Chapter 446: A Strong Landing
Although Xiong Bo and his four V-22 "Osprey" pilots are not very skilled in operating the M240G, what they want to do is not to shoot the Qing patrol battalion soldiers who are trying to encircle them, with the M240G up to 650-950 rounds per minute, they can easily suppress these Qing troops who are 100 times more numerous than them but are only equipped with guns and a small number of multi-style rifles.
As the clock ticked by, the scorching 7.62 millimeter warheads made it impossible for the Qing soldiers, who were not even trained to match the militia, to get close to the two V-22 Osprey transport planes parked near the coastline. The pilot of the Mi-24 helicopter, which was the first to leave for Yantai to rescue the Osprey transport plane that had been forced to land due to fuel exhaustion, had already made an announcement on the radio that "ETA3minutes!" (expected to arrive in three minutes)", the entire rescue operation seems to be about to enter a smooth and orderly rhythm.
"Sir, at eight o'clock in the direction of 'Osprey II', there are enemy infantry guns!" Xiong Bo's co-pilot and co-shooter warned him.
"I'm rubbing! Where did these turtle grandsons get their infantry artillery, suppress them! Fast! Xiong Bo hurriedly reminded the two pilots who operated the M240G machine gun on the rear ladder of the "Osprey II".
The establishment of the Qing army at this time was very different from that of the European powers and the foot pot chickens, they did not have full-time artillery, and they assigned the "camp artillery", that is, infantry artillery, to each battalion. This is also the reason why the Qing army in the Sino-Qing War, although the Qing army had more infantry artillery on paper than the foot basin chicken, but because there was no professional artillery, these artillery could not be used intensively, and it was often suppressed by the foot basin chicken's artillery in actual combat.
Raising the gun, occasionally mixed with some bolt-action rifles, so chaotic that they would not even go to the straggler line, this is the impression that those Qing patrol battalion soldiers bravely left Xiong Bo and them in the first ten minutes after the engagement, but no one would have thought that this rabble would have infantry artillery! The pilot of the "Osprey II" who heard Xiong Bo's prompt hurriedly turned the muzzle of the M240G to suppress the infantry gun pushed out by the Qing army.
The maximum firing range of this German-made Krupp breech-mounted 75mm steel gun, which was called the camp gun by the Qing army, reached 5,000 meters, which was far higher than the maximum range of 1,800 meters of the M240G. Fortunately, the Qing troops who operated these operations were negligent in training, and it was impossible to hit the target at the distance of their maximum range, so they could only push this infantry gun without a cannon shield to shoot at close range.
If the gunners of these Qing patrol battalions operated the Krupp 75mm infantry guns at an amateur level, then the pilots operating the M240G machine guns on the opposite side did not get there well, and in this battle for time, both sides successfully shot each other. Xiong Bo and the others successfully hit and drove away the Qing patrol battalion soldiers who were operating the artillery with 7.62mm NOTO shells. But before the Qing army hastily withdrew, they still managed to fire a solid shell at the "Osprey II". The solid 75mm shell grazed one of the Osprey II's rotating wings, and Xiong Bo saw sparks splashing out and heard a screeching sound of metal grinding.
"Damn, our plane was hit by the artillery of the Qing army, and the damage is unknown!" Xiong Bo reported to the green paint area that the "Osprey II" had been hit.
This unexpected situation made Zhao Yi and the others have to immediately carry out a backup rescue plan, and immediately sent BB63 in the direction of Yantai. According to the original rescue plan, after the airborne troops landed and suppressed the nearby Qing troops, the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters carried enough fuel for the two V-22 "Osprey" transport planes to cross the strait to Yantai, and finally all the planes could safely withdraw from the forced landing site.
However, now that one of the rotating wings of the "Osprey II" was hit and the damage is unknown, the original rescue plan may be difficult to implement, and the traversers can only use a hard rush to rescue the "Osprey II".
In this alternate rescue plan, the Crossing Crowd not only had to dispatch BB63 to support the troops stranded on the Yantai coastline, but also to temporarily block the strait between Yantai and Dalian to avoid the situation where a large number of foreign ships watched BB63 the last time they captured Yingkou.
In fact, when the Mi-24 with Diana's airborne team arrived at the forced landing site, the soldiers of the Qing patrol battalion completely collapsed. The "Battlefield Poison Milk" round of full-fire attacks is simply not something that these rabble, armed with guns and bolt-action rifles, can withstand.
After the Mi-24 helicopter forced the Qing army back, the UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopter also arrived at the forced landing place of the "Osprey" transport plane with Yuan Jie's airborne troops. A group of rough embryos immediately formed a defensive line around the two Osprey transports, waiting for more reinforcements to arrive.
"How was the damage to the Osprey that hit?" Zhao Yi asked Xiong Bo on the radio.
"Well, there is no abnormality on the instrument, but the 'director team' doesn't even have a flight engineer assigned to us, and the extent of damage to the 'Osprey II' is really hard to say, and the risk of flying across the strait is too great." Xiong Bo replied.
"We weren't familiar with the ground crew of the V-22 'Osprey', so we had to make do with sending a ground crew who could maintain helicopters to follow BB63 to have a look." Zhao Yi said.
Before the Qing patrol battalion in Yantai could effectively mobilize its full strength, BB63 had already arrived on the coast of Yantai. At the same time, there were nearly 200 people who crossed the crowd, and their own army soldiers arrived at the forced landing point with mortars and other heavy weapons, and the traversers were not as wealthy as the 21st century Eagle sauce, and they had the idea of carrying the "Osprey II" back to the green paint area.
After the Manchu lost the last pier outside the gate, Yingkou, he had already begun to become a little noisy. When BB63 appeared in the waters near Yantai and a large number of "Pseudo-Song" soldiers forcibly landed, they thought that this must be a signal that the "Pseudo-Song" had sent troops to Guannai.
The Prime Minister's Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately sent a note to the ministers of various countries in China, asking them to intervene in the military operations launched by the "puppet Song Dynasty" on the Shandong Peninsula. As a hardline anti-Song stance, Dou Nale reacted immediately and demanded that the Great Song Empire withdraw its troops that had landed on the Shandong Peninsula.
"Malegobi, we want to evacuate our people trapped in the Shandong Peninsula, but the unreliable ground crew said that there is no flaw detection equipment and it is difficult to estimate the damage of the 'Osprey II', that thing weighs fifteen tons empty, and we can't move it for a while and a half!" Hao Dajian said.
"Let Huang Xiaolei deal with it first, let's just say that our plane is out of order and is being repaired, and we will leave soon." Zhao Yi said.
Although Shandong has the human resources that the Crossing People urgently need, the feudal clan forces there are intertwined, and the Crossing Masses do not have the energy to run the Shandong Peninsula until they solve their own problems.
However, not only did John Bull not believe that the Crossing Crowd had organized this massive military operation because he wanted to recover his malfunctioning plane, but even Hans, who was currently the most closely related to the Crossing Crowd, did not believe it.
Dispatched the giant battleship BB63 and blocked the mouth of the Bohai Sea, and a large number of local soldiers landed in the Yantai area, you say that you are just trying to recover a malfunctioning plane, who believes it?
In particular, John Bull and Gallic Chicken, who had launched a war of aggression against China under a similar pretext, firmly believed that this was a long-planned military operation. They even believed that the previous series of actions of the Royal Navy of the Great Song Empire in the South Pacific were all for the cover of this landing operation, so as to achieve the purpose of allowing the main force of the British Far East Fleet to go south.