Chapter 113: The South Island
Lin Xia's excuse is really useful, I just told Clapp those words...... Clapp agreed without thinking......
After all, the current situation seems to be as I said, the navy and air force can no longer help me, the strategy of asymmetric warfare has been realized, and all that remains is the question of how the navy and air force cooperate with the British soldiers and how to fight. And for these, it is precisely my weakness.
It should be said that from the perspective of completing the task assigned to me by Commander Zhang, I should have stayed and continued to observe how the British soldiers should fight.
However, as I said before, the coordination and operation of naval and air warfare are sometimes not understood by looking at them, and the main reason is that the scope and scope involved in naval and air warfare are too large.
For example, in the previous skirmishes, I didn't even see the Argentine fighters...... Although the combat radius of the British Harrier is small, it is about 100 kilometers, and if the radar targets early, the air combat process will be more than 10 kilometers away.
This means that all I got was the ratio of the battle losses of the British and Afghan armies, and I could have gotten even some more details from the post-war report.
Another example is the coordination and cooperation between warships and submarines, submarines are all underwater, and even if I can get much more information on a warship than in a report.
In that respect, I really don't have to stay on a warship for the sake of the mission.
And the more important reason, of course, is that I don't want to put myself and Lin Xia in danger.
"Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Colonel!" As he took me to the helicopter, Clapp shook my hand and said, "The reason why we have seized the initiative and occupied an absolute advantage in this war." Obviously, it is inseparable from your construction. I'm sure this won't be our last. Wait until this battle is over. If time is sufficient, I'd be happy to talk to you again! ”
"Of course!" I say.
I'm more sure of that than Clapp, because I know very well that by the time the Sheffield is sunk by Argentina, Clapp will most likely find me again.
Due to the distance of the fleet from South Georgia, the helicopter flew for more than two hours to reach its destination.
This is actually the cleverness of the British army, according to their meaning...... It is to arrange the fleet in the sea area that is far away from the Argentine mainland but not very far away.
The advantages of such an arrangement were obvious, first of all, because the Argentine fleet had already been afraid to go out because of the threat of British submarines. Warships did not dare to dispatch aircraft carriers, and naturally they could not go to sea, so the fighters of the Argentine Air Force could only take off from the Argentine mainland.
It is conceivable that if the fleet was too far away from the Argentine mainland, then the Argentine fighters would not have launched a sneak attack on the British army at all...... The Skyhawk fighter has a limited combat radius, and even if the British fleet is present, it will not be able to attack.
Secondly, if the fleet is too close to the Argentine mainland, it means that the Argentine air force will have more time to fight, which means that the British fleet will be more dangerous.
Although the British army at this time was not afraid of the old dive bombing tactics of the Afghan Air Force, it was always better to be careful about things on the battlefield, and no one wanted to joke with their lives.
So Clapp wisely placed the fleet in a sea that was neither far nor near. This can not only threaten the Falklands at any time, but also lead the Afghan Air Force into a chicken-wedge-style choice:
If you don't attack. The British fleet was dangling in front of me, and it was uncomfortable to look at.
If it were to attack, the fighters would only be able to stay for a few minutes after reaching the skies above the British fleet.
Even more exaggerated was the fact that the British fleet could play a game of hide and seek with the Argentine side...... When the current Afghan Air Force fighters take off, the British fleet sometimes even has time to sail out of the combat radius of the Afghan Air Force, after all, Chilean radar is providing intelligence to the British army at the right time, and the British army will get the details of the takeoff of the Afghan fighters at the first time.
This also makes us more than 700 kilometers away from South Georgia, and the helicopter will fly for almost three hours at 250 kilometers per hour, and this is the situation where the helicopter unloads most of its weapons and ammunition and only carries the two of us with the auxiliary fuel tanks, otherwise the fuel will not be enough on the way.
On the way, the helicopter pilot jokingly shouted at me: "We have nothing but machine guns, and if we meet an Argentine on the road, we will raise our hands and surrender!" ”
"But it doesn't matter!" Then he added: "I heard that our submarine has trapped the Argentine aircraft carrier and warship in the harbor, so I think we will have a safe and enjoyable trip!" ”
The pilot was right, we saw nothing along the way, except for the occasional British merchant ship carrying supplies to South Georgia.
In this respect, the inaction of the Argentine Navy is quite obvious, because even if there is a threat from British submarines, the Argentine Navy has no reason to stand still in the port, if this is the case, they will at least come out to create some trouble and pressure on the British army, so that the British army and even the merchant ships will not be in a no-man's land.
