Chapter 340: Airborne Vladivostok: Conquering the Fortress City
Early in the morning, Zhang Shusheng met with Wei Sancai, the Minister of Propaganda of the Reich, in the office, as the mouthpiece of the Baath Party, the propagandist of the FΓΌhrer's ideology, and the disseminator of the new culture and new things of the Republic, Wei Sancai can be called one of the giants of the base camp of the Republic.
In this era when propaganda work is very important, correct and powerful propaganda work will help unite the strength of the nation.
"Sancai, at present, the propaganda work must grasp the scale of the work. What to propagate and what to guide cannot be completely based on the ignorant people, let alone forced propaganda and inducement, but we must not be too restrained. β
Zhang Shusheng pressed the cigarette on his finger that was almost burning to the end in the ashtray and extinguished it, lit another Chinese cigarette, and comfortably spit out a string of smoke.
Political propaganda is very important in this day and age. Zhang Shusheng knows this very well, whether it is China or Germany, Britain, Italy, the Soviet Union, and even the United States, which is known as the world's most open boil, political propaganda is everywhere.
However, Zhang Shusheng is not very accustomed to the kind of political propaganda that takes the foolish people as the starting point, and in order to achieve ulterior political goals, he uses false propaganda to induce the people to deceive the people.
"Our political propaganda work should be based on reality.
For example, if we want to publicize a policy that benefits the country and the people, we should boldly publicize it. This is not to mislead the people, it is in itself to let more people know about our good policies of governing for the people.
Speaking of this war propaganda, some people say that whether it is good news or not bad news, this is not absolute. We must admit our defeats, but it is very necessary to seize the opportunity to publicize our great victory.
In this war in the Far East, you will have to take even bigger steps. It is necessary not only to let the people understand what the Far East is and what the Far East is in the past and present, but also to let the people understand what our army has won by fighting hard and making sacrifices outside.
We must not simply tell the people that we have won, but we must tell them what these victories will bring to this country and this people.
Therefore, the intensity of propaganda should be intensified and the forms should be diversified. β
When Wei Sancai found Zhang Shusheng, he raised a question, such a big battle at the level of a million troops in the Far Eastern Battlefield is bound to be won and lost, so how to publicize and how to do this well, he felt that it was necessary to listen to the personal instructions of the chairman of the committee.
Now that Zhang Shusheng said it, he naturally understood the meaning of the chairman's words, that political propaganda in a special period should have a special color.
"Okay, chairman, we are going to shoot two war films about the Far Eastern battlefield at the same time, and there are also several historical films, "Nebuchu Fengyun" and "The Smoke of Gunpowder in the Far East" are serial dramas that have been filmed a long time ago, and they will be staged in prime time on various TV stations in the next few days. In addition, newspapers, radio, rural theatrical performance teams, and other forms of propaganda work will focus on the Far East. The propaganda work will be resolutely aimed at the supreme goal of the national interest. Wei Sancai said solemnly.
Speaking of power, Wei Sancai's power is not necessarily smaller than that of the so-called mouthpiece of the Third Reich, Goebbels, but in the republic, the power of the chairman is above everything else, and these giants below are completely unable to do whatever they want like Goebbels and Goering.
Wei Sancai climbed all the way from the grassroots level to the highest level of the republic, and profoundly understood a truth: To do a good job in propaganda work, there is no need to think too much and struggle, but only need to follow the instructions of the chairman.
Zhang Shusheng nodded and said, "That's right." As a political axe, we must not only govern for the people, but also let the people know the results of our governance. Others have not done it and are there to boast and make things up, but we have actually done it, so don't be afraid and boldly publicize it.
It is necessary to boldly set up typical examples, such as those of the army, the people, the workers and peasants, and even the students. The appeal of role models is still very strong, of course, provided that the role models themselves are very strong. β
"Okay, Chairman."
