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Chapter 1640 All-Out Attack

At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, as three red flares rose in the sky, the flames of war were ignited at the same time in Mae Sai in the north of Siam and Kenmala in the east. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The An Jia Army Mountain Cluster and the Xia Jian Front launched a fierce attack on the Siamese border on the other side of the border.

Siam's borders are not guarded by the military, but by a police force reorganized from the army. As early as 1860, King Rama IV appointed the Englishman Boulder as the captain of the police force, and established a police management body, which was later developed on October 13, 1915, and the local police department of the Ministry of the Interior was formally established, which was later designated as Police Day. After the military government came to power in 32, the local police department was changed into a police department, with one director, three police officers, three deputy directors, and five assistants to the director, all with the rank of lieutenant general.

The Siam Police is composed of the Border Police, the Local Police, the Gyeonggi Police and the Central Investigation Bureau, and is mainly responsible for internal security and border operations, with a total strength of about 270,000 troops. The Border Police is composed of six divisions, whose main task is to guard the border and prevent infiltration, and is an important auxiliary force of the Siamese army.

Let's start with the northern front, Tachili used to be the central area of the triangle of Siam, Burma and China, but as the An Jiajun quietly regained the territory of Shan State in northeastern Myanmar that was lost in the 12th year of Guangxu, the Golden Triangle left over from history will no longer exist. After the start of the war, the Anjia Army quickly marched south to the mountainous clusters, and the artillery units dismantled their camouflages one after another, and with the order to "open artillery," clusters of white smoke and orange flames flashed on the artillery positions.

The sound arrived a little later, and it was a loud and impenetrable sound, mixed with the scream of cannonballs, and the fiery red trajectory instantly reflected the sky.

The first round of shelling, codenamed "Hurricane," lasted for a quarter of an hour, and fired more than 4,000 shells at the Siamese Army's deep positions and large firing points, ammunition depots, and headquarters that had just been equipped with 90 105mm mountain howitzers with a range of up to 11 kilometers, which had just been equipped with troops.

For the positions of the 1st Division and 1st Regiment of the Forward Border Police of the Siamese Army, 36 12-barreled 107mm mountain rocket launchers were used, and more than 1,000 shells were fired successively.

This 107mm mountain rocket launcher is simple and practical, can be launched with a single tube, a double tube, a four-tube and a standard twelve-tube, only a few dry batteries and two wires are needed when it is simply launched, and the launch site can be a window sill, a mound of dirt, a tunnel, and behind a garbage can...... Just pay attention to the tail flame and don't burn yourself.

This kind of rocket artillery barrel specially equipped with mountain troops has a white line along the longitudinal direction, which can be used as an aiming baseline, and with two lightweight calipers clamping the two ends of the white line, it can be used as an aiming and measuring tool, as long as there is a piece of hard ground that is slightly longer than the shell, it can keep the rocket flying out steadily. Trained soldiers can easily hit targets the size of a single room at a distance of 1,500 meters. The cannon can be converted to any larger truck to be fired, making it a veritable self-propelled rocket launcher.

The cannon's towing tools can be seen everywhere, jeeps, cars, agricultural tricycles, tractors, two people or a donkey can pull the 12-barreled rocket launcher around. The twelve tubes can be detached and used separately, and each soldier can carry two barrels or four shells to march in the mountains, which is another killer feature for mountain troops.

The artillery unit used 60 105mm mountain cannons and fired about 2,000 rounds of artillery shells at the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Siam Border Police and its defensive positions located on the flank.

This mountain cannon is also specially built for mountain troops, with a barrel length of 4700mm, a total weight of 3400 kg, and a maximum range of 18 kilometers.

Unprecedentedly powerful firepower inflicted heavy losses and serious confusion on the border police forces in Siam. On the position on the side of the Siamese border, a bright spot and smoke cluster exploded, and then the bright spot turned into a sea of fire, and the smoke formed a smoke, a huge gunpowder smoke and firelight, enveloping the entire Siam border, turning it into a hell of fire and steel.

