Chapter 500 Glider

Compared with parachute airdrops of supplies, gliders have several advantages:

First of all, parachute airdrops will be blown away by strong winds during the landing process, causing them to fall outside the target area, making it impossible for the Germans to obtain supplies.

This is especially serious for Holm, because the German controlled area in Holm is only a few square kilometers, especially this controlled area is lentil-shaped. Even low-altitude airdrops will cause about half of the airborne materials to fall into the enemy's territory. Control area or between the two defensive lines. What's more, after the Soviet army strengthened its air defense capabilities, German transport planes were almost unable to airdrop at low altitudes, so the supplies they received decreased exponentially.

If it hadn't been for the seizure of a batch of peacekeeping firearms from the Soviet army during the previous siege, the German army would have been unable to hold on just because of insufficient ammunition.

Glider does not have this problem. It lands directly instead of airdropping, and its accuracy is much greater than airdropping.

Secondly, glider airdrop is safer than parachute airdrop.

Parachute airdrops can only be implemented when a transport aircraft flies over Holm, and the transport aircraft makes a lot of noise when flying. These noises will immediately remind the Soviet air defense forces that the anti-aircraft firepower will take effect.

But there is a glider airborne... Although it needs to be towed by a transport aircraft, it can be decoupled more than ten kilometers away and then transported back to the base, while the glider continues to "fly" to the target.

Since it has no power of its own, it flies in the air without making any noise.

Therefore, the German army often chooses to airborne before dawn, so that the Soviet army cannot detect the existence of the glider at all, and of course there is no way to intercept it.

In the early morning of that day, Qin Chuan and his men were ready to welcome the glider.

"Here it comes!" said Kuhn, holding the telescope: "Indicator light!"

A few people fired the indicator signal into the air... This is a special indicator light. Its light can only be seen in one direction, which can reduce the chance of being discovered by the enemy.

Qin Chuan raised his telescope and vaguely saw a shadow appearing in the night sky, like an eagle spreading its giant wings, silently approaching its prey.

Then it got closer and closer, getting bigger and bigger, and then dived down at a large angle. Before landing, it skillfully raised the nose of the aircraft and stopped with a "swish" sound of skiing. It was only 20 meters away from the soldiers. rice.

Qin Chuan is not surprised by this. Almost all German young people in this era are glider masters... This was also forced by the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany was not allowed to own or develop any military aircraft, but gliders But not among them.

Therefore, Germany seized this opportunity and established numerous glider clubs in the country to train glider talents.

What's even more exaggerated is that after Hitler came to power in 1933, glider training became one of the compulsory subjects in every German high school, so it is no exaggeration to say... almost every young German man has certain glider flying skills.

Of course, except Qin Chuan.

However, with Qin Chuan's current status, it seems that he no longer needs to master glider skills.

As soon as the glider landed, Qin Chuan took the soldiers up to receive the supplies.

While the soldiers were busy moving things down from the glider, Qin Chuan stepped forward to shake hands with the pilot who jumped out of the glider and said, "Sergeant, is everything going well?"

"Everything goes well, sir!" the pilot replied: "I brought you medicine and food, as well as the marshal's condolences!"

"Very good!" Qin Chuan replied: "But you can also accept a share of this condolences. On the one hand, it is for the food you brought, and on the other hand... you will become one of us soon!"

Since there is no airport in Holm, the space allowed for landing is very small, so gliders are only allowed to land but cannot take off again. This means that all pilots who come with supplies have to stay in Holm until the siege is rescued.

This may not sound like a big deal, but it's actually great because no one knows when or even if Holm will clear the siege, so it's basically a death mission.

But the pilot looked relaxed and did not feel scared or complain about this at all.

"It's an honor, sir!" the pilot replied, "In fact, I only have one requirement for this mission!"

"What's the request?" Qin Chuan asked.

"I hope to fight with the 'Legendary Sergeant'!" said the pilot: "Do you know where he is, Captain?"

Qin Chuan rolled his eyes, and the soldiers who were carrying supplies couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Kuhn said as he shouldered a box of ammunition: "He's right in front of you, Sergeant!"

Hearing this, the pilot couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan with wide eyes. He was stunned for a while before he stood up and saluted Qin Chuan at a loss: "My name is Thomas, Captain. It's an honor to meet you!"

"Put your hands down, sergeant!" Qin Chuan said, "You might kill me!"

"Yes, Captain!"

"So, you have never participated in a battle?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Of course I participated!" Thomas replied: "I was just a correspondent!"

"Why did they let a correspondent fly the glider?" Qin Chuan asked.

"You know!" Thomas replied: "They think it is a huge waste to send excellent pilots here, so they recruit volunteers from the logistics force who can skillfully fly gliders!"

"So...you came here voluntarily?" Qin Chuan looked at Thomas in disbelief.

"Yes!"

"Why?" Qin Chuan asked as he carried a bag of flour and walked towards the cellar.

"I just said it!" Thomas hurriedly carried a bag of flour and caught up from behind: "I hope to fight under your command!"

"It seems that our captain has gained another loyal fan!" The baker couldn't help laughing.

Werner continued: "My fans are called fans. What are the captain's fans called?"

"Maybe call him a war buff!" Dominic said, and laughed with the others.

"You should report to someone else, sergeant!" Qin Chuan said to Thomas, "They will arrange a more comfortable job for you!"

This is certain, because these pilots brought supplies to Holm, and even put themselves in the surrounded Holm. As a way of thanking them, they generally would not be sent to the battlefield.

"But this is my only request!" Thomas replied: "Colonel Ball promised me that you will definitely agree!"

"Let's take him in!" Kuhn said: "It just so happens that our company also lost a few people, maybe he will be a good helper!"

"Okay!" Qin Chuan said to Thomas, "Do whatever you want, I hope you won't regret it!"

"I won't regret it, Captain!" Thomas almost jumped with excitement: "I promise!"