Fang Ziyi, who was very criticized by Yang Zhen, although his flesh was still painful, he didn't dare to show it. We can only honestly follow the plan of the headquarters to make a plan for the landing. But in any case, it is basically impossible to take out more than a dozen transport planes at once as a price, and Fang Ziyi will not be in pain.

At considerable cost to the first parachute troops, these transport planes, which carried the most urgently needed support firepower at the moment, forced their way to land on the north bank of the Taizi River, about two kilometers long plain, on the north bank of the Taizi River captured west of the city, under the cover of fighters who were constantly diving and strafing.

The pilots of these transport planes are all instructors who have been transferred from the flight school for the purpose of this landing mission. These instructors, who are of a very high level, did not live up to his expectations. Although the plane was more or less damaged by the sporadic fire from the wings when it landed. But almost all the planes landed safely.

Immediately after landing, these planes unloaded the loaded tanks and the much-needed artillery as quickly as possible. The planes, especially the Italian transport planes that transported the dozen or so ultralight tanks, had been specially modified and the cabin doors had been enlarged. Combined with repeated training before the war, the speed of unloading was quite fast.

Except for one plane that crashed the tail of the fuselage during a forced landing because the tank it was carrying was not secured. The rest of the planes were basically unloaded safely. However, a Junker 52 and an SM 82 transport plane, after unloading, were shot down by Japanese artillery fire when they took off again. The last plane to take off was also destroyed on the makeshift runway by Japanese artillery fire.

Despite the cost of four aircraft, compared to the number of aircraft put into service. On the whole, the landing was relatively successful. And the transport plane that was knocked into the tail by its own tank is not completely impossible to repair. However, in order to ensure the safety of the aircraft, Fang Ziyi transferred the instructor of the aviation school to participate in the landing of the plane, and was scolded by Yang Zhen with his head and face.

Yang Zhen can be said to be quite angry when Fang Ziyi transferred the instructor of the aviation school to participate in this combat operation. These instructors are all veterans of the battlefield who have survived hundreds of battles, and they are the foundation and confidence for the development and growth of the air force. For these even if it is a total loss, it is completely possible to find a way to replenish the aircraft. Sent out his most fundamental foundation, didn't he give up food because of choking?

Originally, according to Yang Zhen's intentions, the loss of these planes was lost. Especially those Italian transport planes, there are only a dozen of them in total, and even if they are all preserved, it will not take long before they will be scrapped due to lack of spare parts to replenish them. Compared with the current painstaking collection, a large number of Junker 52 aircraft have been obtained.

The performance of these Italian-made transport aircraft is still wrong. But there are more than 10 planes in total, and there is no need for the Anti-Union to copy the necessary parts for them. As long as these heavy weapons can be delivered to the Second Paratrooper Division, it doesn't matter if these planes are all lost.

But this Fang Ziyi, in order to ensure the aircraft, sent the instructors of the aviation school out. And he lost three units at once, which made Yang Zhen feel distressed. also thinks that their vision is too short-sighted, which undoubtedly makes Yang Zhen, who has repeatedly emphasized that the heads of all branches of the military must have strategic vision and synthetic combat command ability, is very dissatisfied.

However, with Fang Ziyi's approach, Yang Zhen got angry afterwards and got angry afterwards. However, the arrival of these heavy equipment and reinforcements has undoubtedly greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the landing force. The two German-made 150-millimeter infantry guns, although the maximum firing range was only more than 5,000 meters.

With a weight of more than two tons, it is somewhat too cumbersome for a lightly armed paratrooper. But this power is really not much different from a 150-millimeter howitzer. Moreover, when the Anti-Union was airborne, it was equipped with a tractor modified from the British Bren machine gun car, which also strengthened its mobility to a certain extent.

