Chapter 354 Mapagadi was attacked
Although the combat effectiveness of the Indian National Army built by Si was a slap in a slap, its soldiers were very good laborers. According to preliminary statistics, the minerals in the areas controlled by the Chinese Expeditionary Force lacked 400,000 labor force. The gap of 400,000 labor force has already made Song Yuhang worry. Feng Bin, who is responsible for mineral mining, told Song Yuhang frankly that the so-called 400,000 labor force shortly that the so-called 400,000 labor force shortly. With the resumption of work and the expansion of scale of each mine, the labor force gap may eventually exceed one million!
Shocked by this huge number, Song Yuhang was eager to find the source of free labor. Song Yuhang knew that free labor could minimize his mining risks and costs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Song Yuhang has been looking forward to this group of free Indian National Army, the free labor of this group of Indian National Army. Now Song Yuhang finally regrets his decision to kill all the Japanese before. Although he was a temporary addiction, if he stayed until now, the Japanese who believed that hard work and hard work could work hard to make up for the labor crisis in front of him to a certain extent.
Compared with the Japanese, the extremely lazy Indians are obviously not a good laborer, but Song Yuhang believes that there is no real meaning of lazy people in this world. Under the whip wrapped around iron thorns, the Indian people will definitely change their minds and get up quickly. Some people and nations in this world are mean and need to be knocked regularly to remind these people to always pay attention to their words and deeds.
Basmodye, a native of Kolkata, was the brigade commander of the 26th British-Indian brigade school. He accepted the appointment of Baos in Kolkata and carried out rebellion with the former commander of the 20th British-Indian Infantry Division, and was now the commander of the 2nd Army of the Indian National Army.
Pasteye is an Indian, not tall, black and thin, with a sharp-mouthed face. Pasteyeye is an extremely good at speculation and his best ability to see. Not only did he not have a day's military academy, he even knew not many words. It was incomparable to the hard-branded division commander of Murley, who graduated from the Mande County Infantry Soldiers School in the UK, he was unwilling to accept the competition for the first army commander.
When Murley saw hope and defeated the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the position of the commander of the First Army was the one who was in full swing. Pasteye accelerated the troops with an ulterior motive secret, trying to arrive at Mapagadi first and take him back.
Basmodeye is full of confidence in recapturing the town of Magadi. Although Basmodeye has not been to military academy for one day and does not know any tactics, he knew that the Chinese Expeditionary Headquarters, who had gone deep into the army, annihilated the First Army's troops in Mapagadi, and would definitely not be able to move when they were still there. Therefore, the so-called battle to attack Mapagadi was actually just pretending.
"The sheep who get up early can eat the tender grass!" Pasteye has always remembered the ancient proverb in his hometown. For this reason, Basmodeye repeatedly urged his second army to accelerate his advance, leaving the third, fourth and fifth army behind him without a trace.
The Baos people can be said to be a military blind man. Most of his generals have different abilities and positions, but he also has a senior officer staff room. Although these Indian staff officers who previously served the British people usually do the work of serving tea and water, they may not be able to contact the British staff system every day.
As the saying goes, the three cobblers led Zhuge Liang's plan to develop a relatively stable plan for Baos. After using the forces of four troops and the troops in a half-month shape, they echo each other on the left and right. Once the four troops and the troops in an incident, they will immediately form a regiment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and lose the possibility of breaking the ground one by one. If the Chinese Expeditionary Force forcibly attacked the land, the Chinese Expeditionary Force would likely fall into a passive position. At that time, the Indian National Army and the Japanese Expeditionary Force could calmly mobilize their troops and cooperate with each other to death.
Unfortunately, this seemingly wrong plan was not effectively implemented at all. First, it was nearly 100 kilometers away from Mapagadi, the second army of the Indian National Army, and the farthest Fourth Army was still in Maori's rest and recuperation 70 kilometers east of Delhi.
I want to rely on these slow movements. The troops in the low-quality officers and soldiers formed a large encirclement circle, which will definitely lead the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The first and second lightweight divisions have been surrounded and annihilated. It is nothing but a dream.
The 2nd Lightweight Division, which was initially defensive and defended, was subjected to a large-scale air strike by Japanese troops. Since the 2nd Lightweight Division could only accommodate one mechanized regiment, the main forces of the 1st Heavy Division and the 2nd Lightweight Division were hidden in the valleys and lowlands near Mapagadi, respectively.
The Fourth Infantry Regiment in the small town of Mapagadi lacked air defense measures and was not prepared for the Japanese air strikes. He used light weapons to fight against Japanese aircraft with anti-aircraft machine guns. At the beginning of the Japanese air strike, he suffered serious losses. After the air strikes, Japanese aircraft reported the reconnaissance information to the sending army and left. Then the US fighter jets from Kolkata came to support the support site and failed to capture them.
