Burning Moscow

Zhukov finally got us 30 C47 transport aircraft, which accounted for almost half of the aircraft type assisted by the United States. He told me on the phone, "Lida, I have already reported to Comrade Stalin about the opening of the air transportation line. He approved our entire plan and at the same time ordered the logistics department to give priority to the supply of fuel to the air force of our front. ."

"It's great, this is really great." In fact, the inspiration for the establishment of such an air supply line was inspired by the famous "air supply line" established by the U.S. military over Berlin a few years later. This mode of transportation, Although it is possible to stock up a large amount of supplies in the shortest time, due to the excessive number of aircraft used, the daily fuel requirement will also be an astronomical figure. At this moment, I heard Zhukov said that the air force belonging to the front army can give priority to the supply of fuel. , I was really overjoyed: "Comrade Marshal, if this is the case, then we can in the shortest possible time, in the two landing sites on the west bank of the Vistula, hoard enough materials to launch a new battle."

"Lida, I am still a little worried." Zhukov said hesitantly: "We use 50 transport planes to transport materials to the two landing sites of Magnusev and Puławy. Sooner or later they will be discovered by the Germans. If it is the enemy Using bombing and shelling to disrupt our airlift, how do you plan to deal with it?"

"Comrade Marshal, I have considered the question you mentioned a long time ago." Upon hearing Zhukov's question, I secretly relieved and said that fortunately I was prepared, otherwise I really don't know how to answer: "In order to prevent For the enemy’s air strikes, in addition to sending additional fighter planes to patrol the airborne field, we also transferred several artillery divisions to the west bank of the Vistula River, which greatly strengthened the air defense force of the landing field and prevented the enemy from bombarding the airborne field unscrupulously. ."

"The issue of air strikes, you have already considered it, it is very good." Zhukov praised me, and then asked: "Then what measures have you taken to deal with the enemy's shelling?"

I quickly opened the notebook in front of me and read the contents recorded on it to Zhukov: "Comrade Marshal, according to the report of General Cuikov, commander of the Eighth Guards Army, they have completed the engineering facilities in the first defense zone. In front of the two full-section continuous trenches, a sprawling anti-tank and anti-infantry minefield and barbed wire barriers have been established. The trenches are separated by 200-300 meters and are connected by traffic trenches..."

After reporting a series of boring data, I finally said: "The place where General Cuikov landed the plane was behind their second defensive zone. There is dense forest here. Even the enemy's shelling of this area is also very good. It is difficult to cause substantial harm to our airborne field."

After listening to my explanation, Zhukov finally felt relieved. He finally said: "Lida, since you are so confident, then my heart is at ease."

After finishing the conversation with Zhukov, I told the content of the conversation to Malinin and Terekin, and then picked up the phone again, ready to tell Cui Kefu the good news.

But it was his chief of staff who answered the phone. After hearing my voice, the chief of staff immediately reported to me: "Report to the deputy commander, General Cui Kefu is not in the headquarters."

"Not at the headquarters?" When I heard the Chief of Staff say this, I couldn't help asking in surprise: "Then do you know where he went?"

"That's it. An officer of the health camp died heroically while rescuing the wounded on the battlefield." The chief of staff said quietly, "General Cui Kefu went to preside over his funeral."

I frowned and thought for a moment. Under my influence, the health camp officer who usually went to the battlefield to rescue the wounded by the enemy's bullets, at best, was a small lieutenant like Nina and Ulanova. It’s incredible that Cui Kefu, the laborer, came to the scene to preside over the funeral.

But I didn't follow up with his chief of staff, because if the other party knew the reason, he would have reported to me long ago. There is no need to wait for me to ask before telling me.

Since I couldn't find Cui Koff, I called the Air Force Commander Porenin and informed him that he was about to receive 30 C47 transport planes and the good news that he would receive priority fuel supply.

Although Porenin had known from other channels that his superiors would dial the transport plane, when I told him about it, he was still very excited: "Great, Comrade Deputy Commander, this is really amazing. That’s great. As long as we have enough fuel, the number of fighters dispatched every day can be greatly increased. In this way, we can control the air superiority on both sides of the Vistula River in a short time."

Porenin’s words gave me a new perspective. If our air force can really control the air dominance on both sides of the Vistula River, then the "air supply line" that is now being established will become a chicken rib, instead of using it every day. With so many transport planes to transport supplies, it would be better to erect a few more floating bridges on the river and repair the bridges that were blown up by the Germans, so that our troops and technical equipment can continue to cross the river with energy.

But these things, I just think about it in my heart. After all, the current primary task is to establish an "air supply line" to provide enough materials for the troops on the landing site. After discussing the details of the air transport with Porenin, I put down the phone.

As soon as the call was put down here, Cui Kefu's call came in, and he hurriedly asked: "Lida, I heard the Chief of Staff say that you just called me. Is there anything important?"

"Marshal Zhukov informed me that the superiors had provided us with 30 latest C47 transport aircraft." I slowly said into the microphone: "This way there will be at least 25 transport aircraft of various types every day, which can transport the troops you need. Supplies. I just called to tell you the good news. Who knows that the chief of staff said you went to the funeral."

"Thank you, Lida, thank you for telling us such good news." After Cui Kefu said this, his tone suddenly became heavy: "Yes, I did go to the funeral just now. The one who sacrificed was a man named Sidorenko’s warrant officer, he is an officer in the health camp. By the way, you may still know him."

"I know him?" I heard Cui Kefu say that, and I quickly searched for the name Sidorenko in my mind. I didn't feel any impression, so I quickly asked: "Where did I meet him?"

