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Volume 1 Pioneer of the Times Chapter 1266 The Crisis of the Manstein Line of Defense

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    Amidst the roar of the engine, a German-made "Junkers 52" transport plane landed on the runway of this field airport. When the cabin door was opened, an officer with the rank of colonel of the German Wehrmacht stepped out of the transport plane.  Li poked his head out and looked towards the runway, and just when he poked his head out, two German-made TA183 "Crow" fighter jets took off from the runway next to it. The jet fighters roared into the sky.  The air waves mixed with hot air from the plane hit his face, causing the German colonel who had just stuck his head out to frown.  (Niu Wen Novel ~ Read Novel Online) "Colonel Stauffenberg, the marshal asked me to pick you up. You can call me Chuck." A German-made "bucket truck" drove up to the "Junkers 52" transport aircraft  Nearby, he stopped his car on the lawn, jumped out of the car, and a German military officer with the rank of second lieutenant of the Army walked to the door of the transport plane and saluted the German colonel who was looking around.  This German colonel is Stauffenberg. He just flew here from Germany. This is the southern city of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. It is not very far from the southern border of Bulgaria. It only takes half an hour to fly.  Entered Turkish airspace.  Stauffenberg planned to go to Istanbul, Turkey, but after the plane flew to Plovdiv, the pilot could no longer fly to the southeast, because it had entered the Chinese Air Force's hunting ground, and anyone targeted by Chinese Air Force fighter jets  All air targets will be intercepted and shot down. Therefore, all transport aircraft of the German Air Force have been prohibited from approaching Turkish airspace. Even the sky in southern Bulgaria is not absolutely safe. The "Lightning" fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force will fly from time to time.  Invading here, this area is also nicknamed the "Lightning Bombardment Zone". No German pilot is willing to fly a clumsy propeller aircraft in this airspace. Even jet fighter pilots regard this sky in Southeast Europe as a fearful path.  If you can't take off alone, you will never take off alone. If you can fly in formation, you will definitely fly in formation.  Colonel Stauffenberg jumped off the plane, stood on the lawn, and glanced at the mud-covered "bucket truck."  "Chuck, has the railway between Plovdiv and Istanbul not been restored to traffic yet?" Lieutenant Chuck had already guessed the colonel's question, so he immediately answered the colonel's question.  "Yes, Mr. Colonel. Since the Chinese sent out a large number of bombers to bomb the railway line last week, the railway line from Plovdiv to Istanbul has been bombed intermittently for a whole week, and some railway stations  It was completely destroyed, and some tunnels were also blown down. Under this situation, the train can no longer operate normally. The best and safest means of transportation now is the car. " "We are sitting in a military vehicle, which is safe.  After getting on the "barrel truck" equipped by the German army, Colonel Stauffenberg asked Second Lieutenant Chuck. The second lieutenant just shrugged his shoulders and did not answer directly, but what happened next proved that Mr. Colonel  The worry was not unreasonable. Shortly after the German military vehicle drove out of Plovdiv, two "Lightnings" of the Chinese Air Force appeared in the sky. They were like eagles that discovered rabbits, and they quickly jumped from high altitude.  He jumped down and fired several shells with his machine gun at the "bucket truck" where Colonel Stauffenberg was riding. Fortunately, only one shell fell on the road very close to the car. Although the shell's shrapnel  It penetrated the front wheel of the car and caused the car to plunge into the woods on the roadside. However, there was no danger. Colonel Stauffenberg and Second Lieutenant Chuck were both safe and sound.  But the car could no longer run because there was no spare tire to replace. Colonel Stauffenberg had no choice but to run to a nearby town with Second Lieutenant Chuck, holding the German officer's ID and patting his waist.  With those two pistols, I finally "borrowed" a half-old civilian car from the town mayor, and then got in this gas car using a "charcoal catalytic furnace" and headed all the way to the border between Bulgaria and Turkey.  This kind of charcoal car that does not use gasoline travels very slowly and breaks down constantly. Every time you walk, you have to stop the car to add charcoal to the catalytic furnace and wait for Colonel Stauffenberg and Lieutenant Chuck to arrive at the border checkpoint.  By that time, it was already afternoon.  Fortunately, there were no more attacks from Chinese planes along the way. Using the time on the road, Colonel Stauffenberg lay on the back seat and had a good sleep. In the past few days, his sleep was seriously  Not enough, and running around here and there, busy connecting, makes people exhausted.  At the border checkpoint, Colonel Stauffenberg was woken up by Lieutenant Chuck, because the lieutenant found a very nice car using real gasoline at the border checkpoint. That car belonged to the Bulgarian major at the border checkpoint.  After all, if you want to borrow a car from the major, it is not as easy as "borrowing" a car from the mayor.    Colonel Stauffenberg immediately showed his due airs and told the Bulgarian major that he had something urgent to rush to Istanbul. If this matter was delayed, no one would be able to bear the responsibility, including this fat-headed man.  Bulgarian Major.  Perhaps it was Stauffenberg's pass that played a role, or maybe it was the phone call that Stauffenberg shook to the German headquarters in Istanbul that played a role. After half an hour of tossing, Colonel Stauffenberg finally  He and Lieutenant Chuck drove the car that used real gasoline and hit the road. Under the current situation, being able to get enough gasoline for his private car was enough to prove the ability of the Bulgarian major.  With good transportation, the rest of the journey is not that difficult. Even though the road is full of craters, Colonel Stauffenberg still arrived in Istanbul before four o'clock in the afternoon. Lieutenant Chuck drove Mr. Colonel  All the way to the German headquarters.  