At four o'clock in the morning, ten "Dragon" helicopters started their engines.

Twenty propellers roared in turn, then turned from slow to fast and quickly turned into a vague disc, and the airfield was filled with the turbulent air currents of the propeller.

"Good luck!" Alexander shook Qin Chuan's hand: "We are waiting for the news of your victory!" ”

"Thank you, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied.

Conrad came up and hugged Qin Chuan, and said, "Major, although I have always disapproved of you doing this, I believe that you will do it, and look good to those Bolsheviks!" ”

Qin Chuan nodded, and then the soldiers who had already prepared made a gesture and ordered, "Board the plane!" ”

The soldiers, in groups of twenty people, boarded the helicopter with guns in line, closed the hatches, and then, with the permission of the tower, they rose into the air in a wedge formation and flew in the direction of Stalingrad.

Qin Chuan looked at the time, four o'clock and eleven, and he grasped it very accurately.

The time had been calculated repeatedly in order to get the helicopter to reach the sandbar before dawn.

Of course, there are positive implications for this...... Helicopters flew in the dark of night to hide their tracks from being discovered by the Soviets and intercept them with anti-aircraft fire along the way, while when they reached the sandbar, the helicopter pilots needed light to identify the landing site, and it also made it easier for the commandos to quickly capture and control the sandbar.

Of course, this raises a problem: it is difficult for the helicopter to tell the way forward in the night, and the sound of the propeller will attract the attention of the Soviet army.

However, the problem was quickly resolved:

"We can mask the sound of helicopters with artillery fire!" Qin Chuan said: "At the same time, lead the way for them!" ”

Conrad nodded and said, "Good idea, let the artillery fire extend forward at the speed of a helicopter." It's just that this requires the training of artillerymen, otherwise there is a high probability that their shells will shoot down the helicopter! ”

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Alexander.

Alexander agreed in one bite: "No problem, I'll finish it!" ”

So, when the helicopter took off, German artillery fire bombed Stalingrad in the distance, and the bursts of fire were telling the helicopter where to fly.

And this direction is very coincidental is the direction of Mamayev Height...... After thinking about it, I finally decided that Mamayev Hill was the most suitable as a breakthrough path, mainly because there were fewer buildings in this area, so there was correspondingly less anti-aircraft fire hidden in the buildings.

Conversely, if you insert yourself into the sandbar from other positions, you may enter the central port where anti-aircraft fire is intensive.

For this interspersed point, Werner couldn't help but say: "Isn't that the defense area of the 21st Panzer Division?" When we flew over them, I wonder if those guys will notice us! ”

"Come on, Werner!" The baker said, "You better hope they don't notice us!" ”

"Why?"

"It's easy!" The baker replied, "No one has ever seen our helicopter, so they can't tell the difference between friend and foe, understand?" ”

Werner couldn't help but let out an "oh".

The baker is right, there are issues of confidentiality and identification.

The two are actually contradictory:

In order to keep the plan from the enemy, it is necessary to keep it secret from everyone, especially your own troops fighting on the defensive line, because there is a high chance that they will be captured by the enemy and the news will reach the enemy.

However, if it is to be able to distinguish friend from foe, it is necessary to tell them that the Germans are equipped with new aircraft. Otherwise, in this era, it is more about distinguishing the enemy from the enemy by the type of aircraft, and if you look at this aircraft and have never seen it, you will not notice the "cross" sign on the cabin at all, and you will take it for granted that it is an enemy aircraft.

"Don't worry!" Qin Chuan said: "We have already informed them!" ”

"How did we inform them?" The baker asked curiously.

"We say to them!" Qin Chuan said: "If you see something strange in the sky...... Don't be surprised, don't attack, the sky is always under our control! ”

The baker nodded.

Such an order is still appropriate, even if the Soviets get this information, they will not get anything. If anything, it's "weird stuff".

At this time, Alfredo, who was looking out the window, suddenly shouted outside: "Hey, look...... What is that? ”

The soldiers all looked out the window and saw a huge black figure towering in the night sky, with a huge cannon barrel like a factory chimney lifted in front of it.

"Dora!" The soldiers exclaimed, "It's Dora!" ”

"I saw it, it's a big guy!"

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but at this time "Dora" made a loud noise, and a burst of fire and smoke came out of the barrel, apparently just now a shell was fired from the direction of the Soviet troops.

This caused the German soldiers on the helicopter to cheer and exclaim.

Qin Chuan was a little ridiculous at this group of lovely soldiers, they didn't look like soldiers who were about to enter a life-and-death struggle at all, but like they were traveling in a helicopter.

However, this does not seem to be a bad thing, as it allows soldiers to enter the battlefield without stress.

Perhaps, the purpose of their acting like this is for this, to release pressure.

In the exclamation of the soldiers, the helicopter entered Stalingrad, and the artillery fire seemed to extend in front of him, because the helicopter was advancing at high speed and the fire and smoke had a certain delay, so the soldiers on the helicopter, including Qin Chuan, felt that they were rushing into the artillery fire, and sometimes they could even feel the surging air waves when the artillery fire exploded from the irregular ups and downs of the helicopter.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart...... Be sure to tell Alexander when you go back that these artillery covers are too close.

However, it seems that the artillerymen cannot be blamed, they are completely based on feeling and data, and many of them are inferior M1910 guns captured from the Soviet army, and their accuracy can be said to be beyond control.

Finally, in front of the eyes, the helicopter followed the artillery fire through Stalingrad to the surface of the Volga River.

When you come to the Volga, you can no longer cover and guide with artillery fire, because if the shells explode on the Volga, they will set off columns of water that rush into the sky and disperse the water mist, and even spray on the glass in front of the cockpit, so that visibility will be further reduced and the risk of a crash will be increased.

At this time, all the covering force could do was to fire a flare at a distance over the sandbar.

The pilot turned around and shouted, "One minute and thirty seconds!" ”

"Rappel ready!" Qin Chuan ordered loudly.

The time has come to test the results of the training.