The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"Because of your plan! The entire 36th division is broken, do you know that?!"

Kenkichi Ueda supported the table with his hands, staring at Neiji Okamura with his eyes spitting fire, full of anger gushed out with the roaring words, wishing he could kill this guy who pretended to be very calm in one breath!

"From the moment they set out, I knew the result!"

Neiji Okamura seemed to be describing something that had nothing to do with him, although he should already know that after the news reached the base camp, the two top commanders of the Kwantung Army would definitely not be able to keep them.

The blood vessels of Kenkichi Ueda's calmness almost burst, he slapped the table and roared: "Then you still make such a plan?! Don't you know that the only consequence of this is that we have to bear all the responsibilities? !"

"That's better than being hanged on the gallows to die after the overall defeat!" Okamura Neiji had a hint of sarcasm on his lips. He didn't know if he was laughing at himself or someone else.

"You!...!" Kenkichi Ueda pointed at him, trembling for a long time, and slammed his fist on the table, "You'd better explain it clearly to the base camp!"

Neiji Okamura said indifferently: "That's nothing to worry about! Your Excellency, Commander, I think we should prepare for the work handover first!"

As if he had let go of the burden of his whole body, he let out a long breath, and lay back easily, his whole body was loose on the chair without any image, and there was no movement in his eyes, as if he had given up.

In fact, it is.

In fact, a few hours ago, he hadn't made up his final decision, but after the news that the raiding force was wiped out, Neiji Okamura suddenly figured it out—all his previous efforts were actually futile struggles That's all.Enemy on the opposite side.They are not the nouveau riche who can be defeated with a little effort as the people in the country guessed at random, but some mysterious and powerful forces that have mastered technological weapons that the entire Japan and even the world cannot understand.

All the struggles of the entire Kwantung Army were meaningless and meaningless. The moment the Chinese decided to fight back, Japan was already doomed to fail.This is independent of his personal strategy and the struggle of millions of troops.

Why is there such a huge contrast?Neiji Okamura understood it after thinking about it. In fact, deep in his heart, he had already planted the seeds of an invincible shadow?It seems that it started from the sudden explosion during the Battle of Nomonhan?Or was it the unstoppable bombing of the mainland, the loss of Ryukyu and Taiwan, and the complete end of the imperial navy?

Both.Neiji Okamura believes in the judgment made by his ingenuity. The previous decision is just the last struggle. Whether it succeeds or not has nothing to do with the overall situation.And the iron-like facts prove that the hunch is not wrong!

And the reason why he treated Ueda Kenkichi like that was because he knew in his heart that your Excellency the Commander couldn't afford to lose, and he planned to find someone to take the blame for the dead ghost. Good scapegoat.

However, with his wise and powerful Okamura Ningji.With unfulfilled ambitions, how can someone use it as a shield for no reason?A dead fellow Taoist is not vulgar and poor.He will shoulder the responsibilities that should be borne, but he will never jump out foolishly and seek his own death.

Hehe, it really is a disaster and they fly separately!Even two people who work together seamlessly, for the sake of their own future and destiny, will do whatever it takes.

Lost!Landing raid operations, failed miserably!Although I didn't go to the front line to see it in person.It is clear only from the results.

More than 330 fighters of various types, including a brigade xf4u sent by the Americans for testing, more than [-] ships of various types, [-] soldiers and officers, and a navy of one or two thousand.All were wiped out!Except for a few planes with fast legs and feet, the rest were wiped out!

It was a fiasco!It was a great blow to the resistance confidence of the Kwantung Army. Even if it would not be publicized, it had completely defeated the two top officers of them first!Such a surprise attack can't kill the opponent, so what else can be used to defeat it?

Can't think of it!Neiji Okamura prided himself on being extremely smart and no weaker than anyone else in the army, but facing such an incredible enemy, he didn't even have a chance, it was simply...he didn't know how to describe it.

Now I have tried to take the initiative to attack, but there is nothing I can do, then get ready to be pulled back and retire completely!

