Chapter 446: Spring Offensive
Like all the big leaders, even during the Spring Festival, the heads of the coastal city had to leave their families behind and huddle in the city lord's mansion to report work.
After listening to the reports of various departments, Boss Sun expressed his satisfaction, and beckoned Xiang Fei to serve dumplings to everyone and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together. This dumpling is hand-wrapped by Xiang Fei, and the half-fat and half-thin pork belly is accompanied by the shepherd's cabbage picked in the mountains, which tastes quite good.
Among all the people, only the Fanged King declined the kindness of the head of Sun Da, who claimed to be religious and did not eat this. Xiang Fei had no choice but to bring him some more cookies.
Everyone praised the craftsmanship of the lady in charge, and MMP in their hearts. was dragged out of the meeting by the boss for the New Year, and no one had any complaints in their hearts. Your old man's two wives are by your side, and you don't care where to eat this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
After some false politeness, Sun Da led everyone to move to the command center. It's impossible to drag people out of the house on these days just to listen to work reports.
The staff officers of the command center were busy, Pei Guang and Yu Tianyu had already prepared the combat sand table, and the combat plan had been discussed repeatedly.
Before the Qingbei trial, Sun Xiang had already begun to work on the Demon Venerable's crusade strategy. Originally, the expeditionary force in Binhai should have set off before Tu Peng was executed. But after Shi Yun's arrival, the strategic goal changed. Therefore, the plan was changed again and again, and it has been delayed until today, when it is basically completed.
The giant sand table is crisscrossed with gray-brown hills, dotted with small green plains and several blue rivers running through them.
A dozen white squares, which represent abandoned human cities. The Expeditionary Force can use them to hold on. In addition, there are dozens of black flags distributed on the sand table, which is the main stronghold of the Northern Legion of the Demon Clan's Alliance.
In the center of the sand table is a red castle, which represents the location where the main general of the Northern Legion of the Demon Clan Alliance is stationed.
The entire sand table is actually a large coastal hilly area in the south of China, covering an area of about 300,000 square kilometers. The hills and rivers here are crisscrossed, and it is a very headache for both the attackers and the defenders.
Pei Guang nodded to Tianyu, and Yu Tianyu held the whip in his hand and stepped forward to explain the strategic layout for everyone. Pei Guang has been immersed in the army for many years, and although he is rough by nature, the combat command of the large corps is still very slippery.
It's just that this kind of showy explanation work is better handed over to young subordinates.
"Because of the lack of the necessary long-range reconnaissance force, the enemy data on this sand table may be biased. ”
Yu Tianyu came up and shook the pot clean first. The entire area of operations is quite vast. The location close to the coastal area is still quite clear, and after more than 500 kilometers, it has exceeded the tentacles of the coastal area.
After all, there are no reconnaissance satellites now.
The location of most of these demon strongholds is a reconnaissance report provided by the nearest alliance city. The member cities of the Dayjin Alliance not only provided support for cultivators and materials, but also made great contributions in terms of intelligence.
As for the deeper intelligence, it is beyond the reach of humans, because beyond the Yangwu River, there are no longer any surviving human cities.
Fortunately, there are still demon clans settled in Binhai, and Fang Wang You Qiao and others have provided limited information.
For example, what everyone didn't expect before was that the demon clan of the Northern Legion actually built a city on the ground called Yeming City. This is also where the main general Yu Lei is stationed.
Being able to build a city and settle down represents civilization. It's a pity that the night demon Yu Lei is a famous chauvinist of the Great Demon Clan, if not, Sun Xiang might talk to him personally.
All in all, the situation with the enemy is not very clear. Fortunately, this expedition was not alone. Yu Tianyu continued to explain:
"The overall strategy of this expedition is a large-scale war of attrition, striving to exhaust the elite forces of the Northern Army in the theater of operations, and we will ...... from Sheting to Chaimen" Yu Tianyu used his whip to draw a line between the two abandoned cities, which happened to be the junction of the hills, "We started to lay out the battle line from here and advanced steadily." At the same time, supplementary reconnaissance can be carried out to confirm the number and combat power of the opponent. ”
In a situation where the situation between friend and foe is unclear, there is a huge risk in developing a strategy for aggressiveness. Therefore, Pei Guang was extremely careful when formulating the battle plan. In this expedition, the main force of the coastal army will be backed by the two human cities of Huaishan and Changping, and after going forward for 20 kilometers, they will spread out a defensive line on the spot. Then slowly advance step by step, step by step, step by step, and base at one step.
