For Chen Hanzhang, at present, whether it is this batch of Japanese paratroopers who suddenly appeared, there are only these or follow-up echelons. Whether these paratroopers were the prelude to the launch of the entire Japanese attack, or the Kwantung Army was able to reinforce so many troops at the moment. Tongliao County is a problem that must be solved in a short period of time.

If it is the prelude to the Japanese counterattack, first solve the enemy in Tongliao County, and it will be a problem for Chen Hanzhang. He can not only draw out a considerable part of the troops and use them as mobile troops. The key is to face the Kwantung Army's counterattack on all fronts at any time, and you can worry about it.

However, although the sudden appearance of the 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 had a certain amount of harassment against the rear of the coalition forces. But for the troops in the city, in fact, the trouble was more to clear out the Japanese paratroopers who landed everywhere in the city.

Since the German paratroopers shone on the battlefield in Western Europe last year, the Japanese military top brass was very envious. In the second half of last year, the Japanese army and navy formed their own paratrooper units. And hired a hundred instructors from Germany, as well as the corresponding technical equipment. And at the beginning of this year, after the actual combat test at Zhongtiao Mountain, the Japanese high-level who were quite satisfied with it greatly expanded the number of paratroopers.

On the basis of the original paratroopers, the Navy formed a special Marine Corps. The army's paratroopers were expanded from a wing of a real nature to a paratrooper brigade. At present, these Japanese paratroopers who have been parachuted into Tongliao belong to the most elite of their paratrooper brigades, and they are also the first batch of first wings formed to be used as backbones.

As for the second wing, because it had just been formed, the equipment imported from Germany had just been put in place, and it was far from forming combat effectiveness. Under the strong demand of the Kwantung Army, although the base camp was a little reluctant, it still temporarily transferred the first wing, which was training in the northeast, to the Kwantung Army system.

After all, the operation of Nakajo Mountain, which only dispatched two squadrons, was a small fight, and the high-ranking Japanese army, who was about to launch the southward operation, also hoped to test the large-scale use of this paratrooper unit through actual combat. Because the Japanese military top brass had considerable expectations for whether this paratrooper unit could be used in the southward operation.

This first wing was the first group of paratroopers formed by the Japanese army, all of whom had been rigorously trained by German instructors. All officers, soldiers, and officers are carefully selected from the entire army. In the battle of Nakajo Mountain, although only two squadrons were dispatched, the table was exceptionally good.

The Japanese paratroopers, especially the first wing formed as a seed, introduced a full set of German airborne technology, from the parachute to the combat mode are a full set of imitation of the German army, and even the German army's weapons standards are meticulously learned. Except for the difference in race and infantry equipment, the rest is exactly the same as the German army.

The merits of the German paratroopers, how much the Japanese learned is not yet known. But one thing is for sure, one of the most fatal shortcomings of the German paratroopers, the Japanese must have learned. Because everything in the Japanese Airborne Forces is imitating the Germans, even the umbrellas currently used are imported from Germany, not domestically produced. Moreover, these Japanese paratroopers were also trained by the Germans.

This raises the question of the fact that the German airborne forces had in addition to a pistol and grenades per person. Because of the structure of the parachute, paratroopers cannot carry any equipment when they are airborne. All support weapons such as rifles and machine guns are loaded into special parachute weapon boxes and airdropped to the ground at the same time.

This poses a problem, until a separate airdropped weapon box can be found, paratroopers parachuted into the combat area can only use self-defense pistols with limited power. If the defenders are so heavy that they can't find the weapon box in a short time, then the result of facing the enemy's rifle gun fire with a pistol alone can be imagined.

This shortcoming was also an important reason why the German paratroopers suffered heavy losses in the Cretan battle, and because one paratrooper division was disabled, the entire airborne troops were almost injured. And the Japanese army, which was all under the German army, because the parachutes were also imported from Germany, this shortcoming was naturally brought unchanged.

When the Japanese paratroopers were parachuting, in addition to the Nanbu Type 14 pistol or Type 94 pistol that they carried, the rest of the Type 38 carbines, Type 99 rifles, Type 99 light machine guns, Type 92 heavy machine guns, and Taisho 11 type grenadiers were airdropped separately using special weapon boxes.

Naturally, there is no problem with this mode of operation during exercises on weekdays. But when it comes to actual combat, there are many problems. Once the weapon box could not be found in time, then the Japanese paratroopers would almost be able to fight their opponents with their bare hands. If the enemy on the opposite side had extremely strong firepower and willpower, then these Japanese paratroopers would almost be sent to death.

Although the Germans have this shortcoming, they have a large number of gliders that can partially make up for this shortcoming. But the Japanese army, which had just formed a paratrooper, didn't even know what a glider was. Not to mention all kinds of means to make up for this shortcoming.

The Japanese army lacked gliders, and all the airborne troops could only use the parachute mode. Parachuting to open the way, as the Germans did, the main equipment and personnel arrived by gliders, and this ability to partially offset this shortcoming was not available. Although the Japanese, after careful calculations, worked out the optimal time for the airdrop of weapons after the landing of the paratroopers.

