Yakov was shocked: "The Germans developed a new type of aircraft and bombed Marshal Konev's original headquarters? Misha, is this true? Are you kidding me?"
"How could I joke with you about such a thing?" When Sokov said this, he couldn't help but secretly lament that the communication methods of this era are too backward. If it were future generations, I am afraid he would have made a video and sent it to Yakov:
"It's a pity that I can't show you the photos of the aircraft taken by the scouts now..."
"Misha, what did you say?" Yakov suddenly interrupted Sokov's words: "You said you have photos of the aircraft there, is that true?"
"Of course it's true," Sokov replied: "My scouts took a full roll of photos near the aircraft. Most of the photos are very clear and can clearly see the overall structure of the aircraft..."
Before Sokov could finish speaking, Yakov suddenly interrupted him: "Misha, what you said is very important. I want to report it to Comrade Ustinov immediately. If you have anything to do, we will talk about it next time
." After saying that, he hung up the phone without giving Sokov any chance to react.
Sokov was dumbfounded as he held the phone with a blind tone. He didn't expect that before he had finished speaking, Yakov would just get out of the way. He wanted to ask him for help in getting a batch of anti-aircraft guns. Now it seems that there is a high probability.
There is no hope.
Seeing Sokov holding the microphone in a daze, Smirnov asked with concern: "Comrade Commander, what did Colonel Yakov say?"
Sokov put down the phone and said to Smirnov with a wry smile: "He hung up the phone before I even said my request. It seems that it is not easy to get anti-aircraft guns from him."
An easy thing.”
"Comrade Commander, although we do not have enough anti-aircraft guns, we cannot intercept flying aircraft." Ponedelin said to Sokov: "But we can think of other ways to deal with German aircraft."
"What can be done?" Sokov asked.
"Send more small units to the enemy." Ponejelin said: "Let each small unit carry new rockets. Once the launch location of the German aircraft is discovered, use the new rockets to attack in time to knock the enemy out.
destroy the aircraft before takeoff, thereby preventing our military from being attacked by an irresistible force."
"Lieutenant Colonel Ponejelin, I am already doing this." Sokov said: "After we received the new rockets sent by our superiors, we have dispatched six small units, and they are currently moving towards the Uman area.
, If everything goes well, we may reach the designated reconnaissance location before dark tomorrow."
"Comrade Commander, I have an idea." Smirnov interrupted: "I have an idea. We can try to use new rockets to attack aircraft flying in the air. If we are lucky, we should be able to shoot down some of them."
Faced with such a ridiculous idea put forward by Smirnov, Sokov thought that this thing was not a stinger for future generations, and could attack aircraft from the ground, so he shook his head and said: "Comrade Chief of Staff, the power of the new rocket is
The accuracy is not very high, and there will be a lot of deviation when hitting fixed targets. If it is used to hit moving targets like aircraft, it is simply a waste."
Sokov's words were very clear. It was impossible to hit an aircraft with new rockets. Smirnov laughed dryly twice and changed the subject in time.
In the evening, Sokov was reading the reports of each division. Just halfway through, he heard the phone ringing on the table. He raised his hand and saw that the phone was relatively close to Smirnov, so he did not reach out.
Go to that phone number.
Smirnov grabbed the microphone, put it to his ear and said: "I am Chief of Staff Smirnov, where are you?"
"Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff." The person on the other end of the phone said respectfully: "This is the airport, and there is a colonel from Moscow. He said he is an acquaintance of Comrade Commander, and he has something urgent to see Comrade Commander."
"Comrade Commander," Smirnov quickly covered the phone with his hand and lowered his voice and said to Sokov: "The call from the airport said there was a colonel from Moscow who said he was your old friend and would see you immediately.
.Have you met him?"
When he learned that there was a colonel from Moscow who wanted to see him, Sokov couldn't help but be stunned, thinking who it could be, who dared to see him at this time? He quickly asked Smirnov: "Chief of Staff
, ask the comrades at the airport, what is the name of the colonel from Moscow?"
"Yakov, Colonel Yakov!" the airport commander reported to Smirnov: "He said he was from the Weapons and Equipment Department in Moscow."
