Vladivostok, also known as the Chinese, is the capital of the Russian coastal Krai, the end of the Siberian Railway, and is the famous port city along the Russian Pacific coast and the largest city in the Russian Far East. During the First Russo-Japanese War between 1904 and 1905, the initial construction of Vladivostok Fortress played an important role, preventing the Japanese from occupying Vladivostok. From 1910 to 1916, General A-P-Fernande of Engineers proposed a new fortress design plan, and Major General A-P-Shaosin, Commander of the Vladivostok Fortress Engineers, was extremely supportive of this. In the following years, Fortress No. 1-7 was built on the southern bank of the Suifen River Basin from Ussurisk (Shuangchengzi) to Amursky Gulf.

Fortresses a, e, zh and z, built fortresses No. 9-12 and coastal fortresses, and a series of infrastructure such as counter-landing and topped passages on the south and east coasts of Russia. The new fortress absorbed all the achievements of military engineering technology at that time, including many well-set bunkers and underground passages. In the 1930s, the Soviet army established a new coastal defense system in and around Vladivostok, including a solid coastal fortress No. 981 built on the Russian island, equipped with 180mm and 305mm coastal artillery, which also includes many 203, 305 and 356mm railway guns. This extremely strong coastal defense system destroyed the possibility of the enemy capturing Vladivostok from the sea.

In the early morning of July 29, 1942, a long-lost air strike sirens sounded from Vladivostok. Under the early warning of the radar station, the Soviet Air Force stationed in the surrounding areas quickly dispatched more than 400 fighter jets to launch, and the Japanese aircraft group that appeared in the sight of the Soviet pilots was quite large. In fact, not only the Soviet pilots were surprised by this, but even the Japanese pilots themselves were surprised. They had never formed a large aircraft group with more than 800 fighter jets before this. Whether it was the two wars of aggression against China or the combat operations that swept across Southeast Asia and Australia, the 100-machine bombing was enough to destroy the opponent's defense line, shock the opponent's spirit, and weaken the opponent's morale. During the battle between the two sides of the war, the joint fleet dispatched more than 400 fighter jets in a wave of attacks, setting a combat record for the Japanese army.

Bombers accounted for 60% of the more than 800 Japanese fighter jets flying from Hokkaido Island and Honshu Island, and they were twin-engine or four-engine bombers until 1939 that the combined medium- and long-range bombers of the Japanese Army and Navy reached this number. In the following three years, hundreds of new fighters entered the Japanese army's service, and the appearance of Zero Land Offensive and Zero fighter jets increased the technical and tactical capabilities of the Japanese aviation forces to a new level.

The fighter jets that were responsible for the escort mission for the Japanese bomber group consist of three models: Type 97, Type Zero and Type I. According to the technical standards of European and American troops, the first two models are light fighters. The Type I fighter jets that were officially put into service in 1941 are heavy fighters. The design idea is similar to the main fighter jets of the German army during World War II, that is, they pursue speed, range, firepower and survivability, and can be competent for reconnaissance, patrol, interception, front-line bombing and other roles. Although the paper data of these heavy fighters is very good

Their dazzling shape and outline are also powerful enough, and they are a good player to bully the weak. However, with the development of aviation technology, they have become increasingly difficult to adapt to large-scale and high-intensity air combat. The Luftwaffe, who has a deep understanding of this, began to eliminate the once powerful Folk G-51 in the late World War II, and instead equipped the improved model of the Me-50, which was equipped with the Me-50 in large quantities. By 1942, the Germans, who had always been the first in the military aviation field, had already begun to install jet fighters.

Of course, the technical and tactical equipment of the Soviet army is not as good as Germany, which dominates the world. The fighter jets they equipped are mainly i-15 and i-16. The former is equivalent to the level of the air force of the Western Allied Powers in the early 1930s, while the latter barely reaches the level of the mid-1930s and is difficult to compete with the strongest zero fighter of the Japanese army. Therefore, over Vladivostok, Japanese bomber pilots, who were strongly covered by their own fighter jets, quickly rushed to the land-based radar stations deployed along the coastline of the Soviet army and the military airports around the port. During the bombing that lasted nearly an hour, the Japanese aircraft group dropped more than 500 tons of bombs. Two of the five radar stations in the Soviet army in Vladivostok were completely destroyed, one was destroyed, and only two could barely maintain operation. Three military airports and six field airports were all attacked, and more than 150 fighter jets were lost to the ground...

