After reading the telegram, An Yi said to Hu Jialin, Yang Fei, Deng Bin, Zhao Dongquan, Liu Qing and other close generals who rushed over: "The war in West Asia is progressing at a speed that is unexpected. Originally, I expected that it would not be until May or June before the war in this region would be completed."
It will be completely pacified. Now it seems that we are expected to release about ten army groups by the end of next month! In what direction do you think these ten group armies will be used next?"
"Of course it's the Lanyin Islands and the Philippine Islands!".
Deng Bin, who specializes in studying the overall strategic situation, said without hesitation: "These two archipelagos have always threatened the security of our cities on the eastern coast of Indochina, including the capital Chang'an. So far, almost all our coastal cities are still under light control.
, what we are afraid of is a surprise attack by the Japanese air force stationed on the Lanyin Islands and the Philippine Islands! For our fleet to freely enter and exit the Pacific and Indian Oceans, it is obviously not possible to just use the canal. We need sufficient strategic depth to eliminate
The threat from the east is an extremely important step!"
"good!"
Zhao Dongquan echoed: "These islands are not only strategically important, but also possess various resources that we urgently need. If nothing else, just rubber is worth our effort! According to the price of the New York futures market last month, the current world
The purchase of natural rubber has exceeded 10,000 US dollars per ton. The annual output of natural rubber in the Indochina, subcontinent and Malay regions we currently control is as high as 900,000 tons. This means that the annual output value of the rubber plantations we own has reached 900,000 tons.
Billion dollars.
"If we own the natural rubber producing areas in the Lanyin Islands, the Philippines and Ceylon, then we will occupy more than 99% of the world's natural rubber share in one fell swoop. The output will exceed 1.8 million tons in one fell swoop, and the total output value will be as high as 1 million
Eight billion US dollars, this is an amazing wealth!
"Today, the Americans have lost South America. The main supply of natural rubber can only rely on equatorial Africa, but the total natural rubber production in equatorial Africa is only more than 10,000 tons, which cannot meet the needs of Britain and the United States at all. Most of them
All need to be imported. At the same time, there are also serious problems with the oil supply in Britain and the United States, causing research on synthetic rubber to be in trouble. Their demand for natural rubber will be even more urgent.
"In addition, the Soviet Union's rubber is completely dependent on our supply. It can be said that this is an endless road to wealth, and we must fully grasp it!"
Liu Qing, the chief officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau, added: "The Lanyin Islands and the Philippine Islands have a large amount of oil, coal, iron, copper and other resources, which are the basic resources necessary for the development of industry. Once we occupy the above areas, due to development and transportation
Conveniently, our industry will see a greater growth."
"That's what I mean too!"
An Yi smiled knowingly: "The Japanese have almost squeezed out all their use value. It was they who messed up the world situation and gave our country the opportunity to rise. Now Britain and the United States have been devastated.
It's almost time, it's time for us to pay back our blood debt!
"However, after the continuous wars, our strategic reserves have been almost exhausted. There will soon be continuous combat missions in the Indian Ocean, and the landing operations against the Lanyin Islands and the Philippines will have to be postponed to at least half a year. During this half-year period, I hope that we
The officers and soldiers need to take a good rest. Summarize the experiences and lessons learned from the war in Northeast China and West Asia, carry out ideological and political education on a large scale, and prepare for the next stage of combat!"
The generals laughed heartily at first, and then nodded silently. Hu Jialin reminded: "The 'Typhoon' plan will be officially launched tonight, so we still need to discuss it."
Yang Fei said nonchalantly: "This is a coordinated operation among the three services. The Navy, Army and Air Force are all participating. The General Staff has conducted many deductions for this purpose and has come up with four sets of emergency plans. There will be no trouble! I don't think the suspect needs to
Employers should be careful and Xia Jian's subjective initiative should be given full play. After all, he is on the front line and it is very important to make decisions on the fly. It would be unsightly for us to interfere too much!"
Zhao Dongquan said with a smile: "Landing operations are a brand new topic for us army generals. Since Xia Jian took the order, he has convened professionals from the navy, army and air force to carry out paper operations many times, and also conducted targeted military training.
With the exercise and the assistance of Commander Zhi Guang, I believe Xia Jian will successfully complete the mission!"
An Yi nodded and smiled at Hu Jialin and teased: "Huzi, what kind of virtue is Xia Jian? You don't know? This grandson has failed to win in several battles. This time he must be like a tiger that has gone crazy and is unstoppable.
