217. Battle of East Bengal 6

Inside the command of the Western coalition forces in Lambour.

Dannatt, Hagrid, and Marshall all gathered in front of a huge sand table to stare at the sand table, and Dannatt's chief of staff, Olive, was constantly waving his baton to explain the build-up of troops and analyze the situation.

"At the current pace of our army's build-up, it will take us another three days for the army to be assembled in place, and at the moment the forces of one of our armies have crossed the Brahmaputra River to ensure the safety of the existing bridges and the rapid erection of pontoon bridges in order to quickly transport troops to the opposite bank. So far, the plan has been pretty much going well. ”

Marshall perked up and said to Dannett: "General Dannatt, you are such a genius that you can gather troops and make a perfect battle plan in such a short time. ”

Admiral Dannat sighed and said, "I have no choice but to do this, the core of this plan is time." The floods planned by the Chinese drowned our million-strong army, which was equivalent to seizing thousands of our artillery pieces and millions of shells, but these cannons and shells were in the mud, and the flood also destroyed transportation and limited the use of Chinese troops and heavy weapons. If the Chinese are given time, their heavy weapons are activated, and their transportation is restored, we will never be able to compete with the Chinese head-on in a short period of time, and at most we can only rely on the two rivers to defend with natural dangers. ”

Marshall said: "Under your planning, although we are in a weak position as a whole, we can achieve an absolute advantage in the part. I believe that we will definitely be able to achieve a brilliant victory in this battle and effectively deal a blow to the arrogance of the Chinese devils. ”

"Chinese devils?" Dannatt and Hagrid looked at Marshall in surprise, a little dazed by the sudden title.

Marshall shrugged, "Yes." When China was in decline. For people who are powerful countries are called 'devils', for example, the Japanese call them Japanese devils, and we Westerners call them 'foreign devils', but now the Chinese are really strong and terrible, and I have heard some officers call them so. 'Devil', the devil's ghost, I think the meaning of this term should be the meaning of the devil's son, and now the Chinese army is simply as terrible as the devil. ”

Dannatt and Hagrid glanced at each other and saw worry in each other's eyes, a simple title, but in fact, it reflects the change in the psychology of Western soldiers towards Chinese soldiers, that is, fear. The self-confidence that the Western world has spent three hundred years building is gradually crumbling. can rise from Li Bufan to the present. It took less than four years for China, a percentage of time that they are simply ashamed of.

If before the Chinese "Gonggong Plan", they still had absolute confidence that they could defeat China, but for now. The outcome of the war is already unknown. Even Dannat is no longer sure of winning. China's biggest weakness, the lack of heavy weapons production capacity, has almost non-existent because of the co-work plan. This is absolutely fatal to the Western world.

The Chinese's aircraft were too advanced, originally according to Dannatt's plan. It is to use a sufficient number of aircraft to contain the Chinese's planes, so that the army becomes a complete army duel, then the Western coalition forces can completely rely on powerful artillery clusters to flatten China's land forces lacking heavy artillery, but now this plan wants to be realized, it has become too difficult and too difficult. To consume such a huge amount of heavy weapons in China in the war, I don't know how many years the war will last.

"Report, urgent report for the blocking line of the Rakhine Mountains." A staff officer came running profusely.

Oliver sent a telegram, and when he saw it, his face immediately changed.

Hagrid's face sank and he asked, "What's going on?" ”

Oliver said bitterly: "The commander of the blocking force, General Lake, urgently telegraphed, and the Chinese put in the 'super artillery group' to cover their blocking positions, and after the shelling, it took the Chinese less than half an hour to capture the main position of the first line. ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Hagrid said urgently: "The main position is also the commanding height, once it is controlled by the Chinese, they can quickly move the portable artillery up and suppress all the positions of the first line of defense, then it is only a matter of time before the first line of defense falls." ”

Dannat quickly took the telegram from Olive's hand, the telegram was very detailed, and the more he looked at it, the more gloomy his face became: "Damn, the equivalent of hundreds of huge artillery shells covered the fire that emptied the defenders of the main position almost instantly. If the Chinese side pushes flat in this way, I am afraid that the defense line of the pigeon mountain pass in Lake Cave will not be able to hold out for even three days. The most terrifying thing is that the Chinese super artillery we know is actually fired from a car, which shows that it is very mobile, and our future battles will be very difficult, and all our positions may be hit by Chinese super artillery. ”

China's super artillery is actually a vehicle-mounted artillery with extremely high mobility, and its power is equivalent to a 300-millimeter cannon, and the number of Chinese is so large, which is absolutely an unprecedented disaster for the entire Western coalition army.

