The plane's engines roared in the air, and Borol looked at Donner, who was sitting beside him, without saying a word, at his left arm, which had no palm. In the cockpit, which was trembling slightly due to the air flow and the engine, the lights were already flashing to prepare for a skydive.

Paratroopers, always thrown into the most treacherous environments, always carry out combat missions alone without support, always face the most powerful enemy in the most difficult conditions. But they are the blooming edelweiss of the Alps, the little white flowers that like to bloom in the cold wind.

"Gentlemen! This is the first time we have carried out an airborne landing without an anti-aircraft artillery attack! It can be said that everything is no different from training! The real test is how to build a strong defensive line in a short time after landing, and hold the position to the death!" Borol stood up slowly, grabbed the handle of the rocking plane, and said loudly to his men: "If you are afraid of death, you don't have to jump! Now! Check your equipment and prepare to parachute." ”

With his order, everyone stood up, they were silent, and began to help their comrades around them check the parachutes and the fixed ropes for supplies, except for the roar of the plane's engine, the entire cabin was unusually quiet, everyone did not speak, but carried out the movements without pause.

"Check-in!" "Check-in!" With one answer after another, all the soldiers in the entire cabin slapped the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, and everyone hung the rope hook used for parachuting on the fixed long handle of the plane, and then waited for the moment when Borol pushed open the cabin door.

When the green light came on, Borol opened the door next to him, and the cold wind immediately poured into the interior of the plane, blowing everyone to shake and everyone squinted their eyes, after all, the wind in the sky was so strong that people couldn't help frowning.

Borol looked at his soldier and shouted what he wanted to say in his own loudest voice, and in the whirring wind, this all-out cry did not seem harsh, but had to be heard with all his strength to hear clearly: "Gentlemen, I was always the last to jump off the plane, and made sure that every paratrooper jumped out of the plane...... Today, I'm the first to jump! Warriors will kill the enemy with me, and the cowards will return safely!"

After saying that, he jumped out of the plane with both legs, and at the moment of jumping, he shouted a slogan, which was not very loud in the noisy wind, but echoed in the hearts of every veteran: "Damanhur!"

"I'll have to follow him down and take care of our sloppy battalion commander! Donner laughed and jumped out of the plane, and the moment he jumped out of the cabin door, he also shouted the slogan that had been agreed upon by all the soldiers who had been through the battle: "Damanhur!"

"Damanhur!" The third soldier didn't say much, dragged a pile of supplies, and jumped out of the cabin door of the plane, in the years when he became a paratrooper, his specialty was to kill people, to shoot out the enemy troops on the opposite side without stopping, not to speak. So he jumped out of the cabin of the plane so quietly, but even if he was as silent as he was, he shouted this sentence: "Damanhur!"

As one German paratrooper after another jumped out of the plane, the shouts of Damanhur, echoing in the sky, grew louder and more orderly. These shouts made waves with the roar of the monotonous engine, and made all the soldiers swaying in the sky feel the indomitable spirit.

Yes, they were German paratroopers, the ones who would never back down, no matter how difficult the conditions and how bloody and brutal the battles were. This is the pride of the edelweiss, the pride and dignity of the German nation. They are the toughest warriors, the strongest and most fearsome warriors!

At the tail of the plane, small white parachute flowers bloomed one after another, and these parachutes seemed insignificant in the sky, but there were more and more, at first ten hundred, and finally thousands of thousands. Not a single coward remained in his plane, and everyone jumped out of the plane, slowly falling in the sky with a cold wind.

The paratroopers parachuted in Marin were parachuted, because there was not much military airfield near Marin, and at the same time, a large number of transport planes arrived at Ivankov, where thousands of German paratroopers were unloaded. The scale of the airborne operation was unprecedented, because it was not deep behind enemy lines, and the Germans dispatched a large number of planes, regardless of losses, dropping more soldiers than normal airdrops.

In fact, there was no loss, and as the air flow continued to drop, the paratroopers finally landed safely on the outskirts of Marin, where they had to assemble and obtain supplies that had been hidden nearby, and build a strong defensive line in Marin against a possible desperate attack by the Soviet Red Army.

