Chapter 62: Expansion Again I

Since they had figured out the situation of the Wang family's house, the members of the 'Fang Family's First Guard Regiment' were no longer as timid as they were just now, and the speed of attacking the Wang family's house was unbearable. Now, under the leadership of Huzi, the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' are climbing over the wall and prying the door. In less than a moment, none of the 2,000 people in the 'Fang Family's First Guard Regiment' sneaked into the Wang family's house, and none of them were discovered by the Wang family!!!!

Through the interrogation of Wang San, Huzi learned in detail about the structure of the Wang family's mansion and knew where the important family members of the Wang family lived. Therefore, Huzi specially led a team to arrest the main family members of the Wang family. The reason for this is that Fang Mu is for the Wang family's property, which has been regarded as private property by himself.

And Zhao Feng is responsible for dealing with the rest of the Wang family, and those subordinates and maids of the Wang family, as well as the pitiful armed forces of the Wang family. In comparison, Huzi's task is much more important. Because, if Huzi didn't catch the key family members of the Wang family, such as Wang Peel, the patriarch of the Wang family, then Fang Mu would have a little trouble if he wanted to get the Wang family's property.

You must know that the landlords of this era, especially the kind of landlords in the countryside, are very strict about their family's property, and most of them hide their family property, and the hidden place is also very hidden. If Huzi didn't catch Wang Papi this time, but only caught other members of the Wang family, then Fang Mu probably wouldn't have been able to ask where Wang Papi put the Wang family's property. A landlord like that kind of money-loving lord will not tell others the location of his life's wealth at will. Even if 'those others' were of their own race, they would not have said it.

If Huzi really didn't catch Wang Peeling, then Fang Mu would turn the Wang family's house upside down, and Fang Mu might not be able to find the Wang family's property, at most, he would get some money that the Wang family put on the surface. If this is really the result, then Fang Mu might as well go to suppress the bandits today. Although the bandits in Lexian County are almost extinct now, as long as you make up your mind to look carefully, you will always find one or two bandit dens, which is definitely more money than not catching the Wang family's head Wang Papi!!

Fang Mu saw that all the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' had already infiltrated the Wang family's house, Fang Mu proudly flicked the chest of the tunic on his body, and was very satisfied with the actions of all the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family' who quickly sneaked into the Wang family's house, which meant that Fang Mu's three-month hard training of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family's Guards was very effective, and the effect was very obvious.

Watching the members of the 'Fang Family Guards First Regiment', under the leadership of Huzi and Zhao Feng, sneak into the Wang family's mansion quietly. In the meantime, no one made any noise, and all of them followed the method taught to them by Fang Mu, and they sneaked in cautiously. Just like those who climbed over the courtyard wall of the Wang family's house to enter, they all climbed over the courtyard wall of the Wang family's house according to the methods taught to them by Fang Mu according to the actual combat training of the special forces of later generations.

Although the courtyard wall of the Wang family is very tall, it can't stop the well-trained personnel of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family's Guards'

The members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' who crossed the wall were in groups of two, cooperating with each other to advance, first one person squatted under the wall, the person squatting under the wall spread his hands on his knees, and the other person took the hands of the person squatting in the corner of the wall as the first support point, and quickly made a quick rush, stepped on the hands of the person squatting in the corner, and pressed down with one foot, and the person squatting in the corner of the wall supported his hands upwards with both hands. In this way, even though the courtyard wall of the Wang family's house is three meters high, it is difficult to resist the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family'!!

From the tactical level, the tactical theory mastered by the 'First Guards Regiment of the Fang Family' is far ahead of this era. Because the 'First Guards Regiment of the Fang Family' has the existence of Fang Mu, when Fang Mu was training all the members of the 'First Guards Regiment of the Fang Family', he also instilled in them from time to time some knowledge of modern operations, the theory of the advance operation of small troops, and the requirements of special operations. Therefore, the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' tactically belonged to the No.1 of this era!!

Of course, it is also the special arms of this era that are still in the stage of enlightenment. You must know that it is only 1900, and the paratroopers, a special combat unit, also appeared in World War II. In the past, countries did not attach much importance to special operations, resulting in the development of special arms at a very slow pace.

The first large-scale paratroopers were in Germany under Hitler. Moreover, it was because of Germany's unexpected use of paratroopers that it was very easy to conquer a fortress that could not be attacked for a long time, but because of Hitler's lack of attention, Germany's paratroopers in World War II lagged behind the Allies, and when Germany paid attention to paratroopers, World War II was almost over

German paratroopers of World War II, who made the history of the first airborne infantry attack. When Germany invaded Western Europe in 1940, German paratroopers parachuted and gliders landed and occupied strategic positions. A year later, in May 1941, the Germans launched their largest airborne operation, they invaded and conquered Crete. But the losses of this airborne operation were also huge, and Hitler decided not to do large-scale airborne operations again, so the German paratroopers were later treated more as elite infantry.

