When Dongshi found Zhang Zhilie, the battalion commander of the major was giving the army of the 3rd Company an attack

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"Go and prepare at once, and when the chains are taken down, you will go up

Several company platoon commanders immediately took up arms. He nodded to Li Dongshi, who came over, and returned to the company's station. According to unwritten rules. No one is allowed to salute a superior officer as long as they are on the battlefield, because no one can guarantee that there will be no enemy snipers nearby.

"How's it going?. Li Dongshi said. He took out a pack of cigarettes and threw it to Zhang

Chess.

"It's very bad, it's only been less than 500 meters so far." Zhang Zhiqi opened the cigarette neatly. Lit one and said, "The Indian army is very tenacious. Especially half an hour ago, as if I had taken drugs, I became not afraid of death. Before you came, I had sent away more than a dozen wounded. OK. Only seven soldiers and one officer were killed, and most of the wounded were not in serious condition and were not life-threatening. ”

Li Dongshi frowned slightly and looked towards the city.

What is even worse is that we have to wait until the civilians have withdrawn before we can attack. ”

"Why wait for civilians to withdraw?"

"The order given above

"Who gave the order?" Li Dongshi glanced at Zhang Zhiqi.

"Who else could it be? Zhang Zhiqi smiled bitterly and said, "The order given by the front finger." It was said that there was some war correspondent corps covering the front. Live to the world. ”

"We have a press corps here?"

The thugs didn't, at least I didn't meet the journalists

"Then what are you afraid of?" Li Dongshi let out a sigh, "Pass my order and resume the offensive immediately." Damn, is Ah San's life important, or is the soldier's life important? .

"It was I who gave the order, and the responsibility is on me." Li Dongshi glanced at his watch and said. "We have just received information that all Indian troops in the vicinity are rushing to our side, although the former commander has promised to provide full support. But time is running out for us, and if we don't defeat Ranchi before dark, we'll be defeated on our backs, and all over 4,000 soldiers will be finished

Zhang Zhixiao's eyes widened and he almost jumped. "All the Indian troops are coming against us?"

Li Dongshi nodded and said, "Optimistic estimate." At least 100,000. ”

"Damn, 4,000 to 100,000, this is too much to elevate us, the front finger won't send reinforcements, right?"

"Reinforcements?. Li Dongshi paused slightly. said, "Don't think about it for the time being, the battle line is very tight, I heard that the battle on the side of the 3rd Brigade is even more fierce, even if reinforcements are sent." Nor will it be sent to us. ”

"Aren't we human?"

"Stop complaining. Immediately go and arrange offensive operations. Li Dongshi patted Zhang Zhiqi on the shoulder. I'll stay here and wait for you to hit the city center, and then I'll send the 4 Hi up.

"Lao Li. You take care of me too much. ”

Li Dongshi smiled, knowing that Zhang Zhiqi was talking the opposite, and he didn't bother with his old subordinates.

After the bell. Zhang Zhiqi personally commanded 3 consecutive attacks.

With Li Dongshi's order, Zhang Zhiqi made the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Company change their tactics. Although the Indian troops hiding in the buildings can cause great trouble to the attacking troops, there is a prerequisite, that is, the attacking troops will fight with the Indian army house by house. As long as there is no fight with the Indian army for buildings, the defensive tactics of the Indian army will not be very effective.

Thankfully, Ranchi is not a metropolis. Underground pipelines and underground transportation systems are not reached.

When the 3rd Company attacked, Zhang Zhiqi transferred the engineer platoon. And from the other 2 companies, several fighters who knew how to blast were transferred.

The offensive tactics were simple: first scan the building with individual radar, and as long as there were active people in the building, the airborne combat vehicle was used to suppress the windows of the building. Alternatively, destroy rooms in the street-facing direction of buildings with individual weapons, and finally destroy buildings with explosive equipment or explosive munitions.

Lee Dong-seok's goal was to wipe out the Ranchi defenders, not to preserve an intact city.

As long as the defenders can be eliminated, even if Ranchi is reduced to a pile of rubble, it is not much of a laugh.

I saw the dust rising from the city and heard the sound of explosions. Li Dongshi knew that Zhang Zhiqi had chosen the right tactic.

