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Chapter 1,388: Restoring Suiyuan (3)

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    After receiving the telegram from Ganpa Jutaro, Okamura Neji fell silent!

    He knew that Ganpa Jutaro¡¯s idea was good. At present, except for the airborne troops, no other troops could reinforce Baotou in a short time.

    But he had no idea in his heart. He knew the situation of those airborne troops very well. They were really useless!

    Okamura Neiji is a person who dares to innovate, and is also very interested in new types of arms. For example, during the Battle of Nanchang, he changed the Japanese army's previous tactics of using tanks dispersedly, and unexpectedly deployed several divisions.  The regiment's tank troops were used intensively, and then they easily defeated the Chinese army near Nanchang and occupied this strategic location.

    And his tactical thinking was almost the same as that of the Blitzkrieg, but it was half a year earlier than the German army.

    Because of this, Okamura Neiji also attaches great importance to the airborne force, but when he truly understood this unit, he felt very disappointed.

    Airborne troops are a scarce commodity, and they are definitely a new type of military service at the moment. Although the concept of airborne operations has appeared as early as World War I, two soldiers jumped off the wing of a biplane and carried some explosives.  Destroying the enemy's warehouse caused a sensation at the time.

    But the real emergence of paratroopers as a tactical unit on the battlefield has to be traced back to 1927. At that time, the Soviet Russian army used transport aircraft to airdrop troops in Central Asia and annihilated the Batumachi bandits and other rebels in one fell swoop. This was the first time that paratroopers appeared on the battlefield as a tactical unit.  A true airborne battle.

    It was precisely because of this battle that the Soviet Red Army realized the true value of airborne operations, and immediately established the world's first official paratrooper unit.

    ?Subsequently, Germany also established its own airborne force, and officially opened paratrooper courses in military academies.

    ¡°However, Japan¡¯s airborne troops were only established in the 15th year of the Showa era, and it has only been more than two years now. Whether it is the time it took to form an army or its actual combat application, it cannot be compared with the airborne troops of the Soviet Union and Germany.

    And as far as Neiji Okamura knew, when the paratroopers were established, due to their conservative military thinking, their tactical and technical level had been at a very backward level. Not only did they not achieve many results in many airborne operations, but they also suffered frequent accidents and suffered heavy losses.

    Even for a long time, the so-called airborne training has remained at the original basic training such as tower jumping. The tactical and technical training of paratroopers still focused on infantry shooting and assassination. It was not until September last year that airborne troops obtained German airborne equipment.  Soldiers were able to begin real training in the air.

    But during this period, many of these elite soldiers selected from the infantry suffered from acrophobia and other psychological disorders. Although they managed to maintain training under the high pressure of officers, training was suspended many times because of frequent accidents among soldiers.

    Even in the overall exercise of actual troops, these airborne troops had frequent accidents and created many "miracles" in the history of airborne operations.

    For example, during a parachuting training last year, two transport planes collided shortly after takeoff, and the paratroopers on board were "loyal" to the emperor before they even participated in a single actual combat.

    Another time they even threw all the soldiers into the sea, causing a large number of casualties. According to the investigation, this accident was because the pilot of the first plane misjudged the airborne landing site due to flight illusion and actually dropped the entire airborne unit into the sea.  , the plane behind also "unloaded" its loaded paratroopers into the sea by accident.

    This accident caused dozens of soldiers to drown and die in the sea because they could not open their parachutes in time. At that time, many bodies were still tightly wrapped with parachute ropes after they were recovered.  This directly led to the emergency suspension of the actual airborne drill that followed, and the commander who directed the drill was also dismissed from his post.

    Therefore, while Germany has repeatedly used airborne troops on the European battlefield to achieve positive results, Japanese airborne troops have been plagued by frequent accidents and have never had much combat effectiveness.

    It was not until November last year that the airborne troops overcame the relevant technical problems and achieved training results that could be used in combat.

    During this period, the Army¡¯s airborne troops were used in small-scale tactics on the Chinese battlefield, but they had no impact on the overall combat situation and had no results.

    So much so that German military experts at the time evaluated the Japanese airborne troops as ¡°the airborne troops with the worst tactics and technology¡± in the world.

    At the moment, the paratrooper brigade is indeed conducting tactical training in North China, and the base camp even hopes that Okamura Neiji will create several opportunities for them to fight in actual combat.

    But seeing the paratrooper¡¯s birdlike appearance, Okamura Neji really didn¡¯t dare to use these men!

    He is not afraid that these people will be defeated by the enemy, but is worried thatThey are playing themselves to death!

    However, the current war situation left him helpless. When Li Guoyao's troops cut off the Pingsui Railway, Okamura Neji felt that this matter would be a disaster sooner or later, and immediately prepared to mobilize an army to reopen the Pingsui Railway.

    But his plan was urgently stopped by the China Expeditionary Forces Headquarters. The reason was that the base camp was about to attack Southeast Asia and hoped to keep quiet on the Chinese battlefield.

    When the troops fighting in the south had achieved some results, when Okamura Neiji wanted to take action again, the situation reported from the front made him completely confused. It turned out that Li Guoyao's troops had nearly two hundred people between Tianzhen and Zhuozi.  Kilometers of railway lines were demolished.

    That¡¯s right, it was demolished, and it was demolished very thoroughly!

    The rails were stripped, the sleepers were removed, and even the stones on the roadbed were taken home by local people to pave their yards.

    Okamura Neiji and others were completely speechless. This situation was completely beyond their expectations. In this case, even if Tianzhen and other places were re-captured, it would be impossible to open the Pingsui Railway to traffic immediately.

    Okamura Neiji made some calculations and concluded that rebuilding a two-hundred-kilometer railway line would not be completed until more than half a year, even with the current strength of the front army.

    But at the moment, the front army doesn¡¯t have the energy to focus on the railway, so this matter has been shelved for a while!

    Now, the Chinese army has launched a counterattack on the Western Front, but they have troops and cannot reinforce in time.

    Thinking of the importance of Baotou and the current difficult situation of the North China Front, Okamura Neji decided to take the risk.

    Soon, an urgent telegram from the North China Front Army Headquarters was sent to the Jinan Aviation Corps Headquarters, ordering the paratrooper brigade that was conducting actual military exercises in Jinan to board the plane immediately. After receiving reinforcements in Peiping, they immediately flew to Baotou for combat.

    After receiving the order, a piercing siren sounded quickly at Jinan Airport, and then a large number of Japanese paratroopers gathered in the direction of the airport

    While the paratroopers were gathering, the Mongolian Army Headquarters had also received approval from the North China Front Army Headquarters, agreeing to send a paratrooper brigade to reinforce Baotou.

    At the moment, the Mongolian Garrison Command sent the situation to the Baotou Garrison Command and asked Baotou garrison commander Kojima Yoshizang to stand by and wait for reinforcements no matter what.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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