Expedition to Europe

When the Northern Expedition Fleet sailed out of the port of Coconut City, He Feizhou and Rommel were conducting pre-war mobilization.

The smooth flow of information allowed He Feizhou to know the results of the Ningbei Port Battle and the Cam Ranh Bay Battle at the first time. He Feizhou also launched a fierce attack on the 16th Infantry Regiment and the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Second Division of the Japanese Army at the first time.

Strictly speaking, the Lan Fang troops, which were equipped with tanks and armored vehicles and assisted by bomber units, and the Japanese troops, which were mainly equipped with rifles, had a generation gap in equipment level. The huge difference in equipment level made the only result of the Lan Fang troops fighting against the Japanese troops was that the Lan Fang troops beat the Japanese troops.

Since the 11th and 18th Divisions accelerated the pace of attack, there have been several cases in which the Lan Fang surrounded and annihilated a regiment of the Japanese army with only a regiment or even a battalion.

The reason for this situation is not that the Japanese troops are too weak, but that the Lan Fang army is too strong.

Since the beginning of the war, the 63rd Regiment led by He Feizhou has successively annihilated the 4th and 30th Regiments of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, ranking first in terms of combat performance among all the troops participating in the attack of Lan Fang.

"Today is probably the last battle. Come on, everyone, kill all the Japanese as soon as possible so that we can go back to the commander to receive the reward. There are still two requirements. The logistics department should do a good job in logistics support, and the speed of the artillery company should be improved. Don't be like yesterday when the tanks were lying on the battlefield, the infantry was about to start charging, and the artillery was not ready for fire cover. Pay attention today..." He Feizhou was not very nervous, which was in sharp contrast to Rommel who was serious next to him.

"Boss, are we still the first to take the lead today? If we push too fast, it will be difficult to explain to Captain Qu." Second Battalion Commander Liu Zian had many concerns.

"Captain Qu" was Qu Feixiang, the commander of the 62nd Regiment, and both the 63rd Regiment belonged to the 11th Division.

The 62nd Regiment was the reserve force for this battle against Japan. Qu Feixiang was already resentful of this. He had protested to Xiang Ankang, the commander of the 11th Division, several times, but was rejected by Xiang Ankang.

"Don't worry about him. There is only so much meat. If we give it to the 62nd Regiment, there will be no share for our 63rd Regiment. If you don't want to lead the charge, your second battalion will be the reserve force today." He Feizhou knew the truth that there were too many monks and too little porridge. On this issue, he didn't even want to leave soup for the 62nd Regiment.

"I guess we can't advance too fast today. The troops have little fuel left. If the fuel can't be delivered at noon, our tanks will probably break down in the afternoon, so we have to control the rhythm of the attack." Rommel was calm enough.

"Dare!" He Feizhou's eyes widened, and his tone was full of hatred: "If Jiang Renhui doesn't deliver the fuel at noon, I'll put him in solitary confinement."

When the Lan Fang troops reached the regiment level, there was a transportation company directly under the regiment headquarters. Jiang Renhui was the commander of the transportation company of the 63rd Regiment.

"The transport company probably can't solve this problem. If the General Logistics Department had enough fuel, the transport company would have brought it here long ago." Rommel was still calm.

The more machinery the troops use, the more dependent they are on logistics. The Lan Fang army is equipped with a lot of mechanized equipment, whether it is tanks or armored vehicles, all of which are oil-guzzling and require a lot of fuel.

The Northern Xinjiang region itself does not produce oil, so all the fuel needed by the Northern Xinjiang region must be transported from Lan Fang, which increases the difficulty of logistics support.

After the war between Lan Fang and Japan, due to the strength of Japanese warships, Lan Fang's supply to the Northern Xinjiang region has been interrupted. The fuel used in the Northern Xinjiang region is still stored before the war. Although there is no fuel crisis at present, the Northern Xinjiang Command has begun to restrict fuel supply.

Speaking of this, it is necessary to extend a point that the higher the degree of modernization of the troops, the stronger the central government's control over the army. For example, the Lan Fang army in the Northern Xinjiang region is indeed powerful, but if Chen Kangjian has any tricks, Qin Zhiyuan only needs to interrupt the supply to the Northern Xinjiang region, and the troops in the Northern Xinjiang region will be in chaos without fighting.

Of course, given the relationship between Chen Kangjian and Qin Zhiyuan, the probability of this happening is not high.

"It's okay, fight at a normal pace. Even if our tanks and armored vehicles are down, we are confident that we can drive the devils into the sea based on the quality of our troops." After this period of training, He Feizhou has been full of confidence.

In fact, He Feizhou has never lacked confidence, but he lacks understanding of the Japanese army.

To be fair, in Asia, the Japanese army is indeed good, but it is still incomparable to the Lan Fang army that has been tempered by the world war.

If you have to compare them together, the gap between the Japanese army and the Lan Fang army is about the same as the gap between the Republic of China army and the Japanese army.

