283 Interception and reinforcement, the beginning of the big war (two-in-one subscription and monthly pass)
"What, what kind of trough defense is the Southern Expeditionary Force cluster building?" General Lemon Barton listened to the report and was a little dizzy.
"Aren't they very sharp in attack? How did it turn into defense? Whose idea was this?"
General Lemon Barton stood next to the map and re-observed the situation of the enemy and the enemy against the report, feeling very confused. To be honest, he couldn't understand Gao Jianwu's purpose at all.
Well, in fact, everyone knows that Lemon Barton's military skills are slightly equal to 0, if he doesn't have a good background, a person like him is not capable of taking the position of commander-in-chief of the Allied Southeast Asia Command at all, if according to his real ability, it is not good to give him a regiment, let alone be responsible for one aspect.
Of course, General Lemon Barton would never admit it.
"John, not in his position, not in his government. We should still respect the decisions made by these front-line generals, after all, we don't know what the situation is like here." Joe. General Steven, as always, expressed support for Gao Jianwu's decision.
"By the way, this time, we need to transport the logistics materials needed to organize the Trough defense line to Dagon as soon as possible, and with the sea transportation channel, we have greatly reduced our transportation costs and accelerated the speed. This time, we can replenish the expeditionary force cluster a month earlier."
Speaking of which, Joe. General Steven was just informing General Lemon Barton, because all the aid came from the beautiful country, and it had nothing to do with the British here. In terms of the dispatch of these supplies, Joe. General Steven is the one who makes the final decision.
Gao Jianwu didn't know that this time he had laid down the port of Dagon, and with Qiao. With the strong support of General Steven, this round of new supplies in the beautiful country is quite amazing.
50 Mustang fighters were delivered directly by sea and ready for use in the Asian theater, as well as 100 tanks, 50 155-mm howitzers, and 100 105-mm howitzers.
If according to the original plan, half of these weapons and equipment should be sent to the north. Support the Allied forces on the Northern Front who are fighting the 18th Division of the Little Devils, most of them the waste Anglo-Indian army!
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"John, you must help me this time. We need this supply so badly. Especially in the face of the current war, the supply of these supplies is very important for us." When Gao Jianwu heard that a large number of weapons and ammunition had arrived at the port.
Without saying a word, he directly found Colonel Smith.
"High, half of these weapons belong to your troops. But the other half were units belonging to the Allied forces fighting in the north. It's something that's been planned. There's no way I can change it." Colonel Smith spread his hands, saying that there was really nothing he could do.
"No, John, you can change, for our victory, in order to annihilate the little devils in the trough as soon as possible, with this batch of weapons, we can destroy the little devils of Mao Mian faster and cleaner!" Gao Jianwu also fought hard to obtain this batch of weapons.
Originally, he still wanted to let the little devil attack, but if this batch of weapons belonged to him, Gao Jianwu felt that it didn't matter if he attacked.
He has now swelled to nearly 100 pilots in the Air Force, and now there are only 30 fighters to change their hands, and if he can get all these 50 Mustang fighters, then he will achieve almost one aircraft per capita. ….
Even if the Jinyang Arsenal has already begun, the imitation of the Mustang fighter, but the production of a fighter is more complicated than the production of a cannon. Gao Jianwu can gather wool, of course he hopes to gather more.
If we can end the expeditionary force's campaign in Southeast Asia, we can gather 100 Mustang fighters and go back.
Gao Jianwu was confident that he would go back and directly start a war against the little devils in North China. With the technical superiority of the Mustang fighter, face the Type 97 fighter of the little devil. Gao Jianwu felt that one fight against all three of them was more than enough.
Therefore, with 100 Mustang fighters, Gao Jianwu felt that he could gain air superiority over North China. Under these circumstances, he launched a strong attack with an attack group consisting of more than 200 tanks and more than 200 heavy artillery, and scattered more than a dozen in northern China
The division that came was really not enough for him to fight.
