Ban Chengyi had a supper. When I returned to the tactical command center, the large-scale battle was over.

It was not Army Group Bhopal that collapsed first, but Army Group Fatahpur. This result made the officers and men of the armored assault brigade of the first knife fighter who swore to "revenge" vomit the evil anger in their chests. Although the original retreat order was given by Pei Chengyi, and it was for the sake of the overall situation, in the eyes of the officers and men of the First Armored Assault Brigade, it was an absolute shame for the "First Brigade" of the Knife Army to retreat repeatedly in front of a group of rabble. In fact, the officers and men of the 1st Knife armored assault brigade should not rejoice, because it was not they who defeated the Fatehpur army, but long-range artillery.

According to Pei Chengyi's deployment, after the A Assault Brigade arrived at Banda, it did not immediately launch an assault, but left the highway line and cut off all roads leading to the outside world in Banda's off-road maneuver. Because it was indeed too reluctant to use the thug brigade to deal with the Fatehpur Group Army, which still had more than 10,000 troops, and the Air Assault Brigade was not threatened, and the A Assault Brigade did not call for support, Yuan Chenhao temporarily adjusted the tactical arrangements, so that the original Jige Armored Assault Brigade could be defeated before dawn.

It has to be admitted that there is also competition between artillery brigades that do not need to go to the front-line battlefield.

Seeing that the 1st Gong Artillery Brigade was fighting happily, the other artillery brigades were not happy. After receiving the combat order from the deputy commander-in-chief, the three artillery brigades not only used all the electromagnetic guns, but also threw 30,000 tons of shells at Banda within hours. If it weren't for Yuan Chenhao's timely appearance, I am afraid that before he gave the order to stop the shelling, the three artillery brigades would have exhausted the shells in Manigpur.

The shelling blew Banda into rubble and shattered the morale of Army Group Fatahpur.

While the First Knife Fighter Armored Assault Brigade was preparing to attack, two Indian colonels holding white flags walked out of Banda and surrendered to the First Cut Armored Assault Brigade in place of the commander of the group army who was killed.

This result was both expected and unexpected by Pei Chengyi.

According to Pei Chengyi's estimate, after concentrating on annihilating the Bhopal Army, unless the troops are allowed to participate in the battle, the combat units on the battlefield will not be able to fight another battle in Banda. In response to this situation, Pei Chengyi had long decided to replace the attacking troops with artillery fire, and through heavy artillery fire, he forced the Fatehpur Army group trapped in Banda to surrender. Because the Fatahpur Group Army is all second-line troops and reserve troops, not only is its combat effectiveness not very good, but the fighting spirit and morale of its officers and men are also not very good. As long as the shelling reaches a certain level and blows up the fighting spirit of the Indian army, the Indian army will naturally choose to surrender. It is precisely because of this that Pei Chengyi asked the First Armored Assault Brigade to cut off Banda's road to the outside world first, so as to prevent the old Indian army from scattering and breaking through and repeating the scene of the Third Army in Jamshedpur.

What Pei Chengyi didn't expect was that the Fatehpur Army was so incompetent.

The shelling of the thugs made the old tens of thousands of Indian troops prisoners of war. If the war is so easy to fight, it only needs to prepare a few million tons of artillery shells to make India surrender.

The surrender of Army Group Fatehpur at Banda also illustrates India's problems.

Although the Indian government has been preaching in the international community that India has the largest population in the world, and the demographic structure is very reasonable, it has the world's largest military human resources, and can mobilize the world's largest army in war, but when morale and fighting spirit cannot be guaranteed, and soldiers dare not engage their opponents, no matter how many soldiers are mobilized. Even if all the 700 million Indians are armed, it will be a plate of scattered sand, not an army of steel!

Compared to Army Group Fatahpur, Army Group Bopaja, consisting of the main forces and the second-line forces, was much more tenacious.

Now that Damo was occupied, a second-line infantry division accelerated its march. For this division, it was undoubtedly lucky during the day, because the artillery fire of the Republican ** team was concentrated in other directions, and Yuan Chenhao did not pay much attention to this second-line infantry division, and the armored assault brigade did not take the opponent seriously, so it did not focus on attacking it. By night, the good fortune of this second-line infantry division ran out.

