At first glance, the armoured swarm swept through the airborne troops, which sounds like a suspenseful proposition, and the final outcome of the battle is indeed unexpected, but the battle process is difficult to describe in a natural way. In the face of the surging Soviet tanks, the anti-tank shooters on which the American and British airborne troops had high hopes showed admirable courage, and their American-made Bazooka and British-made PIAT burst out with tenacious combat effectiveness in the face of adversity, and in just half an hour, more than 20 Soviet tanks were destroyed and damaged in the battle around the airport, which to a certain extent curbed the Soviet tanks' wolf-like charging and killing offensive. However, the British lord tanks and American-made M22 tanks carried by the British "Hamilcar" heavy gliders were defeated in the face of the high-level T34s, and except for a few that were able to be evacuated from the battlefield, the rest became burning scrap metal piles.

Seeing that the Soviet tanks were on a rampage, the Allied airborne troops used all kinds of anti-tank weapons in their hands to resist the Soviet attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, they called for their own air support and sacrificed their secret weapon -- a special radio jamming device. In the early stage of World War II, the proportion of Soviet tanks equipped with communication radio stations was low, resulting in unsatisfactory coordination and adaptability in group combat, and in the later period, with the mass production of radio equipment aided by Britain and the United States under the Lend-Lease Act and the Soviet Union's own equipment, by the summer of 1943, 7% of the vehicles were equipped with radios, and in 1944, the radio equipment rate reached KC%, this weakness gradually improved. At that time, the Soviet technicians and tank officers and men who were full of joy probably would not have imagined that the Western allies were playing a sinister Trojan horse trick while providing equipment assistance, and they had already created jamming equipment for the communications equipment to aid the Soviet Union, which was not as large and complex as the radio jammers of the past, and could fit in the back seat of a jeep. With the opening of these jamming equipment, the communications of Soviet tanks using American-made or imitation American-made vehicle-mounted radios within a dozen kilometers of the surrounding area were immediately directly affected, and only those tanks that used orthodox Soviet-made communication equipment, especially improved models after the war, could barely maintain vehicle-to-vehicle communications.

When the previous offensive went well, the Allies did not use their "radio Trojans", so that the Soviet army did not have much defense in this regard, until they opened the prelude to a large-scale counteroffensive on the southern front, and the Allies began to use such secret weapons in order to resist the advance of the Soviet army's steel torrent, and the Soviet army's technical department learned the news for only a few days, and there was no time to study countermeasures, let alone exchange equipment for thousands of tanks and armored vehicles. At the southern Orsha airfield, when these alternative "Trojan horses" first came into effect, the Soviet tank battle group that had already stormed the airfield did not immediately fall into a state of confusion or sluggishness, and the brutal fight with the Germans made the Soviet tankers experience extraordinary willpower, and also cultivated a unique battlefield tacit understanding over a long period of time, even if they could not communicate verbally with their neighbors, they still attacked the opponent's rudimentary defense system according to the overall combat deployment, Tank guns were used to clear the anti-tank fire points and machine-gun positions of the Allied Airborne Forces one by one, and the opposing fighters were suppressed with vehicle-mounted machine guns, and the cover between them made it difficult for the American and British paratroopers to get close. However, after basically losing radio communication with the tank units, the SU76 self-propelled artillery group, which provided fire suppression, soon ceased firing, only to see that they slowed down their advance towards the inner circle of the airfield and stayed on the periphery, which greatly reduced the pressure on the Allied airborne troops, and they were able to concentrate on the Soviet tanks and vehicle-mounted infantry that broke through the airfield.

It didn't take long for the communication failure to become apparent, and the Soviet tankmen could only visually observe the actions of their comrades and then take countermeasures and cover them, some simply slowed down to a turtle speed, and some tanks were left alone from the ranks because they did not receive clear instructions, and as time went on, more and more Soviet tankers ventured to open the hatch and look out, holding signal flags that were not known whether they were standing or improvised, and carried out battlefield communication in a primitive way. Naturally, the American and British paratroopers did not miss such an opportunity, and they used machine guns and rifles to fire at the turrets of Soviet tanks with open hatches, which effectively prevented them from communicating tactically and provided cover for their own anti-tank shooters, even if they could not injure Soviet tankers.

