Chapter 175: Aerial Assault (2)

"Well, my deputy commander, no need to make a gesture, I will tell you the good news, our bridgehead airfield has been successfully taken, the airfield is in good condition, and General Kesselring can be notified immediately to airlift the second batch of ground troops."

As soon as Rommel heard Zhang Jun say this, he hurriedly put down the command pole in his hand, walked quickly in front of Zhang Jun, and took the two telegrams that had just come out from Zhang Jun's hands.

"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 Paratroopers Their mission is the Wördenburg Bridge, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is a port city, Germany cannot directly attack Copenhagen, it must land on two islands in the face of Germany, Gusse Island and Zealand Island in the south, Copenhagen and Guesai Island and Zealand Island in the south The only passage linking is the Waltingburg Bridge, Germany must seize the Woldinburg Bridge if it wants to attack Copenhagen, and it is intact to grab it, you must know that the SS landing force is an armored division, The damaged bridge could not withstand the copycat 99 type.

The commander of the 11th Battalion, Major Glick, was called to Kesselring'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: "The bridge must be snatched 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. Glick 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 Woldinburg, and a colourful postcard of the small Isle of Masnard between the islands of Falster and Zealand, with the bridge on the background.

At 5:30 a.m., Major Glick's plane also began to take off, piercing the sky and piercing the blue sky, and the battalion led by Major Glick was to seize the Woldinburg Bridge, and a hundred Junkers transport planes roared and roared like crows in the sky, carrying black clouds against the Danish island of Gesse. The German paratroopers were murderous and went away with the momentum of Mount Tai.

Glick's fleet flew over the Baltic Sea and all the way to the Waldingburg Bridge. Now, in the bright morning sun, the long Woldinburg Bridge appears 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, and 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 hands of the sentinels, penetrated into depth, and disarmed the bridge garrison 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. At this moment, to the astonishment of the paratroopers, an SS 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 previous 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, uneven, as the saying goes, the cooks who starved to death had 300 catties, and these middle-aged uncles with big bellies, like young men, held cottage Type 56 submachine guns, their chests rose and fell violently, and they were panting rapidly "whirring and ......". But that doesn't affect their speed of fast running.

"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."

Piper commanded and ran, more than twenty kilometers from the landing site here, and still running quickly in full armor, it can be said that every rookie in the rookie camp ran like a dog, sticking out his tongue as if it could help her breathe.

Piper was also running with a pale face, but Piper could still support it, and when Piper and they were about to arrive, they saw that the paratroopers were also charging, these paratroopers were carrying pistols, and Piper didn't dare to rest even if he wanted to rest, 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 the Danish soldiers, before they could react, became prisoners of the SS.

Now Piper's "rookie battalion" and paratrooper battalion captured Waltingburg without firing a single shot, and it seems that the "rookie battalion" is really a lucky unit, and their luck is like stepping on dog shit when they go out.

The advance units of the paratroopers and infantry joined each way, and Piper led two companies into the town of Wördingburg, setting 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 German border, more than 200,000 SS troops, countless tanks with the sky and dust, crushed the Danish territory, resist? That's impossible, the whole Denmark has only 30,000 troops, and there are a little outposts and border posts on the border, and as soon as the German tanks crush the border posts, all the Danish soldiers disarmed, and they also took the initiative to help the SS guide and play the role of traffic police commander, and they also did not let go of a shot. The torrent of German steel rolled forward without any resistance.

Germany concentrated a large number of transport ships to transport SS armored forces, and at the same time there was a German high seas fleet as a guard task, but this task is still very arduous, more than a thousand transport ships of various types joined the transport team, a panzer corps troops, it also takes a day to send it away, one time to transport most of the panzer division, but don't worry, the Danish little force is not enough for the SS to plug the gaps, as long as the Wördingburg Bridge is in the hands of the SS, there is no fear of resistance.

The first to land on Gesai Island was an armored regiment, and when their commander was transferred from the Wehrmacht to the SS, the SS put a Wehrmacht colonel, Fritz? By Shef? Bidianfeldt attracted the SS to it, and there was definitely a bit of a story. The Wehrmacht still attaches great importance to talent, and a capable colonel will never let him leave the Wehrmacht and join the "show army."

Frieze is good, but Flitz has a bit of a fiery personality, and Frieze's bluntness and recklessness make him often speak disrespectfully, and even commit offences. In the Wehrmacht, Flitz was an outlier, because it was very rare in the Wehrmacht to dare to defy his superiors, and it was considered disrespectful to his superiors, which was completely contrary to the tradition of the Wehrmacht. But as a pure soldier, at the military level, Flitz is definitely a rare German armored talent, it can be said that Flitz is a commander who can fully understand the essence of Guderian's "blitzkrieg", and can use it flexibly, over time Flitz will definitely achieve brilliant achievements and become a generation of famous generals.

But Frieze lacked political acumen, nor did he know how to be tactful, he always spoke wildly, and even beat his boss when he was angry, until he was almost expelled from the army. With this expansion of the SS, the Wehrmacht finally stopped tolerating Fritz as an outlier, and sent him to the SS. After talking with Frieze, Zhang Jun also felt that Flitz was a rare armored talent, so he appointed Flitz as a colonel of the 1st SS Panzer Army Skeleton Corps to command an armored regiment. And now the SS has an armored regiment in one division, and Flitz is almost the absolute main force of any armored division.

After Flitz arrived, he trained his armored regiment vigorously, and Flitze's training was to use the hell training method, to serve as a soldier under him, and to shed his skin without dying. As a result, Flitz was always the first in every monthly assessment, but fortunately Wittmann's competitive head was gone, otherwise the two would have fought again.

Flitz also gave his armored regiment a popular name, "Death's Scythe Armored Regiment", and when this naming was reported to Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun gave a sentence:

"When you take the Danish capital, you can name your own armored regiment separately, and in the future, you can name your own armored regiment with outstanding achievements, all of which are used as an example."

At the place where the two armored regiments of the Skeleton Army were attacked, one was called Boulter, and the other was Frieze, and finally the two agreed to go head-to-head, and the bull and horse Frieze won, and Boult ended the battle with a pair of panda eyes.

As soon as Flitz landed, he immediately organized his own armored assault regiment, and the rapid assault and earth-shattering roar almost deafened people's ears, and the splashed earth behind the tank tracks flew out more than ten meters behind the tank, and the dust raised by hundreds of tanks and armor covered the sky and the sun. Like a soil dragon, galloping towards Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark...... (To be continued.) )