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Chapter 204 A comprehensive counterattack

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    At the end of 1980, the Ding army launched an offensive into the northeastern mountainous area. On the night of the 27th, there was a huge turning point that could turn the tide of the war.  This period of time is very short. From 7:56 pm to 38 am on the 28th, in less than five hours, the logistics bases of Lashio and Xingwei Airport located 200 kilometers behind were successively destroyed by the military.  The division's drones were destroyed.  Fifty-three various types of fighter jets, attack aircraft, transport aircraft, and communication aircraft parked at these two airports were all turned into a pile of junk during the night attack.  The victory of this night attack was certainly due to the fact that the enemy was underestimated, but in-depth exploration was the inevitable result of the collision of the old and new military thinking.  The Ding army has always faced the armed forces of various ethnic groups, tribal armed forces and the People's Army in the country. The common characteristics of these armed forces are poor weapons and equipment and insufficient combat effectiveness.  Therefore, in this low-intensity war, the Yi Ding army relied on some World War II weapons received from the British army to cope with it.  Although it has been fifty-five years since the end of World War II, Ya Dingjun still holds the old-fashioned concept of war as the guiding ideology for troop training and operations.  However, they learned poorly. Due to low combat intensity, lack of funds, outdated weapons and equipment, and insufficient training, they did not really learn how to carry out infantry-artillery coordinated operations, infantry-tank coordinated operations, air-ground coordinated operations, and the protection of rear airports.  It was more of a formality and did not build a strict air defense system. Even the perimeter defense of the airport was very lax. After the airport was attacked, it panicked and was unable to quickly send troops to search the surrounding areas to find hidden enemies. Instead,  He directly lost his fighting spirit.  Although Guan Fei has limited chips in his hands, the shadow of information warfare is deeply ingrained in his mind, and he tries his best to imitate the corresponding tactics with the limited resources at hand.  As far as drone night attacks are concerned, this is actually the same as the cruise missile attack mode that became popular later.  But in order to pursue accuracy, he personally played the role of a special forces soldier responsible for infiltration behind enemy lines, guiding drones to carry out precise attacks on key targets, thus successfully destroying a crucial airport on the front line in the northeastern mountainous area, and setting the target  A quarter of the air force's belongings were turned into blazing flames.  Overnight, the Yidian Army on the northeast front suddenly lost control of the sky.  The Yading Army, accustomed to having aircraft covering their heads and being able to bomb enemy positions arbitrarily while their own side was hiding in a safe area, suddenly found that they no longer had their own air force planes above them that they had complained about in the past but now missed desperately.  At this moment, except for a few heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles, the weapons and equipment of the military division exceeded its opponents for the first time in history.  It is said that Heding is just a small country, with a total area of ??675,000 square kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to the three provinces of Yunnan, Shandong, and Liaoning combined.  The straight-line distance from Yangon in the south to Lashio is only one thousand kilometers, and it only takes one day to re-allocate fighter planes. If it comes from the closer Mandalay, it will not take one day.  Considering that the airport needs to renovate the runway and communications to accommodate aircraft, half a month at most is enough.  However, the military division firmly seized this unprecedented opportunity. Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Yading Army lost air protection on the northeastern front, it suddenly shifted from strategic defense to a full-scale counterattack.  The first one to take action was the main force cutting off the Gunong-Xingwei Highway. Following Guan Fei's instructions, they launched a decisive attack at dawn under the leadership of Yu Baihai.  First, high-explosive drones were used to inflict a devastating blow to the enemy tank forces, destroying four American Sherman medium tanks and capturing five, with only the last tank escaping.  After eliminating the enemy's most threatening tank unit, the entire army came out and launched a full-scale counterattack. They used rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and other means to destroy one enemy armored vehicle, captured three, and 11 others escaped back to Xingwei.  This battle also captured four twenty-five-pound howitzers newly delivered by the enemy, more than 30 other small-caliber howitzers, mountain cannons, light and heavy mortars, and more than 5,000 artillery shells.  In addition, more than 20 cars were seized, more than 600 people from the Shaoding Army were captured, and the enemy troops coming from the Xingwei direction were completely wiped out.  