Chapter 2359

More than an hour later, Bezikov returned to the headquarters, and with him came an air force lieutenant colonel.

“Comrade Commander,” Bezikov came to Sokov and reported to him: “This is the commander of the Air Force, he wants to see you.”

The air force lieutenant colonel took two steps forward, raised his hand to salute Sokov, and then reported: "Hello, comrade general, I am Lieutenant Colonel Denis, deputy commander of the 245th Fighter Aviation Division, and I am Marshal Hudyakov, commander of the Feng Group Army. I came here to assist you in your battle according to the order.”

"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Denis." Sokov reached out and held the other person's hand, and said excitedly: "With your help, we will no longer be afraid of Kwantung Army aircraft."

"Comrade General," Denis said, "the only ones arriving with me so far are some dispatchers and ground staff responsible for directing the takeoff and landing of aircraft. They are currently installing communication equipment at the airport so that when a large number of aircraft arrive tomorrow, they can complete Orderly landing.”

“I wonder when your plane will arrive?” Yakov couldn’t help but ask.

 Lieutenant Colonel Denis didn’t know Yakov. He couldn’t help frowning after hearing this, thinking whether he should answer the other party’s question.

Sokov saw his doubts and quickly introduced him: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I forgot to introduce you. This is my chief of staff, Major General Yakov."

"Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff." Denis raised his hand to salute the other party, and then said: "The transfer plane will arrive at around seven o'clock tomorrow morning."

Knowing that the Air Force aircraft formation will arrive at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, Yakov's face showed a relaxed expression: "The Germans bombed the camp of one of our divisions tonight, and tomorrow we can come back with revenge and bomb them." airport.”

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Denis asked: "Comrade Chief of Staff, do you know where the enemy's airport is?"

These words stopped Yakov. He only knew that the camp of the 116th Division had been attacked. As for where the enemy planes came from, he was blind and knew nothing.

Fortunately, Sokov rescued him in time: "I'm sorry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we really don't know the location of the enemy's airport. You know, the cunning enemy carried out air strikes on our troops' campsites when it was almost dark. Completed After the air raid, they flew away to the south under the cover of darkness. Because it was getting late, we couldn't see exactly where they were flying to, and naturally we didn't know the location of their airport."

Seeing that Sokov and the others had no idea about the location of the enemy's airport, Denis couldn't help but sigh secretly, but in order not to spoil everyone's interest, he pretended to be generous and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know. We'll wait until tomorrow." When the reconnaissance plane arrives, it will soon be able to figure out the location of the enemy's airport."

The next morning, among the first thirty planes that arrived, there was a reconnaissance plane. Denis quickly ordered the pilot to fly south to find the location of the enemy airport.

After receiving Denis's order, the pilot did not dare to neglect. After asking the ground crew to fill up the plane with fuel, he immediately took off and flew south to find the location of the Kwantung Army's airport.

About thirty minutes later, a reconnaissance plane appeared over the airport.

Seeing the long black smoke strips coming out from under the wings of the plane, Denis secretly screamed, and quickly called Sokov to ask for help: "Comrade General, the reconnaissance plane we sent has returned, but it must have been attacked. When the Kwantung Army's ground anti-aircraft fire hit, the pilot may have been injured, please send me some medical staff."

"Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the medical staff will be here soon." After Sokov put down the phone, he said to Yakov: "Yasha, the reconnaissance plane sent by Lieutenant Colonel Denis has returned, but during the reconnaissance process, the pilot The pilot was hit by ground anti-aircraft fire and the pilot may have been injured, so you immediately sent medical staff to treat the wounded."

“Okay, I’ll make a call right now.”

Just when Yakov picked up the phone and was about to call the field hospital, Sokov raised his hand to stop him: "Forget it, Yasha, I'll take the medical staff there myself. By the way, I can also find out what the pilots are looking at." Something has arrived."

 About ten minutes later, Sokov's bucket truck and an ambulance arrived at the airport at the same time.

Before the ambulance could stop, a ground crew rushed out from the runway and waved to the ambulance: "Here, here!"

