"Find another way?" Andrianka said: "But we have no other way!"
"No, we do!" Shulka said: "First of all, I want to know why the German night fighters can carry out bombing at night!"
In fact, it's not that Shulka didn't know this, it's just that as an infantry captain, he shouldn't know this, so he asked extra questions.
"Is there a problem with this?" Major Mikhailovich asked: "Maybe they have been trained!"
Andrianka was equally confused.
This is not surprising. There is a saying: "A layman only sees the excitement, an expert only sees the door."
Major Mikhailovich and Andrianka are standard infantrymen, and they don't have much knowledge. Even if they have military knowledge, they only know about infantry tactics and equipment. They know nothing about fighter planes, radars, etc.
Looking at the doubtful looks of the two men, Shulka spread his hands and said: "I don't know either, but I think there must be something wrong with it... Why were their fighter jets unable to fight at night before, and now so many fighter jets suddenly appeared?
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Being reminded by Shulka, Major Mikhailovich and Andrianka nodded slightly in unison and said: "There does seem to be something wrong!"
"If we can find the cause!" Shulka said: "Then we may be able to find a solution, or at least limit the enemy's combat effectiveness!"
"But...how should we find the reason?" Major Mikhailovich asked with a confused look.
Shulka couldn't help but fainted. He had already reminded him to this extent, but he still couldn't enlighten Mikhailovich.
Fortunately, Andrianka was smarter, so he continued: "Maybe we can ask the Air Force, they have knowledge and experience in this area, or we can ask the intelligence department!"
This is what Shulka wants.
Although the Soviet equipment at this time was not advanced enough to install radar on aircraft and conduct night battles... In fact, the Soviet Union had already done so. They installed the "gneiss" radar on the PE-fighter.
But this was still in the experimental stage, and it was not officially put into use on the battlefield until 1944.
However, this does not affect the interpretation of pilots or technicians on the combat methods of German night fighters.
Major Mikhailovich immediately reported this problem to Golikov.
This is because as the commander of the 8th Regiment, Major Mikhailovich did not have the ability to directly contact the Air Force and obtain information in a timely manner.
To be precise, Major Mikhailovich may have contacted the Air Force, but the contact may have been a correspondent.
Then after talking a lot, it is estimated that it will take a few days to get a reply, or the correspondent did not take what Major Mikhailovich said seriously at all, put down the phone and forgot about it.
This matter was different when Golikov came forward, especially when he was still commanding the defense of Stalingrad.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Golikov to hear back.
"They said the Germans may have a ground radar base station!" Golikov replied: "They can attack the ground and ensure that they do not crash into the ground at night... This cannot be solved by installing airborne radar. It probably requires
Cooperation with ground radar!”
"Ground radar?" Major Mikhailovich cast a surprised look at Shulka. He already knew what Shulka meant by "finding another way."
However, why did Shulka seem to know about this before this?
Of course, Shulka would not admit this.
"That's just my speculation!" Shulka said.
Then naturally, a targeted plan came out: reconnaissance of the location of the enemy's ground radar base station, and then coordinated with artillery, guerrillas and even the air force to destroy it, especially at night.
"This will cause some trouble for the enemy!" Akimovich said: "But it cannot fundamentally solve the problem! Because the Germans are most likely using vehicle-mounted radar. As you know... it is usually hidden until needed.
Just come out of hiding and be ready to change positions at any time!"
"So we need another tactic!" Shulka said: "In addition to amphibious landing ships, we also need to build a bridge across the Volga River to attract the firepower of German fighter planes!"
"Building a bridge?"
Hearing this, several people in the headquarters couldn't help but be stunned.
"Captain!" Major Akimovich said: "Building a bridge is not an easy task!"
"It's also difficult to build a bridge, but it only takes a few artillery shells or a few bombs to blow up the enemy!" Major Mikhailovich also objected.
"Why don't we build a simple bridge!" Shulka said: "And it is easy to repair, so that the enemy can't blow it up!"
"What do you mean?" Major Mikhailovich asked: "You mean the pontoon bridge? No captain, the pontoon bridge is not easy..."
"But it's a floating bridge!" Shulka nodded: "You can also say it's not! I mean, we can tie gasoline barrels to both ends of the board and connect them end to end!"
Upon hearing this, Major Mikhailovich and others could not help but be stunned.
After being silent for a while, Major Akimovich asked: "Is this okay? I mean, such a simple pontoon..."
"Because it's simple, it can be repaired at any time!" Shulka said.
"Its transportation volume..."
"Transportation volume is not a problem!" Andrianka said: "At least our reinforcements don't need ships, and they can carry supplies across the river!"
"Yes!" Shulka said: "Use the most primitive human power to transport!"
This is actually a paradox of war.
If you want to become a military power, you must keep yourself advanced, but the more advanced you are, the more weaknesses you have, such as power stations, gas stations, airports, etc. Sometimes, the most primitive opponent has no weaknesses or very few weaknesses, because
When war breaks out you don't even know what facilities to bomb your opponent.
At this time in Stalingrad, Shulka believed that this primitive manpower transportation tactic could be used.
"We have a lot of raw materials!" Shulka said. "Empty gasoline cans!"
Saying this, Shulka turned his attention to Akimovich.
Akimovich nodded.
This is for sure. Stalingrad is an industrial city. If it is said that there is a shortage of oil because it is difficult to transport gasoline in due to the blockade, that is true, but there is no shortage of empty oil barrels.
"And it's easy to make!" Shulka said: "You only need to tie the two ends of the wooden board to the oil drums! In other words, we may prepare many such pontoons... and then we can build them without spending much time and manpower.
Several such pontoon bridges have been erected on the Volga River and are ready for repair at any time!"
Finally, Shulka concluded: "Radar suppression, coupled with amphibious landing ships and pontoons, do you think the Germans can complete the blockade mission using only these existing fighters?" (To be continued)