. Due to the combat radius, the US aircraft could only maintain the time of the 10-meter aircraft return. Fang Lin immediately inspected the fourth aircraft under bombing.
The bombing density and intensity of a large number of Japanese aircraft were almost devastating to Mapagadi. There were ruins everywhere, and many houses were still burning, and thick smoke was rolling.
Medical staff with red cross armbands were rescued everywhere by rescuers of wounded people, and a blown-up greyhound was still rushing out with flames. Amid the scorched stinking, people could vaguely see the burned corpse of the armored vehicle.
Chang Tianfang knew that this was all because he did not listen to Fang Lin's opinion and insisted on his own actions. After defeating the Third Division of the Indian National Army, he did not immediately gather the troops, and searched everywhere for Indian prisoners and exposed his location.
When the Japanese plane was in the air, Chang Tianfang's First Heavy Equipment Division was gathering troops into the valley. In order to cover the First Heavy Equipment Division, Fang Lin made a quick decision to issue the position of the Fourth Stage Regiment and used all weapons to shoot in the air to attract the attention of the Japanese plane.
The anti-aircraft machine guns of tanks and armored vehicles passing back and forth in Mapagadi and the fire of air defense fire points near the town made the Japanese planes who were preparing to search for the targets look like they were treasured. They obviously regarded this town with very strong firepower as the location of an important commanding body of the squadron.
After a storm, Ri quickly left because they knew it was still on the edge of the combat radius of the US fighter jets taken off in Kolkata.
Fang Lin looked around in Mapagadi Town with a deep green eye. The losses of the Fourth Stage Regiment obviously exceeded Fang Lin's expectations. He clearly remembered that when the Japanese plane bombing was the most violent, the firepower of the air-to-air shooting in Mapagadi Town was never interrupted. It was not until the first heavy equipment division was all hidden, and the Fourth Stage Regiment began to gradually give up Mapagadi Town. However, the battle in just twenty minutes caused heavy casualties in the Fourth Stage Regiment.
There were broken bodies and the wreckage of burning 3 light tanks on the side of the road, and the inch-caliber 2e4 anti-aircraft machine guns that were blown into pieces.
Fang Lin, who was patrolling back and forth among the bloodstains, suddenly stopped, slowly bent down and picked up a military cap on the ground, carefully wiped off the blood from the military emblem, looked around, Fang Lin smashed the motive hood of his jeep with a punch.
Chang Tianfang stood behind Fang Lin for a moment and didn't know what to say. He blamed himself and felt guilty. Looking at the officers and soldiers who should not have sacrificed, Chang Tianfang suddenly pounded a tree beside him like crazy, and his fists splattered blood without stopping.
Fang Lin pushed away the crazy Tianfang, glared at Chang Tianfang and said in a solemn voice: "You are a senior commander. Every decision you make is related to the lives of your subordinates. War requires dedication and sacrifice, but it is not such a way of sacrifice! This is a meaningless sacrifice, do you understand?"
Chang Tianfang looked guilty, and the medical officer who came to him treated his wound. Chang Tianfang sighed softly to Fang Lin and said, "My temper is like the motive of this tank. The armored troops are moving forward. When I was teaching the corps before, without tanks, I fantasized that one day I could command hundreds of thousands of tanks to give the enemy a devastating blow. Later, Chief Song gave me a chance and kept teaching me to promote me, which enabled me to have today and be able to apply the theories I learned to the reality."
Chang Tianfang paused for a moment and then said: "The battle between armored forces, ground-to-air coordination, and armored infantry are all things that are constantly being explored and studied by various countries in warring now. The most successful example is the overall independent use of the tank group composed of German tank divisions. With the help of the rapid and powerful assault power of the armored forces, it quickly opened gaps in the enemy's defense line. Simply put, it has the same effect as the strikes used by our army, the entire line is shocked, but this tactic is very single and has many shortcomings."
Fang Lin looked at Chang Tianfang and said, "I studied the infantry department when I was in the military academy. Now I feel very difficult to command this American light mechanized division. There is a big difference between this light mechanized unit and the old infantry in the past in terms of tactics and command coordination. However, in my opinion, the German rapid assault tactics are almost impeccable."
Chang Tianfang looked at his hands that were as wrapped as a bear's paw and said: "The so-called lightning offensive of the German army can only be used for surprise attacks, and the premise is that the opponent does not concentrate a considerable number of armored troops and anti-tank forces. If this high-density armored troops attack encounters an air strike from the opponent's superior air strike, the outcome will be very miserable, and the material supply and maintenance required for maintaining this rapid attack is essential."
"This is also something we don't have in front of us. India's vast plains are very suitable for armored troops to fight. There is not much time left for us, so I am eager to continue to practice and try!" Chang Tian sighed long.
Chapter completed!