Amid the roar of the engine, a German-made "Junke 52" transport plane landed on the runway of this field airport. When the cabin door was opened, an officer with the rank of German Wehrmacht Army colonel poked his head out of the transport plane and looked at the runway. Just as he poked his head out, two German-made TA183 "Crow" fighters took off from the runway next to them. The jet fighter roared into the air. The air waves wrapped in the plane mixed with heat rushed towards the face, causing the German colonel who had just poked his head to frowned. (Niuwen novel~ Read novels online)

"Col. Stauffenberg, the marshal asked me to pick you up. You can call me Chuck."

A German "barrel car" drove near the "Junker 52" transport plane, stopped the car on the lawn, jumped out of the car, a German officer with the rank of Army Lieutenant, walked to the cabin door of the transport plane, and saluted the German colonel who was looking around.

This German colonel is Stoffenberg. He has just flew here from Germany, and this is Plovdiv, the southern city of Bulgaria. It is not far from the southern border of Bulgaria. The plane can enter Turkish airspace in another half an hour.

Stauffenberg planned to go to Istanbul, Turkey, but after the plane flew to Plovdiv, the pilot could not continue flying southeastward because it had entered the Chinese Air Force's hunting ground, and any air target targeted by Chinese Air Force fighters would be intercepted and shot down. Therefore, all the transport planes of the Luftwaffe have been prohibited from approaching Turkish airspace, and even the sky in southern Bulgaria is not absolutely safe. The Chinese Air Force's "lightning" combat opportunities invade here from time to time. This area is also nicknamed the "lightning bombardment zone". No German pilot is willing to fly a clumsy propeller plane in this airspace. Even jet fighter pilots regard this sky in Southeast Europe as a daunting path. If they can take off alone, they will definitely not take off alone. If they can fly in formation, they will definitely fly in formation.

Colonel Stuffenberg jumped out of the plane, stood on the lawn, and looked at the mud-filled "bucket truck".

"Chak, has the railway between Plovdiv and Istanbul not reopened to traffic yet?"

Lieutenant Chuck had long guessed this question about Mr. Colonel, so he immediately answered the question of the colonel.

"Yes, Mr. Colonel. Since the Chinese dispatched a large number of bombers to bomb the railway line last week, the railway line from Plovdiv to Istanbul has been bombed intermittently, some railway stations have been completely destroyed, and some tunnels have also collapsed. Under such circumstances, the trains are no longer open to traffic normally. Now the best and safest means of transportation are cars."

"Is it safe for us to sit in military vehicles?"

After getting on the German-equipped "barrel cart", Colonel Stauffenberg asked Lieutenant Chuck. The Lieutenant just shrugged his shoulders and did not answer directly. However, what happened later proved that the Colonel's concern was not unreasonable. Shortly after the German military vehicle drove out of Plovdiv, two "lightning" of the Chinese Air Force appeared in the sky. They were like eagles that discovered rabbits, and quickly pounced down from a high altitude. They used machine guns to shoot a few shells at the "barrel cart" that Colonel Stauffenberg was riding in. Fortunately, only one shell fell on the road very close to the car. Although the shells penetrated the front wheels of the car and caused the car to rush into the woods on the side of the road, they were finally safe. Colonel Stauffenberg and Lieutenant Chuck were both safe and sound.

But the car could no longer drive because there were no spare tires to replace it. Colonel Stauffenberg had to run to a nearby town with Lieutenant Chuck, holding the ID of the German officer and patting the two pistols on his waist. Finally, he easily "borrowed" a half-old civilian sedan from the mayor, and then got on the gas car using a "charcoal catalytic furnace" and headed towards the Bulgaria and Turkey border. This charcoal car that did not use gasoline was very slow and had to fail. Every time he walked, he had to stop the car and add charcoal to the catalytic furnace. When Colonel Stauffenberg and Lieutenant Chuck arrived at the border checkpoint, it was already afternoon.

Fortunately, he was not attacked by Chinese planes on the way. Taking advantage of his time on the way, Colonel Stoffenberg slept beautifully in the back seat. In the past few days, he had a serious lack of sleep, and he ran around and was busy connecting, so he was exhausted.

When he arrived at the border checkpoint, Colonel Stuffenberg was woken up by Lieutenant Chuck because the lieutenant found a very good car using real gasoline at the border checkpoint. The car belonged to the Bulgarian major at the border checkpoint. If you want to borrow a car from the major, it is not as easy as "borrowing" the car from the mayor.

Colonel Stauffenberg immediately took out his due airs and told the Bulgarian major that he had something important to rush to Istanbul. If this matter was delayed, no one would bear the responsibility, including this fat Bulgarian major.

Perhaps it was the pass of Stauffenberg, or perhaps it was the phone call that Stauffenberg shook to the German Army Command in Istanbul. After half an hour of tossing, Colonel Stauffenberg finally drove the car with Lieutenant Chuck. Under the current situation, it was enough to get enough gas for his private car, which was enough to prove the Bulgarian major's ability.

