Berlin, the Imperial High Command.

Four years later, Germany once again entered the war, although this time it was only an overseas war, and the German Dispatch Army was also dominated by African colonial troops, and the Reich High Command building became the busiest place in Berlin.

Under the leadership of Chen Tian, the German High Command naturally would not make the mistake of directly interfering with the judgment of the front-line commanders like Xiao Xi and Lao Chiang, so the current responsibilities of the Supreme Command are mainly at the strategic level.

Although there is a special South American Operations Department in the High Command, the senior generals here generally do not directly advise the front-line command, and usually only discuss and deliberate on large-scale military operations and operational plans that need to be approved by the Supreme Command, and arrange and coordinate the transportation of military supplies and troop transfers between the home and the sending army.

In other words, after the outbreak of the South American War, in addition to the declaration of war, the mobilization of troops to participate in the war, and the strategic deployment, the command of the front line was held by the German Special Command established in Santiago, the capital of Chile, and the current commander there is Lt. Lt. Otto. Feng. Bello served.

Of course, such a significant but very risky plan of action as Leto Faulkbel's "Run to Buenos Aires" was submitted to the Imperial High Command for consideration, as was customary, and the generals of the High Command were also hotly debated about the plan.

At the beginning of June, the plan report was presented to Chentian.

When he saw this plan, Chen Tian felt that the possibility of success of such an operation was not very large, because the previous raids and harassment wars were carried out on the occupied territory, just like the military engineering teams and guerrillas behind enemy lines in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it was rare for the formation to bypass the enemy's frontal defense line and go deep into the enemy's hinterland. But there are no absolutes in the world, in the French campaign of World War II in history, Guderian's armored troops led his armored army to carry out a great depth of attack after completing the Sedan's breakthrough and forcibly crossing the Maas River, which can be said to have rushed to the English Channel in the case of a lone army. Thus cutting off the way for the main force of the British and French coalition forces to escape, hundreds of thousands of British and French troops were finally trapped in the Dunkirk area, if it were not for the fat man who vowed to use his own air force to destroy the British and French troops in Dunkirk, history should not be the way it was.

Here in Chentian, Guderian commanded Germany's most powerful armored corps, but he did not personally go to South America to fight, and Goering was still a good pilot, now serving on the "Prince" of Germany's first maternal battle group. This time. Standing up and preparing to cause trouble in the heart of the Argentines has become the legendary Leto Faulkbell in history.

With the support of Chentian, the Supreme Command approved the battle plan, and the Special Command actively cooperated with Leto and Fockebel's "Rush to Buenos Aires", not only transferring a newly arrived bomber squadron and four native infantry regiments to his troops, but also sending a request for cooperation to the Chilean army.

On the last day of June, the action began.

At 4 a.m. on July 1, the German army in charge of the feint attacked the Argentine positions on the outskirts of Salta. The shelling continued for more than two hours. Until after dawn. Only then did Aleandro discover that there were only more than 10,000 German troops attacking him, when news came from San Salvador de Jujuy that the city had been captured by the Germans, Aleandro immediately ordered his main force to counterattack. An attempt was made to drive the Germans back to the border side by virtue of their numerical superiority, and then move north to recapture San Salvador de Jujuy. At this time, he did not know that the German army and the Chilean army that captured the city had begun to retreat, and the German ** team he was facing was also retreating in an orderly direction towards the border.

At the urging of the officers, the Argentine soldiers finally began to counterattack, the rumbling of artillery was endless, and the Argentine soldiers in light blue uniforms lined up to attack the German positions and slowly advanced towards the German positions, to the relief of many people, the Germans did not shell them, and the bullets fired on the opposite positions were also scarce, and when the first Argentine troops entered the German positions occupied at night. But it was empty.

