Before the tanks could evacuate, a German bomber swooped down and dropped a bomb on the huddled tank group. ?? ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?． The r?a?n?w?e?na`com bomb missed its target and exploded four or five meters away from the tank. The flying shrapnel hit the soldiers sitting on the tank, and several soldiers screamed. He fell off the tank immediately and was quickly crushed under the tracks of the tank that followed, turning into a puddle of meat.
Seeing this scene from a distance, Sokov couldn't help but feel heartbroken. The offensive battles he had organized so far had resulted in almost negligible casualties. However, at this moment, a bomb dropped by an enemy plane killed five or six people. of casualties. He quickly squatted down, grabbed the microphone, and shouted into the microphone: "Get me the anti-aircraft gun position!"
In a short time, the phone at the anti-aircraft artillery position was connected, and Sokov hurriedly said into the phone: "Lieutenant Ulanova, have you seen the enemy plane in the sky? Fire immediately and shoot it down."
As soon as the microphone was put down here, the three anti-aircraft guns commanded by Ulanova started shooting "bang bang bang" at the enemy planes in the air. However, the cunning enemy plane quickly circled in the air and shot towards Flying far away, causing all the bullets fired by the anti-aircraft guns to miss.
Sokov shouted to the operator standing below: "Operator, come to me!"
When the operator saw Sokov calling him, he hurriedly agreed, stepped on the masonry and rubble on the ground, climbed onto the track, stood up and asked Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, what are your instructions?"
Sokov pointed to the walkie-talkie on his back and said: "Contact Colonel Bely immediately and ask him to withdraw as quickly as possible. Even if a tank is blown up during the retreat, you cannot stay, otherwise you will wait until the enemy A large number of planes arrived and they couldn't evacuate even if they wanted to."
The operator agreed, put the walkie-talkie on his back on the ground, and was about to send a message to Bely, but was stopped by Sokov: "What time has it been? If you still want to send a message to him, call him in plain language immediately." .”
"Understood," the operator agreed, quickly grabbed the microphone and shouted loudly: "Car, car, I am the command department, I am the command department, please answer if you hear it, please answer if you hear it!" Car, is the cable Kove gave the tank battalion the code name, and his own code name was the headquarters.
Soon, the operator heard the reply coming from the earphone: "I am a car, I am a car!"
"Car, car." The operator heard the other party's reply and shouted loudly: "The brigade commander ordered you to withdraw as quickly as possible. Even if there are tanks along the way, don't pay attention. Otherwise, wait for the Germans. After a large number of planes arrive, you will not be able to evacuate even if you want to."
"The car understands, the car understands." Bely replied decisively in his tank: "We will return to the hiding place as quickly as possible." After ending the call with the radio operator, Bely gave his two The company commander issued an order, "Captain Sereda and Captain Ivantsov, immediately return to the underground tank depot as quickly as possible."
"Comrade Colonel," Shereda replied worriedly: "There are German planes above us. If we return to the underground tank depot like this, our hiding place will be exposed."
"If you continue to stay here, your company will be wiped out as soon as the German plane arrives." Biely said sternly: "Return to the tank depot at full speed immediately."
As soon as Bely finished speaking, a bomb dropped by an enemy plane exploded not far away, and the flying shrapnel clanked on the tank body. Bielei turned around and asked the driver next to him: "Is our tank okay?"
"It's okay, Comrade Colonel." The pilot replied: "As long as the bombs dropped by the enemy planes do not directly hit our tanks, there will be nothing wrong with them." At this point, he hesitated for a moment and murmured, "It's just a matter of sitting down." The infantry comrades on our tanks can’t tell.”
Bely 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, is there anyone? Is anyone there?"
The shrapnel that just flew across hit a soldier, and the soldier fell silently into Briskey's arms. Briskey was supporting his soldier and checking his injuries when he suddenly heard the phone at the rear of the tank ringing non-stop and quickly asked someone to bring the phone over. He put the microphone to his ear and asked loudly: "Comrade Colonel, what can I do?"