The two also talked about some issues related to the domestic situation, and Wei Sancai's control of the Propaganda Department of the Republic was naturally smooth sailing for these matters, and it was enough to mobilize propaganda forces to cooperate with the chairman at the critical moment.
After dealing with some government affairs, Zhang Shusheng asked Mao Yun to inform the base camp operations department first, and then go to the base camp war room to listen to the progress of the war in Vladivostok, which was attacked in the Far Eastern Theater.
The building where the base camp war room is located is located on the left side of the FΓΌhrer's office building, and a war room alone occupies half a floor, which is very large and equipped with all kinds of communication equipment.
When Zhang Shusheng came to the war room, General Su Yuren had already sorted out the current battlefield situation and made a brief report.
"Chairman, at the moment we are fighting very well in the Far East.
The first is the battle in the air.
Our earliest air battles were fought over the Soviet-occupied zone. As a result of his own intervention, although our results in the battle were very large, the losses were also not small, especially after the surprise attack was launched, after all, the main force of our air force had secretly gone to the airspace above the control area to fight for air supremacy.
But on the whole, we still won this air battle. In contrast, in the rear of the army, which lacked the main force group, we achieved a very large victory.
According to preliminary statistics, our large-scale air operations over the Soviet theater mobilized at least one-third of the Syrian army's aircraft group to the north, greatly reducing our losses during the surprise attack on the strategic points of the Chinese army.
During the entire operation over the Soviet-controlled area in the early stage, we shot down at least 350 planes. And the real results were achieved in the occupied areas.
As a result of our sudden air attack, the airfields of the Chinese army located near our border suffered heavy losses, and although the airfields in the rear were able to react in a timely manner, after the aircraft group was transferred to support the Soviets, the number of fighters of the Syrian army was insufficient, and our planes already had a great superiority.
According to preliminary statistics, after the large-scale use of special bombs such as anti-runway bombs and concrete-penetrating bombs, we were successful in destroying the airfield. In the past few days, we have shot down at least 300 military planes, and about 500 planes have been blown up on runways and hangars before they have time to take off.
Since the beginning of the war, the total number of warplanes lost has reached 1,200-1,500, and the number of wounded fighters cannot be counted.
According to intelligence, the total number of fighters in the Far East is about 3,800, which means that we have theoretically eliminated nearly 40% of the combat strength of the army. After that, if the Chinese army wants to compete with us for air supremacy, in addition to relying on the United States and the Soviet Union, it can only take off fighters from the mainland and North Korea, or make a detour from the Tatar Strait to the rear of the Far Eastern theater.
Looking at the comparison of air forces in the Far East as a whole, we have moved from a disadvantage to an advantage. At present, although the Soviet and Soviet armies still have a total of more than 5,000 aircraft, a considerable number of them are old, and some of the remaining are damaged; in addition, the US and Soviet air forces are still facing the dilemma of lack of logistics and spare parts, and are currently working hard to change this situation.
In the future, in addition to fighters in the Far East, the Chinese military is likely to use fighters such as the Zero or P-51 to conduct cross-sea air battles, or to take off fighters directly from the fleet. β
The results of the Air Force mentioned by Su Yuren are relatively normal figures. Excluding those shot down in the air, a considerable part of the fighters lost on the ground were blown up in hangars. While the aircraft group was heading north on a large scale to support the Soviets, a fire broke out in the backyard, and it was impossible to lose the remaining points.
The airfield was bombed into rubble, and the planes suffered heavy losses, and in a short period of time, the army had to face a situation in which many strategic targets, including transport convoys, railways, material transfer stations, radar stations, military stations, factories, and maintenance centers, were bombed one by one.
Although the United States and the Soviet Union were able to organize a powerful air cluster over the Far East to conduct a protracted air battle after relieving themselves, it was too late at present, and they could only be bombed by the Chinese aircraft group with their heads covered, and then found that the losses were so heavy that they could make the air captain commit suicide by disembowelment.