After the 2nd and 4th companies are ready to replace the 3rd company. Li Dongshi asked the guards to contact the brigade headquarters, and then contacted the front-line command through the brigade headquarters, asking for an airdrop operation to be arranged for the airborne defense brigade immediately. Provide the airborne drowning brigade with combat materiel, including explosive devices and explosive munitions. Li Dongshi did not forget the more important thing, that is, to provide the airborne thug Tenuma Brigade with engineering equipment for building defensive positions as soon as possible.

I have to admit that because the time was too hasty, when fighting the battle plan of Chiang's thug brigade. The staff officers of the front command thought that after the airborne nephew brigade occupied Ranchi, it would be able to use the city of Ranchi to resist the counterattacking Indian army, but they did not consider the difficulty of attacking Ranchi, let alone that the airborne brigade would occupy Ranchi by destroying Mauchi.

Although it is possible to defend itself on the ruins of a city, Ranchi does not have a complex underground network. It will not be able to provide effective support to the defense forces. In the face of the old 10,000 army, the airborne thug Shao Brigade must build as soon as possible enough underground fortifications for 4 or 4 officers and men to hide, and it must obtain sufficient engineering equipment.

Fortunately, the Airborne Forces never lacked engineering equipment for the construction of underground fortifications.

As early as in the Peninsula War, in the Five Old Resistance Battle. The Airborne Brigade used portable engineering equipment to repair defensive positions in one night, creating a miracle that stunned the US military. If the defensive positions had not been built in time, the Airborne Defense Brigade would not have been able to hold out in front of two US Marine Divisions

Now that Pei Chengyi has made a commitment, the front-line command will naturally respond to the requirements of the airborne prisoner brigade.

A group of transport planes formed by thugs dropped 3 tons of war materials over Ranchi, including at least stewed high-energy explosives and tons of explosive munitions.

At this time, Li Dongshi had already replaced the first thug nephew battalion with the first Zhanbi battalion and sent it up, dividing the Ranchi city into 3 parts. In addition to the northern city districts that have already been captured. The Rank Combat Battalion split into sections to sweep through the southeast and southwest districts.

Li Dongshi did not interfere too much in the front-line battles, but only asked the troops not to worry too much.

The second round of airdrops begins.

The brigade's positions were dropped with several sets of portable engineering equipment, as well as sets of power supply modules that provided electrical energy for portable engineering equipment.

The so-called "power supply module." "It's not about the electrical equipment of fusion reactors. It is a high-energy battery cobbled together with composite batteries, which is suitable for use on front-line positions with simple conditions and no safety guarantees. Of course. If necessary, the power supply module also provides electricity for airborne combat vehicles.

Although the battle in the city is not over yet, Li Dongshi can't wait anymore.

Airborne thugs are a separate platoon of sappers. Moreover, it is assisting combat units in the elimination of the Indian army on the front line. Li Dongshi could only mobilize the troops who had been withdrawn to rest and let the combat units participate in the work of building positions.

This is not a difficult task, and all the Airborne Forces know how to build positions.

When the Airborne Forces were busy building defensive positions. The blocking battle on the periphery reached **.

After Gujarad adjusted its operational deployment, only one of the six Indian infantry divisions around Ranchi was a second-line division. The other one, all of whom were formed by Gangwang, immediately set off to kill Ranchi. Pei Chengyi adjusted the air force in a very timely manner, and when Li Dongshi sent out scouts, there were already two brigades saying that the small trade brigade would provide air support.

Throughout the afternoon, the Air Force flew sorties of tactical fighters. More than four tons of bombs were dropped on the Indian army

