I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

In the urban area, Izuo Dazuo watched this scene with satisfaction. He was very proud of his success.

The opponent did not dare to use heavy weapons lightly, the opponent's cannons did not dare to bombard lightly, and the opponent's planes did not dare to bomb easily. Without the advantage of heavy firepower, the siege Nanjing army could only use human lives to fill it.

Dazuo Isa is very confident that his troops can rely on various "advantages" to achieve very satisfactory results in this city defense battle, delaying until the time specified by the division commander, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi.

Angry shouts of killing and not too violent shelling sounded again.

"Your Excellency, Captain!" Several officers called Izuo in a hurry, "The Chinese army is attacking! There is something in the south! There is something in the east! There is something in the north!"

Dazuo Izuo looked at his watch calmly, and then at the sun. It was 04:30 in the evening, and it would be dark in more than an hour.

Colonel Izuo was very sure that this was the enemy's last attack during the day, and it was not so much an attack as an expression of unwillingness.

"Blooming on three sides, want to hit the weak point of my defense?" Izuo sneered, he was very confident that his troops could last until dark, and the opponent had no choice but to return home again.

Surrounding the south, east, and north sides of the urban area, the Nanjing Army, whose number was several times that of the Japanese army, launched a full-scale attack. Every attack surface was the main attack. The true nature of Tiger Ben, who made the Japanese army terrified, roared angrily and launched a charge with fear of death.

In order to prevent accidents, Izuo ordered the two convoy brigades in the city to dispatch one to fill the front line loopholes.

At this moment, the sound of rumbling aircraft engines appeared again in the sky. Dazuo Izuo hurriedly looked up and followed the sound. He saw more than 100 aircraft of the Chinese Air Force majesticly taking over the sky in the setting sun. come.

"Could it be that these Chinese troops are determined to bomb Gaoyou City regardless of the life or death of their own civilians?" Dazuo Izuo was a little terrified at once, but then he felt relieved a lot, because he was surprised to find that among the flying planes, about five Two-thirds are fighter jets, and the rest are transport aircraft, all of which are German-made Junker-52 transport aircraft of the Chinese Air Force.

"Could it be that they are using transport planes to drop supplies to the ground troops?" Dazuo Izuo was very suspicious.

After just a few minutes, Izuo Dazuo's heart was like a roller coaster "ups and downs, twists and turns". At first it rushed to his throat, and then fell back, but it rushed to his throat again, and he was so shocked that his eyes almost collapsed. Rolled out of the eye sockets, because he was dumbfounded to see that the transport planes hovering over the city of Gaoyou were blooming with dandelion-like dense white umbrella flowers, and a Chinese soldier with live ammunition hung under each umbrella flower.

"Airborne?" Izuo Dazuo let out a horrified exclamation before regaining consciousness after his brain froze for a full 5 minutes.

The airborne troops of the Chinese army have officially entered the stage of actual combat.

Chapter 334 Crazy City (4)

The Chinese Airborne Forces were established together with the German Airborne Forces, and the reason for their establishment stemmed from the Battle of Nanjing.

Before this battle, Jiang Weiguo considered that Nanjing City was likely to be completely surrounded by the Japanese army. If the strength of the defending troops was tight, it was inevitable for the peripheral national troops to increase their troops inside the city. However, it was difficult to increase troops by land. That is to drop troops into the city by air. This tactical concept gave birth to the first airborne troops of the Chinese army.

When it was formally formed, the Chinese military sought assistance or guidance from the German military. It turned out that the German army did not have airborne troops (in the original history, although the German airborne troops had shined in World War II, the German airborne troops It was not officially established until 1938, the year before the outbreak of World War II. Therefore, due to the influence of Jiang Weiguo's "butterfly effect", the formation time of the German airborne troops was advanced; in addition, the first airborne troops of the national army was in early 1944 established), however, the German military is also interested in airborne troops, so the two sides hit it off, jointly formed and explored together.

The person in charge of the German army is an air force colonel named Kurt Student, and the person in charge of the national army is Lieutenant General Huang Guangrui, the deputy commander-in-chief of the air force (the airborne troops of the national army are determined to belong to the air force ).

After being formally established, the size of the national army's airborne troops was temporarily designated as one regiment, designated "Air Force 1st Air Assault Regiment", code-named "Dandelion", and had three paratrooper battalions under its jurisdiction.

When it was established, no one in the whole regiment had participated in skydiving, there was no airborne equipment, and there was not a single airborne instructor. It is a typical "three-no army" and "concept army".

