Chapter Ninety-Eight: Working Together
Yi Chengyi is not a politician. [No Pop-up Novel Network] is not a commentator either. Nepal and Bangladesh are the second plant, and when public opinion is boiling with national recommendations, he pays more attention to the practical benefits brought by this.
On the morning of the old day, the East heard good news from Kathmandu, and Nepal officially opened its borders to the republican team.
This news is enough to make Pei Chengyi make up his mind to fight.
After the establishment of the "China-South Asia Free Trade Area" was later upgraded to the "China-South Asia Economic Community", the Republic and Nepal jointly funded the construction of two international railway lines. One is the Latin American Railway, which is funded by the Republic and Nepal, from Lhasa to Kathmandu, and will be completed and opened to traffic in the next year; This is also the main ground transportation artery between the Republic and Nepal, with a designed annual transportation capacity of 10,000 tons, and an annual transportation capacity of more than 100 million tons after the opening of the double line in Tiannian. The other is the Paden Railway, which was completed and opened to traffic in the year of drowning, which was funded by the Republic of China and Nepal, from Payang in Tibet to Dendertura, the westernmost capital of Mahakali District, Nepal. The railway is nominally designed to promote economic development in remote areas of western Nepal, but in fact it is a veritable military-strategic railway trunk line; Because the territorial dispute between Nepal and India is mainly concentrated in the western region, and the republic must consolidate the western front in order to encircle and suppress India, the military strategic significance of the railway is very significant; Although its designed annual transportation capacity is only 10,000 tons, it can reach 10,000 tons in wartime, which is enough to support the long-term stationing of the old armies, or the continuous operation of three armies.
In addition to the two railway lines, there are four main road lines between the Republic and Nepal. Among them, the batters are high-grade highways that cross the Himalayas, 2 are regional roads, and 4 roads have an annual transportation capacity of more than 10,000 tons.
In Pei Chengyi's view, it is not only the Fengni railway trunk line and the highway trunk line that play a key role.
Before the conflict in southern Tibet, India was an observer country of the "China-South Asian Economic Community" and was once an associate member. In order to protect India's strategic interests, Rurajapani attaches great importance to economic control over neighboring countries, including Nepal. As Nepal moves closer to the Republic, Rurajapani has taken full advantage of India, which is that Nepal's population is mainly concentrated in the southern plains. There are no insurmountable natural barriers between India and Nepal. Before the outbreak of the conflict in southern Tibet, India and Nepal had a slight international railway, "licking high-grade and high-grade highways, as well as hundreds of ordinary highways." What's more, India and Nepal are both British countries with narrow-gauge railways, and there are no barriers to transportation between the two countries.
In other words, Nepalese trains can go directly into Indian territory without the need for reloading and unloading at the border.
In this way, as long as supplies are brought into Nepal and the transportation hubs in the Nepal-India border area are controlled, Nepal's railway network can be used to send supplies and combat troops into India.
After receiving the news, the first thing Pei Chengyi did was to finalize the relevant tactical plan by hand.
Because it was a combat operation on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, Pei Chengyi only needed to concentrate on seizing the railway junction near the battlefield.
There are two main objectives: one is the town of Giogburni, which is about a few meters away from Jessengen Jessengen, which is just south of the border line and north of Biratnagar, the largest city in Nepal's Goshi district, and the extension of the Latin American Railway leads directly to Biratnagar, which in turn leads to the town of Joghburni, and from the town of Joghburni, the railway line is connected to the Indian railway network in Brnia; The second is Darpenga, further west, although the city is not close to the border. However, it is the railway hub of the northern region of Bihar, with the north-easterly railway line passing through Metuburni and entering Nepal and connecting to the Nepal railway network, the north-westward railway line passing through Siddamory into Nepal and connecting to the Nepal railway network, and the southward railway line reaching Semastipur to all parts of India.
From a military point of view, once these two sites are captured, combat units operating in the northern region will not have to worry about logistics.
When he was personally in charge of the formulation of the tactical plan, Pei Chengyi made adjustments to Yuan Chenhao's initial plan.
