Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 281 To defend or to attack, this is a fatal question (two-in-one ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Okay, everyone, the little devils in Mawlamyine's Burmese-British front army have reinforced two reorganized divisions, a heavy artillery brigade, and an independent mixed brigade. Next, our expeditionary army group will face the four little devils' divisions. Another attack by three brigades, what do you guys think about the next big battle?" Dagon Frontline Command, General Gao Jian, and all the senior generals of the current expeditionary force group were summoned.

Ding Wei, Chu Yunfei, Kong Jie, Xu Shida, Zhang Dabiao, Lu Xingguo, Sun Desheng, Lu Fan and Liu Shiqiang.

The generals of the five attack groups and one left-behind attack group and the three powerful arms of the air force, artillery and tanks were all present.

This is the most orderly gathering of the leaders of the expeditionary force group since the war in the Burmese-British territories.

Looking at the entire two rows of warriors, not only did they not show a trace of fear when they heard that the five divisions were facing the little devil, but each of them showed their eyes like seeing a piece of fat.Gao Jianwu couldn't help but feel proud.

Once upon a time, if the little devils had gathered such a strong force, they would have been able to push all the way in their own country. Even in the face of hundreds of thousands of national troops, they would advance arrogantly and win.

But how long has passed now, in less than half a year, Gao Jianwu has brought 5 soldiers who came empty-handed, and after battles, he has become famous, and at the same time, he has made these generals and soldiers under his command confident.

"The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, this time we will eat this big meal." Chu Yunfei took the lead to speak, "According to the strength of the little devil's southern army, if we eat up his four divisions in one go Another three brigades, they are already injured, and then we can consider a strategic counterattack on this peninsula."

Chu Yunfei is worthy of being a high-achieving student born in Whampoa, and he has seen more things than he is now.

"Brother Yunfei is right," Ding Wei interjected. "If we eat up this little devil's heavy army group, the Southern Army will no longer be able to organize such a large-scale battle. There are only two divisions at most in the surrounding colonies, which will not be able to stop our attack. The choice of attack at that time The power is completely in our hands. It depends on where we need to fight.”

Ding Wei meant something, except for Kong Jie who came to participate in Gao Jianwu's big event and learned about it, among the others, only Chu Yunfei had a vague guess.

But these things are very good for the nation, so he didn't pay attention to them at all, as if he didn't know about them, Chu Yunfei had changed a lot before he knew it.

The matter of Qiangong and Chanbang Wabang is now on such a large scale, Gao Jianwu's mining business is starting to get on the right track, and Chu Yunfei is not blind, he already understands many things without saying anything.

"It seems very good that everyone already knows the significance of what we are going to do. If we win this battle well, we will create a new world. Next, let's see how we can win this battle." Gao Jianwu took over Huatou.

"We have fought all the way to attack the little devil's territory. We have fought a lot of tough battles. This time we will let the little devil try our defensive counterattack. Mawlamyine is the place where the little devil has been operating for a long time. If the little devil's army is entangled Fighting desperately here, we can't use our forces, especially the artillery and tanks, and the attack on Mawlamyine may cause heavy casualties, so we wait for them to attack, and we lay our pockets."

After Gao Jianwu proposed his own strategy, everyone started a buzzing discussion for a while.

Defensive counterattacks, surrounding points and assisting are everyone's forte.As soon as Gao Jianwu explained his thinking, everyone began to choose battlefield and tactical methods.

As Gao Jianwu said, this battle needs to fully display the power of the artillery, tanks and air force in order to fight beautifully, annihilating the little devils while minimizing casualties.

If it is purely infantry competition, due to the huge disadvantage of the two sides in terms of strength, it is difficult for the expeditionary army group to fight and consume.

"The part near the coast to the south of the wave valley is a silted plain. The terrain is soft and not suitable for mechanized troops to fight, so we must avoid fighting the enemy in this area. The best terrain is to expand the terrain near the wave valley city. It is dominated by hills, and the roads are relatively developed.

It is also very convenient for tanks and cannons to maneuver. For the Air Force, it is relatively close to Shanmana and Dagon, and it is completely covered by the range of Air Force fighter jets.

We deployed a defense line across the Xidan River in the valley to show weakness, lured the little devils to attack, and then gradually retreated, lured the devils' large troops across the river, and used the tank troops and the main force of the air force as fists to cooperate with an attack group to cut off their passage. A large siege will come to the bridge area of ​​the Xidan River, and the bridge of the Xidan River can be blown up if necessary. "

After Gao Jianwu and others discussed for a while, he pointed to the map and said to everyone.

