Chapter 45: Expanding Base Areas (I)

Almost all of the British's bombers were lost, and the remaining fighters relied on their agility and quick reaction to avoid the energetic blow of the African People's Army on the ground, but they still fled their respective areas with wounds, and the defense and control personnel on the ground saw the British planes fleeing with thick black smoke, and let out joyful cheers on the ground.

When the escaped planes flew back to the airfield in Songgaia with injuries, Major General Priss, who was waiting for the triumphant return of these air athletes, saw several planes flying back to the airfield with injuries, and his heart immediately became troubled. After seeing the plane landing, not long after the pilot ran out of the cockpit, the plane exploded violently. Airport firefighters then rushed to extinguish the fire and began spraying water on several other smoke-emitting planes to suppress the fire and prevent another explosion.

Seeing this, Major General Priss turned dark, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the pilot who had just climbed out of the plane and asked, "What's going on with you?" What about other aircraft? ”

The flight that was caught by Major General Pulis saw that it was his commander, and hurriedly said with a sad face: "Report to Your Excellency, Major General, we have been attacked by the enemy's anti-aircraft fire. All the bombers were lost, and we were lucky enough to get back. ”

When Major General Pulis heard this, he quickly let go of the pilot, shook his body and shouted with his eyes blank, "Lao Tzu's plane." ”

Later, Major General Priss, who had recovered his senses, hurriedly ran to the governor's office and told Governor James the news of the defeat of the air force. After hearing this, James was shocked and said, "It's all my fault, careless, careless." ”

When Major General Pulis heard the governor reproaching him, half of the anger in his heart suddenly disappeared, and he hurriedly comforted: "Governor, don't blame yourself, it's not that our soldiers don't work hard, but those chimpanzees are too cunning." ”

"Okay, Major General Priss, don't comfort me, I am responsible for the loss of the Air Force. For now, we can only endure it for the time being. When Major General Bertrand has finished assembling his army, he will seek revenge on those chimpanzees. James said:

"Yes. Don't blame yourself too much, Governor. We still have a chance to turn the tables around, take care. With that, Pulis turned and left the governor's office.

The situation of Lee Jun-ho's African People's Army is diametrically opposed to that of the British, in a sea of happiness. In a compound in the city of Magadini, Lee Jun-ho and his generals were also holding their own military meetings.

Li Junhao said at the meeting: "Comrades, yesterday we won a major victory in our air defense operations, shooting down and damaging more than 80 enemy planes, which dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's arrogance. But the dog temper of the British, everyone knows that they will definitely find another way to get revenge on us. Instead of waiting for the other side to retaliate against us, we should take the initiative and disrupt the enemy's deployment fiercely. Seize the initiative in the war for our army. ”

At this time, the commander of the first division, Nebron, stood up and said, "Commander, you can give the order." Our team has been resting for a week, and the combat effectiveness has already returned to the best period. Several other division commanders also chimed in.

Li Junhao saw that the popularity of the crowd was so high, and the voice of the battle was also louder, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Since everyone thinks that our army's rest and recuperation can be over." So I'll talk about the next battle plan. ”

When discussing the direction of action of the troops in the next step. At the meeting, some people proposed to take advantage of the strong strength of our army to go north and take advantage of the situation to liberate the city of Tondulu and expand the influence of our army, and another group of people proposed that the city of Milebo should be occupied while the British were empty in Milaibo, and once they captured Milebo, our army would end the situation of being attacked on all sides, and some people again proposed to avoid attacking the fortified positions, and most of the first two attacks on the cities of Kandulu and Magadini were mixed with luck, and our army should avoid attacking large cities for the time being, and instead attack those affiliated towns, completely isolate those cities, and pave the way for attacking them in the future. Now it is the most undesirable to forcibly attack the city of Dulu, but the city of Milebo can try, and we will take it if the opponent has few people. If there are many opponents, they can only capture the subordinate towns.

Although there was a lot of discussion at the meeting, only one constructive opinion was in line with Lee Jun-ho's strategic intentions. So Li Junhao named the commander of the second division to speak, and gave his subordinates more opportunities to speak, which was also one of his means of cultivating cadres. It is also one of the important secrets of PLA to seize the world, so Li Junhao did not set up a hall of words to brainstorm. I know how much military ink I have.

After the commander of the second division stood up, he walked to the map and said: "Colleagues, the reason why I oppose the two routes of attacking Tutulu City and continuing to surround the city with the countryside is for two reasons: one is that Tunthulu City is the second largest city in the Ruvuma District and an important transportation hub in the Ruwuma area, where the British are constantly gathering troops. At present, the strength of the army has exceeded more than 10,000 people, of which half of the British soldiers are native, once we forcibly attack the city of Dalu, the enemy can hold the city, causing the maximum casualties to our army, even if our army captures it, the number of troops will have to be killed 1/3. Pay for one's whistle. Second, I oppose the policy of encirclement in the countryside because our army does not lack siege weapons, but it is only blindly sneaky, which is not in line with the purpose of our army, so I support the attack on the city of Milebo to deter the British to the greatest extent, because they are afraid to fight us thoroughly. In addition, the defenders of Milebo City are less than one division, of which the number of servant troops accounts for 80%, and the combat effectiveness is weak, we can dispatch a division, and after taking Milebo City, we can wave our division to the east to take Madina City, and attack Tondulu City from both ends. At that time, it will be the enemy who will fight us in a decisive battle, and they will be the ones who will suffer. ”

At this time, Li Junhao nodded while listening, and kept thinking in his heart: It is worthy of being the head of the analysis of professional background. At this time, everyone was also impressed by the words of the second division commander, and kept nodding. At this time, Li Junhao said meaningfully: "Then the second division commander, how do you say our army should fight in the future." ”

The second division commander glanced at Li Junhao and said: "At present, our base area has been initially stabilized, but the city of Milebo in the south is like an axe hanging from our tail, if we give up on him and forcibly attack the city of Dulu, he will smack us in the back." In addition, if our army takes the cities of Milebo and Madina, then the rest of the vicinity of our army is vast and sparsely populated, and the only place where the other side threatens us is the north, that is, our army can expand by 1 or 2 divisions, and the total strength of our army will exceed 6 divisions and approach 100,000 people. At that time, it was easy to take Tondulu, and then the troops divided into two routes, one east and one west. It doesn't take a week to take control of Rovuma province. ”

After listening to this, Li Junhao asked again: "Then what should we do if we take Ruwuma Province?" The others also looked at the second division commander thoughtfully, obviously agreeing with the second division commander's words.

"Hehe, it's very simple to go east to the Mtwara district, where our army can get access to the sea and build a navy. In addition, after taking the Mtwara area, our army's combat strategy can directly face the British army in the north, and the Spanish army in Mozambia in the south is not to worry. The second division commander said without thinking:

Li Junhao was very surprised in his heart, and secretly thought: "It is worthy of being a talent recruited by the Red Police, and his brain is active." What's more important is that he is now thinking of being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, and he has no ideas in his head at all, so he can say that he has all his ideas, and this guy can think so far from a military point of view, genius! I'll have to make him my chief of staff in the future. I have to work such a good gun, otherwise I'm sorry for myself. ”