Even though Alexei appeared to be very enthusiastic, he was worried about these new female pilots in his heart. As for the oil pipeline they had repaired, he felt it was necessary to have the highly skilled mechanics in the regiment check it out. Are there any safety hazards? He winked at the mechanic beside him and motioned for him to go over and check.
The mechanic saw Alexei's look, nodded, walked to the plane with the tool box, and began to check the damaged oil pipeline to see if Raisa had repaired it.
After careful inspection, the mechanic showed a surprised expression on his face. He turned to Alexey and said, "Comrade Captain, it's incredible that they actually repaired the damaged oil pipeline."
"Really?" Alexey heard the mechanic say this and looked in disbelief: "They were able to repair the broken oil pipeline. Are you kidding me?"
"How could I be joking about something like this?" Faced with Alexei's doubts, the mechanic said with some dissatisfaction: "If the plane has hidden dangers, it may be life-threatening once it takes off."
After the mechanic explained this, Alexei believed that these female pilots, who were not favored by everyone, could actually repair the plane by themselves. He looked at Raisa with wide eyes and said in surprise: "Comrade Lieutenant, this is really incredible. You can actually repair the plane by yourself?"
"Comrade Captain, this is nothing!" Raisa said with a wry smile: "When we were in the 586th Fighter Flight Regiment, we had to refuel and load the aircraft ourselves."
"What?" Alexei was completely shocked when he heard this: "You still need to refuel and load the aircraft yourself before taking off for combat?"
"Yeah, what's so surprising about this?" Raisa and others have been discriminated against by male pilots since they joined the Air Force, so they feel that doing these things by themselves is a matter of course. Seeing Alexei's surprised expression at this moment, I felt very strange: "No one is helping us, so we have to do it ourselves."
Alexey took Raisa and the others to the prepared pilot dormitory, and then ran to the regiment command post to find the regiment leader Khostnikov. When the regiment leader saw Alexei leaving and coming back, he asked curiously: "Comrade Captain, what's the matter?"
"Comrade Commander," Alexey said to the leader: "Maybe our view of the new female pilot is wrong."
"Why?"
"After their plane landed at the airport, they happened to catch up with the enemy's shelling of the airport. The oil pipeline of one of the planes was damaged. After I learned the news, I took the mechanic over to help them repair it. Guess what happened? ?" Alexei did not wait for Khostnikov to answer, and answered his own question: "They repaired the oil pipeline themselves."
When Khostnikov heard the news, he asked in surprise: "Did they repair the pipeline themselves before our mechanics arrived?"
"That's right, Comrade Commander." Alexey nodded in affirmation, and then continued: "And according to Lieutenant Raisa herself, not only can they repair the aircraft themselves, but they also used to do it when they were in the 586th Regiment. Before each flight, they refuel and load the aircraft themselves."
"Is it true?" As soon as Khostnikov asked this, he realized that he had asked the wrong question. Alexei could not lie to himself with something that was not true. Everything he said might be true. But the leader is a stubborn person. No matter what Alexei says, he still preconceptions that female pilots are unreliable.
After Khostnikov walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back for a few times, he stopped and said to Alexey: "Comrade Captain, in any case, I don't think highly of them. Therefore, I don't think so either." What combat missions are you planning to assign to them?"
"This is not good, comrade leader." Alexei said with some embarrassment: "In any case, they are reinforcements sent to us by our superiors. If they are hidden in the snow, I'm worried that when our superiors know about it, they will It’s your fault.”
"If you don't assign tasks to them, it's enough that you and I know about it." Khostnikov said to Alexei: "Outside, we have to say that they are always on standby. As long as the time is right, Ready to fight at any time."
Although he knew that Khostnikov's statement was self-deception, it was not easy for Alexey to refute it. First, his position is too low, and he, a small captain, has no right to command the colonel; second, the female pilots have just arrived, and if he tries his best to speak good words for them, he may attract gossip. Therefore, after careful consideration, he could only nod his head and acquiesced to Khostnikov's arrangement.
