Chapter 176: Condor Descends from Heaven (1)

The SS quickly advanced into the interior of Denmark without encountering any form of resistance, and Flitze entered the capital, Copenhagen. Just four hours after the start of the war, Denmark declared its acceptance of German protection and broke away from the Anglo-French alliance. This was the first time in the history of warfare that paratroopers were used, and it was also the first bloodless airborne assault operation.

A miracle in the history of world wars, the defeat of a country in four hours, all the people in Germany consciously poured into the streets, enthusiastically celebrating the great victory of Germany, and the generals of the Wehrmacht were equally surprised and surprised, no matter what dirty battles the Wehrmacht and the SS had, it was an internal struggle in Germany, and it was all within the controllable range. Now that the SS has achieved such a brilliant victory, the Wehrmacht, as a member of the German armed forces, has no reason not to rejoice.

Some people are happy, some people are worried, of course it is Chamberlain who is worried, this damn German is too terrifying, 4 hours to beat Denmark to surrender, is there such a precedent in the history of world wars? Absolutely not, Chamberlain's appeasement policy was even more unpopular, countless newspapers began to bombard Chamberlain, and the call for Chamberlain's resignation became louder and louder, and the British king and Churchill did not seem to hear it, but remained silent. Now Britain can't really go to war with Germany, so Chamberlain can only bear this black cauldron, until Britain has the opportunity and strength to kill the Germans, and Churchill's day of emergence will come.

Germany's new tactics emerged one after another, leaving the world powers stunned, and the previous "blitzkrieg" followed by the "super blitzkrieg", regardless of the two wings, rushed more than 300 kilometers and stabbed the enemy's capital. Then there is the "city frog jumping tactic", which divides and surrounds the enemy's capital in an instant, and these Germans are the reincarnation of the god of war, who can come up with so many "cheating" things. The United States is the country that pays the most attention to Germany's new tactics, and has organized experienced generals to study Germany's new tactics and find ways to crack them, even if they can't crack them, they must learn Germany's new tactics.

Flitz was given the authority to name his own Panzer Regiment, and was the first regimental unit in the 1st SS Panzer Army to receive such qualifications. In addition, Frieze's fist is harder than Boult, Flitz beat Boulter into a panda eye, and only then did he seize the opportunity, he thought there was a big fight, but he didn't get a shot, not to mention how depressed he was.

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The goal of the 2nd Assault Team of Exercise Wiesel was to capture the Fornebu airfield near the Norwegian capital Oslo. The original battle plan was for a regiment of paratroopers to parachute at the Fornebu airfield on B-29s under the cover of fighters, and after occupying the airfield, the artillery battalions and anti-aircraft artillery battalions of the paratrooper division landed at the airfield on B-29s.

In the early morning of 9 November, paratroopers of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the Airborne Forces took off from Germany's Schleswig airfield under the cover of 40 May "Liuye" planes in 27 B-29s and prepared to fly over the Skagerrak Strait and parachute to occupy Oslo's Forneb airfield.

When Zhang Jun made the plan, he took into account the weather factors, the weather forecast over Denmark and Norway said that it would be sunny, but when it came to departure, the sea current in the north suddenly dropped several degrees, it seemed that there was a snowstorm in the Arctic, and on November 9, there was foggy weather along the coast of Norway, and Norway's territory was no more than 150 kilometers away from the coastline, and the sky over Norway was full of fog.

From the sea to an altitude of 6,000 meters, there is a heavy fog with multiple layers of dark clouds above the fog, and the visibility is only 20 meters. In this case, low-altitude flight is impossible, and the B-29 can easily fly above the clouds. If flying over clouds, when will it go down through the clouds? What if you can't see the ground at a certain time? You know, it's flying among the rolling hills of Norway! Lieutenant Colonel Dreves, who led the attack wave, flew in front of the group, and his mood was very nervous. The closer you get to the Oslo Fjord, the fog gets thicker, and Redweis has to order all the planes to fly above the clouds.

Drevis asked the navigator to fly according to the pilot map, at an altitude of 8,000 meters, without any references, without any contours of the ground, flying and flying without even the navigator knowing where the group had flown to. Drevis had no choice but to lower the altitude with the group, burrow into the clouds, and try to see the outline of the ground, so that the terrain could determine the position of the group, and then the course could be adjusted, so that he could fly over the Fornebu airport, but the further down he flew, the thicker the fog became, and the visual distance would not exceed twenty meters.

Sometimes even the wingmen of the formation are not visible. Dreves gritted his teeth and controlled himself, knowing full well how important his mission was in the battle. At this time, the commander of the rear crew reported to him the loss of two aircraft. It turned out that two B-29 planes suddenly disappeared in the dense fog. The importance of this B-29 to Germany, Drevis is very clear, now Germany is only copying B-29 parts, not producing B-29, that is, Zhang Jun does not want to arouse the alarm of the United States. Imitation is a very embarrassing thing for German scientists, infringing on other people's intellectual property rights, not a real scientist is willing to do it, and when the war breaks out, this voice will naturally disappear, at that time Zhang Jun is taking the B-29 assembly.

