First, in view of the large-scale air raids carried out by the Tang Army before landing, Mirage Wuerlang and Army General Mirage Roku deployed on the new island decided to do the opposite and directly disperse the main forces in the most advantageous areas.
Near the southern position of the island where the Tang army may have landed.
The advantage of this is that even if the road is destroyed, even if the Tang army's paratroopers are caught by surprise, they can still ensure that they have strong forces to fight the Tang army's landing troops near the beach.
After all, this time is almost a decisive battle between the two countries, and it is General Mirage's decision to invest as many troops as possible.
In addition, Mirage Takejiro is responsible for the defense of the deep areas of the new island. His heavily damaged 3rd Corps and the 300,000 miscellaneous troops temporarily recruited on the new island will be responsible for the combat mission of annihilating the Tang paratroopers.
They are scattered throughout the island. No matter where the Tang Army paratroopers are dropped, nearby troops can be dispatched in time to tangle with the paratroopers who have just landed.
In addition, relying on the hidden field airfield on the island and the dense anti-aircraft guns, Mirage Shiroku is confident that air superiority will not be easily lost. His Zero fighter jets can also take off continuously, maintaining a threat to the enemy's sea and air forces.
In order to support the new island operations, the Mirage Kingdom deployed more than 600 aircraft here. This number is not small, and it is almost all the assets that the Mirage Kingdom can produce.
Of these many aircraft, at least 170 were prepared for suicide attacks. There were many new pilots on the island. Their training level was very low, but they were determined to dedicate everything to the Mirage.
At the same time, the Mirage Navy will secretly deploy a batch of rush-made suicide speedboats on the east and west sides of the new island. These speedboats are almost the Mirage's so-called trump card.
If the Tang Empire's landing fleet appears in the south of the island as expected, then the Mirage Navy's suicide speedboat force will launch a suicide attack after dark, severely damaging the Tang Army's fleet.
In short, after forcing back the opponent's fleet, Mirage Shiliu was confident that he could use his strength advantage to defeat the Tang Army's landing force on the beach and win a staged victory in the battle.
He didn't know if the Tang army would give up, but he felt that as long as it could defeat the Tang army's two attacks in a row, it would be possible to force the Tang army to break up and get a chance to breathe.
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The tactics of the Tang army are also very simple. As the saying goes, one force can defeat ten groups. Taking advantage of the absolute advantages of one's own tactical weapons and equipment is the consistent fighting style of the Tang state.
In fact, in the past few months, the Tang State was not idle. The Tang State's huge public opinion machine was at full capacity, publicizing the Mirage's breach of contract by using mines in naval battles and land mines in land battles.
Countries around the world are signatories to the "Prohibition of the Use of Inhumane Weapons" treaty. This treaty includes many types of weapons, including white phosphorus bombs, landmines, sea mines and other weapons pioneered by the Tang Empire.
Obviously, Mirage breached the contract.
The Tang Empire, which was the first to initiate the war, accuses the Mirage of breach of contract. It is indeed a comedy, but this is an accusation made by the Tang Empire. Who dares not to treat it carefully?
After more than ten days of quarreling in the media, and after the Tang Empire showed the battlefield videos and dismantled mines and sea mines as evidence, fewer and fewer countries came out to persuade the Datang Empire to forget it.
The Mirage Kingdom also knew that they could not defend themselves: in fact, they did it, and they could not slander it. In the end, they simply adopted an attitude of "I just did it, what can you do to me?"
As a result, the Tang State officially announced the launch of the revenge mechanism and retained the power to punish defaulters. However, the propaganda machine of the Datang Empire confidently announced that the Datang Empire would not use prohibited weapons to retaliate against the Mirage.
This is tantamount to announcing to the outside world that they will not use banned white phosphorus bombs to retaliate against the mirage: other countries praised the moral level of the Tang Empire amidst cheers and applause.
In fact, they also want to see how many secret weapons the Tang Empire has besides white phosphorus bombs: If the Tang Empire cannot come up with weapons similar to white phosphorus bombs, then all countries must carefully consider the use of landmines and sea mines.
The price-performance ratio of weapons is an issue.
The next thing was simple. As a matter of course, the Tang Air Force began to mount various types of bombs that they had been producing but had never used on their flying fortresses and H-6 bombers on the South Island.
Because the Flying Fortress bombers are relatively old, they all carry napalm bombs; the H-6 bombers are advanced and carry new cloud explosive bombs.
These two kinds of bombs have different functions and powers, but they are indeed very terrifying weapons. According to the plan, the Tang Army will carry out carpet bombing on the entire new island five times, using various new bombs to renovate it.
