Red Moscow

Just after dawn, Briski, who was sleeping in the command post, was woken up by one of his officers. Seeing that Briski opened his eyes, the officer said out of breath, "Comrade Battalion Commander, come and see!"

Briski asked in bewilderment, "What's the matter, the Germans are attacking?"

"No, Comrade Battalion Commander, it's not the enemy's attack." The officer shook his head and said, "It's the destroyer battalion."

"Destroyer Battalion?!" Briski became more and more confused: "What happened to the Destroyer Battalion?"

"I can't tell for a while," the officer replied, "Comrade Battalion Commander, you'd better come and see for yourself."

Briski followed the officer out of the command post and came to the trench. He saw hundreds of fighters of the destroyer battalion in plain clothes standing tens of meters ahead. "What the hell is going on here? What are they doing here?" Briski crawled out of the trench, and walked forward, muttering in a low voice: "Are we going to attack the Germans? But why didn't anyone inform me of such a big event?"

When Briski approached the fighters of the destroyer battalion, he vaguely heard someone in front of the queue saying loudly: "...you will lie in these bomb craters later, and when you see enemy planes appearing, immediately aim your guns. When you hear the whistle Immediately after the sound, shoot out all the bullets in your guns at the fastest speed. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The soldiers replied in unison.

"What's going on here?" Briski turned his head and asked the officer following him, "Do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know," the officer shook his head and replied, "I saw the fighters of the destroyer battalion, led by Major Borshak, suddenly come here. I think it is necessary to report to you, so I send you wake up."

Knowing that Bolshak was also here, Briski remembered that the voice that spoke just now was very familiar, and it should belong to Bolshak, so he hurriedly continued to walk forward.

After the fighters of the destroyer battalion lay down in the bomb crater one after another, Bolshak, who was still standing beside the crater, stood out, Briski walked towards him quickly, and at the same time shouted: "Major Bolshak , Major Balshak."

When Balshak saw Briski walking towards him, he hurried up to greet him, stretched out his hand to him, and asked politely, "Hello, Comrade Captain! What's the matter?"

Briski pointed at the soldiers lying in the crater, and asked inexplicably, "Comrade Major, what are they doing?"

"Well," Borshak explained to Briski, seeing that Briski didn't know, "the German prisoners you captured confessed that their bombers will bomb our place early this morning. Lieutenant Colonel Koff took into account the lack of air defense forces, so he came up with this method of using infantry to fight the plane."

"What, use infantry to fight a plane?!" Briski almost hit his jaw on the ground when he heard Balshak say this: "Crazy, Comrade Brigadier must be crazy, otherwise how could he come up with such absurd idea?" Method."

Bolshak did not agree with Briski's statement. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, we have to try. Maybe we can really shoot down the German plane."

Briski glanced over the bomb craters where the soldiers were lying, and said with embarrassment: "Major, have you ever thought that if the German planes dropped a few bombs on the soldiers' positions, it would be a disaster for the soldiers." How many casualties did we inflict?"

"Comrade Captain, you don't have to worry about this." When Sokov first proposed this plan, Balshak was indeed worried, but after the on-the-spot investigation now, he felt that what Sokov said was somewhat reasonable, so he Said to Briski: "The soldiers stay in the crater, even if they are bombed by enemy planes, their casualties can be minimized."

"Staying in the crater, they can only see their comrades-in-arms, and they can't see the soldiers in other craters at all." Briski's view at this time coincides with what Balshak thought at the time. : "I want to ask, how can they fire at the enemy's aircraft at the same time?"

"This question is also very simple." Balshak pointed to the not far away, and continued: "The four anti-aircraft guns of the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion are located not far away. Once the conditions for firing are met, they will pass The whistle signaled the soldiers hiding in the crater to open fire."

After Balshak said so, Briski discovered that there was a new anti-aircraft position not far away, and four anti-aircraft guns were lined up in a neat row behind the sandbags that had just been built. Seeing this situation, Briski knew that Sokov should have thought of solutions to all the problems he could think of, so he didn't continue to ask further questions. After chatting with Balshak for a few words, he turned and returned to his command post.

After more than half an hour, there was a faint roar of engines in the air. Briski's first thought was "the enemy plane is coming!" He hurried out of the command post, stood in the trench, raised his binoculars to the sound Looking in the direction of the transmission, I saw four German dive bombers flying towards the location of the factory from the west.

"The enemy has four bombers." After seeing the number of enemy planes, Briski's heart beat faster, and he secretly thought in his heart, "there are only four anti-aircraft guns left in the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion, and one company of the destroyer battalion. Can it deal with the enemy plane?"

When the enemy plane lowered its flight altitude and was about to drop bombs at the location of the factory building, four anti-aircraft guns on the ground fired at the same time. The soldiers hiding in the crater heard Ulanova's whistle and immediately pulled the trigger on the German plane.

If the bombers of the German army were jet aircraft, the tactics of infantry focusing on fighting aircraft formulated by Sokov would definitely have no effect. But in this era, the speed of the plane is relatively slow, and the rifle is undoubtedly very effective. Amidst the dense gunfire and artillery sound, a black smoke band suddenly appeared under the wing of a diving plane, and then the plane lost its balance and fell obliquely towards the north. Soon, the plane landed outside the factory building and exploded, raising a puff of black smoke.

"Great, this is really great." When Briski saw that an enemy plane was shot down, he immediately became excited. He quickly picked up the phone and reported to Sokov who was staying in the basement: "Comrade Brigadier, Our infantry managed to shoot down an enemy plane."

"Oh, an enemy plane was shot down by us?" Don't look at Sokov's composure when formulating the plan, but he only has theoretical knowledge and has not practiced it. That said, it's still an unknown. After listening to Briski's report at this moment, his heart that was hanging in the air finally returned to his stomach. But just to be on the safe side, he still asked: "Comrade Captain, have you seen clearly whether the enemy plane was hit by an anti-aircraft gun or a rifle?"

Briski only saw one German bomber shot down, but whether it was shot down by anti-aircraft guns or by rifles, he really didn't see clearly. So when he heard Sokov's question, he hesitated for a long time before answering in an uncertain tone: "Comrade Brigadier, I think the antiaircraft gun and rifle hit at the same time."

Sokov was eager to know whether the enemy plane was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery or rifles, which was related to whether to promote this tactic in the team in the future, so after hearing Briski's ambiguous reply, he said with some dissatisfaction: "Captain Comrade, I want to hear the real report, not your speculation. Understand?"

"Understood, Comrade Brigadier." Briski replied politely.

"Comrade Captain, continue to observe and see whether it is the enemy plane shot down by the anti-aircraft artillery or the infantry." Sokov told Briski: "With the latest battle report, remember to report it to me in time."