Chapter 484 Sea Lion Attacks
"Today we sing loudly
Drink the cold wine
I will leave soon,
Let the wine glass clink with a crisp sound
Let me hold your hand again
Hold your white hand
Goodbye, my sweetheart
Goodbye, my sweetheart
Goodbye, take care
We are going to the battle
We are going to the battle
We are going to England
England!"
The really deafening "We are going to England" is playing in the cabin of a shaking "Giant" Me323 transport aircraft. The cabin is filled with an atmosphere of excitement and tension. The excitement is that the long-cherished wish of the ancestors in the last war will be fulfilled by them today, and the tension is that they don't know what kind of situation they will face after landing on the land of Britain. Maybe they will be torn into pieces by the anti-aircraft artillery shells on the ground as soon as they jump out, or they may fall directly into a group of British soldiers, or they may fall far away from the target location...
In order to suppress this nervous mood, many paratroopers sang loudly in unison.
The Me323 transport aircraft is a variant of the Me 321 military glider and is the largest land transport aircraft in World War II. The cargo hold floor area is about 40 square meters, and the entire cargo hold volume is 108 cubic meters. After adding auxiliary partitions in the middle section, it can transport 200 fully armed soldiers.
And now the plane is equipped with 120 paratroopers and their weapons and equipment. Each of them is holding a dummy that looks similar to their outfit. Most of these "fake paratroopers" are made of straw, wood and wire. When they parachute over the target later, they have to throw the dummy in their arms out before jumping out. In this way, 240 "real and fake airborne soldiers" will jump off a plane, which can greatly interfere with the British air defense forces on the ground, and the probability of being hit by anti-aircraft weapons will be reduced by a hundred.
Suddenly, the red indicator light in the cabin lit up, and the deafening music stopped abruptly, replaced by the roar of the company commander. "Five minutes to prepare!! Check your equipment as a squad! After landing, gather at the church marked on the map!! For your lives, remember the command 'Gaoshan, Jinsong'!! Do you understand? Don't be killed by your own people! Remember the church and 'Gaoshan, Jinsong'!!"
"..." The paratroopers began to help their comrades around them check their parachutes, and then checked whether their leg bags were tied tightly.
After the inspection, the squad leaders loudly instructed their squad members. "After going down, there are enemies all around. If there is any movement, shout the command first. If the response to you is not an accurate command, open fire immediately! If you are alone and too far away from the scheduled landing point and can't find friendly forces, find a way to keep yourself alive first, don't rush into the battle, understand?"
"Understood!" Everyone in the cabin answered loudly.
After a while, the red indicator light turned green. The four doors on both sides of the transport plane plus the paratrooper-only door on the belly of the plane were opened, and cold wind instantly poured into the entire cabin.
Boxes of weapons were pushed out of the cabin, followed by paratroopers jumping out of the cabin one after another.
Sergeant Jonas jumped out of the cabin. The air was a little too humid and even a little cold. Fortunately, he was not alone. There were paratroopers around him. But he couldn't tell which of the paratroopers was real and which was fake. But since he couldn't tell, the British on the ground couldn't tell either. They were just shooting blindly. Thinking of this, the bullets whizzing around from time to time were no longer so scary.
Finally, he heard the sound of the leg bag under his feet hitting the ground, and then his feet stepped heavily on the hard ground.
He unbuttoned the parachute quickly, opened the leg bag and took out the weapons and ammunition. Holding the cold steel gun in his hand made him feel much more at ease. What made him even more happy was that a paratrooper also landed more than 20 meters away from him. From the flapping umbrella, it can be seen that it is not a dummy.
"Gaoshan!" Jonas shouted the command in a low voice, while running towards the paratrooper while keeping an eye on the surroundings.
"Jinsong!" The flapping parachute paused for a moment, shouted back and asked for help. "Come and help me, I'm entangled by this damn parachute."
"..." Jonas pulled out his dagger and cut a big hole in the opponent's parachute in two or three strokes, saving the guy trapped inside.
"Thank you." The paratrooper finally broke free from the parachute, revealing a young and tender face, which made Jonas wonder whether this little guy had grown up. He took out a weapon from his leg bag and introduced himself. "I'm Private First Class Hoffman of the third platoon."
Jonas nodded and replied. "I'm Sergeant Jonas of the first platoon."
Hoffman shrugged and asked. "Okay, then I have to obey your command. What should we do now?"
Jonas glanced at the 40mm six-round revolver grenade launcher in Hoffman's hand and pointed at the anti-aircraft gun in the distance that was constantly firing into the sky. "Kill that guy first."
This is not the first time this has happened. No matter how fierce the bombing of the Army Air Force is, there will always be those lucky fish that slip through the net. If the anti-aircraft gun is not eliminated, it may cause considerable trouble to the subsequent friendly forces.
The two of them managed to get to a place more than 100 meters away from the anti-aircraft gun without any danger, hiding under a tree that was cut in half by the explosion. Jonas asked. "Are you sure about this distance?" He saw that there were a dozen British soldiers and a heavy machine gun around the anti-aircraft gun. If they couldn't injure them in the first time, they would definitely be suppressed by firepower.
"More than enough!" Hoffman replied confidently, then raised the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger. After a dull sound, an explosion occurred ten meters to the left of the anti-aircraft gun. Hoffman moved the muzzle of the gun slightly, pulled the trigger repeatedly, and fired all the remaining five grenades.
"Boom!" It seemed that one of the grenades happened to detonate the accumulated anti-aircraft gun shells, and the anti-aircraft gun position exploded with a deafening explosion. Various fragments flying around killed most of the British soldiers around, and the remaining few were also knocked to the ground by the shock wave.
"Well done!" Jonas couldn't help but praise, and raised his gun to knock down a British soldier who stood up unsteadily.
"Thank you." Hoffman smiled shyly and began to load ammunition into the grenade launcher.
Just as Jonas was about to pull the trigger again, dense bullets fired from the east of the anti-aircraft artillery position, knocking down all the remaining British soldiers.
"Great, it's our own people!" Jonas heard that there were at least two AKMS and a FAL, and led Hoffman to run in the direction of the gunshots with his back bent.
"Gaoshan!"
"Jinsong!"
Jonas and his men encountered four soldiers and a corpse.
After a brief exchange of names, Jonas found that his rank was still the highest. The corpse was a sergeant, but the corpse would not stand up to command them to fight.
"Sir, when I came down, I saw a weapons box fell about 1,000 meters away from here." One of the soldiers reported what he saw to Jonas.
Jonas took out the map and checked the terrain. He found that they were at the edge of the town, the church was to their northeast, and the weapons box was to their southwest.
But it was only 1,000 meters, which didn't seem to delay anything. "Then let's go get the heavy weapons first."