In late autumn, the cloud curtain hangs low, the cold wind sends cold, and the earth gradually increases the gloomy atmosphere. 1 - The vast Alps and the meandering Danube River system gradually turn from the splendor of autumn to the purity of winter, and the two great natural topography intersect on the German-Austrian border, making it a magnificent landscape with great character.

With the clear hum of its engines, an olive-green twin-engine plane flies over the Danube River, which meanders through Austria, about 40 kilometres from Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, and almost 20 kilometres west of the German-Austrian border. As far as the eye can see, steel or concrete bridges spanning the beautiful Danube, the Austrians were still able to use them after the German war did not bring them to the ban, but each bridge was tightly controlled by Soviet troops, and vehicles and even pedestrians had to be checked for large luggage. In addition to the land cordon, the Soviets also brought a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, fixed, mobile, and deployed around the bridge to provide 24-hour air defense protection, but the Austrians were not grateful for the Soviets' care of their bridges, although they did not have the Germans who admired the madness of fighting honor, but most of them had Germanic blood in their blood, they sympathized with the anti-Soviet war of friendly soldiers and civilians, and hated the shackles imposed on them by the Soviets. As long as they did not have to risk being killed on the spot, they were happy to contribute to the Germanic cause against the Soviet Union - passing information, covering people, providing food, and so on.

The Austrians were indifferent to the common, low-altitude Rissunov-2 transport plane, and the Soviet officers and soldiers guarding the bridges and transportation hubs did not pay much attention to it, after all, this was Austria, and before the Soviet Austrian Front crossed the mountains and entered Germany, the German armed men on the other side of the country had never made a provocative move, and the fierce fighting in eastern and northern Germany also firmly restrained the overstretched strength of the German army. As a result, the Soviet Austrian Front, which lacked tanks and heavy artillery, approached Munich unstoppably in just a few days, and recently surrounded the wartime capital of Germany. There was already a little slackening in my spirit. In addition, due to the natural obstacles of the Alps, the Soviet command and liaison personnel traveled between Austria and Germany by plane. And the constantly changing light spots on the radar screen look dazzling, and a few more or fewer are not so obvious. In recent times, the Soviet aviation command in Wales has often been interfered with by unknown signals, resulting in intermittent communication between the ground center and the aviation units. For a time, it was impossible to contact, and the Soviet aviation personnel would not classify it as a dangerous situation.

On the twin-engine transport plane, which has a conspicuous red five-star logo on the wing and fuselage, the nine crew members in Luftwaffe uniforms all frown and grim expressions, the equipment in the cabin far exceeds the needs of an ordinary transport plane, and the telescopic machine gun turret is also quite advanced configuration - while increasing the cost and handling complexity. Makes the appearance as close as possible to an unarmed transport aircraft. The U.S.-made C47, which had been intricately modified to become a launching platform for launching X1 guided bombs, was in the control area near the nose, and the thin-faced bomb operator repeatedly watched through the sight, and when the pilot maneuvered the plane over the river for the second time, he told his colleagues in German: "Attack begins, each ready!" ”

Except for the mechanics who troubled the bomb bay, the pilots, machine gunners, and navigators had nothing to do with the work of guided bombs at this time, and they had to prepare for a Soviet counterattack. Shortly after the radio-guided gliding bomb left the bomb bay. Fires began to appear on the ground. Rumbling explosions and clouds of black smoke followed the plane, and the air flow from the explosion of the anti-aircraft shell shook the aircraft, but the pilot had to keep the flight as smooth as possible until the bomb hit the target accurately, so as to provide an effective observation environment for the bombardier. …,

After a few seconds, the bombardier, with tense facial muscles, finally shouted, "Hit the target!" ”

There was a faint cheer in the cabin. The pilot quickly pulled up the plane, leaving the smoke and flashes behind him. Over time. The explosion sounded farther and farther away, but the danger did not relieve. Just as the plane flew into the clouds, the machine gunner in the tail position alerted: "Two fighters are coming!" ”

"May God bless us!"

The pilot said on the interphone. The Cumulus clouds of that day filled the airspace of more than two thousand meters, and the higher they flew, the thicker the Cumulus clouds became, and the outside of the cabin soon became gray, and the crew members fell silent, they knew that the vast majority of Soviet military aircraft, including the best jet fighters, were not equipped with airborne radar, which meant that the clouds could provide good cover for their whereabouts, but the maximum flight speed of the C47 was only 360 kilometers per hour, while the speed of Soviet fighters was generally more than 500 kilometers per hour. Soviet ground-based radars were still able to detect the attacker's general position, and under their guidance, Soviet fighters did not deviate too far from their target.

