"It's me, Lieutenant Ulanova." Sokov stepped forward and shook hands with Ulanova, and asked curiously: "Are all the comrades from the Women's Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion here?"
Hearing Sokov's question, Ulanova hesitated for a moment, then nodded and replied with some difficulty: "Yes, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, all the living soldiers of the Women's Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion are here."
After Ulanova shook hands with Sokov, she turned to the female soldier standing guard and said: "Oksara, haven't you always wanted to know the commander of Mamayev Heights? Now he is in front of you."
Hearing what Ulanova said, Oksara had a surprised expression on her face. She looked at Sokov with wide eyes and asked Ulanova in an uncertain tone: "Ah, Comrade Lieutenant, Is this the Lieutenant Colonel Sokov you mentioned?"
"Yes, it's him!"
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Oksara looked at Sokov with admiration and said, "I have heard many stories about you. I really didn't expect to see you here..."
Facing Oksala's enthusiasm, Sokov felt a little at a loss. Fortunately, Cousteau rescued him in time: "Lieutenant Ulanova, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov is here to assist us in our defense. He led The troops are stationed in the workshop. You will have many exchanges in the future. Now you take him to check the air defense positions." He nuzzled at the deputy director who was ignored by everyone, "By the way, deputy director Comrade the factory director also came together."
Ulanova noticed the deputy director of the factory standing behind Cousteau and Sokov, quickly stepped forward, raised her hand and saluted him with a military salute, and said: "Comrade deputy director, Commander of the Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion Ulanova Lieutenant Rannova reports to you that the soldiers are taking a rest, but there are people on duty at every air defense post, please give instructions!"
"I just came to take a look." The deputy director asked politely: "Comrade Lieutenant, is there anything I can do for you?"
"Comrade Deputy Factory Director," as soon as the Deputy Factory Director finished speaking, Oksara rushed to say: "Can you send someone to fill the big hole in the stairwell? It's really too much to climb up and down this fire staircase every day. It’s inconvenient.”
The deputy factory director cast a doubtful look at Cousteau, "Comrade Cousteau, what is the big hole between the roofs of the buildings that the female soldier mentioned?"
"That's it, Comrade Deputy Director." Cousteau quickly explained to the Deputy Director: "During the enemy bombing two days ago, two bombs hit the roof, penetrated the floor, fell in the workshop and exploded, killing him. Five workers were killed and seventeen others were injured..."
Before Cousteau could finish speaking, the deputy factory director waved his hand and said: "Okay, Comrade Cousteau, I have seen the casualties in your workshop in your report, but the roof was blown through by two bombs." You didn’t mention the big hole, so now take us there to take a look.”
The group of people came to the other side of the roof, where Sokov saw a square stairwell with a huge hole at the door. He visually inspected it and found that it was at least more than two meters in diameter. Except for long jumpers, it was estimated that no one could jump over it. No wonder Cousteau took himself to climb the fire escape.
"Comrade Deputy Factory Director," Cousteau pointed to the huge hole and said awkwardly: "Look at the size of this hole. Under today's circumstances, construction workers are either repairing fortifications at the front or holding weapons. Where can I find construction workers to repair the roof while fighting the enemy?”
After the deputy director stared at the big hole for a while, he turned to Cousteau and said, "Comrade Cousteau, I think there is a way to repair this big hole without construction workers."
Cousteau asked in surprise: "How to make up for it?"
The deputy director gestured and said, "If you ask someone to carry a few long pieces of wood up, put them on both sides of the hole, and then lay a layer of wooden boards on top, wouldn't it just fill the hole?"
"Yes, why didn't I think of such a simple thing?" After hearing what the deputy director said, Cousteau immediately flattered him and said, "After all, as a leader, there are many ways."
When Sokov heard Cousteau flattering him from the sidelines, he couldn't help but secretly laugh. He said to himself that this old guy was just a stickler. He was too rigid in thinking about problems and doing things, and he didn't know how to adapt at all. If he had been up there, he would have probably solved it long ago, and it wouldn't have dragged on for so many days, causing everyone to have to climb the fire escape to get on and off the roof.
After inspecting the air defense position on the roof of the building, Cousteau asked for their opinions: "Deputy Factory Director, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, we have finished reading what needs to be seen. Can we go down now?"
Sokov looked up at the sky and replied: "Deputy Factory Director, Comrade Cousteau, you go down first. It's almost dawn. I want to check the surrounding terrain before the enemy launches an attack."
After the deputy director and Cousteau left, Sokov walked to Ulanova and asked curiously: "Comrade Ulanova, weren't you originally equipped with 85mm anti-aircraft guns? How could you change it to this one?" How about a 37mm anti-aircraft gun?"