The paratrooper unit as airborne infantry was originally a military innovation of the Soviet Union. From the end of the 20s of the 20th century, the Soviet military used paratrooper units in military exercises on an increasing scale. A number of foreign military attachés in the USSR were allowed to observe these airborne paratrooper exercises in the USSR, and after the exercises, the German military attachés showed great interest in this new mode of warfare, and the Germans saw the military potential of the paratroopers, but the German paratroopers were formed much later than the USSR, and the construction of the German paratroopers began in 1935. The German paratrooper combat unit was formed in January 1936, Germany began with only one battalion of paratroopers, and the German paratrooper unit developed rapidly, and in 1938 a special division was formed, which later became an army, including paratroopers, glider units and elite infantry.

German paratroopers; It is mainly composed of the addition of very well-trained volunteers and the integration of large independent elite units. At first, the Germans attached great importance to the paratrooper unit, developing new tactics and techniques to improve their performance, such as opening parachute lines tied to the aircraft, making parachute jumps safe and allowing them to jump from low altitudes, and how to reduce exposure to enemy fire. The paratroopers belonged to the Luftwaffe. The main role is to occupy strategic positions in advance and destroy behind the enemy's lines. The German transport aircraft were the common Junkers 52, which generally carried 17 paratroopers, and the DFS230 glider, which carried more than a ton of weapons and equipment, or troops for airdrop operations. In 1938 the German military plan was drawn up, and the paratroopers were prepared to fight in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Poland, but later the use of paratroopers was dismantled.

The first offensive by the German paratroopers was in April 1940, when the German airborne troops landed on important airfields in Norway and Denmark and occupied important airfields with the aim of landing more troops safely. Junkers 52 was used as a passenger plane before World War II, before World War II, German pilots often flew Junkers 52 to land at Norwegian airports, Germany used Junkers 52 to fly over the airport, the defenders were completely defenseless, the landing of German paratroopers surprised the defenders greatly, and soon the Germans occupied these airports. The Germans used it for the second time, this time including parachuting, glider landing, a month after the invasion of Western Europe. The paratroopers did a very good job, capturing the main roads and bridges and helping the German armoured forces to advance, such as the capture of a strong Belgian fortress, the fortress of Eben-Emar was a strong fortress defended by about a thousand Belgian soldiers. It was a fortified artillery position, 18 guns, many machine-gun emplacements, minefields, barbed wire, surrounded by moats and connected by underground bunkers and tunnels. On May 10, 1940, at dawn, 10 gliders landed 78 paratrooper soldiers, armed with small arms and explosives. The 78 paratroopers had been observing the model of the fortress of Eben-Emar for a long time before the raid, so they shocked the Belgians by landing precisely on the roof of the large fortress, and the paratroopers were able to quickly take over the facilities above the fortress and shoot the defenders, as well as find bunkers. German losses amounted to only 6 dead and 20 wounded. A day later German ground forces arrived, and the remaining hundreds of Belgian defenders surrendered at the fortress. The defeat of a small elite unit of German paratroopers of 78 men over a strongly defended fortress was a great success, a most daring raid, a new mode of warfare pioneered by the Germans. Sweeping through Western Europe, the paratroopers focused on capturing bridges over important rivers.

Mercury Plan - Airborne invasion of Crete

The success of the Eben-Emar Fortress Raid led Hitler to agree to the Mercury battle plan. Strategic intentions to capture Crete. Germany's goal was to make it a German forward base, mainly for the air force, to make it easier for the air force to find and attack British ships and frigates in the eastern Mediterranean, and to help Rommel's German forces in North Africa. There were about 35,000 Allied troops and Greek infantry on Crete, most of whom had recently evacuated the Greek army to Crete, and the Allies also felt the German attack on Crete, and it was clear that the attack would be on the long north coast of Crete. In response to their attack, the Royal Navy patrolled in the northern part of the Cretan Sea.

In this battle, Germany concentrated the 7th Airborne Division, the 5th Mountain Infantry Division and a number of independent units (about 22,000 people in total), the 8th and 11th armies of the 4th Air Force (433 bombers, 233 fighters, 500 transport aircraft, 50 reconnaissance aircraft, and 72 transport gliders); Landing force (about 7,000 people) and 70 ships of various kinds. The only flaw in the German preparation was that they underestimated the strength of the British forces in Crete, which cost them very heavy casualties during the attack.

On the morning of May 20, 1941, Crete carried paratroopers or towed gliders in German bombers and Junker 52. An attack on Crete was launched, and the Germans attacked several places, but the main attack was at Kanea, and nearby Malemai, on the western side of the northern coast of Crete. 6,000 German paratroopers landed at Kanea and the nearby Marimen and fought all day, suffering heavy casualties, but the Allied defenders held their positions and began the attack against the Germans, who seemed to lose the battle. In addition, during the night the Germans attempted reinforcements, but the Germans were intercepted or sunk by the British Navy. The German paratroopers also lost radio contact, and in the end they had to rely on the pilot's report to assess the situation in which the command operated.

