Chapter 464: Defeat
The soldiers slept at the Berlin airport for only one hour.
Needless to say, the reason for this is that the first step of the war situation is urgent, and the Corps must be deployed to the front line as quickly as possible.
Then the whistle blew and an officer shouted outside the dormitory: "Get up, soldier!" You should think that while you are falling asleep, many of your comrades-in-arms are dealing with the Soviets on the Eastern Front! For every little time you waste, many people on the front lines will lose their lives! ”
Werner couldn't help but whisper: "Oh, we might go up and become one of the dead!" ”
"Shut up, Werner!" The baker said, "One day we will be in the same situation as them, and we should save them!" ”
"Yes, Sergeant!" Werner yawned and replied, "I didn't say I wouldn't save them, I just wanted to sleep a little longer!" ”
"You can sleep on the plane!" Kuhn threw Werner's dropped gas mask barrel to him.
"Yes, Lieutenant!" Werner didn't dare to say anything anymore.
There is a spirit among the German soldiers that they will see the difficulties of other armies as their own.
The transport plane "rumbled" into the sky again, and this time, each of them was given a parachute.
Shortly after the plane took off, many people fell asleep, as Kuhn had said. Qin Chuan is also one of them...... An hour of sleep was too little, and he needed to regain his strength to face the upcoming battle in the best possible condition.
Qin Chuan in his sleep only felt colder and colder the more he slept, and he was woken up in a daze several times, and continued to sleep after waking up, until a burst of fighter jets whistling and shadows passed through the window, and Qin Chuan woke up.
"Are we there?" Kuhn asked.
"Where is this?" Qin Chuan looked at the snowy earth outside the window and asked.
But no one answered, because no one knew.
This was not for the sake of secrecy, but because the German command system was in disarray, and the High Command had not even decided where to land when the first corps boarded the plane.
In fact, the Supreme High Command cannot be blamed for this, but the German troops were routed and scattered and fled, and no one passed information to their superiors, which made it impossible for the High Command to know for sure where the Soviets had been pursued.
Eventually, the order came over the walkie-talkie: "Airborne in Lelot, arrive in five minutes!" ”
"Get ready to parachute!" Qin Chuan ordered.
As usual, when the red light came on, the soldiers jumped out of the cabin one by one.
The difference is that the moment Qin Chuan jumped out of the cabin, he felt the fierce cold wind blowing from all around, and these air currents penetrated into his body from the collar, cuffs, etc., and then quickly carried every trace of temperature inside. The face was quickly frozen, and the teeth were uncontrollably fighting up and down making a "gurgling" sound.
After the parachute opened, Qin Chuan immediately took out the gas mask and put it on his head, only then did he realize that the gas mask originally had another function...... Warm.
Later, Qin Chuan learned that many soldiers who parachuted did not realize this, so they suffered frostbite on their faces at the first time.
The snow on the ground is knee-high, so skydiving is not difficult at all, and the soft snow layer acts as a good cushion.
After landing, the new equipment that the First Infantry Corps had changed into in Berlin immediately came into effect, and the white camouflage helmets and white cloaks made the soldiers look like moving snowmen...... The snowmen put their parachutes on the ground and looked very weird.
"Collect ammo!" Colonel Slein commanded loudly: "Garrison along the riverbank!" ”
When they heard this order, the German soldiers were all confused.
"But where is the river, Colonel?" Bazel asked.
"It's right in front of us!" Slain looked at his surroundings with the map in his hand and said, "Or right at your feet!" Yes, it has frozen into ice and is buried under the snow. But there is still a low-lying place more than 100 meters wide in the middle...... The Soviets will come from the east, understand? ”
"Yes, Colonel!" The soldiers replied, found the so-called river bank, and mounted their rifles and machine guns.
Qin Chuan took out a sapper shovel to build a fortification, but soon found that this was impossible at all, it was easy to sweep away the snow layer above, but under the snow layer was frozen soil, which was as hard as cement concrete, and a few pieces would jump up as soon as the spade went down, and it would take a few hours to dig a suitable trench.
Later, Qin Chuan learned that not all places are like this, but because there is enough water by the river, the temperature drops sharply, and the water and soil in the soil are frozen together.
Therefore, the riverside is not actually suitable for garrisoning, because it is impossible to build fortifications at all. But the people of the Supreme Command did not know this.
In desperation, Qin Chuan and his soldiers could only use the snow to build fortifications: shovel up the snow and then shoot it in front of them, and make it as strong as possible.
This is true to withstand bullets, but if it hits this snow wall, it is a cannonball...... The walls of snow will be blown open and turned into hard shrapnel.
"Oh!" As he shoveled the snow, Timo said: "This might be a fun snowball fight game!" ”
"You might be the first to die in a snowball fight game!" Dominic said.
"Great!" "At least I don't have to worry about getting hurt, because when the medic cuts through the wound with a scalpel and tries to find the shrapnel, he will find that the shrapnel has turned into water and melted into my body," Werner said. ”
"Someone's coming!" With a shout, the soldiers threw down their sapper shovels and immediately racked their weapons on the snow wall, ready for battle in a matter of seconds...... This is the reaction speed that the First Steps Corps cultivated when fighting in Africa.
A few dark streaks stumbled under everyone's guns, and Qin Chuan saw through the binoculars that they were wearing German military uniforms, but they were already tattered and couldn't tell the difference.
So he hurriedly shouted: "It's our people, don't shoot!" ”
Immediately, a group of soldiers got up from the trenches and rushed towards them, and the German routs were obviously startled, but they couldn't help but be moved to speechlessness when they saw that it was their own people.
The soldiers lifted or lifted the rout, and several paramedics immediately came up to check on their injuries.
As soon as the rout opened his mouth, he asked, "Do you have anything to eat?" We're all starving! ”
Qin Chuan handed each of them a piece of bread, but the bread was gone as soon as it reached their mouths, and they gobbled it up as if they hadn't eaten for a few days.
But soon, Qin Chuan and the others found that they couldn't be saved at all, because there was already a rout of black pressure on the other side of the river.