Chapter Twenty-Three: The Giant's Shoulders
"Hurry up and prepare, everyone!"
After easily taking down all the Indian soldiers, Siggert did not feel relaxed in his heart, the British planes here were not parked as in the airport, and it was not easy to find them all out of the woods in the dark, not to mention the ominous number of guards next to these planes. He planned to have 10 commandos stay and be ready to detonate the five British planes here, while he himself took the rest of the commandos to occupy and destroy the other planes parked nearby. But before they could leave, the commandos in charge of the release hurried back to report that several large British patrols had arrived from the east and south.
"It's actually at this time!!"
Siggott glanced at the other commandos, if he detonated the planes here now, he was afraid that it would alarm the British troops in the entire forest, and the British soldiers guarding the other planes would also be vigilant, and it would be much more difficult to kill the remaining planes.
"Except for the first gunshot, there has been no gunfire in the vicinity, and Cullen and Tobias's group should not have engaged the British in a head-on firefight, perhaps ......" Siggert decided to have another "prank" with the British before they could see through him, it would be best if he could deceive the other party, and if he couldn't, he would have a chance to strike first. It's just that this time he didn't have the perfect excuse in his heart.
"Hurry up and clean up here and pull these Indians aside! Everyone get ready to fight, sergeant, you take a few people and get ready to detonate the plane at any time! Sigurt set it up quickly.
About two minutes later, there was a sound of footsteps from the woods to the east, and the beams of light from the flashlights swept back and forth between the trees, and Sigurt and more than twenty commandos stood casually where the previous group of Indian soldiers had been suffocated, while the rest of the commandos hid in the shadows. When a British patrol came into view, Siggett couldn't help but be a little disappointed, because there were only about twenty people in that group, so it would not be the other two assault groups.
"Password!" Siggett shouted preconceivedly.
"Long live the King!" The correct password came from the other side.
In a few moments, the commander of the patrol walked out of the darkness to Sigget, and his soldiers stopped, but all of them had their rifles in their hands, and it seemed that after the first shots, the British had somewhat increased their vigilance.
"Commander of the 7th Patrol at the Furland Forest site, Second Lieutenant Karl!" The British officer saluted, and the so-called Flland Forest construction site refers to the secret airfield of the British fighter squadron here.
"Hello!" Siggert returned the salute, but did not give the number of his unit. It is obviously unrealistic to use the number of the first patrol here, and there is no reason for the "special patrol of the 4th garrison regiment in Brighton" to appear near these fighters.
"Your rank, number!" The British officer asked seriously, and also dismissed Siggett's plan to pass the test in a foolish manner.
The commandos who were hiding around had their fingers tightly on the trigger, but in the darkness they could not guarantee to hit all the British soldiers here.
"Mon. Second Lieutenant, these soldiers and I have been temporarily drawn to strengthen the defense! Siggett didn't move, but his urge to draw his gun grew stronger, for even he felt that he was making up a somewhat lame lie. It seemed like a mistake for him to go head-on with a British patrol in this environment.
The British officer looked at Siggett with a puzzled expression, his mind probably wondering if something was wrong here.
"When I came yesterday afternoon, it looked like a group of Indian soldiers were guarding here. Why haven't you seen them now? The Englishman said and glanced behind Siggett, and under the beam of the flashlight were white soldiers with serious expressions.
"We heard some noise in the south before, so we asked the Indian soldiers here to go and search!"
Siggert replied in a natural tone, but the British officer frowned, but fortunately the other British soldiers did not notice a shoe of one of the Indian soldiers at the foot of a large tree nearby.
"Second Lieutenant, the number of your unit!" The British officer suddenly said loudly, this time the British soldiers behind him were all alert, and the muzzles of their guns suddenly turned to Siggett and the others, although they did not aim directly, but this action was undoubtedly extremely unfriendly, and the soldiers behind Siggott also reacted in the same way.
"Company E of the Fore Infantry Regiment!"
Sigget's unthinking answer eased the slightly fire-smelling atmosphere in the air.
"The Fore Infantry Regiment? Never heard of it! The British officer's hands were still behind his back, thinking a little arrogantly.
"We're from the north of England and we're newly transferred here! You've heard it since today! Sigurt felt that the British ensign in front of him was particularly harsh, at least not as easy to bluff as the fool before.
"Luckily!" The British officer saluted again, apparently preparing to move on with his patrol.
Although the other party did not show any unusual behavior, Siggott had a strong instinct that the British second lieutenant seemed to have seen something wrong, and it was very dangerous to let him go now. At that moment, two other British patrols and their flashlight beams appeared nearby, one from the east and one from the southeast along the same path from which the previous British patrol had come.
Seeing this, the British lieutenant asked his patrol to stop again, and found that the two patrols were about forty men each, and his patrol far outnumbered Sigget's group, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Don't move!" As the two patrols approached, the British lieutenant suddenly drew his pistol and pointed it at Sigget, and the British soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then aimed their rifles high at Siggett and the soldiers behind him.
