"Descend altitude! Turn on the skydive indicator and let the person behind you prepare to parachute!" a German pilot in the cockpit said loudly to his co-pilot.

The co-pilot next to him nodded immediately, then reached out and pulled a switch above his head from the off position to the open position. The plane was constantly jolting, and outside the bright pilot glass, you could see dense German planes, flying together in the sky.

In addition to training, this is one of the few times they carry out airborne missions in broad daylight, and in order to reduce the casualties of paratroopers, they usually fly at night most of the time. This time, they used a bold white sky for the first time, which can be said to be a bit unexpected.

However, it was very unexpected from the beginning, for example, in broad daylight they flew over the Line of Actual Control of the Soviet and German armies, and then did not encounter large-scale shelling, which is really a bit inexplicable.

"Prepare to parachute!" Seeing that the indicator light was already green, Borol, the commander of the German paratrooper battalion who was waiting for this moment in the cabin of the plane, reminded his men loudly. They are now the best paratroopers in the world, with the world's most extensive experience in airborne and ground combat.

They were able to gather together in the shortest possible time at night, let alone during such a bright day, the doors of the cabin were opened by Borrol's hands, and the cold wind poured into the cabin from the outside. Everyone involuntarily narrowed their eyes, and the shouts of checking the parachute diving equipment came and went.

"All right, gentlemen, whatever happened last night, now, it's our turn!" Borol glanced at his men, not raising his voice. With that, he patted Donner on the shoulder, then hung his parachute hook on a pole in the interior of the plane's cabin.

"Damanhur!" Borol shouted out the slogan of the paratroopers as he jumped out of the cabin, which was the saddest part of them, and the place where they had gone through the test of fire and become airborne demons. Now this place is their faith, the steely will they desire to inherit.

Then he saw the whole sky, and saw countless of his peers who jumped out of the plane and were pulled by parachutes and hung in the air. What excites him even more is that he sees a huge glider carrying a paratrooper chariot rushing down in the distance, a spectacle that is really rare to see in ordinary times.

The two escort FW-190D fighters dived at great speed, and opened heavy fire with their cannons on a firing Soviet anti-aircraft gun, and the dense shells hit the anti-aircraft gun position with white smoke, and finally the white smoke dissipated, and it became a pile of scrap metal and corpses lying on the ground.

What shocked Borol even more was that a new type of helicopter was circling all over the battlefield, and it might be too much to say that it was new, because it looked like an improved version of Odin's helicopter, but this kind of plane was more powerful than Odin's firepower, with rocket launch slots on both sides, two large-caliber machine guns on the nose and heavy machine guns on the sides. The whole plane was like a flying gunboat, pouring ammunition over the battlefield.

The planes were dodging in all directions, it seemed that they had just swept the entire area, and now the German paratroopers were parachuting, so they began to dodge for safety, but still left a few hovering over the woods.

It seems that the suppression of the ground is mainly due to the contribution of these aircraft, in order to ensure that the paratroopers will not suffer excessive casualties in the process of airborne, this time the German army has really made a bloody investment, not only to use the special forces, but also to come up with a set of classic special forces assault tactics from later generations.

The German special forces who had just been hidden on the ground indicated the target with colored smoke grenades, and first carried out a large-scale attack by the Stuka 2 attack aircraft, and then used helicopters to carry out fixed-point elimination, and the whole process caused the Germans to lose 14 Stuka 2 attack aircraft, and 17 helicopters were shot down, so that the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery positions and cantonment sites near the German airborne area were basically cleared.

If it weren't for the fact that the German special forces responsible for clearing the Soviet anti-aircraft gun positions also killed some large-caliber anti-aircraft gun positions last night, the German air raids and offensive operations today would have paid an even heavier price.

In order to speed up the delivery of paratroopers, the Germans used a large number of gliders, including some large ones capable of carrying 30 soldiers. These gliders were dropped onto the battlefield before the paratroopers and have now established defensive positions on the ground. The paratrooper commander, General Studenter, wanted to make the battlefield more chaotic, because he felt that his soldiers were better suited to the chaotic state of engagement than the enemy, so he repeated the same tricks he had played in the Netherlands and Belgium.

