Of course, the Russians were only struggling to hold on, and although they had some means to deal with the tanks, they were almost completely powerless against the attack from overhead, and since the construction of the front-line airfields on the east coast of Pavlodar and Omsk, the Thunder bombers have become a lingering nightmare over their heads. Especially after the Siberian Front opened the railway line, the main restriction of the Chinese playing with firepower was no longer there, and those trains full of coagulated qiyou bombs rumbled from the far east. Then they loaded bombers and smashed them on the top of the Russian army, and the bombing accuracy of these bombers was far from being comparable to those German airships on the European battlefield, and it was not something that their pitiful anti-aircraft artillery could defend.

Today, Wang Shizhen dropped at least 300 tons of coagulated Qiyou bombs on the Russian positions that were about to attack.

But obviously this is not enough, when the Chinese soldiers attacked in a barrage under the cover of the chariots, the counterattack of the Russians on the opposite side was still very fierce, in fact, it was burned by this thing for a long time, and the Russians also had many ways to deal with it, the most important of which was to dig deep holes. During the bombing, except for those machine gunners who kept firing in the air and tried to force the planes to drop bombs at high altitudes to reduce the hit rate, the vast majority of Russian troops hid in the tunnels dug separately in the trenches, and tried to block the holes as much as possible to prevent the air from being pumped out, although if the other side used high-explosive bombs, it was very likely to bury a large number of them, but at least there was no need to worry about being burned to death.

The Chinese generals who fought with the main forces of the Russian European Army for the first time did not know this, so when the napalm bombardment ended and the ground began to charge, the Russians came out one by one like rats and continued to block with fierce firepower, as for those Chinese tanks, this can only rely on the bravery of those Russian soldiers, and the frontal armor of the Dragon tanks is impossible to penetrate through the battle defense guns in the hands of the Russian army.

One by one, Russian soldiers carrying anti-tank grenades or zha kits rushed out of the trenches one after another under the blazing fire from the opposite side. Skillfully crawling, jumping, running, and, of course, falling from crater to crater. The survivors, on the other hand, chose to hide in a crater in the path of the chariot at their own discretion, and when the chariot drove by, it suddenly jumped out to attack, and only God knows if it succeeded. And their anti-tank grenades are actually just oversized grenades, relying on the strength of the Russians' arms to load nearly a kilogram of antimony, which is very effective in bombing the German tanks in Europe, but it is inevitably a little difficult to use against the dragon. This requires the soldier to heroically put it on the chariot to be effective.

Of course, the result of this is usually to be targeted by the accompanying infantry, and the success rate is so low that it makes people cry, but fortunately, the lives of the gray cattle are not worth much, and this can be regarded as defending the country, and their will to fight is still relatively tenacious.

"This won't work, you have to think of some good way, otherwise it will be a war of attrition." Wang Shizhen looked at the soldiers in front of him who were blocked and frowned and said.

"The most effective way is to cut off the supply of the Russian army, but bombing will not work. Targets like railways are inherently difficult to bomb, and even if they blow up the Russians, they can be quickly repaired in a short period of time, and as for important bridges, the Russian army has a large number of anti-aircraft weapons to protect them. It is very difficult for our bombers to drop bombs accurately at low altitudes, and as for dropping bombs at high altitudes, they are completely blindfolded, and they may not be able to hit one if they throw hundreds of bombs. The staff officer beside him said.

In fact, a very important reason for the lack of air defense protection on the front line of the Russian army is that the air defense weapons have been transferred to protect the railway. The 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns bought from China and the anti-aircraft guns of various calibers produced by themselves or their allies are piled up at the bridge stations along the line. After so many years of fighting, it is really unbelievable that the Russians do not even have this ability.

"If it is blown up by people, for example, the railway bridge over the Ishim River, after it is blown up, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Russians to repair it in the short term." Another staff officer said suddenly.

"How to get over, the Russian defense line stretches from here to the Ishim River, even if we send a small detachment to infiltrate, it is impossible to carry a large amount of explosives and weapons and ammunition for infiltration at such a long distance." The first staff officer said.

"Fly over!" The staff officer said with a smile.

Wang Shizhen's eyes lit up immediately, yes, if you can't beat it, you can still send someone to fly over! However, the only airborne division in China is not something he can mobilize, and he has to find the chief of the army general staff to do this, but I think that the chief of general staff Li will not let go of this good opportunity for military training.

"Look, this is a smart general, the first thing to think about when encountering a problem is to solve it technically, instead of urging the soldiers to attack, attack and attack, if the technology can't solve it, then fight for people's lives, and after the fight, we must seize the time to develop new techniques to solve the problem, so as not to fight for people's lives again next time." Emperor Yang was very happy that Wang Shizhen could have such an expression.

