Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 697: The German-Soviet War (41)

The news that the German army in the Middle East was attacking the Republic of Turkmenistan made everyone in the conference room look at each other in shock. After all, the war situation in Belarus and Ukraine is so smooth. Why did the German army open another front and launch an offensive from the Middle East?

After hearing the contents of the leaflets dropped by the German army, Stalin gave a firm order. "You must never retreat. You must fight until every soldier is gone. Running away is a betrayal of the motherland!"

"..." Eisenhower was speechless for a while. The Germans had said that they would kill him if they didn't leave. If they really killed him, would outsiders blame the Germans or you, Stalin?

I'm afraid there are more people who would accuse you of being inhumane.

If this incident were to spread to the United States, I don’t know how the people would react. It may arouse public outrage and protest against joining forces with such a barbaric country. Thinking of this, Eisenhower had no choice but to persuade him. "Mr. Stalin, at least let the civilians leave. If you don't let the civilians evacuate, I'm afraid it will cause bad public opinion, and it will be very difficult for our president to handle it."

"..." The muscles on Stalin's face twitched a few times, and he changed his order reluctantly after a long silence. "The old, weak, women and children can leave, but the young and middle-aged must stay to resist the invaders."

"Made is retarded!" Eisenhower cursed in his heart, knowing that continued persuasion would have no effect.

While everyone was discussing how to deal with this German army, the secretary who had left not long ago returned in a hurry. "Comrade Stalin, Comrade Stalin! Half an hour ago, the No. 101 railway bridge 40 kilometers away from Krasnoyarsk was blown up, and the freight train passing the bridge fell into the river."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked. As mentioned earlier, there had been several incidents of railway sabotage before, but most of them used things like crowbars or steel bars to insert into the rails, causing the locomotive to derail and overturn. This kind of accident is easy to handle and reopen to traffic, but now a bridge has been blown up. These saboteurs used explosives! This is no small incident!

Starlin couldn't help but asked doubtfully. "Railway bridge? Aren't there people guarding it?" Railway security in ordinary areas cannot be comprehensive, but important places like bridges must be stationed with troops.

"Yes, there are soldiers guarding both sides of the bridge, each with a squad." The secretary wiped the sweat from his face. "According to the accounts of the surviving soldiers, they were attacked by well-trained militants who used automatic firepower. Our soldiers did not have time to resist, so..."

After hearing this, Eisenhower guessed. "It should be the German parachute." Without thinking too much, it must be the Germans. I didn't expect the Germans to go so deep into the hinterland to carry out destruction.

Stalin gritted his teeth with hatred and yelled. "Send someone to kill these damn guys immediately!"

The secretary hesitated and whispered. "But the surviving soldier said personally that the militants flew into the sky."

Everyone was confused after hearing this. "What does it mean to fly to the sky from the same place?"

the secretary repeated. "Although it's a bit unbelievable, the soldier said he saw the militants flying into the sky before he fell unconscious."

"Well, the soldier must be hallucinating."

The others nodded in agreement.

Stalin ordered the nearest troops to be dispatched to destroy those damn German paratroopers.

Eisenhower's guess was correct. Those who attacked the No. 101 railway bridge were indeed parachuted German special forces; and the soldier had no hallucinations. These German special forces members did "fly up" on the spot.

Half an hour ago.

Intensive gunfire rang out from both ends of the No. 101 railway bridge. Although there were only a few German special forces, each of them armed with automatic firepower instantly knocked down the two squads of Soviet soldiers guarding the bridge to the ground.

After placing explosives on the bridge piers, the special forces members began to prepare for evacuation.

They took out pieces of special equipment from the backpacks they carried.

A 150-meter-long nylon rope, a small bottle of helium, a balloon and a set of special harnesses.

They inflated the balloon with a helium bottle, tied it with a nylon cord and attached the other end of the nylon cord to a special harness they said they were wearing. The balloon then dragged the nylon rope up to a height of 150 meters, and the rope was straightened to facilitate the aircraft to hook the target.

Three transport planes flew in the sky. The heads of these transport planes were equipped with a 30-foot-long V-shaped frame distributed at an angle of 70 degrees. The aircraft flew straight towards the floating rope. When the V-shaped frame on the nose captured When the rope is tightened, the balloon is released and a spring-loaded trigger (a sky anchor) keeps the rope connected to the aircraft. People on the ground were also dragged up, and the crew used a J-hook to hook the rope and put it on the winch to pull the recovered people or items onto the plane.

This operation became the famous "Skyhook" in later generations, also known as the "Fulton Surface-to-Air Recovery System."

As early as World War II, the C-47 "Sky Train" had tried a similar rescue method. Later, in the 1950s, Robert Edison Fulton Jr. improved the system for the CIA. He conducted a large number of recovery experiments on S-2 "Searcher", P2V "Neptune" and other aircraft, confirming the feasibility of the system.

One time, they were about to use the skyhook system to pick up a pig. The pig's nervous system is similar to that of humans, making it a good natural substitute for humans. So an unlucky pig was hung on the skyhook system and experienced life and death at high speeds. It accelerated from zero to more than 200 kilometers in seconds, and the acceleration could reach about 7G. The unlucky pig was recovered intact by the skyhook system. It was very docile and cooperative, because the pig was completely confused and in a state of confusion. After more than ten minutes, the unlucky pig finally woke up from the nightmare and began to push and bump the staff in the cabin crazily, becoming very irritable.

Throughout the experiment, the acceleration experienced by the pigs was 7G.

What does the acceleration of 7G mean? The acceleration that a well-trained fighter pilot can withstand is about 8G. The acceleration that ordinary people can withstand is generally around 3-4G. If it exceeds a certain limit, hypoxia and fainting will occur. This It's not something that ordinary people can bear. By the 1980s, low-altitude ground rescue missions gradually decreased, and the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system was gradually phased out.

The members of the German special forces who were pulled into the cargo hold were also dizzy and unsteady.

The medical staff next to them checked their bodies, asked about their physical conditions in detail, and took notes.

The members of the special forces who had recovered a little bit couldn't help but complain. "What the hell is this? It's killing people. Next time I'll stay on the ground and fight guerrillas. It's better than suffering this!"

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