artillery arc

Chapter 498 Raid
Lyudmila played her role as a clergyman and sang loudly to boost morale. At the same time, in the Proson-controlled area, Komanda commando Gonif landed on his feet.

Then he fell on his butt.

Gonif stood up, cursing: "Why do I have to fall on my butt every time I skydive?"

Cassino, who landed before him, came over while collecting his parachute and said, "Because you have been trying to slack off during your parachute training, that's why this happened. Stop talking nonsense, we are in enemy territory, maybe someone will see our parachute and come to search for us."

Upon hearing this, Gonif quickly stood up and began to fold his parachute skillfully.

Cassino first folded the parachute into a square and stuffed it into a camouflage bag. He then found a nearby tree and stuffed it under the roots, then covered it with some fallen leaves and soil.

Then he checked the weapons he had on him.

Gonif folded his parachute and found a tree. He hid under it and asked, "Did you see where our weapons bag was thrown?"

"I see it. It's less than a hundred meters to the north. Check the weapons and we'll go get them."

For the safety of parachuting, paratroopers cannot carry too heavy equipment, so in addition to their weapons and a few magazines, all heavy equipment and extra ammunition must be placed in special airdrop tubes and dropped down.

However, Komandas and paratroopers are different. They need explosives, detonators and other things to perform special sabotage missions. Carrying airdropped items with them is not only dangerous, but also easy to break during landing (referring to detonators).

So generally each Komanda team lands with a weapons box.

Soon Cassino and Goniff found their assigned weapons box and took out the timing device, explosives and additional weapons.

As Gonif armed himself, he asked, "Do you want me to steal some Proshen's uniforms? It happens that you know Proshen's language, so you can cover for me if something goes wrong."

Casino: "Come on, in this outfit we are soldiers, protected by the Geneva Convention. In Plossen uniforms we are all spies, with no convention protecting us."

Gonif: "Do you think Plosson will abide by the convention?"

"We've all been captured, so we can only take a gamble. It's better not to be captured. Fortunately, this mission is very simple. We just need to instruct the Ante Air Force. We don't have to bomb it ourselves. So we can sneak in, leave the time bomb, and then sneak out to the next target."

Gao Nifu asked doubtfully, "Why do you carry so much explosives?"

"I'm worried about what will happen if the Ante Air Force fails to bomb accurately. Rokossov needs time to assemble his troops. We have to buy time."

"You're quite concerned about this, and you're not from Ant." Gonif said.

Casino sighed: "I fell in love with the doctor in the hospital. They actually have a female doctor, can you believe it?"

"What? A female doctor?" Gonif was shocked. "Girls can go to medical school? Are nurses just trying to force them to do this?"

"No, no, I talked to her, she really graduated from medical school, I've never seen anything like it, I'm really moved!"

"Go to hell, you Castilian, when have you ever stopped being moved!"

As he spoke, Gonif stuffed all his equipment on himself: "I'm ready, let's go and plant the bomb for your love!"

"You should find one too." Casino said, "Ante's girls are all very good, and have a unique beauty!"

"I don't speak Ant language, you bastard!" Gonif cursed, stood up and wanted to leave, but suddenly squatted down.

Casino was shocked: "What's wrong?"

"Shh, listen."

Cassino crouched down next to Gonif and soon heard the sound of an engine.

"It looks like a Proson barrel truck." Casino was more familiar with engines and the like, so he recognized it immediately.

Sure enough, a barrel truck stopped not far away, and four Prosen people got out, constantly speaking loudly in Prosen language.

Cassino: "They just spotted a plane flying over, but didn't see the parachute. They just came to confirm the situation. Fortunately, we can leave now."

"Hey, wait a minute." Gonif pulled Casino. "There are only four of us. Let's take the whole car. It's tiring to walk so far. Besides, we have two targets, and there are still ten kilometers between them."

Casino thought about it and nodded: "You are right, the whole car."

So the two of them took off their explosives and other things and put them on the ground at the same time, drew out their tactical knives, and then split into two groups and tiptoed towards the four enemies, disappearing into the night.

The enemies were scattered far apart, and although they were in a searching posture, they didn't even turn on the safety of their 98Ks.

After all, they were troops on the Eastern Front and had never encountered an attack from Komanda.

The first to suffer misfortune were the enemies on the left and right wings. Two of them seemed to be pulled into the darkness by an invisible hand and disappeared in an instant without even making a sound.

The remaining two people were still talking loudly, not noticing that two of their companions had died.

After more than ten seconds, one of the two finally realized something was wrong and turned around to ask, "Hans? Hans, stop playing around, I know you're trying to scare us!"

