The second is the world's first metal structure aircraft, the "Jiaobu" brigade can carry 20 passengers and some luggage, but this refers to civilian aircraft, as for the special military "Progress", due to the need to carry heavily armed soldiers. as well as the tactical requirements of playing and towing gliders to ensure longer ranges, therefore. The military-type Transport Aircraft Progress can carry only fifteen paratroopers and their sidearms.

At least 50 "Progress" transport planes are needed to carry two paratrooper battalions, but at present the Chinese Air Force does not have so many "Progress" transport planes at its disposal, so in addition to the more than 20 "Progress" transport planes, more than 20 wooden gliders were also used to carry out this "cramming operation." If you add to this the bombers that transport the heavy equipment of the paratroopers and the fighters who provide escort missions, then what is it. The aircraft formation was close to a hundred aircraft.

The formation took off from China's Heilongjiang border airport, crossed the Sino-Russian border, and flew directly to Temple Street, and could not land on the way, nor could it obtain fuel supplies at Temple Street; therefore, when the paratroopers landed in the air, the flight formation would immediately turn around and fly back to the Heilongjiang airport. Just wait for the paratroopers to give the signal, and they can immediately sail to the coast. Paratroopers were picked up on board, and two Chinese submarines were already lurking in nearby waters, and once Rasputin was rescued from the fortress, he would be sent to Vladivostok to take power.

According to the combat plan drawn up by the General Staff of the Airborne Forces, after the start of the airborne operation, the wooden gliders will first carry the paratroopers to land in the area of the communication artery between Temple Street and the coastal fortress, and these troops will be responsible for blocking the Russian troops reinforcing the fortress, and later. The Progress will parachute the rest of the paratroopers into the vicinity of the coastal forts, some of which will go straight into the battle and storm the Jam in search of Rasputin, while the other will look for the heavy equipment that will be airborne to provide fire cover for the attacking troops.

In fact, there is not much real heavy equipment either, and the technical conditions of the Airborne Forces limit the types of weapons they have. The most powerful weapon now available to the Airborne Forces is the four-millimeter heavy mortar, which is a smaller version of the previous millimeter mortar. More powerful, but lighter, it is very suitable for the Airborne Forces, and in addition to that, the remaining "heavy weapons" are flamethrowers, machine guns, and remote-controlled mines. As for the individual equipment of the paratroopers, they are mainly submachine guns, but this submachine gun is different from the submachine guns equipped by the army, this kind of paratrooper submachine gun does not use magazines, but uses drums, with a loading capacity of 70 pieces, and the fire power is quite strong. However, it is also heavier, therefore. When carrying it in normal times, the gun is not equipped with a drum. The drums were carried in canvas pouches, and each soldier carried four drums with him, which were mounted on the gun only when fighting.

Even so. The full weight of the paratroopers is still very impressive. The parachute weight limit has been almost reached, in order to minimize the weight. Paratroopers do not usually wear steel helmets in battle, but rather a fur cap, similar to that worn by pilots, and goggles.

China's airborne troops have been tested in actual combat, but this is the first time that such a combat operation as "Operation Cramming" has been carried out in deep enemy depths, and if the battle is lost, the paratroopers will not be able to obtain rear support. So, before the start of this operation. Including Qi Jinbiao, all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle wrote a letter of determination, vowing to become benevolent if they did not succeed, so this letter of determination can actually be regarded as a military order.

Although he was full of confidence in the combat effectiveness of the troops, Qi Jinbiao was still very cautious, after completing the production of the harmonica. He took out the battle log again, carefully reviewed the combat steps, and then closed his eyes and sketched the battle picture in his mind to see if there were any missing details.

Just sit in the cabin with your eyes closed. The roar of motives was still in my ears, and little by little time passed, and Temple Street was getting closer and closer, and when the midday sun was cast into the cabin, one of the pilots in the cockpit walked to the cabin. Report your current location to Qi Jinbiao.

"Report sir! According to the reconnaissance plane report, our formation has now gone to the sky over Temple Street, so please ask for advice on whether to airdrop gliders? ”

Qi Jinbiao opened his eyes, looked at the time of the watch, and then nodded, waiting for the pilot to return to the cockpit to take a telegram. Qi Jinbiao turned his head and looked out of the cabin through the porthole, very quickly. He saw the first wooden glider loosen the hook in the lower part of the nose and lose the tow of the Progress, and the wooden glider immediately slowed down. And began to descend in height. Although the flight was a little bumpy, it was relatively smooth, and soon passed through the clouds and was out of sight.

At the same time, Qi Jinbiao also felt that the "Progress" transport plane he was riding suddenly jumped forward, and the degree instantly sped up a little, and at the same time, the roar of the motive was also lowered a little. Qi Jinbiao knew that the wooden glider towed behind the transport plane had also loosened its hook, and it must be descending in height now.

This wooden glider, which is also a product of the Wuhan Aircraft Factory, is specially tailored equipment for the Airborne Forces, due to the lack of power, this glider can be made very light, can carry ten heavily armed paratroopers, and follow the tow along with the tow when towing, and once the tow is lost. This kind of glider can only rely on gliding to fly, and it has no power, it will only fly lower and lower, and even if there is an updraft, it is impossible to stay in the air for too long, so take this wooden glider

Baste... The second way to fall is to land. And paratroopers in airplanes are usually not equipped with decanters, because they don't have to, and they can carry more ammunition without parachutes.

