My Bright Sword Logistics Career

Chapter 255
"The Yangquan garrison has lost contact."

"Yangquan should have fallen."

"The defenders are all broken."

In Taiyuan, as the commander of the first army, Yoshio Shinozuka kept in touch with the Yangquan garrison at any time, so he immediately sensed something was wrong.

"It's only been three days..."

Yamamoto muttered to himself.

Yangquan can't hold it, and can't wait for reinforcements to arrive,
He had expected
But in just three days, nearly ten thousand imperial troops, relying on the complex urban area and solid fortifications to defend Yangquan, were occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and the defenders completely lost contact.

Still far beyond Yamamoto's expectations.

He thought that he could last at least five or six days, or even longer.

"What kind of tank?"

Yamamoto frowned suddenly.

Relying on the tunnel fortifications built in the complex urban area, relying on the reverse slope fortifications built on several surrounding hillsides, these can greatly weaken the advantage of Tuba Road's artillery fire, forcing Tuba Road and the imperial army to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

But even so, Yangquan still fell in just three days.

The loss of contact for three days meant that on the first day, the Eighth Route Army broke through almost all frontal positions, and the next two days were just clearing out the remnants.

It's not normal,
After much deliberation, Yamamoto thought of a piece of news reported in the telegrams that the Yangquan garrison continued to send to the headquarters of the First Army.

The Eighth Route Army attacking Yangquan dispatched tanks.

Only tanks, the king of land warfare that combines mobility, firepower, and armor, can do it. In just three days, they captured the fortifications around Yangquan carefully constructed by the locust army and wiped out [-] locust troops.

And it must be a very powerful tank.

Although the Yangquan garrison lacked anti-tank weapons, the two wings were located in mountainous areas with complex and steep terrain, and tanks could not go up there at all, at least the Imperial Army's tanks would never go up there.

The number of Tuba Road tanks is also obviously small.

Only a tank with extremely powerful performance can pass through the complex and rugged terrain on both wings and help the Eighth Route Army break through the Yangquan defensive position in one day.

As if, the German tanks passed through the Ardennes Forest...
"Sure enough."

Shinozuka Yoshio also let out a long sigh.

Not beyond his expectations.

The Eighth Route Army took out new weapons.

But it was beyond his expectation.

The weapon they brought out was so powerful that it exceeded his expectations.

···
"Yangquan has fallen?"

North review.

Neiji Gangmura also received the news.

Compared with Yamamoto and Shinozuka Yoshio, Okamura is obviously more difficult to accept.

"idiot."

"waste!"

Even with his city mansion, he couldn't help but curse.

he thought,
Even if there are more than 1 locust troops in Yangquan, none of them may be rescued.

Actually it doesn't matter.

His main task is to get through the Zhengtai line and the Tongpu line, and arrive in Taiyuan. The order given to him by the base camp is to rescue the main force of the first army and ensure the vitality of the locust army.

As long as the main force of the first army of more than 5 in Taiyuan is rescued, it will be a victory.

After realizing the strength of the Tuba Road, the base camp finally recognized the reality and was no longer obsessed with taking back North China.

Even the garrisons of several divisions in the Fenhe Basin are preparing to retreat.

The Tongpu Line was cut off, and the guerrillas in the south were also very active. The Hailan Railway could only maintain its opening to traffic. The transportation volume was not as good as before, and the Yangtze River transportation was even more difficult.
Under such circumstances, it is meaningless to maintain the garrison in the Fenhe Basin.

Without sufficient logistics, and unable to continue the offensive,
Moreover, the Guanzhong Basin has been taken by Tuba Road.

Even if the No. 11 Army came in person and opened up the Tongpu Line and the Hailan Railway, it might not be able to launch an offensive.

stay on,
Maybe that day, Tuba Road will surround the tens of thousands of garrisons in the Fenhe Basin.

In Gangcun Ningci's vision, even if none of the more than 1 garrison troops in Yangquan were rescued, it would still be able to contain a large number of troops from the Tuba Road and create conditions for the rescue of the First Army.

but now···

Ten days before the attack, Yangquan fell.

Yangquan became his trouble instead.

To get through the Zhengtai line, you must pass through Yangquan.

Ten days is enough for Tuba Road to build a solid fortification in Yangquan and store a large amount of shells. He...
Thinking of the unbelievably dense rain of shells, for a moment, Neiji Okamura wanted to report to the base camp—or give up the First Army.

But the orders of the headquarters must not be violated. Even if he is a general, if he proposes not to save 5 people from the First Army, he will be dismissed in the next second.

Fortunately, it is not hopeless.

This time, he has enough long-range heavy artillery and shells in his hands. As long as he concentrates his strength and suppresses the enemy's artillery fire, he has a chance of winning, and maybe he can capture a large number of artillery and shells.

But even so, the casualties must be very heavy.

"idiot!"

Fighting a battle that must have suffered heavy casualties, but had to fight, made Gangcun gnash his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.

