"Hole" day, for Pei Chengyi. [Reading.com] is a fruitful day. Early in the morning, because of the limited manpower, the staff officers of the front-line command worked in two shifts, changing shifts at 7 o'clock and the old one. Allahabad had good news, and after holding on to Rondo, the defenders finally surrendered to the fallen army outside the city.

Contacting Qu Maokang, Pei Chengyi ordered the first purchase of thugs to go to Edawa, the combat brigades to clean up the Patna that returned after clearing the battlefield and handing over the garrison mission to the Nepal Army, and the logistics troops went to Manigpur to carry out the task of transporting supplies. Although the fallen army needed to recuperate, the artillery and logistics units that did not go to the front line were in good condition, and they could also rest in Edawao and Manigpur.

This deployment directly reflects Pei Chengyi's judgment of the battle situation.

The surrender of Allahabad's defenders is undoubtedly great news, which means that the 4th Army can be left behind. That is, the acquisition of a heavily armored army in the hand day has a decisive impact on the entire battle situation. According to Pei Chengyi's plan, "to capture Bhopal on the 3rd of the Kouyue month, and start a new offensive on the 6th of the Kouyue, by the day of the month, the westward advancing troops are likely to be stubbornly blocked by the Indian army in Ujjain, Indore, or some other side." Although the time will allow the Hurried Army to shoulder the heavy responsibility, according to Pei Chengyi's plan, the Concave Army will go south to replace the medicine army and the gangster army. It undertook the combat mission of sweeping the coastal areas of the Bay of Bengal, and allowed the two strategic reaction forces that had been fighting for more than 10 days to rest and recuperate. Even if it is not necessary to commit three armies on the Bay of Bengal coastal battlefield, two strategic response armies are not only easier to mobilize, but also more useful in inland theaters than one heavily armored army. In this way, it is unlikely that the correction army will participate in the Western Movement. After the occupation of Bhopal, the He army will definitely need to rest and replenish its troops. The army needs to shoulder the heavy responsibility on the battlefield on the Western Front. In other words, if he cannot restore his combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Pei Chengyi can only use the strategic reaction army to launch a large-scale in-depth attack. Although actual combat has proved that the rapid assault capability of the Strategic Reaction Force is much better than that of the Heavy Armored Army, and its performance in large-depth offensive operations is more prominent, actual combat has also proved that the Heavy Armored Army can provide strong support for the Strategic Reaction Army and replace the Strategic Reaction Army in attacking the strong regimental position. In the decisive battle on the Eastern Front, the combat operations of the Bi army and the sword, the falling army and the outgoing army, and the Chi army and the sword army all proved that in the face of the enemy's defensive positions, especially the well-fortified cities, the superiority of the heavily armored army was very obvious. With or without the support of the heavily armored army, the battle situation is completely different.

From a tactical point of view, the dispatch of the two artillery brigades that fell to Edawa proves that Pei Chengyi still has concerns about the fighting in the Bhopal direction. It's not that I'm worried that I won't be able to beat Bhopal, but I'm worried that the Indian army will jump over the wall in a hurry.

Because the main force was placed in the battle of the city, only the thugs and mechanized infantry brigades remained on the periphery.

Before dawn, Pei Chengyi re-examined the deployment of the campaign.

The 1st Congee Mechanized Infantry Brigade needs to hold a defensive line about 1,000 kilometers long, although the problem in the south is not big, and the Indian army holding the ferry is trying to cross the Narmoda River, and the problem in the north is not big, the 1st Porridge Armored Brigade is in the northeast direction, and can hold the right flank with reserves, but the problem in the west is very big, and in the defense line of the ugly rice, there are only 4 catties of the 1st Congee Mechanized Infantry Brigade. In the combat battalion, the average defense line of each battalion is over a kilometer, and the density of troops is only a concave man per kilometer. There is no doubt that this is a line of defense without any guarantees.

It is impossible for Dudgway not to see such an obvious loophole.

Although the Indian army has little hope of holding Bhopal, if it can be delayed for one more day, it will give up a little more hope, and the Indian army will never give up easily. The defenders of Bhopal could not count on reinforcements. If the Indian army can break through the line of defense of the 1st Porridge Mechanized Infantry Brigade. It can force Pei Chengyi to use some of the troops used for the offensive to defend, weaken the forces attacking Bhopal, and delay the capture of Bhopal.