Lieutenant Colonel Li Hanping, the head of the regiment, is a student of the sixth period of Huangpu University and the fifteenth period of Luda University. For this reason, he first carefully selected the members of the army, all elite veterans, and all of them had a junior high school education, and then carried out physical training all day long. After the custom-made parachute was delivered, the whole regiment continued two months of devil training, step by step, and finally possessed the preliminary actual combat ability.

Objectively speaking, the paratrooper regiment of the national army is definitely not the airborne troops of later generations in the strict sense. It is just "elite infantry that descended from the sky" in essence, but it did create a precedent in military history.

The paratrooper regiment was supposed to enter the Nanjing battlefield, but because the Japanese army was unable to block the Yangtze River, the strength of the Nanjing army was not very tight. As a result, the paratrooper regiment did not need to be air-dropped into Nanjing City. Subsequently, the paratrooper regiment was ordered to participate in the battle to encircle and wipe out the 16th division. Unexpectedly, a heavy rain prevented the paratroopers from dispatching. After the rain cleared, the 16th division had been sent to hell. The paratroopers were once again useless as heroes. coming.

The Battle of Gaoyou was the first time that the national army attacked and regained a Chinese city occupied by the Japanese army. The mode of engagement was brand new. The Chinese army lacked experience, technology, and effective means in this area, so the paratrooper regiment was ordered to be thrown into the Battle of Gaoyou.

After receiving this order, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment rejoiced. At this time, there were more than 2000 official paratroopers in the whole regiment, and more than 1000 paratroopers were still in training.

More than [-] official paratroopers were thrown into the Battle of Gaoyou.

The paratroopers set off from Yangzhou. Before the July [-]th Incident, Yangzhou had already been built a medium-sized airport by the National Army Air Force. After the Japanese army occupied Yangzhou, they did not destroy the airport, but also carried out a certain expansion. At this time, Yangzhou was occupied by the Nanjing Army. Recaptured, the airfield was once again used by Chinese troops.

The officers and soldiers of the paratrooper regiment first set off from Wuhan on a Junkers transport plane and flew to Yangzhou for a transfer. The transport plane was refueled and overhauled, and the paratroopers rested, ate, and replenished their physical strength.

Tens of thousands of Yangzhou residents gathered around the airport. When they heard that this special national army unit "will fall from the sky to attack the Japanese army", the residents were delighted and excited. The whole Yangzhou only produced 25 bottles of milk a day, and the residents dedicated the milk to the paratroopers. regiment of warriors.

After the paratroopers drank the milk, amidst the warm cheers of the residents of Yangzhou, they boarded the transport plane with arrogance and roared towards Gaoyou, which was in fierce battle.

A total of more than 70 Junker transport planes participated in the operation, each of which can carry 18 lightly armed soldiers or 12 heavily armed soldiers. Since the Chinese soldiers are slightly smaller than the German soldiers, if they "squeeze together", each Junker can Take 22 light paratroopers or 14 heavy paratroopers.

It is also worth mentioning that the German paratroopers were "separated from man and machine" in the airdrop. The paratroopers were airdropped with only one pistol, and the weapons were packed in wooden boxes before being airdropped. After landing, the paratroopers found the wooden box. This method has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the transport plane can drop more weapons by air, and can also air-drop infantry guns, motorcycles and other heavy infantry weapons or tools. The disadvantage is that it is easy for paratroopers to find wooden boxes after landing. , can only fight with pistols, and then suffer heavy casualties (in the original history of the Battle of Crete, the German paratroopers suffered extremely heavy casualties, this airdrop method is an important reason), Li Hanping and other paratrooper officers of the national army After repeated research, this method of the Germans was not adopted, and the "combined man-machine drop" was adopted. Each airborne soldier was fully armed, each with an MP-28 submachine gun, a pistol, and eight grenades. Taking 20 such airborne troops, these 20 airborne troops were organized into a commando, and at the same time carried 1 mg-34 machine gun and 2 grenadiers or 1 mortar.

The number of Japanese troops in Gaoyou was neither particularly large nor particularly small. More than [-] Japanese troops were defending the [-]-square-kilometer urban area. Therefore, after the Nanjing Army launched an attack, [-]% of the Japanese troops would be attracted to the defense lines around the urban area, leaving the urban area empty of troops. , like a walnut, with a hard shell and a soft interior, but it is difficult for the Nanjing army to break through the shell and enter the interior. The role of the paratrooper regiment is to drop directly from the sky and enter the interior of the Japanese army in one step, destroying its defense integrity and forcing the Japanese army to withdraw troops into the city. Internally searched and suppressed the paratroopers after they landed, reduced the number of troops and firepower density on their external defense lines, and completed internal and external cooperation with the Nanjing Army outside the city to destroy the overall defense circle of the Japanese army.

