Bright Sword Military System

"Your Excellency, General!" Shinta Kono gave a suggestion: "We should ask the Kwantung Army for help!"

"Kwantung Army?" Neiji Okamura looked a little helpless, as if he was telling Shinta Kono that those arrogant guys only think about their own territory and won't listen to him at all.

In fact, the Kwantung Army had no reason to listen to Neiji Okamura's condemnation.

Neiji Okamura is the commander of the North China Front Army, and his scope of authority is in North China.

In terms of military rank, Yoshijiro Umezu, the commander of the Kwantung Army, became a general in the army in 40, and he was on the same level as Okamura Ningji. Of course, there is no need to listen to Okamura Ningji.

However, it is not impossible to transfer troops from the Kwantung Army. The North China Front Army has repeatedly transferred troops from the Kwantung Army to supplement the front line.

However, this required procedures, that is, to call Tokyo first, and then Tokyo ordered the Kwantung Army to dispatch troops into the North China Front Army.

After this procedure is completed and the Kwantung Army is coming from the northeast, I am afraid that the day lily will be cold... Datong is only more than 200 kilometers away from Longxi Airport, and the Eighth Route Army can advance about [-] miles a day. It takes three days to reach Datong City.

Kono said anxiously: "Your Excellency, should we allow Datong to be besieged by the Eighth Route Army?"

"No, of course not!" Neiji Okamura replied, "First of all, we can transfer troops from Beiping, where the main force of the North China Security Force is stationed, and we can transfer two regiments to Datong for reinforcements. But..."

Okamura Neiji looked at the map and said: "Peking is more than 300 kilometers away from Datong, and the railway lines and highways have been damaged to varying degrees by the guerrillas. I am afraid that we will not be able to reach Datong before the enemy!"

If the railway line is smooth, it will only take six to seven hours for more than 300 kilometers... During World War II, the speed of the devil's manned train was about [-] to [-] kilometers per hour.

However, what Okamura Ningji could think of, how could the Eighth Route Army not think of it?

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army will definitely wreak havoc on the communication line from Datong to Beiping to prevent reinforcements from rushing to Datong.

What's more, after the Eighth Route Army occupied Longxi Airport, the combat radius of the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes was 300 kilometers... In fact, it cannot be calculated with a combat radius of 300 kilometers. If you carry out bombing missions, you don't need to reserve fuel to fight with enemy planes, so the combat radius Can reach 400 kilometers.

Taking Longxi Airport as the center and drawing 400 kilometers outward, about 200 kilometers of the train from Peiping to Datong is under the bombing range of enemy planes.

Therefore, it is indeed difficult for the reinforcements to arrive in Datong in time.

"So we have to delay!" Shinta Kono analyzed.

"Yes!" Okamura Ningji nodded.

"But, how can we delay the time?" Kono Shinta asked again.

This is a difficult problem.

There are indeed garrisons and fortifications along the Devils Railway.

But the purpose of these garrisons is to stop the enemy guerrillas, and the fortifications are no exception.

So there is a small team here and a puppet platoon there, the fortifications are also gun towers and barbed wire, and there are few mines... The reason is that the vibration near the railway line is very strong, and the mines are likely to be detonated.

Such fortifications and troop deployment are good for dealing with guerrillas.

But if you deal with the regular army of the Eighth Route Army and there are still mechanized troops with tanks and bursting rifles, it is basically a mantis arm blocking the car. …

Neiji Okamura was silent for a while, then said: "Kono-kun, we have an armored train in Datong!"

As mentioned before, Datong is an important hub of the railway line. In order to ensure the safety of Datong and nearby railway lines, the Empire has a Type [-] heavy armored train stationed in Datong for a long time.

Kono Shinta's eyes lit up when he heard Neiji Okamura's words for the first time, but then they dimmed again: "But your Excellency, the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army, they have tanks, and they are Taka-chan's 'Sherman' tanks!"

If the Eighth Route Army had no tanks, then the armored train was indeed a magic weapon. The imperial infantry only needed to follow the armored train on both sides. The Eighth Route Army, whether it was a half-track vehicle or a rifle, would not be an opponent of the armored train.

But if the Eighth Route Army had tanks...

The armor of the thickest part of the Type 10 armored train is only [-]mm, which is an excellent target for enemy tank guns.

What worries Kono even more is that the Eighth Route Army still has opportunities to fight.

Neiji Okamura asked instead: "Kono-kun, do you know about Taka-chan's 'Sherman' chariot, does it have the ability to fight at night? Do the enemy fighters have the ability to fight at night?"

Shinta Kono immediately understood the meaning of Neiji Okamura's words: "Your Excellency, you mean that we only attack at night?"

Neiji Okamura nodded: "What we want is to delay the time rather than defeat the enemy. Then, we can allow the Eighth Route Army to attack during the day. At night, it is time for our armored train to attack. If we can stop the Eighth Route Army from advancing It is best to repel it or cause heavy casualties, does that mean the safety of Datong?"

Kono Shinta couldn't help but nodded when he heard this: "Your Excellency is right, the enemy happens to be advancing along the railway line, and this is the time when our armored trains play a role!"

So, Okamura Ningji still has a few tricks. His defense against Datong is not a simple passive defense, but an active force to attack to buy time for reinforcements.

To use an idiom to describe this, it is "replacing defense with offense".

Compared with tanks, the advantage of armored trains is that they are equipped with many searchlights to make them capable of night combat. In addition, the artillery on armored trains is either a 105mm cannon or a 75mm high-level anti-aircraft gun. These not only have a long range And it is still a great threat to tanks.

Therefore, the mechanized troops who bumped into the Eighth Route Army at night really don't know who will win.

After the tactics were settled, Okamura Ningji issued several orders one after another.

The first order is for the 59th Division to disperse and break through the encirclement... Another meaning of this order is to ask for blessings and make a living.

Only in this way can a few people from the 59th Division escape back alive.

Because it is basically impossible to break out of this encirclement if it is an organized and large-scale battle with the Eighth Route Army. It can only be scattered in the mountains to hide or hide or make up... The mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army cannot enter the mountain, so they can pass through it. encirclement.

The second order was to transfer two regiments of the North China Security Army from Beiping and a brigade from Taiyuan to reinforce Datong.

Like Kono Shinta, Neiji Okamura also doesn't trust the North China Security Force very much, and he doesn't feel at ease without a reinforcement of his own troops.

However, Taiyuan is also 300 kilometers away from Datong, and the traffic line is also under the bombing of the Eighth Route Army fighter planes.

Needless to say, the third order is to order the Datong Garrison to immediately organize a counter-offensive force with armored trains as the core to delay the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army.