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Chapter 2026 Powerful Airborne Operations

At half past seven o'clock in the morning of 29 December 1942, after the rain had cleared for a day and a night in most parts of West Asia, the Anjia Army Aviation Unit deployed in the Lianghe River Valley launched another large-scale air raid. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info (--Net.)

In the dawn of dawn, the roar of huge aircraft engines sounded, and a total of more than 4,500 Anjia Army fighters formed a wave of strikes, taking off one after another from 48 military airfields in front and in depth.

More than 500 A29 fighter jets and an equal number of B4, B5 and B4S bombers took off in the first wave, forming more than 20 strike groups, which will visit Mersin, Iskenderun, Latakia, Tartut, Tripoli, Beirut, Haifa, and Jaffa on the Mediterranean coast two hours later.

Eight days ago, these important maritime hubs, far from the battlefield and connecting the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and North Africa, were bombed indiscriminately by Anjia warplanes, and today a terrible air defense siren will once again sound, and it is believed that the news will soon be transmitted back to Germany and then throughout the world through the repaired telephone lines and radio stations on specific frequencies.

Although the Nazi government has not released the details of the war in West Asia to the outside world, the intelligence agencies of Britain and the United States, with a keen sense of smell, have deduced from the sharp decline in the number of warplanes in Western Europe, the movement of German troops on Turkish soil, and the frequent air raids on many cities that the Germans may be heading for an unprecedented defeat.

At the same time, in order to keep many new weapons and equipment secret, the West Asian theater has refused to allow foreign journalists to enter, and the Middle East, which was once the backyard of European and American journalists, has been shrouded in a layer of fog.

Just as the research and development of propeller land-based fighters has stopped, the research on propeller land-based bombers by major aircraft companies and research institutions of the Anjia Army has basically come to an end, and the direction of research has almost turned to the research and development of jet transport aircraft and bombers.

For the An Jiajun, the current land-based propeller bombers are basically enough. In the short distance, with the B2 dive bomber as the absolute main force, between 500 km and 1,500 km in the combat radius, most of the B1 mosquito bombers and B3 twin-engine bombers will be dispatched, and once the combat radius exceeds 1,500 km, the B4, B5 and B4S three four-engine bombers will show their skills.

As everyone knows, the B4 bomber of the An Jiajun is mainly developed on the basis of the AN6 transport aircraft, with a range of 3,100 kilometers and a performance similar to that of the American B17 "Flying Fortress" bomber.

The B5 bomber, which was successfully developed in January 40 and installed in the air force in May of the following year, was independently developed according to the AN7 transport aircraft technology, with a crew of eight people, a range of up to 5,500 kilometers with the addition of auxiliary fuel tanks, ten 12.7 mm aviation machine guns, a bomb load of seven tons, four 1,500 horsepower star-shaped engines, a cruising speed of 350 km/h, a maximum speed of 580 km/h, and a maximum flight altitude of 9,500 meters. (--net.)

As an upgraded version of the B4 bomber, the B4S bomber was successfully developed in late June last year, and was officially equipped with the aviation team in May this year, with advanced designs such as pressurized engine rooms, central fire control and remote-controlled machine guns, with a crew of 10 people, an empty weight of 33,000 kilograms, a full load weight of 55,000 kilograms, and a maximum take-off weight of 62,000 kilograms, which means that the B4 bomber can carry a maximum weight of 29 tons.

The engine of the B4S bomber is four supercharged star-shaped 2,200 horsepower engines, with a maximum speed of 620 km/h, a cruising speed of 420 km/h, a combat cruising range of 6,500 km, a transport cruising range of 9,800 km, an altitude of 11,000 km, and weapons include 12 12.7 mm machine guns, a remote-controlled 20 mm cannon, and the tail can suspend 9,100 kg of aerial bombs.

The B5 and B4S bombers, with a combat radius of more than 2,500 kilometers, are the killer weapon for the An Jiajun to carry out long-range bombing, and the combat radius of the Middle East is generally within 1,500 kilometers.

