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Chapter 221: Fighting is not as fast as running (first update, please subscribe)
  Europe's renaissance is inevitable, and this also means that their high-quality assets cannot be acquired completely.

Not only are there endless acquisitions, but the returns are also very high, starting with dozens of times and returning hundreds of times.

After all, those assets are now severely underestimated, and many desperate people even think that Europe will never recover. After all, this war almost razed the entire Europe to the ground.

But sometimes, many people tend to overlook one thing...people are the most important. If you don't see it with your own eyes, who can believe it? They will rise again from the ruins in just a dozen years.

In fact, Li Yian has already started to acquire European assets-ports, shipyards and warehousing facilities. However, these are all to prepare for future large supermarkets.

Just when Li Yi'an started to lay out his business, the "Oboe No. [-]" operation began.

双簧管行动中，盟军总共分6个阶段展开作战：1号行动为登陆打拉根、2号为巴厘巴板、3号为北婆罗洲的山打根，4号为砂劳越、5号南婆罗洲的马辰、6号为爪哇的泗水一带。

For Li Yi'an, the focus is operations 1-5. After completing these five operations, Borneo will almost have the surname Li.

At 8:20 a.m. on September 24, twelve B500 long-range bombers taking off from Borneo finally flew over the beachhead northeast of Kuching. When these planes arrived at the beachhead, they immediately began to drop bombs. For a time, the bombs weighed [-] kilograms of bombs rained down from the sky.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

In the violent explosion, the officers and soldiers in the landing craft saw that the direction of the beach had been completely obscured by gunpowder smoke. Dozens of huge explosions tore apart the crude civil fortifications near the beach, and an unknown number of Japanese soldiers were buried alive in the fortifications.

Before the smoke cleared, the landing craft rushed onto the beach. When the landing craft hatch opened, what greeted the soldiers was not the heavy bullets from the Japanese army, but the choking whistle smoke.

"Quick, quick..."

In the shouts of the officers, the soldiers rushed out of the landing craft like tigers out of the cage and quickly occupied the beach. It was not until they continued to attack in depth towards the beach that they encountered some slight resistance - the Japanese troops guarding the beach, Basically everyone died from bombing and shelling.

The landing operation went very smoothly. The security force that carried out the first landing operation established a firm foothold on the beach at a slight cost of only two people being killed and seven injured, occupying the landing site near the beach, and establishing a basis for the subsequent expansion of the front line. stronghold.

After Li Yi'an learned the news, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. This battle was definitely a waste of time. In order to successfully achieve the goal of encircling and annihilating the Japanese independent mixed 71st Brigade, he personally formulated this battle southeast of Kuching. The battle plan was to land and attack the enemy's rear. At the same time, the second reinforced brigade launched an attack from the front in the direction of Kuching to achieve the purpose of encirclement.

In order to ensure the success of the plan, long-range bombers were also coordinated to bomb the beachhead. Facts have proved that such a devastating blow is worth it.

"Well, according to the intelligence, it is very likely that the Japanese army will deploy all its main forces in the inland areas. Next, each ministry needs to take advantage of the situation to expand its results. Today we will consolidate the beachhead position, and tomorrow we will start moving north along the transportation route towards the airport, and the rest of the troops will Conduct expansion operations west and south of Kuching and advance the front to the outskirts of Kuching."

Everything is planned!
  After defeating Kuching, the next step is Ma Chen!
  "After several landing operations are completed, Borneo will be ours!"

Throwing the pen on the map with some excitement, Li Yian looked at He Zheng and asked.

"How about it, Staff Officer He, can we encircle and annihilate the 71st Brigade in Kuching this time?"

He Zheng seems to have a Tang Dynasty name, but he is actually a blond and blue-eyed San Dezi. He once served as a staff officer under Manstein and participated in many battles on the Eastern Front. Of course, he is also on the Soviet Union's extradition list. However, now However, he served as an advisor to the Borneo Guard Force and helped formulate combat plans. "Chief Li, the key to the problem is whether the Japanese army will break through. This is the most important thing. At present, the most favorable option for the 71st Brigade is to go southwest and join the Japanese army in the Machen area..."

Adjusting his glasses, He Zheng said calmly.

"Yes, they will definitely escape."

Although Colonel He Zheng has experienced the test of war on the Eastern and Western Fronts, the war in Borneo is different from the Western and Eastern Fronts. The terrain here is more complex. Let alone a large regiment of hundreds of thousands of people, there are tens of thousands of troops. It is difficult to carry out combat. Compared with the enemy, the dense virgin forest is the biggest enemy of the troops.

"I think we should try to drive them into the rainforest. The harsh environment of the rainforest will help us defeat them."

He Zheng's suggestion made Li Yian nodded and said.

"The truth is indeed this truth, but..."

Li Yian raised his lips slightly and suppressed his smile. He stared at Kuching on the map and said.

"We always need to wipe out a brigade. At least we should give our army a glorious history."

To completely wipe out a Japanese brigade is something that Li Yi'an has always cherished. Therefore, he participated in formulating a plan to attack from both sides.

However, He Zheng said directly about his idea.

"Mr. Li, your idea is very good, but Masao Baba, commander of the 37th Army, will definitely not let the 71st Brigade be surrounded and annihilated. Compared to Kuching, it is easier for Ma Chen to take advantage of them, and we want to To enter Machen, you have to pass through the dense rainforest. When the time comes, he can completely use the rainforest to ambush our attacking troops."

"That's why we can't give them a chance to retreat. Whether we can retreat or not depends on the speed of our attack. As long as we attack fast enough, they will have no chance to retreat."

Li Yian reminded him specifically.

"However, the offensive must be fierce, but we must also be cautious. Especially, we must pay attention to one thing, the little devil is best at night attacks!"

Facts have proved that the Japs are not only good at night attacks, but also good at night escapes. Late at night on September 37, facing the reality of being attacked from both sides, the commander of the [-]th Army, Masao Baba, who withdrew from Kota Kinabalu to Kuching, faced the Allied Forces. With superiority in land, sea and air, they directly ordered to abandon Kuching and break out in the direction of Machen. Compared to Kuching, Banyan was located inland, at least away from the threat of Allied sea power.

That night, about 71 people from the 56st Brigade and the remnants of the [-]th Brigade, carrying more than [-] foreigners, entered the dense tropical rainforest eastward and began a difficult march through the rainforest.

This will definitely become the choice that Baba Masao regrets most in his life. In the inaccessible virgin forest, towering trees block out the sun, and clusters of shrubs are like large airtight fences, entangled with many climbing wild vines, and the ground is littered with Overgrown grass blocked the march of the army, and what was even more terrible was the malaria and other diseases brought by mosquitoes. In the next month, like a shadow, the tropical rainforest almost swallowed up the army, and even more The worst thing is the aerial bombing. Whenever they light bonfires to cook or disperse the moisture from the rainforest, the smoke will always attract planes from Borneo, and the aircraft will use napalm to help them disperse the moisture from the rainforest. Of course, the cost is that there will be too much moisture on the ground. Make some acquaintances.

Almost a month later, after Masao Baba and his party arrived in Machen after going through all kinds of hardships, less than 95 people were left in the team of nearly [-] people, and the rainforest swallowed the lives of more than [-] people. But in any case, the recovery of Kuching means that North Borneo, Sarawak and Balikpapan have been completely liberated by the Allied forces... Although [-]% of the area here is shrouded in tropical rainforest, this also means that, Borneo can carry out large-scale construction. Although there are occasionally some remaining Japanese stragglers in the rainforest, they are just ringworm and scabies and are not a serious problem.

(End of this chapter)