"This time, what we want to do is to defeat first and then win, let the little devils see hope first, and after attracting the big troops, we will suddenly cut off their rear, encircle them and wipe them out in the valley.

Of course, the enemy we are facing this time is very powerful, and we must be mentally prepared to fight hard and hard battles.According to my preliminary idea: the first attack group will try to establish a solid defensive position near the trough and attract the enemy to attack.

The second and third attack groups formed two fists to undertake the task of raiding and cutting off the little devil's retreat.

The fourth and fifth attack groups will form a strategic reserve and mobile force behind the first attack group, ready to fight at any time.

In order to enhance the attack power of each assault group, the first battalion of tanks and the second battalion of tanks were strengthened to the first assault group.

The 3rd Tank Battalion was reinforced to the Second Attack Group, and the 4th Tank Battalion was reinforced to the Third Attack Group.

The 5th Tank Battalion was strengthened to the Fourth Attack Group, and the 6th Tank Battalion was strengthened to the Fifth Attack Group.The 7th Tank Battalion is deployed in the Po Valley as a reserve team, ready for mobile operations! "

"In terms of artillery, the First Heavy Artillery Regiment and the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment were deployed near Pogu City to provide long-range artillery fire support for the defensive positions of the first attack group. main force.

As for the air force, we are trying to get the allied air force to deal with the little devil's flying team. The main combat mission of the air force is to destroy the heavy firepower of the little devil's heavy artillery brigade and the artillery regiments of each division. The second is to disperse the little devil's troops Bombing, providing air fire support for various assault groups. "

Gao Jianwu drew a big circle of his idea on the map, and then drew the deployment of troops to form defensive points one after another. Among the six attack groups of the expeditionary force group, except for the sixth attack group as the left-behind force, they were scattered to The key cities such as Monywa, Mandalay, Shanmana, and Dagon, and the rest of the strength Gao Jianwu directly concentrated in the frontier of Po Valley, which is close to Mawlamyine.

The little devils had no way out in this battle, if they didn't come to attack according to Gao Jianwu's plan, then Gao Jianwu wouldn't mess with them either, so everyone just looked at each other across the Xidan River.

Now Gao Jianwu has occupied most of the resources he wants.So he was in no hurry.

If the battle cannot be fought, his troops will continue to train and their combat effectiveness will also increase day by day.Especially the tanks, the Yun army and the Kong army have made great progress. When these two forces mature, their combat effectiveness will be even more astonishing.

Now everyone has not realized the decisive role of the Air Force from the bottom of their hearts, but Gao Jianwu is different.He is now putting all the essence that can be drawn from Jindi on the construction of the air force.

More than a month later, the number of pilots who received Mandalay from Shanxi has increased by more than 30. Lu Xingguo and his team's record in the Burmese and British territories is the best advertisement. The enthusiastic students have played a very big role as a model.

Now more and more passionate young people are defecting to Jindi. Everyone wants to join the expeditionary army group in the second theater to make contributions in foreign countries. There are as many as three to 400 people who intend to defect to become pilots.

Of course, those who meet the requirements are not that high, but more than 100 qualified members were selected there to start training, and more than 30 of them had flying experience were sent directly to the front line of Mandalay. to train.

This is especially true for artillery and tanks. Five, 600 professional members have been transported here one after another, and they are devoted to the training of tanks and artillery.

Obviously, if Gao Jianwu achieves new results, then the next round of big openings against the Allied Lions will begin again.

Not to mention too much, it should be reasonable to build two more tank battalions.It is difficult to expand the artillery, after all, the logistics of the artillery is already under great pressure.

The logistics of a heavy artillery are much more complicated than that of a company or two.The current range of trucks used in Myanmar is also very limited. There are no roads for you to walk in many places. For heavy artillery, this is a very troublesome thing.

Therefore, heavy artillery is generally only used in places with roads and near big cities, which greatly limits its combat range.

Fortunately, Gao Jianwu can't use heavy artillery, and the same is true for little devils. In many places, Gao Jianwu's mortars equipped with a large number of infantry have played a huge role. Their fast maneuverability in mountains is completely deadly for little devils. hit.

If it is a completely mountainous operation, the number of mortars owned by a main battalion far exceeds that of a regiment of little devils, so even if there are fewer heavy machine guns than a regiment of little devils, there are mortars and Bazu With the rocket launcher, a main battalion will not be weaker than the Little Devils in terms of firepower.

