Fortunately, the Red Army soldiers quickly realized that they rushed to the nearby hillside and opened fire from there to the landing area of ​​the glider, which suppressed many German aircraft landing brigades. For example, the glider driven by Ensign Kilmann had landed safely in a perfect posture, but he quickly fell into the fierce firepower of the Red Army. As a result, all the Germans in the cabin were sieved in a few seconds.

On the other hand, the glider of the "Braves" brigade landed very accurately. The Germans almost airborne to the door of their intended target, which was the rest place where the Germans thought the Lenin guards had been rested. Five paratroopers and expert teams immediately launched an attack on them, aiming to eliminate the forces defending Lenin as quickly as possible. They used their carrying explosive bags to open the door and launched a fierce attack on a camp of the 5th Infantry Division of the 21st Army of the Second Front of the Red Army.

Of course, if the Germans knew that there was a whole battalion of Red Army soldiers stationed in this camp, they would probably not have been so reckless. After the gate of the camp was opened, the Germans were instantly flooded by more than 200 Red Army soldiers who had just been armed in the camp.

Just when the first batch of paratroopers of the "Braves" brigade was in desperate situation, the reinforcements of the brigade arrived. The group of paratroopers carried mortars and more powerful explosive packs. So the "Braves" brigade stood firm and began to shoot fiercely with the Red Army in the camp.

Let me put it this way, the only gain of the "Brave" brigade after landing was to catch several foreign journalists who happened to arrive at Pochop on the other side of the camp. He was employed by the American Time magazine Phil Castro, a Mexican. Many years later he still remembers the scene of that day:

"I was awakened from my sleep. It was around 6 o'clock. A Red Army soldier shouted to several of us reporters through the window: 'Air raid! Get up! Air raid!' Several of us hurriedly fled to a nearby air raid shelter. Standing at the entrance of the hole, I could see a group of planes flying over our heads. Then parachutes bloomed over us. Then we looked at each other, not understanding why the Germans were going to fight in the air raid at Pochup. Just when we were very puzzled, a group of Nazis wearing black helmets appeared. They rushed into the air raid shelter with submachine guns and said to us in German: 'Right up your hands and get out!'"

The airborne continued, and the "Attacker" brigade landed on the northwest of Lenin Mountain. A glider rolled because the nose hit the ground, and most of the people on board died. The paratroopers on several other gliders wanted to act as soon as possible after leaving the cabin, but were suppressed by the firepower on the nearby mountains.

As soon as they left the cabin, they were suppressed by the enemy's firepower and could not make the paratroopers very upset. Then they did not know what environment they were in. In fact, these paratroopers were airborne too accurately. Lenin and Krupskaya, who had just gotten up in the morning, were spreading on the banks of the Sudosti River. Halfway through the walk, the mentor and his wife could only hurriedly hide in the nearest air raid shelter. After the air raid was in full swing, they returned to Mount Lenin under the escort of the guards. At this moment, the "Attackers" brigade landed behind their butts!

Tell me, what would it be for the guards of the Central Security Office? At that time, they probably had only one idea, which was to go out and try to defend Comrade Lenin to the death. Naturally, the firepower was very strong.

Unfortunately, the "Aggressors" did not realize that they were actually very close to completing the task. They were suppressed by fire and were nailed to the ground and could not even move, and could not even lift their heads. If they could raise their heads, they would see the bald Lenin hurriedly retreating towards Mount Lenin under the cover of the guards.

Soon, Lenin met with the guards at the foot of Lenin Mountain and retreated to the mountain under their protection. When he arrived at Villa No. 2, the instructor was already in a state of anger and had to hurry to take a dose of nitroglycerin to calm the beating heart that was beating around.

At that time, in Villa No. 2, in addition to Lenin and his wife, there were Lenin's life secretary Chernikova and Pokronskaya and ten other guards. After discovering that the German glider landed under his nose, Lenin's guard leader Rankovic quickly gathered the guards to resist, and immediately called the troops sent by Pochop and Rokosovsky to defend Lenin.

However, as mentioned earlier, Pochop's telephone exchange room was destroyed during the air raid, so the telephone contact was completely interrupted. No matter how Lankovic asked for help or shouting, no one paid attention to him.

In desperation, Rakovic could only send two guards to surround the east to seek help. The situation was very critical at that time. Lenin's life secretary Pokronskaya recalled: "There were gunshots and cannons everywhere. The guards picked up rifles and submachine guns and fired at the German devils at the foot of the mountain. Bullets kept hitting the walls and windows of the villa. All of us could only lie on the ground and didn't dare to look up..."

Another secretary, Chernikova, was in a state of deep panic because a guard was shot in front of her. In her own words, she was "fallen into a state of almost losing her mind".

At that time, everyone advised Lenin to leave Villa No. 2 and go to Villa No. 1 on the top of the mountain for a while, but Lenin refused without hesitation. In his opinion, the enemy was not very powerful. Once his troops reacted, they could eliminate these uninvited sparrows falling from the sky in minutes.