Evening. The vanguard of a second-line infantry division reached the eastern outskirts of Damo.

Constrained by its own offensive strength and its ability to fight at night, the Indian army did not immediately counterattack, but built a defensive position on the eastern outskirts of Damo. Although this move makes people feel that the Indian army is waiting for the arrival of the main force, according to Yuan Chenhao's analysis, the Indian army will attack after dawn.

A second-line infantry division, with a total strength of more than 60,000, is not a small force no matter how you look at it.

Rather than allowing the Indian army to seize the opportunity, it is better to attack first, in any case, there are two lines of defense behind the A assault brigade. Besides, if something happens, for example, a second-line infantry division will give up the attack and adopt the tactics of holding on and waiting for reinforcements. When the Indian army has built a complete defensive position and made defensive preparations, the 1st Armored Assault Brigade will have to pay a greater price.

After making this judgment, Yuan Chenhao immediately ordered the 7th Knife Armored Assault Brigade to attack after dark.

Although there were many troubles in attacking at night, the 7th Knife Armored Assault Brigade was better at fighting at night.

In order to prevent the Indian army from taking advantage of the chaos to break through, Yuan Chenhao not only let the old air assault brigade hold Shahpur and Sagar, but also let the vertical take-off and landing transport plane send an air assault battalion of the air assault brigade to Damo after the A assault brigade came out, helping the logistics unit of the 7th Knife Armored Assault Brigade to strengthen Damo's defense.

This deployment played a very critical role.

After the battle began, the A Assault Brigade took advantage of the fact that the Indian army did not have time to establish a position. Lift you to break through the Indian army's defense line. "The pulse alone" knocked out the command center of the Indian army, and then eliminated the division headquarters of the Indian army by means of scattered assaults. The Indian army, which had lost its unified command, became a headless snake, and as the saying goes, the trees fell and the sun was scattered, and when there was no hope of a collective breakthrough, the second-line infantry division was scattered into several small units to break through to the west.

The battle quickly turned into a sweeping battle.

In the end, the A Assault Brigade only captured less than 10,000 prisoners of war, and about the Indian army was captured by the air assault battalion of the old air assault brigade and the logistics unit of the A assault brigade near Damo, and the Indian army was arrested in Shahpur and Sagar respectively, and the last Indian army that surrendered did not leave the mountains east of Sagar until the morning of the day to surrender to the republican ** team patrolling the main road. The Indian army was not without weapons and ammunition, nor was it that people were wounded, and hunger forced them to lay down their weapons.

There is nothing to praise about this battle.

Of the 60,000 men of the second-line infantry division of the Indian army, only Honggong was arrested, and nearly half of the Indian army escaped from the encirclement from the Rangthug Road and the dirt road. In Pei Chengyi's comment on this battle, if Yuan Chenhao had been a little patient and let the A Assault Brigade attack after dawn, he would not have let nearly half of the Indian army escape. Of course, Pei Chengyi did not mean to accuse Yuan Chenhao, but only to teach Yuan Chenhao that timely and accurate command can achieve the greatest victory. In fact, Pei Chengyi also made the same mistake when he was at Yuan Chenhao's stage, such as the battle in the Peninsula War, which annihilated the 2 marine divisions of the US army. In the second battle, he made the same mistake and let go of the 7th Infantry Division. No one is born to be a general, and no general is born to fight, no matter how good a general is, he has been tempered in the flames of war, and only by constantly absorbing the lessons of defeat and constantly summing up the experience of winning can he continue to make progress and become an invincible and victorious general.

Of the three battles, the hardest fought was the Digong Armored Assault Brigade.

Although in the campaign deployment stage, Pei Chengyi was mentally prepared to let the Digong Armored Assault Brigade fight the Indian army, and when he handed over the tactical command to Yuan Chenhao, the battle situation was much better than he expected, but the final result still made Pei Chengyi a little unacceptable.

It's not that the 7th Armored Assault Brigade didn't fight well enough, but that it fought too hard.

To be too brave is to be brave and unstrategic.

Modern warfare is not about muscles, but about intelligence.

If everything goes according to Pei Chengyi's arrangement, the battle against the three main divisions should be easy. The 3rd Armored Assault Brigade does not need to fight the Indian army, but only needs to make full use of the defensive positions in Mehr to defeat the Bhopal Army Group with the assistance of air support and artillery support. After the Bhopal Army Group was defeated by air attack and artillery fire, the 1st Armoured Assault Brigade could easily achieve the final victory by counterattacking again.