"Damn, I seem to see a Soviet fighter, not far from the right flank!" The screams of one of the machine gunners made the atmosphere in the cabin tense to the extreme, and the people listened intently, but could only hear the sound of their own plane's engine. Suddenly, the obviously sloping fuselage meant that the aircraft was turning, and the light outside the cabin gradually became stronger, and suddenly, the view from the porthole suddenly opened up - the plane emerged from the clouds and entered the unsheltered void!

"What the hell!" The pilot called, "Guys, we've got to be naked for ten minutes and get ready......

As soon as the words fell, the machine gunner in the tail of the plane unceremoniously shouted: "An enemy plane has been found at 5 o'clock!" ”

The crew was horrified by the news, and the fuselage leaned forward suddenly, and the noisy engine increased the amount of noise, and the whimper caused by the dive hit the auditory senses, and the obvious tremor of the body indicated that it was trying to exceed the designed top speed. In the blink of an eye, the turret on the tail and back of the aircraft roared, but the threat of the 7.92mm machine gun to the Soviet fighters was far less powerful than people had hoped, accompanied by another burst of roars, a series of light points from the wings and the fuselage close, fortunately, the speed obtained by the C47 through the dive made it not to be quickly caught up by the enemy, tens of thousands of meters of distance in a flash, when the porthole was filled with gray again, the young German soldiers had a sense of escape.

After a moment of silence, the bombardier asked: "We hit that bridge, maybe it will collapse, maybe it will only bring temporary damage, is it worth risking a precious plane with our lives for such an attack?" ”

This question is like a stone falling into the water, causing ripples in the hearts of the people, who do not know that at this moment just below them, in the woods of Bavaria, Germany, tens of thousands of German soldiers are sleeping soundly, and when night falls, they will be on the road again, and they will assemble to Munich by vehicles, horses, and on foot, and in Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia in the west, and Hesse in the central west. According to the plan of the German Joint Staff, except for the troops blocking the Soviet army in the north and center, the rest of the troops were all thrown into the battle of Munich, which would also become a key battle to determine the fate of Germany!

In just a few days, the Luftwaffe's modified C47 attack aircraft made frequent sorties, which forced the Soviet Air Force to completely stop the flight of the Lisunov-2 transport aircraft on the southern front and send additional fighter units to Austria, but this could not completely prevent the German bombing of bridge facilities in western and northwestern Austria. With the continuous consumption of the C47, the German army sent the valuable Do217, which was the original platform of the X1 guided bomb, the fast bomber could reach a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour when flying at high altitude, and it only took 40 minutes to cross Bavaria into Austria, and the radio base stations secretly set up in Switzerland and Italy also provided effective navigation for German bombers. At the same time as the air raids were launched, the German commandos lurking in Austria or entering from the Italian direction launched a ground attack, and the Austrians also carried out a large-scale strike under the slogan "Do not enter the war, but do not let the enemy step on our backs to attack the German brothers", and the multi-pronged approach greatly affected the transport facilities of Upper Austria and Salzburg. Since the Soviet Polish 2nd Front, which was moving south from Saxony, and the Soviet Czech Front, which was entering Germany from the Czechs, were still blocked by the Regensburg-Passau line, the Soviet troops entering Germany from Austria had to rely on the lines of communication between Upper Austria and Salzburg for supplies, and this supply efficiency was reduced by as much as 60 percent in a short time. Before the Soviets could re-clear the transport lines, German mountain troops, numbering in the tens of thousands, crossed from southwestern Bavaria into the Tyrolean region of western Austria and were warmly welcomed by the local Germanic population. Under their guidance and cooperation, the Germans quickly captured and liberated many towns in North Tyrol, and the sharp momentum made the Soviet Austrian Front worry that the rear road would be raided. In order to reverse the passive situation, the Soviet high command hurriedly transferred troops from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and even invited the Yugoslav army to enter Austria to participate in the war, but it was difficult to quench the thirst of the distant water, not to mention that the sabotage operations in Upper Austria and Salzburg soon spread to the whole of Austria. (To be continued......)