Chapter 520 V1

The next morning, Colonel Conrad asked his men to prepare the instruments and sighting systems.

The instruments were placed in the cellar, on the one hand because they were worried about being bombarded by the Soviets, and on the other hand because the instruments had not passed the severe cold test, and the pointers might be frozen... Although Holm was much warmer than before, it was still minus ten degrees in the morning.

Placed outdoors was a radio transmitter and receiver that looked like an iron pot. Obviously, the receiver was used to receive signals, and the radio transmitter was used to send commands to V1.

"During this period, we have made a series of improvements to V1!" Conrad said to Qin Chuan while debugging the instruments with his men: "Its range can reach 250 kilometers. This time, we launched it in Luskov, about 200 kilometers away from here!"

"How many have you prepared?" Qin Chuan asked.

"The first batch of ten!" Conrad replied, "We need to airlift them to Luskov, then build the launch pad and make some preliminary preparations..."

"Oh!" Conrad added as if he remembered something, "Speaking of this, we have also completed the retractable vehicle-mounted launch pad, but you know, it cannot be airlifted, so we can only build the launch pad in Luskov!"

Qin Chuan nodded to show his understanding. At this time, he understood why Conrad only arrived in Holm on the third day.

"I hope the Soviets don't know you're here!" Qin Chuan said, "Otherwise they'll have more reason to launch a strong attack!"

Conrad smiled and replied, "What better reason is there than the 'legendary sergeant'? I heard they've already launched an assassination attempt on you!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan said, "Guess if they succeeded?"

Colonel Conrad couldn't help but laugh: "I bet they didn't succeed!"

"No, they succeeded!" Qin Chuan replied, "At least they thought they succeeded!"

"Oh?" Conrad nodded, "So, we're going to let them taste the flames of our revenge, don't you think, Captain!" (Note: V1 means revenge weapon No. 1)

"Ready!"

"Ready!"

...

Then the countdown began. Of course, this was a synchronized countdown at the Luskov launch point. Conrad also kept track of the time so that he could use the time to calculate the trajectory and the distance between the missile and the target.

"Launch!"

The communicator reported at the same time: "The launch was successful, everything is normal!"

"Everything is normal, speed 189, altitude 281!"

"Everything is normal, speed 371, altitude 592!"

...

"You know?" Conrad said to Qin Chuan during this time: "We have a plan to build a larger 'target drone' so that it can carry more fuel and fly farther!"

Qin Chuan nodded to show his understanding. This is normal, because with Braun, he will even build a rocket to fly to the moon in the future, so of course he will not be satisfied with the current range of only more than 200 kilometers.

Then Qin Chuan and Conrad didn't say anything more, because Conrad had to keep tracking the position of V1 during this period. Perhaps because V1 was not very adapted to the extremely cold weather in the Soviet Union, it deviated from the trajectory twice in a few minutes of flight time. Fortunately, after inputting the command adjustment, it returned to the trajectory.

Ten minutes, fifteen minutes...

Conrad pulled Qin Chuan out of the cellar and raised the telescope to look west.

Nothing was seen at first, but soon a small white dot appeared, and Conrad shouted: "Here it comes!"

The small white dot grew larger and larger, and soon it was clear that it was not a small white dot, but the exhaust gas from the tail engine of V1. The flame was particularly obvious in the air at minus ten degrees, leaving a long tail behind.

Then, the appearance of V1 was finally seen clearly... Although it was not unfamiliar to Qin Chuan, Qin Chuan had never seen it flying to the target on the spot.

"Turn off the engine!" Conrad ordered.

The flame disappeared, and V1 made its final glide in the air like a glider.

After observing and calculating for a few seconds, Conrad ordered: "Dive!"

So V1 plunged down like a kite with a broken string...The target was clear, it was the west bank of the Lovat River below.

Then there was a loud bang, and a ball of flames shot up to the sky on the west bank of the Lovat River... As mentioned before, the V1 missile was loaded with 830 kilograms of explosives, which was equivalent to the charge of 120 155MM caliber shells. It exploded like a small nuclear bomb in the movie, and a small mushroom cloud rose up. Even Qin Chuan and others could clearly feel the vibration.

There was a cheer in the German camp. In fact, most of them knew what was going on... Many people did see the V1, but everyone thought it was a small plane, but this small plane crashed into the Soviet camp and exploded violently.

In short, the violent explosion in the Soviet camp was of course a good thing for the German army.

After a while, they heard that this was a new weapon developed by Germany, and they couldn't help cheering again.

This was a very serious matter for the Soviet army... This V1 missile hit a wind mill of more than 200 square meters on the west bank. With a loud "boom", the entire mill was reduced to ruins, and none of the soldiers of a company who had been hiding inside to avoid the cold could escape.

Pukaev, who was sleeping next to the stove, was startled by the loud noise. He hurried to the scene of the incident with his guards and saw... The mill had been razed to the ground.

"What's going on?" Pukayev asked Matevich: "Is it a cannonball? Or a bomb?"

Pukayev preferred aerial bombs because no artillery shells could be so powerful.

"It doesn't seem to be the case, Comrade Pukaev!" Matevich replied cautiously: "Some soldiers saw it was a small plane!"

"Small plane?" Pukayev couldn't help but frowned. Another meaning of this was the Germans' new equipment.

After thinking for a while, Pukayev said: "No, your soldiers must have been dazzled, it was a bomb!"

"Yes, Comrade Pukaev!" Matevich is a smart man, and of course he knows what Pukaev means... Soldiers are born with a fear of unknown equipment, and they will not let the Soviet army lose because of this. Morale was even worse.

But even though he said this to the outside world, as soon as he returned to the headquarters, Pukayev angrily ordered: "Find out immediately what it is, and there are all other things we don't know about!"

"Comrade Pukaev!" Matevitch said after thinking for a while: "Maybe we can ask the British, they may know what this is!"