Chapter 18: The Black Hawk Falls

As mentioned last time, Zhou Xue entered the Wu camp at night and bitterly persuaded Ding Feng to release the three pilots of the Shu army, but Ding Feng said that their Wu State had found a way to restrain the new weapons of the Shu army, and there was no need to be afraid of the attack of the Shu army.

The two kept talking about midnight, but they never came up with a result. Zhou Xueli Chen Shu was powerful and scheming, Ding Feng pointed out that Zhou Xue disturbed the heart of the Wu army, and explained the method of Eastern Wu to restrain the Shu army, saying that he would definitely be able to defeat the Shu army.

On the third watch, a dark cloud drifted over the military camp of the Eastern Wu Army, and the moonless night felt even darker. The dark night sky bloomed with dozens of large black flowers, obscuring the sky and the sun, like a flock of migratory birds.

"Whoosh!" In the quiet of the night, the sound of the bowstring vibrating is particularly harsh. Ding Feng and Zhou Xue, who were in the big account, both heard the sound of bowstrings. Then, there was the warning sound of the "Dangdangdang" gong and the boiling human voice. Ding Feng stood up with a "swish", and Zhou Xue muttered, "It's here, is it really here?" ”

Ding Feng no longer paid attention to Zhou Xue, who was a little nervous, and strode out of the camp tent, and happened to collide with a personal soldier who hurriedly came to report at the door.

"General, night, night attack." The pro-soldier said in a panic.

"Bastard, what's the panic, where did the night attack come from?" Ding Feng asked.

"Heaven, heaven, heaven." The soldier pointed to the heavenly way.

"Bastard, what do you say? What heaven, if they still dare to let those flying monsters come, just let the bed crossbow continue to shoot them down, why panic. ”

Ding Feng scolded in his mouth and looked up at the sky, this time he didn't see the big and exaggerated flying things in the daytime, but vaguely saw more than twenty black shadows in the night, and these black images were very big black flowers.

When these large black flowers were about to fall to the ground, they finally revealed their black figures hanging below under the reflection of the torches on the ground.

This is the 101 Airborne Force in Liu Hou's mouth, the number is very small, there are really only 101 people, a captain, and 100 soldiers, but the number of people dispatched this time is only 28 people, because the capacity of the hot air balloon is insufficient.

Three of the hot air balloons on Liu Hou's side were shot down, and he urgently transferred the five on Guo Youzhi's side back, and only 7 hot air balloons could be used in total. Each hot air balloon can only transport a maximum of 4 soldiers, so only 28 people can be dispatched this time to participate in the rescue operation, which Liu Hou named the Black Hawk Fall.

Everything is black, the people are black, the whole body is black, the whole body is black, the face is also painted with black paint, and the weapons and equipment on the body are all painted black; The parachute was also dyed black.

Because the night sky was very dark, it was not discovered until these parachutes floated not high above the ground, but it was too late, and the Eastern Wu soldiers near the landing site were sniped by the crossbows in the hands of the airborne troops.

The sound of the bowstring that Ding Feng heard just now was because of the sound of the airborne troops sniping the Dongwu soldiers on the ground after they were discovered by the Eastern Wu soldiers on the ground.

Each of the 28 men was wearing rattan armor, and each of them was equipped with two crossbows, one in his hand, one on his back, and the others were mainly a large number of thunderbolts, each of whom had several strings of thunderbolts tied to his body. There are also two parachutes dedicated to dropping weapons, mainly thunderbolts and crossbow bolts.

Horse crossbows and thunderbolts are the best choice for this occasion. The horse crossbow is a crossbow arrow transformed by the horse according to the Zhuge crossbow, due to the complex process and high material requirements, so there is very little equipment in the Shu army, and it is rarely seen on the battlefield.

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Liu Hou put the equipment of the special forces in the G Army into large-scale use only twice, once in the jungle blocking battle in Nanzhong, and once in the guerrilla warfare with Lu Xun's troops on the way to Hengyang County.

The third time was the Black Hawk Down. The biggest feature of this horse crossbow is that it is a fifty-arrow repeater, which is small in size and light in weight, and can be carried by individual soldiers.

There are 50 crossbow arrows in one arrow magazine, which can be fired continuously, and such a thing can be said to be a machine gun of this era. And the machine gun is used for fire suppression, and the people of Dongwu may never understand the importance of fire suppression, so they will pay a heavy price for it.

When Ding Feng saw these airborne troops, it was too late, because they were already so close to the ground, so close that they could almost jump directly to the ground. In such a short period of time, the archers and crossbowmen of the Eastern Wu people did not have time to react at all.

Dongwu's bed crossbow was actually pointing at the sky all the time, and Ding Feng sent someone to monitor the sky, ready to shoot the flying monsters of the Shu army at any time.

It's a pity that it's too dark today, and the field of vision is greatly limited, Liu Hou dyed the whole body of the hot air balloon black for this rescue operation, flying high in the air, and they can't be found from the ground at all.

The 101 Airborne Soldier Armor was covered with a wide "flying squirrel suit", which was the gliding suit of later generations. This special garment connects the gaps between the arms and legs of the person, increasing the area of the person in the air and thus slowing the rate of descent.

After jumping from the hot air balloon in the air, the airborne troops spread their hands and feet, which is equivalent to spreading the wings of the "flying squirrel suit" and gliding forward, so that their descent can be slowed down by about 50 kilometers per hour.

