591: Airborne Asahikawa
The airplane was just a mysterious guy in these years, but in the eyes of a group of people, the airplane was just a variety of vehicles full of dangers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The plane slowly landed in a field airfield, although the airport has been leveled as much as possible, but because of a large number of planes taking off and landing, the huge weight smashed on the dirt, or there were potholes and small potholes in the airport one after another, fortunately, the airports in this era are relatively large, and the pilots have also undergone special training, the plane will follow the order of landing, from far to near a little bit forward.
Once all the planes have landed, the ground crew at the airport will turn the rollers on the ground to level the ground again.
It only takes a week to build an airport, and this speed will only happen in this year, and if it is delayed for several decades, the airport with this condition will not be usable at all.
The tires of the plane collided with the ground, and the violent turbulence made the soldiers in the plane feel very bad, although they had taken the plane no less than dozens of times, they were still very uncomfortable with this feeling, and people were always worried in the air.
But it can't be helped, that's their job.
The plane slowly docked on one side, just parked in the open air, a number of ground service trucks slowly drove to the side of the group, the ground crew did their own work, first to check the aircraft externally, and then check the flight record, and the pilot to hand over, after confirmation, there will be other ground crews one by one to fill up the fuel.
Of the more than 500 aircraft, nearly 300 were single-wing, bulky, two-engine transport aircraft, and the remaining 200 were biplane fighter-bombers.
After the plane came to a standstill, the soldiers in the belly of the plane slowly stepped off the plane, first to solve their personal problems, and then to find the ground support car that had been waiting there for a long time, and received their respective food and water.
At the airport, the soldiers got the news that this hot dinner was their last. Maybe they'll be able to eat hot food tomorrow morning and noon, but tomorrow night, they won't be able to eat it.
The next morning, the planes began to take off in formation, and it took less than an hour for all the more than 500 planes to take off, and the planes that had taken off in advance had already disappeared into the air.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, the group landed again, but this time it was a simple inspection of the planes, refueling, and then continuing to take off, not staying at the airport for long.
They don't know how many times they have encountered such a situation along the way, and they have to land every three hours or so on average, and the range of the plane has become the biggest factor limiting the air force.
On May 17, 1910, at 10:59 a.m., the first plane landed at the Sakhalin Field Airfield, less than 20 kilometers from the seashore and less than 100 kilometers from the Japanese mainland.
The last lunch was eaten at the airfield, and resupplies were carried out, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon the first plane left the Sakhalin field airfield.
Nearly 300 planes carried a regiment of soldiers who traveled nearly 3,000 kilometers in two days to Hokkaido, Japan, where their mission was to capture Asahikawa in Hokkaido and take control of it while waiting for the arrival of the next army.
According to the intelligence, the remnants of the Japanese army are organizing local troops in Hokkaido in Asahikawa, and they intend to resist the Chinese army, but for various reasons, these Japanese troops do not have enough weapons in their hands, so even if this regiment goes deep alone, its self-protection should not be a big problem.
The Chinese Empire had an airborne division, and only one regiment appeared here, and the rest of the troops had to take a train to Vladivostok or North Korea due to the lack of aircraft.
The Airborne Forces were established together when the Air Force was formally established, but at that time, because the Air Force did not have transport aircraft, there was no way to carry out airborne missions, so the original Airborne Forces were only trained on land.
After mastering the knock on the ground door, they began to parachute training on the edge of the cliff, the principle is to make an umbrella-shaped hanging pole with steel, install a pulley on it, and carry the switch of the umbrella bag, when the pulley is stopped, the rope will automatically fall off, and then the parachute bag will open, although there is still a big gap with the real airborne, but in the absence of an airplane, it is not easy to find such a simulated airborne site.
"Guys, in five minutes we'll be in the airborne area, the plane is lowering altitude, it's time for you guys to play." Inside the wheelhouse, the navigator walked out and said to the twelve soldiers in the belly of the plane.
The twelve soldiers took a heavy breath, they were not recruits who had not been on the battlefield, but each of them had participated in at least ten or more battles of different scales, but to participate in the battle in this way was the first time in the world, and it would be false to say that they were not nervous.
