Wiley. Brandt is now wearing the combat uniform of an Air Force paratrooper unit, sitting in a Fokker 42 transport plane belonging to the French Air Force - he received the Knight's Iron Cross at the end of the Soviet-German war, was promoted to sergeant major, and even had the opportunity to train as an officer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, Comrade Brandt, who was sincerely opposed to Germany's war of aggression and expansion, refused the opportunity to become an officer and also made a request for demobilization.

However, his superiors asked him to choose between the officer school and the airborne forces training school (he was sent to the airborne forces school because the Wehrmacht General Staff ordered the selection of soldiers and non-commissioned officers who could speak fluent English to the airborne forces), and in order to leave the German army that he hated earlier, Brandt had to choose the airborne training school. In his opinion, landing in North America is the business of the Marine Corps and the Army, and the Airborne Forces should not be allowed to play. That way he would not have to kill Americans for Hitler's ambitions, and certainly not worry about becoming cannon fodder for Nazi Germany's ambitions to conquer the world.

At the Airborne Forces School he learned to parachute, also completed "platoon commander training", and was transferred to the 1st paratrooper division as a platoon commander at the beginning of 45. What he never expected was that the 1st Division of the Paratroopers he was in turned out to be the vanguard of the invasion of the North American continent!

Just when he regretted his choice, and at the same time repented of his murderous nature on the battlefield (he didn't want to kill, but he couldn't control it when he went to the battlefield). Suddenly, he noticed that a French soldier was looking at him curiously—could it be that the weak expression on my face had caught the attention of the French fascist? Thinking of this, Brandt hurriedly glared at Mitterrand with vicious eyes.

This was the vicious eye of a murderous Nazi devil, and Mitterrand was immediately startled, and hurriedly pretended to look down at the time. And time passed under his gaze. Soon the red readiness siren lights in the cabin came on, and Mitterrand heard someone shouting in German: "Stand up!" ”

The planes were shaking, and all the German paratroopers were already on their feet, and they began to check their equipment, helping each other to fasten all the equipment they were carrying. Mitterrand also quickly stood up, walked in the rickety cabin, and reached the door on the side of the plane, holding the handle next to the door with one hand, and the doorknob on the door with the other.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The terrifying roar of anti-aircraft guns rang in Mitterrand's ears, and he looked out through the window in the plane door. No smoke from the shells was found, and it was clear that it was not the Fokker 42 transport group that was being shelled.

Still, the plane shook very much, and Mitterrand knew that this was caused by the Fokker flying at full speed.

Seeing that everyone was standing up, Brandt continued to give his own order in a loud voice: "Check the equipment one last time!" All confirm the parachute! Begin! ”

"Number one is over!"

"Number two is over!"

"Three-numbered finish!"

“……”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The sound of the cannonballs exploding became louder, and Mitterrand saw clouds of black smoke in the sky outside the window, which made people look at it with fear.

It turns out that the plane has broken through over the island of Newfoundland!

The green indicator light suddenly lit up, and Mitterrand hurriedly opened the door of the plane, and the cold wind mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke blew on his face. He turned his face to look at Brandt with his handsome face that was blown by the wind, and shouted in stiff German: "You can skydive!" ”

With a wave of his hand, Brandt hung the hook of the parachute on the suspension pole of the plane.

At this moment, the plane suddenly trembled violently, and Mitterrand heard the motor change and immediately shouted: "Hurry, hurry! Hurry up and jump ......"

The paratroopers on the plane also knew that one of the engines of the plane was hit and stalled, and now they can't wait any longer and must parachute immediately! The paratroopers lined up and jumped down from the open hatch one by one, and Mitterrand was disappointed to see the parachute flowers open - it was a pity that all the parachutes did not fail!

Just as Brandt was the last to jump out of the hatch, Mitterrand heard a terrible loud bang, and then a fierce cold wind struck, and debris flew everywhere in the cabin! The Fokker 42 tilted to the side and swooped down in a curve. Mitterrand knew that this was a big problem, and it seemed that the plane would not be able to fly back.

"Skydive! Skydive! Our plane can't stand ......"

Someone yelled at Mitterrand in French, and Mitterrand didn't want to jump because there was a war going on below that he didn't agree with at all! But he had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Unlike the heavily armed German paratroopers (who have now advanced so much that they can carry their own equipment), he is an aircrew member of the French Air Force Transport Command, and he carries with him a small pistol for self-defense. You can't fight with it!