The only disadvantage is the dependence on logistics, especially the preparation and consumption of ammunition is a huge number. If there is no mechanized logistics support, the continuous combat capability is quite poor.

You must know that the shells that each soldier can carry with manpower are very limited. If these mortars have no shells, they are nothing.

Therefore, Gao Jianwu has been doing internal operations all the time, relying on his own rear logistics support.Quite different from his erratic fighting style in the Jin area, he fought step by step in every battle in the Burmese and British territories, and rarely let troops penetrate the enemy's rear to fight on a large scale.

Everyone listened very carefully to Gao Jianwu's speech. After all, everyone now knows that Gao Jianwu almost never misses in every battle.This is very telling.

No matter what outsiders say about Gao Jianwu, in the expeditionary army group, no general will ignore every deployment of Gao Jianwu.

Even Chu Yunfei, who is proud and arrogant, is convinced by Gao Jianwu now.

This is the prestige that is really achieved by the record.

So after the combat meeting, everyone split up and prepared according to Gao Jianwu's deployment. Among them, the most difficult task is Ding Wei's first attack group. They will build a large number of tunnel positions near the wave valley, both as a defensive measure and as a way to attract the enemy. The bait to attack.

If these tunnels were all dug by the first attack group themselves, it would of course be a huge project, but Gao Jianwu would not be so stupid.With a large amount of resource support from the Allied Forces, Gao Jianwu directly recruited local workers for construction.

Dechen Dechenpei played a role at this time. It took almost no effort to pull up a tunnel construction team of more than 5000 people. Work under the command and supervision of the professional engineer team for the tunnel construction of Wei No. [-] Attack Group.

Since the threshold is set according to the workload, the settlement of wages is settled according to the workload every day, so these builders have no chance to be lazy.

Instead, everyone does their best to earn their own wages. You must know that at this time, grain, salt and sugar are all hard currencies.

General Kimura and Chief of Staff Shimoda received the information, and the two couldn't help but look at each other in blank dismay. It was obviously unexpected for the group of expeditionary forces to come.

"Shimoda-kun, is the expeditionary army group planning to confront us here for a long time?" General Kimura was a little puzzled.

"Your Excellency, the enemy's move is indeed beyond our expectations. I can't think of what they want to do for the time being." Chief of Staff Shimoda Saku and General Kimura had always thought that the expeditionary force group was about to attack Mao in the past discussions. Tammian launched an attack. After all, their attack power was very sharp, and before the reinforcements arrived, their advantage was very obvious.

But until the reinforcements came up, the other party did not find any signs of attacking Mawlamyine.

As if turning a blind eye to them.

General Kimura and Shimoda were very confused by this scene situation.

"It's a headache. We were ready to be attacked, but they gave up. This..." General Kimura sighed. They had built a lot of solid fortifications in Mawlamyine.

has turned Mawlamyine into a huge defensive battlefield.Just wait for the expeditionary army group to come to attack and bury them here, but now it seems that the expeditionary army group has no intention of attacking at all.

It's like a person who takes off his pants but tells others that it's inconvenient today.

Who can stand this?

"Oh, Your Excellency General, they can afford to wait, but we can't." After pondering for a while, Chief of Staff Shimoda Tsukuru sighed and continued, "The Southern Army has mobilized all the military forces that can be mobilized. We are here Annan, Malay, and Luzon have deployed local troops to prepare for this battle, and now the troops there are empty, and if there is any change, it will be difficult for us to deal with it."

"So the expeditionary army group can wait, we can't afford to wait!"

"Shimoda-kun, what do you mean, we will take the initiative to launch an attack this time?" General Kimura's eyes flickered, obviously he had thought about this possibility for a long time.

It's just that the past record of the expeditionary army group is too amazing, General Kimura simply can't make up his mind to attack.In his view, if he can lure the opponent to attack his position, then his chances of winning are much greater. After all, he has been operating in Mawlamyine for a long time, not only in terms of defense, but also in mastering the local topography and landforms, and even There are great advantages in controlling people's hearts.

Just like a football game, he feels like he is playing at home in Moulmein Kimura, while going to Po Valley is obviously an away game scene.

"I'm afraid we have to do this, Your Excellency, we can stay here for a month, two months or even three months, but it is difficult for us to exceed half a year. Our situation in the Pacific battlefield is really bad, almost every day Bad news is coming, and according to this trend, even Luzon Island will be attacked by the Allied forces in less than half a year."

