Chapter 516: Land, Sea and Air Cooperative Operations
Chapter 516 Coordinated Operations by Land, Sea and Air
Jinzhou, Kwantung Army South Manchuria Headquarters.
Okamura Neji leaned back on his chair tiredly, closing his eyes and listening to Tamura Yoshitomi reporting to him the latest progress of the troops belonging to the various fronts.
Although the Kwantung Army's aviation force tried its best to seize most of the Chinese Air Force's energy, forcing the Chinese Air Force's strategic bomber group not to enter the Liaodong Bay, and forcing the Mustang fleet not to carry heavy aerial bombs for air strikes, the Mustang fighter jets
The rockets they carried still caused great damage to railways, roads, bridges and other facilities in southern Manchuria.
Therefore, before engineers repair these military facilities, it is impossible for the mechanized heavy equipment of the Kwantung Army to reach the Jinzhou theater. However, fortunately, the five infantry divisions urgently transferred from Liaodong have crossed the Liaohe River and are already far away from Jinzhou.
It is less than 100 kilometers away, which greatly alleviates the crisis in Jinzhou.
From the current point of view, it is basically impossible for the Chinese *** troops to quickly occupy Jinzhou.
Moreover, intelligence showed that the Chinese *** troops moving north along railways, highways and coastlines were showing signs of shrinking southward. Obviously, the frontline commanders of the Chinese *** troops had also realized that they could take advantage of the opportunity to occupy Jinzhou and divide and encircle it.
The Kwantung Army's tactical intentions in the western and eastern Liaoning areas could no longer be realized, so they wisely switched to tactical defense.
"Tamura-kun, what do you think the China Army will do next?" Okamura Neji suddenly asked.
Tamura Yoshitomi said: "If the frontline commanders of the China Army are smart enough, they should evacuate Jinzhou Bay as soon as possible. Otherwise, just waiting for our heavy troop groups from the east and west to come back in large numbers and form a pincer offensive, the Chinese will destroy the entire Fourth Field Army.
Even if more than one million elite troops are gathered in Jinzhou Bay, they will definitely be defeated."
Okamura Neji nodded silently. When the war escalated to a large-scale mechanical showdown, the two sides competed in industrial manufacturing capabilities and resource reserves. In the current situation, the industrial manufacturing capabilities of Japan's Northeastern base plus the Russian Far East
The assistance from the industrial base is undoubtedly far stronger than that of China's Myanmar industrial base. Even though the United States' intervention has led to China's leadership in industrial manufacturing technology, it is not enough to make up for the gap in industrial scale between the two sides.
Therefore, as long as there is no major accident, the Kwantung Army will surely achieve final victory. The best result for the Chinese Army can only be to withdraw part of the army, and the worst result is - the entire army is destroyed!
"Tamura-kun, I want to take a rest. If there is nothing particularly important, please don't wake me up." Okamura Neji suddenly gave a tired sigh, and then waved his hand feebly to Tamura Yoshitomi.
Fu lowered his head and let out a soft sigh, then turned around and exited Neji Okamura's office.
Speaking of which, Okamura Neji hasn't slept much in the past few days. He can see that in a few days, there will be another decisive battle in Jinzhou Bay. Such a decisive battle is unimaginable without his direct command. Therefore,
If Neji Okamura doesn't take advantage of this limited gap to take a break, he will definitely be exhausted.
However, it is a pity that Okamura Neji is destined to work as a cow and a horse.
After lying on the chair for less than five minutes, Tamura Yoshitomi walked into the office with hurried steps. He immediately put his feet back and stood at attention and said: "Marshal Your Excellency, something big has happened!"
Okamura Neji suddenly woke up and said: "Tamura-kun, what happened?"
"Manzhouli." Tamura Yoshitomi lowered his head and murmured, "I just received an emergency report from the headquarters. Four hours ago, Manzhouli was attacked by the China Airborne Division. The situation is unknown now, and it may have been lost!"
"What? Manchuria fell!?" Although the battle report from the Kwantung Army headquarters did not use specific words, how could Neji Okamura not guess the result with his sophistication?
I'm afraid Manzhouli is not impossible, but has already been lost!
When he thought of the extremely bad chain reaction caused by the fall of Manchuria, Okamura Neji suddenly felt a rush of anger. Coupled with the overwork for days, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, and immediately his eyes went black and he fainted on the ground.
"Your Excellency, Marshal!" Tamura Yoshitomi was shocked. He rushed forward to help Okamura Neji, then turned around and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Guard, hurry, call the military doctor..."
Okamura Neiji rushed to attack the fire and passed out on the spot. However, the atmosphere in the Fourth Field Headquarters at Tianjin Station was enthusiastic.
After Manchuria was recovered, the four fields had firmly taken the strategic initiative. Now it was time to be anxious. It was no longer the four fields but the Kwantung Army that was racing against time! Of course, there are still variables in the war situation in the Northeast, and this variable is the 8th Group Army.
Can the landing site at Jinzhou Bay be defended?
If the 8th Group Army cannot hold the landing site, then the four fields will still be unable to crack the tortoise shell that Okamura Neji worked so hard in southern Manchuria. They will only have to wait until the weather gets warmer next year or the Kwantung Army comes back to mobilize heavy troops to go north. In this case
, the airborne divisions and special warfare divisions in Manzhouli could only go into the deep mountains and old forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains to fight guerrillas.