When that time comes, I am afraid that only the main force of the Eastern Army will be able to compete with Gao Jianwu.
It's just that dozens of divisions of Da Mao in the Far East may not dare to move easily when they look at the main force of the Kwantung Army of the little devils, after all, now Manchuria is their foundation, and they already regard it as their own land.
"I can try, apply to General Steven, but it's not guaranteed." Colonel Smith was a little out of temper by Gao Jianwu, so he could only say loosely.
"John, you have to explain to General Steven that if our expeditionary force group gets these weapons, we will guarantee that all the little devils in Mao Mian will be wiped out, and at the same time, we will go north within a month and completely annihilate the 18th division of the little devils in northern Burma!" In order to fight for the ownership of these weapons, Gao Jianwu finally showed pride.
In fact, if Mao Mianmian's little devil is annihilated, there will be no military force in the south of the Burmese British territory that can threaten the expeditionary force cluster, Gao Jianwu is also reasonable to say this, as long as he sends two attack groups north to join the siege, the 18th division of the little devil will become a turtle in the urn, and there will be no place to escape.
Sure enough, after hearing this assurance, Colonel Smith's eyes lit up.
"If that's the case, I'll have to go to the Allied Headquarters myself.
I'm sure General Steven will think about it. After all, for General Steven, only defeating the little devils is the core goal, and as for whose hands these weapons and equipment are, he doesn't care too much.
In other words, whoever can win the battle will be given to whomever he can." got Gao Jianwu's promise, and Colonel Smith also dared to go to the door to fight hard.
"Haha, in the Burmese and British territories, who else can fight better than us except for our expeditionary force cluster now? John, it looks like he can leave this matter entirely to you.
I hope that when the next round of weapons is delivered to the mainland, four or five transport planes will make a detour to Jinyang to pick up our selected elite fighters Dagong, which are our newly trained artillery and tank troops. I hope that these weapons will soon be able to join us in the ranks of battlefield kills."
Gao Jianwu immediately hit the snake with the stick, ready to rub another wave of welfare.
Following these new soldiers, there are also some industrial products produced by the Jinyang factory and some engineering equipment customized by Gao Jianwu for mining, especially the second generation of the Red Star Automobile has come out, and now the tricycle has become a 4-wheeled vehicle, and the load capacity is more than two tons. ….
Of course, taking into account the carrying space of the transport aircraft, Gao Jianwu did not let them transport the whole vehicle over, but transported important parts, other cars like carriages and the like in the local secondary production assembly, and made 50 kits over, as a test, but also the first export of the vehicle, the current price of 5000 oceans, the businessmen here in Nanyang can also accept, but I don't know if it can be sold in batches, for the time being, Gao Jianwu can't care so much, let Jinyang Heavy Industry Vehicle Branch send people to do these......
Seeing that Gao Jianwu had made some more things to sell, Colonel Smith also smiled bitterly, but who made him so capable of fighting, for the beautiful country, such talents can only be supplied.
You must know that if the four divisions of the little devil are thrown into the Pacific theater, the casualties may increase by at least 20,000 or 30,000 for the US army.
And Gao Jianwu has actually killed these 4 divisions, and he will soon kill the other 4 divisions.
Yes, in the eyes of Colonel Smith, the little devil in Mao Mian's troops is already equivalent to a turtle in an urn, a meal on a plate.
Colonel Smith did not think about losing at all.
Colonel Smith's trip to the Allied Headquarters, although there were some twists and turns, but under Steven's foothold, Colonel Smith achieved his goal and left all these weapons in the arch to let the expeditionary force enter the group and use it first.
Mao Mianmian's 4 little devil integrated divisions and three brigades are under real pressure, and the Allied Southeast Asia Command is also afraid that Gao Jianwu will not be able to withstand it, once the little devils turn the tables and defeat the expeditionary force cluster, then the situation in the entire Burmese and British territories will have a collapse effect.
