Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 279 The Lion's Big Opening (Two Chapters in One)

But what surprised Gao Jianwu was that this explosive installation actually touched the upper limit of the system. After a series of "ding ding" sounds, Gao Jianwu watched with some astonishment when the system explosive installation was finally locked to 10 times, and there was no more extra become.

It is equivalent to catching the little devil alive. The two high-level generals are redundant, but the ten-fold bonus of this joint operation is also very fragrant. Sakurai Shozo contributed 40 tanks, and Iteng Nobunaga contributed 40 150mm/155mm howitzers. , For Gao Jianwu, it is a great supplement.

This is also the second battle since the Expeditionary Force Group in the second theater entered the British territory of Myanmar. The troops under the command of Gao Jianwu have won consecutive victories.In domestic public opinion propaganda, he is already the number one player today.

After all, so far, no soldier in the country has been able to eliminate the little devils of the three divisions in a row. Even if someone knows that the 15th and 22nd divisions are just B-type security divisions, but after the 33rd division is strengthened, they will not be able to kill them. It is a top-level elite division of the first class.

In other words, Gao Jianwu's record is undisputed, even in the eyes of the top allied forces, it is a huge victory.

"George, how about it? I said that the expeditionary army group will not stay there and do nothing. You see, once they complete their preparations, they will destroy an entire elite division overnight. Frankly speaking, this way His record is simply appalling." General Joe said to General Mengbatton a little proudly.

It was as if it was his subordinates who won the battle, but having said that, the expeditionary army group was really under his name and belonged to one of the troops he personally commanded.Even though it's just a nominal name now, General Qiao's status in the country has begun to be greatly improved.

Because just relying on his achievements in the Burmese-British Territories, the little devil's Southern Army has greatly focused on the Burmese-British Territories. This time the 33rd Division's reinforcement of the Burmese-British Territories is the best illustration.It's just that their attempt this time was thwarted again. After the destruction of the 33rd Division, the little devil's situation in the Burmese and British territories became even more difficult.

It is conceivable that after the expeditionary army group has solved the 33rd Division, after a short period of reorganization and supply, it will definitely launch a new attack. In this new round of attack, can the little devil's last main force, the 56th Division in southern Burma and Britain, be able to withstand it? , is basically not a problem.

Even if they have established a solid defensive position, if no new reinforcements arrive in the next few days, the remaining time for them in the Burmese-British territories will enter a countdown.

"Joe, you are right. Now, we should plan the next round of attack. When do you think we will be able to take back Ren'anqiang?" General Mengbaton did not sneer at General Joe's words this time, but was a little eager asked.

"George, I feel that it should be soon. Smith told me that their third attack group has launched an attack along the Ayeyarwady River. According to the current progress, I guess they are almost near Ren'anqiang. If we want to attack as soon as possible If the Burmese and British territories are taken, now is the time to consider how to resupply the expeditionary force group for the second time. They should consume more weapons and ammunition this time, and the casualties are much greater than last time. After all, this time they What we are facing is the main force of Xiaotian." General Qiao said.

"Of course we prepared two divisions of ammunition for them this time, but we don't know how their battle damage was in terms of heavy weapons. The heavy weapons we prepared are not too many, only 50 tanks and 40 guns. Cannons, I don't know if they can compensate for their losses." General Lembarton replied.

These weapons and ammunition have just been transshipped from the British and Indian territories. Since the shipping port has not been opened yet, it is too difficult to transport them from Imphal to Mandalay by sea. Le roads are rugged and tortuous over mountains and ridges, which is really not conducive to large-scale transportation.

Gao Jianwu was sitting in Mandalay to rest and reorganize his troops, but he did not expect that the Allied Southeast Asian Command had already begun to consider how to replenish his weapons and ammunition.

However, Gao Jianwu was not polite about his loss in this battle.Now that we have a preliminary list of battle damage, we are going to ask the Allied Southeast Asia Command for reimbursement.