In the street battles in Benxi Lake City, no matter in the strong fortifications, they can't withstand the power of these big guys' guns. The addition of these two German-made heavy infantry guns, together with the arrival of mountain artillery and heavy mortars, undoubtedly greatly enhanced the firepower of the troops. And the 12 Polish-made ultra-light tanks that are only 2.5 tons and have no actual living space on any battlefield at the moment.

After joining the battlefield, it also greatly increased the troops' ability to attack fortifications and intersperse them. In addition to the fact that the anti-United Nations paratroopers are definitely at the elite level of training, after the arrival of these heavy weapons, the battlefield, which was still somewhat balanced, has gradually begun to tilt a little.

The commander of the 2nd Paratrooper Division, who was airborne with the second echelon, immediately took over the command, and at the same time divided a regiment of soldiers from the second echelon into two routes. With the strength of one battalion, the special forces that had already come down from Beishan, reinforced with two mountain guns and one heavy infantry gun, and four TSK ultralight tanks, were attacking the Benxi Lake Ironworks, and seized the Benxi Lake Ironworks.

He personally commanded the strength of two battalions, and immediately under the cover of the rest of the artillery and eight ultra-light tanks, forcibly interspersed with the Benxi Lake city to meet his own main force that was still fighting fiercely with the Japanese defenders in the city. And ordered to control part of the troops in the east of the city and immediately launch an attack on the southern hill of Benxi Lake.

The 2nd Paratrooper Division, which had been reinforced and strengthened in firepower, suffered heavy casualties, but it became more and more courageous the more it fought. On the morning of the 26th, under the cover of artillery, they successively captured most of the positions on the southern mountain of Benxi Lake, and completely relieved the main firepower of the Japanese army in the mountainous area around the city of Benxi Lake. And the Japanese army in the city squeezed the east of the city little by little.

By 5 p.m. on the 26th, the remnants of the Japanese army in the entire Benxihu City had been driven out of the city and surrounded by a hill south of the Taizihe Railway Bridge. As for the Japanese troops in Benxi Lake City, they have basically been wiped out. Benxi Lake, an industrial city that arose because of coal and iron, basically fell into the hands of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

At the same time as the 2nd Paratrooper Division was fighting fiercely with the Japanese garrison at Benxi Lake, the two divisions under Wang Xiaoming's command were commanded by Cao Yafan, and they also used the main force of the entire Third Army to attract fighters on the front line of the alkali factory and Xiaoshi. Suddenly, from the direction of Crooked Head Mountain and Shiqiaozi in the northwest of Benxi, a small guard force of the Japanese army was forcibly torn apart.

At 11 o'clock on the evening of the 26th, it broke into the Benxihu urban area, replaced the 2nd Paratrooper Division, which had suffered heavy casualties, as the guard of the Benxihu urban area, and surrounded and annihilated the last remnants of the enemy. By the time Wang Xiaoming's two divisions rushed into Benxi Lake, the entire Benxi Lake battlefield could be said to have been decided. Although the Benxihu Ironworks also suffered certain losses, the extent of the losses was not large and did not affect the continued production.

The three paratrooper regiments invested by the Second Parachute Division in Benxi Lake, plus an ultra-light tank company, suffered nearly half of the battle losses. In addition to the cost of being shot down with the transport plane and during the landing process. In the face of the fierce and rapid counterattack of the Japanese troops in the city, the landing fell into a bitter battle before it could be assembled. and the first echelon that was constantly suppressed by the Japanese artillery fire on the southern mountain of Benxi Lake during the war, and the casualties were also quite huge.

In addition to being a regiment in the second echelon, which was reinforced by artillery fire, suffered relatively few casualties. The first batch of the 4th and 5th regiments were airborne, and during the airborne and after the landing, the Japanese quickly counterattacked, and in the ensuing stubborn resistance, all these two regiments suffered more than half of the casualties.

In particular, the 4th Paratrooper Regiment, which was always in the main combat area and at the same time was unable to complete the full assembly under the division of the Japanese army, suffered 70 percent casualties, and the smaller 5th Regiment also suffered more than half of the casualties. It can be said that the Second Paratrooper Division has no sustained combat capability in a short period of time.