The impact of the collapse of the two top officials is bound to be great, and the Japanese base camp has already lost its last endurance. Less than half an hour after the news of the complete failure of the raid was sent back, the base camp made a complete dismissal of Ueda. Commander of the Kwantung Army Kenkichi and Chief of Staff Neiji Okamura made a decision, and sent General Yamada Otosan as Commander and Heutaro Kimura as Chief of Staff to replace the two, and flew to Manchuria today for a handover and replacement.

As soon as the news came out, the entire Kwantung Army was shocked!The generals of the divisions and regiments who are fighting hard on the front line don't know what happened, but most of them can guess that the entire combat form may be about to change!

They were right.After General Yamada Otosan took office, he changed places with his two predecessors who had failed in their ambitions, and immediately conveyed the latest decision of the headquarters to all troops: "In view of the changes in the war situation, the Kwantung Army has been upgraded to For the general army, he himself serves as the commander-in-chief, and Lieutenant General Heitaro Kimura serves as the chief of the general staff, fully responsible for the overall combat responsibilities of the branch!"

The General Staff Headquarters also formulated a corresponding change strategy, completely negating the comprehensive defense plan formulated by Ningji Okamura before, dragging down the plan to consume China's total strength, and instead using most of the newly organized divisions and the Korean Army as defensive forces, and instead With the elite strength of each standing division, launch a comprehensive and desperate counterattack against China's attack!

To sum up, it is to replace defense with offense!Give full play to the powerful combat capability of the Japanese Army's active offensive, launch the advanced tactics of "you fight yours, I fight mine" with the enemy, rely on the superiority of the force, make a quick decision, and drive them out of Manchuria at all costs , Expand the combat space!

The formulation of the whole plan was full of the thoughts of ambitious people such as Hideki Tojo and Seishiro Itagaki, and Hyoutaro Kimura needless to say, although he himself did not have much ability, and he did not even have many opinions.But he is a hard-core ally of Hideki Tojo, who is considered to be the next Minister of the Army, and there is no problem in implementing the decision.

As for turning Manchuria into an iron barrel with his own strength, Okamura, who has stubbornly supported for such a long time under the siege of Zhu Bin's faction of millions of troops, successfully consumed Manchuria and North Korea's latent dangerous resistance forces. Ning Ci and the two were immediately left behind!

The next day, the Chinese troops who were besieged on three sides were suddenly blocked by the Japanese army.The artillery who had been hiding and refusing to show up before became uncharacteristically active, and while providing great resistance to the attacking troops, the elite troops with the brigade as the unit cooperated with a large number of Type [-] tanks to launch a counterattack from the side, completely regardless of the cost. Repeatedly charged to the death, every time they hit the ammunition to the point that none of the tanks could be activated!

At the end of the day, there were more than a dozen such Japanese army formations on the thousands of miles of front!Although it didn't cause much damage to the attacking troops, it did cause a certain amount of interference --- the tactics that could have been spread horizontally with full force and flat push.Had to make temporary adjustments, and even reduce the attack tip, and after distinguishing between the primary and secondary, the two wings covered and supported, so that the overall attack intensity was slowed down by more than half at once!

Not only must the flanks of the armored units be defended, but the heavy artillery and supply units behind must also be covered. In this way, it is impossible to cover a wide battlefield.The overall attack speed slowed down all of a sudden!

Such a change in the battle situation made Zhu Bin stare suddenly, and the continuous information was fed back from the front line.After careful analysis and research by the staff team, they came to a conclusion and reported it to his desk. Zhu Bin frowned when he saw it!

"No less than the total strength of a brigade, at least more than 20 medium tanks to attack the fortifications, the original version of the simple self-propelled artillery, a suicide stand-up team. A full assault without rear defense and supplies, a standing division number that will fight to the death ? Hehe, it's interesting!"

Zhu Bin pinched his chin, pondering in his heart.

Although there is a strong staff team to analyze all the information, he still prefers to think about the mysteries first.This can also be regarded as a kind of experience. Being able to grasp as much comprehensive information as possible and then make correct analysis and judgment is the quality that a senior commander should have. Everything depends on the brain, which is too useless.

