199. Co-work plan 3
Admiral Hagrid and Marshall really felt the advanced Chinese weapons and the ferocity of the offensive at this moment.
They dare not imagine what it would be like if China were not constrained by its industrial capacity.
In a short period of time, they have seen the Chinese army appear on the position that was bombed by the Chinese bomber group just now, the steel tanks ruthlessly crushed the trenches, the spray of bullets rained, countless white soldiers fell like straws, and countless Western soldiers were driven out of their positions like garbage, and were knocked to the ground by countless bullets flying from behind.
Fierce attacks, furious attacks, irresistible.
The defense line that they thought they could confront China's million-strong army collapsed and collapsed like tofu scum under the attack of the Chinese Defense Forces. Just as the idea of "white supremacy" that they have always insisted on believing in is crumbling and shattering, their self-confidence and self-esteem have fallen from nine days to hell in an instant, which makes them desperate and frightened.
They had never seen and never imagined that a position defended by a division of fifteen or six thousand men would be occupied by the enemy so quickly, nor could they imagine such a ridiculous but happening reality - in less than fifteen minutes, the position of a division was almost captured.
"Report to the commander-in-chief, the Guwahati airfield in our rear and more than a dozen airfields west of the Tista River have been heavily bombed by the Chinese Air Force"
Hagrid and Marshall were like a bolt from the blue, and Admiral Hagrid grabbed the staff officer fiercely and shouted, "How can this be? What about the losses? ”
The staff officer said with a gloomy expression: "It's all over." The Chinese bomber group used bombs, destroying all airfields and losing thousands of aircraft. Even the oil depot was not spared. The pilots on standby at the airport were also almost wiped out. ”
Marshall yelled, "This can't be, this can't be." In order to guard against the bombing of Chinese planes, we have arranged observation posts almost every dozen kilometers, how can Chinese planes silently appear in our rear to bomb airfields? ”
The military of the Western coalition is certainly not stupid, and the legends and miraculous victories created by the Chinese Air Force are already too many, and of course they are heavily guarded. Although their planes are much behind the Chinese side, they are the only weapon that can contain the Chinese Air Force, after all, reality has proven that if multiple planes jointly deal with a fighter plane attacking the Chinese side, the Chinese fighter plane can only run. Of course. If it's one-to-one. The planes of the Western coalition forces are almost facing slaughter, and this scene has just been staged.
In the words of the excellent Western air forces, although the Chinese air force is powerful, it is currently because the Chinese aircraft are much more advanced than them. After all, the pilots of the Chinese Air Force did not experience large-scale air battles. That's why they were able to chase down Chinese planes with a couple of planes. But once the pilots of the Chinese Air Force experienced the baptism of air combat. Once the experience is gained, the consequences will be extremely serious, and the excellent pilots of the Chinese side can completely rely on the many more advanced fighters and the planes that are several times their size. Even waiting for the opportunity to hunt, it would be an unprecedented disaster.
Seishiro Itagaki sighed: "It's really surprising, there are many rainy clouds in this area, but the sky has been sunny for the past two days, and the sky is cloudless today, which also makes us relax our vigilance." I think the Chinese bomber group should go around the sea, avoid our observation posts on the ground, and launch a surprise attack. This is the traditional Chinese art of war - to attack the unprepared by surprise. ”
Admiral Hagrid's heart is cool and cool, these dozen airports, thousands of planes were destroyed by the Chinese, before the rear planes are sent up again, the sky here will be completely dominated by the Chinese Air Force, the Chinese Air Force almost hit wherever it wants, bomb wherever it wants. And what about them? Only anti-aircraft fire could be relied upon.
Anti-aircraft fire, in Admiral Hagrid's view, was almost a search for psychological comfort. In this era when there is no radar automatic tracking air defense weapon system, thousands of rounds of ammunition from antiaircraft weapons can shoot down an airplane, and the most important thing is that it is difficult for antiaircraft weapons to move, but airplanes can ignore terrain restrictions, and the speed is extremely fast, as long as they avoid antiaircraft fire defense areas, the air defense troops can only stare dryly.
The Western Coalition Army in Assam has nearly 1.5 million troops, and its strength is too dense, and there are too many strategic points that need to be guarded against, such as warehouses, hundreds of divisional headquarters, a large number of artillery positions, and so on. Even if there is, but anti-aircraft weapons are used to protect key positions, what about the front-line positions? Unabashedly allowing Chinese planes to bomb indiscriminately?
Admiral Hagrid gritted his teeth and said: "Order all anti-aircraft weapons to be deployed to the artillery positions, and then order the artillery to continuously shell the Chinese positions to cover the army's all-out counterattack." As soon as he said this, the entire command instantly fell silent.
