Chapter 286: Airborne Operations (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Tickets, and Various!! ）

Just as the Chinese army movement could not be concealed from the Japanese army, the large-scale troop movement of the Japanese army could not be concealed. When receiving the news that the 10th Division of the Japanese Army was heading north, Lao Jiang, Yan Laoxi, and Chen Feng reacted differently. Lao Chiang was greatly relieved that the Battle of Wuhan was in full swing, and he was very worried that the Second Army, which was subordinate to the North China Front, would launch an attack from Lanfeng to the First Theater of Operations, so as to contain the National Revolutionary Army in Henan.

Now that the 10th Division has gone north, there are only two divisions left in Shandong, and it is a little reluctant to hold on to Shandong, and it is even more impossible to attack Henan, so Lao Jiang is greatly relieved.

On the contrary, Yan Laoxi of Shanxi gasped after receiving the news, and the three and a half divisions of the First Army were enough for his old man to drink a pot. Now not only the 10th Division is going north, but even the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Handan and the 33rd Division stationed in Tianjin are also ready to move. If that white-eyed wolf took the opportunity to pull his hand, then his old man would really lure the wolf into the room, so Yan Laoxi gasped.

After receiving the news, Chen Feng just shook his head disdainfully, and in Chen Feng's original words: "This old devil Binshanyuan has a good idea, encircling Wei to save Zhao, and wanting to open another battlefield to force the main force of our army to come back to help, which is really a good calculation." But does his old boy really think that Lao Tzu's goal is Taiyuan, it's ridiculous! ”

Chen Feng does have reasons for disdain, and he has that strength. Now he is working overtime at the arsenal in Baotou to catch up with the schedule. The monthly production capacity of the T34 tank plant has increased to 150 vehicles, more than 700 tanks have been delivered to the army and navigation, and the weapons and equipment of the two tank divisions have been fully organized and all the soldiers are in place. After months of training, Chen Feng's armored group finally looked decent.

With the help of the batch of precision machine tools sent by Henry, under the research of those Jewish technicians, the Baotou Arsenal can produce its own production line of M101 heavy howitzers, and the speed is quite good. Now, in addition to the production line rewarded by the system, another production line produced by the Eighth War Zone itself has also been installed. It will soon be ready for production.

Moreover, the firepower of the three artillery divisions of the Eighth Theater alone has far surpassed that of the Japanese army. In addition, more than half of the fighters of the North China Front Army were transferred to the Wuhan station, and the number of remaining planes was very limited. More importantly, the current strength of the Eighth Theater far exceeds the expectations of the Japanese army, and Binshan Yuan thought that the 150,000 troops on the front line were already all the strength of the Eighth Theater.

However, only Chen Feng himself knew that the Eighth Theater could still send 200,000 regular troops to participate in the war at any time. As long as he wants, he can also send 200,000 reserve troops to fight. But as far as he knew. The strength of the Japanese army in North China was only 10 divisions and 3 independent mixed brigades. Combined with some of the artillery, cavalry, and charioteers directly under them, the total strength is only 380,000.

These troops were dispersed throughout North China, and at least 80,000 people were pinned down by Liu Guodong, Hu Haitao, La Pingfu, and Shi Jianfei's instructors in the eastern Hebei direction; At least 100,000 people were pinned down on the Shanxi battlefield; 100,000 people were pinned down on the Shandong battlefield; In addition, the 40,000 men of two divisions in the Beijing-Tianjin area were pinned down by the independent 7th Division, as well as the defenders of hundreds of county towns under the control of the Japanese army. In fact, the forces that Binshan Yuan could use were very limited.

This time, this old guy transferred 4 divisions at once, regardless of life or death, this is armed with his head exposed, and when the time comes, without too many troops, a reorganized division will be enough to make the Japanese army in chaos. Besides, as long as Yang Yi and Liu Nijia's actions go well, even if Shimen loses the little devils, even if there are 300,000 troops, don't think about troubleshooting the Eighth War Zone, it is a major matter related to the life and death of the 100,000 troops on the Shanxi battlefield.

On the night of 10 December, at the junction of Fuping and Pingshan, the Fuping Independent Brigade had been assembled, and more than 6,300 people in the brigade were ready to go.

The task has been assigned, and the task of this independent brigade is to cooperate with the actions of the airborne troops, to take Shimen from inside and outside, and the most important thing is to hold there and block the Japanese reinforcements from rushing to Shanxi.

They have already figured out the situation of the Japanese troops near Shimen, and there is a squadron of Japanese troops stationed in Pingshan County, Lingshou County, and Luquan County, and there is also a puppet infantry battalion to cooperate with the Japanese army. Shimen now has an infantry brigade of the Japanese army and a group (brigade) of the puppet army, with a total strength of about 4,000 people.

However, Li Haiping and others also detected that there were a large number of Japanese companies stationed in Shimen, and each company had a large number of security teams composed of ronins, and this force was not conspicuous when dispersed, but if it was used intensively, the strength was still considerable, and the total strength was more than 1,000 people. In addition, there is a railway unit at Shimen Station, with a strength of about one squadron, so the protective strength of Shimen has been significantly weakened by the westward withdrawal of the 20th Division, but there are still five or six thousand defenders.