Taking advantage of the morale recovery, Aleandro had his army continue the pursuit, with a special emphasis on maintaining formation between the divisions. Unfortunately, this good situation did not last long, and with 25 German bombers and 12 attack planes flying into the battlefield, the Argentine soldiers were in a state of confusion. Owls are dropping bombs on Argentines in the wilderness, and Vulture D-type attack planes, which have just arrived in Chile this month, are shuttling back and forth over the battlefield, seeing the opportunity for a low-altitude bombing and strafing attack, which brings far more psychological fear to Argentines than physical damage, and Argentine soldiers find that they cannot shoot down those low-flying biplanes with rifles or machine guns. Some could even hear the sound of bullets bouncing off steel plates.

By noon that day, both German and Chilean armies had retreated to the Argentine side of the Argentine border on the Argentine border, and the main force of the Argentine Army Group North arrived in the afternoon and tried to recapture its own border defense by attack. Nearly 20,000 German and Chilean soldiers kept the Argentines out of their way with solid defenses, and from time to time launched counterattacks in parts of the area, putting Aleandro and his army group in an extremely awkward position.

At the same time, the Leto-Faulkebel Division, which had already entered the Argentine province of Catamarca, did not entangle itself with the local Argentine garrison and militia, but quickly advanced into the interior of Argentina. His soldiers carried only three days' rations, but they quickly replenished themselves by plundering the Argentines and incidentally creating panic among the Argentines.

During the raid, Leto Faucebel strictly forbade his soldiers to indiscriminately injure and kill the Argentines unless they had the initiative to attack.

On 5 July, Leto-Falkbel's troops entered the central Argentine province of Corvador, which was already the heart of Argentina and the rich Pampas. From this moment on, the news of the enemy's invasion quickly swept through the entire central and eastern part of Argentina, a savannah where two-thirds of the country's population, four-fifths of industry, and two-thirds of agricultural production were concentrated, and the unsuspecting Argentine inhabitants had almost no effective means of defense. It was not until the garrisons, militias and residents near the important town of Córdoba reported that they had found the whereabouts of the German ** team, that the Argentine government realized that this was not a rumor spread by Chilean and German intelligence officers, in fact, there was indeed a bold German force that slipped across the border into the Argentine interior, and they immediately ordered to encircle and annihilate the German troops entering the country at all costs, but the two armies of the Argentine army in the north and south were deployed in the border area hundreds of kilometers away, There are only a small number of garrison units and substandard militia units in the interior.

In the battles of July 6 and July 9. Leto and Fokbel's troops easily routed several local Argentine forces that had come to encircle and suppress them, and launched an active psychological offensive, spreading the news among the inhabitants of central Argentina that the Germans had invaded and that Argentina was about to surrender, which greatly undermined the Argentines in their determination to continue the war.

Over the next few days, Leto-Fokbel's forces harassed Argentine towns and villages, drove away local Argentines and burned down their houses, and the 3,600-strong forces elsewhere were more than 30 in the face of small-scale Argentine local forces. Snipers quickly improve their ground rankings. The engineering forces have also planted many mines on Argentine roads, which has further deepened the panic among the local population.

In some small towns and villages where the security forces were weak, Argentine residents spontaneously organized patrols and civil defense regiments, but when the peasant forces of 100 men encountered the troops of Leto and Focquebel, they could only surrender obediently.

On July 12, in an unknown hamlet in the southern part of the province of Calvador in central Argentina.

At dawn, Leto's troops of Fokbel entered the village, and after subduing the only two policemen in the village, they successfully occupied the village and drove more than 100 people to the village's only church. But. Leto Falkbell did not intend to have a ruthless massacre. It's about making sure that no one can escape and report to the Argentine government forces. In addition, he also sent his subordinates to deploy a cordon and guard posts around the perimeter, and those who approached were all detained.

After this. Most of the soldiers of the assault force began to rest in the village, and they also made a delicious breakfast using food from the homes of the residents.

