Lin Xia's excuse was indeed very useful. I just told Clapp those words... Clapp agreed without thinking...
After all, the current situation seems to be as I said. I can no longer help the navy and air force. The strategy of asymmetric warfare has been realized. What remains is how the navy and air force cooperate with the British soldiers to fight the war. And these are exactly my weaknesses.
It should be said that from the perspective of completing the task assigned to me by Commander Zhang, I should stay and continue to observe how the British soldiers fought.
But as mentioned before, sometimes it is not possible to understand the coordination and operation of sea and air combat with the naked eye. The main reason is that the scope and fields involved in sea and air combat are so large.
For example, in the few small-scale air battles that took place before, I didn’t even see the Argentine fighter planes... Although the combat radius of the British Harrier is small, it is still about a hundred kilometers. If the radar detects the target early, the air combat process will be casual. It's also more than ten kilometers away.
As a result, all I got was the battle damage ratio between the British and Afghan armies, and I could get this from the post-war report and even get some more detailed content.
Another example is the coordination and cooperation between warships and submarines. Submarines are underwater. Even if I am on a warship, the amount of information I can get will not be much more than the report.
In this respect, I really don't have to stay on the warship for missions.
The more important reason is of course that I don't want to put myself and Lin Xia in danger.
"Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Colonel!" Clapp held my hand as he sent me to the helicopter and said, "The reason why we have seized the initiative and gained an absolute advantage in this war is very difficult. Obviously it is inseparable from your suggestion. I believe this will not be the last time we meet. After this battle is over, if there is enough time, I will be happy to talk to you again!"
"Of course!" I said.
I am more certain about this than Clapp, because I know very well that when the Sheffield is sunk by Argentina, Clapp will most likely find me again.
Since the fleet was far away from South Georgia Island, it took the helicopter more than two hours to reach its destination this time.
This is actually the cleverness of the British army. According to their intention... they want to arrange the fleet in the waters far away from the Argentine mainland but not very far away.
The benefits of this arrangement are obvious, first of all, because the Argentine fleet has been afraid to dispatch due to the threat of British submarines. Warships dare not dispatch aircraft carriers and naturally cannot go to sea, so the Argentine Air Force's fighter planes can only take off from the Argentine mainland.
It is conceivable that if the fleet is too far away from the Argentine mainland, then Argentine fighter planes will not launch a sneak attack on the British army... The Skyhawk fighter planes have a limited combat radius, and they cannot attack the British fleet even if they discover it.
Secondly, if the fleet is too close to the Argentine mainland, it means that the Argentine Air Force has more combat time, which also means that the British fleet will be in more danger.
Although the British army at this time was not afraid of the old dive bombing tactics of the Afghan Air Force, it was always better to be careful on the battlefield, and no one wanted to take their own lives as a joke.
So Clapp wisely arranged the fleet in a sea area that is neither far nor near. This not only threatens the Falklands at any time, but also causes the Afghan Air Force to fall into a chicken-threatening choice:
If we don't attack, the British fleet is dangling in front of our eyes, which makes me feel uncomfortable.
If we attack, the fighter planes will only be able to stay for a few minutes after arriving over the British fleet.
What is even more exaggerated is that the British fleet can play a hide-and-seek game with Argentina... When the British fleet discovers that the Argentine Air Force fighter jets are taking off, sometimes they even have time to sail outside the combat radius of the Argentine Air Force. After all, there are Chilean
The radar provides intelligence to the British army in a timely manner, and the British army will obtain the details of the takeoff of the Afghan fighter jets as soon as possible.
This also puts us more than 700 kilometers away from South Georgia Island. It takes nearly three hours to fly at a helicopter speed of 250 kilometers per hour, and this is when the helicopter unloads most of the weapons and ammunition belts.
If the auxiliary fuel tank is full, only the two of us can be carried. Otherwise, the fuel may not be enough halfway.
On the road, the helicopter pilot even jokingly shouted at me: "We have nothing with us except machine guns. If we encounter Argentines on the road, we will raise our hands and surrender!"
"But it doesn't matter!" Then he added: "I heard that our submarines have trapped Argentina's aircraft carriers and warships in the port, so I think we will have a safe and pleasant trip!"
The pilot was right. Along the way we saw nothing except the occasional British merchant ship transporting supplies to South Georgia.
From this aspect, the inaction of the Argentine Navy is quite obvious, because even if there is a threat from British submarines, the Argentine Navy has no reason to stand still in the port. If this is the case, they will at least come out to cause some trouble and trouble for the British army.
Pressure, this will not make the British army and even the merchant ships feel like they are in uninhabited territory.
