Chapter 372: Airborne Forest
Chapter 372: Airborne Landing in Dalin
The telegram from the headquarters was simple, it only said one sentence: "Target Dalin Town, occupy it, hold him!" ”
Dalin County is located in the east of Tongliao City, one hundred and twenty-four kilometers away from Tongliao City, two hundred and fifteen kilometers away from Liaoyuan occupied by the Japanese army, Jiāo is convenient, a railway just passes through the center of Dalin County, and the order of the headquarters is to control this railway and hold on until the arrival of the Third Panzer Division.
It is true that the Northeast Plain is so large, and it is naturally impossible for the limited forces of the Seventh Theater to encircle all the 500,000 Japanese troops, but as long as the Japanese army's railway is controlled, the Japanese army will be like a lame man with a broken leg, and the speed of escape will be greatly reduced, which will also give the Seventh Theater more time and opportunity to kill and injure the Japanese army's vocal forces.
Su Tong knows very well that the most fundamental thing in a country at war is not the military, nor science and technology, but the population, as long as there are talents, there is the capital and hope to fight, and what Japan lacks is precisely the population.
Su Tong remembered that in World War II in later generations, the total population of Japan was 70.63 million, of which 16.93 million were men of military age, and the number of men of military age who could be conscripted accounted for 56.2 percent of the men of military age, reaching 10 million, and the total strength of the Japanese army at that time was 1.084 million; After the all-out mobilization in 1942, before Japan's defeat in 1945, the number of men of military age was 17.79 million.
By the end of World War II, the Japanese army was almost exhausted, and even the forty-five-year-old middle-aged people were conscripted into the army by the Japanese government, and almost all the men in the countryside were chōu.
At that time, there was a report that at the end of the war, a lame Japanese officer returned to the soldier's hometown with the urn of the fallen soldier of the same team, and was left at home by the widow of the comrade-in-arms that night, and in the middle of the night the widow of the comrade-in-arms touched the officer's house and asked for 'comfort', and the officer also agreed, and later the news came out, and more than 100 young and middle-aged women in the whole village poured into the soldier's house to ask for it. It took half a month for the lame soldier to 'pacify' the more than 100 hungry women, which shows the extent of the shortage of young men in Japan at that time. (This is not a blind fabrication, there are historical records)
Although it is still the early stage of the war, what Su Tong has to do now is to consume as much as possible the Japanese military resources and the maximum consumption of Japan's war potential.
As long as the airborne regiment held the Dalin railway, then the Japanese army could only walk back to Liaoyuan by car or even two legs, and on the endless plain, the planes of the seventh theater could kill and injure the Japanese army to the greatest extent.
Dalin County was a material transfer station for the Japanese army, and there was also a small station where a large number of military supplies were stored. But the arrogant Japanese army only arranged a garrison brigade of more than 1,000 troops here, and the person in charge was a Nakasa named Sasaki.
On January 21, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the weather was clear, windless, and the visibility was excellent.
"Buzz"
The roar of planes came faintly from the air, and Captain Sasaki was walking back and forth on the platform of the railway. Sasaki, who was dressed in a military coat, was extremely uneasy, and the news of the defeat at the front reached his ears from time to time along with the passing trains transporting the wounded, which made Sasaki begin to feel uneasy.
"The Great Japanese Empire has dispatched 500,000 troops, can't it fight the Shina?" Sasaki kept thinking, "What if the Shina people call?" With this garrison brigade of about 1,000 people? ”
The roar of the plane became louder and louder, and Sasaki looked impatiently into the sky, and said in his heart: "These guys who flew the plane just lost the battle a few days ago, and they are here to find a venue today, right?" Defeated both in the air and on the ground, these guys really disgraced the face of the Great Japanese Empire. Hey? No, this is not an imperial plane, it is a plane of the Chinese people, not good, the Chinese are going to bomb! ”
The plane flew lower and lower, and after a while, the huge silhouette of the plane also appeared in Sasaki's eyes.
"Yaga, how can there be such a big plane in China, what are they going to do?" Sasaki, who didn't have time to think about it, immediately chōu took out the command knife at his waist and blew the whistle hanging around his neck.
"Beep beep"
The mournful whistle echoed over the station, and the Japanese soldiers who heard the whistle suddenly appeared like rats in dòng, scalded by boiling water, and dense figures came out from all places, and after a while, they all gathered on the platform.
"The planes of the people of China are coming, everyone should pay attention to air defense, be careful not to be swept away by the planes of China, and the anti-aircraft guns on the station are not allowed to fire without my orders." Sasaki brandished his command knife and lectured at the soldiers on the platform. In his opinion, these planes are just passing by, there is no need to provoke them to fight to the death with them, and after a while they will naturally fly away.
