Chapter Seventy-Seven: Rejoice
The umbrella broke a big news on the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, and in the following days, the Japanese troops in North Hamgyong Province showed that they had been shrinking, but Zhuo Fei did not dare to take it lightly, because he did not believe that the Japanese Kwantung Army, which could defeat the Soviet army in the Far East, would behave so badly. Naturally, the Kwantung Army www.biquge.info would not be vulnerable, and after a head-on attack, the Japanese army, which was trying to flank the Dangkou Army from North Hamgyong Province, was secretly adjusting its tactics.
Guerrilla warfare with an opponent who is familiar with the terrain has proved to be not their strong point, but the Japanese have the heavy weapons and equipment that the opponent lacks, and after encountering successive ambushes from the opponent, the Japanese decided to ambush the opponent as well. The Japanese decided to set a trap for the opponent, and then lure the opponent into the trap with a small amount of bait, and then concentrate heavy weapons and equipment to deliver a fatal blow to the opponent.
The Japanese did not expect this strategy to lure the enemy into the trap to annihilate the opponent, but at least it had to be humiliated, and at the same time, it could also play a role in boosting the morale of its own soldiers while preventing the momentum of the opponent's successive attacks. The Japanese army set a trap for this, but the Korean Independence Army, which was active in the mountains, did not know about it, and when it learned that the battered Japanese army was going to gather forces and continue to move south, the Korean Independence Army, which had succeeded one after another, decided to attack again.
The mountainous territory of North Hamgyong Province is not suitable for the march and operation of armored troops, but this unsuitability does not mean that armored troops cannot pass through here, so the decoy that the Japanese army took out this time was an armored unit equipped with medium tanks. Seeing the Japanese tank appear in the telescope from a distance, two scouts in military uniforms covered with grass branches and shrubs pushed them to the signal tree next to them, and then quickly descended down the steep hill along the rope that had been prepared long ago.
Another observation post on the opposite side of the cliff saw the signal tree falling, and immediately used a walkie-talkie to inform the ambush troops hidden 3 kilometers behind to prepare for battle, and at this time, the two scouts who had roped down the hillside were able to reach the bottom of the cliff. The Japanese armored troops discovered by the scouts didn't know anything at this time, although they already knew that the division was using them as bait to lure the enemy this time, but these Japanese armored soldiers had the sharpness of their tanks and didn't take the fact that they were bait at all, because they thought that those opponents who could only play sneak attacks had no ability and ability to fight tanks at all.
Although the winding mountain road is not as steep as the Yunnan-Burma Highway, it is also winding, but to the peace of mind of the Japanese army, most of the mountains on both sides of the mountain road are not very high dirt mountains, and there is no way to hide large-scale troops in this kind of terrain. The three three-wheeled motorcycles that acted as the striker drove through the bend in front, and one of them immediately returned the way it came, and after inquiring about it, Nakasa, who commanded the armored squadron, learned that after bypassing the bend in front, a steep mountain wall appeared on the left side of the road.
Although from the bottom of his heart, he didn't look down on an opponent who could only fight and run, but this Japanese soldier Nakasa still went to the bend in front of him to observe the terrain, and it was always a big mistake to be careful. Standing on the big boulder on the side of the road, the Japanese soldier Nakasa looked back and forth the terrain here, and then combined the situation seen by the returning scouts, the Japanese Nakasa decided to rest here for a while before deciding whether to pass here. In fact, the mountain wall that was fouled by the Japanese army was not very long, and the medium tank under his command only needed to increase the throttle, and it might not take even three or two minutes to pass through the road faintly blocked by this mountain wall.
The situation here was reported to the division headquarters through the transmitter, and it was learned that the follow-up troops were 5 miles behind him, and the Japanese Nakasa, who commanded the armored squadron, immediately made a decision. With the roar of the motors, the Japanese tanks began to increase the throttle, but in the expectant eyes of the independent army scouts, the Japanese tanks did not swarm into the road blocked by the mountain wall, but only the two tanks at the head quickly entered the road at a 60-degree angle.
"Damn, these little devils are cunning enough." The scout with the detonator in hand couldn't help but curse in a low voice, the Japanese army's actions were already very obvious, and the other party was wary of possible danger here, so he broke the entire armored squadron into pieces and passed through this section of the road. Seeing that the first two tanks had safely passed this section of the road, the Japanese Nakasa waved his arms and two more tanks quickly drove into the road.
"Detonate it, or our arrangement will be in vain." Zhuo Fei sent more than 500 scouts to North Hamgyong Province, but these scouts were not under the command of the Korean Independence Army or the servant army, and the Korean Independence Army officers who saw that the Japanese armored units were about to pass through that section of the road were anxious, and immediately urged the scouts with the detonators to immediately detonate the explosives planted in the mountain wall.