As one paratrooper after another landed on the ground, Borol was even a little unaccustomed to the environment without gunfire and artillery fire, he put away his parachute and ordered the soldiers around him to start collecting these supplies, after all, there are some things that can be recycled, and Germany's strategic reserves are not abundant, and they can save as much as they can.

Some soldiers began to collect the parachutes of nearby soldiers, the rest began to assemble and divide their own formations, some paratroopers who could not find their troops for the time being waited for their direct units, and most of the soldiers who found their own troops began to organize important things such as ammunition and food.

In the forest not far away, a train slowly drove out of the woods, more than a dozen wagons were piled with ammunition and tents and other military supplies, and the German soldiers on the train held guns, until the train stopped in the center of the paratrooper assembly point, and the seals on the wagons were torn open. The tin doors were pulled open, and tons of supplies were unloaded to replenish the airdropped paratroopers.

"There are 3,000 anti-tank rocket launchers here to supplement your weapons and equipment! Marin is the last line of defense in the north of Kyiv! I'll leave it to you!" a German officer in charge of escorting the train saluted to Borol and other paratrooper officers, and then left a copy of the receipt record, pointing to the soldiers on the train: "They have also been replenished to you, assigned to your command!"

Farther away, an independent heavy tank destroyer battalion, more than 40 Tiger tanks lined up, and the battalion commander was reporting to General Studenter, who had arrived here one step earlier: "This heavy tank destroyer battalion has been ordered to reinforce here, general! Now I am assigned to your command! The whole battalion is not full, and there are 41 Tiger tanks, all of which are lined up here, please exercise your command!"

"Rest outside my headquarters and stand by! We're also going to build Marin's fortifications, and you're just in the right place, I'm not a professional armored commander, so it's up to you to decide whether it's better to use tanks in the outskirts of the field, or if you're going to get more results by putting your battalion in the city." Student said to the battalion commander as he walked towards his temporary headquarters.

"It's up to you to think about the counterattack later, if ......," the battalion commander said, keeping up with Studenter's pace, as he walked forward.

"Major, we don't need to fight back. Student interrupted him, pausing to look at the battalion commander, "Get ready, let's shed your last drop of blood here in Marin!

"Use all means to annihilate as many enemies here as possible, and still hold your defensive positions at the specified time, or beyond the specified time, this is the combat style of our paratroopers, we do not attack, because we have already completed the task of attacking in the sky; After saying this, he continued to step forward with his assistant, and the commander of the SS separate tank destroyer battalion just stood there, looking at the tall figure who had gone a long way.

"Plant all the mines in front of the defensive positions! We set up crossfire in the fields on both sides of the road! Set up foxholes, make good use of those farmhouses and the nearby high ground! Set up observation posts, sniper positions!" Borol pointed to the surrounding terrain and assigned tasks to his soldiers.

Several paratroopers ran to the sides against the MG42 machine guns on the bipods, arranged cross-fire points, and combined with the mines and obstacles, they could pour out a whole chain of 1,000 rounds in the shortest possible time, and then retreat with their guns and leave the convex defensive position.

Each paratrooper is an expert, a master of defense, and they are best at completing the toughest defenses with the most rudimentary arrangements possible. Because most of the time, they don't have time to build elaborate fortifications, and all they can rely on is rough terrain, weapons in their hands, and tenacity in their hearts.

So the paratroopers began to set up simple defensive positions like tentacles protruding from several places on the way to Marin, and they arranged a small number of soldiers to hold these positions, waiting for the enemy to arrive, and then retreating immediately after a surprise attack, so as to delay the opponent's attack speed and buy more defense time.

For the paratroopers, no fortification is forever broken, they insist on a time, before which they will do everything to stop the attack of the opposing side. This is what they do best, gradually blocking the enemy until they die.

"Send a reconnaissance force to confirm the enemy's position! Send a telegram to General Liszt! Just say that we have reached the appointed position!" said Steudent, putting down his binoculars and speaking to his assistant.