The night before Victory Day, colorful flags were hung at Lar Airport.
Mishayevich spent a day painting Valkyrie 1 silver white, and spent another night painting the wolf head.
The pilots of the Fourth Group and the people from the Army Hospital stationed at the airport held a small farewell party for Eva and me.
Everything seems to be going well.
But on the morning of Victory Day, the airport headquarters received an order directly from the Air Force Headquarters of the Western Continent Theater, requiring all aircraft in the entire airport that could be used for air combat to take off immediately and rush to Minsk.
So the takeoff of Valkyrie 1 was postponed until all fighter planes had taken off, and the fighter unit that escorted us when we took off was changed from "the first group to take off" to "the last Yak group to take off from the airport."
Pugaqiaofu’s comment on this change was: “This is the inevitable fate of bait and cannon fodder.”
When he said this, there was a smell of alcohol coming out of his mouth. The ancient fighter plane that he had worked so hard to repair was used as bait. This fact seemed to be a big blow to the military industry lieutenant general.
Eva and I just laughed at this - in fact, I was more worried about the situation near Minsk. If such an order was suddenly issued, something must have happened.
I watched the planes of my comrades passing in front of me one after another, and the urge to join them in taking off into the air became stronger and stronger.
Finally, all the hangars in the entire airport became empty.
I walked into the cockpit of Valkyrie One, and Eva was already waiting for me inside.
Although Eva and I have been familiar with the situation in the Valkyrie's cockpit a few days ago, I still can't get used to the excessively wide cockpit - this cabin is actually wide enough to have room for a luggage rack.
All the baby's clothes can be put in, including the simple accordion that Eva snatched from Tonya!
What I also find hard to get used to is the side-by-side seats. I always feel like Eva is watching me drive, which makes me a little embarrassed.
Eva looked very happy. She sat on her seat more than once in the past two days and looked at me from the side as I was getting familiar with the position of the joystick and rudder. She said with a smile on her face: "This time I can finally see Grisha fly the plane."
It’s time to show your face.”
I sat down in the seat, pulled up the seat belt, and started the Valkyrie's power system.
Valkyrie is different from Jacques. It is a fully rune-powered body. Because it uses some kind of lost technology that researchers like Pugabhov and others are still unable to figure out the mechanism of, the fully rune-powered Valkyrie
The burden on the fairies is much lower than that of Jacques, who is powered by the rune-piston hybrid, and can even fly long distances solely relying on rune power.
I was originally worried about whether Eva could withstand the mental pressure caused by Valkyrie's rune system, but when I started the experiment for the first time, Eva didn't even notice that I had activated this guy's power system.
One can only lament that the technological power of the ancient Fairy Empire was truly unfathomable.
After confirming that everything was normal in my new car, I saluted the technicians and ground staff surrounding the cockpit door, and then pulled the button to close the cockpit.
I controlled the fighter plane to slowly slide out of the hangar and slide along the asphalt road to the concrete-paved runway.
At this moment, a sharp air defense siren sounded over the airport.
I raised my head and saw several black figures swooping towards the airport from the west.
The anti-aircraft guns around the runway spit out tongues of fire into the sky, and soon black flowers of death filled the sky above my head.
The Stuka made a shrill scream and walked through the black flowers blooming from the shells. They did not rush towards me, but locked onto the runway I was about to use!….
The blue trajectory slid over my head and plunged into the black flowers that filled the sky. The moment it crossed with the Stuka formation, an enemy plane dragged thick smoke and crashed into the hill next to the runway. That
An enemy plane crashed directly into the anti-aircraft artillery position on the hill. The bombs dropped in time and the plane's fuel caused a fiery red mushroom cloud to rise from the top of the hill.
The ammunition depot of the anti-aircraft artillery position may have been ignited. Explosions came one after another from the position, and from time to time something would drag a shining tail flame into the sky.
The other enemy planes dropped their ammunition smoothly, and clouds of dust rose up from both sides of the runway in front of me - this wave of enemy planes did not hit the target.
Suddenly an unknown voice sounded in my headphones.
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, please take off immediately! There are enemy planes behind you! A large number of enemy planes! Please also evacuate the wounded soldiers from the airport immediately. The enemy's brigade is coming!"
The sound was interrupted by an explosion, leaving only noisy electromagnetic noise in the headphones.
