Red Moscow

  Chapter 272 The eagle over Kursk

  After reading Andre's reply, Sokov couldn't help frowning, thinking that the German artillery bombardment was so violent that it was bound to cause huge casualties to the third battalion. It's a pity that the air force has not arrived yet, otherwise the German artillery could be severely damaged.

Seeing Sokov's worried expression, Belkin hurriedly asked, "Comrade Brigadier, is the situation in the third battalion very bad?" Before Sokov could answer, he continued, "Look, Is it necessary to order Lieutenant Porochenko to fire and suppress the German artillery fire?"

"No, the artillery can't fight back." Sokov shook his head and said, "According to Andrei's judgment, the German army used at least forty or fifty artillery pieces to shell the positions of the third battalion. If we order the artillery at this time If you open fire, not only will you not be able to suppress the enemy's artillery fire, but you will suffer disaster."

   "Then what should we do?" Belkin asked anxiously: "Should we just watch the commanders and fighters of the third battalion stay in the position and suffer the enemy's shells?"

  Just when the two were helpless, the phone on the table rang suddenly. Belkin grabbed the microphone, put it close to his ear and said, "I am Political Commissar Belkin, where are you?"

  The excited voice of the observation post came from the receiver: "Comrade political commissar, plane, our plane, I saw our plane appearing in the sky."

   "What did you say?" Belkin was taken aback when he heard the report from the observation post, which seemed incoherent due to excitement, and then asked loudly, "Our plane appeared in the sky, right?"

   "Yes, yes." The observation post said repeatedly: "There are three groups of four-plane bombers flying towards the east of the city. It seems that they are going to bomb the German artillery positions."

   Sokov and Belkin learned that the air force's bomber formation had arrived, and immediately came to the bell tower on the top of the church, from which they observed the bombers' bombing of the German artillery positions. In order not to affect the command, Sokov specifically ordered Maxim to lead two telephone lines to the clock tower.

  Sokov saw from the binoculars that this formation composed of Yak-4 bombers came to the sky above the German artillery positions, and immediately lowered their altitude and began to drop bombs. Pieces of aerial bombs fell from the sky and exploded on the artillery positions. The German cannons were blown into parts, and the artillerymen were blown to pieces. The entire position was soon shrouded in gunpowder smoke.

   Some clever artillerymen, seeing Soviet bombers flying over, immediately dropped their artillery and fled, trying to escape from this death zone. But the Soviet pilots were not willing to let them go easily. After they finished dropping the bombs, they pulled up the fuselage, circled in the air, and swooped down again. their lives.

Seeing that the German artillery's shelling of the third battalion had stopped, Sokov immediately picked up the phone and told Porochenko: "Comrade Lieutenant, let the artillery fire immediately, bombard the German artillery positions severely, and smash their remaining cannons to the ground." It's a mess."

  The commanders and fighters of the third battalion also came back from the fortifications or bunkers where they were hiding when they heard that the shelling outside had stopped. When they saw their bombers bombarding the German artillery positions from a distance, they couldn't help taking off their helmets and waving desperately at the planes in the sky. "Ula" sound.

   Before the Soviet bombers wiped out all the German artillery, the German fighter jets appeared. Eight fighter jets formed a two-plane formation and rushed towards the Soviet bombers that were bombing the artillery positions.

   Facing the rushing German fighter jets, the Soviet bombers had to stop attacking the ground targets, and started a fight with the rushing enemy planes. Although the pilots were very heroic, but where the Yak-4 was the opponent of the bf-109, in just a few minutes, two Yak-4s were shot down and one was damaged.

"Damn, what's going on here?" Seeing the scene where the bomber was attacked by German fighter jets, Sokov couldn't help crying out: "Where did the German fighter jets emerge from? Where are the fighter jets we escorted? "

   "Comrade Brigadier." Seeing this scene, Belgin was equally anxious: "We should do something to help them."

   "What can we do?" Sokov said helplessly: "Don't say we don't have anti-aircraft guns. Even if we have anti-aircraft guns, we can't hit the enemy's plane at such a distance."

   Just at the critical moment, four MiG-3 fighter jets appeared in the sky. After they approached the German fighter jets, they immediately disbanded the formation, and each went to the target he had chosen. Seeing that these MiG fighters are fighting independently, Sokov, who can be regarded as a layman in air combat, can't help but slightly frowned. He thought that the MiG fighters were not superior in number, and they actually fought on their own. Isn't it waiting to be broken by German fighter planes one by one?

   As he was thinking this, he saw black smoke coming out of a MiG fighter, which should have been hit by a German fighter. However, the pilot still fought the enemy plane tenaciously in the air, until the plane began to lose control, and then launched a collision with the enemy plane. The two planes collided in the air, creating a burst of flames, and the flaming fragments of the plane fell from the sky like a celestial maiden scattered flowers. But fortunately, the Soviet pilot did not die, but successfully parachuted before the two planes collided.

Seeing the umbrella flower blooming in the sky, Sokov quickly grabbed the microphone of the radio and shouted into the microphone: "Captain Andrei, can you hear me, Captain Andrei?" After hearing Andre's voice, he immediately ordered, "Did you see the parachuting pilot? Immediately send a small team to rescue him, and don't let him fall into the hands of the Germans."

  The MiG formation of the Soviet Army was commanded by Captain Krasnov, an ace pilot who had won the Order of the Red Banner. Seeing that his subordinates were shot down, the captain frowned slightly, and then pushed the joystick forward to let his plane dive down. When he was only 800-900 meters away from an enemy plane, he pulled back the joystick again, allowing the plane to climb rapidly, and when he was within 20 to 30 meters away from the enemy plane, he pulled the trigger decisively, and the bullet penetrated The belly of the enemy plane got into the cockpit, beating the pilot inside to a **** mess. The enemy plane, which lost the control of the pilot, spun in the air and fell down, and exploded when it fell to the ground, raising a puff of black smoke with flames.

One blow worked, and Krasnov repeated his old trick. He lowered his altitude again and launched an attack from below the enemy plane. Using the blind spots of the German pilots, he approached the enemy plane at a distance of 20 to 30 meters before firing. One enemy plane was shot down.

  In less than five minutes, Captain Krasnov managed to shoot down four enemy planes and damage two. And his other two subordinates also achieved the results of shooting down one and injuring one. Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy plane quickly turned around and fled.

"Great, our pilot is really great." Seeing the enemy plane fleeing, Belkin said excitedly to Sokov: "We should report to the front army headquarters and give credit to this brave pilot! "

  After the MiG formation of the Soviet army drove off the enemy planes, they continued to perform patrol missions in the air, covering the bombing missions carried out by the Jacques bomber formation on the German ground targets.

  (end of this chapter)