. "Is that the Russians Hadrian's Great Wall?"

When I saw photos taken from the air, General Von Longdestede's first impression was that he was looking down at the Great Wall of Scotland from the air, but in fact it was the southwest defense line managed by the Russians.

"General, that's much stronger than Hadrian's Wall, but we are not Scottish barbarians. The Russians probably thought that our Krupp 420mm siege cannons, Skoda 305mm siege cannons and 280mm heavy howitzers were all disposed of as waste products. Our powerful train cannons will let them see the most powerful ones!"

General Rondstead's staff officer Colonel von Leb can be regarded as an artillery expert. He served in the Bavarian artillery force in his early years and was admitted to the Artillery and Engineering School, and was trained in the Bavarian Military Academy. He served in the Bavarian Staff Headquarters, the Artillery Shooting School and the Field Artillery Force. He participated in the second phase of the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain and the combat operations of the invasion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but failed to go to North America to participate in the war against the United States.

"Those 16 train cannons are already in place!" Feng Longdestead refers to the two 420mm, 4 365mm and 10 280mm train cannons assigned to their 3rd Army. These cannons were developed before 1914. They have participated in a series of combat operations on the Western Front of the German Army and made some detailed modifications, such as increasing the range of the body tube, installing hydraulic buffering equipment to increase the rate of fire, etc. From the effects of previous tests and actual combat, they are very suitable for bombarding fortresses and solid defense lines.

"Yes, General, the ammunition is in place, and you can open fire when you enter the launch position!"

Colonel Von Loeb said as a staff officer hurriedly walked in from outside the tent.

"General, Your Majesty will read the edict to declare war on Russia at 12 o'clock!"

"Oh?" General Feng Longdestede took out his pocket watch, "It's 11:57 now! Turn on the radio!"

In a less conspicuous corner of the camp, a large wooden box radio was placed, which was not often used by the frontline staff. But today is an exception. Citizens in Germany were told that this was a very important decree, and the radio station in Warsaw would also send radio signals to nearby areas.

At this time, the German 3rd Army was deployed in the Vistula River Basin south of Warsaw, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the Russian border. Just when the commander issued an attack order, the more than 300,000 officers and soldiers of the army and more than 1,000 cannons will take action according to the plan.

The staff officer then adjusted the radio to the frequency of the notification above. At this time, the army march was heard from the radio. After a while, the music stopped, and the voice of Prime Minister Gustavnosk was heard from it. He emphasized that after His Majesty the Emperor of Germany would read the decree himself, the powerful voice of the Emperor of Germany came from the radio.

"My subjects of the German Empire, I tell you with a very heavy heart that the culprit of the Washington explosion in 1915 was not our long-standing enemy - the British Empire, but the Russians who had been hiding among us as allies before, and were the Russian Queen Diana I! What a cruel fact, but the blood allowed us to see the true face of the enemy! Just one day ago, we submitted an ultimatum to the Russian government, asking them to hand over the murderer, judge the murderer, and punish the murderer to make up for their mistakes. But unfortunately they refused, and they decided to shelter the murderer! We have no choice but to use the weapons in our hands to defend justice and dignity. We must use the enemy's blood to commemorate the deceased queen and all the German citizens of the explosion!"

"In view of the fact that all the ways to resolve this matter through peaceful means have expired, I now declare as the Emperor of the German Empire that from now on, the German Empire and the Russian Empire are in a state of war! Long live Germany! Long live German!"

Countless shouts resounded throughout Berlin, throughout Prussia, and throughout Germany. At this moment, the Germans stood together, regardless of party, faith, wealth, or wealth, or noble, and on the front line of avenging Germany and revenge for the queen. The power burst out under this situation is amazing!

One minute after the German Emperor read the declaration of war, all the troops in Germany received a clear telegram: Barbarossa!

The great Barbarossa operation begins!

At Koravo Airport in eastern Finland, after the broadcast ended, the entire airport was silent for several seconds.

Then the voice of the base commander came from the broadcast, and the word order was a bit chaotic, but it was very real:

"Young men, I don't know how to express my inner feelings at this time, no matter how much, for the queen we admire, for the dignity and honor of Germany, for His Majesty of the German Emperor, for German, for the motherland, for me, for those shameless, despicable, naughty, damn, I owe the Russians! Well, now, boys, attack!"

In the cockpits of fighter and attack aircraft, some were cheering, some were serious, some raised their clenched fists high, and some gave thumbs up at their partners.

"good luck!"

"good luck!"

The first to take off from this airport were 129 fighters from the 5th Fighter Wing of the Luftwaffe. The wing was commanded by Lt. Col. Manfred von Richthoven, the third ace pilot in the Luftwaffe. His record was 45 enemy aircraft, including 11 French fighters, 19 British fighters and 15 American fighters, behind 9 German ace pilots Max Immelmann who participated in the South American War. At this time, Immelmann and the 2nd Fighter Wing of his command were assigned to the southern line. This time, the German-Russian War will be a great opportunity for them to significantly improve their performance.

"It's really an era when the volunteers are rampant!" When he pulled up his Messerchmidt training, the baron muttered angrily. After hearing the previous declaration of war and the indignant words of the base commander, he was also very eager to beat the Russians, but the Russian fighter planes he was about to encounter next were likely Japanese. According to estimates from the German intelligence department, Russia has introduced about 300 various aircraft from Japan in the past three months, and many Japanese pilots have piloted fighters for the Russians in the name of the "volunteer army".

After hovering over the airport for more than ten laps, the Baron saw that the fighter planes of his wing had basically taken off, so he pressed the communicator at his throat, "All squadrons report on the situation!"

