Episode 19 Eagle Descends on Kanas Lake

At the base of Lake Tolebao in Outer Mongolia, the first four days were spent training gliders to land on the water, especially at night. By the fifth day, the castle blueprint had been borrowed from France. So in the last three days, the commandos were mainly familiar with the blueprints and memorized the internal layout of the castle. It's a pity that there are no drawings for the villa where the fourteen squares were held. Fortunately, the villa is not big, with three floors, and there are not many rooms in total, which is much simpler than the castle.

According to Hu Jiong's description, Fourteen Gege was obviously in poor physical condition and was probably on a hunger strike. But Fourteen Gege must have understood Hu Jiong's hint of "taking care of her body", so at least she had to be given two or three days to recover her strength, and because of the addition of a target, the commando team also needed targeted training, landing, dividing troops, fighting at the same time, rendezvous, and evacuating, this process was different from the previous plan.

At this time, the main planners of the Tianshan camp were divided into two factions, one of which advocated that the action should be postponed for more than ten days. Because it is already August 20th, the twenty-fifth day of the lunar calendar, and it has been ten days since the full moon of the fifteenth lunar calendar. Coupled with the two or three days left for Fourteen Grids to recover their strength, the moon was already waning at that time, and the brightness was too low. And landing on the water at night requires the best possible moonlight. There is a certain risk that the operation will fail when it lands. In this case, simply postponing it for more than ten days and waiting for the next full moon night to act before acting, can greatly increase the success rate.

But the other side of the spectrum argues that risks should be taken. Their reason is simple - they can't delay it that long without leaking secrets. A training base was set up here, and more than a dozen planes took off, circled, and landed all day long...... On the ground, there are still so many cars that send supplies here every day...... Moreover, it is very close to the Altai Mountains in northern Xinjiang, which is controlled by Russia and Soviet troops, and it is too difficult to keep it secret for more than ten days. Once this place is detected by the enemy, or leaked out, then the Soviets, as long as they are not mentally retarded, can immediately guess what the Ming army is doing. Na Guangwu and Fourteen Gege were immediately transferred to the hinterland of the Soviet Union.

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At this time, Xiang Xiaoqiang fully realized the dilemma of Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, on the eve of Operation Overlord in World War II. Xiang Xiaoqiang, this is still simple, only entangled in the problem of moonshine. Lao Ai was entangled a lot at that time: some classes wanted darkness, some classes wanted moonlight, some classes wanted high tide, and some classes wanted low tide. Moreover, the weather was not strong, it was always windy and rainy, the English Channel was full of white waves, the time of action was repeatedly delayed, and more than 100,000 troops gathered on the ship and vomited. Eisenhower was tormented to the point of almost nervous breakdown between "attacking immediately at the risk of defeat" and "delaying the attack at the risk of leaks."

But what happened to Eisenhower at that time, after all, his wife was not deeply involved. Now that Xiang Xiaoqiang's wife's life is still at stake, Xiang Xiaoqiang is not only mentally weakened, but also about to have a nervous breakdown.

In any case, whether it is the opinion of the commando, the opinion of Dongchang, or the opinion of the People's Guard, it is just a suggestion, and it can only be Xiang Xiaoqiang who makes the final decision. Xiang Xiaoqiang is the biggest, and his own wife is also deeply involved and has a stake, so he can only decide. Xiang Xiaoqiang has always been decisive in doing things and never dragged his feet, but this time he weighed it painfully for two days, repeatedly looked at the intelligence of all parties, and flew to Tolebao Lake to watch the training in person. In short, it's like a lost soul.

The results of the training a few nights ago were very confusing: under the existing moonlight, although all 12 gliders could land on the surface of the lake, because the visibility was too low, none of them could grasp the distance and strength, and they all rushed into huge white waves, causing deafening sounds. If there were patrols on the shore, it would be 100 percent detected.

However, it really can't be delayed any longer. The moon is getting narrower and darker day by day. In two more days, it will be even worse. Then you can only do it in ten days, when the moon is full again.