The ambulance drove to a stop in front of the ground crew, and the door at the back opened. Two medical staff carried a stretcher and a medical kit and got out of the car, running towards where the wounded lay.

Sokov saw Lieutenant Colonel Denis at a glance, standing outside the crowd at the moment. He quickly ordered the driver to stop the car, opened the door and got out of the car, and walked quickly towards Denis.

Seeing Sokov coming, Denis raised his hand and saluted: "Hello, Comrade General!"

　　Sokov raised his hand to his forehead in return, and then asked: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, how is the pilot's injury?"

"It's not good, Comrade General." Denis shook his head and said: "During the reconnaissance process, he was hit by ground anti-aircraft fire. He had three gunshot wounds on his left leg. It is estimated that he cannot save it. There was also one on his abdomen and chest. He suffered a gunshot wound and the situation is very dangerous.”

Sokov glanced at the medical staff who were rescuing the wounded, and continued to ask Denis: "Is there anything gained?"

"More than thirty kilometers away from here, he found an airport, but after careful inspection, he found that it turned out to be a fake airport." Denis said: "There are piles of straw near the ground runway. If the height is not lowered, , I thought it was a hangar down there.”

But Sokov didn’t think so after hearing this. He remembered reading a book before, which said that in order to confuse the British Air Force, the Germans deliberately built a fake airport, with wooden aircraft parked on both sides of the runway. Due to the poor workmanship of the fake aircraft, the pilots could tell at a glance that it was a fake target, so they never bothered to bomb here. But one time when a bomber formation went on a mission, one of the planes malfunctioned and had to return midway. In order to return to their own airport smoothly, the pilots dropped the bombs they carried on the wooden planes on the ground when passing by the fake airport. But what happened next actually shocked him. Those wooden planes exploded one by one, sending up black mushroom clouds. These fake planes were filled with fuel for the plane. After thinking of this incident, Sokov asked Denis: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I wonder if your pilots have ever attacked those straw piles?"

Denis looked at Sokov in confusion and said, "Comrade General, what are those haystacks worth attacking?"

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you can't say that." Seeing Denis' disapproving look, Sokov said sternly to him: "I think there might be a problem with the straw piles near the runway. If possible, I suggest you send a plane to attack, maybe there will be an unexpected surprise."

 After listening to Sokov's words, Denis couldn't help but sneer in his heart, thinking that although you are a general, you are an infantryman after all, not an air force. How do you know which targets are worth attacking and which are not? Isn't it a waste of ammunition to let pilots attack a few straw piles?

Sokov noticed Denis's disdain, but he was not angry. Instead, he continued to insist on his opinion: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, although I do not have the right to give you an attack order directly, I do think those haystacks are suspicious. I suggest you send a plane to have a look. Even if it’s really a straw pile, it’s just a waste of bullets and it won’t have much impact on you. Are you right about what I said?”

The official level kills people. Although Denis does not agree with Sokov's statement at all, considering that before he came here, the commander Marshal Hudyakov once told him to do a good job of unity with the infantry. Therefore, even if he has no affiliation with Sokov, the other party's military rank is always higher than his own. Since he ordered him to attack, he will send two fighter planes out to see if there is anything gained.

“Comrade General,” Denis said politely to Sokov, “please follow me to the dispatch room, where we can learn in time what the pilots are seeing.”

Sokov originally wanted to know where the Kwantung Army's airport was as soon as possible. Faced with Denis's invitation, he agreed without hesitation: "Okay, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, then I will go to the dispatch room with you and take a look. ." However, before leaving, he also specifically told two medical staff, "The pilot's injury is not serious. You should send him to the army field hospital immediately. Tell the director that it was me who said that the wounded must be sent to hospital. Save."

“Don’t worry, Comrade Commander, we will send the wounded to the field hospital immediately.”

The pilots and ground crew watching around him all cast grateful glances at him after hearing Sokov's orders to the medical staff.

Sokov followed Denis to the dispatch room. Denis immediately arranged for two fighter planes to take off and head towards the fake airport discovered by the reconnaissance plane.