Everyone's face is extremely ugly, if it were not for the Chinese's "co-work plan" and even the transportation system had been seriously damaged, this news alone, Dannatt and other high-level officials would immediately call off this counteroffensive rescue plan.

There is a saying that "the ignorant are fearless", just like in the Battle of the Somme, the British and French forces did not realize the power of heavy machine guns, so they sent a heavy group to launch a large-scale charge of 100,000 troops, only to be slaughtered by the German army's dense machine gun fire. But later, I knew that it was powerful, so that the brain-dead offensive mode basically disappeared, and the weapon changed the mode of war, of course, there is a process for this change. In World War II, not to mention the battle in which more than 10,000 people were annihilated in World War I, it took several days to cripple a regiment. Just like now, people who don't know the power of the giant cannon may think that it is just a hundred guns, but those who know understand that the shells of the hundreds of cannons can completely empty the troops within a radius of several kilometers, and it is definitely a terrible disaster, no matter how strong the defense line is, the other side will easily open the gap, and then shake the whole line, and the consequences are unimaginable.

What's more, the Chinese's super artillery is definitely more than a hundred, because the first Battle of Assam, according to the description of the defeated officers and soldiers, it was simply thousands of giant artillery shells fired at the same time, that kind of scene, thinking about it makes people shudder. In the past, everyone did not believe, and absolutely no one could believe that any country would have the ability to manufacture and put into use thousands of giant cannons, but now there is accurate intelligence that the Chinese super artillery can actually be fired on a car, and such a launcher is so light.

A cold is spreading in the hearts of all people, they are all industrial powers, they all have giant cannons, and they know deeply that it is terrible, it is a terrifying power.

China's super artillery weighed on everyone's hearts like a mountain, and the command was filled with a suffocating aura in an instant.

"So what now?" Marshall is already a bit of a master at the moment.

Dannatt sighed deeply and said, "I think General Xia Fei already knows the situation, and if they want to break out of the encirclement, they can only speed up the pace of marching. "At this point, what else can he do? The power of the giant cannon is not something that flesh and blood can compete with, and with the temporary repair of the fortifications, it will definitely not be able to withstand the blow of such a giant cannon group.

Hagrid frowned and said: "If the defense line of Dong Ge Mountain Pass cannot be held for even three days, but Xia Fei's Burma Army march has been attacked by the Chinese air force, and can only march safely and quickly at night, if the Chinese break through the Dong Pige Mountain Pass defense line and pursue with all their might, they can soon catch up, bite Xia Fei's troops, and even cooperate with the Chinese East Bengal defense line to attack the Xia Fei Burmese army back and forth." ”

Dannatt pondered for a while: "Telegraph to General Lake, asking him to reduce the strength of each defensive line, and transfer troops to build a defensive line along the favorable terrain along the road in the rear, and block the attack step by step. ”

Dannatt's plan was indeed very reasonable, and if he had followed his plan, it was entirely possible to delay the pace of the Chinese army's advance, so that the Chinese troops pursuing westward would not be able to participate in the flanking attack of the Xiafei headquarters in time, but they could not fully understand the situation on the front line, nor could they personally experience the feelings of the allied officers and men under the fire coverage of China's Dongfeng-300 rocket artillery.

That feeling is destruction, a call from hell, despair, madness, collapse.

Yes, before Dannatt's telegram reached the Dongge Mountain Pass defense line, the blocking force under Lake's command had collapsed, and the Chinese army spent three hours clearing the first line of defense, and the rocket artillery again covered the main position of the second line of defense, a devastating blow, and the Chinese side once again controlled the main position of the second line of defense in almost half an hour, and the blocking force that Lake had arranged on the defense line completely collapsed, except for the most dangerous last line of defense.

Lake almost vomited blood without giving up, and yelled at the commanders of the various defense lines: "You damn it, you are disobeying military orders, I want to enforce battlefield discipline!" "Immediately called for the guards to arrest people.

As a result, these officers from different countries drew their guns on the spot, and someone on the spot shouted: "General Lake, the Chinese's firepower is too strong, and in the face of such artillery fire, holding the defensive line is just sending them to death." Such a battle is meaningless in the first place. You're going to enforce battlefield discipline on us? I'm not a French soldier for you. ”

"That is, you have to think you can stand it, you French."

"Yes, as long as you French go first, we will go next."

"You want us to be cannon fodder and dream."

The nonsense rebuttal made Lake's heart sink to the bottom, and the multinational coalition sounded majestic, but it was even more difficult to get the troops to cooperate seamlessly than to ascend to the sky. Don't listen to the order, let him carry out this resistance battle, at this moment Lake's heart is full of despair (to be continued......