The airdrop time was set from 04:30 to [-]:[-] in the evening. In this way, it would be dark an hour to half an hour after the paratroopers landed. The dark night would make the paratroopers feel like fish in water and fish in troubled waters, which would increase the difficulty for the Japanese army to search and suppress the paratroopers. The Japanese army had to send troops to search and suppress the paratroopers.

Gaoyou is a Chinese city. When the Chinese army stormed Gaoyou, they were afraid to use heavy weapons to prevent accidental injury to the people of the country. However, everything has two sides. Just because Gaoyou is a Chinese city, the city is full of Chinese people, except for a few traitors who are desperate. After the paratroopers fall into the city, they will definitely receive great cover and help from the residents of the city.

The sun was setting and the sun was shining brightly. Amidst the thunderous cheers of the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army on the ground and the dumbfounded Japanese soldiers and residents in the city, the sky was full of flames, and Junkers transport planes hovered over the city of Gaoyou calmly, with the doors all open. , Teams of Chinese paratroopers vacated their planes like fish leaping over dragon gates, jumped into the sky, and rushed to the earth, and umbrella flowers bloomed all over the sky like stars falling and clouds scattered.

For a time, fairies scattered flowers over Gaoyou City, which was magnificent and magnificent.

Airborne troops, flying eagles in the sky, and divine soldiers descending from the sky.

Although the Japanese army is aggressive and aggressive in East Asia, it is essentially a "bumpkin who has never seen the world and has no new tactical thinking." When the paratroopers stepped onto the actual combat stage for the first time, they were all stunned and did not react. It was not until the first paratrooper landed slowly and steadily that Izuo rushed towards a machine gun with the vigor of a dog grabbing shit. Raised the anti-air strafing gun and shouted hoarsely: "Fire quickly! Fire quickly!"

The Japanese soldiers, who had just awakened from a dream, hurriedly fired at the air with their rifles and machine guns. On the position where the sun flag was flying, bullets and golden snakes flew up into the sky wildly. The Chinese paratroopers in midair immediately suffered casualties. Hit by Japanese bullets, blood spattered in the air, and some parachute ropes were interrupted by Japanese bullets or parachutes were broken. Falling in the air is indeed the most dangerous period when it is easy to be hit and difficult to fight back. However, it is not easy for the ground enemy to hit the paratroopers in mid-air. The rifles basically cannot hit them unless the machine guns are fired continuously.) At the same time, a large number of Japanese troops Busy with the paratroopers in the air, the firepower of the Japanese army in defensive operations on the position was greatly weakened, which in turn caused the attacking ground troops of the Nanjing Army to take the opportunity to tear several gaps in the Japanese defense line.

The first paratrooper to land was Hu Qiao, deputy commander of the paratrooper regiment.

After falling to the ground with his knees curled up, Hu Qiao rolled on the spot to cushion, only to find that he had fallen into a dirty and smelly pigsty. Afterwards, he said in great pain, "Damn! Lao Tzu slowly When I landed more than ten meters from the ground, I saw a pigsty below, with pig manure and swill all over the place, and a few pigs whimpering and turning around in it. I really don’t want to fall. It would be too embarrassing and unacceptable to enter the pigsty, but there was nothing I could do, the parachute had no power, and there was no wind to blow me aside, so I fell headlong into that smelly pigsty very reluctantly, The pigs were so frightened that they screamed and ran around, and then surrounded me and yelled at me.

Oh shit!I thought I could make a majestic appearance at first! When Hu Qiao landed on the ground, he heard exclamations from all around him. He saw Gaoyou people with wide eyes everywhere outside the pigsty, as if they were looking at monsters and heaven and man at the same time. It's unbelievable. In fact, when Hu Qiao landed in mid-air, the residential area under his feet exploded, and the people hid in the corners or in the houses like avoiding the plague. After discovering the blue sky and white sun military emblem on Hu Qiao, they knew that Hu Qiao was "a boss of the national army". The people kicked him away, and the people enthusiastically pulled Hu Qiao out of the pigsty, who was covered in pig manure and swill, and brought him clean water to wash his body.

"Why did the boss of the national army fall from the sky?"

"Fool! Didn't you see he jumped out of the plane?"