Just over three hours after the first round of violent air strikes, the Japanese fleet once again attacked with a overwhelming force. Under the bright sunshine, clouds were shining with dazzling white light. Above these clouds like islands in the air, a large group of twin-engine bombers with sunrise logos on the wings and fuselages were flying northward in an unprecedented dense queue. Above them, those relatively small single-engine fighters formed multiple combat formations. Through the sliding porthole, the pilots wearing leather flying hats could be clearly seen wearing oxygen masks. Although they could not see their expressions, they all had a sense of coldness and ferocity in their eyes.

The ears were filled with the roar of the engine, so that the black dots in the distance appeared almost silently and flew in quickly. After the first round of air strikes, the joint combat command of the Japanese Army and Navy Aviation Forces judged that the Soviet-Russian air force in the Vladivostok region had been severely weakened, and thus the escort force of the second round of air strikes was correspondingly reduced. This decision to carelessly underestimate the enemy was quickly punished severely...

A large number of Soviet fighter jets were found to intercept, and the Type 97 and Type 0 flying at high altitudes were decisively attacked. The fierce air battle started from 8,000 meters to medium and low altitudes of about 1,000 meters. If we went further down, the dense artillery fire rising from the harbor and the coast would be shot down one by one regardless of the enemy and us!

"Attention! Attention! A team of enemy planes came to the right! Each squadron maintains a dense formation! A dense formation defense!"

On a Japanese pilot bomber, the Japanese assistant in a flight jacket was wearing a buzz cut. He was not old, but there were many wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. When he issued combat instructions to the crew via radio, the technical officer at the head of the aircraft, who was both bomb dropping and machine guns, was frowning and manipulating the 7.7mm machine gun, so that the center of the sight could always be aimed at the black spots that were approaching quickly; at the back of the cabin, the machine gunners responsible for the defense of the belly and back of the aircraft were also opened and ready to open fire at any time, and an extremely tense atmosphere quietly filled every corner of the narrow cabin.

"They are here! Come here! Hell! These are actually Folk G-51s! Did the Germans join the war?"

The voices of the captains came from the communication channel. As bomber pilots, they were far less chic than fighter pilots. In this era, the anti-aircraft artillery fire from the ground was still very limited, so what the members of the bomber crew were most reluctant to see was the enemy fighters that were approaching quickly, especially the Fokker G-51, which was equipped with 20mm machine guns and 13mm large-caliber machine guns. When they opened fire, bullets hit like raindrops. They could easily penetrate the light but not strong aluminum skin, taking the lives of machine gunners and bomb droppers. As for the pilots with steel plates installed around the seats, although the chance of being killed directly was smaller, the flammable and explosive engines still made them worried.

In fact, the Germans were not directly involved in this distant war. They simply sold the Fokker G-51, which had been in the warehouse for several years, to the Soviet government at a discount, in exchange for their gold reserves and high-quality fur and wood. For Soviet pilots, it is not easy to master the operation of German fighter jets, once they are skillfully used, they can exert a stronger combat power than the current Soviet fighter jets.

"They were on my right side, separated... One of them opened fire at me! Oops! Oops! My machine was injured, requested support, request support!"

Hearing panic-like shouts from his headphones, the Japanese assistant in charge of commanding the air formation tightly, tearing his throat and shouting to the microphone: "Don't panic, everyone keep the formation, keep the formation! Remind your machine gunners, don't hurt your own people by chance!"

The huge bomber formation has long been shrouded in the roar of hundreds of machine guns and machine guns. Looking around, almost every bomber gun is firing, and a long list of bullets are flying in sight. However, few of the Soviet fighters with the advantages of speed and maneuver are shot down. They often come from close range after a big turn, and then quickly enter another big turn after a short shot of two or three seconds, so that the opponent's bullets are always chasing from the rear. Occasionally, those who are hit by 7.7 mm bullets can continue to fight as long as they are not injured.

Although they had received repeated warnings from their superiors before they set out, the Japanese pilots seemed to be not very adaptable to the huge and dense super-large formation. Under the repeated impact of Soviet fighters, some 97-seven explosions gradually left the large formation because they avoided shooting. For Soviet fighter pilots who played the role of hungry wolf, their weak defenses were easier to hunt than those targets in those formations, so that two or three fighters often rushed towards the same bomber. The next scene was like a group of hunting dogs biting the antelope that fell off...

The smoke from machine gun bullets began to be filled with gun smoke. The Japanese officers who served as aviation commander looked at the companions outside the porthole who were dragging long black smoke to the ground, and opened their mouths and couldn't speak. Fortunately, several Japanese fighters who had escaped from the entanglement of Soviet fighters came back in time. After the Battle of Halaha River, Soviet pilots usually adopted a tactical strategy of taking one strike when facing Japanese fighters with better air combat performance than their own, which made Japanese fighter pilots crazy.
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