Otherwise, why would the Argentine government buy so many warships or even an aircraft carrier among them? It's all withdrawn and replaced with the Air Force!
Besides, if the Air Force, like the Navy, realizes that its equipment is inferior to the enemy and does not go out, then it will simply surrender.
"Battalion commander!"
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As soon as I stepped out of the helicopter, I was quickly surrounded by the soldiers who had come to greet me.
"Battalion commander!" Scar took off the scarf covering his mouth and said with a mouth full of white gas: "We thought you would come back when you went, why have you been there for so many days!" ”
"That's right, battalion commander!" Liang Lian snorted while blocking the snowflakes stirred up by the helicopter propeller slurry: "You haven't been here these days, we all feel weird in our hearts!" ”
"Go to ......" I scolded angrily: "I think you are thinking about Comrade Lin Xia!" ”
"Coax!" The warriors all burst into laughter.
Lin Xia didn't react at first, and when she understood what I meant, she couldn't help but glare at me fiercely.
"Staff Officer Zhao!" When I saw Zhao Jingping, I asked, "How is the training going recently?" ”
"It has entered the stage of joint exercises!" Staff Officer Zhao replied: "No, Major Will won't have time to pick you up, he will tell you about it!" ”
"Hmm, so fast?" I asked, "Those Brits already know how to fight guerrilla warfare?" ”
To be honest, this progress surprised me a little, first the company we had to train had to look like a guerrilla warfare, and then we could simulate the guerrilla warfare of the Afghan army and train other British troops, right?!
"How can you!" After Zhao Jingping pushed open the door of the headquarters and welcomed me in, he said helplessly: "With the British guys' ability, can they learn to fight guerrilla warfare in such a short time?" However, what Major Will meant was that the time might be shorter than expected, that is, the plan was ahead of schedule. So if we don't start this joint training again, I'm afraid that we won't have a chance to practice, and in the end we can only catch ducks on the shelves! ”
"Oh!" I quickly understood.
Obviously, the victory in the naval and air battles also affected the 6 Army...... The British army has already achieved sea and air supremacy, at least the British side thinks so, then the next step will soon be to carry out 6 battles on the Falklands, so the training time is much less than expected.
"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping casually served me a cup of hot tea and said, "To be honest, the training time is too short, I don't think this kind of training will have any effect!" ”
"Don't worry, Staff Officer Zhao!" I comforted: "It is true that the British army is undertrained and inexperienced, but the problem is that their opponents are not necessarily much better. ”
"You're right!" Zhao Jingping smiled bitterly and replied: "But it's my heart ......."
"Nothing!"
"Yes, it's just not steady!" Zhao Jingping nodded and said, "Looking at their level of training, just thinking about going to the battlefield like this, isn't it going to die?" I'm used to thinking of my enemies as Vietnamese devils or Soviet devils.
But then again, we should be preparing for the worst, right? ”
I don't know how to persuade this Zhao Jingping.
What he said is indeed reasonable, from the point of view of the war, the worst should be prepared, not to mention that even the British army does not know anything about the combat effectiveness of the Argentine 6th Army.
Of course, there is no other person than me.
All I know is...... On the Argentine side, only more than 600 people died in the entire war, which means that the Argentine warship that sank two days ago died more than 300 people, accounting for almost half of the entire war deaths.
The other half, more will be counted in the Air Force.
Of course, the death toll is very low when the Air Force fights...... The Skyhawk is a single-seater, so even if the Argentine Air Force suffers heavy losses, there are not many fatalities.
The next death toll may only be about two hundred to be regarded as the 6th Army!
To put it simply, the death toll of the Argentine 6th Army in the whole war was only about 200...... More than 11,000 others surrendered!
This number is enough to illustrate the "morale" and "will to resist" of the 6th Army of the Mashima Army.
It is precisely because of this that I have never worried about the resistance of the 6th Army on the Falklands, and the training of the British army is just for show.
But I also know that I can't convince Zhao Jingping, after all, he doesn't know that the 6th Army of Argentina is such a combat strength like me, he only thinks that the Argentine 6th Army on the Falklands has more than 10,000 people, and he also has to take into account that Argentina may reinforce the Falklands from the mainland, while the total number of the 6th Army of the British Army is only 10,000.
Later, I simply did not persuade anything, and as soon as I sat down in front of the chair in front of the stove with my clothes dressed, I said with my eyes half-closed: "I will leave this matter to you to deal with, and maybe in a few days I will have to go to the fleet again!" (To be continued......)
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