Two hours after the Fourth Army's attack, the Air Force, which had defeated 100,000 Siamese troops on the Western Front, left 200 aircraft to continue chasing Siam's defeated soldiers, while another 600 aircraft attacked the Xikang Army in Xiangshi across the Lancang River.
The remaining 50,000 Siamese soldiers in the confrontation launched an air raid
Like locusts, 600 planes poured madly on the 50,000 Siamese soldiers' positions, destroying all the heavy weapons of the Siamese soldiers, blowing up all their supplies, destroying all their fortifications, and their planes.
The 155mm and 105mm artillery of Huang Peiyao's First Group Army also bombarded the other side, covering the engineers to build bridges and organizing troops to cross the river.
Originally, Wang Jiuling wanted to use the airborne division, but he resisted. Although the airborne division learned a lot of experience, it no longer kept secrets.
At the beginning of the battle, some Siamese troops tried to prevent the Xikang Army from crossing the river by relying on the permanent fortifications they had built to defend against the French. However, their efforts were in vain. Their troops were defeated by hundreds of aircraft.
There were not many permanent fortifications left, and the machine guns inside were discovered as soon as they fired. The Xikang Army did not charge at all, but waited for the artillery to come.
At the same time, the Xikang Army crossed the river in a large area. After occupying the other side, the engineers began to build pontoons for armored divisions and vehicles to cross.
Huang Peiyao's First Army successfully won the battle of crossing the river, but Wu Wu followed the established plan to attack the various capitals in Siam. They wanted to coordinate with Sun Chuanling's Second Army.
Sun Chuanling's troops launched the attack together with the Fourth Army. After the Second Army defeated the enemy in front of them, they actually only had 20,000 shapeless Siamese soldiers, a tank division and a cavalry division in front of them who were bombed by planes.
Assault, they all died.
Next, their goal is to capture Bangkok as soon as possible. However, there will be good medicine to clear out the dangerous Siamese along the way, but there will be an air force to support them. At the same time, the first and second armies also need to occupy the airport for planes to take off and land.
The three armies were progressing smoothly. Siam's 150,000 elite soldiers were wiped out by the blitzkrieg of the Xikang Army. Only a few people were able to hide and escape.
The capture of Bangkok is just around the corner. Wang Jiuling finally understood the power of blitzkrieg. It is indeed the only tactic to win against countries with small land areas.
Blitz warfare is based on armored forces as the decisive force and air superiority as the premise. Regardless of the danger of flank exposure, a quick and bold attack is carried out towards the enemy's rear. It makes full use of the rapid advantages of aircraft and tanks to defeat the enemy in a sudden attack. It often wins.
It is to first use aircraft to violently bomb the enemy's important strategic facilities, the communication center, and blow up the enemy's aircraft at the airport, gain air supremacy, and paralyze the enemy's command system. Then use large-scale tank groups to quickly charge and completely destroy the enemy.
Positions disrupted by air force bombing
Blitzkrieg is the concentration of surprise attacks and quick attacks. Hitting the enemy like lightning can cause the enemy to lose morale under the sudden threat, so that it will collapse immediately under the first huge blow.
Historically, the war model was created by Guderian, but it was proposed by Hitler. It suited Guderian's taste. It is also called blitzkrieg. It was a tactic first and often used by the German army during World War II.
But from now on, the tactic of blitzkrieg was invented by Wang Jiuling, because he proposed it very early. At the same time, the battle against Siam was also the earliest mechanized blitzkrieg in history.
Judging from the current progress of the battle, one week is the longest to capture Bangkok. The Second Army attacking Bangkok is expected to arrive in Siam in two days, and the forward cavalry division and armored division may arrive in one day, of course.
If the resistance on the road is not fierce, Siam City may actually have heavy troops to defend it relying on the city's solidity. However, Bangkok is not a big city like Moscow or Berlin, and the construction industry in the East is not all steel and concrete like in the West.
Instead of stones, there are a lot of wood, so as long as the planes bombard them wildly, the soldiers are blasting one by one, which is actually very fast. What Wang Jiuling needs is to win Bangkok with minimal losses, and does not care whether the city is intact.
, Wang Jiuling knew that it would be difficult to occupy Siam. Britain and France would not agree, not to mention that there was Japan who wanted to kill Wang Jiuling at any time, so the last thing Wang Jiuling could get was a dozen prefectures in northern Siam.
, as for financial things, it depends on the ability of his subordinates.
Hundreds of thousands of Xikang troops invaded Siam. The news was not announced by Siam until noon. The world's public opinion was in an uproar. Most countries just wanted to watch the show. However, the British and Japanese governments severely criticized Xikang.
The Xikang Army claimed that this was a naked aggression and strongly demanded that the Xikang Army withdraw from Siam, otherwise it would have the right to take unnecessary measures
There was not much reaction from Xikang. Xu Wen, director of the Xikang Army's Information Office, just held a press conference to analyze the performance of the British and Japanese countries when Chinese expatriates were harmed and Xikang's banks were robbed.
Xu Wendao: "In the past twelve days, we have used various methods to hope to peacefully resolve the unpleasant things that happened in Siam, but Siam has either been perfunctory or directly avoided it. Everyone, Twelve Days!, Really!
It is twelve days, and the sincerity we have shown is enough, but Siam has never thought about solving the problem. Since we cannot protect the safety of our expatriates and our property through peaceful means, we can only use force
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Then Xu Wen added: "While China suffered such heavy losses, Britain and Japan did not make any response, but when Xikang really used force, these two countries stood up to bully us at the same time, so let
I have to suspect that the whole thing was planned by the British and Japanese. These two countries have always been despicable and shameless. I call on all Chinese people to boycott British and Japanese goods. If there are still people buying British and Japanese goods,
He will be regarded as a traitor and everyone will be punished." After Xu Wen finished speaking, he slapped his hand on the table, which shocked the reporters from various countries at the scene. They could clearly feel the anger and murderous intent in Xu Wen, this seemingly weak scholar.
Xu Wen's words quickly spread through newspapers throughout China, then Asia, and then all over the world. Xu Wen's words represented the meaning of Wang Jiuling and Xikang, the oldest warlords in the world.
Wang Jiuling originally had some concerns, but since the Japanese and British blatantly came out to help Siam and divided us between the enemy and ourselves, there was nothing to worry about.
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