Some air force generals even suggested using the new, less clean bombs in the Tang Empire's arsenal to teach the goblins of the Mirage Kingdom a chemistry lesson. So that these goblins who defaulted on the contract would know the importance of knowing what a gas mask is.
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This plan is still in the approval stage, and Loew is still considering the overall impact of chemical weapons on the war. However, many personnel feel that it can be used in several mirage cities on the new island, which can show the power of the Tang Empire with shocking effects.
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Anyway, there is no similar ban in this world. Based on the "genius idea" of using enough at one time and then pulling everyone to ban chemical weapons, the senior officials of the Tang Empire actually had no psychological pressure on the use of chemical weapons.
Before the Tang Empire assembled its fleet, the Tang Air Force took off a total of 100 Flying Fortresses and used napalm bombs to bomb various targets on the new island.
The napalm bombs ignited almost the entire Mirage coastline position to the woodland and farmland behind them. The fire continued to burn, and the Mirage defenders on the position were miserable and suffered heavy losses.
Although the Mirage tried their best to put out the fire, compared with the scale of the arson, their efforts seemed to be in vain.
The fire burned all day and was still not extinguished at night. With the help of these fires, the Flying Fortress took off again and dropped more napalm bombs.
Then the fire burned like this until dawn. The area with the biggest flames was several stories high. Thick smoke rolled and covered the sky. Everything around it was covered with black ash, so dark that it was impossible to recognize it.
A mirage tank was parked next to the flames. Everything that could be burned inside and outside had been burned away. Only a twisted shell was left, which was frighteningly red against the flames.
The soldiers who had no time to retreat had already been burnt to charcoal, and the positions they had built had been burnt to ashes under the scorching heat. Thick smoke was billowing everywhere. After running around for a day and night, the garrison of the Mirage Kingdom finally arrived.
Or decided to give up some areas.
Who knew that at noon that day, the Tang Army's napalm bombs would come again: thousands of similar bombs were dropped directly into some cities on the new island, and these cities quickly turned into a sea of flames.
In the afternoon, jet bombers carrying cloud explosive bombs attacked another coastal defense position of the Mirage Kingdom. The cloud explosive bombs caused great damage to the Mirage army hiding in the bunker, which was surrounded by the wind and the jungle.
Many of the people inside were directly shocked to death, and many others died in the bunker due to lack of oxygen. The soldiers who narrowly escaped suffered a mental breakdown and were stunned as they looked at the fire in the distance.
Mirage Shiliu did not expect that the special bombs of the Tang Army could cause such huge damage to the defense fortifications he had established. He could only stare at the positions that had lost their appearance in a daze, and then desperately asked the air force why they did not intercept the enemy's
attack.
In fact, he wronged his own air force: the records of that day show that because they were not targeted for attack, the Mirage Army flew a total of 330 aircraft sorties in an attempt to intercept Tang bombers.
But except for the J-6 that shot down more than 30 Zero fighters, the interception by the Mirage Air Force had no results. This is also completely consistent with the data report of the Tang Army that day: records show that only one Flying Fortress of the Tang Army malfunctioned and crashed into the sea that day, and all pilots
They were all picked up by destroyers cruising nearby, and no one was killed.
In the next few days, the Tang army did not organize any new large-scale bombings, but the fire on the new island burned for five consecutive days before it reluctantly stopped.
After the fire was almost extinguished, almost all the villages and cities in the Mirage Kingdom had been burned to the ground, with very few buildings and trees remaining, and the sky above the entire island was filled with black smoke.
Even some ash drifted to the South Island, filling the air with the unpleasant smell of burning. In those days, everyone's nostrils were filled with black ash, and they even had to wear masks when traveling.
On the third day, Mirage's envoys in other countries began to cry out to countries all over the world about Tang's cruel methods. They described this bombing as simply brutal, and completely lost the arrogant attitude of what you can do to me before.
The whole farce has been going on, but the Tang Empire's bombing of the new island fortifications has just begun.
Two days later, a new round of bombing by the Tang State started as planned: it was still napalm bombs, a large number of napalm bombs. This time, even H-6 only carried napalm bombs, which were no different from ruins when used to bombard them.
Cities and villages.
The fire broke out again, and the new island has now become a veritable "Fire Island". The Mirage's defense line was reduced to nothing in the fire, and what was barely left was almost unusable.
It was originally a wooden structure, hidden in the dense forest... Now the position is burned bare, and the wooden structure bunkers and fortifications have also been damaged.
It is almost impossible to start over from the beginning, because Ming Haiping has received the exact news that the huge fleet from Beiyuan and Linshui has left the port, and the second landing operation of the Tang Empire has begun!
