My Italian: Chapter 541 Airborne

It is gratifying to congratulate that the water tank project has made progress in stages.

However, for the Army, the water tank project is just one of many development projects. Although it has the blessing of the king's attention, the Ministry of the Army is concerned about too many things, how can it be kept in mind all the time, so when the news of the phased completion of the project came, Beno, who is the director of the fourth division of the Ministry of the Army and in charge of military technology research, General, after seeing the news from Lieutenant Colonel Valoren, he thought about it carefully.

"Good job, send an encouraging telegram."

This telegram of encouragement is the Ministry of the Army's commendation.

Compared with the water tank project, the War Department is more concerned about another project.

The Garcia Army Training Ground is a large training ground for the Army in the north. The site covers an area of ​​over 100 square kilometers and is a large venue capable of holding division-level or even military-level confrontations.

Today, however, an extraordinary exercise is going on here.

I saw three airships flying slowly in the sky, and behind the airships, parachutes unfolded one after another. The white parachutes slowly fell to the ground like dandelions, and in the distance, a group of officers with general epaulets , holding a telescope and watching its landing intently.

"Your Excellency, what you are seeing right now are the 1st and 2nd companies of the paratroopers of our airborne regiment who are performing parachuting missions. They are responsible for giving priority to airdrops to the enemy's rear for strikes on bridges, transportation hubs, headquarters, and other strategic and tactical targets. .”

Beside Simeone, a colonel was explaining to him the Italian paratroopers who were parachuting in the air.

That's right, the paratroopers have already appeared in the Italian Army. This is not a reminder from someone, but a unit developed by the Army itself.

After the airship was successfully developed, the Army purchased several airships. In addition to being used as transportation at the beginning, because of its good carrying capacity and ignoring the characteristics of the terrain, the Army is thinking about other uses. Among them, the most exciting thing for the Army is the air-to-ground attack, and the airlift of troops to destroy and seize key points behind enemy lines.

For ground attack, I had considered installing the artillery on the airship before, but found it very unreliable. The recoil of the artillery is unbearable for the airship. If you don't fire many cannons, it will cause damage to the airship's skeleton. Finally, the ground attack is decided to use bombs.

As for the airborne troops to bypass the enemy's line of defense and attack at their weak points, this is the airborne troops in front of us.

The unit was formed a year and a half ago, with Colonel Higgs, who had the most thoughtful idea of ​​airborne behind enemy lines in the army, as the chief officer.

Colonel Higgs led the newly formed airborne regiment and trained for a full year and a half. The airships in the army's hands were used for most of the training, and now they can finally be pulled out to see the world.

The parachuting soldiers gradually landed one by one. These soldiers immediately converged in twos and threes, and gradually gathered together like a river. Half of them quickly seized the commanding heights of the surrounding hills and set up their weapons for security.

The other half was quickly cleared up in a flat open space. Stones, small shrubs, and scattered trees were all cleared away with the assistance of the engineer shovel in the hands of the soldiers. Several soldiers immediately took out white cloth and spread out a cross shape, as if to guide the air. There are three such crosses, each of which is nearly a hundred meters apart.

After a while, several airships appeared in front of everyone.

"Minister, the airships that are arriving now are loaded with airborne landings. They mainly use airborne landings. Of course, parachuting can also be carried out if necessary."

Regarding what Colonel Higgs said, Admiral Simeone casually replied, still carefully observing the situation of the exercise through the telescope.

The airship came very quickly, and it took a while to bring the cleared airborne site. Three airships slowly landed on the ground. After the airship landed, the hatch was opened, and groups of soldiers were fully armed under the leadership of the officer. ran out.

The process is quick, just a minute or two. The airship that completed the transportation was lifted into the air immediately, leaving the landing site for the airships waiting behind.

After the two airborne companies landed, except for one company that was left to defend the landing field, the other three companies quickly attacked in a zigzag shape.

"Well equipped, well trained and methodical."

A visiting general praised the airborne regiment for its drills.

Regarding this sentence, none of you present objected, because the airborne regiment really deserved this sentence.

Well-trained and orderly, that's because the airborne regiment was originally an elite group drawn from various troops. And in the past year and a half, the army has given what it wants, and Colonel Higgs is capable, so how can he not be elite.

