Chapter 48: A Thousand Miles into Spa Bay
Compared with the ugliness and primitiveness of the Nabera Plain, the small city of Uerdi still brings more fireworks to Zhongyi.
"But we are here to fight, not a young man who was fooled by the movie of Australia's troubled times to engage in some primitive train journey." Zhong Yi followed the slowly moving base car, trying to get his emotions back on the right path of "I'm a commander, I'm not a romantic young man".
Qian Zhihao led the soldiers of the guard company to scatter in all directions, the base car slowly unfolded, and another sub-base began to be built. The power plant, the barracks, the air force headquarters and other buildings stood on this eternal primeval plain, until dawn, Zhong Yi finally saw the fighter planes taking off from the Kalgoorlie military airport landing on the newly built airport runway, then clicked on the icon of the logistics factory, and then fell asleep. Of course, the conditions were the same for each sub-base, and Comrade Commander once again returned to the period of the marching bed.
When Zhongyi woke up in the afternoon, Uerdi became more lively, and the local indigenous people living around the train station were not afraid to see so many troops, because they saw many indigenous soldiers with the same faces as them. There were even people who brought kangaroo loins and camel milk to the indigenous soldiers, the best food they could have.
Such a scene reminded Zhong Yi of the Red Army that was on the Long March in China, and they lacked guns and artillery, but it was not with the full support of the people that they gradually grew stronger and succeeded?
Jiang Yunzhi and Thayer walked side by side, the Second Guard Brigade and the Second Armored Regiment had all been rebuilt, and the troops were resting. Uerdi is still nearly a thousand kilometers away from Port Augusta, and Jiang Yunzhi took out a military map of South Australia, all thanks to Hebal and Hans, these two former officers of the South Australian garrison, for the Red Police, the South Australian garrison has almost no secrets.
"Commander, I just discussed with Thayer, our army should not all be assembled here, on the railway line three hundred and fifty kilometers ahead of Uerdi, there is a small town called Thakula, oh, this is it, you see, this is the intersection of the east-west trunk line and the northern regional trunk line, this point is very important for both of us, I propose to send a force and occupy it to avoid the destruction of this station by the Australian army." Jiang Yunzhi understands Zhong Yi's character, so he said his thoughts straightforwardly as soon as he came up.
Looking at the military map carefully, Comrade Commander nodded slightly, "Yunzhi, when will Hans's first brigade arrive?" ”
"It will be until tomorrow afternoon that the first brigade will be fully rebuilt." Thayer replied first, he was also a guard team, and he knew this better than Jiang Yunzhi.
It seems that with the expansion of the army, it is necessary to set up a general staff, but this chief of staff has not been particularly suitable, and Hebar is not a qualified chief of staff after all. "Yunzhi, Thayer, in fact, we might as well be bold, to put it bluntly, whether it is the Nabera Plains or the Lake District of South Australia, our biggest enemy is actually not the Australian army, but the empty and barren land of Australia. You've been worried that our supply line is too long, but what about the Australian army? In the same no-man's land, will the Australian army, which is still mainly powered by horses and camels, be better off than mechanized troops like ours? ”
Yes, we are just considering the problem according to the general military law, but we ignore that the Australian army and the Red Police are not opponents of the same grade, and they cannot talk about mechanization at all, which is difficult for the Australian army to compare with the guard unit equipped with a large number of military trucks and a small number of infantry vehicles.
Zhong Yi smiled slightly, "I order: Thayer led the second brigade to start boarding the car immediately, rush forward with all his strength, and get off the car to build a position wherever he encounters the enemy, and wait for reinforcements." The defense of the Uerdi base is handed over to the 1st Brigade that will arrive tomorrow. ”
Thayer's two leather boots were tightly pressed together, and his heels slammed, "Commander, the Second Brigade understands!" Rush with all your might! ”
"Don't worry about the safety of the railway, the Air Force will cover the whole process, and in case of the enemy, it will also be notified in advance." When he first woke up, he saw the scene of the natives delivering meat and milk to the soldiers, which strengthened Zhong Yi's determination to advance with all his might. This is not China, there are no railway guerrillas here, this is Australia where there are more sheep than people, and camels and kangaroos are not less than people. To put it bluntly, what does Australia have, isn't it that the millions of people are concentrated in those big cities? Taking these coastal cities is equivalent to occupying the whole of Australia, and the mindset kills people, you really think that this is China, with infinite depth, Nanjing defeated us to defend Wuhan, Wuhan lost us into Sichuan, it's really not good, we still have Xi'an!
"Yun Zhi, your Second Armored Regiment moves slowly, but by tomorrow night at the latest, all tanks and armored vehicles must be loaded onto the wagons, and your target is not the small railway station along the line, but the Eighth Division of the South Australian Cavalry, where to fight, scatter him, and hurt him."
"Understood, commander, annihilate the 8th Australian Cavalry Division."
"The command of the Uerdi Air Force has been formed, and the two of you can call the air force to strike at any time during the breakthrough process, and you don't have to waste time when the troops get off the car, but one thing you must know is that the maximum combat radius of our fighter unit is 700 kilometers, and the bomber force is a little more than 1,000 kilometers. At the moment, we don't have the means to build the airfield any further, so beyond this distance, the Air Force won't be able to support you. ”
"Understood, Commander, we're here to go."
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During the Liberation War in later generations, the Central Plains Field Army led by Liu Deng once leaped thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain, like a sharp knife, **** the heart of the chairman's ruling area. Zhong Yi and Xiao Guoxing, the commander of the third regiment of the Red Police Force, who had just arrived in Uerdi, and Hans, the commander of the first brigade of the guards, talked about the thousand-mile leap into Spa Bay operation arranged by themselves, and said in a bullish manner: The last battle against the Australian army!