By this time, Leto Faucebel and his assault force had been in Argentine territory for almost two weeks, covering more than 600 kilometres. Although they had been far from the base, they were not bothered by food, and in the Pampas, where agriculture and animal husbandry were very developed, they could eat fresh meat and grain almost every day, and only when fighting the local Argentine armed forces, they needed to be accompanied by dry food. Over the past 12 days, the soldiers have fought more than a dozen battles, large and small. There has never been a regular Argentine army above the battalion level, which is also in line with Leto-Focquebel's previous speculation that the regular Argentine armed forces are either confronting the Chileans on the border or strengthening coastal defenses along the coast, and the defense of the central region is very empty.

Although every battle was uneventful, the German soldiers still consumed a considerable amount of ammunition. At the time of departure, everyone had carried as much ammunition as possible, of which the rifleman carried two ammunition bases, i.e. 180 rounds of ammunition and 3 grenades, the machine gunner carried the machine gun and two 50-round cartridge belts, and the secondary machine gunner carried 4 cartridge belts, 1 300-round magazine and 2 reserve barrels. The submachine gunner carried his own MP16 submachine gun and eight magazines of 32 rounds, and a 50mm mortar crew carried 50 mortar rounds. After arriving in the village, Leto and Fauker Bell had their men count them, and they tried to save as much ammunition as they could along the way, but now the riflemen still had only about 20 rounds of ammunition left, some of the machine gunners had run out of ammunition, and the mortar crews had more ammunition, but they couldn't sustain a few battles.

In addition, the 3,600-strong assault force had 120 horses used to carry supplies, and now most of the horses are used to carry the wounded, 63 soldiers have been wounded in previous battles, and 7 black soldiers and 2 native German soldiers have died in a foreign land.

Under these circumstances, Leto Faulkber ordered the communications corps to report to the base and reported his situation and location for the first time after entering Argentina.

At 11 a.m., a telegram was sent from the Special Command in San Diego informing them that the 17th Bomber Squadron of Leto Faucebel had been dispatched and asking them to stay where they were and wait as long as possible.

Fortunately, the small village occupied by the rushing forces of Leto and Faulkber was some distance from the nearby town, and no one visited it all morning. After lunch, several of the men who claimed to be visiting the door were unfortunately captured by the German guards, and the German soldiers searched them and locked them up in the church where the local residents were.

During the long wait, Leto and Fockbell smoked a cigarette sullenly, before the operation began, they had conducted two cooperation exercises with the 17th Bomber Squadron, but whether the airdrop supply operation could be carried out smoothly, he was still not very sure in his heart, and he was particularly worried about whether the 17th Squadron would be able to find this small village more than 400 kilometers away from the base.

If the supply fails, Leto Faucebel can only hope to capture the Argentine's ammunition depot to replenish the ammunition, otherwise he will have to lead his troops on the way home.

On the roof of the house next to him, a four-way forked antenna had already been erected, and attached to the antenna was an instrument different from that of an ordinary transmitter, capable of emitting continuous radio waves to provide its own orientation to an aircraft equipped with a corresponding radio compass. However, because this is a product that is still in the experimental stage of development (historically it matured after the 30s) and transmits a long-wave radio meter, the range is only about 100 kilometers, and an aircraft equipped with a receiver can only receive a signal at this distance.

In this era when the aircraft navigation system was not very developed, most aircraft and pilots were still using visual inspection and compass to determine the direction of flight, and this kind of radio beacon navigation system that had just appeared was only equipped by the Luftwaffe, as long as it could work normally, Leto-Faulkbell did not have to worry so much.

Like Leto and Fawkbel, soldiers from Germany and Africa waited anxiously. After all, this is the territory of the Argentines, who had never been in one place for more than eight hours before, because it would have been easy to be surrounded by Argentine troops, and now they had been more than seven hours since they entered the village.

On the orders of Leto and Faulkbel, a company of soldiers had prepared flags and fireworks to the east of the village, where there were plains everywhere, so there was no need to worry about the site of the airdrop.

Just after 3 p.m., there was a buzzing sound from the northwest sky. Leto and Faucebell raised their binoculars, and more than twenty behemoths were flying in formation in this direction, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Light the fireworks and prepare to receive the airdrop!"