When the glider-drawing troops either hit a wall, attacked Mount Lenin, or passed by Lenin, the paratroopers who were parachuting were also busy with their affairs. The "Blue" brigade and the "Green" brigade first cleared some of the Red Army patrols in the suburbs of Bochop and initially built a simple line of defense.

The "Green Team" surrounded a Red Army outpost that never refused to surrender. The ten soldiers at the outpost insisted on resisting. After firing all the bullets, they fought a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Germans that rushed in, and then all died.

When the battle was eight o'clock in the morning, the German paratroopers had initially cut off the connection between Mount Lenin and Pochop, but they had few solutions to the "blind" Mount Lenin, and the "Black Panther" brigade was firmly suppressed at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, German intelligence personnel immediately began to interrogate the captured prisoners on the spot. They had to figure out a few things: First, was Lenin really in Pochup; Second, if Lenin was there, then where was his specific location; Third, how many Lenin's guardians were there and what kind of weapon configuration was.

However, all the captured Red Army soldiers refused to answer any questions raised by the Germans. They had only one thought in their minds, which was to defend Comrade Lenin's safety to the death. With the gradual loss of patience, the Germans interrogated the prisoners' process became short and cruel. When all the prisoners refused to answer any questions, the group of devils began to become abnormally bloody, and the Germans shot and killed all the prisoners directly!

On the other hand, when the German commander Major Kilhofey landed, he happened to catch the strong wind, and the storm almost blew him and the "Red" brigade into the Sudosti River. After landing on the river bank, the major found that he was about three kilometers away from the scheduled landing site. This made him quite anxious but helpless.

After more than an hour of trekking and fighting, Major Kilhofe finally arrived near Mount Lenin with some soldiers from the Red Brigade. He set up his command in a farm several hundred meters away at the foot of the mountain. At this time, the troops that Major Kilhofe could directly contact include part of the "Attacker" brigade, all of the "Black Panther" brigade and part of the "Red" brigade, and four millimeter mortars in the heavy weapon company.

Major Kilhofe instructed to immediately contain the wounded soldiers, and on the other hand, he sent investigators to search for more information about Lenin. At this moment, the Germans finally found the information they wanted from foreign journalists. Phil Castro, who served Time magazine, could not use the torture of the Germans and admitted that he had seen people who looked like Lenin near Mount Lenin. However, he emphasized: "That was a few days ago, and I have never seen this person again in the past two days."

The cover was pale and powerless. Major Kilhofe finally got the information he wanted. He immediately ordered the signal flare to be fired. Other brigades such as "green" and "blue" were summoned to approach him. After the group of German paratroopers arrived, he gathered a force of about three people to attack Lenin Mountain.

At that time, the Central Security Office firmly occupied the favorable terrain of the Lenin Mountains and condescendingly resisted the German attack. According to Chernikova's later recollection, "Comrade Lenin asked Comrade Lankovic for a small pistol and once asked to join the battle. However, the comrades never allowed Comrade Lenin to take risks. The two guards almost carried Comrade Lenin to carry him to Villa No. 1 on the top of the mountain..."

Krupskaya also talked about the situation at the commemoration ceremony of the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Pochop Lenin after ten years: "Lenin once asked to join the battle, but was rejected by the soldiers... He was not afraid of death, especially when fighting for the Soviet Union..."

Under the fierce resistance of the Central Security Office, it was still very difficult for German paratroopers to advance, and as the Red Army around Pochop arrived at the battlefield one after another, the Germans were also somewhat uneasy.

The first reinforcements to arrive on the battlefield were from a group of cadets from the Red Army Engineer Corps Academy. They were internship at Pochop, and when Lenin's guards told them that the great Comrade Lenin was surrounded on the mountain, the young cadets did not wait for the orders of their superiors, and rushed to Mount Lenin without many weapons.

These young men collected the weapons drifted by the German airdrops along the way and then went directly to the battle, forcing Major Kilhofee to draw some of his troops to drive away the group of "haired children".

However, what surprised military historians was that in addition to this group of emotionally excited "child soldiers", the Red Army's troops stationed in Pochop seemed to react indifferently and sluggishly to Lenin's attack. Especially the armored force sent by Rokosovsky to defend Lenin before, their performance was simply shocking.

From the time when the German paratroopers landed around 6 a.m. until 12 noon, the group of talents came late, and what made people want to scold them was that they were still lacking ammunition. So they rushed to launch an attack on the German paratroopers and retreated to wait for replenishment. So later, KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs suspected whether the unit was bribed by the Germans!

So where is the reason? Or is it in MI6. The kgb and the Ministry of Internal Affairs actually have no mistake in doubting it. The troops sent by Rokosovsky did have an insider. Their commander, Major Vlasov, had long been controlled by MI6. Under the Jin-yuan offensive of MI6, this person chose to betray the motherland.

