I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Wang Shuming looked at the scene in front of him with satisfaction. The troops were well-trained and in wartime, so they were very efficient. He raised his binoculars and looked at the distant sky. There were already Chinese and Soviet fighter planes fighting. Lightning and thunder, flying fire and meteors, the huge scale makes this air battle spectacular and breathtaking.

Wang Shuming looked at it, and his brows began to frown faintly, because he keenly discovered that the Soviet aircraft had become more difficult to fight than before.

"MiG-3? Yak-1?" Wang Shuming recognized the model of the Soviet fighters participating in the war at a glance. "They are all new Soviet aircraft with excellent performance!" He said to himself, thinking that he was bleeding in the air The fighting pilots broke into a cold sweat. If the Soviet fighters were still the I-15, I-153, I-16, La-3 and other models at the beginning of the war or during the Far East War, this big air battle would undoubtedly be the same. A scene: The flying eagles of the Chinese Air Force chop melons and vegetables, and kill the aircraft so that the performance of the aircraft is far inferior to that of their Soviet aircraft. Even one to ten, right now, this "beautiful scene" has not happened. The Soviet pilots driving the MiG-3 and Yak-1 are not only no longer the fish that the bf-109 willfully slaughtered, but even have a lot of resistance However, what makes Wang Shuming deeply gratified and proud is that in this stormy aerial confrontation, the Soviet army could not be called a comeback, and was still suppressed and beaten by Chinese Air Force pilots.

After all, the performance of Soviet fighter jets is still slightly inferior to that of the National Army fighter jets, and people are more important than aircraft. National Army pilots are experienced and experienced. Casualties are huge, and most of the current pilots are newly trained and lack actual combat experience. Therefore, the national army still has a great advantage in this air battle.

The sky was full of flames, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army on the ground were dazzled and dizzy. But they were not just watching the excitement. In addition to applauding and applauding, they were also helping the Air Force brothers with practical actions.

There are hundreds of air combat observation points inside and outside the city. Hundreds of observation posts are holding binoculars, staring intently at the airspace they are responsible for, and shouting from time to time:

"At eight o'clock, about fifteen kilometers away, there is one of our pilot brothers who is parachuting! Go to the rescue!"

"At three o'clock, about [-] kilometers away, one of our planes was shot down! The pilot didn't parachute!"

"Go and save people! Be sure to save the pilot brothers! We must not let them fall into the hands of the old man!"

"Let's go! Live to see people, die to see corpses! Be sure to bring back the remains of the pilot brothers who died in the country!"

The officers commanded sternly, and a car team full of soldiers drove out in a hurry, pounced on the place where the pilots of their own parachuted or their planes crashed, rescued their own pilots, brought back the bodies of their own pilots who died in battle, and tried their best to let them go. Neither the living nor the dead of our own pilots fell into the hands of the Soviet army. For this reason, even if they started a fierce battle with the Soviet army, they would not hesitate.

Wang Shuming watched the fierce battle in the air closely. Soon, he saw the strangeness of the Soviet aircraft fleet. The Soviet fighters seemed to have no intention of engaging in air dogfights with the national army fighters. They just protected the attack aircraft and bombers with all their strength and rushed through The interception network of national army fighter jets rushed towards the champion city on the ground, and the purpose was clear, pointing directly at the national army's field airports inside and outside the champion city.

Amidst the heart-piercing air raid sirens, "Enemy planes are coming! Fire!" The air defense troops at the airport rushed into air combat, and anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns rushed towards the sky one after another. The Soviet aircraft burst into flames, and the bundles of shells and bullets whizzing into the sky created waves of dazzling flames in mid-air. The flames exploded in anger, causing smoke and flames to rise above the airports.

The air defense force of the Chinese Air Force is not large in size and strength. The reason is very simple. The air defense force must need anti-aircraft guns. The cost of a German 88mm anti-aircraft gun is 3.5 US dollars, and a shell is 50 US dollars. A bf-109 The cost of a fighter jet is 9 U.S. dollars, and a fighter jet equals about 2.5 anti-aircraft guns.

So, in the case of limited funds, should you buy a fighter jet?Or buy anti-aircraft guns?The high-level members of the national army all believe that fighter jets should be bought. The logic is ready-made: anti-aircraft guns can attack enemy aircraft, and fighter jets can also attack enemy aircraft, and fighter jets have many advantages that anti-aircraft guns do not. Stabilizing the Soviet aircraft, the performance is reliable, a bf-109 must play more role in the battle against the Soviet aircraft than 109 anti-aircraft guns, so buying a fighter jet is more cost-effective than buying an anti-aircraft gun.

