Chapter 275: The Only Man
Guan Canghai on the command ship Zhongmou, the flagship of the Northern Fleet, received information from a number of submarines and immediately ordered the aircraft carriers Gongjin and Zijing of the First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group to take off and Linglong carrier-based reconnaissance planes to monitor the latest movements of the British and American fleets, and at the same time report the situation to the Mediterranean Theater General Command.
When Jiang Yunzhi received the information, he was communicating with General Hans, commander of the African Front of the Grand Alliance, about the situation of the campaign.
In Jufra, Libya, after the British and American troops were raised, the war gradually fell into a stalemate.
In Gilahiye, the 6th Guards Infantry Corps of Ink attacked for several days, but was unable to break through the defense line of the multinational force. Eisenhower established an all-motorized mobile army in Tghese and Fugaiha, relying on desert roads. Dense shoulder-fired individual rockets and car-mounted heavy machine guns against the Han Army's helicopter units along the coast.
Under the focus of the multinational forces, the strike range of the 101st and 102nd Air Cavalry Divisions was greatly limited. In fact, the greatest threat to the Han army's helicopter units is not the large number of individual rocket launchers, but a FIM-43 "Red Eye" anti-aircraft missile successfully developed by General Motors.
This is the world's first shoulder-launched air defense missile successfully developed by the Pomona branch of the General Motors Corporation of the United States, which uses infrared guidance, has a firing height of 1,700 meters, and the rate of fire can just reach 1. Mach 7.
The "Red Eye" missile is launched from the XM147 launcher and consists of a launch tube, a control handle, an XM59 telescopic sight and a target capture indicator. The operating soldier can capture and track a target through the sight, and as soon as the infrared search head locks onto the target, it is notified by a buzzer on the control handle.
Easy to operate, easy to carry, and practical are the best praise of the American soldiers for "red eyes".
In actual combat, the FIM-43C "Red Eye" anti-aircraft missile is not a big threat to sonic and subsonic jets, and even the US military's own "red eyes" for the mass-produced version of the "red eye" against jet fighters are only assessed as 0. 4。
George Patton's U.S. Second Armored Division, after trying out the "Red Eye" against the Han State's Weilong attack plane, bluntly said that this thing was a firework to equip the army.
However, in Jufra, Eisenhower, who was struggling with the treetop strike tactics of the Han Air Cavalry Division, keenly felt that this kind of individual shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile was the best weapon against helicopters.
So he used the only desert road in central Libya to set up a motorized unit, using jeeps to move quickly with air defense units equipped with "red eyes" to deal with the WZ-10 Falcon gunships of the Air Cavalry Division of the Han Coastal Corps.
For the falcons who are only tens of meters high on the battlefield and are in the rotation and stop attack mode, the infrared guidance of the "red eyes" is absolutely deadly, even insolvable.
As soon as the "Red Eyes" appeared, a large number of falcons were shot down, not injured, but actually shot down. It was 8. 3 kg weight FIM-43C, in 1. A high-speed hit at Mach 7, although the warhead of the "red eye" was only a kilogram of high explosive, was lethal enough.
For this reason, the Allied forces, which had become accustomed to the slaughter of the armored forces of the multinational forces by the air cavalry divisions, were taken advantage of by Eisenhower to launch a full-front counterattack after losing their treetop forces.
The ill-prepared Allied forces retreated more than a hundred kilometers before desperately holding the defensive line. An entire army of the 3rd Army Corps in Nanyang was cut off by the multinational forces and fell into an encirclement. But these monkeys ...... These warriors held their positions for four days and nights in isolation, repelled dozens of attacks by multinational forces, involved a large number of troops in charge of pursuit, and made great contributions to the rebuilding of the Allied defense line and stabilizing the position in the rout.
His Majesty, who received the news, sent an urgent telegram to General Hans, the commander of the front army, to do his best to win and save the Nanyang Army that was under siege.
On the fifth day, the Royal Air Force dispatched a large number of attack aircraft and bombers, and even the BH-41 Qiulong long-range strategic bomber, which was far away in the Sinai Peninsula, was also dispatched.
After an unprecedented large-scale bombing, the Royal Air Force almost used bombs to blow up the trapped Nanyang Army.
Shui Mo commanded hundreds of thousands of allied troops who had retreated to Bengu Naimai Mountain, concentrated several mechanized troops, launched a large-scale counterattack, and finally opened the passage of the small hill called Kneibai and rescued the trapped Nanyang Army.
In this battle, more than 36,000 officers and men of the 8th Army of Nanyang were killed in the battle, and more than 15,000 wounded, including the army commander Major General Su Jiawei, voluntarily stayed on the position to cover the breakthrough troops.
It is said that after the capture of Major General Sugarvi, as the first general-level officer to be captured by the multinational forces, he was even personally interrogated by Eisenhower.
The commander-in-chief of the multinational force mentioned a series of histories of the US military in Nanyang to prove the friendship of the United States to the people of Nanyang and hoped to persuade Sugarway to surrender.
In the major leagues, the official language has long since become Chinese, but Sugarway, who has studied the United States, spoke English well, and he answered Eisenhower with a word in the standard New York accent, almost mad Eisenhower: Nuts.
In a desperate situation but fighting to the death, the deeds of General Sugarwi and the 8th Army of Nanyang spread throughout the Allied army, and Hans even said that "it was Sugarwi and the 8th Army of Nanyang who saved the entire front!" ”
Weiyang Palace also sent out the latest instructions, one bright and one dark. On the surface, the 8th Army in the South Seas was commended, allowing the 8th Army, which had been completely crippled, to return to the South Seas for repair and reconstruction, and instructing the General Command in the Mediterranean and the African Front to make every effort to rescue the loyal and heroic General Sujavi.