"That's right, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Ulanova replied respectfully: "After our remaining people and equipment were withdrawn, the factory arranged for us to set up an air defense position on the roof of the factory building, because the 85mm anti-aircraft guns It was too heavy to be placed on the roof, so the superiors handed it over to the Dzerzhinsky Factory and replaced it with this small-caliber anti-aircraft gun.”
After figuring out the reason for the change of equipment of the Women's Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, Sokov felt a little regretful. He had planned to use the terrain here to use anti-aircraft artillery to attack German tanks from above. It can be destroyed even at a distance of feet. Now that the 37mm caliber anti-aircraft gun has been replaced, the anti-tank power will be greatly reduced.
Thinking of this, Sokov couldn't help but said softly: "What a pity, what a pity."
"What's such a pity?" Ulanova couldn't help but ask after hearing what Sokov said, but then she guessed what Sokov meant. After all, she had spent some time at Mamayev Heights. At that time, knowing that Sokov wanted to use anti-aircraft guns to attack tanks, he asked tentatively: "You mean to use anti-aircraft guns to attack tanks?"
"That's right," Sokov nodded and said regretfully: "If the 85mm anti-aircraft gun is deployed on the roof, it can use high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles to penetrate 110mm armor at a distance of one thousand meters. Moreover. Since the elevation angle of the tank guns is not enough to attack the roof, it will create a situation where only you can hit them, but they cannot hit you."
When Sokov spoke, Ulanova did not interrupt, but listened quietly. After Sokov finished speaking, she said: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, even though we are currently equipped with 37mm anti-aircraft guns, when using high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles, it can still penetrate 46mm steel plates within a range of 500 meters. "
After listening to the data reported by Ulanova, Sokov secretly thought in his mind that if he was dealing with an early model of the German Panzer IV tank, there should be no problem with the 37mm anti-aircraft gun destroying the target at a distance of 500 meters. But now the German Panzer IV tanks have been upgraded to type F, and the frontal armor has been thickened to 50 mm. If you want to destroy the German tanks, you can only let them get closer. However, in this case, the 37mm anti-aircraft gun will be unable to attack German tanks due to angle problems.
While Sokov was thinking hard, he suddenly heard Ulanova asking herself: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking," Sokov blurted out: "Even if the 37mm anti-aircraft gun uses high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles, it cannot destroy enemy tanks at a distance of 500 meters."
Unexpectedly, after Ulanova listened to Sokov's words, she laughed loudly, which made Sokov confused. He asked with some displeasure: "Comrade Ulanova, what's so funny?"
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you are right. If our battalion is deployed on the ground, even if we use high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles, we will not be able to penetrate the frontal armor of German tanks at a distance of 500 meters." Ulanova suppressed a smile and said: "But you forgot, we are on the roof."
"I know you are on the roof, but what does this have to do with destroying enemy tanks?..." As Sokov said this, he immediately realized that he had made a common sense mistake. If the anti-aircraft guns were deployed on the ground, facing Of course, the tanks rushing over can only attack the frontal armor. But now anti-aircraft guns fire from a high position on the roof, attacking the weak tops of German tanks. Not to mention at a distance of 500 meters, even further away, the armor plate is only ten millimeters thick, and it can't block the high explosion. Armor-piercing projectiles.
Sokov raised his hand and slapped himself on the forehead, and said with some embarrassment: "Yes, Comrade Ulanova, you are right, we are on the roof, attacking the top of the German tank, 37 Millimeter anti-aircraft guns use high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles that can easily destroy them at a distance of 500 meters."
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Ulanova said with high spirits: "Although we are using small-caliber artillery today, the rate of fire makes up for the lack of power. The anti-aircraft artillery uses 5-pack magazines to feed ammunition. It can fire fifty or sixty rounds of artillery shells per minute. Let alone a few German tanks, even if dozens of tanks come, we can beat them all into scrap metal."
Although Sokov knew in his heart that the anti-aircraft guns placed on the roof were enough to block an area within one kilometer. Whether it was German tanks or infantry, as long as they entered this area, they would be under fire. blow and suffered huge losses. But the enemy is not a fool. If they find that the anti-aircraft guns on the roof pose a huge threat to them, they will definitely use artillery and air force to shell and bomb the factory buildings. Once the roof was blown down, Ulanova and her men didn't know how much they would survive.
Sokov thought to himself: It seems that if we want to defend this place, we still need new rockets. Whether they hit enemy tanks, infantry, or fortifications, they are rare weapons. Ask Briskey to send someone back to bring dozens of coins over.
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