Just after dawn, Briskey was sleeping in the command post when he was woken up by an officer under his command. Seeing Briskey open his eyes, the officer said out of breath: "Comrade Battalion Commander,
Come and see!"
Briski asked in confusion: "What happened? The Germans attacked?"
"No, comrade battalion commander, it's not an enemy attack." The officer shook his head and said, "It's an annihilation battalion."
"Anihilator Battalion?!" Brisky became more and more confused: "What happened to the Annihilator Battalion?"
"I can't tell for a while," the officer replied, "Comrade battalion commander, you'd better come and see for yourself."
Briski followed the officer out of the command post and came to the trench. He saw from a distance tens of meters ahead of him hundreds of fighters from the annihilation battalion in civilian clothes. "What the hell is going on? They ran here."
What are you doing here?" Briski climbed out of the trench and walked forward while muttering in a low voice: "Are we going to launch an attack on the Germans? But why didn't anyone notify me of such a big event?
?”
When Briski approached the soldiers of the annihilation battalion, he vaguely heard someone at the front of the queue saying loudly: "...You will lie down in these craters later. When you see the enemy plane appearing, you will immediately raise your gun and take aim. When you hear the whistle
After the sound is heard, immediately use the fastest speed to shoot out all the bullets in your guns. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" the soldiers replied in unison.
"What is going on?" Briskey turned to ask the officer following behind him: "Do you know what is going on?"
"I don't know," the officer shook his head and replied: "I saw the soldiers of the annihilation battalion, led by Major Bolshak, suddenly came here. I felt it was necessary to report to you, so I sent you
Wake up."
When he learned that Bolshak was also here, Brisky remembered that the voice that just spoke was very familiar and should belong to Bolshak, and he quickly continued walking forward.
When the soldiers of the annihilation battalion lay down in the bomb crater one after another, Bolshack, who was still standing next to the bomb crater, stood out. Briskey walked towards him quickly, and at the same time shouted: "Major Bolshack"
, Major Bolshack.”
When Bolshak saw Brischi walking towards him, he hurriedly greeted him, stretched out his hand to him, and asked politely: "Hello, Comrade Captain! What's the matter?"
Briski pointed at the soldiers lying in the crater and asked in confusion: "Comrade Major, what are they doing?"
"It's like this," Bolschak explained to Briski when he saw that he didn't know anything about it: "The German prisoners you captured confessed that their bomber group will bomb our place early this morning."
Lieutenant Colonel Cove considered that the air defense force was insufficient, so he came up with this method of using infantry to fight aircraft."
"What, using infantry to masturbate a plane?!" Brisky's jaw almost hit the ground when he heard what Bolshak said: "Crazy, Comrade Brigade Commander must be crazy, otherwise how could he come up with such a ridiculous idea?
Method."
Regarding Briski's statement, Borschak did not agree. He shrugged his shoulders and said: "No matter what, we have to try. Maybe we can really shoot down the German plane."
After scanning the bomb craters where the soldiers lay one by one, Briskey said with an expression of embarrassment: "Major, have you ever thought about what would happen if a German plane dropped a few bombs towards where the soldiers were?
How many casualties have we caused?"
"Comrade Captain, you don't have to worry about this." When Sokov first proposed this plan, Bolshak was indeed worried. However, after on-site inspection, he felt that what Sokov said was somewhat reasonable, so he
Briski said: "Soldiers stay in bomb craters. Even if they are bombed by enemy planes, their casualties can be minimized."
"When they stayed in the bomb crater, they could only see their comrades around them. They couldn't help but see the soldiers in other bomb craters." Briskey's views at this time coincided with Bolschak's thoughts at the time.
: "I want to ask, how can they fire at the enemy aircraft at the same time?"
"This question is also very simple." Borschak pointed not far away and continued: "The four anti-aircraft guns of the Women's Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion are located not far away. Once the conditions for firing are met, they will pass
The whistle signaled the soldiers hiding in the craters to open fire."
After Bolshak said this, Briskey discovered that a new anti-aircraft position was built not far away, and four anti-aircraft guns were lined up in a neat row behind the sandbags that had just been set up. Seeing this, Briskey
Knowing that he could think of problems, Sokov should have thought of solutions, so he did not continue to ask questions. After chatting with Bolshak for a few words, he turned and returned to his command post.
More than half an hour later, there was a faint roar of engines in the air. Briskey's first thought was "The enemy plane is coming!" He quickly walked out of the command post, stood in the trench, raised his telescope and looked at the sound.
Looking from the direction it came from, I saw four German dive bombers flying towards the location of the factory from the west.
"The enemy has four bombers." After Briski saw the number of enemy planes clearly, his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up. He thought to himself: "The only four anti-aircraft guns left in the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion and one company in the annihilation battalion.
Can it deal with enemy planes?"
When the enemy plane lowered its flight altitude and prepared to drop bombs towards the factory, four anti-aircraft guns on the ground fired at the same time. The soldiers hiding in the bomb crater heard the whistle blown by Ulanova and immediately fired towards the German plane.
The trigger was pulled.
If the German bombers were jet aircraft, the infantry-focused firefighting tactics formulated by Sokov would definitely be ineffective. However, in this era, the speed of aircraft is relatively slow, and rifle shooting is undoubtedly very effective.
.Amidst the intensive gunfire and cannon fire, a black smoke ribbon suddenly appeared from under the wings of a diving aircraft. Then the aircraft lost its balance and fell diagonally towards the north. Soon, this
A plane landed outside the factory and exploded, sending up a plume of black smoke.
"That's great, that's great." Briski suddenly became excited when he saw that an enemy plane had been shot down. He quickly picked up the phone and reported to Sokov who was staying in the basement: "Comrade Brigade Commander,
Our infantry successfully shot down an enemy plane."
"Oh, an enemy plane was shot down by us?" Even though Sokov looked calm and composed when specifying the plan, he only had theoretical knowledge and had not practiced it, so whether he could shoot down the enemy plane was not a matter for him.
That said, it was still an unknown number. After listening to Briski's report, his heart that was hanging in mid-air finally returned to his stomach. However, to be on the safe side, he still asked: "Comrade Captain, have you seen clearly the enemy plane?"
Was it hit by an anti-aircraft gun or a rifle?"
Briski only saw one German bomber being shot down, but whether it was shot down by an anti-aircraft gun or a rifle, he really couldn't see clearly. So when he heard Sokov's question, he hesitated for a long time.
Then he replied in an uncertain tone: "Comrade Brigadier, I think it was hit by anti-aircraft guns and rifles at the same time."
Sokov was eager to know whether the enemy plane was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery or rifles, which would affect whether this tactic would be promoted in the team in the future. Therefore, after hearing Brisky's ambiguous reply, he said with some dissatisfaction: "Captain
Comrade, I want to hear the true report, not your speculation. Do you understand?"
"Comrade Captain, please continue to observe and see whether it was the anti-aircraft artillery or the infantry that shot down the enemy plane." Sokov told Briski: "If you have the latest battle report, remember to report it to me in time."