Chapter 376: Is there really an aircraft carrier Kuo-Guang?

Before this, there were no paratroopers.

All of this originated from the last collaboration with William.

Besides those engineers, there is the officer corps.

And there are paratrooper officers in the officer corps.

After more than a month of training, this group of paratroopers finally began to appear on the scene.

So far, the results seem to be good.

This could be said to be the paratroopers' first combat experience, but their performance, at least in Long Wenjian's eyes, was pretty good.

Two hours later, all three waves of aircraft landed, and nearly two thousand paratroopers and two hundred tons of supplies landed on the ground.

After stepping on land, the commander in charge of the airborne troops couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Long Wenjian.

Before setting off, someone told them that there would be a support force.

Originally they were still wondering who it could be, but they didn't expect it to be Long Wenjian.

Now everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sir, the 1st Airborne Regiment has landed successfully and is ordered to follow your command." At this time, Long Wenjian's military rank was colonel, and he was also the front-line commander of Kalimantan Island. All the troops on the island obeyed his command.

"Well, it seems that you have trained well." Long Wenjian looked at Xing Jiuhong in front of him with a satisfied expression.

This guy used to be the battalion commander of the supplementary battalion, and was later promoted to the commander of the supplementary regiment.

I didn't expect that he would become the commander of the 1st Airborne Regiment now.

Finally he became the main leader from the reserve. I can only say that this guy is pretty lucky.

Of course, it also depends on one's own efforts.

At this moment, Xing Jiuhong looked at the people from Team A cleaning up the corpses and asked in surprise.

"Huh? No prisoners?"

"I don't have time for that." Long Wenjian replied lazily, then looked at the paratroopers packing up their things quickly, and couldn't help but praise them: "Old Xing, your soldiers are pretty good. It seems that the training from the Germans is quite useful?"

"Hey, of course it has some effect. After all, their paratroopers have rich combat experience." Xing Jiuhong touched his head and said with a smile.

"Okay, I don't have time to brag to you. The temperature here is high and the humidity is high. The bodies must be cleared away as soon as possible, otherwise they will easily rot and cause plague."

"It is best to incinerate them with gasoline before burying them. The Japanese soldiers' clothes and personal belongings must also be burned. Tell everyone to try not to drink raw water or eat wild fruits. The food captured from the Japanese soldiers must be checked by a military doctor before it can be eaten." Long Wenjian emphasized.

These are experiences and lessons gained with blood, so Long Wenjian must remind us again.

"Yes, we all know that we will definitely not do anything rash." Xing Jiuhong said again.

Just as Long Wenjian had completed his deployment, rumbling artillery sounds were heard in the distance. After learning that the Japanese defense on the island was not tight, the navy directly changed its combat plan.

Let the destroyers protect the two troop transports and land directly at the harbor to shorten the landing time.

Under the cover of naval guns, the first troops to land on the island immediately established a defense line on the beach and then launched an attack in depth.

When the Japanese commander learned that the enemy had appeared on the beach, he mistakenly believed that the enemy's main force had all landed, and quickly issued orders to begin blocking the landing troops.

Unfortunately, under the crazy attack of naval guns, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses and dared not move forward.

The Japanese army could not withstand the attack of four Fletcher-class destroyers, not counting the consumption of ammunition.

As the Japanese firepower was suppressed, the soldiers on the two troop transports were the first to land, set up a line of defense under the cover of naval guns, and began to unload heavy equipment.

The Japanese fighter planes rushed over in a hurry, but when they saw the fighter planes of the Nanyang Task Force, they were so frightened that they retreated in a hurry.

By ten o'clock in the morning, not only had the two freighters been completely unloaded, but the landing troops had also reunited with Squadron A.

This meant that the Nanyang Task Force was not far from taking over Kalimantan Island, but the actions of the Nanyang Task Force also stimulated the Japanese army.

.........

On the other hand, the news that the South China Sea Task Force landed on Kalimantan Island was like a bolt from the blue to Heitaro Kimura.

He didn't expect that the landing on Kalimantan would be so easy.

This was a little hard for Kimura Heitaro to accept.

More importantly, many people were ready to laugh at him, which was hard for him to accept.

I was originally wondering if I could return to the base camp, but now it seems that I will have to enter the reserve force.

At this moment, Kimura Heitaro had only one idea, which was to retake Kalimantan Island as soon as possible. As for how to retake it, he didn't know, so he could only look at Tsukada Ko.

"Commander, should we ask the headquarters to send a navy? Didn't they promise that there would be a navy?" Tsukada Ko asked cautiously.

