Chapter 50: The Eagle Descends on England

"The night sky in England is so beautiful!"

Cullen looked up at the sky, and in this moment, he felt so small. The bright starry sky has long been obscured by hundreds of Zeppelins the size of floating islands, and countless round white flowers are blooming one by one, which is far more amazing than the scene when the commandos landed 100 people in the air.

Such a spectacular and splendid scenery is satisfying to be able to see it once in a lifetime.

Karen, who had been separated from the German military for 10 years, silently raised his right hand and saluted the paratroopers who were slowly descending with a solemn German military salute. It's been a long time since this good spy has been so excited. The greatness of the Creator made him envious of the soldiers under the parachute. If he could be given a choice, he would rather be just an unknown paratrooper, as long as he can participate in this battle that can be called great, even if it is a pity!

Some people say that large-scale parachute operations are a mixture of heroic and romantic, and this sentence is really appropriate to describe the mood of the German paratroopers at this time!

The first wave of parachute troops at this time was the 1st Airborne Regiment of the Luftwaffe G-1 Airborne Division, which was a force with a glorious tradition, and its predecessor was the 101st Infantry Regiment of the Third Army of the East Prussian Corps. William's Guards. The regiment had a very good performance in the Battle of Lodz-Warsaw, where the brave and stubborn onslaught of the soldiers crushed a Russian division that tried to retreat. When the formation of the Air Service Regiment of the East Prussian Regiment was announced, the soldiers of this regiment signed up and were approved by the whole regiment, led by the regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Garris.

Immediately after the formation of the Luftwaffe, the formation of the G-1 Airborne Division was announced, and the Airservice Regiment, renamed the 1st Airborne Regiment, was the cornerstone of this airborne division. Compared with the other seven airborne regiments, which were only formed for more than one month, the soldiers of the Garris Airborne Regiment began to receive airborne training long before the East Prussian Regiment went to the French battlefield, and the regiment had the most experienced officers and soldiers in the division, and each of them participated in more than 20 airborne trainings, which was almost twice the average number of training times in the whole division. The parachute was carried out to persuade the Kaiser and the ministers to agree to the creation of an air force, and the soldiers of the regiment took part in the parachute parachute.

The 42-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Garris walked steadily to the airship gondola opening, the cold wind of the winter night was whistling in his ears, and the temperature outside was much lower than that inside the pod, which also made the lieutenant colonel's brain sober up a lot. From the air, countless white flowers are falling downward, there are four marking points on the ground composed of colored signal fireworks, and in the middle of these four points is a brightly lit town, and the entire parachute area is no smaller than the usual training place of paratroopers.

"Everyone, follow me, just like you usually train, and we'll see you on the ground!"

The moment his feet left the floor of the airship's pod, Garris's body suddenly became extremely free, and the wind from below made him unable to open his eyes, but this state only lasted for a few seconds. The familiar sound of the parachute opening completely calmed Garris's somewhat apprehensive heart, and a white flower suddenly bloomed in the beautiful night sky. The speed at which Garris was falling was suddenly reduced to a very safe level, and he could open his eyes to enjoy the night view around him. He was surrounded by paratroopers with parachutes, there was no noise here, but even the air seemed to be active. At this time, the paratroopers who were the first to jump out of the pod had already fallen to the ground, and the gorgeous epiphany soon began to come to an end.

With the faint starlight and the signal fire from the ground, Garris could only roughly judge the distance between his feet and the ground, and in this light it was easy to sprain himself by making a mistake in the distance, so he tried to make the most protective position for himself.

The distance between the ground seemed to be getting closer and closer, but the landing time was still a little short of Garris's prediction, fortunately, the kneeless snow was like a thick blanket, and he even felt comfortable when he landed, and his ass was not as pitiful as when he usually landed. Although the wind was not strong, the parachute did not completely droop down due to the wind after he landed, and as a result, the lieutenant colonel was pulled by his parachute and glided several steps in the snow, until he took off the parachute bag on his body, and the parachute completely gave up dragging him.

Garris looked up, and his location was half a mile south of the town. In his opinion, the town had not been shot for so long, and with the planned flare around the town, there was no doubt that the town had been taken by the commandos.

"Soldiers who land on the ground should be vigilant and leave parachutes alone! The follow-up personnel hurried to collect the ammo box and wait for everyone to land and then gather in the town! Garris began his command with a loud shout, and his paratroopers seemed rather composed, the first three companies to land were responsible for spreading the cordon in all directions, while the following companies began to form a group, and the officers in the airborne area called soldiers and shouted orders.

By the time the first batch of airships began to accelerate away, 40 percent of the soldiers of the 1st Airborne Regiment had landed, and the follow-up airships floated like clouds over the Woodtown Airborne Field, where they would drop a large number of parachute ammunition boxes in addition to the paratroopers, which could support the airborne troops for two days of high-intensity operations. If they had not joined the landing force after two days, the Luftwaffe airship and aircraft units would try to drop ammunition on them again.

