This time the Japanese attack was very fierce, and the power and number of artillery were greatly increased.

The 6th Division is a permanent division with an independent field artillery wing. (36 120mm howitzers and 12 75mm field guns) However, this time only one of the brigades participated in the battle, and the field artillery wing did not participate in the siege battle, but an artillery wing directly under the brigade (36 75mm mountain guns and 12 75mm infantry guns), and a brigade participating in the siege had 9 mountain guns and 3 infantry guns. The infantry wing (artillery is 44 system) has a squadron of artillery (four mountain guns) and an infantry artillery squadron (four infantry guns) also participated in the battle.

A total of twenty 75mm guns, plus grenadier mortars. Although there are no large-caliber artillery, it is completely enough for the most Jinan.

In the face of the crazy shelling of the devils, the soldiers of the squad left on the city wall this time were basically wiped out, and even the soldiers who were hiding under the city wall were concentrated by the shells.

This time, the devil's artillery is much more savvy, and even the city is within the range of shelling. And this time, before the artillery stopped shelling, a squadron of devils had already touched a place 200 meters away from the city wall. Set up light and heavy machine guns and aim at the city walls, and prepare to charge, and the devils will also hold on to the ladder, and once the artillery fire stops, they will attack.

The battle situation was very tragic, after four or five artillery bombardments and charging attacks by the Japanese army, less than one-third of the Northern Expeditionary Army of a regiment remained, and many wounded soldiers were urgently bandaged and continued to fight on the city wall, and the original light and heavy machine guns were all killed by grenadiers and mortars, and the original bad form was even more dangerous.

The commander of the Northern Expedition Corps was hit by a bullet in his arm, and even one of his ears was also lost by the bullet of the devil. If he hadn't flashed fast, it wouldn't have been as simple as being shot in the ear. After a simple bandage of his arm, he picked up his rifle again and began to shoot.

At this time, the Japanese wing commander did not have the previous calm, and a long time passed, not only did he not even take Jinan, but even the troops suffered heavy casualties. The two squadrons were almost crippled, and although he was confident that the Chinese soldiers had definitely suffered heavier casualties, this did not tell the story, and it was a fact that he had not taken the city wall until now. Fortunately, at this time, the brigade commander did not come to urge him, and the old commander who wanted to come to him still trusted him very much.

The city wall of Jinan is very strong, and after several hours of artillery bombardment, the Japanese army has not yet dispatched heavy artillery at this time, except for the battlements, the wall is still very stable.

Seeing that his attacking troops were again frustrated, the wing commander did not organize another attack, called the signal corps, and asked the brigade commander to send heavy artillery.

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At this time, nearly 100 paratrooper transport planes were already approaching Jinan. When the huge group of planes arrived in Jinan, it caused a huge sensation, and at this time, Chen Shao was not in the mood for the so-called secrecy, and the more speed he had, the more hope he had. He didn't want to have any regrets for himself.

The paratroopers did not parachute directly into the city of Jinan, but began to parachute in an open field outside the city, which was only two kilometers from the battlefield.

At this time, neither side of the war paid attention to the planes in the sky, and when the people in the city were far away from the battlefield, some people stood in the streets, pointing at the planes in the sky. No wonder they are curious, the effect of nearly 100 planes will surprise even foreigners here. However, they could only see the plane from a distance, and they couldn't see the size and type at all, the plane was hovering at an altitude of five thousand meters, and snowflakes appeared behind the buttocks. Many people were wondering what it was, what the planes were doing here, whose planes they were in, how there were so many of them, and many people thought that it was a Japanese plane, but why didn't they bomb it. Doesn't it say that airplanes can drop bombs?

Many of these foreigners also came out to see it, and like ordinary people, they didn't see it clearly, and they all thought it was a Japanese plane, and some of them sent the news back to China, so that those countries couldn't help but increase intelligence spying on Japan. This kept the Japanese Ministry of Intelligence busy for a while, and it made them inexplicable.

Xu Shiyou used gestures to command the soldiers to line up and jump off the plane one by one. The transport aircraft of the KPA Airborne Forces were rear-open. The paratroopers also jumped directly in the back.

This was Xu Shiyou's first actual battle, although he had cooperated with the guard army to attack the Hunan army before, but there were not many sorties, each time it was just a few planes, but a regiment was dispatched at once, and this was the first large-scale military operation since the establishment of the airborne troops. At the beginning, the principal said in the military academy that paratroopers should not seek too much, and paratroopers are strategic arms, and sometimes they can be related to the success or failure of a large-scale battle, so you must be stricter with yourself and absolutely not slack off.

The training of paratroopers, according to the whole branch of the People's Army, is the only unit with the same training intensity as the special forces.

