The parachute went smoothly, but the process was a bit of a surprise to me.

In addition to infiltrating a group of scouts into the rear of the Red Army, the purpose of our airborne landing was to force the tank regiments of the Red Army to expose their positions.

The 38th Army was infantry, but as one of the most important units in the army, it had its own tank unit.

Of course, its tank forces are not as numerous as our armored divisions, only a regiment of about a hundred tanks. At this point, it is in line with the comparison between the imaginary enemy Soviet army and our country, the tanks of the Soviet devils are undoubtedly stronger than us in terms of quality and quantity, so it is natural that the tank units of the Blue Army are stronger than the Red Army, just as the air power of the Blue Army is superior to that of the Red Army.

Originally, I thought that after we airdropped two battalions to the rear of the Red Army, the tank regiment of the Red Army would appear...... It should be said that tanks or armored units have a great advantage in dealing with airborne troops, and the reason is obvious: because of the limited transportation capacity, umbrella carrying capacity, and airdrop capacity, the airborne troops can only carry very limited heavy equipment even if they can carry heavy equipment.

For example, bazookas, recoilless guns, and anti-tank missiles, etc., the ammunition of these things is as light as 3 kilograms and weighs more than 10 kilograms, and the ammunition on a soldier's back is only enough for two or three hits. And once these ammunition are finished, they often cannot be replenished in time...... The airborne troops are surrounded by the enemy as soon as they land, and if they want to replenish their ammunition, they can only wait for the air power to drop them.

Therefore, what the Airborne Forces are most afraid of encountering is the enemy's armored vehicles or tanks, because once the enemy's tanks or armored vehicles reach a certain number beyond the anti-tank capabilities of the Airborne Forces, then the Airborne Forces will basically only be abused.

However, to my surprise, the Red Army did not send their tank units when our troops were airdropping to their rear.

"What kind of reputation is the Red Army doing?" In this regard, Commander Xu was also puzzled: "The second subject is anti-airborne, isn't it?" The anti-airborne of the Red Army is the anti-airborne with motorized infantry ?! ”

Later I learned that this was the Red Army's underestimation of the enemy......

In fact, it cannot be said that the Red Army underestimated the enemy. To be precise, it should be that the intelligence of the Red Army is outdated.

You must know that the 38th Army and the 15th Airborne Army are both the ace units of our army. They also have some knowledge of this potential opponent. Therefore, the officers and men of the 38th Army knew very well what the situation was like for the Airborne 15th Army. That is, they have always thought that the 15th Airborne Army is the kind of "infantry that can parachute", and even they know that the 15th Airborne Army can't even carry much ammunition due to the constraints of conditions, let alone any heavy equipment.

So they didn't pay attention to these two battalions of our army parachuted in at all...... It is enough to let the motorized troops deal with it, the 38th Army's soldiers will not be worse than any other army, and the motorized troops are much stronger than the airborne troops in terms of ammunition, mobility, strength and heavy equipment, so if they can't deal with them, won't it be a shame for the 38th Army?

That is to say, the Red Army did not intend to let the tank regiment go at all at the beginning of the fight, and they arranged this tank regiment in the final finale, that is, the campaign counter-assault...... Add a hundred tanks during the counteroffensive, how majestic it should be!

It's just that what they didn't expect was that. Our Airborne Forces are no longer the Airborne Forces of a few months ago.

Just like we did in the previous training: first of all, the whole re-equipped Type 81 rifle increased the firepower on a large distance; The second is to use the method of separating the equipment from the person when skydiving, which increases the bearing capacity of the parachute on a large distance; The third is to equip the Airborne Forces with helicopters and Beijing jeeps, and at the same time to add a lot of heavy equipment such as large-caliber mortars.

You must know that the vast majority of the motorized units of our army in this era still rely on side three-wheeled and military vehicles to maneuver, and only a small number of armored vehicles are equipped.

In addition, the preparations made by our airborne troops for the motorized units of the Red Army early in the morning...... The purpose of this preparatory work is to use helicopters to rappel a small number of troops to the high ground on both sides of the highway to control the Red Army's lines of communication before the main force is airdropped, and its purpose is to prevent or delay the Red Army's motorized units from rushing to our army's airborne landing points and to gain more time for the assembly of our airborne troops.

In fact, most of these units were in squads, that is, a helicopter carrying ten fighters to rappel down to the high ground to do some simple fortifications. We don't think this will stop the Red Army, because the Red Army has tanks. Tanks could easily cover the Red Army fighters to break through the fire network and then encircle the heights.

But as the saying goes, "if you have the intention to plant flowers and flowers, you can't do it, and you can't plant willows and willows without intention". I thought that the anti-tank capabilities of the Red Army were not so strong, but the Red Army caused heavy losses to our tank units; I thought that our Airborne Forces would not do much, but it turned out to surprise me......

