Chapter 489

’s two o’clock in the morning on the 41st, 1940.

At the military airport in northwest Gaul, large transport aircraft of the Third Reich Air Force were preparing for takeoff.

The ground crew was refueling the transport plane, and the airborne troops who had been prepared for a long time began to board the plane one after another.

After the Third Reich Air Force was rebuilt, the construction of airborne troops began. However, so far, airborne troops are a highly dangerous branch. In other words, the casualty rate on the battlefield will be very high.

As a service that airdrops directly onto the battlefield behind the enemy, once it arrives on the battlefield, it is destined to be surrounded by the enemy. Since the airborne troops are almost unable to carry heavy weapons when airdropping, let alone tanks and combat vehicles. This allows them to rely only on light weapons and some limited anti-armor weapons to deal with the enemy's heavy encirclement and suppression.

Even if every airborne soldier is considered an elite, not only are their individual qualities first-class and their combat skills superb, they must also master the skills of parachuting, driving vehicles, armored vehicles and even tanks.

It can be said that these airborne troops are equivalent to special forces.

Under such circumstances, the number of airborne troops will naturally not be too large. Even after several years of construction, the Third Reich's airborne troops now only have five regiments, with a total number of just over 10,000.

Every airborne soldier is regarded as a treasure by the Air Force. Even Hess is not willing to use it easily. After all, the losses of the airborne troops are not so easy to replace.

This time the battle against the Empire on which the sun never sets is of great importance. That's why Hess agreed to use two regiments of airborne troops. Before the official landing on the Empire, the sun never sets. The airborne troops were first deployed to disrupt the rear of the Empire's coastal defense lines and create favorable conditions for the landing of the Marine Corps and the Army. conditions of.

Although the size of the airborne troops is not large, their striking method of falling from the sky can play a great role on the battlefield. They attack the enemy's supply bases, blow up railways, bridges, and even attack the enemy's headquarters to cause chaos to the enemy. Preventing the enemy from forming effective resistance.

When the landing force launches an attack, it will be much less difficult.

In order to deliver the two airborne regiments to the battlefield, the Imperial Air Force mobilized a total of two hundred transport aircraft this time. In this way, the fully armed troops can be successfully transported to the predetermined airdrop area.

At 2:30 in the morning, transport planes began to take off from various airports. After completing the formation, we started flying to the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets.

When the huge fleet of aircraft entered the airspace of the Sun Never Sets Empire under the cover of fighter jets, the Sun Never Sets Empire had already discovered them through radar. It's just that because the Royal Air Force has been almost completely lost, and the Empire has no night-time takeoff and landing fighters, it cannot intercept them and can only use ground anti-aircraft firepower to launch an attack.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

On the ground, one anti-aircraft gun fired violently.

The fire exploded in the sky, just like fireworks.

But for high-altitude transport aircraft and fighter jets, these anti-aircraft guns were no threat at all.

Just after 3 a.m., Pang Pang The transport fleet has already arrived at the intended target.

"Pay attention to checking the equipment and ropes. If you don't want to be smashed into a pulp, you'd better make sure that your parachute can be opened successfully. Otherwise, you will definitely be the first!"

Inside the transport aircraft, the officers began to issue orders and at the same time checked the empty equipment one by one.

"Didi!"

The red signal power in the cabin made a beeping sound.

"Open the cabin and prepare to skydive!"The officer gave the order

"Yes, sir!"The airborne troops replied one after another.

Then, one after another, the airborne troops jumped out of the cabin.

The parachutes behind them opened, leaving white parachute flowers in the sky.

If it looked like it in the daytime, it should be pretty good. The beautiful scenery. However, it is now a dark night sky. Especially when there are a large number of enemy anti-aircraft fires, it does not look so beautiful. In fact, the airborne troops are eager to land earlier. Only in this way can they be truly safe.

The vast plain area northwest of New Romney is a major grain-producing area, with farmland stretching as far as the eye can see.

The reason why the Third Reich chose New Romney as a landing point for this landing operation was because it was almost undefeable. As long as the troops of the Third Reich successfully land, the powerful armored forces will be able to sweep across this plain and easily defeat the Imperial Army stationed in this area.

"Sir, there's something in the sky."A soldier from the Empire on which the sun never sets looked at the sky in horror.

"Damn it, it's the enemy's airborne troops!"A captain and company commander looked ugly.

"Gather your troops and prepare for battle. Also, call the group headquarters!"The captain and company commander issued the order

"Yes, sir!"The soldier replied

"Da da da!"

The anti-aircraft machine gun is firing, and tracer bullets are shooting towards the white umbrella flowers in the sky.

"Poof! Poof!"

The bullets penetrated the body, and the fragile body was punched with bullet holes one after another.

Even though these airborne troops were unparalleled in combat power, before they landed, they were living targets, allowing the enemy to attack.

During this process, Many airborne troops were killed by the ground firepower of the Empire on which the sun never sets.

But more airborne troops landed successfully.

They cut the ropes immediately, collected the parachutes, and then found a place to bury them.

At the same time , the troops scattered in various places began to gather.

If they don't gather and fight individually, they will soon be surrounded and wiped out by the enemy. No matter how powerful the airborne troops are, they are still unable to defeat four hands with two fists!

"Is the assembly of 1 completed?"Captain Erich, commander of the 1st Company of the 2nd Airborne Regiment of the Third Reich ordered

"Company Commander, 1st Platoon is still missing!"

"2. Five more to go!

"3 is still two short of that!

"The anti-tank vehicle team and heavy firepower team are all here!"

Captain Erich looked at the time on his watch.

"It's too late, don't wait any longer, attack the intended target immediately!"Captain Erich ordered

"Yes, sir!"

Soon, more than a hundred soldiers from the 1st Company of the 2nd Airborne Regiment, led by officers, launched an attack on the predetermined target. Before the airborne landing, each unit had designated assembly points and attack targets.

The 2nd Airborne Regiment The target of the 1st company is an artillery position one kilometer north of Avechurch. According to intelligence, the Imperial Army has deployed a medium artillery regiment here, with two 8-gun six-inch howitzer batteries. Once At the beginning of the landing, if the 16 152mm howitzers of the Imperial Army open fire here, it will pose a great threat to the landing troops of the Third Reich._Feilu reminds you: three things about reading - collection, recommendation,