Chapter 297: Airborne in Dalian
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The war is still going on.
The only difference is that the 99th Army at this time is no longer as calm as it was at the beginning.
Although the number of the 99th Army has increased by more than 100,000 after a small army expansion, in fact, the combat effectiveness of these more than 100,000 troops is basically negligible.
Countless recruits either hid to help the machine gunner press the bullets, or kept filling their rifles with bullets and handing them to the veterans next to them, and so on.
Due to shooting skills and psychological reasons, the recruits are still reluctant to shoot when facing the little devils, but they are also doing everything they can to help carry down the wounded and help press the bullets, so that the veterans can continue to shoot.
Of course, there are also people who can't help but secretly shoot behind the cover, whether they hit or not, they are still quite excited in their hearts.
The number of people has increased, but the combat effectiveness cannot be increased for a while, and this is inevitable, let a group of untrained peasants go to the battlefield, don't expect them to burst out of that amazing combat effectiveness.
As Su Dao and Wu Zhongguo had predicted, the fleet went straight to the port of Lushunkou and drove the troop carrier full of soldiers to the dock safely, and a soldier named Yue Ben stepped off the troop carrier in an orderly manner.
After a short rest for half a day, they began to set off north one after another.
Some of the Yue soldiers rode on trains, but most of them still walked on land, and there was not much about the locomotives here, most of them were in Mukden or Xinjing.
On the second day of the landing, the vanguard met with the Huaxia army, which had been waiting there for a long time, and before that, the Huaxia Air Force had also attacked the Yueben army many times.
However, the effect was not very good, whether it was the fighters of the Kwantung Army or the fighters of the Guannai Army, they seemed to be patrolling near Dalian intentionally or unintentionally.
Although the Air Force of the 99th Army has the ability to fight with them and is sure of victory, it must be dispatched by the whole army, but it is a little difficult to bomb.
The air battle continued every day, and the fighters on both sides were damaged, and the crashed Huaxia fighters chose to parachute on the sea as much as possible, because there were their submarines waiting underwater, and they would be rescued in no more than three hours.
If it's on land, it's not very guaranteed. And after returning to the base, new fighters will be assigned to them immediately, which is why although the Yue army shot down many Chinese fighters, there is not much less fighters who come out to fight every day.
On the contrary, after nearly a week of high-intensity air battles, the Air Force has less than 100 fighters in its hands, and the pilots are also dead and wounded, and only half of the fighters can take off.
Of course, the Huaxia Air Force is not much better, there are only about 200 fighters in total, except for a few pilots who have not been shot down in the past week, the rest of them have basically changed one fighter, and some people have even changed three or four.
But it's not for nothing, at least for those pilots, their combat skills are also improving rapidly, and the stars on the fighters are also increasing.
After a week's air battle, the air force of the 99th Army had already lost more than 200 planes, and if there were no new fighters to replenish the troops at any time, the air force would have been unable to fight a war a long time ago.
In seven days, more than 200 fighters were destroyed, and at the cost of more than 200 fighters, about 700 fighters of the Kwantung Army and the Guannai Army were destroyed.
If it weren't for Su Dao's generosity, this powerful air force would have let him play a long time ago. Reimburse 200 advanced fighters in a week, and it's terrifying to think about.
In the past seven days, because the army on the front line did not break through the position, but left behind a lot of corpses, the army in the rear did not continue to send troops to Dalian.
Basically, according to the battle loss figures of the front-line troops, new supplies were carried out accordingly.
The more they wanted to break through the position, the more ferocious the fight would be, and they would hold the position to the death, and they would not be allowed to break through no matter what.
After three landings in a week, the number of the army in the entire Dalian area now has as many as eight divisions, and although the two armored divisions on the front line can still support it, the pressure is not ordinarily great.
The infantry had been fighting for a week, and the troops were even more exhausted, and if the army continued to attack, it was estimated that they would not be able to break through the defensive line in a few days.
In the north, although the main force has already exchanged fire with the main force of the Kwantung Army, it has to be said that the Kwantung Army, which has been driven into a dead end at this time, has burst out with shocking combat effectiveness.
The 766th Division, as well as the Western Route Army and the Central Route Army, five divisions of hundreds of thousands of troops, suffered considerable losses when they confronted the Kwantung Army, which was less than twice as large as themselves.
Although the losses of the Kwantung Army were greater, if it continued like this, the 99th Army obviously could not accept this outcome, and most importantly, the Yue Army in the south also showed that it was ready to move, although it was suppressed by Katyusha, the Yue Army could not put more pressure on the 99th Army for the time being.
However, the Nationalist Army in the south of the Yue Army was different, and the Yue Army could not move here, so they began to find a way to fight with the Nationalist Army surrounding them, except for the Eighteenth Group Army, which had the direct support of Su Dao, the situation was slightly better, and the other troops could not resist the attack of the Yue Army.
