() After roughly determining the direction based on the compass, the team began to move towards the top of a nearby hill less than 100 meters high - it was the highest place nearby, with a broad view, making it easier to determine everyone's current position.

It took half an hour for a few people to carefully climb to the top of the mountain. A large plain appeared in front of them. In the distance to the south were the dense chimneys of the factory area, and closer to it were large areas of farmland and pastures, with collective farms in the middle.

buildings, and then there is a large forest. A road extends from the factory area, passes through farmland and pastures, leads to the collective farm, then turns around, passes through a forest, and extends into the distance.

"Sir, I know where we are." Roman Kraft said, "That's the 'Red October' farm. From there, go east through the open land, and you only need to walk another 20 kilometers to reach Tula Airport.

Already."

"Nonsense! You don't need to say it now, we know it! It's on the map!" Belikov said.

"According to the information we know, there are three collective farms near the airport, within half an hour's drive. We need to know whether the Russians have deployed combat forces in these farms. In addition, we also know

, there is a garrison point within this range. In addition, Tula City is very close to the airport.

, the garrison in Tula City will also directly pose a threat to our mission. We need to determine how many garrison troops there are within a half-hour drive and their equipment and quantity. If necessary, we also need to take some actions to hinder their actions.

React quickly to buy time for the final action," Heinze said.

"It's not difficult to know the situation of the Russian garrison, as long as you can find a safe observation point nearby," Schultz said.

"Sir, I know a relatively safe location where you can clearly observe the garrison point." Roman Kraft said, "The garrison point is next to the forest, and there is a ranger's hut about 3 kilometers away from the garrison point.

There is only an old man guarding the forest. From there, you can clearly overlook various situations in the military camp with a telescope."

"This place is so close to the garrison. Will the soldiers often interact with the rangers? Will soldiers come to visit us?"

"This is not a problem. The forest guards often wander around in the woods, and are not at home most of the time except at night. And at night, the soldiers cannot leave the military camp at will." Roman Kraft replied.

"Well, let's go and take down the ranger's hut."

…

"Sir, our reconnaissance team sent back intelligence. The Soviet garrison north of the airport is a heavy anti-aircraft artillery regiment, equipped with 16 85mm anti-aircraft guns and many anti-aircraft machine guns. The number is unknown. There is also an air defense regiment on the airport.

There are 12 37 anti-aircraft guns and an unknown number of machine guns. The Tula garrison also has some T-3476s. The number is about 12 or less. They can arrive in about 20 minutes."

"From this point of view, even if we block it, it is difficult to guarantee that we can hold off the enemy for half an hour. It is very difficult to completely destroy the enemy's airport." Skorzeny said, staring closely at the sand table.

"The key is to eliminate the enemy's aircraft and pilots," a staff officer said.

"However, this is very difficult. It is obvious where the plane is, but it is difficult for us to determine where the pilot lives at night. We have limited time. If the enemy escapes into the surrounding wilderness, we do not have time to search or pursue. I think the airport

The anti-aircraft artillery poses too great a threat to us. We should give priority to destroying the anti-aircraft artillery and aircraft."

…

"General Ron, the Germans have new developments." A staff officer handed a file bag to Ron. "The Germans continue to operate space airports in Poland, the Czech Republic and other places. In addition, the two airports that were attacked by us last time have reopened.

Activated. At the same time, opposite us, the Germans deployed more fighters on his front-line airfields. The number of patrols was also greatly increased."

"The Germans hope to intercept us with fighter jets at the frontline airport. Or, they hope to at least provide us with advance warning of our actions." Ron thought, "This trick of the Germans is actually very easy to deal with. The most fundamental way is to increase the long-range

The number of fighter jets and the number of airports stationed there. Of course, this takes time. Apart from that, there is actually another way."

"In addition," the staff officer continued to brief Ron on the situation, "due to the increase in the number of night raids by the German Air Force, the Soviets sent us a new airport air defense regiment and a searchlight battalion."

"Can I stay at the airport?" Ron asked.

"I'm afraid we have to set up a tent," the staff officer replied.

So Ron took out his pen and started writing his new plan

"On the idea of ​​sending P-51 fighter jets to the Soviet Union"

Ron knew that even the U.S. military itself has a limited number of equipment for such an expensive thing like the P-81. You know, if you equip one of these things, you can almost equip three P-51s. And in terms of training and maintenance costs,

On the other hand, the P-81 is also much more expensive. Except for some specific situations, three P-51s can definitely do more than one P-81. Only when performing certain combat missions with higher performance requirements

When the time comes, the p-81 comes in handy.

