Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 290 Burning together?You do not deserve
On the way to Saigon, the expeditionary force group encountered no decent obstacles.

"Did the little devil give up struggling?" Gao Jianwu was also very surprised, logically the little devil would not give up like this.

After all, this place was also occupied by them through hard work.

Now the little devils have not discovered and exploited mineral resources in Annan to a large scale. After all, exploration and discovery here is relatively difficult. Now they want to mine, and there is no such condition for a while.

But this is a well-known grain-producing area. During wartime, grain is also a very important strategic material.

So what is the kid doing now?Gao Jianwu was a little confused, but.Due to the continuous aerial reconnaissance, Gao Jianwu is sure that there is no small-scale air force in Saigon.

The main force of the Fifth Flying Division has moved elsewhere.Because the little devils found that their old-fashioned Type 97 fighter jets had no hope of victory in front of Gao Jianwu's p.51d Mustang fighter group.

Rather than sending the record to others, it is better to transfer it to another place.

So even if Gao Jianwu couldn't figure out what the Southern Army's plan was now, he didn't care and continued to move forward.

"Ding, the Second Division, the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 70th Independent Mixed Brigade will arrive in Saigon in eight hours, with a strength of about 29 troops, including a tank wing and a heavy artillery wing."

Gao Jianwu was taken aback by a sudden information prompt.After carefully reviewing the detailed information of the intelligence, Gao Jianwu understood the general plan of the little devil.

This is to prepare to drag myself in Saigon, and then encircle the outside.This time, the little devil dispatched two reorganized divisions and three independent mixed brigades.

Obviously, they had an idea about the three assault groups of the Expeditionary Army Group, which was advancing alone, rather than simply being afraid of the Expeditionary Army Group.

Eight hours is a long time, Jianwu calculated carefully, the little devil will use a division and a brigade to hold himself back for 8 hours, and he doesn't know what kind of position he will set up in Saigon.

With this question in mind, when Gao Jianwu's army approached Saigon, Gao Jianwu suddenly discovered that the little devils did not have a heavily defended position outside Saigon City.

Instead, a few lines of defense were simply deployed, and some barbed wire barriers and bunkers were set up.For the expeditionary army group, such a line of defense is tantamount to having no defense. It does not need heavy artillery to bombard it. It only needs to push the tank battalion in front, crush the barbed wire all the way, and encounter a bunker. No problem, the tank battalion quickly advanced to the outskirts of Saigon.

Gao Jianwu, who followed the vanguard to the outskirts of Saigon, carefully observed the situation on the opposite side.My doubts deepened.

"The little devil is trying to force me to fight a street fight?"

Judging from the observed situation, the whole of Saigon is not surrounded by strong city walls. Compared with the cities in China, there are very few cities surrounded by walls in Nanyang.

It's just that the little devil has set up many obstacles and some defensive facilities at critical places such as intersections and streets.But the strange thing is that Gao Jianwu didn't see many little devils.

That is to say, the little devil did not place the main force on the road in the city block here. . .

Apparently, the little devil was afraid of Gao Jianwu's superior artillery fire.If it is on the bright side.Gao Jianwu and the others will obviously use violent artillery fire to clean them up.Now the artillery configuration of the little devil can't be compared with the expeditionary army group at all.

Confrontation in terms of artillery fire is almost pointless. . .

Looking at the densely packed houses in the distance, Gao Jianwu couldn't help but feel a little headache. He knew in the arbitration that the main force of the little devils had all hid in the houses of these residents.

The little devil has prepared a brutal street fight for him here.

Gao Jianwu frowned. This was a new task, and this time he really felt a little tricky.

Street fighting in the city is the most tragic offensive and defensive tactic no matter what time it is, and the initiator often has the mentality of a decisive battle.At the same time, it is also the best tactical means for the weaker firepower equipment to achieve the limit of one for one.

Even in the new era of Gao Jianwu, the top modern siege troops with many high-tech weapons, facing the defensive militiamen who only use simple weapons such as AKs and bazookas, will still pay a huge price in casualties in urban street battles in order to win. Victory in urban street fighting!
At the same time as this kind of victory, it also means that cities will be destroyed into ruins.

Expeditionary force groups are not currently trained specifically for urban street warfare.So if such a battle was to be forced, Gao Jianwu estimated that the casualties would be very heavy.

He couldn't bear such a fight.

But Saigon was right in front of him, Gao Jianwu couldn't not occupy it, let go of the scattered little devils, but wanted to resolutely destroy them here.

