After reading Andre's call back, Sokov couldn't help frowning, thinking that the German artillery bombardment was so fierce that it would inevitably cause huge casualties to the Third Battalion. Unfortunately, the air force had not arrived yet, otherwise it would have severely damaged the German artillery.
Seeing Sokov's face full of worry, Belkin asked hurriedly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, is the situation in the Third Battalion very bad?" Before Sokov could answer, he continued, "Look, do you need 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 Andre's judgment, the German army used at least forty or fifty artillery pieces to launch artillery on the positions of the Third Battalion. If we order the artillery to open fire at this time, it will not only be unable to suppress the enemy's artillery fire, but will instead suffer a catastrophe."
"What should we do?" Belkin asked anxiously: "Just watch the commanders and fighters of the Third Battalion stay on the position and get shot from the enemy's shells?"
Just as the two of them were helpless, the phone ringing on the table suddenly rang. Belkin grabbed the microphone and put it in his ear and said, "I am Belkin's Political Commissar, where are you?"
The excitement of the observation post came from the earpiece: "Comrade Political Commissar, plane, our plane, I saw our plane appear in the sky."
"What did you say?" Belkin was stunned when he heard the observation post's report that was a little incoherent because of his excitement. Then he 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."
When Sokov and Belkin learned that the Air Force bomber formation had arrived, they immediately arrived at the bell tower at the top of the church and observed the bomber's bombing of the German artillery positions from here. In order not to affect command, Sokov specially ordered Maxim to lead two telephone lines to the bell tower.
Sokov saw from the telescope that this formation composed of Jacques-4 bombers came over the German artillery position and immediately lowered the altitude and began to drop bombs. A large number of bombs fell from the sky and landed on the artillery position and exploded. The German cannons were blown into parts, and the artillery was blown away to the point of blood and flesh, and the entire position was soon shrouded in a smoke.
Some clever artillery soldiers saw the Soviet bomber flying over and immediately threw away the artillery and fled, trying to escape from the dead area. But the Soviet pilots were not willing to let them go easily. After completing the bomb drop, they pulled their fuselage high, circled in the air for a circle, dived down again, and fired the escaped German artillery with airborne machine guns, harvesting their lives frantically.
When Sokov saw that the German artillery fired the third battalion's position stopped, he immediately picked up the phone and instructed Porochenko: "Comrade Lieutenant, immediately let the artillery fire and bombard the German artillery positions hard, smashing their remaining cannons into pieces."
The commanders and soldiers of the Third Battalion, when they heard the artillery fire outside, walked back from the fortifications or bunkers they were hiding. When they saw their bombers from afar, bombing the German artillery positions, they couldn't help but take off their helmets and waved them desperately at the planes in the sky. At the same time, the sound of "Ula" sounds sounded one after another on the position.
Before the Soviet bombers could destroy all the German artillery, the German fighter jets appeared. Eight fighters used a formation of twin-planes to rush towards the Soviet bombers that were bombing the artillery positions.
Facing the German fighter jets rushing over, the Soviet bombers had to stop attacking ground targets and fought against the enemy planes rushing up. Although the pilots were brave, the Jacques-4 was not the opponent of the BF-109. In just a few minutes, two Jacques-4s were shot down and one was injured.
"Hell, what's going on?" Sokov couldn't help but scream: "Where did the German fighter jets emerge? Where did the fighter jets we escort?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander." Belkin was also anxious when he saw this scene: "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 planes at such a distance."
At the critical moment, four MiG-3 fighters appeared in the sky. After approaching the German fighter jets, they immediately disbanded the formation and went to the target they chose. Seeing that these MiG fighters were fighting on their own and could be considered as laymen in air combat, Sokov couldn't help but frown slightly. He thought to himself that MiG fighters did not have the advantage in number, but they were still fighting on their own. Wasn't they waiting to be defeated by German fighters?
He was thinking this way and saw a MiG fighter jet emerging from black smoke, probably hit by the German fighter jet. However, the pilot still fought tenaciously with the enemy plane in the air. It was not until the plane began to lose control that it launched a collision with the enemy plane. The two planes collided in the air, and a ball of flames rose up. The debris of the plane with flames fell from the air like a celestial girl scattered flowers. But fortunately, the Soviet pilot did not sacrifice, but had successfully parachute before the two planes collided.
Seeing the umbrella flower blooming in the air, Sokov quickly grabbed the sender of the phone and shouted to the microphone: "Captain Andre, can you hear it, Captain Andre?" After Andre's voice came from his headphones, he immediately ordered, "Did you see the pilot of the parachuting? Send a team to rescue immediately, and don't let him fall into the hands of the Germans."
The Soviet MiG formation was commanded by Captain Krasnov, ace pilot who received the Red Flag Medal. Seeing that his subordinates were shot down, the captain frowned slightly, then pushed the joystick forward and let his plane dive down. When he was only eight or nine hundred meters away from an enemy plane, he pulled the joystick back and let the plane climb quickly. When he approached only twenty or thirty meters away from the enemy plane, he decisively pulled the trigger, and the bullet penetrated the abdomen of the enemy plane, drilled into the cockpit, and knocked the pilot inside to a bloody and confusion. The enemy plane lost the pilot's control and planted it in the air, landed on the ground and exploded, causing a stream of black smoke with flames to rise.
The attack worked, and Krasnov used the same trick again. He lowered the altitude again and launched an attack from below the enemy plane. He used the German pilot's observation blind spots to close to twenty or thirty meters to fire again, successfully shooting down one enemy plane after another.
In less than five minutes, Captain Krasnov successfully shot down four enemy planes and injured two. His other two subordinates also achieved the results of shooting down one and injured one. Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy plane quickly turned around and fled.
"Great, our pilot is amazing." Belkin said excitedly to Sokov when he saw the enemy plane escaped. "We should report to the Front Command to ask for credit for this brave pilot!"
Chapter completed!