In a flash, Casino stood up in front of him and shouted, "Haha!"

The Proson man was startled and was about to raise his gun, but was stabbed in the throat.

The last man was attracted by Casino, turned around suddenly, raised his gun and pulled the trigger, then found that the safety was not on. Gonif was like a fish suddenly jumping out of the water, grabbing the chin of the Prosen man with one hand and slashing his throat with a knife with the other hand.

The last enemy fell with a thud, and Gonif raised his hand and threw something shiny at Casino: "Keys! I wonder which one is the car key."

Casino took the key and said, "You actually remember which enemy was driving?"

"Of course, this is not a difficult thing."

Casino ran towards the barrel cart, while Gonif swiftly ran back to where they had just hidden, picked up their equipment, and ran back.

And so the two of them drove off.

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At the same time, multiple Komanda teams landed in an area more than 100 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide, heading towards their assigned targets.

They will place time bombs inside daytime targets, and the fires and smoke caused by these bombs will serve as targets for the Ant Air Force bomber fleet.

The reason for doing this is that many pilots of the Ant Air Force have less than 200 hours of flight time, and it is indeed a bit difficult to ask them to directly identify the target.

Moreover, the Komandas are all experienced veterans who can choose the most critical targets to set bombs, so that even if the air strikes miss, they can still cause certain damage.

In addition, Komanda is particularly good at puncturing car tires.

The Plossans were completely oblivious to all this.

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On the morning of October 10, at 19, Plossen's Sixth Army headquarters.

Army Group Commander General Wilhelm von Friedrich entered the headquarters on time.

The staff officers did not stop their work to salute, but just looked up and greeted Frederick: "Good morning, General."

Frederick kept nodding in response until he came to the map table and asked the Army Chief of Staff, "Is there anything I need to know about last night?"

"Many troops heard the sound of the Ants' planes. They were not the Night Witches, but large transport planes. Many troops sent out search teams to prevent the Ants from airborne." The chief of staff reported, "No enemy has been found so far."

Admiral Frederick nodded, and the orderly brought him coffee and breakfast, which he placed on the table.

The Admiral picked up the coffee cup: "Thank you, Hank."

The old orderly nodded and turned to leave. At this time, the messenger rushed into the headquarters: "General! The air defense observation post discovered that a large group of Ante Army aircraft is flying behind us."

Admiral Frederick looked at the messenger and said, "How many large fleets are there? Give me an accurate number."

The messenger said: "A lot. One observation post said it saw hundreds of them."

Chief of Staff: "This should be the first move of the new front commander, but it is a little different from what I imagined."

"Why?" Admiral Frederick looked at the Chief of Staff. "You should have carefully studied Rokossov. Doesn't his action match your prediction?"

The chief of staff nodded. "Rokosov should take immediate measures to quickly improve the situation faced by the Ante Army. This is what he did in Yeisk before. But... air strikes? The Ante Air Force's air strikes on our supply lines were quite intense before, but because of your excellent camouflage strategy, the targets were all fake targets."

"I also learned my camouflage strategy from Rokossov," Admiral Frederick said with a smile. "I'm not like the arrogant people in the High Command who naively thought that the Ants were useless. In the end, I was fooled by Rokossov."

Chief of Staff: "Only by recognizing the enemy's strengths and learning from them can one become a famous general."

Admiral Frederick smiled and asked, "By the way, are our air defense forces ready? Once the disguise is exposed, we must quickly establish an air defense firepower network at key nodes."

"Of course, all anti-aircraft artillery units are ready. In just one hour, they will be able to enter the preset anti-aircraft positions and provide anti-aircraft firepower."

"Very good, very good." Frederick squinted his eyes with satisfaction, looked at the map, and started drinking coffee.

Then the phone rang.

The chief of staff picked up the phone: "Army Headquarters. Where was bombed? What? OK, got it."

He put down the phone and looked at Admiral Frederick with a serious face: "General, our largest supply station has been..."

The phone rang again.

"Sorry." The chief of staff picked up the receiver. "Headquarters. What? Were we bombed again?"

At this time, more telephones rang, and in an instant the entire headquarters was filled with the sound of telephones ringing, as if the two calls just now had woken up a cluster of monsters called "telephones".

Admiral Frederick continued drinking his coffee, looking at everyone in the room with a gloomy face.

The chief of staff put down the phone, looked at the others, took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and then reported to Frederick: "General, almost all of our army's key supply nodes have been attacked by the enemy."

Admiral Frederick took a deep breath and put down his coffee cup. "Let the air defense forces enter the scene to prevent subsequent air strikes. Then tell me, how did the enemy find these supply nodes?"

(End of this chapter)