Ertai Village was a very ordinary village in Liaodong Peninsula.
Due to the outbreak of the war, many people in the towns had fled to the countryside or the mountains to escape the war.
Last month, a small group of Japanese soldiers and a puppet battalion that surrendered to the Japanese army entered the town, and the town began to regain its peace.
The Japanese invaders came with the goal of occupying Manchuria for a long time.
Therefore, there was no wanton killing and looting. This also allowed some of the people who were watching to return home.
In January, the ground of Jiuzhai Village in Ertai Township was still covered in a thick layer of snow.
However, the weather was clear today. Some of the people who relied on hunting for a living could not help but go out into the mountains to hunt.
"Fugui's father, you're preparing to enter the mountain just as the sky has cleared?”
A middle-aged man carrying a shotgun passed by a house. A woman who was sweeping the snow asked with a smile.
"Yes, the weather is so clear, many evil creatures should come out to move.”
After bidding farewell to the auntie, the middle-aged man continued to move forward.
Today, he was going to the northeast ditch northwest of the village to hunt.
There were a few mountains that were hundreds of meters tall, and a large number of animals lived there.
However, if they wanted to enter the Northeast Ravine, they would have to pass through a large area of farmland.
This was also the land of the big landlord in Ertai Village, which was hundreds of acres.
However, they were now covered by a layer of white that was half a meter deep.
Just as he was walking on the snow, he suddenly heard a buzzing sound coming from the sky.
When he looked up curiously, he saw an extremely shocking scene.
Numerous planes that looked like giant birds appeared in front of his eyes.
These giant birds were in groups. Although he did not count them carefully, there were at least 30 of them.
Then, something even more shocking happened.
One by one, black shadows seemed to jump out of the bellies of these giant birds.
Not long after, they turned into white umbrellas in the sky.
The middle-aged man had witnessed the entire process of the 7th airborne division's airborne landing.
A total of 36 C-47 and C-54 transport planes flew out.
One C-47 could carry 28 fully armed airborne troops, and 24 could carry 672 airborne troops at a time.
A C-54 strategic transport plane could carry 48 fully armed airborne troops, and 12 could carry 576 at a time.
In other words, the transport fleet could only send about 1200 airborne troops at a time.
Qin Yi had no other choice. He had airborne troops and enough parachutes.
Unfortunately, they only had 36 transport planes.
This was also why Qin Yi requested to choose a place with fewer Japanese troops as the airborne site.
Fortunately, the two places were very close to each other. The straight-line distance in the air was only about 150 kilometers.
For a transport plane with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, a round trip would only take an hour.
Counting the time it took for the paratroopers to board the plane, they could actually airdrop once every hour and a half.
The 7th airborne division had three airborne regiments and one parachute artillery regiment.
An anti-air and anti-tank battalion.
An engineering battalion, a communications company, an armament company, a logistics company, a medical company, and a reconnaissance company.
Apart from that, there was the division headquarters and the division staff office.
The total number of soldiers in the division reached eleven thousand.
In terms of individual firepower, the airborne division was even more luxurious than the 1st infantry division.
In terms of heavy firepower, airborne troops were not very good.
However, it was enough to deal with the Japanese army.
The first batch of airborne troops landed on the flat ground outside Jiuzhai Village very smoothly.
After leaving behind a company to guard the landing site.
The remaining troops received their weapons and supplies, and immediately headed towards Ertai Village.
The most powerful force of the Japanese army in Ertai township was only a small infantry squad of a few dozen people.
As for the fake military camp, they were frightened by the fierce firepower of the airborne troops and surrendered.
"Reporting to the command center, we have taken down Ertai Village and are preparing to set up defenses!”
The 7th airborne division's first airborne landing was uneventful.
The Japanese could not be blamed for this. They really did not expect the border guards to have paratroopers.
The world's first paratrooper unit was the Soviets 'paratrooper unit established on August 2, 1930.
The large-scale use of paratroopers was only after the outbreak of World War II, which was in 1939.
This world had only just begun to explore paratroopers, which had efficient strategic mobility.
Therefore, it was not the Japanese army's fault for not being prepared, but that they did not know about this thing.
Therefore, after the transportation hub of Ertai township was suddenly occupied by the border guards, the Japanese army was dumbfounded.
"Where did they come from?"
"I don't know! They suddenly appeared!"
The Da Shun Stronghold headquarters had no idea how this troop had appeared.
The Liaodong Peninsula's South Manchurian Railroad was still in their hands, so it was impossible for so many troops to hide from their sentries.
Although he couldn't figure it out, Ertai Village was one of the transportation hub stations. The roads and trains leading to Fengtian had to pass through here.
After being cut off, Fengtian's situation would become even more critical.
However, in order to concentrate their forces against the border guards, the Guandong Army had transferred some of their forces from the Liaodong Peninsula.
Currently, there were less than 3,000 people left in the entire Bastion, including the heavy artillery unit, the military police, and the secret service.
Therefore, they were unable to mobilize their forces to attack Ertai Village.
And now, the command of the Bashun Stronghold was not thinking about how to take back Ertai Village.
Instead, he should be worried about whether the other party would launch an attack on Kuishun Fortress.
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