Judging from the scene, the chaotic formation of the tank cluster did give the Allied airborne troops more opportunities, but unfortunately this trick was used a little late, and most of the light and heavy equipment of the Allied troops occupying the airfield had been lost in the ferocious assault of the Soviet armored forces, and although the remaining anti-tank shooters saw the right time to take out a few Soviet tanks, this did not help to turn the situation around. The chaos lasted not long before the Soviet tankers reached a consensus, and they turned around or reversed to evacuate the airfield, and after meeting up with their own artillery and infantry on the perimeter, they made tactical coordination. Seeing this, the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces at the scene had no choice but to issue an order to retreat to the remaining troops, and more than 1,000 American and British paratroopers evacuated the airport westward in disarray. At about the same time, the Allied airborne troops, which had attacked the city of Orsha from four airfields and were once approaching the central square, were driven out of the city by the Soviet armored forces that rushed to the city. The plan to create a large-scale panic in the rear of the Soviet army by seizing Orsha and the surrounding airfields and railway stations was hopeless, and the remaining 30,000 Allied paratroopers had already accounted for nearly a quarter of the total strength. Just after the two airfields in the south and north of Osha were recaptured by the Soviet army one after another, the eastern ● airfields occupied by the Allies at the earliest time were also attacked by the Soviet army, and the armored troops who entered the battle were still the main force with T34 tanks as the main force and 06-76 providing fire support. In order to prevent their paratroopers from being dumpled by the Soviet armored forces, the American and British paratroopers occupying the two airfields east of Orsha put up desperate resistance, and even appeared in some positions with their flesh and blood blocking Soviet tanks. More than 560 fighters -- the pilots were basically first-class air combat elites, trying to turn the situation in the airspace of Orsha, and like the paratroopers on the ground, they showed the courage and will of brave men, and they launched a tragic and abnormal combat with wave after wave of Soviet fighters arriving on the battlefield, and the dense rockets kicked many unpaid fighters directly out of the battle, and the rest of the people gradually abandoned reason and picked up the most primitive instincts in the increasingly fierce fighting, and as the battle progressed, violations of their respective air combat regulations abounded. …,

In terms of brute force, no one dares to rank first if the Soviet pilots are ranked second, and some experienced but not old pilots are familiar with ramming tactics, and they are not only bold in this respect, but also often "careful"; although their research on air ramming tactics has not risen to the strategic level, their accumulation of experience is also unique in the world, and even the British pilots who have fought with the Germans for many years were shocked and speechless by these ruthless characters who "do not want to die." What's more, the top brass of the Soviet army has deployed their fighters into the battlefield one after another, which seems to be a refueling tactic, but the strength of each wave is not weak, and the time between them is not long, which makes it difficult for the Allied pilots who entered the battlefield in several large waves to stop, and once the fuel and ammunition are close to the cut-off point, they can only endure the fierce pursuit of Soviet fighters. As a result, the Allied forces deployed significantly fewer fighter sorties than the other side, and the tide of the war was not reversed, not to mention that the opponent's fighters and attack planes frequently broke into the battlefield to exert influence on ground battles.

As a member of the remnants of the defeated army, Jan took his only three soldiers all the way to more than ten kilometers, under the scorching sun at noon, people were sweating, but the airborne troops carried more combat materials than ordinary infantry, even if the endurance was the best, at this time they were pale, weak and weak. At the urging of the officers, finally someone was so tired that he sat down and didn't leave, this emotion infected his comrades around him like the Black Death, more and more people stopped, although Jan still wanted to grit his teeth and persevere, but the lead-filled legs and the eager eyes of the subordinate soldiers were shaking his self-righteous will. Stepping over a canal, he finally slowed down, and the soldiers behind him stopped with relief, both wounded and unwounded. Dart. Cole's young rifleman, from West London, fell to his knees as if he had been shot in a charge, leaning backwards, his back facing upwards, his eyes closed and his teeth bared, as if in his own way he was begging for mercy from God; Fez. Yordaro, the machine gun deputy from Reading, was hunched over and trembling like a septuagenarian, and there was a deep blood mark on his originally manly face, which was stained with blood because it was too late to stop the bleeding, and the strong smell of blood caused a few flies to linger all the time, and Laimer. Brandford, the baby-faced private was holding his steel helmet in a daze, with a backpack, bullet pouch, and water bottle, but the submachine gun was gone, and the right cuff was torn into strips, and I didn't know if that arm was injured......

"Oh God! What's wrong with us? ”

He raised his hands on his hips and looked up to the sky and sighed, he didn't understand why an organized airborne operation had evolved into the current situation, because the early intelligence investigation was not sufficient, or it happened to step on the Soviet army's hunting clip, or whether there was no thorough study of the feasibility of airborne landing in the Soviet Union, in short, the situation of the three divisions that brought together the elite of the American and British airborne forces was worrying, and at this time, the Polish 1st Parachute Division, which had been sent to fight on the southern front, should be snickering in the trenches, they took the lead and took on the seemingly difficult task, But at least so far, they have not suffered such a heavy setback, as for the French is even more hateful and angry, not only did they enter the war at the latest, but also swayed left and right to make more money, in the end the air force only sent a few wings with equipment similar to that of Hanako, and the so-called 600,000 army men mobilized were enough, many of them were newly recruited troops at all, and they waited until the United States and Britain provided weapons, ammunition, and combat salaries before going to the front. God knows how many of the veterans who had not held a weapon since the defeat in 1940 would be able to exert a few percent of their skills in this state, and the former world's first army was so lonely that there was no shell left.

