By eliminating the plan of attack on the Netherlands, the Third Reich saved one armored division and one airborne division to fight in the Netherlands, which were planned in the original "Yellow Plan".

The saved panzer divisions were assigned to Army Group A in Rundstead for the breakthrough of the Ardennes Forest. The airborne divisions were assigned to Army Group B at Bock, which was used to occupy fortifications and some bridges in Belgian territory.

In fact, the Third Reich now had 3 paratrooper divisions. It's just that the other two newly built airborne divisions have not yet formed combat effectiveness, so in the "Scythe Harvesting Plan", only the first airborne division was used for the time being, and the second and third paratrooper divisions, which were still being trained, were not counted.

Of course, this can be regarded as leaving 2 paratrooper divisions as reserves for the German army, in case of emergency.

And now, the last paratrooper battalion in which the 1st Parachute Division has not yet participated in the operation, has also ushered in their first combat mission - to seize three bridges over the canals in Belgium.

"Ready to board!" Following the battalion commander's command, groups of German paratroopers carried parachute bags, tactical vests, grenades, bayonets, and ammunition bags. Underneath their tactical vests, compressed biscuits were hung as well as filled water bottles to increase the survivability of the paratroopers.

These are the standard equipment of the paratroopers of the Third Reich at the moment, and all of them are the ideal arrangements proposed by Reinhardt according to his own impressions.

In terms of weapons, the paratroopers could not be equipped with heavy weapons such as artillery, the weight of which limited the possibility of airdropping. However, their firepower was not as weak as that of ordinary infantry.

As the "elite infantry", under the personal supervision of Reinhardt, the paratroopers were the first to be equipped with new weapons and equipment and obtain a sufficient number of individual weapons.

In each infantry squad of the paratroopers, the G43 semi-automatic rifle fed with a detachable magazine of ten rounds was used as the basic equipment. Although this is an ugly version of the stamped parts, it is fully up to par in terms of firepower and ease of use.

As a reinforcement of firepower, each paratrooper squad is also equipped with two MP40 submachine guns that also use stamping technology. This improved version of the MP submachine gun, which increases the amount of bombs dropped, will provide paratroopers with powerful melee capabilities, allowing them to suppress enemy forces of equal numbers at close range.

In the end, the general-purpose machine gun MG42, nicknamed "Reinhardt's chainsaw", was issued to each paratrooper squad with the sound of shooting like tearing linen. Of course, depending on the specific task situation, some paratrooper squads will choose to be equipped with an additional MP40 submachine gun and omit an MG42 general-purpose machine gun.

As an experimental new type of unit, each ten-person squad of the paratrooper division did not forget to arrange a soldier with the best marksmanship to use a G43 semi-automatic rifle equipped with a triple mirror to become a "precision shooter" who played the role of a pillar of firepower.

The role of the precision shooter has already been mentioned, and this is a new type of tactical arm specially set up for street fighting and other special combat operations.

In addition, the German paratroopers in this life learned from the experience of the Japanese army in using grenadiers, and equipped each platoon with two 40mm grenade launchers. With this quasi-artillery, paratroopers can fire grenades in operations above the platoon level, and even use grenade launchers to launch dangerous incendiary bombs such as white phosphorus bombs on a part-time basis, so that they have powerful firepower.

Although the weight of the grenade launcher is not large, due to the lack of aluminum ore resources, the eggshells of the grenades are made of steel alloy instead of light aluminum alloy, and it is not easy for the soldiers of the grenade group to carry in large quantities. The amount of shells carried at one time is also reduced.

However, this is already a firepower intensity that the infantry in the past absolutely did not have, which is enough to make the paratroopers proud.

Now, paratroopers with all kinds of equipment are lining up in an orderly line, boarding the Ju-52 transport planes assigned to each of their teams. Although there are slight improvements, the current Ju-52 transport aircraft can transport only one paratrooper squad and the three packages of supplementary supplies they need at a time.

Of course, if you want to squeeze it even further, a Ju-52 transport plane will have to carry 15 heavily armed soldiers. This was already done when the expeditionary camp was brought back to Norway in Finland. None of the Ju-52 transport planes carrying 15 Norwegian soldiers were out of order.

However, for the sake of safety, Reinhardt did not let the Ju-52 transport aircraft use its maximum capacity, and increased the probability of danger in order to transport 5 more soldiers. Instead, Reinhardt used this extra capacity to tow a wooden-constructed glider behind the JU-52 to transport six lightly armed soldiers armed only with Mauser M1932 pistols.

This is not a simple addition and subtraction where 10+6 is greater than 15. It would seem that this would be one more than the Ju-52 transporting 15 soldiers at its maximum capacity. However, this was achieved with the help of a wooden glider, which was much less burdensome on the transport aircraft than directly having the JU-52 transport 15 people.

And the wooden glider transported 6 lightly armed soldiers, although armed only with a Mauser M1932 combat pistol. But this pistol, which can be attached to the gun box and used as a small submachine gun, is not inferior in firepower.

Because wooden gliders had restrictions on transport weight, they could not carry excessively heavy weapons. Ammunition, including grenades and other ammunition, was placed on the Ju-52 transport aircraft. However, this did not sacrifice the firepower of 6 people on board the glider.

Although there were only combat pistols, and even grenades, as well as ammunition packs, were placed on the Ju-52 transport aircraft. But they only need to use the first 20 long magazines to maintain a certain amount of self-defense firepower. As long as they quickly receive replenishment on board the Ju-52 transport aircraft, their firepower will immediately reach the desired level.

As a recruit who joined Bootdent when he first formed the paratroopers, Adrian is now a squad leader in a paratrooper squad. He was using an MP40 submachine gun and was a member of the JU-52 transport plane.

In his rear, the 6 fighters with combat pistols will also be temporarily placed under his command during the initial combat phase.

Through the windows of the fuselage, Adrian could clearly see the other transport plane flying side by side on the right. On weekdays, flight training in this sunny weather has been carried out countless times, but this time it is different, this time it is a real battle!

Adrian didn't know how the people in the transport plane were feeling right now, but he knew that he and his soldiers were in a state of extreme euphoria.

Amid the noisy noise of the plane, Adrian's soldiers in his squad were chatting loudly. It's not that they like to chat, or they have to chat at times like this. It's because they're in the same extreme excitement as Adrian, and they're chatting to release their excitement.

Finally, it's our turn!