The battle lines began to retreat one after another, and a big encirclement seemed to be about to turn into a big rout, in the face of all this, Su Dao was also speechless, and if the war on the northern front was not resolved, there would be no way to start a war in the south.
In the face of the Kwantung Army, which was a little smaller, it was still struggling, and if it rashly launched a two-front offensive at the same time, what would happen?
As the pressure on the line from Yingkou to Dandong increased, and there was even a feeling of being unable to support it, Su Dao had to frown again.
There were no available forces to be transferred there, and the two divisions of the Third Army had already been transferred by him to one division, and the remaining one division could not be moved under any circumstances, six hundred tanks, a defensive line of more than fifty thousand infantry, plus the support of the air force from time to time.
But now in Dalian, a small place, there are actually eight Kwantung Army divisions and regiments, and the gathered troops of the Yue Army are absolutely impossible to imagine how powerful his attack power is.
Even the 99th Army, which was covered by tanks and a large number of heavy firepower equipment, still felt very painful, and even almost broke through the defense line by the Japanese army several times.
'Buzz! Airplanes! Airplanes! ’
Hundreds of warplanes of all kinds were flying forward in the air, all 200 fighters were dispatched, and 100 Stuka were not spared, this was a war that was enough to make everyone afraid.
200 C47 paratroop transport planes in the air are struggling to fly forward, carrying 4,000 paratroopers to their destination in Dalian under the protection of 300 fighters.
This is also the reason why the 99th Army Air Force has been dispatched in large numbers within the previous week, and they must deal with the air force of the little devils before the airdrop, so that they cannot threaten the airborne troops when they parachute. (I was talking about the ME323 before, which was a simple transport plane, and I got it wrong.) )
After the 4,000 paratroopers had parachuted, all the planes returned directly to the airport, and after arriving at Jinxi Airport, the paratroopers waiting there continued to the battlefield.
Just by airdropping these 30,000 paratroopers, the Air Force needs to fly eight times, and each time it takes more than an hour to go back and forth, plus refueling and so on, it will take a day to put a paratrooper division on the battlefield.
Su Dao was also speechless for this situation, because he only had this kind of aircraft in his atlas, although the C46 could carry thirty soldiers, but the speed was slower, so Su Dao could only exchange for C47 on the one hand, and on the other hand, let the scientific researchers increase their efforts to study the new paratrooper transport aircraft that could carry more soldiers.
Li Changjun sat on one of the transport planes, looking at his comrades-in-arms with anxiety in his heart, all this made him feel too exciting, as if in a dream.
Airborne troops, the moment he actually got on the plane and jumped out of the plane, he knew how dangerous this branch of the army was.
After the veteran led him to parachute three times, the recruits began to parachute with their strength, and of course, the recruits had accidents.
Some people didn't dare to jump and were kicked down by the commander, and some people were too nervous when they landed, and they didn't follow the prescribed movements to unload their falling force from the sky and broke their legs.
There were also even more unlucky guys, who jumped and were hung directly on trees, fished in mid-air and waiting for their comrades to come and save them, in short, everything happened.
'Didi ......'
The red indicator light at the rear of the cockpit flashed rapidly, accompanied by a dripping sound.
"Stand up, hook!"
A corporal squad leader sitting at the front suddenly stood up and shouted.
The soldiers didn't show much confusion, and at the beginning of the red light flashed, the soldiers began to organize their belongings and hang their rifles diagonally on their chests to make sure they didn't cause any trouble when parachuting.
Then, according to the instructions of the commander, he stood up and hung the hook attached to the umbrella bag on his back to the iron rod above his head.
"Equipment Inspection Status Report!"
After seeing that the soldiers were all ready and checking each other's equipment, the corporal squad leader continued to issue the second command.
"Check the 19th is complete! …… Check 1st complete! ”
Immediately afterwards, from back to front, one soldier reported sharply, plus the corporal squad leader, exactly twenty people, and the squad leader's personal equipment was checked by No. 1.
The poles are interconnected, and there is nothing in the middle, so when the hook is hooked, everyone hangs their hook up, and the corporal squad leader only needs to take one more step forward and vacate a place when parachuting, and the plane also has this function.
"Pull close! Stand in front of the door! ”
The corporal squad leader took two steps forward and walked to his place, holding one hand on the inner doorknob while beckoning the soldiers to move forward.
'Drip ......'
With a long drop, the red light went out, and the green light lit up immediately after, indicating that they could skydive.
At the same time, the corporal glanced at the nineteen soldiers in the cabin and shouted: "This is the first time we have been airborne into the battlefield, I don't want to see one or a few of you on the ground later, after going down, hurry to the assembly point to assemble, we have ten minutes."
Good luck guys! ”
In the end, with the blessing of the corporal squad leader, the hand holding on the doorknob pulled the door open hard, and a strong cold air rushed directly into the cabin.
The corporal patted the first soldier on the shoulder and signaled that he could jump, followed by the second, then the third, until there was no one in the cabin, and the corporal was the last to jump. (To be continued.) )