novelaction Chapter 236: The Reappearance of the Center Blossom Tactics
Chapter 236: The Reappearance of the Center Blossom Tactics
The world was changing rapidly. In the next ten days, the situation in the ancient country underwent major changes again.
First of all, the Southern Alliance has completely abandoned Zhuolu and built a new line of defense in Fengyang, Luyang and Shouchun.
In this direction, they deployed two corps and seven armies, totaling more than 7 troops.
The fall of Zhuolu also allowed the Fuxing Army to occupy the northern and eastern regions of Huaijiang Province.
It is crucial to connect the territories of the Restoration Army in the north and south.
Secondly, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Southern Alliance retreated from Tanzhou and occupied Binzhou, Lingling and Shaozhou, preparing to block the attack of the Fourth Army of the Fuxing Army here.
(The map in the previous chapter had the Third and Fourth Armies reversed, so I'll correct that here.
The Third Army's offensive route was to move south along the Changjiang River to attack the Jinling and Luyang areas, and prepare to attack Jinling together with the Second Army.
The fourth group is the force attacking Tanzhou.)
The Southern Alliance Army's retreat from Tanzhou also allowed the Fuxing Army to occupy the entire Xiangnan Province.
At the same time, it also brought the Renaissance Army into contact with another force.
This force is also the Southwestern Army second only to the Renaissance Army and the Southern Alliance.
Southwest Governor Long Jianzhang occupied the three provinces of Kunjiang, Guishan and Tianfu, and had an army of more than 300,000.
Ever since the war between the Fuxing Army and the Southern Alliance broke out, Long Jianzhang had no intention of getting involved, but instead stationed troops at the border, guarding it with all his might.
These are the changes in two battlefields, and there are also some changes in other places.
For example, the Fuxing Army dispatched the 3rd Marine Division and successfully landed in Minzhou, the capital of Minyue Province. At the same time, the 18th Mountain Infantry Division and two light infantry divisions also landed.
Except for the 3rd Marine Division, the other three divisions have also recovered most of Min Yue Province.
Then they launched an offensive directly into the northeastern mountainous area of Lingnan Province.
In Jiangnan Province, the Seventh Army also dispatched a division of troops to occupy the southern part of Jiangnan Province, posing a threat to the Shaozhou area.
This is a change on the battlefield, and the troops of the Renaissance Army have also changed.
During these ten days, Jiang Hua used the main base, branch base No. 1 and branch base No. 2 to directly mobilize the forces of three full-strength armies.
They are the Eighth Army, the Ninth Army and the Tenth Army.
Among them, the Eighth Army was incorporated into the combat sequence of the Central Plains Military Region, and it was composed of five motorized infantry divisions, one airborne assault division, plus auxiliary forces such as artillery, air defense, pontoon bridge, and army aviation.
The Ninth Army and the Tenth Army were both incorporated into the Far East Military Region's combat sequence.
Currently, the Far Eastern Military District has three army groups under its jurisdiction: the Far Eastern Army, the Ninth Army, and the Tenth Army. Each army group has about 120,000 soldiers.
The three armies have a total strength of more than 300,000 troops.
The addition of these two group armies also greatly enhanced the strength of the Far East Military Region.
There would be no problem at all in stopping Tsarist Russia's upcoming May offensive.
The strength of the ten armies also caused a surge in the strength and capacity of the Fuxing Army.
The total strength of these ten armies alone is about 1.3 million.
There are also about one million National Guards and about one million militia forces.
The total strength of the army alone is 3.3 million.
The total strength of the Air Force is over 800,000, and the total strength of the Navy is over 300,000.
Plus the strategic rocket force of nearly 100,000 people.
At present, the total strength of the Fuxing Army has exceeded four million, reaching about four and a half million.
When Jiang Hua saw the organization compiled by the General Staff, he was in a daze for a moment.
Before we knew it, the total strength of the Renaissance Army had skyrocketed to this point, and it would soon be close to five million troops.
This amount of troops is enough to fight a world war.
However, in Jiang Hua's opinion, the current navy and strategic rocket force still need more development and have not kept up with the development pace of the army and air force.
Under normal circumstances, the total strength of the navy should be equal to that of the air force to be considered balanced. The strategic rocket force does not need too many troops, but it must also maintain a size of about 300,000 people.
After a new round of military expansion of the Fuxing Army, a large number of troops began to move north or south.
The Central Plains Military Region not only strengthened the Eighth Army, its main army group, but also further strengthened the National Guard with about 20 people.
The total strength of the army in the Central Plains Military Region has now reached one million, making it the largest of the three major military regions.
But this situation will definitely not last too long.
After the war, the Central Plains Military Region will definitely be split up. No single military region will dominate, but rather they should check and balance each other.
Although the Red Alert team is loyal to Commander Jiang Hua, they are also individuals with different ideas.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. This is also true within the Red Alert Corps. As long as there are interests, there will be factions.
There is no conflict between being loyal to Jiang Hua and supporting Shantou Linli.
It's just that because we are in a period of war, everyone is working together to fight for the unification of the ancient country, so it is not very obvious.
After the Eighth Army is completed, it will directly join the Anqing battlefield.
Together with three divisions of the Third Army and two divisions of the Second Army, it was responsible for annihilating the Southern Allied Forces in Anqing.
The attack on Shanghu was led by the Second Army, the Fourth Army, and part of the Seventh Army.
