Regarding Operation Market Garden, which was famous throughout World War II, Hu Biao and others had certainly heard of it and knew what it was about.
Not to mention, a group of veterans spent twenty or thirty minutes at the beginning of this mission before being teleported over.
Because I urgently reviewed and deepened the relevant time period, after a series of battles that occurred on the Europa battlefield, I have gained a deeper understanding.
Knowing the specific situation, it probably looks like this:
When the time came to July 25, 1944, the 3rd Army led by Uncle Sam's General Badun was the first to break out of the Normandy area.
In the following period, numerous Allied troops were deployed on the vast French plains.
A large-scale pursuit was launched against the German army, and a large number of cities and populations were recovered in a short period of time.
Immediately faced with such glorious results, the entire Allied Forces felt a little dizzy, and a sense of blind optimism began to permeate the air.
Some people even shouted the slogan, "Let's break into Germany before Christmas, end this damn war, and let the boys go home for Christmas."
That's right! You heard me right, that's it.
On the Goryeo battlefield in the 1950s, MacArthur's words "Let the boys go back for Christmas" were not original...
But this one came out 7 years ago. It is just a traditional saying that Uncle Sam's family is shameless and awesome. There is no need to be too surprised.
Based on such a situation, the Allied command headquarters formulated such a "Market Garden Operation Plan."
In the end, the Allies dispatched almost all the assets of the air force, including 5,500 transport aircraft, 2,596 gliders, and more than 8,000 fighters and bombers.
In the three major areas, 35,000 troops, 568 artillery pieces, 1,927 military vehicles, and 5,230 tons of supplies were airborne.
In the end, the largest airborne operation in human history was launched.
It was hoped that the airborne troops would first occupy a series of bridges on the Rhine, Waal and other rivers, and then cooperate with the army to quickly break through the German defense lines along the Rhine.
Finally, he broke into the German home from the Netherlands and dealt a fatal blow to the opponent.
The Arnhem Bridge mentioned in the mission is one of the most critical bridges, because not far from here is the Ruhr Industrial Zone in Germany.
After capturing this place, Germany's industrial production capacity, which had suffered serious losses due to bombing, will suffer a fatal blow.
The war potential will be further severely damaged.
Needless to say, if the Allies were to achieve the above-mentioned combat plans, it might be possible to defeat such a powerful opponent as the German Army before Christmas.
Thus, a group of soldiers returned to North America to spend their Christmas.
The problem is that the final result of history sadly proves that the Allied forces were just dreaming about marrying a wife, thinking too much and rejoicing in vain.
This operation lasted for 10 days and ended with a disastrous defeat for the Allied forces.
Especially in the most critical battle for the Arnhem Bridge, facing the airborne troops surrounded at the northern end of the bridge, a large army of John's family reached a distance of 16 kilometers and could no longer advance.
In the end, they had to abandon such a bridge at great cost.
There is even a saying of "distant bridge" for this bridge.
Throughout Operation Market Garden, the Allied forces suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and the air force also paid a huge price.
The German side only suffered less than 8,000 casualties.
It can be said that this time the Allies suffered a huge loss.
Of course, how much money the Allies lost and how many people died was of no concern to Hu Biao and the others.
The key is that in a doomsday world, the Central Continent team can only jump once per person. In such a battle that is destined to lose, how can it successfully complete the mission?
No! At this moment, Hu Biao remembered something that he had ignored.
That is the 8 rookies who joined this time. Except for Lao Hei from the PLA Air Force Ground Guidance Force, he may have been exposed to such things as skydiving and has certain experience.
The rest of them have probably never skydived, right?
This means that these people have no time to carry out relevant training at all, and they are just trying to catch up on some theoretical knowledge temporarily.
Damn it! Just go skydiving with some theoretical knowledge.
Even Hu Biao felt that this was a bit unreliable just by thinking about it.
It's just that under the pressure of system tasks, it is impossible for the Zhongzhou Team to let these rookies stay behind to fish.
So it seems that the only thing that can be done at the moment is to wish them good luck.
As for why, in the information, it was clearly the First Airborne Division of John's family and some Polish airborne troops who participated in the battle of Arnhem Bridge, which involved soldiers like them from Uncle Sam's family.
For this point, there should be systematic arrangements.
In this way, in the following time, Hu Biao hurriedly drove his Willys Jeep to the regiment headquarters to receive the mission.
At the same time, Lao Yang and other members who also heard the system reminder began to gather together to study related action plans...
At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Hu Biao, who had gone to the regiment headquarters to receive his assignment, came back.