"Look! There are so many national troops in the sky! What a heavenly soldier!"

"What is this? What a big umbrella!"

The common people praised and amazed.

Hu Qiao pulled out the paratrooper knife, quickly cut the rope on the parachute, smiled and nodded to the surrounding people, and helped up a little girl who was so frightened by him that she sat on the ground and cried loudly.

"Fellow townspeople! Here it is for you!" Hu Qiao shouted, pointing to his parachute, "The best German fabric!" He immediately checked his weapons, took out the map and compass, and hurried to his assembly point, while Using the intercom to keep shouting, "Tuan Zuo! I've landed! Where are you?"

The advantages of airborne troops are very obvious, and they are extremely mobile, but their disadvantages are also significant. For example, airborne troops are all light weapons and cannot carry heavy weapons. For example, airdrop operations are deeply disturbed by the weather. The paratroopers dropped by a transport plane will be thrown so that they cannot find each other.

Hu Qiao remembered that he and the group leader Li Hanping were on the No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] transport planes of the same formation, and they were within reach in the sky, but they couldn't find each other after landing.

Fortunately, the urban area of ​​Gaoyou is not big, and the weather is good today. The Japanese army's air defense firepower was low but they were caught off guard, so most of the airborne troops were accurately dropped into the urban area.

Hu Qiao ran out of the residential area where he landed, and soon gathered more than a dozen paratroopers and found Cheng De, the commander of the 1st Battalion.

After Cheng De fell to the ground, he fell on a tree and was completely entangled by the branches. Unable to move, he had to ask for help from the nearby people who came to watch the fun. Seven or eight young men hurriedly climbed up the tree to help Cheng De cut the rope. But at this moment, two Japanese soldiers ran over and angrily scolded the common people not to rescue Cheng De. He was shot and fell down a tree screaming.

Cheng De was so angry that he reluctantly pulled out his hand and shot the two Japanese soldiers with a submachine gun, killing them.

Of the three boys who were shot, one was killed on the spot and the other was seriously injured.

Cheng De, who jumped off the tree, burst into tears, kneeling beside the body of the young man who gave his life to save him, sobbing and weeping.

"Don't cry! Kill a few more little Japanese to avenge him!" Hu Qiao who ran over pulled Cheng De, and then asked eagerly, "Where is Tuan Zuo? Have you seen Tuan Zuo?"

"Tuan Zuo?" Cheng De recovered from his grief, "I seem to have seen him fall into Gaoyou Lake!"

"What?" Hu Qiao was taken aback.

A total of 2088 Chinese paratroopers were airdropped onto the Gaoyou battlefield. Among them, 37 were killed in a plane crash (mainly because the plane was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire), and 40 were unable to be airdropped due to plane failure and had to return. In Yangzhou, 191 people were killed or injured when they were intercepted by the Japanese army during the airborne process. 376 people were air-dropped outside the city, and more than 100 of them were air-dropped into the Gaoyou Lake next to Gaoyou City. Blown by the strong wind, more than 100 of the more than 70 paratroopers who fell into the lake drowned, including Li Hanping, the head of the paratrooper regiment. After falling into the water, Li Hanping was entangled in parachute ropes and aquatic plants. As the saying goes, "Death is really not reconciled! After training by the devil, I have been tempered and tempered, and I drowned before fighting." In addition, more than 100 paratroopers were injured by accidents after landing. , unable to participate in the battle, so in the end only about 1200 paratroopers successfully entered the city.

Although the number of paratroopers who successfully entered the combat area was only [-]% of the total, it had an equally huge effect.

Most of the Japanese troops defending the city had been attracted to the outlying positions by the attacking Nanjing Army, and only one heavy brigade in the urban area was guarding important places.

After landing, the paratroopers quickly assembled, organized a team, and launched an attack on the important places of the Japanese army marked on the map in advance, and received strong support from the local people. The goal was met without getting lost or thrown into chaos within the city.

"Kill!" The paratroopers roared, brandishing their submachine guns, attacking important places of the Japanese army with all their strength, killing and injuring a large number of Japanese troops (all of them were heavy soldiers with relatively low combat effectiveness), and seized more than a dozen warehouses of the Japanese army, which were filled to the brim. All of them are grain, cotton, cloth and so on.

Not only that, the paratroopers also wreaked havoc in the city, cutting the Japanese army's telephone lines, attacking the Japanese army's logistics and transportation team, and killing blood spattered three feet.

