British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1580: Capture the Island

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The vast majority of people would not have thought that the United Kingdom would take action in Tierra del Fuego first, since the United Kingdom had previously said that it would not occupy Argentine territory.

Alan Wilson has something to say about this point. It is the British public opinion that says so. Is it true that the war between countries is what the public opinion says? What else would the staff do?

Giving the command and decision-making power to the supreme commander of the navy will benefit their growth. It is naturally best if they win, but if they fail? The United Kingdom may fail, but it will definitely not lose to Argentina. At worst, it will retreat temporarily to regroup, but it is absolutely impossible to exist as a fleet if the Argentine Navy suffers a loss.

The war with Argentina has already started, and Britain naturally has no reason to back down. The task force came from the Pacific Ocean, and the distance is farther than the main fleet in the Atlantic Ocean. An island must be found for repairs. Tierra del Fuego must be captured. Who Neither can stay on board for long.

If you have to worry about international public opinion even if you fight Tierra del Fuego, then what to do with such a big scene, it is better to arrange it according to the Falklands War in your memory from the beginning.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, a British helicopter appeared over Tierra del Fuego. Apparently, the plane wasn't here to watch the show. If the British army intends to watch the excitement, it is also to prepare for the next battle, instead of using reconnaissance helicopters that only have passive detection capabilities.

This reconnaissance plane is to find out the reality of Tierra del Fuego and prepare for the next landing. Obviously this time the reconnaissance was successful. Tierra del Fuego is the same as the Falkland Islands, because of the climate problem, it belongs to a sparsely populated island. For the British task force equipped with landing craft, there is no difficulty.

After this reconnaissance, the sky has obviously darkened. Landing under such conditions is very dangerous, and should be avoided under normal circumstances. However, loyal Nepalese mercenaries must show their loyalty to Her Majesty, and land as scheduled. Go ahead, the Argentine defenders didn't notice anyway, the mercenaries need to be careful not to sit still and get flooded.

To be honest, this time the landing went smoothly, but the Argentine navy was blocked by the British nuclear submarine blockade and could not move forward. It became an existing fleet. The landing forces successively captured islands with few people. These islands were not the defense of the Argentines. The point is, if a slightly larger island needs to be garrisoned, Argentina's military strength will be greatly diluted.

The population density of the Argentine part of Tierra del Fuego is less than one person per square kilometer, and the Argentine garrison on the island is better than nothing for landing troops, so the British came in so logically.

From this point of view, Argentina is obviously still in the military understanding of the World War II era, and does not understand its opponents in various senses.

While making progress in Tierra del Fuego, preparations to counterattack the Falkland Islands are also underway. Since the connection between the Argentine Navy and the Falkland Islands has been cut off, the capture of the Falkland Islands has been a challenge for the British Expeditionary Force. It is only a matter of method.

While Ushuaia, the capital of Tierra del Fuego, was surrounded by Nepalese soldiers, the landing operation in the Falkland Islands had also begun. In the middle of the night, a British landing team composed of three assault battalions paddled rubber boats and landed quickly. beach.

At the same time, the two paratrooper battalions carried by the helicopter also quietly landed behind the enemy's rear in the night sky. There was almost no trouble in the entire landing. Fifty Argentine soldiers fled in a panic after hearing the gunshots.

As for the main force of the Argentine defenders, it is natural to deal with other problems. The Vulcan strategic bomber squadron that has appeared at the South Georgia Airport has begun bombing the Falkland Islands.

at night. The bombers had already carried out a devastating bombing of the Argentine camp that had been scouted during the day, but it was night after all, and because they were not familiar with the place, it was hard to say what the effect would be. However, the flames were very conspicuous in the night, so I believe the loss should not be small.

The Argentine garrison guarding the island fired back with anti-aircraft guns, which had no effect on the Vulcan strategic bomber. The roaring anti-aircraft guns seemed to vent the unyielding will of the Argentines.

Even this unyielding will is questionable. If the Argentine defenders already knew at this time that the British army had successfully disembarked from other landing points, they might not feel so good about themselves.

But even so, the morale of the defending officers and soldiers facing the bombing was also low. They didn't know that the last batch of two strategic bombers came towards them with the latest cloud bombs, preparing to borrow the Argentine Head of the fellow, let's test the power of the cloud bomb that has not yet been tested in war.

The danger is coming, but the defenders still don't know it. In the previous bombing, the few radars have been destroyed. This is not the credit of anti-radiation missiles. It is purely that the Argentine defenders set up so few radars after landing on the island. The station has not been hidden yet, and has been taken down in the previous air raid.