But when you are airborne, you can encounter any possibility. Who can guarantee that the situation that arises on the battlefield will be strictly based on the calculations of the Japanese? Especially in the airdrop operations in towns, it is difficult for even people to land in a centralized manner, let alone those weapon boxes that no one controls?

Japanese paratroopers were in Tongliao City, landing everywhere. The weapon boxes that were then airdropped naturally landed everywhere. The area of the airdrop is again full of houses, and the range of sight is quite limited. Even if there were no enemy ambushes near the landing site, the weapon case was not easy to find.

The Japanese paratroopers airdropped into Tongliao City gave a lot of anger to the last remnants of the 14th Division, which were already barely breathing. But they were horrified to find that even if they were not injured, they had landed safely and accurately in the city. But the most critical problem arises, in which it is difficult for them to find the airdropped weapon case.

At the very least, it's hard to find in a short period of time. And on this battlefield full of bullets, every minute of delay has to be compensated with life. Unable to find weapons and relying on self-defense pistols to fight, the rest of the Japanese paratroopers were either fighting on their own or skewering around like ants, except for those lucky ones who landed directly around the strongholds of the Japanese army.

One is to concentrate as much as possible in order to fight against the surrounding anti-alliances. The other is to find the weapon box that was dropped by the airdrop and arm yourself as much as you can. After all, it is impossible to fight an opponent armed to the teeth with a pistol with only a few bullets and an extremely close range.

It's just that what these Japanese paratroopers, who are really engaged in actual combat for the first time, don't know is that they have landed. But the transport plane, which transports weapons and equipment, was not hit by anti-aircraft fire. It was under the interference of artillery fire on the ground that although the men were airdropped into the city, they threw weapons boxes full of weapons used by paratroopers outside the city.

Although the number of anti-coalition forces is not large, but because of the high rate of fire, it has also formed a rather violent ground artillery interference, and it is already the best to be able to drop the paratroopers in the air. What's more, these planes are needed to turn around and turn back, airdrop weapon boxes to replenish weapons and equipment for paratroopers?

The altitude of the Japanese paratroopers was 100 to 150 meters, which was completely copied from the German standard. This altitude is within the range of the best range of anti-coalition ground firepower, and it is very difficult for planes in the sky at a distance of 150 meters to evade anti-aircraft fire with an extremely high rate of fire. While the Japanese were airdropping paratroopers, six more planes were shot down.

Seeing that the planes in front suffered a lot of losses, the transport planes that were airdropped behind could only raise their flight altitude from 150 meters to 600 to 700 meters when they were airdropped. At the same time, the speed of the airdrop was accelerated, but because of the increase in altitude, not only the time for the paratroopers to stay in the air increased, but also because of the wind direction and other reasons.

The rest of the Japanese paratroopers almost all landed outside Tongliao County, and even many of them fell directly into the Xiliao River to go to the Dragon Lord as guests. Most of the weapon boxes that were airdropped with the follow-up echelons did not fall into the city. Instead, inside and outside the city of Tongliao, there are landings everywhere.

After landing, most of these Japanese paratroopers who painstakingly searched for the dropped weapon boxes that had been airdropped, except for a few lucky ones, could only return disappointed. A Japanese paratrooper without weapons is like a tiger without teeth. No matter how high the basic military quality is, in addition to boosting the morale of the friendly forces on one side that is in a difficult situation, it will not pose too much threat to the opponent.

Even if these Japanese paratroopers parachuted into more than half of the city of Tongliao, the threat to the anti-coalition forces in the city was not great, and at most it was just trouble. Eliminate them, and you will not be able to commit enough troops in the battle ahead. Leave it aside for the time being, these paratroopers who landed everywhere are another trouble.

Because it is also a threat to get them together. After all, due to the restrictions of the layout in the city, the troops of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the city are also quite scattered. It was precisely when he saw this that Chen Hanzhang temporarily changed his deployment and transferred some troops from the periphery to reinforce the city as quickly as possible. Efforts were made to annihilate this Japanese army and the original defenders in the shortest possible time before the Japanese follow-up troops arrived.

In fact, the sudden arrival of the Japanese paratroopers caused some confusion among the anti-coalition forces in Tongliao City. After receiving a report from their superiors that a group of Japanese bombers had arrived in Tongliao, all units were ready for air defense. But no one expected that the Japanese planes dropped not bombs, but paratroopers.

Looking at the people hanging under the parachute in the sky, it was the first time to see this combat mode, and the troops looked a little nervous. Despite the strict training of the troops, they are somewhat afraid of these guys who fall from the sky. In the minds of most peasant-born warriors, this is probably the case with heavenly soldiers and generals.

Although after enlistment, the daily study of the army was accompanied by a strict anti-feudal superstitious education. But for most of the soldiers who have the only bit of culture to learn in the army after joining the army, there are some things that cannot be changed in a short period of time. Atheism is far from attainable for most ordinary warriors.

So after seeing the Japanese paratroopers jumping out of the plane, many fighters, especially the recruits who enlisted this year, were a little flustered. I had seen downed Japanese pilots parachute in the middle of the battle before, and it was one or two. It was the first time that so many people fell from the sky like this time, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even cadres at all levels experienced it.