211. Blockade
Xia Fei stood on a small high ground, staring at the sky in a daze.
In this tropical region near the equator, the sun baked the earth like a fireball, but he felt a chill and shiver.
This is an unprecedented crisis in his decades-long military career, Western military thought has led the world for hundreds of years, colonizing the world, achieving the glory of the Western world, France once reached the peak of this world in the Napoleonic era. But now he encountered a military strategy that he had never seen before, and it was still so terrible that they could not compete with it, no, it should be said that they were played with by the other party like idiots, and they were completely beaten to the point that they had no power to fight back.
"Your Majesty, did you already know?" Xia Fei remembered Napoleon's words - China is a sleeping lion, fortunately, it is asleep, let him sleep forever, once he wakes up, it will shock the world.
Napoleon is the French god of war, a glorious myth that cannot be surpassed. Now that Xia Fei remembered his words, his heart felt very sad, and at this moment he really felt how correct and far-sighted Napoleon's words were. Now, this lion has woken up, and its horror is far beyond imagination, which is not just shocking the world, but subverting the world, subverting the world's military system, subverting the world order.
At the same time, he is unwilling, if his strength is not as good, he will admit it. But this tough battle was not fought, he lost inexplicably, he had a strong military force of a million troops, but he could only flee like a lost dog, which was an unparalleled blow to him, so depressed that he almost vomited blood and died.
The horn of the troops sounded constantly, and it looked unusually desolate and gloomy.
Xia Fei looked at the officers and soldiers with a look of panic, the dejected appearance, he wanted to pull out all these wastes and shoot them.
"General, the troops have been drawn." Lake came behind Xia Fei and whispered.
Xia Fei came back to his senses, nodded and said, "Okay, we must act quickly, we are racing against time, time is life." ”
"Yes!" Lake responded.
Xia Fei looked at the panicked and pale officers and soldiers, his heart twitched, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Telegraph to Dannatt that our army will go all out to break through in the direction of East Bengal, and I hope that for the sake of his allies, he will do his best to transfer the British army in India to cooperate with our army to attack the Chinese defense line, and I Xia Fei will not be very grateful." ”
"Yes!" Lake looked at this veteran who had saved France, his old form, and his bleak back, and tears almost couldn't help but welled up. Xia Fei I was a hero, but in his twilight years, he was about to suffer such a fiasco and humiliation, you can imagine how desolate and sad his heart was
Rumpur – Brahmaputra (Tibetan South River) - Tista River Defense Line Headquarters.
With the initiative launched by Admiral Dannatt, although it only repelled the two Chinese regiments, but in any case, it also repelled the Chinese, and sure enough, the military spirit of the garrison gradually stabilized, at least they saw that the Chinese did not have any magic and were not invincible.
Although the deployment of artillery groups at the mouth of the two rivers at the suggestion of the dead Itagaki Seishiro did not work, and the sortie was far from achieving the desired effect of Dannat, it would be good to be able to stabilize the situation in this situation, and Dannat could not ask for anything.
Today, Dannatt is frantically collecting a large number of steel bars, masonry, and cement, and he wants to build the defense line of the two rivers into a steel defense line. He has been studying the Chinese art of war, and the more he studies, the more unfathomable he feels, and the more uneasy he becomes. So, he decided to build a turtle shell for the Chinese to break the blood.
The defense line also needs to have core fortresses, and the Chinese side has a "super artillery group", whose power is no less than a three-hundred-millimeter cannon strike, then these core fortresses must be able to withstand such artillery bombardment, otherwise they will be destroyed in an instant, and the design of such a steel fortress almost collapsed.
"Commander, last time the Chinese Sarween River cut off the rear route of our British and Burmese troops and used a tank that could be driven on water, and we must guard against it." Olivee was also anxious, although he still couldn't figure out why a steel monster like a tank could not sink on water, but he had to face up to this problem.
"That's right! Right! Dannatt scratched his scalp and gritted his teeth, "Damn, the Chinese's tanks are too advanced, they can actually install 75 mm guns, I asked domestic tank manufacturers, our tanks can't even withstand the recoil of sixty mm guns"
"Report to the commander, General Xia Fei is in a hurry." While they were deliberating, suddenly the staff of the Telecommunications Office reported to him.
Dannatt had to stop first, took the telegram and read it.
