Chapter 223: Liftoff

The commander of the Japanese Army Aviation briefly briefed the ****** pilots on their mission. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Then, a sharp military whistle sounded, and the kamikaze commandos in the preparation area began to carry the operation, and the personnel and equipment boarded the plane in turn.

As a method of in-depth assault warfare, airborne operations are somewhat adventurous, so Okamura Ninji has taken the most cautious choice in the selection of airborne tactics.

Considering that the Japanese army has a small number of paratroopers on stand, and the training time of the commandos formed in a hurry is relatively short, it is difficult to meet the requirements of parachuting. From the outset, Okamura Ninji and Kagesa Yoshiaki decided to adopt airborne operations that were less demanding of troops, that is, the ****** directly delivered combat units and equipment to the ground.

Compared with parachuting, which requires a higher quality of individual soldiers, airborne landing tactics have the following advantages:

1. Since the ****** can be operated, the airborne area is relatively concentrated, and the troops to be deployed will not be too scattered, which is convenient for the troops to assemble.

Second, it eliminates the need for soldiers to dispose of parachute bags and equipment after they land, and the combatants can immediately enter the battle after breaking out of the ******.

3. Since there are no engines in the ****** and the transport aircraft will leave the ****** in advance in the predetermined area, no transport fleet will reach the airborne area. Therefore, it does not make a sound when it is airborne, and it reaches the top of the target's head almost silently.

All in all, ****** airborne landing is faster, more efficient and more sudden than parachuting!

Of course, ****** airborne also has a fatal weakness, that is, once it encounters strong ground anti-aircraft fire, the slow and incapable of high-speed maneuvering ****** will become a target, and the airborne will become a suicide show.

However, it is obvious that Okamura Ninji's kamikaze commando will not encounter such a problem, because the entire Chinese army is also equipped with extremely few anti-aircraft artillery fire, and the only anti-aircraft artillery units in the Wuhan theater are equipped in important core areas, and it is impossible to appear in a place like Hujia's shack. That's why Okamura Ninji and Kagesa Zhenaki would dare to use ****** on such a large scale for airborne operations.

And in order to avoid this only risk, since the formation of the kamikaze commando, Gangmura Ningji has demanded strict secrecy. Commandos are cut off from the outside world, no vacations, no outings, letters are strictly checked, conversations with other troops are forbidden, and those who leak their units and tasks are to be put to death, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

According to various intelligence sources, the Chinese military is still ignorant of the assault so far.

Therefore, the possibility of encountering Chinese anti-aircraft artillery fire when the kamikaze commandos are airborne can only be zero.

Now the remaining focus is to smoothly carry out the airborne landing and transport the entire kamikaze commando force to the designated area.

Due to the limited load capacity of the ****** used, in order not to disrupt the establishment as much as possible and to form combat effectiveness immediately after landing, Okamura Ninji asked all commandos to be lightly armed.

In order to reduce the overall weight of the plane, the kamikaze commandos discarded all unnecessary equipment - in addition to the most basic weapons and ammunition, even the steel helmets and lunch boxes were streamlined.

In the end, the heaviest weapon carried by the Japanese soldiers who boarded the ****** was only a crooked machine gun. The Type 92 heavy machine guns, mortars, ammunition boxes, and other heavyweight materials equipped by the kamikaze commandos were all loaded in a centralized manner and sent to the ground by a group of ******.

Even in order to cope with the possible attrition during the airborne, Okamura Ninji increased the number of heavy weapons and the number of ****** to transport heavy weapons by 50%, that is, even if 1/3 was damaged during the airborne process, these heavy weapons that fell to the ground would be enough to equip the entire kamikaze commando.

Hundreds of transport planes and ****** were put into operation at the same time, which almost squeezed out the entire transportation capacity of the Japanese Army Aviation in the Chinese theater, plus the 3,000 specially trained elite Japanese troops had almost no chance of survival, such a huge investment was just to kill the commander of an enemy army, which was also the first time in the combat history of the Japanese army!

Even if it succeeds in the end, the attrition of this airborne operation is beyond the capacity of the Japanese Army!

So in order to kill Huang Haoran, Okamura Ningji has done everything he can to the extreme! He is also ready to take full responsibility.

With a huge roar, the power of the engine reached its highest point, and the Nakajima 97 transport plane struggled to pull the ****** on the runway, and after a long time, the two leading Nakajima 97 finally dragged the No. 1 and No. 2 ****** to take off, and then slowly climbed into the air.

Such a scene occurred at several Japanese airfields in Guichi at the same time.

The planes on the runway took off sequentially at intervals of 45 seconds, carrying 20 people and 3,000 Japanese soldiers in each batch, and it took more than an hour for all of them to rise into the air.

The huge fleet of planes stood out in the air, and the Chinese military observation posts along the way thought that this was a group of Japanese planes heading to bomb Wuhan or Chongqing, and urgent telegrams were sent to Wuhan and Chongqing like snowflakes......

At the front of the entire fleet, there are twelve DC2 transport planes carrying the ****** of the Onizuka Kotaro special operations detachment, as the sharpest knife of the entire kamikaze commando, the special operations detachment of Kitsuka Kotaro will be the first to be sent to the ground to carry out special operations, at this moment they are all wearing the military uniforms of the Chinese army, holding the standard equipment of the Chinese army in their hands, if the third infantry wing of the Kwantung Army is a sword and gun placed in the open, then the precious Kotaro's special operations detachment is a sword hidden in the shadows.

The pilots of the DC2 transport plane, who had conducted reconnaissance of the intended landing area in a reconnaissance plane four days earlier, were the only people who had actually seen the landing area, and were also the pilot group in the airborne operation.

Today, the visibility in the air is not very good, the plane is flying in the clouds from time to time, and the ****** towed in the rear is very stuffy, and not long after flying, some special combat team members have a motion sickness reaction, Onizuka Osa decisively pulled out the dagger he carried with him, cut a few holes in the cloth wall of the ******, let the cool air enter the cabin, and observe the ground through the hole.

After more than an hour, the swarm arrives at the predetermined area, shaking the wings, the lights flash, this is the agreed signal, the journey is coming to an end, the ****** will be released, and from now on, any accident can lead to death.

Amaterasu bless! What else can be done at this moment besides praying......

The transport aircraft climbed to an altitude of 3600 meters, after which the ****** was uncoupled.

The driver who controls the ******, trying to maintain his balance, is out of the tractor, and has no power of his own, and now it all depends on the mastery of the airflow...... (To be continued.) )