Finally, on the morning of August 23, Xiang Xiaoqiang finally made a decision: act tonight.

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It's been three days since I visited Fourteen Gege on the 20th. I believe that Fourteen Gege has been eating well in the past few days, and his physical strength has also recovered. Her physique is not bad, and her skills are also very good, and she has not lost her spy training in Japan in her early years. Although it can't be compared to a commando, it certainly won't be a burden. In the past few days, the commandos have been boarding planes on time, taking off, flying for a while, and then landing in gliders, and then infiltrating the lake area and attacking targets, exactly like real operations. It's just that the training belt is all empty cartridges, and after flying into the sky, it will be announced to the team members: Today is another exercise.

But today, on the evening of the 23rd, when the commandos boarded the glider with weapons and equipment on their shoulders, as they had done a few days ago, many people found that the white tape on the bullet magazine was missing. The machine gun crew also found that the color of the bullet on the machine gun chain was different. As a result, a sense of tension and excitement began to spread through the gliders. There is widespread speculation among the players that there will be a real fight tonight.

When the course of the group was stabilized, the radio stations of each aircraft and glider received two short and one long radio signals, representing "victory." Sure enough, receiving the signal agreed in advance, the co-pilot of each glider left his seat, turned to the commandos, and said nervously or calmly:

"It's a move tonight."

"It's not a drill."

"It's true tonight, brothers."

Inside several gliders, cheers erupted. But more of an indescribable emotion of tension and excitement.

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Forty minutes later, 12 tractors and 12 gliders dishooked, climbed and turned their noses to return home. The remaining 12 gliders were in the night sky, continuing to fly silently towards Lake Kanas.

After another half an hour of taxiing, the group entered the landing airspace. The pilot glider led the group to the left, shifted the course from west to south, and let the course parallel to the narrow Kanas Lake, from north to south, pressed the nose, and landed at the northern end of Kanas Lake.

Tonight's moon is truly a waning moon. But fortunately, the weather was fine, and all the remaining moonlight could be used. This is also due to the dry and rainy climate in northern Xinjiang. On the other hand, the dim moonlight is also more conducive to the stealth of the commando's actions. Although the moment the glider lands is dangerous, once it lands and begins to infiltrate the southern part of the lake, the darkness becomes an ally of the commandos.

"Get ready," the glider pilot shouted at this point, "landed!! ”

The first glider rushed into the lake at high speed, setting off waves more than ten meters high, and the sound of the water sounded like a waterfall. The fuselage jumped on the surface of the lake, landed again, and slid forward. Although the commandos in the cabin have been trained many times, they are still staggered at this moment, and their hearts are also in their throats. - This is the time when the movement is at its highest, and if it is not detected at this time, it is unlikely to be discovered in the future.

Immediately after that, the second glider also rushed down. This was followed by the third, then the fourth......

Within minutes, all twelve gliders had landed on the lake. Some have stopped, slowly spinning, and some are still sliding forward by inertia. The lake is only more than 1,000 meters wide, and at this time, any Soviet soldier on the shore can be woken up even if he is sleeping heavily, as long as he is not too dead. As long as he swept his eyes over the lake, he could see that under the moonlight, there were more than a dozen big guys floating on the lake.

But...... It seems that there are no patrols on the shore. So far, there has been no movement.

The commandos on each glider first threw down a rubber raft, which began to inflate itself when thrown into the water, rapidly expanding and expanding. Immediately after that, they moved their equipment to it, and then the team members sat on it. The last member of the team to go up the wall pulled the plug from the glider pontoon. The pontoons were specially installed for this mission to allow the glider to remain afloat after landing on the water. Now the plug is pulled out, the lake water is rushing in, and the glider slowly sinks into the water. After a while, there will be no trace of the surface of the lake, as if nothing had happened.

Having all this dealt with, the commandos sat in twelve rubber rafts, kept as silent as possible, and carefully paddled towards the shore.

The infiltration began.