It was not easy to achieve the goal of luring the enemy deep into the sea and quickly annihilating the living forces of the Japanese army, and in order to achieve the goal, the naval resistance army used a lot of brains in many details.

Idealizing the situation in Ceylon, the naval resistance army has two most anticipated results;

First, to prevent the Japanese army from continuing to reinforce and eliminate the Japanese forces with minimal losses in a step-by-step manner. But it was obviously unrealistic, and the Naval Resistance Army did not have the main ships and could not stop the Japanese reinforcements. Even if the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier, which has completed the final outfitting, arrives at Datang Island, it may not be absolutely sure that it will complete the task of blocking the enemy's reinforcements. After the Battle of Midway, the devil was much weaker, but the Japanese naval force was still not something that an aircraft carrier could resist.

Second, the Japanese army in Ceylon was killed with lightning speed, and the idea of reinforcements of the Japanese army was broken. However, this is still not true after many deductions. The island of Ceylon, which is tens of thousands of square kilometers, can be regarded as having strategic depth. It was already quite difficult for the Naval Resistance Army to defeat the more than 30,000 troops of the Japanese army with 17,000 troops. It is almost impossible to eliminate the devils in one reinforcement cycle of the Japanese army.

It is precisely on the basis of these two considerations that the Naval Resistance Force has to choose a suboptimal tactic.

In ancient times, there was a strategy of "promoting peace through war." All Li Guang had to do was to hurt the enemy and make the Japanese pay a heavy price in Ceylon, and if there was a greater expectation, it would be to be able to occupy Trincomalee, making it more difficult for the Japanese to reinforce. It made the Japanese army feel that the cost of occupying Ceylon was too high, and then assisted the Japanese army to retreat with a strong military display.

However, whether the little devil really has the brains to calculate the profit and loss of this account, according to the consistent performance of the devil, Li Guang is really not sure.

Now what the Naval Resistance Army has to do is to hurt the Japanese army and destroy the living force of the Japanese army in Ceylon. Until this is achieved, consider whether it is possible to occupy Trincomalee in one of the Japanese reinforcement cycles. Or whether the Japanese army will retreat in the face of difficulties is an extravagant hope.

But in this way, it is completely different from the coping strategy discussed by Li Guang and Premier Yuan Ye at the beginning. At the beginning, Li Guang and Yuan Ye originally planned to show weakness to the enemy and let all the energy of the Japanese army turn to the central Pacific Ocean and the American army.

War, how can the facts be as good as they should be. Even if the little Haitang has seized a good position in the world war, it is still too far from the ability to play with Britain and the United States.

In order to achieve the goal of luring the enemy into depth, the Naval Resistance Army also has a complete set of combat plans on the flank battlefield.

On the flank battlefield of Tanggang, She Jinsong, the commander of the mountain battalion who became famous in the previous stage, has now been promoted. Become a lieutenant colonel regimental commander. Now She Jinsong is leading 4,000 troops to counterattack the Japanese army in the vast mountainous areas of central Burma.

However, the main force of the counteroffensive was not actually the naval resistance army, but the "cannon fodder" formed by various ethnic groups in Ceylon. She Jinsong only commanded these troops, and the officers and men of the Maritime Resistance served as instructors and commanders in this unit.

Is the army, which has only been established for a month or two, combat-ready? To know. In the mountainous area, the confrontation with the Naval Resistance Army was an independent mixed brigade of the Japanese army, with more than 6,000 troops. Although it is not a field formation of the Japanese army. But it can also be regarded as a regular army.

Lions led by sheep may not be combative. But the sheep led by the lion are also combative. Under the command of She Jinsong, Ceylon's army, which is too miscellaneous to be miscellaneous, really has combat effectiveness.

From the end of September, the Ceylon army under the command of She Jinsong began a counteroffensive. What puzzled Tanaka Hidaichi was that these lazy and docile natives of Ceylon actually rushed in the face of bullets and bullets in every battle. More fierce than the Japanese army, not afraid of death.

