Chapter 163: Oahu Attack and Defense (5)

At 22:30 on January 4, Hawaii time, looking at the ground from the Longyun 8 airship, several large arrows flashing bright fires in the dark background were clearly visible.

"Sir, we have made contact with the ground, the situation around the landing field is normal, and the enemy situation has not yet been discovered."

After listening to the captain's report, Colonel Liang Gensheng, commander of the Ninth Special Service Wing of the Army Air Corps, nodded and ordered: "Drop anchor and prepare for lowering operations." ”

The captain was ordered to return to the cockpit and begin the procedures that the special operations airship had repeatedly practiced for two years.

"Steady rudder...... portside microvelocity...... Hold the depression angle fifteen until the height is fifty ...... Fifty in height, flick down the left anchor! ”

With a skilful and clear command, a large iron anchor tied to a rope under the port side of the airship slammed to the ground, rubbed a few times, through the dense sugar cane and fruit trees, and raked deep into the earth.

"The left number one is anchored to the ground!"

"The engine is off! Flick down the third anchor on the right! ”

In just one or two minutes, six large iron anchors landed on the ground one after another, and with the kinetic energy given by the catapult, the gravity of the earth and the inertia of the airship's motion, the three forces were combined into one, and they were firmly tied to the ground in the air with the attitude of six horses splitting their bodies.

With a "beep" sound, the four hatches on the left and right of the pod slowly opened, and several crew members took the coiled thick rope from the lintel, and threw one end of the rope into the earth where light and darkness flashed, and the other end was already firmly fixed in the winch above the lintel. At the same time, the red light by the door flashed, reflecting nearly a hundred heavily armed soldiers with oil-painted faces that had been hidden in the darkness since just now.

After 70 hours of air travel, the 88 officers and men of the 1st Airborne Squadron and the Special Wing Headquarters of the 9th Special Service Wing were now in full spirit, thanks to the complete living facilities on the airship. Of course, unlike those passenger airships on European and American routes that take luxury cruise ships as the reference standard, the S*-5T "Longyunte" type spy airship pays more attention to the practicality of living facilities, in order to allow soldiers to fully rest during the journey, multi-layer retractable sleepers are set up in the main cockpit, although the gap between each layer of sleepers is ridiculously narrow - the height is almost enough for a person to lie down on his side, but it is much more comfortable than sitting and dozing. After folding all the sleepers, you can also do gymnastics so that you don't sleep sore. In addition, the galley on the airship provides a nutritious hot meal for all the more than 100 crew members every day, the toilets that are flushed with kitchen waste water and sprinkled with perfume regularly are also quite pleasant, and there is a gramophone in the main cockpit, which can play music and sing songs with the permission of the commander.

The S*-5T "Longyunte" spy airship is a modified version of the "Longyun" strategic attack airship, and the S*-5 "Longyun" strategic attack airship is improved on the basis of the "Chiyun" strategic attack airship developed in the late period of the Asian-Russian War. As with the "Red Cloud", the engine was equipped with a muffler. The maximum speed is 130 kilometers per hour, and the maximum ceiling is 8,000 meters. In addition to the 16 machine guns in the same configuration as the "Red Cloud", the self-defense weapons are equipped with four additional 37mm naval guns that can fire time-defended space-time explosive shells, two of which are mounted on the earrings on both sides of the upper deck of the airship, and the other two are mounted on the earrings on both sides of the pods. The crew is 28.

The maximum bomb load of the large bomb bay is 24 tons, and the range can reach 16,000 kilometers when carrying 16 tons of bombs, and up to 20,000 kilometers when carrying 8 tons of bombs (theoretically it can travel freely between Beijing and London).

It is 270 meters long and 33 meters in diameter.

In 1910, 12 ships began to be built in batches, which, together with the original 4 "Chiyun", formed the backbone of the ultra-long-range strategic bombing force. Due to the use of advanced management methods and modular construction methods, coupled with the effect of mass production, the cost of a single ship has dropped to 200,000 pounds.

Six of them were transformed into spy airships around 1913, after removing some armaments and installing a number of necessary facilities, they could carry 80-90 air commandos and their equipment to carry out air assault missions (the range at this time was 16,000 kilometers), and the two sides were equipped with 6 rope anchors, and the airships descended to 100 meters to 50 meters, and the rope anchors were lowered in turn to achieve stable suspension, and the commandos carried out rapid descent through the zip rope.

