bullyxtreme Chapter 217 Pre-War Operations Meeting, Dawn Plan
Chapter 217 Pre-War Operations Meeting, Dawn Plan
March 3th, Guiyou year.
Shangjing, Taiye Lake, General Staff Operations Department meeting room.
Jiang Hua, Chief of General Staff Ling Liang, commanders of the navy, army, air force and firepower, and commanders of the Northern/Central Plains Military Region all gathered here.
Lieutenant General Zhang Bin, Chief of the Operations Department of the General Staff, is making his final pre-war report to these military leaders, clarifying the combat plan and the tasks of each unit.
Although the Operations Department is the first department of the General Staff, Zhang Bin, as the director, is still a little nervous with so many bigwigs around.
After taking a deep breath, Zhang Bin came to the sand table and began to explain.
"Chairman, leaders, according to the final intelligence compiled by the intelligence department.
The total strength of the Yugoslav Army was approximately 237 million, but there were many unfilled troops among them. It is estimated that the actual total strength was around 190 million.
Currently, more than half of the Southern Alliance Army's forces are deployed on the Changhe defense line, which they rely on most.
Last year, the Southern Alliance invested heavily in building five river defense fortresses in Changhe, namely the Chongxing Fortress in Shanghu, the Jiangyin Fortress in Huaijiang Province, the Zhenjiang Fortress, the Jiangning Fortress and the Madang Fortress in Jiangnan Province.
In order to prevent us from crossing the river to fight, they also laid a large number of mines on the river and blocked certain sections of the river, making it impossible for warships of slightly larger tonnage to pass.
Because Jiangcheng was occupied by us, a gap appeared in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. In order to prevent us from being blocked, the Southern Alliance also built three lines of defense.
The first is the Xunyang Defense Line located in Xunyang, Jiangnan Province.
On the right side of this defense line are Dabie Mountains, and on the right side are Mubu Mountains and Lushan Mountains.
The strategic support of this line of defense is Xunyang, which directly blocks our way south along the river.
The second line of defense is the Yunmeng Lake defense line in the northern part of Hunan Province.
The Southern Alliance used Yunmeng Lake as a natural fortification and deployed at least 200,000 troops here, aiming to block our attack on its provincial capital, Tanzhou, along the Beijing-Hankou Railway to the south.
The third line of defense is the northern gate of Jinling: Zhuolu.
Zhuolu is located in a plain area, so their Zhuolu defense line was built with Zhuolu City as the core, where they deployed about 30 troops.
About 20 troops were also deployed in cities along the Jinpu Line further behind to prevent our airborne operations and serve as strategic reserves.
The above is the deployment of the long river defense line of the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation.
About 150 million SAARC troops are deployed along this line of defense.
It is as strong as a rock, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
It became the basis for the Southern Alliance to resist our attack."
After listening to Zhang Bin's report on the Southern Alliance's troop deployment, Jiang Hua chuckled.
"This is also a good thing for us. Isn't it the effect we want to see?"
Army Commander Zhuang Hua also smiled and nodded, saying, "That's right. They've concentrated their forces in Changhe, which means their rear is empty, making it easier for us to gather and annihilate them."
"We can see this, so it seems that not all the people on the SAARC side are fools. What deployments have they made in the south?"
Air Force Commander Situ Fei narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhang Bin and asked.
Zhang Bin nodded and said, "Commander Situ is right. The Southern Alliance knows that we have airborne troops and they also know how powerful our navy is.
Therefore, they deployed a certain number of troops in major coastal cities, especially Yangcheng, the capital of Lingnan Province.
They deployed more than 100,000 troops in Yangcheng Bay in Yangcheng and built a solid anti-landing defense line.
Heavy troops have been deployed in Hangzhou and Shanghai to prevent us from launching landing operations.
As for airborne attacks, they are inherently difficult to defend against, and they have only deployed some troops in strategic locations to prevent them, but so far, they haven't seen any effective deployment."
"So the Southern Alliance's defense is basically empty in the middle, with all its forces scattered around?"
"You can say that!"
"......"
Facing inquiries from a group of military leaders, Zhang Bin responded in an orderly manner.
"Then tell me about the detailed deployment of your General Staff."
After these generals finished asking questions, Jiang Hua spoke.
If you keep asking questions like this, who knows how long this meeting will last.
“Our General Staff has formulated a master plan called the Dawn Plan.
This plan will involve close joint operations among the four major services of the military: navy, army, air force and strategic rocket force.
Faced with the SAARC's solid long river defense line, we planned to skip this line and directly attack its weakest point.
And this weak point is Hongcheng, the capital of Jiangnan Province.
You see, the Nanxun branch line of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway connects Hongcheng and Xunyang. As long as Hongcheng is captured, the northward movement can threaten their Xunyang defense line.
By cooperating with the troops in the direction of Jiangcheng, we can attack the Xunyang defense line of the Southern Alliance from the front and back, and this line of defense can be easily broken.
At the same time, the connection between the eastern and western forces of the Southern Alliance can be cut off, so that their troops located west of Jiangnan Province will be trapped and a strategic encirclement will be completed.
Moreover, Hongcheng can threaten Tanzhou to the west along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, exposing their Yunmeng Lake defense line to attacks from both sides.