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Khryugin learned that the Red October Tractor Factory had been bombed by the Germans. He immediately remembered the women's flying squadron that had been on standby. He called Khostnikov and ordered him to let the women's flying squadron attack.
After receiving this order from Khryugin, Khostnikov was really dumb and couldn't tell the pain. Although he was always worried that Raisa and the others had little fighting power, and if they rushed into the battlefield rashly, they would die, but since it was an order from a superior, he could only carry it out unconditionally.
Since arriving here, the female pilots have been nominally on combat readiness duty every day, but the regiment has not assigned them any combat missions at all, so the four of them have stayed in the dormitory every day and stared at each other.
On this day, Raisa felt that she might not have any tasks today, and was considering whether she should go to Khostnikov and ask him to assign tasks to her. Unexpectedly, before she went out, a staff officer on duty suddenly came over and called her: "Comrade Lieutenant, I have your phone number."
"My phone number?" Raisa was stunned when she heard the staff officer on duty say this: "Who would call me here?"
"It's the leader's call."
"The call from the regiment leader?" Upon hearing that it was the regiment leader's call, Raisa immediately left the staff officer on duty and rushed to the duty room not far away. After she rushed into the room, she saw the handset of the telephone on the table. She quickly picked it up and put it to her ear and said, "Comrade Colonel, I am Lieutenant Raisa. What instructions do you have?"
"Lieutenant, listen." Khostnikov said coldly: "The enemy is bombing the Red October Tractor Factory. Our superiors ordered us to send planes to drive away the enemy planes there. At present, the only remaining enemy in the regiment is I’ll leave you as a squadron, so I order you to take off immediately and rush to the Red October Tractor Factory.”
When she learned that Khostnikov had finally assigned herself a combat mission, Raisa was overjoyed and quickly agreed: "Don't worry, comrade colonel, we promise to complete the mission."
Khostnikov was still worried about this women's flying squadron, and he had no choice but to let them go into battle. Hearing Raisa agree so readily, he asked with some anxiety: "Comrade Lieutenant, can you deal with these enemies?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Colonel." Raisa said confidently: "We will let the Germans have a taste of our power."
When Khostnikov was about to put down the phone, he suddenly thought of a key question. The women's flying squadron had just arrived. Can they find a place? He quickly asked: "Can you find the specific location?"
"No problem. We have been studying the map for the past two days." Raisa replied: "We can find the combat area even without the guidance of the navigator."
Raisa quickly ran back to the dormitory, and before Lilia and the others could ask, she shouted excitedly: "Girls, the mission is here, prepare to take off for battle."
When the three female pilots heard what Raisa said, they immediately cheered. When Lilia was changing into her flight suit, she curiously asked Raisa: "Comrade Squadron Leader, where is our combat location?"
"Red October Tractor Factory," Raisa took the opportunity to introduce the mission to her subordinates: "The enemy's dive bombers are bombing the factory. Our mission is to drive the enemy bombers away from the sky above the factory."
"How many planes does the enemy have?" Lilia asked.
Lilia's question stopped Raisa. When she answered the phone, she was so excited that she forgot to ask Khostnikov how many aircraft the enemy had. Seeing Raisa's delay in speaking, Katya interrupted and said: "Lilia, don't worry, we are fighter jets, and the enemy is bomber. Even if they outnumber us, we can still drive them away from the sky above the factory."
"During the battle, we were divided into two crews." Raisa recognized Katya's statement and began to formally assign tasks: "Maria and I are in a group, I am the host, Maria is the wingman; Lilia and Katja In one group, Lilia will be the host and Katya will be the wingman." Seeing that everyone had changed their clothes, she waved her hand suddenly and said, "Let's go!"
The female pilots rushed to the runway and boarded the Yak-1 fighter jet that had been refueled and loaded with ammunition. After launching the fighter jets, they rose into the sky one after another. After Raisa and the others completed their formation, they knew that the smoke-filled place in the distance was the battlefield they were about to go to, without using any instruments or maps. So the four planes lined up in a row and flew in the direction where the smoke covered the sky and the sun. go.
