Chapter 188 188 Jungle Guerrilla

In the previous days of fighting, although the PLA controlled some important cities, but the vast countryside, jungle area is still not able to control, this has to be placed in the situation of China, then everything is in vain, but this is the Malay Peninsula, and the MCA is mainly based on the industrial and commercial population, the agricultural population is very small, so most of them live in the city, and it is more appropriate to grasp the urban model of large and small.

Of course, this also gave the PLA a rather severe test, the east-west connection strategy with Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur as the hub, but Kuala Lumpur needs to get a large number of supplies from the sea, bypassing the Strait of Malacca is obviously not a very good decision, it takes longer, and it has to go through Singapore and Indonesia, and the transit from Kuantan is relatively convenient. However, if the road between Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan is to be maintained, the PLA will need a considerable part of its troops to sweep along the road.

Perhaps it is a chaotic and violent country itself, so even if it is beaten to the ground, the resilience of the Ma army is still a headache. The 8th Brigade of the Airborne Corps and the 6th Infantry Regiment (the vast majority of the Red Police soldiers were temporarily formed) had to act as police officers on the one hand, taking care of the law and order in major cities such as Kuala Lumpur, and on the other hand, they had to constantly send mobile units to attack any formed troops.

Zhu Tonghua, who is sitting in Kuala Lumpur, knows in his heart that even if these Ma troops scattered all over the country are not threats today, they are also potential threats, and they are all objects that need to be cleaned up. The current 8th Brigade and the 6th Infantry Regiment will undoubtedly be reorganized into the Nanyang Chinese Liberation Army in the future, so they will be cleaned up early and late.

In the plan to defend the highway from Kuantan to Kuala Lumpur, Zhu Tonghua set up several strongholds on the highway to charge the city, namely Kanbang, Malan, Temaru and Bentong, and each of these four places was defended by a battalion, and each battalion was subordinate to a company of mechanized infantry to quickly patrol and protect the highway and its surroundings. Although this would give the enemy a chance to break through, Zhu Tonghua was more convinced of the capabilities of his troops, and coupled with the fact that a brigade of marines was already stationed in Kuantan, as well as the fleet of the HNA Airlines, if there was a need, the planes would be able to appear in the delivery area in a few minutes to support his troops.

In addition, Zhu Tonghua also vigorously urged China to deploy at least two helicopter groups into Malaya as soon as possible, and with the support of helicopters, it would be more helpful for jungle operations.

With great caution, in the end, on the second transportation of supplies after the opening of the car, the convoy was attacked by a battalion of the First Army of the Ma Army. The Malay attack on the PLA convoy was obviously hasty, perhaps because their commanders lacked such experience, they did not destroy the road, and they did not even place obstacles such as mines on the road, and when the convoy passed through Bentong and crossed the Tidiwangsa mountain range (Malay for central mountain range), they were attacked by the Ma army in the mountain forest.

The dense forests on both sides of the road are really a big problem for the armored troops protecting the convoys, and the thermal imagers mounted on the combat vehicles are relatively easy to distinguish large hull targets in the roadside woodland, and the Malay monkeys lurking on the ground are easy to be overlooked. The Ma army lacked effective heavy firepower, and the ambush also began with mortars and Chinese-made 107 rocket launchers that I don't know where to get them.

The outrageous shelling did not hit well, but one truck carrying supplies was still seriously injured, but fortunately there were no casualties, and the driver team immediately escaped from the vehicle.

The sudden sneak attack annoyed the armored forces guarding the convoy. In charge of the escort convoy is a part of the 6th Infantry Regiment from Kuantan, the 6th Regiment is mainly composed of Red Alert soldiers, so it can ensure a better mechanized combat power, in addition to the Grizzly Bear tank, the convoy they participated in the escort mainly used another infantry combat vehicle that had never been equipped with PLA.

There is no official model name for this infantry fighting vehicle, but it is collectively referred to as MIFV (Muiti-functional-Infantry-Fighting-Vehicle), which is one of the Allied signature armored vehicles in the Red Alert, a multi-purpose infantry vehicle. This weapon has been like the Grizzly Bear and Rhino tanks from the beginning, and can be produced by the first-class base, and objectively speaking, its practical performance and reliability are stronger than the Type 09 infantry combat vehicles that have been equipped with thousands of PLAs.

In the end, the reason why this model was not adopted by the Army is similar to that of the Grizzly Bear, mainly because the logistics parts are not universal. Moreover, the combat strength of the two infantry combat vehicles is comparable, and the Type 09 produced by the base is still much stronger than the Type 09 with power defects in the original plane, so the military comparison gap is not large, and the Type 09 weighing 8 tons is actually a little cheaper than the multi-functional infantry vehicle with more than 14 tons, so it is more suitable for a large number of equipment.