As the squad leader, Yang Quan stood up, leaned his back against the bulkhead next to the cab, looked at the soldiers of his squad in the belly of the plane, and said loudly: "Training for a thousand days, using soldiers for a day, I won't talk about the big truth, after the landing, get closer as soon as possible, pay attention to the position where you land when you are in the air, avoid the crowd as much as possible, if there is really no way to avoid, then be ready for battle."
The assembly area of our battalion is located about two kilometers east of Asahikawa, if it is not particularly far from here, come and meet as soon as possible, and if you fall into other areas, then do not think about returning to the troops, and gather as far as possible towards the nearest unit.
The assembly areas of the other three battalions are about two kilometers north of the city, west of the city, and south of the city. In addition, the assembly area of each battalion will only stay there for half an hour at most since the parachute jump, and if you are a little far away, then rush to Asahikawa as much as possible, at that time we must be besieging the castle.
Alright, all stand!
Check out the gear! ”
Yang Quan turned around, and the soldier in the first line helped Yang Quan check his umbrella bag with experience, and tightened his strap from time to time, while Yang Quan helped the soldier standing in front of him check the umbrella bag.
In the cabin, twelve soldiers formed an oval to ensure that everyone's bag could be checked. After the inspection is completed, the soldier in charge of the inspection behind him will pat the soldier in front of him on the shoulder to signal that the inspection is complete.
In about half a minute, all the umbrella bags were checked without any problems.
"Check the weapons and ammunition." Yang Quan continued to order.
Due to the lack of fire support and the inconvenience of airborne, their individual equipment is exactly the same as that of the first division. But it was a little stronger than the 1st Division.
Each soldier was armed with a Type 03 automatic rifle, five thirty-round magazines, one on a gun, four in a tactical vest, three hundred bulk bullets, four grenades, a Mauser rifle, two ten-round magazines and fifty pistol rounds, a dagger, two sapper shovels per squad, and one radio per company.
This is the standard configuration of paratroopers, and the firepower is strong, which means that the environment they face is even more dangerous, because all the heavy firepower of an airborne regiment is combined, there are only sixteen general-purpose machine guns and eight mortars, compared with ordinary infantry, their heavy firepower is too weak, so they can only make up for this problem by increasing individual firepower.
"Hook!"
With an order, eleven soldiers hung the hooks on their parachute bags on the finger-thick wire in the upper part of the cabin, and the preparations before the parachute jump were over, and they would start parachuting just for the pilot to give a signal.
Two minutes later, the cockpit opened again, in fact, a curtain was in the way, and the navigator walked out again and said to the paratroopers in the belly: "We have arrived at the predetermined position and can skydive, I hope we will go you home in the future, good luck to you!" ”
The navigator patted Yang Quan on the shoulder, and Yang Quan smiled slightly to express his gratitude.
The hatch was slowly opened, and the huge cold wind drilled into the belly of the plane along the hatch, Yang Quan personally checked the hook of the first soldier, and after confirming that there was no problem, he patted him on the shoulder, and then, the first soldier jumped out, the whole body left the belly, and the hook was mixed there by the rope, and as the first soldier jumped off the plane, the rope tied to the umbrella bag was quickly untied, about two meters in length.
When the rope was completely detached from the umbrella bag, the first soldier was about a few dozen meters away from the plane, the white umbrella bag was quickly opened, and the rapidly falling soldier began to descend at a uniform speed.
Immediately afterwards, the second place, the third place, and until the eleventh soldier left the belly, Yang Quan checked the hook for himself, and then jumped out of the belly.
The navigator hung his hook on the rope, then retracted the twelve two-meter-long ropes left outside the plane, closed the hatch tightly, and then returned to the cockpit, their mission was completed, and the next thing was to return to the flight.
On the ground, the huge roar in the air caused panic among the civilians of Asahikawa and the army who were training, and when they saw the black shadows in the sky, they instantly froze there, and before they could react, white semi-spheres appeared in the sky, and there seemed to be a person hanging below.
This scene really scared all the Japanese stupid.