Yu Baihai then sent the first and third battalions to ride in captured cars and go straight to Xingwei to pick up Guan Fei when he returned.  The remaining 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 16th battalions turned around and attacked Gunong. In one fell swoop, they defeated a brigade sent by the 77th Division to open the road, and then rolled back to pursue the enemy.  It reached 17 kilometers and did not stop until it reached the outer position of Gunong.  In this battle, an enemy brigade was defeated, more than 200 enemy soldiers were killed or wounded, 1,700 were captured, and more than 500 remaining soldiers fled back to the Gunong defense line.  More than 3,000 others broke up during the pursuit and fled into the mountains. The military subdivision was unable to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress them.  Anyway, most of them had discarded their weapons, and the possibility of being able to bypass the mountains and return to the 77th Division was small, and the threat was basically lost.   At the same time, Sun Yaohua also led the Second Battalion stationed in Longkang and Geng Feng's two militia regiments, totaling 2,800 people, to launch a counterattack against the frontal enemy.  They also used high-explosive drones to destroy the enemy's artillery positions, completely destroying two assisting tanks, and used direct-aimed grenade launchers to kill enemy troops hiding in the fortifications. They advanced ten kilometers in one morning and penetrated the Maidan.  The defense lines of Ka, Mengxi and Banme successively captured the two towns of Maika and Mengxi, leaving only Banme isolated and helpless on the Salween River. It would be a matter of time before they were defeated.  In order to cope with the main force, the Guogen direction gathered a total of 3,000 people from the guard battalion, the 1st Militia Regiment, and Guogen's remnant army to launch an active attack on the Qingshui River defense line, and drove the unprepared Peng Degui Department and a brigade of the 77th Division across the Qingshui River.  He fled in embarrassment in the direction of Gunong.  As a result, the military division implemented a three-sided encirclement from Qingshui River in the east, Maika and Mengxi in the north, and Gunong-Xingwei Highway in the west, encircling the 77th Division stationed in Gunong.  They had no way to escape but the mountains to the south.  But the south is controlled by the Wa armed forces. Even if they escape into the mountains, they will eventually die.  By 4 p.m. on the 28th, the Seventy-seventh Division had lost one brigade on the Xingwei Highway, one and a half battalions on the Maika-Mengxi defense line, and two battalions on the Qingshui River defense line.  The 77th Division, which had 15,000 men, had lost more than 9,000 men, and the remnants of the enemy huddled in Gunong City were less than 7,000 men.  On the same day, Guan Fei, after meeting up with two companies of the Third Battalion that arrived first by car, bypassed Longmen Town and pressed forward with force.  The troops climbed onto a hill of more than 300 meters northeast of Xingwei and began to build a position overlooking the road from Xingwei to Muse. They made moves to attack Xingwei and cut off the retreat of the 88th Division.  The 88th Division was afraid of being cut off and had no time to withdraw the four battalions still fighting in Kangka. It gave up a lot of heavy equipment and evacuated Muse.  In this important border town, the entire army came out in full force, trying to escape back to the rear before the military division closed the road.  When passing through the hills that threatened the highway in the military division, they found that there were not many people, so they launched several company-level attacks to test whether they could be eliminated or driven away.  However, due to the abandonment of a large amount of heavy equipment, the air support was lost after the airport was attacked, and the number of Yading troops who initially arrived by car was only more than one battalion, and they were from the headquarters of the 88th Division and two subordinate brigades.  The majority were civilian officers, and less than three companies of guard troops followed the vehicle.  At this point, it was just a dream to eliminate the two companies led by Guan Fei. They suffered heavy casualties in several consecutive attacks. Instead, the commanders launched a counterattack, which once drove the attacking troops off the road and completely closed the area.  A way out.  Seeing that there was no hope of opening the road, and not knowing whether there would be reinforcements coming from behind the military division, the commander of the 88th Division and his men were not interested in fighting, and gave up the plan to recapture the mountain top. They drove around this section of the road in their car and started from a farther place.  The shallow hilly terrain jolted away towards Xingwei.  Xingwei is a valley road. Facing the rolling direction, there is a flat plain, and there is no danger to defend.  These division and brigade commanders were frightened by the fierce offensive of the military division. They had no confidence that after gathering their troops, they could establish a defense line here to block the attack of the military division.  So they only stayed in the city for a while, replenished their fuel supply, and left a small number of manpower to accommodate the troops. The others got in their cars and continued to retreat toward Lashio.  