RPAGF #333 - reaction
#333 - reaction
"General, all indications suggest that the Dragon Country has moved. We've detected a sudden increase in radio signals from the Dragon Country, several dozen times the usual amount."
General Mike raised his eyebrows.
"Are you sure it's not the Great Bear? Currently, the only force on Blue Star capable of wiping out a division of the Southern Army in a short amount of time, according to conventional reasoning, would be the Great Bear's iron torrent." General Mike asked with some disbelief.
"General, after repeated verification by our intelligence personnel, there is no information about division-level troop movements on the Great Bear's side. However, in the Dragon Country, we've detected the movement of several army-level units, shifting from North China and Qilu towards the northeast. Simultaneously, the Dragon Country's air force is highly active on the northeastern border. Radar monitoring shows that the number of Dragon Country's air force fighters concentrated in the border area has exceeded 500.", the intelligence officer continued to report.
"Based on our intelligence estimates, annihilating the Southern Army's Sixth Division would require at least one army from the Dragon Country. Although we all believe the Dragon Country is busy building its dilapidated nation, they have a tradition of keeping their word, having issued several statements clearly indicating their intention to deploy troops. Conversely, the Great Bear has consistently denied that it would deploy troops for this reason."
General Mike fell silent.
He judged that the Dragon Country would not deploy troops, thus lifting all restrictions on the advance to the north. But now, the situation may be beyond his expectations. He guessed wrong, and this is a big problem.
What's even more troublesome is that the Dragon Country seems unexpectedly strong. Although the Southern Army's Sixth Division is not a strong force, its combat power, after being equipped with modernized American weaponry, is not far from that of the Northern Army.
For such a unit to be wiped out in one night, General Mike himself estimates that it would be difficult even for two main divisions of the Rogue Eagle, unless an armored division is deployed, using tank clusters to launch an attack!
Rocket artillery is a very annoying weapon. General Mike thought of the aerial reconnaissance reports and suddenly felt a little agitated.
He needs to face a new situation that he always believed would not happen.
The Dragon Country people are here!
Li Yunlong, regardless of General Mike's entanglement, followed the plan with Ding Wei. Zhang Dabiao's 100th Division lightly bypassed to the south of Ningbian, while the 101st and 102nd Divisions acted like two giant pincers, tightly surrounding the Southern Army's Eighth Division. The artillery brigade, directly supported by the tank battalion, faced the enemy head-on, preparing to set up artillery positions about 6 kilometers away from the enemy.
Preparing to launch a strong attack on the Southern Army's First Division.
Facing him was Bai Shanye, Lieutenant General and commander of the Southern Army's First Division. This man graduated from the puppet Manchukuo military academy and was a loyal lackey of the little devils. He even had a Japanese name, Shirakawa Yoshitake. He was cunning and fierce, and was promoted to lieutenant general for his outstanding performance in resisting the Northern Army's offensive. After the Incheon Landing, he was also an eager vanguard, imitating Patton's armored assault and being the first to capture Pingcheng, earning the first reward of the counterattack!
As the Southern Army's top elite, its equipment level was closer to that of the Rogue Eagle's infantry divisions, reinforced with more than 60 tanks and armored vehicles!
Li Yunlong had the basic information of the Southern Army's eight main divisions, so although there was no time for reconnaissance, he still had some understanding of his opponent.
On the third day of entering the peninsula, Li Yunlong received a reply from the Supreme Command that the air force would fully escort them!
At this time, Zhang Dabiao also reported that the 100th Division had been inserted into position, cutting off the Southern Army's First Division's retreat. Li Yunlong immediately ordered a general offensive!
The 101st and 102nd Divisions each sent a regiment, and after half an hour of artillery preparation, followed the tank battalion directly into the Southern Army's First Division's position!
"Tank battalion, counterattack! Artillery battalion, counterattack!" Bai Shanye roared frantically into the radio amidst the deafening cannon fire.
In his eyes, he still thought it was the Northern People's Army's counterattack, so he had no intention of retreating at all, directly ordering the tank battalion and artillery battalion to counterattack.
In his opinion, the Northern Army was already at the end of its rope, and as long as his side stubbornly counterattacked, the Northern Army would not be able to hold on.
This was the experience gained from counterattacking hundreds of kilometers all the way. The Northern Army was finished. The little ammunition and artillery they had managed to gather would be exhausted after at most one round.
So Bai Shanye was not panicked at all.
Not only did he send the tank battalion up, but he also ordered the 12th Regiment to follow the tanks, preparing to use infantry to clean up these remnants of the Northern Army after the tanks crushed the enemy.
The intensity of the artillery fire in front of him was unusual, it should be the last elite of the Northern Army. If he could capture the opponent's senior generals, then he would be sure to get the first merit since the counterattack.
In his opinion, the Northern Army could not stop his tank force's charge at all.
Half of the artillery in their hands were rocket launchers. For dealing with infantry, this was a very terrifying weapon, but for tanks, rocket launchers were like burning sticks, unable to hit!
Two similarly sized tank forces quickly collided.
The T-34 and M3 tanks, reinforced with armor, met Bai Shanye's all-M4 tanks. The two sides greeted each other without reservation!
The firepower of the main guns of the two sides' tanks was not far apart. The M4 medium tank was equipped with a 75mm gun, which was not much different in power from the 76mm tank gun in Li Yunlong's hand. However, what made the Southern Army tankers desperate was that their shells hit the seemingly familiar T-34 and M3 tanks, only to hear a bang. After the opponent's tank trembled, it still advanced as if nothing had happened!
Even if Bai Shanye was stubborn, he couldn't help but be shaken by the blow at this moment, and began to call and send telegrams for reinforcements!
Behind him was the 8th Army Group's Cavalry First Division!
In addition, the Rogue Eagle's air force was also on standby. After receiving Bai Shanye's battle report request, they immediately dispatched 30 fighter planes carrying bombs to prepare for battlefield bombing!
As soon as the Rogue Eagle's planes took off, our army's radar detected this movement, and the air force immediately took off 40 fighter planes to meet them.
Since the airports of both sides were not far from the battlefield, when the Rogue Eagle's air force entered the battlefield, they had to engage the Dragon Country's fighters before they had time to drop their bombs!
The Rogue Eagle's fleet, composed of B-17 Flying Fortresses and Mustang fighters, immediately fell into a disadvantage against the all-Mustang fighter opponents, coupled with the fact that their numbers were still inferior!
The leading flying squadron leader desperately began to call for rear support, and the Rogue Eagle's second wave of 30 Mustang fighters immediately took off to reinforce.
The Dragon Country was not to be outdone, and again took off 30 warplanes to meet them!
This made the aerial battle instantly enter a white-hot state!
Second update, begging for chaos!