"Yes, Lida, you must have seen him." Cui Kefu said in a positive tone: "During the defense of Stalingrad, his health camp was stationed in the'Red October' factory area. During that battle , He braved the enemy’s artillery fire and rescued more than 80 wounded commanders."

After Cui Kefu reminded me, I immediately remembered that there seemed to be such a man who dared to save people under the intensive fire of the enemy. He was always admirable and impressive. I nodded quickly and said, "Yes, Cui Kefu General, I remember this comrade, he was very brave in the defense of Stalingrad. Can you tell me how he sacrificed?"

"This morning, under the cover of several tiger tanks, the enemy's infantry launched an attack on our landing field." Cui Kefu briefed me on the situation: "Because our anti-tank guns are not powerful enough, they cannot penetrate the enemy's armor at a long distance. , So there is an anti-tank artillery company, which is deployed in the open area in front of our army's defensive positions.

After they destroyed two German Tiger tanks, the entire company died almost entirely, leaving only the company commander and the radio operator, both of whom were seriously injured and lying on the open ground unable to move. Sidorenko crawled out of the trench, rushed to the middle ground, bandaged the wounds of the two wounded, and dragged them back from the front one by one.

He was discovered by the enemy when he dragged the artillery company commander back. The enemy immediately dispatched a tank and rushed toward the middle area aggressively. Although after he put the company commander in the trenches, many commanders persuaded him not to take risks anymore, but he boldly said: ‘As long as I am here, I will never leave any wounded on the battlefield. After speaking, he crawled towards the middle area without hesitation.

When he dragged the radio operator to retreat, the enemy's tank rushed up with great majesty, knocked him down violently, and crushed him and the wounded under the track. "

I heard that Sidorenko was crushed under the track by the enemy's tank. I couldn't help but shiver. Under this situation, there would be no complete corpse. Cui Kefu and the others put it in the coffin last. Pile of meat sauce. As soon as Cui Kefu finished speaking, I quickly added: "General Cui Kefu, you should immediately compile a piece of material and report it to the military commissar of the front army to give us the honor that a hero deserves."

In the evening, 30 C47 transport aircraft from Moscow arrived at the military airport in Lublin. Porenin immediately called me to ask for instructions: "Comrade Deputy Commander, the new transport plane that Moscow has given us has arrived. What do you think should be arranged for them?"

"The pilots must be very tired after flying for so long. Let's arrange them to rest first." Considering that there are a lot of pilots under Porenin, I simply let the pilots from Moscow rest and use others. People will fly them instead: "However, we still need to hurry up to install the materials for the modified aircraft. After the materials on the plane are full, we will use our pilots to transport these materials to the landing site first."

"Understood, Comrade Deputy Commander." Porenin readily agreed: "I will arrange this as soon as possible."

The reason why the United States wanted to establish an air supply line in Berlin in June of 48 was because the Soviet Union closed the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Hanover-Berlin highway at the border of the occupied zone; at the same time, it closed the checkpoint with citizens. All road, rail and water transportation to Berlin that are closely related to life, and stop the supply of electricity and coal to West Berlin.

West Berlin occupied by the US military is located in the hinterland of the Soviet-occupied area. The city was still in ruins at the time, but it was inhabited by more than 2 million inhabitants as well as the control committees of the allies and the occupying forces of the Western countries. Since this city does not produce food or other necessities at all, its survival depends entirely on land and water transportation. In order to take anti-blockade measures against the Soviet-occupied area, Clay, the US military chief in Germany, decided to implement air supply to West Berlin.

The U.S. Air Force used a total of seven airports in the Berlin airlift, of which Rhein Main, Wiesbaden, Fasburg, and Seri airports were the loading and take-off airports, and Tempelhof, Gato, Tegel airports Unload the airport for arrival. Due to the limited airspace and terminal airport range, coupled with the large number of aircraft participating in air transport, the air corridors are crowded and the aircraft density is high. In order to strengthen management, the United Kingdom and the United States established a joint air traffic control center in Tempelhof.

All transport aircraft flying in the air corridor must fly in accordance with the designated air corridor range and the specified altitude and speed. The deployment of each flight echelon and aircraft shall be carried out in accordance with the method of distinguishing time and altitude. During the Berlin airlift, there were more than 868 forced landings of transport planes entering several prescribed airports every day, and almost one plane forced landing every minute. Tempelhof Airport has an average of 325 planes landing every day, the interval between landings of planes is 4-5 minutes, and the interval of air planes is 3 minutes. During the 13-month-long Berlin airlift, according to statistics, 266,644 planes shuttled back and forth in this narrow 3 km wide passage, creating one miracle after another in the history of human airlift.

The counterfeit version of the "air supply line" I built has only 50 transport planes and has to fly to two landing sites at the same time. It is naturally not as busy as the "air supply line" established by the Americans over Berlin. UU看书www .uukanshu.com Others have a plane landing every minute, and it’s pretty good for me to land one in half an hour, and rely on the advantage of short flight distance. However, for the sake of safety and efficiency, before the route was officially put into use, I forced Porenin to set up ground consoles at the two landing sites to improve transportation efficiency.

On the second day after the route was officially put into use, Cui Kefu called me and said that the materials transported by the transport plane in one day could catch up with the total amount provided by the previous truck in one week.

After I heard the good news, although I was in ecstasy, on the surface, I said nonchalantly: "It seems that the efficiency of air transportation is much higher than that of land transportation. If we continue to develop at this speed, at most half a month, we will Can hoard enough supplies to take the initiative to attack the enemy."

After hearing what I said, Cui Kefu immediately went on to say: "Yes, if the Air Force can always maintain this speed to deliver supplies for our troops, then from the beginning of December, we will be able to accumulate enough strength to take the initiative to attack the enemy. ."

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