Soon, Qi Chengfeng landed on the grass of a river valley, and finally avoided becoming a soup chicken, and he didn't hang on a tree.

After landing, the first thing Qi Chengfeng did was untie the parachute backpack, and the second thing was to check the automatic rifle he was carrying.

This is a B1936 automatic rifle, it was developed even earlier than the B1937 semi-automatic rifle, since the successful development and small batch production, this automatic rifle has been kept secret, and with the B1937 semi-automatic rifle is only equipped with the Chinese Army, compared to the B1937 semi-automatic rifle, the B1936 automatic rifle is equipped with a rarer number, this is a new concept of small arms, the biggest difference with other rifles is the bullet it uses, this is a " Intermediate power bullet", its cartridge case is shorter than the cartridge case of ordinary rifle bullets, in fact, the length of the cartridge case of this bullet is only 39 mm, so it is loaded with less gunpowder, so that in the state of automatic fire, its recoil is much smaller than that of high-power rifle bullets, which is conducive to controlling the rhythm and accuracy of shooting, and it is for this reason that when using the B1936 automatic rifle for strafing, the soldier can very easily suppress the firepower of at least one squad of the enemy armed with an ordinary rifle.

In technical terms, this automatic rifle is actually a "light machine gun that can carry out accurate single shots", it uses an arc-shaped magazine with a capacity of 30 rounds to feed the ammunition, the fire continuity is no worse than the submachine gun, but the penetration of the bullet is much stronger than the submachine gun, more suitable for assault operations than semi-automatic rifles, and more importantly, because the reliability of the harsh environment on the battlefield was specially emphasized at the beginning of the design, this automatic rifle adopts the principle of gas conduction piston, Moreover, the gap between the internal parts of the receiver is larger than that of a light machine gun, so that even if it has been soaked in muddy water, after taking it out, as long as you shake the gun body and throw out the water in the barrel and chamber, you can immediately open fire, and the reliability is quite high.

In addition, the full stamping receiver, metal folding butt, these are also the outstanding features of the B1936 automatic rifle, with this powerful, fierce, reliable new weapon, paratroopers are like a tiger wings, especially in this kind of jungle area operations, the density of fire is quite important, under the cover of the woods can not see the enemy's exact position, at this time, a fierce automatic weapon is quite necessary.

After packing up the automatic rifle, Qi Chengfeng raised his head and looked into the sky, the paratroopers had basically jumped out of the cabin, and it was the first paratrooper regiment that landed in this river valley, and their main task was to seize the road bridge less than five kilometers away from the river valley.

The distance of five kilometers is not far in the case of transport, but now the paratroopers can use only their legs and feet as "vehicles", and this is still a march in a tropical rainforest, the jungle is dense, there are no ready-made roads to use, and the local terrain is also very undulating, plus the necessary combat operations, this five-kilometer journey is really not easy.

The first thing that must be done is to gather the troops and immediately switch to the necessary defensive state, it is now four o'clock in the afternoon, if the troops can be quickly gathered, perhaps we will be able to rush to the target area this evening to carry out the battle, if we cannot quickly gather the troops, then the attack may be postponed until tomorrow, and tomorrow is also the day when the "Typhoon" campaign will be launched, and it is difficult to say how many British troops can be blocked at that time.

Therefore, when the commander of the 1st Paratrooper Regiment also landed on the ground, his first order was to "defend on the spot".

Qi Chengfeng finally gathered eight of his subordinates, and he only had nine paratroopers, all of whom only had light weapons, but even so, he had to immediately lead his troops to occupy a commanding heights according to the order.

This commanding height is on the edge of the river valley, it is a small hill, the vegetation is also very dense, after climbing the hillside, you can not see the situation on the other side of the river valley at all, Qi Chengfeng decided to dig a few foxholes on the hillside, and at the same time explain the mission briefing, so that the paratroopers can understand their mission.

The aerial formation of more than 100 transport planes and the airborne landing of thousands of paratroopers were a rare sight, and it was impossible not to attract the attention of the enemy, but in fact, just after the first batch of paratroopers landed in the river valley, the British army had already decided to send a colonial force good at jungle warfare to stop the Chinese paratroopers.

However, since the two armies were five kilometers apart, and the British army could not reach the valley quickly, the Chinese paratroopers still had plenty of time to gather their troops, and in fact, by five o'clock in the afternoon, most of the paratroopers had already arrived at the valley assembly area, and found the heavy equipment dropped by the transport planes from the jungle, such as mortars, long-range sniper rifles, flamethrowers, and anti-tank rocket launchers...... This equipment will become a useful weapon for the paratroopers to attack the fortifications.

Although a small number of troops did not arrive at the assembly site at the appointed time, the commander of the paratrooper regiment gave the formal order to march at half past five in the afternoon, and then the force of more than 1,000 people began to advance in a southeasterly direction.

The march in the tropical jungle was a chore, the heat was secondary, and the main difficulty came from the unknown threat ahead, on the one hand, the oncoming enemy troops, on the other hand, the changeable terrain and landforms, because of the dense jungle, it was difficult to find the small rivers and swamps along the way only by the aerial photographic reconnaissance of the air force, and the paratroopers had to carefully choose the place to cross the river so as not to be ambushed by the enemy.

In this way, the march could not be carried out at a fast pace, and the road bridge was not seen until it was dark.

The night march is more difficult, but no one dares to stop the advance, the enemy may be nearby, at this time, the only way to avoid being trapped in the jungle is to rush to the target area as soon as possible.

"Smack!"

"Dada...... Dadada......"

