aircannonsinc Chapter 208
Chapter 208
: Surrounding Mandalay!
boom!
The moving M1A2 main battle tank suddenly fired an armor-piercing projectile from the chamber and hit a wall two kilometers away.
The shell passed through the half-meter-thick brick wall and directly penetrated a wheeled destroyer hiding behind the wall, causing a sudden explosion, killing all the two wheeled destroyers and several Burmese soldiers.
Xiao Yi lay on the ground and watched the M1A2 main battle tank on the left front firing in progress. The huge recoil caused the entire tank to shake slightly. A large amount of smoke from the shells poured out along the barrel, but it quickly dissipated. went.
But even at a distance of two thousand meters, the legion’s main battle tank accurately hit the enemy’s wheeled destroyer hiding behind the wall.
After the smoke from the shells dissipated, the Legion’s M1A2 main battle tank continued to advance. Within a few hundred meters around it were several Grizzly light tanks, multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and two infantry platoons of nearly a hundred infantry soldiers in a coordinated attack.
At this time, the main force of the legion had crossed the Mijie River, and two thousand meters ahead was the edge of Mandalay City.
The area where they are now belongs to the suburbs of the city, with open spaces, many ordinary residential areas, and even slums.
Because the war has spread here, many civilians have fled. Even the civilians who stayed behind are now hiding in their homes and shivering.
Now almost no civilians can be seen on the streets. Even civilians’ private cars have been hidden in garages or houses. Private cars parked on roads and in the wild have been driven away by fleeing Burmese soldiers.
Now the legion’s offensive is overwhelming. The 50,000 Burmese armored troops, mobile troops and artillery troops on the front battlefield are almost completely wiped out.
Soon, the main force of the legion entered the city of Mandalay.
There are less than 30,000 Burmese soldiers left in the city, and many of them are Burmese soldiers who were defeated from the front line.
They relied on the terrain in Mandalay City to resist, but due to the heavy losses of the main force leaving the city, the garrison troops in Mandalay City were also in short supply of equipment.
A lot of heavy equipment and armored equipment were destroyed by the legion’s air force. Even some armored vehicles and wheeled destroyers had to hide in civilian houses to escape the legion’s bombing.
But now the main force of the legion is attacking. They hide behind bunkers and attack the legion, which will only attract more legion artillery shells and rockets.
At the same time that the main force of the southern legion crossed the Mijie River and invaded the city of Mandalay.
The regiment troops in the direction of Northern Shan State also broke through the defense line deployed by the Burmese army in Mei Miu County, and launched an attack straight down from the Shan State Plateau toward the eastern part of Mandalay City.
The Myanmar Army has deployed 28,000 troops in the Nongben Mountains where Mei Miu County is located, including an artillery division and three independent artillery battalions.
Trying to rely on the complex mountainous terrain of Meimu County to block the legion layer by layer.
However, under the eyes of the Legion’s air force, Tatmadaw troops have no privacy at all.
The Myanmar Army’s artillery units deployed in Mei Myu County and the defensive positions deployed in the mountainous areas were the first to be bombed by the Army’s air force before they were attacked by the Army’s ground forces.
Dozens of A-6 Intruder attack aircraft, A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, and Badger bombers carried various large aerial bombs, air-to-surface missiles, rockets, and even 30 mm cannons against the Burmese army artillery positions and The mountainous defense lines were bombarded indiscriminately.
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The legion’s ground troops only need to attack along the main road, just like ‘poking tofu with chopsticks’, quickly breaking through the layers of defense deployed by the Burmese army in Mei Miu County.
Completed the rendezvous with the friendly forces coming from the direction of Naypyitaw.
Two corps combined brigades and two guard brigades, totaling more than 40,000 troops, launched a siege on Mandalay City where the Burmese army was firmly entrenched.
“Brigade Commander! An urgent call from the Second Brigade! Brigadier Sun’s headquarters is conducting encirclement operations along the Nongben Mountains and around the north of Mandalay City!”
In Jiaoshi County, at the frontline headquarters of the 3rd Brigade of the Legion, a staff officer handed the latest telegram to Yang Wenlong.
[PS: Sorry, I made a mistake in the last chapter. The one in the south is the combined third brigade, and the one in the east is the combined second brigade. 】
“They are quite fast. I thought I had to wait for them.” Yang Wenlong looked at the map.
Mandalay is located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River. More than 20 kilometers to the east is the Nongben Mountains, so the city was actually established on the valley impact plain between the Irrawaddy River and the Nongben Mountains.
Now the continuous bombing by the legion’s air force has destroyed a railway bridge and a road bridge on the Irrawaddy River. It is basically impossible for the Myanmar Army troops in Mandalay to cross the Irrawaddy River.
As long as they dare to cross the river, the legion’s air force can send these Burmese troops trying to cross the river to see the Dragon King like whack-a-mole.
The southern part of Mandalay has been blocked by the 3rd Synthetic Brigade and the 1st Guard Brigade led by Yang Wenlong.
To the east of Mandalay is the narrow Nongben Mountains, and Sun Hao’s Second Combined Brigade and Third Guard Brigade are coming from this Shan State Plateau.
As long as the northern part of Mandalay is blocked, the last tens of thousands of Burmese troops in Mandalay will be surrounded by the army!
Yang Wenlong immediately ordered: “Deploy a synthetic battalion, an engineer battalion, and a guard regiment to attack the Irrawaddy River Bridge and knock down Sagaing City on the other side of the river!”
The Ayeyarwady River is the dividing line between Mandalay and Sagaing Provinces.
The capital cities of the two provinces are only separated by the Irrawaddy River.
The garrison in Sagaing City only has two 400 brigades, about 6,000 people in size. Ding Kun, the commander of the Northwest Military Region stationed in Sagaing Province, knows that Mandalay cannot be defended, and his Sagaing Province certainly cannot be defended, so The main forces under his command were gathered in Mandalay to resist the legion’s attack.
Later, Yang Wenlong ordered: “Deploy another armored company and a guard regiment to go east along the Mijie River to join the friendly forces coming from northern Shan State and block the escape route of the Burmese army!”
After the order was issued, the third brigade of the Corps took action quickly and deployed two troops to launch attacks on Sagaing City and the eastern suburbs of Mandalay across the Irrawaddy River.
Mandalay, a large city with a population of more than 1.6 million, has been completely plunged into war.
The legion’s fighter planes are entrenched in the sky over the city, on the ground, and in the city streets. The main force of the legion is cleaning up the remaining Burmese army troops one by one on the roads and in the neighborhoods.
There are also legion electronic warfare planes higher up in the sky monitoring the city of Mandalay. Once a radio signal is detected, legion fighters will immediately be called for bombing, or ground troops will be attacked.
Under such an all-round attack, the Myanmar Army troops scattered in Mandalay City were unable to form effective contact at all. As long as the radio was turned on, it would attract missiles from the Legion.
The remnants of the Burmese army can only fight on their own.
It is only a matter of time before the Legion captures the city of Mandalay.