Cao Guoliang looked at the major staff officer with half-squinted eyes, and said, "Say, what else did the commander say?" No matter how ugly it sounds, just say it. ”

The staff officer of the major gritted his teeth and replied: "The commander said that if you and Division Commander Wang can't complete the task on time, get out of here as soon as possible, and he will fight in person." ”

Cao Guoliang smiled dumbly, and smiled at Wang Teng: "I knew that he would say this, how many years have passed, and he will not change a few tricks when he is in a hurry." ”

Wang Teng said with a smile: "Then it must be that these words are very effective, otherwise Commander Liu would not be able to use them repeatedly?" ”

"Hehe, that's it, these monkey cubs of our Yuanyi Group Army still eat him, I can't stand it a little excited, go home and take the children, that's what the girls do, there is no such person in the Yuanyi Group Army, and they are all iron-clad men."

"So, just to prove it to the commander, the soldiers rushed forward, which is why you have been winning battles?"

"That's pretty much it." Cao Guoliang nodded, but the expression on his face slowly became solemn, and he sighed and continued: "It's just that this time I don't know if it works?" ”

Wang Teng picked his head and said, "Yes, the battle in front of me is not easy to fight, and the time is too tight." ”

Cao Guoliang slammed the table in front of him and said in a cruel voice: "No matter how hard a bone is, our new fifth division is willing to break his teeth, and we have to bite him to pieces." ”

"Counting our 2nd Marine Division, it is impossible for us to stand behind at this time." Wang Teng also said fiercely.

"Good brother." Cao Guoliang punched Wang Teng in the chest and said, "Let's go, go to the war room, let's study it carefully, we must find a favorable terrain to fight over, and if we don't tear a hole, we won't want to break the defense line of the Cagayan River." ”

In the war room, the chiefs of staff of the two divisions were leading a group of staff officers to intensively perfect the combat sand table.

Tropical mountains, jungles, mountains, rivers, villages, shrubs, water networks, rice fields, and other landforms and features are scattered with each other, and the terrain is extremely complex, which has a great impact on the army's operational command and coordination, especially on communications command.

The mountains and jungles are rainy and humid, and the communication equipment components are easy to be damp, mildew, and damaged, which leads to the reduction of technical performance, the shortening of the communication distance and even the loss of call efficiency, and the reduction of wireless communication effect.

In the area of phase barrier, it is difficult to communicate with ultra-short-wave communications, and it is inconvenient to erect, maintain, receive, and transfer wired communication lines, which makes wired communication more difficult, and has a very important impact on operational command.

Therefore, it is also difficult to organize and coordinate operations in tropical mountains and jungles.

The Yuanyi Group Army is a very mechanized unit, and the soldiers' dependence on artillery and tanks will be correspondingly heavier, but the limitations of the terrain here constitute a contradiction, and it is difficult to fully reflect the spirit of perfect coordination in the past.

Due to the complex terrain, it is also difficult for artillery to find a suitable firing position, and the flexibility, rapidity, and strike intensity of fire maneuver will be significantly reduced.

But these are not the main things, the Cagayan River in front of them is a natural danger, even if they have now brought enough assault boats and kayaks from the rear, the enemy defense system and the strength of the enemy in the jungle on the opposite side are almost unknown.

The enemy's poison bullets, gas bombs, and biochemical weapons are also a great threat to soldiers.

There are all kinds of things, so the battle in front of you is not as easy as imagined.

In order to reduce casualties, all possible variables must be drilled on the combat sand table before the attack.

Of course, Cao Guoliang and the others can be said to be completely unfamiliar with the terrain in this area, and their existing understanding is all through maps or descriptions by local villagers, and it is very difficult to ensure that the actual terrain is consistent with the map; even if the troops participating in the battle repeatedly conduct coordinated drills on the map and on the sand table in advance and are familiar with coordination matters, the situation may change when it comes to actual operations, bringing unexpected difficulties to combat operations.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to achieve "rapid, timely, and accurate" command coordination in this campaign.

Even under such high pressure, Cao Guoliang and Wang Teng still spent most of the afternoon and a whole night perfecting the pre-war deployment.

The enemy's defensive line on the Cagayan River was several tens of kilometers long, and the disposition of troops at this time should have exceeded five divisions, and the strength of the troops was generally only higher than that of the 1st Army Group.

If you want to win this war without terrain superiority, no superiority in troops, or even no superiority in firepower, you can only make a surprise attack, choose one or two points to forcibly break through, tear through the enemy's defense line and quickly penetrate on both sides.

The main event of the first river crossing was completed by the Second Marine Division, and the beach-grabbing landing was their specialty.

At the same time that the army on the right was carefully planning, the offensive plan of the Ruyi division of the army on the left was also in full swing.

The attack plan of the two armies was the same, they both chose two or three places to force their way across the river.

The enemy has a slight advantage in terms of strength, if it is only a force or only open a gap, it is easy to lead to a lone army going deep, once encountering the enemy's large forces to block, and then flanking on both sides, it is inevitable that the troops will be divided and surrounded.

Therefore, the tactics can only be opened and closed and attack with all their might.

At the same time, the troops of the second and third echelons in the rear will also reach the edge of the jungle by tonight, and in the event of an unfavorable attack from the front, they will take over the offensive task and continue the attack.

In short, once the battle has begun, there will be no pause until the enemy's defenses have been breached.

Early the next morning, Cao Guoliang and Wang Teng had already appeared at the forefront, and they did not dare to slack off in the slightest because of the tight time and heavy responsibility.

Heavy rains for several days once made many low-lying areas in the jungle look like Zeguo, but the landfall site was chosen in a relatively flat area.

As soon as the torrential rain stopped, the flood water quickly receded, but the site was relatively slippery, and even the trenches were full of mud, and the soldiers became mud figures one by one, and their spirits did not seem to be as good as they imagined.

Many of the soldiers even had sallow-faced faces and walked a little staggeringly.

The biological and chemical weapons of the island army still have a great impact on them, even if their medicines are sufficient and the medical conditions are very good, but once the soldiers are infected, physical discomfort and physical fitness will inevitably decline.

In line with the principle of not getting out of the line of fire with minor injuries, these infected soldiers are still gritting their teeth and persevering, they are elite, and they must have an elite appearance all the time.

Cao Guoliang and his entourage entered the trenches, and soon found these wounded soldiers in the team, and immediately ordered all these people to go down, and when the offensive began, every fire support point was crucial, and a jam could lead to insufficient suppressive firepower, so the soldiers on the front line must be the elite who have no problems in all aspects.