Now that he has the huge result of annihilating the 33rd Division in his hand, this makes him even more eager to reach out to ask for it. Of course, he also has such qualifications. After all, in the current battlefields in Asia, there is no better fighter than him. The battle was won.

"John, you see we have 40 tanks damaged on the battlefield this time. Let's just report and supplement, right?" Gao Jianwu consulted Smith with the God of War list. After all, we have to go through Smith now to report Allied Southeast Asia Command is reaching out to replenish.

In fact, although there are 40 tanks injured on the battlefield, at least 30 of them can continue to fight persistently after simple repairs, while the other 10 may need to replace some large parts to be repaired.

"Gao, I think this is reasonable. There is no problem at all. Let's report the tank as such." Colonel Smith nodded. Although he was not at the battle scene, he knew the strength of the Devil's 33rd Division. After all, they also sent a tank regiment with more than 100 cannons. It is normal for Gao Jianwu and his tanks to suffer such losses during the fierce battle.

What's more, the stronger the combat effectiveness of Gao Jianwu's expeditionary army group and the greater the results achieved, the more beneficial it is for Smith's promotion and fortune.

"As for the cannon, we basically didn't lose the 155mm howitzers, but we have already lost 105 of the 25mm howitzers in the battle with the little devil. If we report this as 30, it's not a big problem?" Gao Jianwu continued to ask.

Because the 105mm howitzer needs to approach the little devil artillery position to have the maximum effect.In this way, in the counterattack of the little devil's 150mm howitzer, five or six artillery teams were still lost.

Gao Jianwu exaggerated the loss several times at once, because he really liked the huge role of the cannon in the battle, and there was always a fear and anxiety of insufficient firepower that needed to be replenished constantly. . .

More importantly, the maneuverability and power of the 105mm howitzer are relatively moderate. In contrast, the maneuverability of the 155mm howitzer is too weak. Many places cannot be towed without good road traffic.The 2mm howitzer, which is only more than 105 tons, can be towed directly by a light truck or even a jeep.

For the artillery directly under the expeditionary army group, this should be the most suitable cannon for them to equip.

"There is no problem at all. I personally think that this can be reported as 40 doors." Colonel Smith took the initiative to increase the number.

He knew that no matter how many tanks there were, it would be difficult for Gao Jianwu to form combat power immediately, because there were too few crews capable of driving tanks in the expeditionary army group. Colonel Smith knew very well that even if Gao Jianwu was given another 100 tanks, he could Those [-] or so tanks were drawn out to fight, and the rest needed continuous training. After all, the tanks were fighting on the move, without long-term training, and the hit rate was really impressive.

Only in the face of infantry without anti-tank firepower, it has a greater effect.

But the cannons were different. Smith Shao Jian knew very well that Gao Jianwu was able to command the cannons. Under his precise command, one more cannon was much more lethal than an infantry company. . .

Seeing that Colonel Smith was mainly adding bricks and tiles in terms of heavy weapons, Gao Jianwu felt that this friend was really not in vain. . .

As for the remaining weapons and equipment such as 75mm howitzers, mortars, and heavy machine guns, Smith did not discount the battle damage reported by Gao Jianwu. attack group.

But for Smith, none of that matters.What the beautiful country lacks is not weapons and equipment, but people who use weapons and equipment and troops that can win battles.

And now Gao Jianwu has played such a role perfectly.

"Okay, John, this is probably the case for the infantry. As for ammunition, if you want to fight the 56th Division, you must prepare at least five bases to be sure." Gao Jianwu continued, "Let's discuss the air force next." In terms of expansion, John, you know we have 5 pilots now, but we only have 40 Mustang fighter jets, I hope to expand our fighter jets to more than 15 fighter jets, do you think this is possible?"

Gao Jianwu looked at Smith with questioning eyes.He knew that there was no shortage of infantry weapons in the beautiful country, but he was not sure about the fighter jets, how much supply capacity the opponent had.

"Gao, frankly speaking, we do have a lot of difficulties in terms of fighter jets. After all, our air force is mainly supporting the European battlefield and the Pacific battlefield. According to the information I know, the Southeast Asia Command can give you at most Add 6 fighters." Smith said sincerely.