When the first heavy shelling stopped, there was an eerie silence on the position, as the mountain clusters waited for the night breeze to blow away the smoke and cool the barrels slightly. Then the second wave of artillery bombardment, codenamed "Rainstorm", lasted only five minutes, focusing on suppressing enemy artillery positions that had begun to return fire sporadically and killing and wounding enemy infantry on forward positions placed on the other side of the river.

With the end of the second wave of shelling, the artillery of the Siamese was largely abandoned, and the enemy suffered heavy casualties in the trenches and positions.

Before the shelling was over, three green flares appeared in the sky, the trumpet of the charge sounded, and the 1st Mountain Division of the Anjia Army, which was in the forward in a mountain group, immediately launched a full-scale general attack on the Siamese positions.

The small river that stretched across the border, no deeper than the waist, was soon broken through by the officers and men of the attacking mountain division, and there was almost no suspense in the ensuing battle, and the officers and men of the 1st Mountain Division rushed to the high ground guarded by the Siamese who had long been dizzy by the continuous shelling, and the Siamese border police of one division, at most one regiment remained in formation, but they were dizzy under the heavy artillery fire, could not find their direction at all, did not organize effective resistance at all, and soon became prisoners.

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Eastern Front, Kenmala.

On the east bank of the Mekong River, four hot air balloons were raised one after another, hovering in mid-air about 300 meters. The hot air balloon is tied with a steel rope and equipped with walkie-talkies and professional calibrators, which can provide calibration data for the artillery units in a timely manner.

As the flares lifted into the air, illuminating the defensive line constructed by the Siam Border Police Force, countless large and small shells smashed into the positions on the left bank of the Mekong River, and the more accurate they became, the Siamese troops on the positions were crying wolves.

The Siamese could only be beaten passively, because the artillery that fired at them included 144 120mm howitzers, 36 150mm howitzers, and 24 Type II 12-barreled 150mm rocket launchers from the artillery brigade directly under the Xia Jian Front.

In addition, the water level on the banks of the Mekong River was very low, and it was not practical to dig anti-artillery holes, often digging less than a meter into the ground, and underground springs seeped out, which led to the Siamese troops on the riverbank positions facing total annihilation almost at the first round of shelling.

After half an hour of shelling, the sound of the artillery gradually subsided, and the assault troops rushed out of the woods on the bank of the river one after another, like streams rushing to the banks of the Mekong River.

Rear Admiral Duan Mingrui, commander of the Navy's Mekong River Fleet, sat on the bridge of the flagship "Syria" and held a telescope to observe the enemy situation near and far. Under his command, there were 10 580-ton "Qian"-class gunboats, 20 250-ton "Kun"-class gunboats, and 40 patrol speedboats of about 100 tons. This was originally the river fleet of the French colonizers, but in the raid on Saigon by the An Jia Army, it was obediently tied up and became the main force of the Mekong Fleet of the An Jia Army.

The barge flotilla, which is responsible for carrying 2,500 officers and men of the 48th Regiment of the 10th Motorized Infantry Division, all weapons, and three bases of ammunition, is requisitioned and operated by barge workers and officers and men of the Mekong Fleet.

The plan of the General Staff of the Fourth Army for crossing the river was as follows: The crews of the barge flotilla were divided into three shifts and took turns to work on the barges, and the barge flotilla was running continuously, and the officers and men of the two infantry regiments of the 10 th Motorized Infantry Division and their equipment would be transported across the river within two hours, and all the officers and men and equipment of the division would be transported across the river within five hours.

At the same time, the engineer brigade directly under the group army began to erect pontoon bridges on the river about one kilometer wide, and a large amount of preset equipment was thrown from trucks into the surging river, and then under the paddling of steamboats and officers and men, it headed for the opposite bank.

The 48th Infantry Regiment had just finished loading, and dozens of barges were about to leave the shore and sail for the ferry on the opposite bank, when the sky suddenly lit up with yellow signal flares.