There was also a private directive: henceforth, the Imperial military was not allowed to call the Nanyang Army monkeys again.
After Jiang Yunzhi and Hans saw this top-secret instruction, they grinned in unison, in fact, words like monkey, hair, and devil were the first to be said by His Majesty in the Imperial Army.
After recovering Outer Mongolia in the Far East, the Jingzhou army, which had been ordered to return to the mainland to recuperate, went out again, this time to the battlefield of Libya, Africa, which had just suffered defeat. With the Jingzhou Army, there was also a Guards Armored Division.
The number of this unit was the 30th Guards Panzer Division.
There were a total of ten corps in the Guards Corps, and the 30th Division was the last division to be formed, and it was also one of the ace units that could not be defeated to defend Chang'an, and their main battle equipment was Mammoth heavy tanks and Cheetah tracked infantry armored assault vehicles.
The 30th Guards Division is one of only two armored divisions in the Guards Army that uses Mammoth (Apocalypse) heavy tanks as the main battle equipment, the other is the 1st Division of the 1st Guards Army, the 1st Division of the Guards Army, the 1st Division in the world where Huo Lu is still the commander, and the Heavy Armored Division that gave Stalin a headache in Novosibirsk.
The defeat of the African Front, although His Majesty has not put any pressure on Hans and Ink, exudes positive energy such as encouragement and encouragement. But with the 30th Guards Division being sent to Africa, the fool also understood the importance His Majesty attached to the African battlefield.
Nominally, the African Front was also under the jurisdiction of the General Command of the Mediterranean Theater in Cairo. With the arrival of the Jingzhou Legion and the Heavy Armored Division of the Great Han Qiang Army, Hans and Shui Mo all felt great pressure.
You must know that the 30th Guards Division has the nickname of the Capital Division, and it has never left the vicinity of Chang'an since it became an army. Of course, Hans understands that His Majesty is using this wordless way to force him to make a military order, as the only white general among the first ten generals of the empire, Hans certainly understands that in the next battle, he must win and not lose!
Even the capital division has come to Africa, and if the battle is lost again, there is no need for His Majesty to say anything, and Hans himself feels speechless and will sit in the position of commander of the African Front again.
However, the communication with General Chiang was not smooth, and before Hans could finish his next battle plan, the Northern Fleet received news that the Allied navies were dispatched.
Jiang Yunzhi only asked one sentence with a dark face, "How sure are you?" ”
After a while, Guan Canghai replied with two words, "Victory!" ”
Jiang Yunzhi, who got the telegram, was happy, Guan Canghai was even more talented than Su Jiawei. At such a tense and critical time, he actually dared to say "victory".
In front of General Jiang's eyes, Guan Canghai seemed to be like a Japanese, with a white cloth strip around his head, and he was beaten with chicken blood.
Think about His Majesty's evaluation of several admirals at the beginning, "Guan Canghai, his bravery, so that he can win any naval battle......"
Perhaps this is why His Majesty did not send Mao Quartz and Long Zhou, who "can win a battle" and "can win a war", to the Mediterranean.
Jiang Yunzhi hesitated for a full quarter of an hour, and finally chose to believe in Guan Canghai, or in other words, in the choice of His Majesty.
"Thou shalt be solely responsible for the affairs of naval warfare, remember: guard against arrogance and rashness."
Guan Canghai's reply was still very fast, "Thank you to the chief for your trust, and all the officers and men of Canghai and the Northern Fleet for their confidence and determination." After this battle, the Royal Navy will be a man of all kinds. For this, there will be no sacrifice at any cost! Long live the Han Royal Navy, long live the Empire, long live Your Majesty! ”
This telegram made President Chiang feel very moved. Although after Ye Zhiqiu's untimely death, Jiang Yunzhi had become the first general of the empire, the actual supreme commander of millions of imperial troops, and even nearly 10 million of the great alliance armies, but in his heart, the supreme commander complex in the desert base was still deep-rooted.
Jiang Yunzhi firmly believes that no matter what other people think of His Majesty, whether it is fascist or imperialist, in the minds of millions of Red Police Regiments, His Majesty will always be the supreme commander.
That's why he will be like Guan Canghai, on the occasion of the war, he shouted from the bottom of his heart, "Long live Your Majesty!" Even in the eyes of outsiders, the arrogant shouting "Victory!" slogan.
At this moment, Jiang Yunzhi suddenly realized that when the responsibility on his shoulders was getting bigger and bigger, and the army under his command was increasing, he actually became a little withdrawn or overly cautious.
This is definitely a big no-no for the handsome. The military rations have not been moved, and the cowardice before the commander has been warn, which is really a taboo for soldiers.
"When did you start to lose the indomitable fighting spirit of the Guards?" Jiang Yunzhi held Guan Canghai's telegram in his hand and looked at the "...... After this battle, the Royal Navy will be the only man", "This is the pride of my generation, this is the Red Guard Corps that will never give up!" ”
I don't know if Jiang Yunzhi's sudden awakening is directly related to that commander (can grow), but now Jiang Heimian completely understands the true meaning of "attack, attack is especially attack", and also understands why His Majesty left the fat man Long Zhou and the wise general Mao Quartz in the Pacific Ocean, and selected the fierce general Guan Canghai to be responsible for the decisive battle in the Mediterranean.
"Gao ......" swept it, there was no one around, Jiang Yunzhi gave a thumbs up again, "Your Majesty is really tall!" ”