"If more fighter jets are needed, there is only one method now, but this method seems to be more difficult and difficult to obtain."

"John, what is the method? Tell us and let everyone discuss how to operate it?" Gao Jianwu, although he is quite satisfied with getting 6 fighters, but in order to get more fighters, he must fight for it with all his strength.

After all, the enemies he wants to deal with are getting stronger and stronger.

The No.15 Army in the Burmese-British Territory is just his current opponent, and soon his opponent will become a behemoth like the Little Devil's Southern Army in Southeast Asia. The opponent has at least hundreds of fighter jets and hundreds of thousands of troops.

"Among the allied forces in Southeast Asia and the Anglo-Indian Territories, only Daiying has nearly a hundred fighter jets, if." Smith hesitated when he said this.

It seemed that what he wanted to say next was difficult to say.

"What if?" Gao Jianwu asked.

"Frankly speaking, this involves a deal." Colonel Smith showed a bit of bitterness, "If you can take a relatively complete Renangqiang oil field and hand it over to Dai Ying, I believe that you can exchange 9 Mustangs with them on this condition Fighter planes, they will agree. Frankly speaking, in fact, these fighter jets are in their hands, not as practical and valuable as in your hands."

To be honest, whether the troops with the British are in the Burmese and British territories, or in other battlefields, they feel like they are occupying the latrines and not shitting. There are really not many troops that can fight.And the combat effectiveness of these troops recruited from the colonies is even more unbearable.

So even with hundreds of fighter jets, they didn't do much, and now they can cover the offensive on the northern front, and have certain advantages in the northern air of Myanmar and Britain.

And the same thing was done by Gao Jianwu with only 15 fighter jets.

But from this perspective, Colonel Smith is willing to help Gao Jianwu exchange for more fighter jets through conditions, so that the Allied forces can improve their overall combat effectiveness.

The matter was decided so happily. Gao Jianwu asked Colonel Smith to take his request for supply report to the Allied Southeast Asia Command to bargain. In this regard, Gao Jianwu is still willing to trust Colonel Smith. After all, they are still in the same trench. related comrades.

Colonel Smith, who has made successive military exploits, now has a lot of calls in the country to be promoted to the ranks of major generals.After all, no matter whether it is in the Southeast Asian battlefield, the Pacific battlefield, or even the European battlefield, it is rare to wipe out the enemy with whole divisions like him.Even Colonel Smith is not the supreme commander but an advisor.

Sure enough, Colonel Smith did not disappoint Gao Jianwu. As a result of his negotiation, Gao Jianwu's request was basically satisfied.

Even though there were some twists and turns in the negotiation of fighter jets, after the mediation of General Joe, General Mengbaton still gritted his teeth and agreed. After all, Gao Jianwu and the others are indeed amazing in combat effectiveness, and these weapons can play a greater role in his hands. The effect is to bring down the Burmese and British territories faster.

In particular, the Ren'anqiang oil field is also very important to them. The oil field in Southeast Asia, that is, this one is the most promising to be taken first, which can solve the problem of local oil supply.

经过了进一步的补充，现在高建武的远征军集群已经拥有了俩个24门155毫米榴弹炮重炮团，以及三个105毫米榴弹炮重炮团106门大炮作为主力火炮，加上补充完整的6个18门75毫米榴弹炮营作为下属攻击群直属火炮。

It can be said that the long-range artillery support is already very strong. Compared with the little devil, this strength has surpassed the two heavy artillery brigades, even if the army-level battle artillery suppresses the strength.

