The entire plan is quite large and complex.
First, in view of the large-scale air raids carried out by the Tang Army before landing, Mirugo Erlang and Army General Mirage Roku deployed on the new island decided to do the opposite and directly disperse the main forces in the most advantageous areas. Near the southern position of the island where the Tang army may have landed.
The advantage of this is that even if the road is destroyed, even if the Tang Army paratroopers are caught by surprise, they can still ensure that they have strong forces to fight the Tang landing troops near the beach.
After all, this time is almost a decisive battle between the two countries. It is the decision of General Mirage Sixteen to invest as many troops as possible.
In addition, Mirage Takejiro is responsible for the defense of the deep areas of New Island. His 3rd Corps, which suffered heavy losses, and the 300,000 miscellaneous troops temporarily recruited on the new island will be responsible for the combat mission of annihilating the Tang paratroopers.
They are scattered throughout the island. No matter where the Tang Army paratroopers are dropped, nearby troops can be dispatched in time to tangle with the paratroopers who have just landed.
In addition, relying on the hidden field airports and dense anti-aircraft guns on the islands, Mirage Shiliu is confident that air superiority will not be easily lost. His Zero fighter jets can also take off continuously, maintaining a threat to enemy sea and air forces.
In order to support the new island operations, the Mirage Kingdom deployed more than 600 aircraft here. This number is not small, and it is almost all the wealth that the Mirage Kingdom can produce.
Of these many aircraft, at least 170 were prepared for suicide attacks. There were many new pilots on the island. Their training level was very low, but they were determined to dedicate everything to the Mirage.
At the same time, the Mirage Navy will secretly deploy a batch of suicide speedboats on the east and west sides of the new island. These speedboats are almost the so-called trump card of Mirage.
If the landing fleet of the Tang Empire appears in the south of the island as expected, then the suicide speedboat force of the Mirage Navy will launch a suicide attack after dark and severely damage the Tang Army fleet.
In short, after forcing back the opponent's fleet, Mirage Shiliu was sure to use his strength advantage to defeat the Tang Army's landing force on the beach and win a staged victory in the battle.
He didn't know if the Tang army would give up, but he felt that as long as he could defeat the Tang army's two attacks in a row, it would be possible to force the Tang army to break up and get a chance to breathe.
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The tactics of the Tang Army are also very simple. As the saying goes, one force can defeat ten groups. Giving full play to the absolute advantages of its own tactical weapons and equipment has been Tang's consistent fighting style.
In fact, in the past few months, the Tang State has not been idle. The Tang State's huge public opinion machine has been at full capacity, publicizing the Mirage's breach of contract by using mines in naval battles and land mines in land battles.
Countries around the world are signatories to the "Prohibition of the Use of Inhumane Weapons" treaty. This treaty includes many types of weapons, including white phosphorus bombs, landmines, sea mines and other weapons pioneered by the Tang Empire.
Obviously, Mirage defaulted.
It is indeed a comedy for the Tang Empire, which was the first to initiate the war, to accuse the Mirage of breach of contract. But this is an accusation made by the Tang Empire. Who dares not to treat it carefully?
After more than ten days of quarreling in the media, and after the Tang Empire showed the battlefield videos and dismantled landmines and sea mines as evidence, fewer and fewer countries came out to persuade the Datang Empire to forget it.
The Mirage Kingdom also knows that it cannot defend itself: in fact, it was them who did it, and they cannot slander it. In the end, they simply adopted the attitude of "I just did it, what can you do to me?"
As a result, the Tang State officially announced the launch of the revenge mechanism and retained the power to punish defaulters. However, the propaganda machine of the Tang Empire confidently announced that the Tang Empire would not use prohibited weapons to retaliate against the Mirage.
This is tantamount to announcing to the outside world that they will not use banned white phosphorus bombs to retaliate against the mirage: other countries praised the moral level of the Tang Empire amidst cheers and applause.
In fact, they also want to see how many secret weapons the Tang Empire has besides white phosphorus bombs: If the Tang Empire cannot come up with weapons similar to white phosphorus bombs, then countries must carefully consider the use of landmines and sea mines. The price-performance ratio of weapons is an issue.
The next thing was simple. As a matter of course, the Tang Air Force began to mount various types of bombs that they had been producing but had not used on their flying fortresses and H-6 bombers on the South Island.
Because the Flying Fortress bombers are relatively old, they all carry napalm bombs; the H-6 bombers are advanced and carry new cloud explosive bombs.
These two types of bombs have different functions and powers, but they are indeed quite terrifying weapons. According to the plan, the Tang Army will carry out carpet bombing on the entire new island five times, using various new bombs to renovate it.
