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Chapter 204: A Comprehensive Counterattack

At the end of 1980, the attack on the northeast mountainous areas of the Tyranny Army took place on the night of the 27th, a huge turning point was enough to reverse the situation.

This time period is very short. From 7:56 pm to 38 pm on the 28th, in less than five hours, the logistics base Lashio, located 200 kilometers behind, was successively destroyed by drones from the military sub-district. The fifty-three various fighter jets, attack aircraft, transport aircraft and communication aircraft parked at these two airports all turned into a pile of rags during the night attack.

Although the victory of this night attack was due to the fact that the army underestimated the enemy, in-depth exploration was the inevitable result of the collision of the old and new military thinking.

The Fiery Army has always faced armed forces from all ethnic groups, tribal armed forces and people's army. These armed forces are generally characterized by poor weapons and equipment and insufficient combat effectiveness. Therefore, in this low-intensity war, the Fiery Army relied on some World War II weapons received from the British army, which was enough to deal with.

Although it has been fifty-five years since the end of World War II, the Wei Ding Army still holds the old-fashioned concept of war as the guiding ideology of troops training and combat.

But they didn't learn it like it. Due to the low intensity of combat, lack of funds, outdated weapons and equipment, and insufficient training, they did not really learn how to carry out joint combat between ins and artillery, joint combat between ins and tanks, and coordinated air and ground combat. The protection of the rear airport is even more formal, and has not built a strict air defense system. Even the defense work of the outside airport is very relaxed. After the attack on the airport, they panicked and were unable to quickly send troops to search the surrounding areas and find hidden enemies. Instead, they directly lost their fighting spirit.

Although Guan Fei had limited chips in his hand, the shadow of information combat was deeply imprinted in his mind. With the limited resources at hand, he tried his best to imitate the corresponding tactics.

As for the night attack of drones, this is actually exactly the same as the popular cruise missile attack mode later. However, in order to pursue accuracy, he personally played the role of a special forces soldier responsible for infiltration behind enemy lines, guiding the drone to carry out precise attacks on key targets, thus successfully destroying the crucial airports in the front line of the Northeast mountainous area, and turning one-quarter of the property that is equivalent to a certain air force into a raging flame.

Overnight, the stern army located on the Northeast front suddenly lost control of the sky.

The siege army, who is used to having planes covering their heads and can bomb the enemy's positions at will, but their own side hides in a safe area, suddenly found that they no longer had their own air force planes that they had complained so much but now they missed very much.

At this moment, except for a few heavy weapons in tanks and armored vehicles, the military sub-district weapons and equipment surpassed the opponent for the first time in history.

In theory, it is just a small country with a total area of ​​675,000 square kilometers, roughly equivalent to the sum of the three provinces of Yunnan, Shandong and Liaoning. The straight line distance from Yangon to Lashio is only 1,000 kilometers, and it only takes one day to re-allocate fighter jets. If you come from closer Mandalay, it will take less than one day. Considering that the airport needs to renovate the runway and communicate to accept the planes, then at most half a month is enough.

However, the military sub-district firmly seized this unprecedented great opportunity and took advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Northeast Front Army losing air protection, and suddenly switched from strategic defense to a full-scale counterattack.

The first thing to take action was to cut off the main force of the Gunlan-Xingwei Highway, receive Guan Fei's instructions, and attack decisively after dawn under the leadership of Yu Bohai.

First, the high-explosive drones were used to provide devastating blows to the enemy tank troops, destroying four US-made Sherman medium tanks in one fell swoop, and five were captured, and only one tank located at the last escaped. After destroying the enemy's most threatening tank troops, the entire army came out of the mountain and launched a full-scale counterattack. He used rocket launchers, recoilless cannons and other means to destroy one enemy armored vehicle, captured three, and eleven more escaped back to Xingwei.

In this battle, four new howitzers from the enemy were transported by the enemy, more than 30 other small-caliber howitzers, mountain cannons, light and heavy mortars, and more than 5,000 shells were seized.

In addition, more than 20 cars were seized, more than 600 soldiers of the Wild Army were captured, and the enemy troops came from Xingwei were completely eliminated.

