In the chaos of the battlefield, a Soviet partisan saw the helicopter in the distant sky. It was also the first time that these Soviet soldiers, who had been fighting guerrilla warfare in the vicinity for more than a month, had seen the kind of plane that could hover in the sky. Regardless of how that thing did it, the constant machine-gun fire of enemy weapons at high altitudes was a very difficult means to deal with.

"Menshak! Menshak! Hurry up and figure it out! Our men are going to be killed by that strange plane!" a Soviet partisan in a jacket turned back and shouted to his men, his troops were still fighting against the German patrol detachment, but in the blink of an eye the situation was reversed.

Yes, a complete reversal. I don't know where the rockets came from, and they overwhelmingly turned over his position. Of the 100 guerrillas who had been gathered with great difficulty, it is estimated that there are now less than 50 left, and even if these people survive, it is difficult to say how much courage they have to continue fighting.

After the rockets covered their positions, everyone found themselves with a fresh weapon above their heads, and the strange plane hovered over everyone's heads, condescendingly machine-gun at the crowd. Tracer bullets rained down on everyone, littering the ground and rubble that had been picked up by bullets, and many people wailed and died.

In fact, the German helicopter is not hovering, because of its construction it can only do an approximate hovering flight. In fact, the plane was flying around the battlefield at a slow speed, but compared to the fixed plane, it could be regarded as stopping in the air.

"The machine gun team can't find it! There's a sea of fire over there, and I don't know if Ivan's ...... can be found." The guerrilla called Menshak, with a grenade hanging from his waist and carrying a Mosin Nagant rifle, looked at the German planes in the sky that were firing recklessly, and shouted to his commander: "I think that is the only thing that can fight that far......

They found a German iron fist bazooka on a battlefield in the woods somewhere, and they were even happier to find a rocket on the corpse of a German soldier lying upside down next to this bazooka. This weapon was immediately prized by the partisans, ready to be used against German tanks if necessary.

But now it seems that there is only that thing, which seems to be able to deal with the German helicopter gunship that is hovering in the sky. So the guerrilla leader did not hesitate, immediately nodded and asked Menshak to find their "anti-tank group".

This partisan leader was very simple-minded, he knew that if the team was wiped out, weapons and other things would be useless waste, so he did not retain any spare energy, and was bent on using the weapons in his hand to cause the greatest trouble to the German army in front of him.

So by a large tree, the Soviet partisan, kneeling on the ground, carried the anti-tank rocket launcher on his shoulder, and behind him, a skinny partisan who had studied the weapon for several days, stuffed the intact anti-tank rocket into the tube of the bazooka.

"It should be fine!" the skinny partisan nodded to Menshak who was standing to the side, "Just pull the trigger and you should be able to shoot down that German plane." ”

As he spoke, the emaciated partisan pointed his finger at a German helicopter in the distance that was strafing machine gun fire. In front of him, the Soviet partisan, kneeling on the ground and ready to launch, pressed the aiming crosshair of his weapon against the fuselage of a distant helicopter, and then he discovered a more fatal problem.

"Hey, I said, the helicopter is moving! It's not always stationary, it's still moving!" the rocket shooter reported to Menshak on the side, "What will happen to us if I hit it and doesn't hit?"

Menshak frowned for a moment, then shouted at him, "Hurry up and fire!" if you wait a little longer, our people will die!", his tone was not good, and he even pressed his hand against the Mosin Nagant rifle he was carrying on his back as he spoke.

The rocket launcher was so frightened that he hurriedly aimed the bazooka at the helicopter in the sky, and then suddenly pulled the trigger - a thick puff of white smoke gushed out from behind the bazooka, and the emaciated Soviet partisan who had been standing behind the bazooka was pushed out by the tremendous force, and fell to the ground unconscious with a scream.

The rocket spewed flames and rushed towards the German helicopter in the distance, seemingly in a very close direction. There was such a big movement on the ground that the helicopter could see it clearly, and the German shooters who were strafing with machine guns immediately shouted loudly: "Rockets! Quickly rise! Quickly rise!"