He Feizhou is now confident enough. If it is a frontal battle, the 63rd Regiment should have no problem resisting a division of the Japanese army. Even if it cannot completely wipe out the Japanese army, at least it can maintain a situation of neither winning nor losing.

At this point, Rommel and He Feizhou feel similar.

Over this period of time, Rommel's understanding of the Lan Fang army is gradually deepening.

The more he learned, the more Rommel could feel the excellence of the Lan Fang army.

This excellence was not only reflected in the well-trained Lan Fang soldiers and the strong support of the army, but more in the combat concept of the Lan Fang troops.

Rommel's military education has always been about discipline and obedience, which is also the first lesson for all German soldiers to join the army. But in Lan Fang, the requirements for discipline and obedience are more flexible, allowing commanders to play freely within a general framework, which gives front-line commanders full freedom and more space.

For example, in this battle against Japan, the Northern Xinjiang Command only proposed the campaign objectives, and the specific operations were all left to the 11th and 18th Divisions to play freely, and the Northern Xinjiang Command did not make rigid requirements.

The same is true for the 11th Division. Xiang Ankang only proposed the battle objectives, and the specific operations were left to the staff of the 63rd Regiment to decide.

Obviously, this method is more conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of front-line commanders.

Rommel saw these and kept them in mind. Rommel firmly believed that one day, these things would come in handy.

After the meeting, the 63rd Regiment launched an attack according to the plan of the staff, targeting the remnants of the 16th Infantry Regiment and the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Second Division of the Japanese Army.

The reason why they are called remnants is that in the previous battles, the only two remaining infantry regiments of the Second Division have suffered several heavy losses in succession. Now the remnants of the two companies added together are probably only as many as a complete regiment.

A Japanese infantry regiment has less than 2,000 soldiers, while the 63rd Regiment has nearly 3,000 soldiers so far, with only less than 500 losses. The difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides can be seen.

The infantry attack of the 63rd Regiment is a standard infantry-tank coordination, which is also the most familiar attack method of the Lan Fang Army.

The tanks lead the way to clear obstacles on the way forward for the infantry, and the infantry protect the tanks to advance and prevent the enemy from approaching the tanks to attack. Any Lan Fang soldier can talk about this set of things clearly.

Before joining the Lan Fang Army, even military instructors like Rommel had never been exposed to infantry-tank coordination, which shows how shocked Rommel was by the Lan Fang Army.

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

In fact, after several days of attack, the 63rd Regiment was about to reach the southernmost tip of Sakhalin Island, which is only more than 40 kilometers away from Hokkaido, Japan. This is the Soya Strait.

But these 40 kilometers are destined to become the natural barrier of the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, and the 5th Division.

After the Battle of Ningbei Port, the Northern Frontier Fleet sent destroyers to block the Soya Strait. The Japanese Navy, which had suffered heavy damage and was temporarily unable to fight back, now had no ability to open the Soya Strait, so the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, and the 5th Division had nowhere to escape except jumping into the sea.

With the roar of the 63rd Regiment's tanks, the unorganized Japanese spontaneous resistance collapsed one after another.

The command center of the 2nd Division had been completely destroyed in a bombing by the Lanfang bomber unit the day before yesterday. The current resistance was just a spontaneous behavior of the Japanese soldiers, not an organized resistance.

Even if it was an organized resistance, it could not withstand the impact of the Lanfang tank unit. The Japanese soldiers had tried this before, and the 30th Regiment failed in this way.

"Brothers, come on, I can already smell the sea..." Tom Warren's performance is still active.

"You can smell this?" Chen Wenyao felt incredible.

"Is there anything strange about this? My home is by the sea, and I am very familiar with the smell of the sea breeze." Tom Warren explained proudly.

"Well, I came from the ravine." Chen Wenyao was a little envious of Tom Warren's sensitive nose.

"Over there, go to that hillside and have a look, maybe there will be unexpected gains." In addition to the sea breeze, Tom Warren also smelled something else.

Tom Warren and his friends are scouts and do not need to move with the brigade, so Tom Warren has a high degree of freedom and can command the three-wheeled motorcycle to run around.

For these little guys, the fuel problem is not a problem. The fuel required for a tank to drive for one hour can be given to a three-wheeled motorcycle for three days.

The soldier driving the three-wheeled motorcycle drove the car to the hillside according to Tom Warren's instructions. Before the car was stable, the two people on the car were petrified.

This side of the mountain was not the sea that Tom Warren had imagined, but corpses all over the mountain, men, women, old, young, of all ages, some were soldiers in military uniforms, and some were civilians in civilian clothes.

The causes of death were even more bizarre, including suicide by shooting, cutting open the abdomen, slitting the neck, hitting the stone, hanging in the woods, and so on. Some of the corpses were surrounded in a circle on the ground, and it seemed that they were collectively killed by grenades.

Tom Warren made a simple estimate that there were at least 5,000 corpses on this hillside. This was a large-scale mass suicide, and judging from the painful expressions and tear marks on the faces of some of the corpses, they were not willing.

Suicide!

Who would be willing?