More than an hour later, Bezikov returned to the headquarters, accompanied by an air force lieutenant colonel.
"Comrade Commander," Bezikov came to Sokov and reported to him: "This is the commander of the Air Force, he wants to see you."
The air force lieutenant colonel took two steps forward, raised his hand to salute Sokov, and then reported: "Hello, comrade general, I am Lieutenant Colonel Denis, deputy commander of the 245th Fighter Aviation Division, and I am Marshal Hudyakov, commander of the Fenghuang Army.
I came here to assist you in your battle according to the order.”
"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Denis." Sokov reached out and held the other person's hand, and said excitedly: "With your help, we will no longer be afraid of the Kwantung Army's aircraft."
"Comrade General," Denis said, "the only ones arriving with me so far are some dispatchers and ground staff responsible for directing the takeoff and landing of aircraft. They are currently installing communication equipment at the airport so that when a large number of planes arrive tomorrow, they can complete the
Orderly landing."
"I wonder when your plane will arrive?" Yakov couldn't help but ask.
Lieutenant Colonel Denis didn't know Yakov. He couldn't help but frowned after hearing this, thinking whether he should answer the other party's question.
Sokov saw his doubts and quickly introduced him: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I forgot to introduce you. This is my chief of staff, Major General Yakov."
"Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff." Denis raised his hand to salute the other party, and then said: "The transfer plane will arrive at around seven o'clock tomorrow morning."
Knowing that the Air Force aircraft formation will arrive at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, Yakov's face showed a relaxed expression: "The Germans bombed the camp of one of our divisions tonight, and tomorrow we can come back in revenge and bomb them."
's airport.”
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Denis asked: "Comrade Chief of Staff, do you know where the enemy's airport is?"
These words stopped Yakov from asking. He only knew that the camp of the 116th Division was under attack. As for where the enemy planes came from, he was blind and knew nothing.
Fortunately, Sokov came to his rescue in time: "I'm sorry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we really don't know the location of the enemy's airport. You know, the cunning enemy launched an air attack on our troops' campsite when it was almost dark. Completed
After the air raid, they flew away to the south under the cover of darkness. Because it was getting late, we couldn't see exactly where they were flying to, and naturally we didn't know the location of their airport."
Seeing that Sokov and the others had no idea about the location of the enemy's airport, Denis couldn't help but sigh secretly, but in order not to spoil everyone's interest, he pretended to be generous and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know. We'll wait until tomorrow."
Once the reconnaissance plane arrives, it will soon be able to figure out the location of the enemy's airport."
The next morning, among the first thirty planes to arrive, there was a reconnaissance plane. Denis quickly ordered the pilot to fly south to find the location of the enemy airport.
After receiving Denis's order, the pilot did not dare to neglect. After asking the ground crew to fill up the plane with fuel, he immediately took off and flew south to find the location of the Kwantung Army's airport.
About thirty minutes later, a reconnaissance plane appeared over the airport.
Seeing the long black smoke strips coming out from under the wings of the plane, Denis secretly screamed, and quickly called Sokov to ask for help: "Comrade General, the reconnaissance plane we sent has returned, but it must have been attacked.
When the Kwantung Army's ground anti-aircraft fire hit, the pilot may have been injured, please send me some medical staff."
"Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the medical staff will be here soon." After Sokov put down the phone, he said to Yakov: "Yasha, the reconnaissance plane sent by Lieutenant Colonel Denis has returned, but the pilot was in the process of reconnaissance.
The pilot was hit by ground anti-aircraft fire and the pilot may have been injured, so you immediately sent medical staff over to treat the wounded."
"Okay, I'll make a call right now."
Just when Yakov picked up the phone and was about to call the field hospital, Sokov raised his hand to stop him: "Forget it, Yasha, I'll take the medical staff there myself. By the way, I can also find out what the pilots are looking at."
Something has arrived."
Ten minutes later, Sokov's bucket truck and an ambulance arrived at the airport at the same time.
Before the ambulance could stop, a ground crew rushed out from the runway and waved at the ambulance: "Here, here!"