After seeing the two fighters taking off one after another, Denis smiled and said to Sokov: "Comrade General, our plane will reach its destination in five minutes at most, and then we will be able to figure out where the Kwantung Army is in the straw pile." Hidden something." When he said this, he was still thinking about how you would step down when the fighter pilot reported that nothing special was found after attacking the straw pile.

“Tower, tower.” Although the control room that directs aircraft takeoffs and landings is just a bungalow, fighter pilots are still accustomed to calling it the tower: “We have found the target, we have found the target. Whether to launch an attack, please give instructions!”

 After hearing the pilot's call, Denis glanced at Sokov, then picked up the microphone on the table: "Permission to attack! Repeat, permission to attack!"

Soon, Sokov heard the sound of aircraft-mounted machine gun firing from the radio. The next moment, he heard the pilot exclaim: "Oh my God, there are actually Kwantung Army fighter planes hidden in the straw pile."

"What?" Denis was stunned after hearing this, and then asked: "What did you say, repeat it again?"

“Report to Comrade Deputy Division Commander.” The pilot reported loudly: “There is an enemy plane hidden in the haystack I just attacked. I am now raising the altitude and preparing to attack the target again with my wingman.”

Hearing what the pilot said, Denis realized that the problem was different from what he imagined, and quickly asked: "Tell me quickly, how many straw piles are there?"

“There are more than twenty. That is to say, if there is an airplane hidden in every straw pile, then there are more than twenty airplanes at this airport.”

The fighter pilot carried out two more attacks on ground targets in the shortest possible time. However, since the fighter was not a bomber and did not carry aerial bombs, he could only rely on the onboard machine gun to fire and destroy the enemy planes hidden in the straw piles. .

Denis also thought of this. He knew very well that it was obviously inappropriate to rely on the fighter's onboard machine guns to annihilate all enemy planes at the airport. He quickly issued a combat alert to the pilots preparing for the battle, and ordered two bombers in a four-plane formation and a fighter in a four-plane formation to quickly rush to the Kwantung Army's airport, preparing to cooperate with the two fighters there to destroy all the aircraft on the ground. Target.

Those straw piles were where the little devils parked their planes. They piled straw on the simple wooden houses. From the air, they looked like piles of straw and would not attract attention at all. But they never dreamed that they would encounter a monster like Sokov and directly order the aircraft to shoot at these straw piles, causing the aircraft parked inside to be destroyed.

How could the little devils be willing to become lambs to be slaughtered? Their ground crew rushed out from their hiding place, lifted the straw blocking the hangar door, opened the door, and pushed out the aircraft parked inside. As soon as the pilot gets into the cockpit, he immediately turns the propeller hard so that his plane can take off quickly.

 The two fighter planes that were the first to attack the ground, after several rounds of attacks, only destroyed five or six Japanese aircraft. And those aircraft pushed out from the hangar quickly took off into the air, braving the strafing fire from air fighters, and fought with the fighters.

The little devil pilot's technical and tactical level is relatively high, and he quickly shot down a Soviet fighter plane. Seeing the Soviet pilot parachuting, a group of Japanese soldiers immediately ran towards the direction of the pilot parachuting, ready to capture prisoners.

The remaining fighter saw a large group of Japs heading towards the direction where its wingman pilot was parachuting, and quickly swooped down from a high altitude and strafed the ground. Unfortunately, the fighter jets were designed for air combat and had limited effectiveness in attacking ground targets. After a round of strafing, only four or five Japs were knocked down, and the remaining Japs still rushed towards the direction where the pilots parachuted.

Before the pilot could pull up the plane, a Zero fighter jet rushed over from the side. The onboard machine gun made a roar, and the fighter's wing was suddenly covered with bullet holes. The next moment, the pilot felt that the plane was out of control and in danger of crashing at any time.

Fortunately, at this moment, he saw three four-machine formations heading towards him in the distance, and his mood suddenly became relaxed. With the help of friendly forces, he could safely escape from the battlefield and return to the airport.

 (End of this chapter)