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In the fierce battle at Marimen, the Germans were greatly aided by a crucial mistake by the Allies, and as more and more German reinforcements landed at the Marimen airport, the Germans finally retained their beachhead in West Crete, where the Germans totaled 17,500 men and began to counterattack the Allied defenders. A few days later, the Allied commanders, believing that the defeat of Crete was a foregone conclusion, ordered the troops to withdraw from the island, and the heavy losses were largely due to German air raids. German paratroopers conquered Crete. The Germans were killed and missing about 4,000 people, wounded more than 2,100 people, and lost 220 aircraft, including 119 transport planes, but at a heavy cost of thousands of dead and thousands wounded, the best German soldiers.

Facts have proven that if such a major campaign is not carried out in coordination with other branches of the armed forces, relying on only one branch of the armed forces as the core, it is bound to suffer heavy losses. Due to the constraints of equipment and logistics, it is impossible for the airborne troops to complete a large-scale military offensive and occupation behind enemy lines on their own when they are far from the rear, cannot be in place, and have no supply guarantees. Therefore, after the occupation of Crete, the German high command did not dare to carry out a similar large-scale airborne campaign. Hitler decided not to use paratroopers on a large scale, but in small formations.

The development of paratroopers can be traced back to World War I, when two soldiers jumped from the wing of a biplane and carried some explosives to blow up enemy warehouses, which caused a sensation at the time. In 1927, the Soviet army used transport planes to drop troops in Central Asia, annihilating the rebels such as the Batuma Red bandits in one fell swoop, which was the first airborne war in the true sense. In 1930, the Soviet Airborne Forces officially established the world's first full-fledged paratrooper unit. During World War II, the Soviet Union, Germany and the United States all used airborne troops several times.

At the beginning of World War II, hundreds of German airborne troops captured the strongest fortress in the world, the Eben-Emar Fortress; At the end of World War II, it was also the Soviet Airborne Forces that were the first to invade Berlin!!

In the Normandy landings, the task of the Allied airborne forces was to land in shallow, near and deep depths 10 to 15 kilometers from the coast on both sides of the landing beachhead, to prevent reinforcements from enemy reserves, and to attack the German coastal defensive positions from the flanks and rear to cooperate with the sea landing. Since in the first 1~2 days, the Allies only landed 6~8 infantry divisions, and only after establishing a large landing field for armored divisions to deploy, the armored divisions were put into operation. If the Germans broke through the line of defense of the landing force before the armored forces landed, it would bring disaster to the landing. Therefore, the actions of the Airborne Forces in the initial stage of the landing were crucial for the success of the landing

Of course, the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' are only ahead of this era in terms of tactics, if the whole regiment of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' is really pulled into the battlefield to fight against an equal number of German Army regiments, then it must be the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' that fails!

Although the '1st Guards Regiment of the Fang Family' was tactically advanced than the current German Army. However, the German Army is known as the world's largest army, and it also defeated the French Army, which was the world's largest army at that time, in the 'Franco-Prussian War', and achieved its well-deserved title of the world's first army. The German Army is a real army forged in blood and fire, and it has also proved with strength that they deserve to be the first army in the world!

Compared with the real German army, the only drawback of the 'Fangjia Guards First Regiment' is that it has not experienced real war, has not experienced the cruelty of war, and is not at all clear about the difference between war and training, and the difference between bandits and real soldiers. If the entire regiment members of the 'Fang Family Guards First Regiment' faced the German Army, which was forged in blood and fire, it would definitely be a complete end of being abused by the German Army.

This is the difference between an army that has not experienced war and an army that has experienced war, and this is the difference between a new soldier and a veteran

If you really send all the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' to the battlefield of the Franco-Prussian War at that time. Fang Mu believed that a large number of them would collapse because they couldn't stand the cruelty of the battlefield!!!

After Huzi and Zhao Feng sneaked into the Wang family's house with their respective teams, Fang Mu leisurely took out a cigarette from his body and lit it, took a big puff of it, spit out a cloud of psychedelic smoke, and looked at the Wang family's house, waiting for Huzi to close the net.

Fang Mu did not sneak into the Wang family's mansion with Huzi and them, but left twenty soldiers of the 'First Fang Family Guard Regiment' outside the Wang family's mansion to wait for Huzi and their news. Because Fang Mu believes that Huzi will not let him down, this is a kind of trust that Fang Mu has in his beloved general....

"Bang~Bang~Bang~" Sure enough, when the cigarette in Fang Mu's hand was not burned, there were several gunshots in the Wang family's house, and the gunshots were unique in this quiet country house, and they were unusually harsh. After the gunshots passed, the Wang family's house fell silent

"Young Master! This! Shall we go in and have a look? At this time, one of the twenty soldiers who remained outside the Wang family's mansion asked Fang Mu.

Fang Mu turned his head and glanced at the soldier, and said slowly: "No, I believe in Huzi's ability, they won't let me down, let's wait, Huzi will send someone out to inform us when it's dealt with." ”

"Yes! Master! ”