It is equivalent to giving up the dominant position that has been formed with great difficulty again. Even for the Allied forces in the north and the expeditionary force of ***, it also poses a serious threat. You must know that this is the real main force of 100,000 little devils.
I have to say that Gao Jianwu chose a good time, and it was under this threat that no one could force these weapons to be transported to the north. Your Gao Jianwu's excuse is also very good, once he defeats Mao Mianmian's little devil, it is true that there is no longer the strength to stop the allies from eliminating the little devils in the battlefield of the Burmese British Territories.
Even if Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force cluster did not choose to go north for reinforcements, it would still shake the confidence of the little devils in the north. After all, they couldn't believe that there was no movement here, and if the north and south were attacked, they would have no chance of victory, and they would not even have a chance to escape, so once the little devil in Mao Mianmian was defeated, the little devil in the north would definitely try his best to escape.
Lemon Barton is also a good abacus, if this is the case, then it means that he has added a heavy stroke to his own exploits.
So at this time, Lemon Barton also hopes that Gao Jianwu can win this war more than ever.
Chu Yunfei, Ding Wei, Zhang Dabiao, Xu Shida, Kong Jie and others, who attended the front-line headquarters, watched Gao Jianwu really bag 50 Mustang fighters, 100 Sherman tanks, 50 M1155 mm howitzers, and 100 M2A1105 mm howitzers transported from the beautiful country, and pulled them into the main force base of the expeditionary force cluster in Dagon. ….
They couldn't speak one by one, Gao Jianwu's long-sleeved dance, they thought they couldn't learn it at all, what they couldn't figure out was why the people of the beautiful country were so good at talking in front of Gao Jianwu, others didn't know, Chu Yunfei knew that even if the micro-gymnastics master principal of the country came forward to get so many weapons, it would be an extremely difficult thing.
There were originally 30 Mustang fighters stationed on the Dagon airfield, but this time in order to receive new ones, Lu Xingguo's flight team has already flown to the airfields in Shanmana and Mandalay to make room.
With these 80 Mustang fighters, it is now possible to form an air force assault group, under the jurisdiction of two flight groups, each flight group has three flight squadrons, each flight squadron has 12 fighters, plus the chief and deputy captains of the flight group, one flight group has a full number of 38 fighters, and now the two flight groups are fully staffed, and the remaining four are used as training planes for new soldiers.
Lu Xingguo, the commander of the Air Force Assault Group, who took office, was full of ambition for a while, and now he is the big brother of the Air Force except for the Flying Tigers who have more fighters than him in China!
Even under his command, more than half of the people still need long-term training to form a complete combat effectiveness, but now there is no big problem in letting these newcomers perform some simple air raid missions.
All of these people who were able to come to Dagon had flown on the plane.
The newly arrived artillery was organized into five new heavy artillery regiments, with 25 155-mm howitzers each in the 6th and 7th Heavy Artillery Regiments, and 33 105 howitzers in the 8th and 9th and 10th Heavy Artillery Regiments respectively.
On the tank side, five battalions were also added, bringing the total number of tank battalions to 12.
It can be said that this wave can no longer be called blood return, but a big blood change like a rebirth of strength!
Due to the concealment of the strategy, this time the reception and the reorganization of the troops were carried out in secret.
In the information obtained by the little devils of Mao Xiangmian, it turned out that half of the weapons transported to Dagong were to be transported to the north, which was the previous information they received, and the latest information that Gao Jianwu intercepted them, the little devils were not very clear.
Now there are many troops on the side of the expeditionary force cluster, and it is not easy to collect intelligence, and the artillery and tanks of the expeditionary force that are moving back and forth in Dagong make it impossible for the little devil spies to figure out how many weapons Gao Jianwu's side has received.
It's just that this round of weapons and ammunition replenishment makes Mao Damian's General Kimura feel even more nervous, but they know that once the United States starts the production machine to produce weapons and ammunition with all its might, the production capacity of this piece is second to none in the world.