After Wang Xiaoming's two divisions entered Benxi Lake, the Second Paratrooper Division, which had suffered nearly half of the casualties and had no sustained combat capability, except for the Sixth Regiment with a complete formation, stayed behind to cooperate with the main force. The 4th and 5th regiments, which suffered the final casualties, were mobilized one after another, and the temporary field airfield on the bank of the Taizi River was used as the take-off and landing point. The Junker 52 Aircraft Group, which transported heavy weapons for Wang Xiaoming's unit, withdrew to the North Manchurian base area for rest and replenishment.

As for the two divisions under Wang Xiaoming's command, except for leaving one regiment and the sixth paratrooper regiment to jointly guard the Benxi Lake urban area and continue to carry out the task of clearing out the remnants of the enemy. The other division and two regiments, in accordance with Wang Xiaoming's orders and under the command of Cao Yafan, went straight behind the main force of the Third Army on the front line of Xiaoshi.

The entire Eastern Cluster was originally planned to take over the operation of the 1st Paratrooper Division, but because of the rapid capture of Shenyang. The first section of the Shenyang battlefield has rapidly moved south, successively captured the first line of Liaoyang, Shoushan, and Lishan, and has already joined up with the first paratrooper division. It is no longer necessary to respond to the battle in the eastern cluster, and it has been directly revoked.

After the original plan to reinforce Anshan was revoked, the pressure on Wang Xiaoming was suddenly reduced a lot. He could concentrate on concentrating all his forces to deal with the main force of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army, which was rapidly gathering along the entire Anbong Railway.

In the face of the current battle situation, General Yamada Otosan and Lieutenant General Qin Yan Saburo are at a loss. Almost no one, including all the operational staff officers of the Kwantung Army at the moment, would have expected the battlefield on the central front to collapse and collapse so quickly. They did not realize that their opponents were capable of carrying out large-scale airborne operations.

When it received reports that the Anti-Japanese Federation had carried out large-scale parachute operations in Benxi Lake and Anshan. These two supreme commanders of the Kwantung Army, along with everyone in the Kwantung Army Command, immediately fell into petrification. Furious, General Otozo Yamada threw this report directly into the face of the Kwantung Army's chief of intelligence staff officer Okoshi Kaneji Daisa.

If it weren't for Qin Yan Saburo's persuasion, General Yamada Otosan, who was so violent that he even drew his saber, would not hesitate to slash the Dazuo in front of him, who controls the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army and spends a huge amount of intelligence funds every year, but he has gained nothing.

The enemy has the capability of large-scale airborne operations, and their intelligence department does not know anything about such important information. As a direct result, the Kwantung Army was almost completely defenseless against the possible airborne operations of the enemy. And directly led to Anshan and Benxi Lake, which changed hands in such a short period of time.

In addition, the intelligence department has never been able to find out that the enemy army has completely destroyed the battlefield on the central line, and the Kwantung Army has painstakingly built a large number of heavy artillery pieces of more than 200 mm caliber in the permanent fortification group. These two things together made the Kwantung Army almost fall into a situation where the entire front collapsed, how could this not make General Yamada Otozo jump like thunder?

Looking at the thunderous General Yamada Otozo in front of him, Lieutenant General Qin Yan Saburo could only shake his head and sigh. In addition to suppressing anger at the incompetence of the intelligence services, it is just as helpless. Originally, according to the plan of the Kwantung Army, the permanent fortification group they built on the battlefield of the central line could withstand the enemy's tank cluster for at least half a month.

However, he did not expect that the enemy army would suddenly mobilize a large number of super heavy artillery groups, and destroy these permanent fortification groups that can be protected against 150 mm caliber howitzer shells and directly hit them like targets. It directly led to the rout of the entire front battlefield on the middle line, and led to the loss of Shenyang City in such a short period of time.