According to Yuan Chenhao's plan, the strategic reaction force will attack the town of Djogburni from Gischengen and use only one airborne brigade to capture Dalpenga, so as to reduce the combat pressure of the airborne troops. This time, Yuan Chenhao's consideration was not so comprehensive. Although Gischenenj is only a short distance from the town of Djogburni, there is no road from Gischenenj to the town of Djogburni, and there are four rivers blocking it. In the previous battle in which the Knife Army annihilated the Western Army of the Indian Army, the impact of the river on combat operations was already apparent. Although it is possible to provide larger bridging equipment to front-line troops, in a quick assault, the negative effects of the natural environment must be taken into account. In other words, if the assault forces do not arrive on time to the town of Giogerboni, combat operations in the area will be affected. From the tactical level, the operational pressure in the direction of Gischengenj is already very high, and both the sword army and the concave army have undertaken too many combat missions and cannot send troops to attack the town of Giogerboni. If additional ground troops are to be sent to Gischengenje, in addition to the accommodating capacity of Jishengenje, it is also necessary to consider the command problems arising from the concentration of ground forces of several armies.
Pei Chengyi did not expand the investment of the Airborne Forces, but only replaced the Airborne Brigade with the Air Assault Brigade.
The towns of Djogburni and Dalpenga are not far from the front line and are within the reach of the Air Assault Brigade. Compared with airborne brigades, air assault brigades have weaker strategic mobility capabilities, while tactical and operational mobility capabilities are stronger. That is, the air assault brigade can maneuver quickly within the campaign range, unlike the airborne brigade, which loses the ability to maneuver after landing. In this way, as long as sufficient fire support is provided, "an air assault brigade can hold two pounds, the position." With the opening of ground lines of communication, especially railway lines with strong transport capacity, the provision of fire support is not a problem. It is a big deal to provide independent artillery for the air assault brigade, or to deploy independent artillery on the territory of Nepal to the north.
More importantly, the significance of freeing up the thugs as an airborne brigade is very significant.
In the entire campaign regulations, only the airborne brigade can carry out the task of strategic outflanking. What made Pei Chengyi feel a little pressure was that the 3 airborne armies only had 3 airborne brigades in total. Although the airborne fighter brigade, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, has been transferred back from the battlefield on the Western Front, the three airborne brigades are still on the small side when it is necessary to encircle the Indian Army's Eastern Army Group. If according to Yuan Chenhao's deployment, two airborne brigades are used to carry out the strategic outflanking mission, it will be even more stretched.
Obtaining the first airborne brigade is equivalent to revitalizing the entire battle situation.
According to Yuan Chenhao's deployment: the airborne brigade attacked Varanasi, the transportation hub center in eastern Uttar Pradesh, to cut off the channel for the Indian army's eastern army group to retreat westward, and the airborne thug brigade attacked Ranchi, the state of Jharkhand, to cut off the channel for the Indian army's eastern army group to retreat south. Because the whole encirclement is not tight enough. Therefore, after the airborne brigade enters the war, it is necessary to deploy an air assault brigade to Varanasi and Ranchi as quickly as possible, and use the air assault brigade to capture the nearby transportation hub. To achieve the goal of all-out encirclement of the Indian Army's Eastern Army. Because the battle line was too long, and both the airborne brigade and the air assault brigade lacked heavy firepower, so after completing the encirclement operation, they had to immediately send an artillery brigade to Varanasi and Ranchi, and according to Yuan Chenhao's arrangement, the artillery brigade was drawn from the Wu army and the Wo army. Although Yuan Chenhao's deployment was very tight and did not leave much opportunity for the Indian army, this set of combat plans will certainly increase the pressure on airlift, especially in the early stage of the most critical campaign, where all airlift forces must be concentrated, so that combat operations in other directions will not be supported by airlift.
After withdrawing the airborne stuffy brigade, Pei Chengyi revised Yuan Chenhao's battle plan, and the combat mission of the Shao Brigade remained unchanged, and the campaign arrangements for the artillery brigade drawn from the Nu Army and the Concave Army also remained unchanged. It is just that the airborne brigade will act as a campaign reserve and replace the two air assault brigades to seize the nearby transportation hub, so as to liberate the air assault brigade and reduce the pressure on airlifting.
