214. Battle of East Bengal 3

Li Bufan never thought of fighting an East Bengal battle with the Western coalition forces, and in his plan, it was originally easy to encircle and annihilate the Xiafei Burmese army. However, the situation developed beyond his expectations, and the famous British general Dannat was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and under some of his operations, the original war of annihilation was likely to form a large-scale battle.

With the gathering of intelligence and the movement of the land, sea and air forces of the Western coalition forces, it all pointed to a fierce battle in East Bengal, and if Li Bufan wanted to annihilate the million-strong army of Xia Fei's Burmese army, then this battle would become almost inevitable.

The "Gonggong Plan" was very successful, but although this plan annihilated the Assam Front of the coalition forces, it also made the originally good traffic situation extremely bad, making it extremely difficult for the Chinese side to replenish the artillery, and the thousands of captured artillery pieces were still waiting to be cleaned up in the mud, and they could not be fully put into use in such a short period of time.

Li Bufan deeply felt that Dannat was definitely not a simple opponent, and the timing of the other party's plan for the battle of East Bengal was too good, and due to the limitations of all aspects, the heavy weapons and firepower of the Chinese army would be reduced to a minimum within the time when this battle broke out. On the surface, China has just won a huge victory, morale is high, and the area is home to an unprecedentedly large Chinese army, but in reality China is unable to give full play to its military superiority due to various constraints.

The large-scale movement of the Western air force and navy made Li Bufan feel vigilant, so he immediately summoned Li Air Force and Li Navy to Di Brueger for discussion.

"We have about two thousand five hundred fighters, if Western fighters maintain a two-to-one approach on the battlefield. Our air force will be entangled by the other side, and it will be difficult to free up its hands to support naval operations. Li Air Force said with a solemn expression, "Our J-2 fighter is a multi-functional fighter, and can even be used as a light bomber, or even as a dive bomber, but it is impossible for us to carry 500 kilograms of aerial bombs on the plane during air combat, which will greatly reduce the speed, range and flexibility of the aircraft, otherwise the combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened, and I am afraid that it will not be much stronger than the new fighters of the West." ”

Li Bufan frowned deeply, and said in deep thought: "Is there a way to destroy the enemy's plane on the ground?" ”

Li Air Force said bitterly: "It's difficult. Last time we attacked enemy airfields. The opponent must have defended very tightly. There is no point in attacking if it cannot be carried out. If the place where the air battle breaks out is over the enemy-occupied area. That would be even more disadvantageous to us, because once our plane is destroyed, even if the pilot parachutes to escape, it will fall into the hands of the other side. Then we will most likely lose a large number of good pilots. We pilots were already nervous. That for the development of the Air Force. It will be to add insult to injury. ”

Li Bufan was extremely depressed in his heart at this moment, this is the difference in background, it is too easy for the West to find pilots. At that time, the two sides of the European war invested tens of thousands of combat aircraft, and the planes in this period were not much more difficult than driving cars, and Europe could easily train a large number of pilots. But China can't, although the air force was formed in the era of Yuan Shikai, but later the warlord melee lack of funds, almost let the development of the Chinese air force stagnate, Li Bufan rose to re-develop the air force, but until now it has only been three or four years, although the scale of the air force is constantly expanding, but in fact, the pressure on pilots and ground crews is very great, many pilots and ground crews are trained in a rapid way, to put it mildly, it is not professional enough.

Li Bufan could only look at Li Haijun: "What does the navy think?" ”

Li Haijun frowned violently, and said heavily: "Even if our navy concentrates all its main forces to reach the Bay of Bengal, it is far from comparable in scale to the combined fleet of the West. The main force of the Western Indian Ocean Combined Fleet is the US Atlantic Fleet, and although the US Atlantic Fleet has transferred some warships to supplement the US Pacific Fleet, they still have seven battleships, seven battle cruisers, and 111 10,000-ton heavy cruisers, and the number of other light cruisers and destroyers is far superior to that of our army. If our air force and even the navy are pinned down by the other side's air force, the navy basically has no hope of victory. ”

Li Bufan said: "Don't we have a 'rocket-boosted unrestricted guided torpedo'? You can use it to take out the opponent's battleship. ”

Li Haijun said: "So far, there are only five. However, the torpedo has limitations, and it must be close to the opponent for 10 kilometers in order to effectively guide the attack, and the previous success was that the opponent was unprepared, but if we want to repeat the old trick now, the opponent will definitely concentrate firepower. Even I doubt that the West already knows that our torpedo is extremely limited in number, and maybe there is a way to deal with it, otherwise their navy will definitely not dare to attack so easily. ”

Li Bufan said anxiously: "There is no way at all? ”

