Chapter 24: Attack on Kyushu Island (4)

"Yaga, this is the territory of our Great Japanese Empire, we are imperial soldiers, we should fight to the end for the empire, even if it is to sacrifice our lives, whoever dares to say retreat, he will be your end. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" The blood-stained Hashimoto Taro stared at his eyes full of murderous intent, looking around at the officers under him, in front of him, there was a headless corpse that could not stop twitching hands and feet, a few seconds ago, the owner of this corpse was still a Nakasa officer under Hashimoto Taro.

The heavy smell of blood slowly diffused, causing all the Japanese officers present to lower their heads and secretly tremble, for fear that the command knife in Hashimoto Taro would slash at their necks in the next moment. Relying on extremely bloody means, Hashimoto Taro gathered a group of officers to obey his orders, relying on these officers, Hashimoto Taro finally stopped the rout of his soldiers, but as long as he was a discerning person, he could see that the enemy's offensive momentum could not be contained.

Retreat is certain, and Hashimoto Taro himself knows that he can't fight hard with the enemy, but he doesn't want to just watch the enemy drive straight in. Alternate retreat and resistance were suggestions made by the officers under Taro Hashimoto, but Taro Hashimoto did not take them, but directly withdrew one of the most combat-effective wings in his division from the battle, and then ordered the other two wings with heavy casualties to take charge of breaking off the rear and delaying the enemy's advance in depth.

Taro Hashimoto planned to use his elite wing to find the right time to strike a head-on blow to the enemy, but the servant troops who had already occupied the landing ground on the coastline did not continue to march according to his plan, but stopped in unison and began to strengthen their positions. The temporary fleet that repelled the Japanese Army Air Force was finally free to provide fire support to the troops that had already landed, and the transport ships that were hovering in the open sea also approached, and a large number of servant troops and various supplies were sent to the shore.

Ordered the ground forces to suspend the attack on the deep area, this is Zhuo Fei's order, the abnormal attack of the Japanese air force, Zhuo Fei was vigilant, before a large number of supplies were sent to the landing field, Zhuo Fei decided to fight steadily, so as not to be found by the Japanese army again. The ground forces carried by the temporary fleet began to land on a large scale, and the beach was full of black heads, and amid the roars of logistics officers and technicians, the large landing ships that had successfully stormed the beach opened the doors of the warehouses and released the armored vehicles and engineering machinery loaded in the cabins.

The tracked armored personnel carrier is stigmatized by many people, because everyone dislikes the speed of this heavy armored vehicle is too slow, but in the parachute army, the officers and soldiers love this heavy armored personnel carrier, because the armor of this thing cannot even penetrate the fire of large-caliber heavy machine guns. In the umbrella army, there are very few heroic characters who die with the enemy soldiers with the explosives bag, which is not to say that the soldiers under the umbrella do not do their best in the war, but they feel that since they have strong defensive weapons and equipment, why should they be stupid to carry the explosives bag to die with others?

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the group of planes sent by Zhuo Fei from Jeju Island rushed to Kyushu Island again, and it can be called a huge bomber group under the cover of a large number of fighters, carrying out a large-scale bombing of the entire Kyushu Island. In addition to Nagasaki, which had been identified as the main landing site by Zhuo Fei, the bomber group also bombed the four prefectures of Saga, Kumamoto, Fukuda, and Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu, with Saga Prefecture bearing the strongest bombardment.

The use of large cloudburst bombs for large-scale bombing was the first of its kind under the umbrella, and the previous large cloudburst bombs dropped on Nagasaki only shocked the Japanese troops stationed in Nagasaki, but the use of large cloudburst bombs against the other four prefectures had a shocking effect on Japanese civilians. The mushroom-shaped smoke that accompanied the explosion frightened the Japanese civilians who were caught off guard, they did not know how many people would die in the explosion just now, but the Japanese who survived already understood that the power of the bomb just now was too powerful.

Zhuo Fei used large cloudburst bombs to teach the Japanese people a good lesson, and more and more Japanese civilians left their homes and began to flee to the eastern part of Kyushu Island, trying to escape from the war to Honshu Island. Japanese civilians with their families crowded the roads, preventing the Japanese troops who had been ordered to rush to Nagasaki to support them to speed up their march, and by the time the umbrella bomber group returned safely to Jeju Island again, the Japanese troops preparing to support Nagasaki had not been able to enter the territory of Saga Prefecture.

"Anchor, let's go." Seeing with his own eyes that the last transport ship full of soldiers began to transfer soldiers to the landing ship like dumplings, McHausen, who had been calm, ordered the fleet to anchor. The fleet lost more than a dozen ships in just one ordinary operation to support the landing operation, which was unacceptable to McHausen, and seeing that the fleet had already sent all the loaded soldiers and supplies to the beach, McHausen decided to take revenge for the fleet's losses.

