Invincible from the sword

Chapter 335

Terauchi Yong sat in a large truck and took a brigade of guards to the No.20 Seventh Division.

At the same time, an ultimatum was issued to the Hada detachment.

Before six o'clock tomorrow morning, Taihu Lake must be captured.

Otherwise, you, Bo Tian, ​​will do seppuku yourself.

In order to show the seriousness of the matter, Terauchi Yuzai sent a telegram to Hata in the name of Okamura.

Drop drop drop.

blah blah blah.

Hada's face was pale when he received the telegram from Isamu Terauchi.

I Nima...

Okamura, what the hell are you doing with me!

belly cut?

Cut your aunt! ! !

An angry Hata tore up the telegram with a stab.

I almost want to rush to Okamura's dog and spit shit on his face.

Okamura idiot, do you know how hard it is to beat Taihu Lake?

However, Bo Tian only dared to curse a few words in his stomach.

If he really scolded, it is estimated that Neiji Okamura would shoot him to death.

The ranks of the island nation's troops are very strict.

Insulting superiors is a very serious incident.

Shooting for 5 minutes is not superfluous.

attack.

Say nothing.

So Bo Tian gave the order for a full-scale attack.

It is impossible to count on the Sixth Division.

Those new devils recruited from the mainland of the island country have no combat effectiveness at all.

No way.

Bo Tian has long been unhappy.

With this kind of combat power, Dangdang's garrison division is just fine.

Being a field force is simply not enough.

Shinichi Miyato, head of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army who received the order, thought he had made a mistake.

Actually let his sixth division get out of the way.

Bo Tian's No.18 brigade is going to join?

I drop mom.

What's wrong with Bo Tian?
Miyato Shinichi couldn't wish more.

Immediately ordered: "Make way for the devil brothers of the No.18 brigade and let them attack."

After all, it is the No.18 Brigade. Although the weapons used are similar to those of the Sixth Division, the quality of individual soldiers is much stronger.

Coupled with the rich combat experience, the temporary defense line of the regiment soon felt the pressure.

Zhang Lei's headquarters was observing the Japanese attack.

Nod.

The Japanese attack finally looked like a regular army.

Zhao Gang frowned: "Commander, the Japanese attacking this time is obviously different from the previous waves of Japanese troops.

The offensive ability is obviously much stronger.

Moreover, the clothes of the Japanese army were also different.

This time the Japanese army, the hats are not steel helmets.

It's a big-brimmed hat.

Could it be the Kwantung Army? "

Kwantung Army?
When Zhang Dabiao heard this, he immediately became excited.

If it was the Kwantung Army, Zhang Dabiao would go to the defense line no matter what.

At the beginning, the No.20 Ninth Army of the National Army where Zhang Dabiao belonged had fought against the Japanese Kwantung Army.

I suffered a lot.

If it is really the Kwantung Army, then this is a good opportunity for revenge.

Zhang Lei shook his head.

The man with the big-brimmed hat is not necessarily the Kwantung Army.

There are also many troops in the Japanese North China Dispatched Army wearing this kind of clothes.

And according to Xu Qi'an's aerial reconnaissance, Okamura Ningji did not send other troops to reinforce him except for the No.20 Seventh Division.

The No.20 Seventh Division of the Japanese Army is currently still in Yuexi.

It will take about half a day to reach Taihu Lake.

So Zhang Lei judged that this should be the No.18 Brigade of the Japanese Army of the Hada Detachment.

Half a day is still too short.

If there were two days, Zhang Lei felt that there would be no problem in annihilating the Japanese No. 20 Brigade with his Temporary Regiment plus the No. 18 Army.

But now, it took almost a day for his troops to stop the Japanese Sixth Division.

It was too late to eat up the No.18 Brigade of the Japanese Army in one bite.

However, since the No.18 Brigade of the Japanese Army came over, it was necessary to beat them hard.

Taking advantage of the No.20 Seventh Division's reinforcements, Zhang Lei decided to take the initiative to attack.

Kill a wing of the No.18 Brigade.

In this case, the next battle will be much easier to fight.

Zhang Lei immediately sent a telegram to Tiger Boy.

The telegram said that the No.20 Seventh Division of the Japanese Army was reinforcing Taihu Lake.

Everything is going according to plan.

Zhang Lei asked Tiger Boy to send a telegram to Madang's No.20 Ninth Army and No.70 Fourth Army.

Get the two armies ready to attack.

According to Zhang Lei's plan, after the annihilation of a regiment of the No.18 Brigade of the Japanese Army this time, his temporary regiment and the No.20 Army will retreat from Taihu Lake.

As a result, the Japanese Botian Detachment and the No. 20 Seventh Division of the Japanese Army went south to cross the river.

At this time, more than half of the Japanese Hada detachment had been lost.

Even with the addition of a No.20 Seventh Division, the total strength is only more than 3.

When the Japanese army was halfway across the river, they used planes and artillery to destroy the Japanese pontoon bridge.

In this way, the Japanese army can be cut off from the middle.

At that time, his temporary regiment and No.20 army will attack the Japanese army on the west bank of the Yangtze River.

No.20 Ninth Army and No.70 Fourth Army attacked the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, the No.60 Fourth Army and No.60 Sixth Army in Ruichang, and the No.20 Fifth Army and No.70 Army in Jiujiang will also go north for reinforcements.

