September 17, 1939, 5:00 a.m. The airfields of the German Air Force near the front lines blazed with lights. Aircraft after aircraft were being refueled and loaded with ammunition under the assistance of ground crews.
There was still one hour until Germany formally declared war on Buru. Yet the German Air Force had received orders to take off at 5:30. In other words, the moment Emperor Qin Tian of the Empire declared war on Buru, their bombs would begin falling upon Russian airfields.
This time, the German Air Force would commit a vast number of aircraft to attack thirty key airfields in western Buru. They would destroy more than three thousand Buru Air Force aircraft stationed at those airfields. If this operation succeeded, it would deal the Bolshevik Air Force a crushing blow. The entire western sky of Buru would fall under German Air Force control.
Seizing air superiority had always been the first crucial step in launching a Blitzkrieg. Once successful, it would allow Germany's Armored Forces to race forward like a gale with air support and crush Buru's ground troops.
"Quick! Quick, move faster! We don't have much time!" a major urged.
In this wave of attacks, all German Air Force units stationed near the front would be deployed. All aircraft from four air groups, along with all medium bombers from four strategic groups, would take part. A total of 1,440 fighter planes, 480 dive bombers, 480 ground attack aircraft, and 960 H-01 medium bombers would be dispatched.
Bomb after bomb was mounted beneath the aircraft. To strengthen their ground-attack capability, even the fighter planes had bombs hung beneath their wings. If they encountered interception by the Bolshevik Air Force after entering Buru airspace, these aircraft would jettison their bombs, shoot down the Bolshevik Air Force planes, and