"The adventure is only half the battle! Boys, cheer up and continue to accomplish our miracles! When he heard the news that the Hercules had begun to land, Fan Chong's rare smile on the corner of his mouth suppressed the cheers of many young staff officers. However, he didn't pay attention and brought the word adventure out for a moment.

I have to say, this is an adventure. An operation that had never been experienced before, even in later generations, the airborne transfer of tens of thousands of people was difficult, not to mention the need to cross thousands of miles of enemy territory.

Prior to this, Fan Chong did not expect that this somewhat risky plan could be implemented, because the first plan that the Vanguard Army had intended to implement in the first place was another one.

As in the interpretation of the Battle of Waim-Ude, if the Russian reinforcements were to rescue the poor Wai-Méng expeditionary force, they would be crowded into Ulan-Ude, and after the start of the war, the vanguard should be besieging both ends of Ulan-Ude, preparing to drop in from near Irkutsk and Chita to jam reinforcements on both sides.

When reinforcements from other parts of Soviet Russia came to support again, they were airborne again, just like the American army's leapfrog operation in World War II, bypassing the heavily assembled cities, but parachuting behind their weak backs, like onions, layer by layer to surround the Soviet Russian reinforcements. Then, starting from the reinforcements from outside, the inner layers were opened to wipe out the Russian army in a place where the vanguard army could be centrally controlled, so that the Russian army would not enter the forest, start a guerrilla disturbance, and drag the army back.

During this period, the Germans had suddenly erupted in the west, attracting most of the attention of Soviet Russia, and the vanguard army slowly advanced along the Trans-Siberian Railway to both sides, and there was time to slowly squeeze Soviet Russia.

But when it comes to reality, no plan can be perfect.

After convincing everyone with the original No. 1 project with an airborne performance by Wai Méng, such a plan died halfway.

Soviet Russia was not all stupid either. Their intelligence agencies already had a rough idea of the airborne tactics behind the Vanguard Army. After suffering once outside, they were already paying attention. In order to prevent the airborne landing of the vanguard army, they not only strengthened the armament of Ulan-Ude, but even several large cities at both ends made key air defense arrangements.

"The Chinese have two types of transport aircraft for airborne troop carriers, the Junkers 52 transport aircraft for the Germans and the D-3 modification for the Americans. And if they were to parachute in full armed soldiers and return, then their combat radius would definitely not exceed a thousand kilometers, or even closer. "On the basis of the information available to the Russians, they delineated the approximate range of possible airborne attacks by the vanguard army.

Don't mention Aunt Juncker, the range is only a thousand kilometers at most, there is no airfield to land, not to mention the combat radius. Even if the -47, this kind of transport aircraft that the Americans just started equipping, although the empty load can reach more than 2,000 kilometers, it is fully loaded with soldiers, and it is very good to be able to drive 1,000 kilometers according to the unexpected circumstances of the entire voyage.

Of course, the Russians also considered the issue of the direct landing of the vanguard army, but under their search, there was no large-scale field airfield, and they did not believe that the vanguard army stupidly destroyed a large number of planes on a field with a very poor degree of security.

They didn't know about the Hercules aircraft that could go on an expedition, but they paid attention to the Giant Bird ME-323 transport plane.

However, according to the understanding of the Soviet and Russian troops, the vanguard army was only carried to transport weapons, not to transport troops to airborne.

The giant bird requires high take-off and landing conditions, and its speed is slow, so it can easily become a target for ground anti-aircraft artillery and air fighters. This has already been confirmed in the airborne Cretan campaign that the Germans began on April 13.

Due to the smooth situation of the war in the Balkans, the Germans even advanced the landing on Crete by more than a month.

Since the Vanguard's airborne performances were already known to the world, the British did not seem to have paid as much attention to air defense as they did in history, but the British still focused their attention on the precarious homeland, even in the Mediterranean, there were islands such as Malta to defend, so the number of troops in Crete declined.

Meng Xiang had a general understanding of the Crete airborne landing that made the German airborne troops miserable, although he didn't know the specific time, but when the Germans were preparing, he knew about it, and contributed a little of his own strategy through the rat seven who were observing there.

In the historical Battle of Crete, because the Germans only counted on the airborne troops with high hopes and no other troops to cooperate, although they won the victory in the end, but because of heavy losses, the Germans lost confidence in the airborne troops, and it was difficult to carry out large-scale airborne operations after that. And when the British are on guard, I am afraid that the losses will be even greater.

Undoubtedly, the vanguard army, which has repeatedly carried out large-scale airborne operations, is the authority of this time. Coupled with the good relations between the vanguard army and Germany, the Germans finally adopted Meng Xiang's proposal.