This caused the Chinese Air Force's air defense force to be less successful. In fact, the [-] guns bought by the Air Force and Germany would also be snatched by the Army to fight tanks.

Amidst the billowing smoke and flashing flames, batch after batch of Soviet aircraft began to dive rapidly, piercing through the clouds and fog, and rushing frantically towards the national army airport on the ground.

Wang Shuming's heart sank suddenly, and he realized the Soviet army's intentions.

The Soviet planes rushing towards the national army airport were constantly strangled by firepower from the air and the ground. The national army fighter jets chasing the Soviet planes tore apart the Soviet army fleet like a tornado, and the national army air defense forces on the ground were also desperately firing. Thunder and lightning in mid-air, raging fire, one after another explosions and blazing flames, Soviet aircraft were continuously twisted into the sky by the firepower net of the national army aircraft's aviation machine guns and the ground national army's anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. Flying flaming debris, but the Soviet planes went on and on, risking their lives.

Wang Shuming saw with his own eyes that a Soviet MiG-3 fighter jet whose tail had been smashed was struggling like a flash of light in the billowing smoke, hovering and swaying, and suddenly bumped into the place where Wang Shuming was. National Army Airport.

"Lie down! Lie down!" Wang Shuming shouted hoarsely.

The MiG-3 fighter jet slammed into the runway of the airport and crashed into a row of Type 3 bombers of the Japanese Navy parked on the airport. In an instant, a huge ball of fire shot out of the airport. The MiG-3 itself and the Soviet pilots inside were smashed to pieces together, and the two Japanese Type [-] bombers that were hit by the MiG-[-] fell apart in the explosion together, and the shock wave generated by the explosion overturned the surrounding area. For a Type [-] bomber, aviation fuel was burning blazingly, fire dragons were scurrying around, and the blasted fragments of the wreckage of the plane rained fire around them, and fell on four or five Type [-] bombers, immediately bursting into flames.

"Hurry up and rescue the plane!" The ground crew at the airport desperately rushed to put out the fire.

"Jun Zuo!" An air force communicator rushed to Wang Shuming's side, "No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] airports were attacked by Soviet bombers or attack planes! The airports were seriously damaged, and the aircraft were seriously damaged!"

"General Wang, what's going on here?" An officer of the Japanese naval aviation ran over angrily, "What did you do? Why didn't you protect our plane?"

Wang Shuming was too lazy to talk nonsense with the Japanese. He rushed all the way to the control tower and ordered in a hurry: "All planes, all take off! The Soviet army's goal is our airport! They want to destroy our airport! Our planes cannot Stay at the airport and get bombed!"

"Where is the plane flying to?" the officers asked in amazement.

"Fly to the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan!" Sweat broke out on Wang Shuming's forehead, "Contact the local air force headquarters immediately and ask them to vacate the airport and prepare for the reception!"

"Understood!" The officers started busy in a hurry.

Flying over the city of Champions, the Soviet aircraft fleet frantically rushed towards the national army airport with an attitude of not caring about human life or loss. Although the fighter jets and air defense forces of the national army were trying their best to intercept them, there were too many Soviet aircraft, and some of them kept slipping through the net. Zhiyu successfully launched an attack. Soviet attack planes and bombers flew over the airport and dropped aerial bombs one after another. Thunderbolts flew across the sky and the bombs fell into flames. The originally flat and tidy The airport runway was bombed with bomb craters, and the planes parked on the airport suffered continuously.

The Soviet pilots who participated in the war showed incredible tenacity. The injured planes, whether they were attack planes, bombers or fighter jets, all adopted suicide attacks and crashed into the national army airport on the ground.

Wang Shuming and other high-ranking national army officials couldn't believe it, and even the Japanese were surprised.

Among the Japanese personnel in Champion City, Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi had the highest military rank and position. Looking at the fierce battle scene in the air, he was first surprised, then full of praise, and thoughtful at the same time: "This kind of suicide attack It's a good tactic! If a special plane is developed, carrying a large bomb, and then piloted by a death squad pilot, it hits an important target such as an enemy warship...A plane bomb piloted by a man must be more accurate than a normal bomb Hit the target, if it is done well, one person and one aircraft can be exchanged for a warship of the other party!"

Wang Shuming, who was next to Takijiro Onishi, felt inconceivable when he heard Onishi talking to himself. At this time, Le Yiqin, the ace pilot of the national army who was leading the team in the sky, contacted him by radio: "Junzao! Is our airport open?" Under attack?"

Wang Shuming's heart was shocked, he realized something: "Yes, you..."

Le Yiqin said: "What should we do? Isn't there nowhere to land after the fuel is exhausted?"

