Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 280 Ready to Go

"Baga, Shoji Iida is too useless. I reinforced him with the 33rd Division. Not only did he fail to keep his defense area, but he also lost all the main force of the [-]th Army to the enemy. He didn't come after the failure. The front army headquarters reported on their duties and went directly to Siam, so they really didn't pay attention to me."

At the headquarters of the Burmese-British Front Army, General Kimura heard that Shoji Iida had gone to Siam, and he was furious.Although it has been said that the 15th Army has never paid attention to him, but before that, the 15th Army had an impressive record, and General Kimura could bear it. Now that he has sent all his main forces, he Iida Shoji What else is there to be proud of?
"Your Excellency, Iida-kun may be ashamed to meet people," Lieutenant General Shimodasaku, the chief of staff of the little devil's army, helped his gold-rimmed glasses and said slowly.

"Your Excellency, the situation in Maine Territory has deteriorated and the Fifteenth Army has almost been wiped out. Now is the time to consider whether we should advance or retreat.

As far as our front army is concerned, the humble position believes that it is impossible to rely on the current strength. Although the humble position does not want to admit it, the enemy is too strong. If we stay here again, the entire army may be wiped out. "

高建武覆灭了15军的主力之后，在缅英属地南边小鬼子就剩下其缅英方面军司令部（毛淡棉）第54师团、第55师团、第72独立混成旅团，以及现在在北边继续挣扎的18师团和第105旅团。

The 54th Division and the 55th Division are not even as good as the 56th Division, let alone compared with the strengthened 33rd Division.

With this strength, it is obviously impossible to compete with Gao Jianwu's expeditionary army group.

The little devil is not a fool, he has lined up again and again to give away heads. Shoji Iida of the 15th Army has already sent too much, and the rest of the little devils know very well that they have no chance.

"Shimoda-kun, do we still have a choice? No, if we are the only ones here, we can't stay here any longer, we can only make tactical transitions as soon as possible.

It's just that the Southern Army won't let it go. Your Excellency has already mobilized troops to provide us with a new round of reinforcements. This time we will fight back the expeditionary army group, just like what we did last year.

So no matter how difficult the situation is, we must persevere in Mawlamyine until the arrival of reinforcements. This is the frontier of our counterattack, and we must not lose it. "A fierce light flashed in General Kimura's eyes, although he hadn't conceded defeat yet.

And standing in his position, it is impossible for him to admit defeat easily.

The Burmese-British Territory has now become very critical. Not only does it have a large amount of resources for the empire to mine, but it is also the frontier of Gongwei's entire Southeast Asia, and it is also the place where General Ta Kimura made great achievements.

If this place is completely discarded, the expeditionary fleet will not let it go, and they will continue to attack Siam and even further east along the mainland coastline.

Now the allies and the little devils have an endless hatred.It will only stop when one side completely falls, and absolutely no one can resist this trend before that.

"If the Southern Army wants to completely reverse the situation in the Maine Territory, I think it will be possible to have at least four reorganized divisions. Otherwise, we have no chance of winning the expeditionary force group." Chief of Staff Shimoda said.

"And we need these newly added troops to come together and concentrate our strength to solve the opponent, instead of one division after another to become the opponent's military exploits."

Obviously, Shimoda as the chief of staff has already hated the refueling tactics.In his eyes, only by concentrating an absolute superiority of troops can the group of expeditionary forces be completely defeated.

There are 4 reorganized divisions with more than 15 people.In addition to the current troops in Mawlamyine, the overall strength exceeds 20. Such a huge military strength can form an absolute advantage of 5 against 1 not only for the expeditionary army group.

Even counting the National Expeditionary Force on the entire battlefield and other Allied troops in Maine, the little devil's troops deployed in the Burmese-British territories this time will not be inferior to his opponents.

It's just that in this way, almost half of the Southern Army's troops will be invested here. What about other places?
"Shimoda-kun, the Southern Army doesn't have so many troops to invest." General Kimura shook his head and said.

