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#329 - Frontline situation

"Da Biao, that kid, did a great job! He annihilated an infantry battalion, captured an artillery company, and seized four 75mm mountain guns and a basic load of shells. Not bad, not bad!" Li Yunlong grinned as he looked at the information sent by Zhang Dabiao.

"Order! The two vanguard regiments will advance directly to Wenjing, outflanking the 7th Regiment of the Southern Army's 6th Division. We will devour this regiment directly. The rest of the units, accelerate your advance and move our military headquarters forward to Wenjing. I want to devour the entire 6th Division of the Southern Army!"

Li Yunlong looked at the map for a while and issued a loud order.

After wiping out an infantry battalion of the Southern Army, Zhang Dabiao learned from the remnants of the People's Army and Kim Cheng-shan, a captured Southern Army soldier, that within a 30-kilometer radius, there was only one detached force of the Southern Army's 6th Division, codenamed "Blue Star Unit," consisting of its 7th Regiment (2,411 men), 8th Regiment (2,288 men), and 19th Regiment (2,168 men), along with artillery and engineer battalions, with a current strength of 9,112 men.

With the strength of Li Yunlong's elite troops, there was no need for subsequent reinforcements to swallow these three regiments in one gulp.

Realistically speaking, the strength and equipment of the Southern Army were far superior to those of the Japanese devils. After all, they were built to imitate the American infantry divisions. However, in terms of combat strength, Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao did not find them particularly strong after the first battle.

The Southern Army's equipment was basically mechanized and armored, and their firepower was also powerful. Except for tanks, there was not much difference between them and the Dragon Country Field Army. If their tactical capabilities and fighting will could keep up, they would indeed be formidable opponents.

However, in the first battle of the vanguard, the Southern Army's tactical capabilities and fighting will were simply on par with the Guomindang army. It was unknown whether this was the general level of the Southern Army. If that was the case, Li Yunlong could take on two or three divisions of the Southern Army!

Now, Zhang Dabiao's vanguard had wiped out one of their battalions. It was unknown whether their target had already been exposed.

Now it was nighttime, and choosing to conduct field battles at night was not Li Yunlong's whim. Before all combat troops participated in the war, cadres above the battalion level had secretly undergone volunteer warfare training, part of which was the recognition and equipment assessment of the enemy army. This was information provided by Ren Zhong. Although there had been some changes in this space-time compared to the historical space-time of the main world, it was generally very reliable.

From the combat of the vanguard battalion, it was basically confirmed that the information provided by Ren Zhong was quite accurate.

Based on this understanding, Li Yunlong and other senior commanders gathered together before the battle to collectively train on how to fight under the enemy's superior air power.

The most important point was to choose to start field battles at night as much as possible to avoid the huge impact of the enemy's air superiority!

During the day, try to choose mountains and forests to hide and march, to prevent being bombed by the American air force.

Of course, in this space-time, the Dragon Country's air force was no longer what it used to be. Even without the Big Bear, the current air force had more than 1,000 P51D Mustang fighters, as well as the J-5, which Ren Zhong painstakingly transported technology back and forth to guide the development of!

Technically, there was no generational gap with the American air force.

It's just that the current production of the J-5 was too low, with only less than 100 produced in total. This was our hidden trump card.

It would not be deployed until a critical moment.

The main force that initially entered the peninsula for air cover operations still relied on the established Mustang fighter squadrons.

After Ren Zhong carefully assessed the air strength of both sides, he assessed our air power as ensuring the safety of the logistics transportation line and providing limited support for the safety of the front line air!

In other words, the main operations of the air force would revolve around the railways and highways above the logistics transportation line. The air force currently did not have the ability to ensure air superiority in the combat area for large-scale operations!

After all, the current air force was too far behind the American air force. The Americans could easily deploy 1,500 fighters in the air force, and at sea, the American naval aviation also had more than 300 fighters that could be deployed at any time!

F4U "Corsair" fighter

From the current point of view, the carrier-based aircraft of the American aircraft carrier battle groups were mostly F4U and F6F, which were the main sea and air fighters. On the land-based side, the main land and air fighters were naturally still P47 and P51.

Among them, the f86 Sabre jet fighter had also begun to appear!

Due to Ren Zhong's efforts, the Dragon Country Air Force started with the P51D Mustang fighter. It can be said that in terms of the main fighter of the Air Force, the two sides were basically at the same level, but the American experience in combat and the number of aspects had an overwhelming advantage.

In the Dragon Country Air Force, although there were also more than 200 fighters and bombers of the Little Japanese that were captured and received after the Anti-Japanese War, they were all relatively old-fashioned Type 97 fighters and the like. There were very few Zero fighters, and there was no way to put them on the table. Many were used as primary trainer aircraft to train pilots. After all, there were still too few pilots now.

The American side had a wealth of pilot talent. After fighting fiercely with the Little Japanese in the West Pacific for several years, the American had trained a large number of fighter pilots in the battle with the Zero, including many ace pilots who had shot down more than 5 aircraft.

Although our Divine Eagle Brigade was established relatively early, the foundation was low. After all, the physical and cultural qualities of the pilots were high. This number has not exploded, and the number of combat operations in the air is far lower than that of the opponent. The number of reserve pilots is more than one order of magnitude different from that of the Americans!

These disadvantages cannot be easily compensated for in the short term.

Therefore, Ren Zhong's suggestion to Chief of Staff Ye was that the limited air force must first be used to ensure the air safety of the logistics supply line, and on this basis, limited support should be given to the front line.

For field battles, try to strive for night battles and close-quarters combat! Avoid the air superiority of the American.

This was our old tradition.

However, due to the emergence of our firepower advantage in the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, many troops were a little dependent on firepower coverage, but instead there was a trend of abandoning this excellent tradition. In the first batch of volunteer combat sequences, the original Three Heroes of Taiyue were specially used as the vanguard, as well as three elite mountain combat troops drawn from Qilu and Jin-Cha-Ji, and then three armies were drawn from the Northeast as reserves to go south, with a total of 9 armies dispatched in the early stage!

Far exceeding the scale of 6 armies dispatched in the first batch in the historical space-time of the main world.

According to Ren Zhong's plan, it was hoped that in the first stage, while the American had not reacted, we would try our best to concentrate our main force to annihilate the main force of the American Tenth Army!

In order to shock the American and see if we could end the battle on the peninsula ahead of schedule and return to the old road of confrontation on the 38th parallel.

Now this glorious and great task, a large part of which falls on Li Yunlong.

At that time, the American Tenth Army, which rushed to the north, had under its jurisdiction the 1st Marine Division, the 7th Infantry Division, the 1st Special Engineer Brigade, the 187th Airborne Regiment, the Korean Marine Corps Regiment, the 17th Regimental Combat Team, and attached units, with a total strength of 75,000 people.

Of course, even faster than them were the Southern Army, who were even better at taking advantage of the situation, among which the Southern Army's Sixth Division rushed to the front!

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