With good transportation, the remaining distance was not that difficult. Even though the road was cratered everywhere, Colonel Stoffenberg arrived in Istanbul before four o'clock in the afternoon. Lieutenant Chuck drove the Colonel all the way to the German Command in a car.

The headquarters is the German "Southern Army" commander. The commander is Marshal Von Manstein, the best battlefield commander of the German Army. He is not only the commander of the German Southern Army, but also the highest military commander of the Turkish front line. All the axial teams in Turkey are under his command. Hitler also has high hopes for Manstein and hopes to rely on a "Manstein Line of Defense" to block any attempt of the Chinese team to land in southeast Europe. This "Manstein Line of Defense" extends from the Bosphorus to the Daniel Strait. The total length of the defense line exceeds 300 kilometers. Behind this line of defense are nearly 1.5 million axial teams, of which the German army has 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 Southern Army Group, and the Marshal was also waiting in the office. Therefore, when the colonel arrived at the headquarters, Lieutenant Chuck immediately led the colonel into the Marshal's office and then waited in the corridor outside the office, because it is said that the colonel would not delay too long in Istanbul. After meeting with the Marshal, he would immediately return to Berlin, and Chuck would also be responsible for sending the colonel back to the Bulgarian airport.

As a driver of Marshal Manstein, Second Lieutenant Chuck didn't know what Colonel Stauffenberg came to do, but he didn't plan to think about it. Since the United States and China threatened to jointly launch a nuclear strike against Germany and Italy at the Cairo Allied Summit, the headquarters has been quite lively in the past few days, with many people coming in and out, from Berlin, Germany and Sofia, Bulgaria. Marshal Manstein was also recalled to Berlin once during the period, and the head of state gave face-to-face advice. It is obvious that with the advent of the atomic bomb, all the German generals were in a state of busyness, and God knows what they were busy with.

Standing in the corridor, Lieutenant Chuck waited patiently, and for almost an hour, Colonel Stuffenberg walked out of the office, and the bulging briefcase in his hand looked deflated. Behind him, following several senior officers, everyone kept sending the colonel out of the headquarters and watching the colonel get on the car with a Bulgarian license plate.

Colonel Stuffenberg told Lieutenant Chuck that he had to return to Plovdiv Airport as soon as possible because he had to rush back to Berlin tonight, so Lieutenant Chuck had to prepare for the night, and that night he did not plan to return from Plovdiv immediately, so he stayed in the local hotel for one night and returned to Istanbul the next morning.

However, shortly after the car drove out of the headquarters, the loud sound of large-caliber shells came from the sky.

"Swoosh———"

"boom"

"Swoosh———"

"boom"

The shells fell into the city and exploded, causing a lot of dust to spread, and smoke filled the streets.

"Do the Chinese often fire here?" Colonel Stuffenberg asked Lieutenant Chuck.

Chuck nodded, raised his left hand and pointed to the empty houses near the street.

"Since the Chinese occupied Yusqudar City on the other side of the Bosphorus, they often bombarded the city through the strait. At the beginning, they only attacked the suburbs, and later they began to bombard the city. They not only fired real ammunition, but also promoted bombs. They used leaflets to tell the residents of the city that they were about to launch a large-scale shelling on Istanbul and warned the civilians in the city to evacuate as soon as possible. Since then, many Istanbul citizens have begun to escape from the city, and the city has become increasingly empty, and there are not many civilians who dare to live in the city now."

"Is our artillery counterattack effective?" Colonel Stuffenberg asked again.

"It's useless. The Chinese use train guns with a long range. In addition, the Chinese Air Force has air supremacy, so we don't know where to launch artillery fire, so we can only be beaten. The counterattack has no effect unless our Air Force can control air supremacy, but this is obviously impossible in the short term, because our fighter jets are not as good as those of the Chinese Air Force." Second Lieutenant Chuck explained in detail to Mr. Colonel.

"So, what about v1 and v2 missiles? Can't it bombard Ankara?"

"The error of missiles is too large. Usually, they are all houses that hit, which are difficult to hit military targets. Moreover, the Chinese Air Force is constantly harassing missile positions, and the missile's counterattack has no obvious effect."

At this time, an explosion came from the sky. Colonel Stoffenberg saw several balls of smoke bursting out from the sky not far away, and then many pieces of paper fell from the explosion. It was obviously the propaganda bombs that Second Lieutenant Chuck mentioned that the Chinese artillery fired.

Out of curiosity, Colonel Stuffenberg ordered Lieutenant Chuck to stop the car, picked up some flyers on the side of the road, and looked carefully. The content not only surprised him, but also surprised Lieutenant Chuck, because the leaflets sprinkled today were very eye-catching German. Turkish told everyone in the city that if the German army and the Turkish army did not give up Istanbul and the "Manstein Line" as soon as possible, then the Chinese team will carry out a nuclear strike on the German gathering ground behind the "Manstein Line".
Chapter completed!