Captain Rudel, who was the first to lead a team to bomb the assembly workshop, has completed the bombing mission and returned to the airport with his formation. Otherwise, he would definitely use the weapons on the Stuka bomber to have a fight with the Yak-1 driven by the girls.
Fierce showdown.
When Sokov learned that he had only four fighter jets, he could no longer sit still. He believed that no matter how brave the Soviet pilots were, if they had to deal with enemy planes that were more than ten times more than his own, they would still be sniping an egg against a stone. He asked Zinchenko
After waiting for someone to say hello, he hurriedly left the basement.
Coincidentally, as soon as Sokov came out of the basement, he saw a plane in the sky like a kite with a broken string, dragging black smoke and rolling towards the distance. Seeing this, Sokov
My heart tightened, I thought it was a Soviet plane that had been shot down, but after a closer look, I saw it was a German Stuka JU87 dive bomber, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
This enemy plane was shot down by Raisa. When she saw Lilia's first victory, she was still a little jealous, so she bit the enemy plane that had escaped her attack. After entering the effective attack range, she attacked the enemy again.
The plane opened fire. This time she was lucky and successfully shot down the enemy plane.
The German fighter jets that were providing cover for the bombers in the air saw that two of their own bombers were shot down by the Soviet fighter planes that had just arrived, so they immediately flew over and tried to shoot down the troublesome Soviet fighter planes. One of the fighter pilots was named El
Weinmeyer, although he only has the rank of corporal and is not very young, but since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, he has already achieved record results for eleven Soviet aircraft, and can be called the youngest ace pilot in the German Air Force.
Meyer locked onto Lilia's crew and pounced directly on him without asking his wingmen to cooperate with him. Since Meyer had set a record of shooting down three Soviet fighter planes in one day a few days ago, his whole body was somewhat swollen, making him
The pilots of the squadron were dissatisfied with him. Seeing him rushing towards the Soviet fighter planes single-handedly, the wingman pilot couldn't help but sneered, thinking that he wanted to be a hero again, so he did not follow him closely, but
It was rushing towards Raisa's crew.
Meyer's chosen attack target was the wingman piloted by Katya. According to his idea, the technical and tactical level of the wingman is usually not as good as that of the lead aircraft. Once the wingman is killed, the lead aircraft will be unable to survive alone, and he will have to kill the lead aircraft himself.
It would be much easier.
He had just locked onto the plane piloted by Katya, and before he could fire, he saw Lilia shooting down another bomber. Seeing that the object of his protection was shot down by Lilia, Meyer became a little red-eyed, and he quickly changed his mind and gave up.
With the intention of attacking Katya, he rushed directly towards Lilia's plane.
Before he could enter the attack position, he was discovered by Katya. Seeing a German fighter plane rushing towards Lilia, Katya quickly shouted on the radio: "Lilia, there is an enemy plane rushing towards you at six o'clock.
, be careful." After shouting, she pushed the control stick decisively and followed Meyer's plane away.
Lilia received Katya's warning and immediately made a right turn in the air, rushing towards the two bombers that were diving to drop bombs. Meyer, who was following behind, put his hand on the firing button several times, but did not wait.
After opening fire, Lilia used various tactical moves to get rid of him.
Seeing the German fighter jets chasing Lilia closely, Katya felt very anxious. She chased after her desperately and opened fire on Meyer's plane.
Meyer had been unable to attack Lilia, and he was already a little annoyed. Now when he saw a Soviet fighter plane behind him actually firing at him, blood suddenly rushed to his head. He felt that if he didn't kill the enemy plane behind him, he might not be able to do it.
Concentrate on shooting down the enemy plane you are chasing.
In this way, Meyer first quickly pulled the plane up and did a back flip in the air. Katya did not expect that Meyer would use such a tactic, and rushed to the front. After Meyer completed the somersault, he quickly
Leveling the plane, Katya's plane was firmly locked.