The Air Force has done its best to do its best, and the Army Air Force, which has a close relationship with the Airborne Forces, is naturally not far behind. Within 3 hours from the old point to the point of mouth. The Army's sorties aimed at the remaining sorties and threw ammunition close to Choukoutun. Although the ammunition dropped by the army attack aircraft group was not as large as that of the tactical aviation units, they were all operating at low altitudes and attacking by visual means, and their strike efficiency was much higher than that of those tactical fighters that dropped bombs at an altitude of several thousand meters. Some of the time. It was even possible to eliminate small groups of Indian troops infiltrated from mountain paths with the cooperation of scouts. More importantly, the fire support provided by Luan has a certain degree of continuity, which can permanently suppress the attacking Indian army. Instead of dropping a bomb and going back. It more effectively delayed the advance of the Indian army. Another advantage of the Army's "low-altitude attack aircraft" over tactical aviation is its excellent tactical deployment capability. Due to the geographical conditions of the air force and the limitation of ground support capabilities, the tactical aviation bases are concentrated in the Shannan area. There are only three front-line bases in Nepal and Bangladesh, with an average combat radius of about 1,000 kilometers. Because the west has vertical take-off and landing capabilities, the requirements for ground support are very low, and it can be deployed at field airfields. If the bomb load is appropriately reduced. It can also reduce the requirements even further. All you need is an open space to take off and land. Therefore, the army's low-altitude attack aircraft can be deployed in the front, and the average combat radius is about 1,000 kilometers. Grid short combat radius. Reduced ground maintenance levels. It is equivalent to increasing combat efficiency. The sortie capability of combat units has been enhanced.

In support of the combat operations of the airborne thug brigade. The Army Aviation has demonstrated extremely strong battlefield support capabilities.

Before evening, the Navy's carrier-based aviation also joined the ranks of air support and took on the combat mission of blocking the Indian army south of Ranchi.

Just compared to the last support forces that entered the war. Whether it is the tactical aviation of the Air Force, the low-altitude attack aircraft of the Army Aviation, or the carrier-based aviation of the Navy. All dwarfed.

At night, the fleet that reached the sea west of the mouth of the Ganges went into battle.

Within 10,000 minutes, the cruisers and destroyers that had been supplied with ammunition dropped shells at the Indian assembly site near Ranchi. The dense barrage covered three Indian army assembly sites back and forth three times. According to information obtained from the Indian army after the war. Of the nearly 60,000 Indian officers and men who had assembled at the Boli site to attack Ranchi, more than one was killed, some were wounded, and some were missing. Other words. The battleship Zhao wiped out two-thirds of the Indian army in a matter of minutes with 6o electric guns.

You must know that the air strikes that lasted for several hours before this could only destroy the Indian army.

What is even more intimidating is that after the continuous shelling, the fleet artillery fire continued intermittently for an unknown number of hours. It wasn't until the point of coincidence that it was terminated because of the depletion of ammunition.

Fighter time for airborne fighters. The unit responsible for the attack not only used the air support fleet provided by the Army Aviation to take on the task of interdiction. The army aviation switched to bombing Ranchi and eliminated the remnants of the Indian army in the city of Ranchi, and the three battalions under the personal command of Li Dongshi also built a ring defensive position in the north of Ranchi.

On top of that, the transport fleet delivered a large number of first-aid supplies and remote-controlled surgical equipment to the field hospitals of the Airborne Fighter Brigade at night.

Judging by the overall situation of the battle, in order to support the airborne occupied 3 brigade. Combat operations on other fronts have been affected.

The Air Force's tactical support capability was already very tight, and before the start of the war, three tactical aviation brigades were dispatched to carry out the combat mission of searching for and destroying the Indian army's missile vehicles. As a result, the number of support forces provided to the airborne return brigade increased by 2 times, which naturally had an impact on combat operations in other directions. Don't say anything else. The concave army had to slow down its advance in the afternoon and use its own artillery fire to solve the problem caused by the reduction in air support.

The impact of the adjustment of the ground aviation combat arrangements is even more serious. If it weren't for the fact that the vanguard of the Sword Army captured Alalya and relieved the threat of Zogburni, and the army crossed the Ganges tributary of the Arun River from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at Sehelsa four hours in advance, the vanguard of the reconnaissance battalion was rushing to Darjanga, otherwise the Air Assault Brigade, which had been drained of the army's air support force, would have had to ask for help from the front command at night. The Army Aviation Support Force, which served as the reserve of the Air Assault Fighter Knife Brigade, was also sent to the Ranchi direction, and the support that could be provided to the old Air Assault Brigade was very limited. What's more. In the absence of ground and aviation support, the 2nd Air Assault Brigade that captured Baharampur and the Air Assault Brigade and Air Force had to switch from attack to defense in the afternoon of the same day, waiting for reinforcements from the ground. If it were not for the retreat of the 3rd Army on all fronts towards Calcutta. It is very likely that Pei Chengyi will have the troops cross the border line that afternoon and go to support the air assault force holding the military fortress behind the enemy line.