"Well, we should also intensify the air war, especially over the DPRK and over the Sea of China, and it seems that an air war is about to break out, and the distance between China and China is somewhat similar to the situation between Britain and Germany, and it is a matter of time before a big air battle and a big bombing."
Zhang Shusheng didn't care, saying that he couldn't afford to lose, but China could afford to lose, and China's loss was much smaller. Not to mention, the country has a steady supply of pilots, and the aircraft factories are running at full speed, and the planes produced in the next month can surpass the Americans.
Although Ben turned to the Allies and regained strong aid from the Americans, from ore and oil to ready-made military equipment, this was always someone else's, and its own production capacity was low, and when the speed of production could not keep up with the rate of loss, there would be a crisis.
At present, in the space of a week, the army has lost 1,500 aircraft, which has exceeded his monthly production capacity. Not to mention the lost veteran pilots, who had just fought with the Soviets in the Far East for two years and trained a large number of elite pilots, only to be defeated by the superior fighters of the Chinese, and the losses were not unbearable.
Gritting his teeth, he said that he was able to produce 1,500 fighters a month, although it was not as good as the Americans' ability to produce 10,000 fighters a month and China's ability to actually produce more than 10,000 fighters a month, but it was already the limit. However, even if there is no shortage of aircraft, pilots have become the biggest shortage.
However, Zhang Shusheng knows the devil very well, this crazy nation, as long as there is no shortage of planes, there will be no shortage of pilots, and a nation that can fly to the sky in two days by catching a random student is not afraid of losing any pilots.
What is even more absurd is that a very strange phenomenon has occurred in the army air force, where many air commanders have demanded that the pilots be tied to the pilot's seat, and moreover, the military pilots in the Far East are hardly equipped with parachutes.
However, in short, Zhang Shusheng believes that at least in the medium and long term, the situation is not particularly optimistic. The air power of Ben is still very strong, and the Americans will also expand their support, and a larger, longer, and longer air battle will be staged over the Far East and the Northeast Korea-Hoonko Sea.
Zhang Shusheng motioned to Su Yuren and continued.
"On the ground offensive, in total, we used more than 1 million troops in this massive military offensive.
In the direction of the Soviet-controlled zone in the Far East, about one of our army groups crossed the Buleya River and launched a feint attack on the left rear of the Soviet army on the battlefield of Komsomolsk.
In the past few days of fighting, we have advanced thirty kilometers east of the Buleya River, but we have not continued the offensive, and after establishing a solid riverside position on the riverbank fortifications left by the Soviets, the troops responsible for the attack are retreating, and the two divisions left behind are stepping up the construction of fortifications.
At present, there are signs that the Soviets are intent on organizing a large-scale offensive to retake the Bria River and use it to support the struggling Japanese army.
However, we can rest assured that the group army we have arranged in this area is the 8th Group Army under the command of General Zheng Zhinan, which has been fighting against the Soviet army for a long time on the west bank of the Buleya River, and is very skilled in technology and tactics, and is good at positional attack and positional defense, and Qu Zhongyi, the commander of the 88th Division, who served as the first-line defense task, is a well-known general of our army's young Zhuang faction, and has extremely rich command experience. β
Taking a sip of water, Su Yuren continued, "As the most important organizational part of this military operation in the Far East, the butcher's plan, our attack on the Yue army is the most important part.
More than 800,000 troops were used to attack the Chinese army, which were divided into three directions, including the Fifth Panzer Army and the Sixth Panzer Army, as well as a number of elite field armies.
Our attacking forces need to face about 700,000 troops and about 400,000 paramilitary forces, including armed expatriates.
The armored group composed of our Fifth Panzer Army and the Sixth Panzer Army will cut off the military connection in this 400 x 200 km area from west to southeast from Boli.
Then, this armored group will be drawn from the elite and move south to return to the division with the Central Route Army attacking in the direction of Dalnerechensk, and carry out a rapid division, encirclement and annihilation of the army.