Mitterrand, who was slowly descending to the ground under a parachute, had already planned to surrender as soon as he saw the American freedom fighters. It is better to be a prisoner than an accomplice of the Nazis!

Having made up his mind, Mitterrand quickly landed safely on the ground, got out of the parachute, took off the parachute bag he was carrying and threw it on the ground. Then he hunched over a small bush of grass and used it as a cover, and finally began to carefully search for the American freedom fighters, who were supposed to be beating the German paratroopers.

But he was disappointed to see dozens of German GIs scattered on a desolate and almost devoid flat ground, already in a guard formation, and some people set up MG42 machine guns.

As for the fact that there is no trace of the American freedom fighters at all -- in fact, it is normal that there is none, not to mention that the Americans have placed more than 200,000 troops on the island of Newfoundland, but this island has an area of 110,000 square kilometers! In Europe, it is a medium-sized country.

It is not too many to have more than 200,000 troops on such a large area of land. And the Americans did not expect that the Germans would be airborne on the island of Newfoundland, and even less that the Germans would send tanks directly to Newfoundland with transport planes. Therefore, the focus of their deployment was on the coastal areas that were more suitable for landing, and the place where the German paratroopers landed was far away from the beachhead suitable for landing, so the strength of the US troops was relatively empty. Of course, it was not completely unarmed, otherwise Mitterrand's plane would not have been shot down - Mitterrand later learned that there was a small military airfield near the German airfield, so the Americans deployed some 127mm, 90mm, and 40mm anti-aircraft guns there.

Just when Mitterrand was expecting the American freedom fighters to come and take prisoners, the Germans had already discovered him first.

He saw two German soldiers running towards him with FG42 paratrooper rifles, hurriedly got up from the grass, raised their hands above their heads, and shouted in German: "French! I'm a French Air Force ...... It's a friend of Germany! ”

Two German soldiers had recognized his uniform, put away their guns, and one of them, speaking very fluent French (he was probably from Lorraine-Alsace or Luxembourg), said to Mitterrand: "Password! Remember what a password is? ”

"Seagull, the password is seagull." Mitterrand hurriedly replied.

The German soldier turned his head and shouted to the sergeant major, "My own people!" It's a French friend! ”

The sergeant major was the same person who hated this war in his heart, he was the highest-ranking person among the more than 100 German paratroopers, and thus became the temporary commander of this company-level cluster.

"Let him join us in the fight!" Brandt had already recognized Mitterrand, "Ask him if he has any weapons?" If you don't, give him a pistol. ”

After arranging Mitterrand, he summoned several more sergeants who served as platoon commanders and squad leaders to his side, and a map was spread out on the ground. Brandt half-crouched down, tapped his finger on a place on the map marked with the symbol of the airport, and said, "We should have landed near this airport...... Our location should be a flat terrace, very spacious, for landing ZSO523 assault transport aircraft. But I think we should try to capture that airfield, or by the time ZSO523 lands, the anti-aircraft guns there will shoot down a lot of the big-bellied planes. ”

Brandt, though he hated the war, did not have a penny of affection for the ruling Nazi-Fatherland coalition. But he is now a screw in the German war machine, and can only act according to the various plans and plans that have been drawn up from above. And he is also responsible for the lives of more than a hundred German paratroopers who temporarily belong to him, and he cannot let them stay on the desolate gravel ground waiting for the Americans to come and slaughter, something must be done!

After he had assigned his task, someone said to him: "Sergeant Major, here are a few more brothers, and they seem to be dragging an LG45 recoilless gun." ”

The LG45 recoilless gun is a 105mm caliber recoilless gun, which is the most advanced recoilless gun owned by the German Wehrmacht, with a muzzle velocity (armor-piercing projectile) of 403 m/s, a maximum range of up to 8000 meters, an effective range of armor-piercing projectiles of 850 meters, and an effective range of grenades of 3100 meters. The power is quite amazing!

However, this kind of artillery cannot be airdropped with the paratroopers, but must be dropped separately, and it is difficult to say whether it can be picked up by the paratroopers in time.

"Okay!" Brandt glanced at the recoilless gun mounted on the gun carriage with wheels from a distance and nodded: "Take it with you, if you encounter an American tank, use it to deal with it." Other than that...... Is the signal corps there? ”

"In!" Someone responded immediately.

"Try calling out the planes in the air." Brandt commanded. "If we can have a few Fokker 636s to support us, we can take that airfield."