bookbashuk #377 - Strategic Deception
#377 - Strategic Deception
The song and dance of Manhattan and London, with business deals worth billions, didn't affect the ongoing war on the peninsula.
After taking office, General Matthew presented Washington with an ambitious new plan.
General Matthew planned to use approximately 300 fighter planes as the main force to contend for air control, consisting of 2 squadrons of supersonic F-86 Sabre fighters and 4 squadrons of propeller fighters. In addition, he would send 1 squadron of bombers to fully bomb the Volunteer Army's first line of defense.
After preparing to bombard the Volunteer Army's position, he would launch a full-scale assault on the first line of defense from the ground with 3 rebuilt, replenished, and reorganized main divisions of the 'rogue eagle': the 2nd Infantry Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, and the 1st Marine Division, along with the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of the Army, known as the 'Big Red One,' as the main force, plus 5 allied combat brigades and 3 Southern army cannon fodder units as support, totaling over 150,000 troops!
The Big Red One was a true armored infantry division, composed of 2 armored infantry brigades and 1 artillery brigade. A fully staffed Big Red One had an astonishing strength of 34,124 personnel, with 3,306 various vehicles, tanks, and armored vehicles. In the 'rogue eagle' forces, this was considered peak strength, with equipment far exceeding that of two Volunteer Army corps.
On the naval front, the main fleet was also deployed to harass and bombard the Volunteer Army's logistics supply line.
The railway lines on the peninsula were basically within the range of naval artillery. The 'rogue eagle' had accurate maps of the entire peninsula, and there was little doubt that the railway line's transportation would be paralyzed by naval artillery bombardment.
In this battle, General Matthew learned from previous lessons and prepared to use a combined sea, land, and air approach, making sure to comprehensively weaken the Volunteer Army's capabilities from all aspects.
General Headquarters of the Volunteer Army.
The commander and brigade commander received intercepted aerial intelligence from afar.
They roughly pieced together an overview of the 'rogue eagle's' new offensive.
The commander and brigade commander both looked grave.
This wave was ill-intentioned. The 'rogue eagle' had brought out secret fighter planes that had not yet been revealed, and no one knew how their combat effectiveness would be.
To prepare for contingencies, the commander mobilized two corps to secretly move towards the front line under the cover of night, lurking on both sides of the front line position.
"Let's play it safe first and wait for the air force to fight the 'rogue eagle's' air force," the Volunteer Army commander said. "If we don't have air superiority, the front line will be in trouble. What is the ammunition reserve situation at the front line?"
"Old commander, it's enough for two battles," the brigade commander said as always,洒脱, "Although we haven't fought against the 'rogue eagle's' so-called Sabre jet fighters, Ren Laodi said that the Sabre fighter has advantages and disadvantages. It has the upper hand against our Mustang fighters, but they haven't had time to equip air-to-air missiles, so there is still a big gap compared to our J-5A fighters."
"Let's make two plans. If the air force fails, then we will do our best to defend the first line of defense, and we will carry out interdiction counterattacks around the defense line. But if the air force succeeds, we can be bolder and see if we can take down one or two divisions of the 'rogue eagle' attacking forces this time."
The brigade commander's appetite was now bigger, talking about taking down one or two entire divisions.
The Volunteer Army headquarters was deploying troops and generals to respond to the upcoming Fourth Battle, especially in response to the 'rogue eagle's' newly enhanced armored forces. The Volunteer Army headquarters increased the number of recoilless guns and RPG rocket launchers and armor-piercing projectiles for the front-line troops.
Even if Li Yunlong and the others left all their armored forces on the front line, the Volunteer Army headquarters would not be able to equip the troops with as many tanks as the 'rogue eagle' to fight an evenly matched armored battle with the 'rogue eagle'.
Therefore, facing the 'rogue eagle's' new round of armored offensive, the Volunteer Army mainly relied on individual anti-tank forces this time.
The war began as expected, when a certain morning arrived.
The Volunteer Army headquarters' radar monitoring issued a sharp warning.
"Large numbers of enemy planes have been detected taking off from the east, southeast, and southwest directions!" The radar monitoring center reported the 'rogue eagle's' warplane takeoff information to the Volunteer Army headquarters on the east coast as soon as possible.
"Order the air force to launch a full-scale attack to respond to the 'rogue eagle's' air force attack. Air Regiment One, directly raid the southwest direction, suspected enemy bomber group," the commander ordered.
Based on intelligence analysis, the enemy planes taking off from the southwest-bound aircraft carrier battle group were most likely bombers. If so, the elite Air Regiment One of the Volunteer Army Air Force would quickly resolve this bomber cluster, ensuring the safety of our military's position.
Nearly 150 J-5As and 100 Mustang fighters of the Volunteer Army Air Force took off and began flying to the predetermined battlefield to meet the enemy.
Air Regiment One directly floored the accelerator and rushed towards the southwest direction.
The main force was divided into several battlefields in the sky over the Hancheng defense line to meet the attacking enemy planes.
Soon, the air force found something was wrong.
First of all, what Air Regiment One encountered was not the expected bomber cluster, but an elite jet fighter cluster mainly composed of F9F "Panther" jet carrier-based fighters and F2H-2 Banshee jet fighters!
In terms of numbers, the 'rogue eagle's' carrier-based jet fighters outnumbered them by nearly 20!
F9F Panther carrier-based jet fighter
The 'rogue eagle's' F9F Panther carrier-based jet fighter entered service in 1950 and had not appeared on the peninsula battlefield before. This time, it suddenly appeared. In the current world, apart from the J-5A's cheating, this is a leader among jet fighters, with thick skin and strong armor, giving it a great advantage against the MiG-15.
In the historical timeline of the main world, there was once a rare battle example of 1 Panther fighter facing 6 MiG-15s. In the air, 6 MiG-15 fighters used their high-altitude performance, powerful firepower, and numerical advantage to directly hit or fragmentarily damage the Panther of 'rogue eagle' legendary pilot Williams 263 times. After a 35-minute life-and-death battle, Williams drove the Panther and shot down 4 MiG-15s, then drove the damaged aircraft back to the mother ship!
This time, Air Regiment One had met its match.
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"Calling headquarters, we have encountered an unnamed warplane, it's a jet fighter! Repeat, it's an unnamed jet fighter!" Air Regiment One immediately reported its discovery to the Volunteer Army Air Force headquarters.
"Order the logistics department to activate the backup plan. Railway transportation should pay attention to preventing and repairing enemy damage. Railway transportation should focus on nighttime!" The brigade commander quickly made a decision.
Although this would create a huge workload for the logistics department, the current situation could not rule out the possibility of the enemy's large-scale destruction of the transportation line.