Then Yu Baihai sent the first and third battalions to take the captured car and head straight to Xingwei to meet the return Guan Fei. The remaining four, six, seven, eight, nine and sixteen battalions turned their heads and attacked Gunong, and knocked down a brigade sent by the 77th Division to open the road in one fell swoop, then rolled upwards and chased the enemy for seventeen kilometers until they arrived at Gunong's outer positions.

In this battle, one enemy brigade was defeated, killing and wounding about 200 enemy troops, capturing 1,700 people, and more than 500 remaining soldiers fled back to the defense line. More than 3,000 other people dispersed during the pursuit and fled into the mountainous areas. The military sub-district was unable to enter the mountain to encircle and suppress. Anyway, most of them abandoned their weapons, and the possibility of being able to bypass the mountains and return to the 77th Division was less likely to be able to go around the mountains and return to the 77th Division, and they basically lost the threat.

At the same time, Sun Yaohua also led the second battalion of Longkang and Geng Feng's two militia regiments, totaling 2,800 people, to launch a counterattack against the frontal enemy. They also used high-explosive drones to destroy the enemy's artillery positions, completely destroyed two tanks that assisted the war, and used direct-image grenade launchers to kill the enemy hiding in the fortifications. They advanced ten kilometers in one morning, broke through the defense lines of Maika, Mengxi, and Banmei, and successively captured the two towns of Maika and Mengxi. Only Banmei was left alone on the Salwin River and was isolated and helpless. It would be a matter of time before they could be defeated.

In order to support the main force, Guogen gathered the guard battalion, a militia regiment, and a total of 3,000 remaining troops of Guogen launched an active attack on the Qingshui River defense line, catching Peng Degui's troops and a brigade of the 77th Division crossed the Qingshui River and fled in a panic direction.

As a result, the military sub-district encircled three sides from Qingshui River to the east, Maika, Mengxi to the north, and Gunong-Xingwei Highway to the west, surrounding the 77th Division stationed in Gunong. They had no way to escape except the mountains to the south. However, the south was controlled by the Wa armed forces, and even if they escaped into the deep mountains, they would eventually die.

By 4:00 p.m. on the 28th, the 77th Division had lost a brigade on the Xingwei Highway, one and a half battalions were lost on the Maika-Mengxi defense line, and two battalions were lost on the Qingshui River defense line. The 77th Division, which once had a total force of 15,000 had lost more than 9,000 people, and the remaining enemies huddled in the Gunnang City were less than 7,000.

On the same day, Guan Fei met with the two companies of the Third Battalion who arrived first by car, and bypassed Longmen Town, and forced Xingwei. The troops climbed onto a hill more than 300 meters northeast of Xingwei, began to build positions, overlooking the road from Xingwei to Mujie, and made an action to attack Xingwei and cut off the 88th Division's rear route.

The Weishi Army, who was dazed by a series of punches in the military division, did not distinguish between true and false. The 88th Division was afraid that the rear was cut off, so it had no time to withdraw the four battalions that were still fighting in Kangka. It gave up a large amount of heavy equipment and evacuated Mujie, a major border town. The entire army came out in full swing, trying to escape back to the rear before the military division closed the road.

When they passed these hills of the military sub-district threatened the highway, they found that there were not many people, so they launched several company-level attacks to test whether they could be eliminated or driven away.

However, due to the abandonment of a large number of heavy equipment, the airport was attacked and lost air support. In addition, the number of troops who arrived in the car was only one battalion, and it was the 88th Division, mainly civilian officers from the two brigade commands, and only followed the guards of less than three companies with the car. It was a dream to destroy the two companies led by Guan Fei. They had suffered heavy casualties during several consecutive attacks. Instead, they were attacked by the accusers and soldiers, and once drove the offensive troops off the highway and completely closed the retreat.

Seeing that there was no hope of opening the road and whether reinforcements were coming from behind the military sub-district, the commander of the 88th Division and his subordinates were not interested in fighting. They gave up their plans to retake the mountain, drove around the road in a car, and fled from the shallow hills further away to Xingwei.

Xingwei is a valley road, facing the direction of the rolling and tide, there is no danger to defend.

The commanders of the division headquarters and brigade headquarters were scared by the fierce offensive of the military division. They had no confidence that after gathering the troops, they could establish a defense line here to block the attack of the military division. So they only stayed in the city for a while, after replenishing the fuel, left a small number of people to accommodate the troops. The others got into the car and continued to retreat, retreating in the direction of Lashio.