If the 8th Army can hold Lu Dengcheng and pin down the Kwantung Army's heavy force group in southern Manchuria, then before the Kwantung Army can reopen the Siberian Railway and resume crude oil input, their planes, tanks and trucks will have already lost fuel due to fuel consumption.
If it is turned into scrap metal, then this strategic decisive battle will become no suspense.
In the operations hall, hundreds of senior generals and operational staff officers were discussing the situation in Jinzhou Bay enthusiastically, expounding their respective opinions. They wished they could replace General Li as the commander of the 8th Group Army and learn command with their whole life.
The troops will win this strategic decisive battle that can be called "the fate of modern China"!
Mr. Zuo strode up to Yue Weihan with a piece of telegram in his hand and reported: "Mr. Chairman, Li Yu's conclusion has come out."
All sounds in the entire combat hall suddenly stopped. Everyone pricked up their ears, wanting to hear Mr. Li's conclusion?
Even Yue Weihan was a little impatient to know Mr. Li's conclusion. The idea of long-distance large-scale airborne landing in Manchuria was proposed by Mr. Li. Before reporting this idea to the headquarters, Mr. Li might have foreseen the arrival of the Kwantung Army.
A crazy counterattack, so what effective countermeasures does he have?
Yue Weihan definitely believed that Mr. Li's conclusion was to abandon the Jinzhou Bay landing site.
Sure enough, President Zuo paused and then said: "Li Yu concluded that the 8th Army is fully capable of holding the Jinzhou Bay landing site, but the premise is that the air force, navy and army aviation units must be under the unified command of the 8th Army.
At this point, Li Yu has instructed the 8th Group Army Staff Headquarters to draw up a land, sea and air coordinated operations plan, and requested the headquarters to urgently provide a large number of radio stations and communications personnel."
"Land, sea and air coordinated combat plan!?" Yue Weihan was immediately shocked when he heard this. An unprecedented military genius is indeed an unprecedented military genius. After only three months of training in the crash course for generals in Yangon, Mr. Li actually mastered mechanization.
The subtlety of war, and proposed the concept of coordinated land, sea and air operations, which is the forefront of the times!
Compared with the confused faces of the senior generals and combat staff in the combat hall, Yue Weihan, who traveled from later generations, is well aware of the power of coordinated operations by land, sea and air. This is definitely not a simple superposition of 1+1+1=3, but
It’s a power multiplication of 1+1+1>3 or even 1+1+1>5.
To use an easy-to-understand analogy, it is also a highly mechanized modern army. If an army that has mastered the ability to coordinate land, sea and air force fights against an army that does not know how to fight with land, sea and air, it would be like fighting a Mongolian cavalry that has mastered the "wolf pack tactics".
The enemy's cavalry who do not understand "wolf pack tactics" will definitely have an overwhelming advantage.
However, the system of coordinated land, sea and air operations cannot be established simply by establishing it. The quality of commanders at all levels, especially grassroots officers, and the training of ordinary soldiers are crucial. At least you must know how to read maps and read coordinates. The most important thing is that
, it is necessary to build a large and efficient communication network so that the supreme commander's instructions can be directly issued to the most forward infantry companies and even infantry platoons. In turn, the forward infantry can also directly call for fire support from artillery, air force and even navy.
Yue Weihan did not believe that Mr. Li had the ability to turn the 8th Army into a modern army with land, sea and air coordinated operations overnight. However, through hard work, the 8th Army had the most primitive and elementary land, sea and air coordinated operations capabilities.
It is entirely possible, and more importantly, even the most primitive and rudimentary coordinated operations of land, sea and air are enough for the Kwantung Army to drink from.
"Pass my order..." Yue Weihan pondered for a moment, and then ordered without hesitation, "In addition to leaving the necessary communication personnel and equipment in each group army and division, the rest of the communication personnel and equipment were urgently airlifted to Tanggu Airport.
And be uniformly sent to Jinzhou Bay by the Navy. We must ensure that each infantry company of the 8th Group Army is equipped with a high-power radio station, and each infantry squad must be equipped with a 5w wireless walkie-talkie!"
Jinzhou, Kwantung Army General Hospital.
Okamura Neiji had just woken up from a coma, but Tamura Yoshitomi received several bad news in succession, which made him in a dilemma. Report it to Okamura Neiji, in case the condition worsens, this will be a problem for the Kwantung Army.
But the fatal blow should not be reported. Tamura Yoshitomi was really worried that it would cause Okamura Neji to make a fatal strategic misjudgment, and he was really at a loss what to do.
It was Okamura Neiji who saw something unusual in the expression on Tamura Yoshitomi's face, and after questioning, he finally found out the whole story.
During the dozen or so hours that Okamura Neiji was hospitalized in a coma, oil refineries and oil depots in Lushun and Yingkou, as well as more than a dozen combat readiness warehouses in Fengtian, Xinjing and other places were attacked by Chinese agents at the same time. Afterwards, the losses were counted, and others
It's not that big of a deal, but the amount of losses in finished gasoline, diesel and aviation kerosene is quite shocking.
Obviously, the attack by Chinese agents was deliberate! Its purpose was to aggravate the Kwantung Army's oil shortage!
After listening to Tamura Yoshitomi's report, Okamura Neiji was silent for a long time. After a long while, he said quietly: "It seems that our Kwantung Army can only seek a quick battle with the China Army."