Therefore, the longer Gao Jianwu waits, the more weapons and ammunition they may obtain
The more sufficient, of course, the more difficult it will be for them to attack.
So without struggling for a few days, General Kimura made a decision.
"We must immediately launch an all-out offensive to strangle the expeditionary force cluster in the southern part of the British territory in Burma as much as possible. Our main forces, the 54th and 55th Divisions, as well as the newly transferred 2nd and 4th Guards Divisions, as well as the 9th Flying Division, were all dispatched to fight a decisive battle with the expeditionary force cluster!
Three days later, with the Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 54th and 4th Divisions as the vanguard, the 9th Flying Division as the air cover force to attack the Valley, and the 2nd Guards Division and the 55th Division as strategic reserves on the east bank of the Sidan River in the Valley!" ….
After Admiral Kimura made a decision, he no longer hesitated and began to dispatch troops to attack.
As soon as the little devil moved, Gao Jianwu immediately received an intelligence prompt.
Looking at the new offensive deployment of the little devil, Gao Jianwu couldn't help laughing, the little devil who has been beaten so many times, although he has a long memory, but it is not too much. This time, two reorganized divisions were taken out for direct attack, which can be regarded as progress.
It's just that the Ninth Flying Division still pays more attention to Gao Jianwu. After all, the air attack group of the expeditionary force has just been formed, and half of them are still novice pilots. So if you want them to fight the Ninth Flying Division of the little devils, the chances of winning are not too big.
Even if it is a little devil's pilot division group fighter, it is still dominated by Type 97 fighters, after all, 1 to 3 requires a skilled ace pilot to do it. On Gao Jianwu's side, that is, Lu Xingguo, a few of them can do this.
Fortunately, Gao Jianwu is not alone in the face of little devils. The Allies had long had air superiority on this side, and in the face of a flying division, Gao Jianwu was not polite at all, and directly asked Colonel Smith to request air reinforcements from the Allied Southeast Asia Command......
Gao Jianwu would not do such a thing as a hero and causing heavy losses to the troops. So soon at the airport in Dagon, the original 40 fighters became the elite pilots of the Allied forces, and at the Shanmana airport, it was Lu Xingguo and his 15 pilots who had gone through actual combat to wait for them.
Although the number is less than that of the Ninth Flying Division of the Little Devil, in terms of strength, Colonel Smith swears that he is much stronger than the Little Devil, because Colonel Smith himself is from the Air Force, and this time he also wants to go into battle and take Lu Xingguo and them into battle!
In Colonel Smith's opinion, Lu Xingguo and they are just a group of rookies, and they are still very uneasy without him, Gao Jianwu took a closer look at Colonel Smith's past, and found that this tool man who has been with him for a long time turned out to be in the Air Force, and actually had the result of shooting down 6 fighters of the little devil.
Considering that Lu Xingguo and his elite pilots themselves have a strong foreign language background, it is not difficult to hear Colonel Smith's command clearly in the air, Gao Jianwu decisively handed over the command of the Air Force to him.
For a long time, Colonel Smith himself did not reveal his profession, which made Gao Jianwu think that he was from the army, after all, Colonel Smith often has some unique opinions in army command. For Gao Jianwu's command, he can now keep up with the train of thought.
This made Gao Jianwu think that he was originally the material for the army, who knew that this kid was actually from the Air Force?
is actually such a good tool man, how can Gao Jianwu let it go? Just let him train his air force to be more combat-effective, after all, Lu Xingguo's ability is still a long distance from the elite pilots on the beautiful side, and with such a teacher, of course he has to try his best to squeeze him dry.
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The 1st Battalion of the First Attack Group defending the position on the west bank of the Xidan River Bridge, the battalion commander Wei Guodong was a little helpless, according to the deployment of the battle, their defense on this side was actually a false move, in fact, as long as the enemy launched an attack, they would have a strategic retreat. ….
The hardest thing for him is not how to block the enemy's attack. It's about how to minimize their own casualties in the attack of the extreme people, after all, their family was ordered to retreat in defeat.