At half past seven o'clock in the evening, not long after dark, Qi Chengfeng heard the firing of British rifles and Chinese paratrooper automatic rifles from the front, at first it was still intermittent, but soon the gunfire became intensive, there is no doubt that the forward encountered the enemy, no one dared to raid recklessly in the dark, the regiment commander gave an order, the troops immediately defended on the spot, and the reconnaissance company infiltrated the enemy's deep area, hoping to find the command center of the enemy's troops.

Qi Chengfeng was in charge of the rearguard mission, and it was not his turn to play with his comrades in the battle ahead, so they could only stand by on the spot, while staring at the jungle where they could barely reach out for any suspicious targets, and occasionally there was a flash of flares in the distance, and they would not hesitate to take advantage of this faint light.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the British were unable to engage in small arms fire with the Chinese paratroopers, and in the darkness the Chinese fire was so fierce that the British commander was so frightened that he even reported to his superiors that he had been attacked by a Chinese army "armed entirely with machine guns."

After being hit by heavy fire, the British quickly retreated, and the Chinese paratroopers continued to advance firmly in the direction of the road bridge, crushing five British blocking forces along the way, and arriving at their destination before 11 o'clock in the evening.

At this time, the British defense there was already in full swing, and this was definitely a tough battle, and it was impossible to take a trick.

Qi Chengfeng was tasked with taking a commanding height above the highway bridge, where the British had built two improvised pillboxes, machine guns, mortars, and perhaps minefields.

"One row, follow me!"

After briefly describing the content of the task, Qi Chengfeng gave an order, led his paratrooper platoon to quickly touch the mountain, this night battle is very difficult for both warring parties, but in comparison, the attacker is obviously more advantageous, the night covers the paratroopers' maneuver very well, until they dive to the foot of the mountain, the British pillbox set up on the mountainside is still not moving, just keep using the two mortars on the top of the mountain to fire flares into the sky, hoping to scare the attackers.

"Platoon commander, there is a minefield at the foot of the mountain."

The two sharpshooters touched it back and handed Qi Chengfeng two mines dug out, the most ordinary anti-infantry mines, and judging from the model, it was still an old item more than ten years ago, Qi Chengfeng put his mind at ease, to deal with this minefield, the paratroopers have a lot of methods, if it is a daytime assault, use a blaster to detonate directly, but now it is night, it is completely possible to manually clear some mines, and sweep a way to attack in the minefield.

This task was given to six paratroopers, and Qi Chengfeng commanded the other paratroopers to set up mortars in a glade at the foot of the mountain, patiently waiting for the minefield road to be cleared.

Perhaps fearing a sneak attack by Chinese soldiers outside, the British troops at the commanding heights retreated into the pillboxes, and apart from the mortars on the hilltops, there were no other soldiers outside, except for the occasional machine-gun fire from the pillboxes into the open area of the hillside.

Soon, there was a dense burst of gunfire from the direction of the bridge, and the attacking troops there had already moved, and Qi Chengfeng decisively decided to immediately command the whole platoon of paratroopers to assault the first pillbox.

"Dada...... Dadada......"

The machine guns in the bunker were still firing, but they were not point-fired, but continuous, but this was only an act of courage on the part of the British soldiers, who did not notice that a group of Chinese paratroopers had infiltrated from the direction of the minefield and quickly approached the first bunker, during which the paratroopers did not fire a single shot.

After approaching the bunker, Qi Chengfeng and most of the paratroopers stopped, chose a hiding place, and the four paratroopers were assigned tasks, in groups of two, to touch the first bunker and the second bunker respectively, and then destroy the British bunker with a blaster at the same time, and the signal was Qi Chengfeng's signal gun.

"Dada...... Dadada......"

The British troops in the pillbox were still firing blindly, unaware that danger was imminent, and the Chinese paratroopers had already rushed to the vicinity of the pillbox with blasters.

Qi Chengfeng estimated that the time was almost up, so he used a flare gun to put a green signal flare on the side of the second bunker, seeing the flash of the flare, the commando quickly pulled the blasting canister, and then pulled the blasting canister into it from the shooting hole of the bunker, the time was very well controlled, two seconds later, the first bunker was blown into the sky, five seconds later, the second bunker also disintegrated in the violent explosion, and the British soldiers and officers who were lucky enough not to die in the attack also fell down in the sound of automatic rifle fire.

The battle went so well that even the mortars were useless, and fifteen British soldiers were killed and five were captured, including a British gunner, an Australian gunner, a New Zealand non-commissioned officer, and the other two were Indians.

Standing on the top of the hill where the smoke of gunfire had not cleared, Qi Chengfeng looked at the highway bridge under the road, where the fighting was still going on, in the night, the firepower projected by the two warring sides to the enemy was clearly visible, and even some small-caliber anti-aircraft guns fired tracer shells swept across the road, that is, the defending British army put the anti-aircraft guns flat and opened fire, and the fierce fire did cause great trouble to the Chinese attacking troops.

"Mortars stand here, projecting fire according to the orders of their superiors!"

Qi Chengfeng immediately made a decision, a communications soldier quickly pulled out the antenna of the individual radio station, and through this machine to contact the superiors, this individual radio station is very small, only the size of two bricks, but the communication performance is quite good, can talk directly with the radio station a few kilometers away, this is also one of the masterpieces of China's electronic industry in the world, and only the Chinese army is equipped at present.

Soon, the order of the higher authorities came, relying on the favorable terrain of the commanding heights, Qi Chengfeng commanded the paratroopers to use the two medium-caliber mortars to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment on the enemy defending the highway bridge, focusing on the artillery positions of those anti-aircraft guns, in order to cover the main force to assault on the bridge.

At two o'clock in the morning of the next day, the highway bridge finally fell into the hands of the Chinese paratroopers, and a coded telegram was sent from the telegraph of the communications troops.

"Sabre has completed its mission and is waiting for the typhoon to make landfall."