Chapter 705: Landing

The entire landing was completed in two minutes, and the helicopters accelerated as soon as they lowered the assault team and continued their flight along the Volga River, and the Germans had the opportunity to cover their flight back to the base from the German-controlled zone on the other side, the line of the 4th Panzer Army in Hort.

Only then did the Soviet air defense units react and hurriedly organized anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns to fire into the air......

With a "clanging bell" sound, two helicopters were hit and black smoke came up, one of them was killed, the pilot was killed, the helicopter lost its balance and fell to the ground, and the other engine was hit, and it spun back and forth in the air several times before falling onto the Volga River.

In this respect, Conrad's previous fears were correct, the helicopter was still too vulnerable under anti-aircraft fire.

But the helicopter thing is to play fast and slow, for example, all the assault members have successfully landed at this time, and eight of the ten helicopters have managed to escape and return to the base, and they even use their machine guns on their fuselages to shoot at the Soviet soldiers who can be found along the way before leaving.

So, this can already be considered a very successful landing.

Then there was trouble with the Soviet army...... The 200 elite German troops who landed on the sandbar would be a nightmare for the Soviet army, especially since it was still a sandbar, and the rest of the Soviet army, that is, the Southeastern Front on the east bank of the Volga, would not be able to reinforce even if it received a dangerous situation for a while.

There was no need for Qin Chuan's command at all, and the battle was almost as hot as Qin Chuan and the others landed on their feet, as they parachuted directly into the Soviet army's anti-aircraft artillery position.

At this time, the Soviet soldiers did not even realize that the enemy was already on the ground or even beside them, and the Soviet troops of the anti-aircraft artillery unit still habitually entered the gun position and then nervously aimed into the air...... They can't be blamed for this, that's what they're trained to do, and they know that this is a sandbar, and the enemy can't enter the hinterland as soon as they start fighting, so they don't have any defense against the ground, especially since they've just woken up and it's not yet dark.

This made the German soldiers a little unbelievable.

But it's one thing, but the movements in his hands are not slow at all, and the trigger is pulled to solve all the targets that can be seen in the line of sight one after another.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the battle was a massacre, and the Soviet artillery could almost be said to be unarmed...... To be exact, they cannot be said to be unarmed, they operate anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, and these anti-aircraft machine guns can still be lowered strictly to confront the German soldiers.

(Note: Most of the anti-aircraft guns of the Soviet army in World War II were M1939 37MM anti-aircraft guns, and their high and low firing ranges from -5 degrees to 85 degrees)

But in this case they did not have time to adjust at all, and the German soldiers were like wolves breaking into a flock of sheep and killing people on sight, and for a time the anti-aircraft artillery positions were full of gunfire, grenade explosions and screams.

Qin Chuan pulled the trigger and killed two Soviet soldiers who were hiding behind anti-aircraft guns and were about to throw out the grenade...... The Soviet army's 37MM anti-aircraft artillery has eight people in an artillery squad, and the eight people in this anti-aircraft artillery squad are closely coordinated, and they let the two team members constantly throw grenades out to stir up smoke and dust at the first time, or it can be said to temporarily stop the German attack, while the others took advantage of this time to adjust the anti-aircraft guns to the German army.

If they succeed, don't think about what will happen.

Qin Chuan believed that even if the German army and the Soviet army were mixed up, these Soviet troops would still open fire without distinction between the enemy and the enemy...... Under normal circumstances, the Soviet army would not have such a thing as a "rat trap".

In fact, this is one of the reasons why the commandos attacked the anti-aircraft artillery units of the Soviet army first instead of the howitzer units, and in such a situation of close combat, the German army was more threatened by anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns that could fire flat and had a fast rate of fire, rather than large-caliber howitzers.

Of course, Qin Chuan would not let them succeed.

Then, under the cover of Qin Chuan's sniper rifles, Werner and Keller outflanked them all with a very flexible left and right footsteps in a "Z" shape, and they were all eliminated with a few gunshots.

A little farther away, several anti-aircraft machine guns had been leveled and swept in this direction, but this also did not help...... An anti-infantry rocket was fired with a screeching sound, and the gunfire quickly stopped, replaced by screams from the Soviet troops.

A few shells exploded near the Germans, which was a good thing done by the Soviet howitzer unit, which once again proved that the Soviet army would not hesitate to choose to attack indiscriminately in the case of a mixed enemy and a friend.

In fact, the Soviet army was right in doing this, especially in this case...... If the Soviets had not done this and had taken up arms such as rifles and pistols to resist, they would have undoubtedly died at the hands of the Germans, even though they had much more troops than the Germans.

But if they could organize more artillery to fire in the direction of the enemy...... Then the result will be different.

However, that still doesn't change anything.

Because the Germans had air supremacy in addition to the commandos who were airdropped.

The German fighters hovering in the air soon discovered these threats, and immediately several "Stuka" bombers swooped down and dropped bombs into the Soviet artillery positions, and then six BF fighters fired frantically below, causing the Soviet artillery to hide around with their heads in their hands, and it was impossible to organize an effective defense.

Then, the German commandos had finished their anti-aircraft artillery units and rushed into the howitzer units, and there was no doubt another massacre.

The battle was over in full within half an hour.

The reason why it took so long was more because of the larger area of the sandbar and the more areas that needed to be cleared, rather than the resistance of the Soviet troops.

In fact, the resistance of the Soviet troops collapsed almost in ten minutes.

Although the Soviet army was several times larger than the German army, to be exact, it was more than seven times...... The total strength of the Soviet army was about 1,500 men, while the Germans had only 200 men.

However, the German army was caught off guard by the Soviet army, and launched an air-ground integration plus an offensive similar to a modern special operation like MP43, and the fragile Soviet artillery could not resist it.

The German soldiers did not have time to count the results of the battle, because they had to defend the sandbar in the first place.

It was later estimated that at least eight hundred Soviet troops were killed or wounded in the battle, and more than a hundred were taken prisoner...... The reason for the small number of prisoners was that the Germans were reluctant to take prisoners, because there was a high probability that these prisoners would also become a problem for them.

More than 500 other Soviet soldiers, who could swim, jumped into the Volga and fled to the east bank.

After reporting "security" from all directions, Qin Chuan reported to the command through a walkie-talkie: "Successfully capture the sandbar!" ”

Command burst into cheers.