The ambulance drove to a stop in front of the ground crew, and the door at the back opened. Two medical staff carried a stretcher and a medical kit and got out of the car, running towards where the injured person was lying.
Sokov saw Lieutenant Colonel Denis standing outside the crowd at a glance. He quickly ordered the driver to stop the car, opened the door and got out of the car, and walked quickly towards Denis.
Seeing Sokov coming, Denis raised his hand and saluted: "Hello, Comrade General!"
Sokov raised his hand to his forehead in return, and then asked: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, how is the pilot's injury?"
"It's not good, Comrade General." Denis shook his head and said: "During the reconnaissance process, he was hit by ground anti-aircraft fire. He had three gunshot wounds on his left leg. It is estimated that he cannot save it. There was also one on his abdomen and chest.
He suffered a gunshot wound and the situation is very dangerous.”
Sokov glanced at the medical staff who were rescuing the wounded, and continued to ask Denis: "Is there anything gained?"
"More than thirty kilometers away from here, he found an airport, but after careful inspection, he found that it turned out to be a fake airport." Denis said: "There are piles of straw near the ground runway. If the height is not lowered,
, I thought there was a hangar down there.”
But Sokov didn't think so after hearing this. He remembered reading a book before, which said that in order to confuse the British Air Force, the Germans deliberately built a fake airport with wooden planes parked on both sides of the runway. Because of the fake
The workmanship of the aircraft was poor, and the pilots could tell at a glance that it was a false target, so they never bothered to bomb here. However, once when the bomber formation was on a mission, one of the aircraft malfunctioned and had to return midway. In order to return to its own side smoothly
When the pilot passed by this fake airport, he dropped the bombs he carried on the wooden planes on the ground. But what happened next shocked him. The wooden planes exploded one by one, and black clouds flew up.
Mushroom clouds, emotions, and other fake airplanes all contain airplane fuel.
After thinking of this incident, Sokov asked Denis: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I wonder if your pilots have ever attacked those straw piles?"
Denis looked at Sokov in confusion and said: "Comrade General, what are those haystacks worth attacking?"
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you can't say that." Seeing Denis' disapproving look, Sokov said sternly to him: "I think there might be something wrong with the straw piles near the runway. If possible,
I suggest you send a plane to attack, maybe there will be an unexpected surprise."
After listening to Sokov's words, Denis couldn't help but sneer in his heart, thinking that although you are a general, after all, you are an infantryman and not an air force. How do you know which targets are worth attacking and which are not? Let the pilots attack a few straw piles.
Isn't that a waste of ammunition?
Sokov noticed Denis's disdain, but he was not angry. Instead, he continued to insist on his opinion: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, although I do not have the right to directly give you an attack order, I do think those haystacks are suspicious.
I suggest you send a plane to have a look. Even if it’s really a straw pile, it’s just a waste of bullets and it won’t have much impact on you. Are you right what I said?”
The official level is overwhelming. Although Denis does not agree with Sokov's statement at all, considering that before he came here, the commander Marshal Hudyakov once told him that he must do a good job of unity with the infantry. Therefore.
Even though he had no affiliation with Sokov, the other party's military rank was always higher than his own. Since he ordered him to attack, he sent two fighter planes out to see if anything was gained.
"Comrade General," Denis said politely to Sokov, "please follow me to the dispatch room, where we can learn in time what the pilots saw."
Sokov originally wanted to know where the Kwantung Army's airport was as soon as possible. Faced with Denis's invitation, he agreed without hesitation: "Okay, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, then I will go to the dispatch room with you and take a look.
." However, before leaving, he also specifically told two medical staff, "This pilot's injury is not serious. You should send him to the army field hospital immediately. Tell the director that it was me who said that the wounded must be taken to hospital.
Save."
"Don't worry, Comrade Commander, we will send the wounded to the field hospital immediately."
The pilots and ground crew who were watching all around cast a grateful look at Sokov after hearing the order he gave to the medical staff.
Sokov followed Denis to the dispatch room, and Denis immediately arranged for two fighter planes to take off and head towards the fake airport discovered by the reconnaissance plane.