He brought back some members of the Central Continent team and was very speechless after hearing the order.
The reason why I say this is because among the entire Dahong 1st Division, their D Company of the 162nd Regiment was the only unit that participated in this Operation Market Garden.
And the specific task assigned was to cooperate with John's 1st Airborne Division to capture the Arnhem Bridge.
It can be said that this operation, after adding a symbolic company from Uncle Sam's family, has a little more flavor of coordinated operations and a bigger gimmick.
Among the many troops, why did you choose Company D, where the Zhongzhou team is located?
According to the regimental commander, it was because the airborne troops of the 101st Airborne Division and 82nd Airborne Division had other tasks and could not squeeze out more troops.
Among the other troops, only those in D Company had one or two parachute trainings on their personal resumes.
The above small changes are things that did not exist in the original historical line.
Therefore, it is obvious that the system took action secretly and that this situation occurred.
After Hu Biao came back after receiving the mission, Hu Biao discussed with other members of the team until more than two o'clock in the middle of the night before giving up.
I have to say that there is some truth in the statement that the Three Stooges are better than Zhuge Liang.
Thanks to the collective efforts of everyone, a variety of reliable ideas have come up, and there is no need to mention the immediate results after adopting these ideas.
All I can say is that every method has been adopted.
It can make their mission success probability, which was not very high in the first place, slightly higher.
After the urgent Zhuge Liang meeting, only a few members of the Zhongzhou team, such as the company commander, Bai Xiang, Ye Yu and others went to bed early.
Like Mad Dog, and some old SPs who didn't name them, they secretly left the camp overnight.
There was no scruple at all. If the order issued by the regiment headquarters was followed, a group of D Company would leave the camp at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and first join up with the 1st Airborne Division of John's family.
Then board the plane together and start this airborne operation.
In addition to the series of actions after landing, it seems that these guys should take a good rest to restore their strength.
The main reason is that Hu Biao understands that although his old SPs have some SPs.
But based on the nature of Chinese men, they are not the kind of people who completely disown others after lifting their pants.
A husband and a wife have been blessed for a hundred days. According to this saying, it has been more than two months, seventy or eighty days, and I believe that they have some feelings for each other.
If nothing unexpected happens, this will also be the last time these old SPs will meet the women of John's family.
In order to prevent them from having more regrets, we can only let them go.
As for sleeping, with the big hearts that everyone in the team has long cultivated, they can definitely sleep soundly in cars and airplanes.
It's just a matter of taking a good nap to make up for it while on the way.
Therefore, before these old SPs set off, they first went to the logistics warehouse, and then sneaked out of the camp with large and small bags of things in their hands.
Hu Biao, the commander of Company D, simply chose to turn a blind eye or close one eye.
So, at 10 o'clock the next morning, all members of D Company set off in cars.
Quite a few of the people in the team, including one who yawned so much, were in a very low mood.
Apparently they were not only very tired last night, but also couldn't forget those women.
This situation continued until the truck drove out of the gate of the military camp; they were suddenly attracted by some familiar sounds on the roadside, which attracted all their attention.
There was a group of girls on the side of the road. The women put on their most beautiful skirts, as well as various socks that are currently hard currency on the black market, and had exquisite makeup on their faces.
I stood on the side of the road, waving to the cars passing by.
In short, they were using their best to see off these gentle and affectionate visitors from the East.
Even last night, when these guys were fighting to death, they had ruthlessly told them that they would never come back.
But in the end, these women still came.
The result was those skirts that suddenly flew up due to the speed of the passing trucks, and those blue eyes with red rims.
It has made many old SPs stay in their memories for a long time, and they will be reminded of it many years later...
The time is September 17, 1944, just before 1 o'clock at noon.
Location, don’t know?
Hu Biao and others had no idea where they were now; the only thing that was certain was that they should have flown over the Netherlands.
What! Hu Biao and his group spent almost a whole day riding in the car yesterday, and finally arrived at John’s home camp of the 1st Airborne Division at around 7 o’clock in the evening.
After arriving here, it was a lot of trouble again.
For example: weighing yourself, determining the equipment you carry with you, receiving the parachute bag necessary for skydiving, and being given some of the most basic combat orders, etc.
By the time all the fuss was over, it was already midnight.
There was no resting camp at all. The more than 150 people of Company D were just in an open space near the airport, relying on each other.
Or he lay down on his umbrella bag and started to fall asleep.
In the early morning, the members of D Company were woken up again; but it was not until about 9 o'clock in the morning that they boarded several John's Royal Air Force DC-3 transport aircraft.