, even if there are any difficulties, I believe he will overcome them, I feel relieved..."
...
Jiaozhou Port (formerly Madras Port) under the cover of night.
The three main divisions of the Fourth Group Army of the Burmese and Indian Front of the Anjia Army, which was used to launch the landing operation in the northern area of Ceylon Island, have been boarded. A battleship, two aircraft carriers, ten destroyers and nearly a hundred carriers of the Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet have been boarded.
Auxiliary ships for landing and combat equipment completed supply and overhaul work.
Before that, according to the scheduled combat plan, the 1st Marine Division departing from the Port of Cochin will arrive at the southern port of Ceylon Island in the Caribbean Sea early tomorrow morning to launch a landing operation. Since the mileage is the longest, it will be launched as early as 2 o'clock this afternoon.
They set off early and were escorted by two heavy cruisers and eight destroyers.
The fleet of the 2nd Marine Division departed from Tuticorin Port (Tuticorin) before sunset, and its destination was Colombo. It consisted of the battleship "Soul of the Army" (former super-dreadnought ship "Provence"), the light cruiser "
"Mengtian" and nine destroyers escorted it.
The attack direction of the 3rd Marine Division is Trincomalee, a port city in the east of Ceylon Island, which is relatively close to the first two places. At around 6 o'clock in the evening, it set off from Jiaozhou Port in advance, consisting of two heavy cruisers and one light cruiser.
and escorted by eight destroyers.
Two hours later, Xia Jian led the three main divisions of the Fourth Group Army and issued an order to set sail from the flagship battleship "Zhonghua" (formerly the "Richelieu"). Then the mixed fleet left the heavily guarded
Jiaozhou Port, sailing towards the Paulk Strait in the south.
At the same time, throughout the Bay of Bengal, the Laccadive Sea and the waters near the Gulf of Mannar, the Anjia Army Navy’s Indian Ocean Fleet has deployed 25 submarines. The situation on the nearby sea surface is closely monitored. The Anjia Army Air Force and the Navy’s land-based aviation force are
Combat aircraft are also at frontline airports, ready to provide air cover for the expedition fleet.
According to the predetermined plan, Xia Jian strictly ordered the entire fleet to maintain communication control and radio silence. This silence could only be broken when abnormal circumstances occurred or when an enemy was encountered.
In the cool sea breeze, a formation of nearly a hundred ships lined up in two columns. Under the faint starlight, the waves raised by the bows of the ships quickly dispersed to both sides of the fleet. Among these ships flying the Seventy-ninth Battle Flag of the Anjia Army,
Soon after the ship passed, the sea became calm again.
That night, the lights at the naval base in Jiaozhou Port and the General Staff Operations Command Center in the capital Chang'an were brightly lit. Staff officers were paying close attention to the current situation in the northeastern Indian Ocean through monitoring radio stations and reports from intelligence agencies in various places.
On the large electronic map of the Jiaozhou Port Naval Base and the General Staff Operations Command Center, the positions of various fleets locked through satellites and high-altitude radars are changing at any time.
The main fleet sailed along the east coast of the subcontinent for nearly nine hours. During this period, Xia Jian slept for less than five hours, but he was still full of energy when he woke up early the next morning. The officers and sailors on the ship were all excited about the upcoming arrival.
excited about the combat operations.
At five o'clock in the morning, the main fleet entered the waters of the Paulk Strait. The two "Taishan"-class aircraft carriers "Longquanfeng" and "Motianling" dispatched carrier-based aircraft as planned. The fleet began to be centered on the radius of two hundred nautical miles.
A large-scale alert search was carried out. By 6:30, the fleet entered the scheduled landing area, and no abnormality was found.
At seven o'clock in the morning, at dawn, the Anjia army, navy and air force launched a full-scale attack on Ceylon Island on time in accordance with the "Typhoon Plan".
At the Galle Port in the south of Ceylon Island, when the Anjiajun fleet approached the port, the two Japanese gunboats deployed here tried to resist, but they were intensively bombarded by heavy patrols and destroyers of the Anjiajun Navy. Soon the two gunboats
The Japanese gunboat was sunk.
The resistance of the Japanese army was extremely weak. Landing craft, "Porpoise I" amphibious tanks and "Alligator I" amphibious armored personnel carriers drove straight in. The officers and soldiers of the 1st Marine Division landed at the port in just a quarter of an hour, effortlessly.
The port of Galle was captured. By 8 a.m., Galle and the town of Jintot in the north had been completely occupied by the Anjia army.