After seeing the two fighters taking off one after another, Denis smiled and said to Sokov: "Comrade General, our plane will reach its destination in five minutes at most, and then we will be able to figure out where the Kwantung Army is in the straw pile.
Hidden something." When he said this, he was still thinking about how you would step down when the fighter pilot reported that nothing special was found after attacking the straw pile.
"Tower, tower." Although the control room that directs aircraft takeoffs and landings is just a bungalow, fighter pilots still habitually call it the tower: "We have found the target, we have found the target. Please give instructions whether to launch an attack!"
After hearing the pilot's call, Denis glanced at Sokov, then picked up the microphone on the table: "The attack is allowed! Repeat, the attack is allowed!"
Soon, Sokov heard the sound of airborne machine gun fire from the radio. The next moment, he heard the pilot exclaim: "Oh my god, there are actually Kwantung Army fighter planes hidden in the straw pile."
"What?" Denis was stunned after hearing this, and then asked: "What did you say, repeat it again?"
"Report to Comrade Deputy Division Commander." The pilot reported loudly: "There is an enemy plane hidden in the haystack I just attacked. I am now raising the altitude and preparing to attack the target again with my wingman."
Hearing what the pilot said, Denis realized that the problem was different from what he imagined, and quickly asked: "Tell me quickly, how many straw piles are there?"
"There are more than twenty. That is to say, if there is an airplane hidden in every straw pile, then there are more than twenty airplanes at this airport."
The fighter pilot carried out two more attacks on ground targets in the shortest possible time. However, since the fighter was not a bomber and did not carry aerial bombs, he could only rely on the onboard machine gun to fire and destroy the enemy planes hidden in the straw piles.
.
And Denis also thought about this. He knew very well that it was obviously inappropriate to rely on the fighter's onboard machine gun to annihilate all the enemy planes at the airport. He quickly issued a combat alert to the pilots who were preparing for the battle, so that the two
A four-plane bomber and a four-plane fighter quickly rushed to the Kwantung Army's airport, preparing to cooperate with the two fighters there to destroy all targets on the ground.
Those straw piles were where the little devils parked their planes. They piled straw on the simple wooden house. From the air, they looked like piles of straw and would not attract attention at all. But they never dreamed that they would encounter them.
Monsters like Sokov directly ordered aircraft to straf these straw piles, causing the aircraft parked inside to be destroyed.
How could the little devil be willing to become a lamb to be slaughtered? Their ground crew rushed out from their hiding place, lifted the straw blocking the hangar door, opened the door, and pushed out the aircraft parked inside. After the pilot sat in the cockpit,
Immediately turn the propeller hard so that your plane can take off quickly.
The two fighter planes that were the first to attack the ground, after several rounds of attacks, only destroyed five or six Japanese planes. But those planes pushed out from the hangar braved the strafing fire from aerial fighters, quickly took off, and fought with
Fighters fight each other.
The little Japanese pilot's technical and tactical level was relatively high, and he quickly shot down a Soviet fighter plane. Seeing the Soviet pilot parachuting, a group of Japanese soldiers immediately ran towards the direction of the pilot's parachuting, carrying 38-shaped covers, preparing to parachute.
Take prisoners.
When the remaining fighter saw a large group of Japs heading towards the direction where its wingman pilot was parachuting, he quickly swooped down from a high altitude and strafed the ground. Unfortunately, the fighter was designed for air combat, and the effect of attacking ground targets was
After a round of strafing, only four or five Japs were defeated, and the remaining Japs still rushed towards the direction where the pilots parachuted.
Before the pilot could pull up the plane, a Zero fighter jet rushed over from the side. The aircraft's machine guns were firing loudly, and the wings on one side of the fighter plane were suddenly covered with bullet holes. The next moment, the pilot felt that the plane was out of control and that at any time
There is a risk of crashing.
Fortunately, at this time, he saw three four-machine formations heading towards him in the distance, and his mood suddenly became relaxed. With the help of friendly forces, he could safely escape from the battlefield and return to the airport.