Guan Fei did not have enough troops at hand, and he did not dare to go down the mountain for fear of bumping into Si Ding's army coming from behind. He could only watch them disappear at the mountain pass with a telescope from the top of the mountain.  This group of people ran very fast, but at best they were less than two battalions.  You must know that the highway distance from Muse to Xingwei is only 120 kilometers. They cannot run 240 miles in a few hours and escape to Xingwei in one go.  Even Guan Fei, who has a biological accessory brain, can't achieve this distance!  On the contrary, it was only about 30 kilometers from Highland 1600 to here, and they were transported back and forth by more than 20 cars captured from the Yading Army. By six o'clock in the evening, Guan Fei had gathered all the men of the third battalion, and the fourth battalion had also arrived.  A little less than half, everyone is expected to be here tonight.  ¡°The car also towed two captured 25-pound medium howitzers, four six-pound anti-tank guns, twelve 81mm heavy mortars and a large number of artillery shells.  Guan Fei was overjoyed, and immediately deployed gunners to build a heavy artillery position behind the hill, and set up two anti-tank positions on the front hill.  He also took advantage of the gap before the enemy arrived and took a trip with the car.  After sorting through several captured tanks, I selected a Sherman tank with the best mechanical condition, filled it with fuel and ammunition, drove all the way over, and hid it in a position on the side of the mountain, ready to be used as a weapon.  .  That night, the last commanders and fighters of the fourth battalion also arrived at the position and closed the door.The number of troops available to the pilots increased to 1,300.  After a night's rest, the commanders and fighters all regained their strength and prepared for the arrival of the enemy's large forces.  But they waited from morning until evening, but not a single person came.  Guan Fei thought that the other party had finally woken up from the panic, and knew that a hasty retreat from Muse would inevitably lead to the loss of organization of the troops and excessive physical exertion of the soldiers, making it impossible to escape smoothly, so he simply stayed in Muse and waited for help.  He couldn¡¯t guess what the other person was thinking, but he didn¡¯t care.  Anyway, he was just scaring the opponent and had no intention of attacking.  Since the enemy did not come, he simply moved his position forward and placed a small number of troops in the foothills.  ?The row closest to the highway is less than 400 meters away from the highway.  Even without the use of heavy weapons, the soldiers can kill the enemy with their Type 79 automatic rifles.  Taking advantage of this opportunity, they widened and strengthened their positions again, and began to connect isolated individual bunkers into lines, and built facilities such as rear ammunition depots, troop hiding caves, and field hospitals to gradually improve the front line.  The distribution of firepower is also more reasonable, and the support is more sufficient. Infantry, artillery, and tanks are equipped with light and heavy weapons. The threat range of artillery has been expanded to ten kilometers away.  "If the enemy doesn't come, that's fine. If they come, they will find that in two days, these inconspicuous hills have turned into an iron wall, and they will be beaten to death.  It had been forty-one hours since Guan Fei threatened the highway, that is, at 4 o'clock in the morning on the 30th, two soldiers of the Ding Army appeared on the highway.  When they saw the soldiers rushing up from the road, they surrendered to them without any resistance.  The two soldiers did not carry any weapons. Their faces were haggard, their cheeks were sunken, and their lips were chapped. It was obvious that they were about to collapse.  When the soldiers surrounded them, they lay on their backs on the cold road, unable to move.  Later, I gave them something to eat and drink water, and it took more than ten minutes for them to gradually recover.  According to them, the Eighty-Eighth Division has been completely dispersed.  Because the division headquarters and brigade headquarters were afraid that their retreat would be cut off and end up like the 77th Division, the headquarters took the lead in escaping.  When he left, he was in a hurry and panic. He didn't even arrange how to organize the retreat of the troops, the order of the retreat, or the commander. He just ran away, leaving the entire army without a command and leaderless.  "The superiors ran away, and of course the subordinates followed."  No one stayed to destroy the heavy weapons that were too late to take away. Only a seal was posted on the warehouse where supplies, food, and ammunition were stored, and then they hurriedly retreated.  At first, everyone marched according to the battalion and company they belonged to, but as they walked, the queue began to become chaotic.  Some people walk fast and some people walk slow.  Those who walked fast were afraid that their retreat would be blocked, and kept running forward without paying any attention to others. Those who walked slowly cried and yelled in despair. People were panicked, and the originally good order began to fall into chaos.  All the ministries were huddled together, the commander could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the commander, and finally collapsed completely.
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