"Comrade Captain," Bely felt more at ease when he heard Brisky's confident voice. He then asked, "A bomb just fell and exploded nearby. Are you okay?"
"A soldier is wounded," Brisky said loudly as he checked the soldier's injuries: "The shrapnel hit his shoulder. We need to send him back to the basement for treatment as soon as possible."
"Hold on, we'll be there soon." After putting down the phone, Bely shouted to the driver next to him: "Speed up!"
"Comrade Colonel, we can't go any faster." The driver said in embarrassment: "Look, there are craters everywhere. If we drive faster, the car will easily overturn."
"There are wounded people in the car who need to be sent for treatment immediately." Bely did not blame his men, but told him: "Drive as fast as possible while ensuring safety."
The 36 tanks of the tank battalion crossed the fence one after another, rushed into the factory area, and drove quickly or slowly towards the location of the underground tank depot. Seeing this scene, Yakov couldn't help but said worriedly: "Misha, if enemy planes discover the location of our underground tank depot, I'm worried that they will continue to send planes to bomb it until it is completely destroyed."
Although Sokov looked at the enemy planes in the sky and felt extremely uneasy, in front of Yakov, he still forced himself to say calmly: "Yakov, if our tanks don't return to the underground tank depot as soon as possible, they will It was blown into a pile of scrap metal by German planes. As for whether they will bomb the underground tank depot, that is a matter for later, we don’t need to consider it now.”
From time to time, German bombers swooped down and dropped bombs on the speeding tanks, or strafed the infantry sitting on the tanks. They quickly achieved results. Two tanks were hit by bombs and caught fire while parked. The soldiers sitting on the vehicles were directly killed by shrapnel from time to time, and they ran around covered in fire.
Seeing a tank being destroyed by enemy planes, Sokov couldn't help but feel anxious. He kept raising his hand to look at his watch and murmuring: "What the hell, why aren't Colonel Khostnikov's fighter squadron here yet?"
"Misha, look quickly." Just when Sokov was extremely anxious, Yakov suddenly pointed to the sky and said to him excitedly: "Plane, our plane."
Sokov looked in the direction of Yakov's finger, and sure enough he saw four Yak-1 fighter jets appearing in the sky. Sokov knew that this was a fighter plane of the Women's Flying Squadron, and couldn't help waving his arms and shouting loudly: "Come on, girls! Beat them up, beat them down all these damn German planes, beat them down quickly!"
Yakov didn't know that there were female pilots in the flying group commanded by Sokov. He asked in surprise: "Misha, are these fighter jets driven by female pilots?"
"That's right," Sokov nodded vigorously and said in a positive tone: "The pilots of these four Yak-1 fighter jets are all young girls."
"Young girl?!" After hearing what Sokov said, Yakov's brows furrowed even more tightly, and he asked with a worried look on his face: "Can they do it?"
"Yakov, what's wrong with the girl? Don't you know that women can hold up half the sky." Sokov said to Yakov: "In the air battle a few days ago, they beat up eight enemy planes in one go. Down." At this point, he pointed in the air with his hand, "Have you seen that No. 02 fighter jet? Its pilot, Second Lieutenant Lilia, shot down five enemy planes alone, and one of them was fighter."
"It's amazing that one person shot down five enemy planes." Yakov sighed while raising his telescope and looking into the sky: "Misha, I saw the No. 02 fighter jet. Is it on the fuselage? The plane with the white lily?"
"Yes, that's the plane." Although Lilia had only participated in one air battle and had not yet been called the "White Rose" by the Germans, Sokov took the initiative and said to Yakov: "The Germans don't know the Lilia fighter plane. The lily on the bed was thought to be a white rose, so Lilia was called 'White Rose'."
"White rose?!" When Yakov heard what Sokov said, he couldn't help but put down his telescope and asked curiously: "Misha, how did you know?"
