Chapter 152 Yang Feng's Overlord Action
Yang Feng's South Asian Subcontinental War was actually very simple.
Just two words, ruin
Seize the Assam oil field to remove the momentum of Tianzhu's industrial development, then destroy Kolkata and destroy Tianzhu's industrial foundation, so that the future Tianzhu will continue to hold the Soviet people's thighs in the quagmire of poverty and chaos, fantasize about their brilliant dream of a great power, and serve as the stage for Yang Feng's performance.
In this case, what are you doing when you go to Kashmir where birds don’t shit? What are you going to leave to the North Shore area of Nehru in the original design?
Direct attack on West Bengal
"Military, attacking Kolkata is the best choice so that we can avoid fighting in high-altitude mountainous areas, which is especially important for our Ming soldiers. They are used to tropical life and will not like Kashmir. We can also avoid the natural danger of the Brahmaputra River. The Indians have strong defense lines on the north shore. Our soldiers will face serious casualties when crossing this large river several kilometers wide.
When attacking Kolkata, our battlefield will become wetland swamps, and the Stalin 2 heavy tanks are close to fifty tons. The Indians will not be stupid enough to use it on such a battlefield.
Even if it is used, it will be difficult to move forward. I don’t think there are bridges around Kolkata that can withstand such weight.”
Keselin said while drinking black tea.
Ayubhan and Hall looked at each other. In fact, both Pakistan and Assam knew very well what they could get in this war. Jinnah only wanted Kashmir, Moran only wanted to regain the North Shore region. As for the others, they all had this awareness. Even if they wanted, the Americans might not necessarily support it, because the United States wanted to teach Nehru a lesson and make him clear, rather than stabbing him in the heart, forcing him not to turn around.
But now that Yang Feng insists, they have nothing to say.
And as Kesselin said, attacking Kolkata from a military perspective is indeed the best choice.
Stalin 2 heavy tank.
It is better not to provoke this thing.
Recently, the two battalions of the two battalions given to Nehru by Stalin have been pressing on the coalition forces like heavy mountains. Even the Americans were a little worried and even specifically reminded Yang Feng not to ignore the one, two, two millimeter tank gun.
In this way, the combat goals were determined. As for the rest, it was the work of Kesselin and the officers of the coalition command. The deployment of such a large-scale battle is not something that ordinary people can do. Force allocation, enemy reconnaissance, strategic deception, even transportation, logistics, and even soldiers' contraception must be taken into account. Fortunately, with the training of several military academies of the Ming Empire in the past two years, coupled with the practice of Java operations, Yang Feng already had a preliminary available staff team. In addition, veterans like Kesselin and those experienced Prussian mercenaries, everything was secretly and quickly and steadily.
Just as Wu Zurong's Kunlun aircraft carrier formation left Rotterdam and embarked on a long journey across the Atlantic Ocean, all the preliminary deployments of the Battle of Kolkata were completed.
In addition to the feint attacks in Kashmir, those guarding the Pakistan-Indian border and those defending the northern Assam, the remaining nearly 100,000 motor forces, mainly the Ming and Pakistani troops, all gathered in Chittagong, and the Ming Navy's naval defense fleet also arrived at this port. It was an attitude of landing from the sea to attack Kolkata. At the same time, the coalition's vampire fighter jets also frequently appeared in the Pajileti River estuary, using its ceiling of more than 13,000 meters and the fastest speed of nearly 900 kilometers to reconnaise this area. Even the Ming army's destroyers openly appeared in this area to measure the depth and tides.
Nehru was indeed trapped.
In fact, although Kolkata is only sixty kilometers away from the East Pakistan border, it has an insurmountable barrier, because it is more than two hundred kilometers from the Mekna River to Kolkata, all of which are water net swamps and the world-famous Songdaban Wetland. No one can attack from this direction, especially the armored troops. As long as the landing at sea is prevented, Kolkata will be foolproof.
But unfortunately, this time Kesselin was preparing to attack from this water net swamp.
What is a 200-kilometer water net swamp?
"Hurry up, you must arrive in Kolkata before dawn tomorrow"
Li Jun, the commander of the Third Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, sat in the command car, holding a combat map in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other, and said next to him was a guide provided by the Pakistani army. He was standing in the car with his head out and looking around with an oversized night vision instrument.
Around this command vehicle, in the dark night, countless infantry fighting vehicles rumbled into the muddy wetlands, and many of them were even floating slowly in the river. Because they used active infrared night vision devices, it would be difficult to find these steel beasts on such nights if they were not close.
