Chapter 382: The Speed of Advance in the Asian Theater
Now, in an exceptional case, all officers above the rank of colonel were invited to attend the meeting, whether they were in the city of Dubai or not, and they did not have the internal security authority granted by the Parliament, and the Burj Khalifa guards were told that they would be released today.
It should be noted that it is no longer those soldiers who are guarding the Burj Khalifa, and all the soldiers are doing targeted training for a future mission.
They are now replaced by expedition members with D-class security clearance who have not been in the mission for too long.
These new recruits are responsible for the security of two important sites, Space Station Zero and Burj Khalifa, which have a total of two platoons of troops, along with a large number of unmanned equipment.
Although they have not been recruited for a long time, the combat and loyalty of these people are still very reliable. After all, it was carefully selected from tens of thousands of people.
Although there is still a big gap with the soldiers in terms of equipment and overall combat effectiveness, the combat quality is by no means worse than that of the first-class special forces in the main plane, and they are equipped with advanced equipment such as N7 A.
With their level of training and equipment as a foundation, there is no pressure to deal with most types of enemies. There is absolutely no problem in taking care of the day-to-day security of the Burj Khalifa.
In the evening, the invited officers arrived at the Burj Khalifa one after another, and they were divided into many groups, and many of the older officers came together in a small convoy.
The newly promoted officers are also in contact with each other, and almost no one is left alone. Within an hour, more than 200 invited senior officers were all present.
Even the dozens of senior officers on assignment temporarily put aside their work after receiving the notice today, and rushed back to Dubai City in shuttles to attend the meeting.
On the ground floor of the Burj Khalifa, the officers in attendance were scrutinized by heavily armed guards before they were allowed to enter and rushed to the restaurant.
In this fine dining room, which has long since returned to the luxurious style of the past, they meet a group of high-ranking members of the council. Under Shen Chao's organization, they first held a small drinking party.
He will soon send these men out on a large-scale joint mission, so it is necessary to get the new and old officers familiar with each other first.
At the reception. Naturally, mutual introductions and implicit comparisons are indispensable, for example, the new officers generally envy the group of officers who were sent out before.
Because these people have basically straightened their ranks and positions, and most of them still have the title of acting. It may be removed by Shen Chao at any time.
The reception ended in a hurry after half an hour, and Shen Chao asked the service staff to take away the dishes when he saw that everyone was almost familiar with it. Explain on the spot their tasks for the next few months.
He first introduced the current strategic reserves, including the number of weapons and ammunition, the military vehicles obtained in various places, and the important numbers of gasoline, diesel, food, and other materials. Let the officers have a bottom in their hearts.
He then went on to show the map the current progress of their forces on the continents. The troops sent out before have already occupied a number of places. Considerable results were achieved.
Among them, nearly 1 million square kilometers of security zones have been opened up in East Asia on the Asian continent, and all the signs indicating mutant strongholds and materials in the area have all turned gray, indicating complete control over these areas.
Similar developments can be seen in Western Europe and eastern North America, but not as much as in East Asia.
"Your mission is to support the friendly forces in these locations in turn, help them expand their gains, and try to turn here, here, and here into a safe zone within 3 months......"
Shen Chao pointed to Asia, Europe and the American continent on the map and introduced that his cleanup plan was very simple. The core is to concentrate superior forces and "sweep" each continent in turn in a highly mobile manner.
With linear propulsion, the means of air-ground integrated strike can complete the goal of eliminating all mutants in a short time. Complete the occupation.
He spoke very carefully, and there were no fools among the officers, so he didn't start for more than ten minutes. Everyone will understand the overall strategic deployment and the role of their own troops.
"Any more questions?" Shen Chao asked the officers in front of him after explaining the deployment, but everyone looked at each other, and no one asked any more questions.
"Very well, the 26th-53rd regiments immediately began to assemble and prepare, and an hour later they gathered at airfield No. 2 and departed. The rest of the troops will rest tonight and set off tomorrow after 8 a.m., and then disband......"
Shen Chao saw that there was no doubt and announced the order to set off, and more than two hundred senior officers saluted him one after another, and then ran to carry out the order, and the first regimental-level operation since the establishment of the council began.
That night, tens of thousands of soldiers gathered from three military bases outside the city, distributed weapons and equipment, and received all kinds of supplies, and then they were packed by more than a dozen cargo ships and sent to the safe zone of the imperial capital tens of thousands of kilometers away.