Yuan Chenhao was clear about Pei Chengyi's tactical intentions, and when he was in command, he intervened in the actions of the 3rd Armored Assault Brigade many times, and asked the 7th Armored Assault Brigade to adopt the tactic of "the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy retreats and I advance", using infantry to defend the Mehr position, and concentrating the armored forces for use. This is repeated until the offensive strength of the Indian army is exhausted, and then all the troops are dispatched to defeat the Indian army.

This set of tactics is not difficult to operate, the infantry who are good at defense stay in the position, and the tank units that are good at assault are maneuvering. With the tactical mobility of the Digong Armored Assault Brigade, it will definitely be able to lead the Indian army by the nose and let the Bhopal Army Group shed its last drop of blood in Mehr.

When it really started, everything was messed up.

In the first tactical counterattack, the tank units of the 1st Porridge Armored Assault Brigade were not able to withdraw to their defensive positions after repelling the attacking forces of the Indian army, as required, but rushed around the battlefield. If it weren't for the timely arrival of the army aviation fleet and the use of bombs to drive back the Indian armored troops, I am afraid that this completely chaotic tactical counterattack would have killed the first armored assault brigade.

During the second tactical counterattack, the tank units of the 1st Armored Assault Brigade made the same mistake again. This time it was not so lucky, although the long-range artillery provided timely support, but in the absence of direct guidance, the artillery did not dare to provide close artillery support, and could not deal with the Indian armored units that were entangled with the 1st Armored Assault Brigade. When the small group of tactical aviation forces blew up the Indian armored units, the Digong armored assault brigade lost at least ugly main battle tanks.

When it came to the third tactical counterattack, the 1st Gong Armored Assault Brigade still made the mistake of advancing.

It is not a matter of command to make mistakes three times in a row, and no matter how arrogant and arrogant the officers and men of the 1st Gong Armored Assault Brigade are and suffer two losses, they should be vigilant.

After the war, Makushiki had to admit that he had not considered his tactics well.

The biggest problem with the concentration of tank units of the 1st Armored Assault Brigade is not that there are not enough tanks, but that there is confusion in command. The whole brigade has a combat battalion, including 6 tank battalions and 3 machine infantry battalions, the tank battalion has a tank company, and the machine infantry battalion has 2 tank companies. Under normal circumstances, the tank company obeys the command of the battalion headquarters. After the disrupted formation, the tank company directly obeyed the command of the brigade headquarters. There are less than a staff officer at the brigade headquarters, and there are only six operational staff officers responsible for assisting the brigade commander in directing the battle, and it is impossible to command a tank company at the same time

Many people believe that 3o tank companies together are a powerful force.

But many people ignore one point, that is, the blade tank company fights on its own, that is, a plate of scattered sand.

If it weren't for the high quality of the officers and men of the 1st Gong Armored Assault Brigade and their good equipment, I am afraid that there would not be a few tanks left after the three tactical counterattacks.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the air support and fire support are both timely and violent.

After three tactical counterattacks by the 1st Armoured Assault Brigade, the main divisions of the Bhopal Army Group had lost their fighting spirit.

After the end of the third tactical counterattack, the Indian army did not organize an effective offensive again. In order to avoid losing more tanks, Yuan Chenhao ordered the 7th Armored Assault Brigade to counterattack the Indian army with small-scale tactics without a large-scale offensive by the Indian army, and not give the Indian army a chance to breathe.

Inadvertently, Yuan Chenhao found a solution to the problem.

When it came to small-scale tactical counterattacks, the 1st Armored Assault Brigade did not make any mistakes.

This also confirms Pei Chengyi's judgment after the war, that is, there are too many combat units that need to be commanded, which makes the command system disordered, causing each unit to fight separately. The thugs counterattacked on a large scale, generally investing 3 to catties, tank companies, and adopting the tactics of hitting and running. With the command capabilities of the brigade headquarters, there are no problems in controlling 3 to combat units at the same time.

When Pei Chengyi returned to the tactical command center, Yuan Chenhao had already given an order to the Digong Armored Assault Brigade.