The Indian army will certainly do so, and will do so soon.

If there is another choice, Pei Chengyi is definitely willing to invest more troops, even if there is an air assault brigade of thugs, he can hold the entire defense line.

There is no way to increase the troops. You can only rely on firepower.

The strength of the two artillery brigades that fell should not be underestimated, and the addition of two artillery brigades is equivalent to doubling the artillery involved in the offensive and defensive battles in Bhopal.

Of course, it is not enough to throw in artillery.

After the order was issued, Pei Chengyi asked Yuan Chenhao to adjust the combat operations of the Army Aviation and dispatch the vertical take-off and landing transport planes of the Army Aviation to assist the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade to occupy the commanding heights on the defensive line. This is a very common tactic that works very well. As long as you control the commanding heights. The infantry will be able to direct the artillery into battle and deal with the enemy's attacking forces with direct strikes. Of course, this is also a tactic often used by air assault forces. Fortunately, there is no shortage of infantry in the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade. Moreover, the Zhaocunkou infantry fighting vehicle can be lifted by 10,000 transport aircraft after removing the additional armor. Guarding the hill with an infantry fighting vehicle at the entrance is simply overkill.

After the VTOL transport aircraft of the Army Airlines is out. Pei Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief.

The deployment has arrived, and the next thing is to see if the Indian army has the courage to come up and send them to death.

In fact, Pei Chengyi overestimated the fighting spirit of the Indian army.

Although, according to the information obtained after the war, Duchway contacted the Indian Army Command in the early hours of the day of the fight, asking the reinforcements west of Bhopal to speed up the march from more than a pound. In the direction of attacking the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade, to make a breakthrough as soon as possible, it was necessary to reach Sehr on the night of the 2nd of the month, and the army headquarters did not give such an order, but sent reinforcements to the army. Construct a defensive position to the west of Sehr. Judging from the situation at that time, with the first mechanized infantry brigade in place, even if the Indian army acted according to Duchway's orders, it would not be able to reach Sehr, but would instead exhaust its combat strength in the assault operation. Since reinforcements were transferred from neighboring areas, 2 divisions had already been lost in front, and the loss of 2 more divisions would lead to an emptiness in the defense in depth. So the Indian army can't take risks either. Look at it from another angle; Even if the Indian reinforcements arrived in Sehr on the night of the 2nd of the month, they would not be able to continue their advance, and it was very likely that they would be surrounded by the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade in Sehr, and they would be finished with the defenders of Bhopal.

The Indian army's abandonment of the proactive offensive is tantamount to giving up Bhopal to the Republican team.

Before lunch, Pei Chengyi received a second piece of good news.

The 1st Worm Armoured Brigade captured the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Division, which was responsible for the defense of the western city of Bhopal, and the division surrendered around the time of its officers and men.

Although it was only a temporary reserve division, the surrender of the entire division still benefited greatly from the 1st Drive-thug Armored Brigade.

In Pei's view, this is a very good sign. Upon receiving the news, he immediately asked the 1st Worm Armored Brigade to inspect the division's materiel situation. The result made Pei Chengyi secretly surprised, and when the basic supplies were relatively sufficient, the entire Jingtian Infantry Division surrendered, indicating that the Indian army's will to resist had collapsed.

What's more, the 3rd Milk Infantry Division has a map of the deployment of the Bhopal defenses.

Although the map is incomplete, for example, there is no structural map of the northeast defensive position, but it shows the defensive deployment of the adjacent urban area, as well as the details of the defending troops.

With this information, the 1st Worm Armored Brigade gathered to select the most suitable offensive route.

The most important information on the map is not the Indian army's defensive deployment, but the clearly marked Bhopal City Defense Command. As Pei Chengyi expected, the city defense headquarters was located underground. Moreover, it is buried in a depression of meters, and there are reinforced concrete with a thickness of more than old meters, which is connected to the underground tunnel system in the northeast direction by at least one or more underground passages, which is difficult to blow up with ordinary ground-penetrating bombs, and the effect of direct bombing will not be much better.

In the afternoon of the same day, Pei Chengyi handed over the map photo of the return of the 1st Worm Armored Brigade to Lu Chengwen.

