A cross-country car slowly moved forward in the crowd. The German officer’s thick coat was wrapped in his body and his seat was shrunk. Looking at the sunny day, he vomited hot air and complained, "There should be a fireplace in this weather to light a fire and have a sip of wine … As a result, we all rolled over to fight when the Fuehrer ordered us."
"There are fireplaces in Paris, as well as women and perfume, wine and coffee." The general next to him frowned at the complaining adjutant in the car. "But you must let these soldiers go quickly."
Chapter 24-24 Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals
"Stand up" With a command, the soldiers sitting on the lawn slowly climbed up. They were carrying parachutes on their backs, wearing tactical vests, grenades, bayonets, water bottles, ammunition bags, field tents and raincoats, and all kinds of food were broken.
This is the most standard German paratroopers have been carefully trained according to the requirements of the Fuehrer. Two out of every ten of these people have blasting expertise, and the other two have been trained on the line. Nearly half of these people are equipped with the latest p44 assault rifles, and the other half are equipped with g43 semi-automatic rifles and g42 machine guns.
Here I have to explain what this machine gun, which was born in 1932, is called "42". This is a personal bad taste of Fuehrer arcado. He likes another machine gun very much, so the g42 machine gun institute named it g42.
The successful development of German g42 machine gun is an important breakthrough in gun production technology. The designer of this machine gun is not a gun designer in Grunov, but an expert in metal stamping technology.
When arcado found him, his professional vision recognized that it was difficult to meet such needs by machining a piece of solid metal to cut off unnecessary parts such as lathes and milling machines according to the unified gun manufacturing process, which not only wasted materials but also took a lot of man-hours.
This kind of control technology has a metal interest rate of about 25%. He told arcado that it is an inevitable trend for machine guns to adopt metal stamping technology. The Fuehrer was very satisfied with his concept and ordered him to be in charge of the new machine gun designer. In fact, the metal stamping technology to produce g42 not only saves materials and working hours, but also is more compact, which is very practical for Germany, which lacks metal resources.
However, when g42 was just born and equipped with troops, the west lurked in Europe. According to spies, this crude weapon was a patchwork of several pieces of iron and an iron pipe. At that time, it was reported that it was the same as flying to Washington and London. Germany was dying. They were extremely short of raw materials, and even their tactical core machine guns adopted such crude manufacturing technology.
This machine gun was characterized by the three highest-level words of the German military as its excellent "the shortest time, the lowest achievement, but the best weapon"
The minimum firing rate of the g42 machine gun is 12 rounds per minute and the maximum firing rate is 15 rounds per minute. However, if the firing rate of the machine gun exceeds 1 round per minute, it will be possible to distinguish a single gun. The g42 shooting is not like the Czech or Browning machine gun "dadada" but similar to the high-speed rotating saw "scoff", which is a bit like tearing a large piece of linen.
Because g42 high-rate shooter can shoot 12 to 15 rounds every time he pulls a trigger, if an unfortunate soldier is shot by g42, he will be shot several times in a flash, and his life may be little. In actual combat, g42 is not only capable of dealing with small targets, but also very effective in dealing with group targets.
German paratroopers helped each other to form an orderly queue waiting for them. One plane can take 12 people, that is, one class of deputy armed German paratroopers. At the same time, they can transport more paratroopers into enemy-occupied areas at one time. These ju52 also dragged a wooden structure glider to transport 6 extra soldiers.
The German army pneumatically transported 61 ju52 transport planes to transport ready paratroopers. In this battle, Germany will throw a paratrooper into the Netherlands in one breath, and the second wave of subsequent attacks will be no less than this number. This battle will be the largest paratroopers battle in human history so far. Germany has mobilized two paratroopers divisions with a total of 30,000 people to ensure that in case the whole Netherlands is lost.
And taking the Netherlands will be the key to the success of the entire western offensive. rundstedt knows very well that if it fails to occupy the Netherlands at the first time, then a huge port will be transported by Britain to the European continent, and the whole B regiment will lose its military advantage, and the whole sickle-wielding operation will also be declared bankrupt.
So this time, General Studente will be ordered to complete the most difficult task. The paratroopers must cooperate with the German frontal B regiment to capture the Dutch Studente in the shortest time. Even a few days ago, he personally went to Shibao and confirmed all the attack targets with the Fuehrer arcado.
A veteran with actual combat experience in Bourroul is now a paratrooper squad leader. This time, he is very experienced in fixing the rifle on his chest instead of the leggings. He arranged a chest magazine and grenades to confirm the position of a pistol, then pulled out a bayonet, carefully checked it and fixed it back to the shoulder position.
He commanded the parachuting class. Besides himself, there were four veterans with seven recruits, which was the best configuration for the squad leader. He had to guard the position of the aircraft hatch and all the other soldiers walked in front of him. Soon, he helped the penultimate soldier climb the plane with difficulty, and then his own plane was a little difficult.
With the movement of the plane, they all knew that their plane had taken off. Through the fuselage window twice, Borl could clearly see another plane flying on their side. Soon, their plane saw that the wing had cut through the white clouds, and in the distance, a dozen ju52 planes were vaguely seen flying in formation.
