Armand is also a veteran now.
Ever since he had seen the strength of Manstein's Panzer during exercises a few years earlier, he had been determined to join the German Panzer Corps. Unfortunately, God did not fulfill his wishes, he changed from a recruit to a squad leader, and his superiors did not approve his application.
Now no longer in Gust's unit, Armand was transferred to Frankfurt a year ago and then to Berlin with the unit a few months ago for reorganization, and he is now part of the First Wehrmacht Division.
Soldiers are born to fight, that's how Armand knew his profession. But where can there be war in peacetime? Life in boring training went by day by day, and Armand thought that this boring training day after day might continue throughout his military career.
Until today, this boring tranquility is broken.
"Hello to all the soldiers of the First Division, I am Jonas, secretary general of the presidential palace." A deep voice was broadcast throughout the First Division's station, and all the soldiers stopped listening quietly. "Here I would like to announce the outrageous news that a party called the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, led by its leader Hitler, staged a coup d'état in Munich and that all the members of the Munich city government have been killed. The mob also brought terror to the people, many Jewish shops were smashed, and according to my information, many Jews have been captured by Nazi SA and executed on the street, including women and children. "
"Oh my God, the whole city government is dead?"
"How so? What about the troops stationed in Munich? Do they care? "
"How so? Too inhumane, right? "
"God, why did they kill Jews with a coup? Even women and children are not spared? "
"Damn, be sure to punish them!" The soldiers were incredulous at first, then began to become furious.
"I think you must be wondering, what about our soldiers? Where are they? I am ashamed that our soldiers, the infantry battalions stationed in Munich, betrayed us, and they openly declared their support for Hitler, joining them. Munich's railway operating companies also sided with Hitler, and they closed all railways to Munich, which made our troops to Munich travel unusually slowly. To make matters worse, there was a mutiny in some other cities in Bavaria, some of the mutinous officers were held by soldiers, but a large part of the army joined the Nazis, and these troops stopped our people, which made it impossible for us to enter Munich by land in a short time. The owner of the voice was clearly suppressing anger, "but there is also good news, General Lyon has another unit in Munich, equipped with a secret weapon, led by Major Manstein. At the moment they are holding on to the outskirts of Munich, but they will certainly not be able to hold out to the surrounding troops. Therefore, General Lyon authorized me to draw troops from the First Division, temporarily form a commando, and drop Munich through Lufthansa planes to seize Munich Airport to clear the way for the follow-up troops. You voluntarily sign up, the requirement is that there is no fear of heights, and the registered soldiers are led by the squad leader to report directly to the regiment headquarters. Gentlemen, we have to find a way to save the people of Munich and Major Manstein, the German soldiers will not allow persecution and massacres to happen! "
As soon as the soldiers heard that they had the opportunity to go to the battlefield to teach a group of bastards, they immediately ran to the squad leader one by one and asked to participate.
The same was true in Armand's class, everyone asked Armand to join the battle, and Armand ran to the regimental headquarters with the soldiers without thinking.
In fact, even if his soldiers don't want to go, Armand himself will go, because the battlefield has always been his desire, let alone to rescue the armored forces he has always dreamed of joining, what if Major Manstein is moved to let himself in?
When Armand arrived in front of the regiment headquarters, there were already thousands of people gathered here, but the rigor of the Germanic people made them all line up neatly, and there was no crowding, but most of them still talked about their views on the Munich incident, which made the scene seem a little noisy.
The officer next to him shouted into the crowd: "Everyone be quiet, keep quiet!" Listen to me, there are 200 places in our group, and now there are too many people here. I emphasize once again that the requirements are definitely not afraid of heights, and the priority of jumping over the umbrella! "
"Hey! Sir! I fought drills with Major Manstein! I think I can help! Armand raised his hand and shouted at the officer.
"Are you afraid of heights? Come here if you're not afraid of heights, man! The officer glanced at Armand, then beckoned.
Armand happily squeezed through the crowd when he heard this, and his comrades and others looked at him with envy.
Thousands of people compete for 200 places, and there are almost no hard and fast rules except for not being afraid of heights, which makes the whole selection particularly fast.
"Young lads, the first thing I want to say is that this mission requires parachuting, and there will be people from the flying club accompanying you later. Remember, remember the tips they taught you, or you'll be a lump of meat sauce when you jump from a few kilometers! The officer in charge of the selection instructed the 200 soldiers in line.
"Sir, what do we need to prepare? None of us had any weapons. A soldier asked his own question.
"You don't need to bring your own weapons, the war department has prepared weapons for you. Alright, lads, let's go! Go and teach a lesson to the guy who betrayed the people! With a wave of his hand, 200 soldiers neatly and quickly boarded the truck next to them.
Armand on the truck was a little excited, he was finally about to step onto the battlefield, and after training so many years of combat skills, it was finally going to come in handy!
A soldier next to him glanced at Armand and said, "Mr. Sergeant, I don't seem to be nervous?" Armand turned his head to glance at the soldier next to him, he was a very young man, Armand smiled and said: "What's so nervous about this, soldiers are born to go to battle." How, are you afraid? "
The soldier smiled embarrassedly: "A little." I wasn't nervous when I signed up just now, but now I calm down and I'm a little scared. By the way, my name is Lune, what is your name? "
Armand looked at the soldier in front of him. It reminded him of the old squad leader's care for him when he was a recruit, but unfortunately the old squad leader had retired.
"Sir?" The soldier looked at Armand and did not answer, and called out cautiously.
"Oh, my name is Armand. When you get to the battlefield, follow me." Armand patted Lune on the shoulder.
The car stopped, and a urging voice sounded outside: "Hurry up!" Hurry up! Lads, bastards are waiting for us to kick their asses, it's not in our German habit to keep people waiting. "
The soldiers laughed and quickly got out of the truck and lined up, and the originally tense atmosphere was diluted a lot.
All 600 commandos from the three regiments arrived, waiting for the Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, who carried the rank of Major General at the front of the queue, to speak.
Leon stood in front of the queue and said solemnly: "I won't talk much extra nonsense, this mission is very dangerous, if you can come back alive, I invite all of you to drink!" "
"Good!" The soldiers replied loudly, their eyes full of frenzy. Now the army is basically a young man, and Lyon in their minds is equivalent to Hitler's status in the Nazis.
After a brief pre-war mobilization, the officer leading the group shouted an order: "Everyone rest, receive weapons and equipment separately!" And then 16 people a plane,The highest-ranking team leader, go! "