Chapter 685: Hesitate

"This is also the first battle after the reorganization of our 81501 Division. Let the old men who only stay in Bangsang for meetings all day to see how they should fight!"
After hearing Lin Mingxian's words, Xie Li responded with a laugh, and a glint flashed in his eyes. He nodded slightly at Lin Mingxian, then walked to the table and picked up the phone and whispered: "I order, code name" Unity "action begins!"
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"Report, Savin Yangbin is calling."
"Read."
"At 4:15 a.m. on February 10, 1983, Mogok’s Ministry of Forces suddenly launched an attack on our Ministry. The enemy used large-caliber howitzers and other heavy weapons to intensively cover our peripheral strongholds. The firepower was very intensive. Our Ministry is currently suppressed. In the center of the town, most of the outlying strongholds have been lost, so we ask for reinforcements! Feel Xintai."
"What! How is it possible?!"
Dan Rui used his hand involuntarily, and the pencil broke into two pieces with a "slap", one of which was drawn across the map, leaving a thick, messy black line.
The early morning is often the darkest time of the day and the time when people are most likely to get sleepy. However, Than Shwe was unable to rest for even a minute. Before the correspondent entered the door, he was using bloodshot eyes on the huge military map. Use dividers, rulers and pencils to do the homework on the map.
This work that should have been done by the staff, Dan Rui was extremely skilled. This is actually his habit all the time. Different from the hard-handed and unblinking "backbasket general" in people's word of mouth, Dan Rui Rui, a general from Coban, is actually quite elegant, he even wears a pair of wide-rimmed glasses with gold rims. If it weren't for the military uniform on his body that showed his identity as a jagged soldier everywhere, I am afraid that people would be more willing to associate his appearance with the professor of the school.
The reason why he is already a commander of the Central Military Region in Burma’s Jade Military Region is willing to do what he did as a small staff is entirely because he hopes to settle down his mood in the process of doing this. Repeated calculation and planning of the map finds the weakness of the enemy and also finds the opportunity for victory.
However, now, he found that after hearing the report from the correspondent, his heart was disturbed.
Than Rui threw the pencil with his broken hand aside, snatched the telegram in the hand of the correspondent and read it carefully, and the correspondent found that his always calm officer, holding the telegram, was shaking slightly. .
The message is very long, and the reporter reads only the first paragraph that the current commander of Sawan Yangbin, Major Jue Xintai, thinks is the most important, and it can be summed up in only eight words: the situation is critical, request reinforcements!
Next, he described the course of the battle in detail, and pointed out very clearly that the previous government army’s intelligence investigation of the Xie Li Ministry’s armed forces had failed. The enemy definitely had more than 6 122 mm self-propelled howitzers, and at least one battalion. 18 doors, because the cannonball falling on his head will not lie!
A volley of 18 large-caliber artillery guns from an artillery battalion, such a scene... Than Shwe shuddered after thinking about it. Such a density of firepower was difficult for him, the commander of the Central Military Region of the Burmese Government Army, to get the enemy’s firepower. When did it become so ferocious? Who will explain to him, is this still a guerrilla?
According to Jue Xintai’s report, the enemy carried out at least 10 rounds of shelling and razed all the peripheral fortifications of Sawan Yangbin Town to the ground in one fell swoop. If it weren’t for them to retreat to the interior of the town and use all the town’s residents as a physical shield, they would barely persecute the enemy. Giving up the artillery bombardment to engage in more cruel street fighting with them, relying on the enemy not daring to bear the charge of slaughtering civilians and having a dozen Shermans acting as their fortress and firepower output point, only barely maintained the situation, even if it is. In this way, Jue Xintai also felt that he would not be able to support more than 24 hours, because his ammunition was limited, and he was sure that at least two regiments of light infantry were thrown into the street fighting against Savin Yangbin by the enemy!
Xie Li came out all the time, even his old book was taken out!
Among other things, let’s just talk about the 122 artillery shells. The current price of a shell on the international market is about 1,000 US dollars per unit. According to this standard, Xie Li, in order to take down Sawan Yangbin, just before an appetizing artillery salvo The play went into the net worth of 90,000 dollars!
What is this concept?
Last year, that is, in 1982, the per capita GDP of Myanmar jade was only 174 US dollars, and the average annual income of each family was less than 50 US dollars. The shelling by the Ministry of Xie Li alone was equivalent to the total annual income of nearly 2,000 Myanmar jade families. !
Comparing the heart to the heart, Tan Rui feels that with the traditional virtue of the "Mindi Martial Arts", they don’t know how much they have paid to get these guns, and their inventory is absolutely impossible for the expensive artillery shells as consumables. too much.
Than Rui put down the telegram, rubbed his cheek vigorously, forced himself to calm down, and began to think about countermeasures.
If you think that what the Xintai telegram says is true, and of course, Than Shwe also believes that he should not dare to lie about this kind of overall situation, then it can be concluded that Mogok’s determination to take down Sawan Yangbin is undoubtedly Is very determined. No matter where they got these heavy artillery from, at least one thing is certain. He has only three regiments with a number of about 5,000 people. In addition to the two regiments that have already been engaged in street fighting, plus a heavy artillery battalion, Xie Li At most, there are only two battalions left with a reserve team of about 1,000 people, and they have obviously done their best.
In fact, just talking about Savin Yangbin, the geographical location of this small town is not that important. It is nothing more than a town on Highway 31. Before, it only existed as a boundary between government forces and Mogok’s forces, but with the situation The development of this ordinary town has become a key node in the battle between the two sides, because once Savin Yangbin is captured by Xie Li’s Ministry, it means that the war town 25 kilometers away has lost its last barrier and will face Mogok. The battlefield of the centaur, and Zhanhuozhen, as the intersection of Highways 31 and 311, the hub of the connection between the Taigong battlefield and Mandalay at the rear, and the storage location of logistics materials, there is absolutely no room for mistakes.
Therefore, Savin Yangbin must be saved.
However, according to Jue Xintai, the enemy actually threw two regiments of infantry into street fighting in a place as big as Sawan Yangbin’s slap. It was obviously intended to take them down at any cost regardless of casualties. In this situation Down, Jue Xintai had only three companies of light infantry in his hand and a company of Sherman, it was too difficult to hold.
He must be reinforced, and fast!
But how should this reinforcement be sent?
Dan Rui looked at the three big red arrows on the military map in front of him, indicating the direction of the enemy's attack, and he hesitated for an instant.