Towards the other two patrols, which had come to a halt, the British second lieutenant shouted, "There is something wrong with these people!" Come and help subdue them! ”
Siggett's soldiers were all guns, but Siggett motioned for them not to open fire, as he could already see the faces of the other two patrol leaders from the beams of the flashlights.
"Ensign! You're kidding! ”
Cullen shone a flashlight at the British ensign, and the soldiers behind him inadvertently began to disperse.
"Yes, these are all soldiers of the British Empire, how can there be a problem!" Tobias also came up with his soldiers, and three assault teams soon surrounded the authentic British patrol in the middle.
"Listen to me!" The British second lieutenant reached out to block the somewhat dazzling flashlight beam in the darkness, "I swear, I looked at the number list of the headquarters yesterday, and there is no Fore infantry regiment here at all!" ”
"How is that possible! Me and my men are from the Fore Infantry Regiment! Cullen stopped next to the British lieutenant with a wicked smile on his face.
"So do we!" Under the desperate eyes of the British, Tobias held his pistol to his head.
"I suspect that you are German spies, for the safety of everyone's lives, please lay down your weapons and accept our inspection!" Cullen shouted at the other British soldiers, and hundreds of commandos had already pointed their guns at the two dozen Britons from all sides.
The British soldiers hesitated, and they had no choice but to put down their rifles.
"Poor man!" Siggert finally breathed a sigh of relief that the eventful British ensign had lost not only his own life, but also the lives of his men, and that even the poor Indian Ah San would not be spared after all this.
After a few minutes, all the authentic British and Indian soldiers present silently stopped breathing. The three regrouped assault teams briefly dealt with the scene, leaving some of them ready to detonate the planes on this side, while others continued to pose as British patrols to find and clean up the rest of the planes at the "Furland Forest site".
At half past five a.m., still waiting for the dawn of a new day, a powerful explosion was heard from the Flland Forest, 15 miles north of the Brighton coast. While the British soldiers were busy extinguishing fires and searching for suspicious figures, Cullen and the others swaggered westward.
Berlin, Germany.
As soon as Chen Tian woke up, he received the good news that the commando attack was successful.
"Your Highness, the first action of the commando team has been successful! Do we send out a few commandos in the back as planned! Tirpitz's tone was filled with irrepressible excitement, he was as happy as Chentian for the success of the drama he directed, you must know that this plan has epoch-making significance, it brings a new combat mode to the world in advance, and the special airborne troops have achieved a significant victory in the first actual combat.
"What a kind Admiral! The decision is yours to decide whether or not to proceed with the plan. Now that our first stone is embedded in the UK mainland, my advice is to continue with this multi-pronged project! In this way, the British should be even more blind in their judgment of where we landed! ”
Due to Chentian's relationship, the cooperation between the War Department and the Admiralty during this period was much better than before, and it should be said that Prince's accident brought many unexpected gains to the whole of Germany. At the very least, Chen Tian and his 200,000 German soldiers did not have to stay on the beaches of England until they ran out of ammunition and food.
"That's good! The boys on our battleships have been suffocating for the past two months, and they have been looking forward to delivering shells to the British! I'm afraid that after the Battle of England, most of our battleships will have to change their gun barrels! Hahaha! ”
Tirpitz refers to the replacement of the barrel of the cannon refers to the need to replace the barrel of the heavily worn gun after a certain number of shells have been fired. Since there was a lot of training in live fire in peacetime, the Germans were not stingy with shells and barrels. It is said that in order to save ammunition and reduce the wear and tear of the gun barrel, the Japanese Navy often uses small-caliber out-loaded guns with the main guns installed on the main guns when firing live ammunition, and the effect of this kind of training is naturally not comparable with that of the main guns firing shells, and it also reflects the lack of domestic resources in Japan in another aspect.
Thinking of the Japanese Navy, Chen Tian couldn't help but think of the German-Japanese negotiations on the Japanese Navy sending troops to contain the US Navy, and today he will leave to return to the troops, so he will not be able to participate in the subsequent negotiations, but fortunately, the two countries have reached an agreement on the main issues, and the Japanese representatives have treacherously delayed the time to take advantage of the urgency of the German government to increase their negotiating weight, and some detailed demands have also repeatedly increased the price. The advice that Tatsuten left to the German delegates was to satisfy the greedy demands of the Japanese for the time being, and in his opinion, the more the Japanese wanted now, the more they would have to pay back in the future.
"Then Your Excellency the Minister of the Navy, I wish the Navy continued to create brilliance!"
"Thank you, Your Highness, and wish you a great victory over the British!"
In this way, before landing in Britain, several main detachments of the German High Seas Fleet would take turns to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment of some British coasts and ports, which could destroy some of the British coastal fortifications and cover the airborne operations of the follow-up commandos. Since the tens of thousands of British expeditionary forces stranded in France were all wiped out by the Germans, the British equipment of the commando team of several hundred men was not a problem.