"Don't think about it." Kimura Heitaro looked lonely.

What about the navy?

Now that the navy has been transferred to Australia, there is no time to care about other places.

"Baka." Tsukada Gong yelled in annoyance.

Kimura Heitaro did not stop this.

In fact, he himself wanted to curse. After all, before leaving, Hideki Tojo promised him that he would send a navy.

The results of it

He feels helpless that he still has no navy.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have any better solution now. More importantly, this is his Southern Army's business, and he must find a way to solve it. Relying on other people is impossible, so Kimura Heitaro can only gather the troops he can and prepare to launch a counterattack.

Immediately, hundreds of fighter jets from both sides began a fierce battle centered on Kalimantan Island.

As long as the air battle can determine the outcome, there is still hope for what happens next.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The bomb exploded on flat ground, raising rubble and dust dozens of meters high.

Before the smoke cleared, two more Japanese fighter planes swooped down from the sky.

As a result, the crazy firing of the anti-aircraft guns that had been prepared long ago still failed to stop the Japanese fighter planes. The fuselage shook slightly, and two more aerial bombs fell from the sky, exploding four large fireballs on the ground.

"Pah! How many times has this happened?" Long Wenjian shook off the dirt on his body and walked out of the bunker with disheveled hair and a dirty face. Only to find that seven or eight large holes had been blown out of the field airport that he was leveling, and two engineering vehicles had been destroyed and caught fire.

"Hurry, let's fill the soil and compact it as quickly as possible." Seeing this, he didn't care to be angry, and immediately asked everyone to fill the pit as soon as possible.

After landing, except for a part of the airborne regiment that cooperated with Battalion A to garrison the port, the rest were looking for flat land to build a field airport.

After two days of searching, they finally found two narrow flat areas where fighter jets could take off and land.

However, it is not easy to build an airport in a dense forest. It took four days just to cut down all the nearby trees. If it weren't for the construction vehicles and a large amount of pre-placed building materials.

I'm afraid everyone can only use an engineering shovel to photograph the surface bit by bit, especially after the Japanese army learned that a field airport was being built, they kept sending planes to bomb.

Although the Nanyang Task Force's fighter planes were always on high alert, there were always Japanese fighter planes that broke through the defense line and destroyed their engineering vehicles used to build the field airport.

"Damn it, there are still not enough fighter planes. If there were more escort aircraft carriers, we wouldn't be able to let the Japanese be so presumptuous." Long Wenjian said angrily as he looked at the destroyed field airport.

"Send a telegram to the commander-in-chief and tell him that we need more fighter planes."

"Yes."

…………"We need more fighter planes. Fighter planes are not a problem. The fighter planes that Stilwell promised will arrive soon. The key issue is the pilots." Cun Yunsheng looked at the telegram in his hand and shook his head.

"Long Wenjian is right. It would be better if there were more escort aircraft carriers, but our current shipbuilding technology is still a little lacking. Otherwise, as long as we can build cargo ships, we can also build escort aircraft carriers."

Meng Fanle knew about Cun Yunsheng's troubles, but he didn't have a good way to solve them.

After all, this is a national treasure, and it is impossible to complete it without a certain industrial foundation.

"Think of a way to get them to repair the field airport as soon as possible, and then let the fighter planes fly directly there, or find some islands to build transit airports and increase the number of transfers." Cun Yunsheng thought about it and could only come up with this solution.

"Yes." Meng Fanle responded and turned around to convey the order.

As a result, he came back again after a while and looked at Cun Yunsheng with a serious expression.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Cun Yunsheng knew that Meng Fanle would only have this expression when something happened.

And it must be a big deal.

He was just very curious about what had happened that could have made Meng Fanle look so angry.

"Is there a problem on the front line?" Cun Yunsheng asked again.

"No, everything is fine on the front line. Someone has arrived." Meng Fanle thought for a while and said.

"Who?" Cun Yunsheng was even more surprised. Who would come to his shabby place?

"Chen Shaokuan." The name that Meng Fanle said made Cun Yunsheng stunned.

What is this big guy doing here?

If he remembered correctly, this guy belonged to the Fujian faction?

At that time, there were four major factions in the navy, the most famous of which was the Fujian faction.

In addition, there is the electric and thunder system belonging to the mountain city, as well as the Northeast system and the Guangdong system.

In terms of strength, the Northeastern system is definitely the strongest.

But in terms of status, it is naturally the electric and thunder system.

As for the power, there is no doubt that it is the Fujian faction.

The Cantonese navy has a long history and belongs to the Nanyang Navy.

In fact, both the Fujian and Guangdong navies have a long history, but there are more bigwigs coming from the Fujian naval system.