Some air force generals even suggested using the not-so-clean new bombs in the Tang Empire's arsenal to teach the goblins of the Mirage a chemistry lesson. So that these defaulting goblins know the importance of knowing what a gas mask is!
The plan is still in the approval stage, and Loew is still considering the overall impact of chemical weapons on warfare. However, many personnel feel that it can be used in several mirage cities on the new island, so that the powerful force of the Tang Empire can be demonstrated with shocking effects.
Anyway, there is no similar ban in this world. Based on the "genius idea" of using enough at one time and then pulling everyone to ban chemical weapons, the senior officials of the Tang Empire actually have no psychological pressure on the use of chemical weapons.
Before the Tang Empire assembled its fleet, the Tang Air Force took off a total of 100 Flying Fortresses and used napalm bombs to bomb various targets on the new island.
Napalm ignited almost all of the Mirage coastline positions all the way to the woodland farmland behind them. The fire was burning all the time, and the Mirage defenders on the position were miserable and suffered heavy losses.
Although Mirage tried their best to put out the fire, compared with the scale of the arson, their efforts seemed to be a drop in the bucket.
The fire burned all day and was still not put out at night. By the light of these fires, the Flying Fortress took off again, dropping more napalm bombs.
Then the fire burned like this until dawn. The area with the biggest flames was several stories high. Thick smoke rolled and covered the sky. Everything around it was covered with black ash, so dark that it was impossible to recognize it.
A Mirage tank was parked next to the flames, and everything that could burn inside and outside had already been burned away. All that was left of it was a twisted shell, which was frighteningly red against the flames.
The soldiers who had no time to retreat had already been burned to charcoal, and the positions they had constructed were completely burnt to the point of being burned. There was thick smoke billowing everywhere, and after a day and night of running around, the Mirage's garrison finally decided to abandon some areas.
Who knew that at noon that day, the Tang Army's napalm bombs would come again: thousands of similar bombs were dropped directly into some cities on the new island, and these cities quickly turned into a sea of flames.
In the afternoon, jet bombers carrying cloud explosion bombs attacked another coastal defense position of the Mirage Kingdom. The cloud explosion bombs caused great damage to the Mirage Army hiding in the bunker, which was surrounded by wind and noise.
Many people inside were directly shocked to death, and many others died in the bunker due to lack of oxygen. The soldiers who narrowly escaped suffered a nervous breakdown and were dumbfounded looking at the fire in the distance.
Mirage Sixteen also did not expect that the Tang Army's special bombs could cause such huge damage to the defense fortifications he had established. He could only stare blankly at the positions that had lost their appearance, and then desperately asked the air force why they didn't intercept the enemy's attack.
In fact, he wronged his own air force: the records of that day showed that because they were not targeted for attack, the Mirage Army flew a total of 330 aircraft sorties in an attempt to intercept Tang bombers.
But apart from the downing of more than 30 Zero fighters by the J-6, the interception by the Mirage Air Force had no results. This is also fully consistent with the data report of the Tang Army that day: records show that only one Flying Fortress of the Tang Army malfunctioned and crashed into the sea that day. All pilots were picked up by destroyers cruising nearby, and no one was killed.
In the next few days, the Tang army did not organize any new large-scale bombings, but the fire on the new island burned for five consecutive days before it reluctantly stopped.
After the fire was almost extinguished, almost all the villages and cities in Mirage Kingdom had been burned to the ground. There were only a few buildings and trees left, and the sky above the entire island was filled with black smoke.
Even some ashes floated to the South Island, filling the air with the unpleasant smell of burning. In those days, everyone's nostrils were filled with black ash, and they even had to wear masks when going out.
Mirage's envoys in other countries started crying to countries all over the world about Tang's cruel methods on the third day. They described this bombing as absolutely horrific, and completely lost the arrogant attitude they had before. What can you do to me?
The whole farce has been going on, but the Tang Empire's bombing of the new island fortifications has just begun.
Two days later, a new round of bombing by the Tang State started as planned: it was still napalm bombs, a large number of napalm bombs. This time, even H-6 only carried napalm bombs, which were no different from ruins when used to bomb them. Cities and villages.
The fire started again and the new island was now a veritable "Fire Island". The Mirage's defense line was reduced to nothing in the fire, and what was barely left was almost unusable.
It was originally a wooden structure, hidden in the dense forest... Now the position was burned bare, and the wooden structure bunkers and fortifications had also been damaged.
It is almost impossible to start over from the beginning, because Ming Haiping has received the exact news that the huge fleet from Beiyuan and Linshui has left the port, and the Tang Empire's second landing operation has begun!
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I still owe you 16 chapters...
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