Just as Katya was happily accepting the plane on the runway, Khostnikov received a telegram from Sokov, which indicated in detail the location of the German artillery position.
Seeing that Sokov had figured out the location of the German artillery position so quickly, Kkhostnikov couldn't help but question it. He thought he had sent people to search nearby many times, but he found nothing. Sokov only took one night to know where the German artillery position was.
Just at this moment, Alexey walked in from outside and reported to him: "Comrade Commander, the Jacques-1 fighter jet that the superiors added to us has arrived."
"Oh, the fighter has been delivered, and the movements are quite quick." After Khostnikov finished speaking, he asked back: "Captain, did you inform Kajia to receive the plane?"
"Yes, I've received it just now." As Alexei spoke, he accidentally caught a glimpse of the telegram in Khostnikov's hand, and asked curiously: "Comrade Commander, is this a telegram sent by Lieutenant Colonel Sokov?"
Hearing Alexei's question, Khostnikov couldn't help but blurt out: "How do you know?"
"From yesterday, our regiment was assigned to the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sokov." Alexei explained: "During this period, the original superiors would definitely not give us orders, so I boldly speculate that this must be the telegram he sent."
"The analysis is correct." Khostnikov nodded, handed the telegram in his hand to Alexei, and then said, "Then you analyze it for me again. Is the information on Lieutenant Colonel Sokov's telegram reliable?"
After reading the contents of the telegram, Alexei couldn't help frowning slightly and asked, "Comrade Commander, I remember that you sent a small team to the nearby area to find the location of the German artillery position, but they all got nothing. Lieutenant Colonel Sokov took only one night to find out the German artillery position, which was incredible."
"This information comes too easily," Khostnikov pointed to the telegram in Alexei's hand and said, "so much so that I can't believe it is true."
Alexei stared at the telegram for a while, then said to Khostnikov: "Comrade Commander, I think Lieutenant Colonel Sokov's situation should be trustworthy."
"Can you trust?" Khhorstnikov asked curiously: "Tell me your reasons."
"Do you remember that I came to you with Lilya yesterday?" Alexei saw Kkhostnikov nodding in agreement, and continued: "Before coming to you, I heard from Lieutenant Colonel Sokov sent a force deep into the enemy's backbone to carry out reconnaissance and attack the enemy. From the intelligence on this telegram, it should be provided by this small force, so I think this information is completely accurate."
"Captain, since this information is true." After Alexei's analysis, Khostnikov felt somewhat confident: "I think we should take some action to eliminate the enemy's artillery positions."
"Comrade Commander, if you can trust me, just hand over this mission to our squadron." Seeing that the regiment commander was planning to send planes to destroy the enemy's artillery positions, Alexei volunteered: "Our squadron also has nine Lag3 fighters, each of which is equipped with six unguided rockets, and fifty-four rockets are enough to blow the German artillery positions into a sea of ​​fire."
Khostnikov did not immediately agree to Alexei's request, but after thinking for a while, he replied: "I think this task should be left to the Third Squadron to carry out."
"Three Squadron?" When Alexei heard this number, he was stunned at first, and then remembered that this was the new number of the women's flight squadron, and then asked, "Do we need to cooperate with their actions?"
"Comrade Captain, have you forgotten what I said?" Khostnikov said with some displeasure: "Didn't I tell you that every time the Third Squadron attacks, you will send four fighter planes to accompany you. Since they are going to carry out the mission of bombing German artillery today, you will naturally go together."
After Alexae took the mission, he turned back to the pilot's dormitory and informed Laisha and the others to prepare for the air combat. Unexpectedly, when he came to the dormitory of the Third Squadron, he found that it was empty inside. He came outside and asked the administrator: "Where have the girls of the Women's Flight Squadron gone?"
The administrator explained to Alexei: "I heard that the plane that was supplemented with them arrived, so the girls all went."
When Alexae arrived at the runway, he saw Laisha and the others surrounding the new plane. He found that Alexae was walking towards him. Laisha quickly met him and asked with a smile: "Captain, we now have a new plane, and I don't know when we can take off to fight?"
"Comrade Lieutenant," Alexey came to Laisha quickly and said to her: "I am here to find you, but there are combat tasks to be assigned to you."
When she heard that there was a combat mission, Laisha's eyes suddenly shone. She quickly turned around and shouted at her subordinates who were still watching the new plane, "Girls, stop looking, come to us quickly. Comrade Captain has combat missions to assign to us."
When the three girls heard Laisha's shouting, they immediately walked over quickly. Among them, Kajia couldn't wait to ask: "Captain, tell us quickly, what is the combat mission?"
"Do you still remember the frequent shelling of our German artillery positions?" Alexei said to the female pilots with a serious expression: "Your mission today is to blow up the enemy's positions."
Laisha knew that the flying regiment had always wanted to destroy the enemy's artillery position, but unfortunately she could not find it. At this moment, she heard that the regiment had handed over the mission to her squadron, and asked quickly: "Captain Alexei, do you know the specific location of the enemy's artillery?"
"I know." Alexei took out a stacked map from the briefcase he was carrying and expanded it, and pointed it out to Laisha: "According to the reconnaissance, the enemy's artillery position is here."
Laisha looked at the map in Alexei's hand and asked tentatively: "Captain, can I ask, where did this get the information?"
Alexei glanced at Lillia and said meaningfully: "This information was provided by Lieutenant Colonel Sokov. According to my analysis, it may be that he ordered the small troops behind enemy lines to conduct reconnaissance, and the information obtained was very credible."
After Lai Sha took her eyes off the map, she asked tentatively: "Is it just our squadron attacking?"