Under the attack of the tank battalion of the expeditionary army group, the little devil's defensive positions outside the city were quickly destroyed one by one, the barbed wire was pulled down, and the bunkers were pulled out one by one.

The three attack groups encircled the whole of Saigon with the momentum of encircling three and missing one.

If the little devils thought they could escape from the gap, they would find three tank battalions waiting for them when they came out.

Gao Jianwu arrived in Saigon in a tank to observe. In the southwest corner of the city, there are densely packed small houses with thatched roofs one after another, leaving many roads in the middle that even jeeps cannot pass through.

Entering a group in such a narrow place, the team's strength cannot be used at all. Just ambush a sniper and a few assaulters, and they can hold a street or an alley.

For the attacker, this kind of terrain is extremely unfavorable for combat, and heavy weapons are basically useless, and light weapons can only be cleared from house to house, so this kind of battle will be the most difficult. It is also the battle that caused the most casualties.

"How many local residents are still here now?" Gao Jianwu observed for a long time, and turned to a middle-aged guide in the local area, who seemed a little familiar, but Gao Jianwu was sure he had never seen it before, but Gao Jianwu didn't think too much about it. asked directly.

"When I heard that there was going to be a war, at least half of the people in the city fled, but half of them stayed here," said the local guide.

After all, the homeland is hard to leave anywhere, and these people must not be willing to abandon it after living here for a long time.Nearly 1 and a half people can run out now.

"Is there a way to let them all escape?" Gao Jianwu then asked.

"We can try." The local guide said, "We can tell them by distributing leaflets that if they come out of the city, we suggest to provide a bag of food for each of their families. With the incentive of this interest, then more People will come out to get food."

The local guide does not seem to be an ordinary person, and he has a very deep insight into the thoughts of these local people.

Gao Jianwu took a deep look at the middle-aged guide.

"My fellow, can I ask what your name is?" Gao Jianwu asked.

"My name is Ruan Aiguo." The middle-aged guide replied.

Gao Jianwu was shocked, and a familiar person appeared in his mind.

"Aren't you an overseas Chinese?" Gao Jianwu asked slowly.

"It's a pity that I'm not an overseas Chinese, but I have the same heart as an overseas Chinese to drive away little devils!" The middle-aged guide replied very naturally.

"I hope that we can get rid of the rule of the colonists here and realize that this place is managed by us independently. On this issue, I hope that the expeditionary force group can fully support us." Ruan Aiguo said with some fanaticism.

Sure enough, he still met them here, but Gao Jianwu had no intention of making friends with these people at all.

This is a group of white-eyed wolves who can't support a family. In Gao Jianwu's heart, this is not a place for him to operate for a long time.

So he has never thought about doing anything here and enclosing this place. Huang Qingyuan and the others only have such a little strength. They can occupy the large grassroots of the new Malaysia and Sumatra, which has exhausted them. manpower and material resources.

To Gao Jianwu, the colony occupied by this piece of French chicken is just a piece of chicken rib. The next step is not easy, but eating it will cause indigestion.

Gao Jianwu does not have so many overseas Chinese to fill these places.Here, he is at best a passer-by.

"My fellow, go find a way to get the local residents to come out. The little devils are hiding in their houses. Once they attack, no one will survive." Gao Jianwu looked at the middle-aged guide and said.

"I can give them 2 hours, and after 2 hours we will launch a violent attack!"

When the middle-aged guide heard Gao Jianwu say this, his heart skipped a beat. "Okay, no problem, we will do everything we can to get the local residents to evacuate."

"Old Kong, Lao Lu, look, how can we take down this city within 8 hours?" Gao Jianwu said to Kong Jie and Lu Fan who had been following him after sending the middle-aged guide away. .

"It's not easy, it's really not easy. Looking at the densely packed urban buildings, our people go in. It's good if we can take down a street one by one in a day." Kong Jie took a puff of his pipe and exhaled a puff of smoke Said.

"It's not me, Lao Kong, who picks the fat and the weak. Fighting in this kind of place is much more difficult than fighting guerrillas in the mountains."

After the home and away games changed, Kong Jie was right.Street fighting in this place is indeed more difficult than guerrilla fighting in mountainous areas.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to use artillery. This place is too big. I don't know how many shells will be used to shoot them all down?" Kong Jie added.

He nodded after listening.He also considered it.For such a large city, to push it all flat requires not only a large amount of weapons and ammunition, but also time.

But now for Gao Jianwu, the most difficult thing is time, he only has 8 hours.It takes 8 hours to wipe out all the little devils here, and then the tactics of defeating each can be realized.

It's just that now it seems that the conventional style of play no longer works.