Eva and I looked at each other, and the next moment I pushed Valkyrie's power valve forward.
My plane started to accelerate. In just a few seconds, it was speeding down the runway. At the same time, countless enemy planes appeared in the sky to the west of the airport. I also saw an aerial vehicle.
Battleship.
It seems that my bait is quite attractive to the enemy!
I continued to taxi on the runway. The Valkyrie was much more powerful than the Jacques and was accordingly much heavier. According to Pugabhov's prediction, it could only gain sufficient ground speed by taxiing to the end of the airport runway.
I raised my head and glanced at the enemy aircraft group getting closer and closer above my head, thinking whether I could reach the end would only depend on luck.
Unfortunately, Eva and I have never been very lucky.
When we were taxiing to the middle of the runway, a Messerster suddenly pulled up from behind a grove of trees next to the runway, turned a small corner and came towards me.
I gently moved the control stick, and the Valkyrie's nose jumped up and then fell back to the ground. At this moment, the 20mm cannon installed on the belly of the aircraft fired a string of small fireballs, one of which penetrated into the belly of the enemy aircraft.
, beating it into the air, while our Valkyrie passed through the falling enemy aircraft fragments.
"Grisha, you looked so handsome when you shot down the enemy plane!"
Even though our car is currently running at such a terrifying speed relying on rune power, Eva is still bouncing around as usual. This once again makes me awed by the technology of the ancient Fairy Empire.
The relaxed atmosphere in the cockpit only lasted less than a second, and then an overwhelming rain of bombs fell all around us. The mud splashed by the explosion covered the glass of our cockpit with a thin veil again and again, and was pushed back behind us again and again.
The rushing wind rolled back with it.
Finally, I saw the end of the runway!
Suddenly, someone in the sky above me seemed to hold a camera and press the shutter, and a fleeting flash illuminated my cockpit.
As soon as I raised my head, the huge shadow of the Axis air battleship passed over my head.
Two pillars of dust nearly ten meters high rose up on the track in front of me, impacting cement blocks the size of adult horses and flying over my head.
The flash just now was the main gun salvo of the air battleship! The runway was damaged!
When I realized this, Valkyrie had already rushed into the smoke and dust of the explosion, and my mind immediately pictured Valkyrie's wheels falling into the newly added hole on the track, and Eva and I were both killed in the naked body.
scene on a cement block.
But this didn't happen.
When I rushed out of the dust cloud, I felt the joystick in my hand was light and fluttery. Every time my hand holding the joystick swayed, Valkyrie would respond gently.
We're off the ground!
I jerked the joystick, and the Valkyrie jumped into the sky. In just a moment, we rushed to the top of the Axis Powers' large fleet...
"We need to cover the airport and evacuate the wounded!" I took the time to say to Eva beside me.
"knew!"
I pushed the control stick, quickly grabbed a Stuka that was about to dive, and used the eight machine guns installed on the wings to shoot it into a honeycomb.
Valkyrie's performance is so good that compared to it, Jacques is like a flightless ostrich. Its speed is so fast that you don't have to worry about being bitten on the tail, because no one can catch up with it. It
It is so dexterous that it can freely shuttle through the fire net woven by an aviation battleship and two aviation cruisers.
Soon the enemy's formation was completely broken up. The Stuka, which had not dropped the bomb, did not even dive. Instead, it dropped the bomb in a horizontal position and then turned around and fled.
If I hadn't reserved ammunition for the enemy's defense line that would later break through the Arctic Ocean, I would have shot them all down.
The three Axis air battleships left over the airport by fighter planes were like abandoned orphans. They poured useless artillery fire at me while retreating towards their own front.
People on the ground who had just been hit by enemy artillery fire and were running around now ran out of their shelters, waving their fists and shouting loudly at the escaping enemy ships.
I drove my Valkyrie over the airport, and everyone threw their hats up and cheered for me.
After circling the airport a few times, I pulled up the nose of the plane and flew towards the polar sea.
But my headphones started ringing.
An old voice said in the earphone: "Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Grigory Chernyshevsky, and Air Force Second Lieutenant Eva Razgryz. I am Air Marshal Yereomenko. The following is the Supreme Commander of the Confederacy.
You talk."
Eva and I looked at each other again.