Wang Shuming's mind was full of thoughts. After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "You all quit the battle! Fly to the northeast of Kazakhstan and arrive at the airport there!"

Le Yiqin was surprised: "Ah? After we left, didn't Champion City let the Soviet army bomb it?"

Wang Shuming said firmly: "It's okay, we rushed to repair the airport overnight, and you can come back tomorrow morning.

You have to remember that our country is very poor, planes cannot afford to be wasted, and cannot be abandoned and crashed in vain. Your pilots are even more precious and cannot be sacrificed in vain.

You go!This is an order! "

Le Yiqin was very sad, but he knew it was the most sensible choice, so he replied in a low voice: "Yes!"

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, in order to reduce unnecessary losses, the national army planes in the air gave up the battle according to Wang Shuming's order, left Champion City, and flew to the northeast of Kazakhstan. The bombers that were originally parked at the airport also evacuated.

In this big air battle, both sides suffered heavy losses. The Chinese Air Force lost more than 350 aircraft (including those destroyed on the ground), and the Soviet Army lost more than [-] aircraft.

After receiving the pilot's report, Novikov breathed a sigh of relief. Although his own side suffered greatly more than the other side's losses, he had achieved his goal and gained short-term air supremacy, which paved the way for the Soviet army's next move. Good basics.

The Soviet fleet that ended the battle began to return, but the sky was still full of planes, because the second wave of the Soviet fleet had already flown, and the timing was very precise. The first wave of the Soviet fleet consisted of fighter jets, attack planes, and bombers. Composition, the second wave fleet consists of fighters and transport aircraft.

Thousands of Soviet planes flew over the city of Champions, and headed east all the way in the confusion of the Nanjing Army on the ground. Soon, Fu Zuoyi received a report from Feng Zhian and Xue Yue: a large number of Soviet paratroopers were being killed. Airdrop down.

"The Soviet army has dispatched paratroopers!" Fu Zuoyi was shocked.

"We have all ignored the Soviet paratroopers!" Wei Lihuang was also deeply disturbed, "We may have forgotten that the Soviet Union was the first country in the world to establish an airborne force, and the Soviet army had the world's largest Airborne troops!"

"We're going to be passive!" Fu Zuoyi whispered, his voice full of anxiety.

Chapter 536 Big Avalanche (16)

From the Vasyugan Plain to the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan, countless Chinese soldiers looked up at the sky in astonishment, and sighed emotionally: There are so many Soviet paratroopers!

In the rolling thunder, the Soviet army's fleet pierced through the clouds and fog, covering the sky and the sun. Wherever it went, umbrella flowers bloomed in the sky like fairy flowers, densely packed, all over the sky, and gathered into a magnificent war scene.

This operation was the largest operation carried out by the Soviet Airborne Forces during the Soviet War, and it can be called earth-shattering and powerful.

Such a huge airborne operation not only amazed the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, but even generals such as Fu Zuoyi, Xue Yue, Luo Zhuoying, Feng Zhian, etc. felt chest tightness, and some couldn't breathe: "The Soviets really think highly of us!"

The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to form an airborne force, and the Soviet army had the largest airborne force in the world. At present, only three countries in the world have airborne forces, namely Germany, the Soviet Union, and China (the United States at this time The airborne troops have not yet been formed, nor have Britain, Japan, and Italy), Germany has 1 airborne division, China has 1 airborne brigade, and the Soviet Union has a full 3 airborne divisions (in the original history, during World War II, the Soviet army Airborne units reached 10 divisions at their maximum size).

What is more funny is that the Soviet Army, which was the first to establish an airborne force and has the largest airborne force in the world, has no record of airborne combat worth mentioning. The German and Chinese command almost forgot that the Soviet Army also had airborne troops. This arm and the Soviet Airborne Forces are the largest in the world.

During the Battle of Kiev, the Soviet airborne troops made several attacks, mainly to the city of Kiev for reinforcements and destruction of facilities.

Right now, for the victory of this "big avalanche operation", the Soviet airborne troops were dispatched, and the three divisions launched airborne at the same time. Among them, the 7th Guards Paratrooper Division was airdropped between Novosibirsk and Champion City (Omsk). The 44th Guards and the 75th Guards Paratrooper Divisions were airdropped between the three cities in northeastern Kazakhstan and the Champion City in the primeval forest between them. Each division had about [-] paratroopers, totaling about [-] paratroopers. Lieutenant General Alexander Yevgenievich Golovanov was in charge.

"Dispatch troops immediately to destroy those Soviet paratroopers!" Fu Zuoyi, Xue Yue, Feng Zhi'an and other generals gave orders one after another.

