Chapter 5: Airborne Surprise Soldier (Revision)
Just before Guo Chaodong was about to be airborne, the special forces who had completed the airborne guidance mission began to create even greater chaos.
And there is nothing like this that arouses their interest and affection more than anything else. In particular, without the captain or Chief Tang who is more powerful than them by his side, these bad boys can be regarded as "herding sheep"!
Their tasks below are simply not worth mentioning to them. And in the eyes of all the special forces, this is not a war at all, it is purely a fun game.
Scattered, they rushed to a nearby place where there were German troops, removed the mufflers from their weapons, and rushed at the enemy patrol to attract the attention of others.
Or simply shoot at the machine gunner who is shooting at the air and get a dual-purpose grenade. In general, there will be no second attack for them. Because when the target is looked upon by them, it is difficult to survive safely.
Others used captured Mauser rifles to practice their targets at a longer range. It was really miserable to disturb the German soldiers who came to shoot at the paratroopers in the sky with their heads up. In desperation, he had to transfer troops and organize a patrol to play hide and seek with these guys.
It's a pity that playing this game with these special forces who have nothing to do often has to pay some painful price.
First of all, it is physical, it is not easy to keep up with these guys who blow a horn or a whistle from time to time, and run around the mountains. And following them is often more dangerous.
At any moment, they will use a stone, a grenade, or some explosives to create some powerful traps. As for what primitive and very effective things such as crossbow arrows, blow arrows, darts, etc., would remind the German soldiers of primitive tribes such as the Indians of the Americas.
According to the surviving German soldiers, the traps of these guys were broken, and they mainly greeted them in three directions.
Of course, there were also those who blatantly tried to trouble the Germans, especially the snipers who were covered in strips of floral cloth. They used the Mauser sniper rifles, which had been modified to be more accurate and powerful, using specialized bullets, and at a distance of 800 meters, they could easily take out German commanders, or anyone who looked like officers.
Under their harassment and the onslaught of air power, the German troops on the ground were in terror. They don't know how many enemy troops are falling from the sky, and they don't know what these guys are coming for. The only thing they know is that the enemy they encounter tonight will not be so easy to deal with.
Soon this headache-inducing enemy appeared in the sky in droves, in a way that surprised them.
Finally, Guo Chaodong and the airship they were riding on arrived at the airborne area, and the huge body of the airship broke into the fire net composed of machine gun bullets and anti-aircraft artillery shells.
"Damn, jump, or you'll be beaten into a fishing net!"
Guo Chaodong's heart jumped loudly with the "bang" sound of shrapnel hitting the pod. The red light faded in front of him, and the green light came on while the "whistle" sound sounded not very loud, but very penetrating.
"Jump!"
The special forces standing in front of Guo Chaodong waved their arms at him and shouted loudly, probably he was also a little nervous. The eyes, illuminated by green light, looked like some bloodthirsty animal.
"Jump...... Jumping ......"
The action of jumping out of the cabin has been trained to become Guo Chaodong's instinct. His legs involuntarily followed the command, and the next moment, he had come to the dark night sky.
The wind, when high in the air, is as hot as the ground. As he floated in the night sky, the sound of the wind blowing in his ears made the green strips of cloth of different shades on his steel helmet "pop".
Guo Chaodong really stayed in the air for a long time, twisting his neck to look at the position of his fellow soldiers. The airship was slower, but it had almost 10 times as many layoffs as the SY-1 transport aircraft.
The umbrellas of more than 100 soldiers were not easy to distinguish in the night, and after roughly remembering the location of the paratroopers closest to him, he began to pay attention to his foothold. Pull the lines on your shoulders with both hands and try to adjust your position.
Although he managed to avoid some tall trees, he eventually fell into a bush. With a crackling sound of crushing branches, Guo Chaodong landed on the soft earth.
He took out his paratrooper knife, cut it a few times, and "pulled" his parachute rope hanging on a branch, and reached out to pick up his weapon. In his hand was a box gun in the mouth of Li Erzi, which was transformed into an M-1 Eagle short assault rifle.
This pistol, which uses an intermediate type of bullet, is now completely out of the category of self-defense weapons. The 7.63 mm intermediate-power ammunition of the same caliber as the German rifle has made it a sharp assault weapon in the hands of infantrymen.
The lengthened heavy barrel and the attached telescopic wire stock are only about 650 mm long. The modified body of the gun was thickened, and a small handle was added to the back. The teeth on the back are actually Picatinny rails. In terms of appearance alone, this is a bit like the M4-A1 short assault rifle used by the US military.