Speaking of which, it is naturally impossible for this MIFV in Qi Yiming's hand to have different weapons with different types of troops like in the game, but there are also quite a variety and efficient modular weapon stations. Naturally, modern infantry chariots basically have some such functions, indicating that the game itself also refers to reality. The MIFV is much faster than the Type 09 when it comes to changing weapons packages, and can basically be converted from an ordinary armored personnel carrier to an anti-aircraft missile vehicle, or assault gun, in a matter of hours with the support of efficient logistics personnel.

This car is a bit similar in appearance to the Stryker combat vehicle that the US military began to equip on a large scale in later generations, but the lines are much more sci-fi, and the livery has also been changed to the jungle digital camouflage of the People's Liberation Army. Because it is only more than 14 tons, it can be directly airborne, which is an important advantage over Type 09 in terms of deployment. The weight naturally minus is armor, and the defense of the Type 09 is somewhat better than that of this MIFV.

In addition to the most common 30mm cannons, there were also four multi-purpose infantry vehicles with 105mm assault guns in the convoy, which were much more powerful than the mortars and small-caliber guerrilla rocket artillery of the Ma Army. Brilliant fireworks radiated from the muzzle of the cannon, and the trees where the Ma army was hiding instantly exploded.

The Ma army is actually not stupid, they know that the Chinese transport convoy guarded by twenty infantry chariots is definitely not something that one of their battalion soldiers can eat, and they still lack anti-armor weapons, so it is impossible to knock out the Chinese infantry chariots one by one. Therefore, as soon as they made a move, they held the principle of defeating a car with merit and not losing money, and when they saw that the Chinese were angry, they immediately turned around and drilled into the forest.

Their guerrilla warfare method is very correct to tell the truth, they do not seek to kill or injure the enemy, but only seek to exhaust the enemy and trap the enemy, which has won the five flavors of Taizu's strategy. But the mistake is that because the Ma army has no experience in fighting real armored troops, let alone against such advanced infantry vehicles, the artillery attack position chosen is too close to the road. In addition, they could not have imagined that the Chinese army's infantry chariots would move so fast.

Two multi-purpose infantry vehicles rushed straight down the road, and even one of them was shoveled off with a specially modified nose, despite the fact that it was a tree the size of a bowl in front of it. The 30mm cannon on the roof of the car fired a series of shells, and the Ma soldiers, who thought they would be able to escape, were stunned. The other car was even more beyond their understanding, directly spewing out two flames, and the burning horse monkey howled in pain.

The Spitfire Combat Pack is also a weapon station that is very commonly used in MIFV, this module pack can provide multi-functional infantry vehicles with strong cover and clear the way, especially in such jungle areas, Spitfire combat vehicles because of the use of a special accelerant, has a strong adhesion, the flames will burn more and more, and when touched, even if it poses some danger to your own troops.

Flames quickly surrounded the horse soldiers who tried to escape, and the "ruthless" Red Police soldiers used a tactic that was not above board to deal with the horse monkeys who had just destroyed one of their trucks. The chariot with the engineering shovel cut down trees to clear the way for the fire-breathing chariot, and the fire-breathing chariot quickly made a ring and then spewed a fire prison, trapping hundreds of horse soldiers in the flames before they could escape.

The horses were all guns and ammunition, but there were no fire extinguishers, and ordinary fire extinguishers did not hinder the burning of this kind of hell fire, as the flames burned more and more wildly, the blowers of the fire-breathing chariot immediately blew the flames to the inner circle, although the PLA soldiers sat in the car, they could still hear the neighing of the horses and monkeys in pain. The flames burned and gnawed away at their bodies mercilessly, until a few moments later, the fire-breathing chariot fired its own fire spray to put an end to the flames that had little incendiary material in the stall.

Even arson requires discipline, this kind of flames that are infected like a virus, one accidentally burns several hectares of woodland, and Qi Yiming still uses this place as his own territory, but it is a pity that it was burned in vain.

But when the soldiers who inspected the results of the battle ran to look at it, they couldn't help but be shocked that they couldn't find a single humanoid thing in the ashes, and that kind of corrosive and terrifying flame actually burned hundreds of horse soldiers to the ashes in just twenty minutes.

The captain of the transport team couldn't help but complain: "It's convenient, kill it or bury it, that's what I'm talking about." The people next to him were all chilled when they heard this, and they dared to love that they had discovered the role of the fire-breathing chariot as a corpse powder.

Although the losses were not large, and the victory against the sneak attack was won, but still lost some supplies, so the commanders in the theater were very alert and worried, Malaysia is full of such jungles and mountains, and the Malaysian army is also good at jungle guerrilla warfare, which is quite unfavorable for PLA.

Qi Yiming also pondered for a long time after receiving the report, and finally made a decision, dispatching a large number of integrated drones into Malaya, using their search capabilities to find the cluster of enemies in the jungle, and directly hit them. Although this kind of aerial sweep is also very expensive, it is also the most effective means of containment that Qi Yiming can think of for the time being.