The four platoons of soldiers led by Briski walked at the front of the battalion and took the initiative to assume the responsibility of guides. They have been active in this area for more than a month and are as familiar with the terrain as the group army.
The guides sent by the headquarters. After marching for a day and a night, the troops of the first and second companies arrived fifteen kilometers away from Tim City.
Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted after continuous long-distance marches, Sokov ordered the troops to rest on the spot. He took Briski and a soldier from the guard squad to the front to check the terrain.
Sokov and the others came to a hill not far away and found a suitable location to set up an observation post. Sokov raised his telescope and looked to the southwest. Three or four kilometers away from the hill, there was a line leading into the distance.
Railways and roads in Tim City. Sokov began to wonder in his mind: Can we do something now, such as laying mines on the roads to blow up German transport vehicles; tearing off the railway tracks to make the enemy's military columns
Unable to drive...
"Comrade Major, look quickly." Just as Sokov was staring at the roads and railways in the distance, he suddenly heard Briski standing next to him saying loudly: "Look quickly to the north, there is a German train.
The human army is coming!"
Sokov quickly looked in the direction Briski said, and sure enough he saw a locomotive with a chimney spewing black smoke, pulling more than a dozen carriages, coming from the north. Sokov stared at the train carriage for a while
, then put down the telescope and asked Briski: "Comrade Captain, do you think the German trains are pulling soldiers or supplies?"
Briski frowned and looked at it for a while, then said decisively: "Comrade Major, I think it should be an arms train. You see, the third and seventh carriages are covered with camouflage nets, there should be Germans inside
Anti-aircraft machine gun." After finishing his analysis, Briski sighed and said, "It's a pity that we are too far away from the railway. We know that this is the enemy's arms train, but we can't do anything with it."
Sokov felt that Brisky's words were very reasonable. He thought painfully in his heart: "The place where the troops rest is still several kilometers away from the enemy's railway. Even if we rush there now, it will be too late. If
It would be nice to have a 76.2 mm cannon. With the level of artillery soldiers in the battalion, it is enough to easily destroy the enemy’s arms train!”
Just when they were feeling annoyed, the roar of aircraft engines suddenly came from the sky. Everyone looked up and saw six fighter planes flying in from the east. Three planes flew in a formation towards the location of the military column.
"It's our plane," Briski said excitedly after seeing the plane clearly in the sky: "They must be here to bomb the train."
As he spoke, the plane had begun to lower its altitude and swooped down to shoot at the high-speed train. Through the telescope, Sokov clearly saw that the camouflage nets on the two carriages mentioned by Briski were lifted, revealing the hidden trains.
Below is the Type 38 quadruple 20mm anti-aircraft gun. The German anti-aircraft troops immediately began to shoot at the swooping aircraft. Since the train was traveling at high speed, it was difficult to aim and shoot. It was difficult to lock the target and step on the gun button.
But the plane had already flown to other places, so that all the shells they fired fell into the air.
The German anti-aircraft guns could not hit the Soviet aircraft, and the Soviet aircraft swooped down and fired. Although they repeatedly hit the carriages, they did little harm to the entire train. Seeing this, Sokov couldn't help but sigh secretly, feeling in his heart
According to this method of attack, even if the airborne ammunition is used up, the German military column cannot be destroyed. It is better to try to drop bombs. As long as one aerial bomb hits the target, it will be enough to smash the military column to pieces.
The aircraft that were constantly circling over the military columns and swooping and strafing not only achieved limited results, but were also in danger under the attack of German anti-aircraft guns. One of the aircraft suddenly broke away from the formation and flew south along the railway. Seeing this
In this situation, Briskey said with a surprised look on his face: "What's going on? Why did the plane fly away? Did it run out of ammunition?"
Sokov stared at the plane that broke away from the team for a while, and then made a bold guess: "Comrade Captain, that plane is not out of ammunition, but is preparing to bomb the enemy's train."
Hearing what Sokov said, Brisky still asked puzzledly: "He can drop bombs from above the train, so why would he fly in front of the enemy's train?"