Piloting this glider to land requires not only skill, but also courage, because this glider has no landing gear and glides on the ground completely on the belly of the glider to reduce the gliding distance. Guaranteed to be safe, but even so. Absolute safety is also not guaranteed, because no one knows what obstacles will appear in the area where they land, and a bush or a pile of wheat straw is already a very good treatment. If they hit a low wall, the paratroopers could only blame themselves for their bad luck.

Originally, Qi Jinbiao was going to take a glider for airborne operations, but the staff officers stopped him, because in the eyes of the staff officers, it was too risky to let the regiment commander take an unpowered glider, after all, Qi Jinbiao was the supreme commander of the whole regiment, and he must be responsible for commanding all the participating troops, so in the end, Qi Jinbiao still got into a "Progress" transport plane and prepared to follow the paratroopers for parachute operations.

Soon, all the gliders disappeared through the clouds, and the "Progress" group began to turn eastward under the command of the lead pilot. Fly to the coast and prepare to drop the paratroopers over the fortress.

"Prepare to be airborne! Get ready to be airborne! ”

A pilot stood at the cockpit hatch and shouted at all the paratroopers in the cabin. So, all the paratroopers stood up and hung the parachute hook on the suspension rope, and Qi Jinbiao was no exception. Moreover, he will also be the first to jump out of the cabin.

Because it was a low-altitude parachute, the paratroopers relied on pulling the parachute hook to open the parachute, and before the paratroopers parachuted, the bombers in front of them had already begun to drop the paratroopers' heavy equipment to the ground. Heavy tin boxes were thrown out of the cabin by the pilots, umbrellas were pulled out of the sky, and relying on the landing trajectory of those heavy equipment, the leader of the transport aircraft formation confirmed the direction and wind of the wind. So, after adjusting the course, the parachute signal was sent to all transport planes through the radio station.

"See you on the ground!"

Qi Jinbiao put his hands on the door frame of the cabin door, turned his head and shouted to the paratroopers behind him, and then with a force of his arms, the whole person flew out of the cabin. Facing the strong wind, he planted downward. After falling for a distance, the main parachute behind the back finally opened, and an umbrella flower bloomed in the air, only 200 meters above the ground, which is the low-altitude parachute.

Soon. More and more parachutes appeared in the sky, densely packed, due to the proximity to the ground. So, it took only a short time for the paratroopers to land on the ground, and immediately unloaded the parachute bags, began to organize their weapons, and gathered together with each other to start looking for the heavy equipment that had been airdropped.

Qi Jinbiao landed next to a pine tree, and his parachute almost hung on the pine tree. Landing above. He also immediately unloaded his parachute bag and sorted out the submachine gun, loaded the drums, and then took out the two medals from the pocket of his military uniform, and solemnly hung them on his left chest.

After finishing all this, Qi Jinbiao raised his head and looked into the distance, the gray fortress was a thousand meters away, and the landing of the paratroopers did not seem to attract the attention of the fortress. The fortress remained silent. Just when Qi Jinbiao was running towards a nearby equipment box, he heard the sound of gunfire and turned his head to look, now those paratroopers who were responsible for attacking the fortress had already attacked, in fact, in the parachute operation of Wang Xiaocai, some paratroopers directly floated to a very close place near the fortress, and the unresponsive Russian soldiers did not shoot until they began to rush towards the fortress, but at this time, the paratroopers had already rushed to the effective range of the submachine gun, relying on the fierce fire of the submachine gun to quickly suppress the rifle fire on the fortress.

Temple Street Fortress is a coastal fortress built in the late 19th century, its main role is not to deal with enemies from land, but from the sea, therefore, the fortress is basically not heavy firepower in the direction of the land, all the artillery is pointed at the sea, and this is the main reason why the paratroopers rushed to the fortress so quickly.

Soon, Qi Jinbiao commanded the soldiers to open the first equipment box, take out a four-millimeter heavy mortar from it, and quickly assemble the mortar, and then immediately carried out suppressive fire on the fortress, under the cover of artillery fire, the melee paratroopers quickly used remote-controlled mines to blow up a passage of the fortress, and rushed into the fortress, because the fortress had been bought in advance, so when the paratroopers rushed into the fortress shortly after, Rasputin was brought to the paratroopers, after confirming the photo, The paratroopers quickly took Rasputin out of the fortress and covered him for the shore, while Qi Jinbiao led another force to continue to suppress the fortress while waiting for the reinforcements that had landed on Temple Street to join him.

The battle went quite smoothly and in a short time, when the Russian troops on Temple Street arrived at the jam, Qi Jinbiao had already commanded the paratroopers to retreat, and in the whole battle, only five Chinese paratroopers were killed and dozens were wounded. It's a big win. Moreover, in the afternoon of the same day, the Chinese paratroopers boarded the ocean-going fishing boats that had rushed to meet them, and Rasputin, the regent of the Tsarist government, successfully boarded an ocean-going attack submarine of the Chinese Navy and immediately rushed to Vladivostok by submarine.

The "cramming operation" was completed very smoothly. And the next thing to do is to see the division of forces within the Tsarist government.