Before the tanks could evacuate, a German bomber swooped down and dropped a bomb on the crowded tanks. The bomb missed its target and landed four or five meters away from the tank and exploded, sending shrapnel flying across the tank.
It hit the soldiers sitting on the tank. Several soldiers screamed and fell off the tank. They were soon crushed under the tracks of the tank that followed and turned into a puddle of meat.
Seeing this scene from a distance, Sokov couldn't help but feel like a knife. The offensive battle he had organized so far had caused almost negligible casualties. However, at this moment, a bomb dropped by an enemy plane killed five or six people.
casualties. He quickly squatted down, grabbed the microphone, and shouted into the microphone: "Get me the anti-aircraft artillery position!"
In a short time, the phone at the anti-aircraft artillery position was connected, and Sokov hurriedly said into the phone: "Lieutenant Ulanova, have you seen the enemy plane in the sky? Fire immediately and shoot it down."
As soon as the microphone was put down, the three anti-aircraft guns commanded by Ulanova began shooting at the enemy planes in the air. However, the cunning enemy plane quickly circled in the air and shot towards
It flew far away, causing all the bullets fired by the anti-aircraft guns to miss.
Sokov shouted to the operator standing below: "Operator, come to me!"
When the operator saw Sokov calling him, he hurriedly agreed, stepped on the masonry and rubble on the ground, climbed onto the track, stood up and asked Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, what are your instructions?"
Sokov pointed to the walkie-talkie on his back and said: "Contact Colonel Bely immediately and ask him to withdraw as quickly as possible. Even if a tank is blown up during the withdrawal, we cannot stop, otherwise we will wait until the enemy
A large number of planes arrived and they couldn't evacuate even if they wanted to."
The operator agreed, put the walkie-talkie on his back on the ground, and was about to send a message to Bely, but was stopped by Sokov: "What time has it been? If you still want to send him a message, call him in plain language immediately."
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"Understood," the operator agreed, quickly grabbed the microphone and shouted loudly: "Car, car, I am the command, I am the command, please answer if you hear it, please answer if you hear it!" Car, is the cable
Kove's code name was the tank battalion, while his own code name was the headquarters.
Soon, the operator heard the reply coming from the earphone: "I am a car, I am a car!"
"Car, car." The radio operator heard the other party's reply and shouted loudly: "The brigade commander ordered you to withdraw as quickly as possible. Even if there are tanks along the way, don't pay attention. Otherwise, wait for the Germans."
After a large number of planes arrive, you will not be able to evacuate even if you want to."
"The car understands, the car understands." Bely replied decisively in his tank: "We will return to the hiding place as quickly as possible." After ending the call with the radio operator, Bely gave his two
The company commander issued an order, "Captain Sereda and Captain Ivantsov, return to the underground tank depot as quickly as possible immediately."
"Comrade Colonel," Shereda replied worriedly: "There are German planes above us. If we return to the underground tank depot like this, our hiding place will be exposed."
"If you continue to stay here, your company will be wiped out as soon as the German plane arrives." Biely said sternly: "Return to the tank depot at full speed immediately."
As soon as Bely finished speaking, a bomb dropped by an enemy plane exploded not far away, and the flying shrapnel jingled on the body of the tank. Bely turned to ask the driver next to him: "Is our tank okay?
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"It's okay, Comrade Colonel." The pilot replied: "As long as the bombs dropped by the enemy planes do not directly hit our tanks, there will be nothing wrong with them." At this point, he hesitated for a moment and murmured, "It's just a matter of sitting down."
The infantry comrades on our tanks can’t tell.”
Bely was worried that Brisky, who was sitting on his tank, was in danger, so he quickly grabbed the phone and asked loudly: "Hello, hello, hello, is there anyone? Is there anyone?"
The shrapnel that just flew across hit a soldier, and the soldier fell into Briskey's arms without saying a word. Briskey was supporting his soldier and checking his injuries when he suddenly heard the sound from the rear of the tank.
The phone kept ringing, and he quickly asked someone to bring the receiver over. He put the receiver to his ear and asked loudly: "Comrade Colonel, what can I do?"
"Comrade Captain," Bely felt more at ease when he heard Brisky's confident voice. He then asked, "A bomb just fell and exploded nearby. Are you okay?"