Obviously, these suicide attack troops dispatched by the Japanese army are all elite.It goes without saying that it can cause trouble to the elites selected by more than 100 million troops.Moreover, with the simple weapons of the Japanese army, they can still fight like that-the tanks go forward bravely and shoot out the shells and bullets in one breath, and the rest of the people come up to fight with submachine guns; The rest of the infantry fought to the last moment with bayonets in their hands, apparently looking for death.

If it weren't for the Japanese army digging too many trenches along the way, and in the long battle before, all the troops had already been familiar with all the tactics and habits of the Japanese army. If they didn't take it lightly, they might have succeeded.

Judging from the final battle results, the overall strength of the two sides is not on the same level, but what must be vigilant is that this is the result of the battle of a small group of troops!What if the counterattack is based on the unit of the wing, or even the unit of the brigade?

"Hiss---! Could it be that the little devil is restless again?"

After Zhu Bin thought about it, it seemed that there was such a possibility!Now that the Soviet army has begun to move, and both Britain and the United States have expressed hostility and actions, it seems that there is no better time to counterattack than the time when Lao Jiang's millions of troops are eager to contain them. The sneak attack on Tanggu is just a test, and the current situation is strange. The style of play is probably also a test, so next, do you really want to do it?

After thinking about it, Zhu Bin smiled: "Never mind him! Anyway, everything has been arranged, no matter how hard the Japanese army struggles, the result is already doomed!"

Kimura Hyoutaro doesn't see it that way!Although more than 1 people in more than a dozen brigades were reimbursed, they were excited by the results they got!

All the raiding troops, the nearest advance was more than [-] kilometers, and the farthest was even hundreds of kilometers. They almost rushed to the enemy's rear defense supply base. Half of the combat power has to be lost. If there are more people, the surprise attack may be successful!

What does this mean?It shows that the enemy's attack all the way is too smooth, there must be negligence, and the front line is too long and too wide, and there are many omissions everywhere. If they are restrained by the frontal battlefield, give full play to the tactics of the Japanese army's left attack, Should be able to get a completely different effect!

Hee hee!Just do it!

The decision was made after a hasty discussion between the two top Kwantung Army officers who were eager to show off.Take the initiative to counterattack again!This time, there were a total of seven brigades dispatched!

On March 1940, 3, the counterattack officially started!

At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, a regiment of Wang Zhangtang's department stationed at the transfer station on Siping Street was suddenly attacked!First, dozens of Japanese planes took off from the direction of Fengtian and came to bomb. It looked like it was the same as usual, but only [-] minutes behind, a second wave of forty or fifty planes came out.But let the radar troops stare!

When Wang Zhangtang heard that the situation was not quite right, he hurriedly ordered the reconnaissance plane to find out, and found that a large number of Japanese armored troops were moving forward from the two directions of Kaiyuan and Xi'an, at an extremely fast speed!From the perspective of equipment and personnel, it doesn't look like reinforcements are coming!

Siping Street is stuck on the main traffic road connecting Liaoning and Jilin, facing the Liaohe Plain across the mountains, the geographical location is extremely dangerous!At the beginning, the Japanese army dug holes everywhere, with three layers of defense lines inside and outside.It was taken after being completely destroyed by fierce artillery fire.The Japanese army must not be reconciled to losing this place, which led to the isolation of the main force of the Kwantung Army from the Jilin defense area. They have been sending troops to resist and try to counterattack to regain it, but the strength is not very high.

It's nothing else, the overall combat effectiveness of Wang Zhangtang's brigade is too abnormal! With an army of more than 1 people, the strength attached to it is not weaker than that of an army, and the quality of individual soldiers is nothing to say.Armored units spread across regiments and battalions, and multiple air forces took care of them individually.It is very difficult to kill them!

Wang Zhangtang felt that something was wrong, so he naturally couldn't ignore it. He ordered the air defense force and air force to intercept, and at the same time personally brought the "Tianqing Chariot" and the special armored battalion back to help quickly, no matter what.Don't lose that intersection!

