Chapter 195 South African Campaign 2
However, at this time, the African People's Liberation Army (PLA) was dispatching the most elite army, navy and air force in the country, while the armies of Britain and France were the armies of various colonial countries, and there were very few real native armies. In fact, everyone already knows the result. All that everyone is concerned about is the advanced weapons of the African People's Liberation Army. But besides, not everything in the world is so absolute, what if the Anglo-French army can turn over?
In an operations office in the Ministry of National Defense Building in Feijing, Li Puyu, chairman of the Central Military Commission, Commander-in-Chief Jeriola, and Chief of General Staff Nibron stood together in front of a huge African sand table, watching the dozen or so combat staff officers next to them use a wooden pole to move forward the model tanks, model airplanes, villains, and small flags representing the troops. Their mouths are constantly reporting the latest information sent back by various units on the front line at the first time.
"The 1st Army of our army is attacking well and has now occupied the city of Mbabane and is advancing towards Eswatini." An operational staff officer said:
"General Durabo reports that they have met with stubborn resistance from the British defenders in Zambia, and that progress is very slow!" Another operational staff officer will report on the call:
"Hu Lian came to report that they had advanced to 50 kilometers from the city of Mbalala, and now the vanguard had come into contact with the British army stationed in Mbalala." At this time, another combat staff officer answered:
"Very well, the troops who ordered the attack to intensify the offensive for me, and I must not let the Anglo-French troops breathe. As long as our Fourth and Fifth Army Corps successfully liberate Uganda, I will let the Fourth Army immediately move south to support the Third Army of Durabo and annihilate the 200,000 British Army troops stationed in Zambia. These 200,000 people are more than we eat, then the battle is basically a big deal. Li Puyu, who personally commanded this unprecedented national battle, felt the tension in his heart when he had just led the African People's Liberation Army to fight the British colonial army, his palms were a little hot, sweat slowly seeped out of his forehead, and his heart was beating rapidly.
"Chairman, how do you feel, are you a little nervous?" Nebron, who was standing on the side, asked with a grin:
"Yes, the scale of the battlefield battle is an unprecedented decisive battle for our army, and it is also a battle related to the future destiny of our country, and it is commanded by me, a newborn calf. It's to say that you're not nervous. Li Puyu smiled bitterly and said:
Li Puyu has led his African People's Liberation Army to this day, and our protagonist Li Puyu can also be called experienced in a hundred battles. He has also commanded dozens of large and small battles. Normally, I shouldn't be nervous. But Li Puyu of today's battle knows that he is commanding only one million troops in the country, and if he is not careful, he will lose everything. So our Li Puyu is the master who can't afford to lose, which is why Li Puyu is nervous.
After Li Puyu finished saying that, he stared at the sand table in front of him and looked at the busy combat staff officers, and then he said: "I think we should first make it easy and then difficult, and order Hu Guang to let him transfer all the bomber groups and bombers of various types in his hands to Uganda and increase the bombing intensity of Uganda." I don't believe it. Until now, those British and French guys still dare to go toe-to-toe with me. ”
Li Puyu was not wrong at all, the British army in Uganda could be said to have begun to use the fortifications of various cities at this time, planning to return the African People's Liberation Army to a war of attrition, ready to start consuming the menacing 200,000 troops of the Fourth and Fifth Army Corps.
However, at this time, the British and French forces, which had lost air supremacy, would be bombed indiscriminately by bomber groups that had long been on standby, resulting in heavy casualties. However, at this time, the British army command was still struggling to support it, and now the hundreds of thousands of British troops and colonial troops in Uganda have long been bombed by the overwhelming bomber groups and thousands of heavy artillery groups of the African People's Liberation Army Air Force. The only thing they could do under the constant onslaught of the vulture dive bombers, who were shrilling sirens, had long since lost their fighting spirit was to pray that the bombs would not fall on their heads. So Li Puyu decided to continue to add fire to them, that is, to continue to increase the intensity of bombing. Let them be uncomfortable every day and wait for the call of death.
The bombardment continued until the next day, when the soldiers of the 4th and 5th Army Corps were rushing in and occupying the whole territory of Uganda with lightning speed. The commander of the British garrison in Uganda was sniped by the African People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers while directing the battle on the front line, and the remaining British troops chose to surrender.
Li Puyu, who was unforgiving, immediately ordered the Fourth Army to immediately move south and kill Zambia without stopping. The Third Army Corps, which was prepared to join forces with the north and south, would flank the British defenders in Zambia. At this moment of crisis, the London base camp was convened by Prime Minister Neville. An emergency meeting under the personal chairmanship of Chamberlain.
Inside the British Houses of Parliament at this time, Neville. Chamberlain, dressed in a tuxedo, stands on the podium of Parliament, with a huge relief of the British coat of arms on the wall behind him. It shows the majesty of the British Empire. However, at this time, the Reichstag did not see any majestic momentum, but a chaotic scene, the former majestic prime minister no longer had the grace of the past, and his emaciated and pale face was full of sadness and helplessness. At this time, he no longer paid attention to his manners. The parliamentarians below look the same. Don't laugh at anyone who belongs to anyone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about the current crisis on the African continent?" Nivelle. Chamberlain, as Prime Minister of a country, spoke first.
"Prime Minister!" As a British hawk Winston. Churchill was the first to stand up, "Now that this group of black Africans is menacing, the British Imperial army has no way to retreat, and we can only fight to the death with it to protect the interests of our empire in Africa from being violated." ”
"Prime Minister don't listen to Winston. Churchill's words, he was going to kill tens of thousands of our troops and nearly a million people in Africa. At this time, another parliamentarian on the side immediately stood up and retorted loudly: "Now that group of Africans has an absolute advantage, their army has eaten me to death, especially their more than 200,000 troops in Uganda have taken Uganda into their hands, and their army has gone all the way south to Zambia, and the water surrounding Zambia is impassable." There is no way back for them. If you follow to listen to Winston. Churchill's words, then the second Chipata massacre will happen again. How do we account to the people of the British Empire? ”