Rear Admiral Duan Mingrui immediately knew that this was a signal for the dispatch of Siam's Mekong Fleet.

The Mekong River is the natural border between Siam and South China, and Siam also owns half of the interest. Siam's fleet generally cruised between Bantari in the north and the town of Klong Kien in the east, with the four ports of Khokhai, Nakhon Phanom, Mudahan, and Klong Kien as the main port of call. On weekdays, the two fleets cruised on the river, and the well water did not interfere with the river water, but now it was obviously impossible to coexist peacefully, and Siam deployed an inland river fleet in Mudahan in order to prevent the Anjia army from landing on this section of Kenmara, and the challenge was imminent.

"Order, the fleet is formed into a single column, ready to meet the battle!"

Rear Admiral Duan Mingrui gave a decisive order, and then crossed his hands on his waist and fought on the command platform of the flagship bridge, with the red 79th Army flag on the mast above his head, hunting and flying.

In Duan Mingrui's fleet, the "Qian"-class gunboats had the highest combat effectiveness, equipped with two 120-mm guns and six 75-mm guns, followed by the "Kun" class gunboats equipped with two 120-mm guns and three 75-mm guns.

At this time, 10 ships and 20 boats, lined up in a single column, with patrol speedboats on both wings, greeted the Siamese warships down the river.

The barge flotilla carrying the infantry regiment of the 48th Regiment took advantage of this opportunity to sail straight to the opposite shore, where it quickly unloaded its troops and then returned to carry the follow-up troops.

Rear Admiral Duan Mingrui's river defense fleet headed for the Siamese warship, and when it was as close as 2,000 meters, Duan Mingrui ordered the combat staff officer beside him: "Give the order to open fire."

Soon, as the order was transmitted to the ships via radio waves, the 120-millimeter guns on the South China warship roared first, and the first salvo set a 200-ton gunboat led by the Siamese fleet into flames. The sailors of the An Jiajun were excited, and hurriedly loaded the shells and sent out the second round, and this time they saw thick black smoke rising from a 200-ton gunboat.

Duan Mingrui was on the command platform on the bridge, holding a telescope in his hand, and under the light of the flares, he applauded again and again: "Good fight, these monkeys always cross the line on weekdays and come to this side of the river to search our transport boats, and this time they will be killed in one go!" When we take Siam, this Mekong River will become our inland river, and the transportation in southern Yunnan will be more convenient and faster in the future. ”

The Siamese gunboats, composed of more than 20 gunboats, were not discouraged and operated 105mm guns to counterattack, and the two fleets got closer and closer, and the 75mm rapid-fire guns also joined the battle.

When the warships of the two armies were fighting, suddenly a piece of grass and trees on the east bank of the Mekong River fell down, revealing a row of guns, and a 120mm cannon was aimed at the river.

The Siamese gunboat was caught off guard and suffered a big loss, and immediately a 400-ton gunboat was beaten to the ground, almost no one was alive on the ship's surface, the cannons were all destroyed, and the hull of the ship was tilted to the side, looking like it was about to sink but not sunk. The rest of the Siamese gunboats dispersed in a hurry, turning the rudder and fleeing upstream.

Amid the rumbling of the cannons, the officers and men of the ships only hated the speed of the ships being too slow, and some of them could not help jumping into the water and swimming to the opposite shore. The shore artillery of the An Jiajun held on tightly, regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one, and quickly loaded the shells, and the rows of guns fired fiercely, knocking out the Siamese ships one after another.

Duan Mingrui's fleet also took the opportunity to fight the Siamese gunboats to death, and one by one the gunners wished that they had three or five more hands to load the shells.

Siamese gunboats of 400 tons, 200 tons, and 100 tons on the river, were shot one after another, and sank into the water one after another in the billowing smoke, and a few 100-ton gunboats, relying on their light bodies, turned around and fled back without their lives.