In the first step, before the Japanese fighter planes flew to the front line, they were locked by radar at a distance of [-] kilometers, and then they were intercepted and blocked by two squadrons of "Flying Sharks". After they were easily defeated, the second wave of Japanese planes swarmed in.There are astonishingly advanced American fighter planes as in the raid on Tanggu!

Six ferocious Browning 12.7mm heavy machine guns are equipped with unprecedented firepower density, and the performance of the long range and high speed is astonishing, which almost makes the "flying shark" with rough skin and thick flesh have to use all its energy to deal with it!

Since entering the war, the Chinese pilots who met their opponents for the first time were not only not surprised, they were excited one by one, yelling and yelling, giving full play to their abilities to tap all the potential of the "Flying Shark" and fully open the power system , and made a solid all-metal body that can hardly withstand the impact of intense maneuvering, creaking and creaking!

More than 20 Japanese planes were all blocked by more than [-] "Flying Sharks" from two squadrons. Although there is no early warning aircraft to command and form the "Flying Shark Wall", it can ensure that none of them can break through the past and cause damage to the ground troops. hit.

However, after a few rounds, veterans quickly discovered that the shortcoming of this new type of fighter is that the fuselage is too thick, the cockpit is too short, and it is set too far back, resulting in a very unsatisfactory front view. If the nose is raised slightly, No matter how good the maneuverability is, if you attack from directly below, or suddenly dive and maneuver after pulling up, it will make it difficult for the chasing opponent to see your exact position to aim at!

This discovery was immediately notified to all friendly forces, so almost all the "flying sharks" immediately pulled up during the fight with their excellent climbing performance, and when the opponent followed up with the pursuit, they turned around and fell, causing their vision to change slowly. The front part, tried and tested!

In just ten minutes, half of the seven or eight fighters of this type were shot down and injured!The battle immediately reversed in a one-sided manner, but the Japanese army seemed to have expected it, and immediately turned around to disperse Youdou, no longer stalking, but did not give the opportunity to shoot down immediately!

How is this going?The Chinese pilots were at a loss, but the high-altitude reconnaissance soon issued a warning-a larger Japanese army fleet was approaching quickly!

Wang Zhangtang recalled it first, and cursed loudly: "Damn it! This little devil is going to make a big deal!" Immediately contact the Liaoyuan troops in the rear. Be careful, and the reinforcements immediately start to move forward. We must be careful not to ignore the Japanese army. Counterattack of Casualties!

His reaction was fast, but the planned Japanese army was obviously faster!When the reinforcement air force just arrived and started to intercept, the Japanese troops who had been confronting each other on the front line suddenly rushed out, and the concealed heavy artillery units opened fire first, bombing all kinds of obstacles on the buffer zone in the middle!

This is almost an unprecedented ferocious bombing encountered by the Chinese army since the start of the war!On the side of the railway 100 kilometers south of Siping Street, at least [-] heavy Japanese artillery pieces were fired at the three-kilometre-long front line arranged by the two sides, and nearly [-] small-caliber artillery pieces also joined in the frantic attack. Secondly, the key is the fired shells, once a dozen, there is no meaning to stop!

The ground is three kilometers deep, except for the large and small anti-tank trenches dug by both sides, the dense barbed wire, the logs that were cut down and piled up in disorder, countless traps and mines, under normal circumstances, even if you use a super engineering vehicle to open the road It took a long time, but for the first time, the Japanese army didn't care about the loss of ammunition, and fought for a full hour in one breath!

The number of shells that fell was at least tens of thousands!Numerous large and small holes were blown out of the ten-kilometer-wide front on both sides of the railway, some of which were densely advanced along several passages, and finally extended artillery fire was launched, and the shells fell towards the front of Wang Zhangtang's brigade's defense line!

The heavy artillery unit, which had already calculated the specific coordinates of the Japanese artillery position, immediately fired back and destroyed them one by one, but the bombardment density of the Japanese army did not weaken because of this. The flanks came around, and they rushed to the artillery position with the intention of bombing!

The anti-aircraft troops immediately opened fire and shot down, and at the same time, the heavy artillery had to be moved quickly. At this time, the ground troops that the Japanese army had prepared for a long time rushed out. One guy, there were hundreds of tanks! (To be continued..)