No matter how bad the French are, they are still somewhat self-aware, they never compete for merit against the Soviet army, and have always been silently in a subordinate position, and the British Empire, which has fallen from the peak, is unwilling to admit the cruel reality of decline, and only from the way this war began, they still see themselves as divine messengers who can save the European continent but are not on the European continent, and the United States' participation in the war is indispensable to their promotion, The Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force took on the heavy responsibility of the arrival of large units of the US Navy and Air Force in Europe, and the airborne landing also accounted for more than a third of the transport capacity and combat units, and the heavy gliders and airborne tanks were all provided by the British (the British purchased the American-made M22 as an airborne tank at the end of World War II, which was used alongside the Lord's light tank). Now it is comfortable, the golden sign of the First Airborne Division is about to be crushed to pieces by the tracks of Soviet tanks, not to mention that the base number of British combat personnel is far less than that of the United States and the Soviet Union, these carefully selected paratroopers can be called the best of this generation of soldiers, once they are severely damaged or even completely annihilated, they will inevitably make the British Airborne Forces suffer a great loss of vitality, and they may not be able to recover within ten years, such a pain is probably not experienced by the Yankees, who have a huge population and a strong economy and industry! …,

Young watched in despair as some of the people around him had evacuated in a hurry after the Soviets stormed the airfield, and they were the ones who had retreated at the orders of their superiors, and it seemed that the American and British paratroopers had half of them. Aside from the style and quality of weekdays, at this time, American GIs and British GIs were like lost dogs, and there were not a few who lost their weapons like Brandford, and there were rare medical guards who were temporarily bandaging the wounds of the wounded. The wolf smoke rising from the airport can be clearly seen in the east, the paratroopers lit the last few hangars and the fuel accessories inside before retreating, the industrial scale of the Soviet Union is known as surpassing Britain and Germany, and the aircraft and tanks still maintain an amazing output in the second half of 1945, but there is still a big gap compared to the industrial giant of the United States, once their planes are lost, they are naturally not as good as the Western Allies led by the United States and Britain, and in terms of the situation of land warfare, In the end, it was estimated that the Soviet army would be able to consume the strength of the Soviet army by means of strategic bombing, and finally defeat it, which must have been a long and torturous process, and it also made Jan carefully consider his own way out - at this time, there were no more than three paths, captured, killed, and escaped. The first two items are clearly and easily understood, and holding on to the rendezvous with their main forces, trying to avoid the encirclement and interception of the Soviet army, fleeing to the area under their own control, or even escaping alone, etc., can be counted among them. After a fruitless entanglement, Young turned around and walked to Brandford, the young private had come to his senses, and was now sitting and bandaging his arm, it seemed that it was just an inconsequential bruise Young gently rested the Stern submachine gun in his hand beside him as a sergeant squad leader, and he wore a Wilbury revolver in the holster around his waist Ridiculously, even this short gun has a longer range than the ugly Stern submachine gun, but to this day, the British ** team's plan to upgrade individual equipment is still only on the agenda of the high-level, Owning a homegrown firearm as handy as the German M-Gang assault rifle seems a bit of a no-brainer......

"Let's go! The tanks of the Russians have caught up! ”

The frightened shouts of the American paratroopers reminded Young of the gray squirrels in the woods, they are always able to evade the pursuit of the enemy with their cunning and agility, but when they encounter the eagle with lightning speed and sharp claws, unless the hole where they are hiding is nearby, no matter how fast they run, they cannot escape the eagle's hunt. You must know that the US tank units that can rescue them are still dozens of kilometers away, and under the layers of blocking and interference of the Soviet troops along the way, it is very good that they can approach Orsha in the afternoon.

After a break of about ten minutes, Jan pulled out his revolver from his holster and beckoned his subordinates to get back on the road, and the paratroopers around him gritted their teeth and insisted. But they had not gone far before there was billowing dust in the wilderness in front of them, which looked like a raging sandstorm in the desert.

Seeing this, a British major shouted "Everyone go north", but another American lieutenant colonel immediately shouted "organize a defense on the spot", and before the two officers could go where to quarrel, a shell whistled, and the powerful explosion caused the ground to tremble strongly, and people fell down one after another, tiredness, panic, and despair were intertwined, so that many people did not want to get up after lying down. It is neither France nor the Netherlands, there are friendly inhabitants who are hungry for liberation, there are no beautiful villages and small bridges and flowing water in Western Europe, there are no ravines to stop the enemy tanks from rampage, there are only endless fields and a long straight railway line, as if even the wind was laughing at the helplessness of these Allied paratroopers. Unbeknownst to them, they were almost thrown into southern Estonia, only to be abandoned because the Baltic states were too far from the southern front to relieve the Allied siege, and the Estonian inhabitants did not necessarily like the Western Allies, but they were more disgusted with the Soviet occupation, but even if they did, the fate of the Allied airborne troops would not be much better - and perhaps worse. The same powerful Soviet reserves were hidden under the undetectable tactical camouflage net of Allied high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, which abounded in western Russia, eastern Ukraine, the north and south of the Soviet Union, and tank units from near Leningrad could rush to southern Estonia in just a dozen hours. The speed of development of the arms and technologies can never be synchronized, and from the very beginning, the rise and fall of the arms are doomed... Clear