In the Port of Colombo, the landing fleet with the battleship "Soul of War" as its flagship took advantage of the thin morning fog to launch a sudden attack. Before the Japanese garrison could react, it quickly seized this important port city.
After clearing the entire city's defenders,
, Major General Lu Xianmin, commander of the Second Marine Division, discovered that there were no defensive weapons such as fortress artillery at the port. All heavy equipment had been withdrawn by the Japanese army to the Australian mainland in advance. The total number of defenders stationed in the largest city on Ceylon Island
There are less than two thousand people.
On the contrary, in Trincomalee, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and eight destroyers of the Anjia Army navy that attacked the port started a battle in Cordial Bay with a destroyer and six torpedo boats of the Japanese navy that had no time to evacuate.
There was a fierce artillery battle. During the half-hour naval battle, the Japanese navy showed great tenacity and fought until the last moment. All seven ships sank into Cordial Bay.
With the support of Anjia Army Air Force bombers, the landing force occupied this important port city and annihilated more than 1,400 defenders at the cost of more than 60 people.
...
In the triangular area of the northern part of Ceylon Island, following the order from the commander, Admiral Xia Jian, the officers and soldiers of the 10th Division, who had been busy all night, boarded landing ships and "Crocodile I" amphibious armored personnel carriers, one after another.
Under the cover of more than a hundred "Dolphin I" amphibious tanks, they rushed towards the beach in the south.
"Everyone, get ready for landing! Start charging to the beach in two minutes!"
On a flat-bottomed landing ship, a young lieutenant shouted loudly to the soldiers on the ship.
Behind the thick steel plate at the bow, about a company of officers and soldiers were holding automatic rifles and waiting with serious expressions for the moment when the steel plate was lowered. The engine at the stern of the ship was roaring desperately, and two 12.7mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns were working hard there.
Bullets rained down on the beach not far away.
Surrounding this landing craft, hundreds of landing craft and amphibious transport vehicles are desperately moving towards the southern beaches.
Looking down from a high place, these ships are like the teeth of a wooden comb, trailing white water marks. Next to these landing ships are small and medium-sized warships that provide close fire support. The small and medium-caliber shells they fire draw streaks.
Create a low and flat arc to conduct a more precise direct attack on the Japanese firepower points on the beach.
In the bridge command room of the battleship "China", Xia Jian, Commander Luo Lei of the Fourth Group Army, and Chief of Staff Lin Bingning used high-power binoculars to watch the battle ahead.
The Japanese counterattack turned out to be extremely weak as the intelligence said.
Over the beach, hundreds of aircraft shuttled back and forth. Except for some of them being carrier-based aircraft taking off from aircraft carriers, the rest were fighter jets taking off from land-based airports in cities on the east coast of the subcontinent only two to three hundred kilometers away.
Finally, the landing ship at the front reached the predetermined position and stopped moving forward. After the bow baffle was lowered, the Anjia officers and soldiers bravely jumped into the knee-deep or waist-high seawater one by one. The smell of seawater was very important to these land elites.
It was still a bit unfamiliar to them, even though they had already conducted several small-scale landing drills in separate teams before.
The officers and soldiers held their weapons high and waded forward as quickly as possible, while the mortar crews who stayed on the landing ship used mortar shells with strong arcs to suppress the Japanese defensive positions behind the beach.
After landing on the beach, the first batch of soldiers lay down on the ground to suppress the Japanese firepower in front and cover the subsequent landing troops as they continued to advance. Then batches of landing troops alternated to cover the advance.
The officers and soldiers riding the "Crocodile I" amphibious armored personnel carrier were relatively lucky. They could be transported all the way to the land. After getting their feet on the ground, they pushed open the rear door and rushed down. They joined the officers and soldiers who got off the landing craft and rushed towards the Japanese position.
The first wave of landing soldiers used automatic rifles, mortars, rocket launchers, flamethrowers, grenades and small-caliber artillery. With the support of amphibious tanks, it took half an hour to occupy the area behind the beach.
A Japanese defensive position defended by a thousand men.
Then the second wave of landing ships transported the follow-up troops up, and then the engineers began to set up trestles to prepare for the landing of the following troops and equipment.
Until the third wave of landing ships approached, Panther tanks and II armored vehicles quickly climbed onto the beach through the trestle, screaming and advancing in depth.
By 11 o'clock in the morning, the entire northern triangle of Ceylon Island, including the city of Jaffna in the south, was liberated, and two Japanese garrison brigades totaling more than 3,000 people were completely annihilated.
, surprisingly relaxed.
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