.At 5:20 am on April 25, Tokyo time, that is, at 9:20 pm on April 24, Berlin time, the first batch of Japanese troops braved the fierce firepower of the German defenders to climb Cape Crelion opposite Soyaga Hokkaido. The magnificent offensive and defensive battle of Kuye Island entered a new stage.

Just as the main sight of both sides of the war were on the front beach, 100 to 150 kilometers north of Korsakov, dandelion-shaped parachutes were slowly falling over the hilly area 100 to 150 kilometers north of Korsakov. As the German fighter troops were attracted by the Japanese frontal attack, these Japanese paratroopers and their transport aircraft were not intercepted by terrible air, but the German ground air defense troops deployed on the coastline and key areas still caused them some losses. The 17 transport aircraft could never reach the designated area, and nearly half of the transport aircraft changed their course or altitude in order to avoid air defense fire, which directly led to a large number of Japanese paratroopers landing far away from the designated location. For these paratroopers who were only equipped with light weapons, the journey to the assembly point would be far and dangerous.

"Soldier! Soldier!"

After landing safely, Army Private Maki knew that he quickly took off his bloated umbrella tool. Seeing a familiar figure several meters away from him, he shouted as quietly as possible twice.

"Ouch……"

It was indeed a familiar voice.

Maki sighed a little. He really didn't know how the fat military officer could be selected into the first batch of parachute troops. 160 kilograms is not an exaggeration for an army soldier, but it is a heavy burden for the not-so-large Japanese parachutes, not to mention that the items the paratroopers carried with them weighed nearly 10 kilograms.

"Maki, come and help me! This damn rope!" The fat military officer struggled to get rid of the messy parachute rope, but his obese body, which is less than 1.6 meters tall, is obviously in a lot of trouble.

Maki decisively took out the bayonet and skillfully rescued the fat military officer from the ropes. It seemed that this was not the first time he had done such a thing.

"Oh..." The fat military officer stood up rubbing his waist and looked around, "Where is this? Where is the bridge? Where is the river? Oh. Damn it! Those stupid pilots must have brought us to some unknown place!"

Maki sighed again. He remembered that there was a strong wind after the parachuting. If nothing unexpected happened, the 18 paratroopers on the same plane might have been blown a long distance from the scheduled location. The bridge that was originally planned to forcibly capture and destroy should be still far away. Fortunately, based on the current situation, the 18 people were not dispersed too much.

As expected, the Maki was not bad. A low joint "password" came from around in a short while - imitating the sound of a frog.

Maki didn't know what his commander was thinking. There was no frog in this early spring. Although the ice and snow had melted, the Kuye Island was still chilly.

About 10 minutes later, the paratroopers landed near this gentle slope gathered smoothly, with a total of 15 people. It seemed that three unfortunate guys were blown away from the main force. Next, 15 paratroopers, including Maki, took some time to collect the equipment dropped together. When the sound of the car engine sounded from the east, the 15 people had their own weapons in their hands - 9 Type 38 short rifles, 1 Dasho 11 light machine gun, 1 mp24 submachine gun, 3 Dasho 14-year-old pistol, 1 Type 89 grenade launcher and several ammunition.

Although the number of these paratroopers is only 1/4 of that of ordinary army squads, the firepower density is equivalent to half of that of ordinary army squads. It is worth mentioning that the Japanese army seized more than 500 mp24 in the Battle of Sea Cucumber. This standard submachine gun of the German army left a very deep impression on the Japanese technical experts. With the support of some senior generals, the Japanese ordnance department immediately began to imitate this submachine gun. In addition to a small number of the more than 500 original submachine guns were left to the ordnance technical department, all of them were equipped with the claimed best paratrooper troops to seize weapons and mass-equip the troops. This is still a very rare in the history of the Japanese army!

"Prepare for battle!" The young Cao (sergeant) was in charge of commanding this group of paratroopers. He just graduated from Tokyo Non-commissioned Officer Academy half a year ago. It is said that he had systematically studied the equipment and tactics of the German Army, but like the others in this group, this Cao Cao Oda had never fought with the Germans face to face.