After exchanging blessings, Tatsuten will receive a farewell from the emperor and his ministers, after which he will fly to the north coast of France, and his 8th Army will conduct a two-day landing exercise on the coast of Calais.
Next, the great drama of the Battle of England will be grandly performed.
Seeing the emperor's increasingly haggard face, Chen Tian didn't know whether to be happy or worried. After the Empress fell ill, Wilhelm II was busy with government affairs and worried about the two major patients in their family.
Chen Tian hadn't had time to meet the "Oriental Divine Doctor", and at this time, he was not very suitable for this identity to contact the person who healed Prince. Whether that man was a cow or a liar, he probably won't know until after the Battle of England is over. As for the queen, the doctors said that she was suffering from a heart disease that could not be treated by medicine, but Prince had a bad day, and this benevolent mother's heart disease was probably not cured. If the empress's illness is not good, the emperor's mood will not be better, and this chain reaction may greatly change the course of history.
"I wish you a victorious start!" The emperor's tone is still so deep, perhaps he is the most conflicted person in this situation, not only hoping that Chentian, the acting crown prince, can be affirmed by everyone with his victory, so as to eliminate the instability brought by the crown prince crisis to Germany, so that the German Empire will gradually climb to the top of the world, and he also has the hope of Prince's reawakening, and his own son will lead the future of Germany is naturally what he hopes to see the most.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" For the emperor, Chentian is more of a form of respect. He knew very well in his heart that it was impossible to buy and sell the previous account at once, and if the emperor really lived like an old turtle for so long, he would not wait for Wilhelm II to sit on the throne because he was too old to lose his mind.
"I wish Your Highness a triumphant return!"
The ministers saw Chentian off with the treatment of seeing off the crown prince, and most of them were reluctant to stake their political future on a vegetative person with little hope of revival. For Chentian, this time is also a good time to cut off Prince's henchmen, and when the Battle of England is over, there are more invisible battles waiting for him.
"Ahem...... Jigi, be careful to protect yourself! You now represent the future of Germany! ”
From the eyes of the emperor, Chen Tian saw some fatherly care, but whether this love came from the heart, or was performed from a political point of view, or both, everyone had their own judgment.
"Your Majesty, you and the Empress should also take care of your health! I believe that God will bless our legitimate crown prince of Germany! ”
Every time Prince was mentioned, the emperor's eyes were a little gloomy, but praying for Prince on such occasions had become a routine for Chentian's official duties.
Anyone with insight knows that the awakening of Prince will be a disaster for Germany. Not to mention Prince's moderation and conceit, this powerful acting crown prince may not give up the inheritance that he won so hard.
"Your Highness, we still recommend that you take the train to the front line, after all, the safety performance of such things as airplanes is not as good as that of trains!"
Several ministers are still not worried that Chentian chose the plane as a means of travel, but it takes a day and a night by train to reach the French coast, and Chentian really doesn't want to waste his precious time on the road. What's more, the trend of airplanes becoming a convenient means of transportation is unstoppable, and Chentian, as the Minister of the Air Force, naturally has to set an example.
Although he was a little tired of the conservative thinking of these old men, Chen Tian still thanked them for their concern, "Rest assured, the engine failure rate of our aircraft in flight is two in a thousand, and the chance of two engines failing at the same time is even smaller. Even if it does malfunction, we have a parachute with excellent performance! ”
At 10 o'clock in the morning, Chen Tian sat on a modified "Owl" bomber, the decoration in its closed cabin gave people a sense of luxury, coupled with the escort of a whole squadron of fighters, he even had a feeling of the emperor going out on patrol.
After two landings and refueling on the way, Chentian arrived in Calais, France, just before dusk. Looking at the British mainland on the other side of the sea and sky, he felt a lot in his heart when he thought that he was about to accomplish Napoleon's unfinished work. In all fairness, Chen Tian felt that he did not surpass Napoleon's command ability, and his advantage was to stand on the shoulders of a great nation, the shoulders of German giants!
"Emperor Napoleon, I am going to fulfill your last wish to land in England for you, will you bless me?" Chen Tian muttered to himself to the sea, perhaps, what Emperor Napoleon wanted to see more was the destruction of Russia.
"The Russian has already been sent back to Russia!"
Hoffman replied in a low voice, "Yes, Your Highness! The Emperor also approved of the matter! ”
"Good!" For Chentian, the vast expanse of Russia has always been a forbidden place, and putting Stalin back into Russia would be more effective than a direct invasion by hundreds of thousands of troops. The revolutionary party-controlled areas in southern Russia were being caught between the Russian and Japanese armies, and although the Agripleni government had been warning the Japanese government not to interfere in Russia's internal affairs, this non-tacit attack put the Russian revolutionary forces under tremendous pressure.
After dark, a group of huge airships drifted almost silently over Calais, and the roar of artillery bombardment could be heard faintly across the channel, and a second commando team was going to bring a new "prank" to the British near Dover.
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