The airborne operation was still ongoing, and in just half an hour, three successive waves of more than 3,000 airborne regiments successfully landed in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese on the ground did not even have time to react, the airborne regiment had already successfully parachuted, and the more than 2,000 Japanese troops in the Asahikawa East Barracks, who had reacted at the beginning, only less than 300 Japanese troops hastily fled back to Asahikawa.

Due to the geographical location of Japan, it is unlikely that there will be any particularly magnificent buildings, except for the Imperial Palace, most of the other areas are mainly wooden houses, because of Japan's special geographical environment, it is difficult for Japan to suffer from foreign invasion.

Especially in the Hokkaido region, which is sparsely populated and the possibility of war is not very likely, Asahikawa is said to be a city, but from the current point of view, it does not look like a city at all, but more like a slightly larger village.

There are no Chinese city walls, no moats, some similar to European modern towns, the advantage of this kind of city is that it is convenient for economic development, planning and layout, but the disadvantage is that it is extremely unfavorable for defense during wartime, there are loopholes everywhere, and the enemy can enter the city from any place at will.

The Japanese army that fled back to Asahikawa from the front line was only about 300 men, and there were originally more than 2,000 people, but most of them were scattered to other places, and they were to take on the task of expanding the army in Hokkaido in order to fight a protracted battle against the Chinese army that landed in Hokkaido.

Asahikawa finally pulled up an army of about 5,000 people, and this is also the limit of the city of Asahikawa, if you continue to expand the army, you can only pull the old, weak, sick and disabled into it.

However, no one expected that the combat capability of the airborne troops would be so strong, even stronger than the combat effectiveness of the marines they had encountered before.

Of course, the Japanese are also stunned at the moment, and they don't know much about the Marine Corps and the Airborne Forces, so this kind of illusion will occur. In fact, if we talk about it, the combat effectiveness of the army should be ranked first, because the army has a large number of heavy equipment of all kinds, and the firepower is the most powerful, and the marines are second, because they can rely on warships for supplies, and again they can also rely on the warships' naval guns to gain a firm foothold.

In a certain aspect, the Airborne Forces are the weakest in terms of their combat effectiveness, and even the Airborne Forces, which are fully equipped with Type 03 automatic rifles, still cannot guarantee their combat effectiveness.

And there are two biggest reasons, namely supply problems and support problems.

The supply of the airborne troops can only be solved by airdrops, but airdrops cannot guarantee that all the supplies can be delivered to the troops, and there is a high probability that these materials will fall into the hands of the enemy and become the supply of the enemy army. If there are only bullets and no guns, then it is better to say, I am afraid that the guns and bullets will fall into the hands of the enemy at the same time.

And paratroopers are born to be surrounded, and this sentence also directly reflects the battlefield status of the airborne troops, their responsibilities are different from those of other arms, and the situation they have to face is more severe than that of other troops, which also leads to the fact that there are few successful cases to follow in airborne operations.

Wang Sirui is also very aware of this truth, but for the Airborne Forces, he is still difficult to give up, since this problem cannot be solved in history, then let's be a little cautious, there is nothing wrong with being cautious in everything, for the use of the Airborne Forces, it is still in the exploration stage.

Even the Chinese themselves do not understand what the real intentions of the Airborne Forces are, let alone the Japanese.

At 3:20 p.m. on May 17, the first airborne soldier jumped off the plane, and at 3:55 p.m., the last airborne soldier jumped off the plane, and in just 35 minutes, more than 3,000 airborne troops and an entire airborne regiment successfully parachuted into Asahikawa, and before the last group of airborne troops landed, the first batch of paratroopers solved more than 2,000 Japanese troops in the eastern barracks.

At 4:29 p.m., the first two groups of 2,000 parachutes had completed the reconstruction, and the rebuilding rate reached 95 percent, which also means that the airborne mission has achieved unprecedented success, in addition to their own training, they also have to thank the Japanese army for their carelessness and confusion, without the cooperation of the Japanese army, they would not have been able to achieve this rebuilding rate.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the third batch of 1,000 parachutes were all rebuilt, and the second battalion began to move to the south of the city after the completion of the reconstruction, and the military camp in the west of the city received a report of the rout of the eastern military camp that had fled back to Asahikawa, so they did not rush out to destroy the paratroopers who were landing.

Instead, they swarmed into Asahikawa Castle, intending to use the complex terrain and buildings in the city to resist the airborne regiment. Obviously, the Japanese army learned the lesson of the defeat of the military camp in the east of the city, and they had no choice but to choose the last resort.