However, technological progress will inevitably affect tactics, and even completely change tactics. More importantly, for the party that has mastered the technical advantage, if the existing tactics are still effective, they will not be eager to seek new tactics, especially in actual combat. Mature tactics are definitely more popular with commanders. When there is no choice, the commander will adopt a new tactic.

This phenomenon is very common and not uncommon since ancient times.

For example, after the appearance of the machine gun, the end of the cavalry came, but during the First World War, both sides used large-scale cavalry. After the advent of tanks, trench warfare became history, but before World War II, many countries still pinned their security on a solid strategic defense line.

After aviation dominated the battlefield, ground forces became a secondary combat force. However, throughout the Cold War, both the NATO and Warsaw Pact groups retained large-scale ground forces, and devoted a lot of effort and financial resources to this.

If the opponent is Argentina, it is not an outdated tactic for the Vulcan bomber to carry out a strategic bombing similar to that of World War II. On the contrary, this is the tactic that maximizes its advantages, especially for the Argentine island defense forces that have lost their backup. in this way.

The United Kingdom did not tell Argentina not to deploy anti-aircraft missile positions. Argentina itself did not take it seriously. Now being bombed by Vulcan bombers is completely the self-choice of Latin America's second strongest, no wonder others.

Two Vulcan bombers with important missions passed through the anti-aircraft artillery interception position, which cannot be said to be completely non-existent, but almost non-existent, and sent the cloud bombs they carried to the heads of the Argentine defenders. In terms of electronics, the United Kingdom cannot be called Backward, on the contrary, technical exchanges with the United States have been going on.

The world's first laser-guided bomb was a product of the US "Paveway" program, born during the Vietnam War.

Laser technology was a very advanced technology at that time. It has high light color purity and frequency purity, small projection divergence and high brightness. The weapons used by the United States in Vietnam have never been a secret to the United Kingdom. , There are still a group of high-level Nanyue living in Malaya.

In the world in 1982, the technology was more mature than that of more than a decade ago, and the Argentine defenders who were about to eat bombs were far less professional and technically supported by the Soviet Union than their counterparts in North Vietnam.

The power of the cloud bomb that was dropped could make up for the lack of accuracy, not to mention that it was a precision-guided weapon that hit the target accurately. The appearance of a tragic scene will bring great shock to people.

The explosion of the cloud bomb instantly drained the air in the area, turning the defenders into headless chickens looking for the right to breathe. If this scene happened during the day, it would be a great blow to morale.

But is it going to happen at night? It was also a huge blow. The morale of the Argentine defenders was not high, and their courage was gone like the air burned dry by a cloud bomb.

The British troops who landed at the port of San Carlos did not know the situation here. After the landing, the assembled landing troops immediately headed towards Darwin port. It was so small that the British troops who landed were completely ignorant of what happened to the main Argentine force in Darwin Harbour.

When these marines with heroic dreams arrived here, the night had already passed, and the scene in front of them made the officers and soldiers of the marines feel that it was not as good as the dark sky.

The Argentine soldiers who died of being unable to breathe even made the British officers and soldiers whisper with strange faces, "Did the Air Force use gas bombs? Why do they even use this kind of weapon?"

"Don't make random guesses~lightnovelpub.net~How could the Royal Air Force use that kind of thing." A middle-aged major stopped his subordinates severely, and made unfounded comments on the scene in front of him, "It's a powerful bomb. War is People will die, can you accept that we are the ones lying here?"

In fact, although the major spoke confidently, he still had doubts in his heart, but he couldn't express his doubts, and completing the task was his first priority.

No matter how powerful the cloud bomb is, it is impossible to wipe out all the defenders. Fortunately, the effect is still obvious. Although sporadic firefights have occurred, after the persuasion that promises to guarantee life, there is only one life left. The Argentine soldiers chose those who knew the current affairs as heroes, held their hands high, and ended their mission with a clear conscience.

The British army took advantage of the victory and marched towards the capital, Port Stanley. The Afghan army stationed outside the port fled back to the port after firing a few shots. The British army easily occupied the commanding heights of the port, condescending, and more than 10,000 Afghan troops in Stanley City have become entangled turtles.

The matter has come to this point, and the United Kingdom can fully declare that it has regained control of the Falkland Islands. What is lacking is the largest defenders, like the two battalions that were buried under the cloud bombs in Darwin Port, bravely persist to the end, or Make a humanitarian choice.