How to deal with the Indian Army's Urban Defense Command, that is Lu Chengwen's matter, and it has nothing to do with Pei Chengyi. According to Pei Chengyi's request, in addition to special bombs, Lu Chengwen can mobilize all military forces under the command of the front-line command and must destroy the command center of the Indian army within hours.

After making this arrangement, Bae Chengyi advanced the time to capture Bhopal to the 3rd of the month.

As long as it can blow up the command center of the Indian army. can force the Indian army to surrender. It seemed that the confidence was very sufficient, and Pei Chengyi sent the logistics unit of the Nu army to the front line in the evening of the same day, ready to assist the combat troops in accommodating prisoners of war. In order to make Bhopal an offensive ground for the Republican team as soon as possible, Pei Chengyi also sent thugs to support a convoy of hundreds of heavy trucks, which was responsible for transporting prisoners of war to the rear in addition to transporting equipment and materials for building infrastructure.

That evening, Pei Chengyi received a third piece of good news. Not good news, to be exact.

Assault forces operating south of New Delhi captured Hatalus, east of Mathura, and then engaged the Indian army north of Hatreus, annihilating the Indian armoured division in a fierce battle. According to Ling Yunxiao's report, after the annihilation of the second Indian armored division. The assault forces will again pounce on Mathura.

After weighing the pros and cons, Pei Chengyi adjusted the combat operations of the assault force, and asked Ling Yunxiao to move south after the end of the night annihilation battle and prepare to return to Zhanxi.

That is, the task of the assault force has been completed, as long as it can return to Zhansi in time. to ensure that nothing goes wrong. Because he knew that Ling Yunxiao was a very impulsive person, Pei Chengyi particularly emphasized that the battle in Bhopal was about to end, and the main force would soon advance westward, and if the sword army could not recover its combat effectiveness as soon as possible, it would definitely miss the next good show. There is no doubt that Ling Yunxiao will not let the sword army stay behind to watch the excitement. Although in the state of the sword army, even if it returns to Zhanxi in time. It is also unlikely that the combat effectiveness will be restored before the Kouyue occupation day, especially since the first sword fighter armored assault brigade and the first armored assault brigade need to be replenished. It takes half a month for the recruits to adapt to the battlefield environment. But Pei Chengyi knows Ling Yunxiao's character very well, as long as the sword army can still fight, even if only one brigade can fight, he will not miss any opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

For Ling Yunxiao, he had no other choice.

After the establishment of the Sword Army, Ling Yunxiao served as the commander of the army for many years, and the major generals who became the army commander at the same time as him were all promoted in drought except for a few who retired, and only he was still a major general. According to the personnel system of the Republic, if Ling Yunxiao was not promoted before the Year of the Blade, he could only retire with honor. There was no doubt that Ling Yunxiao definitely didn't want to retire, let alone hand over the sword army he had built to others. In other words, Ling Yunxiao must seize all opportunities in this war. Strive for promotion to lieutenant general during the war. Even if he can still only stay in 7 waves as a military commander, it is 10,000 times better than retiring. With Ling Yunxiao's prestige in the sword army. In order to keep the commander behind, the officers and soldiers of the sword army will be desperate.

It can be said that these three things that were born on the day of the thug basically determined the overall situation of the war.

In the early morning of the 2nd of the month, Lu Chengwen began to act.

After the two detachments were deployed, Lu Chengwen sent Pei Chengyi, who was sent to carry out special tasks, to clearly request that special bombs not be used, so Lu Chengwen could only let the bombers use bombs weighing kilograms of warm power, and they were used three at a time. In the special said that the small concave fighter arrived. Four heavy ground-penetrating bombs of the kilogram level were dropped at the same location in turn. Because the crater is too deep. Buildings in the city area were affected by the bombing. Therefore, the special forces can only use laser irradiators to guide the target for guided bombs on the roofs of nearby buildings. The first two bombs blew through the reinforced concrete on the top of the command center of the Indian army, and the last two bombs penetrated into the command center and exploded. In order to confirm the results of the bombing, the special forces not only used advanced detection instruments to measure the appearance of various explosions, but also went down to the surface to conduct on-site investigations. In order to ensure the safety of the special forces, artillery provided interdiction artillery cover after the end of the key bombing.