On the night of January 1, when the Germans were about to launch the "Vivette" operation, the major used his power to send a large amount of good vodka and beef to his subordinates, and drank most of the officers and soldiers, including the sentinels.

In addition, that night, he deliberately destroyed the radio stations and telephone numbers used for contact. Therefore, the troops never received news of Lenin's attack. Of course, they could not get up even if they received it. Not only did this, Major Vlasov had transported a considerable portion of the arms away in the name of counting the arsenal, which directly led to the lack of sufficient ammunition for use in the department.

After doing these tasks, Vlasov fled Pochop with the support of MI6 agents. His actions did pose a great threat to Lenin's personal safety. If it weren't for the Central Security Office fighting to the death, if the students from the Red Army Engineer Soldier Academy unexpectedly arrived on the battlefield, the final situation would be hard to say.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, Major General Onenovsky, the highest commander of the Red Army of Pochop, finally figured out the purpose of the German army in chaos. When he found out that the Germans were coming for Lenin, his back was wet with cold sweat.

The major general who was so scared that he almost ordered all the personnel at hand to head towards the direction of Lenin Mountain as fast as possible, and even he personally took his own guard company to walk in front. As more and more Red Army soldiers arrived on the battlefield, the situation of the Germans became very difficult.

Major Kilhofee recalled after being captured: "When more and more Russians appeared around us, I knew that this operation was dangerous. Even if we could successfully rush up to the top of the mountain to capture Lenin alive, we would not be able to escape from here with Lenin. After some thought, I made a difficult decision. Since I could not capture Lenin alive, and we could not leave this ghost place, so we could only use one way to serve the Third Reich, that is, to rush up to the mountain to kill Lenin at all costs!"

But Major Kilhofe did not realize one thing at this time. That was that his mission had completely failed. Why do you say that? Because at this time Lenin was no longer in Villa No. 1, and even no longer on Mount Lenin.

Some comrades may be surprised, how did Lenin miraculously escape from danger? According to the street stall literature, this is the immortal Lenin. At the most critical moment, Lenin's guards found a secret passage in Villa No. 1. It is said that it was an escape passage left by a nobleman in the Tsarist era. Through this passage, Lenin left Mount Lenin without any danger and returned to the city of Pochop.

Of course, this legendary story is purely nonsense. Lenin escaped from Mount Lenin was not a secret passage, because there was no such a secret passage at all. What really helped Lenin escape was the ropes prepared by the Central Security Office. At the cliff at the back of Mount Lenin, the guards hung Lenin, Krupskaya and other entourages off the cliff one by one. While the Germans were still foolishly attacking from the front, Lenin had already escaped from the back mountain.

At this point, the "Viver" operation launched by the Germans has been declared a failure. Even if they used extraordinary means of airborne raids, the person they were determined to eliminate still escaped from their palms. However, the German paratroopers did not know this, and they are still devoted to the battle.

What made the battalion commander Major Kilhofe happy was that his second group of paratroopers arrived at the scene at 12:30 noon. Two transport planes carrying the troops entered the airborne ground northwest of Lenin Mountain as planned and dropped 22 paratroopers. At the same time, the two gliders that came casually fell on the grass at the foot of Lenin Mountain according to the guidance of the signal soldiers, bringing the ammunition and first aid supplies that the paratroopers urgently needed.

In fact, according to Major Kilhofe's idea, the second batch of paratroopers should have been directly airborne on the top of Mount Lenin. However, it was too late to report to the headquarters that Lenin was on the top of Mount Lenin. When this critical telegram arrived at the Wolf's Knot, the second batch of airborne troops had almost arrived at their destination. After approval by the head of state, they were sent to Himmler. When they were finally passed to the Air Force, the fighter plane had already missed it.

Of course, one of the key figures played a key role. Rudolf Abel, as Himmler's adjutant, deliberately delayed thirty minutes when conveying Himmler's orders. And it was these thirty minutes that directly led to the possibility of the second group of paratroopers airdropping on Mount Lenin.

After the war, in order to commend Rudolf Abel for his outstanding contributions at that moment, with the approval of the Politburo, he was specially awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Back at the airborne field, although Major Kilhofe was very sorry that the second batch of paratroopers could not be directly airborne on the top of the mountain, the strength of his troops at hand was once again increased, especially the two gliders brought war defense artillery that could be shot directly, which played a key role in attacking the guards of the Central Security Office who were defensively defending.

According to Major Kilhofee's order, two pak3637mm war defense guns were aimed at the fortifications of the guards of the Central Security Bureau and opened fire violently. After a while, the guards' machine gun fire was fired. Then the excited German paratroopers rushed up the mountain road and were impatiently preparing to capture Lenin alive... (To be continued.)

PS: Bow to thank S-V, the old student, the final blow, and Comrade Juventus!
Chapter completed!