With regard to airborne operations, because of "the glory of Jiang Weiguo", the Chinese generals are still at the forefront of the world in terms of thinking and concepts. They are relatively clear about the strengths and weaknesses of paratroopers. The Soviet paratroopers who landed in the hinterland will be scattered. Immediately dispatching troops to sweep them is the best opportunity. If they wait for them to gather, not only will they bring more harm, but it will also be more troublesome to wipe them out.

Following the orders of several generals, the national army troops stationed in Champion City, the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan, and the western encirclement line of the four cities in North Asia were dispatched one after another. There was no need to dispatch tanks or armored vehicles. At this time, the paratroopers were basically equivalent to airborne infantry. There was no need to send out mechanized troops. The officers and soldiers of the national army who went to search and suppress the Soviet paratroopers were all riding cars or motorcycles, riding horses or pedaling bicycles. They did not carry heavy weapons, but they had to hurry up.

Where Soviet paratroopers appeared, the divisions and brigades of the local national army dispatched several small units to attack from all sides of the station and rush to the place where the Soviet paratroopers fell.

All over the mountains and plains, the national army rushed towards the Soviet paratroopers who fell from the sky like catching rabbits.

The big airborne paratroopers of the Soviet Army can be described as menacing. It really surprised and frightened the generals of the national army who were basically unprepared. The paratroopers of the army are like silver wax spearheads. In the words of Pei Feng, commander of the 77th Cavalry Brigade of the 77th Division, "it's like picking fruit from a tree."

Knowing that a large number of Soviet paratroopers had parachuted into the primeval forest behind his side, Zhong Song, the commander of the 77th Division, immediately ordered Pei Feng to take the cavalry brigade to search and suppress. Then rushed into the virgin forest, and then broke into parts, and carried out independent actions in units of platoons. If reinforcements were needed, red signal flares would be fired.

The first Soviet paratrooper wiped out by the cavalry brigade was an unlucky guy. Pei Feng took the lead. After seeing the Soviet paratrooper clearly, he couldn't help laughing. He saw that the Soviet paratrooper was hanging on a spruce tree like a sausage. On the tree, this unlucky Soviet paratrooper just landed on this spruce tree after parachuting from the transport plane. The rope of the parachute was entangled with the branches, and he was tightly tied to the tree like a fishing net. .

Seeing a group of Chinese cavalry rushing forward, the Soviet paratrooper showed an uncontrollable look of despair while struggling desperately. His weapon was on his back, but he couldn't free his hand to pick it up and use it.

The cavalry stopped under the tree leisurely and leisurely, watching the Soviet paratrooper hanging on the tree like a monkey, and then couldn't help bursting into laughter.

Pei Feng smiled, raised his carbine, and fired five shots in a row. Three bullets accurately cut off the parachute rope of the Soviet paratrooper. The Soviet paratrooper fell down heavily, and the cavalry raised their guns at him together. .

The Soviet paratroopers were ashamed and had to raise their hands in surrender.

Pei Feng stepped forward and picked up the weapon of the Soviet paratroopers, a Bobosha submachine gun. He played with it for a while and couldn't help sighing: "Good gun!" He waved his hand, "Continue to search and suppress!"

The cavalry marched forward and captured or killed a large number of Soviet paratroopers without any effort. The captured Soviet paratroopers were all hung on trees like berries.

In North Asia, apart from ice and snow, there is nothing more than trees. There are virgin forests everywhere. A large part of the Soviet paratroopers who fell from the sky were hung on the trees and could not move. They watched the Chinese soldiers who searched and suppressed them calmly Surround and aim yourself under a tree.

As Pei Feng described it, the officers and soldiers were like picking fruit from a tree, taking one Soviet prisoner after another, and some Soviet paratroopers would rather die than surrender and resist desperately. A hornet's nest of human flesh.

Everything has two sides. Because the snowy weather has not completely improved, the Soviet Air Force launched an offensive eagerly. On the one hand, it has a certain opportunity and successfully temporarily controlled the air supremacy around the Champion City. And because of the haste, the airborne operations fell into a great disadvantage.