"Comrade Commander," Smirnov said excitedly when he heard this, without even having time to cover the microphone: "It's Colonel Yakov, he came from Moscow to find you."
When he learned that Yakov had arrived by plane quietly, Sokov was stunned at first, and then felt ecstatic in his heart. He could guess that Yakov's sudden appearance here must be related to the fact that he had a photo of the V1 missile in his hand.
Related. As long as the other party wants something from you, then asking him to support anti-aircraft artillery should not be a big problem.
He hurriedly said to Smirnov: "Comrade Chief of Staff, ask the airport to send someone to send Colonel Yakov over. Remember, his safety must be ensured on the way."
Smirnov knew that the journey from the airport to the headquarters was only five or six minutes, and the entire area was under the control of the 53rd Army, so there was no problem with safety, but he still stood up straight and answered: "Yes,
Comrade Commander, I will immediately notify the comrades at the airport to send Colonel Yakov over."
"Comrade Commander," Smirnov asked curiously while waiting for Yakov's arrival: "Tell me, why did Colonel Yakov come to us?"
"I think it has something to do with the new German aircraft. After all, we have first-hand information." Sokov had already figured out the real reason for Yakov's arrival. He said to Smirnov: "They
If you want to carry out research on German aircraft, you must come to us to understand the situation."
Ponedelin reacted quickly, and he heard some overtones from Sokov's words: "Comrade Commander, if Colonel Yakov wants to get those information, he should pay some price, such as solving a group of troops' urgent needs for us."
Anti-aircraft guns.”
"Lieutenant Colonel Ponedelin, you are right." Sokov agreed with Ponedelin's words: "Originally, when I called him a few hours ago, I was still thinking about how to persuade him. But.
Now the situation has become favorable to us, and he will take the initiative to propose an exchange condition before I even ask."
When Yakov walked into the headquarters, Sokov stood up and greeted him, opened his arms and gave him a warm hug, and then asked knowingly: "Yasha, why don't you just stay in the weapons and equipment department and go to the front line?"
What are you here for?"
"Misha, where are the photos of the aircraft you took?" Yakov did not bother to chat with Sokov, but went straight to the topic: "Hurry up and show it to me."
"Don't be anxious, Yasha." Sokov decided to whet the other person's appetite so that he could take the initiative in the following conversation: "It's dinner time now, and you're probably hungry too, so why not finish dinner?"
, let’s talk slowly.”
"Misha, how could I eat before I saw the photo." Yakov said to Sokov in a pleading tone: "Mr. Yu, we are collaborators. You design new weapons for us, and we will manufacture them."
The new weapons that came out will be handed over to your troops for use; Yu Zi, we are friends as close as brothers, and they are also my saviors..."
Seeing that Yakov spoke so sincerely, Sokov stopped talking in circles and asked Ponedelin to bring the photo and placed it in front of Yakov: "This is the photo taken by our scouts.
If there is anything you don't understand, just ask me. I will give you a satisfactory answer."
Yakov nodded, took the photo and browsed it carefully. During this period, he also took out a magnifying glass from his pocket and carefully examined some of the details in the photo.
He looked at it for twenty minutes before raising his head and asking Sokov: "Misha, are all the photos here?"
"Yes, they are all here." After Sokov finished speaking, he realized that his expression was not complete enough, and quickly added: "The first set of photos that were developed, I was reporting to Marshal Konev.
At that time, I had already given it to him. This is a new photo that I ordered someone to develop again later, and it is exactly the same as the set of photos that I handed in."
"This aircraft looks a bit like an airplane." Yakov stared at one of the photos and said, "But compared with a real airplane, there is no cockpit."
"I think this kind of aircraft is a new type of unmanned aircraft." Sokov said: "After taking off from the launch pad, they fly with fuel injected in advance."
"Misha," Yakov looked at the photos in his hand and asked with a frown, "Do you know the specific data of this aircraft?"
