It's no wonder that Henry Winkelman has no confidence in this war. At this time, the Netherlands had only 39 tanks and several small tanks, while the important air force was mostly backward biplanes.

The Dutch government's weak attitude towards war can be seen from the equipment behind the army. The equipment of the Dutch army has basically not increased after World War I, which has led to their weapons still remaining at the level of 1918 even now.

Especially in the economic recession and peaceful international atmosphere from 1920 to 1927, the Netherlands' defense budget was greatly reduced due to the impact of the economic crisis.

During these seven years, the money spent on equipment was only 1.5 million ruts per year. Until the beginning of the war, the Dutch army had only enough artillery to assemble eight infantry divisions (four legions) and the first division mobile units, each with only half a division/fifth battalion, and the rest of the infantry divisions were light infantry, scattered everywhere to delay the enemy's actions.

Although they built more than 2,000 bunkers to resist possible wars, the depth of these hastily built bunkers was simply not enough to prevent German invasion.

The paratroopers that Germany attacked this time were not ordinary paratroopers.

This paratrooper unit was a German unit that had received combat training for small units of the National Defense Forces. The German paratrooper units were not built early, and in fact, the first batch of paratroopers in the world did not come from Germany.

Instead, it comes from the Red Giant Bear - the Soviet Union. Historically, the Soviet Union conducted a series of paratrooper combat exercises between 1935 and 1936, and tried to use heavy machine guns and light artillery of paratroopers and traditional infantry.

Although the Soviet Union entered the civil war period in this time and space, the training of paratroopers did not end. Instead, it was used in actual combat. Both Stalin and Trotsky used small groups of paratroopers to attack each other.

However, since the paratroopers had little effect in the early stages, and the large-scale war between the two sides was terminated by this parachute.

However, this combat method attracted the attention of a German powerhouse - Hermann Goring! After Hermann Goring returned to China, he couldn't wait to establish a paratrooper unit - General Goring's Legion when the Nazis were in power!

Later, Air Force Major General Ket Studen carried forward his efforts to carry out strict training of paratroopers, and finally formed a new paratrooper group - the 7th Airborne Hunter Division!

In addition to parachute training, this unit also added physical fitness and cooperation with army combat and other training content. After the German officer who had communicated with the National Defense Forces returned, the concept of fighting behind enemy lines was added.

Now this paratrooper unit is a new paratrooper unit that combines the concept of fighting behind enemy lines, organization and other aspects. In history, the problem of insufficient firepower caused by the separation of guns and soldiers and the absence of artillery in the early days of German paratroopers no longer exists.

German paratroopers are now equipped with tiger-style assault rifles designed and manufactured by slaughtering tigers. Of course, Germany has modified these rifles after getting them.

At the same time, the paratroopers were also equipped with light 80mm mortars and grenade launchers. These have been tested in actual combat and confirmed their role in actual combat.

The German army used these weapons to its paratroopers without hesitation. In fact, Goering originally wanted to introduce the 75mm lg40 recoilless cannon under development into the paratroopers.

But since this kind of artillery has not been successfully developed yet, it can only give up.

As for now, the firepower of the German paratroopers is only stronger than that of the Dutch troops. Each paratrooper company is equipped with 18 machine guns and 3 80mm mortars; the heavy equipment company is equipped with 12 heavy machine guns, 4 80mm mortars and 2 infantry cannons.

The regiment headquarters directly under the heavy equipment company, one anti-tank company and one engineer company each. Among them, the 13th Heavy Equipment Company is equipped with 9 120mm mortars and 8 heavy machine guns, the 14th Anti-tank Company has 4 37cm anti-tank guns, 6 machine guns, and the 15th Engineer Company has 2 80mm mortars and 6 machine guns.

So in this battle, everyone of the Airborne Force Director Kurt Student and the 7th Airborne Hunter Division were full of confidence! They thought they would have a grand performance.

In their opinion, paratroopers had fought in Weather's exercise to attack Norway and Denmark, but it was just an immature preview of paratroopers' airborne appearance.

During that attack, the airborne hunters suffered minimal resistance in Denmark, but in Norway suffered some losses due to bad weather, insufficient personnel training and experience.

This made the paratroopers and Ert Student extremely dissatisfied. They planned to have a nice job this time and told the heads of the Third Reich and the generals that their troops were worth so much investment from the Empire.

"TuTuTuTuTu..." Under the counterattack of the Dutch troops, the paratroopers still stick to their posts. Fortunately, they learned to drop ammunition in the previous battle. This allowed them to maintain combat capabilities now.

In fact, the German paratroopers are not in good condition now, and there are huge problems with the airport they occupied - the airport runway is too soft. This causes two-thirds of the transport planes to be trapped on the runway.