It's just that this time Sasaki was wrong, and these huge planes didn't fly away, but circled over Obayashi. After a while, the plane jumped out of small black dots, and soon white umbrella flowers appeared in the sky, and they were slowly landing towards Dalin County.
Looking at the umbrella flowers in the sky, Sasaki was stunned and muttered to himself, "Nani, what is that, it can actually land from the sky, is this the legendary Airborne Soldier?" ”
"Not good!" Sasaki, who came to his senses, shouted at the soldiers, "The first and second squadrons immediately follow me to the open field in front of me, and we must destroy them while they are still on the ground." The high shè cannon immediately fired! ”
Looking at the more and more umbrella flowers in the sky, Sasaki had a hunch that this time their garrison team was probably in a catastrophe, looking at the umbrella flowers in the sky, the number of the other party was at least 4,000 to 5,000 people, and he couldn't resist the opponent's attack no matter what.
Nearly 50 'giant' transport planes hovered over Dalin, constantly swallowing people out, and soon the sky was full of dense umbrella flowers.
"Knock Knock"
The four twenty millimeter-high shè machine guns arranged around the station also began to resound, and several fiery red bullets flew into the sky. Sasaki, on the other hand, led two squadrons of soldiers to the place where the umbrella flowers landed.
"Whoa!" Although there was parachute resistance, the huge habit still made Wang Xiaoguo rush forward a few steps, and one sat unsteadily on the snow.
"***, fortunately, the snow is thick enough, or I almost broke my foot!" Wang Xiaoguo scolded in a low voice and quickly broke free of the parachute, and before he had time to put away the parachute, he took off the 'scorpion' submachine gun on his body and ran behind a big tree in front of him, because he saw a group of Japanese soldiers running towards him in the distance.
"Smack"
A shè blow unique to the Type 38 rifle came from the front, and the gunfire seemed to be like a signal, and more and more gunshots rang out.
Several sounds of stepping on the snow sounded behind him, and several soldiers who had landed rushed over from behind.
Wang Xiaoguo ordered loudly, "Open fire immediately, don't let the devils get close to here, our people haven't all landed yet, fire covers them!" ”
With Wang Xiaoguo's order, the faint sound of the 'Scorpion' submachine gun began to sound, and several Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were shot.
"Hurry up and wipe out all those people!" Sasaki, wielding his command knife, drove more than 600 Japanese soldiers towards the open area where the airborne troops had landed in front, and from time to time a few strings of sparse bullets flew over the heads of the team.
"Dadada"
After entering the 300-meter distance, the Japanese army's 11-year-old light machine gun also rang out, and the bullets "crackled" on the trees.
"Machine guns, there are no machine guns, hurry up and suppress them!" Due to the reasons on the way, the 'Scorpion' submachine gun did not have a very good way to deal with the Japanese machine gun 300 meters away, so Wang Xiaoguo was so anxious that Wang Xiaoguo looked for the machine gun everywhere.
"Serial seats, machine guns, machine guns are coming!" The two soldiers panted and brought an MG42 general-purpose machine gun, and the ammunition behind them was dragging two boxes of ammunition.
"Okay, hurry up and reload the shè attack and suppress the enemy's firepower!"
"Yes!"
The Heavy was half-kneeling and about to reload, when there was a muffled "ding" and a bullet from a Type 38 rifle hit his helmet, and the Heavy fell to the snow without saying a word. Immediately after that, more bullets flew in.
"Bastard!" Wang Xiaoguo cursed, rolled to the side of MG42 on the spot, took out the bullet chain from the bullet box next to him, and skillfully pressed the load.
"Click!"
"Chirp"
MG42's distinctive and dense gunfire rang out immediately, and the bullets swept away like splashing water.
"Boom"
At this time, two explosions sounded in the Japanese attack formation, and it turned out that a mortar group had already assembled the light 60 mortars they were carrying in the back and began to support the front.
"Quick, hurry up and charge ahead, you must destroy all the people of China!" Sasaki, who sensed that the opponent's firepower was getting denser and denser, looked anxiously at the sky, and dozens of Shina fighters were hovering in the sky at this time. Although there was no dive attack yet, Sasaki knew that it was only at this time that their troops had not yet landed, and they did not launch an attack for fear of accidentally injuring themselves, but it did not mean that he was safe.
As soon as the other party's airborne troops landed, what was waiting for their side was what happened Sasaki didn't have to think about it, looking at the increasingly sparse umbrella flowers in the sky, Sasaki became more and more anxious, "Quick, rush over and mix with the Chinese people, otherwise it will be too late when all the Chinese people land on the ground." ”
"Kill and give"
Under the urging of the officers, the Japanese soldiers who were originally lying on the ground bent over and rushed forward with their lives
The battle soon came to a fever pitch