The voice I had heard many times on the radio came from the headphones.
"I am the Supreme Commander of the Confederacy, Gregory, Eva. Your two military ranks will be promoted immediately. Now I order you to temporarily suspend your original mission and fly to Minsk to snipe the enemy troops who are concentrating their assault on Minsk.
Air fleet!"
Just as the commander's voice disappeared, Yeremenko's voice appeared again: "You all heard it, the supreme commander is calling you."
Without hesitation, I swung the joystick in my hand and flew towards Minsk.
Still far away from Minsk, I could see the fire and smoke of the battle in the air.
After my Valkyrie swooped into the battlefield, someone immediately shouted in the messy communication sound in the earphones: "The White Wolf is coming! The White Wolf is coming to support our area!"
Before the aftertaste of the shouting faded, I shot down a Messerster, and the words in the earphones changed to: "The White Wolf is driving a new monster-like aircraft to support us!"
My skills coupled with the performance of the Valkyrie, this was simply a one-sided massacre. Soon the entire airspace was cleared by me again. The few remaining Yak and La 5 quickly gathered around me. I slowed down to cooperate.
following their formation.
"How is the situation?" I asked the lead aircraft nearest me via the radio.
"It's terrible. The enemies are out in force. Only a few of us are left in my brigade. If you don't come, we will all be wiped out!" I heard what he had just shouted, "White Wolf is driving a monster."
"New aircraft are coming to support us." The voice turned out to be the captain, "Our enemy here is just a small force intercepting the Il-2 returning to reload. The situation in the main breakthrough direction is even worse. The enemy fleet should
We have broken through our last interception area and are heading towards the center of Minsk."
"City center? The target for a bombing of this scale is usually an industrial area?"
"I'm not sure what's going on, but it is said that the Victory Day military parade is being held on the Red Square in the city center..."...
Military parade? At this juncture?
The surprise was only for a moment, and then I realized that this was undoubtedly a powerful medicine for the Confederate army with low morale throughout the Western Continent.
I suddenly thought of the long forest of spears next to the train when I left Kiev. At that time, all I could do for the soldiers and civilians who defended Kiev was singing war hymns. But now that I have perhaps the strongest wings in the world, I can do a lot for Minsk.
There must be a lot to do.
"Minsk will not become the second Kiev." Eva, who had been silent until now, suddenly said this. In addition to me, her voice also reached the ears of several other pilots through the radio, "We will win.
"
The girl's voice was calm and soft, sounding like she was looking back on the past that had become a fact.
The headphones were quiet for a while, and several voices answered at the same time:
"Ah, we will win."
"The white wolf can kill them all by himself!"
"I'm not happy with the lack of them. To drive White Wolf, that thing you're sitting on must have a lot of kills?"
After a short period of noise, there was silence in the headphones again.
Seconds later, I said goodbye to these brave pilots.
"I'm going to snipe the enemy, please take care."
After saying that, I pushed the power valve forward a large amount and accelerated towards Minsk.
Suddenly, the original voice sounded in the earphones again: "Hey, Bai Lang, when will your thing be able to produce energy?"
"Soon." I could only lie.
"marvelous."
Then, with only a few soldiers left, the captain and his heroic troops were left far behind.
I soon arrived in the airspace near the outskirts of Minsk, and I was immediately shocked by the scale of the air battle going on here. I was really shocked.
Later I learned that on this day, both sides dispatched more than 2,000 fighter planes to exchange fire in this airspace.
I have never seen such a large-scale air battle, I have never seen so many planes fighting in the same airspace, and I have never seen the sky so colorful with thick smoke and explosions.
And I have never seen a super air fleet with eight sky battleships at the same time.
The Nazi fleet, including eight air battleships, had a total of fourteen ships, and hundreds of artillery pieces formed a terrifying fire net that enveloped the entire battle airspace.
I entered this airspace, and the density of enemy planes had reached the point where I could bite one every time I turned a corner or shook the fuselage. What made me even more incredible was that the situation in the air at this moment was so extreme.
It was chaotic, and it seemed that neither the enemy nor we were aware of my arrival.
After adding thirty more victories to herself, Eva patted me on the shoulder and shouted to me: "Watch the ammo, Grisha!"