The captain was trying to stabilize the helicopter and give the machine gun shooter a stable attack platform, but suddenly the shooter's heart-rending scream came from the earset, and there was a word in this cry that made him tremble, he really wanted to know why a group of guerrillas who should not have heavy weapons would have such a goddamn weapon as rockets.

So he quickly controlled the plane to rise as quickly as possible, and turned his plane as fast as he could, using a small frontal point to face the enemy's flying rocket. The violent shaking caused the two "passengers" in the back of the helicopter to almost fall off the plane, but fortunately there was a safety rope to save their lives.

The ground support fire also stopped completely for the time being, as the fuselage began to swing and the machine guns lost their firing angles. Anyway, the entire "Clairvoyant No. 3" helicopter was in a hurry, and the co-pilot was even shouting that he was going to be shot down.

It's a pity that there was a scene of collapse, the rocket deviated from the direction of the helicopter far, far away, and looked at the trajectory that could not hit the climbing helicopter at all. Just as the captain saw the puff of white smoke pulled out by the incoming rocket from his cockpit, the rocket finally lost its upward momentum halfway and fell headlong into the air.

Unfortunately, the rocket was designed to have a range of 200 meters, and German infantry shooters familiar with this thing would generally use it at a distance of 150 meters, because no matter how far away it is, the accuracy is not guaranteed.

The Soviet partisans didn't know how far it could hit, and they misjudged how strong the helicopter seemed to be, and how far it actually was. It is very difficult to judge the size of an unseen aircraft in the sky and the distance, especially for a group of amateurs who have no corresponding experience.

In fact, it would have been more effective if these partisans had fired directly at the helicopter with rifles in their hands. Of course, they didn't know about this kind of thing, so it was understandable that they would end up pinning their hopes on the more powerful bazookas.

But now their hopes have been dashed, and the German bazooka has proved to be less reliable than Mosin Nagant in terms of its ability to deal with helicopters. And this launched rocket, in addition to not shooting down the German plane, also revealed its own firing position......

Menshak watched in horror as the rocket fell from a height of 100 meters, and he did not know why this was happening, and his mind was full of doubts about the fact that the Germans' weapons were defective. However, he did not lose the alertness of an old partisan, and while his mind was full of unclear questions, he still spotted the helicopter in the distant sky, which had already pointed its nose in his direction.

So the poor Menshak hurried to his head and ran away, just as they had encountered a German patrolling armored train in their last attempt to attack the German railways. At that time, they were swept all the way by the 30 mm caliber anti-aircraft cannons on the armored train, and dozens of partisans were beaten to pieces, and that scene is still his nightmare, which will not be forgotten.

The bazooka shooter looked back at his emaciated accomplice, who was blown by the rear jet, and did not notice at all that the helicopter had not been shot down by himself. When he realized in horror that there was a powerful enemy in his back, the two 20 mm cannons under the nose of the helicopter came in a storm.

Menshak did not escape the range of the cannons, and the helicopter had an advantage in dealing with such a running target because it could stop in the air, and these people were soon covered in flames by the dense cannons, and two huge holes were punched out of Menshak's body, and the fragments of internal organs even flew several meters away.

The German infantry detachment was quickly transformed into a battlefield cleaner, and most of them, including the partisan leaders, were killed on the way to escape, except for a few unlucky ones who surrendered and were to be shot on the spot. Another advantage of a helicopter is that it is much faster than most enemies running on the ground, and those who flee often do not return fire - it's a paradise for helicopter combat, isn't it?

However, for German helicopter pilots, combat was not always so pretty, and even when dealing with opponents who did not have heavy weapons, such as partisans, the Odin helicopter was still very vulnerable, and among the losses that had been recorded, there were even cases of being shot down by enemy rifles.

Throughout April 1939, 38 of the helicopters of the German Army Aviation units operating on the Eastern Front crashed for various reasons. However, thanks to the presence of these helicopters, the rate of passage of the German supply lines that continued to move forward was doubled, and the rampant Soviet partisans were effectively contained.