Before the tank was evacuated, a German bomber dived and dropped a bomb at the crowded tank group. The bomb did not hit the target, landed four or five meters away from the tank and exploded. The flying shrapnel hit the soldiers sitting on the tank. Several soldiers screamed and fell off the tank. They were soon crushed under the tracks by the tanks that followed and turned into a pile of meat sauce.
Sokov saw this scene in the distance and couldn't help but feel like a knife. So far, casualties were almost negligible. However, a bomb dropped by the enemy plane caused five or six casualties. He quickly squatted down, grabbed the microphone, and shouted to the microphone: "Catch me the anti-aircraft artillery position!"
After not much effort, the phone number of the anti-aircraft gun position was connected, so Sokov hurriedly said to the microphone: "Lt. Ulanova, have you seen the enemy plane in the sky? Fire the gun immediately and shoot it down."
As soon as the microphone was put down, the three anti-aircraft guns commanded by Ulanova began to shoot at the enemy planes in the air. However, the cunning enemy planes quickly circled in the air and flew into the distance, causing all the bullets fired by the anti-aircraft guns to fall.
Sokov shouted at the radio operator standing below: "Come to me!"
Seeing Sokov calling himself, the radio operator hurriedly agreed, stepped on the road with bricks and rubble all over the ground, and climbed onto the driving track, stood up and asked Sokov: "Comrade Commander, do you have any instructions?"
Sokov pointed to the phone on his back and said, "Contact Colonel Bere immediately and let him retreat as quickly as possible. Even if a tank is blown up during the retreat, he cannot stop. Otherwise, when a large number of enemy planes arrive, they will not be able to retreat even if they want to."
The radio operator agreed and put the phone on his back on the ground, preparing to send a message to Biao Lei, but was stopped by Sokov: "It's time, you have to send a message to him, and immediately call in a clear language."
"I understand," the radio operator agreed, and quickly grabbed the sending machine and shouted loudly: "Car, car, I am the command center, I am the command center, please answer when I hear me, please answer when I hear me!" Car was the code name Sokov gave to the Tank Battalion, and his own code name was the command center.
Soon, the radio operator heard a reply from the headset: "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's order, you should withdraw immediately as quickly as possible. Even if a tank is destroyed along the way, don't pay attention. Otherwise, when a large number of German planes arrive, you will not be able to retreat even if you want to."
"The car understands, the car understands." Bere decisively replied in his tank: "We will return to the hiding place as fast as possible." After the call with the radio operator, Bere gave orders to his two company commanders, "Captain Sereda and Captain Ivanzov, immediately return to the underground tank warehouse as fast as possible."
"Comrade Colonel," replied Shereda with concern: "We have German planes on our heads. If we return to the underground tank warehouse like this, our hiding place will be exposed."
"If you continue to stay here, when the Germans' spanking plane arrives, you will be reimbursed." Bilei said with luck sternly: "Return to the tank warehouse at full speed immediately."
As soon as Bi Lei finished speaking, a bomb dropped by the enemy plane exploded not far away, and shrapnel splashed around on the tank body jingled. Bi Lei turned his head and asked the driver beside him: "Is our tank okay?"
"It's okay, comrade Colonel." The pilot replied, "As long as the bomb dropped by the enemy plane does not hit our tank directly, there is nothing to do." He hesitated for a moment and murmured, "But the infantry comrades sitting on our tank can't explain it."
Don Lei was worried that Brisky, who was sitting on his tank, was in danger, so he quickly grabbed the phone and asked loudly: "Hey, hey, hey, hey, is anyone? Is anyone?"
The shrapnel that had just flew across the sky hit a soldier, and the soldier fell into Brisky's arms without saying a word. Brisky was holding his soldier to check his injuries when he suddenly heard the phone ringing at the tail of the tank and asked quickly to take the microphone. He put the microphone in his ear and asked loudly: "Comrade Colonel, is there anything wrong?"