Once at their destination, these newly formed legions joined forces with local allies and went into battle in both the west and south directions. It is said that it is a battlefield, but in fact it is their line of advance. Never encountered any effective resistance from mutants.
The local garrison "upgraded" in order to accumulate military merits. Expanding outward every day, using their convoys and air power to search for and eliminate all mutants in their direction of advancement.
Once they have captured the main new location, they have the drones hold the border and keep the scattered mutants from the outside from entering the ever-expanding security zone, and then continue to advance themselves......
This tactic proved to be very effective, but due to the large spread of the stalls and the lack of manpower, the speed of the local garrison's advance was significantly reduced for a while.
Now they can only advance about 10 kilometers a day. Moreover, this propulsion speed is decreasing with the increase of the control area.
As soon as the new nearly 30 regimental combat teams arrived, they formed armed convoys of various sizes with the help of the local garrison. Join the action now and expand the speed of the front.
Most of the convoys were led by a Type 92 armored vehicle or main battle tank, followed by a dozen light military vehicles, followed by a squadron of drones. Reconnaissance, assault, and fire support are all in full force, and they are the main force for advancing outward.
They maneuvered at high speed along the road, driving to village and town after town, destroying all the mutant settlements marked on the map and unmarked at close range.
With effective clear-ground cooperation, they helped the local garrison advance 87 kilometers in all directions in just one night, eliminating a large number of mutants and expanding the area of the already large security zone by a third.
The next morning, a second group of reinforcements arrived, numbering 80,000 on the battlefield. A total of 74 regiments.
Like the previous batch of support units, the new support units are also launched into battle as soon as the ship is formed, and after forming a convoy, they join the front line to advance.
Soon, there was a huge convoy of tens of thousands of vehicles on the ground, and they were like rivers on land, pushing on multiple roads in three directions.
With effective logistical support, they were able to clear an average of 500,000 square kilometers of land every day, basically expanding the control area at a rate of one province a day.
Fourteen days later, the convoy advancing south reached Shenzhen. The westward march also reached Urumqi on the same day...... In the past few days, the mutants in the territory of the All-Heaven Dynasty have been officially purged.
After cleaning up the mutants in the Celestial Empire, the city of Dubai has also added nearly 500,000 people. The troops were then sent to the European theater of operations.
At this stage, the battle situation no longer needs Shen Chao's direct command, basically the command center coordinates, and the commanders in various places command specific operations, and Shen Chao's daily work now is to read the battle report and understand the situation.
Although he himself is temporarily idle, the city government is busy and almost overturned. Nowadays, the city of Dubai has more or less restored to the form of a cosmopolitan city of the past, and many of the various tasks within the government seem to be inexhaustible.
With the recovery of the Celestial Empire, the city government was directly upgraded to the Asian regional government, and the number of government personnel expanded to more than 1,000, and departments such as population resettlement, municipal administration, education, and development were established one after another.
The city of Dubai is now no longer visible in the city and the indoor transport system has been fully restored.
The transportation system here refers not only to traffic lights, but also to ports, airports, and gas stations. Automobile repair station and a series of related systems.
The development team that was previously sent to the Lianghe River Basin is already on the right track, not only reclaiming hundreds of mechanized high-quality farms, but also initially restoring the agricultural production chain.
Several of these industrial groups have concentrated their technical efforts to restore the operation of three oil fields and one petrochemical plant. Together with Kuwaiti ports and a fleet of cargo ships, which had resumed operations two months earlier, they have restored their basic oil and transportation industries.
Some people may say that the efficiency of the oil gods is too low, and the environmental pollution is strict...... True, this is true, but now they do not have enough replacements.
After all, the vehicles and equipment brought by Shen Chao could not replace the existing tools in this world, and now his affiliated armies and civilians all need oil, and the reserves of oil depots in various places are uneven and limited. It's okay to use it for a few months, but what about after that?
Until the occupation of the world and the introduction of a new super-modern industrial system, the oil industry was as indispensable as agriculture. At least for now, this system has revitalized the business environment in Dubai, creating a lot of practical value.
Today, there are a number of self-organised markets in Dubai, selling a variety of daily necessities. Citizens are no longer completely dependent on the supply system established by the city government. (To be continued.) )