Half an hour after the departure of the first wave of planes, more than 2,000 strike groups consisting of A27, A28, and GII fighters and B1, B2, and B3 bombers also took off one after another according to the size of the bombing radius and began to strike at the cities and airfields where the German troops were stationed in southern Turkey, Syria, and Jordan.

In the sky, all kinds of bombers formed strike groups one after another, lined up in neat formations, and crossed the border line.

The German scouts only had to stand on the top of the border fortresses to clearly see these combat planes sprayed with the Flying Fox logo of the Anjia Army, rolling towards the western sky like a river, and those fighters with faster speed and higher flight altitude came from the rear in a group, looking at the past from a distance, like a brave knight escorting a married princess to her destination.

Important border cities such as Qamishli, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor were the first to be hit because of their proximity. The anti-aircraft artillery groups deployed in major cities roared angrily, and the black smoke almost obscured the upward vision, but the screaming B2 bombers still fearlessly dived down, smashing bombs one after another at the German air defense positions, as well as the newly repaired military airfields and military barracks on the edge of the city.

The explosions that burst the eardrums sounded one after another, and the ground of these cities trembled violently as if they were experiencing a major earthquake of the highest magnitude, although the bombers of the An Jiajun were shot down at an average speed of one in two minutes - some slipped down with long black smoke, some were hit by shells and exploded in the air, and some directly broke off the wings and fell in a spiral, but the fearless Anjia Army aviation still attacked one after another.

At this time, the vast majority of German officers and soldiers were hiding in deep anti-aircraft shelters, and they did not have the opportunity to watch the magnificent scene.

At about 9 a.m., the coastal cities of the Mediterranean Sea were surrounded by flames and smoke, and the bombers of the Anjia Army roared in the air for a kilometer or two, dropping bombs on the docks, airports, warehouses, shipyards, and all suspicious buildings that had been abandoned or were about to be abandoned.

After the dense aerial bombs fell, the runway and roads of the airport were turned into potholes on the surface of the moon, and almost no building could escape the bombing and strafing of the Anjia fighters, and any building with a large antenna would be bombed continuously until it disappeared from the ground.

In fact, the Luftwaffe had already done everything possible to send about four or five hundred fighters to the Middle East, and now they were scattered and hidden in the woods and caves of the Coast Mountains, or in the warehouses and haystacks of rural farmhouses. The German fighters immediately showed their sharp fangs.

While almost all the attention of the Germans was focused on the huge losses caused by the Anjia air raids in various parts of the Middle East, it was the protagonist of the air raid that finally appeared, a staggering number of AN6, AN7, and Yii transport planes covered by A32, A33 jet fighters, and GIII hybrid fighters, flying towards the vast field between Qamishli, Kubaibat, and Hasakah.

After more than half an hour of flight, the aircraft group cut through the border gap that the German troops had broken through, and arrived safely and soundly over the destination.

At this time, six red pillars of smoke had risen on the ground that reached into the blue sky and confirmed the location of the airdrop.

The transport plane began to spiral and descend from an altitude of five or six thousand meters until it reached an altitude of two or three hundred meters before maintaining a steady flight.

As the back door of the cabin opened, the paratroopers of the Second Division of the First Airborne Army jumped out of the cabin in a head-down diving posture, and in the huge roar of the aircraft engine, gorgeous white umbrella flowers began to bloom everywhere in the sky.

A large transport plane that threw paratroopers out of the air, after hovering in the sky and adjusting its posture, climbed cautiously, and then left the airdrop site under the cover of fighters.

After all the paratroopers landed, nearly 100 armed and transport helicopters cut through the gap in the German defense line and quickly flew over the airdrop ground, in which the armed helicopters automatically dispersed and circled at low altitude nearby to carry out patrol and alert tasks, while the transport helicopters descended straight and stopped directly on the ground, and under the fierce wind raised by the rapidly rotating propellers, the soldiers hunched their waists, held their weapons, and quickly left the cabin of the transport helicopters.

