Chapter 552: Step-by-step solution
As the anti-Japanese wave came, Naosaburo Okabe was in a state of anxiety... To be precise, the entire Japanese army of the puppet Manchukuo was in trouble.
The Japanese army originally wanted to draw troops and supplies from towns to gather in the city and then attack the expeditionary forces, but various riots and uprisings occurred in the towns, and these uprisings were even led by the puppet army... The puppet army was the group of people who were most capable of changing their minds. In the past, they had to bow their heads due to the Japanese's tyranny. Now, in just a few days, the main cities of the puppet Manchukuo fell into the hands of the Chinese expeditionary forces. When they saw that the Japanese were anxious to mobilize them to the city, they thought that the Japanese had already gone and bet on the Chinese expeditionary forces. For a moment, the uprisings broke out one after another, and there was a situation of "surrounding the city in the countryside."
This directly made the people and the rebels have equipment and certain military qualities. Therefore, many villages and towns could not even get out of the Japanese army, let alone ammunition supplies. Even if the Japanese army in several villages and towns had the luck to escape from the rebels' encirclement to the designated position, they would be in a mess.
If this is in normal times, the Japanese army does not have to consider it at all... wherever there is a "rebellion", they will suppress it, and even kill a chicken to scare the monkeys. They will soon be suppressed.
But today is no more than in the past.
If we suppress these "rebellions" now, it will inevitably take more time, including troops and ammunition. Suppressing one place and two places is nothing, but it can be dozens of villages and towns at any time... If we suppress the "rebellion", we will not be able to attack the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
So after hesitating for a while, Naosaburo Okabe decided to attack the Chinese Expeditionary Force at all costs.
Of course, Naosaburo Okabe's decision is correct... Nowadays, the Japanese army can only defeat the Chinese Expeditionary Force, because this is actually another kind of "killing the chicken to warn the monkeys"... If you defeat the Chinese Expeditionary Force, you can make the people and puppet troops everywhere realize that the puppet Manchukuo is still the world of the Japanese. If you want to "rebellion", you have to worry about whether you have the strength.
But Naosaburo Okabe was also taking risks when doing this. If the Chinese Expeditionary Force could not be defeated, the Japanese army would be in the puppet Manchukuo, and the situation would be over.
On the expeditionary army, from time to time, there would be a group of people holding hunting rifles and shuttle flags coming to join us. Of course, sometimes there would be regular equipment puppet troops, and a considerable number of them were even escorting Japanese prisoners and even bloody heads.
Of course, Zhang Chi refused to accept everyone. He asked fellow villagers to organize them to maintain the city's public security or to provide the logistics and fortification construction of militia support troops... Although these people are very enthusiastic, their military qualities are too poor. It is really difficult for them to cooperate with the high-quality expeditionary force on the battlefield, so it is obviously better to arrange them to the second line and the third line.
At this time, Zhang Chi's attention was actually gone at all... After all, the anti-Japanese actions of the people in various townships could not be controlled or organized by the Expeditionary Force. There were too many people and there were too many villages and towns involved. All Zhang Chi could do was to spread out leaflets, and the rest depends on the people's own luck and luck.
To be honest, Zhang Chi didn't have the energy to take care of these things, because the command center was already busy, and there were intelligence from various troops everywhere:
"The division seat, the Japanese 32o division is advancing towards Yingkou!"
"The 53rd Army's peripheral troops have been connected with the enemy!"
"The enemy situation appears in Siping!"
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Because the Expeditionary Force has mastered air supremacy, it can basically grasp the enemy's situation in any direction, which allows Zhang Chi to respond in an orderly manner.
Seeing General Liang draw the enemy's position on the map according to intelligence, Zhang Chi nodded.
Naosaburo Okabe is a little skilled and knows to launch a segmented attack on the defense line of the Zhong** team, but Zhang Chi is prepared for this, and Naosaburo Okabe's plan is probably going to fail...
Zhang Chi’s response strategy is actually very simple, that is, to resolve it step by step.
It is well known that what is important in a battle is the coordination of various troops. Not to mention other complex coordination, but whether the war starts is consistent may have a decisive impact on the situation.
For example, if the Japanese troops in these directions are at the same time, if they face Yingkou, Chenyang, Siping, and even Harbin and Qiqihar at the same time, the pressure on the expeditionary force will be extraordinary... The battle started at the same time, and it will be difficult for the expeditionary force to support every place in all aspects, so some places may be at a disadvantage or even be compromised by the enemy because they do not receive enough reinforcements and supplies.
These places are all important places for the Expeditionary Force’s defense line, and as long as there is a loss in one place, it may be lost.
This result is unacceptable to the Expeditionary Force.
In order to avoid this situation, Zhang Chi artificially adjusted the marching degree of these Japanese divisions... In other words, it was to control the Japanese attack time so that it could not attack at the same time.
This may seem impossible, but it is not difficult to do it.
The main reason is that the Chinese Expeditionary Force has air supremacy... so it can artificially adjust the intensity of air strikes to change the enemy's marching.
The 32o Division came from North Korea. It traveled a long distance and had serious problems with logistics supplies... The guerrilla warfare on Park Jung-hyung has already started. The North Korea is full of jungles and snow. It is only a matter of minutes to create an avalanche or a road collapse, but it takes several hours or even days for the Japanese army to clear it.
This makes the 32o Division not even enough gasoline for cars, which can be seen from the fact that the 32o Division had to give up a large number of cars during the marching and switch to walking.
So needless to say, the supply weakness of the 32o division is slow, so let's make it slower... Moreover, Yingkou, which the 32o wants to attack, is only more than 200 kilometers away from Lushun Port, and there are a large number of fighter jets and bombers on the two aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy.
In fact, the two aircraft carriers sailed for a distance northeast, and then the fighter jets started bombing directly from the Yalu River Bridge area.
There is no need to say more about the pain of the 32o Division... I rushed to Manchukuo from more than ten degrees below zero. Before I even had time to breathe, I was hit hard by the fighter planes of the China Team and bombers.
The Japanese on the battlefields of China and Korea have never been worried about air supremacy, so they don’t know what to do now. They were bombed for two days before they thought they could lie down at night, but at this time the troops were blown away and their morale was lost.
Chapter completed!