Chapter 271: Airborne Walding
"Good, good, German paratroopers are good, please take credit, you must take credit for them."
The 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the German Wehrmacht is the Waldinburg Bridge, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is a port city, Germany cannot directly attack Copenhagen, it must land on two islands in the direction of Germany, the south of Gesai Island and Zealand Island, Copenhagen and the south of Gesai Island and Zealand Island The only passage is the Waltingburg Bridge, Germany wants to attack Copenhagen must seize the Woldinburg Bridge, and it is intact to grab it.
Major Glick, commander of the 11th Battalion, was called to Limer's headquarters. Harlinghausen, the chief of staff of the army, led him to a large map, pointed to a red line connecting the Danish islands of Zealand and Falster with his index finger and said: "This is the Wördingburg Bridge, which is 3.5 kilometers long." It is the only gateway connecting the islands of Gesai and Zealand to the south, i.e. to Copenhagen. Harlinghausen emphasized:
"We must get this bridge intact. Drop your troops here, and will you be able to hold the bridge until our infantry arrives here from Gesai Island? This is exactly what the paratrooper unit has been looking forward to for two years since it was formed.
Gorrik replied cheerfully, "Yes!" ”
Glick flew back to Stendal and studied what little information he hastily gathered: a less reliable map, a sketch of the neighbouring town of Wördingburg, and a colourful postcard of the small Isle of Masnard between the islands of Falst and Zealand, with the bridge on the background.
At 5:30 a.m., Major Glick's planes also began to take off, piercing the sky and piercing the sky, and the battalion led by Major Glick was to seize the Woldinburg Bridge, and a hundred Junkers transport planes roared and roared. Like a crow in the sky, it crushed the Danish island of Gesai with black clouds. The German paratroopers were murderous and went away with the momentum of Mount Tai.
Greek's fleet flew over the Baltic Sea. All the way to the Woldinburg Bridge. Now, in the early morning sunshine. The long Woldinburg Bridge came ahead. The Wördingburg Bridge shines brightly under the repeated morning glow, like a rainbow on the sea, and below the bridge is the microwave rippling seawater, so beautiful, beautiful bridge, the whole picture is the fairyland of the dream.
At 6:15 a.m., Major Glick gave the signal to parachute. Within seconds, the cabin was empty. A white parachute flutters down near the Wördingburg Bridge. When the paratroopers landed, there was no gunfire on the ground, and there were no sirens, as if the area was still sleeping in a peaceful dream. Gorrik lands beside the embankment of the railroad that leads to the Iron Bridge. He mounted his machine gun on the roadbed, from which he could both strafe the Danish coastal positions and cover the safe landing of his men. However, there was silence in the Danish position.
Therefore, after jumping from the ground, the paratroopers did not open the airdropped weapon box, and rushed into the Danish position with only the pistols they were carrying. They passed in front of the frightened sentry who raised their hands and plunged into depth. The bridge garrison was disarmed in a matter of minutes. 1 squad of paratroopers rode captured bicycles and quickly ran to the bridge, and the guards guarding the bridge also surrendered without firing a shot. Then. To the astonishment of the paratroopers, a detachment of German infantry rushed across the bridge. It turned out to be the advance unit of the 35th Infantry Regiment, which had arrived here on a sampan from Warnemünde to Gesai Island as planned, and had no resistance along the way. In this way, the Germans took full control of the bridge.
The people of the advance regiment were the "rookie battalion" that rose in the Polish campaign, and the whole battalion was more than 800 people, basically composed of firemen, cooks and other logistics personnel, tall, short, fat and thin. It's uneven, as the saying goes. The starving cook has three hundred pounds, these middle-aged uncles with big bellies. Like the young man, holding a submachine gun, his chest heaved violently, and he was panting sharply "whirring and ......". But that doesn't affect how fast they can run.
"Quick, quick, quick, there's a bridge ahead."
"Hurry up there, there's a bike over there, you guys get on your bikes and rush up, quick, quick."
Jerry? Yang commanded and ran at the same time, from the landing site to here, it was more than twenty kilometers, and it was still a fast run in full armor, it can be said that every rookie in the rookie camp ran like a dog, sticking out his tongue, as if his tongue could help her breathe.
Jerry? Yang is also running with a pale face, but Jerry? Yang can still support, wait for Jerry? When they were almost there, they saw paratroopers also charging, and these paratroopers were carrying pistols, Jerry? Yang didn't dare to rest even if he wanted to, even if he ran to death, he would die on the way to the charge. But fortunately, the Danish army did not shoot, or they were simply frightened, and those Danish soldiers, before they could react, became prisoners of the German army.
This Jerry? Young's "rookie battalion" and paratrooper battalion captured Waldinburg without firing a single shot, and it seems that the "rookie battalion" was really a lucky unit, and their luck was like stepping on shit when they went out.
The advance units of paratroopers and infantry converge all the way, Jerry? Young led two companies into the town of Woldinburg and set up machine guns at some commanding heights, so that the bridge was completely safe.
Two other airborne battalions then occupied a bridge connecting the islands of Masnard and Zealand. They completed the task in less than an hour. At the same time, the German landing force landed on the islands of Zealand, Funen and Falster.
On the Danish homeland, on the border with Germany, more than 100,000 German troops and countless tanks crushed the Danish territory with the sky and dust, resisting? That's impossible, the whole Denmark has only 30,000 troops, and there are a little outposts and border posts on the border, as soon as the German tanks are crushed to the border post, all the Danish soldiers are disarmed, and they also take the initiative to help the German army guide, and play the role of traffic police commander, the same is not a shot. The torrent of German steel rolled forward without any resistance.
Germany concentrated a large number of transport ships to transport German armored forces, and at the same time there was the German High Seas Fleet as a vigilance task, but this transport task is still very arduous, more than a thousand transport ships of various types joined the transport team, a division of troops, it also takes a day to send away, one can transport most of the armored division, but don't worry, the Danish troops are not enough for the German army to plug their teeth, as long as the Waldingburg Bridge is in the hands of the Germans, there is no fear of resistance.
The first to land on Gesai Island was an armored regiment, when their commander was transferred from other units to the 7th Panzer Corps, Colonel Frieze. (To be continued)
PS: Do the brothers have a monthly pass? R580