Chapter 23: Shoulders of Giants
"Everyone, prepare quickly!"
After easily knocking down all the Indian soldiers, Siegrt did not feel relaxed. The British planes here were not parked in a centralized manner like they were at the airport. It was not easy to find them all out of the woods in the dark, and there were also a number of ominous guards next to these planes. He planned to keep 10 commandos ready to detonate the five British planes here at any time, and he took the remaining commandos to occupy and destroy other planes parked nearby. However, before they left, the commandos responsible for venting the air rushed back and reported that several large British patrols had come from the east and south.
"It's actually at this time!!"
Sigt glanced at the other commandos. If the planes here were detonated now, it would probably alarm the British army in the whole forest, and the British soldiers guarding other planes would also be alert. It would probably be much more difficult to kill the remaining planes.
"Apart from the initial gunshot, there have been no gunshots nearby. Karen and Tobias' team should have not had a head-on exchange of fire with the British army. Perhaps..." Siegrt decided to have another "prank" with the British before the British could see through him. It would be best if they could deceive the other party. If they could not, there would be a chance to take the initiative. However, this time, he did not think of a perfect excuse in his heart.
"Carry up here quickly and pull these Indians to the side! Everyone is ready to fight, Sergeant, you can take a few people to detonate the plane at any time!" Sigt quickly arranged.
About two minutes later, a sound of footsteps came from the woods on the east side, and the beam of light shot from the flashlight swept back and forth between the big trees. Siggart and more than 20 commandos stood as if nothing had happened, while the other commandos were hiding in the dark. When a British patrol appeared in sight, Siggart couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, because there were only about twenty people in the team, so it wouldn't be the other two assault groups.
"Password!" Sigate shouted with preconceptions.
"Long live the king!" The correct command came from the opposite side.
After a while, the commander of the patrol walked from the darkness to Sigate, and his soldiers stopped, but everyone's rifles were always in their hands. It seemed that after the initial gunfire, the British also increased their vigilance.
"Commander of the Seventh Patrol of the Ferland Forest Construction Site, Lieutenant Carl!" The British officer saluted. The so-called Ferland Forest Construction Site refers to the secret airport of the British fighter squadron here.
"Hello!" Siggart replied with a military salute, but did not report the number of his own troops. It is obviously unrealistic to use the number of patrols here, and there is no reason for the "Special Patrol of the 4th Brighton Guard Regiment" to appear near these fighters.
"Your rank, number!" the British officer asked seriously, and also dispelled Sigt's plan to escape.
The commandos hidden around were tightly clasped on the trigger, but in the dark they could not guarantee that they would hit all the British soldiers here.
"Lieutenant Montzelan, these soldiers and I were temporarily drawn to strengthen our defense!" Although Sigt did not move, his impulse to draw his gun became stronger and stronger, because even he himself felt that what he was making up now was a bit crappy. For him, it seemed like a mistake to confront a British patrol head-on in this environment.
The British officer indeed looked at Sigt with a puzzled look. His brain was probably thinking about what was wrong here.
"When I came yesterday afternoon, it seemed like a group of Indian soldiers were guarding here! Why didn't you see them now?" The British said and looked at Sigt behind him again. There were some serious white soldiers under the beam of the flashlight.
"We heard some noise in the south before, so we asked all the Indian soldiers here to search!"
Sigt answered in a very natural tone, but the British officer still frowned. Fortunately, the other British soldiers did not find a shoe of an Indian soldier at the foot of a big tree next to him.
"Lieutenant, your unit number!" The British officer suddenly shouted loudly. This time, all the British soldiers behind him were alert and turned their guns to Sigate and others. Although they did not aim directly, this action was undoubtedly extremely unfriendly, and the soldiers behind Sigate also responded the same.
"E Company of Fore Infantry Regiment!"
Sigt's unthinking answer slightly eased the slightly ignorant atmosphere in the air here.
"Foll Infantry? Never heard of it!" The British officer's hand was still behind his back, thinking arrogantly.
"We are from northern England and have been transferred here recently! You have heard it from today!" Siegrt felt that the British lieutenant in front of him was particularly fierce, at least not as easy to fool as the foolish man before.
"Good luck!" The British officer saluted again, as if he was preparing to continue his patrol.
Although the other party did not show any abnormal behavior, Sigt had a strong intuition. The British lieutenant seemed to have seen some clues. It was very dangerous to let him leave now. At this moment, two other British patrols and their flashlight beams appeared nearby, one came from the east along the way the previous British patrol came, and the other appeared in the southeast.
Seeing this, the British lieutenant asked his patrol to stop and found that the two patrol teams had about forty people, and his patrol team had far exceeded those of Sigt, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Don't move!" As the two patrol teams approached, the British lieutenant suddenly drew his pistol and pointed it at Sigate. The British soldiers were stunned at first, and then aimed at Sigate and the soldiers behind him.
