Due to weather factors, the airborne location of the 1533 Battalion was 5 meters away!

In the words of Major Dou Weixin, if the transport plane flew for another 2 minutes, the 1553th Battalion would be a guest at the Dragon Palace.

When Li Dongshi organized his troops, the battle at Kadena Air Base in Nanmeng had already begun.

The 15311th Battalion and 1532nd Battalion, which were the main attackers, landed accurately on the airborne field, organized the offensive force as quickly as possible, and launched the attack before the Japanese army responded.

The battle was fierce, and before the airborne troops landed, the battle was fierce.

In order to support the airborne war and paralyze the Japanese army, the Air Force and Navy Coast-based Air Force not only seized the air supremacy of the Ryukyu Islands on the afternoon of the 28th, but also bombed Ryukyu Island, Seed Island, Yakushima, Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, Okinawa Island, Miyako Island, Ishigaki Island, Nishima Island and Yonako Island. In order to achieve the goal of "making false and real", the bombing in the afternoon was mainly concentrated on Seed Island and Yakushima, making Japan believe that the Republic will occupy these two islands.

Later, using this as a springboard, landed on Kyushu Island in the north. It was not until two hours before the airborne began that the Air Force and Navy shore-based aviation team dispatched hundreds of fighter jets, including strategic bombers, to conduct a full-scale bombing of the main military bases of Ryukyu Island. At the beginning of the airborne operation, the naval carrier-based aviation team entered the battle. When the bombing reached its peak, the participating aircraft dropped nearly 1,000 tons of ammunition within 15 minutes and used bombs and missiles to plow the airborne yard.

Such high-intensity bombing can still completely defeat the Japanese air defense forces.

The first batch of 24y-11s that arrived above the Ball Island were threatened by surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns. Because airborne vehicles need to be deployed, the airdrop height must be limited to less than 500 meters. The airdrop height is too high. The speed of the vehicle before opening the parachute is too fast, causing parachute damage, resulting in vehicle damage and people's death. The low airdrop height forces the transport plane to airdrop operations with air defense firepower.

In the 24y-14c, three were shot down by anti-missile and anti-aircraft artillery before airdrop, two were shot down after airdrop, and some had to return with the airborne troops due to damage to the fuselage.

The 24y-14c arrived in the second batch was not much better, at least they were shot down!

Such a loss rate makes the entire airborne combat operation extremely tragic.

Faced with the Japanese air defense firepower, ground fighters who are responsible for air aid missions are also a little helpless.

Fighters can suppress the Japanese long-range air defense missiles in the army and cannot deal with individual air defense missiles and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns without fire control radar. It has to be said that if the Japanese army was at Kadena Air Force Base, Futenma Airport deployed hundreds of anti-aircraft guns and several individual air defense missile ground troops. The losses of aircraft transport groups would be even more unbearable.

This battle shows that small-caliber anti-aircraft guns still have irreplaceable value in air defense operations.

The situation changed before the third batch of transport aircraft carried the 1533 camp transport fleet arrived.

As the "support fleet" sent by the aircraft carrier battle group arrived at the sea surface about 300 kilometers away from Ryukyu Island. The "naval artillery" composed of cruisers and six destroyers entered the battle, the Japanese air defense forces were completely suppressed. The 1c+ warships were equipped with a large-caliber electromagnetic cannon. Hundreds of large-caliber anti-personnel shells were thrown at the 2 landing ground within just 1c o'clock.

It turns out that the efficiency of artillery fire strikes far exceeds that of air strikes.

Under this circumstance, the 1533 Battalion landed smoothly.

After confirming the landing location, Major Dou Weixin immediately ordered the 1st and 2nd companies closest to Kadena Air Base to support the 15311th Battalion, which was fighting fiercely with the Japanese army. The 3rd company commanded by Li Dongshi rushed to the front line with the battalion headquarters and acted as a reserve for the offensive troops.

It was a great order for Li Dongshi.

In previous battles, the 3rd Company used to act as a sharp knife to rush in front, and the casualties were the greatest.

Li Dongshi is not afraid of death but hopes to bring more brothers back to the motherland and see more brothers get married and get married.

Because the 15311th Battalion lost nearly one-third of its troops during airdrop (8 of which were unable to airdrop within the loss), the battle to attack Kadena Air Base was extremely fierce.

When the reinforcements of the 1533 Battalion arrived, the 1531 Battalion had just torn open the Japanese defense line at the cost of approaching one company.

The 1st Company and the 2nd Company immediately advanced to the airport along the breakthrough of the 15311 Battalion. The 3rd Company, who followed the battalion headquarters, was responsible for expanding the breakthrough and eliminating the remaining Japanese troops nearby.

On the night of 135 on the 28th, the Air Force carried out the first full bombing of the Japanese position at the Kadena Base.

The airborne troops who received the message quickly withdrew from the battle and retreated to the safety line and set up a line of defense.

The 12h-9b of a squadron and the 24j-15c of a battalion all carried blockbusters and thermostress bombs specifically for defensive positions. They carried out volley bombing about 5,500 meters above the Japanese position. Within 5 minutes, 36 fighter jets dropped about 600 bombs, which were used to attack the Japanese army.