Kuichi Tanaka couldn't figure out why, and even speculated whether there would be some legendary Ceylon specialty - Indian god oil (traditionally, Ceylon is considered India. ) at work.

Tanaka Kuichi's guess, although not true. But it's about the same. During the battle, the natives of Ceylon used a medicine called the "Invincible Pill".

This kind of 'invincible pill' is the masterpiece of some "unscrupulous businessmen". The reason for the creation of this drug is more complicated, one is that the Naval Resistance Army found Italian military opium during the Somali battle, which aroused the fighting excitement of the black servants. Another reason is that Quan Yonghai, the captain of the third submarine team, discovered in his dealings with German submariners that the Germans have a pill that can keep soldiers excited for a long time and fight continuously. The drug, codenamed "OBM" in the Wehrmacht hospital, was labeled "Stimulant" on its packaging, and the instructions said "Take 1 to 2 tablets and you don't have to sleep".

Quan Yonghai made this discovery at that time, and he was very excited, and was doused with cold water by Li Guang. Only then did I know that that thing was poison to put it bluntly, a thing made by deoxyhem, yellow-alkali plus cocaine and morphine.

It was not that the German top brass was unaware of the dangers, but during the war, no one had too many scruples. For soldiers on the verge of life and death, today does not know what will happen tomorrow, and it is good to anesthetize the nerves to be less painful before death comes. Therefore, this drug became very popular among the German army and was extremely harmful.

In fact, in World War II, the German army was by no means the only one to use this drug to enhance combat effectiveness, and the Russian army basically relied on their most common anesthetic, spirits vodka, to act as a narcotic drug in history to overcome war phobia. The United Kingdom, for its part, purchased a psychotropic drug that allows pilots to perform more than 48 hours of continuous duty without sleep. And in the U.S. military, there are many people who smoke hemp, and chocolate is actually a stimulant. In the Chinese army, the presence of double-spearmen was almost universal, and opium smoking abound among high-ranking generals. Even in some units, the reward for motivating soldiers to fight is the Great Smoke.

The horror of war is the most unbearable weight of human life.

When the Naval Resistance Army had the Black Kunlun Battalion, this drug was secretly put on the plan again. However, this invincible pill is not so high-tech, just a large amount of deoxyephedrine-yellow-alkali was purchased in the United States and mixed with large tobacco paste. Although the technology content is not high, it can't stop the quantity. The effect was really just right, and the docile Ceylonese ate it, and without even using the Warlords, they screamed and charged forward.

The battlefield is often a scene on the front, with the Ceylonese charging with a roar. The Japanese army's firepower points and defensive positions were completely exposed, and the heavy firepower of the naval resistance forces was cleared one by one in the rear, and sometimes fighters would be dispatched to cooperate.

The tactics are simple and crude. But if you don't succeed once, you can't do it twice, and if you don't succeed three times, the little devils finally find that they really can't afford it. In the half-month battle, She Jinsong made such a move, but the devil was defeated one after another. An independent mixed brigade of the Japanese army suffered more than half of the casualties under this kind of death-sending tactic. As for the casualties of the Ceylon army, the Naval Resistance Army did not make statistics.

This was the first step in the series of plans of the Naval Resistance Army in the October counteroffensive. The Naval Resistance Army put on a posture at any cost. Offensive posture from the mountains. If Tanaka Kuichi did not accept the offer, the Japanese army's frontal attack on Tang Port would inevitably weaken. If Tanaka does not accept the offer, then Tanaka's only alternative path to victory may only be to take a defensive position in the mountains and contain the forces of the Naval Resistance Army. And a frontal assault. In order to take Tang Port before the Naval Resistance Army completely drove the Japanese army from the mountains. The Japanese only need to occupy Tang Port. Then the Maritime Resistance Army will become a source of water. Without a tree, the Japanese army can completely draw it.

