Chapter 32: The Battle of Kars (1)

  The iron ore revenue from the main base and the gold mine revenue from the sub-base added together, the usable funds were increasing at a rate of over 400,000 per day. Looking at the numbers on the screen, Zhong Yi comfortably closed his eyes. In two more days, he would be able to complete the task for the upper school, a travel-level organization that could recruit over 3,000 people. Heh heh, Persis, beautiful Black Swan City, you can't escape! And, bro, I'm finally going to bid farewell to the pure land army era.

  In this era, no one understands the importance of air power better than Zhong Yi! In future wars, air superiority is the balance of war. Even in the Korean War in the 1950s, when aircraft were not as advanced as they are now and there were no missiles flying everywhere, what sacrifices did the volunteer army pay without air superiority? When others are in the sky and you're on the ground, others can attack you at will, but you can't hit back. You set up a defensive line, and once your troops move, others can see it clearly. What's more, even transporting supplies has to be done secretly under the cover of darkness, while others are enjoying good food and drink, wrapped in thick blankets. We're not even full, and we don't dare fire bullets casually, we have to save them, who knows when they won't be transported again? All this, isn't it all because we didn't have air superiority? Being able to push the UN army back to the 38th parallel is simply a miracle!

  Not to mention the two Gulf Wars, Lao Sa's army was not bad in the Middle East, and the Republican Guard was a "fine" elite force. But the Americans didn't play infantry with you, they played air raids, precise strikes, cruise missile attacks, and airborne cavalry charges, and one 101st Airborne Division made Lao Sa's mind spin.

  Here is the translation:

  "Right, thinking of this, Zhong Yi's eyes suddenly lit up. If you want to say that the true nemesis of tank armor is still the WZ - armed helicopter. After the outbreak of World War II, tanks appeared in large numbers on the battlefield, and they were getting heavier and thicker with armor. The Type 59 couldn't maintain an absolute advantage on the battlefield forever. So, if we could equip ourselves with more advanced armed helicopters than other countries... even if we can't develop guided missiles yet, just equipping them with rockets, cannons, and machine guns would be very powerful. For example, the Americans have their Air Cavalry Division, which didn't exist at that time, it was formed in the late stages of World War II, and they were paratroopers. We also have a 101... regiment. Zhong Yi awkwardly rubbed his nose, fortunately, there was only himself on the command platform, these white soldiers weren't very obedient to his commands yet."

  Zhong Yi was somewhat pleased with himself for being able to preemptively occupy the concept of airborne cavalry, but the sudden transmission of the "female" anchor's voice immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him. "Report to the commander, a large number of locomotives have been found on the eastern railway."

  "How far? How much farther are those trains from us?" Zhong Yi suddenly pushed the chair under his buttocks and stood up.

  "Just entered the detection range of one hundred kilometers from the branch base."

  Switch the holographic map to the eastern railway line one hundred kilometers away, equally blurry, can't see what's going on, just confirm that there are indeed locomotive-like objects moving on the railroad. Cursed the base's radar imaging technology, still no match for satellites! But it doesn't matter anymore, since the Red Alert forces occupied Kalguly, all trains on the Australian east-west main railway line have stopped running, and the locomotives appearing on the railroad at this time are undoubtedly transporting Australian troops.

  Zhong Yi curled his lips, it seems that he was still deceived by the old fox. Sandra said that Australia's internal struggle, Canberra would not care about Perth's life and death, now it seems that this is clearly a strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain. "Bird, where is the location of the armored division?"

  "Reporting to headquarters, the armored regiment has arrived at the outskirts of Perth and is facing off against the Australian 3rd Division across the river. The regiment commander is organizing..."

  "Alright, the frontline situation, let the regimental commanders decide for themselves, we don't want to interfere too much." Zhong Yi directly cut off the 'female' anchor's report. What Guo Lin was doing wasn't important, what could be confirmed was that even if the armored regiment returned at full speed, they wouldn't be able to catch up with the Australian army who had arrived by air. Now, unless they abandoned Kalgoolie, they could only rely on their current strength. The two regiments of National Guards were... Zhong Yi gritted his teeth and punched the command platform, his hand hurt, the alloy structure of the command platform was very solid.

  The 101st Regiment is beyond hope, Hans can restrain those white soldiers from making trouble. The 102nd Regiment... although the morale of those native soldiers is not bad, but to expect an infantry regiment that has been trained for less than a month to defeat an Australian army corps or even more, is it possible?

  Withdrawal, abandoning the division base and joining the armored corps seems to be the only option now. But Zhong Yi was not reconciled, there were less than two days left, just short of 40 hours, he could be promoted to senior colonel, he could recruit more than 2,000 Red Guards again, and then build an air force division and airport. Two days later, the Australian army would be a group of 'chicken' dogs.

  Here is the translation:

  By the way, there was another unit at the base, which was the guard company led by Jiang Yunzhi and Qian Zhihao. This company was formed just before the attack on Perth, carefully selected from the entire armored division, with Qian Zhihao being transferred back from the cavalry regiment to serve as the company commander. Jiang Yunzhi did not follow the armored division into action either, but stayed behind to provide special training for this company, with the goal of executing a special mission after the armored division occupied Perth. In short, if the various big families in Western Australia were not obedient, then the guard company would take action and make some people secretly disappear - or as we Chinese say, "kill the chicken to scare the monkey".

  Now, this guard regiment will play an important role in this blocking battle. The native corps led by the Red Guards can also burst out stronger combat effectiveness and may be able to hold on for two days.

  Without much consideration, Zhong Yi walked out of the base control room and called over Jiang Yunzhi and Qian Zihao, who were organizing special training. "Within four hours at most, the army from eastern Australia will launch an attack on us, our armored troops won't make it back in time."

  There was no panic as expected, but instead, a hint of excitement appeared on Qian Zhihao's face. Zhong Yi smiled wryly and said, "Don't think it's just a small enemy force, the large number of motorcycles loaded with at least one division of troops, and there should be heavy equipment."

  Jiang Yunzhi still had a poker face, "Sir, assemble the second battalion, we need to rush and build a blocking position. Also, the guard company's blocking tactics that they've been practicing hard for days can be put into actual combat practice now."

  "Yes, boss, the sight developed by those crazy people in the lab is too useful. Our automatic rifles can be used as anti-tank guns, 400 meters or less, every shot hits. If we had even better rifles, I could hit 800 meters!"

  Looking at Qian Zhihao, who was fearless, Zhong Yi smiled and said, "Don't worry, you'll have a good rifle." Turning his head around, Zhong Yi's expression became very serious. "Yunzhi, I only need two days. Two days later, I will have military support for you, not local people, but our newly recruited armored troops from the military camp!"

  "Understood, sir! Hold off the enemy on the spot for two days! Guarantee completion of the task!"