After reading Andre's reply, Sokov couldn't help but frowned, thinking that the German artillery fire was so fierce that it was bound to cause huge casualties to the Third Battalion. It was a pity that the air force had not arrived yet, otherwise it would have given the German artillery a
Heavy damage.
Seeing Sokov's worried look, Belkin hurriedly asked: "Comrade Brigadier, is the situation in the Third Battalion very bad?" Before Sokov could answer, he continued, "Look,
Do we need to order Lieutenant Porochenko to fire artillery to suppress the German artillery fire?"
"No, the artillery cannot fight back." Sokov shook his head and said: "According to Andre's judgment, the German army used at least forty or fifty artillery pieces to bombard the third battalion's position. If we order the artillery at this time
If you open fire, not only will you not be able to suppress the enemy's artillery fire, but you will also suffer disaster."
"Then what should we do?" Belkin asked anxiously: "Are we just going to watch the commanders and fighters of the third battalion stay on the position and take enemy shells?"
Just when the two were at a loss what to do, the phone on the table suddenly rang. Belkin grabbed the phone, put it to his ear and said, "I am political commissar Belkin, where are you from?"
The excited voice of the observation post came from the receiver: "Comrade political commissar, plane, our plane, I saw our plane appearing in the sky."
"What did you say?" Belkin heard the observation post's excited and somewhat incoherent report. He was stunned for a moment, and then asked loudly: "Our plane appeared in the sky, right?"
"Yes, yes." The observation post said repeatedly: "There are three groups of four-plane bombers flying towards the east of the city. It seems that they are going to bomb the German artillery positions."
When Sokov and Belkin learned that the Air Force's bomber formation had arrived, they immediately went to the bell tower on the top of the church to observe the bombers' bombardment of the German artillery positions. In order not to affect the command, Sokov specifically ordered Maxim to fly
Picked up two phone lines to the bell tower.
Sokov saw from the telescope that this formation of Yak-4 bombers came to the sky above the German artillery position, and immediately lowered its altitude and began to drop bombs. Pieces of aerial bombs fell from the sky, landed on the artillery position, and exploded.
The German artillery was blown into parts, the artillerymen were blown to pieces, and the entire position was soon shrouded in smoke.
Some clever artillerymen, when they saw the Soviet bombers flying over, immediately dropped their artillery and ran away, trying to escape from this death zone. But the Soviet pilots were not willing to let them go easily. After they completed dropping the bombs, they pulled the fuselage
Gao, after circling in the air, swooped down again, strafing the fleeing German artillery with its onboard machine gun, frantically harvesting their lives.
When Sokov saw that the German artillery had stopped shelling the third battalion's position, he immediately picked up the phone and told Porochenko: "Comrade Lieutenant, let the artillery fire immediately, severely bombard the German artillery position, and smash their remaining cannons."
It’s going to be smashed to pieces.”
When the commanders and fighters of the third battalion heard that the shelling outside had stopped, they also walked back from the fortifications or bunkers where they were hiding. When they saw their bombers in the distance, bombarding the German artillery positions indiscriminately,
He couldn't help but take off the steel helmet on his head and wave it desperately at the plane in the sky. At the same time, the sound of "Ula" could be heard one after another on the battlefield.
Before the Soviet bombers could wipe out all the German artillery, German fighter jets appeared. Eight fighter jets formed a two-plane formation and pounced on the Soviet bombers that were bombing the artillery positions.
Facing the approaching German fighter jets, the Soviet bombers had to stop attacking ground targets and started fighting with the approaching enemy planes. Although the pilots performed bravely, the Yak-4 was no match for the BF-109.
, in just a few minutes, two Yak-4s were shot down and one was damaged.
"What the hell, what's going on?" Seeing the bomber being attacked by German fighter jets, Sokov couldn't help shouting: "Where did the German fighter jets come from? Where are our escort fighter jets?"
"
"Comrade Brigade Commander." Belkin was equally anxious when he saw this scene: "We should do something to help them."
"What can we do?" Sokov said helplessly: "Don't say we don't have anti-aircraft guns. Even if we have anti-aircraft guns, we can't hit the enemy's aircraft at such a long distance."
At the critical moment, four MiG-3 fighter jets appeared in the sky. After approaching the German fighter jets, they immediately disbanded the formation and each headed for their chosen target. Seeing these MiG-3 fighter jets,
They were fighting on their own, and Sokov, who could be considered a layman in air-to-air combat, couldn't help but frown slightly. He said to himself that the MiG fighters did not have an advantage in numbers, but they were still fighting on their own, instead of waiting to be attacked by the German fighters.
Defeat each one?
While he was thinking this, he saw black smoke coming out of a MiG fighter plane. It must have been hit by a German fighter plane. However, the pilot still fought tenaciously with the enemy plane in the air until the plane began to lose control.
It launched a collision with the enemy plane. The two planes collided in the air, causing a ball of fire. The flaming plane fragments scattered from the sky like a goddess scattering flowers. But fortunately, the Soviet pilot
He did not die, but successfully parachuted before the two planes collided.
Seeing the umbrella flower blooming in the sky, Sokov quickly grabbed the transmitter of the walkie-talkie and shouted into the microphone: "Captain Andrei, can you hear me, Captain Andrei?" Waiting for the sound to come out from the earphones.
After hearing Andre's voice, he immediately ordered, "Did you see the parachuting pilot? Send a small team to rescue him immediately. Don't let him fall into the hands of the Germans."
The Soviet MiG formation was commanded by Captain Krasnov, an ace pilot who received the Order of the Red Banner. Seeing that his men were shot down, the captain only frowned slightly, and then pushed the control stick forward to let his
The plane dived down. When it was only eight or nine hundred meters away from an enemy plane, he pulled back the control stick again and let the plane climb quickly. When it was close to only twenty or thirty meters away from the enemy plane, he decisively pulled the trigger.
The bullet penetrated the belly of the enemy plane, penetrated into the cockpit, and beat the pilot inside to a pulp. The enemy plane, which lost control of the pilot, spun in the air and fell, then exploded when it hit the ground.
A puff of black smoke with flames.
The blow worked, and Krasnov repeated his old trick. He lowered his altitude again and launched an attack from below the enemy plane. Using the German pilot's observation blind spot, he approached to a distance of twenty or thirty meters before firing, successfully knocking out another enemy plane.
An enemy plane was shot down.
In less than five minutes, Captain Krasnov successfully shot down four enemy planes and damaged two. His other two subordinates also achieved the success of shooting down one and damaging another.
Result of the battle. Seeing that the situation was not going well, the enemy plane quickly turned around and fled.
"That's great, our pilot is so great." Seeing the enemy plane escape, Belgin said excitedly to Sokov: "We should report to the front headquarters and ask for credit for this brave pilot!
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After the Soviet MiG formation drove away the enemy aircraft, it continued to perform patrol missions in the air to cover the Yak bomber formation's bombing mission against German ground targets.