It can be seen from this that when adjusting the operational profits, Pei Chengyi said very much that small is not perfect, and there are many places worth discussing.
After Pei Chengyi's adjustment, not only the thugs were left to support the air assault brigade.
Of course, the task of the bomb airborne brigade and the fighter air assault brigade, which have already been assigned combat missions, has greatly increased the difficulty.
Among these combat brigades, the most important one in the south of the mission is definitely the airborne fighter brigade, which is the most powerful combat effectiveness among the three airborne brigades. As the province of Jharkhand, Ranchi is not only the most populous city on the Chordhanagpur plateau, but also the strategic defense center of eastern India, and the cornerstone of the entire eastern theater of operations. In the case that the Indian army sent all the main forces to the front line, it left 2 divisions in Ranchi, one of which was still the main infantry division. What's more, Ranchi was the point of concentration of Indian troops mobilized in the eastern part of the war, and there must have been tens of thousands of combatants who were not integrated into the combat units.
It's not an ace force, and it definitely can't beat Ranchi.
If it weren't for the fact that the troops were too tight and there was no way to dispatch ground troops, Pei Chengyi would have Anjiatuo to attack Ranchi with 3 brigades, instead of letting the strong brigade of airborne thugs gnaw hard bones.
After Pei Chengyi adjusted his tactical deployment, Yuan Chenhao returned to Wozerabad with good news.
Like Nepal, Bangladesh has officially opened its borders to the Republican team. According to the promise that Yuan Chenhao received from the chief of the general staff of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh army will control the domestic communication arteries before the arrival of the Republic of Marines in Chittagong, make preparations for the transfer of jurisdiction over transportation infrastructure to the marines, fully cooperate with the transportation of war materials, and provide all convenient conditions for the Republican ** team.
To Pei Chengyi's surprise, the chief of the general staff of the Bangladesh army also made it clear that as long as the basic national security of Bangladesh can be ensured, he will not only agree to let the troops deployed to fight in India, but also send ground troops to participate in combat operations in West Bengal, or provide guidance for the ground forces of the Republic.
You know, West Bengal is a large Bengali area, and Bangladeshi military guides are very important.
In Pei Chengyi's view, it doesn't matter whether he wants to join the war or not.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Concave Army is strong enough, the material consumption capacity of the Concave Army is even stronger. According to the situation of the Semi-Ukrainian War, the material requirements of the Concave Army are almost equal to those of the Correction and Strategic Reaction Army. Unless it encounters a particularly difficult enemy, the military value of the concave army is definitely better than that of the three strategic reaction armies. Even if the logistical support is guaranteed, when the combat materials hoarded on the front line are not sufficient and the logistical pressure is still relatively large, let the concave army stay in Bangladesh honestly and enjoy the different generations... It's not a bad thing.
Of course, after Bangladesh made its position clear, the tactical deployment in the east can also be determined.
Between Bangladesh and India, at least four strategic points need to be captured, from north to south, in order of Raiganj, English Bazar, Baharampur and Nabhadvip.
According to the tactical plan formulated by Yuan Chenhao, the combat operation of attacking Laigenj was undertaken by the ground troops deployed in Gishengenjie, and it was only necessary to draw a combat brigade of thugs from the Dao Army or the Bi Army and provide sufficient fire support during the assault to defeat Laigenjie. The operations against Baharampur and Nabhadvip were carried out by the Old Air Assault Brigade and the 1st Air Assault Brigade, and since both places were home to a considerable number of Indian troops, it was necessary to carry out focused bombardment at the beginning of the campaign to support the air assault brigades. Only a combat brigade attacking the English Bazar went to Raiganje; If the battle against Reigunj did not go well, or if the pressure in the direction of Gischenenj was too great, the 1st Air Assault Division, which acted as a reserve for the campaign, was dispatched to attack the English Bazar; If the overall progress of the campaign is not smooth and all directions are tight, it is not necessary to attack the Anglican Bazar at the beginning of the campaign, but let the Concave army hold the Bangladeshi border in the east, rely on the railway line from Bangladesh to Raiganj to provide war materials for the front-line troops, and wait until the war situation improves and the troops have eased somewhat, and then attack the Angli Bazar.