Immediately afterwards, the voices of the squadron leaders came from the communication headsets one by one:

"The first squadron has been assembled! It is flying at an altitude of 800 meters on the left wing of the formation!"

"The second squadron has been assembled! It is flying at an altitude of 500 meters on the left wing of the formation!"

"The third squadron has been assembled! It is flying at an altitude of 1,000 meters in the middle of the formation!"

"The Fourth Squadron has been assembled! It is flying at an altitude of 700 meters in the middle of the formation!"

"The Fifth Squadron is assembled!"

It seemed that only the last batch of fighter jets were still gathering, and the Baron pressed the throat communicator again: "The formation flew east at cruise speed! The Fifth Squadron caught up as quickly as possible!"

In the current Luftwaffe, because fighter jets and pilots are very abundant, the organization of each aviation force is usually full, and it is possible to expand over-organization due to actual needs during wartime. This situation is particularly common in huge bomber units. In terms of organization, a fighter wing is under the jurisdiction of three fighter brigades and nine fighter squadrons, each squadron has a total of 25 fighter jets, each squadron consisting of a twin-air formation and a three-air formation. The squad leader commands the three-air formation. In the entire wing, the wing leader personally commands an independent wing headquarters. Such a standard combat wing basically has about 230 fighter jets.

There are only five fighter squadrons in this formation of Baron Manfred von Richthoven, because the remaining 4 squadrons will take off as the second wave of aircraft in about 20-25 minutes, which can not only increase the sustainability of air combat, but also respond to emergencies at any time.

After a while, the 5th Baron Squadron was organized and joined the large formation. Not long after, another larger fleet appeared in their sight, the fighter jets and attack aircraft groups that took off from Karhura Airport. According to the scheduled plan, Manfred, the wing will be responsible for clearing obstacles in the air. The fleet behind will directly attack the Russian front-line airport.

From the ground, the scene of two large groups of aircraft flying at medium and low altitudes is extremely spectacular, and the elegant lines of the German fighter are breathtaking. The silver-white body reflects weak light in the sun, and attacks aircraft with a little clumsy appearance. The round bombs under the body are not a decoration. Based on practical experience in the German-US war, the German military has improved many weapons, and the pilots have reported that it is diving.

The 150 kilogram bomb carried by the type bomb is not powerful enough. After a series of tests and improvements, the aviation bomb of the land-based Vulture II attack aircraft was replaced by 250 kilograms under the belly plus 30 kilograms each of the two wings. The carrier-based Ju-ii canceled the small bomb under the wing and increased the one under the belly to 300 kilograms. The speed of the two dive bombers dropped by more than ten kilometers per hour when carrying bombs, but basically did not affect combat performance.

In this way, two huge aircraft flew quickly towards the Russian border, aiming directly at the Russian capital area.

From "Who is the murderer?" to Germany's ultimatum to declaration of war on Russia, although there were only three days during this period, the Germans launched the war this time with "complete procedures", and the Russians also used this extremely precious three days to prepare for the battle as much as possible. When the German Emperor read out the declaration of war, hundreds of thousands of Russian army troops successfully arrived at the "Sokolov Line" in the southwest, making the total number of Russian troops stationed in this area reach one million. If the reserve troops were added in Belarus and Ukraine urgently recruited, this number would increase.

The distance from Finland to the Russian capital region has always been a major concern for the Russian government.

Russia has accumulated a large number of troops on the Russian-Finn border for many years, a large number of fighter jets and Baltic fleets, in order to warn the Finns not to participate in German operations. However, the fact that the German Air Force and Baltic fleet entered the Finnish base gave the Russians no choice. When the war began, the Russian troops stationed on the Russian side of the Russian-Finn border reached nearly 400,000. As long as the Finns were eliminated from land, the German offensive on this side would be basically resolved.

Now, as soon as the German fighter fleet crossed the Russian border, the ground air defense fire of the Russian army began to roar, and the sound of artillery announced the beginning of the battle, but the Baron and his fighter aircraft ignored the Russian air defense artillery on the ground. He ordered the formation to fly in squadrons as units, and the scheduled mission remained unchanged - shoot down each take-off Russian fighter jet and cooperated with the attack aircraft behind to attack Russian front-line airports. After the German Emperor declared war, his fighter jets took off from the eastern Finland airport, which is very close to the Russian border. Now it is less than 1 o'clock, which means that there are only a few dozen minutes before the declaration of war. Manfred was a little curious about whether the Russian fighter jets would take off to fight, or whether most of them were destroyed at the airport before taking off. Soon, the black dots in the air ahead answered the Baron's question.

"All squadrons have paid attention! All squadrons have paid attention! Freely find targets behind enemy lines, pay attention to the cooperation between tactical formations, and the battle begins!" After giving the order, Manfred let go of the throat communicator, clasped the joystick with both hands, increased the accelerator, rushed towards the enemy with a burst of anger and a calm new man.

A large and thick "cloud" formed from the air, ready to devour those enemies who dare to fight head-on at any time.

Manfred's speculation did not completely deviate from the actual situation. As the distance gradually approached, he found that the opponent had less than 50 fighters, which meant that more fighters were still at the airport or were working hard to take off to meet the enemy. In this way, the 57 fighters in another German fleet could completely cover 122 attack aircraft to take advantage of the fierce battle between the fighters of both sides to cross the enemy's air interception line. They should have gained a lot at Russian airports.

At a distance of 500 meters, some of the German aircraft group Messerchmidt trained the first to fire with his 20mm cannon. Although this fighter is only equipped with a 20mm machine gun and only has 100 backup orders, just one shot hits the opponent's important part, which is enough to crash or withdraw from the battle. The 4 7.92mm machine guns on the wings can also make any aircraft that dares to approach within 400 yards.
Chapter completed!