The trench life of the German officers and men was really boring, the enemy had not taken the initiative to attack for two months, and their own side would not rush south, and if this stalemate continued for a long time, the vigilance of the soldiers continued to decrease.

Until something strange appeared in the sky.

What is that?!

A German platoon commander raised his binoculars and looked carefully at the target, and the scene was shocking.

This is a veteran who was even harassed by Soviet fighter jets in early April. He saw through the telescope a group of parachutes floating in from the south! Isn't this the Russian paratroopers coming out again?!

The platoon commander decisively drew his pistol and fired a warning shot, which immediately aroused the vigilance of the bored trench soldiers and put them into a state of readiness.

The vast number of German soldiers raised their heads, and they soon saw those parachutes as well, and even saw the black shadow hanging under the umbrella. Because it was a sudden incident, the Germans immediately launched a fire counterattack.

The ground forces do not have the romance of the Air Force, what is called not to shoot people on parachutes, this is absolutely impossible!

They raised their rifles and machine guns and fired at their targets, and many of the recruits thought it was their first time shooting at the Russians, and no doubt the tension of the first battle had made the young soldiers so high that they did not even notice anything unusual about the parachutes.

The veterans have gradually discovered that they are not shooting at all the enemy, and worse, these parachutes are simply pocket-sized.

The bullets hit a number of targets, parachutes fell sharply, and some fell directly into the positions of the German troops.

The soldier's eyes widened as he watched the strange object fall.

"Not good! It's a new bomb for the Russians! Lie down! ”

A squad leader reacted quickly, and under his order, the whole squad instantly lay down in the folded trench, covering their ears and waiting for the loud noise.

Nothing happened.

"Damn, what the hell did the Russians throw in? Isn't it a bomb? ”

"Karl, go take a look!"

"Why me! It's dangerous! ”

"It's an order! Are you a coward! ”

Not everyone was not afraid of death, and these Wehrmacht officers and men were generally cautious, especially those guarding this line of defense.

The soldier crept over cautiously, vigilantly smashing the object under the broken parachute with the butt of his rifle, and suddenly, the blackened cylindrical thing was actually deflated.

"Damn! This thing is actually a paper tube! ”

It turned out that the hundred rockets used for the radar experiment did not land in the mud of the swamp as soon as Yang Mingzhi estimated.

It all started with the warm south wind.

On flat ground, the wind is not strong, but at an altitude of two thousand meters, the southerly wind is very strong. Today's weather is cloudy, with water vapor evaporating from the Black Sea converging into clouds and moving northward. The previous continuous rainfall was the product of this climatic pattern, and it was the impurities over the marshland that had long been washed away, and there were no condensation nuclei of precipitation.

The strong winds in the sky even prevented some of the parachutes from falling, and they continued to drift southward, drifting for fifty kilometers before landing in the afternoon.

In fact, only a few rocket wreckage fell on the positions of the German 707th Division, but they landed very cleverly.

The 707th Division also made a great contribution to the so-called suppression of bandits, they reported the elimination of more than 10,000 guerrillas, and in fact, the German military top brass also knew that they had killed many civilians in order to take the risk. The matter will not be pursued, and the task of this infantry division is to guard the lines of communication and exterminate the guerrillas.

The 707th Division suffered heavy casualties in previous battles, so the veterans who survived and were not seriously injured were promoted one after another.

Today's Lawrence, he is so lucky, he can still take up arms and fight even after being injured many times. After some personnel adjustments, he has already assumed the position of the head of the main regiment!

Perhaps in this infantry division, this Lawrence is the smartest man. He may not be good at commanding battles, but at least he is a very cautious guy.

Some things that were obviously rocket wreckage were discovered by his officers and men, and this matter naturally attracted his attention.

After all, this is the most amazing thing that has happened on the battlefield in two months.

With these wreckage, he immediately drove to the division headquarters in the rear.

"Lawrence! You should knock on the door and come in! Are you going to report on the Russian attack?! ”

"Look at this!" Worried, Lawrence took out a wreckage with a parachute attached, regardless of its filth, and placed it directly on Hertzman's desk.

This move made the division commander very dissatisfied, "This thing. What exactly are you giving me, a new toy? ”

"Nope! It's the new toy for the Russians, although I don't know how it ends. They did float from the south! Must have come from the swamp! ”

When it comes to the Pripett Marsh, Herzman's head is big. This year, he has aged very much, and he was forced by the Russians. As the commander of an infantry division, it is an officer's honor to lead the troops to victory after victory. It's a pity that honor is getting farther and farther away from him, how unlucky is it, it is he who leads the troops to fight to the death against the Russians in the swamp?!

He held his breath, put on his white gloves first, and picked up the black cylinder with both hands.

"I thought, this thing is a rocket! Look at! I can already smell the smoke! ”

"Yes!" Lawrence adds, "There's not just the smell of gunpowder, there's an indescribable stench. ”

"Stink? Like, there is indeed a strange smell. How is it so familiar? But I just can't think of it. ”

"I feel like pee!"

"This is it!" Herzman slapped the table excitedly, and quickly fell silent again. The current situation is even more incomprehensible to him!

"It's inexplicable, how could we find something so strange? It's the shell of a rocket, and there's a parachute strapped to the top. In terms of design, it's both rudimentary and subtle. We don't have this kind of thing, it must be something made by the Russians! What the hell are they doing here? ”

Herzman slowly closed his eyes, leaning on this thing and remembering what had happened to him during this time.

For a month, our troops drove away some stragglers who had looted the convoy, and then the roads became muddy due to continuous rainfall, and road transport was interrupted for several days.

He muttered, "These Russians must be trying to find a way to make us feel bad." They built some rockets and tried to get them to land slowly, and there must have been a conspiracy in that. ”

Suddenly, Herzman snapped his eyes open and stood up with a slap on his thigh, "Oops! The damn rain before must have been made by these Russians! ”

Lawrence was also shocked by the theism of the division commander: "You mean, you mean, division commander, that they can make rain?" How is this possible?! ”

"How impossible! Lawrence, it seems that you are still too superficial. Don't you know that there is a way to induce rain? Isn't it unusual to think back to the precipitation we've experienced before? Was it purely natural, or was it because the Russians were desperately unleashing rockets that caused the surplus water vapor in the swamps to turn into rain? ”

This is a theory that Lawrence has never heard of, and it seems to make perfect sense to listen to the teacher. He disagreed, speculating, "If that were the case, it would have rained by now!" ”

"Then let's go out and have a look! Hopefully the damn rain doesn't fall! ”

It is true that the rain did not fall, and not even the clouds formed. In fact, the massive release of high-altitude rockets from Homnich has the potential to cause rainfall.

The reason why there is no rain is largely due to the strong winds in the sky today.

But in Hertzman and Lawrence's opinion, these floating white clouds are indeed more and denser than yesterday, and both of them are desperately trying to make psychological hints, making them more and more convinced that the previous rain was the work of the Russians!

At present, these two officers have completely believed in many strange stories, and the so-called 284th Guards Division of the Soviet Army in the swamp is a powerful unit! They can learn from the Dutch to do artificial rainfall, and if you think about it, it's not impossible.