Because Yuan Chenhao had returned to the front-line headquarters, Pei Chengyi did not make his own decisions.
After discussing with Yuan Jinghao, Pei Chengyi basically came to accept this set of tactical strategies, "It's just that the first brigade has been increased, and the brigade has been increased to 2."
It can be seen that Pei Chengyi still hopes to defeat the English Bazar in the early stage of the campaign.
The main thing is that the railway line to Raiganj can only provide support for the combat troops in the direction of Gischenenj, but to provide support for the air assault brigades going south, and to attack south as soon as possible, it is necessary to LinkedIn to Gili Bazar and open the ground passage to Baharampur and Nabdvip, so that the ground troops can move south as soon as possible.
In other words, on the issue of attacking the English Bazar, Pei Chengyi had to consider not logistics support, but the entire campaign operation. Although the support of Bangladesh can alleviate the pressure on logistics to a large extent, from the perspective of the overall war situation, the attack on Kolkata and the occupation of West Bengal are the key to encircling and annihilating the Indian Army's Eastern Army Group, and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to let the troops gathered in Gischengenj move south as soon as possible. Even from a logistical point of view. Only by taking Calcutta can we capture the port of Canning, and by obtaining the port of Canning, the logistics support and transportation lines will be shortened by more than 1,000 kilometers, which will greatly improve the efficiency of logistics support and thus the combat efficiency of the troops.
After determining the tactical plan for the west and east, Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao discussed the tactical plan in the most important direction of the main attack.
Although Pei Chengyi lined up all the airborne brigades and air assault brigades, the Indian Army's Eastern Army Group had hundreds of thousands of troops, and the hundreds of thousands of troops that would be mobilized soon after the start of the campaign could not annihilate so many Indian troops by relying on air mobile units alone, and the main force was still ground troops.
According to Yuan Chenhao's tactical arrangement, when necessary, the armored assault brigade of the Strategic Reaction Force must be used in the same way as the air assault brigade. Because the main field army of the army has already achieved lightweight, the main battle equipment of the armored assault brigade is not much heavier than the main battle equipment of the airborne brigade and the air assault brigade. As long as the airlift force is released, it can ensure that 3 to 3 catties, the armored assault brigade will fight behind enemy lines.
Pei Chengyi did not object to this tactical arrangement, and if he was asked to formulate a tactical plan, he would do the same.
Of course, this will not solve the problem.
There is only one way to truly unleash the combat effectiveness of the troops, that is, to launch an all-out offensive in the direction of Gissengenj and to widen the frontal width of the offensive as quickly as possible, so that the ground forces gathered in Gischengenj and reach the battlefield via the railway line from Nepal to India can be deployed quickly.
In terms of basic tactics, Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao agreed on the same opinion, that is, to adopt a multi-way assault method to expand the offensive front.
It's just that the two disagreed on the specific task arrangement.
Pei Chengyi is inclined to let the sword army fight the main force, after all, the knife army is a standard strategic reaction army, and the fast assault ability is incomparable, and the assault action in the early stage of the campaign must be fast, and the knife army is the most suitable. What's more, Ling Yunxiao didn't have a temper in front of Pei Chengyi, and he was very easy to command.
Yuan Chenhao was inclined to dispatch the army, mainly because the Hong Army was a standard heavy armored army, and at the beginning of the campaign, it was necessary to break through the multiple lines of defense of the Indian Army's First Army and the Second Army.
Because the opinions of the two are deadlocked, they can only divide a question into a few pounds, questions.
Obviously, Pei Chengyi admires this deputy who has been working together for a long time, not only giving Yuan Chenhao enough opportunities to perform, but also attaching great importance to cultivating Yuan Chenhao's independent judgment and decision-making ability.