"I want to run on a dog day! No way, pass my orders and continue the pursuit! ”

Rear Admiral Duan Mingrui shouted from the bridge command platform, the communications staff quickly conveyed the order, and the sailors also hung the order flag on the mast.

The officers and men of the ships were fighting at this time, and as soon as they saw that the commander ordered the pursuit, the ships, both large and small, all fired at full speed and bravely pursued and killed them, and the sound of cannons along the way was endless, tightly holding on to the Siamese gunboats, and those Siamese speedboats dared to stop there, and they only desperately wanted to drill into the circular pier on the shore of Mudahan City covered by the fortress artillery fire.

Seven or eight kilometers along the way, the Siamese troops in the fortresses on the west bank of the Mekong River saw that their ships had suffered heavy losses, and hurriedly fired their fortress guns at the surface of the Mekong River one after another, but they only set off huge water columns in front of and behind the Anjia warships and gunboats, and did not hit a single bullet.

At this time, the speedboats of the An Jiajun finally caught up with several 100-ton Siamese gunboats that were fleeing, fired and collided, overturned one and wounded three, and then the "Qian" class gunboats and the "Kun" class gunboats were killed, and the wounded enemy boats were sent to the bottom of the Mekong River.

"Order, return sail, these fortresses will be handed over to the army to deal with them!"

Under the fierce coastal defense artillery fire, Duan Mingrui carefully looked at the fortress built by the Siamese with a telescope, and found that it was very difficult to use a 120mm caliber cannon to deal with the fortress, so he calmly gave an order.

Duan Mingrui knew that his task was mainly to cover the army's crossing of the river, and once the three main armies of the Xia Jian Front Army and one directly subordinate guard army crossed the Mekong River, the resistance of the Siamese in the eastern region would melt one by one like snow lions on fire, and there would be no need to take more risks with gunboats.

At this time, the river crossing operation on the front line of Kenmala was unusually smooth.

The Siamese originally deployed a border police regiment here to defend, but in the first round of shelling, this regiment was almost reimbursed, and from beginning to end, it did not cause any trouble to Xia Jian's headquarters who crossed the river, which made Xia Jian, who was looking forward to a fierce offensive and defensive battle, slightly disappointed.

However, Xia Jian then cheered up, after all, it was a good thing that the troops were progressing smoothly, so that they could cross the Mekong River defense line without paying many casualties, and once they entered the territory of Siam, the plains there would be pastures where mechanized troops roamed.

Xia Jian calmly dispatched his troops and built ten pontoon bridges over the Mekong River, and a steady stream of large troops entered the territory of Siam.

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At 0:00 a.m. on 20 August, at Battambang Air Base, countless searchlights illuminated the entire airport.

"Note: Each platoon will board its own airship according to the predetermined plan! Row 1, you and Row 2 are C-1; Rows 3 and 4, C-2; 5 platoon, you go to C-3 with your heavy fire equipment...... Move quickly, and everyone should remember to check if they have their own equipment! ”

A lieutenant and company commander of the air force paratroop unit of the Anjia Army stood on the open lawn, commanding his soldiers loudly, and on the entire open flat ground, ten huge airships were silently waiting for the airborne troops with parachutes on their backs to board the boats.

Due to the slower speed of the airship, it was necessary to take off first, and later the troops transported by the transport aircraft brigade.

Until now, there has never been a history of such a large-scale airdrop in human history (the previous Central Asian operation was a landing transport), and 3,000 soldiers were dropped to Bangkok more than 300 kilometers away at one time, and once successful, the An Jia Army will create a whole new history.

The paratroopers who have paid countless sweats have already carried out thousands of parachute exercises on the ground, and each paratrooper has carried out at least ten or more parachute jumps before carrying out this mission.

In these airborne trainings, a total of thirty-two excellent airborne soldiers gave their precious lives due to parachute failures and other reasons, but the others did not deter from this, and everyone redoubled their training until they became a qualified paratrooper.

