At 8 a.m. on April 29, a faint roar could be heard in the sky south of the city of Melxus.

When Chen Dao and Dieter received the report and walked outside the house to look up, the roar of the engine was already deafening.

The group of planes flew over the city of Melxus, and Chen Dao roughly counted about fifty Ju-52 transport planes.

In a compound northeast of Trondheim, Major General Wellington, commander of the British Army's 49th West Redding Infantry Division, was also looking up at the sky.

Looking at the group of planes flying through the sky, Wellington said in his heart that this was already the second batch of bombers sent by the Germans.

However, they were late, there was no longer a single plane at the Varnes airport, and it was just a waste of bombs for them to bomb there.

Before the JU-52 transport fleet appeared, the Luftwaffe stationed in Oslo had already sent a group of bombers to bomb the Varness airfield near the town of Schedal, trying to blow up the British planes there on the ground.

However, as Chen Dao expected, as the situation in Norway deteriorated, Wellington and the British mainland were already actively preparing for the retreat.

Yesterday afternoon, two air squadrons stationed at the Varnes airfield had been evacuated and transferred to a field airfield near Namsos, just in time to escape the German bombardment.

After dark, the 70th Infantry Brigade and the 69th Royal Field Artillery Regiment were also withdrawn, and now the only British troops left in Trondheim are the headquarters of the 49th Infantry Division, the 147th Infantry Brigade, the 55th Royal Anti-Tank Regiment, the 49th Reconnaissance Regiment and two artillery regiments.

In addition to the British, there were two brigades of the Polish army in the Trondheim area, with a total of four battalions.

Wellington was not a Chen Dao, and he did not have the ability to identify German aircraft models based on their appearance. He did not know that the Ju-52 aircraft was a transport aircraft, and even less that the JU-52 transport plane was dropped not by bombs, but by paratroopers.

To the east of the town of Schedal, the JU-52 group slowed down, and then the hatch opened widely, and one by one the sturdy figures jumped out of the cabin.

In a few minutes, a battalion of paratroopers successfully jumped off the plane, and the sky was covered with white umbrella flowers.

After the first bombing by the Luftwaffe, the British troops in the town of Schedald saw the JU-52 group and scattered like frightened birds, each looking for a place to hide, and had no courage to fight at all.

Even if it was discovered that the German aircraft group had dropped not bombs, but paratroopers, all the British did was to leave the concealment and report to Trondheim the news of the German airdrop of paratroopers, without thinking of taking the initiative at all.

After a safe landing, the German paratroopers quickly retracted their parachutes and pounced on the weapons box.

Heavily armed, the paratroopers split into two lines, with a company of paratroopers marching north of the town of Schedal, while the rest of the paratroopers built fortifications in place to defend against the British attack and to protect the airborne site.

After a five-kilometer trek, the paratroopers of the 1st Regiment, 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 7th Parachute Division successfully made a detour back to the north of the town of Schedal.

They found the road leading from Schedal to Namssos, dug up the road and began laying mines.

About 300 meters to the west of the road, a squad of paratroopers found the railway. Four boxes of explosives were then buried under the railroad tracks and next to the sleepers, and the paratroopers unmercilessly pressed the detonators after connecting the wires.

In a series of explosions, gravel and sleepers flew into the sky, and the broken rails were raised high, and the fractures were twisted into twisted shapes.

After the first company of paratroopers had broken through the railroad, they reunited on the side of the road to build fortifications in preparation for a possible British attack.

In the city of Trondheim, after Wellington received information that German paratroopers had been found near the town of Schedal, his already modest mood instantly fell into the abyss.

The German paratroopers were certainly not parachuted into the town of Schedal to exercise, they had only one purpose, to cut off their own retreat.

The British had only one infantry battalion and one anti-aircraft battalion in the town of Schedal, and their strength simply could not hold back a large German attack.

What to do? Anxious, Wellington picked up the telegram and read it repeatedly.

When he saw it for the third time, Wellington suddenly found that there were two messages hidden in the telegram, which only said that a large number of German paratroopers appeared in Schedal, how much was this large number? Moreover, the fact that the telegram did not say that Schedal had been attacked suggests that there is room for salvage.

After re-contacting the British in Schedal, Wellington confirmed that the Germans in the vicinity of Schedal had only one or two battalions and could not pose a mortal threat to Schedal at the moment.

Wellington breathed a sigh of relief, and his smart IQ came alive again.

Wellington's gaze swept around the map for a few times, and finally fixed on Schedal, thinking that the appearance of the German paratroopers might be an opportunity to finally get rid of the hateful Poles.

After some deliberation, Wellington ordered his men to bring in the supreme commander of the Polish army in the Trondheim area, Colonel Latay.

Delivering the telegram to Latai, Wellington said: "The German paratroopers are airborne near Schedal, and Schedal is now in danger, and I will lead my troops to destroy those paratroopers and secure our supply lines." ”

After reading the telegram, Colonel Latay snorted coldly and said, "They want to trap us, and we can't let them do it." Yesterday the Germans had already launched an offensive, and the officers at the front reported that the Germans were not attacking with much intensity, as if to test the distribution of our firepower. There is a good chance that they will launch a large-scale offensive today, and those paratroopers may only be part of a large-scale offensive, so you must destroy them as soon as possible to ensure the safety of our rear. ”

Wellington said solemnly, "I'll set off at once, and try to eliminate those paratroopers before it gets dark." I leave you with the anti-tank regiment, the 11 Infantry Battalion and the 143 Artillery Regiment, and if the Germans go on the offensive, you must buy me more time. ”

A staff officer hurriedly walked up to Wellington and said: "The Germans are again airborne near Schedal, numbering at least one battalion. ”

Latay and Wellington's faces changed, and Latay said: "I saw a group of German planes flying by on the way here, and sure enough, it was German reinforcements, you must act immediately and destroy them before they can complete their assembly." ”

Another staff officer burst into the house and said to Wellington and Latai: "The Germans have launched an attack in the south, and a call from the front says that the German artillery fire is fierce. ”

Wellington said to Latai, "You go back to command the battle at once, one day, you only need to hold out for a day at most, I can destroy those paratroopers, and then come back to support you." ”

The situation was urgent, and Ratay didn't talk nonsense, nodded in agreement and returned to the front line to command the battle.

Wellington saw off Latay and immediately ordered the reconnaissance battalion to set out first, while he himself followed with two battalions of the 147th Infantry Brigade and the 185th Artillery Regiment and went straight to Schedal.

In the southeast of Trondheim City, Chen Dao looked up at the returning JU-52 fleet in the sky, turned to Major Schumacher and said, "It seems that our second airborne landing has been successful." ”

"We accidentally let go of the 3rd Infantry Division last time, and we won't make the same mistake again this time."

"Of course, the blood debt owed by the 3rd Infantry Division in the town of Voss will be paid by them." Chen Dao raised his hand to look at his watch, and then said, "It's almost time, the shelling is coming to an end, let's go." ”

With Chen Dao's order, the field investigation team slaughtered Trondheim in a mighty manner.

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