NIP #381 - Start negotiations
#381 - Start negotiations
Han City Defense Line.
After three days and three nights of continuous fighting, both sides were exhausted.
Zhi Si Headquarters.
"Old Chen, can the logistics keep up?" the Zhi Si leader asked.
"The shells, especially the rockets for rocket launchers, have reached the lowest point in history. On average, the front line has no more than 2 basic ammunition loads." The brigade commander responded with a wry smile, "The railway line is bombarded by the rogue eagle's naval guns every day, and it is impossible to recover. Relying on road transportation, our transportation capacity has been sharply reduced by 70%. The rear motor transport regiment has been working around the clock for 24 hours, and it is impossible to make up for the huge gap after the railway transportation is interrupted."
Currently, General Matthew's only absolute advantage is the naval battlefield. Due to the lack of effective means of attack, the Volunteer Army is powerless against the rogue eagle's naval guns that are conducting mobile operations.
The newly formed navy only has 2 Fletcher-class destroyers and 4 Jianghu-class frigates. Frankly speaking, it cannot even defend the Bohai Sea in a direct battle. Therefore, it is impossible to demand that the navy launch an attack.
Land-based surface-to-surface missiles are currently obviously incapable of hitting moving targets, and shore-to-ship missiles are still in frantic development. Don't even think about it in the short term.
"Alas, forget it, let's just counterattack!" The Zhi Si leader had been staring at Suwon and Hoengseong, and several times he was determined to launch a rearguard interception battle against them, intercepting and annihilating most of the rogue eagle's front-line troops.
However, the current ammunition reserves are obviously too limited.
After all, there are not only two combat brigades, the Kangaroo Combat Brigade and the John Bull Combat Brigade, with decent combat effectiveness there. To the south, the rogue eagle also has three fully staffed infantry divisions watching covetously. Once the two armies that launch the attack fail to quickly take down the Kangaroo and John Bull defense lines and a stalemate forms in the Suwon and Hoengseong wilderness, and two rogue eagle infantry divisions突击up to form a two-sided encirclement, this encirclement battle may turn into a breakout battle!
It is better to be conservative now, counterattack General Matthew's forward troops, and defeat their offensive.
"Yes, old chief, our country is stepping up the large-scale production of armored forces. Li Yunlong and the others are even testing new composite units. Old Brother Ren has come up with new tricks again. I don't know why this old brother, who has never even attended a military academy for a day, has so much strange knowledge in his head. Not only is he good at technology, but he is also a good hand at training soldiers.
We will wait for Li Yunlong's 16th Army to complete the new formation demonstration, and then redeploy it to the peninsula to give the rogue eagle a fatal blow. After defeating them head-on, it is estimated that this war should be over." The brigade commander had a long-term vision. Through the first three slightly tactical victories, and then the fourth campaign where everyone truly fought each other, the Volunteer Army still had the upper hand. If there is another hearty victory, the rogue eagle, recognizing the reality, will sit down and talk seriously.
"Indeed, we are not in a hurry. Let's take it one step at a time and first knock down the arrogance of this new rogue eagle general. Order the 50th and 63rd Armies to launch a counterattack from the flanks!"
Rogue Eagle Rear Command.
Telegrams once again reached a saturation point.
"What? The Volunteer Army has retained 4 divisions to launch a counterattack?" General Matthew could no longer hold on.
"Order the air force to attack! Try to adopt guerrilla tactics to hold back the opponent's fighter clusters. No matter how difficult it is, we must create bombing conditions for our bomber wing and cover the front-line troops to withdraw!" General Matthew stared at the sand table with flickering eyes, but his mouth did not stop.
Although the last air battle proved that there was a huge technological gap in the air force, research in the rear is being carried out day and night. The opponent's secret weapon has now basically been touched upon some secrets, and even a dud has been salvaged!
"Order the front-line troops to retreat in full force to the Suwon and Hoengseong areas to defend!"
The Fourth Campaign came to an end with the rogue eagle's all-out defeat.
This most intense battle since the peninsula conflict still ended with the victory of the Volunteer Army. Because the Zhi Si leader chose conservative treatment at the last moment, although it may have reduced the number of enemies annihilated, it can ensure the fruits of victory.
In this campaign, the Volunteer Army directly destroyed more than two hundred rogue eagle fighters, most of which were the rogue eagle's new jet fighters. They rushed to the front and took the most poisonous blows.
The Volunteer Army Air Force also lost dozens of fighters, about half of which were J-5As and half were P51D Mustang fighters. In this battle, more than a dozen ace pilots emerged. This was because the J-5A fighter pilots used their machine guns to shoot down the rogue eagle's rearguard fighters after running out of missiles in the air battle.
Or it was created by playing the whole game and returning to the field again during the rogue eagle's retreat.
In contrast, the Volunteer Army tank units lost more than 200 vehicles. Of course, the number of tanks equipped on the front line was also too different from that of the rogue eagle. The three armies had a total of more than 500 tanks. In this battle, the tank units withstood the first wave of counterattacks, and in the remaining battles, they mostly relied on infantry anti-tank to destroy them.
In the artillery duel, the Volunteer Army also achieved a great victory, exchanging the loss of more than a hundred guns for the loss of at least seven or eight hundred guns on the rogue eagle side.
Of course, in terms of ammunition consumption, the two sides almost fired the same equivalent this time!
In order to annihilate the rogue eagle's scattered artillery, the 122mm rocket artillery unit, which was responsible for the main anti-artillery force, had completely emptied its family fortune! Only in this way could the results of the counterattack be achieved with a numerical advantage.
It was precisely because the Volunteer Army's artillery was contained by the rogue eagle's artillery that the support for the front-line positions was greatly reduced.
On the entire front line, the casualties this time reached more than 30,000 people. Of course, as the attacking side, the rogue eagle and its allied forces suffered even more casualties, with nearly 60,000 casualties. In addition, in the final counterattack, nearly 10,000 allied forces from various countries were captured by the fresh troops of the 50th and 63rd Armies.
Total combat attrition exceeded 70,000, and it can be said that General Matthew's gamble failed in all aspects.
After this battle, the rogue eagle's internal situation could not be stabilized. If this continues, it feels like it's over.
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Therefore, with the coordination of intermediaries, the first negotiation finally began.
However, this negotiation itself was just a test for the rogue eagle. The two sides contacted each other and offered prices, and found that they were completely unmatched!
Having fought to this point, no one is happy to just stay in the pre-war state.
The north wants to take the current actual control line as the standard, and does not want to give up the rich areas of Hancheng that it has occupied.
The rogue eagle demands not only a retreat to the 38th parallel, but also punishment for the peninsula northerners who launched the war, and compensation to the south.
This request is not only excessive, but also a bit out of touch with the situation, so everyone is talking at the table while working hard to prepare for another fight.
Especially after obtaining a dud of the PL-1 air-to-air missile on the battlefield, the rogue eagle's first-generation air-to-air missile finally took shape quickly under pressure.
They did not make a breakthrough in terms of propellant, but in terms of the seeker, they basically figured out the general practice of infrared guidance through dissection. It's just that the materials can't be quickly broken through now, so they used another infrared guidance material instead, and the cost is that the detection accuracy is much worse.
But compared to the previous machine guns, the hit rate has increased by more than an order of magnitude!
In this way, the negotiations between the two sides are like chatting, and everyone doesn't take it seriously.
(End of this chapter)