At present, each division has five airborne regiments, the whole division plus 18,000 logistics personnel, and the standard establishment of each airborne regiment is 3,000 people, which is slightly more than that of the infantry division, and the airborne regiment has no heavy weapons such as mountain artillery and field artillery, and each paratrooper carries a Type I assault rifle, a box gun, and five hand grenades, and carries 100 rounds of 7.62 caliber ammunition with him; each regiment has 125 general-purpose machine guns, 80 rocket launchers, and 60 mortars, and each machine gun has 3,000 rounds of ammunition when airborneEach mortar has 100 rounds of ammunition, and most of the ammunition is parachuted in shockproof containers, and after the paratroopers land, they need to be put away as soon as possible.

At one o'clock in the morning, the last airship carrying airborne troops untied its cable and slowly rose into the air, and in a not noisy "buzz", these huge airships began to fly towards the western sky.

At two o'clock in the morning, one after another, AN5 and AN6 transport planes began to land on the airport runway in turn, and then, the paratroopers who were ready to go boarded the transport planes in turn.

By 3 o'clock in the morning, all the transport planes were fully loaded, and they took off again in turn, heading for Bangkok, more than 300 kilometers to the west.

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In Siam at midnight, I fell asleep with deep anxiety, and this land that was originally bathed in the light of Buddha was shrouded in invisible dense war clouds.

Sattahip Military Port, located in the northern waters of the Gulf of Siam, is the most important military port south of Bangkok.

In the early hours of the morning, the South China Second and Third Fleets successfully blockaded the Gulf of Inner Siam. At two o'clock in the morning, the battleships "Beihai" and "Victory" and the flagship "Glorious", with their main guns mounted on two, three, and four parts, slowly turned to the port of Sattahip, and more than a dozen gunboats and transport fleets of the Siam Coastal Fleet took refuge in this harbor, and they were protected by a naval fortress consisting of five batteries in the port.

"Fire!"

With the sound of the light of the journey, the roar of the cannons broke the silence of the sea, and one by one the shells accelerated to 850 meters per second by the propellant, with the unbearable enthusiasm of the Siamese people, flew towards the port, the strange whistle-like roar, which made the Siamese sailors who had never experienced such an over-the-horizon shelling frightened.

In the face of the long-range shelling of the 50.44 times the diameter quadruple 330mm naval guns equipped with the battleships of the Anjia Army, the old 150mm heavy howitzers and 120mm fortress guns in the Siamese batteries looked helpless. With the cooperation of flares and reconnaissance planes, thick smoke continued to rise from the harbor, a large number of Siamese ships were hit, and some high-explosive shells also landed in the shipyard and residential areas near the pier, causing a large number of casualties.

Although the firing range was not comparable to that of the other side, the large and small artillery of the Siamese fortress still opened fire one after another, and in this emboldened counterattack, all the Siamese shells fell more than four or five thousand meters away from the Anjia army fleet.

In this asymmetrical battle, the fortresses finally could not bear the continuous bombardment, cracks began to appear, and then in the heavy artillery fire, one by one, along with the soldiers hiding in the fortress, were blown into powder.

By 4 a.m., the Sattahip military port had been almost flattened, and all the ships hiding in the military port had been blown up and sunk to the bottom of the sea.

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Urgent telegrams flew one after another from the ports of Chiang Rai, Kenmala, and Sattahip to the Ministry of Defense in Siam, so that Phibun, who had stayed up all night waiting. Song Kan, Bo. Maidi, Tanlong. Navasavat and the others had headaches.

Siam's top brass is simply powerless to resolve the current predicament, the army is now on the defensive, the fighters owned by the air force are basically exhausted in yesterday's air battle, and the navy only exists in a sense and may be completely wiped out at any time, and Siam's only hope is that Japan mobilizes its air force to participate in the war, or the Japanese navy attacks from the rear to defeat the navy in South China, or even directly sends the army to participate in the war in South China, so that there can be a glimmer of life.