As the most strictly trained paratrooper unit in the Japanese army, after hearing Oda's orders.

Maki and others acted quickly. The machine gun team found the best shooting position behind a big rock. Two soldiers who controlled the grenade launchers were ready to shoot in a later place. After the others dispersed, they formed a semi-arc ambush battle position together. The Japanese headquarters originally asked paratroopers equipped with light weapons to perform the mission of harassing the German rear, and guerrilla tactics naturally became their first choice.

The sound of the car engine was getting closer and closer, and three pairs of bright headlights appeared in their sight, which were approaching here with a trajectory of approximately straight lines. As the distance got closer, Maki found that the sound of the engine was mixed with another sound that made him deeply uneasy - the sound of tracks!

If it was really a German tank, then these Japanese paratroopers had no chance of winning.

In fact, the German army did have 3 armored regiments and 5 additional tank battalions in the garrison troops on Kuye Island. As long as the configuration is appropriate, these more than 200 tanks can drive the landing Japanese troops back to the beach or even out of the sea. The German commander General Loeb also knows this very well. Therefore, after learning that the Japanese paratroopers in the central and southern Kuye Island, he used not the precious main tank troops, but hundreds of armored mobile teams composed of half-tracked armored vehicles and wheeled infantry fighting vehicles.

The two-unit 20mm machine gun and half-crawler armored vehicles approaching Oda's troops were such a mobile armored squad consisting of an Imperial 1918 infantry fighting vehicle, two Mercedes-Benz 1920 half-crawler armored vehicles and 28 German soldiers. The difference in the number of people on both sides was thrown away. The double-mounted 20mm machine gun and half-crawler armored vehicles of the 1918 infantry fighting vehicle - a 7.92mm machine gun and a 50mm mortar are enough for those Japanese paratroopers to drink a pot! However, at this time, the German soldiers had not yet discovered the Japanese paratroopers lurking ahead. The order they received was to search for this area with several other armored squads to find and eliminate the Japanese paratroopers airborne nearby.

In such a situation, an unexpected small scale broke out quickly, and in other places in the hilly areas of the central and southern Kuye Island, similar battles were detonated one after another, like a series of firecrackers. For the Japanese base camp, using paratroopers to disperse the German defensive power was exactly what they expected, but they ignored a very serious problem - in the face of the highly mechanized German army, the equipment level was basically still in the face of the highly mechanized German army. The Japanese paratroopers, whose equipment level was basically still in the 1915, could not cause any storm! You should know that the German paratroopers were equipped with light mortars, rocket launchers, anti-tank grenades and even light armored vehicles, and these equipment and technologies were something that the Japanese army had always been eager to obtain but were always in the coveting stage.

Since Oda Toshiba fired the first shot, Maki fired all over the bullet bay in the shortest time and used his own shooting level. After pressing a row of bullets into the bullet bay, he took the time to glance at the German convoy more than 100 meters away. The German headlights had been broken or turned off on their own initiative. Although the light was very poor, Maki could still roughly judge the opponent's casualties from the opponent's strong firepower.

Without thinking too much, Maki had to bury his head wearing a steel helmet into a temporary shelves. Just half a second later, a shuttle of bullets splashed in front of him, and there were fierce gunfires and explosions from time to time. He only had a grenade launcher on his side, still firing at his opponent at a speed of 10 times per minute. However, the shooting accuracy of this portable weapon was really limited. So far, he has not given a fatal blow to the three German armored vehicles slowly retreating.

Bang...bang...bang...bang...

Oda pulled the trigger repeatedly until he shot all the bullets in the pistol but was not happy enough. While taking out the magazine from his body, he shouted to his subordinates: "Continue shooting! The Germans are running away!"

In his opinion, the German retreat was the first step to success. Next, he would take his soldiers to the scheduled assembly point and strive to destroy the German transportation. Then use the complex terrain to conduct smart guerrilla warfare. The rear of the German army will be messed up by his brave paratroopers, and most of the landing will be smoother. The battle situation that has been covered in gray in recent times will also lead to a turning point.