The residents in the city were all excited after seeing this scene. A large number of ordinary people spontaneously followed the paratroopers to attack the Japanese army. Behind each team of paratroopers was a large group of ordinary people holding hoes and shovels. Wherever the Japanese army appeared, the people around the paratroopers would shout loudly to remind them. The injured paratroopers were immediately carried down by the people for treatment.

"Baga!" Dazuo Izuo was furious and anxious. His troops are now in "internal and external troubles". Outside, tens of thousands of Nanjing troops are attacking fiercely, and inside, thousands of paratroopers are wreaking havoc, forcing him to dispatch peripheral troops to return to the city. The paratroopers were searched and suppressed, but this action led to insufficient troops and greatly reduced defense capabilities in the outer positions of the Japanese army.

The attacking Nanjing army quickly seized the weak points of the Japanese army, swarmed in in one go, and completely smashed the Japanese defense line.

After dark, a large number of Nanjing troops have poured into the city of Gaoyou like a flood.

"It's over! It's over!" Izuo Dazuo was in despair.

The fierce battle in Gaoyou City lasted for a night and a day before it basically ended. Except for some escaped from the encirclement, most of Izuo's regiment was wiped out. Izuo Dazuo burned the flag of the 7th regiment in despair, and then committed suicide by cutting open his stomach.

The Nanjing army successfully recovered Gaoyou.

Chapter 335 Crazy City (5)

Gaoyou was recovered, which cut off the rear of the 9th Division, and a large amount of supplies looted by the division from the central Soviet Union fell into the hands of the Nanjing Army, which can be regarded as returning to the original owner.

Lieutenant General Yoshizu was shocked when he learned of this. He did not expect that his 7000 soldiers lost Gaoyou within three days. This was beyond his expectation and greatly disrupted his subordinates and plans. .

Lieutenant General Yoshizumi knew that the Nanjing Army was very powerful. He reckoned that one Nanjing Army was worth a Japanese army, and that the Nanjing Army had many well-prepared advantages, but that was on the Nanjing battlefield. If there is no or no way to play it out, we can only start a conventional battle with the Japanese army where people are fighting for their lives.

In the case of non-heavy weapons, the Japanese army's strong individual combat qualities, precise marksmanship, and fierce bayonet fighting skills are all strengths in conventional combat.

Lieutenant General Yoshizu estimated that the Izuo United Army could persist for more than a week under the attack of [-] Nanjing troops, but the result was that the Izuo United Army only lasted for three days and two nights.

The reason why the Izuo United team behaved so "unbearably" is not that the Izuo United team is a soft persimmon. In fact, although the Nanjing Army beat the Japanese army hard on the Nanjing battlefield, and even killed the Japanese army, it can only prove that the Nanjing Army fought well. , It does not prove that the Japanese army is a "paper tiger".

The biggest reason why the Nanjing Army was able to regain Gaoyou was that the Nanjing Army used airborne troops. Such an unprecedented new tactic caught the Japanese army by surprise and tore apart the entire defense line of the Japanese army at once, which in turn caused the overall defense of the Japanese army to fall apart. In addition, The Japanese army had only temporary positions in Gaoyou City, without carefully designed and constructed fortifications in advance, let alone street fighting fortifications. Therefore, after the Nanjing Army broke into the city, relying on the superior number of people, a slightly more than one-to-one battle loss ratio, and the city's With the support of the common people, they carried out a large-scale raid with the momentum of sweeping holes in Liting. It took a day and a night to basically wipe out all the Japanese troops in the city.

Before Gaoyou was captured, Li Yutang and Song Xilian quickly mobilized troops and dispatched Hu Lian's 813th Regiment to continue to attack north, which greatly supplemented the regiment, bringing its strength to more than [-] people, equipped with a large number of armored vehicles and cars, The target is Baoying County, [-] kilometers north of Gaoyou.

Hu Lian led his troops all the way to the north and drove straight in. In Jieshou Town between Gaoyou and Baoying, they encountered the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Brigade of the 35th Division and the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army who came to reinforce the Izuo Regiment. The [-]th Cavalry Regiment, the two sides met in the field, and immediately fought a big battle.

Hu Lian did not shout "Meeting in a narrow road, the brave wins", he did not lead the troops to face the Japanese army head-on and fight a "violent, dignified, soul-stirring decisive battle", but ordered the whole regiment to retreat, and at the same time called for reinforcements from the Air Force bombers.

As a result, such a scene appeared in the field: the 813th regiment "collapsed at the touch of a button", and the whole regiment was chased and killed by the Japanese army and "run away".