The large beaching landing ship towed from the beach by warships turned around and headed west, and the fleet was immediately split into two, one escorting the idle transport ships back to Jiaozhou Bay to continue loading soldiers and supplies, while the remaining warships followed McHausen's flagship all the way north, and they were to provide fire support to the airborne division that was about to be airdropped to the north of Futian County. Cai Dazhuang recalled all aspects of the skydiving procedure over and over again, after all, before their skydiving was just training, but now it is actual combat.

Cai Dazhuang had to be careful, if he fell to death before he saw the shadow of the enemy, it would be too wrong. The sunlight shines through the cockpit into the cabin, directly on the faces of the airborne troops, Cai Dazhuang opened his eyes in the sun, and looked curiously at the pilots in the cockpit.

Before departure, neither the commander of the unit nor the ground crew at the airfield said exactly where the airborne division would be sent in Japan, and everyone in the cabin was speculating about where the steering wheel in the hands of the pilot of the transport plane would take him to Japan. But no one dared to ask. Platoon Commander Zhou Chen looked at his watch vigorously, and then walked to the door of the cockpit and said to the pilot, "Please turn on the yellow light ten minutes earlier than the prescribed procedure, our actions are not very proficient, it would be better to prepare earlier." ”

The navigator of the plane was a yellow-haired Jewish officer, he stood up and smiled at Zhou Chen, "No problem, I must let you be fully prepared, the weather conditions in the airborne area today are good, and it is very suitable for parachuting, please rest assured" Zhou Chen nodded his head with satisfaction, but he secretly scolded the other party in his heart, "Little rabbit cub, where is the airborne area, you should say it first"

Half an hour later, the yellow light in the cabin came on, "All stand up and prepare for the skydive." Zhou Chen stood at the hatch and shouted loudly at the airborne troops under him, which meant that the first paratrooper airborne operation of the umbrella was about to kick off, but at this moment, the paratroopers in the cabin did not realize what an important historical moment this was. The yellow light preparation light was turned on ten minutes in advance, that is, to let the airborne troops stand for ten more minutes with heavy bags on their backs, but everyone had no objection to this, and they all carefully and repeatedly checked the towing rope hook and their own umbrella bags according to Zhou Chen's explanation.

Interestingly, the airborne troops in the cabin did not think at all at this time that the transport would not be intercepted by enemy fighters, nor did they consider whether there was enemy artillery fire on the ground. At the moment, all they were worried about was whether the parachute would open smoothly, or whether they would fall into a strange place off the beaten track and find no companions.

"When you skydive for a while, you must hurry." Zhou Chen continued to roar, "Don't stay at the door, the plane grinds for a second or two, and if it falls to the ground, it will be several miles away, and it will kill people" Zhou Chen's words were very reasonable, and everyone couldn't help but move a few steps towards the cabin door, for fear of being delayed by the people in front.

"Di-di-di-di", the parachuting bell suddenly rang, the green light above Zhou Chen's head turned on, the cabin door was opened, Zhou Chen kept shouting, and the soldiers also urged each other: "Jump, jump" The paratroopers by the hatch jumped out one after another. When it was about to be Cai Dazhuang's turn, the plane suddenly turned, and the fuselage tilted sharply to the right, causing him to lose his balance and fall to his knees all at once. Platoon Commander Zhou Chen couldn't care so much, reached out to hold up his backpack, and forcefully pushed Cai Dazhuang out of the hatch.

Cai Dazhuang almost fell headfirst out of the plane, he thought: "It's over, the parachute line must be knotted, this time I'm dead" But it didn't take long for the parachute to open above his head with a "bang". If you look up, the big umbrella flowers with blue backgrounds and green stripes are really beautiful. The parachute fluttered in the sky, but the paratroopers did not feel as relaxed as they had been in the previous training.

Before skydiving, all equipment is fastened to the crotch belt below the waist and abdomen. I didn't feel anything inappropriate when I was carrying these things on my back before, but now that he was hanging in the air, all the weight was concentrated on his lower body, and Cai Dazhuang suddenly felt that his butt was about to be ripped off.

Looking down at the ground - it was nice, no one fired a gun, no one fired a cannon, and the endless fields were full of rice. The equipment on his body was not only heavy, but also bulging to affect the direction of maneuvering, and when he was about to land, Cai Dazhuang found that there were many ponds on the ground. He was in a hurry: "God bless, don't fall into the pond, there are so many things on your body, if you fall into the water, you will sink directly to the bottom, and you will definitely not be able to climb up" Fortunately, God really opened his eyes, Cai Dazhuang finally landed on a ridge, and he ran a few steps forward to untie the umbrella bag - the parachute was successful.