Chapter 557 Air Assault Brigade
Chapter 557 Air Assault Brigade
Calais is just a small city with a population of more than 70,000 people, but its port is the largest passenger port in France.
In peacetime, Calais always has more tourists than locals. A large number of passengers bound for the UK wait here to catch regular flights across the English Channel.
Now, Britain and France are experiencing the baptism of war, Hailing and New York have replaced London and Paris as the world's center. There are no more tourists in Calais, but only the logistics base for the German army to attack the British Isles.
After the German attack and the first round of bombing by the dive bombers of the Daxia aircraft carrier, the city of Calais was reduced to ruins.
When a swarm of planes appeared in the western sky, which was as far as the eye could see, they did not stop in Calais at all, but flew directly east to bomb the German troops retreating from the seaside.
The German army only mobilized 5,000 aircraft to participate in the battle of Britain.
As soon as Daxia’s temporary airport in Dover was built, 9,000 planes flew in like a swarm of locusts. This is the production capacity of the world’s factory.
After the first batch of 500 Feng-2s encountered German fighters, missiles flew across the sky. A thousand AA-1 missiles were launched, and more than German Albatrosses fell.
The German army was thinking of risking their lives to engage in an air battle with the Daxia fighter planes, but the Feng-2's wings were unsteady and it flew away after launching its missiles.
Embarrassingly, the Feng-2 fighter is a new type of monoplane, with advantages in range, speed, climbing altitude and bomb load. However, when it comes to a so-called "dogfight", it is not as flexible as the two-winged albatross.
Their 30mm machine guns are fine for chasing the bulky Junkers bombers, but they won’t engage in air combat with you because you can’t catch up with me anyway.
If you can't fight, just gather numbers. A second wave of 2 Feng-s appeared behind you.
By the time the third wave of 2 Feng-s arrived at the battlefield, there were no more brave German fighters left.
Daxia's leading position in electromagnetics has made radar and missile technology a unique secret skill of Daxia. This trick alone is enough to launch a dimensionality reduction attack on German fighter planes.
The Feng-2 fighter has a maximum range of 1820 kilometers and has a very strong hovering capability.
After destroying the enemy fighter group, 2 Feng-1500s carried out the so-called "tactical duty" on the front line, and in the rear were ready to take over at any time.
As soon as the powerful Daxia Air Force entered the European continent, it firmly grasped air superiority.
After the sky was clear and safe, three thousand Xi-4 bombers appeared in the sky, of course, they were rotated in batches.
The bombers carried out carpet bombing, plowing the entire German front-line position, and left leisurely until there were no more targets to bomb.
Daxia has always had a "fear of insufficient firepower", so in the past few years of peace, it has been strengthening its firepower and increasing its firepower to the extreme that can be achieved.
Ten years have passed since the end of the First World War. In Daxia's current army, most of the old Huai Army have retired, and the remaining officers have to go back to Baoding to study at the military academy before returning to work.
Because there are so many technical branches, Daxia soldiers are at least high school students, and a considerable number of them are college students. Almost all pilots and sailors have bachelor's degrees or above.
It is because of the high investment in education that Shao Quanzhong has always insisted on that Daxia can attract one million highly qualified soldiers.
The culture is high, but it is not easy to train them, and the salary is also high. So even though Daxia has a large population, its soldiers are very valuable.
In order to reduce the sacrifice of precious personnel, Daxia spared no expense in terms of equipment and ammunition, so it was reasonable for the federal soldiers to ridicule them as "young master soldiers".
Shao Quanzhong even put forward perverted slogans such as "It's not a loss if we kill one enemy with 10,000 bullets" and "Daxia's ammunition supply must be five to six times that of its opponent."
The amount of ammunition he dropped had a professional term in later generations, known as "Van Fleet's ammunition amount."
He felt that he was right, and that it would only take 10 billion bullets to destroy one million German soldiers.
The Daxia military-industrial complex, with Haoguozi Company as its core, has an annual production capacity of 40 million artillery shells and billion bullets.
Daxia can produce 200 billion rounds of ammunition right now. Does it need to kill million German soldiers to defeat them? Can they bear such heavy casualties before surrendering?
Shao Quanzhong thought he was already very wealthy, not knowing that there were actually people who were more nouveau riche than he was.
In a certain country's modern war in Babylon and West Asia, 30 bullets killed one enemy...
At this time, in the eyes of generals from other countries, carpet bombing was a complete waste, but the Daxia Air Force dropped bombs like they were free, without even blinking an eye.
Daxia's powerful industrial capacity finally cured the "fear of insufficient firepower".
