As soon as the sky was dawn, Brisky, who was sleeping in the command post, was woken up by an officer under his command. Seeing Brisky open his eyes, the officer said in a angrily voice: "Comrade Battalion Commander, come and see!"
Brisky asked in confusion: "What's the matter? The Germans attacked?"
"No, Comrade Battalion Commander, not the enemy attack." The officer shook his head and said, "It's the destroyer."
"Annihilation Battalion?!" Brisky became more and more confused: "What's wrong with the Annihilation Battalion?"
"I can't explain it for a while," the officer replied, "Comrade Battalion Commander, you'd better come and see it yourself."
Brisky followed the officer out of the command post and came to the trench. He saw hundreds of fighter soldiers in casual clothes standing dozens of meters ahead. "What the hell is going on? What are they going here to do?" Brisky climbed out of the trench and walked forward while muttering in a low voice: "Are we going to attack the Germans? But why didn't anyone notify me of such a big event?"
When Brisky approached the soldiers of the fighter in the fighter, he vaguely heard someone in front of the queue saying loudly: "...You will be lying in these craters later. When you find an enemy plane appears, you will immediately raise your gun and aim. After hearing the whistle, you will immediately use up all the bullets in your guns at the fastest speed. Do you understand?"
"I understand!" the soldiers replied in unison.
"What the hell is going on?" Brisky turned his head and asked the officer following him: "Do you know what's going on?"
"I don't know," the officer shook his head and replied, "I saw that the soldiers of the destroyer battalion, led by Major Ballshaq, suddenly came here. I felt it necessary to report to you, so I woke you up."
When he learned that Ballshak had come too, Brisky remembered that the voice he had just spoken was very familiar, and it should be Ballshak's. He hurriedly continued to walk forward.
When the soldiers of the destroyer battalion lie down one after another, Ballshaq, who was still standing next to the crater, seemed particularly prominent. Brisky walked towards him quickly, and shouted, "Major Ballshaq, Major Ballshaq."
When Ballshaq saw Brisky walking towards him, he hurriedly met him, stretched out his hand to him, and asked politely: "Hello, Comrade Captain! Is there anything wrong?"
Brisky pointed at the soldiers lying in the crater and asked in confusion: "Comrade Major, what are they doing?"
"That's right," Balshaq explained to him without knowing it, "the German prisoners you have caught confessed that their bomber group will bomb us this morning. Lieutenant Colonel Sokov came up with this method to use infantry to hit the planes."
"What, use infantry to hit the plane?!" Brisky almost hit his chin when he heard Ballshaq say this: "Crazy, the brigade commander must be crazy, otherwise how could he come up with such an absurd way."
Ballsack did not agree with Brisky's statement. He shrugged and said, "No matter what, we have to try it. Maybe we can really take the German plane."
After sweeping through the craters where the soldiers were lying, Brisky said with a puzzled look: "Major, have you ever thought about how much casualties would be caused to us if the German plane dropped a few bombs at the location of the soldiers?"
"Comrade Captain, you don't have to worry about this." When Sokov first proposed this plan, Ballshaq was indeed worried, but after the on-site investigation, he felt that what Sokov said was somewhat reasonable, so he said to Brisky: "The soldiers stayed in the crater, and even if they were bombarded by enemy planes, their casualties could be minimized."
"They stayed in the crater and could only see their comrades around them, and they could not see the soldiers in other craters." Brisky's view at this time coincided with Ballshaq's thoughts at that time: "I want to ask, how can they fire at the enemy's plane at the same time?"
"This question is also very simple." Ballshaq pointed at a distance and continued: "The four anti-aircraft artillery guns of the Women's Anti-Aggressive Artillery Battalion are located not far away. Once the fire conditions are met, they will notify the soldiers hiding in the crater to open fire through the whistle."
After Ballshak said this, Brisky discovered that there was a new air defense position not far away, and four anti-aircraft guns were lined up in an orderly row behind the sandbags that had just been built. Seeing this, Brisky knew the problems he could think of, and Sokov should have thought of a solution, so he did not continue to ask. After chatting with Ballshak for a few words, he turned around and returned to his command post.
More than half an hour later, a faint engine roar came from the air. Brisky's first thought was "The enemy's plane is here!" He hurried out of the command post, stood in the trench, raised his telescope and looked in the direction where the sound came. He saw four German dive bombers flying from the west towards the location of the factory.
"The enemy has four bombers," Brisky's heartbeat could not help but accelerate after seeing the number of enemy planes. He thought to himself: "Can the only four anti-aircraft guns left in the Women's Anti-Air Battalion and one company of the Warrior Battalion deal with enemy planes?"
When the enemy plane lowered its flight altitude and was about to drop bombs at the factory, four anti-aircraft guns on the ground fired at the same time. The soldiers hiding in the craters heard the whistle sound of Ulanova and immediately pulled the trigger at the German plane.
If the German bomber was a jet aircraft, the infantry fire-raising tactics formulated by Sokov would definitely have no effect. However, in this era, the speed of the aircraft was relatively slow, and rifle shooting was undoubtedly very effective. Amid the dense gunshots and cannons, a black smoke belt suddenly appeared under the wings of a diving aircraft, and then the aircraft lost its balance and planted in a diagonal fuselage to the north. Soon, the aircraft landed outside the factory and exploded, raising a stream of black smoke.
"Great, this is amazing." Brisky was excited when he saw an enemy plane being 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 an enemy plane."
"Oh, there was an enemy plane shot down by us?" Although Sokov seemed calm when he designated the plan, he was only theoretical knowledge and had not been practiced. Therefore, whether he could shoot down the enemy plane was still an unknown number for him. After listening to Brisky's report, his heart hanging in the air finally returned to his stomach. But for the sake of safety, he still asked: "Comrade Captain, have you seen clearly whether the enemy plane was hit by anti-aircraft guns or rifles?"
Brisky only saw a German bomber being shot down, but he really didn't see clearly whether it was shot down by anti-aircraft guns or rifles. Therefore, when he heard Sokov's question, he hesitated for a long time before answering in an uncertain tone: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I think it should be the anti-aircraft guns and rifles that hit at the same time."
Sokov was eager to know whether the enemy plane was shot down by anti-aircraft guns or rifles, which was related to whether this tactic would be promoted in the team in the future. Therefore, after hearing Brisky's ambiguous reply, he said with some dissatisfaction: "Comrade Captain, I want to hear a real report, not your speculation. Do you understand?"
"I understand, comrade comrade commander." Brisky replied in a regular manner.
Chapter completed!