Toward the other two patrols who stopped at the same time, the British lieutenant shouted: "These people have problems! Come and help subdue them!"
Sigate's soldiers were also holding guns, but Sigate signaled them not to fire because he had seen the appearance of the other two patrol leaders from the beam of the flashlight.
"Secretary! You're kidding!"
Karen shone the British lieutenant with a flashlight, and the soldiers behind him began to disperse inadvertently.
"Yes, there are all soldiers from the British Empire here, how could there be any problems!" Tobias also surrounded the soldiers, and the three assault teams quickly surrounded the authentic British patrol in the middle.
"Listen to me!" The British lieutenant reached out to block the dazzling beam of flashlight in the dark. "I swear, I looked at the command number list yesterday, and there was no Fore infantry regiment here!"
"How is it possible! My people and I are from the Fore Infantry Regiment!" Karen stopped next to the British lieutenant with a smirk.
"So too!" In the desperate eyes of the British, Tobias pushed his pistol against his forehead.
"I suspect you are German spies. For the sake of everyone's life safety, please put down your weapons and accept our inspection!" Karen shouted to other British soldiers. The guns of hundreds of commandos had been pointed at the twenty-dozen British people from all directions.
The British soldiers hesitated for a moment, and they had no choice but to put down their rifles.
"Poor man!" Sigt finally breathed a sigh of relief. This troublesome British lieutenant not only ruined his life, but also the lives of his soldiers. After all this happened, even the poor Indian Asans were unable to escape.
A few minutes later, all the authentic British and Indian soldiers present stopped breathing silently. After the three assault teams gathered together, they left some people to detonate several planes on the side, while others continued to pretend to be British patrols to find and clear the rest of the planes on the "Ferland Forest Construction Site".
At 5:30 a.m., people were still looking forward to the morning light of the new day, and violent explosions came from the Ferland Forest 15 miles north of the Brighton coast. While British soldiers were busy extinguishing the fire and searching for suspicious figures, Karen and others swaggered to the west.
Berlin, Germany.
Chen Tian just woke up and received good news that the commando attack was successful.
"Your Highness, the commando's first step has been successful! Are we sending the next commando as planned!" Tilpiz's tone was filled with uncontrollable excitement. He was as happy as Chen Tian for the successful stage of the drama directed by himself. You must know that this plan has epoch-making significance. It brings a new combat mode to the world in advance. The special airborne troops achieved a great victory after the first time they were put into actual combat.
"The Secretary of the Navy is so polite! Whether to continue to implement the plan is in your hands! Since our first stone has been embedded in the UK, my suggestion is to continue this plan that can win multiple goals in one fell swoop! In this way, the British should be even more blind in their judgment of our landing location!"
Due to Chen Tian's relationship, the cooperation between the Army and the Navy was much better than before during this period. It should be said that Prince's accident brought many unexpected gains to the whole of Germany. At least, Chen Tian and his 200,000 German soldiers did not have to stay on the British beach until they were out of ammunition and food.
"Okay! The guys on our battleships are almost suffocating in the past two months. They have long been hoping to send the shells to the British! I'm afraid that after the Battle of Britain, most of our battleships will have to replace the barrels! Hahaha!"
The replacement of the gun barrel as Tirpiz said means that after a large-caliber naval gun fires a certain number of shells, it needs to replace the heavily worn gun barrel. Since there is a lot of live-fire training, the Germans are not stingy in terms of shells and barrels. It is said that in order to save ammunition and reduce the wear of the gun barrel, the Japanese Navy often uses small-caliber outer barrels installed on the main gun when firing live-fire. The effect of this training is naturally incomparable to the launch of the main gun. It also reflects the lack of domestic resources in Japan from another aspect.
Thinking of the Japanese Navy, Chen Tian couldn't help but think of the German and Japanese negotiations on the Japanese Navy to send troops to contain the US Navy. Today he will set off to return to the troops, so he could not participate in the subsequent negotiations. Fortunately, the two countries have reached an agreement on major issues, and the Japanese representatives were a bit cunning to delay time to use the German government's urgency to increase their negotiation weight, and some detailed requirements have been increased repeatedly. Chen Tian's advice to the German representatives was to temporarily meet the Japanese's greed requirements. In his opinion, the more Japanese people want now, they still have to pay back twice in the future.
"Then, Mr. Navy, I wish the Navy to continue to create glory here!"
"Thank you, Your Highness, and I wish you great victory in the British!"
In this way, before landing in Britain, several main squadrons of the German High Seas Fleet will take turns to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment on some British coasts and ports, which can destroy some British shore defense fortifications and cover the subsequent commando's airborne operations. Since tens of thousands of British expeditionary forces stranded in France were all eliminated by the German army, the British equipment of hundreds of commando personnel was not a problem.