Oliver frowned, "What's wrong?" ”
Dannatt handed over the telegram he had read, frowned, and said, "Xia Fei wants to forcibly break through from East Bengal and asks us to do everything in our power to respond. ”
After reading the telegram, Olife's face sank and said: "General, now that our troops are already extremely empty, it is only three days, how many troops can we gather?" If the troops defending us suffer heavy losses, then the Chinese will easily break through the defense line of the two rivers, and the consequences will be unimaginable, and we may even lose the whole of India. ”
Dannatt sighed heavily: "It is impossible to see death without saving it, and the French political axe will definitely ask the empire to send troops." If the French were angered by the death, they would probably have withdrawn from the war. So far, the squadron is strong, we don't want to retake Southeast Asia, and the French certainly can't go back to his French Annam. We must tie the French to our chariots, and we must not only save, but do it with all our might. ”
"But"
"No, but. It's politics. Help me make an appointment with Marshall, I'm going to talk to him. ”
"Yes!" ——
Li Bufan admired the military changes on the sand table with some pride, the iron wall of Xia Fei had been formed, and then it was constantly reinforced, and then it was eaten.
As the saying goes, people are in good spirits and in a good mood when they are happy, and even the dull "tick-tock" telegram sound of the headquarters is as pleasant as music.
Suddenly, Li Songshan came over solemnly with a telegram: "Commander-in-chief, according to the aerial reconnaissance report, Xia Fei is likely to be dying and breaking through in the direction of East Bengal. They have now mobilized more than a dozen divisions of troops on a rapid march to the west. ”
Li Bufan was surprised: "Want to run? ”
Li Songshan said in a deep voice: "It should be, what I'm worried about now is that Xia Fei sent a telegram to France, asking Britain to transfer all the forces that India can use to attack our East Bengal defense line on both sides. Although our 'Gonggong Project' has wiped out millions of troops in the West, the roads have also been completely destroyed, and it will take time to clean them up, and the ships and troops will not be able to fully utilize our troops. If this really happens, it is not impossible for him to run away. ”
Li Bufan frowned and said, "Did you send a plane to reconnoiter the situation of the British troops on the Indian side?" ”
Li Songshan said: "There have always been planes paying attention. ”
Li Bufan nodded, walked back and forth and said, "How can the meat that reaches his mouth fly away?" It would take three days for our army to march quickly from southern Burma to East Bengal, and their food would not last long. Telegram to Li Air Force and ask him to mobilize all the planes to carry out non-stop bombing and strafing of the marching troops of Xia Fei's headquarters. Want to run? I told him to die half first on the way. "Speaking of the back, it is categorical and murderous.
The development of the Chinese air force has always been a top priority, before the start of the war China already had more than 2,000 aircraft, now the number has reached more than 3,000, although the second battle of Assam was fought in the air for several days, and there were some losses in the artillery fire that bombed the ground, but there were still more than 3,000 planes.
In waging war with the Western world, Li Bufan never forgot the absolute strategic core, which was aimed at the weakness of the Western powers, which had few people and could not afford to die. Since the beginning of the war, the core of a series of operations has been carried out around qualification, why the famine is created, is to make the famine make the Indian natives and the Western powers form a blood feud, so that the British do not dare to use the Indians at all, for fear of mutiny, can not use the colonial legion, the great powers want to reinforce the Indian battlefield in a short time, that is only the Western white legion. For this reason, Li Bufan worked hard to plan the "co-work plan" in order to kill the 2.5 million white army in the West in one fell swoop, so that the Western world was heartbroken and frightened.
Ninety-nine steps have been done in 100 steps, how can you allow your achievements to fall short?
The strength of the Western world is self-evident, but since Li Bufan has decided to go to war, he has long been prepared for great sacrifices. Perhaps the battlefield will change in a thousand ways due to many factors, and countless plans will have to be revised and changed, but the core strategic purpose will not change.
Under Li Bufan's decision, the sky from southern Burma to East Bengal was filled with Chinese warplanes and bombers.
The Chinese Air Force almost flew out to bomb the troops advancing west at Xiafei's headquarters, and groups of fighter planes swooped down and strafed the Western coalition forces marching on the ground, keeping hundreds of sorties in the sky almost at any given time.
The countless troops under Xia Fei's command were covered in the bombing and strafing, and this road, which originally carried the hope of Xia Fei and his army, was completely ravaged by the Chinese air force and turned into a "death march" road, which made people talk about it.
Xia Fei was instantly stunned by anger after learning about this situation, and after being rescued, he kept coughing and even coughed up blood. With his military qualities, how can he not see China's determination to destroy his troops?
Looking up, the sky was full of swarms of planes, the dive of planes, the whistling of bombs, like the call of hell, what a desperate situation (to be continued). )