"According to my estimation, it is already the limit that they can draw up to two integrated divisions, one heavy artillery brigade, and one independent mixed brigade. Considering the enemy's air superiority, this time the Southern Army may attack us in terms of air force The Burmese and British front forces have been greatly strengthened."

"According to the information I have received, the Southern Army has considered sending a flying team against us."

"But how will the enemy's tank regiment deal with it? If there is no tank regiment to fight against, our infantry will be very passive in the face of tanks. Yahara Hiroshi once observed the enemy's tanks at close range. According to him , Although the enemy has some inexperience in tank confrontation, he is much more skilled than us in the coordinated attack of infantry and tanks."

"Although I don't want to admit it, the enemy's commander is indeed a very good commander. He has extraordinary talents in the coordination of infantry and tanks, and the coordination of infantry and artillery. According to the report of Yahara Hiroto, our troops Faced with overwhelming artillery fire from the enemy.

Even if a squadron is gathered on the battlefield, it may immediately face the enemy's artillery coverage. In this case, our troops are always scattered to become smaller than the squadron, and we are fighting with their concentrated superior forces. "

Most of the officers of the 15th Army were killed or captured, but Yahara Botong still escaped to Mawlamyine. I have to say that this little devil's ability to escape is really first-class.

General Kimura frowned. Obviously, in terms of research on opponents, he was very different from Shimoda.If the enemy's tanks can really coordinate with the soldiers, it would be a headache. General Kimura has also done research on tanks, and knows that tanks are simply an invincible weapon against infantry on the battlefield.

That is to say, tanks consume too much resources, not only consume a large amount of steel, but also consume a large amount of fuel. For the little devil, fuel is a precious resource, and almost all of it can be saved. It was used by the United Fleet.

The Navy's herd of red deer wasted too many resources.General Kimura sneered, and turned his thoughts back to reality.

"Shimoda-kun, should the 18th Division and 105th Brigade in the north retreat to the south?" General Kimura asked another headache.

Although the 18th Division and the 105th Brigade in the north can still hold on, the entire Myanmar-British territory has given the Allied Forces the upper hand, and now the expeditionary force group has completely eliminated the 56th Division.

As long as they keep a part of their troops in Mawlamyine and let the rest go north to support the Allied forces, it will be a disaster for the 18th Division and the 105th Brigade.

Hearing such a question from General Kimura, Shimoda was also very troubled as the chief of staff.

The northern part of Burma and Britain is also an important place for them to fight for. Only by occupying it can they cut off the main transportation route of the Allied forces to the interior.

If we withdraw now, the Irrawaddy River has been opened up by the enemy, and it will be transported into northern Myanmar and Britain through the waterway of this great river.The resources of the allied forces will be continuously imported to the mainland, so the pressure on the little devils in the mainland will naturally increase.

After all, most of Jinsui has been lost now, and the increasingly powerful Eighth Route there has posed a huge threat to North China.

Not to mention that once the 18th Division retreats to northern Myanmar, the little devils in Mawlamyine will be under unprecedented pressure!

"Since we want to counterattack, I suggest that the 18th Division should stay on its own ground. The terrain there is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Once we lose it, if we want to regain it, the price we will export is far more than an 18th Division. " Shimoda said through gritted teeth.

Now even if the 18th Division is sacrificed, the pace of the Allied forces must be held back. After all, the situation in Mawlamyine is bad enough now.Even Shimoda Saku doesn't know how long they can hold if the expeditionary army group attacks with all their strength!

The 56th Division can be regarded as a powerful division capable of attacking and defending well, but under the beating of the expeditionary army group, it was not the same as being smashed to pieces.

General Kimura nodded in agreement, Shimodasaku's views, in fact, are also considered in his heart.The most powerful thing on the side of the Allied Forces is the face-to-face expeditionary army group. These are said to be expeditionary forces from the Eighth Route of the Second Theater, and they are simply ridiculously strong.

