The sun shone on the battlefield, the dead bodies were everywhere, and the scorching heat of the weather did not dispel the cold in the hearts of the Japanese army.

After a night of fierce fighting, the Japanese army paid a very heavy price, and finally sacrificed the tactics of ending up together, so as to take Cutler Hill.

The casualty figures were summed up by casualties, but it was clear to Tanaka that his 21st Division had been nearly crippled in this brutal night battle. One of the infantry wings with the heaviest casualties, at this time had less than a thousand men still able to breathe. The one with the lightest casualties was also reduced by about a quarter.

In a night of hard fighting, the Japanese army suffered nearly 7,000 casualties, nearly half of which were casualties.

The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the Naval Resistance Army did not feel good. In a fierce battle overnight, two reinforced battalions of the Xuanjia Regiment of the Naval Resistance Army, 4,000 elites, suffered more than half of the casualties. Of these, more than six hundred were killed.

One will be successful, and ten thousand bones will wither. In order to win, Li Guang must also harden his heart. In order to lure the enemy, the Naval Resistance Army dropped more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, more than 100 mortars, and thousands of rifles on Katler Mountain. He even threw down the remains of more than 300 anti-Japanese fighters.

Qi Ruixuan, the head of the Xuanjia Regiment, was escorted off the battlefield by Li Guang's strict order, and Qi Ruixuan was very clear about the battle plan, but abandoning the remains of more than 300 sea resistance soldiers, Qi Ruixuan's heart was like a knife.

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Bao Gang, commander of the second column, was responsible for the overall operational command of the Naval Resistance Army in Tanggang, and the battle plan was also drawn up by Bao Gang and the officers of the General Staff Department. But Li Guang offered an idea for this battle.

Li Guang admits that he is no more clever than the commander of the three columns of the Naval Resistance Army in terms of the tactical command of the army, but as a traverser, he has the most profound understanding of the tactics of the Japanese army, especially the Japanese army. For several years, immersed in the war, Li Guang has been thinking about it all the time. There is already considerable judgment ability. He had more of his own views on the education he received in later generations or the knowledge of war he had gained from various aspects. After the war, the U.S. military had a rather profound summary of the tactics of the Japanese Army, and the most important conclusion was that the Japanese army would only attack. No matter what the battle or what the situation, there is only one means for the Japanese army - to attack.

Offense is the best defense. This maxim of war is not entirely true, war is a synthesis of tactics, and no army can rely entirely on offensive means to achieve complete victory.

It was on the basis of an accurate grasp of the Japanese army that Li Guang put forward the idea of this battle - to take advantage of the Japanese army's habitual preference for attack, or even obsession with attacking, to lure the enemy into depth.

Cutler Hill Position. The Naval Resistance Army could fight the Japanese on the basis of favorable terrain. With elite troops and powerful firepower to resist the Japanese attack, there were not many favorable conditions. The absolute advantage of the casualty ratio is in battle.

But look at the battle in more depth. The Naval Resistance Army seems to be advantageous on this kind of battlefield. But it can't really give full play to the advantages of the Naval Resistance Army.

The first point: Tanaka Kuichi took advantage of the rainy season to dig trenches and tunnels, which invisibly limited the play of the strongest force of the Naval Resistance Army, the armored regiment, from the beginning of the war to the present. There are few opportunities to show your face.

The second point. The naval resistance army has an absolute superiority in air power, but it is difficult to form a devastating blow to the Japanese artillery units scattered over a large area of seven or eight kilometers wide and more than 10 kilometers deep, and the army forces hidden in the trenches.

The third point is that the heavy artillery units of the Naval Resistance Army are deployed behind Katler Mountain, and due to the obstruction of the mountain, there are too many dead spots for artillery shelling. The strength of the artillery is clearly several times greater than that of the Japanese army. But it can't fully display its power.

Therefore, in order to give full play to the advantages of the Naval Resistance Army, it is very necessary to lead the Japanese army to a battlefield that is more favorable to the Naval Resistance Army.

