Chapter 936: Prisoner
U-2, the famous Soviet aircraft designer Nikolai Murphy. Polikarpov designed a biplane primary trainer that made its first test flight in 1928 and began mass production in 1930 and continued until 1953, with a total production of about 33,000 aircraft.
Before the car, the USSR did not have its own trainer aircraft. Polkarpov's design principles were: "simple, reliable and inexpensive", and named this aircraft "U-2", which means "trainer-2".
In this era, it was definitely a biplane, with an open two-cockpit with a pine skeleton and a linen skin, with wire between the upper and lower wings. The power plant is an M-11 air-cooled piston star-shaped 5-cylinder engine driven by a two-bladed wooden propeller with a power of 100 hp.
After production, this aircraft immediately won the love of the majority of aviation personnel, simple structure, low cost, easy to produce and maintain, especially excellent operating performance, outstanding take-off and landing performance, for the Soviet Union to train a large number of aviation personnel.
Later, in 1944, in memory of the deceased Polkapov, the U-2 was renamed the Po-2.
At the same time, because of the excellence of the New Year, this aircraft has been improved in various ways, used as a liaison aircraft, ambulance, night bomber, raider aircraft, transport aircraft, etc., its biggest feature, of course, is that it is simple to take off and land, as long as there is a small piece of flat grass can take off and land smoothly.
Now, this U-2 plane flew to Brest New City last night to deliver some supplies, because it was small and flexible, so it landed directly in the football stadium in the city, and after that, it has not taken off.
Now, this plane is being used by Timoshenko and Pavlov to escape for their lives.
They did not flee, but to avoid being captured by the Germans and causing serious diplomatic problems, yes, that's it!
Timoshenko gave command to his lieutenant, and, taking Pavlov in a car, quickly ran to the playground, jumped into the open cargo hold at the back, and then asked the pilot to take off.
Fortunately, this is a modified plane, if it is the original trainer plane, it will only have two seats, one pilot in the front, and two people in the back need to be squeezed.
The cargo hold was not spacious, and the two of them half-crouched inside, exposing their heads and looking ahead.
A ground crew member pulled the propeller with his hand to help start the plane, and after puffs of black smoke came out, the plane was successfully launched, and then the pilot pushed the throttle stick and prepared to take off.
The take-off and landing distance of a biplane is very short, and this kind of aircraft only needs 80 meters of glide to get up.
However, just after the plane slid away, the tanks of the Germans appeared!
The Germans came too fast!
First, of course, because of the first-class mobility of the German armored forces, they were originally lightning fast, and secondly, because the Soviets had no line of defense in the rear.
The units with combat effectiveness were deployed to the front line and attacked the various fortresses, while in the rear, there were only some suppressed artillery, and under the bombardment of the opposite fortress, the artillery positions were finished, and those who remained at the scene were considered the second-line troops who collected the corpses, and when the German armored units came, they did not resist at all.
In this way, the German armored soldiers rushed into the city!
"Discover German tanks!" The pilot shouted: "Oh Ah police, they opened fire on us!" ”
"Take off, keep flying!" Timoshenko shouted loudly, don't worry about it, as long as you fly, you won't be afraid of anything!
"Boom!" Almost at this moment, a huge explosion sounded, and the opponent's grenade, unbiased, hit a clearing twenty meters in front of it, setting off a big crater!
Countless debris flew with them, and the pilot could only bend down and dodge downward, and at the same time, release the throttle and pull the brakes.
"We have to stop!" The pilot shouted.
No way, this kind of small aircraft, the landing gear is a fixed main wheel plus tail sled, that is, the pilot does not have any control ability, and needs the help of ground personnel when taxiing and turning.
Now, if it continues to rush forward, the only result is to crash into that big crater.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of the engine in front of him suddenly become extremely loud, and black smoke came out.
Not good, a flying fragment, hit the engine!
The radial engine is quite resistant to damage, and after being hit by shrapnel, it can continue to operate, however, this comes at a risk, such as the fuel of an aircraft, which may be ignited!
As if hearing his most terrible thoughts, the black smoke in front of him turned into flames, and the engine caught fire!
"Quick, jump!" The pilot shouted, he couldn't care about the two generals behind him at all, he couldn't protect himself, the fire quickly spread, and before the plane stopped, he jumped from it.
The two people in the back were also in a hurry, Timoshenko was quite nimble, stepped on Pavlov's body, and jumped down, when he touched the ground, he rolled on the ground five or six times before he stopped, and when he staggered to his feet, he saw Pavlov also jump down, but he still had flames on his body!
Pavlov jumped to the ground, rolled a few times, and the fire was extinguished, but the hair on the back of his head was scorched and grinned in pain.
On the ground, there was a violent vibration, and the two of them looked up and saw that the tank, which had already rumbled over!
The hatch of the tank opened, and a commander came out of it, pushed the machine gun on the top of the tank, and aimed at them: "Hello two generals, it's a pleasure to see you!" ”
Carl Bowman was quite excited, at this time, the two people opposite were still wearing military uniforms, with military ranks, and the general star on it was so dazzling.
These two people, the senior commanders of the Soviets!
Maybe it's the two people you're looking for!
"Company commander, two Soviet generals have been found." Bowman shouted excitedly over the radio.
He didn't know the two people in front of him, the photos of the Soviets, it was impossible to send them to each and every one of them, but the company commander definitely knew!
There was a constant roar behind him, accompanied by the unique clatter of the high-pressure oil pump of the diesel engine, and one after another the Tiger tanks came up, and the company commander got down from his tank, holding a submachine gun, and shouted loudly: "Bowman, you have made a great contribution!" ”
The company commander knew Timoshenko, when the Soviet Union and Germany met here, a joint military parade was held, and at that time, Timoshenko was the commander-in-chief of the Soviets!
At that time, Timoshenko was on top, but now, Temoshenko had to raise his hands.
As a military man, today is his most humiliating day.