The smoke from the high-explosive bombs dropped by the bombers had not yet dissipated and the napalm bombs were still burning when dense helicopters flew over and occupied the strategic points.
The Federation counterparts in Normandy used paratroopers to occupy strategic points. Daxia had no paratroopers and directly deployed air assault brigades.
Is carpet bombing effective? It is useful, but it is absolutely impossible to completely deprive the enemy of its combat effectiveness. In the Battle of London, the British had 700 aircraft at the beginning of the war. Under the heavy bombing of 5,000 German aircraft, they basically had no air superiority, but London was still defended.
Sturdy bunkers and underground tank hangars can help protect against carpet bombing.
As soon as Daxia's helicopter arrived and the airborne battalion began to rappel, the remaining tanks, infantry and even well-hidden mortars of the German army emerged again.
Daxia dispatched seven air assault brigades at a time, with each brigade attacking a key point.
A brigade has 48 Havoc attack helicopters, 53 Black Hawk troop transport helicopters, 12 Black Hawk cargo logistics transport aircraft, and a four-company reinforced battalion of combat airborne soldiers.
Doesn't look like a lot? You'll know after you fight them.
Soldiers of the assault battalion were rappelling from the Black Hawk with assault rifles when 200 German tanks rushed over, ready to destroy these visitors from the air.
Before they got within the range of the tank guns, the air escort helicopter team sent a battalion of 24 Catastrophes forward to begin the attack.
24架直升机能打200辆坦克么？专门攻击坦克、装甲车的浩劫武直每架吊装了16枚AT-6无线制导导弹，命中率90%。
The front of the tank is the thickest, followed by the sides, and the top is the softest. Missiles dropped from the sky hit, one by one.
All the tanks of a German tank division were paralyzed, but we still have plenty of anti-tank missiles.
A German division is guarding the position here. More than half of them were killed in the carpet bombing in front, but there are still seven or eight thousand people holding the position.
As another aerial reconnaissance battalion approached, the enemy's firing points suddenly appeared again.
The rifle bullets failed to penetrate the steel armor and bulletproof glass of the helicopter, but the anti-aircraft machine guns finally shot down one of the helicopters.
There is a reason why helicopters are ridiculed as flying coffins. They are still quite dangerous.
But that was the end of it. Several exposed machine gun firing points were immediately hit by a large number of rockets.
The armed helicopters of the reconnaissance battalion were equipped with two 20-rocket 80mm rocket pods, and each helicopter was loaded with a whopping 40 rockets. Five helicopters launched their attacks, each firing eight rockets, and all the machine gun positions were silenced.
Rockets are not missiles, but you don't need to aim too accurately for close range coverage...
The helicopter then retreated, and the detected enemy infantry fire coordinates were directly transmitted back to the rear via radio.
Five minutes later, a large number of Cheng-3 Stukas arrived. The Germans were familiar with this thing, as they had it too, but Daxia had only of them, enough for "tactical duty" on the battlefield.
As the shrieking sounded, the German infantry who survived the horizontal carpet bombing suffered a second bombardment.
This time it was a precise dive bombing based on battlefield coordinates, on-site reconnaissance, and it was hot. Another way of saying it is that the intelligence is valid and the people are still in place.
The air assault brigade is not fighting alone and can call for dive bomber support at any time.
After the second round of bombing, the enemy trenches were dead silent. The soldiers of the assault battalion, holding assault rifles, rushed towards the enemy positions, ready to occupy them.
It seemed that the position held by a tank division and an infantry division was about to be captured by a brigade which only had a battalion of infantry.
Suddenly, flames burst out from three hidden German bunkers, killing more than a dozen soldiers from the assault battalion at once.
The rest immediately lay down, crawled backwards, and called for support from the rear.
The German machine gunners in the hidden fortress didn't care and stared closely at the slowly retreating soldiers of the assault battalion.
Our fortress is the strongest, and the dive bombers' bombs can't do anything to us.
Your helicopter brigade is strong, but its disadvantage is that it has no heavy artillery. If you send engineers with blasting tubes and explosive packs, they will definitely be wiped out by our crossfire.
Your heavy artillery units are coming, so we can retreat. You, with just a battalion of infantry, cannot defeat us.
You guys just wait patiently for the slow heavy artillery, we have to defend this commanding height to buy time for the troop mobilization in the rear, so that the troops in the front can have a chance to withdraw.
Once these strategic locations are captured, the army group in the front will be surrounded by the enemy.
"Buzz. Buzz."
The German soldiers in the fortress heard a slight buzzing sound. What was that?
(End of this chapter)