"After taking off the parachute, find your weapons and equipment as soon as possible, and assemble in a squad and platoon to the helicopter landing area!" Regardless of rubbing their chests that hurt when they landed, the junior lieutenants and non-commissioned officers of the regiments of the Second Airborne Division tirelessly repeated the same orders, and as for the security and security work at the airborne sites, those armed helicopters and the sabotage squads scattered around enemy lines were not vegetarians.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the last Anjia Army paratrooper landed, a German reconnaissance unit of about a platoon size, riding two-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycles, rushed towards the parachute landing area, but unfortunately it was discovered by the helicopter gunships hovering in the air from a distance, and immediately surrounded it. However, at this time, more than 40 German scouts had already landed on the ground, and were beaten into stumps and broken arms by helicopter gunships.

After handing over the task to Colonel Zhao Zhengyang, commander of the Second Airborne Division, An Huaxia immediately led his troops to leave and moved to the southern region of Turkey, where he continued to engage in sabotage activities behind enemy lines as a German.

Half an hour later, four large airships flew in from the western sky, and after reaching the airspace above the temporary airship airfield, they slowly descended in altitude under the guidance of radio.

"Bang-"

When the bilges of the four airships touched the ground, there was a slight crashing sound, the hatches opened one after another, the steel approach bridge stretched out diagonally at a fifteen-degree angle, and tanks, armored combat vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and trucks drove out of it.

The paratroopers, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately entered the engine room, lifted down the 75-mm recoilless guns, 105-mm mountain grenades, 107-mm twelve-barreled rocket launchers, and other weapons and equipment, began to assemble them, and then distributed them to the regiments and battalions.

When the engine room full of hundreds of tons of cargo became empty, the four transport airships started again, slowly climbed in altitude, and when they reached an altitude of 8,000 meters, they began to fly towards the eastern sky to continue the delivery of the second batch of war materials.

At half past ten in the morning, a regiment of German troops departed from the city of Hasakah and became the prey of the 2nd Airborne Division, which had completed its assembly and was preparing to leave.

The roar of the 20-mm cannon of the armoured fighting vehicle, the 12.7-mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun of the armoured personnel carrier, and the rumbling of airborne tanks, assault guns, and tank destroyers are extremely impressive. With the cooperation of the helicopter gunships in the sky, the German troops who came on foot were beaten almost in a single shot, and they were interspersed, surrounded, and annihilated; in just half an hour, except for more than 300 German troops in a regiment who surrendered, the rest were either killed or wounded, and not a single fish slipped through the net.

At 11:43 a.m., when more than 9,000 officers and men of the 2nd Airborne Division advanced to the railway station west of Hasakah City, they had a fierce exchange of fire with the German troops stationed here; although the German anti-tank weapons were basically sent to the front line, the 88-mm anti-aircraft guns were the best anti-tank weapons when they were laid flat, plus anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of various calibers, as well as rocket launchers equipped by the German infantry and Molotov cocktails and flamethrowers made according to local conditions, which caused certain troubles to the attack of the 2nd Airborne Division.

However, as the battle deepened, the gap between the two sides in equipment began to appear, and the paratroopers of the Anjia Army used squads and platoons as combat units to use the assault infiltration tactics that they were good at, tanks, armored vehicles, assault guns and destroyers, widening the distance and providing strong fire support, and the explosions of grenades, rockets, recoilless guns and tank shells came and went.

During the attack, the paratroopers of the Anjia Army often used explosive weapons to cut openings in the outer walls or fronts of buildings, and with the tacit understanding and experienced combat officers and soldiers, they first served with grenades, and then rushed in with submachine guns and automatic rifles.

House-to-house battles were supposed to be hard, but the civil buildings of Hasakah in this era were too rudimentary, and there were very few two-story buildings, which could cause a limited interception effect on the An Jia army.

The fighting lasted only a quarter of an hour before the Hasakah railway station and the surrounding neighborhood changed hands.

Subsequently, the paratroopers of the Anjia Army, which had broken into the city of Hasakah from the west and south, began to sweep every street and alley, and finally took control of the Hasakah military airfield in the east of the city, which had been battered by the Anjia Army Air Force at 12:45 p.m., and the engineer battalion quickly repaired the runway of the airport to meet the arrival of airships and transport planes.

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