In contrast, whether it is the Allied Forces in the north of Myanmar and Britain, or the expeditionary force from the national army, there is nothing they can do about the 18th Division, which occupies a favorable location. Obviously, the combat effectiveness is still not that strong, at least the same There was no distance.

If the expeditionary army group in the south doesn't get involved.General Kimura felt that the 18th Division would not have much problem supporting them for another two months.

Meanwhile at Allied Southeast Asia Command.

General Leon Patton and General Joe began to disagree.

"Joe, the main force of the Expeditionary Force Group in the second theater should go north, and the Allied forces should bury the damned 18th Division in the Burmese-British North!" Barton is like a heart model for the Burmese-British North that has been unable to attack for a long time. Same.

After all, this is a battlefield to show his achievements. Here he commands the expeditionary force of the Allied Army and the National Army. He has been fighting for several months but has made little progress.

On the contrary, the Southern Expeditionary Army Group commanded by General Joe Stevens has achieved brilliant results. In comparison, he looks like a clown.

"John, I don't think this is necessary. After all, the little devils in the south have not been completely driven out of the Burmese-British territories. In Moulmein, there are still two divisions of little devils and a brigade. I don't think they will It's a good idea to mobilize the southern expeditionary force group to the north, so it's a good idea to make an expedition." Joe Steven firmly opposed Meng Barton's plan.

"What's more, we have already firmly occupied the upper hand in the north. It is only a matter of time before we defeat the 18th Division. We don't need to go to war. We should now consolidate our dominant position in the south and prevent the little devils from finding any opportunities.

You must know that the little devil's southern army is still very strong. If there is no accident, they will still not give up the Burmese and British territories and will send new reinforcements.

Under such circumstances, if the main force of our Second Theater Expeditionary Force group is transferred to the north, it is very likely that we will lose the southern territory we just won. "

If it weren't for the Burmese-British Territory being Daiying's home field, in fact, the commander-in-chief of the Allied Southeast Asia Command would not be able to take the turn of Meng Patton at all.

Judging from his past achievements, there is simply no one who can win, except for failure, or failure.

So General Joe Steven will not back down at all.

Judging from the actual situation, he was also right, the little devil had already started a new plan.

At this time, the Little Devil's Southern Army Command has already reacted. If heavy troops are not invested in a counterattack, the Burmese and British territories are irreparable.

Therefore, General Terauchi, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, began to order the staff to come up with a counterattack plan. A small devil division in Siam had already set off to reinforce the small devils in Mawlamyine for defense.

Now Mawlamyine has become a place that the Southern Army must defend.

Faced with these calculations behind the scenes of the high-level officials of both sides, Gao Jianwu simply ignores them now. He just defeated the 15th Army and gained such a large territory. It takes time to digest it, so he is not in a hurry to attack Mawlamyine.

The terrain of Mawlamyine itself is also easy to defend and difficult to attack. The north is surrounded by mountains and dense forests. It can only be attacked along the coastline, which is quite beneficial to the defensive side. Even if he attacks now, he will have to pay a huge price.

But on the other hand, if he takes a defensive position and seals off the narrow strip of seaside adjacent to Mawlamyine, it won't be easy for the little devil to come with a few divisions.

Now Gao Jianwu has taken over the four provinces of Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway and Pokkok and most of Zen State, which is almost half of the Burmese-British Dependency.

The copper mine in the area designated by Gao Jianwu has been explored, and the scope of the mine has been preliminarily determined. The construction of roads for mining and the construction of large-scale smelters have begun, and large-scale exploration of the mountainous area in the north of Mandalay has also begun. It won't be long before new mines will be discovered.

According to Gao Jianwu's vague memory, there should be two nickel mines with rich reserves over there.

You must know that this is one of the most urgently needed resources for Gao Jianwu. Even after these two mines are discovered, Gao Jianwu may not be able to monopolize them. Daiying and Meili also need such strategic resources, but as the discoverer and owner , he should have a relatively large share in it.