"Gao Detachment," Lu Fan still used the title of the old leader, "I have an immature idea that can solve the battle quickly. If this idea is a bit cruel."

"Old Lu, let's hear it." Gao Jianwu said.

"I see that almost all the buildings here have thatched roofs, and there should be a lot of flammable materials such as wood used inside. If we find a way to ignite them.

I'm afraid it will soon cause a fire that will sweep through the city.In this case, we will wait outside the city for the little devils to escape and wipe them out one by one. "

set fire?After Gao Jianwu and Kong Jie listened, their eyes lit up.Cruel or not cruel doesn't matter to them.These little devils can't be viewed as adults.

It's just that there are many locals in it.Kong Jie glanced at Gao Jianwu. If this happened in China, it would be absolutely impossible.

But here.
"Prepare 100 rounds of shells mixed with leaflets, type in the leaflets that we will attack in 2 hours, spread them all over the city, and write clearly in both Annan and Guizihua. Everyone must evacuate as soon as possible. The little devils surrendered to the south. The local people leave the city from the west, and if they disobey, they will bear the consequences."

Gao Jianwu was silent for less than 5 seconds before making a decision.

"The rest of the artillery, prepare incendiary bombs. In addition, call the air force through the radio to prepare 20 fighter planes for bombing. In 2 hours, all fighter planes are ready to carry out targeted bombing of Saigon with full load of incendiary bombs!"

Even the expeditionary flight team at Bangkok Airport, Gao Jianwu, also carried out combat deployment through the telegram sent by the front finger. Soon, the expeditionary flight team began to nervously replace a batch of incendiary bombs.

In the city of Saigon, a propaganda team of hundreds of people, as well as leaflets shot into by shells, began to fall into the hands of interested people one after another, and large groups of people began to come out of the city.

Now the cannons outside the city are rumbling, and many people already know it.At this moment, I heard that there will be a war. At that time, cannons will be dispatched to bombard the city.

Many people were also very scared, so they came out together.What's more, the family can get a bag of food when they come out?

So overall, the evacuation work carried out by the middle-aged guide was still very effective.Most of the locals living in the whole city followed them out of the city.

When the time came, Gao Jianwu gave the order to fire the incendiary bomb without hesitation.

They first select a block for a test launch.It only took three incendiary bombs to ignite the houses in this block, and the houses built by these aborigines with a lot of straw, wood and bamboo quickly ignited a fire that soared into the sky.

The little devils guarding this block never dreamed that Gao Jianwu and the others' methods would be so simple and rude in the face of such a city full of fortifications!
One by one, the little devils rushed out of the burning room howling, watching the little devils howling in the sea of ​​flames, Gao Jianwu's heart was like a stone, and he continued to direct the artillery to extend. All the heavy artillery fired incendiary bombs into the depths of the city. The mortars fired small incendiary bombs to destroy the city into ashes step by step.

Those houses built with bamboo wood and hay.A big ignition has no place to hide.

Seeing the soaring fire in the city, the residents of the brigades outside the city were dumbfounded and filled with fear!
Under the publicity of the middle-aged guide and his people, these people came out of the city, perhaps their original intention was just to receive a bag of food.

But this time their greed saved them a life.

Two hours after Gao Jianwu promised, the fleet of the expeditionary force also appeared in the sky above the city on time. As incendiary bombs were thrown down one by one, the whole city began to slowly become a sea of ​​flames.

"Your Excellency, Chief of the General Staff, the entire city is now surrounded by the enemy, and we can't break out. I think the entire fire will be destroyed in the current fire. I'm afraid we will not be spared." Numata Chief of Staff's guard The squadron leader said with a pale face.

Now the entire city is billowing with smoke, and many places are already in flames. Judging by the current trend, the entire city will be engulfed in flames before long.

All the calculations before the war were completely wiped out in this fire.

Chief of the General Staff Numata has calculated thousands of times, but he has not calculated such a result.

He set up the headquarters in the central part of the city, and now facing the fires all over the city, even if the commander-in-chief of the temple left him an escape transport plane, what's the use? The city was completely destroyed.

By the way, tens of thousands of locust troops were buried.

And a lieutenant general, chief of staff of the Southern Army!

A plan to burn jade and rock together has finally achieved a goal, that is, burn the whole city!
With the raging fire in Saigon, within a few hours, Gao Jianwu heard a "ding ding" reminder sound in his mind, obviously the battle was over.

The system took the initiative to settle the settlement for Gao Jianwu according to the scene selection, because at this time, the little devil's reinforcements still had a few hours to go to Saigon.