The headquarters is the headquarters of the German "Army Group South". The commander is Field Marshal von Manstein, the most outstanding field commander of the German Army. He is not only the commander of the German Army Group South, but also the highest military commander of the Axis Powers' Turkish front.  , all Axis forces in Turkey were under his command, and Hitler also placed high hopes on Manstein, counting on relying on a "Manstein Line of Defense" to block any attempt by the Chinese Army to land in southeastern Europe, and this "Manstein Line of Defense"  The "Manstein Line of Defense" extends from the Bosporus to the Dardanelles Strait. The total length of the defense line is more than 300 kilometers. Behind this defense line, nearly 1.5 million Axis troops are gathered, including the German army.  There are more than 900,000 troops, and there are sufficient strategic reserves in Bulgaria and Greece.  Today, Colonel Stauffenberg came to meet with Marshal Manstein, the commander of the German Army Group South, and the Marshal had been waiting in the office. Therefore, when the colonel arrived at the headquarters, Second Lieutenant Chuck immediately led the colonel in.  Marshal's office, and then wait in the corridor outside the office, because it is said that the colonel will not stay in Istanbul for too long. After meeting with the marshal, he will return to Berlin immediately, and Chuck will also be responsible for returning the colonel to the Bulgarian airport.  As a driver of Marshal Manstein, Lieutenant Chuck did not know what Colonel Stauffenberg was doing here, but he did not intend to think about it. Since the United States and China threatened to jointly attack Germany at the Cairo Allied Summit,  After the nuclear attack on Italy, the headquarters has been quite lively in the past few days, with many people coming in and out, including people from Berlin, Germany, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Marshal Manstein was also arrested during this period.  Recalling Berlin once and being interviewed by the head of state, it is obvious that with the emergence of doomsday weapons such as atomic bombs, all German generals have fallen into a busy state. God knows what they are busy with.  Standing in the corridor, Lieutenant Chuck waited patiently for almost an hour. Then, Colonel Stauffenberg walked out of the office, holding the bulging briefcase in his hand.  He looked deflated, and behind him, followed by several senior officers, everyone sent the colonel out of the headquarters and watched as the colonel boarded the car with a Bulgarian license plate and drove away.  Colonel Stauffenberg told Lieutenant Chuck that he had to return to Plovdiv Airport as soon as possible because he had to rush back to Berlin tonight. Therefore, Lieutenant Chuck had to be prepared to burn the midnight oil, and he did not plan to drive immediately that night.  After returning from Plovdiv, we stayed in a local hotel for one night and returned to Istanbul the next morning.  However, not long after the car drove out of the headquarters, the scream of large-caliber artillery shells was heard in the sky.  ¡°Whoosh¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡± ¡°Boom¡± ¡°Whoosh¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡± ¡°Boom¡± The shell fell into the city, exploded, kicked up a lot of dust, and filled the streets with gunpowder smoke.  "Do the Chinese often fire artillery here?" Colonel Stauffenberg asked Second Lieutenant Chuck.  Chuck nodded, raised his left hand, and pointed to the empty houses near the street.  "Ever since the Chinese occupied the city of ¨²sk¨¹dar on the other side of the Bosporus, they have often carried out shelling across the strait. At first, they only hit the suburbs, and then they started shelling the city, and  Not only did they fire live ammunition, they also used propaganda bombs and used leaflets to tell the residents of the city that a large-scale bombardment of Istanbul was about to be launched, and warned the civilians in the city to evacuate as soon as possible. Since then, many citizens of Istanbul have begun to flee the city, and the city has changed.  It's becoming increasingly empty, and not many civilians dare to live in the city now. "Is our artillery's counterattack effective?" Colonel Stauffenberg asked again.  "It's useless. The Chinese use train guns, which have a very long range, and the ChineseThe Air Force has control of the air, and we don't know where to launch bombardments at all, so we can only be beaten. Counterattacks have no effect unless our air force can control the air, but this is obviously impossible in the short term, because  The performance of our fighter jets is not as good as that of the Chinese Air Force.  "Second Lieutenant Chuck explained it to Mr. Colonel in detail. "So, what about v1 missiles and v2 missiles?  Can¡¯t we bomb Ankara?  " "The missile's error is too large. It usually hits civilian houses, making it difficult to hit military targets. Moreover, the Chinese Air Force keeps harassing missile positions, and the missile's counterattack has no obvious effect.  "At this time, there was an explosion in the sky. Colonel Stauffenberg saw several clouds of smoke exploding in the sky not far away, and then many pieces of paper fell from the explosion. It was obviously the Chinese artillery that Second Lieutenant Chuck said.  Out of curiosity, Colonel Stauffenberg asked Second Lieutenant Chuck to stop the car, picked up some flyers on the roadside, and looked at them carefully. The content not only surprised him, but also Second Lieutenant Chuck.  I was surprised because the leaflets that were littered with artillery shells today told everyone in the city in very eye-catching German and Turkish that if the German and Turkish troops did not abandon Istanbul and the "Manstein Line of Defense" as soon as possible, then the Chinese ***  A nuclear strike would be carried out on the German assembly area behind the "Manstein Line of Defense." This situation shocked Stauffenberg. It was hard to imagine that if the Chinese Army really used atomic weapons against Army Group South, Southeast Europe would be affected.  What kind of dramatic changes will happen to the battlefield situation? In the face of the atomic bomb, the 1.5 million Axis troops are nothing at all, and the "Manstein Line of Defense" will become a paper defense line v.
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