"What, what kind of trough defense line is the southern expeditionary force group building?" General Montbatten was a little dizzy after hearing the report.
"Aren't they very powerful in attack? Why did they switch to defense? Whose idea was this?"
General Montbatten stood next to the map and compared the reports and re-observed the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and felt very confused. To be honest, he couldn't understand the purpose of Gao Jianwu's move.
Well, in fact, everyone knows that Montbottom's military skills are slightly equal to 0. If he had not had a good background, someone like him would not have the ability to hold the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Southeast Asia Command. If according to his In terms of actual ability, he can't even lead a group, let alone be responsible for one aspect.
Of course, General Montbatten would never admit it.
"John, he is not in his position and does not seek to govern. We should still respect the decisions made by these frontline generals. After all, we here have no idea what the situation is like on the frontline." General Joe Steven, as always Express support for Gao Jianwu’s decision.
"By the way, we need to transport the logistics materials needed to organize the trough defense line to Dagon as soon as possible. With the maritime transportation channel, our transportation costs have been greatly reduced and the speed has also been accelerated. This time we are supplying the expeditionary force cluster. It can be done one month in advance.”
At this point, General Joe Steven was just informing General Montbottom, because these aid supplies came from the beautiful country and had nothing to do with Dai Ying here. In terms of the dispatch of these supplies, General Joe Stevens is the final decision-maker.
Gao Jianwu didn't know that the port of Dagon had been captured this time, and with the strong support of General Joe Stevens, this new round of supplies from the Beautiful Country was quite astonishing.
50 Mustang fighter jets were directly transported by sea transportation, ready to be deployed on the Asian battlefield, as well as 100 tanks, 50 155mm howitzers, and 100 105mm howitzers.
If the original plan is followed, half of these weapons and equipment should be sent to the north. Support the Allied troops on the northern front who are fighting against the 18th Infantry Division. Most of them are British and Indian troops who are like trash!
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"John, you must help me this time. We really need this batch of supplies. Especially in the face of the current war, the supply of this batch of supplies is crucial to us." When Gao Jianwu heard that the port had arrived A large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition.
Without saying anything, he approached Colonel Smith directly.
"Gao, half of these weapons belong to your troops. But the other half belong to the Allied troops fighting in the north. This is something that has been planned. There is no way I can change it." Colonel Smith spread his hands and said There really is nothing you can do.
"No, John, you can change. For our victory, in order to annihilate the Japs in the valley as soon as possible, with this batch of weapons, we can annihilate Mao Danmian's Japs faster and more cleanly!" Gao Jianwu wanted to get this We also worked hard to get weapons.
Originally, he wanted to just let the Japs attack, but if this batch of weapons was assigned to him, Gao Jianwu felt that it didn't matter if he attacked.
His air force has now expanded to nearly 100 pilots, and now only has 30 fighter aircraft for training. If he can get all 50 Mustang fighters, he will achieve an establishment of almost one aircraft per capita. ….
Even though the imitation work of the Mustang fighter has begun in Jinyang Arsenal, producing a fighter plane is more complicated than producing a cannon. Gao Jianwu can pluck wool, of course he hopes to pluck more.
If we can finish the expeditionary force's Southeast Asian campaign, we can collect 100 Mustang fighter jets and go back.
Gao Jianwu was confident that he would go back and directly wage war against the little devils in North China. With the technical advantages of the Mustang fighter, they faced the Japs' Type 97 fighter jets. Gao Jianwu felt that one fight against three of them was more than enough.
Therefore, after having 100 Mustang fighter jets, Gao Jianwu felt that he could gain air superiority over North China. In this case, he launched a strong attack with an attack group consisting of more than 200 tanks and more than 200 heavy artillery, and scattered a dozen or so people in North China.
The divisions that came were really not enough for him to fight.
By that time, I am afraid that only the main force of the Kwantung Army can be dispatched to compete with Gao Jianwu.