The plane kept bumping. Borl was confirming his target with his vice squad leader. The noise made their conversation very loud.
"If you can’t find me after landing, set up a defensive position here and gather as many troops as possible." The rough pencil on the map of Bourroul drew a mark. "Do we have to occupy this village?"
"Our platoon is occupying this village to build a defensive position to protect the periphery of the bridge," his deputy shouted. "But if we have people like us to take the strength of this village, it will be somewhat insufficient."
"Don’t worry, this time the army won’t leave us in a mess!" Borol laughed and said, "I don’t know. If the troops are insufficient, will you be responsible for taking people back to the bridge and reporting to the battalion?"
"Good" the vice president replied.
"Enter the Dutch collar! Gentlemen, please take your seat. "The co-pilot turned around and woke up the paratroopers behind him through the open back door." The army just came to warn the Dutch defense forces that they were attacking us. "
"Check the seat belt! I need you to secure yourselves to the plane! There will be enemy artillery fire to attack everyone in a moment. Don’t be nervous … "Before Borrell finished, a shell exploded not far away, and a huge explosion could be heard clearly even in a noisy cabin.
"Don’t panic! Keep your posture! " Bourroul struggled to get up and walk to the cabin door, holding the handrail and staring at all his hands. "It is impossible for this density anti-aircraft gun fire to hit our plane!"
As he said this, a glider was towed behind the ju52 transport plane flying to their left, and it was hit by a shell. Six German paratroopers were covered in fire, and the glider left a piece of its nose behind the tail of the ju52 transport plane.
"Who starts to sing a song?" Bourroul felt that the emperor was joking with himself. Some Nida asked a soldier who sang the German surrender song and was rejected by Bourroul. "This song has been sung too many times! Change a song! "
"Ah, who is marching in enemy territory and singing devil’s songs?" A veteran holding p44 sang
"This is good!" Bourroul nodded and agreed, and then sang along with him. "A soldier hummed and whistled silently on the banks of the Oder River, and we walked back and forth, and the whole world might curse or praise us-just let them, no matter where we are, let’s move on! And the devil laughed like this. Ha ha ha ha ha. "
With the song, it seems that everyone’s mood has become slightly better, and some recruits have also sang this German paratroopers’ March "Green Devil". "We fight for freedom and honor in Germany, and we will make the enemy unable to rest, no matter how far the marching route is, we will soon enter the battle and be ready to fight at all times, day and night! Firmly and bravely hold the rifle and assault the enemy position! Long live the Fuhrer, roaring at us, facing death, the enemy was finally eliminated and the bodies piled up. No matter where we let us move on, we moved on, and the devil laughed, hahahaha. "
The song was sung repeatedly, and as time went by, the red alert in the cabin lit up, and Borl reached the order "Stand up!" "
The plane kept shaking, and all the paratroopers were up. They checked their equipment and secured the messy equipment they carried for others. Some planes kept flashing red lights, but they couldn’t wake up. The paratroopers in the cabin were very dangerous this time in Holland.
Look at all the people up. Bourroul continues to command himself, "Check the equipment for the last time! Everyone confirm the parachute! ！”
"Number one! Finished! " "Number two! Finished! " "No.3! Finished! " ….. "No.11! Finished! " ……
"gentlemen! Get ready! We’ll continue to sing this song while skydiving! Now! Let’s meet our Dutch enemy, "Borrell shouted.
Chapter 241 241 Fall to the ground
The green light suddenly lit up, and there was a constant explosion of artillery around, but the transport planes had been reduced a lot, obviously because they were scattered and flew to their respective heads.
Borrell pulled the door of the plane, and the cold wind blew his face. Outside the door, he could see a row of tracer bullets just brushing a ju52 to fly to a higher sky. He turned his face and looked at his hand, which had been shaken by the wind. "Skydiving!"
Everyone hung their parachutes on the plane hanger, which ensured that their parachutes could be smoothly pulled and blown into the cabin when they jumped out of the cabin. Even wearing a short field windbreaker, people still felt bitterly cold.
Soon the first paratrooper jumped out of the cabin, stretching his body as far as possible, extending his hands to his ears and keeping his feet together in an unbending posture. When they jumped out of the cabin, they were 45 feet from the ground, which was the minimum distance to ensure that they could land. Even so, the paratroopers had to bear the danger of exposing the enemy’s guns in floating. It seemed endless for twenty seconds.
A Dutch machine gun position on the ground, a young officer looked up at the sky. He saw the ju52 transport plane throwing one or two as if it were magic until there were more white spots. First, two, then five, and then hundreds of German soldiers jumped off the plane quietly, while he shouted to wake himself up and fired back at him. The machine gun beside him fired fiercely at the sky, but there were so many targets that he didn’t know where to shoot.
Borrell once again survived. He saw with his own eyes that one of the parachute ropes above him was broken by a bullet, but he landed safely. When he landed on his feet, he felt a sense of inexplicable security.
He got out of the parachute and took off his parachute bag on his back. He hurriedly took a fixed g43 rifle from his chest, pulled the bolt and let it go. He bent down and found a position to cover himself near a small grass, and then he carefully observed the surrounding situation.