Chapter 135: Airborne Operations

At 3:10 a.m. on September 13, 312, the airport near the border city of Principality of Luxon was busy, and countless ground crews were nervously refueling and overhauling dozens of Junkers 52 transport planes on the tarmac, and the soldiers of the Ouyang Yu Army Airborne Regiment had already assembled and waited for boarding.

At 3:46 a.m., all the soldiers of the airborne regiment had finished boarding, and the Junkers 52 transport plane on the tarmac let out a dull sound and slowly taxied across the airport.

At four o'clock in the morning, dozens of Junkers 52 transport planes took off and flew into the distance, and long before these Junkers transport planes took off, a large number of armed Zeppelins had already left the airport, and the two would meet at the same time and in the same place.

At 5:51 a.m. in the city of Kaskinin, the transportation hub of the Gallic occupied territories of the empire, Colonel Gabriv, the highest military commander of the occupation army, was awakened from his bed, because he heard a lot of humming in his sleep, and after cursing, Colonel Gabriv pushed open the window and looked up at the sky, a large group of black dots flew from the north in the already dark sky, some of them were much larger than others, in order to see more clearly what those black dots were, Colonel Gabriv found a telescope from the room.

"Ancestors are above, guards, sound the alarm immediately, the enemy is attacking!" After seeing clearly what was flying through the glasses, the panicked Colonel Gabriv picked up his clothes and hurried out of the room.

"Uh......h Woo...... Woo......!"

The terrible sound of the siren spread throughout the city, and the imperial officers and soldiers and pseudo-policemen in the city were immediately awakened when they heard the siren, some picked up their weapons and ran outside, some hurriedly dressed and went to look for their commander, and many did not know what was going on and walked out of the room to look around.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Colonel Gabriv, who was sitting in a car and went to the air-raid shelter to take refuge, looked up from time to time at the group of Ouyang Yujun's transport planes and airships that had already flown over the city, he didn't know that these were transport planes, and thought they were here to bomb the city.

"The height is five hundred meters, and the target has been confirmed, so tell the boys to go down. โ€

Almost at the same time, a paratrooper named Ouyang Yujun on all Junker transport planes bravely jumped out of the cabin, and more than a thousand white umbrella flowers appeared in the dawn sky.

Colonel Gablev, who had been observing the situation of the plane, immediately asked the driver to stop the car after seeing the umbrella flower, got out of the car and took out the binoculars to take a closer look.

"Hurry up, let's not go to the bomb shelter, go to the headquarters immediately, the enemy is coming down from the sky!"

Although the driver did not understand the meaning of the sentence that the enemy came down from the sky, his commander's order needed to be absolutely obeyed, so he neatly started the car to turn and drove towards the garrison headquarters.

"Bang, bang, ......!"

There were sporadic gunshots in the city, and the paratroopers of Ouyang Yu's army had landed and were engaged in a battle with the Imperial army, and Colonel Gabriv was still outside as a commander and could not command, and if Kaskinen City was lost, he would have to go to court-martial if he lost it.

The anxious Colonel Gablev suddenly heard a series of gunshots, and then the windshield of the car shattered, the driver in front of him fell on the steering wheel, and the car also hit the side of the road and stopped, holding his bleeding head, Colonel Gablev climbed out of the smoking car.

Colonel Gabriv climbed out of the car and immediately hid behind the car and took out his gun, knowing that he had been attacked by paratroopers, and that he had to fight to the death to have a chance of survival.

"Smack!"

Two figures not far away fell in response to the sound but counterattacks followed, Colonel Gabriv couldn't raise his head from the dense bullets, and the car as a cover became full of holes, and finally waited for the gunfire to stop, Colonel Gabriv poked his head out from the back of the car and then retracted again, he saw that Ouyang Yujun's paratroopers were already very close to him, in order to prevent the other party from continuing to approach, his hand with the gun reached out of the car, and shot all the bullets in the magazine in one breath in the general direction.

Did Colonel Gabriv see it, but after he heard the paratroopers calling for the military doctor and replacing his pistol with a new magazine, Colonel Gabriv wanted to repeat his old trick, but a smoking grenade was thrown at his feet, and many of the weapons unique to Ouyang Yu's army had already been popularized throughout the army, so Colonel Gabriv recognized the grenade at a glance, and ran away with a strange scream.

"Boom!"

A wave of air struck Colonel Gabriv in the back, pushing him far away, and he rolled on the ground a few times before stopping.

Shaking his dazed head, Colonel Gabriv felt that his ears seemed to be deaf, and he wanted to get up, but he was hit the back, and he fell back to the ground in great pain, and two paratroopers of Ouyang Yu's army stepped forward and kicked off Colonel Gabriv's pistol, and when one of the paratroopers was trying to get rid of him, he was stopped by another soldier.