So for the next ten minutes or so, I waited until the distance between myself and the target was shortened to within fifty meters before firing, to ensure that I would shoot down the enemy plane with as little ammunition as possible.
However, I soon discovered that my aerial massacre was of no benefit to the entire battle.
Because there are no planes or rockets in the sky at this moment, no one can threaten the enemy's huge fleet.
The enemy fleet is advancing towards the city of Minsk at a slow but determined speed.
"Grisha! Look at that enemy ship at the front! It has a handsome flag painted on its wings!"
I flew around the enemy ship Eva mentioned, and its name caught my eye: Bismarck.
Isn't this the largest and most advanced air battleship of the Axis powers recorded in the air battleship identification manual handed down by Confederate pilots?
Its 381mm main gun is a powerful weapon that can project a 1.2-ton shell to a distance of 20 kilometers!
As the distance from the city center gradually shortens, the houses under the shadow of this giant ship become denser and denser. If it breaks into the ancient moat circle of Minsk, this behemoth can cause tens of thousands of injuries even if it hits the ground directly.
Military and civilian casualties….
I heard someone asking anxiously in the headphones: "Is IL-2 not back yet?"
Suddenly, all the noise was drowned out by a voice.
"Now, the Supreme Commander of the Confederacy will deliver a Victory Day speech to everyone at the Red Flag Square in Minsk!"
As soon as the voice of the man who seemed to be the master of ceremonies fell, the voice that had just given Eva and me the order to come to Minsk to participate in the war sounded in the headphones.
There was no common opening remarks, no lengthy greetings and greetings. The voice said straight to the point: "I think many people know that I was born in Minsk. Minsk is my hometown, and I will never tolerate my hometown.
Occupied by the evil enemy. So last night my headquarters and I moved to this city that is about to encounter the enemy's iron heel. We will stick here, and we will advance and retreat together with the brave soldiers and civilians guarding this city!
"
Suddenly, long tongues of flame shot out from the Bismarck's hull, and its main gun fired!
Almost at the same time, the muffled sound of an explosion and the exclamations of the crowd came from my headphones, but the voice of the supreme commander remained as calm as before: "If you are captured by the enemy, I will not be spared. If you die heroically, I will
I will also generously go to hell with you!"
That battleship must be destroyed!
The moment I thought about ramming the huge battleship with Valkyrie itself, the entire cockpit was enveloped in a faint blue light.
Above the instrument panel in front of me, which was artificially installed on the original material of the machine body, a certain three-dimensional image gradually appeared. Runes that I couldn't understand were connected from end to end in a line, surrounding a translucent blue ball.
's spinning.
"Eva, what have you done?"
"I didn't do anything! I just..." Eva's words were suddenly interrupted. She slowly raised her arms and took off her flying hat and headphones, "Someone... was talking to me..."
I took the time to glance at Eva's face, and I found that there was a strange light shining in her red eyes. The light made me feel like a blue flame beating gently.
I have long felt that Eva's ability when activating the rune system is decisively different from that of ordinary fairies. I guess she must have activated some unknown part of this ancient aircraft.
"Grisha!" After being stunned for a few seconds, Eva suddenly said to me excitedly, "We have weapons that can deal with Bismarck! This kid is equipped with a 'single-shot heavy rune cannon'!"
I glanced at Eva again to make sure she wasn't joking and then said loudly to her: "Then use it!"
"But there is only one shot! Moreover, the energy group shot out is very slow and has a high diffusion rate. This kid suggested that we use it at a distance of fifty meters!"
What did the kid suggest? But I quickly put the question behind me.
"Then what are we waiting for?" After saying these words, I tilted the control stick and dived towards the giant ship.
The enemy gunner immediately spotted me and greeted me with a heavy hail of bullets.
I passed through the enemy's fire and quickly approached the Bismarck.
The Supreme Commander's speech continued in my ears, but I had no time to listen.
While dodging, I noticed that the channel of Minsk's ancient moat was already in front of me.
Three Messersters braved their own crazy artillery fire to attack me. They started shooting from a long distance in an attempt to block the air attack that I had dodged. Then four Yaks dived down from higher in the sky and attacked me.
The enemy planes that were strafing me swung the whip of death. As the two enemy planes burst into flames and fell to the ground, a Yak also hit the enemy ship's gunfire and exploded into pieces.
