Powerful naval artillery fire, like a drunken villain tearing at the helpless flower girl, wreaks havoc on the coast of Niigata Prefecture. In March, there is still a little residual snow in the backlit place for a long time, which is not a good place to land, nor is it a good season for landing.

Even if a strong man jumps into the icy waters of the Sado Strait, he will not be able to hold out for tens of seconds. Ishihara did not even think that the Allies would begin the campaign to land in Honshu at this time, this location. The entire Niigata defense line consisted of only one divisional regular army and 100,000 paramilitary troops.

The "brain of Japan" also underestimated the iron-blooded and resolute nature of the "black-faced commander". Unlike other generals of the Han Dynasty, all the battles commanded by Jiang Yunzhi were always based on victory as the only goal, and little consideration was given to casualties. I am afraid that this is also the reason why in the later stage of the war, Zhong Yi sent Jiang Yunzhi to the side alone. But in later generations, what most people prefer to believe is another statement. That is, after Ye Zhiqiu, the first chief of general staff of the empire, became ill from exhaustion and died young, his majesty needed a loyal brain by his side. Loyalty and wisdom, these two points are among the bigwigs of the Imperial Army, Jiang Yunzhi is the first.

Therefore, although Jiang Yunzhi did not directly command too many battles, he was still known as one of the "military gods" of the empire in later generations. And the Niigata landing is a classic among the few battles that Jiang Yunzhi has commanded.

To say that it is a classic, first of all, in terms of strategy, abandon the beaches on the east coast and choose dangerous places, abandon summer plumbing and choose spring cold, abandon heavy troops and then choose paratroopers to assault. Most of the examples of paratrooper assaults in later military textbooks are the Battle of Niigata rather than the Battle of Crete, where larger paratroopers descended.

Secondly, in the execution of the campaign, whether it was the navy in charge of fire support, the army aviation division in charge of coastal landing, or the paratrooper unit of the Guards Army that attacked with precision like a scalpel, the coordinated operations of the various units in the Battle of Niigata were like a gathering of old friends. In this regard, it is fair to say that aside from Jiang Yunzhi's commanding ability, the high quality of the commanders at all levels of the Third Army of the Guards Corps also played a decisive role.

The Airborne Forces became famous in World War I, and in other theaters after that, paratroop units of various foreign military powers were established one after another, and reached the peak of the use of paratroopers in landing battles on the European continent.

The Niigata landing, also known as the "Covering the Sky" plan, had always been thought to be named after "Covering the Sky and Covering the Sun", but at the moment when the airborne troops were ordered to set off, Jiang Yunzhi suddenly woke up: A long time ago, His Majesty had moved the idea of seizing the landing site with paratroopers.

The Navy's artillery preparations for Niigata lasted only 10 hours, and the shelling of the southern front was a bit of a pediatric affair. But the Niigata landing was a time lag, and before the Japanese could react, before reinforcements arrived, the enemy's coastal defense line was suddenly attacked. Air force units that took off in Jeju and southern North Korea together with the Navy completed fireworks displays on the west coast, various obstacles were cleared of the tidal flats, and cliff positions on several landing beaches were plowed over and over again by air force bombs.

The bombed and disgraced Japanese garrison regiments, at the moment when the shelling had just ended, thought that the Allied landing had begun. When the soldiers crawled out of the bunker and rushed into the trench amid the shouting and scolding of the officers, they found that there were many fewer comrades around them, and a large part of the bunkers were directly hit by shells or bombs, and the people inside were buried alive.

The garrison division was formed in Niigata, and many of the soldiers buried alive were their brothers, relatives, and fellow villagers. Some people picked up shovels, but before they could stand up, they were kicked down by the officers, and "the eight teeth ...... road". The battlefield was relentless, and as soon as the artillery fire stopped, the enemy was about to charge, and the officers did not dare to let the soldiers save those who were still alive in the bombed bodies. All that will disturb the discipline of the trenches, and they all want to save people, what about the enemy's landing craft on the sea?

However, what made the Japanese officer wonder was that the sea did not appear as he expected...... The landing craft that was supposed to appear buzzed overhead, growing louder and louder, as if a huge swarm of bees was approaching.

"It's a helicopter ......" The mournful cry was mixed with a variety of emotions such as timidity, grief and despair, and the taxis who heard the shouting hurriedly raised their heads, even if they didn't shout, everyone could see it. In the air about 100 meters above the sea, hundreds of helicopters with slender fuselages painted in sea blue rushed in a neat formation.

There is always a fear of the unknown, and most Japanese soldiers saw the legendary battlefield killer helicopter for the first time. Without waiting for the officers to give orders, the 38 large covers in the trench opened fire one after another. I have to say that the Type 38 is a very good rifle, and more than a thousand meters away, there are still many bullets that hit the helicopter, and the front armor of the "Hai Dongqing" is scattered, but it is limited to that. The protection of the WZ-40 Haidongqing helicopter gunship is not penetrated by these rifle bullets, even the Japanese army 6. The 5 mm caliber crooked light machine gun only made a row of white marks on the sea blue paint of Hai Dongqing. The only thing that the Japanese army could threaten Haidongqing was the shore defense artillery, as for the mortars behind the foot...... Hit a helicopter with a mortar? Is it better to hit than to guess that Germany scored seven goals against Brazil?