"Comrade Captain," Berey felt much more at ease when he heard Brisky's voice. He continued to ask, "A bomb just fell and exploded. Are you okay?"
"There is a soldier injured," Brisky examined the soldier's injuries and said loudly: "The shrapnel hit him in the shoulder, and we need to send him back to the basement for treatment as soon as possible."
"Stand it, we will arrive soon." After putting down the phone, Be Lei shouted at the driver beside him: "Snap it up!"
"Comrade Colonel, you can't be faster." The driver said in embarrassment: "Look, there are craters everywhere. If we drive faster, it will be easy to overturn."
"There are wounded people in the car and they need to be sent for treatment immediately." Bellei did not blame his subordinates, but told him: "Drive as soon as possible while ensuring safety."
The 36 tanks of the Tank Battalion crossed the walls in a row and rushed into the factory area, and headed towards the location of the underground tank warehouse, either quickly or slowly. When Yakov saw this scene, he couldn't help but say worriedly: "Misha, if the enemy planes discovered the location of our underground tank warehouse, I was worried that they would continue to send planes to bomb until they were completely destroyed."
Although Sokov looked at the enemy planes in the sky and felt extremely uneasy, in front of Yakov, he still said calmly: "Yakov, if our tanks do not return to the underground tank warehouse as soon as possible, they will be blown into a pile of scrap iron by the German planes. As for whether they will bomb the underground tank warehouse, that is a matter in the future, and we don't need to consider now."
German bombers dived from time to time, dropped bombs at the galloping tanks, or fired infantry sitting on the tanks. They quickly achieved results. Two tanks were hit by bombs and caught fire. The soldiers sitting on the body of the car were killed by shrapnel from time to time, and they ran around in the fire.
Seeing that a tank was destroyed by enemy planes, Sokov couldn't help but feel anxious. He kept raising his hand to look at his watch and murmured: "Hehe, why haven't Colonel Khostnikov's fighter squadron come yet?"
"Misha, look quickly." Just when Sokov was extremely anxious, Yakov suddenly pointed to the air and said to him excitedly: "Airplane, our plane."
Sokov looked in the direction of Yakov's finger and saw four Yakk-1 fighters appearing in the air. Sokov knew that this was the fighter of the female flight squadron, so he waved his arms and shouted loudly: "Go on, girls! Beat them, beat them down all the damn planes of the German guys, beat them down quickly!"
Yakov didn't know that there was actually a female pilot in the flight regiment commanded by Sokov. He asked in surprise: "Misha, are these fighter jets flying by female pilots?"
"That's right," Sokov nodded vigorously and said in a positive tone: "The pilots of these four Jacques-1 fighters are all young girls."
"Young girl?" Yakov's brows frowned even more when he heard Sokov say this. He asked with a worried look: "Can they do it?"
"Yakov, what's wrong with the girl? Don't you know that women can also hold half of the sky." Sokov said to Yakov: "They beat eight enemy planes down in one breath during the air battle a few days ago." At this point, he pointed his hand into the air, "Did you see that No. 02 fighter plane? Its pilot, Lieutenant Lillia, shot down five enemy planes by one, one of which was a fighter plane."
"It's amazing that one person killed five enemy planes." Yakov sighed, and raised his telescope to look into the air: "Misha, I saw the No. 02 fighter plane. Is it the plane with a white lily on the fuselage?"
"That's right, that plane." Although Lilia has only participated in an air battle once and has not been called "white rose" by the Germans, Sokov still took the initiative to tell Yakov: "The Germans do not know the lily on Lilia's fighter plane, and they thought it was a white rose, so they called Lilia a 'white rose'."
"White Rose?" Yakov couldn't help but put down his telescope when he heard Sokov say this and asked curiously: "Misha, how did you know?"
Sokov replied casually: "This is what a German pilot who was captured by us said in person."