Of course, take the initiative to abandon favorable terrain like Cutler Mountain. It was a bit risky for the Naval Resistance Army. However, the morale of the Naval Resistance Army was high, coupled with confidence in its own firepower, Bao Gang and other officers of the Naval Resistance Army were very supportive of this tactic of luring the enemy into depth.

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If we say tactically, Li Guang's attainments are not as good as the commanders of the three columns of the Naval Resistance Army. But Li Guang's position determined that he looked at this battle at a higher level.

At present, there is one of the greatest difficulties in the Maritime Resistance Force. In the absence of the main warships, the most fatal shortcoming of the Naval Resistance Force was that it could not stop the Japanese reinforcements.

The Japanese army was also insufficient in this period, but the Japanese army could expand its army in a big way. And even if the strength of the Japanese army is tight, it is not difficult to reinforce three or four divisions.

On the other hand, although the Naval Resistance Army was unprecedentedly strong during this period. However, the total number of troops is still less than 40,000, and although Su Qing has gathered a lot of recruits in Burma and handed them over to the US military for training, they will not be able to come in handy for a while. Even if the Naval Resistance Army went all out to reinforce Tanggang, it would only be able to draw 30,000 troops.

From this point of view, the war potential of the Naval Resistance Army is far inferior to that of the Japanese army, and the devils cannot afford to fight a protracted fierce battle. Moreover, if the Naval Resistance Army gambles on all the more than 30,000 army forces, it will be a one-shot deal. It is said that Japanese devils like to gamble on the fortunes of the country, and if the more than 30,000 army troops of the Naval Resistance Army are all put into Ceylon, wouldn't it be fifty steps and a hundred steps, and bet on the fortunes of the Haitang Dynasty?

Another point, which is also crucial, is the supply of ammunition. In the early stage of the battle, the casualty ratio of the Naval Resistance Army has always been far smaller than that of the Japanese army, and the most important point is that the firepower is several times stronger than that of the Japanese army, and of course, the consumption is also several times that of the Japanese army. The Naval Resistance Army could have been regarded as having sufficient ammunition reserves, but at this stage, it was already somewhat weak in its follow-up. You must know that a considerable number of shells of the Naval Resistance Army lack manufacturing capacity. LIKE 150MM, 152MM GRENADES, ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS, ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE DEPLETION STOCKS.

Li Guang began to prepare for the production of artillery shells, and the time could not be regarded as short, but the production of artillery shells, especially the production of high-explosive grenades and armor-piercing shells, was not at all simple in industry. If it were simple, Chairman Chiang would not have relied on imports for all large-caliber grenades.

Internationally, the price of grenades is about $2,000 a ton, and mortar shells are worth about $1,500 a ton. In the long-term exploration of production, the merchants of Haitang's subordinate artillery shell factories would rather reduce the price of mortar shells to the level of 1,000 US dollars a ton of profits, rather than produce grenades and armor-piercing shells that are difficult to manufacture and difficult to purchase materials.

The shells of the barreled artillery must withstand the thrust of gunpowder thousands of times the acceleration before they are discharged, and they must also be able to withstand thousands of revolutions per second. If the material is not alloy steel, it simply cannot withstand such harsh working conditions. Even more difficult are the process requirements. Artillery warheads also require a complex pre-fragmentation process.

Mortar shells, on the other hand, work in a different environment than those of body-barreled artillery. It is only necessary to buy ordinary wrought iron, which can be cast by simply smelting it into gray iron. The difficulty of machining is also extremely low, and the various process requirements are much lower than those of grenades.

In the final analysis, it is caused by the fact that Haitang has almost no industrial foundation. But none of this can be solved by Li Guang, a time-traveling person, as if Li Guang can design quite a lot of super-era products, but he doesn't have the manufacturing capacity. Many seemingly simple modern industrial products can only be achieved by the overall upgrade of material technology.

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The Naval Resistance Army is facing many difficulties, but both international politics and the officers and men of the Maritime Resistance Force demand that the fight continue.

Relative to the great powers, Haitang now has little war potential. There is no economic potential. In the eyes of American and British politicians, the role of the Haitang State in the war was far inferior to that of the Chinese army, and even inferior to that of France, which had already surrendered.

