The reasons for the air force were so good that even if the German General Staff thought that the air force was passive and slack, it was helpless, after all, the last attack on the Italian navy had reminded the Allies of the strength of the Italian navy. There is no guarantee that the other side will not reach the Adriatic. If the Air Force had really moved all the dive bombers to the front line, the transports would have died miserably if they had been killed, and in fact, it was for this reason that Tycho had abandoned the plan for a surprise attack on the Adriatic, and the Luftwaffe had done the right thing.

If the Luftwaffe had a tendency to be passive and slack off because of its own plan being rejected before, but this time, when the German Army put down its body and asked the airborne troops to participate in the war, Richthofen still forgave the other party for his previous "unreasonableness". It means that you will act as soon as you have completed your preparations. At the same time, the Luftwaffe intensified its attacks on front-line targets. The airborne transport fleet for the needs also began to assemble.

"The air force should know that the place they want to seize this time is a key node in the rear of the enemy's army, are they really not afraid that the airborne troops they have worked so hard to train will be destroyed in this operation?" Guderian was puzzled by the fact that the Air Force had agreed to the Army's request so simply. Even if you want to form xiàn again, you can't fill it in with a person's name at any time, right?

"Let the Air Force solve its own problems, we don't understand their affairs." Bock didn't care very much, Richthofen was capable, and he would never throw away the airborne troops in his hands because of his attention to Cheng Dù.

As General Bock estimated. Richthofen definitely did not make a decision on a whim, but agreed to the army's request after careful reconnaissance and deduction. What is the stage at which the most losses of the Airborne Forces are made? It must be in the period between entering the opponent's airspace and landing after landing. In the air, bulky transports will be intercepted by opposing fighters. The plane is on its knees, and it is difficult for people to live. And when landing, the paratroopers who have just descended are the most vulnerable, they need to retract their parachutes and find their comrades around them, in this case, if the other party prepares again, then the result can only be described as miserable. Of course, you have to say that the paratroopers deployed after landing ran into the opponent's heavily armored troops. Then the result will inevitably be very tragic, and the Market Garden operation at the end of World War 2 used the blood of the Allies to illustrate that even the strongest paratroopers will face even the heavily damaged armored forces, and the results will be very tragic.

However, as the war progresses, these problems seem to be gone. First of all, let's talk about the interception of the opposing side's air force. After a long war of attrition in the air force, the Allied countries, which were still in economic crisis, said that they could not afford to fight, and with the reduction of air force assistance from various countries, the threat from the air was also greatly reduced. Moreover, the Entente judged that the main direction of attack of the other side should be Pescara. So most of the U.S. and French air forces were deployed on the line from Rome to Pescara. Ancona, on the other hand, is a power vacuum. And this is not the end, Richthofen found that the British and the Chinese air force seemed to be on a special mission, so that the British Royal Air Force, which the Germans feared the most, actually went north on a large scale. And the Huaxia Haidongqing Brigade, known as the bomber butcher, is also gone. This made Richthofen ecstatic, although he felt that someone would definitely be unlucky because of this transfer, but as long as it was not the Air Force that was unlucky, it didn't matter.

The second is the issue of the possible blow to the airborne troops as soon as they land, and Richthofen has also thought about this problem, since the Air Force wants to help the Army solve the problem, then the Army should also carry out some diversionary attacks on the front line? Of course. The Air Force will not pin all its hopes on the Army. The Air Force has enough bombers and attack aircraft to help the Airborne Forces clear various obstacles on the ground. In addition to the commonly used aircraft, the gunboat planes specially prepared by the Air Force for this operation were designed to support operations in the airspace over the theater for a long time. Of course, this kind of thing needs to have absolute air supremacy, otherwise, it is a large turkey.

It was easy to get a chance to show Xiàn, and the air force also acted very quickly, first deploying some fighters at the Ancona airfield, which had fallen into the hands of the Germans, and then began to assemble transport planes from the entire theater of operations, and finally Richthofen concentrated a total of about 300 transport planes of various types, including gliders. These transport planes are guaranteed to transport 3,000 paratroopers and all the light and heavy weapons they need in the first wave of airdrops. Of course, because the glider can only be used once, the second wave of supplies will fall.