He airdropped a large number of dummies with incendiary devices and dropped them on the outskirts of the battlefield. These airborne dummies had the same effect as they did back then, creating a lot of chaos and making the Soviets overestimate the scale of the airborne. At one point, rumors spread among the Soviets that the Germans had taken Stalingrad and burned almost half of the Caucasus in a firefight.

The scene of extreme chaos also caused a lot of trouble for the Germans themselves, as two paratroopers happened to crash into the propeller of a helicopter due to the direction of the wind, and the brutal scene frightened all the paratroopers who saw it. As a result, one plane crashed, and seven people died. The accident led the Germans to ban the use of helicopters in the airborne area, and even Student handed over a detailed account of the matter.

The Germans were in chaos because of the multi-arms coordination, and the Soviet troops were also in chaos because of all kinds of artificially created chaos, and they didn't know what the Germans were doing, because of the confusion of communications and mutual suspicion, they didn't even get a report of the exact scale of the German paratroopers' airborne.

Many barracks and reserve assembly areas in the rear were destroyed by special forces guided attack aircraft and helicopters, and the remaining ones were finally organized, but they collapsed again under the assault of German paratroopers. These "temporary workers" of the Soviet Red Army in the rear are simply self-deception to delay the offensive of some German paratroopers in peacetime by issuing an alarm, and to expect them to do something in this situation.

These Soviet second-line troops finally began to counterattack, only to find that German paratroopers were already everywhere, telephone lines had been cut off, and radio channels were crowded with reports from German troops. The main forces were already attacking each other and were in a mess, and they simply had no ability to care about the paratroopers behind them, and the German armored forces in front of them had begun to assemble, and everyone knew what was next.

Who exactly harmed them was a question that all Soviet commanders at the front wanted to know. But now they are shelling each other, and neither of them believes the other's explanations. Some saw the artillery of the 166th Division first shelling the positions of the 160th Division, and then the artillery of the 160th Division began to return fire. Others heard that the 160th Division had sent men to attack the munitions supply base, which led to a serious explosion there. Now there are different versions, and no one knows what the truth looks like.

The 160th Division asked for help from friendly forces on the other side, saying that the soldiers of the 166th Division had attacked the munitions supply base and they wanted to recapture it, but the other side blew it up. Then their positions were attacked by men of the 166th Division, and they were also shelled. As a result, the friendly troops were suspicious and sent people to take a look, and found that sure enough, the 166th Division was attacking the defensive position of the 160th Division.

The 166th Division contacted friendly forces on the other side and informed the 160th Division of the bombardment of the arsenal and shelling of friendly troops. Then he also led people to the position to look at the scene, and obtained the support of friendly forces. So the scale of the civil war on the Soviet positions began to grow, to the point that even the Germans could not believe it. In some areas, tanks were even used to storm their own friendly forces as if they were attacking the Germans.

Soon Rokossovsky received two very different reports from the front-line troops, one saying that the 166th Division had defected, and the other that the 160th Division had defected. As soon as Rokossovsky looked at these two telegrams, he knew that his outer line was completely finished. It didn't take a second for the Soviet general to see the plans of the Germans, to put it bluntly, no one defected or defected at all, everything was done by the Germans.

As expected, the Germans used their small detachments to penetrate into the middle of the two armies, firing first at one side and then at the other - and so the two forces fought inexplicably.

In fact, things were similar to what he expected, except that the methods used by the Germans were more complex and whimsical. The main purpose of the Germans was to paralyze the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery defense network, so a special detachment attacked the main Soviet anti-aircraft artillery positions and occupied them.

During the occupation, they discovered a hidden Soviet arsenal, so they unceremoniously moved directly, only to be discovered by a rear guard patrol of the 160th Division, and a fierce battle ensued. The Germans had no choice but to blow up the ammunition depot, a move that directly aroused the idea of the 166th Division not far away.

As a result, another interspersed unit originally responsible for causing infighting in the Soviet army inadvertently connected the whole thing, and they were originally only responsible for creating an incident between the two Soviet troops, but they did not expect to successfully complete the task and expand the incident to the exaggerated level of the battle between the two armies. As for the 122 mm caliber howitzers that fell on the Soviet positions in the first round, they were captured by the Germans, and they were just a small means to frame each other while taking advantage of the chaos.