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Needless to say, the various weapons developed specifically for the Airborne Forces are not to be said. They also wore military camouflage uniforms designed by Zhang Cheng and carried mixed backpacks filled with spare weapons, ammunition, medical supplies, mixed combat rations, chocolate bars, tea, honey, toiletries, military daggers, sapper shovels, flashlights, compasses, raincoats, boots, socks**, and various personal items. A water bottle and a pistol hung from his waist, and various supplies were attached to the back of his buttocks. On the chest, there are various weapons hanging from it.

As a result of carrying so much equipment, officers and men had to get up from the ground with the help of their comrades. After carefully checking and detaining their parachutes, as well as the reserve and auxiliary parachutes, the officers and men began to turn to each other for their comrades to do the final checks before boarding.

When Zhang Cheng was organizing the Airborne Forces, he asked a number of factories to develop a new type of parachute. Later, a company with a very good background won the order.

This wasn't a big deal, but the company made only 99 percent of its parachute products. This means that one out of a hundred paratroopers will be killed while parachuting. Although the soldiers are not afraid of dying in battle, no one is willing to accept this kind of unprovoked battle damage, and the blow to morale can be imagined.

Zhang Cheng immediately flipped the table after learning about this. Then he personally led a large number of paratroopers to rush to the office building of the company that produced parachutes. After guarding the frightened security guards, Zhang Cheng took the company executives and bosses into parachutes and took them to the top floor in front of countless people.

"Can the quality be 100% qualified?" When those who had a skydiving experience from a 100-meter-high building were brought to Zhang Cheng again, no one dared to shout who they belonged to. All of them were swinging like quails, cowering in front of Zhang Cheng, and they couldn't say anything. Since that time, there have been no quality problems with the parachutes received by the Airborne Forces.

Why have the Airborne Forces always been a staunch supporter of Zhang Cheng? Even if it is a newly formed airborne unit, will it join Zhang Cheng's obviously mutinous military operation without hesitation? The incident of the parachute touched the airborne troops a lot.

There is no such thing as human rights in this era.

Basically, what you come from has already determined the fate of your life. Even the much-talked-about former first assistant Zhang Yue is the same. It is said that he is self-made, but in fact he is a descendant of the Zhang family in Songjiang Prefecture. Since childhood, he has received an elite education, at least the starting point is much higher than others.

Besides, although he has always claimed to have severed relations with the Zhang family of Songjiang Mansion. But with the vision and ability of the former head of the Zhang family, how could he not have helped Zhang Yue when he was just emerging from the limelight?

Even if it is really old and dead, the higher Zhang Yue climbs, the greater the benefit to the Zhang family in Songjiang Mansion. This kind of thing doesn't need to be said explicitly, and many things will be done secretly by themselves. Without the support of the Zhang family in secret, Zhang Yue might not be able to sit in that position smoothly.

And Zhang Cheng is a self-made man in the true sense, and he is the real idol of this generation of Ming people.

The sound of military trumpets came and went, and thousands of officers and men began to walk towards the transport planes parked on the tarmac according to their respective formations. Watching the officers and soldiers walk on the transport plane one after another, Cui Yunjie raised his hand and rubbed his face vigorously, and after taking a long breath, he walked towards a large transport plane not far away.

More than 10,000 elite paratroopers boarded a large number of Hercules transport planes at airports across Jeju Island. Under the reflection of the setting sun, the soldiers of the airport guard and air defense units began to wave and shout their blessings.

The engines roared violently, and the pilots were ordered by the tower to release the brakes and drive the plane onto the runway. Soon, one after another, huge transport planes soared into the sky with the bright glow of the sunset!

Not only on Jeju Island, but also at airports in southern North Korea, there are larger fleets of Hercules transport planes, loaded with thousands of paratroopers, and flying to the Japanese island of Kyushu across the ocean.

The size of the airborne fleet was such that many of the Japanese army's concealed radar stations in Kitakyushu burned down due to overload. The entire screen was full of points of light, not only countless planes, but also aluminum foil thrown by the pilot group, and the eyes of the Japanese soldiers were immediately blinded.

The Japanese had long known that the Ming Dynasty was about to launch a large-scale sea-crossing attack on the island of Kyushu. However, they have not been able to confirm the exact location of the attack. From Shimonoseki to Fukuoka, from Nagasaki to Amakusa, and even near Kagoshima, it is possible. Each of these places could be the landing site of the Ming army.

There are three locations that the Japanese are more sure of: Shimonoseki, Fukuoka and Nagasaki. The possibilities of these three locations are very high.