Because the entry point of the naval resistance force is relatively appropriate, it has considerable naval strength, and this has become a force that can attract a little attention on the world battlefield. Otherwise. With only an army of 50,000 men, Britain and the United States really won't look at each other squarely.

To occupy a place in the tide of the world. The Naval Resistance Force must show its contribution to the world.

Maybe slippery a little. It can reduce casualties and reduce costs. Withdrawing troops, Haitang Kingdom is completely capable of doing it at present, but that is definitely not great wisdom. In that case, Haitang's hard-won image in the international community will lose points.

In order to get a piece of the post-war benefits, the Haitang Kingdom must pay something. Share. Not only does it require itself to have enough strength, but it also needs to be a footnote to its achievements. Especially in the post-war "spoils", the brilliant achievements naturally have a high right to speak.

And the Ceylon battlefield, this node related to world strategy. This is the stage of Haitang Kingdom. Even for Haitang, being able to bear the war in Ceylon alone and play a role in the node of the war in this world is even the last opportunity for Haitang's image construction. After all, in the world battlefield, in such a large-scale war, the naval resistance army has such a minimum of strength, and in various forms, it has become a force that controls the Indian Ocean, which is really lucky. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of troops on some battlefields, it has attracted the attention of the world.

Recently, there has been some progress in the diplomacy of the Haitang Kingdom, which is actually related to this. The Soviet Union has formally established diplomatic relations with Haitang. Although Britain did not officially recognize the legitimate possession of Datang Island by the Haitang State, it made many concessions in the supply of weapons and ammunition. The British Empire provided 500 of the 1,000-pound anti-ship aviation armor-piercing shells that the Naval Resistance Force urgently needed, and 500 mines were also provided at one time. In addition, 10,000 American-made M1 rifles and a large number of bullets were sent to Datang Island again.

During this period, not only the economic situation on the part of the Soviet Union was in dire straits, but also the British were even more dire than historically. You must know that every day in the Atlantic, there are merchant ships sunk by German submarines, which consumes the national strength of Britain and the production capacity of the United States.

Diplomatic negotiations between the Haitang Kingdom and the United Kingdom are ongoing, and holding Ceylon is also the most important bargaining chip for the Haitang Kingdom.

After the war, it was almost impossible for the Haitang Kingdom and France to avoid World War I. For Haitang's long-term strategy, although it is unlikely to pull the British into the Haitang camp, the British can maintain neutrality, which is already a huge victory for Haitang. Now is the critical period of negotiations between the Haitang State and the British, so the Hai Resistance Army cannot evacuate Tang Port.

From the perspective of the development of the Haitang Kingdom itself, the first war of Ceylon is also imperative. Not to mention the control of Ceylon's economic interests, if we want to establish a complete psychological strength of the Naval Resistance Army in front of the Japanese army, that is, we have confidence in the victory of the Japanese army at all times, then we must win this battle.

No general wants to fight in adversity, but an army that does not fight to the death in adversity is definitely not an invincible army. Adversity shines the sword, this is the creed of the Naval Resistance Army.

What kind of army is the Naval Resistance Army? The most basic purpose of the building of the Maritime Resistance Army is to resist Japan.

In the years since the founding of the army, the navy of the Naval Resistance Army has been fighting the Japanese army every day. However, the army only fought skirmishes against Japan on Hainan Island and Burma. The whole army held their breath and wanted to meet the Japanese devils. Now the Japanese devils are in front of them, asking the brothers to retreat, and the officers and men of the naval resistance will not agree.

You don't see it, the morale of the Tang Ganghai Anti-Japanese Army is high, and the whole army is bent on killing the enemy. Fighting in Tang Harbor, the morale of the Naval Resistance Army is completely different from fighting in Somalia. It was even higher than the morale of the Naval Resistance Army fighting on Datang Island to seek the establishment of the country.

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The combination of internal and external factors made the naval resistance force have to fight, and they also had to quickly deal with the Japanese army in Ceylon. This is also the reason why the Naval Resistance Army has now taken the initiative to abandon the Cutler Hill position and lure the enemy into going deeper. (To be continued......)