At present, the most critical place, except for Vladivostok, is the blocking battle that is about to break out in the direction of Boli and is personally commanded by General Huo Weiguo. It is said that the army has gradually eased up, and we must seize all the time. β
Zhang Shusheng was very sure of this operational idea at that time.
The situation in the Far Eastern theater is very complicated, and the biggest obstacle is that the Soviet Union has a strong army, and if they wait for them to repair themselves and the million-level troops rush towards China wave after wave, then it is very likely that they will directly rush into the territory of Northeast China and turn a Far Eastern War into a battle to defend Northeast China.
And being the first to strike is the most appropriate strategic idea.
First of all, use the defense line of the Buleya River, build a position, and use elite troops to block the coordinated offensive that the Soviet army may launch in order to rescue the Japanese army, although the Soviet army claims to be two million, but the troops that can really be used for the offensive are not too large, at most only a few group armies, if Zhukov is really willing to use these losses that may be wiped out in exchange for himself.
Attacking the Burea River and advancing toward the Chinese-occupied areas and even the northeast, not to mention the problems of logistics, supply, and recuperation, the loss of air supremacy and the possible bombing all the way are a big problem.
Because of the protracted Battle of Komsomolsk, the Soviet Army, which was in desperate need of redressing, had not yet received large-scale military aid from the U.S. Army, how could it tear through the defense line of a group army or even two group armies on the Chinese side.
Then, the elite troops were used to attack the Yue army, and as long as they could successfully block the rescue of the Yue army in the southern Yue control area, these 7 or 800,000 Syrian troops would be wrapped in dumplings.
Moreover, in the face of China's armored clusters, 400 * 200 kilometers, 80,000 square kilometers of land, the armored clusters can run from north to south in one day, and the Yue army is divided by three lines, then, the hastily fought Yue army, except to watch the hundreds of thousands of troops being quickly divided, surrounded and eaten by the Chinese's armored clusters, there is no way.
As for sea rescue, it may not be high in surname.
The Benhai Sea near Vladivostok is less than 150 kilometers away from China's nearest border and field airfields, while it is nearly 500 kilometers away from the mainland.
At such a distance, new fighters such as the Zero fighter can do it, but it is delusional to cover a large-scale landing fleet.
And if the army vainly tries to use the aircraft carrier fleet group to rescue Vladivostok and other places, or the entire Far East, the Soviet Primorsky Territory occupied by Benben (the south, near the sea, this 400 * 200 km area with China and North Korea, is a border area of the Soviets. ), which is likely to be attacked by a swarm of land-based aircraft.
Even if the military's carrier-based air force is strong, once it is exploited and several aircraft carriers are sunk, the losses will be very large.
Therefore, if we didn't want to watch this 80,000-square-kilometer area and more than 800,000 Chinese troops and more than 400,000 expatriates being eaten by us, we could only draw many elite divisions from the direction of the Komsomolsk Theater and launch a fierce attack on the Chinese blocking troops on the front line of Boli.
That's the easiest route to help.
Now that Boli has been captured, it already has the conditions to block the southward movement of the Japanese army, while Dalnerechensk, which is located in the middle of Boli and Vladivostok, which is between the north and the south, only plays the role of disrupting the deployment and division of the Japanese army.
The two really important points, apart from Boli, are Vladivostok, the southernmost point.
"The issue of Vladivostok is much more complicated, how are the preparations at the moment?" When drawing up a plan for attacking Vladivostok, Zhang Shusheng affirmed the method proposed by a senior colonel and staff officer of the General Staff Department to adopt the airborne army's bold airborne landing in the rear of the army and launch an offensive in various aspects.
It's not that he doesn't want the Wehrmacht to advance to Vladivostok in one go, it's that the situation in Vladivostok is too special.
At that time, the Far Eastern fortress that Lao Maozi had been operating in Vladivostok for decades was said to have besieged and blocked the Far East when he attacked it, and it took more than half a year to capture it.