The 20mm cannon drilled more than a dozen holes in Katya's plane in an instant. Katya suddenly felt that her plane had lost control and was teetering on the ground, so she quickly shouted through the radio: "
I got shot, I got shot.”
Lilia heard Katya's shouting and saw puffs of black smoke coming out of the tail part of her plane. The fuselage was descending rapidly and she quickly shouted over the radio: "Katya, jump quickly, jump quickly."
She was deeply afraid of Katya's hesitation, so she emphasized: "The following is our defense zone. If you jump down, someone will help you."
Katya originally wanted to try to make an emergency landing in a spacious place, but found that the rudder had completely failed and heard Lilia's shout, so she reluctantly opened the hatch of the plane and jumped out.
Sokov, who was on the ground, first saw one of his own fighter jets being shot down, and then a parachute opened in the air. He knew that his own pilot had parachuted, and he quickly called a sergeant and ordered loudly: "Come on
Comrade Shi, please take a few people to rescue our pilot."
Ten minutes later, the sergeant brought back Katya, who had successfully parachuted. He was somewhat surprised and reported to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, we have rescued the pilot. But she...she is a woman.
"
"Female?!" Sokov couldn't help being surprised when he learned that the person who had just parachuted was a female pilot. He quickly asked the sergeant to bring Katya in front of him. After carefully looking at her, he confirmed that it was true.
It was a female pilot, so she asked curiously: "Comrade pilot, can you tell me which part you are in?"
Faced with Sokov's question, Katya asked warily: "Which part are you from?"
"I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, commander of the 73rd Infantry Brigade." Seeing that Katya was suspicious of him, Sokov took the initiative to identify himself and asked again: "Which flight group are you from?
"
"My family is Katya." After Katya confirmed Sokov's identity, she answered truthfully: "We are the women's flying squadron that just joined the 437th Flying Regiment."
"Women's flying squadron?" Sokov couldn't help but blurt out when he heard what Katya said: "Is there a female pilot named Lilia who is also with you?"
When Katya heard Sokov mention Lilia, she couldn't help showing a surprised expression on her face: "Comrade Commander, how do you know Lilia?"
"I also heard what people said." Sokov's old face turned red and he replied: "I once heard that there were female pilots from three flying regiments who achieved good results when fighting the enemy. One of them
The female pilot named Lilia once shot down many enemy planes."
Sokov thought his lie was flawless, but after hearing this, Katya showed a puzzled expression on her face: "Lilia is my leader, and I have been cooperating with her for a long time, but before today,
I have never heard of her shooting down an enemy plane. Comrade Commander, are you mistaken?"
Katya's words gave Sokov a step up, and he quickly followed suit and said: "That's right, Comrade Katya, maybe I made a mistake and recorded the battle results of other female pilots as Lilia's."
Katya is a very simple girl, and Sokov's lies that were full of loopholes actually deceived her. She looked up at the sky and said to herself: "My wingman was shot down by an enemy plane.
Lilia is left alone, can she deal with so many enemy planes? It's all my fault, my skills are so poor, I didn't even shoot down a single enemy plane, and I was shot down by the enemy."
Sokov looked at the ongoing air battle in the sky and quickly said to Katya: "Katya, there is our health worker in the basement. I will send you over to check to see if you are injured."
Katya shook her head and said resolutely: "I'm fine, I won't go. I want to stay here and watch Lilia fight with German planes."
"Okay, Katya, since you don't want to go to the basement, just stay here." Considering that the location he is now in is considered a relatively safe place, Sokov agreed to Katya staying, but he
I still specifically warned: "But for your safety, you can't run around. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, I won't be responsible."
Sokov held up his binoculars and looked at Lilia's fighter plane. He saw the fighter plane driven by this girl flexibly shuttled among the enemy bombers. While getting rid of the German fighter planes pursuing behind, it also shot at the enemy bombers from time to time.
Launched an attack. In just five minutes, two more German bombers were shot down.
