Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1448 Goal
It's no wonder Kono Shinta would say "With helicopters, the Eighth Route Army can be defeated."

Shanxi is mainly protected by mountains. Although Taihang Mountain is the site of the Eighth Route Army, this "site" must be added with quotation marks.

The reason is that the Taihang Mountains stretch for more than 400 kilometers and are more than 100 kilometers wide. Once tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops are thrown into it, they will disappear with a little ripple like a small stone dropped into a lake.

Moreover, this "territory" refers to the fact that the Eighth Route Army can fight guerrillas without being surrounded and suppressed by the imperial army. It does not mean that the Eighth Route Army can fight the imperial army head-on on Taihang Mountain... The one that can really fight head-on is the Lvliang Mountain defense line, which is also small. It took more than a year for industry and arsenals to be established in the Northeast before they gradually took shape.

As for Taihang Mountain, it is still in a state where the imperial army can "penetrate the base area with one shot".

The reason why it will become a barrier for the imperial army to attack is that it is difficult for the imperial army's supplies and heavy equipment to pass through the Taihang Mountains and threaten Taiyuan.

But now, if the imperial army has helicopters, all problems will be solved... The imperial army can use helicopters to lift supplies like the Eighth Route Army, and the troops will march across the Taihang Mountains to attack Taiyuan with light equipment.

But Naozaburo Okabe didn't think so.

Naozaburo Okabe guessed what Kono Shinta was thinking when he saw that Kono Shinta kept staring at the Taihang Mountain and Taiyuan area on the map. He smiled and said, "Kono-kun, you don't mean to let the troops cross Taihang Mountain?"

Kono Shinta was taken aback, and asked suspiciously, "Don't you think so?"

"Of course not!" Naozaburo Okabe replied, pointing to Taiyuan on the map: "Taihang Mountain is only more than 100 kilometers wide, but the combat radius of the Eighth Route Army's fighter jets is [-] kilometers. Do you think we can go smoothly if we use helicopters to lift supplies? Have you escaped the oppression of the Eighth Route Army fighter planes?"

"Your Excellency!" Kono Shinta replied, "We can choose to transport at night!"

This is indeed a way.

Although helicopters do not have night combat capabilities, helicopters are slow aircraft. It does not have much problem flying at night or even at low altitudes at night.

But of course, it's best to go out on a moonlit night, otherwise it's easy to get into trouble.

"Night transport?" Naozaburo Okabe shook his head slightly, and asked back: "Do you still remember the battle where the Eighth Route Army shot down our army's 'human missile'?"

When Naozaburo Okabe asked Shinta Kono, his heart sank when he warmed up: "Your Excellency, you mean that the Eighth Route Army will deploy air defense systems in mountainous areas?"

"Maybe not at first!" Naozaburo Okabe turned his gaze to the map, frowning and said, "But if they find out that we have helicopters and transport troops at night, do you think they will let us cross the Taihang Mountains? ?”

Kono Shinta was right when he thought about it. Why didn't the Eighth Route Army use such sharp air defense equipment?And it is also a kind of equipment that can fight at night... Last time, the anti-aircraft missile of the Eighth Route Army accurately shot down the man-operated missile of the Empire at night.

If it can easily shoot down a man-operated missile at night, what about shooting down a helicopter!
Mata Kono said unwillingly, "But, Your Excellency! The Taihang Mountain is so big, it's impossible for them to cover all the area with anti-aircraft missiles!"

"They don't need to cover all the areas!" Naozaburo Okabe shook his head and said, "They just need to know where our ground troops are, and then..."

Kono Shinta understood after hearing this.

In his plan, the helicopter is to lift supplies for the ground troops crossing the Taihang Mountains.

Therefore, where the ground forces are, the helicopters will be there, and to be precise, the helicopters will operate in that area.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army only needs to know the location of the imperial army, and arrange an air defense system in this area, and then it can wait for the rabbit.

In the end, the problem will evolve into that the Eighth Route Army has air defense systems that can shoot down the Imperial Army's helicopters one after another, but the Imperial Army has nothing to do with the Eighth Route Army's helicopters.

Looking at it this way, it is not realistic to rely on helicopters to forcibly cross the Taihang Mountains.

If you do this reluctantly, I am afraid that the helicopters of the ground troops have not passed through the Taihang Mountains and the helicopters have been beaten. At that time, the troops will be stuck in a dilemma in the Taihang Mountains because they will lose the support of the helicopters.

Kono Shinta couldn't help asking helplessly: "Then, how will you use the helicopter?"

Naozaburo Okabe pointed to the gates on the map: "Our goal is still these gates!"

Kono asked in confusion: "But sir, don't we have the same problem? The Eighth Route Army can also deploy air defense systems near the pass!"

"That's right, Kono-kun!" Okabe Naozaburo said, "So our helicopter probably won't be able to get close to the pass, but why do we have to get close to the pass?"

Seeing Mata Kono's puzzled expression, Naozaburo Okabe continued to explain: "From the perspective of the Yanmen Pass battle, the enemy mainly deployed ground troops at the pass, artillery deployed on the high ground on both sides of the pass, and artillery detection radars deployed far away from the pass. The position of our artillery range!"

Hearing this, Shinta Kono seemed to understand something: "Your Excellency, what do you mean, we can target artillery detection radar or enemy artillery?"

"Yes!" Naozaburo Okabe continued to analyze: "Judging from the Eighth Route Army's previous interception of my 'man-operated missile', I think the range of the Eighth Route Army's air defense system is about ten kilometers. But the enemy's artillery itself is relatively scattered, and the artillery The detection radar is far behind the artillery, and the air defense system has a range of ten kilometers...how can it cover such a large area?"

Shinta Kono was surprised: How did Naozaburo Okabe deduce the range of the Eighth Route Army's air defense system?

But after thinking about it, he felt relieved. This can be roughly inferred from the location of the bombing target and the intercepted missile.

This is actually not difficult, but most people, including Shinta Kono, were intimidated by the anti-aircraft missile of the Eighth Route Army, so that they did not dare to face it, let alone analyze it, so they missed such important information.

Naozaburo Okabe went on to say: "I speculate that the air defense system of the Eighth Route Army must be combined with radar!"

Shinta Kono nodded again. Radar is the eyes to find the target, and it can only work if it is equipped with a radar air defense system.

"With radar, it is easy to find!" Okabe Naozaburo said: "We can even sacrifice a few 'man-operated missiles' or fighter planes, so as to determine the position of the enemy's air defense system. Then, the helicopter can rely on the cover of the mountain. Approach at low altitude at the blind spot of the enemy's radar, and then put down the fighters at a suitable position, the fighters approach on foot, and finally capture or destroy the enemy's artillery detection radar and artillery!"

Shinta Kono nodded in agreement: "If there is no artillery detection radar and artillery, the pass will be in our army's pocket!"

(End of this chapter)