Five hundred and seventieth chapters Japanese paratroopers
For Chen Hanzhang, whether it is the sudden appearance of this group of Japanese paratroopers, there are still follow-up echelons. Whether these paratroopers are the prelude to the entire Japanese attack, or the Kwantung Army has only so many reinforcements at the moment. In Tongliao County,
This is a problem that must be solved within a short period of time.
If it is a prelude to the Japanese counterattack, solving the enemy in Tongliao County first will eliminate Chen Hanzhang's inner worries. Not only can he mobilize a considerable part of his troops to use as mobile troops. The key is to meet the Kwantung Army's entire front line that can be launched at any time.
When fighting back, you can have peace of mind.
However, although the sudden appearance of Japanese paratroopers did bring a lot of trouble to the battle of Tongliao County. It not only boosted the morale of the Japanese defenders and increased part of the garrison strength, but also caused certain harassment to the rear of the anti-allied forces. But for
For the troops in the city, what was actually more troublesome was clearing out the Japanese paratroopers who had landed and were everywhere in the city.
Since the German paratroopers shone brightly on the battlefields of Western Europe last year, the Japanese military leaders have been very envious. In the second half of last year, the Japanese army and navy established their own paratrooper units. They also hired 100 instructors and corresponding technical equipment from Germany.
.After passing the actual combat test at Zhongtiao Mountain at the beginning of this year, the Japanese military leaders were quite satisfied and significantly expanded the number of paratroopers.
The Navy formed a special Marine Corps based on the original paratroopers. The Army's paratroopers were expanded from an experimental wing to a paratrooper brigade. The Japanese paratroopers currently being airborne in Tongliao belong to its
The most elite of the paratrooper brigade, it was also the first group to be formed as the backbone of the first regiment.
As for the Second Regiment, because it had just been formed and the equipment imported from Germany had just been put in place, it was far from forming combat effectiveness. Under the strong request of the Kwantung Army, the base camp, although reluctant to part with it, still sent the First Regiment that was training in the Northeast to
The team was temporarily allocated to the Kwantung Army organization.
After all, the Zhongtiao Mountain battle with only two squadrons dispatched was a small incident. The top brass of the Japanese army, who were about to launch the southward campaign, also hoped to test the large-scale use of this paratrooper unit through actual combat. This was because the top brass of the Japanese army had no confidence in this paratrooper unit.
I have great expectations whether it can be used during the battle south.
This first regiment is the first paratrooper unit formed by the Japanese army. All of them have been strictly trained by German instructors. All officers, soldiers and sergeants are carefully selected from the entire army. On the mountain of Zhongtiao
During the battle, although only two squadrons were dispatched, their performance was exceptionally good.
The Japanese paratroopers, especially the first regiment formed as seeds, introduced a full set of German airborne technologies. From parachutes to combat modes, they were all imitated by the German army. Even the German army's weapon equipment standards were learned to the last detail.
Poor. Except for the different races and infantry equipment, the rest is exactly the same as the German army.
It is not yet known how much the Japanese have learned from the advantages of the German paratroopers. But one thing is certain, the Japanese must have learned the most fatal shortcoming of the German paratroopers. Because everything in the Japanese airborne troops is imitated by the Germans.
Even the parachute gear currently used are imported from Germany, not domestically produced. Moreover, these Japanese paratroopers were also trained by the Germans.
This raises a problem. In addition to a pistol and a grenade per person, the German airborne troops. Due to the structure of the parachute, the paratroopers cannot carry any equipment when airborne. All rifles, machine guns and other support weapons are loaded into
Special parachute weapons boxes were airdropped to the ground at the same time.
This brings about a problem. Before finding a separate airdropped weapon box, the paratroopers parachuted into the combat area can only use self-defense pistols with limited power to fight. If the defenders have dense firepower, they will not be able to find the weapon box in a short time.
, then the result of facing the enemy's rifle machine gun firepower with a pistol alone can be imagined.
This shortcoming was also an important reason why the German paratroopers suffered heavy losses in the battle on Crete, and because one paratrooper division was crippled, the entire airborne force was almost damaged. And all of them were trained by the Japanese army, because parachutes were also imported from Germany.
Yes, this shortcoming is naturally brought intact.
When the Japanese paratroopers were airborne, in addition to the Southern Type 14 pistol or Type 94 pistol they carried, the remaining Type 38 carbines, Type 99 rifles, Type 99 light machine guns, and Type 92 heavy machine guns,
As well as the Taisho 11-year-old grenade, they are air-dropped separately using special weapon boxes.
This combat mode naturally has no problems in daily exercises. But in actual combat, there are many problems. Once the weapon box cannot be found in time, the Japanese paratroopers will almost fight their opponents with bare hands. If the enemy on the opposite side
With extremely strong armaments and willpower, these Japanese paratroopers would almost die.
Although the Germans have this shortcoming, they have a large number of gliders that can partially make up for this shortcoming. However, the Japanese army, which has just formed paratroopers, does not even know what a glider is. Let alone use various means to make up for this shortcoming.
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The Japanese army lacks gliders, and all airborne troops can only use parachute mode. Like the German army, they parachute to clear the way, and the main equipment and personnel arrive by glider. There is no such ability that can partially offset this shortcoming. Although the Japanese have made careful calculations
, the best time to airdrop weapons after the paratroopers landed was obtained.