Sokov casually replied: "This was said by a German pilot who was captured by us."
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 wonder how many of them she can kill today." Enemy plane."
Sokov opened his mouth and was about to express his opinion when he suddenly heard the operator calling him. He quickly turned around and asked, "Comrade operator, what's going on?"
"Comrade Brigadier," the radio operator said respectfully, "the captain of the third squadron wants to talk to you!"
"Captain of the 3rd Flying Squadron?" Sokov was stunned when he heard the operator say this. Then he realized that the person he was talking about should be Lieutenant Raisa, the captain of the Women's Flying Squadron, and quickly took the microphone from the other party's hand. and headphones, and said loudly: "Hello, Lieutenant Raisa, I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov."
"Hello, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" Raisa's polite voice came from the earphones: "There are only two enemy planes in the sky. What is our mission?"
"Lieutenant Raisa, the mission is clear." Sokov said in an official tone: "You must shoot down these two enemy planes in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, when a large number of enemy planes arrive, you will not think about it again." It won’t be as easy as it is now to knock them down.”
"Understood!" After Raisa simply replied, she began to give orders to her subordinates: "Lilia, you and Katya are in a group, and I am in a group with Maria. We must attack the German bombers in front of us in the shortest possible time. Come on, knock them all down, do you understand?"
"Understood!" the other three female pilots replied in unison. Then, the four planes divided into two groups and pounced on different enemy planes.
Seeing the enemy and our planes flying up and down in the sky and chasing each other, Sokov thought to himself: "It seems that in today's air battle, it is Second Lieutenant Lilia who will score the first victory."
The German pilot was very cunning. He climbed high and dived for a while, trying to get rid of Lilia who was following closely. Although Lilia locked on the target several times, before she could fire, the enemy plane disappeared from her face. The two sides chased each other for two or three minutes, and Lilia found no opportunity to fire.
Just as the enemy plane tried to pull up again to get rid of Lilia who was following behind, Lilia suddenly heard the firing of a machine gun above her head, and then, a stream of black smoke came out from under the wings of the enemy plane, and she lost The controlled enemy plane quickly flew downward diagonally. About twenty seconds later, he fell directly to the ground, and a thick cloud of smoke mixed with dark red flames rose up.
"Hello, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" Raisa's polite voice came from the earphones: "There are only two enemy planes in the sky. What is our mission?"
"Lieutenant Raisa, the mission is clear." Sokov said in an official tone: "You must shoot down these two enemy planes in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, when a large number of enemy planes arrive, you will not think about it again." It won’t be as easy as it is now to knock them down.”
"Understood!" After Raisa simply replied, she began to give orders to her subordinates: "Lilia, you and Katya are in a group, and I am in a group with Maria. We must attack the German bombers in front of us in the shortest possible time. Come on, knock them all down, do you understand?"
"Understood!" the other three female pilots replied in unison. Then, the four planes divided into two groups and pounced on different enemy planes.
Seeing the enemy and our planes flying up and down in the sky and chasing each other, Sokov thought to himself: "It seems that in today's air battle, it is Second Lieutenant Lilia who will score the first victory."
The German pilot was very cunning. He climbed high and dived, trying to get rid of Lilia who was following closely. Although Lilia locked onto the target several times, before she could fire, the enemy plane disappeared from her face. The two sides chased each other for two or three minutes, and Lilia found no opportunity to fire.
Just as the enemy plane tried to get rid of Lilia who was following it by pulling up again, Lilia suddenly heard the firing of a machine gun above her head. Then, a stream of black smoke came out from under the wings of the enemy plane, and she lost The controlled enemy plane quickly flew downward diagonally. About twenty seconds later, he fell directly to the ground, and a thick cloud of smoke mixed with dark red flames rose up.
Seeing the enemy and our planes flying up and down in the sky and chasing each other, Sokov thought to himself: "It seems that in today's air battle, it is Second Lieutenant Lilia who will score the first victory."