There are only a dozen coastal defense guns in the entire Niigata defense line, and in today's Japan, can more artillery pieces be found in addition to the troops guarding Tokyo? Of course, more than a dozen artillery pieces could not pose much threat to the Guards Army Aviation Division, and the shore defense guns that exposed their firing points were soon all silent, and their role was to waste dozens of Gentleman Penguin light ground-to-ground missiles of Hai Dongqing.

As the Haidongqing approached, the uncontrolled rockets in the hive soon began to wield, and in the helicopter's volley mode, the role of the trench became that when your upper body was shattered, it could also leave two relatively intact thighs.

There is also a heavy machine gun in the nose controlled by the co-pilot on the helicopter, 12. The power of the 4 mm caliber aviation heavy machine gun is not much worse than that of the aircraft gun, especially when the target is the personnel on the ground, nearly 400 WZ-40 are like the returning Eagle King Sky Bird, flying and raging on the coastline, yes, it is raging, such a war is no longer a massacre, but a torture!

The weapons in the hands of the Japanese soldiers turned into burning sticks, and their bullets could not penetrate the helicopters, so they could only wait for the torture and killing of others.

No troops could hold out in such a battle, and the Japanese brigade at the beach position in Yahiko Village, Nishi-Kambara County, which had been hit hard by the Army Aviation Division, soon broke out, and the officers shot the first few deserters, but there were more and more deserters, and no one wanted to continue to hold out in a hopeless battle. The Japanese were fanatical, but their fanaticism was to kill and injure the invaders, not to be tortured and killed in such an almost humiliating way.

In the afternoon, the beach position in the western sector was once again defeated, and the Japanese commander had no choice but to tear down the east wall and replace the west wall, and even mobilized those militia semi-military units to fill the loopholes.

At night, it was still the time for the naval guns to be unscrupulous, and the militiamen, who had no battlefield training at all, were frightened by the fierce artillery bombardment, and before dawn, half of them had already run away.

The soldiers of the Army Aviation Division, who slept with earmuffs on the aircraft carrier, rested all night and were still energetic the next day to devote themselves to the torture and killing battle.

The Izumozaki town position was broken and fled, and the village of Kariba suffered heavy casualties and needed urgent assistance...... The Japanese division heard all this bad news all morning, and it was not until noon that he was relieved...... An Allied force appeared behind them, having captured the towns of Tagami, Akiba, and Niigata, and this Allied force had tanks and heavy artillery, which was blocked by the new divisions of Gangnam Ward......

"Block a P!" The division commander cursed a foul word, no one knew why there were Allied troops in the interior, but he understood that an Allied unit with tanks and heavy artillery was not at all something that the so-called division formed by the militia could stop, they had already ...... The north of the belly is under attack.

"The time to dedicate oneself to the emperor is coming, isn't it?" The division commander muttered to himself.

"Report to the commander of the division, landing craft have appeared on the sea, and the enemy is ...... in Nishi-ku, Sei-po-gu, and Mishima-gun"

"Yaga, order the soldiers to fight back, and tell them that we have no reinforcements, so we can only fight to the death and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!" The enraged division commander almost drew his sword and slashed the long-winded signal soldier.

With the successful paratrooper parachute and the start of the offensive behind the Niigata defenders, the landing of the frontal Yishu Corps also officially began. The reason why noon was chosen is because the sea temperature can be slightly higher at noon. However, with the water temperature in the Sado Strait in March, it was still difficult to have a chance of survival after falling into the water, so in this landing campaign, there were no hovercraft, and all the landing craft were mechanized iron-hulled ships.

Rao is like this, the troublesome wind and waves and the Japanese army's not dense artillery fire still cause the landing craft to capsize from time to time. As long as the boat capsizes, it is almost the end of a dozen lives. 6,000 meters of the road of charge, 6,000 meters of the kiss of death, after the war, more than 4,000 Allied troops died in this 6,000-meter-wide sea. This figure was even far greater than in the early battles after the landing, and in the Battle of Shinanogawa, the Allied casualties did not reach 4,000 in the face of several Japanese divisions.

From this point of view, the Niigata garrison division was a success, and they did something that several regular divisions did not do. Strategically, they failed, Ishihara failed, Japan failed.

As the 40th Army of Yizhou rushed to a number of beach positions, the two airborne divisions of the Guards Army also broke through the crowd blocking line of the militia in the Jiangnan District, and the tracks of the warrior tanks drove behind the beach positions in the Central District with foul blood and pieces of minced meat. The entire Niigata defense line of the Japanese army collapsed, the division commander committed suicide, and the remaining more than 3,000 Japanese troops on the defense line threw away their weapons and raised their hands in surrender.

The Allies took over the port of Niigata undamaged, and the disembarkation of follow-up troops was much faster. Jiang Yunzhi's original wish to find a few pieces of dog-headed gold on the Sado Gold Mountain had not yet been realized, and the general headquarters of the Japanese Front had already moved forward to Niigata City.

Less than 48 o'clock from the launch to the end of the "Covering the Sky" landing operation, Jiang Yunzhi succeeded in opening the defensive circle on Honshu Island in less than two days. When the news returned to Chang'an, His Majesty took the case and shouted happily! "Heinie, go to Hebal's house and get two bottles of wine, I'll get drunk with you today!"

When the Judah Legion, which belonged to the Japanese Front, began to land the next day, the front troops of the Ishu Legion had already captured Aizu Wakamatsu, a key point of communication between Mt. Ou and the Echigo Mountains.

Who can remain calm in the face of such temptation?

Slaughter the Japanese with a sword, and step on the prancing horse in Tokyo!