Not only is there no way to transport troops to the occupied land, but it also hinders the transportation of the runway.

"Qiuchi...boom!boom!boom..." The Dutch army, who reacted, began to launch a full-scale attack on the German paratrooper positions, and the Dutch army, including armored vehicles, tanks and heavy artillery, tried to expel these paratroopers.

The paratroopers did not have many heavy weapons. The positions were temporarily built and their resistance was imagined. Under the bombardment of heavy artillery, the paratroopers suffered huge losses.

"Buzz buzz..." The most serious thing is that the Dutch troops who have reacted now have also sent their own transport planes and bombed the paratroopers at the airport.

They tried to blow up the German transport planes trapped in the airport. Fortunately, the German air force now advocated attacks in batches, which was an experience learned from the Soviet Civil War.

"Tutu...boom!!" The few Dutch bombers and transport planes were volleyed by the Luftwaffe and turned into groups of fireballs falling from the air under the siege of the Luftwaffe.

The airborne troops were still gritting their teeth and persevering. The inability of the aircraft submarine division to reach the point that they did not have much force to resist the Dutch army's attack. They could only rely on their dispersed forces to continuously try to block the Dutch attack.

"Bangbangbangbang...boombo..." When the Dutch army rushed to about two hundred meters in front of the position, the grenade launcher was used as a fire-strengthening force to play a role.

The paratroopers used this weapon to form a firewall and blasted the Dutch army that was trying to rush in to retreat one after another. They found that the Dutch army that could not rush in did not hesitate and directly chose to retreat.

"Kerala..." Then, a few tanks in the Dutch army began to go to the battlefield. Under the cover of the tanks, the Dutch army launched a second charge...

Europe was busy, and the war in China had never subsided. Pao Ye went abroad, but the news of his dismissal made the first and second legions hold their anger from top to bottom.

The Second Legion was ordered to directly clean up the remaining Japanese troops in Shandong, while the First Legion was ordered to directly pursue the 12th Japanese Army! It was required that this unit be completely annihilated to comfort the spirit of more than a thousand people in the sky in Damiao Town.

"I won't say much nonsense. Everyone knows who Pao Master is! I only have one request! These messy ones must be seen and stuffed into their mouths!" Liang Dashan, the acting commander of the First Legion, had his eyes red, pointed to the army below, and the division commander roared.

"I want to use these miscellaneous heads to build Jingguan! I want to chop these miscellaneous pieces to feed wild dogs!! If you can't do it, you can take the blame for me in the kitchen! If you don't have it, go to the art troupe to dance for me! Do you understand?!"

"I understand!" The division commanders of the entire First Legion were more angry than anyone else. Everyone understood that the removal of his post was clearly the one who took care of the whole matter for them.

The remnants of the 12th Army and Otaka Kazuzo who fled in the deep mountains had already learned through telegram that they had endured the anger from the entire National Defense Forces.

After learning the news, the 12th Army, who was originally crazy, became a frightened bird. The tall turtle and his men did not dare to stop and marching towards the Henan area.

Lieutenant General Miji Umezu, the first army, was much smarter than Otaka Kazumaki. He did not go directly to the village to get supplies. Instead, he chose to carry most of the supplies and march directly towards Henan after jumping out of the encirclement.

Meijiro Umezu knew that the more movements, the easier it was to reveal his whereabouts. There was no difference between such movements in the encirclement and seeking death.

Sure enough, the actions of the Taetao Turtle Tsubasa attracted the attention of the National Defense Forces. In contrast, the attention received by the First Army has been greatly reduced.

However, this is also because Meijiro Umezu's troops are smaller and more flexible than the 12th Army.

"Taitaka Turtle, this idiot! It's understandable if he did this in the occupied land. He has already reached this point but still does this. I can only say that his mind is full of horse manure."

Jump out of the Texas battlefield encirclement and retreated to Meizu Mijiro who was near Liaocheng with his men and sneered with a telegram: "Appoint everyone not to walk the main road. Go around Liaocheng and go towards Henan."

"Hayi!" the adjutant responded, and then went down to pass the order. The first army, which had been repairing for an hour in the mountains, set off again. They silently glanced at the vaguely visible Liaocheng and then slowly walked down the mountain.

The Japanese soldiers of the First Army were full of sympathy for the current situation of the 12th Army, because the decision of their commander was undoubtedly now facing a crazy pursuit of the entire National Defense Forces.

But at the same time, some people were gloating. The 12th Army was in trouble, which means that the attention they received in the First Army would be reduced. Then the chances of their survival would undoubtedly increase greatly.

All the Japanese army did not feel that their mentality was gradually changing. Their courage was disappearing little by little...
Chapter completed!