The main one is how to resist the enemy's first round of artillery attacks? When he was building the fortifications, he thought that the enemy had a heavy artillery brigade, and Wei Guodong couldn't help it
There was a bit of a headache.
You must know that the power of the 150mm howitzer is not something that can be blocked by simple fortifications, and if you want to build fortifications that can block such heavy shells, it is too time-consuming and material-intensive, and you can't build much in a short period of time.
Without a large number of reinforced concrete bunkers, there is no way to stop the attack of 150mm howitzers.
It was a company commander who gave him an idea.
"Battalion commander, since we are not trying to block the enemy this time, then when building fortifications, we can build some fortress fortifications very conspicuously, much higher than the position, and directly expose them to the enemy's field of vision, but our soldiers do not go in to defend such fortifications, if the enemy attacks, they will give priority to attacking these fortifications."
When Wei Guodong heard this idea, his eyes lit up at that time, if it was just to make a sample, then the construction speed and the consumption of materials would be much smaller. Therefore, Wei Guodong did not hesitate for a few seconds at all, and immediately made a decision to build the hidden fortress system in this way.
In fact, they were all simple civil and brick walls and low buildings, similar to slum brick houses, and in order to be more realistic, Wei Guodong also placed "heavy machine guns" carved out of wood at the openings of these so-called "dark forts".
Since it was exactly the same size as the real heavy machine gun, it was also painted with the same color. Even from a few meters away, you can't see any flaws, let alone observe from a distance of hundreds of meters or thousands of meters across a river.
Each bunker has a trench to connect with. Whether viewed from land or from the air, it was seen that this was a heavily defended position.
The hundreds of "bunkers" scattered in this patchwork, and the intertwined firepower of at least hundreds of heavy machine guns in the bunkers, were a nightmare for the attacking side.
Therefore, in the first round of the attack, the little devils must destroy these bunker positions with artillery fire before they will be put in infantry to attack. Obviously, Wei Guodong would not throw his own warriors into these places.
It's just that when it was just built, Wei Guodong was still put in and out by the soldiers, and it seemed that these were the positions they had to defend to the death. Sure enough, Wei Guodong's move not only fooled the little devil, but even Gao Jianwu didn't expect that his subordinates would have such talents.
When Gao Jianwu came to inspect the position for the first time, he didn't know that these were actually like goods, and he was surprised that the first battalion's position was being built so quickly.
Only after Wei Guodong whispered in his ear that these were all kinds of goods, Gao Jianwu smiled bitterly, this Ding Wei's subordinates are worthy of being talented, and talents like this may not be common under Zhang Dabiao's hands.
Therefore, Wei Guodong has been on the list in Gao Jianwu's eyes since then.
Originally, Gao Jianwu was also worried that such a tactical arrangement would cause large casualties to Yicheng, so he actually came to see if there was any way to reduce the casualties, but he didn't expect Wei Guodong to come up with a more perfect method than he thought.
Three days passed in a flash, and Gao Jianwu told Wei Guodong the accurate time of the little devil's attack, so that they could successfully get out of the battlefield before the zero hour little devil attacked.
Looking at the overwhelming shells that flooded Wei Guodong's position, one after another the bunkers were shattered in the explosion of the shells, Wei Guodong broke out in a cold sweat.
With the power of such an explosion, even if they really built a reinforced concrete fort, it would be useless, and the huge shock wave was enough to shock the people inside the bunker to death.
These large-caliber bombshells are indeed worthy of being the kings of war.
Gao Jianwu did not feel strange that the little devils chose one to attack, after all, they wanted to seize the Xidan River Bridge and the West Bank position, and night was the best time, because the line of sight was limited, it could weaken the possibility of the troops being covered by artillery fire at night.
In this way, the artillery of the expeditionary force, which has the advantage of the group, has a lot less room to play.
For normal people, such an idea is true, but is Gao Jianwu a normal person? .
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