Chapter 1437: Paratroopers Descend from the Sky
The four-engine Per-8 bomber has emerged from the sky.
Of course, it did not come to bomb the oil fields, at this time, in the cabin of the Pe-8 bomber, it was filled with dense soldiers, their faces were serious, and their will was extremely firm.
Historically, the Soviet Union was the first country to have airborne troops, and at that time, during the military parade in Moscow, the airborne troops descended from the sky and shocked the entire Western world, and at that time the Pe-8 bomber was used.
The Baku oil field, there is a crisis, it was actually robbed by a group of Iranians!
The Supreme Command made emergency arrangements, and in addition to ordering Hominko to attack at the risk of death, the Airborne Army was also mobilized.
The biggest advantage of the airborne troops is their high mobility, and at this time, no matter what ground forces are mobilized, it will be too late, and they can only quickly rush to the Baku oil fields from the air.
As the most important source of energy for the Soviets, they dispatched an entire corps of troops, parachuting the Fourth Army.
This army has the 8th, 9th, and 214th Brigades, about 10,000 people. For the success of this operation, they were under the direct command of the commander of the Airborne Forces, Major General Glazunov, and their task was to parachute into the oil fields and take out the enemy here!
Although the Soviet Union set up a unit on the scale of the Airborne Army, however, they lacked enough large transport aircraft, and so far, the Soviet Union has not been able to come up with any large transport aircraft, only the unreliable performance of the Pe-8, as their main force of transportation.
It is not enough to rely on the Pei-8 alone, plus a large number of Li-2 transport aircraft, it can only transport one brigade and one battalion at a time.
Now, inside the transport plane is the 8th Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the Airborne Forces, with a total of 638 people.
The Li-2 transport plane can only transport 25 soldiers at a time, and the Pei-8 bomber can only fit 23 soldiers.
Why is the 4-engine Per-8 bomber not as much transported as the twin-engine Li-2 transport aircraft? Just look at their status.
The commander of the 2nd battalion, Vlasov, was the first to climb out of the bomber lose.
When they took off, they sat in the bomb bay below, and now they need to slowly climb from the bomb bay to the connecting turret at the back.
When he came out of the turret on the back, Vlasov felt a gust of wind blow on his head, and by this time the Per-8 bomber was already flying smoothly.
He followed the fuselage, crawled forward, crawled forward, climbed all the way to the wing in front.
Behind him, a paratrooper followed him in the same motion, as if he were doing acrobatics in the air.
They had to do it because the Per-8 was a bomber.
The best way to skydive is on a transport plane with a door at the tail, as long as a person jumps out, he will run backwards under the action of air resistance, and fly down under the action of gravity, which is completely safe.
But there is no hatch at the tail of the Pei-8, and in order to parachute on the Pei-8, the airborne troops have explored the most incredible trick, which is to slide down from the wing!
At this time, the speed of the Pei-8 bomber was not fast, only more than 200 kilometers per hour, creating the best opportunity for the airborne paratroopers, and a famous paratrooper climbed onto the wings, as if it were an acrobatic team.
"Parachute begins!"
In the gale, Vlasov sat up, and when he got up, just under the blowing of the wind, he slid towards the rear end of the wing, put his hands on his chest, prepared his posture, and the speed became faster and faster, and with it, he fell off the wing.
He closed his eyes, not wanting to watch the tail fin rushing at him, as if it could cut him open, and when he counted to three, he opened his eyes.
Get out of the plane normally!
He pulled the parachute line, and when the parachute opened, his entire body was pulled and the parachute was successfully opened!
Overhead, paratroopers doing the same maneuvers as him glided towards the rear end of the wing.
One of the paratroopers was in an incorrect position, and as a result, rolled a few times, tumbled and fell!
He struggled in the air, balancing his body, but it was still rolling, and as he fell lower and lower, he couldn't hold back anymore and pulled the paracord.
The parachute did not open, and after the parachute rope was pulled out, it wrapped around him, and he fell like a big rock.
He jumped down from behind, but he was the first to land, and everyone felt heavy when they looked at this companion.
Being a paratrooper is the most dangerous, and when they train in peacetime, they have a mortality target.
This was the first Pe-8, and when it began to fall, the other planes that followed it also began to parachute, and compared to the Pe-8, the Li-2 parachuted much easier.
The side doors of the cabin opened, and the paratroopers clasped their arms and jumped straight down.
On the landing field, dense parachutes constantly appeared.
Of course, they would not jump directly over the oil fields, and if they did, the defenders on the ground would have killed them by simply shooting their parachutes with their rifles.
The landing site is still some distance from the oil field! After landing, they had to quickly gather their formation, form a battle formation, and advance towards the oil fields.
And when they landed, the transport planes would return to their hometowns, and they would transport other troops one after another, and their entire 8th Brigade would need to parachute more than 2,500 people, so they would need three transport planes to make three round-trips, and to parachute the entire army over, I'm afraid one day would not be enough.
They are parachuting in an orderly manner, and the Iranian troops on the side, of course, will not watch them complete the build-up!
"Quick, go over and kill them!" Reinhardt said, "What about our planes? Why hasn't it arrived yet? ”
As expected, they were going to hold out until dawn, because after dawn, the air force would arrive to provide them with additional fire support, and to hold out until the arrival of ground troops.
But who could have known that their own air force had not yet arrived, and the Soviets had actually airdropped troops, and the Soviets reacted really quickly!
In the battle at night, five or six infantry fighting vehicles were lost, and now, the remaining infantry fighting vehicles, immediately started and drove towards the landing ground of the paratroopers!
The advantage of the paratroopers is mobility, and the disadvantage of the paratroopers is the ability to regroup, and the paratroopers are quite dangerous when they land, and the paratroopers are very vulnerable from landing to assembly.
In particular, paratroopers cannot carry heavy weapons, and with only light weapons, they cannot compete with wheeled infantry fighting vehicles at all, while Iran's elite troops, with submachine guns in their hands, have fierce firepower.