"It's very simple," Sokov told Briskikop: "If he drops a bomb on top of the train, by the time the bomb falls, the train has moved far forward, and the bomb will miss. But if he
If you drop a bomb from the front of the train, the probability of hitting the target will be greatly increased."
Perhaps to verify Sokov's statement, the plane made a large circle in the air after passing over the train, then dived down towards the locomotive and dropped an aerial bomb at the same time. The aerial bomb rolled several times in the air,
It hit the locomotive directly.
The locomotive suddenly stopped, and the thick boiler on the front of the locomotive exploded like a walnut smashed by a hammer after being hit by an aerial bomb. The carriage being dragged behind felt like it was suddenly lifted up by a big hand, and then hit hard again.
It was thrown out, rolling on the rails, blown apart in the continuous explosions, and then blown to pieces. In the smoke and dust that covered the sky, the locomotive that had been burned into a fireball was dragging billowing black smoke.
, relying on inertia to slide on the rails, until another explosion occurred. The dozens of tons of locomotives were like toys, falling apart in the constant rolling explosion.
In the distance, groups of mushroom clouds soared into the sky, alarming the commanders and soldiers who were resting. They stood up one after another, looked at the smoke rising on the other side of the hill, and kept asking: "What's going on? What happened?"
What happened? Where did the explosion come from?"
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Although everyone was asking the same question, unfortunately, no one answered their questions. Vanya asked the platoon leaders to appease the soldiers and control the situation, while he rushed to the scene with a few soldiers
On the hill, to find out what happened.
The German military column was destroyed, and the plane that dropped the bomb head-on did not get any relief. Although the pilot pulled the plane up in time, long black smoke still came out from under the wing. Looking at the plane
He turned around and flew east. After flying not far, he fell into the forest.
Sokov saw Vanya leading several soldiers up the hill, and quickly ordered him: "Captain Vanya, we have a plane crashing in the forest over there. Send someone to rescue it immediately."
"Comrade Major," Briski said quickly before Vanya could speak: "Leave the task of rescuing the pilot to our platoon, we are familiar with the terrain here."
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Vanya probably also felt that Briski was the best candidate for the search and rescue pilot, so she said to Sokov: "I agree to let the fourth platoon of soldiers search and rescue the pilot."
"Comrade Captain, without further ado, you should set off immediately." Seeing that Vanya also advocated letting the fourth platoon of soldiers rescue the pilot, Sokov nodded and ordered: "If you want to see a living person or a dead body, if the pilot
Even if he is alive, he must be brought back; even if he is sacrificed, his body must be brought back, do you understand?"
"Understood, Comrade Major." After saying this, Briski immediately turned around and ran down the hill.
Seeing that the targets on the ground were destroyed, the five planes hovering in the air immediately split into two groups. Two planes flew towards the forest where the plane crashed, while the other three planes flew towards the hill where Sokov and the others were.
Come over here.
"No, Comrade Battalion Commander, the pilot has discovered us." Seeing the plane flying towards her position, Vanya quickly shouted: "Hurry up and prepare to contact Bu! Otherwise they will shoot at us.
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When he first saw the plane flying towards him, Sokov didn't pay attention. When he heard Vanya shouting, he immediately realized that the pilot might have regarded him as an enemy and was preparing to fly over to eliminate him. In order to prevent being unjustly accused
The ground died under the strafing of his own plane, and Sokov also shouted loudly: "Hurry up, hurry up and take out the contact cloth."
Hearing the shouts of Vanya and Sokov, a soldier from the guard squad next to him hurriedly took out a roll of red contact cloth from his bag. With the help of others, he unfolded it and spread it on the ground.
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The three Soviet aircraft flying over the hill were about to swoop and shoot at the people moving on the ground. When they saw the red contact cloth spread on the ground, they knew that the people moving below were their own people, so they raised their altitude.
, circled in the sky and then flew away. Not long after these three planes left, the two planes that were hovering over the forest also flew away. They may have been notified that their own troops were here and could help with the rescue.
The comrades who crashed returned to the airport with confidence.
This chapter has been completed!