At that time, Vladivostok was a whole city fortress.
Speaking of the topography of Vladivostok, it is like an inverted 'mountain' shape. The one in the middle is Vladivostok.
Vladivostok is surrounded by sea on the left and right, and if you do not consider landing battles, you can only attack from Vladivostok head-on.
First of all, the landing battle was certainly not possible, and after the army occupied Vladivostok, it did not dismantle those fortresses and artillery, and directly turning the muzzle of the guns could send any troops who tried to land into the sea.
And a frontal attack, a series of fortifications, will bring disaster to any attacking enemy.
This is also the reason why at that time, he said that he was besieged and did not attack, until the Soviets themselves were willing to surrender and get out of the fortress.
"At the moment a division of airborne troops is ready, and tomorrow at dawn it will be possible to launch a surprise attack behind enemy lines. At present, the attack on Vladivostok is mainly aimed at uprooting the remnants of the Yue army in the surrounding area, supplemented by key aerial bombing to destroy the fortress groups of the Yue army. β
Su Yuren said.
This key bombing is not a permanent fortification group in Vladivostok.
Equipped with ground-penetrating bombs that specifically destroy concrete, bombs can destroy a fortress as long as it hits it directly. It's just that the time and consumption are slightly larger, and the fortress group still has a lot of anti-aircraft fire points, you must know that Vladivostok was one of the material landing points of the Japanese army at that time, and even when the relationship with China was the best, the defense was very strong.
"Give me a call tomorrow when the operation begins."
Although airborne operations behind enemy lines were used in the Northern Expedition of the Far Eastern Front, they were very simple airborne behind enemy lines. The Soviet Union was vast and sparsely populated, and there was no need to worry about being surrounded and annihilated by superior Soviet troops in any place, but on the contrary, they could freely assemble and launch an attack from the rear of the Soviet army, speeding up the end of the frontal battle.
This time, however, the area of the airborne operation was relatively narrow, and it was attacked from the rear of the Vladivostok fortification group, and it was likely to be met with a strong counterattack.
If the airborne landing behind enemy lines in Vladivostok can be successful, then the airborne troops will be able to grow up rapidly and play a more important role in future wars.
"Yes, Chairman."
Su Yuren turned around and got in touch with Huo Weiguo, commander of the Far Eastern Theater, to inquire about the progress of the airborne operation behind enemy lines.
...... "Old Ma, the chairman of the committee has personally inquired about your airborne operation this time, you have to show twelve points of enthusiasm, don't be a moth." β
"Don't worry, Commander Huo! Don't look at the small area of ** square kilometers, as long as your containment task is done well, my airborne boys, there is absolutely no problem. β
At the Harbin military airfield, the temporary command center of the airborne operation, Ma Wenwu, commander of the Airborne Group Army, was talking on the phone with Huo Weiguo, commander of the Far Eastern Front, who had just arrived at the Boli front, hundreds of kilometers away.
For this young General Huo Weiguo, although Ma Wenwu was an old man in the southwest at the same time, he still recognized his ability. Huo Weiguo's outstanding command ability, courage and strategy, and strong strategic outlook are Huo Weiguo's greatest merits.
And now, in order to supervise the battle and ensure that the battle in the direction of Boli can successfully block the rescue army of the Yue army, he personally went to Boli and went to the front line to supervise the battle.
"How is our containment, you don't know yet, haha! The two bomber divisions of the Air Force have been dropping bombs on the frontal fortifications of Vladivostok for two or three days, and that intensity is fiercer than the devil's bombing of Vladivostok for a month.
Moreover, our frontal offensive forces are also mobilized in place, and when the time comes, as soon as your precious airborne troops move, we will launch a diversion attack on the front.
At that time, in order to facilitate their own landing, the group of sea fortifications that the devil dismantled just provided the best opportunity for your heavenly soldiers and generals.