Seeing the German fighter jets chasing behind Lilia, Sokov's heart was in his throat. He kept thinking: Can Lilia get rid of the German fighter jets behind her?
However, Lilia's performance quickly put Sokov's mind at ease. After the fighter plane she was flying rushed out of the German bomber group, she decisively made a U-turn, went around behind the German fighter jets, and decisively
Open fire. Suddenly, the situation was reversed. The fighter plane that was being chased became the pursuer.
Although Meyer was an ace pilot, he followed Lilia as he shuttled through his own bomber group, but he never dared to fire for fear of accidentally damaging his own plane. As a result, Lilia made a U-turn after passing through the group of bombers.
got behind him and fired at him.
The Yak-1 fighter's 20mm cannon located in the center of the propeller broke one wing of Meyer's plane, and the out-of-control plane immediately fell toward the ground. Seeing that the situation was not good, Meyer could only open the hatch.
Jumped out of the plane.
"That's great, Lilia is so great." Sokov couldn't help but cheered when he saw that Lilia had finally shot down the lingering German fighter jet, and then called the sergeant over: "Comrade Sergeant, what are you doing now?"
Go and capture the prisoner. If he resists, kill him decisively." After receiving the order, the sergeant agreed loudly, led his men, and happily ran towards the location where Meyer landed.
After the sergeant left with his men, Sokov turned to Katya and said, "Katya, your lead plane shot down five enemy planes. It's really amazing."
"Yeah, it's really incredible." Katya witnessed Lilia's achievements with her own eyes and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that Lilia shot down four bombers and a fighter alone. She can be considered as one of them."
We are now ace pilots. This way, when we return to the airport, those male pilots will no longer look down on us."
"Katya." After learning that Katya and the others were discriminated against by male pilots, Sokov couldn't help but curiously asked: "Why, do all the male pilots in the flying group look down on you?"
"No," Katya said aggrievedly: "Especially the regiment commander. He said he wanted real pilots, but the superiors sent us yellow-haired girls to him, so there has been no combat arrangement for us in the past few days.
Mission. If it hadn’t been for the order given by our superiors today, we don’t know when we would have had the opportunity to fly into the sky to fight enemy aircraft.”
Although the German bombers that bombed the Red October Tractor Factory were large in number, the bombs and bullets they carried were almost exhausted. Seeing such a terrifying existence like Lilia, they felt a little fear in their hearts. In order to avoid being attacked
Seeing the fate of their companions, they all turned around and flew back.
When the German fleet returned, the command center on the ground learned that Meyer had been shot down, and asked Meyer's wingman: "Which Russian pilot was Meyer's plane hit by?"
The wingman thought for a while and felt that he saw a few white roses on the fuselage of the plane that shot down Meyer. He quickly replied: "Sir, it is a plane with white roses on the fuselage.
Corporal Yay shot it down."
"There are white roses on the fuselage?" After hearing the wingman's answer, the ground command center said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect that the Russians would also spray-paint patterns on the aircraft." Then the German officer wrote in the record book
It read: "Corporal Erwin Meyer's plane was shot down by a Russian plane with white roses spray-painted on its fuselage."
After the German bombers left, the captured Meyer was escorted in front of Sokov. When Sokov saw the captured German pilot, he was about to ask Zinchenko to be the interpreter, but he did not expect that the other party got there first.
He said, "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, I have a request."
"Do you speak Russian?" Sokov had a surprised expression on his face when he heard that Meyer could speak Russian, but he quickly returned to normal and asked with a straight face: "Tell me, what do you have?"
request?"
"This is the first time I have been shot down, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." Meyer was now very interested in the pilot who shot him down, so he asked Sokov: "I want to meet the pilot who shot me down."
When Sokov was about to answer the other party and said that he was powerless, he unexpectedly discovered that the plane piloted by Lilia had lowered its altitude and was heading towards the factory. So he changed his words and said: "Okay, Corporal, I can satisfy you."
As requested, please wait a moment and you can see the person who shot you down."