I would like to say that in the Airborne Regiment, the worst soldiers are first-class soldiers, but most of them are non-commissioned officers, and the officers are generally high-ranking and low-ranking. rank of major.

The current situation is due to preparations for the expansion of the airborne troops on the one hand, and on the other hand, it has a lot to do with weapons and equipment. Now the airborne troops have more types of weapons and higher requirements for officers.

So how high is it?

A squad of airborne troops is equipped with 10 m88 Carcano lances, which are indeed lances. Because of the airborne relationship, longer rifles are not easy to carry, so shorter lances are used instead.

In addition to 10 cavalry guns, a squad of airborne troops also has a Ravelli light machine gun.

That's right, a machine gun!

In this era, no national army has assigned machine guns to squads. Now it is basically equipped at the battalion and company level, not even equipped to the platoon. The airborne troops are the first in history, and they can be used directly by the class in one step.

In addition to one light machine gun for each infantry squad, the airborne troops are also equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns at the company level. Such a luxurious company firepower configuration will not be outdated thirty years later.

The airborne troops are equipped with so much machine gun firepower, considering the characteristics of their troops, fighting deep behind enemy lines, if the firepower is not enough, they will deliver food, so sufficient firepower must be strengthened.

In addition to machine guns, there are relatively few artillery pieces that paratroopers can use at present. In addition to the newly developed mortars, the largest artillery owned by the airborne regiment is the 75mm mountain cannon.

This is also due to the fact that the airship can not choose a venue, otherwise their paratroopers can only use mortars.

The mortar here is the result of the latest development in Italy. Instead of the current base launch mode of various countries, the genius adopts the mode of integrating the propellant and the shell, and uses the bottom needle to hit the launch. This changed the current model of mortars weighing hundreds of kilograms in various countries, and directly reduced mortars to tens of kilograms.

And not only did the weight drop, but the firing range also went up. Under the guidance of a certain prophet, the mortar using spindle-shaped shells can shoot at a range of 2,100 meters.

It can be said that such a change is a technological revolution, and countries in the future will inevitably learn from Italy's approach. Cannons weighing tens of kilograms can be easily moved by manpower. Although the accuracy is not high and it consumes more shells, the advantages of high mobility and curved shooting are enough.

Italy has developed two types of mortars, 81mm and 100mm. At present, these two mortars are given priority to equip the airborne troops. What I like is that it is light and flexible, and has a good range.

In front of the army's top management, the airborne troops performed very well from landing, raiding the target, and then holding on to the reinforcements. The whole exercise was praised, which made Colonel Higgs very happy.

"It's done very well. The airborne force needs to be expanded. The current number of more than 1,000 people is too small. I need you to expand it to 6,000 people within five years."

A word from Simeone made Colonel Higgs immediately suppress the joy in his heart, and he replied loudly. "Please rest assured, Minister, within five years, we will definitely train 6,000 paratroopers who are more elite than before."

"Brother Shen!"

"Um!"

Shen Changqing was walking on the road, and whenever he met someone he knew well, he would say hello or nod to each other.

But no matter who.

There is no unnecessary expression on everyone's face, as if they are indifferent to everything.

To this.

Shen Changqing is already used to it.

Because this is the Zhenmagic Division, an organization that maintains the stability of Daqin. Its main duty is to kill monsters and ghosts, and of course there are other side jobs.

It can be said.

In Zhenmensi, everyone's hands were stained with a lot of blood.

When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but he got used to it as time went by.

Zhenmus is huge.

Those who can stay in Zhenmusi are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Zhenmagic Division is divided into two professions, one is the Guardian Envoy, and the other is the Exorcist.

Anyone who enters the Town of Demons starts from the lowest level of Demon Slayers,

Then he was promoted step by step, and eventually he was expected to become a guardian envoy.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the town of magic division, and he was also the lowest-ranked demon slayer.

With the memory of his predecessor~www.mtlnovel.com~ he is also very familiar with the environment of Zhenmensi.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Different from other places full of chills in Zhenmagus, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd. In the **** Zhenmagus, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door was open, and occasionally people came in and out.

Shen Changqing just hesitated for a moment, then stepped in.

Enter the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A scent of ink mixed with a faint smell of blood hit his face, making his brows furrowed instinctively, but then relaxed quickly.

There is almost no way to clean off the **** smell on everyone in Zhenmusi.

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