Li Haijun said bitterly: "No." This kind of duel between the cannons of traditional naval giants is almost a head-to-head confrontation, and we have no advantage. Even if it were a duel with the same number of fleets, we would lose more and win less, because the opponent's navy was far more trained than ours, and the artillery hit rate was definitely higher than ours. Of course, naval battles sometimes test luck, a battleship is sometimes hit by dozens of huge artillery shells may not be sunk, sometimes a single shell can be buried, but even if we are lucky, under the huge gap in strength, even if we win, it will be a miserable victory, and the entire main force of the navy will be disabled. ”

Although Li Bufan did not know much about the navy, he also knew that the hit rate of naval shelling was pitifully low, and it was said that the British navy only had a hit rate of just over 3 percent. But after listening to Li Haijun's words, he still said unwillingly: "Is there really no way at all?" Or can we find a way to increase the hit rate of shelling? ”

Li Haijun smiled bitterly: "It's difficult. Warships are affected by the waves, and the hit rate of shelling often depends on the experience of the gunners, which cannot be improved overnight. The most important thing is that when a naval battle breaks out, the waves caused by the shelling will affect the shelling hit rate even more violently, and in fact the hit rate of the shelling in the war will be much lower than the training. ”

Li Bufan pondered for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said, "If the warship is not affected by the waves, what will happen?" ”

Li Haijun's eyes widened and said, "This is even more impossible. ”

Li Bufan said in a deep voice: "I mean if." ”

Li Haijun said solemnly: "Then our navy can be invincible." One of our warships can fight against three, or even five, of the opposing side's battleships. The cannon is not affected by the waves, which is like a fortress cannon, and an experienced gunner can achieve a hit rate of more than 20% even against a moving target. But this is impossible, as far as I know about the history of the development of the navy, until the navy is intelligent, this goal cannot be achieved. ”

Li Bufan showed a ruthless look, whispered a plan, and then said seriously: "Okay?" ”

"This" Li Haijun stammered for a while, Rao is a high-level clone talent who is much smarter than ordinary people, and he is also speechless.

Li Bufan said dissatisfiedly: "Is it okay?" ”

"Yes, yes." Li Haijun said in a hurried tone, "But in this way, we will not be able to defeat the enemy." ”

Li Bufan gritted his teeth and said: "Who said that we want to defeat the enemy's navy, the purpose of our battle is to completely annihilate the Xia Fei Burma Army, and the rest, let's talk about it later." ”

"Why don't you let the adjutant take the base car to attack?" Li Air Force hesitated for a moment and said this suggestion.

Li Bufan fell into deep thought, the base car is a work of the times, when the base car was used to deal with the Japanese Navy, it was all a command to hide from afar, to deal with submarines in Southeast Asia, that is, the speed of the other party could not pose a threat to the base car.

Once the base vehicle is damaged, the consequences are extremely serious, and his three thousand tiger ben, senior clone officers, and experts will soon die or explode because of the destruction of the base vehicle. According to Wu Di, because there was no effective restriction on cloning technology at that time, those high-level clones almost controlled the world, and this clone was much smarter than ordinary people, and his physical fitness was even stronger I don't know how many grades, and then he directly used a nuclear bomb to cover it to contain the disaster. Since then, the control of cloning technology has been extremely strict, and every senior cloning technician must go to the relevant institutions every ten years to strictly review, otherwise the biological brain will control the self-detonation of the miniature bomb in his head, and the micro-bomb is extremely weak, and the consequence is equivalent to brain death.

The reason why Li Bufan and Wu Di were in such a hurry to start a war also had something to do with this. Due to some deficiencies in intelligence, ordinary cloned tiger ben cannot threaten the entire human race in the future life, so it is easy to control, but in addition to strong combat effectiveness, ordinary tiger ben can only ensure Li Bufan's control over the army, and what really plays a huge role in China's development is these few high-level clones, especially those technicians who can bring cutting-edge technology to China.

Li Bufan really didn't want to and didn't dare to dispatch the base car easily, the base car has a very strong defense, but if it really gets hit by a torpedo or a large-caliber artillery shell, it will be over. The most terrible thing is that Wu is only a civilian in later generations, and the base car that can be purchased has no attack power, but it is an expedition vehicle, and there are maintenance points in later generations, but if something goes wrong in this era, how to repair it?

For a while, Li Bufan's heart was in turmoil, and he said with difficulty for a long time: "Let me think about it, let me think about it." ”

Li Air Force said solemnly: "Commander-in-chief, don't hesitate any longer, we don't have much time. As long as we defeat the enemy's navy at a critical time, then we can lure the enemy into annihilating him and completely gain the initiative in this war. ”

(To be continued......)

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