However, Li Haiping also knew that the five or six thousand defenders of the Japanese army seemed to be huge, but God knew how much combat strength they actually had. Not to mention the infantry group of the puppet army, it has been formed for less than 3 months, and it is okay to fight a smooth battle, but the Japanese army may not be able to count on them to defend the city. In addition, this puppet army has already been infiltrated by the independent brigade, although it has not yet penetrated into the upper echelons, but the strength of a battalion can still play a huge role at a critical time.

In addition, according to the information gathered during this time, it was found that the security teams of those companies did not seem to be very accustomed to using guns, and those who wore clogs and held katana swords seemed to prefer to use knives when fighting, and did not pose much threat to the siege troops.

The railway unit was a bit troublesome, and the intelligence officers spoke highly of this unit, and it was said that this devil squadron was better armed and equipped than ordinary field troops. But their main task was to protect the safety of the railway line and generally did not participate in the fighting. However, Yang Yi learned that a large amount of Japanese arms and materials were hoarded at Shimen Railway Station. He hoped that the Independent Brigade could get this batch of supplies intact, but with the presence of this railway unit, this task was not easy to complete.

Three o'clock in the morning is the time when people's biological clocks are most inclined to rest, and the troops attacking Shimen set the time for the general attack at this time. Hearing that the headquarters would send airborne troops to fight with them tonight, this made everyone's eyes, including Li Haiping, widen.

They had also participated in the Pingjin Campaign before, and they had also seen the Japanese airborne troops, and they still remembered that they were frightened when they first saw those guys who fell from the sky, and they all thought that they were demon soldiers, and tens of thousands of people were stunned by the less than 3,000 devil airborne troops. Unexpectedly, now they also have their own airborne troops. I just don't know how the airborne troops made by the General Seat of the Road are better than the airborne troops of the Japanese.

In fact, Li Haiping didn't know what to do. The airborne troops of the Eighth Theater of Operations are stronger than the half-baked airborne troops of the Japanese, not a star and a half. The airborne troops in the Eighth Theater were personally trained by Chen Feng, and it is normal to say that Chen Feng of the cavalry cannot guide and Chen Feng of the navy cannot guide them. However, airborne is a compulsory subject for special forces in later generations, and airborne operations are one of the main ways for special forces to fight. Chen Feng couldn't be more ripe. The number of airborne troops in the 8th theater of operations was small. There were only two regiments. Combined into one airborne brigade. However, unlike ordinary infantry brigades, airborne brigades do not have heavy firepower and logistics establishments, so the whole brigade has only more than 4,000 people.

However, these more than 4,000 people were drawn from the more than 300,000 regular troops of the Eighth War Zone. At that time, when the troops were selected, Chen Feng was personally in command, and when he chose that, the original troops had to release them unconditionally, even if they involved the special combat team, so there were a small number of special combat personnel in the airborne brigade.

With good instructors, the quality of the team members is strong enough, but a very important factor affecting the combat capability of the airborne troops is equipment. This equipment can make Chen Feng painstaking, and now whether it is German equipment or the equipment of the United States and the Soviet Union, Chen Feng does not think it is very good. If you want to train airborne troops that you are satisfied with, such equipment will not work. So Chen Feng personally led several military experts to design airborne equipment, from parachutes to combat uniforms to personal weapons.

Because Chen Feng himself is an extremely good airborne soldier, he has an extraordinary understanding and knowledge of the airborne combat theory and combat equipment of later generations, and with the support of a large amount of financial and material resources from the Eighth Theater, the equipment of the airborne troops of the Northern Air Force will soon be in order. After half a year of training and several anti-bandit operations, the airborne brigade has initially formed its combat capability. However, this is the first time that the entire brigade has been dispatched to attack the important city garrisoned by the Japanese army.

The war eagle roared through the clouds, and over Shimen, the Soviet-made Li 2 transport plane slowly lowered its altitude, until it was less than 600 meters above the ground, and the huge "belly" of the transport plane suddenly spit out umbrella flowers. Although the night sky is pitch black, the white umbrella flowers still look very soft.

After more than half a year of intensive training, Qin Wuyang, a small warlord of the Sichuan Army in the past, has transformed into a qualified officer, and stands out in all airborne arms, plus he was a major general and brigade commander before, so he was soon promoted to the current brigade commander by the deputy captain of the airborne brigade, the captain of the airborne brigade, the commander of the first airborne regiment, and the deputy commander of the airborne brigade.

Originally, Chen Feng didn't want Qin Wuyang to participate this time, after all, he was a major general brigade commander, and the airborne operation was a real deep tiger's den, once the soldiers who landed at that time could not complete the assembly in time, then he, the major general brigade commander, was likely to become a trophy of the Japanese.

However, Qin Wuyang insisted on commanding this operation, and the reason he also told Chen Feng that he Qin Wuyang, as the supreme commander of the new branch of the Airborne Forces, how could he not conduct actual combat. Without participating in actual combat, it is impossible to discover the shortcomings of airborne operations, and it is impossible to improve the combat capability of the airborne troops.

As for the danger, it is normal, the crockpot does not break from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle, and there are immortal people in the war, since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, it is not without generals who have died in battle, not to mention that he is an outdated major general, so he must participate in this battle. If he dies in battle, then let him be buried with his airborne brothers, and his wife and children who are far away in Xikang will be troubled by the troops.

Seeing that this Sichuan barbarian had made up his mind, no matter how much persuasion he had, I am afraid that the effect would not be great, and what Qin Wuyang said was also reasonable, so Chen Feng also agreed to let him personally command this airborne operation. (To be continued......)