To the east, it can directly threaten its Dongjiang Province.
However, the enemy has also deployed at least one army in Hongcheng. We will directly dispatch the airborne division and airborne troops to launch a surprise attack on Hongcheng.
Before raiding Hongcheng, the troops needed to launch a full-scale feint attack on the Changhe defense line to attract their attention.
Especially the troops on the Xunyang front, they must put the greatest pressure on the defenders of the Xunyang defense line to reduce the pressure on the air assault troops.
The navy will launch large-scale landing operations directly in Shanghu and Yangcheng Bay.
Although the SAARC side has deployments in coastal cities, their anti-landing operations are outdated and cannot defend against our Marines.
After the Marines completed their landing, the follow-up troops landed directly and launched an attack into the deep areas.
As long as these two major operations are successful, the enemy will be torn into pieces by us, and the long river defense line will be shattered.
Next, all you have to do is keep advancing, encircling, and then eating them up bit by bit.
According to our calculations, this war will end within three months."
According to the Southern Alliance's thinking, the Renaissance Army has four offensive routes.
The first is to go south along the Jinghan Line, the second is to go south along the Jinpu Line, the third is to launch an attack along the Changhe River, and the fourth is to launch a landing operation.
This can be clearly seen from their troop deployment.
Generally speaking, there is definitely no problem with the idea.
But what they faced was the unpredictable Renaissance Army.
They did not know the true strength of the Renaissance Army, nor did they know the existence of the air assault force.
Therefore, their deployment was actually exploited by the Renaissance Army.
What Zhang Bin said was the general combat deployment of the General Staff. The specific combat plans were very detailed and it was impossible to present them one by one at the meeting, so he only mentioned the important ones.
Jiang Hua saw the arrows on the sand table, and his mind was constantly simulating the changes in the situation between the enemy and us.
After a long while, he regained consciousness and nodded, "Then follow this battle plan."
Jiang Hua's words made the final decision, and the Dawn Plan was finalized, which also meant that the Fuxing Army had completed its final combat deployment.
Next we just have to wait for April 4st to arrive.
After the combat meeting, Jiang Hua came to the meeting room on the other side.
The top leaders of the Restoration government gathered together.
Dean Chu Anshi and the heads of core ministries and commissions are all here.
"We have decided to launch the attack on April 4st. How are your preparations going?
The military has already made strict arrangements, so you can't let them down."
Dean Chu Anshi stood up and stated, "Our government will fully support the military's operations. If they fail, I will chop off my own head."
Chu Anshi rarely issued a military order directly, and his tone was full of confidence.
This was the war to unify the ancient country and also the last battle of the ancient country.
Chu Anshi was also very excited, and this was also the focus of the government's work in the future.
He has arranged everything for this battle.
The most important issue is transportation. Their core job is to ensure smooth traffic and everything serves the military.
Roads, trains, airports, river transport, etc. are the arteries of the army. If there is a problem with any artery, it will cause major problems in the entire war.
Therefore, Chu Anshi was under a lot of pressure.
As for the combat expenses, there is no need to worry too much.
Wars are fought with money, and with the Red Alert base as support, there is no financial pressure.
Because the Red Alert base bore more than 95% of the battle's consumption.
This is an advantage, but it also has disadvantages.
The base has monopolized everything, which means that the national defense industrial system can basically not get any orders and cannot drive the development of the national defense industrial system.
Fortunately, the heavy industry on the Fuxing government's side is just starting out, and there is basically no defense industry.
Therefore, this disadvantage has not yet manifested itself.
If we continue to rely entirely on bases, it will be very difficult to build a complete national defense industrial system.
After all, without orders, the national defense industrial system cannot be established.
This is also one of the main reasons why we need to gradually reduce our dependence on the Red Alert base.
Before the war, good news came from the Northern Firearms Research Institute, a subsidiary of Daqin Heavy Industry Group, an important part of the national defense industry.
"Has the new generation of general-purpose machine guns been developed?"
The current machine gun system of the Renaissance Army is very complex.
The squad uses DPM light machine guns, the company uses RP-46 machine guns, and the battalion uses SGM heavy machine guns.
This machine gun system is really too complicated. In order to unify the machine gun system, the Northern Firearms Research Institute took on this task.
It's only been a few months, but I didn't expect to see results.
Jiang Hua also drove directly to the firearms testing site of the Northern Firearms Research Institute for on-site observation.
When Jiang Hua saw this new general-purpose machine gun for the first time, he was completely confused.
Is there any difference between it and the MG42 general-purpose machine gun?
The director of the Northern Firearms Institute also noticed Jiang Hua's confusion and began to explain to him.
“Due to the urgency of the mission, we mainly made some minor adjustments to the MG42 general-purpose machine gun.
For example, the sights, buttstock, bipod, feeding mechanism, firing and launching mechanism have been optimized.
Currently, this general-purpose machine gun can fire 7.62x54R bullets and can completely replace the existing DPM light machine gun, RP-46 machine gun and SGM heavy machine gun.
We have also conducted all project tests and found that the reliability of this machine gun is even higher than the original MG42 general-purpose machine gun.
We can now directly enter the stage of small-batch production testing."