"A soldier is wounded," Briski checked the soldier's injuries and said loudly: "The shrapnel hit his shoulder. We need to send him back to the basement for treatment as soon as possible."
"Hold on, we'll be there soon." After putting down the phone, Bely shouted to the driver next to him: "Speed up!"
"Comrade Colonel, we can't go any faster." The driver said in embarrassment: "Look, there are craters everywhere. If we drive faster, the car will easily overturn."
"There are wounded people in the car who need to be sent for treatment immediately." Bely did not blame his subordinates, but told him: "Drive as fast as possible while ensuring safety."
The 36 tanks of the tank battalion crossed the wall one after another, rushed into the factory area, and drove quickly or slowly towards the location of the underground tank depot. Seeing this scene, Yakov couldn't help but worry and said: "Misha
, if enemy planes discover the location of our underground tank depot, I'm worried that they will continue to send planes to bomb it until it is completely destroyed."
Although Sokov looked at the enemy planes in the sky and felt extremely uneasy, in front of Yakov, he still forced himself to say calmly: "Yakov, if our tanks don't return to the underground tank depot as soon as possible, they will
It was blown into a pile of scrap metal by German planes. As for whether they will bomb the underground tank depot, that is a matter for later, we don’t need to consider it now.”
The German bombers swooped down from time to time, dropping bombs on the speeding tanks, or strafing the infantry sitting on the tanks. They quickly achieved results. Two tanks were hit by bombs, stopped in place and caught fire, sitting on the body of the tank.
From time to time, soldiers were directly killed by shrapnel, leaving them running around covered in fire.
Seeing a tank being destroyed by enemy planes, Sokov couldn't help but feel anxious. He kept raising his hand to look at his watch and murmuring: "What the hell, why aren't Colonel Khostnikov's fighter squadron here yet?"
"Misha, look quickly." Just when Sokov was extremely anxious, Yakov suddenly pointed to the sky and said excitedly to him: "Plane, our plane."
Sokov looked in the direction of Yakov's finger, and sure enough he saw four Yak-1 fighter jets appearing in the sky. Sokov knew that these were fighter jets from the Women's Flying Squadron, and couldn't help waving his arms and shouting loudly:
"Come on, girls! Beat them up, beat them down, knock down all these damn German planes, beat them down quickly!"
Yakov didn't know that there were female pilots in the flying regiment commanded by Sokov. He asked in surprise: "Misha, are these fighter jets driven by female pilots?"
"That's right," Sokov nodded vigorously and said in a positive tone: "The pilots of these four Yak-1 fighter jets are all young girls."
"Young girl?!" Hearing what Sokov said, Yakov's brows furrowed even more tightly, and he asked with a worried look on his face: "Can they do it?"
"Yakov, what's wrong with the girl? Don't you know that women can hold up half the sky?" Sokov said to Yakov: "In the air battle a few days ago, they beat up eight enemy planes in one go.
Down." At this point, he pointed in the air with his hand, "Have you seen that No. 02 fighter jet? Its pilot, Second Lieutenant Lilia, shot down five enemy planes alone, and one of them was
fighter."
"It's amazing that one person shot down five enemy planes." Yakov sighed while raising his telescope and looking into the sky: "Misha, I saw the No. 02 fighter jet. Is it on the fuselage?
The plane with the white lily?"
"Yes, that's the plane." Although Lilia had only participated in one air battle and had not yet been called the "White Rose" by the Germans, Sokov took the initiative and said to Yakov: "The Germans don't know the Lilia fighter plane.
The lily on the bed was thought to be a white rose, so Lilia was called the 'white rose'."
"White rose?!" When Yakov heard what Sokov said, he couldn't help but put down the telescope and asked curiously: "Misha, how did you know?"
Sokov casually replied: "This was said by a German pilot who was captured by us."
Naturally, Yakov believed Sokov's statement. He raised his telescope again, looked at the four fighter jets in the sky, and said to himself: "I wonder how many of them she can kill today."
Enemy plane."
Sokov opened his mouth and was about to express his opinion when he suddenly heard the operator calling him. He quickly turned around and asked, "Comrade operator, what's going on?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander," the radio operator said respectfully, "The captain of the Third Flying Squadron wants to speak to you!"
