Chapter 25: Attack on Kyushu Island (5)
During the usual parachute training, the parachutes after landing are managed by the "folding paratroopers", and the paratroopers just jump and clean up. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoNowadays, the paratroopers who have successfully landed are faced with an overwhelming number of parachutes and are at a loss for a moment as to what to do. At this time, all the transport planes and fighter planes in the sky were gone, leaving only some red and yellow parachutes to continue to float in the air. According to the regulations of the airborne division, the parachutes of soldiers are blue and green, and the officers are white, and these red and yellow parachutes carry weapons, ammunition and military equipment.
With so many weapons and equipment, how to pack them up? What do you do after you pack up? No one knows - the first priority is to quickly find the commander of the unit and figure out what the next task is. Looking around, a red convening flag was raised in the distance, and everyone hurriedly ran there. In front of the "convening flag" stood platoon commander Zhou Chen, and the herald was assembling the walkie-talkie next to him. Seeing Cai Dazhuang who was running towards him, Zhou Chen couldn't help but be secretly happy, and said in his heart that this kid not only did not fall to death "like a scale", but also did not stick to the muddy water on his body, which is really capable.
Cai Dazhuang, who was a little panting, raised his hand to Zhou Chen and saluted to report for duty, "Report to the chief, Sergeant Cai Dazhuang is back in the team." During this period, officers and soldiers continued to report for duty, soldiers in Zhou Chen's platoon, and people from other platoons, in short, everything seemed to be chaotic, and there were soldiers and officers looking for the original formation everywhere.
Zhou Chen nodded at Cai Dazhuang, and then looked around, and after a while, he turned around and asked Cai Dazhuang, "Don't stand here, go and see if you can find the people from the company, and when you see people from our platoon, ask them to come here to gather." Cai Dazhuang was temporarily assigned a task, and Zhou Chen asked the soldiers who gathered around to check the ammunition and equipment on their bodies, and now, even if they are afraid, there is no way.
Umbrella flowers fell from the sky one by one, and with the arrival and command of officers at all levels, the chaotic landing site gradually resumed to continue, and Zhou Chen learned that they were sent to Kyushu Island on the Japanese mainland. Knowing that this is the Japanese mainland, Zhou Chen's heart was a little flustered, when he was in the national army before, Zhou Chen's unit did not fight with the Japanese army, but every time it ended in failure.
"There's nothing to be afraid of, he's not a three-headed and six-armed little devil, and he will still die and be injured when he encounters a bullet. The little devils killed by the Gangs in the north are not young and old, and we can do what they can do. An officer with a scar on his face shouted loudly, which immediately caused the echo of some of the officers around him, and then looked at the soldiers' expressions, which seemed to be much better.
This is the first time that the umbrella has used airborne troops to participate in the operation, regardless of the guarantee of the foreign instructors sent to train the airborne division, but Zhuo Fei actually has no bottom in his heart. For this hard-won opportunity to attack the Japanese mainland, Zhuo Fei made a lot of arrangements and foreshadowing in advance, and also gambled on the entire cost of the umbrella. On the one hand, he hoped to see the morale of the troops under the umbrella soar, but on the other hand, he was worried that it would cause heavy casualties to the landing Dangkou army.
After the loss of the Jewish Independent Army, the Dangkou Army took its place as the core force of the umbrella, and in order to avoid huge casualties and losses for the Dangkou Army, Zhuo Fei had to pull the airborne troops into the battlefield, but he didn't know if his order was correct. This was the first time that the airborne division had conducted actual combat, especially when it crossed the ocean and directly entered the Japanese mainland to fight, and after learning that the airdrop location was Japan's mainland, many officers and men of the airborne division, including Zhou Chen, were blindfolded, and at first they thought that there was somewhere south of the Yangtze River.
But in any case, they had already arrived, and the planes carrying them were gone, and if they didn't want to die here or become prisoners of the Japanese, they had to move closer to the coastline as ordered. Moving closer to the coastline, this was Zhuo Fei's order, and his order was not to avoid the Japanese army, but to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army on Kyushu Island was focusing on Nagasaki and take the opportunity to take Karatsu in the northwest of Saga Prefecture.
Karatsu City is located in the northwest of Saga Prefecture in Japan, adjacent to Fukuoka Prefecture and Saga City in the east, Nagasaki Prefecture in the west by Imari Bay, and adjacent to the cities of Chang, Takeo, and Imari in the south. As long as the temporary fleet commanded by McHausen controls Dangjin Bay, and then the airborne division blocks the road in and out of Dangjin, Zhuo Fei can move the forward airfield on Jeju Island to Dangjin.
The Japanese army on Kyushu Island is now crazy to prevent the landing of the umbrella force, and Zhuo Fei must find other landing sites and transport his reserve forces to Kyushu Island when the Japanese army on Kyushu Island is focusing all their attention on Nagasaki. Naturally, Karatsu, with its terrain advantages, became the target of the Airborne Division, which could not only build a temporary airfield, but also become a second landing site for the umbrella.