I'm going to start a blockade battle here, much more fierce than yours, and the devil's divisions are coming in droves to tear through our defenses.
The South, it's up to you. β
Huo Weiguo knew that the battle in Vladivostok this time depended on the airborne troops, and if he attacked from the front, it was estimated that he would have to lose one division to take Vladivostok, and the losses would be very heavy.
"Okay, Commander Huo, we don't have to be polite, when the time comes, we will act according to the plan, and we will be caught off guard by the devil."
After putting down the phone, Ma Wenwu rushed to the conference room for this airborne operation, and tomorrow morning before dawn the troops will take a plane from the Harbin military airfield to Vladivostok, and tomorrow dawn will also be the best airborne weather in a week.
This time the airborne operation was carried out by two airborne divisions.
At the operational meeting, the chief of staff of the Airborne Army, Wei Shan, finally made a brief addition to the plan.
"This airborne, the target area is very narrow, a total of less than ten square kilometers, if it is usual, such a large area is enough for us to be airborne safely.
However, it is important for the troops participating in the battle to note that this is a complete wartime airlanding, our airborne landing range is small, and it may be counterattacked by ground fire, so it is necessary to be prepared for a vicious battle. β
Wei Shan said earnestly.
"Liang Guosen, Dai Xinglun!"
Commander Ma Wenwu stood up and shouted.
"Here!"
"Here!"
Two angry slogans roared out of the mouths of two major generals in their thirties.
Liang Guosen, commander of the 1st Airborne Division. Dai Xinglun was the commander of the Second Airborne Division.
As the two most elite of the six airborne divisions of the group army, the task to be undertaken this time is the most arduous task since the formation of the airborne troops.
"Can you complete the mission, can you take Vladivostok!!" Ma Wenwu also asked with a cheer.
"Yes!"
Just one word, which seemed very short and powerful, made the two division commanders blush.
"Well, I trust you." Ma Wenwu nodded, motioned for them to sit down, and continued, "If you can't complete the task, I will personally lead the remaining Fifth Division of the Group Army Reserve and forcibly parachute!" Vladivostok must be taken as fast as possible! This is the order of Commander Huo, and also, the order of the chairman. β
"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission."
After the meeting, the airborne troops of the two divisions began their final exercises, which consisted mostly of tactical explanations, terrain analysis, and operational meetings at all levels from divisions to companies and platoons.
Boli fought very well, but the airborne troops could only be used as auxiliary troops from the Northern Expedition of the Far Eastern Front, and if they could take Vladivostok as the main force this time, they would write a new chapter in the airborne forces of the Republic.
That night, the two airborne divisions that were going to participate in the battle added food, and the food was raised by a level, and even the rice wine was given a little bit each.
In the camp of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division near the airport, Liang Guosen faced the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment, raised the rice wine glass in his hand, and said loudly, "Brothers, I Liang Guosen will count on you in tomorrow's battle." Don't say anything, after drinking this little wine, tomorrow Lao Tzu will dance with you, the first batch!! β
Airborne on the scale of an airborne division is simply impossible to take off and land at one airfield. The take-off and landing tasks of a regiment are already the limit of the Harbin military airfield.
It is the first regiment of this airborne division, the most elite unit, that Liang Guosen will lead his team to parachute in person tomorrow.
As usual, Division Commander Liang Guosen's mobilization method was very simple, that is, to use what he had learned at the Huaxia Military Academy to the cadets.
"A commander who is greedy for life and afraid of death cannot bring out brave soldiers. If you are afraid of death, others will also be afraid of death, and only when you can do it for the sake of forgetting your life and forgetting your life for the sake of righteousness, can your soldiers follow you to destroy the enemy. These are the words that the instructor sent him when he graduated.
Therefore, Liang Guosen's method is very rude, he has to personally participate in every airborne operation, anyway, he is young, in his early thirties, and his health is good, no worse than those soldiers.
