45: The whole country is united, and the thunder strikes!

Xinhua News Agency, Yanjing. Xinhua News Agency, by order of the Dragon Country Government, issues the following statement:

The Viet Cong authorities have disregarded repeated warnings from the Dragon Country and have recently dispatched armed forces to continuously invade Dragon Country territory and attack Dragon Country border personnel and residents!

The situation has rapidly deteriorated!

It severely threatens the peace and security of our border!

Under unbearable circumstances, the Dragon Country border defense forces are forced to launch a self-defensive counterattack!

At noon, a powerful nationwide broadcast shook the entire country, igniting the fervor of 1 billion people!

"Damn it, it's about time we acted!"

"Five million tons of rice and 20 billion US dollars raised a wolf cub; we must make them spit out everything they ate!"

"Enlist! I want to join the army and go to the front lines to fight these damn Viet Cong wolf cubs!"

In factories, on roads, in schools, hospitals, and all other places, the entire population was filled with righteous indignation!

These days, newspapers and broadcasts were filled with the atrocities committed by the Yue Hou Country against the Dragon Country.

For example, the day before yesterday, the Viet Cong's 346th Division, 246th Regiment, dispatched 1,200 men and used mortars and machine guns to attack a border village in Lingxi!

The entire village and school were razed to the ground by artillery fire!

The people of the Dragon Country had long gnashed their teeth at these atrocities committed by the Viet Cong and the harm inflicted upon their compatriots!

Upon hearing that the Dragon Country border defense forces were launching a self-defensive counterattack against the Viet Cong, all the pent-up frustration in the hearts of the people was finally released!

Although the lives of ordinary workers and citizens were very tight in this era, everyone eagerly and spontaneously began to donate money and supplies!

No matter how difficult or poor their families were, they absolutely could not let the soldiers fighting bravely to defend their homes and country lack supplies!

This was the most simple sentiment of the ordinary working people!

Even if it meant tightening their belts in the rear, they had to ensure that the soldiers fighting on the front lines were well-fed and warmly clothed!

As for the young people, they took to the streets to inquire about places to sign up for the army!

The whole nation was united, overcoming difficulties together!

...At the same time.

The voice from the Dragon Country in the East also shocked the entire world!

The Viet Cong, that was the world's third-strongest military power!

Western powers like the French Empire and the USA had suffered greatly on the Viet Cong battlefield in previous years.

Even American soldiers would rather commit suicide on the battlefield than face the Viet Cong's elusive guerrilla warfare in the jungle.

In many Western Countries, they had demonized the Viet Cong Country.

So, when they learned that the Dragon Country dared to take action against the Viet Cong, the entire International Community was greatly shocked!

Was the Dragon Country not afraid of being dragged into the quagmire of war by the Viet Cong?

Originally, with the Dragon Country's reform and opening up, many Western Countries were eager to invest in the Dragon Country.

But now, they collectively believed that the Dragon Country was likely to fall into a war quagmire for more than ten years.

It would no longer be able to carry out economic construction.

Therefore, many countries and institutions around the world immediately began to lower the Dragon Country's investment rating and raise the risk level for going to the Dragon Country.

USA.

When the The White House heard the Dragon Country in the East address the world, it was also very shocked.

Although when Zheng Gong of the Dragon Country visited their USA, he had repeatedly emphasized: if a child is disobedient, he should be spanked.

However, at the time, they only considered this a bargaining chip for the Dragon Country to gain support and economic aid from the USA, a grand promise made by the Dragon Country to the USA.

They never imagined that the Dragon Country was a man of few words but fierce action, and actually directly attacked the Yue Hou Country!

It should be known that the Yue Hou Country had spent these years building countless defensive fortifications, caves, and tunnels along the border, layered three deep inside and three deep outside.

It was even known as the "Maginot Line of the East"!

How dared the Dragon Country army do this?

However, no matter how shocking, the Dragon Country's action against the Yue Hou Country was still beneficial to the USA.

Only in this way could the Yue Hou Country's strategic deployment of uniting with the Soviet Union to unify the Indochina Peninsula be disrupted.

So the The White House immediately decided to dispatch the Pacific Ocean Fleet to prevent the Soviet Union's military intervention.

This would confine the war to the two countries of the Dragon Country and the Yue Hou Country.

It would be best if the two countries were entangled in fighting for several years, causing the Soviet Union, which would continuously aid the Viet Cong, to also fall into the quagmire of war!

...Lingxi.

Eastern Front Operations Headquarters.

When the war officially began, the Eastern Front forces, as the main force, did not launch a general offensive.