"And the problem of support for the airborne division?" Li Yuncong hurriedly asked, China is only an airborne division, which is the unit that Emperor Yang is most concerned about, of course, it cannot be sent out casually.

"Yes, isn't it just to train soldiers to fight? That's not a home decoration, what good soldiers can be trained on the training ground, the battlefield is the best training ground, look at the war has not been fought for a few years, our soldiers are almost unable to catch up with the Russians. Emperor Yang said without hesitation.

In fact, he was not very satisfied with the appearance of Chinese soldiers on the battlefield, although the equipment had a huge advantage, and also in terms of tactics, they were also trained according to the most advanced tactics under his personal guidance, and the result was that the most on the battlefield was a draw with Britain and Russia, which was a bit disappointing, although experience was also a huge advantage, but in general, in his opinion, the army still failed his expectations.

As the chief of the general staff of the army, Li Yuncong hurriedly blamed himself, of course, Emperor Yang just said it casually, after all, he was still competent as the chief of the general staff. Immediately after receiving the order of the chief of the General Staff, 12,000 soldiers of the 1st Airborne Division of the Army Air Corps began to board planes specially to transport them at the military airfield in Shunyi in batches. At present, Army Airlines has a total of 1,000 Hongyan transport aircraft, that is, Yang Feng's version of Aunt Junker, but the performance is better than the original, after all, Junkers's corrugated aluminum is definitely not as good as his 7075, 2024 and other aviation aluminum alloys, and his engine power is greater, this Hongyan transport aircraft can carry twenty heavily armed soldiers to fly 2,000 kilometers at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour.

Of course, it is impossible for him to send all these thousand wild geese over, where can Wang Shizhen find him such a big airport? He has nothing more than two front-line airfields there, and those bombers and fighter-bombers alone are full, so at most two hundred of them will fly over, which is enough to airdrop almost one brigade at a time, and for special operations missions like this, it is enough to airdrop battalion-level combat units, and sending a division over is nothing more than letting those soldiers feel the war up close.

Two hundred transport planes carrying 4,000 airborne troops took off from Beijing, landed at the military airfield in Hami for refueling, and then flew directly to the front-line airfield in Pavlodar.

Two days later, Petropavl, the most important city on the banks of the Ishim, the Trans-Siberian Railway passed through the city, of course, the so-called city was only in a sparsely populated place like Siberia, in fact, it was a river port fortress during the expansion of the Russians into Central Asia. From here small river boats can sail all the way to the Kazakh hinterland, as is the case in the Russian cities of Siberia, after all, in the era when there were no railways, water transport was the only effective mode of transportation, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Omsk, this is just one of the small towns.

But with the defeat of the Russian army in the Sino-Russian War, it has become a military powerhouse, the Trans-Siberian Railway to the east is the lifeline of the Russian army in Omsk, and the Ishim River to the south is the lifeline of the Russian army in Atbasar in the south, and the river and railway are like blood vessels to pump blood for the Russian army.

And the intersection of the two, undoubtedly has become the real top priority, on the Ishim River west of Petropavl, the Ishim River Bridge of the Trans-Siberian Railway is being guarded like a jewel, although this is already part of the rear of the battle line, but those Chinese bombers will not care about this, and the Russian army does not have any air power in Siberia, these bombers dare to drive directly even without fighter escort. So the Russian army put an air defense regiment here, with forty anti-aircraft guns including seven and five millimeters, three seven millimeters, and two five millimeters, and thirty 14.5 millimeter anti-aircraft machine guns, but there are not many infantry to protect these anti-aircraft guns, there is only one battalion in total, after all, this is the rear of the battle line, Chinese bombers can come, and their soldiers will definitely not have wings to fly over.

Unfortunately, what the Russians did not know was that while they were sleeping soundly at night, 2,000 Chinese soldiers were flying over with wings on, and under the guidance of the two navigation stations at the Pavlodar and Omsk airports, 150 Hongyan transport planes quietly flew across the Ishim River south of Petropavl under the cover of night, and then chose a flat farmland area and began to descend in altitude.

Anyway, there are no air defense weapons on the ground, you can fly as high as you like, as long as you can open the parachute, in order to land to facilitate assembly, you must fly as low as possible, after reaching the parachute jump height, the indicator light in the plane lights up, and a heavily armed soldier began to jump out of the cabin one after another, and at the same time, in the transport planes that transport ammunition and heavy weapons for them, a large parachute was also pushed out of the hatch with a wooden box. (To be continued......)