It's a pity that tactical flashlights, laser sights and other equipment are still being studied secretly, and with the scientific level at that time, I am afraid that there is still a considerable distance. As for the equipment of the paratroopers, it is nothing more than a 1.5x sight, but in the center of the reticle of the sight mirror, there is a point of light with the ability to glow in the night. Fluorescence was widely used in watches at the time, and it was used here to help with night aiming.
His equipment weighed as much as that of an ordinary paratrooper and carried several M1911 magazines in addition to 10 magazines of 32 rounds. In addition, five dual-purpose grenades, as well as some explosives and mines, three days' dry rations and other equipment, were also available. If you add in the fact that there is a 5 mm thick steel plate behind his chest, then his weight is not small.
It wasn't until he picked up the weapon in his hand that Guo Chaodong felt a little more settled in his heart, and raised his head to observe the darkness around him.
It was dark and hot, and from time to time there was the sound of shooting and ballistics rising into the sky. The exchange of fire between the ground and the sky was still going on at this time, and in general, the ground attack had a natural disadvantage.
The plane appeared in their defense zone in the dark sky at a low altitude. In the absence of enough searchlights, tracer bullets fired from firing machine guns turned out to be flies that provoked death.
Often in the low-altitude roar of an aircraft engine, the twin-engine "Rolling Thunder" attack aircraft will immediately launch, and its attack is exactly what its name suggests.
In the dense fire of swarms of 12.7 mm bullets, rockets dragged tongues of fire followed. Often an anti-aircraft artillery unit, after the "lesson" of their twin crews, immediately collapses.
"Hurry up...... Get up and ......"
Ever since the moment I landed, I've been thinking about this word from time to time. As for fear, I don't know where to be driven by these two words of responsibility.
Grab your weapon and stoop into the woods. As the regiment commander, he must gather more soldiers in the shortest possible time, otherwise he will not be able to do anything at all.
The light of the explosion and burning fire on the ground reflected into the sky, as if thunder was flashing in the night sky. Due to the use of slower airship drops, the formation of paratroopers was quite dense. Guo Chaodong, who acted quickly along the way, but tried his best not to make a sound, gathered more than 100 soldiers in a short time.
According to the flash of the sky, Guo Chaodong began to assign tasks to his subordinates. Their first task was not to attack immediately, they had to immediately clear the German soldiers near the airdrop site and take control of a relatively safe clearing.
This will be where other troops, especially the artillery support units of the paratrooper regiment, will carry out the boat landing. Guo Chaodong knew that without these supporting artillery fire, he and his paratroopers would face increasingly intense attacks from the Germans, and eventually collapse completely.
At this time, Guo Chaodong was not in the mood to think about any more situations. He simply sent the paratroopers who were constantly rushing to his side, in the direction of the dense fire of the German troops.
Their main target was all the German units in the vicinity that were organizing anti-aircraft shooting. In addition, occupy the nearby commanding heights to ensure that a larger airborne landing will follow.
In the black night, bullets flew back and forth like fireflies between the hills. The organized paratroopers were divided into battle groups and triangular squads to begin the search and annihilate mission.
Compared with the special forces' more casual and vicious operations, their operations are more formal, and at the same time, they have more power to attack groups.
On the battlefield where bullets and bullets could not stop exploding, their triangular formations spread out and the attacking formations flickered. Often, at the moment when the enemy's shells exploded, they stood up with the M1-Eagle short assault rifle or the Stern submachine gun and fired a frenzied fire.
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The closer their attack formation was to the German position, the more they showed the superiority of their weapons and tactics. Inherited and carried forward the tactics of our army's night battle, the flowering of scattered multi-channel assault centers, and the combination of division and encirclement. Beat the German troops in the temporary strongholds one by one.
They were the German 17th Infantry Corps, which had just taken over the task of guarding the road and water transport between Compiègne and Saint-Quentin and the German 17th Army.
Three divisions of German troops lined up along both sides of the road and waterway. Particular attention was paid to the establishment of a battle line facing the direction of the possible attack of the French army on the west side, and the artillery belonging to each division and division was placed behind the battle line.
However, in the era of the continuous fronts of the First World War, it is impossible to imagine that they would arrange a defense-in-depth system similar to that of the Second World War.
As for the preparation for the large-scale airborne landing of the airborne troops, not to mention the 17th Army, even the commander of their army group, General Falkenhayne, has not heard of the offensive method, so how can they defend themselves.
There was a night of fighting, under the attack of paratroopers from the air, and the pressure on the German infantry increased.