But when airborne, you can encounter all possibilities. Who can guarantee that the situations that occur on the battlefield are strictly based on the calculations of the Japanese? Especially in airdrop operations in cities and towns, it is difficult for even people to land in a concentrated manner.
What's more, those weapon boxes that no one controls?
Japanese paratroopers landed everywhere in Tongliao City. The weapon boxes dropped by air naturally landed everywhere. The airdrop area was full of houses, and the range of sight was quite limited. Even the landing point
There are no enemy ambush nearby, but this weapon box is not easy to find.
The Japanese paratroopers airdropped into Tongliao City, although they gave a lot of encouragement to the last remaining troops of the 14th Division, which was already struggling. However, they were horrified to find that even though they were not injured, they landed safely and accurately in the city. But in the end
The key problem arises. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for them to find the airdropped weapon boxes.
At the very least, it is difficult to find it in a short time. And on this battlefield filled with bullets and bullets everywhere, every minute of delay must be compensated with life. Unable to find weapons, these Japanese soldiers can only rely on self-defense pistols to fight.
Except for the lucky ones who landed directly around the Japanese strongholds, the rest of the paratroopers either fought individually or swarmed around like ants.
One is to concentrate as much as possible in order to fight the surrounding resistance. The other is to find the weapon boxes dropped by the air and arm themselves as soon as possible. After all, a pistol with only a few bullets and a very close range is
It is impossible to fight an opponent armed to the teeth.
What these Japanese paratroopers, who were actually entering actual combat in large numbers for the first time, didn't know was that although they landed, the transport plane transporting weapons and equipment was either hit by anti-aircraft fire from the Anti-Japanese Alliance or was hit by ground artillery fire.
Under the interference, although people airdropped into the city, they dropped the weapons boxes filled with weapons used by the paratroopers outside the city.
Although the number of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was not large, but due to the high rate of fire and the interference of quite fierce ground artillery fire, it was already an all-out effort to drop the paratroopers. Not to mention that these aircraft needed to turn around and turn back to airdrop weapons boxes for the paratroopers.
Supplementary weapons and equipment?
The height of Japanese paratrooper airdrops, which were completely copied from the German standard, was a low altitude of 100 to 150 meters. And this height was within the best range of the anti-alliance ground firepower. A distance of 150 meters from the sky
It was difficult for aircraft to evade anti-aircraft fire with extremely high rates of fire. When the Japanese army was airdropping paratroopers, six more aircraft were shot down.
Seeing that the aircraft in front suffered heavy losses, the airdropping transport aircraft behind could only increase the flight altitude from 150 meters to 600 to 700 meters during the airdrop. At the same time, the airdrop speed was also accelerated, but in this way
Because of the increase in altitude, not only does the time for paratroopers to stay in the air increase, but also due to wind direction and other reasons.
Almost all the remaining Japanese paratroopers landed outside Tongliao County, and many even fell directly into the Xiliao River to visit Lord Long. Most of the weapon boxes airdropped with the subsequent echelons did not fall into the city.
.But inside and outside Tongliao City, people landed everywhere.
After landing, these Japanese paratroopers painstakingly searched for the weapon boxes dropped by the air. I am afraid that except for a few lucky ones, most of them could only return disappointed. Japanese paratroopers without weapons are like tigers without teeth. Basically
No matter how high your military quality is, in addition to boosting the morale of your own friendly forces in trouble, it will not pose too many threats to your opponents.
Even though more than half of these Japanese paratroopers parachuted into Tongliao City, they did not pose a great threat to the anti-alliance forces in the city. They were just trouble at most. If they were eliminated, they would not be able to devote enough troops to the battle ahead. They would be temporarily lost.
Regardless, these paratroopers landing everywhere are another trouble.
Because letting them gather together is also a threat. After all, due to the restrictions of the city's layout, the Anti-Union troops in the city are also quite dispersed. It was precisely after seeing this that Chen Hanzhang temporarily changed his deployment and mobilized some of the troops on the periphery to move as quickly as possible.
Reinforcements were sent into the city at a high speed, trying to annihilate this Japanese army together with the original defenders in the shortest possible time before the Japanese follow-up troops arrived.
In fact, the sudden arrival of Japanese paratroopers caused some confusion among the anti-alliance forces in Tongliao City. After receiving notification from their superiors that a Japanese bomber group had arrived in Tongliao, all departments were prepared for air defense. But no one expected that,
The Japanese planes dropped not bombs, but paratroopers.
Looking at the people hanging under the parachutes in the sky, it was the first time I saw this kind of combat mode. The troops were a little nervous. Although the troops had received strict training, they were somewhat afraid of these guys falling from the sky. Most of them were born from farmers.
In the warrior's mind, this is probably what the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals look like.
Although after joining the army, the army has strict anti-feudal superstition education in their daily study. But for most soldiers who only have a little bit of culture after joining the army and studying in the army, some things cannot be changed in a short time.
Atheism is still far out of reach for most ordinary warriors.
So after seeing the Japanese paratroopers jumping out of the plane, many soldiers, especially the recruits who joined the army this year, were a little panicked. I had seen downed Japanese pilots parachute before during the battle, one or two. Like this
It was the first time that so many people fell from the sky. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, it was also the first time for cadres at all levels to experience it.