The first was a feint attack on the island of Malta, where the Italian battlefleet allowed the British Mediterranean fleet to begin to gather, and then the artillery support of the Italian cruisers and the crocodile-class landing ships attracted most of the attention of the British troops stationed on the island.

The Giant Bird ME-323 transport aircraft, which carried armored vehicles, was greatly admired by more people in the battle, but also learned about its weaknesses.

Soviet Russia pondered for a long time, and finally gave up the vigilance of this kind of vanguard army equipped with a very small number of transport aircraft. As for the Hercules plane, they regard it as a myth in their hearts.

In this era, the giant bird transport plane is already the pinnacle of science and technology, and as for the better Hercules of xìng, it can only stay in fantasy.

However, it was the shock of the Cretan airborne to the world that made Soviet Russia pay more and more attention to it after encountering the airborne raid of the vanguard army outside. According to the approximate range of 1,000 kilometers, not only in the vicinity of large cities such as Irkutsk and Chita, but also along the Trans-Siberian Railway, including a number of small towns, were put on armare guard, extending all the way to the city of Novosibirsk.

Unlike the logistical difficulties of the foreign battlefield, with the convenience of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Soviet Union and Russia moved their troops quickly...... Stalin's decision to abandon the Expeditionary Force was accompanied by a powerful counterattack by the Vanguard Army on the border of the Soviet Union. So even those anti-aircraft weapons and heavy firepower in the hinterland were concentrated on the front line of the border by train.

The Méng Soviet front, near Ulan-Ude, maintained an army of more than 200,000 troops because these people were already unable to exert themselves on the narrow outer Méng road. But more troops were scattered along the nearby Trans-Siberian Railway for logistical reasons.

"Chita, where the headquarters of the Transbaikal Front is stationed, gathered more than 100,000 troops. Even around Irkutsk, more than 50,000 troops are ready to support Ulan-Ude. It should be said that in order to deal with us, in addition to more than 200,000 troops on the Ulan-Ude front, Soviet Russia also gathered more than 200,000 reserve troops on standby at any time. Even the Far Eastern Front was constantly chōu reluctant, down to a dangerous 300,000-strong number. Although the Russians were not going to abandon the embankments, the main forces of the defense of the Transbaikal Front were mainly concentrated on us. And Central Asia is also increasing troops to the border, estimated at more than 100,000. "This is the information that Xiao Yat's intelligence department mén obtained from Soviet Russia, Germany, etc.

After the friction between the two sides on the border of Central Asia intensified, even Almaty, Tashkent, and other cities in Central Asia have strengthened their armaments and constantly deployed troops.

This series of actions made the Vanguard's attempt to wrap up another layer on the periphery of the Soviet Russian reinforcements suddenly and dramatically more difficult. You must know that even if the airborne landing is smooth, the initial vanguard army can only spread out tens of thousands of people in various places, and these people are scattered in the vast land, and the largest battalion level will not be able to shake those important areas that are heavily guarded.

"Execute Plan Four!" Meng Xiang thought about it all night before he made a decision on a new plan that everyone opposed.

Fan Chong also objected at first, because Plan 4 was originally a backup plan based on the final stage of Plan 1, and the danger was high and it was too risky. However, the Soviet Russian army Chōu moved heavy forces to defend near the border, and the interior was already empty, which was indeed very suitable for the conditions of Plan No. 4.

In particular, after Meng Xiang demonstrated the ability to solve the biggest problem of logistics support for operations behind enemy lines, and the support of many technologies and machines promised by the Germans that made it difficult for the Chinese to refuse, Fan Chongcai uneasily obeyed Meng Xiang's will.

And so this war began, which was unexpected by all earthlings.

It was precisely to the surprise of both the enemy and us that by the time the heavily guarded Soviet and Russian front lines reacted, the transport aircraft group of the vanguard army had already landed on a large scale in the airfield of the air command center built by the two sub-bases of Soviet and Russian.

Continuing the original pattern, there were already a large number of weapons and supplies waiting for the arrival of the Vanguard soldiers near the center of the Air Finger. Troop trucks and armored vehicles sent the tankers directly to the Haw Par tanks, and even the -34/85 and Stalin heavy tanks, which were more adapted to the Siberian environment, were lined up in a row, waiting for the final departure order.

In the two months of foreign entanglement, time has been given to rearrange and adjust the sub-bases in Soviet Russia and vigorously produce them. Distributed in Western Siberia, using the oil from the Tyumen oil fields and the coal near Kuzbass as power, the two sub-bases that have full horsepower production are the biggest reliance for Meng Xiang to dare to fight behind enemy lines. RO！。