Chapter 972: The Battle Ends
During this era, tropical diseases such as malaria were almost ubiquitous in areas such as the South Seas and Indochina Peninsula, and the mortality rate was very high even for the local indigenous people in these areas. This is one of the reasons why the population of the South Seas and Indochina Peninsula was always small in this era, and it was difficult for the foreign population to adapt to the environment of Southeast Asia before the invention of quinine.
Before Far Eastern came to this era, it made a lot of preparations, especially for the stockpiling of various anti-malarial drugs, as well as various equipment and extraction technologies.
The company's pharmaceutical factory has successfully developed a series of antimalarial drugs such as quinolinols, aminoquinolines and diaminopyrimidines, and is developing artemisinin extraction technology. It laid the foundation for the company to develop the Indochina Peninsula and the South Seas region.
Without the various antimalarial drugs developed by the company, the Indochina Peninsula campaign would not have been carried out at all, and all kinds of cholera, malaria and dysentery in the tropical jungle alone could have dragged down the 200,000 samurai of the samurai army.
During the Indochina Campaign, resistance was also extremely fierce in various places. Large numbers of defeated soldiers and civilians fled into the mountains and deep jungles, and the local indigenous tribes united to resist the attack of the Far Eastern Death Army.
Relying on the harsh environment of mountainous and jungle areas and being familiar with the local topography, they broke up into pieces and fought desperately with the troops of the daredevils, giving full play to guerrilla warfare and raiding warfare.
In particular, there are many mountain ranges in the north and northwest of the Indochina Peninsula, and there are many caves and karst caves, and they are connected everywhere, even the locals have not figured it out, and a large number of natives are hiding in the caves, and they are sneaking up on the death army.
The samurai army could only be divided into battalions and small units of companies, and with the cooperation of the airboat detachments, it adopted the strategy of advancing step by step. Moreover, the troops of the Far Eastern Dare Army are well-armed, with double-barreled hunting guns, forty-millimeter grenade launchers and other weapons for individual soldiers. It plays an important role in harsh environments such as mountains and jungles.
Originally, the theater was equipped with more than 100 airships, but after entering the second phase of the campaign, it was unable to meet the needs of the troops participating in the battle in the face of the vast mountains and jungles of the Indochina Peninsula.
The Theater Command is faced with a difficult and stalemate battlefield situation. With a ruthless heart, he simply mobilized more than 100 airships from all over the country to support the death army troops in a difficult sweeping battle. More than 300 airships gathered in the sky over the entire theater, which was also the largest number of battles in the Far Eastern Army.
The Air Force Department also transferred seven delta-wing aircraft brigades, with a total of more than 100 delta-wing aircraft and more than a dozen unmanned aerial vehicles, all of which were reinforced to the Indochina Peninsula theater to provide all-round air support to the more than 200,000 soldiers and men who dared to die in the war.
In order to end the Indochina Peninsula campaign as soon as possible, the Central Military Commission used all kinds of special weapons, such as chlorine gas tanks, incendiary bombs, smoke bombs, and gas bombs. Nearly 1,000 special forces and reconnaissance units from various localities have also been put into the battlefield on the Indochina Peninsula.
Fortunately, the population of Indochina was small in this era, and the indigenous population in the mountainous and jungle areas was even smaller. Moreover, the Far Eastern Army occupied the richest and most prosperous areas of the Indochina Peninsula, and tens of thousands of armed police units and several officers and soldiers of overseas divisions were desperately guarding all the routes.
In this campaign on the Indochina Peninsula, the Far Eastern Army used landmines on a large scale and laid out large minefields in various places, and countless local natives were killed or injured by trampling on landmines, so that the resistance forces in various parts of the Indochina Peninsula could not get supplies and support at all.
Moreover, the red-eyed daring army troops, every time they control an area, they frantically carry out the three-light policy. Savage killings were carried out in just a few months. A large number of no-man's lands have been created.
In the face of well-trained and well-armed daredevils, even if tactics such as sneak attacks are adopted, a company of daredevils can often defeat several times the number of indigenous resistance.
The tactics employed by the Death Breakers were also brutal, with small units assisted by the Airship Force. Crazy to boldly intersperse in the vast mountainous and jungle areas, as long as they find the traces of the resistance, they will bite to the death, and immediately call other interspersed troops and airboat units around.
As long as the local resistance is discovered, it is often impossible to escape the frenzied pursuit of the daredevils. Even if the other party hid in a cave and a karst cave, the interspersed detachment of the daring army. It will also enter the cave to pursue, and then take advantage of various special weapons in a closed environment to annihilate the resistance of Indochina.
The 200,000 troops of the samurai army swept the Indochina Peninsula and brought unprecedented disasters to the people of all ethnic groups in the Indochina Peninsula, and it can even be said that they were wiped out.
It is impossible to count how many natives they killed in more than three months, anyway, most of the mountainous and jungle areas of the Indochina Peninsula are still patches of no-man's land many years after the war, eerie and terrifying, like ghost domains.
During the sweep war, the number of local natives who died of diseases such as hunger and malaria was even higher. In particular, the mortality rate of the elderly and children is extremely high. Young men and women also surrendered in large numbers, but during the second phase of the campaign, the officers and men of the Death Army, except for the women, were gathered together, and the rest were not taken prisoner at all.
After several months of hard fighting, the Battle of Indochina finally came to an end. The main battles were fought in the mountains and jungle areas, and the Daredevils paid a great price for this.
The troops have been fighting hard for more than three months in an extreme environment, and have suffered thousands of casualties, which is also the most in the history of the Daredevils. Most of them are non-combat injuries. Mainly mosquito bites in the hot season, epidemic cholera, malaria and dysentery, as well as poisonous insects, snakes and pythons and other accidental casualties.
In short, this battle was fought very hard, and a group of little devils came out of the mountains and jungles and were almost unpresentable. But after being honed by the Indochina campaign, they have fully adapted to the environment of the tropical rainforest.
Anyway, the second phase of the battle is a loss-making business, and the captured things are much shabby, because of the inconvenient transportation, most of the materials are all handed over to the daredevils to consume, in order to prevent the resistance from being supplied, the remaining materials are simply burned.
After the end of this campaign, the death army troops will continue to be stationed in various regions of the Indochina Peninsula in the near future, and the next step is to develop New Guinea, Australia and other regions, and part of the death army troops will be used as the company's advance force, and rush to these areas to establish colonies in advance.
Starting next year, the company will increase the immigration efforts to India, Nanyang, Indochina Peninsula and other regions, and strive to immigrate millions to the above areas within a few years. The main forces of the Samurai Army and the armed police force will be stationed in these areas, serving as garrisons in these areas. (To be continued.) )
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