Because the Red Army did not send tank regiments, but only sent motorized units with no defense capability to come up, so the road was basically sealed to death by our army.

Although at this time there was only one squad of our troops on the high ground, this squad brought enough ammunition from helicopters during the rappel, and was equipped with Type 81 rifles, sniper rifles, and a heavy machine gun, plus they occupied a favorable position and had the fire support of helicopters, so the motorized units of the Red Army could not pass at all.

We didn't know what to do, and we thought that these two battalions would soon be eaten by the Red Army except for the scouts, but now instead of being eaten, they are gathering very smoothly.

"Order the Airborne Forces to immediately occupy favorable terrain and organize defense!" Commander Xu gave an order without thinking about it: "And let the aviation unit be ready to airdrop supplies or fire support for the airborne troops at any time!" ”

This gave us a good opportunity to successfully lay a nail in the rear of the Red Army.

The role of this nail is especially useful for our airborne troops, on the one hand, it can make the Red Army advance and retreat, and on the other hand, this nail provides a very safe parachute platform for the subsequent airdrop of the airborne troops, at least the next batch of airborne troops do not have to worry about being targeted by the enemy while still hanging on the parachute.

It was only then that the Reds realized that they had made a mistake, but people often make one mistake and then make another mistake in a hurry. The same was true of the commander of the Red Army, who hurriedly sent tank units to reinforce the airborne troops in an attempt to pull out the nail while our airborne troops were not firmly on foot.

But anti-airborne is often like this, it must be fought quickly, otherwise once the airborne troops occupy a point, this point will become a spark that can be swept away, because the Blue Army has air supremacy, and subsequent troops and equipment can continue to use this point to parachute to the rear of the Red Army.

Therefore, after a fierce period of grabbing and grabbing, the Red Army can be said to have used a number of means: to continue to attack the garrisons of our airborne troops with infantry to restrict the further spread of our airborne troops, all kinds of fighters to take into the air, tanks, motorized infantry, and artillery units to advance in multiple directions, and then all units under the cover of fighters to launch a fierce attack on the high ground where our airborne troops were stationed.

It should be said that these follow-up commands of the Red Army are quite in place, especially in air-step coordination...... I was surprised to see the Red Army hitting the Blue Army position to indicate the target for the fighters, which is enough to show that the 38th Army at this time already had a sense of coordination among all arms.

However, because the Red Army was inferior to the Blue Army in terms of air power, and because it had missed the best opportunity to counter the airborne, it was still unable to take the high ground where the Blue Army was stationed.

In this way, we not only achieved the original strategic goal, but also far exceeded our expectations.

From this point of view, the commander of the Red Army did not have a strict command of the anti-airborne side, or the actual battle, but this does not seem strange, our army has never had experience in dealing with airborne troops, even the 38th Army is no exception. In addition, the changes in the Airborne Forces in the past few months have been too fast, and it is normal for the 38th Army to fail to adapt at once.

But the exercise ground is the same as the battlefield, and the battle situation has developed to such a point that it is impossible to go back and start again, so it can only be like this.

"Battalion commander!" When the exercise was suspended, the correspondent handed me the phone and said, "It's Commander Zhang's phone!" ”

"Hmm!" As soon as I heard that it was Commander Zhang, I knew that it must be because of the exercise just now.

Sure enough, as soon as I received the call, I heard Commander Zhang scolding on the phone: "I said you kid, you have a little worry in your hands, don't beat the Red Army too ugly and can't clean it up in the end!" ”

"Commander, I can't be blamed for this!" I explained on the phone, "We didn't expect it to be like this......"

"Gotta get it!" Commander Zhang interrupted me on the other end of the phone: "I don't want to hear any explanation, I want the result, understand?" ”

"Yes!" I answered.

Now I know that this exercise is like a war in some places, once it is evolved, some uncontrollable things often happen and I can't help it, and what is even more embarrassing is that the final result is to let the Red Army win!

Commander Xu also realized this, so he walked up to me and asked, "Look...... Are we going to cancel our raid this night? ”

I understand what Commander Xu meant, now that we haven't launched a surprise attack, the battle situation is like this, if we do this again at night, it is very likely that it will be out of control, and if this situation really occurs, it will be impossible for our Blue Army to collectively launch a suicidal charge and deliberately lose to the Red Army!

However, we still underestimated the Red Army a little, because in the next second, Zhao Jingping reported to me: "Battalion commander, the Red Army has carried out radio interference with our airborne troops, and we have lost contact with the airborne troops and reconnaissance troops!" (To be continued......)