"Stand up! Check out the gear! ”

With the order of the wing commander, the officers and men who had already been ready to go stood up like a launch, and after a while, they reported one by one from back to front: "The inspection is complete...... Checked...... Check it out! ”

"Downhill wheel ready!"

Following the demonstration of the wing commander, the officers and soldiers neatly raised the downhill wheel in their hands, and the downhill wheel was tightly fastened to the fixed cable on the body.

"The squads will set off in a predetermined order, now on - buckle!"

Listening to only a few "clicks, clicks", the vanguard of each team quickly buckled the downhill wheel onto the downhill rope.

"One, two, three, down!"

The four warriors jumped neatly out of the hatch and acrobatically descended the rope, despelling from the 50-meter-tall airship to the ground in less than ten seconds, and quickly freed the downhill wheels, which would remain on the rope and be taken with them when the airship left.

Then came the second and third batches...... Within five minutes, 88 officers and men, including Wing Captain Liang Gensheng, landed as apes climbing vines, and in the next few minutes, several large rope nets were used to drop wooden boxes containing mortars and ammunition.

After all the personnel and equipment were landed, the Longyun 8 airship put away the six long anchor ropes with the help of the ground personnel, and then started all six main engines, climbed forward and up at full speed, and in just two or three minutes, its majestic body that covered the sky and the moon disappeared into the darkness of the night.

After the first squadron was lowered, it was scattered into a circular defensive formation around the special wing headquarters and ammunition boxes, and when Liang Gensheng in the formation was using a compass to compare the map, a familiar light signal came from the nearby banana tree orchard.

"It's my own people, I say it's a guerrilla led by Officer F." Said the communications staff officer, who was assembling the radio station.

"It's indeed the territory of Officer F, send a detachment over and bring people over."

A small detachment of six soldiers passed over with submachine guns in their arms, and in a short time brought back five men, three men and two women, two of whom were bearded men in civilian clothes, and the other three were wearing flight suits of naval aviation.

As soon as the older man in civilian clothes saw Liang Gensheng, who had the rank of colonel, he stood up and saluted: "Major Fan Wenrui, intelligence officer of the Intelligence Department, report to you." ”

Liang Gensheng replied: "I am Liang Gensheng, the commander of the Army Airlines Special Service Wing, thanks to your guidance here, you have worked hard - how many of you are there?" ”

"Less than fifty people, mostly civilians who joined after temporary mobilization, and only twenty long guns and eight short guns in total." Fan Wenrui paused, turned around and introduced, "This is Lieutenant Zheng An of the Counsellor's Office, this is Lieutenant Cai Guolan of the Naval Airlines Carrier-based Aircraft Unit, this is Second Lieutenant Qi Bing, and Warrant Officer Lu Guoping...... These three HNA pilots all crashed on the island during the attack on Pearl Harbor a few days ago, and were rescued by our people, because of the lack of manpower, so we brought them to help. ”

Liang Gensheng nodded to the three HNA heroes and said, "Well, it can be seen that the results of Pearl Harbor are unprecedentedly huge, and you really have made great contributions. Rest assured, the landing of the large army tomorrow morning will soon sweep the whole island, and you will be able to return to the army with honor. ”

Cai Guolan took a step forward and said: "Sir, if there is anything we can help with, even if we are instructed, we must also fight with everyone, no landline does not mean that we have lost our combat effectiveness!" Airplanes are weapons, rifles are weapons, and if you have a weapon, you can fight! This is a real warrior. ”

Only then did Liang Gensheng notice that there were such beautiful flowers in the army, like roses by the stove, with shining fire shadows dancing on the petals, but barbs on the branches, noble, enthusiastic and rebellious.

If such a beauty dies here, it will only be a sad corpse, it's a pity, in our time, you can be a big star with this face, no, probably, it's more likely to be wrapped up by a rich person, perhaps, it has been ruined by the evil * before that......

Liang Gensheng quickly rolled in the cranky thinking that connected to the 21st century, nodded slightly, and said: "Lieutenant Cai's spirit is commendable, but this operation is very dangerous, I don't want a few of you elite pilots to make any mistakes, I think I will ask Officer Fan to send a few people to escort you to a safe place to avoid it first." ”

"Sir, there will be naval carrier-based aircraft to support you during the day, right?" Cai Guolan changed the direction of attack.