The Bismarck's hull has expanded into a wall, which firmly sealed the entire sky in front of me...
A stray bullet penetrated the glass above my head and bounced back and forth several times in the large cockpit, making a ping-ping-pong-pong sound.
"Now!"
I don’t know how Eva activated the single-shot heavy rune cannon. Anyway, a ball of blue energy slowly emerged from under us and floated all the way towards the enemy ship.
I just watched that ball of energy melting away the thick armor of the enemy ship, eating away at the interior bit by bit, and leaving behind a huge red wound. The molten iron came out of it like real blood.
A steady stream of water flowed out of the wound, fell into the air and scattered.
The Valkyrie roared past the "bleeding" Bismarck.
The light came from behind and illuminated everything in front of us.
Eva and I turned back together and saw the tongues of fire rising from the back of the giant ship that was so arrogant just now. It rushed downwards slowly and crashed into the water of the ancient moat. The waves it stirred up were even higher than the shore.
The building on the side.
The next moment our entire field of vision turned orange, and the shock wave caused the joystick in my hand to fly out. The thumb of my right hand was so painful that for a moment I thought it was broken.
A huge mushroom cloud that could be seen clearly from ten kilometers away rose from the ground.
There was sudden silence in the earphones, and even the supreme leader's speech came to an abrupt end.
I later learned that the supreme leader on the Red Square auditorium was staring at the mushroom cloud rising from the sky like everyone else in the square. Then he tore off his secretary in front of tens of thousands of people.
The speech prepared by the bureau for him.
"Just now!" the leader's voice came again, "over Minsk! Not far from the parade ground! Our heroic pilots destroyed the giant air battleship that is the pride of the Axis Powers! The light of the explosion illuminated
The entire Minsk! That light heralds the defeat of the enemy! That is the light of victory! Let us pay tribute to the heroic pilots! Ula!"
The deafening sound of urrah came through the earphones.
And now in the sky, a miraculous scene came.
I have no idea what exactly has changed, but in short, in my eyes at this moment, the atmosphere of the battlefield has been completely reversed. Just now, it felt extremely harsh, and the terrible battle situation suddenly became as bright as the midsummer sunshine.
There were no shortage of Axis fighter planes, and the Axis warships were still spraying dense fire nets, but I always felt that the entire battlefield had completely changed.
I changed Valkyrie's course and attacked the Axis fleet that was still advancing towards the city center.
The enemy's formation actually started to get messy! Those powerful battleships guarded by countless artillery and heavy armor actually tilted their bulky bodies to avoid my little white fighter!
Two Axis cruisers crashed into each other in a panic!
"New flash! Our pilots have achieved another victory! Hurrah!" The supreme leader now became the master of ceremonies of this air battle, and his voice flew towards the huge country through the radio!
My left hand on the power valve was suddenly covered by another warm palm, and Eva pushed the power valve to the top by herself.
"Look! That's the car of Air Force hero White Wolf! He's as fast as lightning! It's like he's in an uninhabited land! The enemy can't even see where he is!"
Although the words of the supreme leader in the earphones are getting more and more passionate, I know that the crisis has not been resolved yet. If the enemy finds out that Valkyrie has no more shells...
I saw an escaping battleship that had noticed something strange and was slowly trying to redirect its course toward the center of Minsk.
It exploded.
Orange-red flowers bloomed on its armor one after another. They were not cannonballs from fighter planes, nor rockets. Only the cannonballs from an air battleship could land on the upper armor of another air battleship...
Three ship shadows broke into the combat airspace from the north. From a distance, I could see the purple-blue light of the floating mechanism on the outside of their decks - they were sailing at super speed!
The outline of the leading battleship is very familiar to me.
"The Varyag air battleship is here to help!" A calm and old voice temporarily replaced the words of the supreme leader of the Confederacy, "Sorry, we are late."
Immediately after completing reloading, the Il 2 Battalion also appeared in the air one after another.
Three more Axis warships crashed to the ground, and the remaining enemy ships fled away with their tails between their legs under the escort of fighter planes.
"Victory!" A high-pitched call came from the earphones. The sixty-year-old man who had been seen countless times in portraits and always had a serious expression shouted like a young boy and shouted to the whole country on the radio.
"Victory! Salute to the heroic Air Force! Hurrah!"