However, history has proved time and time again that any person who underestimated the combat effectiveness of the German army would be taught a lesson from failure. At present, the two German mortars of the army have not yet played any role at the beginning of the battle. However, as the distance between the two sides increased to two hundred meters, the mortars had its advantages in range and accuracy began to be exerted, and the two 20mm machine guns of the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle were gradually entering the state. In the darkness that Oda did not notice, Japanese paratroopers were ruthlessly hunted by the opponent's firepower.

Pull the trigger... Pull the bolt... roughly aim... Pull the trigger...

Maki continued to shoot at the German army with a little excited mood. When his hearing told him that the Germans were flying at high speed, he hid his head again behind the small pile of soil. When he had no time to dig field fortifications, this small pile of soil less than 30 cm high was a good choice. Unfortunately, the bullets could not penetrate things and could not stop the 20mm machine shells with greater kinetic energy. On the battlefields of the United States and Russia, the 20mm machine cannon on the vehicle proved his title of "infantry killer" by massacres again and again.

So, Maki's last thinking was deeply incredible and envy of the intensive firepower of the German small troops. If there was a next life, he hoped that he could fight with such excellent equipment.

Soon, the German armored search team stabilized their position more than 200 meters away from the Japanese paratroopers. At this distance, the weapons in the hands of Japanese soldiers could not compete with the Germans, and the only grenade launcher was also lost due to the exhaustion of ammunition. When a mortar shell directly blows Oda away from its hiding place, the battle is coming to an end.

The battle lasted only 15 minutes before and after made the German army pay the same price as the Japanese army, but they successfully annihilated a large number of Japanese paratroopers near the landing location. Such an anti-aircraft war was undoubtedly a victory.

One and a half hours later, the Japanese army rashly carried out the second airborne with unknown results in the first batch of paratroopers. This time, the German armored troops were like a goalkeeper who had started an activity. The rapid reaction caused the Japanese paratroopers to suffer as soon as they landed. Those unlucky guys who were airdropped into the city and the German barracks naturally went to hell to report at the first time. With the dispatch of German aviation troops, other Japanese paratroopers who attempted to enter the deep mountains and forests could not escape the German sight. It is worth mentioning that the German helicopter team stationed on Kuye Island also participated in this anti-aircraft operation. Although they did not pose a direct threat to the Japanese paratroopers, their low-altitude search helped the German armored search troops very much. No helicopter was shot down by the Japanese during the entire operation.

The German light armored troops were at ease in the rear. On the peninsula of the Songgu Strait like two crab claws in the southern part of Kuye Island, the emergence of German tanks also caused the first batch of Japanese soldiers to land. A large number of German fighters returned to the sky above the strait. The fierce air combat left the Japanese aviation troops with no time to take care of the ground. The strong attack of German bombers and torpedo aircraft also caused Japanese ships near the coast to retreat one after another. Taking this opportunity, the IV tank with thick armor advanced along the sandy beach with huge pressure on the enemy. The beachhead position that the Japanese army finally built was quickly shaken. Under this circumstance, the area of ​​the Japanese landing ground quickly shrank.

At 7:45 am Tokyo time, when the simple and bright hull of the "Schernhorst" appeared in people's sight, the German infantry who were standing on the front line finally broke out. The continuous shelling from the first German cruiser was astonishing as a war drum. The soldiers followed the tanks, assault guns and armored vehicles to launch the largest counterattack on the six beaches where the Japanese army landed. Although more than a dozen Japanese cruisers and destroyers rushed to the beach to provide fire support to the landing troops, the blood of the Japanese infantry still dyed large areas of the beach red.

The battle lasted until noon. The first batch of more than 20,000 Japanese officers and soldiers who landed on Kuye Island had lost nearly 70% of their troops. The Japanese aviation troops who were preparing to seize air supremacy were defeated in front of the tenacious German Air Force. The masts of sunken ships could be seen everywhere on the sea near the land. Although the dark Japanese fleet could still be seen looking at the sea, the more than 6,000 Japanese troops who landed in advance could only survive in narrow areas. If it weren't for the concern that their troops were too much casualties in front of Japanese warships, the German counterattack would sweep across the entire coastline, and every Japanese soldier who refused to surrender would be driven into the water.
Chapter completed!