"It should be, for this reason we have specially prepared painted smoke bombs and puzzles for carrier-based aircraft to indicate targets."

"Wouldn't it be better for us, who are from the Navy's carrier-based aircraft unit, to help you coordinate air liaison?"

Liang Gensheng looked at his watch, and then looked at Cai Guolan's resolute expression and the standard aviation signal hand light in her hand: "Do all three of you think so?" ”

Qi Bing and Xiao Lu naturally also stepped forward: "We are completely in line with Lieutenant Cai's thoughts. ”

"Well, there are two airships to be lowered here before twelve o'clock, and I would like you to continue to help with the instructions. Officer Fan, we need to attack the bridgehead immediately, can you send someone to show us the way? ”

Fan Wenrui looked obliged: "I'll take you there personally." ”

"And what about the conductor here? The follow-up troops also need to be brought along. ”

Fan Wenrui patted Zheng An: "Boy, I'll leave it to you here, and when the follow-up troops descend, you can gather everyone to come with you." If the enemy comes during this period, it must be held and the airborne troops must not be damaged. ”

"Don't worry, I've been chopping sugar cane in this area for two years, and it's so ripe that as long as you keep the dirt road leading to the highway and the big banana orchard on the side of the road, everything will be completely safe - Ah Tao, aren't they guarding there."

"Well, we're going to go from there too—Chief Liang, can you leave a few guns for them then? They have too few guns to resist for a while. Fan Wenrui stared at the submachine gun on Liang Gensheng's chest that he felt powerful at a glance and said.

"There are not too many guns, there are quite a few grenades...... It's okay, I'll leave a detachment here on standby, and by the way, guard the ammunition. ”

Based on this consideration—or pre-planning—Liang Gensheng left behind 10 soldiers of a small squad and three divisions, two staff officers from the wing headquarters, and the remaining 70 or so airborne soldiers, who were almost one in a thousand and had undergone long-term and rigorous training, will be personally commanded by the wing commander to raid the highway bridge marked "F1" on the military map.

Since being given the task of forming an airborne special forces four years ago by the leader of the group, Her Majesty the Empress, Liang Gensheng has taken his limited mind to the limit, and has transformed the giant airship originally used for strategic bombing into a vehicle for long-distance special forces attacks.

The wing is mainly composed of nine airborne squadrons, each usually staffed by 80 combatants, and the main armament is submachine guns, sniper rifles, grenadiers and light machine guns, with mortars and even infantry guns, as appropriate.

Since only six spy airships have been modified in the past three years, and each airship can only carry one squadron equipped with first-class equipment, only six squadrons 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 participated in this operation, of which the three squadrons 1, 2, and 4 were responsible for capturing and defending the F1 bridge, and the other three squadrons were responsible for capturing the three bridges north of F1.

The fact that the bridge was only six or seven kilometers away from Pearl City at the northern end of Pearl Harbor, where the largest army barracks were located, according to pre-war reconnaissance, was concentrated in three squadrons, including the Wing Headquarters.

A few kilometers north of the bridge, in Wahiawa, there is also a smaller army barracks.

This meant that after capturing the bridge, the force would be flanked by enemy forces from both sides until its own landing force reached it. On the other hand, this move will also block the communication between the north and south of the valley, making it difficult for the enemy forces in the north to retreat to the south, and the enemy forces in the south to reinforce the north - it can be described as a Jedi battle to kill the python in the belly.

The airborne assault force, led by Pham Van Swee, walked briskly along the path between the sugar cane fields and orchards. There had been a light rain in the evening, and the ground was still a little wet, and the boots made a slight snapping sound on them.

Every once in a while, Fan Wenrui would stop to connect with the sentry on the side of the road, and the sentinel was so well hidden that if Fan Wenrui didn't get closer, the airborne troops wouldn't have been able to spot anyone there at all—of course, the Americans wouldn't have been able to find it either.

Shortly after joining the fourth sentry, Van Van Rui cleared a clump of sugar cane, and the wet asphalt road finally appeared in front of the group.

"Here we are." Fan Wenrui whispered to Liang Gensheng behind him, "There are a few more cars than during the day, maybe it was caused by the firelight over there - pay attention, someone is coming!"

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