Khostnikov stood in front of the regiment command post, looking at the four Yak-1 fighter jets going away, and said with some jealousy: "Hell, my regiment is still equipped with Lager-3 fighter jets, and these girls But they were flying Yak-1 fighter jets. If these planes were handed over to my real pilots, maybe they could shoot down more German planes."
The Lager-3 fighter is a single-seat, single-engine piston fighter. Because the power of the engine is too small for the heavy wooden fuselage, the designers had to try to reduce the weight of the fuselage, including reducing the size of the aircraft. weapons to improve the performance of the aircraft. But even so, this kind of fighter is always at a disadvantage when facing the German BF109 fighter.
The Yak-1 fighter is currently the most advanced fighter of the Soviet Army. Its main weapons are a 20mm cannon located in the center of the propeller and two 12.7mm machine guns in the nose. It is fully capable of rivaling the BF109 fighter.
When the Women's Flying Squadron arrived over the Red October Tractor Factory, the entire factory was being bombed by fifty or sixty JU87 dive bombers. The enemy not only bombed the assembly workshop, but other factories also did not escape the fate of being bombed. The factory building where Peter was located was hit by three bombs, and the roof on the fifth floor was blown through. The factory where Guryev was located was turned into ruins under the continuous bombing of the German army. If his guards had not reacted quickly and dragged him away before the factory collapsed, the Guards Division might have been leaderless at this moment.
Seeing the dense enemy planes over the factory, Maria, who participated in the battle for the first time, was so frightened that her whole body shook like chaff. She tremblingly said to Raisa through the radio: "Comrade Squadron Leader, the number of enemy planes is There are too many and I’m afraid we won’t be able to deal with them.”
"Maria, come up with me," Raisa simply ordered: "Cover me." After saying that, she pushed the joystick and rushed toward an enemy plane that had just dropped bombs and was ascending. . When she was still three to four hundred meters away, she used her machine gun to shoot at the enemy planes. Unfortunately, the distance was too far and all the bullets she fired missed.
The pair of Lilia and Katya have competed with the German Air Force many times in the sky and have rich combat experience, but they also cooperate with each other very well. Seeing Lilia speeding over, Katya quickly followed, covering her back to prevent her from being attacked by enemy planes.
Although there were targets everywhere, Lilia locked onto an enemy plane that was circling at low altitude and dived towards it. After entering the effective range, she immediately fired with her cannon. After a series of cannons were ejected from the chamber, they accurately hit the tail fin of the enemy aircraft and shattered it.
The enemy plane, which had lost its tail fin, suddenly lost control, turned rapidly in a circle with its nose downwards, and fell to the ground, making an earth-shattering explosion. Because it all happened so fast, the German pilots didn't even have a chance to parachute, and they were shattered into pieces in the explosion of the plane.
When Raisa saw that an enemy plane had been shot down, she immediately guessed that it was Lilia's work and quickly congratulated her through the airborne radio: "Lilia, good job! Come on, try to shoot down a few more of them."
Sokov, hiding in the basement, received a call from Brisky. Briski said excitedly on the phone: "Comrade Brigadier, our plane has arrived. A minute ago, I saw with my own eyes that a German bomber was shot down."
"Great, this is really great." Sokov, who was hiding in the basement and afraid to show his face after being bombed by German planes, suddenly felt elated when he heard that an enemy plane had been shot down. He was in a good mood. Asked: "Comrade Captain, how many of our planes have arrived?"
"Four, Comrade Brigade Commander." Briski replied: "Four fighter jets are coming."
"What, only four fighter jets came?" The smile on Sokov's face gradually disappeared. There were at least fifty or sixty German aircraft in the sky, but our air force only dispatched four. How could this look like Come to die. However, he still asked reluctantly: "Comrade Captain, have you seen clearly? Are there really only four?"
"That's right, Comrade Brigade Commander, I can see clearly, there are indeed only four fighter jets!" Brisky looked up into the air and continued: "They are four Yak-1 fighter jets."
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