There won't be too many such missions, so the number of P-81s will definitely not be too many. If you want to launch large-scale safari operations on the Eastern Front, the best way is to form a large number of P-51 fighter jets.

U.S. troops were then deployed directly to the Eastern Front. Anyway, due to the short range of the aircraft, the Soviets had to deploy the aircraft as far forward as possible to ensure that they could reach the enemy. This resulted in the Soviets having a lot of relatively idle second-tier airports.

.These airports can be used to deploy P-51.

Moreover, although the main mission of these P-51s was to hunt deep within the German army, their first target was German jets. However, they must have shot down more other aircraft during these activities. They were constantly crossing the military divide between the Soviet Union and Germany.

When it comes to the boundary, I can definitely kill the one who steals the sheep easily.

Fewer German frontline fighters and attack aircraft can also greatly reduce the pressure on the Soviet Air Force. Of course, the supply of materials is still a problem. But the burden of supporting thousands of fighters is much lighter than supporting thousands of heavy bombers.

If you research it properly, it shouldn't be impossible to solve it.

However, this kind of issue involving various aspects cannot be decided by Ron alone. He can only make a suggestion to the higher-ups. As for whether the higher-ups agree, it is really not certain.

It took two hours to write this report. Ron started drafting the next document, which was called "Recommendations on the Transfer of the United Air Force to Other Airports."

…

It is now the second half of September. The moon rises late and does not climb lazily into the eastern sky until almost two o'clock in the morning. It is already two o'clock in the morning. The reddish moon rises from the east.

, under the moonlight, the originally dark land, like a sleeping sea, gradually became brighter, like

Like waves on the sea, some things that were originally sunk in the darkness gradually floated up, allowing people to barely distinguish them. Here are the dark pine forests, here are the sleeping fields and pastures, and there are

, that thin gray and white line is the highway, and that long gray and white strip? That is the runway of the airport.

Yes, that is the runway of the airport. Now, some people are staring closely at this gray runway. They are all German glider pilots.

In the middle of the night, more than 200 troops from Fort Orning boarded dozens of gliders and began their raid. There was a reason why they chose gliders instead of parachutes. First, they used parachutes.

The transport plane must fly to the airport

The sound of the transport plane's engine will definitely alarm the defenders on the airport. Then the special forces of the Fort Orning army will probably be beaten by anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns in the air above the airport. This is simply no different from dying.

.In contrast, a glider can

It can be released far away from the airport and then fly over silently. Moreover, the landing performance of the glider is very good. Unlike parachuting, where the landing point is almost completely determined by God, the glider can control the landing point very well. As long as

There is a small piece of flat land, it

They can land accurately. In this way, the Germans can land directly in the most critical places, such as near anti-aircraft gun emplacements and on the apron. Secondly, the use of gliders can carry heavier weapons and ensure that soldiers can land as soon as they land.

Can jump into battle immediately.

It must be admitted that the German raid exceeded everyone's imagination. When the Germans rushed out of the gliders, the airport defenders were unable to react. The commandos quickly occupied some key locations, and many 37mm

Soldiers on duty on anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns were killed by a dagger or a crossbow arrow while they were still sleeping.

But there will always be people who react. Ivan, the mobile sentry, discovered the enemy first and fired the first shot with his rifle. Although he was immediately knocked to the ground by several rounds of bullets, his shot made more

Many Soviet people reacted.

Some Soviets began to try to use anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns to attack the Germans, but the Germans were obviously well prepared. They knew the airport well, and every time a machine gun fired, a grenade or a propeller would follow at most a few seconds later.

The shells flew over and blew the machine gun into pieces. In the chaos, the Soviets fell one after another, and the Germans advanced rapidly. In front of them was the apron and hangar.

…

"General!" A man broke into Ron's bedroom and pulled Ron out of bed. "The airport was attacked by enemy paratroopers. The enemy is coming this way!"

"What!" Ron was shocked. He looked closely and saw that it was Claire, who was in charge of security on the US military side. He thrust an M1 carbine into Ron's hand and said, "General, we have to move." Later, Ron

When I think about my reaction that night, I always think of Zhukov in the Soviet film "Battle of Moscow". Comrade Zhukov also encountered such a situation. At that time, Zhukov

While he was looking at the map, someone came in and reported to Zhukov that German paratroopers were approaching. Zhukov calmly asked for a handful of sand, put it on the table, and continued to study the map. Whenever he thought of this scene, Ron would feel pain
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