At dawn, Briskey was sleeping in the command post when he was woken up by an officer under his command. Seeing Briski open his eyes, the officer said out of breath: "Comrade Battalion Commander, come and see!"
Briski asked in confusion: "What happened, the Germans attacked?"
"No, comrade battalion commander, it's not the enemy attacking." The officer shook his head and said, "It's the annihilation battalion."
"Anihilator Battalion?!" Briski became more and more confused: "What happened to the Annihilator Battalion?"
"I can't tell for a while," the officer replied, "Comrade battalion commander, you'd better come and see for yourself."
Briski followed the officer out of the command post and came to the trench. From a distance, he saw hundreds of annihilation battalion soldiers in civilian clothes standing dozens of meters ahead. "What on earth is going on? What are they doing here?" Briski climbed out of the trench and walked toward the front, 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 Briski approached the soldiers of the annihilation battalion, he vaguely heard someone in front of the queue saying loudly: "...You will lie down in these craters later. When you see the enemy plane appearing, you will immediately raise your gun and take aim. When you hear the whistle After the sound is heard, immediately use the fastest speed to shoot out all the bullets in your guns. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" the soldiers replied in unison.
"What's going on?" Briskey turned to ask the officer following him: "Do you know what's going on?"
"I don't know," the officer shook his head and replied, "I saw soldiers from the annihilation battalion, led by Major Bolshak, suddenly came here. I felt it was necessary to report to you, so I sent you Wake up."
When he learned that Bolshak was also here, Brisky remembered that the voice that spoke just now was very familiar and should belong to Bolshak, and he quickly continued walking forward.
When the soldiers of the annihilation battalion lay down in the bomb crater one after another, Bolschack, who was still standing next to the bomb crater, stood out. Briskey walked towards him quickly, and at the same time shouted: "Major Bolschack" , Major Bolshack.”
When Bolshak saw Brischi walking towards him, he hurriedly greeted him, stretched out his hand to him, and asked politely: "Hello, Comrade Captain! What's the matter?"
Briski pointed at the soldiers lying in the crater and asked in confusion: "Comrade Major, what are they doing?"
"It's like this," Bolschak explained to Briski when he saw that he didn't know anything about it: "The German prisoners you captured confessed that their bomber group will bomb our place early this morning." Lieutenant Colonel Cove considered that the air defense force was insufficient, so he came up with this method of using infantry to fight aircraft."
"What, using infantry to masturbate?!" Brisky's jaw almost hit the ground when he heard what Bolshak said: "Crazy, Comrade Brigade Commander must be crazy, otherwise how could he come up with such a ridiculous idea? Method."
Regarding Briski's statement, Bolschak did not agree. He shrugged his shoulders and said: "No matter what, we have to try. Maybe we can really shoot down the German plane."
After scanning the craters where the soldiers were lying one by one, Briskey said with an expression of embarrassment: "Major, have you ever thought about what would happen if a German plane dropped a few bombs on where the soldiers were? How many casualties have we caused?"
"Comrade Captain, you don't have to worry about this." When Sokov first proposed this plan, Bolshak was indeed worried. However, after on-site inspection, he felt that what Sokov said was somewhat reasonable, so he Briski said: "Soldiers stay in the bomb crater. Even if they are bombed by enemy planes, their casualties can be minimized."
"When they stayed in the crater, they could only see their comrades around them. They couldn't help but see the soldiers in other craters." Briskey's views at this time coincided with Bolshak's thoughts at the time. : "I would like to ask, how can they fire at the enemy aircraft at the same time?"
"This question is also very simple." Bolshak pointed not far away and continued: "The four anti-aircraft guns of the Women's Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion are located not far away. Once the conditions for firing are met, they will pass The whistle signaled the soldiers hiding in the craters to open fire.”
After Bolshak said this, Briskey discovered that a new anti-aircraft position was built not far away, and four anti-aircraft guns were lined up in a neat row behind the sandbags that had just been set up. Seeing this situation, Briskey knew that Sokov should have thought of solutions to all the problems he could think of, so he did not continue to ask further. After chatting with Bolshak for a few words, he turned and returned to his command post.
More than half an hour later, there was a faint roar of engines in the air. Briskey's first thought was "The enemy plane is coming!" He quickly walked out of the command post, stood in the trench, raised his telescope and looked at the sound. Looking from the direction it came from, I saw four German dive bombers flying towards the location of the factory from the west.
"The enemy has four bombers." After Briskey saw the number of enemy planes clearly, his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up. He thought to himself: "The only four anti-aircraft guns left in the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion, and one company in the annihilation battalion, Can you deal with enemy planes?"
When the enemy plane lowered its flight altitude and prepared to drop bombs towards the location of the factory, four anti-aircraft guns on the ground fired at the same time. The soldiers hiding in the crater heard Ulanova blowing the whistle and immediately pulled the trigger on the German aircraft.
If the German bombers were jet aircraft, the infantry-focused firefighting tactics formulated by Sokov would definitely have no effect. But in this era, the speed of aircraft is relatively slow, and shooting with a rifle is undoubtedly very effective. Amidst the intensive gunfire and artillery fire, a black smoke ribbon suddenly appeared from under the wings of a diving aircraft. Then the aircraft lost its balance and fell diagonally towards the north. Soon, the plane landed outside the factory and exploded, sending up a plume of black smoke.
"Great, this is really great." Briski became excited when he saw that an enemy plane had been shot down. He quickly picked up the phone and reported to Sokov who was staying in the basement: "Comrade Brigadier, Our infantry successfully brought down an enemy aircraft."
"Oh, an enemy plane was shot down by us?" Even though Sokov looked calm and composed when specifying the plan, he only had theoretical knowledge and had not practiced it, so whether he could shoot down the enemy plane was not a matter for him. That said, it is still unknown. After listening to Briski's report, his heart that was hanging in mid-air finally returned to his stomach. However, for the sake of safety, he still asked: "Comrade Captain, have you seen clearly whether the enemy plane was hit by anti-aircraft artillery or a rifle?"
Briskey only saw one German bomber shot down, but whether it was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery or by a rifle, he really couldn't see clearly. Therefore, after hearing Sokov's question, he hesitated for a long time before answering in an uncertain tone: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I think it was hit by anti-aircraft artillery and rifles at the same time."
Sokov was eager to know whether the enemy plane was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery or rifles, which would affect whether this tactic would be promoted in the team in the future. Therefore, after hearing Brisky's ambiguous reply, he said with some dissatisfaction: "Captain Comrade, I want to hear real reports, not your speculations. Do you understand?"
"Understood, Comrade Brigadier." Briski replied politely.
"Comrade Captain, please continue to observe and see whether it was the anti-aircraft artillery or the infantry that shot down the enemy plane." Sokov told Briski: "If you have the latest battle report, remember to report it to me in time."