Lieutenant Colonel Dreves thought to himself that this was probably just the beginning, and he could not afford to fly like this again, so he gave the order to return. Some of the planes landed at Aalborg Airport in Denmark, which had just been occupied, while others returned to their original airfields. The commanders at Kesselring's headquarters realized from the return report that what they had been fearing had become a reality, and they sensed that Norway could not be subdued without a fight. It was 8:20 a.m. Dreves' fleet flew in the air for more than three hours.

The second attack wave was flying towards the Fornebu airfield at an interval of 20 minutes from the first attack wave as originally ordered, and the officers and men of the 5th Parachute Regiment were on board. When the paratroopers could not land as planned, Kesselring received a stern order from Field Marshal Walter, ordering him to immediately recall the next few groups of attacking troops, which were the paratroopers of the Wehrmacht, who was now the Minister of Defense, and of course felt sorry for his elite paratroopers. Kesselring, however, did not approve of his superiors recalling his troops. He said Walter directly: "Even if the airfield is not occupied, we can force the landing." The troops that landed first may have broken through the enemy's defenses for us. ”

It was very polite that Kesselring did not accuse Walter of overstepping his authority, and that was still based on everyone's previous friendship, which belonged to the Wehrmacht.

Walter believes that if this continues, the B-29 aircraft and the paratroopers will suffer heavy losses, and who can bear this responsibility. Kesselring only replied to Walter:

"I can't order them to return, and if something goes wrong, it will naturally be Admiral Zhang, the commander-in-chief of this exercise, who will be in charge."

The words could only be understood but not spoken, and there was silence on the other side of the phone for a moment, and then the voice continued:

"Well, General Kesselring, I see, you can carry out Admiral Zhang's orders, of course it is the responsibility of the commander-in-chief if something happens, and the armed forces of the Wehrmacht are not for him to toss around."

Colonel Wagner, the commander of the second attack wave, believed that he was approaching the Forneb airfield, but although the dense fog on the ground was very thick, it had already shown signs of dissipating due to the action of the sea breeze, so he let the group continue to hover in the air. In this way, the captains are put to the test of instrument flight and bad weather flight. The fog is thickest near the coastline. The pilots of the second attack wave seemed to be more experienced, and they managed to fly to their targets in the gloomy clouds and fog, despite the adverse weather conditions.

The super range of the B-29 strategic bomber helped them, and after hovering for hours, the general outline of the coastline could already be seen, and after the navigator determined the direction, the group began to adjust the course and fly towards the target. Their luck was really good, the weather was sunny and the visibility was good near Oslo. The leading crew of the B-29 aircraft has already reached the skies over Fornebe. Wagner watched downward and circled for a week. It is a small airport surrounded by rocky mountains, with two concrete runways with a steep slope and the runway terminus is connected to the water. I saw two planes spewing flames at the airport. It seems that the battle is going on, and German fighters are hovering over the airfield.

Suddenly, the captain's voice suddenly came from Varna's walkie-talkie:

"Report, Colonel Werner, the Norwegians are laying explosives on the runway, what to do."

If the Norwegians blow up the runway, then even if Varna's occupation of the airfield is a failure, Varna thought for a moment, and then ordered:

"The other planes landed normally, and the plane immediately forcibly landed and ran on."

Varna was ready to fight desperately, allowing the B-29 to run to force a landing without deploying enemy machine-gun fire, which was not a gamble or a gamble, and there were always some gamblers in Zhang Jun's troops. If you win, you will eat and drink spicy, and if you lose, you will be on this runway, and people will die and birds will rise to the sky.

Wagner signaled the captains to land, and the B-29 entered the landing in a small circle. As Wagner's plane approached and landed, the heavy fire of the Norwegian troops guarding the airport hit his plane,

"Dada...... Da Da ...... Flutter flutter"

Numerous bullets hit the B-29, which was forcibly landing, and more than a dozen paratroopers in the cabin were killed at that time, and even the captain was hit in the fatal part, and the co-pilot hurriedly increased the throttle and pulled the plane up again.

The tragic voyage of the "Sixth Master" was completed by the long-range BF110, and the German 40 Messerschmitt-110 fighters under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hansen were responsible for covering the mission over Forneb.

The BF110 was Germany's only twin-engine heavy fighter, the BF110 fighter had great firepower and endurance to be able to protect the bombardment deep into the enemy territory to strike the heart of the enemy army, and this fighter was called an escort fighter or destroyer at the time...... (To be continued.) )