It's just that with Mao's dozens of divisions in the Far East watching the little devils, the main force of the Kwantung Army probably dare not move easily. After all, Manchuria is their foundation now, and they already regard it as their own land.
"I can give it a try and apply to General Steven, but there's no guarantee." Colonel Smith was a little out of temper after being pestered by Gao Jianwu, so he could only relent and said.
"John, you have to explain to General Steven that if our expeditionary force group obtains these weapons, we will ensure that all the Japs in Mao Danmian will be wiped out. At the same time, we will go north within a month to completely wipe out the 18th Japs Division. Annihilate in northern Myanmar!" In order to fight for the ownership of these weapons, Gao Jianwu finally showed his pride.
In fact, if Mao Danmian's little devils are annihilated, there will no longer be any military force in the south of the British-Burmese territory that can threaten the expeditionary force cluster. It is reasonable and reasonable for Gao Jianwu to say that as long as he sends two attack groups north to join the siege , the little Japanese's 18th Division will become a turtle in the urn, with no place to escape.
Sure enough, after hearing this assurance, Colonel Smith's eyes lit up.
"If that's the case, I have to go to the Allied Forces Headquarters in person.
I believe General Steven will consider it carefully. After all, for General Steven, only defeating the Japs is the core goal. As for whose hands these weapons and equipment are in, he doesn't care too much.
In other words, it is given to whoever can win the battle. "After getting Gao Jianwu's promise, Colonel Smith dared to come and work hard for it.
"Haha, in the British-Burmese territory, besides our expeditionary force group, who else can fight better than us? It seems that John can leave this matter entirely to you.
I hope that in the next round of transporting weapons to the mainland, four or five transport planes will detour to Jinyang to pick up our selected elite soldiers in Dagong. These are our latest trained artillery and tank troops. I hope these weapons will soon join our battlefield-killing ranks. "
Gao Jianwu immediately hit the snake and followed it with a stick, preparing to get another wave of benefits.
Following these new soldiers, there are also some industrial products produced by the Jinyang factory and some engineering equipment customized by Gao Jianwu for mining. In particular, the second generation of Red Star Motors has come out, and now the three-wheeled vehicle has become a four-wheeled vehicle. The load capacity also exceeds two tons. ….
Of course, considering the carrying space of the transport aircraft, Gao Jianwu did not ask them to transport the entire vehicle, but important parts. Others, such as the carriages, were re-produced and assembled locally, and a kit of 50 vehicles was delivered. , as a test, and it is also the first export of the complete vehicle. The current price is 5,000 yuan per unit, which is acceptable to the businessmen here in Nanyang, but I don’t know whether it can be sold in batches. Gao Jianwu can’t care about that for the time being. If there are too many, let Jinyang Heavy Industry Vehicle Branch send people to do these...
Seeing Gao Jianwu taking advantage of the opportunity to get some things to sell, Colonel Smith also smiled bitterly, but who made him so good at fighting? For the beautiful country, such talents can only be provided.
You must know that if the four divisions of the Little Devils are thrown into the Pacific battlefield, the number of casualties for the US military may increase by at least 20,000 to 30,000.
Gao Jianwu has actually killed these four divisions, and will soon kill another four divisions.
Yes, in Colonel Smith's eyes, the Japs' troops in Mao Danmian were already like a turtle in a urn, a meal on the plate.
Colonel Smith did not consider losing the battle at all.
Although Colonel Smith's trip to the Allied Forces Command had some twists and turns, with Steven's support, Colonel Smith achieved his goal and left all the weapons in Dagong for the expeditionary force to advance. First of all, use.
The Allied Southeast Asia Command was also afraid that Gao Jianwu would not be able to withstand the real pressure from Mao Danmian's four little Japs reorganized divisions and three brigades. Once the Japs were allowed to make a comeback and defeat the expeditionary force cluster, the entire Burmese army would be destroyed. The situation in the British territories would have the effect of collapse.
It is tantamount to giving up the advantageous position that was finally formed with great difficulty once again. It even poses a serious threat to the Allied forces in the north and the Japanese expeditionary force. You must know that this is a real main force of 100,000 little devils.
