Chapter 1557 Air Transport 2
Chapter 1557 Air Transport 2
Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, and when the encircled German army began to raise fires on the ground to release signals as agreed, General von Seeckt came to the airport anyway. He wanted to know what this powerful and wealthy man was doing. What exactly will His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Bavaria bring to himself?
"They're coming!" Following the direction pointed by an officer, General Sekter saw the planes appearing in the sky through his telescope. At first, they were just the size of black dots, and then gradually became larger, a huge one, arranged in a triangle. The formation of aircraft gradually appeared before his eyes.
"Is this enough for a squadron?" General Seekert identified the number of aircraft in the air. There were about 20 in total. If each aircraft carried 1 ton of supplies, then this would be 20 tons! When he thought of this, Sekter, who originally had little hope, became excited!
"They are really here! For the first time, I feel that those southern guys are so cute!" Looking at the Bavarian fleet getting closer, a Junker noble officer said happily.
"Watch your mouth, Holland!" General Sekter said sullenly. However, this episode did not affect the mood of everyone present. As the saying goes, after a long drought, the rain comes. After being besieged for nearly three weeks, the German troops in the encirclement finally waited for reinforcements! This feeling of being helped is beyond words!
"After we were heavily surrounded by the Russian army, and the nearest reinforcements were hundreds of kilometers away, we actually gave up hope of survival. I even made a bet with my best friend that we could survive. How long? And the stakes are just a few cigarettes."
"However, all this disappeared after seeing the aid from the air, especially when these precious aids came from Bavaria, not Prussia. I swore that I would always remember this and tell him about it. Children! The compatriots of Bavaria and their crown prince created a miracle! They spared no expense to help us! They gave us hope of life!" A German noble officer wrote in his post-war memoirs.
At this time, everyone present was excited. When the huge K-6 bomber landed, the people responsible for transporting goods swarmed up, and General von Seeckt also gave up his reserve as a noble senior officer and personally He stepped forward to express his gratitude to the visitor.
"General Seeckt, Major General von Kármán is here to report." A Bavarian Army colonel who stepped off the first K-6 bomber came over to meet General Seeckt. "In order to better coordinate the writing between the two armies, my colleagues and I will stay here to help you and your officers get out of trouble. Today's transportation is just the beginning. The scale will be larger in the future, and it will not be interrupted! We We have brought you and your army much-needed ammunition and medicine, hoping to solve some of your difficulties."
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Lieutenant General von Seeckt just said he was grateful, so now, he can completely describe it as tears of gratitude, because he did not expect that Bavaria would actually arrange for a major general to be sent to the enemy's encirclement just to help him. To be honest, The simple purpose of bringing troops here this time must have caused dissatisfaction in the Kingdom of Bavaria, but now, when the Hungarians he helped have disappeared, the Bavarian Army actually helped him in this way. This is really... .. Make yourself a little embarrassed.
It has to be said that what the Kingdom of Bavaria brought to the besieged German army was very practical. First of all, it replenished a large number of machine gun bullets and urgently needed medicines. Compared with Russia, which lacked heavy weapons, artillery was not very needed. Machine guns It is the best weapon to deal with the charge of the sea of people. Moreover, it is more difficult to transport artillery shells. If nothing else, transporting three rounds of 88MM artillery shells plus propellant and outer packaging costs 50KG. The crate the shells are packed in is a bit heavy.
In order to make full use of the bomber's transportation capacity, ammunition boxes are mounted on the pylons outside the aircraft, and some precision optical equipment, electronic equipment or fragile items are transported inside the cabin. In addition to these necessities, the Bavarian Air Force also did not forget to bring some tobacco, tea and coffee to the soldiers. These things are very important to boost morale, and they also tell the besieged compatriots that it is easy for us to get in and out, and the transportation volume is large enough.
In the first round of airlift, 20 K-6 bombers provided 24 tons of various materials to the encircled German army. The efficiency of airlift was much higher than previous estimates. Even taking into account the process of landing and taking off of the aircraft, K The transport capacity of the -6 bombers is still amazing. When leaving, the bomber troops even removed the aircraft machine guns to supplement the shortcomings of the besieged German troops.
The transportation volume was increased to 48 tons on the second day, and reached more than 70 tons on the third day! Subsequently, the transport aircraft formation responsible for transportation every day was about 3 squadrons. The 70 tons of supplies per day plus the original inventory were enough to support the German army in the encirclement for more than 3 months! A week after the airlift began, the German forces, increasingly armed with ammunition and supplies, began to launch small-scale assaults. And every day, the Russians are quite speechless when they look at the fleet of K-6 bombers overhead that are not transporting supplies for the German army. Now, the Russian Air Force has become a historical term, and this is the first time they have seen such a high-end transportation method. Later, the Russian rubes also expressed their incomprehension! They all lamented how well treated the Germans were!
"As long as this transportation can last for another week, the troops under my command can easily repel the surrounding Russian army. If the Bavarian Army and the Austrian Army can take advantage of the situation to launch an attack, then an intermediate flowering is also possible." Lieutenant General von Seeckt wrote this in the telegram sent to the prince.
However, what General Seeckt and Ruprecht did not expect was that before the German army gathered strength to launch a counterattack, and before the Austrian army launched a large-scale attack, Borusinov relieved Seeckt on his own initiative. surrounded by all the troops!
This move caused considerable controversy in later generations. Many Soviet military scientists believed that Borusinov gave up the only opportunity in World War I to annihilate German division-level units! However, the Russian commanders who had experienced this battle at the time did not think so, and Borusinov pointedly pointed out: the Germans consumed less supplies every day than what was transported by air. Within 2 weeks after the blood transfusion, the German army had regained its vitality. At that time, we were strategically surrounded. If we continued to disperse our troops to the periphery, we would easily be eaten by the enemy. At this time, the Sekt Army in the encirclement had become a Poisonous bait.
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