Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1640 Fire Attack
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However, Ding Wei is still a hundred secrets and one sparse after all.

To be exact, Ding Wei did not expect the devils to be so devoid of conscience and completely disregard the hearts of the people in the Northeast... Ding Wei always thought that the Northeast was an area under the control of the devils for more than ten years, and the devils should take into account the future control of the Northeast. A little bit of the feelings of the people in the Northeast.

But the devil doesn't think so...

The battle against Siping was commanded by Umezu Meijiro.

At this time, Umezu Yoshijiro had already vaguely felt that Mao Xiong was just pretending to disperse the strength of the imperial army, and that it was the Eighth Route Army, not Mao Xiong, who was really attacking.

The reason is very simple. At this time, the Eighth Route Army has captured Siping and occupied the transportation center of "Manchuria". The transportation of all materials will be affected, and the operations of the imperial army will be completely passive.

But until this time, Mao Xiong still did not attack, not only did he not attack, but the intensity of his exercise was still decreasing.

This is enough to explain the problem: Mao Xiong's million troops are just for show.

At this time, Umezu Yoshijiro turned his head to pay attention to the internal battle situation, and was surprised to find that the Eighth Route Army had surrounded the Kwantung Army in such a short period of time and developed stronger... One hundred thousand Eighth Route Army has suddenly become 30, and it is still growing increase.

Is it okay to develop like this?
The use of gas bombs was Meizu Meijiro's decision at this time. He hoped to kill the Mahjong Eighth Route Army in its cradle.

To Umezu Yoshijiro's surprise, the use of gas bombs in the direction of Donggang not only failed to work, but caused heavy casualties to the imperial army.

At this moment, the Eighth Route Army suddenly attacked Siping, and Umezu Meijiro immediately thought of the Eighth Route Army's intentions.

"They want to use Siping anti-gas bombs!" Umezu Yoshijiro said looking at the map: "It is indeed a good move. This place is also very suitable for mechanized troops to defend, and our army's tanks..."

Umezu Yoshijiro didn't want to say anything next, he never imagined that one day the imperial army would be crushed by the Eighth Route Army no matter whether it was tanks, cannons or even fighter jets.

Therefore, although Siping is important, it is the place where the imperial army has the weakest defense. The city walls are only repaired symbolically to keep out the people.

There is no other reason, this place is suitable for mechanized troops to fight, and at that time only the imperial army could be called mechanized, and the Huaxia army was not worth mentioning compared with the imperial army in this respect.

In this case, does the imperial army need to defend Siping?

What's more, Siping is still in the hinterland of "Manchuria"!

Who would have thought that one day the Eighth Route Army would in turn become the superior army of mechanized troops, and occupy an absolute advantage.

So Siping has become an excellent defensive position for the Eighth Route Army: it can not only block the traffic of the imperial army, but also protect against gas bombs, and it can also perfectly combine mechanized troops and infantry to win more with less.

However, since Umezu Meijiro thought that the Eighth Route Army was using Siping to fight against gas bombs, how could the Eighth Route Army occupy Siping so easily.

Qin Yansaburo, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, said: "Your Excellency, we can transfer the armored train to cooperate with the troops to attack!"

Umezu Yoshijiro shook his head: "The Eighth Route Army with artillery detection radar is not something that armored trains can deal with!"

The armor thickness of an armored train can only block bullets but not shells.

But of course Qin Yansaburo also thought about this, and he replied: "Your Excellency, the armored train can move at any time, and its speed is much faster than the artillery. It should be able to avoid the artillery detection radar of the Eighth Route Army!"

This idea is a bit new.

Armored trains were indeed faster and safer than regular artillery.

Ordinary artillery has a process of retracting and hanging the artillery when it is about to transfer, and it is a road maneuver.

The artillery detection radar of the Eighth Route Army reacts much faster than it, so the Devil Artillery often arrives before they can quickly transfer the artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army.

But the armored train is different. This thing can keep the locomotive running all the time, accelerate away after firing a few shots, and then fire a few more shots... Repeatedly, even if the Eighth Route Army has artillery detection radar, it is difficult to deal with this "guerrilla" tactics".

Another point is that the armor of the armored train can resist bullet fragments to a certain extent, even if some shells reach the car body, they cannot kill the personnel in it.

Umezu Yoshijiro nodded when he heard this, and said, "You can try it, not to mention we can use it in conjunction with gas bombs! When our army shoots out the gas bombs, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army will never fight back!"

However, Umezu Yoshijiro quickly thought of a problem: the Eighth Route Army was scattered in the four civilian houses. Even if the armored train regained its advantage in artillery, where was the focus of the shelling?

"This can only be used as an aid!" Umezu Yoshijiro said: "It still can't decide the outcome of the war!"

"Then, what else can play a decisive role?" Qin Yansaburo asked.

Umezu Meijirou's eyes flashed a glint of sternness, and he said, "Huo Gong, Qin Yanjun, Huo Gong! We will reduce the whole Siping to ashes!"

Umezu Yoshijiro's words startled Qin Yansaburo.

The fire attack is definitely useful. Gas bombs can force the Eighth Route Army back into the houses and cannot come out, at least not until the poison gas dissipates.

At this time, if the imperial soldiers entered the city under the protection of gas masks and set fire to it, the Eighth Route Army would fall into complete passiveness:

If you come out to fight the fire, you will be injured by poisonous gas.

If you don't come out to fight the fire, you will be burned to death!
however……

Qin Yansanlang said: "Your Excellency, will this... cause a chain reaction?"

Umezu Yoshijiro understood what Qin Yansaburo meant.

Today the imperial army poisoned and set fire in Siping, will they do the same in another place tomorrow?

You must know that these Northeast people are in principle "obedient people" at this time. They have not had any problems under the control of the empire for more than ten years.

In this case, the empire actually used such despicable means to burn Siping to ashes?

That's one hundred thousand people!
In this way, will the people and the puppet army in other cities in the Northeast be about to rebel?
If you follow the devil, you will die anyway, so why do you still follow?

It's better to follow the Eighth Route Army and fight the devils to the death, there is still a chance!
But Umezu Yoshijiro would say this strategy, and he had already figured out how to deal with it.

Umezu Yoshijiro said inscrutablely: "That is the fuel depot of the Eighth Route Army was hit by our army, understand?"

Qin Yansaburo was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, and said, "Yes! The Eighth Route Army's mechanized units are defending Siping. Their tanks and half-track vehicles need a lot of gasoline. The gasoline was hit by our army and caused a fire!"

(End of this chapter)