Among them, naval veterans such as Sa Zhenbing and Chen Shaokuan all came from this system.

Now someone told him that the navy veteran Chen Shaokuan was looking for him, and Cun Yunsheng was naturally very excited.

"Why does he want me to do something?" Although Cun Yunsheng had met many people, this was the first time he met Chen Shaokuan.

He had heard rumors about this man before, saying that because his last name was Chen, he was rejected when he tried to join the navy.

Because Chen is equal to Shen, the navy has this taboo and does not want him.

However, he later joined the Fujian Navy and became a disciple of Sa Zhenbing.

"I don't know." Meng Fanle really didn't know. How could he know what the purpose of such a big boss was.

"Forget it, I'll go see him in person." Cun Yunsheng couldn't guess what the other party meant. After thinking about it, he decided to go see him in person.

Seeing Chen Shaokuan, Cun Yunsheng took a quick look at him and then stepped forward to salute.

"Sir, what brings you here from afar?"

As if Chen Shaokuan heard the cold meaning in Cun Yunsheng's words, he did not show any dissatisfaction, but instead chuckled.

"Don't be nervous, I'm here to give you a big gift."

"What gift?" Cun Yunsheng was very curious.

"Is that how we talk about it?" Chen Shaokuan asked back.

"I'm sorry for being rude, sir. Please serve me tea." Cun Yunsheng immediately smiled and asked Meng Fanle to serve him tea and apologized in person.

After sitting down, Chen Shaokuan did not immediately say what the gift was. Instead, he slowly drank his tea.

It doesn't look like he's here to give gifts, but rather to have some tea.

This surprised Cun Yunsheng, but considering the other party's identity and status, he still patiently waited for the other party to finish drinking the tea.

"Not bad, good tea." After a while, after Chen Shaokuan finished drinking the tea, he looked at Cun Yunsheng.

"That's good, you're patient. I thought you'd be anxious."

"Thank you for your praise, sir. I still have some patience." Cun Yunsheng shook his head. He had already drunk the tea, so it didn't matter if he waited a little longer.

"Okay, it seems I was right about the person." After adjusting his mood, Chen Shaokuan began to talk about this great gift.

After the other party finished speaking, Cun Yunsheng was completely stunned.

"A half-finished aircraft carrier?"

How come he hasn't heard of a half-finished aircraft carrier?
Is this possible?

With the limited industrial capacity of the mountain city, can it still build a semi-finished aircraft carrier?

Are you kidding me?
Although aircraft carriers were not considered very advanced at that time.

But it’s not something a mountain city can afford.

Even if it is a semi-finished product, it is absolutely not acceptable.

"Strictly speaking, it should be a cargo ship, but after seeing the escort aircraft carrier modified by the United States, I think it should also be converted into an escort aircraft carrier." As he said this, Chen Shaokuan expressed his thoughts.

After listening, Cun Yunsheng frowned slightly.

He understood what the other party meant. Originally, this was a cargo ship, but after learning about the US military's escort aircraft carriers, Chen Shaokuan thought he could try to change it into an escort aircraft carrier.

"Its tonnage is a bit heavier than ordinary escort aircraft carriers. Although it is not as good as those standard aircraft carriers, it is definitely better than the escort aircraft carriers converted from cruise ships. I also named it the Guoguang Aircraft Carrier." As soon as Chen Shaokuan finished speaking, he saw Cun Yunsheng's pupils suddenly shrink.

What a joke.

Isn't the Guoguang a fake?
Although it was rumored that it was made by the electric thunder system, Cun Yunsheng didn't believe it at all.

If a mountain city has an aircraft carrier, it means that its industrial strength has reached a very strong level.

It’s not possible that they can’t even produce a heavy artillery shell, right?
Therefore, Cun Yunsheng does not believe in the so-called Kuo Guang aircraft carrier.

The results of it?
Now someone told him that it was actually true.

"Damn, could the rumored Guoguang be this cargo ship?" Cun Yunsheng suddenly felt that if it was a cargo ship, it would be quite fitting.

After all, with a little modification, it can indeed become an escort aircraft carrier.

This thing doesn't have any technical content.

With the technology of the great powers, they can launch a ship in at least one month.

Given the strength of Jiangnan Shipyard, there is still hope for them to convert a cargo ship.

"Can this be converted into an escort aircraft carrier?" Cun Yunsheng asked again.

"Of course I can. I even brought a simple diagram." As he spoke, Chen Shaokuan took out a simple diagram from the briefcase in front of him and slowly opened it.

(End of this chapter)