Active infrared night vision devices are not very high-tech anymore. During World War II, the Prussians had already used them on leopard tanks, and even individual night vision devices were available.
But this is unimaginable to the Indians.
Li Jun led his infantry brigade, which was actually a mechanized infantry brigade, and the infantry fighting vehicles drawn from the other two brigades were also under his command. There were a total of 400 infantry fighting vehicles and 3,200 infantry in his hands. In order to prevent encountering enemy tanks, each car was equipped with an RPG7. The use of Red Arrow 73 is still too dazzling. This thing is enough to deal with T34, and it can be killed even if it encounters Stalin 2.
In the dark night, waterways were everywhere, and people were rarely visited. The Songdaban wetlands covered with mangroves, and the roar of diesel engines disturbed the crocodiles in their sleep. These beasts, which were also terrifying in front of humans, shook their stupid bodies in horror and fled their homes in front of monsters of this mechanical era. Some unlucky ones were inevitably crushed by steel tracks, and some were not clear enough, and even in the dark, they opened their mouths and showed off their sharp teeth like demonstrating. Unfortunately, the next moment they turned into mud.
This is a torrent of steel, sweeping over and overwhelming all the mantis arm blocking the chariot.
And at the same time, another torrent of steel was sweeping by the sea.
At the front was the Kaohsiung heavy cruiser, and behind it was the Kalinin heavy cruiser, the Linlie and the Energetic destroyers. Four battleships formed a huge square array. In the middle of the square array were thirty landing ships, which were loaded with two infantry brigades and dozens of Sherman tanks. Their target was also Kolkata, but they had forcibly landed from the mouth of the Pajileti River.
Behind this fleet, countless small warships, merchant ships, inland passenger ships, and even slightly larger fishing boats. In short, all the ships that can be found are filled with soldiers and combat supplies, from Chittagong, Dhaka, from one assembly point after another, and then meet at the mouth of the Mekna River, followed by the landing fleet in the night. This is the second landing force, with a total of more than 20,000 people. They will go ashore after the landing fleet has opened up a solid landing ground.
In Dhaka, Chittagong's front-line airport, including 36 vampires, nearly 300 coalition fighter jets have gathered and are ready to attack at any time.
This is the first time the former has carried out a combat mission. In fact, since this small aircraft was developed and this is also the first time to participate in the war, the de Havilland Company is staring wide, hoping that this small aircraft can bring them more orders.
As for the bomber group and transport aircraft group, they were assembled at Impal Airport. The coalition prepared three bomber wings and a transport aircraft wing for the operation, which was responsible for airdropping a paratrooper brigade, cutting off railway bridges from all over Kolkata, and getting as much time as possible for the landing forces to fight as the landing forces.
This is a huge battle, it is simply an overlord operation. At least for the Ming army, it can be described as unprecedented. In Kesseling's words, as long as this battle is over, they will return to Prussia, and the Ming army is fully capable of carrying out any combat missions alone.
But the Indian side did not notice the plan of the coalition forces at all.
Of course, Nehru could not have known that the coalition forces were about to attack Kolkata. How could he not know about such a large-scale mobilization of troops? What's more, it was originally divided by a country. He also had countless spies in East Pakistan. In this situation, what else could the coalition forces do besides landing in attack Kolkata? Besides, there is no other target worth attacking in this area except Kolkata.
But neither he nor Timayah, as the chief of the General Staff, including Marshal Meletskov, the head of the Soviet advisory group, realized that the deadliest sword was stabbing Kolkata through the Songdaban wetland at a speed of thirty kilometers per hour.
In their opinion, this is simply impossible, and no one can pass through that natural danger.
Their defense focus is always at the mouth of the Pajileti River.
After receiving the news that the coalition had set off, the Kolkata defense commander immediately began to deploy combat. In order to avoid being bombarded by large-caliber naval guns, at the suggestion of the Soviet adviser, he hurriedly blocked the estuary with anchor thunder, forcing the coalition forces to land in the east coast water network area. In the north of this area, a linear defensive position was built, and the two divisions of troops were responsible for defending the dead, and after the Soviet-aided heavy artillery group was placed on the defense line, as long as the coalition forces could not break through the defense line, he could only crowd in the narrow landing field and get shells, and he had two regiments of one, two millimeter cannons.
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Of course, this was their own dream, and they didn't know that this airport would be the first unlucky one.
Chapter completed!