"In modern warfare, victory or defeat is determined by intelligence warfare and psychological warfare before the first round of shelling."

This was the first operational concept Peng Lin proposed when he arrived at the front two weeks ago.

Therefore, over the past ten days or so, the Dragon Country had been continuously using high-altitude reconnaissance balloons, reconnaissance teams, and special agents to infiltrate and reconnoiter the Viet Cong's defensive fortifications.

Currently, on the operational map of the General Headquarters, the coordinates of the Viet Cong's tunnels, caves, defensive fortifications, and artillery positions have already been marked.

At this time, all that the front-line troops were firing into Viet Cong territory were propaganda shells.

After scattering at high altitude, the propaganda shells dispersed leaflets in the Viet Cong language.

These leaflets contained slogans such as "Dragon Country will never occupy an inch of Viet Cong territory" and "The 3rd Division, 9th Division, and 11th Division have abandoned resistance."

While these slogans might not have any immediate effect, they could plant a seed deep within the Viet Cong army.

Next, as long as the Dragon Country army could sweep through the Viet Cong's positions with overwhelming superiority, like autumn winds sweeping fallen leaves.

Then this seed would quietly sprout.

At that time, the Viet Cong forces would all fall into mutual suspicion and speculation.

The 3rd Division would wonder if the 9th Division had truly surrendered; otherwise, how could so many positions have been lost?

The 9th Division would also suspect the 11th Division and the 3rd Division; if they themselves had suffered devastating blows, why hadn't other surrounding units come to their aid?

Had they truly surrendered and given up resistance?

Even if the division headquarters could maintain communication and contact, the positions of each regiment, battalion, and every company and platoon below would fall into chaos.

Approximately three hours later.

The front-line troops fired all their propaganda shells, and the psychological offensive completely ended.

"Now the battle is about to officially begin!"

"Next, Comrade Peng Lin, the Chief Operations Advisor, will issue the first day's combat missions to the forces on all fronts!"

General Xu Liyou's expression became serious, and he stepped forward to the operational map and said.

Peng Lin, along with the other operations staff officers in the command room, also moved in sync to stand before this huge map.

"On the first day, our army's operational codename will be 'Beheading'!"

"Starting at 4:00 PM sharp, the artillery units of our Eastern Front field armies will launch a twelve-hour artillery feint against enemy territory."

"The artillery fire will continue until 4:00 AM tomorrow at dawn."

"Currently, these are the coordinates of the Viet Cong's rear air defense missile depots, railway hubs, important bridges, road hubs, field hospitals, ammunition depots, communication hubs, and airport hangars."

"In addition, there are also the coordinates of the front-line command posts of military strongholds such as Lạng Sơn, Cao Bằng, Đồng Đăng, and Đông Khê, as well as the deep command post coordinates of divisions such as the 346th Division, 3rd Division, and 316A Division."

"Of course, the coordinates of the Viet Cong's artillery positions and the Soviet-made BM-221 Hail Rocket Artillery Division's positions cannot be ignored either."

"At 8:00 PM sharp, under the cover of artillery fire, the drone combat group will dispatch 500 sorties of 'sickle' suicide drones to conduct swarm suicide precision targeted elimination operations against the above coordinates!"

Peng Lin held the pointer and continuously marked dozens of coordinates on the operational map.

And after hearing Peng Lin's first step of the operation, the staff officers and senior military officers in the entire operations command room couldn't help but twitch their mouths.

This operational plan could absolutely be described as "insane"!

After all, which army's first day of operations involves "targeted elimination" and beheading of all enemy command posts and front-line command posts at division level and above?

If you also take out all the enemy's rear air defense missile depots, railway hubs, important bridges, road hubs, field hospitals, ammunition depots, communication hubs, and airport hangars!

Then the Viet Cong's 100,000 troops on the front lines will be completely cut off from all contact with the rear!

At that time, without rear material support and without various front-line command posts, the Viet Cong's 100,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of militia will all be like headless flies, only able to fight individually!

"Beheading" is not just about beheading the enemy's command post!

It is about cutting off all external aid, communications, supplies, and logistical support of the enemy army!

At that time, when all the operations staff officers in the operations command room conducted tactical simulations with Peng Lin, they were repeatedly crushed by Peng Lin's "beheading" operation!

To this day, they still feel "lingering fear" about such tactics and weaponry!

In the operations command room, everyone was excited!

If it was said that tanks would reach the Viet Cong Capital within five days, then they would reach the Viet Cong Capital in five days!

And the first day would be a thunderous "beheading" operation!