When the special rectangular boxes hanging under the parachutes hit the ground, the nearby paratroopers will rush to collect them as fast as they can. Bullets, mortars and shells, grenades, spare guns, without these things it would be difficult for the Airborne Forces to confront the British troops who were about to swarm them.

As the airborne operations of the 1st Airborne Regiment were reaching their climax, the clear hum of aircraft engines could be heard from the southern horizon. Three squadrons of 60 Sky X fighter-bombers soon flew over Woodtown, and these long-range, firepower guys were supposed to clear the airships and planes transporting the airborne troops of possible British fighter forces, but due to the early arrival of the airship troops, they arrived after the airship airship began to arrive. Thankfully, the British may not have had time to react to the airborne operations here, and perhaps the British fighters do not have the ability to take off and land at night, and so far there has not been a single British aircraft here. To be sure, the Cullen commandos had only destroyed a British airfield in southern Britain, and an ominous number of other British fighters were hiding in other airfields that were not easy to spot, and it was unknown whether they had sufficient fuel and ammunition.

After a while, Cullen and the others appeared in the field of vision of the paratroopers wearing British military uniforms holding white flags, and the paratroopers in charge of the guard immediately brought them to Lieutenant Colonel Garris.

"Captain Karen, the leader of the first commando! Lieutenant Colonel, welcome to England and your troops! From now on, I officially hand over the remaining 56 soldiers of the 1st Commando to your command! ”

Cullen didn't know whether to be happy or sad, Second Lieutenant Tobias came to England with 126 commandos, and now more than half of the soldiers, including the second lieutenant, had been killed or captured, but in such a short period of time they had completed an extremely difficult task, and all the victims should go away with a smile.

"Captain, thank you for taking care of my soldiers for so long! Poor Second Lieutenant Tobias, they are all my old subordinates! Thinking of those familiar faces, Lieutenant Colonel Garris couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, the soldiers of the 1st Commando were his subordinates during the Air Service Regiment, these soldiers were all outstanding in rigorous training, and losing any of them was something Garris did not want to see.

"Duty!" Cullen finally regained his cold nobility, his usual identity as a Spanish nobleman, but unfortunately the Spanish language was almost useless in this war.

"Captain Nika Gbac, the leader of the second commando! Lieutenant Colonel, I hope you have a nice time here! I will now hand over to you the remaining 68 soldiers of the Second Commando, these lads are all wonderful, teach me a good lesson to those British! Captain Xie Ding stepped aside after saluting, the second commando team was originally subordinate to the 3rd Airborne Regiment, but the 3rd Airborne Regiment would not come until later, so the second and third commandos would be assigned to the 1st Airborne Regiment, which also made the Garris Airborne Regiment, which was originally known as the Eagle of G-1, like a tiger.

"Thanks!" Garris didn't have much affection for spies, but he was amazed and amazed by what Cullen and Captain Shelt led Commando Team 12 did, and he realized that spies were more than just kidnapping, stealing, and assassinating.

"Captain Clad, the leader of the 3rd Commando, 2 of the 112 soldiers were injured during parachuting, 5 were injured in the previous battle of Woodtown, and none of the troops were killed, and now I hand over these excellent fighters to you!" After handing over the commandos, Clad, Cullen, and Captain Shetting will each become the navigators of the three airborne regiments, as they are more familiar with the south of England than the air crews who have only studied the terrain on maps and sandboxes.

This time it was Cullen who worked with Garris, a super acting spy.

"Wood Town has been occupied by us, and there is not a single British army and British militia left in it! Lieutenant Colonel, are our troops going to the town to assemble and rest first? ”

According to prior arrangements, any decision made by Garis in the airborne regiment did not require Karen's consent, which was very different from the previous commandos. Cullen's character is going to be a thorough guide this time, and all he can offer is advice.

"Very well, that's what I wanted! Before the 2nd and 3rd Airborne Regiments all landed, we must ensure the safety of this airborne area centered on Wood Town! I'll send four companies to the farther side to stand on guard, leaving three companies here to pick up the airborne troops, and the rest to the town to build makeshift fortifications! ”

Garris called his staff officer and asked him to report the news of the successful airborne landing to the command and convey his order just now, and then asked the two battalion commanders to give a few words of advice, and then walked towards Wood Town with Cullen.

Along the way, there were paratroopers who had just landed and were still looking for their company, and although the scene was a bit chaotic, thankfully almost everyone landed in the predetermined airborne area, and very few were blown away from Wood Town.

But as soon as he entered Woodtown, Garris's brow furrowed. The streets were littered with corpses, mostly people without military uniforms.

"Most of these people are British militiamen!" Cullen pointed to some of the men who still held old single-shot rifles, which were a new weapon with incredible power and rate of fire during the Franco-Prussian War, but now it has been almost half a century.