"Notify the local area and send more anti-aircraft guns."

Angry and aggrieved, Gangcun called his staff and asked him to contact the local people.

Gangcun also noticed that although Yoshio Shinozuka did not pay as much attention to the tanks that appeared in Yangquan, and even realized the essence by coincidence, he also knew that the goods produced by Tubalu must be very high-end.

Anti-tank forces must be strengthened.

···
"The tank is a good thing!"

The head of the 771 regiment, who was cleaning up the battlefield in Yangquan, looked at the 22 tanks called Type 72 that were almost unscathed, and the corners of his mouth leaked out.

"really."

The commander of the 17th Battalion of the Independent Regiment couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

Fighting in Yangquan, they originally thought it was a fierce battle.

Offense is no better than defense.

Although the artillery fire of the army is now more than ten times that of the devils, it can even be said that there are more shells than the devils' bullets.

However, the defender can take advantage of the geographical advantage to greatly weaken the advantage of artillery fire, especially the reverse slope positions on the two wings of Yangquan, where even the 240 heavy mortars are somewhat weak.

If you want to take the anti-slope positions on the two wings, you must send infantry to fight for the ridge.

Even if the troops have an absolute advantage with light firepower, this battle is not easy to fight.

The devil hiding in the tunnel has an absolute advantage, and the little devil's will to fight is really not blown out.

But with tanks, everything is completely different.

The steep slope that is difficult for people to climb, the tank carrying the 105 artillery drove up in the blink of an eye, and it also withstood the attack of the devil's meat bomb carrying the explosive package. Only two tracks were damaged.

It was fixed in a few hours.

With the tanks breaking up the devil's position, the infantry can easily keep up, and then continue to break through with the tank, completely disrupting the devil's defensive position.

Only the first wave of attack completely won the position, and for the next two days, they have been exterminating the remaining devils in the tunnel.

then···
Became the easiest battle ever.

Casualties were far lower than expected, and even the shells were not consumed much.

"pity··"

The head of the 771th regiment tsk tsk tsk tsk:

"There are too few people who can drive this thing."

As the head of the veteran main regiment who has stepped into mechanization, he knows some news.

The tanks brought by Li Yunlong are not only advanced in performance, but also far superior to the top tanks in the world. It is not a problem to make five, six, seven or eight of them.

And there are many of them.

Much!
However, this kind of tank has advanced performance and has much higher requirements for the fighters who control it.

Even though the chassis is much easier to maintain than the 240 mortar and the 130 traction tracked vehicle, but because there are a lot of equipment, a minimum of one year of training is required to exert combat effectiveness.

Now these twenty vehicles are still operators selected from the special operations team of the independent regiment, as well as a few high-achieving students sent out from the army, and they can only barely be used.

Thanks to the fact that this tank has an automatic loader, only three people are required to operate it, otherwise it would not be possible to produce so many tanks to participate in the battle.

···
at the same time.

America.

"A range of two hundred kilometers."

"The launch site appeared in the mountains of the Japanese homeland."

"This is real?"

Lame Luo frowned.

According to the information sent by the Japanese,

The rocket that attacked the Japanese Army Sergeant Academy this time was launched from a mountainous area [-] kilometers away, and the launch location was a flat mountain top with no road access.

if it is ture···

It just means—that kind of rocket has a maximum range of even more than two hundred kilometers, and the mysterious force that owns the rocket has the ability to vertically transport five or six tons of cargo by air.

Compared with the former,
The latter is no less terrifying.

Even Luo Laizi knows how terrifying this kind of transportation ability is on the battlefield.

"it is true."

The military staff sighed.

The president knows it, but how can he, a powerful general serving in the army, not know?
"estimate."

The general continued:

"The materials obtained by the group of mountain guerrillas and the transportation of shells to the frontline troops also use the same transportation method."

"you say··"

Cripple Luo was silent for a while before continuing:
"What the hell are they trying to do?"

"Just to deal with the Japanese?"

"do not know."

The military staff shook his head, then continued:
"But judging from the current intelligence, this mysterious force is very strong."

"Very strong."

"Its technology and industrial capabilities are extremely strong, and in terms of scale, I am afraid it will not be inferior to the Germans."

Thinking of the tens of millions of tons of materials that appeared in the inland mountainous areas-this amount of materials is nothing to the United States and Germany, and even the Japanese can get together.

But being able to transport this batch of materials in is much more difficult than producing these weapons.

The general added:
"Even stronger...maybe."

"You mean..."

Cripple Luo looked over.

"We must pay attention to this mysterious force."

"The group of people he supports are naturally opposed to us."

After a pause, the military staff continued:

"It's best to attack them directly from now on."

"Judging from the information given by the Japanese and the information collected from the other side, it seems that they lack direct troops that can be put into combat, but with the assistance to the mountain guerrillas, this weakness is rapidly disappearing."

"Based on the population base and land area of ​​that country, once it grows stronger, it will be a more difficult enemy to deal with than the North."

(End of this chapter)