My Third Empire

Stand up. [For more exciting novels, please visit] With a command, the soldier sitting on the lawn began to slowly get up. They carried parachute bags on their backs, tactical vests on their upper bodies, grenades, bayonets, and water bottles. There are also ammunition bags, field tents and raincoats, all kinds of food and other bits and pieces below.

This is the most standard configuration of German paratroopers, and they have been carefully trained in accordance with the requirements of the Führer. Two out of every ten of these people have blasting expertise, and the other two have received training in radio use. Nearly half of these people are equipped with the latest MP-44 assault rifles, and the other half use G43 semi-automatic rifles and mg42 machine guns.

Here I have to explain why this machine gun, which was born in 1932, is called 42. The machine gun born under his urging was named mg42.

The successful development of the German mg42 machine gun is actually an important breakthrough in firearms production technology. The designer of this machine gun, Grunov, is not a gun designer himself, he is an expert in metal stamping technology.

When Akado found him, he thought from a professional perspective that according to the traditional gun manufacturing process—that is, using machining, it is wasteful to process a piece of solid metal with a lathe, milling machine, etc., and cut off unnecessary parts. materials, and it takes a lot of man-hours, it is difficult to meet such needs.

With this traditional manufacturing process, the metal utilization rate is only about 25%, so he told Acado that it is an inevitable trend for machine guns to be manufactured using metal stamping technology. The Führer was very pleased with his concept and ordered him to be responsible for the design of the new machine gun. In practice, the mg42 produced by the metal stamping process not only saves materials and man-hours, but is also more compact, which is very practical for Germany, which lacks metal resources.

However, when the mg42 was first born and equipped with troops, in the eyes of western spies lurking in Europe, it was really a crude weapon, a patchwork of several iron sheets and an iron pipe. At that time, a flurry of reports flew to Washington and London, and the content was the same: Germany was already failing, they were extremely short of raw materials, and even the machine guns at the core of their tactics used such crude and crude manufacturing techniques.

When this machine gun was in use, the German military used three superlative adjectives to describe its excellence: The shortest time, the lowest cost, but the most excellent weapon.

The rate of fire of the mg42 machine gun is as low as 1200 rounds per minute and as high as 1500 rounds per minute. After the rate of fire of the machine gun exceeds 1000 rounds per minute, people cannot distinguish individual gunshots. The da da da sound of the Ronning machine gun is more like the chi chi chi chi sound of a high-speed rotating chainsaw, a bit like the sound of tearing a large piece of linen.

Because of the high rate of fire of mg42, each time the shooter pulls the trigger, the short burst of fire,

It can shoot 12 to 15 bullets. If an unfortunate soldier is shot by mg42, he will be shot several times in an instant, and the possibility of survival is very small. In the actual combat in Poland, because of its high rate of fire, mg42 is not only easy to deal with small groups of targets, but also very effective against group targets.

The German paratroopers helped each other and stood in a queue, and began to board the ju-52 transport plane waiting for them in an orderly manner. One plane can carry 12 fully armed German paratroopers, that is, one squad, and it can also hold two short bags at the same time. Supplies. In order to transport more paratroopers into enemy-occupied areas at a time, these ju-52s also towed a wooden glider to transport 6 additional soldiers.

The German army used 610 ju-52 transport planes in one breath to transport the ready paratroopers. In this battle, Germany will drop 10,000 paratroopers into the Netherlands in one breath, and the subsequent second wave of attacks will not be less than this number. This operation will be the largest paratroop operation in human history so far. Germany mobilized a total of 30,000 people in two paratrooper divisions to ensure that the entire Netherlands was taken without fail.

Winning the Netherlands will be a key battle for the success of the entire Western Front offensive. Rundstedt is very clear that if the Netherlands fails to occupy the Netherlands in the first time, then as a giant port, Britain will transport batch after batch of troops to the European continent, and the entire b group army will lose its strength advantage, and the entire battalion will lose its advantage. Operation Sickle also declared bankruptcy.

So this time, General Student will be ordered to complete the most difficult airdrop mission. His paratroopers must cooperate with the B Group Army on the front of Germany to capture the Netherlands in the shortest possible time. Student even went to the stone castle in person a few days ago, where he confirmed all the attack targets with Head of State Akado.