But the war has come to this moment, and even the foolish loyalists of the Japanese emperor have begun to shake their minds, and their faith can make them fearless, no longer afraid of any enemy, even if the enemy is as strong as an ox, they are thin and withered, these Japanese soldiers dare to take up arms and rush to fight the enemy for their lives.

However, when they found that no matter how much they struggled, they could not bring any casualties to the other side, and they could not even get close to the other party's body, the Japanese army's faith began to waver, and when they were in despair, the belief that supported them began to collapse.

Emperor Meiji has just established the spirit of bushido for a few years, just beginning to exert force, but it has not completely penetrated the hearts of the people, according to high-level estimates, about twenty or thirty years later, the spirit of bushido will fully play their role, and at that time Japan, will be an invincible country, the spirit of bushido will also lead them to the top of the world.

It's a pity that the Japanese plan is very good, but they don't count the changes.

Wang Sirui asked himself in his heart more than once, is Japan really invincible? Is it really a big price to pay for landing in Japan?

But later, Wang Sirui denied his idea, Japan's bushido spirit is terrible, but it is absolutely impossible to have spirit alone and not arm them with weapons and equipment, as long as their logistics can keep up, Japan must not be China's opponent.

And as long as the war can progress to a certain stage, this bushido spirit in Japan will also collapse with a bang, just as Japan had to surrender in the later stages of World War II.

"The troops have been assembled, we have found 129 corpses of soldiers, and three more are missing, according to inquiries, it is judged that they may have been lost, but it is not ruled out that they were captured or killed by the Japanese hiding in the shadows. The first and second battalions partially routed about 2,000 Japanese troops in the Joto Barracks, and about three or four hundred people fled back to Asahikawa.

The military camp in the west of the city did not go out to fight, after the third batch of troops was airborne, all of them returned to Asahikawa, and it is currently estimated that there are at least 2,500 Japanese troops in Asahikawa Castle, and the number of civilians is unknown, but according to the size of Asahikawa Castle, it is estimated that there are about nearly 10,000 civilians here.

In addition, the battalions are in the process of marking the delivery areas, and it is expected that in an hour and a half, we will receive the first airdrop of supplies, and the last supply of the day. The chief of staff of the regimental headquarters of the 15th Airborne Regiment reported the real-time situation to the regiment commander, Colonel He Chao.

"Use up all the shells, bomb Asahikawa, and all the soldiers are on alert, and not allow any Japanese in Asahikawa to escape alive." He Chao nodded calmly and instructed the chief of staff.

"Commander, do you want to arrange a feint first?" Chief of Staff Song Qi was slightly stunned, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"No need, the Japanese mainland buildings are inflammable, and the bombardment does not prove what our purpose is, not to mention that there are thousands of enemy troops in the city, and our fire suppression before the attack is a normal military operation. As for those Japanese civilians, they can only blame the Japanese army themselves, who told them not to come out to fight us, but to use civilians as cover? If everyone is like this, will this battle still be fought? He Chao seriously rejected Song Qi's proposal.

Feint, he didn't have this mind at all, in He Chao's view, feint attack was simply wasting limited ammunition. And there is no need to be so merciful to the Japanese at all, Hokkaido is already vast and sparsely populated, and the position they are in now does not have any advantages, one more Japanese death at this moment, and then they will be safer.

Besides, we are just normal shelling, do we still have to consider the situation of the other side? Who made their houses mainly wooden?

That's right, He Chao's idea was to use artillery shells to attack Asahikawa, and then cause the Asahikawa fire, burning the Japanese troops inside, including civilians, to death, so that the greatest victory could be achieved at the lowest cost.

As for what did Asahikawa do to China after the massacre? This is not in their consideration at all, anyway, there are tens of millions of people in Japan, what is the impact of 120,000 deaths?

Of course, there is a more important purpose, He Chao does not want his soldiers to increase unnecessary casualties because of the siege of the city, since there is a better way, why choose a more laborious way?

However, if it is a densely populated place like Honshu Island, He Chao still needs to think about it before he dares to decide whether to do it or not, but this is Hokkaido, so he can only do it.

As the order was delivered, at five o'clock, four battalions of airborne troops from four directions, with the only mortars, fired all the shells into the city of Asahikawa in one go.

Mortars don't have to be deliberately aimed at all, and they don't care if there is an enemy in the area they are attacking, the target of this attack is all the houses in sight, and the fire there is over.