After taking a sip of the rice wine in the bowl, Liang Guosen waved his hand, "Open the rice!" β
The soldiers rushed into the makeshift canteen provided by the airport in an orderly manner.
Liang Guosen stood in place, looked at the sky, and said to himself: "I hope that Tiangong can be beautiful." Lao Tzu was not afraid of enemies in this life, but worried about bad weather. β
At about 4 o'clock in the morning the next day, after a few short whistles, the camp of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Airborne Forces suddenly became like a beehive with a bombed nest.
The soldiers, who had already been prepared, quickly assembled with standard combat umbrella bags and weapons on their backs, and soon the soldiers boarded the cars and headed for the airport runway.
Harbin Military Airport is a large military airport, and as one of the important transit airports in the future, it has four runways. Three A-class runways, one A+ class runway.
As soon as the truck carrying the officers and soldiers of the airborne division drove into the airport, the soldiers on the car saw that the A+ runway opposite was already full of a series of silver-white fighters.
"Our jet fighter !!"
The airborne troops are very familiar with airplanes, and even many times when they are conducting parachute training in the air, it is this silver-white jet fighter that accompanies the C-35 large transport plane.
All the officers and men of the Airborne Forces who saw this scene were excited, but they maintained the utmost discipline, and no one made any noise, but their hearts were excited.
This is the first time that the airborne mission of jet fighter escort has been escorted by propeller fighters in the past.
The officers, on the other hand, had already been informed that this airborne mission would hardly encounter major difficulties for fighters fighting transport planes, because the Air Force would send a division of jet fighters to take off from several airfields to escort them. This kind of night combat capability far surpasses that of the Zero fighters, and will ensure the safety of the C-35 transport fleet of the Airborne Forces.
The huge C-35 transport plane had already opened its belly and waited quietly on the runway for the soldiers and airborne troops to board the plane.
"Get on board!"
"Get on board!"
"Get on board!"
β¦β¦ In a series of boarding sounds, whether it was a transport plane lined up on the runway or a transport plane on the parking stand, the soldiers were quickly boarding.
With the capacity of the C-35 transport aircraft far exceeding the capacity of the German Junker paratrooper transport aircraft, a C-35 has four parachute aisles and can carry 65 heavily armed airborne paratroopers, which is the world's most manned paratrooper transport aircraft, much stronger than the German Juncker, not to mention, slightly stronger than the Americans' C series transport aircraft. After all, although it is also a C prefix, the Chinese CH transport aircraft is a cut stronger.
On the Eastern Front, the Germans were able to use more than 20,000 paratroopers and mobilize hundreds of transport aircraft and gliders in one large-scale airborne landing.
The Chinese airborne landing is relatively simpler.
Due to the possession of large transport aircraft, the Airborne Forces used more than 200 transport aircraft, ranging from C-31 to C-35, and even the latest modified C-44 transport aircraft. Of course, there are also some medium-sized transport aircraft.
At the same time, a large number of transport planes took off at the same time from more than a dozen airfields in the northeast, and these first wave of transport planes will lead an airborne unit the size of a regiment to parachute into Vladivostok at dawn.
For a straight-line distance of more than 400 kilometers, Liang Guosen has been sitting upright, but he asked the soldiers to seize all the time to rest, even if it is a nap.
Looking at the dozens of heavily armed airborne troops in the cabin, Liang Guosen couldn't help but shake the Z-42 short-handled submachine gun in his hand, and he felt an unprecedentedly strong sense of responsibility in his heart, not only to win, but also to reduce sacrifices as much as possible.
At 5:20 a.m., Vladivostok had not yet woken up when he was awakened by the sound of a rumbling airplane in the sky.
"Woo woo woo ......"
The piercing sound of air defense sirens suddenly sounded over Vladivostok, and the officers and men who had slept in front of the antiaircraft gun emplacements in their clothes all night suddenly turned on their air defense searchlights and fired fiercely at the sky.