In just half an hour, Lu Chengwen confessed to Pei Chengyi

In order to maximize the effect of destroying the command center of the Indian army, several bombers dropped millions of leaflets over Bhopal before dawn, issuing ultimatums to the Indian troops defending the city. That is, before the concave point of the flying point on the 2nd of the month, if the Indian army does not surrender, it will be devastating.

There was no need to wait that long, before dawn, a group of Indian troops disarmed and surrendered on the position.

The whole process was expected by Pei Chengyi. After the Indian army picks up the leaflets, they will definitely try to contact the command center to verify the contents of the leaflets. The Lu Indian Army is now unable to contact the command center. Morale will quickly fall to zero, and there will be no more intention to fight for an army that does not have the slightest fighting spirit. Surrender is the only option.

Of course. Pei Chengyi also got one thing.

After breakfast, Pei Chengyi began to arrange the next command work, and let Yuan Chenhao be fully responsible for tactical operations.

"What are you doing packing?"

"Home, of course." Pei Chengyi smiled and said. "I'm afraid I'll have to delay a few times when I go back this time, and I can only rush back before the next round of attacks at the earliest, and the matter of the front-line command will be handed over to you.

"How do you know I want you to go back?" Yuan Chenhao was a little puzzled, because he had not received the news that Pei Chengyi would return to China.

"What, you don't believe it?"

"You've been appointed?"

"Of course, no." Pei Chengyi stuffed the last two clothes into his travel bag. "I'm sure though, before we have lunch. to receive the message. ”

"Yes, can you guarantee that you didn't order it at noon?"

"Then let's make a bet, don't bet too much. A pack of cigarettes. ”

Yuan Chenhao immediately took out a pack of cigarettes, anyway, the cigarettes from the front-line command were provided for free. He doesn't have to pay for it.

Without waiting for Pei Chengyi to take the cigarette, Dongfang Wen rushed over.

"What, you're out of smoke?"

Yuan Chenhao shook his head with a smile and put the cigarette on the table.

"By the way, the net received a message from the General Staff and asked Mr. Pei to go back immediately, the plane is ready."

"How's it going, did you lose?" Pei Chengyi picked up the cigarette on the table, "The things that should be explained have been explained, and there will be no major changes in the next few days." There is only one thing to be aware of. That is to keep an eye on Ling Yunxiao, don't let him stay outside for too long, after the assault force returns to Zhanxi. All the things about the 7th Army to rest and recuperate were thrown to him. Let him have something to do, or he will definitely get us in trouble. Finally, there is the adjustment of the Indian army's defenses in the area on the north bank of the Narmoda River. Arrange the reconnaissance work as soon as possible, make a plan for the attack before I return, and decide on other things after I return. ”

"When will the work of the rush army be arranged for the transfer of the Mi army and the gangster army?"

"After the battle in Bhopal, it will be arranged, no matter what Fu Weimin says, if he wants to have an opinion, just say that it is my order." Pei Chengyi paused a little and said, "If there's any trouble, call me, I'll go and tell Fu Weimin." After the Wa army and the gangster army returned, they first replaced the leading army and rested in Jamshedpur. Whether you want to go to war or not, I'll wait until I get back to make a decision. ”

Yuan Chenhao smiled bitterly and said, "What should I do if Li Jixian and Dong Chengfang come to the door?" ”

"Shut the door and let them come to me."

"That's what you said."

"Of course, what else do they dare to do?" Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "Give priority to arranging the rest of the concave army, and I have already arranged the work of replenishing the soldiers, so you don't have to worry about it." One word. If you encounter trouble that cannot be solved. Just let those commanders come to me, and don't worry about them. ”

Yuan Chenhao nodded, indicating that he understood what Pei Chengyi meant.

As a colonel, he was indeed half a cut short in front of those major generals and lieutenant generals. Pei Chengyi is different, with his status. No commander had dared to say three in front of him.

"So be it." Pei Chengyi picked up the travel bag and finally said, "Is there anything I need to bring back?" ”

"No, I've already asked someone to bring it back."

Pei Chengyi nodded, called Shang Dongfang Wen and walked out.

Yuan Chenhao let out a long breath and waited for a while before leaving Pei Chengyi's bedroom.

When the General Staff asked Pei Chengyi to go back at this time, it was definitely to make arrangements for the next stage of offensive operations. According to Yuan Chenhao's understanding, maybe the entire war plan will change.