Chapter 317: Desert Storm
For Yang Feng, who was digging into their corners, the Mi people did not make any reaction, because at this time, on the battlefield of North Goryeo, the volunteers had already launched an attack on all fronts.
"This is the sixth battle, right?"
Yang Feng said lying on the map.
On the huge sand table behind him, a group of staff officers were busy, and the little female soldiers in charge of communications next to them kept reporting the latest reports they had just received, and the atmosphere was tense.
"Yes, the sixth, the first is the Battle of Yunshan, Changjin Lake, the second is the Battle of Breaking through the Qingchuan River Defense Line, the third is the Battle of Pyongyang, the fourth is the Battle of the Demarcation Line, and the fifth is the Battle of the Han River Defense Line, but it was the initiative of the Mi people to attack, this is the sixth battle, this is the initiative of the Volunteer Army."
Chen Hu said.
"Results of the various battles."
Yang Feng said.
"In the first battle, the U.S. Army lost eight cavalry regiments in the Battle of Unsan, the U.S. Army lost 31 infantry regiments in the Battle of Changjin Lake, and the two regiment commanders were captured and killed, plus the losses of other units, after deducting the casualties of the allied forces other than the South Korean Army, about 35,000 people were captured and missing, and the vast majority of them were U.S. troops. As for the South Goryeo Army, there is no way to count it, and now the entire organization has been completely wiped out many times, and most of them have been defeated, and as for those defeated troops, even the South Goryeo government does not know where they have gone.
In the second battle, the American army did not lose any formation, but the Turkish brigade was completely annihilated, and the Britons lost a whole battalion, but all the units suffered considerable losses, and about 20,000 casualties were captured and missing, of course, excluding the South Korean army.
The losses on the part of the coalition forces in the third campaign were not too great, only more than 10,000 people. Because it is mainly street fighting in Pyongyang. Therefore, the Mi people who tried to avoid this kind of combat kicked the South Korean army to the front line as cannon fodder. The casualties were mainly borne by them, and basically the remaining men of the South Korean army after the war were all gone, and most of them were recruits when they retreated to the demarcation line.
The situation in the fourth battle was similar, because the South Korean army had almost no combat effectiveness, in fact, the coalition forces on the second line were crushed by them, and Seoul was also directly abandoned, and the real large-scale battles between the two sides were not much, and the coalition army lost only a few thousand people. And Walker's death was the greatest loss for the U.S. military.
In the fifth battle, the coalition forces suffered heavy losses, not only did the U.S. army lose a third regimental combat unit at Dipingli, but also the Gallic battalion was completely annihilated, and other units also suffered heavy casualties during the Volunteer Army's counterattack in Hengcheng, totaling more than 30,000 people.
In these five battles, the total number of casualties, captured and missing of the coalition forces, including the American army, is 100,000, and if the South Korean Army is included, this number is estimated to be four times magnified.
It is difficult for us to count the losses of the volunteers, but according to the figures released by the coalition forces, deduct the proportion of moisture they are used to. In addition, we have taken into account the situation of the wounded in various hospitals reported by our intelligence officers in Xinhua, as well as the situation of their increase in troops on the battlefield. It is estimated that it should exceed 200,000, but it will not exceed 250,000, and the casualties of the two sides are exchanged by one to two, and if the South Korean Army is added, it will become two to one, and it is obvious that the combat effectiveness of the Volunteer Army is far greater than that of the Japanese army.
But this time, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to continue their victory, in fact, they took the initiative to attack the south bank of the Han River, this behavior is very puzzling, because this is beyond the limit of their attack, and their logistics cannot support the offensive on the south bank of the Han River. Although the Han River is now completely frozen, it is indeed suitable for attacking to the south, but it is useless if the supplies are not available, and the freezing of the Han River means that once defeated, it will be difficult for them to rely on the Han River to stabilize the front, and if they don't get it right, it will become a rout. ”
Chen Hu said.
Yang Feng shrugged, of course he knew why Comrade Li took the initiative to attack, which was forced by the Soviets and the North Koreans.
Stalin's dissatisfaction with Comrade Li had been expressed on many occasions, saying that it was completely wrong for the Volunteers to hold the defense line on the Han River and not attack southward, and that they had missed the best opportunity to drive the Nationalists out into the sea.
Previously, Comrade Li could explain that it was difficult to carry out a river-crossing operation because of the lack of equipment for crossing the river, but now that the Han River is completely frozen and the ice can pass the car, this excuse can no longer be used in any case.
In desperation, in order to make an explanation to the comrades who are watching from various countries, they can only attack to the south.
After all, at this time, Xinhua's industrial construction relied on Stalin, even for the sake of the industrialization that was being vigorously carried out in various places, and he had to use an offensive to meet this guy's requirements.
In fact, according to Yang Feng's internal intelligence, Comrade Li was already very dissatisfied with Shi Dalin at this time, and of course he also knew that because of the war on Java Island, Shi Dalin was also very dissatisfied with Comrade Li, and it was obvious that this guy did not like the expansion of Xinhua's influence.