"Captain of the third flying squadron?" Sokov was stunned when he heard the operator say this. Then he realized that the person he was talking about should be Lieutenant Raisa, the captain of the female flying squadron, and quickly took the microphone from the other party's hand.
and headphones, and said loudly: "Hello, Lieutenant Raisa, I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov."
"Hello, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" Raisa's polite voice came from the earphone: "There are only two enemy planes in the sky. What is our mission?"
"Lieutenant Raisa, the mission is clear." Sokov said in an official tone: "You must shoot down these two enemy planes in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, when a large number of enemy planes arrive, you will not think about it again.
It won't be as easy to knock them down as it is now."
"Understood!" After Raisa simply replied, she began to give orders to her subordinates: "Lilia, you and Katya are in a group, and I am in a group with Maria. Go attack the German bombers ahead, and you must do it in the shortest possible time.
Inside, knock them all down, do you understand?"
"Understood!" the other three female pilots replied in unison. Then, the four planes divided into two groups and pounced on different enemy planes.
Seeing the enemy's and our own planes flying up and down in the sky, Sokov thought to himself: "It seems that in today's air battle, it is Second Lieutenant Lilia who will score the first victory."
The German pilot was very cunning. He climbed high and dived, trying to get rid of Lilia who was following closely. Although Lilia locked the target several times, the enemy plane disappeared from her before she could fire. The two sides exchanged views with each other.
After chasing for two or three minutes, Lilia found no chance to fire.
Just as the enemy plane tried to pull up again to get rid of Lilia who was following behind, Lilia suddenly heard the firing of a machine gun above her head, and then, a stream of black smoke came out from under the wings of the enemy plane, and she lost
The controlled enemy plane quickly flew downwards diagonally. About twenty seconds later, it fell directly to the ground, rising into a thick cloud of smoke mixed with dark red flames.
"Well done, Lilia!" As soon as the enemy plane crashed on the ground, Lilia heard Raisa's voice coming from the earphones: "You shot down another enemy plane."
"Comrade Lieutenant," Lilia replied quickly: "I did not shoot down this plane." She quickly glanced behind her and saw Katya following behind, waving to her in the cockpit before she continued.
Said: "Katya shot it down."
"What, was it shot down by Katya?" Raisa couldn't help but be stunned when she heard what Lilia said. She thought that Katya had been shot down by an enemy plane in the air battle two days ago. She didn't expect that she would fly into the blue sky with a new fighter plane today.
He actually opened the battle for the first time, and he coughed lightly: "Katya, good job! But don't be proud, try to fight a few more enemy planes."
"Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant." Katya, who had just opened the scoring, replied emotionally: "The Germans were shot down by me once in the past two days, so I will take revenge by shooting down ten of their planes."
"Girls, let's kill the remaining enemy plane together." Raisa said to her female pilot on the communication channel: "Then prepare to fight more enemy planes."
Sokov, who was staying in the factory, saw that it was not Lilia who shot down the enemy plane, but Katya, who had been shot down by an enemy plane two days ago. He couldn't help saying with emotion: "This Katya's condition looks good, I don't know.
She can shoot down several enemy planes."
When Yakov heard what Sokov said, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Misha, do you know these female pilots?"
"Yes," Sokov pointed his hand in the air and introduced to Yakov: "Katya, the pilot of the No. 04 fighter jet that just shot down the enemy plane, was shot down by the enemy plane in the air battle a few days ago.
, it was my people who saved her. I didn’t expect that she would return to the sky today and actually shoot down an enemy plane first. It’s really amazing.”
When Yakov was about to say a few words, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the air. He quickly raised his telescope and looked in the direction of the sound, and his face turned livid: "Misha, I think we have something now.
It’s troublesome.”
"What's the trouble?" Sokov heard what Yakov said, and he also raised his telescope and looked in the direction of the sound. When he saw clearly that more than 20 enemy planes appeared in the distance, half of them were fighter jets, his expression changed.
He also became serious: "Yakov, you are right, we are in trouble. The girls only have four fighter jets, but they have to deal with more than 20 enemy aircraft. It seems that this air battle will be extremely brutal."