Gao Jianwu just watched the sea of ​​flames outside the city for several hours, watching many little devils rushing out covered in flames, trying to escape from this area, but unfortunately they had no chance this time.

How could Gao Jianwu give them another chance? He set up the machine gun position in the front, facing the direction of the city densely packed with machine gun fire points!

This time, Gao Jianwu didn't even want the prisoners, and directly ordered the escaped little devils to be shot to death on the outskirts of the city.

In this battle, most of the little devil's main forces were deployed in the city, and they couldn't escape after the fire ignited.

Only some little devils ran out on the edge of the city, but this was a very small part of the little devils, and they couldn't make waves. The machine gun firepower set up on the periphery mercilessly knocked down these enemies!
After he completed this step of lore, Ding Wei and the others also wiped out most of the troops dispersed by the little devil's 37th Division and 34th Brigade around Phnom Penh.

As for the remaining little devils, they are not very large now, and they are opponents reserved for further training by the first and second attack groups of the Free Army.

Ding Wei and his team marched towards Pakse and Kaishan City in the north of Phnom Penh, and their next task was to wipe out the western front of the French Indochina Southern Army!
And Gao Jianwu led the expeditionary army into the group. After solving the defenders in Saigon, he directly assaulted the reinforcements who came from the little devils: led by the second division, mixed the 70th independent mixed brigade and the 29th independent mixed brigade. Attack Legion.

The two armies met in Shun'an in the north. The expeditionary army group with aerial reconnaissance took the lead in confirming the approximate location of the little devil's reinforcements. Gao Jianwu ordered the reconnaissance team to drive a jeep to the location of the little devil's reinforcements, and then observe the location of their artillery wing.

And Gao Jianwu commanded the heavy artillery regiment to establish an artillery position. After the little devil entered the artillery range, according to the coordinate position information fed back by the front-line reconnaissance team, it was quickly reflected with the map in Gao Jianwu's mind to form a whole picture. Take the lead.

In this battle, Gao Jianwu seemed to have returned to the time and space when Jinsui was fighting the little devils. He took the lead in eliminating the threat of the little devils artillery, and then the tank battalion and infantry staged an increasingly proficient infantry coordination. As the tank battalion moved forward, the heavy artillery could still follow them. Conduct extended bombardment.

In the entire encounter, without using air power, Gao Jianwu almost wiped out the little devil's reinforcements from one division and two mixed brigades!

This battle ate up the main force of the Southern Army in French Indochina!
In the entire French Indochina, there is no longer any force that can stop Gao Jianwu and the others.

Gao Jianwu continued northward with the eastern group of the expeditionary force, and penetrated the entire French Indochina along the coastline of Annan.

The speed of Gao Jianwu's march was even faster than the speed of the British and Indian troops picking up garbage and finishing up.

If Gao Jianwu hadn't discovered several valuable rare metal minerals along the way, nickel-manganese and titanium metals, waiting for the Nanyang Haoshang Mining Resources Company to bring people over to receive them, Gao Jianwu would be able to kill the entire Southern Army kid in less than a month. The main force in French Indochina was defeated by the expeditionary army group, and then Annan was penetrated!
However, considering some unexpected gains along the way, Gao Jianwu asked the army to stop and wait, and the Nanyang merchants sent manpower.

Nickel-manganese and titanium metals are good things that Gao Jianwu urgently needs. Taking advantage of the fact that Faji is still under the fence and can't speak, occupying several of their mines for mining is nothing.

The middle-aged guide did his best along the way, allowing Gao Jianwu to enjoy the convenience of being led by local snakes, so Gao Jianwu finally agreed to let them pull up a team of more than 5000 people, armed with the captured little devil's weapons.

After all, Gao Jianwu can't keep the team here now. To ensure the safety of his mine, in addition to the armed mine guard team, middle-aged guides are also needed to protect them.

Gao Jianwu and the others have been advancing furiously all the way, and the expeditionary army clusters have been attacking fiercely and swiftly along the way, and they have already beaten the little devils in the French Indochina of the Southern Army out of psychological barriers!Except for some little devils who escaped into the jungle to escape, most of them didn't even have a chance to surrender. In the end, the little devils in many small places in Annan were frightened and fled into the jungle in advance.

At the same time, it also allowed the middle-aged leaders to establish the impression that the expeditionary army was invincible.They are very clear about the allied forces in Southeast Asia. They have seen them fight, and they have also seen them fail and surrender, but the little devils they once thought were invincible, under the attack of the expeditionary army group, they have no ability to resist at all.

Compared with the Allied Forces, the expeditionary army group is simply a group of war gods possessed!
(End of this chapter)