As for the artillery configuration under each attack group, the 75mm howitzer battalion far exceeds the artillery configuration of the little devils at the same level, and is approaching the artillery configuration of the second division level. As for the 81mm M1 mortars at the battalion and company levels Cannons and 60mm M2 mortars are also equipped with 4 2 infantry guns and 90 [-]mm small steel guns attached to the little devil brigade, plus a large number of bazooka rocket launchers. It can completely solve the anxiety of insufficient firepower!
After the addition of 40 new tanks for tanks, two tank battalions were re-established on this basis. In addition to the three tank battalions formed when the second batch of expeditionary forces arrived, there are now 2 tank battalions, 7 Since the tanks were damaged during the battle, the crew members were not much damaged. After the battle, the first and second tank battalions have grown up, and they have begun to have the ability to fight tanks, instead of just crushing the little devil infantry.

In this way, the 100 new tank groups brought by Kong Jie basically have enough tanks for a lot of training. Among them, the newly formed third tank battalion and tank fourth battalion already have initial combat power, and they are equipped with basic infantry for infantry combat. Tannery started to take shape.

The third tank battalion and the fourth tank battalion were sent to the third attack group to get through the Irrawaddy River. With such a leading edge and the help of the air force, Xu Shida of the third attack group was like a broken bamboo in Ren'an Qiang, and he defended the little devils in Ren'an Qiang in one fell swoop. The 113th regiment collapsed, and the little devil thought he had a very strong bunker system.

Those bunkers made of steel and concrete were very calm in the face of 75mm howitzers, but under the 500-pound aerial bomb, they were pried open one by one like fragile eggs.

After going to air superiority and air defense capabilities.The little devil has almost no defense against the air force of the expeditionary army group, and can only let the air force of the expeditionary army use tricks to blow up the defense system of the bunker that has spent a lot of energy and money.

Although Xu Shida's third attack group wasted nearly a week in Ren'an Qiang, Gao Jianwu was not in a hurry.

He asked Xu Shida to destroy the defense system of the bunker step by step, and then use the tanks to reach the front one by one to annihilate the firepower of the little devils' machine guns. The infantry followed the tanks and followed the tanks to occupy the tunnels one by one to eliminate the remaining little devils.

Although this method of warfare is time-consuming, the casualties are extremely small.Compared with the bloody battles of the US military on the Pacific islands, Gao Jianwu's method is obviously much more effective.Of course, relatively speaking, the depth and complexity of the trench defense system dug here by the little devil is not at the same level.

After all, Gao Jianwu didn't give them too much time to defend. Before the arrival of Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force, the little devil thought that they still had a strategic advantage here, and even wanted to attack the Allied Imphal.

Shoji Iida did not expect that the strategic advantage would turn into a strategic disadvantage in an instant, and when they wanted to conduct defensive operations, they would not have much time at all.It is not easy to dig out some tunnels at such a time, let alone build a criss-cross tunnel system underground.

When the supplies of weapons and equipment were available, Gao Jianwu did not continue to wait this time, but took a short rest to replenish 3000 battle-damaged personnel (nearly 2000 of them were wounded soldiers, who recuperated in Mandalay on the spot and transported from Jindi) A garrison regiment went to Mandalay to replenish), and launched a direct southward attack.

Now that the management of Xigong in Sagaing and Mandalay has begun to take shape, Deqin Dengpei, who has fully mobilized his own strength, has already surpassed the 6000 people Gao Jianwu originally asked him to, and has reached nearly [-] people!
With money and food in hand, and Gao Jianwu's support, Deqin Dengpei's development is completely unfettered. If it weren't for Ding Wei's advice from time to time, Deqin Dengpei should not recruit people randomly and make the whole organization a mess. The incoming members will be even larger.

Among them, 5000 members have been incorporated into the ranks of the independent people's army. The first regiment has begun to attack the city with the expeditionary army group. It first saw the prototype of its combat power in the jungle chase near Meiktila, and followed the soldiers of the 3rd company in battle After the small-scale chase battle, he began to have a certain individual combat capability.

Now that the 2nd and 3rd regiments have completed their training, this time Dechen Dengpei is confident and bold enough to divide them into two groups and follow Xu Shida's third attack group to attack along the Ayeyarwady River, taking on the security work and some battlefields in the towns along the way. To mop up the work, follow the main force all the way to attack Shanmana and Dagon directly to the south.