At such a speed, the people of Dongwu naturally couldn't find them, and even if they did, they couldn't react in time.

During the day, the reconnaissance hot air balloon had already locked the place where the pilots were being held prisoner, and at night, the Soochow military camp was full of torches and bonfires, like navigation lights on the airstrip of the planes, indicating the landing places of these airborne troops.

The airborne troops first determined the location on the hot air balloon, then jumped off, spread the wings of the "flying squirrel suit," adjusted the direction of flight in the air, and flew to the designated landing site.

It took only 6 seconds from opening the parachute to the ground when it was about 80 meters above the ground, so as to avoid becoming a live target for underground archers while in the air.

Such a difficult maneuver is easy to say, but it is not easy to do, and it is conceivable that these airborne troops have been strictly trained in peacetime. During the training, I don't know how many people died in the fall, but Liu Houcai picked out 101 people from the 100,000-strong troops, which is really one in a thousand.

It was precisely because Unit 101 was airborne so quickly that the Soochow people on the ground had no time to react. Not even a bed crossbow that is always aimed at the sky, and the crossbow arrow cannot be wound for a long time, otherwise the crossbow arrow will soon be scrapped.

When the bed crossbow was wound, these hateful Xishu people could not be found in the air for a long time. A few archers did shoot the arrows in their hands, but they only shot the parachute, the parachute less than 10 meters above the ground, and as for the people hanging under the parachute, they were almost to the ground.

The 101 Airborne Forces condescendingly cleared the Eastern Wu soldiers near the prisoner camp with horse crossbows, and all 28 people landed near the prisoner camp unscathed. They quickly threw away their umbrellas, occupied favorable terrain, built defensive positions, and prepared to hold on to their positions.

Two of them entered the tent and rescued the three pilots, while the other two had ropes tied to their supply packs, which they were responsible for picking up and placing in a safe place.

These two people worked hard, and they were also the two people with the best aerial gliding skills in the team, and they flew to the target location with their supply bags first, which was difficult in itself, but they still did it; Next, they unpack the bag strapped to the supply bag and pull it open again.

These movements are done in a very short period of time, and it is impossible to do them without long-term, large-scale, and hard training. The airborne troops moved quickly, and after all these actions were done, they quickly approached and concentrated in the blocking positions.

The blocking position they had chosen was facing the enemy on one side and on three sides, and on the three sides of the enemy, several soldiers were rapidly digging trenches with sapper shovels, intending to build a semicircular position.

At this time, the Eastern Wu soldiers had already rushed over, and the remaining airborne troops were divided into two groups, one group was using horse crossbows to block the rushing Eastern Wu soldiers, and the other group was responsible for loading the empty arrow box with arrows and rewinding them.

This kind of crossbow can shoot fifty arrows in a row, so it must require a lot of power, which is also destined to be not short. Therefore, at this time, you can see several airborne soldiers desperately shaking a rocker on the crossbow, some of them shaking their whole bodies, and those who don't know the truth think that they are swinging or cramping.

The Eastern Wu soldiers rushed over with a big knife and screamed, and then fell down one after another after entering the defensive position of the Airborne Forces 50 meters. These airborne troops are the elite of the special forces, and each of them has the ability to shoot arrows, so the crossbow arrows fired are basically not wasted.

Each person has 50 arrows, 10 people are 500 arrows, and after a while, the Eastern Wu soldiers fell to the ground, and roughly counted, there were hundreds of people. With 28 people, in less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of people were killed, such a combat power, not to mention rare in the world, at least the Eastern Wu soldiers would have never seen it.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the Dongwu people present were all frightened, and they all pointed here from a distance, and no one dared to rush forward again.

It was not until Ding Feng arrived at the scene and took over command that the Eastern Wu army relaunched the attack. This time, the Eastern Wu army did not rush and kill in a disorderly manner, Ding Feng transferred shield soldiers, these shield soldiers carried tower shields, lined up into a shield wall and advanced step by step, behind the shield wall were three rows of sword and shield soldiers.

These sword and shield soldiers held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, this kind of shield is different from the tower shield of the front row of shield walls, this is a round shield, and the size is much smaller than the tower shield, at a glance, it looks like a pot lid.

This shield is small and lightweight, and can be used to block enemy weapons during combat, and the knife in the other hand can take advantage of the opportunity to slash enemies, making it a good melee combination.

Farther away were the archers, Ding Feng brought in 500 archers, and as soon as the shield wall in front of them began to move forward, these archers went crazy and fired arrows at the blocking position.

A rain of arrows like flying locusts fell on the blocking positions, and it has to be said that these arrows caused some trouble for the airborne troops. The airborne troops were all wearing invulnerable rattan armor, and these arrows could not hurt them at all, but the rain of arrows filled the position, which made it very inconvenient for them to move, and they had to be assigned to take charge of pulling out the arrows stuck in the ground.

Soon the shield wall of Soochow advanced to a distance of 10 paces from the blocking position, and during this time, the airborne troops did not fire crossbow arrows at them. Because the tower shield was too cumbersome, the Eastern Wu soldiers did not charge, but slowly advanced step by step.

At this time, Zhou Xue also followed to the scene, she came to Ding Feng's side, and said to Ding Feng faintly: "Uncle Ding, you better run quickly, it's too late if you don't run." ”