"Don't kill, you see this guy is a colonel, big fish, catch it and hand it over to the company commander, it's a big achievement." โ€

"Good. โ€

Two paratroopers brought ropes and tied up Colonel Gablev, and the top military commander of Kaskinen was taken prisoner.

At 6:27 a.m., Kaskinin City has been controlled by Ouyang Yu's army, the defenders in the city have never encountered airborne operations, and the security in the rear is very lax, plus the commander was captured without unified command, and even the barracks were blocked in the barracks by the paratroopers of the first regiment of airborne, but the soldiers of the imperial army resisted fiercely, they used houses and various bunkers to shoot at the paratroopers, and the paratroopers of the Ouyang Yu army wanted to destroy them immediately and needed to pay a great price, and at this time, the twenty-four armed airships that had not played much role appearedใ€‚

Twenty-four armed airships flew to the two barracks in the city from four directions, and there were more than 1,000 Imperial troops in both barracks, and the Imperial soldiers in the barracks ignored and some raised their guns to shoot after seeing the airship, but the flight altitude of the airship was 500 meters, and none of the guns in the hands of the Imperial soldiers had such a long range, but even if they hit the armor of the airship, they could ignore the small-caliber light bullets fired from the ground.

"Dada...... Dada...... Bang!

The twenty-four airships flying into the barracks fired in unison, hitting the Imperial soldiers below with heavy casualties, hundreds of twin-mounted 12.7 mm machine guns composed of machine gun hell is the most effective killing tool, if the Imperial soldiers who were shot by large-caliber machine gun bullets were shot in the body, their bodies would be broken into two, if they were hit in the hands and feet, the hands and feet would be torn apart by the bullets and leave the body forever, the twenty-four 76-millimeter cannons on the airship would shoot wherever there were many people, only 500 meters of direct fire at close range was almost 100 percent, and none of them could escape if they were aimed at the target, especially the machine guns of the Imperial Army were some of the targets of these cannonsIn just a few minutes, all the machine guns were wiped out, along with the soldiers operating the machine guns, and the firepower of the Imperial troops in the barracks was greatly reduced.

"Comrades, come with me!"

The commissar of the 2nd Company of the 3rd Battalion of the Airborne Regiment was the first to jump out of the bunker and charged with a Suomi submachine gun, and the other paratroopers also left the bunker and launched a charge.

"Ulla!"

"Ulla!"

The paratroopers shouting the slogan of Long Live rushed into the barracks, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army, who had suffered heavy casualties, had no fighting spirit, and they all dropped their weapons and knelt down with their hands raised in surrender, from the launch of the attack to the end, the attack and defense of Kaskinen City took a total of one hour and seven minutes, annihilating and capturing more than 2,000 Imperial troops, and capturing the commander Colonel Gabriv, a transportation hub more than 60 kilometers away from the front line in the Gallic occupation area, was completely controlled by Ouyang Yu's army.

At half past five in the morning, when the paratroopers of the first airborne regiment were fighting, the front line between the Imperial Army and Ouyang Yu's army, the 32nd and 87th divisions of the original coalition army, and now the 1st and 2nd armored divisions of Ouyang Yu's army had reached the attack launch position, and behind these two divisions were the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th divisions of the former Principality of Lucerne Army, and the current 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th infantry divisions of Ouyang Yu's army.

"Sir, the time is up. โ€

Ludendorff in the front-line command said softly beside Ouyang Yu.

Ouyang Yu picked up the phone with a serious expression, "The time for the general attack has arrived, I now order the attack to begin!"

The five hundred guns of various types that had been prepared in the rear let out their own roars together, and the artillerymen, naked and sweaty, stuffed one shell after another into the barrels and then fired them, and the positions of the Imperial troops in the direction of the general attack were instantly covered by dense explosions.

The large-caliber shells blew up targets such as bunkers and trenches that had already been detected and marked, and the Imperial soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery holes could only squat helplessly on the ground with their heads in their hands, try to block their ears and open their mouths, praying that the anti-artillery holes they were in would not be blown up.

At the same time as the artillery was fired, two hundred Ju-87 dive bombers, escorted by one hundred Me-109 fighters, flew over the front line of the two armies, and flew to the barracks, warehouses, and important bridges and railways in the rear of the Imperial Army.

In addition to these latest fighters obtained in the dungeon world, hundreds of previously purchased I-153 fighters were also dispatched, protecting five groups of SB-2 bombers hovering over the front line, responsible for the air cover of the ground forces on the front line.

After half an hour of wanton bombardment, Ouyang Yu's artillery bombardment stopped, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army, who were lucky not to die hiding in the anti-artillery hole, went to the devastated position to wait for Ouyang Yu's army to attack under the shouts and curses of the commanders and the drive of leather whips.