As a veteran with actual combat experience, Boroll is now the squad leader of a paratrooper squad. This time, he is very experienced in fixing the rifle on his chest instead of tying it in the luggage bag under his legs. . He sorted out the magazines and grenades on his chest, confirmed the position of the pistol, then pulled out the bayonet to check it carefully, and then fixed it back to the shoulder position.

The parachute squad he commanded included 4 veterans and 7 recruits besides himself. This can be regarded as the best configuration that can be made up now. As the squad leader, he has to guard the position of the aircraft door, so his soldiers walk in front of him. Soon he helped the penultimate soldier climb onto the plane with difficulty, and then he had a little difficulty getting on the plane by himself, and the people above had a lot of effort to get him on the plane.

With the movement of the plane, they all knew that their plane had already taken off. Through the double windows of the fuselage, Boroll could clearly see another plane flying on their side. Soon their plane saw the wings piercing the white clouds, and at least a dozen ju-52 planes could be vaguely seen flying in formation in the distance.

On the turbulent plane, Boroll was confirming his attack target with his deputy squad leader, and the noisy voice made their conversation louder.

After landing, if you can't find me, set up a defensive position here and gather as many troops as possible. Boroll drew a mark on the map with a thick pencil: We must occupy this village, understand? ?”

The task of our platoon is to occupy the village here and build an outer defensive position to protect the bridge. His deputy shouted loudly: But if there are only us, the strength to take this village will be insufficient.

Don't worry, this time the Air Force won't leave us in a 'messy' position! Boroll said with a big smile, In my absence, if there are insufficient troops, you are responsible for leading people back to the bridge. Report to the battalion department, no problem?

Okay. The deputy squad leader replied loudly.

Enter Dutch airspace! Gentlemen, pay attention to your seat belts. The co-pilot of the plane turned around and loudly reminded the paratroopers behind through the open rear door: The air force who came just now warned that the Dutch air defense forces are attacking us .”

Check your seat belts! I need you to fasten yourselves firmly on the plane! There will be enemy artillery fire in a while, so don't be nervous... Before Boroll finished speaking, there was a shot in the air not far away. The shell exploded. The loud explosion can be heard clearly even in the noisy cabin.

Don't panic! Keep your posture! Boroll stood up with difficulty, walked to the hatch, held on to the handrail, and stared at all his men: This density of anti-aircraft gun fire is Impossible to hit our plane!

And just as he was saying this, a glider flying behind the ju-52 transport plane to their left was hit by a shell, and the six german paratroopers inside were scattered in the sky covered in flames It opened, and only the nose of the glider was still dragging behind the tail of the ju-52 transport plane.

Who started to sing a song? Bolor felt that God was joking with him, and asked aloud helplessly. A soldier sang the song of the German paratroopers, but Boller vetoed it: It's been sung too many times! Change it!

Ah, who is marching in enemy territory and singing the devil's song? a veteran sang while holding an mp-44.

This is good! Boroll nodded in agreement, and then sang along: A soldier stood on the bank of the Oder, humming silently. Whistling, we walked back and forth. And the whole world may , curse or praise us - as they please. Wherever we are, let's keep going! And the devil laughs like this: Hahahahaha.

Along with the singing, everyone seemed to be in a slightly better mood, and the recruits also sang the German paratroopers' marching song Green Goblin: We fight for Germany, for freedom and honor. We will make the enemy No rest, no matter how far the line of march, we will soon go into battle. Resolute, always ready to fight, attack day and night! Firmly, bravely hold the rifle, Assault the enemy's position! Shout 'Long live the Führer' , we face death. The enemy is finally cleared and the corpses pile up. No matter where we are, let's keep going, let's keep going. And the devil laughed like this: Hahahahaha.

The song was sung repeatedly, and as time passed, the red ready alarm in the cabin lit up, and Borol gave the order loudly: Stand up!

The plane was shaking non-stop, and all the paratroopers had stood up. They checked their equipment and fastened the messy equipment they carried for others. The red lights on the plane were not The flickering flashes clearly reminded the paratroopers in the cabin that this trip to the Netherlands is a very dangerous mission.

Seeing that everyone stood up, Boroll continued to give his order loudly: Check the equipment for the last time! Everyone confirms the parachute! Start!

Number One! Over! Number Two! Over! Number Three! Over!... Number Eleven! Over!...

Gentlemen! Get ready! We'll sing this song during the skydive! Now! We'll go down and meet our Dutch enemies, Boller yelled.

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