At this time, the whole of Minsk was filled with black heads of people.
The streets that were empty just now were crowded with people looking up to the sky, and every window of every building was full of eyes looking at the sky.
Many young people climbed onto the roof of the building. They took off their clothes and waved them desperately in their hands, even going shirtless in the cold October wind.
I set Valkyrie's speed to the slowest, lowered the altitude, and flew close to the eaves of Minsk.
People either threw everything they could get into the air, or held radios high and cheered loudly at us.
When passing a small bell tower, I saw a young man climbing up to the steeple of the bell tower regardless of the danger. With one hand, he held the steeple and put on the cross. With the other hand, he raised a makeshift red flag made of bamboo poles and red cloth toward me.
.
My Valkyrie and this red flag, as well as this brave young man, were captured by an unknown war reporter. This photo was published separately on the front page of the Red Flag Daily, with a simple text accompanying the picture.
Two words: victory.
"Today, we defeated them in the air! Tomorrow, we will defeat them on the ground! In the near future, we will defeat them everywhere! Hurrah!"
The cheers that shook the entire city resounded through the sky. No matter how pessimistic a person is, they will be full of confidence in victory when they hear these cheers, because this sound contains the boiling blood of this city, this country, and all the people of this country!
"Now, let us welcome the heroic air force soldiers to take the lead in passing through Red Square!"
As soon as the leader finished speaking, Marshal Yereomenko's voice intervened: "Gregory, you come first!"
"clear."
I flew around the city for another half circle before aiming at the main street that ran across the city and led directly to the Red Flag Square.
The huge square was crowded with troops participating in the review, and the Confederate flag fluttered in the wind from the highest point of the entire square.
The passionate music of "Goodbye Slavic Women" echoed over the square.
When passing through the square, I carefully kept my height below the Confederate flag, and with my right hand free, I saluted the viewing platform and the flag flying above the viewing platform.
At this time, I suddenly discovered that there was no sweat at all on my joystick, the palms of my right and left hands, my forehead, my neck and collar.
And what's even more strange is that I didn't even have any doubts about whether the sweat had dried up.
I am extremely convinced that I will never sweat while fighting again.
I don't know where this certainty comes from.
I don't even know what made me get rid of this long-standing problem.
Is it Natalia’s unrestrained smile, or Aksinya’s calm face that hides sadness?
Is it the stab of bullets heading towards Kiev, or the back of the young man walking towards his hometown town occupied by the Nazis?…
Is it the words spoken by the blond one-armed girl holding her chest, or is it the delicate ankh thrown across the sky by the respectable red opponent?
Is it the passionate speech of the supreme leader that has been lingering in my ears during the battle just now, or is it the deafening sound of Ura that shakes the world at this moment?
Or is it the huge power of Valkyrie and the familiar breathing of Eva next to her?
I don't know, and I don't need to know.
"Okay, Colonel Gregory, continue to execute Operation Dubird."
The marshal's voice came again, and after a brief reply, I quickly flew away from the still boiling city.
Neither Eva nor I looked back at it even once, because we both knew that it would not fall and would become the graveyard of Nazi ambitions.
This is also true.
On Victory Day, 200,000 people registered to join the militia at various recruitment stations in Minsk, and on the same day, one million young people of school age across the country volunteered to join the army.
In the following month, the Minsk City Defense Command recruited a total of 1.5 million militiamen, accounting for 70% of the city's registered adult males. More than two million volunteer workers joined the labor camps and dug trenches around the city.
and anti-tank trenches, all of them were old men and women.
In addition, on the fifth day after the Victory Day military parade, something happened that made me extremely proud.
On this day, my father led the 1st Siberian Infantry Division, which was composed entirely of tundra people, to land in Tula, the port closest to Minsk. Under the eyes of enemy planes, they crossed the entire polar sea ice field on a sled and became the first
A fully organized division-level unit arrived in the Western Continent.
In mid-November, a cold wave hit, and the Axis powers, which lacked cold-proof equipment, could no longer move forward.
In mid-December, the Great Rift opened, and the Confederate reserve front troops surged through the space rift across the Western Continent, driving the Axis forces from near Minsk back to the place where they started in August of that year.
The millions of troops of the Axis powers were so stunned that they did not even see the moat of Minsk.