Chapter 265: Parachute to Washington
PS: There will be an update later, at least three chapters.
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The engines of the planes roared in the sky, and in the cabin, paratroopers clinging to their seats, stared at the signal lights in the cabin.
The red signal light was flashing, indicating that the plane was about to arrive over the target area, and outside the cabin, there was a deafening explosion.
Washington's anti-aircraft firepower and desperately projecting artillery shells, although the range is only 6,000 to 8,000 meters at most, and it is completely unable to attack paratroopers flying at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, but it can bring a sense of security to the US troops on the ground.
In the cabin, Cai Hanyu got up from his seat, grabbed the intercom beside him, and shouted to the nearly two hundred paratroopers in the cabin: "Target Washington, three airborne divisions are acting together, we are the vanguard airborne troops, in order to avoid the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, so we must parachute at a height of nine thousand meters, jump high and open low, I don't need to introduce too much." ”
"Now, all of them stand up, close their seats, check their weapons and equipment umbrella bags one last time, and prepare for airborne."
In the cabin, all the paratroopers stood up and closed the storage devices placed at the bottom of the cabin.
Standing upright, turning around, facing the cabin door that was about to open, he began to help his comrades in front of him and check the equipment on his body.
After the equipment was checked, the oxygen mask was put on, and in the cabin, the green signal light sounded, and the huge giant spirit god transport planes in the sky opened the tail cabin door at the same time, and entered the thick white clouds in front of them, like pieces of marshmallows spread on the sky.
The air swept towards the tail of the plane, and everyone could hear the shrill whistling sound as the air fluttered. Shake the interior of the cabin, waiting for the moment when the green signal light stops.
Paratroopers, a senior branch of the Red Police Corps, have participated in many actual battles since they became the army.
The price of every paratrooper is not cheap, because every paratrooper has the quality of special forces, and even the combat capability is much stronger than that of the special forces units of the Red Police Corps.
Coupled with professional paratrooper equipment, the price of each paratrooper is at least 5,000 funds.
Paratroopers always have to take on the most dangerous combat missions, and the environment they are in is never as comfortable as they are.
Alone in combat missions, with no support, no heavy firepower, and a difficult environment to face the most powerful enemies.
Every paratrooper of the Red Police Corps is the blooming edelweiss in the Alps, the little white flower that likes to bloom in the cold wind.
There were heavy clouds under their feet, and there were also a large number of anti-aircraft guns to intercept them, and the required high jumps and low openings seemed to all the paratroopers as if they were a commonplace.
It has always been a strictly demanding paratrooper, and there is no parachute in an anti-aircraft gun environment, which is easier than training.
Cai Hanyu also knew what the real threat was to parachute in such an environment, and after looking at the time, he shouted again: "After the airborne, freely assemble and fight." ”
For paratroopers, the real challenge is not the anti-aircraft guns in the sky, nor the difficulty of high jumps and low openings, but the battle after a successful parachute jump.
Below is the richest man in the United States, guarded by tens of thousands of elite troops of the US army, and you can get a glimpse of the density of anti-aircraft guns in the sky.
Due to the height requirements of parachuting and the heavy equipment of the paratrooper unit, it is impossible to drop it in such an environment, so the operation can only be carried out by the paratroopers themselves.
There will be no artillery support, no ground armored vehicles, and you will face an enemy several times larger than you, with tanks, armored vehicles and artillery.
However, no one took a step back, and when the green signal light was on, the paratroopers in the cabin rushed out of the cabin in a neat manner.
In the sky, more than a hundred giant spirit transport planes flying on the clouds were tailed, and a large number of paratroopers rushed out of the plane, and soon all adjusted their bodies and fell vertically towards the ground.
During the whole process, no one made a sound, and in the face of the anti-aircraft artillery fire below, they rushed through the clouds, and the ground in front of them was full of burning flames, which were the attack completed by the bomber troops.
Sharp-eyed paratroopers could see that at the end of the eastern sky, many black dots appeared in the sky.
It was an aircraft carrier fleet located in the Atlantic, and the carrier-based fighters dispatched were the only next support force for the paratroopers.
In the sky, along with the paratroopers landing, there are also a large number of supply boxes, which will be an important guarantee for the paratroopers to fight in Washington.
A group of paratroopers fell to the ground, and as they approached the ground, one by one they abandoned their oxygen equipment.
The height calculator on his wrist also jumped rapidly, and the earth seemed to be close at hand.
The height quickly dropped from 9,000 meters to only about 1,000 meters, and the American soldiers on the ground had not yet fully reacted, and when the paratroopers were all less than 800 meters close to the ground, they pulled up their parachutes one after another.
However, in the process of descending from 9,000 meters to 800 meters, the speed of descent kept increasing, and even if a parachute came, the speed of descent was still very fast.
After pulling up the parachute, the altitude has dropped to only 400 meters, and it is rapidly approaching the height of 200 meters.
When the altitude drops to a few tens of meters, the speed of parachute descent is already about the same as the normal parachute speed.
The skilled paratroopers landed safely, then immediately threw down the parachute backpacks, untied the weapons wrapped in leather holsters, and took action.
Most of the paratroopers landed safely in various parts of Washington, some landing directly on the rooftops and most directly on the streets.
On the streets of Washington, many of them landed directly in the panicked crowd, the air defense sirens sounded, and many civilians still did not have time to hide in the bomb shelters, and the appearance of paratroopers directly sounded the horn of war.
A paratrooper hanging on a street billboard did not hesitate to pull out a dagger, cut off his parachute backpack, jumped directly from the billboard more than two floors, and landed on the fence. hard cement pavement.
Many civilians around were a little frightened and stupid, and hid in the houses on both sides in a panic.
Another paratrooper landed next to him, leaving only a large one. leg, in the process of parachuting, one of his feet was cut off by shrapnel from the anti-aircraft gun, but he still stubbornly completed the entire parachute, the first time he landed, crawled to the side of the street, his resolute face, although covered with sweat, but never snorted.
Gritting his teeth, he tore off the bandages he was carrying, injected himself with painkillers, and at the same time tied his broken thigh tightly to reduce continued bleeding.
This is the perseverance in the bones of the paratroopers, as well as dignity and pride.