On the other hand, the Naval Resistance Army, on the surface, was holding on to Mount Cutler and launching an offensive in the mountainous area. Once the Japanese were expelled from the mountains, they could take advantage of the situation to occupy Colombo, the capital of Ceylon. In this way, it was possible to bypass the mountainous areas of central Ceylon. Attack the military port of Trincomalee. In the same way, the Japanese army has become a source of water, a tree without roots, that is, a reinforcement fleet has arrived. It is also impossible to find a suitable port to land. The battle has been fought for such a long time, and when the Naval Resistance Army is on guard, it is no longer possible for the devils to adopt the surprise landing tactics that they did in June.

The two armies faced each other, especially against a general with considerable combat experience like the Japanese army, and it was unlikely that any tactics and tactics that were too wishful thinking would succeed. Therefore, the plan formulated by the General Staff of the Naval Resistance Army is a dignified and upright battle, which can be described as a conspiracy.

Yangmou is the kind of thing that you can understand, but you have to deal with passively. Tanaka knew very well that he did not think that the naval resistance army attacking in the mountains would be able to quickly take Colombo, even if the naval resistance army used the Ceylonese army at any cost.

However, in just a few days, the 35th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army in the mountainous area suffered heavy casualties. And that's not all, the more serious problem is: a separate mixed brigade of the Japanese army has a major general brigade commander and five infantry brigade commanders. It's only been a few days since the fight, and half of them are dead.

This achievement, of course, is due to the effectiveness of the radio detectors of the Naval Resistance Army. However, the devils who do not learn and do not know how to do it can't think of this method at all, but they devote their energy to Burmese spies.

This loss gave Tanaka a great illusion, as if the advance of the Naval Resistance Army in the mountains would not take a few days to reach the city of Colombo.

In fact, by 8 October, the troops under the command of She Jinsong were exhausted. The Ceylon army, which totaled more than 30,000 troops, lost more than 6,000 casualties and nearly 20,000 wounded soldiers in just half a month, and has completely lost its combat effectiveness.

If the strong offensive continues, it will really consume the strength of the Naval Resistance Army.

However, this illusion also forced Tanaka Kuichi to speed up the pace of attacking Tang Port. Kuichi Tanaka had actually begun to enter the rhythm set by the Naval Resistance Army at this time.

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In the battle of Cutler Hill, the Japanese suffered heavy losses, but in any case, they took down this roadblock. And in front of him is Ichoma Hirakawa, and the mentality of Kuichi Tanaka, who has been severely hit, has begun to rise again.

After a long time on the battlefield, Tanaka Kuichi did not think of any conspiracy of the Naval Resistance Army. However, in front of them, the naval resistance army has no favorable terrain to rely on. Moreover, the Naval Resistance Army dropped a large number of weapons on Katler Mountain, 200 light and heavy machine guns and nearly 200 mortars were not a small number, and a single division of the Japanese army could not make up so many. The little devil has been fighting for so many years, and it is rare to have such a rich harvest. Therefore, Tanaka Kuichi judged that the Naval Resistance Army was really defeated, and it was not far from collapse if it threw down so many weapons and equipment.

Another reason that prompted Tanaka to continue the onslaught was that the Japanese captured the remains of a naval resistance soldier for the first time during the four-month battle.

The seizure was so rich that the Naval Resistance Army could not even take care of the corpses of the brothers, which is enough to show that the Naval Resistance Army was truly defeated. Because of this, Tanaka Kuichi also let go of the last trace of doubt, pressed all his troops, and prepared to fight the naval resistance army on the plain, and take Tanggang in a battle.

In fact, the light and heavy machine guns dropped by the Navy's resistance forces were almost obsolete weapons, and mortars were even more old. Li Guang didn't feel any distress at all, only the remains of more than 300 soldiers were the hidden pain in Li Guang's heart. But in order to win, Li Guang had to apologize to the brothers in his heart: I'm sorry. Willing, willing, giving will be gained. The Naval Resistance Army paid a huge price and even risked giving up favorable terrain in order to lure the enemy deeper.

At this point, Tanaka Hisashi fell deeper and deeper into the wrong path at first.

During the daytime battle on the 10th, the Maritime Resistance Army retreated more than 10 kilometers one after another, and it was not until the evening that it gained a foothold on the second line of defense built between several lakes. (To be continued......)