"The Southern Army Command will never allow this force to stay in Mawlamyine for a long time. If we cannot make contributions, then this force will retreat. By that time, obviously, the Burma-British Front Army will no longer exist. .”

After listening to Chief of Staff Shimoda's words, General Kimura shrank his eyes. Of course he knew what Chief of Staff Shimoda meant. If the Burmese-British Front Army ceased to exist, then the commander-in-chief of the Front Army would lose its reason for existence.

General Kimura has already experienced the feeling of being in charge of power alone, and he will never be willing to lose it so easily.

"Shimoda-kun, if we take the initiative to attack, what do you think will have a chance of winning?" General Kimura asked.

"Your Excellency, according to my deduction, we can only have a [-]% to [-]% certainty of victory if we go all out and put all our eggs in one basket." Obviously, Chief of Staff Shimoda has seriously considered the issue of General Kimura before, and carefully calculated Pass.

"According to my analysis of the previous battle situation and the intelligence data of the other party collected recently, frankly speaking, I personally think that there is no 2:1 force advantage, and we can't beat them at all, because of the configuration of their weapons and equipment in the battalions and companies of the grassroots troops. It far surpasses our squadron and brigade.”

"A company of them, which is our squadron level, is equipped with 9 light machine guns, 60 9mm mortars, 3 81mm mortars and 3 bazooka rockets. Garand rifles, a company has more than 200 people, and its firepower far exceeds that of our squadron, at least two squadrons are needed to have the possibility of victory."

It seems that after being beaten a lot, the little devil has also learned to be a human being, and began to collect military information on the opponent honestly.Such military information itself is not too secret, as long as the little devil is willing to inquire, he will soon be able to inquire.

"At the battalion level, it has surpassed the concept of only taking three companies to form an infantry battalion, but it is composed of six companies, with three infantry companies as the basis, plus 3 mortars with 3mm mortars Company, an anti-tank company with 12 81mm anti-aircraft guns, and a machine gun company with 12 heavy machine guns, and has the ability to call artillery support and air support."

"I have assessed that such a main battalion is no longer something we can compete with as a single brigade. If we want to attack such an infantry battalion, we must send an infantry brigade with a mountain artillery squadron and an infantry artillery squadron. With a machine gun squadron, we can suppress each other in terms of firepower."

General Kimura understood the words of Shimodasaku's chief of staff. According to Shimodasaku's idea, there is no need to over-pursue the number of infantry, but the firepower must not be weaker than the opponent. But after a brigade strengthens the heavy firepower of a wing Therefore, using the mountain artillery and the 81nd infantry artillery to deal with the opponent's 37mm mortar and [-]mm anti-aircraft artillery has a relatively high chance of winning.

But to strengthen the brigade according to the method of Shimoda Saku, this is already a unique strengthening in the history of the Little Devils Army.

In fact, on the other hand, it is to directly kick out part of the infantry in the wing to simplify it. In such a battle, the number of pure infantry has lost its meaning.

This is a major move in the formation of troops.It completely overturned Xiaotian's previous combat experience and military regulations.

But after this adaptation, will it be possible to win the expeditionary army group?

General Kimura expressed his doubts. If such a simple change can defeat the expeditionary army group, then wouldn't the jade fragments of the previous divisions be in vain.

But what if it doesn't change?General Kimura is very contradictory. Faced with the current situation, he has actually lost his mind.

In fact, this is already a series of failures, which has brought him huge psychological pressure, causing him to lose the confidence to win. Even if he holds a hundred thousand troops in his hand now, it has not been able to change his mentality.

Under the current circumstances, he could no longer stand another failure. The four reorganized divisions and three brigades he held in his hands were already the last strategic force of the Southern Army.

If he fails again this time, I am afraid that the entire southern army will go from prosperity to decline in his hands, and he, Kimura, will become a big sinner in his childhood.

Therefore, the two thoughts of retreat and attack were constantly rolling in General Kimura's mind, and it was difficult for him to come up with a wise decision.

Shimoda Saku obviously knew this too, so after the receptionist finished making suggestions, he kept silent, but sat there silently thinking about his own affairs.

Frankly speaking, the current situation is beyond his imagination and control.

From a rational point of view, Shimoda Saku would rather choose to retreat to Siam with his entire army at this moment.

After they re-study the Expeditionary Army Group, they will carry out a new round of reorganization of the troops, and then make plans.

That's the way to go.

(End of this chapter)