According to the combat plan formulated by Ding Zhennan, 0 a.m. on December 15 is the final time limit for launching the attack.

To this end, late at night on December 14, Fu Weimin issued an order and the battle to attack Jodhpur began.

This is indeed a tough battle.

Although the firepower preparations lasted for half a month before, only a large-scale artillery bombardment took place for 4 days, tens of thousands of large-caliber rockets were used, and countless shells of various caliber were used. In addition, the air strikes that lasted for several days before, a total of nearly 50,000 targets were destroyed, which was equivalent to using bombs, rockets and shells to plow the city. However, after the 17th Armored Division launched a ground attack and began to advance to the city, it was still subjected to the stubborn resistance of the Fan army and encountered trouble before attacking the city.

From the beginning, the battle was very difficult.

In order to invade the city, to be precise, it was to gain a foothold in the western suburbs of Jodhpur, the 174th Aircraft Infantry Brigade took a short time under the direct cover of artillery. Then, it took several hours to clear the remaining enemies. It was not until the afternoon of the 15th that the 174th Aircraft Infantry Brigade had gained a foothold.

When the 174th Aircraft Brigade entered the city, it was already the evening of the 15th.

The same is true in the other two directions. When advancing toward the urban area, we encountered resistance and took much more time than expected.

Because we need to attract the main force of the Fan army to come to the decisive battle, the tactic of encirclement but not attacking is adopted to the east of the city.

The basic tactic set by Fu Weimin is to surround the points and attack support.

Even if reinforcements are not drawn, the enemies in the city can be released. It is definitely much easier to deal with the enemy who breaks through than to attack the city.

It must be said that Fu Weimin deeply understood Ding Zhennan's intention and knew that the real purpose of Ding Zhennan's "strike steadily" was to annihilate the Fan army in Jaipur, rather than to take down Jaipur as planned. After all, the combat troops deployed in Jaipur were used to support Decheng.

As long as the Fan army can be annihilated, what does it matter where to fight?

Relatively speaking, Jodhpur is more ideal.

Because there is a desert between Jodhpur and Jaipur and there is no danger to defend at all, for the Fan army, they must defend Jodhpur.

If you lose Jodhpur, you will definitely not be able to defend Jaipur.

The key is that after the fall of Jodhpur, the Fantasy army deployed in Jaipur would definitely not dare to go north to support Decheng, and thus lost its value of existence.

From this perspective, as long as the Vanluo senior management still regards Jaipur's Central Army as a strategic reserve and has great hope for it, it will inevitably allow the Vatican army to defend Jodhpur and reinforce Jodhpur at all costs, including mobilizing and dispatching Jaipur's troops.

Obviously, this is also the basis for Fu Weimin to adopt the tactic of aggression and aid.

However, if this tactic is effective, it has to hit Jodpur's defenders and force Jaipur's Central Army to come and rescue.

That's why it took only half a month to prepare for the preliminary firepower.

It seems that it is still not sufficient.

Even if most of the fortifications were destroyed, the fighting spirit of the Fan army was not destroyed.

After the first day of the battle, Fu Weimin sent a telegram to Ding Zhennan, mentioning the situation of the war and making predictions for the subsequent battle.

Obviously, Fu Weimin's cautious style of dealing with things will definitely exaggerate.

At the same time, in Udaipur, the combat troops of the 24th Mechanical Infantry Division had already attacked the city area, and the siege operation had entered the final stage.

According to the judgment of the front-line commander, Udaipur will definitely be able to win before the 17th.

The combat troops of the Fifth Land Force Division have also moved south, and the first main force has boarded the ship in the early morning of the 15th and headed to Mengwan as planned.

As expected, the main forces of the Fifth Land Warrior Division can all board the ship before the 20th.

Late at night on the 15th, when he received the battle report from Fu Weimin, Ding Zhennan was arranging a mission to Hou Chensheng, who was still organizing the Marine Corps in Varoda via satellite phone.

A few days ago, Ding Zhennan focused all his energy on landing operations.

Just choosing the login location gave Ding Zhennan a headache for several days.

According to the original plan, or Ding Zhennan's own vision, the Fifth Land Force will land in Gal, the most important port city on the east coast of Varo, the Gangaro River Estuary Delta, and then capture this big city that is no less than that of Mongmei, and seize the crucial port.

The key is that Gal not only has the largest port on the east coast, but also has its geographical location.

By taking Gal, the Imperial Army will be able to go upstream along the Gangaro River and rely on inland shipping to solve logistical problems.

Because the water volume is extremely abundant and the water level difference is not large, the 50,000-ton cargo ship can reach Patna and the 20,000-ton cargo ship can reach Lucknow.

It can be seen that even without railways and highways, the coalition forces can advance inland along the Gangaro River.

More importantly, the Gangaro Plain itself is the core area of ​​the Varo Kingdom, and almost all the big cities are near the Gangaro River. Controlling the Gangaro River is equivalent to controlling the entire Gangaro Plain and controlling the most fertile core area of ​​the Varo Kingdom.

Of course, the throughput capacity of Gal Port cannot be ignored.

With this port, all shipping problems can be eradicated. The Marines can also use Gal as a springboard to sweep the entire East Coast region.

However, the problem of attacking Gal is also very prominent.

Login is too difficult!

Gal is actually Mengmi, the East Coast region. It is not only the largest city in the East Coast region, but also the second largest city in the Vanluo country.

According to official statistics from Van Luo, Gal has as many as 20 million residents, second only to Mummei, surpassing Decheng.

In fact, Gal has always been a famous historical city in the Kingdom of Vanluo.