The DC-3 transport aircraft was a product of the Lend-Lease Act. It was manufactured by Uncle Sam's Douglas Company, and a large number of them were eventually sold to the outside world.
Because apart from the three crew members, the maximum load could only carry 28 people, so D Company used six aircraft to load all the personnel.
It should be noted that all the veterans of the Central Continent Team were riding on six DC-3 transport planes.
This approach is part of their plan.
In the end, Hu Biao and others stayed on the plane for almost half an hour, and the huge fleet finally took off.
After several hours of flight, with this thing's cruising speed of 260 kilometers per hour, it must have penetrated deep into the continent of Europa.
During this period, shells from ground-based anti-aircraft guns kept coming, and the sound of artillery explosions was heard not far away.
It’s just that the continent of Europa is so big, God knows! Where did it fly to?
And why? This large-scale airborne landing is not like what is shown in the movie plot. This event is carried out at night.
Damn it! Hu Biao can’t figure it out, so he has to take care of it...
Fortunately, Hu Biao and others soon had the answer to where they were flying now; because suddenly, they noticed that the explosion in their ears seemed to be getting louder.
More importantly, a Royal Air Force pilot stuck his head out of the cockpit.
He raised his voice and shouted loudly with an authentic London accent:
"Gentlemen, we have now flown to the destination of this airborne landing, the area above the Arnhem airfield, so you need to parachute immediately.
May Brother Su bless you, kill those evil villains, and let this war end before Christmas."
It’s time to say it! This guy from the Royal Air Force of John’s family said quite politely.
The problem is that no matter how polite you are, it's useless because you can't stop the evil hand that is about to fall on your head.
Because after hearing such a sentence, everyone in the Central Continent team looked at each other and knew that according to the original plan, it was time to make some efforts.
What! When parachuting, all members of the Central Continent Team and D Company must jump, but they cannot jump like this.
Because according to the information that Hu Biao and others had learned in advance in the modern dimension, it was shown that during this airborne landing, in order to avoid damage to the transport aircraft group by anti-aircraft fire.
Therefore, the paratroopers used a height of 366 meters to 457 meters for parachuting.
The standard skydiving height for paratroopers during World War II was actually only 244 meters.
The skydiving height suddenly increased by so much, which naturally means that everyone can stay in the air for a longer time, which allows the German defenders below to be easily killed like targets.
In addition, the skills of the bumpkins in the Central Continent Team in parachuting are very limited.
The higher the skydiving height is, the wider the area where they land will be, making it more difficult for everyone to gather later.
Because Hu Biao and the others would not be so honest as to skydive at the current altitude.
Even under force, they had to ask the pilot of the transport plane to lower the distance to a height of 244 meters before they actually jumped out.
This is also the biggest reason why the veterans boarded 6 planes when everyone from the Central Continent team boarded the plane.
At this time, they still need to have a good chat with the Royal Air Force pilots as planned; they probably won't agree to their request if they don't have a good chat.
Will the consequences caused by this make the superiors angry and pursue these issues?
After this stage of the mission, the Central Continent team will directly return to the modern plane, so it doesn't matter.
There was no need for Hu Biao to greet him in the following time. Jason and Mad Dog had already stood up and walked toward the cab with guns in hand.
I believe that the same scene happened at the same time in several other planes.
Then, amid the frightened yells and curses of the Royal Air Force crew members, the sound of fists colliding with bodies could be faintly heard.
Then, when I felt the plane continue to drop in altitude.
With the help of Yang Dongli, Hu Biao opened the door of the transport plane and quickly observed the ground; in the strong wind that came in.
Hu Biao picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted at the top of his lungs.
This was the last instruction that was delivered to the Central Continent Team and everyone in Company D:
"When you learn how to jump, you must pay attention to Hanzi's movements; Hanzi will give you a good example. In short, you can open the parachute almost at the position where he opens the parachute bag.
Also, everyone should be smarter after landing.
Remember, you need to find the glider and collect the equipment inside it as soon as possible; then, move closer to the church with a high roof, which is the assembly point of our D Company."
As everyone nodded, the transport plane, which had been diagonally lowering its altitude, finally changed its fuselage to a state of smooth flight.
Upon seeing this, Hu Biao finally yelled: "Guys are starting to skydive. I wish you good luck."
After saying that, Kanji, who was responsible for the proofing task, took the lead and jumped out. At this point, everyone in the Zhongzhou team would leave everything to their fucking fate in a few minutes...