"Whew......"
Rumble...... Rumble...... Rumble...... Amid the earth-shattering explosions, the Yue army only felt that the Chinese air raids were unprecedentedly fierce, as if hundreds of bombers were working overhead at the same time.
"Baga, Chinese at least one !! of an aeronautist"
This was the first reaction of Oda, the supreme commander of the army in Vladivostok, who had no time to get dressed, and came to the lookout of the fortifications in his overcoat, only to feel that under the searchlights in the sky, it seemed that there were Chinese planes everywhere.
"Boom!!"
A violent explosion was heard at a fortification not far away, and by the light of the explosion before dawn, Oda saw a large number of corpses scattered from the fortifications along with the concrete and steel bars.
"Baga, the Chinese have used a new bomb again!"
Oda close-up scolds as he puts on his clothes and rushes to the communication room next to him. He wants to call for help as soon as possible!
However, as soon as he entered the communication room, the signal corps had not yet received a call from Yamashita Fumi, the general headquarters of Sakhalin, when bad news came.
"Report, according to our scout reports, the Chinese are massing in large numbers and are about to attack us."
Sure enough, just five minutes later, the fierce artillery group began to speak.
With the earth-shattering sound of explosions, Oda Close-up had no choice but to do his best to contact the various fortification groups and demand a decisive resistance.
He simply didn't have the energy to take care of the 10 square kilometers of tidal flats in the southeast of Shanghai Vostoman.
Twenty minutes later, under the cover of the overwhelming bombing of Vladivostok, the group transporting the airborne troops had already arrived at the predetermined airborne position.
"Hurry up, get ready to skydive!"
Liang Guosen personally sounded the battle alarm at the first time, and when the earth-shattering battle sound came from the battlefield below, he was the first to prepare for parachuting.
"Open the cabin!"
In the huge wind, Liang Guosen stood on the edge of the cabin, and then shouted, and he was the first to jump.
A few seconds later, a large white umbrella flower bloomed over the intended skydiving site, followed by ten, hundred, hundreds of white parachutes descending.
Just above Vladivostok, dozens of Tianlong jet fighters, which had just shot down the Zero fighters that had taken off urgently, quickly rushed to the airborne landing site and, together with the fighters responsible for ground suppression, provided fire cover for the airborne troops.
With a "bang", Liang Guosen was the first to fall to the ground, cut the parachute rope with his hands and feet, put away the parachute, and many soldiers had already landed nearby.
"Assemble!!"
Liang Guosen seized the time to gather the men and horses that could be gathered, knowing that the airborne troops might be scattered to any place in these few square kilometers of land, and if they wanted to attack, they must first gather their troops.
Twenty minutes later, while marching, Liang Guosen, who had concentrated more than two battalions, had already seen the first abandoned fortification of the Yue army.
"Attack!"
As soon as Liang Guosen pulled the submachine gun in his hand, the two battalions of airborne troops rushed towards the weakest back of Vladivostok under the cover of the dive-strafing fighters.
β¦β¦ At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, when the last wave of airborne troops of the Second Division also landed at the airborne point and joined the attack on Vladivostok, the First Airborne Division commanded by Liang Guosen had already fought with the Yue army, and the two sides were fighting for the fortress city of Vladivostok.
However, with the addition of the second division, Vladivostok, which was defended by less than two infantry wings in total, would be a matter of time before it was taken, and it would take a lot of thought to destroy the Japanese army that hid inside the fortifications and could not resist. However, in any case, after the heavy forces were invested to contain the attack head-on, the airborne troops were airborne behind enemy lines, large-scale aerial bombardment, new ground-penetrating bombs, heavy cloud burst bombs and other new weapons, the time to completely occupy Vladivostok would not exceed three days.
This also means that less than a week after the battle of the surprise attack on the Yue army began, Vladivostok will be the second big target to fall into the hands of China after Boli, which fell the fastest-
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