More than a hundred years ago, the colonists of the Kingdom of Bran landed on the southern subcontinent here and marched inland along the Gangaro River. By means of erosion and other means, they controlled the entire southern subcontinent step by step. In those decades, Gar was also the administrative capital of the Bhuvan Empire. It was with this history that Gar developed into the number one big city on the east coast and the shipping center of the Gangaro River Basin.

Occupy and control a city with 20 million residents is definitely not an easy task.

Even if you don’t encounter stubborn resistance, you will have to invest 200,000 troops.

In addition, the urban area of ​​Gal is as high as tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the environment in the urban area is also extremely complex, and urban transportation is very backward.

Such a big city has only 3 main roads, and the total urban highways are less than 500 kilometers.

In other words, there are almost all narrow alleys in the urban area.

For mechanized troops, this is simply a living hell on earth.

Not to mention tanks and tanks, even ordinary military vehicles may not be able to drive into those lanes with a width of less than 3 meters, let alone turn to retreat after being attacked.

Obviously, any commander will try his best to avoid entering such cities.

If you can choose, you will definitely be surrounded and not attacking.

The larger the city, the greater the consumption. Therefore, a comprehensive blockade and long-term siege have always been the most effective tactics to attack big cities.

If you have to attack strongly, you will also make sufficient firepower preparations, and then use tanks and bulldozers to open the way.

Unfortunately, during the landing operation, especially at the beginning, the main force has not yet arrived, and has to concentrate its forces to expand the depth of the landing field. There is no possibility of attacking big cities at all, and it is even more unrealistic to spend a lot of troops to siege big cities.

It is precisely because in large-scale landing operations, the Marines would rather build a port after they landed than attack the cities with ports directly. In the late stage of the Second Global War, the Liangxia Empire and the Taurus Empire parted ways and gave up the idea of ​​attacking the local area of ​​Newland. That is, because it was too difficult to launch a landing operation in the east coast of Newland, where cities were densely populated, it would suffer heavy casualties, resulting in serious differences between the two sides on specific tactics, especially the choice of landing locations, and they ended up in a bad mood.

Even now, large-scale amphibious landing operations are still "hell-level" offensive operations.

Of course, Ding Zhennan initially chose Gal because he believed that the combat effectiveness of the Fan army was very poor and would collapse at a glance. Therefore, the difficulty of landing operations was within acceptable range, and the Marines were very confident of taking the port after they got ashore and lay the foundation for the siege of Gal.

However, the battles in the west proved that the Fan army was not at the point of collapse.

Even if the combat effectiveness of the Fan army was indeed very poor, they showed extremely tenacious fighting will in Deaeger, Ahmedabad, and Jodhpur.

Second-rate troops like the Southern Cluster can persist in field battles for so long, and the Fan army, which is fighting back on big cities, will definitely persist for longer.

Those, in Gal, will inevitably not fall into a hard battle.

It is precisely because when he was preparing a specific combat plan, Ding Zhennan gave up the idea of ​​attacking Gal and chose a suitable landing location again.

In fact, this is also the reason why he asked Liu Zunshan to stay in Slan.

After all, there is a specialization in profession.

Although Ding Zhennan's command ability is far superior to Liu Zunshan, as an army general from the Northwest War Zone, Ding Zhennan is most not good at amphibious landing operations. In fact, among several major war zones, the Northwest War Zone does not have decent amphibious combat troops.

Because it faces the Kuohai and is connected to the Boyi Kingdom in the south, there is an amphibious army in the Northwest War Zone.

The troops were pitifully small. Usually there was only one infantry brigade with a rate of less than 60%, and most of the amphibious combat equipment was second-hand goods borrowed from the Marines. Even after the war broke out, the brigade had less than 5,000 officers and soldiers, all of which were incorporated into the garrison of Astrakhan.

In short, there are no operations related to amphibious warfare in the Northwest War Zone.

Of course, Liu Zunshan is an expert in amphibious operations.

But the problem is that no matter how good the experts are, they cannot bypass the actual problem.

If no adjustments to the strategic plan are made, there is no more suitable landing place on the east coast of Varo Country than Gal.

The key is actually the strategic plan formulated by Ding Zhennan.

According to this plan, the main purpose of landing on the east coast is to sweep the northern part of the Varo Kingdom and cooperate with the offensive operations in the west to complete the strategic cutting of the Varo Kingdom. After sweeping the Gangaro Plain, there is hope to dismantle the southern part of the Varo Kingdom by blocking the siege.

It can be seen that the core of this strategy is actually to go upstream along the Gangaro River.

Then, the focus must be on the estuary delta.

There is really no other choice except Gal.

In addition, in the south, suitable places for landing, especially places with ports, all have big cities. For example, at the mouth of the Mohanidei River, there are tens of millions of residents, and further south, there are millions of residents. Even Chennai has a population of more than five million.

Of course, these port cities are far away from the Gangaro River.

After the battle was over, I still had to go north to attack Gal, and the difficulty of the battle was not reduced at all.

After a while, I finally decided to log in near Gal.

However, tactical efforts are needed.

Simply put, it is to implement strategic deception against the Fan army, making the senior leaders of the Fan army believe that the Imperial Army would land in other places.

This is true. After December, the coalition forces strengthened their reconnaissance efforts in the estuary of Godavari. Not only did they frequently send reconnaissance planes to explore the Fantasy positions there, but they also arranged Marines' reconnaissance troops to launch several small-scale attacks in the estuary area.

According to Liu Zunshan's intention, he acted as if he wanted to land in Visa Kapa.
To be continued...