The capture of the Ren'anqiang Oilfield gave Gao Jianwu the capital to attack at his own pace. Facing the layers of defenses of the little devils, he just tried the tactics of air-ground integration, infantry-gun coordination, and infantry-tank coordination.

With the allied forces providing sufficient ammunition support, Gao Jianwu simply used the defensive positions of the 56th Division for his own military training.

Facing the little devil's position, he was not in a hurry to destroy it.Instead, let your troops carry out the battle according to the designated combat plan. During such a process, Gao Jianwu often just observes from the side, rather than directly commanding.

Chu Yunfei, Ding Wei, and Zhang Dabiao all followed him, listening to Gao Jianwu's comments on the gains and losses and highlights of the battle from time to time, summing up experience and lessons in a timely manner, and re-planning and improving in the next battle.

With a vision that is nearly 70 to [-] years ahead, as well as the learning experience of many modern wars in later generations, Gao Jianwu's vision is naturally beyond the imagination of everyone now.Compared with those who studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, or even some foreign military academies, Gao Jianwu's knowledge is more advanced and paced.

This benefited Chu Yunfei, Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao a lot.Especially in terms of coordinated operations, they regained a systematic understanding.

If Iida Shoji until now his troops are becoming Gao Jianwu's training sharpening stone, he will definitely vomit blood with anger.

But now watching the well-organized defensive fronts of Sumana, Magui, etc. collapse and fall step by step, Iida Shoji is anxious but powerless, because in the short term, the little devil's southern army will not be able to attack him again. The scale of reinforcements is up.

After all, in this airspace, both air superiority and sea superiority are under the control of the Allied Forces. If reinforcements can only be provided by land, there will be no time to transport troops as large as at least the military level.

As for reinforcements at the division level, it has proven to be a failure.The little devil will never send them out to give away the head again.

A month later, when the National Army Expeditionary Force on the northern front was still engaged in a tug-of-war with the 18th Division of the Little Devils, Gao Jianwu had already reached Dagon steadily, and was about to complete the final battle against the southern part of the Burmese-British territories and regain the Burmese-British territory. The entire south of the territory.

When the colonial bureaucrats who stayed in Imphal and waited and watched finally mustered up the courage to start entering Mandalay and other stable rear bases, they suddenly discovered that there was already a complete ruling system here.

The Liberation Front and the Independent People's Army have gone deep into the cities and villages to establish a complete organization.In a short period of time, Dagong has expanded to more than 3 people, of which the armed forces have expanded to more than 3 people in 6 divisions and 6000 regiments.

Of course, this is the result of Gao Jianwu's deliberate control.

The other two major forces he supported have now expanded to the expected scale.

The Chanbang Free Army of Chanbang and the Wabang National Self-Defense Army of Wabang also took shape. One had a division with 3 regiments of more than 3000 troops, and the other had 2 regiments of more than 2000 troops, and each began to unify their own nationalities. The process of tribal establishment of grassroots rule.

In contrast, the Chaogong, which has a larger organization and armed forces, has now become the largest force in the south-central part of the British territory of Myanmar.It is very difficult for Myanmar and Britain, which intend to restore colonial rule.

Because no one will recognize the officials they sent now, and even government orders cannot be issued by the local government.

With the support of Gao Jianwu, the Burmese and British authorities are now unlikely to directly use force to disband the local grassroots organizations that Dechen Deng admired them.So they had to sit down and start negotiating an initial solution on self-government with organizations like Gong Gong.

Although there is still some distance from the country's independence demanded by the emperor, this is already the biggest concession made by the Burmese and British authorities.

Gao Jianwu also didn't want to cause extra problems at this juncture.What's more, this progress can already meet his needs to legally exploit the resources of the Burmese and British territories, so he quickly supported this plan.

At the same time, Shoji Iida of Dagon finally admitted his failure, retreated from Dagon with his senior staff in a hurry, and flew to Siam by plane, which made Gao Jianwu feel like losing several divisions in pain regiment's harvest
(End of this chapter)