It has to be said that Gao Jianwu chose a good time. Under this threat, no one could force these weapons to be transported to the north. Your excuse, Gao Jianwu, is also very good. Once he defeats Mao Danmian's little devils, there will indeed be no power to stop the Allies from clearing out the little devils on the battlefield in the British-Burmese territory.
Even if Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force group did not choose to go north for reinforcements, it would still shake the confidence of the little Japanese in the north. After all, they can't believe that this side is not moving at all, and if the north and south attack, they have no chance of victory, and they don't even have a chance to escape. So once Mao Danmian's little devil is defeated, the little devil in the north He will definitely try his best to escape.
Lemonbottom is also a good calculationr. If this is the case, then it means that he has added a lot to his military exploits.
So at this time, Montbottom hopes Gao Jianwu can win this war more than ever.
Chu Yunfei, Ding Wei, Zhang Dabiao, Xu Shida and Kong Jie, who were present at the frontline command post, watched Gao Jianwu really take the 50 Mustang fighter jets, 100 Sherman tanks and 50 M1155mm tanks shipped from the beautiful country. Howitzers, 100 M2A1105mm howitzers were collected and brought into the main force base of the expeditionary force group in Dagon. ….
All of them were speechless. They thought they couldn't learn from Gao Jianwu's skill at dancing. What they couldn't figure out was why people from the beautiful country were so easy to talk to in front of Gao Jianwu. Others didn't know it, but Chu Yunfei knew it. , even if the principal, the micro-manipulation master of the national government, comes forward, it is extremely difficult to obtain so many weapons.
There used to be 30 Mustang fighter jets parked at Dagon Airport. In order to receive new ones this time, Lu Xingguo's flight team has already flown to the airports in Samana and Mandalay to make room.
With these 80 Mustang fighter jets, an air force assault group can now be formed, with 2 flying groups under its jurisdiction. Each flying group has 3 flying squadrons, each flying squadron has 12 fighters, plus the chief and deputy captain of the flying group. , a flying group is fully equipped with 38 fighters. Now two flying groups are fully equipped, and the remaining 4 are used as trainer aircraft to train new recruits.
Lu Xingguo, the commander of the Air Force Assault Group who took office, was complacent for a while. Apart from the fact that the Flying Tigers had more fighter jets than him in the country, he was the big brother of the Air Force!
Even under his command, more than half of the people still need long-term training to form full combat effectiveness, but now there is no big problem in letting these newcomers perform some simple air raid missions.
All those people who were able to come to Dagon had boarded a plane and flown before.
The newly arrived artillery was organized into five new heavy artillery regiments. The sixth and seventh heavy artillery regiments each had 25 155mm howitzers, and the eighth and ninth heavy artillery regiments and the tenth heavy artillery regiment had 33 105mm howitzers respectively.
The tank force also increased by 5 battalions, bringing the total number of tank battalions to 12.
It can be said that this wave can no longer bring back blood, but a major blood change that will reshape the strength!
Due to strategic concealment, this reception and troop reorganization were carried out in secret.
According to the intelligence obtained by the Mao Danmian kid, half of the weapons transported to Dagon were to be transported to the north. This was the previous intelligence they received, and the latest intelligence that Gao Jianwu intercepted them, the kid's side It’s not quite clear yet.
Now that there are many troops in the expeditionary force cluster, it is not easy to collect intelligence. The artillery and tanks of the expeditionary force moving back and forth in Dagon make it impossible for the little Japanese spies to figure out how many weapons Gao Jianwu has received.
It's just this round of weapons and ammunition replenishment that makes Mao Damian's General Kimura feel even more nervous that time is running out. They know that once the production machinery in the United States is turned on to produce weapons and ammunition at full capacity, the production capacity of this area is second to none in the world.
Therefore, the longer Gao Jianwu and others wait, the more weapons and ammunition they may obtain.