He is the boss, and he is the master of the SHE-ism system.
"What's wrong with love, it's our business!"
Yang said very casually.
The victory or defeat of this battle is no longer important to him, he made the exchange ratio between the volunteers and the US army on the battlefield become two to one, which is already regarded as completing his historical mission, as for the next direction of the war, there is nothing to care about, even if the volunteers suffer another fiasco like the original history, the US army will at most push the battle line back to the demarcation line, anyway, it is impossible to continue to fight north.
Besides, the U.S. military has no time to continue to entangle with Comrade Li, and there is still a mess in the Japanese country!
In fact, now Truman could not wait to end the war, and then withdraw himself to deal with the growing civil war of the Japanese state, and he also saw that Comrade Li was not very interested in helping the Tongyi Peninsula in North Goryeo, and now both sides could only say that it was difficult to ride a tiger and could not find a chance to stop.
But just like Yang Feng said, it's none of his business, he still has his own work to do.
His big plan is about to begin.
At this time, the Pakistani army had reached the periphery of Mumbai, and for the sake of the large oil field Jinnah, taking advantage of the opportunity that Kashmir was not suitable for large-scale military operations in winter, the Tianzhu people contracted the defensive line, and he transferred a large number of troops from the northern front, and now the number of troops used in the Mumbai battlefield has reached 400,000.
And Nehru also cobbled together an army of more than 200,000 and prepared to defend the city.
In addition, there are two armies on the northern front that continue to attack Al Mudaba, and the combined forces of the two countries are nearly 900,000 strong, and Gujihat is almost scorched to the ground.
Similarly, Nehru also realized that this was an opportunity for him, as long as he could recapture the Al Mudaba, he would actually block the retreat of the Pakistani army on the southern front, and if he could completely annihilate this lone army that had penetrated deep into Mumbai, then he would be qualified to ask for an armistice negotiations, so while the two sides were fighting, he was still constantly drawing troops from various fronts and throwing them into the attack on Amoudaba.
Even a garrison division in New Delhi was transferred to the front.
However, he didn't know that a cluster of armor with the most powerful attack in the world was already gathering hundreds of kilometers away from him, and was ready to deliver the final fatal blow to him.
It was the Fifth Army of the Ming Army.
"Führer, do you want to get moving?"
After looking at the time, Chen Hu asked solemnly.
"Let's get started!"
Yang Feng knocked on the table next to him and said.
Thousands of kilometers away, in the southern desert of Suratgarh, a city originally belonging to Tianzhu, Yang Yan, who was wearing a black windbreaker wearing a black windbreaker, coolly took the scepter in his hand on behalf of the commander of the theater of operations and knocked on the top steel plate of the armored command vehicle, and an officer immediately emerged from him and looked at the commander of the group army with inquiring eyes.
"Attack!"
Yang Yan waved his scepter forward and said lightly.
Less than a minute later, the huge armored cluster covering nearly ten square kilometers of desert slowly began to accelerate like a phalanx of cavalry charging on the ancient battlefield, and gradually diverged in the process of acceleration, and one after another Leopard tanks and infantry fighting vehicles rolled up the yellow sand and began to assault eastward.
This is an attack group composed of three Leopard tank brigades and four mechanized infantry brigades, with a total strength of more than 40,000 troops, which is almost the largest number of troops invested by the Ming army's armored forces in a battle, and their target is the capital of Tianzhu, 300 kilometers away.
New Delhi.
And Yang Feng gave this operation a code name
Desert Storm!
As in the previous assault on Almudaba, the Fifth Army bypassed the main line of defense of the Tianzhu Army, crossed the northern edge of the Thar Desert, advanced as fast as possible to the eastern edge of the desert, only a hundred kilometers from New Delhi, and from there began to attack the city, taking New Delhi in one fell swoop, and preferably capturing Nehru.
There are no rivers, no mountains, no swamps, no forests, only arid desertified steppes similar to the Gobi Desert, and the only constraint is also logistics, because there are no railways here to supply them, but this is not a problem, at least not for the Ming army, not a problem at all.
Because behind this huge armored cluster, followed by an equally large convoy of heavy trucks, huge trucks that seemed to carry heavy loads, loaded with countless fuel and ammunition supplies on the dry and hard ground, to supply this steel heavy punch, these trucks were so large and so big that even the Leopard tanks were on their backs.
Well, the only ones that are driving are infantry fighting vehicles and off-road trucks, and those Leopard tanks weighing more than forty tons are all on special trailers, and in front of the trailers are heavy trucks that spew white smoke to both sides, ugly, incomparably ugly, but full of Xie evil mechanical beauty, just like those insects and monsters crawling on the ground in science fiction movies, carrying tanks at high speed on the wild land.
This is the most important guarantee provided by Yang Feng for this operation.
Heavy off-road trucks.
Mars 537. (To be continued.) )