Because they are shouldering the most dangerous tasks and going to the most dangerous battlefields. Therefore, paratroopers must not only train the best physical fitness and the best tactics, but more importantly, they must train tenacious endurance and superhuman survival intelligence. The boring and strenuous training before the official skydive continues as planned. The amount of training every day is staggering, which makes all paratrooper soldiers feel that life is all about training and sweating. In the morning, 5 kilometers of thunder, plus 300 meters of frog jumps, 100 push-ups, 100 weighted squats, horizontal bars 1 to 5 exercises, parallel bars 1 to 5 exercises...... As soon as the excitement came, the squad leader would also ask everyone to sprint around the barracks for a few 400 meters. In the evening, there is no less than morning physical training.

However, the most intense training is not less than 8 hours a day of professional training - parachute training. The paratroopers practice how to stand on a bumpy plane with a heavy parachute on their backs, which is the off-plane position; They have to practice bouncing on the spot, bouncing in one step, and finally practice three steps off the plane on a simulated aircraft platform; It is also necessary to jump off the platform more than 2 meters high thousands of times to exercise the strength of the legs, so that it can withstand the huge impact of parachute landing; There is also a ring, which is practiced to land in a high-altitude manner......

No matter how advanced the world's umbrellas are, they have to be stacked, and it is so difficult to fold them! Just looking at the umbrella stacking tools is enough to give you a headache: 5 fixed cones, 1 packing hook, 2 packing needles, 1 packing rope, 4 sandbags, 1 packing board......

The rigor of the folding procedures goes far beyond the requirements of housekeeping standards. There are 12 checks before folding the umbrella alone, ranging from the resume of the umbrella to the stabilizing umbrella, the umbrella jacket, the umbrella bag, the parachute line, and the connecting rope......

As the instructor said, when you become an airborne soldier, don't think about relaxing! Check the umbrella, fold the umbrella, arrange the parachute line, control the belt, put the folded canopy into the slender canopy cover, put the 10-meter-long 30-strand parachute rope into the rope cover, fold the stable umbrella, and complete the packaging...... Everything is done on the run. The rules of the Airborne Forces are that in the process of folding parachutes, all walks must be running. The squad leader, platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander are all staring at you, shouting and urging you. "Pay attention to whether the paracord is twisted", "4 pieces of brocade buckle are glued firmly", "the lock needle is not in place", "the rope should be tucked smoothly"...... On the playground, there are full of squad leaders checking back and forth, their sophisticated reminders, and stern reprimands.

Paratroopers are the most fortunate and the most difficult to train, and after a few years of training, the number is only tens of thousands, and they are all elites selected from various branches of the People's Army. If you want to be a paratrooper, you also need talent, and Chen Shaoke does not have a professional paratrooper instructor, so he cannot train everyone to be a paratrooper. Moreover, the cost of paratroopers is huge, and the cost of 10,000 paratroopers can be worth the cost of an infantry corps.

Chen Shao's requirement is that every paratrooper must be able to parachute as easily as they can walk on land, and can handle all kinds of emergencies on their own.

If you roll over after leaving the aircraft, you may lose your hands and feet, which may cause the paracord to catch on a part of your body. Even if a paracord gets tangled around one leg, the force of the parachute opening impact will pull your leg into a comminuted fracture – imagine how much force it would take to pull you hard when you're descending at 50 meters per second?

If you pass within 20 meters of someone else, there will be a terrifying situation where the two umbrellas will fail alternately, and the two will fall alternately......

If you hang upstairs when you land, then when you fall again, you will jump off the building with your bare hands......

If you encounter an updraft in the air, it will rise instead of falling; If the wind speed on the ground is high, the phenomenon of dragging will occur as soon as it lands;

If......

How to deal with these accidents is a basic requirement for paratroopers to grasp them one by one.

Chen Shao said a sentence when the paratroopers began training, which deeply educated the paratroopers: "Don't be afraid to parachute. The opening rate of our main umbrella can be said to be 10,000 per 10,000. Let you master the special way to deal with the situation, so that you are not afraid to jump - because you know all the ways to deal with accidents; Skydiving is a science, and as long as you master the rules, it's not scary. Overall, though, skydiving is much safer than if you were to walk the streets of a nearby city. There are 11 casualties in traffic accidents in that city every day. Scared because of strangeness, we paratroopers have all kinds of emergency plans. Let me ask you, which of you will prepare a set of special plans when you go out to take the train or car? ”

During the training of paratroopers, the words of the instructor have always echoed in their minds: Why do we often practice until 2 p.m. in the scorching sun and in the bitter cold wind? Because long-term fatigue and excessive exposure to the sun and freezing will lead to a decrease in people's concentration and weakened willpower. Why do we have to climb deep trenches on hard runways? Because when we fight, we have to crawl through it without saying a word, even if it is ironclad ground! That's training! The intensity and difficulty of your current training are not enough for the special forces to have breakfast!

Of all the troops, only the paratrooper medic was the busiest, dealing with emergencies from time to time.

Only when every paratrooper can sit and parachute as easily as walking and drinking water, and every parachute training can be completely complete, can paratroopers be regarded as a real strategic force.