The more abundant, of course, the more difficult it will be for their offense.
So without struggling for a few days, General Kimura made a decision.
"We must immediately launch a comprehensive offensive to strangle the expeditionary force group as far as possible in the southern part of British Burma. Our main 54th Division and 55th Division in Mao Danmian, as well as the newly mobilized 2nd Guards Division and 3rd Guards Division, The Fourth Division and the Ninth Flying Division all dispatched for a decisive battle with the expeditionary force group!
Three days later, with the heavy artillery brigade, the 54th Division and the 4th Division as the vanguard, the 9th Flying Division acted as an air cover force to attack Po Valley, and the 2nd Guards Division and the 55th Division served as strategic reserves east of the Sidon River in Po Valley. Shore on standby! ”….
After General Kimura made his decision, he no longer hesitated and began to mobilize his troops and generals to attack.
As soon as the little devil moved, Gao Jianwu immediately received the intelligence tip.
Looking at the little devil's new offensive plan, Gao Jianwu couldn't help but laugh. Although the little devil who had been beaten so many times had gained some memory, it wasn't much. This time, two reorganized divisions were used for direct attack, which was considered an improvement.
It's just that Gao Jianwu still paid more attention to the Ninth Flying Division. After all, the expeditionary force's air attack group had just been formed, and half of them were still novice pilots. Therefore, if they wanted to compete with the Little Devil's Ninth Flying Division, their chances of winning were not very high.
Even the fighter jets of the Little Devil's pilot regiment are still dominated by Type 97 fighters. After all, 1 vs. 3 requires a skilled ace-level pilot to do it. On Gao Jianwu's side, Lu Xingguo and the others can do this.
Fortunately, Gao Jianwu was not facing the Japs alone. The Allies had already had the advantage in the air here. Facing a flying division, Gao Jianwu was not polite at all and directly asked Colonel Smith to request air reinforcements from the Allied Southeast Asia Command...
Gao Jianwu would not do such a thing as one person trying to be a hero and causing heavy losses to the troops. So soon at Dagon's airport, the original 40 fighter planes turned into elite Allied pilots. At Sammana Airport, Lu Xingguo and his 15 combat-experienced pilots were standing ready.
Although it is smaller in number than the 9th Flying Division of the Little Devils, in terms of strength, Colonel Smith swears that it is much stronger than the Little Devils, because Colonel Smith himself is from the Air Force, and this time he also wants to go into battle and lead Lu Xingguo and the others. Join the fight!
In Colonel Smith's view, Lu Xingguo and the others were just a group of rookies, and they were still very worried without him. Only then did Gao Jianwu take a closer look at Colonel Smith's past, and surprisingly discovered that this tool man who had been with him for a long time was actually in When he was in the Air Force, he actually shot down 6 Japanese fighter jets.
Considering that Lu Xingguo and his group of elite pilots had a strong foundation in foreign languages and it was not difficult to hear Colonel Smith's command clearly in the air, Gao Jianwu decisively handed over the command of the Air Force to him.
Colonel Smith himself had not revealed his profession all this time, leading Gao Jianwu to think that he was from the Army. After all, Colonel Smith often had some unique insights of his own in terms of army command. As for Gao Jianwu's command, he can now keep up with the thinking.
This made Gao Jianwu think that he was originally from the Army. Who knew that this guy was actually from the Air Force?
He is such a good tool man, how could Gao Jianwu let him go? It just allowed him to train his air force to be more combat-effective. After all, Lu Xingguo's ability was still far behind the elite pilots from the beautiful country. With such a teacher, of course he would try his best to squeeze him out.
[In view of the general environment,...
The 1st Battalion of the 1st Attack Group defending the position on the west bank of the Sidan River Bridge, Battalion Commander Wei Guodong was quite helpless. According to the battle plan, their defense here was actually a feint. In fact, as long as the enemy launched an attack, they would Execute your retreat strategically. ….