The so-called victory with righteousness and odd victory, the strategy of the coastal area is to use strong fortifications and dense firepower to suppress the living space of the Northern Army little by little.
In the event of a strategic point of resolute resistance from the enemy, a high-level cultivator will be concentrated to carry out a fixed-point blast. If it doesn't work, let Sun Da be in charge.
The disadvantage of this method is that it is extremely slow and the logistical pressure is huge, and the advantage is that there is no messy worry such as "being copied from the back road", "being surrounded and sent for reinforcements", "being threatened by the flank", "being cut off of food and grass".
Anyway, everyone is not in a hurry.
In the rear of the battle line, the Songhe engineering troops led by Wei Kaicheng will hurry up to repair the road network, and the materials in the rear will be continuously transported to the front-line troops. These road networks will also be used in the future. If you want to get rich, build roads first.
In addition, the production department will pack up and ship all the industrial facilities along the route (as long as they are still usable) back to the seaside. The scale of the industrial redevelopment plan is huge, and it is necessary to start the granularity now.
Playing farming warfare, the demon clan is far from being an opponent of humans. Before, the human race was driven out of the south, completely because the high combat power was crushed by the demon clan, and it was impossible to conduct field confrontation.
Now there is the head of Sun Da in charge, the two holy beasts of the Vermilion Bird and the White Tiger are escorted, there are dozens of reshaped spiritual qi diffusion cannons to deter, and there are cultivators and ordinary soldiers who are armed to the teeth. The combat power of the two sides is no longer on the same level.
If it weren't for the scruples of the Ten Thousand Demon Venerable's saint status, in fact, it would be nothing to take the demon clan's nest away. But since you are a saint, you can talk about it.
This expedition was named the Spring Offensive, and it could not have been better placed during the Spring Festival.
With the support of the Daybrocade Alliance, Marina cobbled together an army of 5,000 cultivators and 100,000 soldiers.
The titular coach is Yu Xiaoyue. However, the Lord of Yu City needs to guard the coast, so the actual commander is Elder Zhou Qingxue, who facilitated this alliance, and she also enjoys high prestige in the human world.
The head of Sun Da is a national teacher, and he is barely worthy of his identity.
The Wolf Lightning will take overall command of the logistics of the Spring Offensive. Logistics is the top priority of the war, and only the most stable big disciple can reassure the head of Sun.
Lu Ning is in charge of the front-line intelligence investigation work, and ninjas are supposed to do this. He will lead an elite squad to intersperse in the hinterland of the Northern Army to make up for the lack of intelligence work in the early stage. In addition, the Data Communication Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences will provide equipment support for Lao Lu.
Jiang Ping, Song Xing, and Yu Tianyu, three long-tested generals, will lead their respective troops into the theater of operations and steadily advance in the established direction.
You Qiao and the Fanged King will also go out with the army, but considering their status as demons, they have not arranged combat missions with their fellow clansmen.
Their mission is to subdue the ragged monsters.
The demon army has a distinctive feature that is different from humans. Most of the demon beasts have no intelligence, and are commanded by a small number of demon generals. When their demons are killed, these monsters will scatter and flee.
At this time, the two demon generals on the coastal side can put these crazy demon beasts away, and it will be very convenient to deal with them afterwards.
In addition, there are two friendly armies on the periphery of the theater of operations.
This is a confedied city near the southwest. Theoretically, their military forces would match the pace of the Primorsky Expeditionary Force.
But in fact, the strategic task given to them by the Binhai side is to block the support of the Southwest Army of the Demon Clan to the Northern Army and avoid the two sides becoming one. The general of the Southwest Army is King Kong Fox Shi Yun, and his strength is extraordinary.
If there is an accident in this direction, it will cause a little trouble for the overall strategy. However, the communication between the two sides is smooth, and when it is really unstoppable, Sun Da will rescue him in time.
In short, it will be a protracted war.