Chapter 114 Marine Corps(2/3)
Especially after getting used to seeing offices in the capital that are often thirty or forty square meters in size, I feel that this office is a bit frustrating.
"This is your office?" Li Xiao did not sit on the sofa, but stood in front of the window and looked at the blue Mediterranean Sea.
The sea view is good and you can directly overlook the port.
The main guns on the Yanshan can be seen clearly.
"No! My subordinates work and meet people here on weekdays."
"Yeah! Let's go and have a look in the war room." Li Xiao pulled away the orderly who was serving tea and walked out directly.
Zuo Liangyu hurriedly followed and ran all the way to lead the way in front of Li Xiao.
Walking into the war room, Li Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up.
It's such a big war room, taking up almost half of the floor.
There is a huge sand table in the middle of the ground, and the entire Mediterranean topography is displayed on the sand table.
The blue plastic plate represents the Mediterranean Sea.
There was a staff officer holding a long pole and constantly adjusting the positions of the warships and units.
There is a huge combat map hanging on the wall, but this map is a map of the entire Eurasian continent.
It details the garrison locations of each Marine Corps unit, as well as information such as size and equipment.
On another wall is an enlarged map from Corsica to southern France.
There are even bridge and road information marked on the map!
It seems that aerial reconnaissance has been able to help frontline troops supplement map information very well.
Next to the war room is the telecommunications room, from which the sound of "didi-dah-dah" kept coming.
It seemed that Zuo Liangyu was ready to convey his orders to the troops at any time.
Seeing Li Xiao coming in, all the staff officers put down what they were doing, stood up straight and saluted.
Li Xiao returned the gift!
"Continue your work." Li Xiao waved his hand casually.
The officers continued playing with the sand table and using red and blue pencils to draw on the map!
"The war room is doing well!" Li Xiao looked at the map of Eurasia on the wall, and then walked to the enlarged map of Corsica and southern France.
"Front troops conduct aerial reconnaissance every day, and the latest cameras are able to take clearer aerial photos.
Based on these cameras, we can add a lot of things that we didn't know before.
For example, here, according to the information we originally received, the road conditions are very good and can pass cars.
However, aerial reconnaissance revealed that the road here was only three meters wide.
And here, I originally thought there was a fort bunker.
But in fact, the fort and bunker are more than two hundred meters away.
This place is a false target for our naval guns to blow up."
Zuo Liangyu took the long stick from the staff officer's hand and pointed on the map.
"This is where we landed last time." Li Xiao pointed to a protrusion on the edge of Marseille.
"Yes, this is La Ciotat.
I originally thought that there was a pretty good fishing pier here.
It can dock small boats of tens to hundreds of tons, but after actually landing, it was discovered that it can only dock small boats of tens to twenty tons.
The equipment and equipment supplies that have been prepared cannot be sent at all.
Early the next morning, the French army concentrated more than thirty large-caliber artillery pieces to bombard this small port.
More than an hour of shelling completely destroyed this small port.
The equipment, supplies and personnel sent up by many small boats were also blown up!"
Zuo Liangyu sighed helplessly.
"Kill the enemy artillery without naval gun support?" Li Xiao frowned.
“The water in this area is very shallow, and it’s all mudflats.
If the ship is close, it will easily run aground. If it is far away, there will be no way to target the enemy's artillery positions.
Besides, the destroyer's gunfire couldn't reach such a distant target.
The battleship is further away, so even if it fires its guns, there is no way to hit it accurately.
so……!"
Zuo Liangyu stopped talking again.
"There are aerial photos, but such a big mistake was made.
Landing operations are what your Marine Corps specializes in, but you actually ended up like this?"
Li Xiao stared at Zuo Liangyu with a cold face.
Zuo Liangyu's lips moved, but he stopped talking!
"What's wrong? If you have something to say, just say it!"
Li Xiao frowned, and Zuo Liangyu tightly closed his mouth and said nothing.
"Speak, you are the commander of the Marine Corps.
Don’t act like an old bitch!”
"Commander!" Just when Zuo Liangyu was silent, a staff officer suddenly spoke.
Everyone's eyes turned to the young staff officer. It was probably the first time that the young staff officer was looked at by so many people.
He swallowed nervously, took a deep breath, and gathered up his courage.
"Commander, all landing operations are planned and directed by the navy.
The so-called joint operations do not involve any participation from our Marine Corps.
The navy only ordered us to send troops, but did not give us any command authority when facing the enemy.
Even the battle plans were made by those in the Navy.
Commander, you cannot place the responsibility for the defeat on our left commander."
The little staff officer scratched his neck and yelled!
"Is that so?" Li Xiao withdrew his gaze and looked at Zuo Liangyu again.
"Commander, Commander, he...!"
"You are the commander of the Marine Corps, and the Marine Corps should be under your control.
Do you understand?"
"promise!"
Zuo Liangyu nodded.
"Um!
You are a good little staff officer and can be promoted." Li Xiao pointed at the little staff officer, turned and walked out of Zuo Liangyu's war room.
Returning to Zuo Liangyu's small office, he closed the door and only Li Xiao and Zuo Liangyu were left in the room.
"There were just a lot of people, so there were some things I didn't say.
It's true that Li Xiu is my second brother, but that doesn't mean he can interfere everywhere.
The Marine Corps was separated from the Navy because it was incompetent.
I can’t take care of such a big stall!
You are here to take control of the Marine Corps.
you understand me?"
"No!" Zuo Liangyu's eyes lit up.
This is Li Xiao’s license!
With this giant Buddha as your backer, why are you still afraid of those in the navy?
“From now on, the Navy will be the Navy and the Marine Corps will be the Marine Corps.
Uh...!" At this point, Li Xiao suddenly shut up.
"Let's see, the Marine Corps will change its name from now on and be called the Marine Corps.
The word navy is gone!"
After thinking for a while, Li Xiao suddenly said.
To be continued...