The main attack directions are Gusu and Taihu Lake.
After both sides completed the adjustment of their troops, a war broke out again on May 5st, one month after the war broke out.
This battle was also the decisive battle that determined the fate of the Southern Alliance's million-strong army and Nanjing.
The Fuxing Army launched an all-out attack on this day.
The main ground forces of 10 motorized infantry divisions, including five motorized infantry divisions of the Eighth Army, three divisions of the Third Army, and two divisions of the Second Army, launched a general attack on Fengyang and Luyang areas respectively.
In this battle, the Fuxing Army deployed more than a thousand barreled artillery pieces on the dozens of kilometers long front and launched a three-day artillery preparation.
The Air Force also deployed more than 5,000 fighter jets to carry out large-scale air strikes during these three days.
Targets of military value such as railways, roads, communications, arsenals, and troop assembly areas were all attacked by air strikes.
On the Changhe River front, the Third Army also gathered three divisions of troops and launched a fierce attack on the Changhe River defense line held by the Southern Alliance.
Fierce fighting also broke out along the Suzhou and Taihu lines in Shanghu, and along the Lingling, Binzhou and Shaozhou lines in the two ridges.
The entire south, except for the southwest region, has been reduced to chaos.
While the war was going on, Wu Zhichang, the president of the Southern Alliance and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, was planning to evacuate Nanjing to Guangzhou.
This million-strong army was merely a pawn he used to consume the Renaissance Army.
In his opinion, the casualties no longer mattered much.
However, only a few people knew about this plan.
"Chairman, the all-out offensive we launched over the past three days has drawn their attention to all fronts.
A new round of operations can begin."
Ling Liang, the deputy commander-in-chief of this battle, checked the intelligence reported by various troops and felt that the time was ripe to break the deadlock, so he found Jiang Hua.
"Then let's get started and let our troops have another central bloom."
The scale of this airborne operation is also unprecedented for the Fuxing Army.
The total number of troops deployed in this airborne operation against Nanjing exceeded 80,000.
The 19th, 20th and 21st Airborne Divisions of the Sixth Army.
24th Air Assault Division of the Second Army.
42nd Airborne Division of the Eighth Army.
These five divisions are the combat troops that were directly airdropped into the Jinling area this time.
It was also the first time that the Renaissance Army deployed such a large-scale airborne force in an operation.
This is also Ling Liang's central flowering plan.
If you want to break the deadlock of the war of attrition, then you must directly eliminate the core of Jinling.
As long as the core is gone, the entire Southern Alliance Army of millions will collapse.
The Southern Allied Forces had long been on guard against this and had deployed troops throughout the Jinling area.
Therefore, if you want to take Nanjing, you must fight like a lion against a rabbit, otherwise you will be making a joke of your soldiers.
Jiang Hua didn't want Operation Market Garden to happen to the Fuxing Army.
However, the troops of these two airborne divisions and three airborne divisions were not deployed to a certain area for combat at one time, but were divided into two groups.
One of them was the 24th Airborne Division and the 19th Airborne Division.
Their mission was to raid Changzhong City behind the Gusu and Taihu defense lines.
Changzhong City is located behind Gusu City. According to reconnaissance, at least one army of the Southern Alliance is stationed here.
It would be very risky to capture Changzhong City, which is garrisoned by an army, by relying solely on two divisions of troops.
If the attack fails and turns into a stalemate, both divisions will be in danger of being surrounded.
Therefore, after they airdrop into Changzhong, they will not launch an attack on the nearest Changzhong, but will split into two groups and launch attacks to the south and north of Changzhong City.
To the north was a long river, where the Southern Allied forces had stationed a division of troops.
Prevent the Fuxing Army on the other side from breaking through here, thus posing a threat to Jiangyin Fortress and Gusu.
The mission of the 19th Airborne Division, which was responsible for the attack here, was to open a gap in the Changzhong Line of the Changhe Defense Line and let the Second Army of the Fuxing Army on the opposite bank come over.
Then launch an attack on Changzhong, cut off the connection between the more than 200,000 troops in the Gusu and Jiangyin fortresses and Nanjing, and form a pincer attack together with the Shanghu troops.
The more mobile 24th Air Assault Division launched an attack behind the Taihu Lake defense line in the south, opened a gap, and let the Seventh Army in from the Taihu Lake side.
This was the operational objective of the 1st Air Assault Group.
The 42nd Air Assault Group was composed of the 20nd Air Assault Division, the 21th Airborne Division, and the st Airborne Division.
That is, airdrop to Ma'an City, which is adjacent to the southwest of Jinling.
According to the intelligence gathered from the investigation, Ma'an City is located on the banks of the Changhe River, on the downstream defense line from the Changhe River defense line to Jinling, so the military force here is the most scarce, with only about 10,000 troops deployed.
After the Second Air Assault Combat Group landed here, they launched an attack on Jinling at the fastest speed. The basic battle plan was this: if Jinling was attacked, it would inevitably cause chaos in the Southern Alliance, and the war of attrition could directly turn into a series of encirclement and annihilation battles.
This is the brilliance of Ling Liang's center-blooming tactics.
It is also a test of the Air Force's strategic delivery capabilities.
Not only did they need to send these more than 80,000 people to the Jinling area, they also needed to ensure the logistical supplies for these more than 80,000 people.
On May 5, two air assault combat groups responsible for air operations took off from multiple airports.
A new round of combat operations has begun.