Orenburg, the forward command of the Volga Front of the Russian army.

"It seems that the enemy's armored spearhead is really going to cross the river from the area of Sakmara. ”

The chief of staff, Malinov, finally made a cut in front of the map and the table full of telegrams.

Nakasidze, who had already received a prescience from Brusilov, was not surprised to say "En", and then grabbed the phone in the corner of the desk: "Give me the headquarters of the 1st Panzer Army." ”

"I'm Glinsky."

The voice of the army commander, Lieutenant General Glinsky, soon came from the other end of the phone.

Nakasidze asked, "Glinsky, where are your troops?"

The answer on the phone was simple and straightforward: "Report to the commander, my troops are spread within 40 kilometers between Sakmara. ”

"Among them, the advance detachment composed of the 1st Tank Brigade under the army and the independent heavy tank battalion of the Front Army, after a night march, was stationed in the preset position near Sakmara before dawn today. ”

"The 2nd Tank Brigade is hiding in the woodland 20 kilometers away from Sakmala, and the 11th Armored Vehicle Brigade and the corps are still on standby in Calgara. Nakasidze was also unambiguous, and quickly ordered: "From now on, the front army will be directly subordinate to the independent 3rd."

and the Dark Artillery Battalion to your army. I order you, with the exception of the 11th Independent Armoured Vehicle Battalion at Calgara, that all other units of your army must be stationed in the pre-set positions in Sakmara, by 6 o'clock tomorrow. ”

"The task of your army is to use the woodlands and swamps on the north bank of the Olon River to set up an ambush in a mobile manner to block and consume the enemy's armored mobile forces around Sakmara, in coordination with the 23rd, 35th and 3rd Cavalry Corps, which entered the position in advance. ”

Glinsky on the other end of the line repeated Nakasidze's order, and said in a slightly cheerful tone, "Understand, do it immediately." ”

Putting down the phone, Nakasidze returned to the map, scanning the situation around Orenburg back and forth, and the bewildered Malinov next to him did not say a word until Nakasidze tapped on the map and motioned for him to approach.

"The cards have been played, but I don't think it's going to be that simple."

"What does the Commander mean?"

Nakasidze's finger ran along a black line on the map representing the railway: "Have you ever heard that the Chinese have a mysterious airborne unit that can land behind the enemy's battle line anytime and anywhere?" ”

Malinov blinked: "It's just a legend. Nakasidze smiled bitterly with his hands behind his back: "In the last war, the Chinese army used a cavalry regiment to penetrate the rear of our army, captured a railway pass called Yablonovo, and almost destroyed our hundreds of thousands of troops, this lesson, I will never forget." ”

"Commander, you are worried that our army has made a thorough deployment this time, coupled with the patrols of local civilian teams and the aerial reconnaissance of the Allied Volunteer Air Force, it is impossible for any roundabout and interspersed actions of the enemy's large-scale cavalry units to go undetected by our troops."

Malinow's words were so full that Nakasidze shook his head repeatedly.

"Colonel, you don't know the [Medium] ** team too well, they can always do things that the enemy thought impossible.

If the last war was a miracle for the cavalry, this time for what can't be the Airborne Forces? ”

Malinov spread his hands and said: "Yes, there is indeed no way to rule out this possibility, but so far there is no sufficient evidence to prove that the enemy has used large-scale airborne troops in this war, and even if the enemy really wants to use this special force against us, we cannot predict when and where they will appear." ”

"Of course we can't predict, but we should be prepared. ”

Nakasidze had clearly made up his mind, and Malinov had no choice but to go down the slope.

, "What does the commander mean that it is necessary for us to have enough reserves? But you've just sent all your reserves to Sakmara, to stop the enemy's armored spearheads. ”

Nakasidze tilted his head at the telephone: "You also heard, I just left behind a battalion of armored vehicles from Glinsky, and I also requisitioned Panlyotsev's 1st cavalry division, of course, all of this is trivial. Yesterday, through my connections in the palace, I asked the base camp to give an order to the Ural Front to pack the 12th Armored Vehicle Brigade and two cavalry divisions and send them all here. ”

Malinov's eyes lit up: "So we will soon have a powerful mobile reserve?" ”

"If nothing happens behind us, of course it's best, and this reserve can be used to rescue, strengthen key fronts, and even engage in a counteroffensive. And as soon as the enemy gets behind us, whether he comes on horseback, by air, or by magic, as soon as the enemy is headed, our cavalry and armored convoys will crush them to the bones in the vast Ural fields! ”

After speaking, Nakasidze cast an expectant look at Malinov: "I hope that you will directly command this reserve, and your chief of staff will work, and I have already submitted to the base camp to make other arrangements." ”

In the middle of the night, in the dim moonlight, a man and a woman hugged each other like insects under a high haystack in an unknown secluded pasture 150 kilometers northwest of Orenburg.

