium.
"Everyone, I know it's very late now. Don't worry, this story will be over soon."