Considering the shortage of electricity here, Gao Jianwu even began to export 500KW hydroelectric generators to sell to mining companies, using the abundant water resources here to start the construction of large-scale cascade hydropower stations.

In order to transport these hydroelectric generators, Gao Jianwu took Smith's channel and transported 8 sets of hydroelectric generators by air, each set costing 15 oceans. The factory earned back several years of profits, and became the first foreign trade transaction made after the Jin land was seized.

Of course, the electricity generated by these small hydropower plants is not only for copper smelting, but also provides electricity in Mandalay, Sammana, Dagon, Ryanjang and other places. In this company, the capital from Nanyang accounted for 60%, while Gao Jianwu’s Nanyang investment was only 35%, and the other 5% was reserved for the local government office in Dechen Dengpei, and they did not need to pay a penny. This part of the benefit can be shared.

From the current point of view, this transaction is a win-win result.After millions of Nanyang capital flowed into these places, a large number of employment opportunities were created for the locals.Before the war was over, there was already a small wave of prosperity here.

This gave Dechen Dengpei's organization a higher prestige in the local area and created better conditions for them to take over the territory laid down by the expeditionary army group led by Gao Jianwu. Jianwu has lost the dominant position in the territory laid down by Jianwu, and can only watch Deqin Dengpei's organization continue to grow.

The stable colonial system established by the British in the Burmese and British territories was constantly collapsing. Apart from allowing their British and Indian troops to enter Ren'anqiang to keep the oil fields, Gao Jianwu temporarily did not allow them to enter other places. Let Deqin Dengpei's All-Independent People's Army be responsible for local security.

On the vast Zenbang plateau, Chanbang and Wabang began to learn from Dechen Dengpei and established their own small organizations to also take over local security and people's livelihood, which greatly disintegrated the chieftain management system and began to approach modern society.

In order to develop the local economy and improve the backwardness of slash-and-burn farming in some local areas, these new forces in Chan State and Wa State did not need Gao Jianwu to speak out at all, so they took the initiative to request the Nanyang Business Group to carry out mineral exploration and development in the Chan State area and control it. The prosperity and development route under him is now also seen by them.

In order to solve the problem of a stable supply of rubber, Gao Jianwu started to promote rubber plantations in the southern part of the British territory of Myanmar. Now the base for planting natural rubber is still in Mawlamyine. Gao Jianwu can’t reach it in the short term, so he can only open new plantations in the south base.

A large-scale rubber plantation with 10 acres planned and 5 acres to be planted recently has entered the stage of land enclosure implementation under the promotion of Nanyang Investment.

Although Gao Jianwu did not personally handle these matters, in secret, Gao Jianwu took this as his most important matter to handle through the Nanyang Working Group.

On the contrary, like the reorganization and training of the expeditionary army group, Gao Jianwu was very relieved to let Ding Wei, Chu Yunfei, Xu Shida and Zhang Dabiao take care of it. After so many victories, the high-level leaders of these expeditionary army groups have a deeper understanding Gao Jianwu's view that firepower is king.

Now it is not only training infantry-gun coordination, infantry-tank coordination, but even air-ground coordination. Now that Ren'anqiang has been captured, there is no shortage of fuel supply. The 7 tank battalions have released training, and the air force also has daily training. Although it takes a lot of damage to the equipment to take off the combat training mission.

However, Gao Jianwu himself needs to train a strong tank and fighter jet logistics support team. This time, he happened to use the logistics support system provided by the Allied Forces to train his own people to ensure that the tanks and fighter jets lying in the nest every day can be quickly repaired and put into actual combat. middle.

With the logistical support paid for by the Allies, after more than a month of training for the entire expeditionary force group, their collaborative combat capabilities began to mature, and they quickly transformed from individual mountain guerrilla fighters into a new army with modern system combat capabilities.