Suddenly, a swarm-like "buzz" sounded in the sky, and it was getting closer, and the man and woman hurriedly stopped their movements, and as they gathered their clothes, they looked over the haystack.

Just as the two of them got up to leave, the "humming" came to an abrupt end, and with a harrowing silence, the sky was gradually covered by something, and the crooked crescent moon quickly sank into the unknown darkness.

The poor couple shrank back under the haystack in a trembling manner, allowing a long series of metallic grinding sounds in the darkness, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and at the end of the day, dozens of blinding beams of light fell from the sky, and the entire ranch was as bright as day.

The light reflected from the ground reflected the scene in the sky: more than a dozen cigar-shaped objects comparable in size to a giant ship on the sea, suspended in the air seven or eight stories high, each dragging several thick iron chains, and the multi-horned iron cat, which was a full human height at the end of the iron chain, was mostly firmly raked on the ground.

The man and woman, who were trembling like chaff, seemed to be completely incapacitated, and could only watch as the giant floating objects in the sky hoisted one black shadow after another the size of an oxcart to the ground.

As soon as the black shadow on the ground untied the cable, it let out a terrible thud, followed by a cloudy smoke, driven by the four wheels under it, and began to assemble in a certain program on the freshly mowed pasture.

Coldly, a beam of light flickered, firmly locking the haystack where the couple was hiding, and there was an incomprehensible shout in the air, and the two people had to snuggle up to each other and stand up, but they were at a loss, and the great fear and hopelessness were undoubtedly on each other's white and green faces.

Wrapped in grass foam and dirt, a black shadow suddenly stopped in front of the two.

"What's the relationship between the two of you?"

Unexpected questions, Russian with a foreign accent, and strange weapons in the interrogator's hands all add to the nervousness of the young couple.

"She's my cousin."

The boy finally opened it. , but was asked more toughly by the other party: "Cousins? Not a brother or sister? ”

"It's really cousin...... She's my Aunt Elena's daughter......"

"Since it's not a long-lost brother and sister, let's ~ die!"

The gunfire was shining, and the nine-millimeter bullet casings of the Jinling Arsenal were thrown to the side of Liang Gensheng with residual smoke, and the pair of **, which had just been full of youth, turned into a blood-spurting honeycomb in the blink of an eye, fluttering and fluttering, and fell on the pasture full of grass smell and early summer......

I don't know how long it took, the bleak crescent moon was covered by belated dark clouds, but the pasture did not return to calm, and the village not far away was burning, and the crackling sound of wood crackling was incessant.

No one called for help, let alone put out the fire, and Liang Gensheng, who was standing in the driver's seat of the "Iron Horse" command car and watching this scene from afar, was convinced that there were no living people there.

"Do you have to do it to this extent......

Huang Chengming, who was in the back seat, muttered dreamily, but still couldn't escape Liang Gensheng's hearing.

"As a tiger, leopard, eagle and wolf under Her Majesty the Empress, you don't even have this awareness? Am I blind, or are you degraded? ”

"This is a foreign war, not a domestic purge."

"What? Do you mean that if you kill a foreign enemy, you must be humane, and you can have a clear conscience by killing your own compatriots? ”

"That's not what I said......"

With a "squeak", a "cunning rabbit" two-wheeled off-road motorcycle stopped at a crooked and hurried stop next to the Lianggensheng car, and a herald wearing a waterproof windbreaker interrupted the meaningless lifting of the bar by the two.

"Report to Commander Liang, the inspection of all units has been completed, and the wing headquarters, the first, fifth, and seventh squadrons have all landed with full personnel, including 18 command vehicles, 36 tactical vehicles, 18 firepower vehicles, 5 37 anti-artillery vehicles, 2 80 mortar vehicles, and 5 maintenance vehicles, a total of 84 iron horse off-road vehicles, and another 5 cunning rabbit motorcycles, with 313 officers and men. There were no casualties and no equipment was damaged during the landing operation. Captain Wang Lian, please give the order to the chief! ”

Liang Gensheng shook the submachine gun in his hand, took off the empty magazine, and took out a new magazine filled with thirty-two nine-millimeter rounds from the magazine in front of Xiōng.

"You tell Wang Yuhan that he is the captain of the wing, and all combat operations are under his command, and I am responsible for all the consequences!"

"Understood!"

The herald obeyed, and the thin thud of the motorcycle was soon drowned out by the collective roar of eighty-four high-powered off-road vehicle engines.

"Where are we going now?"

Huang Chengming covered his ears and shouted next to Liang Gensheng's ear.

Liang Gensheng didn't reply, and replied while wiping the gun: "Then you still need to ask?" Pick up the railway, intercept the train, burn the warehouse, bomb the airport, play as much fun as you want, there is only one rule that you are not allowed to stay alive.! ”

"What's behind the rules?" Huang Chengming still didn't hear clearly.

Liang Gensheng patted the driver's shoulder impatiently: "In short, it's just to have fun and be small."

Wang, drive! ”@。