In order to concentrate on the first battle, the Luftwaffe chose Foligno, while the other city would take action after acquiring new transport planes from the mainland. As the supreme commander of the German paratroopers, Major General Student would be involved in the first wave of airborne operations. To this end, he also specially coordinated and conducted exercises with the commanders of various air force units responsible for air support.

"There is a temporary field airfield in the southwest corner of the city, but there are no planes there anymore, and two battalions of our first wave of parachute troops will choose to land at this airfield, and the heavy equipment of these two battalions will be transported by glider outside the airfield. The airfield is close to a railway junction west of the city, where there are about 500 troops. There is another barracks nearby, and I hope that Colonel Gru's fleet will help us bomb this barracks first, so that we can take the railway station by the way after taking the airfield. Student asked, looking at a tall colonel next to him.

"We can suppress each other, but it is difficult to eliminate them completely, they have dug a lot of bomb shelters around the camp and connected them to each other with a system of trenches. A whole system of defense has been formed. If you're going to attack, be careful. Gru said.

"We'll take notice." Student nodded and continued: "The main task of the third and fourth battalions is to control the urban area, there are not too many troops in the city, except for some police forces and logistics units, there are non-combat units such as hospitals. However, there is a very important warehouse in this location, and we need to get it in its entirety as soon as possible, and I hope that the Air Force will not blow it up together during the air attack. ”

"The most important and critical is in the southeast. We are unfortunate that we have almost a brigade of troops to turn around here, we don't know what the strength of the Americans is, but according to the situation on the inside, there are about 4,000 people, and the infantry artillery is complete and armored vehicles. As soon as he said this, Student had a feeling of being a cheater in his heart! With the withdrawal of the Chinese and British air fleets, the Germans finally found an opportunity to bomb indiscriminately! And then a formation of bombers blew up the wagons of the train that were supposed to be used to transport this American brigade! The Americans couldn't go, and the front line needed ammunition, and the Allied headquarters thought that ammunition was more important than a simple brigade, so valuable resources were used to transport supplies, and this brigade was left behind.

"Our two remaining paratrooper battalions and heavy fire battalions will build defensive lines against the town. From the beginning of the parachute landing to the initial establishment of the defensive position, it will take more than an hour if it is followed. And during this time, I hope that the brothers in the Air Force can help us block the opponent's attack. Because there is no open space in the northeast direction, our heavy fire battalion aircraft landing position should be in the east, and after landing, small vehicles will be used to tow the artillery to the northeast direction, this line must be guaranteed! Otherwise, we'll have to use explosives packs, mines, or grenades to fight against tanks! Student stroked the map with a pencil and said very strictly.

"Our special attack aircraft brigade will do its best. And before the airborne, we will intensify the air strikes here. But could the airborne landing come earlier? If we had gone back at the previous time, it would have been late in the evening, and there would have been some trouble navigating and landing at night, and with the addition of the preparation time and the pilot's correction time, we would have a tight time the next day. The officer commanding the special attack aircraft group asked tentatively.

The parachute landing time chosen by Student began at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and judging by the standard of two and a half hours of detention over the theater of operations by the special attack aircraft group, the sun was about to set when he went back, and what was even more tragic was that the airfield of the special attack aircraft group was not in Italy, but on the Balkan Peninsula across the Adriatic Sea, and it was night when he returned, which naturally had a great impact on navigation and landing. And in order to attack the next day, the whole brigade must be maintained non-stop, so the pressure will be very high.

"It's too late to change plans." Student replied tactfully. The time chosen by Stud was in his favor, and he parachuted in the afternoon to survive the most critical period under the cover of the Air Force. By the time the other side came back to their senses from the bombardment, it was already night. In the case of fighting at night, a poor field of view will minimize the difference in firepower and will cause a lot of coordination and maneuvering on the other side. Student was still very confident in the suzhì of his paratrooper troops, and he could even expand the occupied area at night, taking advantage of the night battle. As for the trouble with the Air Force? That's not something he's going to think about.

"If there is no problem, we will take action in 4 days, and I hope you can make good use of this unique opportunity, the Air Force is not just about planes flying in the air, we can also give wings to infantry!" This is important for all of us in the future. Seeing that no one raised any objections below, Student informed the time of the final attack, and in order to ensure the smooth operation of the operation, the Air Force top brass did not tell the specific time at all. In this way, the concealment of the operation is guaranteed.

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