Needless to say, Shimonoseki is the choke point between Kyushu Island and Honshu Island, and taking this place can directly block the connection between Kyushu Island and Honshu Island, and directly threaten Honshu Island.

Fukuoka is also known as Kitakyushu, the largest heavy industry base in Japan outside of Tokyo. The coastline is long, and everywhere there are suitable places for large-scale landing operations.

Nagasaki is similar to Fukuoka, except that one is mainly commercial and the other is industrial.

All three locations are within the absolute coverage of the Ming Air Force, and all have large deep-water ports suitable for large-scale cargo and personnel handling. As a result, the Japanese had to disperse their forces and garrison them in several places. The Japanese do not lack human resources. They have people. What they lack is heavy equipment such as artillery, armored vehicles.

When the overwhelming fleet of planes flew over Matsuura Island and the Goto Islands towards the Nagasaki Peninsula, the Japanese were finally able to determine that the main direction of the Ming attack was here.

Nagasaki Prefecture has a complex coastline of more than 4,000 kilometers consisting of peninsulas, straits, bays, and estuaries. Many places have sandy beaches that are ideal for landing operations. The port of Nagasaki, which was heavily protected by the Japanese army, is located in an environment surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. The Ming army did not intend to make a direct assault, but chose the main point of attack on the beach between the port of Nagasaki and Sasebo.

As the Iki and Tsushima barriers, the Goto Islands and other important islands were attacked by the Daming Marines immediately after the attack of the Daming Airborne Forces. With the fire support of many warships, a large number of officers and men of the Marine Corps took professional landing craft to the island and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese troops defending the island. This was an outpost before the Great War and was used to clear the threat around the landing force.

The distance from Jeju Island to Nagasaki is actually not that far. At about ten o'clock in the evening, a large group of transport planes came within the range of Japanese anti-aircraft fire.

Although they were constantly attacked by the Ming air power, the Japanese still had the ability to hide some of their heavy equipment and wait for important moments to be used. When a deafening roar was heard in the sky, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, which had been hidden for a long time, ripped off its camouflage and began to roar.

This means that the Japanese army's air defense capabilities are not strong, or they have been depleted of reserves by fierce air raids that have lasted for a long time. Otherwise, the Ming transport fleet would have suffered heavy losses if it flew at a parachute altitude of no more than a few hundred meters. Even now, Japan's small anti-aircraft firepower still brought a lot of casualties to the Ming transport fleet.

"Hop Hop Hop !!" The non-commissioned officer standing at the door of the cabin shouted loudly, ordering the soldiers to jump from the hatch one by one into the vast night sky.

Not far away, a transport plane was hit by ground artillery fire, and then deadly flames quickly ignited the entire plane along the oil pipeline. Looking at the friendly transport plane that fell to the ground with its head on its side, the paratroopers, who were already under pressure from the artillery fire, did not care about anything else, and hurriedly jumped out after the green light came on.

The sky was filled with white parachutes, and tens of thousands of elite Ming paratroopers were dropped onto the Nagasaki Peninsula, where they engaged in fierce battles with Japanese troops on the ground.

In fact, the best way to fight against paratroopers who are basically light infantry and have little heavy firepower is to use armored units. Powerful armor forces had an overwhelming advantage over the paratroopers.

It's just that the Japanese troops stationed on the island of Kyushu, especially on the Nagasaki Peninsula, are now not to mention armored troops, and they don't even have a few trucks left. Without the protection of superior air power, armored forces simply cannot counter striking forces from the air.

Armored vehicles are not artillery pieces that can be buried in the ground. They need room to maneuver to be able to exert their strength. Once this kind of thing is buried in the ground, it can only be used as a fixed fire point, and thus loses the ability to maneuver. As for the fact that after digging out, blowing soil can be directly driven to fight, that is all in science fiction. At least the level of science and technology in this era can't do it.

Although the Japanese imitated the Ming Dynasty everywhere, they knew very well that the country's armament must not be faked by others. Unlike North Korea and other countries, which fully accepted the equipment of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese developed a set of weapons systems of their own.

However, due to the lack of resources and funds, as well as the country's focus on the navy, the Japanese army was equipped with very few heavy weapons, and the main combat weapon was the Type 38 cavalry rifle. This weapon is in no way comparable to the automatic fire in the hands of the Ming paratroopers.

The well-trained Daming paratroopers quickly approached each other to form a combat queue through various cipher commands after landing. Use the weapons in your hands to engage in fierce battles with the Japanese troops who are surrounding you from all sides.

The incandescent ballistics flew back and forth in the night, and the shouts of different languages mingled with the roar of guns and the sound of the engines of the transport planes in the sky to form a battlefield symphony.

The war has just begun. (To be continued.) )