Marshall said incredulously: "Commander-in-Chief, do you know the consequences of doing this?" ”
Admiral Hagrid said angrily: "You can also do nothing, but I think that next the Chinese bomber group will raze all our front-line positions to the ground, and the officers and soldiers on the positions will be blown into flying ashes." ”
Seishiro Itagaki said thoughtfully, "I understand. The commander-in-chief meant that our troops should be as closely entangled with the Chinese army as possible, and only in this way could we avoid the bombing of the Chinese air force and avoid unnecessary losses. It is better to rush to the position and fight and die with the Chinese than to be killed by the Chinese's plane in vain. ”
War never starts until you have everything ready, and the number of artillery of the Western coalition is definitely far greater than that of the Chinese, but isn't it not completely in place? In terms of the size of the artillery units of the Western coalition forces today, they are only about the same as the Assam cluster of the Chinese South Asian Front, and they cannot occupy the advantage of artillery fire.
Of course, for Hagrid, Marshall, etc., they believe that the artillery is at a disadvantage, because the existence of China's "super artillery group" is far from being comparable to them. The only thing they are confident in is the technology of artillery, and the artillery of the Chinese has only been trained for a few years?
No one will want to sit idly by, Hagrid, Marshall and others are not general, they absolutely cannot tolerate being bombed by the Chinese Air Force and being powerless to fight back, so suffering huge losses in vain. So the dog jumped under the wall in a hurry, and simply let out the whole army to launch a full-front onslaught.
Li Bufan, Li Air Force, Li Songshan, and Zhang Xiaozhun were all blinded by the sudden onslaught on all fronts for a while.
Cold sweat broke out on Li Songshan's forehead: "What's the matter?" Aren't these foreign devils waiting for all their heavy weapons to arrive? Don't they know that now their heavy weapons do not have an advantage? "Even he, a high-level military clone from the twenty-first century with a much higher IQ than ordinary people, can't think of a reason.
Zhang Xiaozhun said hurriedly: "Commander-in-chief, commander, now is not the time to think about this, our artillery units should immediately launch a counterattack, and at the same time let the brothers of the air force go out to destroy the enemy's artillery positions." ”
Li Bufan nodded and said: "The artillery immediately launched a counterattack, we have never had a tradition of just being beaten and not fighting back." Then he looked at Li Air Force and said, "It is necessary for the Air Force to send out bombing, but be careful." We pulled out the air forces of the great powers, and of course they would have been afraid of our planes bombing, but they still fired almost all the light and heavy artillery together, and there was no doubt that they were prepared. ”
Li Air Force replied: "Yes." I will first order a small-scale dive bombing test with J-2 Swallow fighters, and once the other side is found to have a conspiracy, then let the bomber group carry out high-altitude horizontal bombing, although the hit rate is low, but at most a little more bomb is wasted. ”
The order was given quickly, and the change in weather caused a change in occupation, and the originally small change made the development of the entire battle situation unrecognizable, and the battle plan that both the Western coalition forces and the Chinese side painstakingly studied turned into a piece of waste paper in an instant because of such a change.
The two huge armies collided like runaway trains, and millions of troops fought to the death on this position hundreds of kilometers wide.
With the almost evenly matched artillery of both sides put into service, the artillery of both sides soon abandoned shelling each other's positions and switched to artillery battles on both sides. In just half an hour, the Western field artillery and howitzer groups were completely lost, and the Chinese also suffered heavy losses. The reason why the Chinese side suffered fewer losses was not because of how powerful the Chinese artillery was, but because the Chinese side knew that artillery was a weak point, and did not pursue the principle of concentrated use of artillery at all.
In the artillery battle in a large-scale battle, the howitzer group is just cannon fodder, the howitzer is very powerful, but the range is a fatal weakness, the range of howitzers in this period is almost about ten kilometers, even the most advanced German 150 howitzer is at this level. The world's most conventional 105-caliber cannons have a firing range of more than 15 kilometers, and 150 cannons even have a range of more than 22 kilometers. Cannons are strategic-level artillery forces on the battlefield, and the artillery is rear, holding this principle, the cannons on both sides can't hit each other in their respective ranges, so the opponent's howitzer group becomes the first target of the cannon, and the howitzer group is just beaten, and it can't be fought back, because the range is not reachable.
Li Bufan looked at the smoke of war in the distance at the lookout of the headquarters, and said bitterly for a long time: "It seems that our air force fought too hard, forcing them to jump over the wall in a hurry." ”
The war suddenly got out of control, Li Bufan thought a lot, and the other side had no other reason to suddenly launch a full-scale attack.
Someone once said that in war, you should never judge the actions of a general with normal human thinking, that is the stupidest thing in the world.
Li Bufan's heart was full of worries at this moment, he was not afraid of war, but if a full-scale war led to heavy casualties among the troops on both sides, then how much significance would the "Gonggong Plan" have? (To be continued......)