"I will lead four planes in person and act with you." Alexei raised his hand and looked at the watch, and said to Laisha: "Let your girls prepare. I will ask the ground crew to hang bullets on the plane first and set off in half an hour."
Half an hour later, eight fighter jets took off one after another, completed the formation in the air, and flew towards the location of the enemy's artillery position. Since the performance of the Jacques-1 fighter was better than that of the Lager-3 fighter, four aircraft from the women's flight squadron were in front and four aircraft led by Alexei were in the back.
The artillery battalion of the German army was a German artillery battalion. Seeing that the time was about the same, the artillery battalion commander ordered the artillery to push the artillery out of the hidden woods and built an artillery position beside the forest. Seeing that the artillery was in place, the artillery battalion commander issued an order to launch artillery bombardment on the Soviet airport.
Unexpectedly, just after the first round of shooting, the roar of the aircraft engine suddenly came from the air. A soldier who was on guard looked up at the air and saw a few black dots flying towards the location of the artillery position. He looked at it for a moment and recognized the Soviet plane. He quickly blew the whistle hanging around his neck to warn the artillery soldiers who were carrying out artillery fire.
The artillery battalion commander, who was squatting in the trench and using a gunshot lens to observe the effect of the shelling, heard a sharp whistle suddenly sounded, and also found the Soviet fighter jets in the air. He hurriedly issued an order: "Stop the shelling, stop the shelling, hide, hide immediately."
But his shouts were shrouded in the rumbling sound of artillery, and few artillery soldiers heard his voice, so that most of the artillery soldiers were still shooting for a moment.
Laisha, who was flying in the air, was always worried that the information provided by Sokov was inaccurate. After her plane arrived at the place, she could not find the enemy's artillery position. However, when she saw the smoke rising below, she knew that she had found the place and hurriedly called through the radio: "All people pay attention, the German artillery position was found in front. The third squadron was in front and the second squadron was in back. All the people immediately launched an attack, and all the people immediately launched an attack!"
With Laisha's order issued, eight fighter jets dived towards the enemy's artillery positions in combat formations formed by four aircraft. After reaching the attack distance, all aircraft fired unguided rockets at the artillery positions on the ground. The rockets fell on the artillery positions and exploded, breaking the cannons into pieces. The shells that exploded to pieces threw the broken legs of the artillery soldiers near the explosion point into the air, and then scattered them like flowers.
In the first dive, all the fighters drew all six unguided rockets they carried. They pulled them up into the air, circled them for a while, and then dived again. This time, they used machine guns to destroy the surviving cannons, and used machine guns to shoot the fleeing German artillery, knocking them down one after another.
After completing two consecutive attacks, the German artillery positions were already covered by gunpowder smoke. Seeing that the smoke affected his sight, Laisha knew that it would be difficult to expand the results of the battle if he continued to attack, so he issued an order again: "All of all, please note that our attack mission has been completed. Now we return to the flight, and return!" After the eight fighter jets took a big circle in the air, they were still divided into two groups and flew back along the route they came.
The news of the destruction of the German artillery position was soon reached the regiment command post. After hearing this, Khostnikov couldn't help but slam the table and cheered. He did not expect that the German artillery position that had troubled him for many days would be over. He stood up and loudly ordered the officers in the room: "Apart from the duty staff, everyone will come with me to greet our heroes."
When the ground crew at the airport is bombarded by the enemy, they will hide in the bullet-proof trenches near the shells. Today, the German army's routine shelling only began a few minutes before it came to an abrupt end, which surprised the ground crew members hiding in the bullet-proof trenches. They were still asking each other: "Strange, the Germans have to shell the airport for more than half an hour every time, why did they stop after only a few minutes today?"
"Can the enemy have no shells?"
"This is impossible. The enemy's supply line has not been cut off by me. How could they have no shells?"
As everyone was talking, someone suddenly saw Khostnikov and a group of officers from the command post, walking towards the runway in big strides. Just as everyone was wondering whether Khostnikov had taken the wrong medicine today and dared to walk towards the runway swaggeringly when the German army was bombarded. Aren't he afraid of being killed by shells?
Before everyone could figure out what was going on, they heard Khostnikov shouting loudly: "Comrades, come out, the enemy's artillery position has been killed by our third squadron."
"Third Squadron?" The ground crew members couldn't help looking at each other when they heard this number: "Didn't the Third Squadron be destroyed in the battle some time ago? When did a new Third Squadron appear?"
An insider quickly said, "Did you forget the women's flight squadron? They are not living in the dormitory of the Third Squadron now, they should be the third Squadron as the regiment commander mentioned."
A ground staff member said, "Comrades, the regiment commander is all outside, I don't think there will be any danger. Let's go out to welcome the victory of the Third Squadron." His words were immediately responded by everyone, so everyone crawled out of the bullet-proof trench and walked towards Khostnikov.
Everyone stood by the runway for a while and saw the roar of the plane engine coming from the air, followed by a few black dots. Immediately someone said loudly: "Look, everyone, the plane of the Third Squadron is back!"
Everyone looked up at the sky and saw eight planes coming over the airport, starting to hover around the airport, and then began to land one after another. The first one landed was Laisha's No. 01 plane, followed by Lilia's No. 02 fighter jet with a white lily painted outside. After the planes of the women's squadron landed, the four planes led by Alexei landed one after another.
After the eight planes stopped, eight pilots opened the hatch cover of the cabin at the same time and came out of the plane with the help of ground crews. Eight people lined up in two columns and came to Khostnikov in neat steps. After several people raised their hands to salute, Laisha reported to Khostnikov: "Comrade Commander, Lieutenant Laisha, the captain of the Third Squadron, to you, we have completed the mission of air strikes on the German artillery positions. Please instruct!"
Chapter completed!