Otherwise, why would the Argentine government buy so many warships and even one aircraft carrier among them? Just withdraw them all and replace them with the air force!
Besides, if the Air Force is like the Navy, realizing that its equipment is inferior to the enemy and then not dispatching, then it might as well just surrender.
"battalion commander!"
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As soon as I stepped off the helicopter, I was quickly surrounded by soldiers who came to greet me.
"Battal Commander!" Scar took off the scarf covering his mouth and puffed out a mouthful of white air and said, "We thought you would come back as soon as you left, but why have you been gone for so many days!"
"That's right, Battalion Commander!" Liang Lian sniffed while blocking the snowflakes stirred up by the helicopter's propeller: "We all feel weird in our hearts when you haven't been here these days!"
"Go away..." I cursed angrily: "I think you are thinking about Comrade Lin Xia!"
With a cry of "Coax!", the soldiers all laughed.
Lin Xia didn't react at first, but when she understood what I meant, she couldn't help but give me a fierce look.
"Staff Zhao!" I asked when I saw Zhao Jingping: "How is the recent training going?"
"It has entered the stage of joint exercises!" Staff Officer Zhao replied: "No, Major Will will not have time to pick you up. He asked me to tell you!"
"Well, so soon?" I asked: "Have those British guys already learned guerrilla warfare?"
To be honest, this progress makes me a little surprised. First, the company we train must have some guerrilla warfare, and then we can simulate the Afghan army's guerrilla warfare and train other British troops, right?!
"No way!" Zhao Jingping pushed open the door of the command post and welcomed me in, and said helplessly: "How can a British guy learn to fight guerrilla warfare in such a short time with his little skills? But Major Will
What I mean is that the time may be shorter than imagined, which means that the plan is ahead of schedule. So if our joint training does not start, I am afraid that we will not have a chance to practice, and in the end we will have to catch up!"
"Oh!" I quickly understood after hearing this.
Obviously, the victory in the sea and air battle also affected the army... The British army has already achieved control of the sea and air. At least that is what the British army thinks. Then the next step will soon be to launch a land war on the Falklands.
As a result, the training time was much less than expected.
"Battal Commander!" Zhao Jingping casually brought me a cup of hot tea and said, "To be honest, the training time is too short. I don't think such training will have any effect!"
"Don't worry, Staff Zhao!" I comforted: "The British army is indeed lack of training and experience, but the problem is that their opponents may not be much better. Don't always think that our enemies are Yue Japanese."
"You're right!" Zhao Jingping smiled bitterly and replied, "But it's in my heart..."
"Feeling weak, right?"
"Yes, I just can't be practical no matter what I do!" Zhao Jingping nodded and said: "Looking at their level of training, if I just think about going to the battlefield like this, I will die. I am accustomed to treating the enemy as a Japanese or Japanese.
They are like Soviet devils.
But then again, we should prepare for the worst, right?"
After hearing this, I didn’t know how to persuade Zhao Jingping.
What he said is indeed reasonable. From a war perspective, we should prepare for the worst. What's more, we and even the British army know nothing about the combat effectiveness of the Argentine Army.
Of course, there must be someone other than me here.
What I know is... Argentina only suffered more than 600 deaths in the entire war, which means that the more than 300 people who died on the sunk Argentine warship two days ago accounted for almost all the deaths in the entire war.
half the number of people.
The other half, and even more, is the Air Force.
Of course, the number of fatalities in air force operations is very low... The Skyhawk fighter is a single-seat aircraft, so even if the Argentine Air Force suffered heavy losses, the number of fatalities was not high statistically.
The next death toll may only be about 200 to be considered Army's!
To put it simply, the number of deaths of the Argentine Army during the entire war was only about two hundred... and more than eleven thousand others surrendered!
This data is enough to illustrate the "morale" and "will to resist" of the Falklands Army.
It is precisely because of this that I have never worried about the resistance of the Afghan Army on the Falklands from the beginning to the end, and the training of the British Army was nothing more than a show.
But I also know that I can't convince Zhao Jingping. After all, he doesn't know the combat effectiveness of the Argentine Army like I do. He only thinks about the fact that the Argentine Army has more than 10,000 people on the Falklands, and he also needs to consider that Argentina has more than 10,000 people on the Falklands.
Reinforcements to the Falklands may come from the mainland, but the total number of British land forces is only 10,000.
Later, I simply stopped trying to persuade him. I sat down in front of the chair in front of the stove with my clothes and said with half-closed eyes: "I'll leave this matter to you. Maybe I'll go to the fleet again in a few days."