Yakov naturally believed Sokov's statement. He raised his telescope again, looked at the four fighter jets in the sky, and said to himself: "I don't know how many enemy aircraft she can catch today."
Sokov opened his mouth and was about to express his opinion when he suddenly heard the radio operator calling him, and quickly turned his head and asked, "Comrade Radio operator, what's the matter?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander," said the radio operator respectfully: "The captain of the Flight Third Squadron wants to talk to you!"
"Captain of the Third Flight Squadron?" Sokov was stunned when he heard the radio operator say this, and then he realized that the person he was talking about should be Lieutenant Laisha, the captain of the female flight squadron. He quickly took the sender and headphones from the other party and said loudly: "Ltd. Laisha, hello, I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov."
"Hello, lieutenant colonel!" Lai Sha's polite voice came from the headphones: "There are only two enemy planes in the sky. What is our mission?"
"Lt. Laisha, the mission is clear." Sokov said in an official voice: "You must kill these two enemy planes in the shortest time, otherwise when a large number of enemy planes arrive, you will not be as easy as it is now."
"I understand!" After answering a simple sentence, Laisha began to issue orders to her subordinates: "Lilia, you and Kajia are in the same group, and I are in the same group as Maria, and I are in the same group as the German bombers in front. We must kill them all in the shortest time. Do you understand?"
"I understand!" The other three female pilots replied in unison. Then, the four planes were divided into two groups and rushed towards different enemy planes.
Seeing the planes of both sides flying up and down the sky and chasing, Sokov thought to himself: "It seems that in today's air battle, the first record of Lieutenant Lillia must be the first to win."
The German pilot was very cunning. He climbed high and dived, trying to get rid of Lilia who was following behind. Although Lilia locked the target several times, before she could fire, the enemy plane disappeared from her. The two sides chased each other for two or three minutes, and Lilia did not find a chance to fire.
Just as the enemy plane tried to lift up again to get rid of Lilia who was following behind, Lilia suddenly heard the sound of a cannon shooting above her head. Then, a stream of black smoke emerged from the wings of the enemy plane, and the enemy plane that had lost control quickly flew downwards. After about twenty seconds, it fell directly to the ground, and a thick smoke mixed with dark red flames rose.
"Beautiful job, Lilia!" As soon as the enemy plane crashed on the ground, Lilia heard Laisha's voice coming from her headphones: "You shot down another enemy plane."
"Comrade Lieutenant," Lillia quickly replied, "This plane was not shot down by me." She glanced at the back quickly, and saw Kajia following behind, waving at herself in the cockpit, and then she continued, "It was Kajia who shot down."
"What, was Kajia shot down?" Laisha was stunned when she heard Lilia say this. She thought that in the air battle two days ago, Kajia was shot down by an enemy plane. She didn't expect that she would fly into the blue sky today and actually make her first record. She quickly coughed gently: "Kajia, good! But don't be proud, try to fight a few more enemy planes."
"Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant." Kajia, who had just opened the record, replied in high spirits: "I shot down the Germans once two days ago, so I will shoot down their ten planes to retaliate."
"Girls, let's kill the remaining enemy plane together." Laisha said to the other female pilots in 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 Kajia who was shot down by the enemy plane two days ago. He couldn't help but sigh: "This Kajia looks good in good condition. I wonder how many enemy planes she can shoot down."
When Yakov heard Sokov say this, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Misha, do you know these female pilots?"
"Yes," Sokov pointed his hand into the air and introduced to Yakov: "Kaga, the pilot of the No. 04 fighter jet that just shot down the enemy plane, was shot down by the enemy plane during the air battle a few days ago. It was my man who saved her. I didn't expect that she returned to the blue sky today and actually shot down an enemy plane first. It was amazing."
Yakov was about to say a few words when he suddenly heard a strange sound from the air. He quickly raised his telescope and looked in the direction where the sound came, and his face turned pale: "Misha, I think we are in trouble now."
Chapter completed!