It seemed to be concluded that the battle would end soon, Pei Chengyi did not make much adjustments to Yuan Chenhao's arrangement, but let Yuan Chenhao continue to command the battle.

At night, Pei Chengyi did a very important thing, that is, to assess the combat effectiveness of each army.

From this, it can be seen that Bae Chengyi is already thinking about the battle after the annihilation of the Bhopal Army Group and the Fatehpur Army Group.

The occupation of Fatehpur was a foregone conclusion, and even if the airborne thug brigade was withdrawn at this time, the Indian army would not be able to regain Fatehpur. It was only a matter of time before Allahabad was captured, with the annihilation of the 2 Indian armies. Even if the concave army did nothing, Allahabad's defenders would have disarmed and surrendered when they ran out of ammunition and food.

The question now is which direction to go next.

Before thinking about this problem, Pei Chengyi had to figure out how many troops he still had at his disposal.

The fallen army will definitely not be able to continue fighting, and if it can successfully occupy Allahabad, it will be considered a complete merit. There is not much hope for the army, and it will probably not be until the beginning of the month to regain combat effectiveness. Diao's army is still operating in the vicinity of Jamshedpur, and even if it is transferred immediately, it must be rested as soon as possible. The Wan Army and the Hurried Army have to stay in the Northeast to clean up the mess, and they will not be able to get out for a while. The situation of the three airborne corps is also not ideal, and at most one of the airborne assault brigades of fighters will be able to participate in the next round of fighting. The Mi army and the sword army must remain in the coastal area of the Bay of Bengal, and there is no other army to replace them. After this battle is fought, even if the sword army can continue to fight, it cannot go deep behind enemy lines alone.

This result made Pei Chengyi a little disappointed.

Without reserves, it is indeed a headache.

You must know that Pei Chengyi has an excellent opportunity in front of him, a chance to make India bleed.

In the case of limited troops, Pei Chengyi still insisted on starting the "Junction Campaign." It's not that he wants to kill a few more 10,000 Indian troops, the key is in the three words "Junction".

The Indian army's southern and northern lines are horizontal and vertical, and Bhopal is the intersection of the two lines.

After killing the Bhopal Army, even if India can increase the number of troops for Bhopal in time, it will not be possible to come up with a main division out of thin air. In other words, Bhopal is very empty at this time, and if Bhopal can be taken in one fell swoop, it will not only be able to occupy the central city of India's hinterland, but also tear through the two strategic defense lines of the Indian army in one fell swoop. More importantly, after occupying Bhopal, Pei Chengyi will be able to bypass New Delhi, and even not worry about Pakistan, let the Pakistani army occupy New Delhi, and the Republican ** team will advance westward from Bhopal with all its might, and hit Mumbai facing the Arabian Sea in one go, complete the strategic cutting of the Indian mainland, and realize the strategic encirclement and suppression of southern India. As long as he succeeds in taking this step, not to mention ending the large-scale military operation at the end of the year, Pei Chengyi is even sure that he will complete the large-scale strategic offensive before the end of the year, and hand over the task of destroying the remnants of the Indian army to the Allied forces. This is undoubtedly a great good thing for the Republicans, because it means that the Republicans can go home to celebrate the Spring Festival with their loved ones.

What a seductive Bhopal!

Although the name often conjures up images of the catastrophe of the Blade Age, which was caused by Western monopolies, no one can deny Bhopal's strategic position at this time.

Whoever controls Bhopal controls the lifeblood of India.

Mobilizing almost all of his forces to win the battle, Pei Chengyi's goal was to capture Bhopal.

It is a pity that Pei Chengyi does not have enough troops in his hands.

Even if there is another army with complete combat effectiveness, it can take down Bhopal and make India lose the opportunity to fight desperately.

If it were someone else, he might give up the idea of going home for the Spring Festival, but Pei Chengyi is not someone else, nor is he the kind of person who retreats in distress.

Although it is also Pei Chengyi's idea to go home to accompany his wife and daughter for the Spring Festival, as the commander-in-chief of the front line, he has to be more responsible for those soldiers who have been on the battlefield, and he hopes that every republican ** person who is still active on the battlefield can return to his relatives and return to his warm home.

Pei Chengyi did not give up, but turned his attention to a main field army that was watching the excitement.