Two rounds of bombing were performed.

The bombing scene was extremely spectacular and extremely fierce.

Across a distance of thousands of meters, Li Dongshi felt the pressure of thousands of degrees Celsius and hundreds of atmospheric pressures generated by the temperature-pressure bomb. The powerful atmospheric pressure generated by the explosion can not only destroy all exposed simple fortifications, but also kill all lives that are not protected in the tunnel!

Huge balls of fire rose into the air, illuminating the entire Ryukyu Island.

The scene in front of Li Dongshi reminded Li Dongshi of the Five Elders' Blocking Battle three years ago. The difference is that when the 153rd Brigade was airborne and was bombed, it is now the Japanese army was bombed!

After the bombing, the attack began.

Before the Japanese army could climb to the ground position, they rushed up the airborne chariots.

After receiving Dou Weixin's order, Li Dongshi led dozens of airborne tanks from the 3rd Company to the attacking front line, ready to replace the attacking troops in front at any time, or help the attacking troops expand their breakthrough.

It has to be admitted that the Japanese army is also an excellent soldier who is ready to die.

Facing the airborne chariots that were thundering, the Japanese army not only did not fear, but instead made tenacious resistance.

A dazzling light cut through the night sky and shot towards the airborne tanks that were sweeping the positions. However, no light hit the airborne tanks, and were shot down by the "active defense system" on the tank when they were 5 to 1 c meters away from the tank. The Japanese anti-tank missiles were not advanced, and they were still old-fashioned "armor-piercing" rather than the "armor-piercing" specially developed for various "active defense systems".

The full popularization of "active defense systems" has put millions of anti-tank missiles in the world in an embarrassing situation of useless use, and has forced countries around the world to develop more advanced anti-tank missiles based on the characteristics of "active defense systems", such as "top attack missiles", "dive ballistic missiles", "forward warhead missiles", etc. The most representative one is "kinetic energy missiles". The biggest flaw of "active defense systems" is that they cannot deal with high-speed targets, even if they are sexually

The most advanced "active defense system" can only deal with missiles with speeds below 500 meters per second. As long as the missile speed is increased and the tank armor is penetrated with kinetic energy like armor-piercing bombs, it can effectively deal with the "active defense system". The development of "kinetic missiles" is also the most difficult, especially for individual anti-tank missiles. If a missile weighing more than 0 kilograms has the speed of armor-piercing bombs, it has very high requirements for the missile's power system and guidance system.

The Japanese counterattack did not achieve much effect. The airborne troops quickly swept the Japanese positions with the support of airborne combat vehicles.

When Li Dongshi's 3rd Company set foot on the Japanese position, the battle was basically over.

As the position east of Kadena Air Base fell, the Japanese army fell into a desperate situation. As long as the airborne troops broke into the airport, the Japanese army would have no danger to defend and would inevitably be defeated.

The Japanese commander was very aware of this, so he organized a counterattack as quickly as possible.

Just in the early morning of the day, the Japanese armored troops appeared in front of the airborne troops.

When the 1st Company and the 2nd Company were in charge of offensive missions organized anti-armor combat, Dou Weixin called for long-range artillery support.

The shelling arrived within 5 minutes, and the warships 300 kilometers away provided the most timely help to the airborne troops.

The Japanese armored soldiers were bombarded with covering artillery as soon as they set out, while the Japanese artillery deployed in the southwest of the airport was bombarded before they even deployed, and dozens of large-caliber howitzers were spared.

The airborne troops only entered the battle after the shelling.

The Japanese army never expected that the airborne troops with only airborne chariots would launch an armored assault like armored soldiers!

Soon, the Japanese army discovered that what they encountered was not "airborne chariots".

Facing the Japanese Type 20 main battle tank, the Republic's airborne tank not only did not fall at all, but instead took the absolute initiative. The electric-propelled airborne tank was not only lighter, but also more flexible; the power of the small-caliber electromagnetic gun was no less than that of the Japanese 1mm tank gun, and it could easily destroy the front armor of the Japanese main battle tank at a distance of 2,000 meters; the airborne tank, which seemed to be weak in armor, actually had a protection ability that exceeded that of the Japanese main battle tank!

There was no suspense in the battle. Before the second batch of Japanese armored troops could launch a counterattack, they were defeated by the airborne troops.

The huge amount of funds invested by the Republic in the airborne troops were not wasted, and the airborne tanks with unit price of more than 75 million yuan did not disappoint the airborne troops.

In the short armored attack, only one airborne chariot was destroyed by friendly forces!

As dozens of airborne tanks from two companies rushed into the airport, they began to sweep away the remaining Japanese troops in the airport in a fan-shaped attack queue, and the battle entered the beginning and end stage.

At this time, Li Dongshi's third company finally changed from a spectator to a participant.

Under the leadership of Dou Weixin, the 3rd Company launched an attack on the base headquarters.

The purpose of attacking Kadena Air Base is not only to eliminate the Japanese army here, but also to occupy the airport and welcome the fleet of transport aircraft to the arrival. (To be continued,)
Chapter completed!