Chapter 105 Airborne Berlin
March towards Berlin!
Once the inspiring slogan was shouted, there were marching teams holding high flags in Bavaria, Württemberg, Hesse, Thuringian and several states closest to Berlin. In the absence of a vacuum of domestic regime, the connivance of the Soviet Union made the German Baath Party and the Liberal Corps quickly relax their courage from initial caution. They occupied the railway, used all the vehicles and tools that could be operated, carrying armed or unarmed supporters towards the coveted state power.
Stupfer, the leader of the Baath Party who had been dying for many days, also appeared in Thuringia and Brandenburg, and delivered speeches to the German people in cities along the way with amazing efficiency. His extremely inciting language quickly increased the power-grabbing team from thousands to nearly 100,000. Although the team did not have the material guarantee of the Kiel Parade that year and often needed to sleep in the open during the journey, people still maintained an enthusiasm that was even better than that of the past.
In such an action hidden internal power competition, Lynn showed his charm unscrupulously. He commanded the most elite free regiment armed forces to quickly advance into Bavaria, firmly taking over the most politically significant metropolis in southern Germany, and successively occupied several military targets that the Soviet army had not yet grasped in Bavaria. After winning the support of some former defense commanders, Lynn's team recruited more than 20,000 former defense troops in the south, and dispersed these regular soldiers with combat capabilities into the combat troops of the defense army. In order to overcome the disadvantage of geographical distance, Lynn even took a bold airborne operation. With the help of the Southern Industrial Alliance, he obtained two Junker-52 and a Fiat G12 transport aircraft, and selected the abandoned airport in the northern suburbs of Berlin as the airborne location, from the Southern Baath Party and
The Free Group selected a group of volunteers, brought flags, banners, acoustic speakers, and went to Berlin in uniform clothes. In order to avoid the night flight from Soviet air defense cannons, they chose to fly during the day with good vision, and the fuselage was painted with eye-catching "we are not attackers" in both sides. Out of their usual adventurous spirit and political intention, Lynn almost boarded the plane with the first batch of "airbornemen". Fortunately, this time the 7th dispatch team and colleagues from the Imperial Intelligence Department were by their side. Their rational persuasion dispelled Linn's idea of risking his life to make a strong move. Despite this, Lynn still made up his mind that as long as the first batch of airborne was implemented smoothly, he would not delay for a moment - as long as he arrived in Berlin one step ahead of Stupfer, the situation of competing for peak power would be relatively favorable.
The three temporary patchwork aircraft were not in very good condition. Fortunately, the two Junker-52s had airborne radio equipment, and the three aircraft flew together, so Lynn and his staff were closely watching their real-time situation. The straight-line distance from Munich to Berlin was 500 kilometers, and the plane needed to avoid Soviet airports and important military targets as much as possible in the middle of the flight. It was estimated that the entire flight would take three hours. Under the driving of three groups of experienced civil aviation pilots, the first hour of the three aircraft was extremely smooth, and the time to arrive over the scheduled city was no more than 5 minutes different from the scheduled plan. From an hour ten, with the emergence of Soviet fighters, the atmosphere on board and ground command suddenly became tense. The true mentality and heart of the Soviets
Lin Neng was not sure about the bottom line, and his aides and partners were also unsure of it. As a matter of common sense, even if they unintentionally occupy a country that is in ruins and difficult to manage for a long time after the truce, they would be very inclined to establish a pro-Soviet regime with the same ideology. Of course, since the Russian Revolution in 1917, most European and American countries, including Germany, have regarded the Bolsheviks as a beast. After the "Parliamentary Arson Case", the German forces had no soil for survival during the Hitler regime. After World War II, all the German parties either took the Western route or followed the nationalist consciousness more or less like the Baath Party. It was difficult to cultivate a red regime that could control the situation in the short term.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Lynn's great adventure continued. From the intermittent radio communication, one could roughly imagine the scene: a team of Soviet fighters with strong firepower came in a fierce manner, and there was no direct verbal communication between the two sides. Once the Soviet fighter fired, three German planes without any self-defense weapons would be shot down within a minute, and the pilots and more than 60 crew members on the plane would die.
"They dive... there was no fire, they didn't fire. The captain said that the two sides could see each other's faces and even the color of their eyes... Okay, they came again and flew to us. Is it Jacques or Ravockin? There were rockets under their wings. I think the Soviet pilot must have seen the slogan on our fuselage... What do they mean... They seemed to ask us to turn around and can't move forward..."