When Garris first saw these rifles, he thought they were just taken out of the museum, and he couldn't believe that the British still had ammunition for this weapon. In fact, as early as a few years ago, many British arms dealers were still selling such weapons to backward countries such as Asia, Africa and Latin America, and it is said that the Qing government would spend a lot of silver on such rifles every year before it was overthrown. This kind of weapon is enough to deal with the defenseless people, and it can also curry favor with the foreign uncle, and the declining Qing government should indeed be buried as soon as possible at that time. It was not until the outbreak of the Great War that the British military factories fully switched to the production of plums. Enfield rifles and other current standard weapons of the British army, while hundreds of thousands of old rifles that were still to be sold became the equipment of the British militia.

The commandos who had been killed or wounded in the previous battle at Woodtown had all been wounded by these rifles, and two British companies with standard equipment had been harvested by the Firebirds without firing a single shot, and Cullen played a major role in this. Despite this, Cullen cannot deny that many of the corpses here are purely British civilians, but in order to eliminate the militia that is mixed with the residents, Cullen and the commandos are forced to fight next time.

As a pure Prussian aristocratic officer, Garris was disgusted by the killing of unarmed civilians, but he just walked silently towards the center of the town, and the Englishmen with rifles shooting at his paratroopers were even more undesirable to see.

When he walked to the small square in the center of the town, Lieutenant Colonel Garris's eyes were once again visually shocked, before he thought that the commandos had killed all the British troops in the town after a fierce battle, but the scene here had nothing to do with the battle at all, it was more like a shooting execution, carried out by the commando team on more than 300 British soldiers. All the British soldiers were lying in neat order in a small area to the south of the square like a piece of harvested wheat, and there were many militiamen and civilians on the east and west sides, and there was not even a single corpse on the ground on the north side of the square except for the large pile of bullet casings, from which it was clear that Cullen's commandos were firing from here.

"You ...... How did you do that? Garris had apparently developed a strong curiosity about the terrifyingly formidable spy beside him.

At this time, Cullen, who had a deep face, did not answer directly, this scene reminded him of countless scenes of slaughter and slaughter in history, although he could only imagine it from the words of the book, he felt that it would probably not be much different from this scene. When those British soldiers found that their "companions" on the opposite side were shooting bullets at them, their hearts must have been filled with deep doubts and unwillingness.

"The British are not stupid, but too simple!" Cullen silently drew a cross on his chest.

Eventually, Garris chose the only church in the town as the temporary regimental headquarters, and soon his paratroopers began to march into Woodtown, bringing chests that had been airdropped especially for the commandos.

Dressed in a German Airborne Forces captain's uniform, Cullen looked particularly handsome, so that even if he was captured, the British would not know his identity as a spy. After changing back into the familiar and proud German military uniform, Haliam and the other commandos felt much more comfortable, and the Mauser rifle and Luger pistol felt far better than Lee's for them. Enfield rifles and Wilbury revolvers.

As the buzz in the sky grew denser, Cullen walked alone to the church door. The southern sky was still blazing, and countless planes were flying in that direction, and a zeppelin over Woodtown suddenly turned on the lighting equipment on its pod, and this airship at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters was the last course determination point of the aircraft formation on the airborne mission.

"Red Lighthouse! We've arrived at our destination! Fringer on the 17-01 roared excitedly, and this was the only way he could inform the pilot next to him of the noise of the engines.

The pilot gave a thumbs up, and their plane began to lower altitude. In conditions of no wind or light winds, the Luftwaffe set the standard altitude for paratroopers to parachute at 400 meters, with a minimum of 200 meters. However, in view of the fact that it was airborne at night and the airborne area had been controlled by the commandos, this time the airship and the plane were basically airdropped at an altitude of about 500 meters, so that the paratroopers would have enough safe time to react.

Wringer soon conveyed the signal of "following the pilot aircraft to lower altitude" to the other planes in the formation through the arc lights, and most of the arc lights on the navigators in the other groups were flashing signals.

"Guys, get ready to skydive!"

The pilot shouted and pressed the button in front of him to prepare for skydiving, and the red cabin lights in the cabin immediately lit up. The door of the plane was immediately opened, and the paratroopers hung the hooks of the parachute on the ropes inside the cabin, so that they could jump out of the cabin without making any movements, and the parachute would open automatically.

"Let's do it! Pay attention to fastening your respective helmets! The commander in the cabin shouted to his soldiers, whose M-16 steel helmets were padded with cotton cloth to prevent shocks and protect against the cold. In World War II, the Japanese army in Northeast China often froze the steel helmet and scalp together, and even if it was poured with hot water, the scalp and the steel helmet would fall off together, which was a punishment from God to the Japanese. However, the Japanese responded by adding padding to the inside of their steel helmets, which allowed their scalps to stay with their heads.

When the first "Owl" bomber flew south of Woodtown at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, a German sergeant named Lutsk bravely jumped out of the cabin. The German airborne soldier went down in history as the first person in the world to parachute from an airplane and land safely during an airborne combat operation.

On this day, the Luftwaffe demonstrated to the world its feared combat capabilities. It has been said that the Luftwaffe was far ahead of the air forces of the rest of the world from this day.