Due to bad weather, coupled with hasty actions and insufficient preparations, there were more than a dozen incidents of collisions between the Soviet fleet, and twenty or thirty aircraft were damaged due to mechanical failures, and dozens of other aircraft lost their way, etc. Wait, these non-combat accidents alone caused the Soviet army to lose nearly a hundred aircraft, and hundreds of paratroopers and pilots died unexpectedly. After the airdrop was actually launched, accidents still occurred frequently. Flying all over the sky like fallen leaves in the wind, they didn’t know where they were blown by the strong wind. The place where many Soviet paratroopers actually landed was tens of kilometers away from the scheduled airdrop location. Such a major deviation is naturally caused by the weather. The reason is more than that. Because of the strong wind, the Soviet paratroopers were very scattered after landing. The paratroopers of the same company were even distributed within tens of kilometers, and the density of troops was extremely sparse. In addition to accidents in the air, a large number of Soviet paratroopers "died before leaving the army" due to various accidents. Some Soviet paratroopers fell on trees and were stabbed alive by oncoming branches. Deadly stab wounds, some Soviet soldiers fell to their deaths and injuries because they did not open the parachute in time or the height of the parachute was too low. , Ghost crying and wolf howling, the national army officers and soldiers who besieged the Soviet paratroopers kept seeing this kind of Soviet paratroopers: some Soviet paratroopers were hanging on trees, their faces were covered with blood, their eyes had been poked blind by branches, and some were on the ground Rolling around and miserable because of a broken leg, these injured Soviet paratroopers had only two endings, either becoming a prisoner or dying of serious injuries.

The most serious accident was that when a formation of Soviet transport planes passed over the position of the 74th Division of the Nanjing Army, it clearly had not arrived at the scheduled airdrop area, but the first transport plane did not know whether it was a wrong map or was too nervous, so it opened The cabin door threw more than 20 Soviet paratroopers in the plane, and the second, third, and fourth...transport planes followed and threw all the paratroopers down, a full battalion The Soviet paratroopers were thrown onto the positions of the 74th Division.

The officers and soldiers of the 74th Division stared wide-eyed. Many officers and soldiers were taken aback. They thought the Soviet planes in the sky were bombers, and those who wanted to drop bombs were paratroopers.

On the ground, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army armed with live ammunition were waiting. In mid-air, hundreds of Soviet paratroopers watched in despair as they fell into the den of wolves and tigers. There were murderous machine guns and bayonets waiting at their feet. look at yourself.

The 74th Division effortlessly wiped out this self-defeating Soviet paratrooper battalion in just 5 minutes.

Regardless of the follow-up, this operation of the Soviet paratroopers was a huge failure in the airborne itself. Of the more than 6000 Soviet paratroopers who were put into battle, more than [-] had not yet participated in the battle. Or they were killed or captured before they played a role, and a huge proportion of precious troops were wasted in many almost useless ways.

Nevertheless, these Soviet paratroopers still caused great threats and troubles to the national army.

Because of the strong wind, the Soviet paratroopers were distributed in a very wide area after being air-dropped, which made the search and suppression work of the national army smooth and difficult. The success was because it was easy to destroy the Soviet paratroopers after they were found, and the difficulty was because the Soviet paratroopers were scattered. The land is too sparse and too vast, and many troops need to be dispatched to search and suppress repeatedly in a large area.

Although the Soviet paratroopers who successfully fell into the rear of the national army and got a chance to fight were in chaos, they did play the role of elite infantry.

These Soviet paratroopers are all veterans selected from the Soviet infantry unit. They have passed the political assessment and their weapons and equipment are very sophisticated. Almost everyone has a Bobosha submachine gun.

The Bobosha submachine gun is a weapon that the Soviet Union has just put into mass production. The output is not very large, but more than 1 were allocated to the Soviet paratroopers at once, which proves that the Soviet high-level attaches great importance to the paratroopers and this airborne operation. , and this move did greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Soviet paratroopers.

Soon, sporadic, one after another, and intensified harassment incidents appeared in the hinterland and rear of the national army.

After landing, the Soviet paratroopers either single-handedly, or in groups, or assembled into platoon-level and company-level troops, attacked the national army in every possible way.

Karasuk between the Vasyugan Plain and Champion City and the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan are the two major areas where Soviet paratroopers carried out large-scale airdrops. The local garrison of the former is the 27th Army of the National Army, and the local garrison of the latter is Nanjing. Obviously, the 77th Army is more vulnerable than the 27th Army. Soon, a series of harassment reports were sent to Lu Han, the commander of the 77th Army.

Lu Han had a big headache. Those Soviet paratroopers were all-pervasive, elusive, and stubborn. The 27th Army was in charge of a 200-kilometer-long blockade. The density of troops can be imagined. These Soviet paratroopers took advantage of loopholes everywhere, and selected small groups of troops to kill them. They either attacked patrol troops, killed sentries, or ambushed logistics transport troops. It hurts, and it’s okay to sting a few times. If the number of stings is too high, it will be fatal. The most serious incident was that a transport battalion of the 10th Army and the 200th Army was ambushed, and more than 27 officers and soldiers were killed. The materials were taken away by the Soviet army.