Guan Fei was short of troops at hand, so he was afraid of hitting the dying army coming from behind, so he did not dare to go down the mountain. He could only watch them disappear at the mountain pass with a telescope at the top of the mountain.

This group of people ran very fast, but at best there were less than two battalions.

You should know that the distance from Sister Mu to Xingwei Highway is 120 kilometers. They cannot run 240 miles within a few hours and escape to Xingwei in one breath.

Even Guan Fei, who has a biological secondary brain, cannot do this distance!

On the contrary, it was only about 30 kilometers from the 1600 Highland, and it was transported back and forth with more than twenty cars seized from the Wei Ding Army. By six o'clock in the evening, Guan Fei had gathered all the troops of the Third Battalion, and the Fourth Battalion had reached a small amount. It is expected that everyone will be able to arrive tonight.

In addition, the car also towed two captured 25-pound medium howitzers, four six-pound anti-tank guns, twelve 81-mm heavy mortars and a large number of shells. Guan Fei was overjoyed and immediately drew the gunners to build a heavy artillery position behind the hilltop, and arranged two anti-tank positions on the front hilltop.

He also took advantage of the gap that the enemy had not arrived and ran with the car. He picked out the Sherman tank among the seized tanks and selected the most intact Sherman tank, filled with fuel and ammunition, drove all the way over, hidden on the side of the mountain, ready to use it as a killer weapon.

That night, the last part of the commanders and soldiers of the Fourth Battalion also arrived at the position, and the available troops in Guan Fei's hands increased to 1,300.

After a night of rest, the commanders and soldiers recovered their strength and were ready to arrive at the enemy's large forces.

But they waited from morning to evening, and didn't even wait for a single figure. Guan Fei thought that the other party had finally woken up from the panic and knew that the hasty retreat from Sister Mu would inevitably lead to the loss of organization of the troops, and the soldiers were exhausted too much and could not escape smoothly, so he simply stood by Sister Mu to wait for help.

He couldn't guess what the other party was thinking, but he didn't care. Anyway, he just scared the other party and had no intention of attacking.

Since the enemy did not come, he simply moved the position forward and placed a small number of troops on the hills at the foot of the mountain.

The platoon closest to the highway is less than 400 meters away from the highway. Even if you do not use heavy weapons, the soldiers just use the Type 79 automatic rifle in their hands to kill the enemy.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, they widened the positions again and strengthened them. The isolated individual bunkers began to connect into lines, and built rear ammunition depots, military caves, battlefield hospitals and other facilities to gradually improve the front line. The distribution of firepower was more reasonable and the support was more sufficient. The infrasted, cannons, tanks, light and heavy weapons were complete, and the threat range of artillery was expanded to ten kilometers away.

If the enemy does not come, then they will find that in two days, these inconspicuous hills have turned into a wall of iron, which will surely make their heads bleed.

It was already forty-one hours before Guan Fei threatened the highway, which was only 4:00 a.m. on the 30th that two soldiers of the Wei-Shi Army appeared on the highway. When they saw the soldiers rushing up from the highway, they surrendered to them without any resistance.

The two soldiers were not carrying any weapons, their faces were haggard, their cheeks were deep and their lips were chapped. It was obvious that they were about to lose weight. When the soldiers surrounded them, they lay directly on the cold road facing their backs, unable to move.

Later, I gave them some food and drink water, and it took them more than ten minutes to recover.

According to them, the 88th Division has completely dispersed.

Because the division headquarters and the brigade headquarters were afraid that the retreat would be cut off, they ended up with the 77th Division, so the command center took the lead in fleeing. When they left, they were very hurried and panicked. Even the commander did not arrange the order of the troops to retreat, so they ran away, causing the entire army to lose command and the leader.

The superiors ran away, and of course the subordinates ran away.

No one stayed to destroy heavy weapons that he had no time to take away, and only had a seal on the warehouse where supplies, food and ammunition were stored, and then he retreated in a hurry.

At first, everyone was following their camps, but as they walked, the queue began to become chaotic. Some people walked fast, while others walked slowly.
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