Sokov listened to Yakov asking himself, and couldn't help but start to silently recite the data of the V1 missile: "The missile weighs 2.2 tons, has a length of 7.6 meters, a diameter of 0.82 meters, a wingspan of 7.6 meters, and a flight speed of about 550 kilometers per hour.
meters, with a flight altitude of 2,000 meters, a range of 370 kilometers, and a warhead charge of 700 kilograms."
Although he knew the parameters of the missile very well, he still pretended to be ignorant, shook his head and said: "Yasha, to tell you the truth, in addition to knowing that the length of this aircraft is six to eight meters.
, the flight speed can reach 500 kilometers per hour, and the other contents are unknown."
"What, the flying speed of this aircraft actually reached 500 kilometers per hour?" Yakov was very doubtful about Sokov's statement: "Misha, who told you this data?
?”
"Who else could have told me? Of course we figured it out ourselves." At this point, Sokov looked at Smirnov opposite: "Comrade Chief of Staff, am I right?"
"Yes, yes, Comrade Commander, you are absolutely right." Smirnov said to Yakov with a smile: "Colonel Yakov, I calculated the flight speed."
Yakov's eyes shifted to Smirnov and asked with interest: "General Smirnov, I would like to ask, on what basis did you calculate the speed of the German aircraft?"
"It's very simple." Smirnov explained: "First of all, we need to figure out how far the German launch site is from the village; secondly, we know the take-off and landing times of the aircraft, so we can get the approximate flight speed.
data."
After hearing this, Yakov nodded and turned his gaze to Sokov: "Misha, how do you plan to deal with this kind of German aircraft?"
He really felt sleepy, so someone gave him a pillow. Sokov was thinking about when to raise the issue of anti-aircraft guns to Yakov. But now that he asked first, he took the opportunity to express his true thoughts: "I plan to
A large number of anti-aircraft guns are deployed in the defense zone, and when the German aircraft fly over our heads, we can use anti-aircraft guns to shoot them down."
"We are completely sure." Sokov said confidently: "Regardless of the flying speed of the aircraft, it can almost catch up with our common aircraft. But it has a fatal weakness. From the beginning of launch, it can only follow a fixed route.
Flying. Our anti-aircraft artillery only needs to set the lead and implement blocking fire to shoot it down."
"It makes sense." As a former artilleryman, Yakov naturally understands the principle of setting advance lead. After agreeing with Sokov, he continued to ask: "How many air defense positions have you deployed currently?"
Sokov did not answer the other party's question, but glanced at Smirnov on the opposite side. Smirnov, who understood the situation, quickly said: "Comrade Colonel, we would like to deploy a few more anti-aircraft guns in the defense area."
Position. But it doesn’t work!”
"why not?"
"Because we don't have enough anti-aircraft guns." Smirnov said with a wry smile: "The commander called you a few hours ago, just to ask you to support us with a group of anti-aircraft guns."
"Misha, is this all true?"
"Of course it's true." After Sokov said this, he suddenly remembered that he had mentioned the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, and asked Yakov: "Yasha, I remember that at the beginning of last year, I submitted a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun to you.
How about the design drawings? Have you produced the finished product so far?”
"Not yet." Yakov smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Currently, the Weapons and Equipment Department's discussions on this kind of equipment are basically going on every day."
"Yasha, if it doesn't involve a confidentiality agreement, can you tell me what's going on?"
"An engineer believes that we have shot down 60% of invading enemy aircraft using 25 to 37 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns on the battlefield, so we plan to develop a 37 mm twin anti-aircraft gun."
"No, you must not design it as a 37mm anti-aircraft gun." Sokov remembered clearly that in 1945, the Soviet army developed the ZSU-37mm self-propelled artillery based on the su-76M self-propelled artillery body, but
Since this kind of self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is only a 37mm anti-aircraft gun installed on an armored vehicle, and it has only been equipped for 75 years in 1948, he quickly stopped and said loudly: "You and I both know that small-caliber anti-aircraft guns may be effective against propeller-driven aircraft.
, but it seems a little powerless to deal with jet aircraft that are getting faster and faster."
Considering that Sokov had designed weapons for the Weapons and Equipment Department many times, Yakov chose to believe what the other party said. After a pause, he asked: "Misha, tell me, what kind of weapons should we produce?"