The most difficult thing for him is not how to block the enemy's attack. It was about how to minimize one's own casualties during Jiren's attack. After all, their family was ordered to retreat after defeat.
The most important thing is how to resist the enemy's first round of artillery attack? When the fortifications were being built, Wei Guodong couldn't help but think that the enemy had a heavy artillery brigade.
A bit of a headache.
You must know that the power of the 150mm howitzer cannot be blocked by simple fortifications. If you want to build fortifications that can block such heavy artillery shells, it will be too time-consuming and material-consuming. You can't build much in a short period of time.
Without a large number of reinforced concrete structure bunkers, there is no way to block the 150mm howitzer attack.
It was one of his company commanders who gave him an idea.
"Battal Commander, since we are not trying to block the enemy this time, when building fortifications, we can make some fortifications very conspicuous, much higher than the position, directly exposed to the enemy's sight, but like this Our soldiers do not go in to defend the fortifications. If the enemy attacks, they will attack these forts first."
When Wei Guodong heard this idea, his eyes lit up. If it was just a showpiece, the construction speed and material consumption would be too small. Therefore, Wei Guodong did not hesitate for a few seconds and immediately decided to build the bunker system in this way.
Because they were just building prototypes, Wei Guodong spent just a few days building hundreds of bunker-like construction works on the West Bank. In fact, they were all simple low-rise buildings with earthen wood and brick walls, similar to the bricks in slums. The rooms are almost the same. In order to make them more realistic, Wei Guodong also placed "heavy machine guns" carved out of wood at the openings of these so-called "bunkers".
Since the size of the real heavy machine gun is exactly the same, it is also painted with the same color. You can't see any flaws even from a few meters away, let alone hundreds of meters or thousands of meters across a river.
Each bunker has a trench to communicate with it. Whether observed from land or from the air, one can see that this is a heavily defended position.
These hundreds of "secret bunkers" arranged in an orderly manner, as well as the intertwined firepower of at least a hundred heavy machine guns in the bunkers, are simply a nightmare for the attacking side.
Therefore, in the first round of attack, the Japs must use artillery fire to destroy these bunker positions before committing infantry to attack. Obviously Wei Guodong will not invest his soldiers in these places.
However, when it was just built, Wei Guodong still had soldiers moving in and out, making it seem like these were positions they had to defend to the death. Sure enough, Wei Guodong's move not only fooled the little devil, but even Gao Jianwu did not expect that his men actually had such talents.
When Gao Jianwu came to inspect the position for the first time, he didn't know what they were, and was surprised by how fast the first battalion's position was being built.
Only after Wei Guodong whispered in his ear that these were just fake goods, Gao Jianwu smiled bitterly. Ding Wei's men were indeed full of talents. Talents like this may be rare under Zhang Dabiao.
Therefore, Wei Guodong became famous in Gao Jianwu's eyes from then on.
Originally, Gao Jianwu was worried that such a tactical arrangement would cause greater casualties to the First Battalion, so he actually came to see if there was any way to reduce the casualties. Unexpectedly, Wei Guodong and the others came up with a method that was more perfect than he thought.
Three days passed by in a flash. General Gao Jian told Wei Guodong and the others the exact time of the Japs' attack, allowing them to successfully leave the battlefield before the Japs attacked at zero hour.
Wei Guodong broke out in a cold sweat as he watched the torrential shells swamp Wei Guodong's position and the bunkers one after another were shattered by the explosion of the shells.
According to the power of this explosion, even if they really built a solid bunker made of reinforced concrete, it would be of no use. This huge shock wave would be enough to kill the people inside the bunker.
These large-caliber bombshells are truly the kings of war.
Gao Jianwu was not surprised that the Japs chose one to launch their attack. After all, they wanted to seize the Sidan River Bridge and positions on the west bank. Night was the best time. Due to the restricted line of sight, the troops could be weakened and covered by artillery fire at night. possibility.
This leaves much less room for the artillery that dominates the expeditionary force cluster.
For normal people, this idea is correct, but is Gao Jianwu a normal person? .
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