USSR 1941

"Another way?" said Andrianka, "but we have no other way!"

"No, we have!" Shulka said. "First of all, I want to know why the German night fighters can bomb at night!"

In fact, it's not that Shulka doesn't know this, but as an infantry captain, he shouldn't know this, so he asked more.

"Is there a problem with that?" Major Mikhailevich asked. "Maybe they have been trained!"

Andrianka is also unclear.

This is not surprising. There is a saying: "The outsider watches the excitement, and the insider watches the way."

Major Mikhailvich and Andrianka are standard infantry soldiers, and they don't have much knowledge. Even if they have military knowledge, they only know about infantry tactics and equipment, and they don't know anything about fighter planes and radar.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the two, Shulka spread his hands and said, "I don't know, but I think there must be something wrong...why their fighters couldn't fight at night before, and now there are so many fighters suddenly appearing !"

Reminded by Shulka, Major Mikhailvich and Andrianka nodded at the same time and said, "There seems to be something wrong!"

"If we can find out its cause!" Shulka said, "then we may be able to find a solution, or at least limit the enemy's combat power!"

"But...how should we find the reason?" Major Mikhailvich asked with a confused expression.

Shulka couldn't help feeling dizzy, he had already reminded him to this extent, but he still couldn't enlighten Mikhailvich.

Fortunately, Andrianka was smarter. He continued, "Maybe we can ask the Air Force, they have knowledge and experience in this area, or we can ask the intelligence department!"

That's what Shulka wanted.

Although at this time the equipment of the Soviet army was not advanced enough to install radar on the aircraft and fight at night... In fact, the Soviet Union had already done so. They installed the "Gneiss" radar on the PE-2 fighter jets.

But it was still in the experimental stage, and it was not officially put into the battlefield until 1943.

However, this did not prevent pilots or technicians from interpreting the way German night fighters fought.

Major Mikhailvich immediately reported the problem to Golikov.

This is because, as the head of the 82nd Regiment, Major Mikhailevich did not have the ability to directly contact the Air Force and obtain timely information.

To be exact, Major Mikhailvich might contact the Air Force, but it might be a correspondent.

Then after talking a lot, it might take a few days to get a reply, or the correspondent didn't take Major Mikhailvich's words seriously at all, put down the phone and forgot.

It would be different if Golikov came forward, especially since he was still directing the defense of Stalingrad at this time.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Golikov to hear back.

"They said that the Germans may have a ground radar base station!" Golikov replied: "They can attack the ground, and they can guarantee that they will not crash into the ground at night... This is not a solution that can be solved by installing an airborne radar. The cooperation of the ground radar!"

"Ground radar?" Major Mikhailvich cast a surprised look at Shulka. He already knew what Shulka meant by "find another way".

However, why did Shulka seem to know about this before that.

Of course, Shulka would not admit this.

"That's just my speculation!" Shulka said.

Then naturally, a targeted plan came out: scout the location of the enemy's ground radar base station, and then cooperate with artillery, guerrillas and even the air force to destroy it, especially at night.

"This will cause some trouble for the enemy!" Akimovich said: "But it can't solve the problem fundamentally! Because the Germans are probably using vehicle-mounted radar, you know... usually hidden until needed Just come out of hiding and ready to change position anytime!"

"So we need another tactic!" Shulka said: "In addition to the amphibious landing ship, we also need to build a bridge on the Volga River to attract the firepower of the German fighter planes!"

"Bridge?"

Hearing this, several people in the headquarters couldn't help being stunned.

"Captain!" said Major Akimovich, "building a bridge is no easy task!"

"And it is difficult to build a bridge, but the enemy only needs a few shells or bombs to blow it up!" Major Mikhailvich also expressed his objection.

"Why don't we build a simple bridge!" Shulka said, "And it's easy to repair, so that the enemy can't be bombed!"

"What do you mean?" Major Mikhailvich asked. "You mean the pontoon? It's not easy without the captain..."

"But it's a pontoon bridge!" Shulka nodded: "You can also say it's not! I mean, we can tie gasoline barrels to both ends of the wooden boards, and then connect them end to end!"

Hearing this, Major Mikhailvich and others couldn't help being dumbfounded.

After a long silence, Major Akimovich asked, "Is this okay? I mean, such a simple pontoon..."

"Just because it's so simple, it can be fixed at any time!" Shulka said.

"Its transport volume..."

"Transportation volume is not a problem!" Andrianka said: "At least our reinforcements don't need ships, and they can cross the river with supplies on their backs!"

"Yes!" Shulka said: "Transportation with the most primitive human power!"

This is actually a paradox of war.

If you want to become a military power, you must keep yourself advanced, but the more advanced you are, the more weaknesses you have, such as power stations, gas stations, airports, etc. Sometimes the most primitive opponent has no or few weaknesses, because When a war breaks out, you don't even know what facilities to bomb your opponent.

In Stalingrad at this time, Shulka believed that this primitive manpower transportation tactic could be used.

"We have a lot of raw materials!" Shulka said. "Empty petrol cans!"

Speaking of Shulka, he turned his gaze to Akimovich.

Akimovich nodded.

This is for sure. Stalingrad is an industrial city. It is true that there is a shortage of gasoline because it is difficult to get in because of the blockade, but there is no shortage of empty oil barrels.

"And it's easy to make!" Shulka said: "You just need to simply tie the two ends of the wooden board to the oil drum! That is to say, we may prepare a lot of such pontoons... and then it doesn't take much time and manpower. Several such pontoon bridges on the Volga are erected and ready to be repaired!"

In the end, Shulka concluded: "The suppression of radar, coupled with amphibious landing ships and pontoons, do you think that the Germans can complete the blockade mission with only these existing fighters?"