Coupled with the fleet detachment of the temporary regiment, Zhang Lei is still sure of annihilating this group of Japanese troops.

Tiger Boy who received Zhang Lei's telegram did not dare to be careless, and immediately conveyed the order to these troops.

Tiger Boy knew very well that if he could go to the Wangjiang area to wipe out the Japanese Army's Hada Detachment and the Japanese No. 20 Seventh Division, then half of the battle on the Eastern Front would be won.

In the hands of Neiji Okamura, there are only five divisions in total.

According to Zhang Lei's latest telegram, the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army has been disabled.

If the No.18 Brigade and the No.20 Seventh Division of the Japanese army were wiped out again, only the [-]th Division and the [-]th Division would be left in the hands of Neiji Okamura.

This kind of force is not a threat to his First Corps at all.

His Tiger Cub's First Corps, although it can't be compared with the battle in Changsha.

But there are also 10,000+ troops.

After all, there are ten armies.

And there is also the No.70 Fourth Army, an elite unit.

With such a force, it is no problem to deal with the two divisions of Neiji Okamura.

What worries Tiger Boy now is that it belongs to the division directly under the Japanese army dispatched from Central China.

According to Zhang Lei's information, the combat effectiveness of these four divisions directly under them is still very strong.

Among the four divisions, there are three Class A divisions.

If reinforcements are sent to Okamura Neiji's No. 11 Army at that time, the defensive pressure on his First Corps will be very high.

Just in case, Tiger Boy notified the situation of his First Corps to Commander Zhang of the Second Corps.

Get him ready in advance.

At the same time, a telegram was sent to Chen Cixiu, commander of the Ninth War Zone.

Chen Cixiu frowned immediately after receiving the tiger boy's telegram.

Tiger Cub's worries are very reasonable.

If the Japanese Army's Hada Detachment and the No.20 Seventh Division were annihilated, it is certain that the Japanese Army's divisions directly under it will be reinforced.

In order to occupy Wuhan, the Japanese army assembled so many troops, it is impossible just for the sake of looking good.

Overall, the pressure is not small.

But after Chen Cixiu received the telegram from Tiger Cub, he felt much more at ease.

This Taihu Lake, Zhang Lei's temporary regiment is too strong.

The No.20 Army didn't move at all.

Just Zhang Lei's temporary regiment blocked the Japanese Army's Hada detachment for a day.

Moreover, the Botian detachment suffered heavy casualties.

Such a battle made Chen Cixiu very excited.

Chen Cixiu stared at the huge map in front of him, thinking about how he would deploy his troops if the divisions directly under the Japanese army reinforced the No. 11 Japanese army.

Tiger Boy and Zhang Lei's strategy of luring the enemy to go deep can completely continue.

Finally, Chen Cixiu set his sights on the Lushan area near Jiujiang.

This is the junction of the First Corps and Second Corps defense areas.

At that time, let the troops of the Second Corps quickly reinforce eastward, and together with the First Corps, they will be able to form a pincer attack on the Japanese army.

At this time, the problem of insufficient strength of the First Corps can be resolved immediately.

Moreover, the Lushan area is very suitable for dividing and encircling the Japanese army.

Taking advantage of the favorable terrain, a large-scale war of annihilation was launched against the Japanese army.

In that case, the battle on the eastern front of Wuhan can be based on assessment.

As long as the No.11 Japanese army is disabled.

Then the Japanese second army's attack on the fifth theater will stop immediately.

Wuhan is also safe.

However, Chen Cixiu still wanted to hear the opinions of Tiger Boy and Zhang Lei.

After all, if you want to carry out a large-scale annihilation battle in the Lushan area, it depends on whether the Tiger Cub's First Corps has the strength.

At this time, on the outskirts of Taihu Lake, the Japanese No.18 Brigade attacked very violently.

After all, it was the elite troops of the Japanese army, and they attacked very well.

And the devil's charge is also very sharp.

In order to cause the greatest damage to the Japanese army, Zhang Lei ordered the first battalion to continue to defend the position.

The second battalion and the third battalion made a roundabout attack on the Japanese flank.

At the same time, the artillery battalion stepped up its shelling of the Japanese army.

The tank battalion cooperates with the second and third battalions.

The battalions that received the order immediately switched from defense to offense.

Several battalion commanders were very excited.

They are in a group temporarily, although it is not bad to play defensive battles.

But not addictive.

What the temporary regiment is best at is offensive warfare.

After all, the weapons and equipment of the entire temporary regiment are offensive.

Xu Hu's tank battalion came out of the woods with a bang.

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

His tank battalion now consisted of fifty Sherman tanks.

Although it is much worse than when it was in Myanmar, so many tanks are enough to form an absolute firepower advantage over the Japanese No.18 Brigade.

After receiving the order to attack, Xu Hu's eyes lit up.

Fifty tanks rumbled out.

The Sherman tank itself is big, and the engine horsepower used is several times that of the Japanese tanks.

Dozens of tanks drove out, billowing with thick smoke.

Followed by Chen San's second battalion and Shen Quan's third battalion.

These two battalions also each have four tanks.

These tanks are more used as fire support for infantry.

More than 50 tanks, plus [-] troops, rushed towards the flanks of the Japanese army like a tide.

The Japanese commander Hada is frowning to observe the attack of his troops.

His face was a little ugly.

The opponent's firepower is very strong.

Although his troops were advancing little by little, they suffered heavy casualties.

(End of this chapter)