During this transformation process, Ding Wei and Chu Yunfei felt more strongly.In their view, after a new generation of infantry coordination with infantry and tank coordination and air-ground coordination, the combat effectiveness of the troops has improved by leaps and bounds.

Whether it is artillery or tanks and air force fighters, they have now become the protagonists of the battlefield.

According to Ding Wei and Chu Yunfei's war game deduction, if we take the Little Devils as the background, now they have an attack group plus 2 heavy artillery regiments and 2 tank battalions plus 10 fighters. Crush a division of little devils!
Whether Ding Wei or Chu Yunfei came to serve as the commander of the Little Devils Division A Division, it will not change this result, especially the air strike with air superiority is too lethal. Using the air force to destroy the Little Devils Division The heavy equipment of the regiment should not be too strong.

Under the attack of 10 fighter planes, a heavy artillery wing may not even have a chance to support a round of attack.A position of twelve heavy artillery, under the bombardment of 500-pound heavy aerial bombs by Mustang fighter jets, may be completely scrapped if it really can't withstand twenty.

After losing artillery support, the two heavy artillery regiments, whether they were 48 150mm howitzers or 72 105mm howitzers, did far more damage to infantry and general fortifications than [-] light infantry could.

If coupled with the advance of the tank's meat shield and the coordination of infantry and tanks, it will not be too easy for a main battalion and a tank battalion to fight a small devils unit without heavy artillery support!

After many war games, Ding Wei and Chu Yunfei had to admit that a new era has arrived.Especially who owns the air force is the ultimate battlefield master.

This discovery made Chu Yunfei a little lonely at first. In his concept, the inherent idea that the army is the king has been completely broken now.

But then Chu Yunfei also felt very lucky. He had the opportunity to follow Gao Jianwu to the Burmese-British territory, so that he could keep up with the development of the times.

According to the current configuration of the expeditionary army group, a main battalion plus a tank battalion would be enough to beat the 358 regiment that he was proud of to the ground.If another 75mm howitzer battalion is added, it is not surprising that the battle loss ratio is 3:1 or higher.

If 5 Mustang fighter jets are added, nothing to say, his 358th regiment, in addition to being reduced to a background board for the opponent's record, may cause triple-digit casualties to the opponent.

The modern air force, artillery and tanks are too lethal for an army dominated by pure infantry.

According to Gao Jianwu's words, this is an absolute superiority strike with a generation gap.

If he hadn't experienced it on the ground, Chu Yunfei would not have believed that foreign armies had grown to this level.

Thinking of the little devil division, which in Chu Yunfei's eyes, is very outdated, it can still kill the Quartet in the country, making the national army frightened.Chu Yunfei also had a bitter meal in his heart.

Now that he has gone with Gao Jianwu, he feels that he can't go back.

Although Chu Yunfei still doesn't quite understand what Gao Jianwu is doing in the Burmese-British territories, he knows that these things will greatly enhance our own strength.

Although the allied forces provided them with a lot of weapons and ammunition support, Chu Yunfei knew very well that these were nothing but illusions. Once there were some changes in the middle, all of these would not exist, and at that time maybe The two sides will still be enemies.

So what is in your hands is the real thing, and everything Gao Jianwu does now revolves around these things.

So even if Chu Yunfei is very urgent to drive the little devil away from here, especially he also wants to go north to open a way for the brothers of the National Army Expeditionary Army over there.

But considering Gao Jianwu's own arrangements, Chu Yunfei still didn't say anything, and just threw himself into his troop training with all his heart and soul, improving his combat effectiveness.

Because the little devil is not idle, in Mawlamyine, the Burmese and British troops have been coming continuously, and a big battle is about to break out again.

And this time, it will not be facing a division of the little devils, who can be easily crushed, and the little devils who have suffered a big loss, this time will inevitably deploy the main force at once.Every attack group is about to face a real little devil division.

What follows is no longer a war game that can be overthrown and restarted, but a real and cruel battle.

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