Listening to the "live broadcast" from the radio communication equipment, Lynn's heart couldn't help but hang up. These three planes are all the aviation power he can collect at present. Success will play a huge role in the way to the peak of power. If he fails, he has to return to the traditional route and watch Stupfer enter Berlin with great might, or hope that subordinates who are traveling to Berlin can arrive as smoothly as possible by train and car.
When the ground commander made the decision, Lin Neng calmly analyzed the situation. Since the Soviet fighter did not fire rashly at the beginning, he should have a fire warning before taking action. He ordered: "Continue to move forward, if the Soviet fighter fires, the warning... return!"
Such an important command was for fear that the crew correspondent missed it. The communications officers in the command center repeated loudly to the radio again and again until a relatively calm reply came from there: "Received, continue to move forward unless the opponent fires a warning."
Next, the flight formation kept reporting the positions of Soviet fighters at very short intervals. They did not intercept forcibly, but maintained a close-range companionship, probably waiting for the command of their own command. More than half an hour later, another team of Soviet fighters appeared and took over their companions' positions. At this time, the navigator also determined that the fleet was flying by near Leipzig, which meant that they were still the last 150 kilometers away from Berlin.
"There is no news in Berlin yet?"
Lynn asked Legrant, an official in charge of contact with the Baxing Party, and the answer was: "Since the telegram sent from the Berlin Telegraph Bureau yesterday afternoon, there has been no news, and the telephone line is still blocked. It may be that the Soviet occupation forces temporarily interrupted the normal telegraph business for some reasons."
More than a month ago, the German Defense Forces implemented the cleaning order of President Hoff Helsten. The Baath Party and the Freedom Corps were seriously damaged in many areas, and the situation in the capital was particularly serious. Except for those well-trained professional intelligence personnel, the rest of the staff were arrested and imprisoned. Later, the Soviet army invaded Germany. Under the chaotic situation, most people lost contact. At this time, Berlin was a key area stationed in Germany. Otherwise, the Baath Party would have been scattered and announced the occupation.
Sols, a technical supervisor who is responsible for the repair and inspection of three aircraft, comforted him and said: "Aunt Juncker's takeoff and landing ability is very good. As long as there are no big holes on the runway, they can land smoothly even if there are no passengers."
Although the Junker-52 is very slow, its solid body structure, especially its strong landing gear configuration, can adapt to various harsh environments. Lynn is very clear about this. Moreover, their normal oil is enough to cope with the subsequent no-load return. However, if the contact personnel cannot go to the reception as planned, the group of "airbornemen" can only hike to the city by themselves. Maybe they were blocked by the Soviet army before they crossed the Spree River. In that case, they might have to make a sound across the river, and the effect is like scratching the surface, which will have no effect on the more than two million German people who stayed in Berlin.
The clock's hand continued to rotate, and the Soviet fighter planes were still flying near three German planes without taking tough interception measures - although this was what Linn and his subordinates expected, the Soviets' attitude still aroused the vigilance behind Linn's curiosity: was their abnormal actions caused by the fulfillment of the imperial secret treaty, or were there any other considerations?
Although time passed slowly, the crucial moment came as scheduled. The outline of Berlin's city appeared in front of the three aircraft formation. Since it had reached this point, Lynn made up his mind to test the bottom line of the Soviets' patience and set off momentum for this airborne operation. He decisively ordered the crew to change the planned route of the detour from the western suburbs and directly fly over the city in a medium and low altitude flight. Next, the Soviet fighter jets that were flying seemed like cats with a tail stepped on, and intended to prevent the three aircraft from flying through the Berlin city with a rapid and strong reaction. However, since it was already very close to the city at this time, the Soviets did not use machine guns and rockets, but tried to change the direction of the three aircraft in a double-teamed manner. The pilots flying the Fiat G12 gave in, and the two Junker-52s broke through the block with the skills of the pilot.
When the crew members cheered for victory in the wire, Lynn's airborne operation command was also boiling. The tiny tactical victory had extraordinary strategic psychological significance. People were as excited as if they found a weakness in their tough opponents. Only Lynn had a deeper thinking: the person who could climb to the top of the Soviet power was not a simple character. The agreement in black and white had no coercive binding force in their eyes. They cared about the real interests. Now, the Soviet Union had used but never really owned the atomic bomb. The empire mastered the full set of development technology of the atomic bomb and had a number that the outside world could not accurately grasp. The United States had accumulated considerable number of atomic bombs, but democratic countries had to do it carefully due to their opponents' revenge and geopolitics. This complex chain of latches seemed to form a delicate balance circle...
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