Thanks to the high-intensity training of the airborne division on weekdays and the strict requirements of the instructors, the soldiers who stabilized their mood began to move to Tangjin according to the battle plan, and Zhou Chen's company was placed in the forward position. "I said Lao Zhou, can you not keep hanging your face, you know the task of this striker, but it took me a lot of effort to snatch it from Xue Manzi, whether the brothers can show their faces this time, but it depends on your platoon."
Zhou Chen, who was bored in his heart, quietly shook off the arm of the company commander Ma Wanshan on his shoulder, and then turned around and glared at Ma Wanshan fiercely, and then walked at the front of the entire company with the soldiers in his platoon. Ma Wanshan was originally Zhou Chen's commander when he was in the national army, but Ma Wanshan was the platoon commander at that time, and Zhou Chen was just a sergeant. Ma Wanshan, who had a smile in his eyes, did not care about Zhou Chen's disrespect to him, but turned around and urged his soldiers to speed up, and at the same time asked the infantry to contact the battalion headquarters and ask if there was any new information sent back by the reconnaissance plane.
Acting as a striker means that there is a chance of several times more casualties than others, if this is still in the national army, let alone Ma Wanshan, even Zhou Chen, who has always been honest and serious, will not take this job. However, it is different now, although the airborne division cannot compare with the Dangkou army in terms of heavy weapons and equipment, but when it comes to individual weapons and equipment, I am afraid that there is no country in the world whose army can compare with the airborne division.
The airborne division is well-equipped and even surpasses the Dangkou army, which also makes the burden of the officers and soldiers of the airborne division relatively increased, and they rushed to Tangjin with such a load, not to mention that they have to fight, I am afraid that they will die of exhaustion when the time comes. Ma Wanshan's mind has always turned quickly, and he took the initiative to take over the task of acting as a striker, the purpose of which was to use the mobile equipment that might be captured to alleviate the hardships of his soldiers after encountering the Japanese army. Zhou Chen is Ma Wanshan's old subordinate, and Zhou Chen naturally knows the roots of his company commander's slippery and scheming.
Zhuo Fei, who was far away on Jeju Island, had been waiting for news from the Airborne Division, and learned that the Airborne Division had successfully landed and was marching towards Tangjin, Zhuo Fei was finally able to secretly breathe a sigh of relief, he had been afraid that the airborne group would be intercepted by Japanese fighters or anti-aircraft fire. Now that the Airborne Division had successfully landed, Zhuo Fei immediately sent a new order to McHausen, asking him to command the Provisional Fleet to suddenly launch an attack on Dangjin Bay when the Airborne Division was half a day's journey from Dangjin.
The Japanese forces on Kyushu Island did not know that their opponents had used airborne troops to prepare for a sneak attack on Karatsu, and after learning that the enemy had landed more than 20,000 troops from Nagasaki, the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island continued to draw troops to Nagasaki Prefecture and asked for help from the Japanese headquarters. Zhuo Fei's chaotic arrangement puzzled the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island, but the strong attack in the early stage had already attracted the attention and worry of Hideki Tojo, and at the same time, the staff of the Japanese base camp was already suspecting that the umbrella was involved, after all, MacArthur did not have so many planes in his hands.
If the umbrella was involved, Hideki Tojo felt that the base camp should slow down the operation of continuing to transfer troops and technicians to the Americas, and the umbrella was rich and rich, and Hideki Tojo had already learned it. Without stable logistical supplies, Hideki Tojo was not very sure that he would be able to repel the Umbrella attack, after all, the only way to deal with the Umbrella Force with strong firepower was to use firepower that was stronger than the opponent's.
Hideki Tojo had difficulty making a decision, so he told the other members of the cabinet the inference of the General Staff, and when he learned that the General Staff suspected that the Umbrella might also be involved in the attack on Kyushu Island, most of the Japanese cabinet members kept silent, and it could be seen that their worries were no different from those of Hideki Tojo. It was a dilemma between losing their homeland and owning the Americas, and no Japanese wanted to lose their homeland, even if they might gain all of America.
The Japanese cabinet and the emperor could not make a decision for a while, and Hideki Tojo continued to deploy troops to support Kyushu Island, and the offensive momentum on the umbrella side did not mean to weaken. After reinforcing the landing site, the South Asian servant army troops poured into Nagasaki Prefecture like a tidal wave, and the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island, who rushed to hear the news, were able to block the way of the servant army to the north on the line of Xino in the western part of Saga Prefecture, but the Japanese civilians in Nagasaki Prefecture had been abjectly impoverished by the servant army.
Driving out Japanese civilians who had become destitute to attack the Japanese positions was a very inhumane thing that could only be done by the servant army, and it was rare that the officers of the servant army who were born in the national army did not oppose this order, because when the Japanese army was fighting with the national army troops, they often used this trick to attack the positions and defense lines of the national army, and now they are just a tooth for a tooth.