After the two gave blessings to each other, Chen Tian also had to accept farewell from the emperor and the ministers. After that, he would take a plane to the north coast of France, and his 8th Army would also conduct a two-day landing exercise on the coast of Calais.
Next, the drama of the Battle of England will be grandly performed.
Seeing the emperor's increasingly haggard face, Chen Tian didn't know whether to be happy or worried. After the queen fell ill, William II was busy handling government affairs, while also worried about the two major patients in their family.
Chen Tian had not had time to meet the "Oriental Miracle Doctor", and at this time he was not suitable to contact the person who treated Prince. Whether that person was a great man or a liar, he would not know until the war in the UK ended. As for the queen, the doctors said that she suffered from a heart disease that could not be cured by drugs, but if Prince didn't get better for a day, the heart disease of this benevolent mother might not be cured. If the queen's illness was not cured, the emperor's mood would not be cured. This chain reaction may greatly change the course of history.
"I wish you a victory!" The emperor's tone was still so deep. Perhaps he was the most contradictory person in this situation. He hoped that Chen Tian, the acting crown prince, could win everyone's recognition with victory, to eliminate the unstable factors brought to Germany by the crown prince's crisis, and to gradually ascend the German Empire to the world, and to have the hope of Prince's revival. It is naturally what he hopes to see most if his biological son leads the future Germany.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Tian was more formal respectful to the emperor. He knew very well that the previous accounts could not be purchased and sold in one go. If the emperor really lived like an old turtle for so long, he would not have waited for William II to be so old that he was still sitting on the throne.
"I wish your highness a triumphant return!"
Ministers used the treatment of seeing Chentian off for the crown prince, and most people were reluctant to take their political future on a vegetable man with little hope of awakening. For Chentian, this period was also a great time to remove Prince's gangs. After the Battle of Britain, there were more battles waiting for him without seeing the smoke of gunpowder.
"Ahem... Jiji, be careful to protect yourself! You represent the future of Germany now!"
From the emperor's eyes, Chen Tian saw some love from the father, but whether this love comes from the heart, or is it performed from a political perspective, or both, everyone has their own judgment.
"Your Majesty, you and the Queen should take care of themselves! I believe that God will bless our orthodox crown prince in Germany!"
Every time Prince is mentioned, the emperor's eyes are a little sad, but praying for Prince on such occasions has become Chentian's official practice.
People with insight know that it would be a disaster for Germany when Prince wakes up. Not to mention Prince's moderation and conceit, this powerful acting crown prince would probably not give up the inheritance rights that he had finally succeeded.
"Your Highness, we still recommend that you take the train to the front line. After all, the safety performance of things like airplanes is not as good as that of trains!"
Several ministers were still worried that Chen Tian chose the plane as a means of travel, but he took a train one day and one night to reach the French coast. Chen Tian really didn't want to waste his precious time on the road. What's more, the trend of planes becoming convenient means of transportation is unstoppable, and Chen Tian, as the Minister of the Air Force, naturally set an example.
Although he was a little tired of these old men's conservative thoughts, Chen Tian still thanked them for their concern, "Please rest assured that the engine failure rate of our plane during flight is two-thousandth, and the chance of two engines malfunctioning at the same time is even smaller. Even if there is a failure, we still have a parachute with superior performance!"
At 10 a.m., Chen Tian boarded a modified "Owl" bomber. The decoration inside its closed cabin gave people a luxurious feeling. Coupled with the escort of a squadron of fighters, he even felt like an emperor was on patrol.
After two landings and refueling in the middle, Chen Tian arrived at Calais, France before dusk. Looking at the British mainland in Haitian from afar, he felt a lot of feelings when he thought that he would accomplish Napoleon's unfinished great achievements. To be fair, Chen Tian felt that he did not surpass Napoleon's command ability. His advantage was that he stood on the shoulders of a great nation and the shoulders of German giants!
"Emperor Napoleon, I want to fulfill my last wish to land in England for you. Will you bless me?" Chen Tian murmured to himself at the sea. Perhaps what Emperor Napoleon wanted to see more was the destruction of Russia.
"That Russian has been sent back to Russia!"
Hoffman replied in a low voice, "Yes, Your Highness! The Emperor also approves of this matter!"
"Very good!" For Chen Tian, the vast Russia has always been a taboo place. Releasing Stalin back to Russia would be more effective than direct invasion of hundreds of thousands of troops. The revolutionary-controlled areas in southern Russia are being attacked by the Tsarist Russian army and the Japanese army. Although the Agreni government has always warned the Japanese government not to interfere in Russia's internal affairs, this non-tactical attack still puts huge pressure on the Russian revolutionary forces.
After dark, a group of huge airships floated over Calais almost silently, and the roar of shelling was faintly heard from the other side of the strait. The second commando would bring a new "prank" to the British near Dover.
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