The biggest impact of the fleet's adjustment operations was that it failed to prevent the Indian Third Army from retreating to Calcutta. According to Pei Chengyi's original plan, the carrier-based air force and fleet would strike at Calcutta and force the Indian army to abandon Calcutta. Then let the air assault force occupying Padbara attack Kolkata and eventually capture Canning Harbor. Get the most direct and convenient supply channel. With the strike capabilities of the fleet, it is not difficult to complete the task. As a result, it is necessary to support the airborne! In the case of the Shao brigade, the fleet could only watch as the combat units of the Indian Third Army arrived in Calcutta one after another, and then drove out of Calcutta one after another and embarked on the road to Ranchi.

Concentrating forces on supporting the airborne thug brigade became the first controversial tactical decision after the start of the general offensive on the Eastern Front.

On the first day of the total start, the tactical aviation of Rui, the army aviation of the account and the combat brigade of thugs were dispatched. It seems to many people to be incomprehensible. In the eyes of some Western military commentators, nearly a third of the long-range support forces should not be used, no matter how important the battle in Ranchi is.

Whether or not to use so many support forces is not decided by Pei Chengyi, but by the importance of Ranchi.

With the battle situation exhibition. The Indian Third Army began to break through, and those who accused Pei Chengyi gradually closed their mouths. Facts ultimately proved that Pei Chengyi's tactical decision was correct.

In Li Dongshi's eyes, the support force is not too much. And walked less.

In the early morning of the day, the support forces from all walks of life gradually decreased. Scouts on a reconnaissance mission on the periphery came with news that the Indian army, which had just been routed, began to assemble again.

There is no doubt that the Indian army is determined to take down Ranchi.

For this part, Li Dongshi is embarrassed to support anymore.

After putting the three battalions responsible for building defensive positions into combat mode, Li Dongshi put the three battalions responsible for sweeping the city of Ranchi behind the position. Act as a tactical reserve. In order to consolidate the rear, that is, the southern defensive line. Li Dongshi mobilized the guard company and the engineering platoon, and buried all the remaining explosives in the Ranchi urban area. The idea of the colonel brigade commander was simple, first withstand a strong enemy from the north. If the Indian army bypasses the defensive positions of the airborne thug Nu Brigade and attacks from the south, using the "mine array." Hold back the advance of the Indian army, try to kill and injure the living forces of the Indian army, and fight a blocking battle in the urban area. Only when forced to do so did they shrink the line of defense and wait for reinforcements.

How long it can hold is not determined by a head-on battle. It is up to the flanks and the rear lines.

Li Dongshi participated in two positional defense battles, and also served as a field officer in the Wulao Resistance Battle. Although he did not believe that the Airborne Forces were born to be masters of defensive warfare, his experience in defensive operations proved that the Airborne Forces were indeed experts in defensive warfare.

Once the line of defense has been deployed. Lee Dong Seok as usual. I took a walk around the positions of each combat unit.

The fighting spirit of the officers and men was very high, and their morale was also very high. Food and water were not a problem, and the lightly injured were given an extra nutritious dinner. The biggest problem was that almost all the officers and men were exhausted, cigarette butts could be seen everywhere on the positions, and the cooking squads of the battalions did not prepare the most for supper. It's black coffee with strong tea. Counting from the day and night when the thugs began to prepare for battle, the officers and men of the whole brigade have not closed their eyes for a day and a night. Experienced fierce battles during the day. No matter how strong a person is, he will get tired and climb down.

Li Dongshi couldn't do anything about this problem, all he could do was to acquiesce to the officers and soldiers fighting for a while.

In fact, Lee Dong-seok is also very tired. It's just that he didn't show it. In the minds of officers and soldiers. The brigade commander is the toughest soldier and will never cry out for tiredness.

Back at the headquarters, Li Dongshi smoked a cigarette outside the tunnel.

Laughter is heard coming from the tunnel. Li Dongshi's brows jumped a few times. Needless to say. It was the two female medics who were amusing the staff officer.

After taking a few breaths of the cold night wind, Li Dongshi got into the tunnel.