"No, it's not the best time to detonate explosives, but I think there's something unusual about these little devils." The black-faced scout, who did not wear any officer badges, not only refused the urging of the Korean Independence Army officers, but also ordered the two scouts who were following him to carry walkie-talkies to reconnoiter the way of the Japanese armored unit at the foot of the mountain. How could the scouts who had fought with the Japanese army in the northeast many times not know the methods and battlefield performance of the Japanese army, although the Japanese armored squadron that served as the bait was not exposed, but in Yang Shuang's opinion, he always felt that something was wrong.
"Actually, don't worry, those big tubes that the plane dropped on us yesterday are weapons specially designed to deal with the little devil tank. Don't look at these tanks of the little devils have passed through the place where we planted the explosives, as long as we want, we can use those big pipes to kill these tanks in minutes. The big tube that Yang Shuang is talking about is a single rocket launcher that has been improved several times in the weapons laboratory, and it seems more appropriate for these junior officers of the Korean Independence Army to refer to the individual rocket launcher as a large pipe.
Yang Shuang's consolation did not make the Korean Independence Army officers forget that the Japanese armored squadron had passed the road safely, but soon, the news transmitted by the scouts who retreated along the highway to reconnoiter with walkie-talkies made the Korean Independence Army officers who had just urged Yang Shuang to detonate the explosives break out in a cold sweat. "What are you afraid of, isn't it just that there are a large number of little devils following behind, just do them." Knowing that his hunch was not wrong, Yang Shuang's confidence was also a lot.
Knowing that there was a large wave of troops behind the armored squadron of the Japanese army, Yang Shuang could not guess that this was a new trick played by the Japanese army, and after discussing with the officers of the Korean Independence Army around him, Yang Shuang decided to give the explosives buried on the mountain wall to the large wave of Japanese troops who came to enjoy it. A few minutes later, the Korean Independence Army, which had been lying in ambush in the surrounding area, was ordered to quietly retreat, leaving only two scouts responsible for detonating the explosives.
The Japanese army wanted to set up a bait to lure the opponent into the trap, but they did not expect to suffer a big loss because of this, and the mountain wall blown up by a large number of explosives not only caused great casualties and losses to the Japanese army, but also cut off the road, making the Japanese armored squadron that passed through this road safely in front of it a lone army. How to solve a Japanese armored squadron that has become a lone army, Yang Shuang and they have too many means, before the Japanese army blocked the way by the collapsed mountain wall to clean up the rubble, Yang Shuang and their side have successfully killed the Japanese squadron that has become a lone army, and also successfully captured 4 of the medium tanks.
The Korean Independence Army gathered 4,000 troops to fight against more than 10,000 Japanese troops, relying on favorable terrain and four medium tanks captured from the Japanese army, 4,000 Korean Independence Army killed and wounded more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers, and destroyed many Japanese tanks and armored vehicles. Although the battle ended with the withdrawal of the Korean Independence Army (KIA) and more than half of the casualties, Chinese newspapers that learned the news still called the battle on the Korean Peninsula the Korean version of the Pyongxingguan victory.
Kim Koo and others in Pyongyang also rejoiced, this battle was the first real head-to-head duel between the Korean Independence Army and the Japanese army, which means that the losses of the two warring sides were almost equal, but for the Korean Independence Army and Kim Koo and others, the significance was extremely significant. In fact, Kim Koo and others in Pyongyang did not know that if this battle had not been for the participation of umbrella reconnaissance troops and a large number of new weapons and equipment, the Japanese army would not have suffered such casualties, and it was impossible for the Korean Independence Army troops participating in the battle to suffer only half of the casualties.
"Those new weapons and equipment naturally cannot be provided to them in vain, and the performance of new weapons and equipment must be tested by actual combat on the battlefield. The emergence of the Korean Independence Army (KIA) has helped us solve this problem, and I am not willing to let our own soldiers fight with weapons that have not yet been accepted. Zhuo Fei's explanation completely made Vivian and others understand the reason for supporting the new weapons and equipment of the Korean Independence Army, and his own boss regarded the Korean Independence Army as a helper to help the umbrella test new weapons.
"That's natural, you see when I have made a loss-making deal, our soldiers are trained with a lot of money, and it is impossible to waste these little things in vain." Zhuo Fei deliberately showed the face of a profiteer, but he failed to get the support of Vivian and the others, but in exchange for a few big white eyes.
The Japanese troops that entered North Hamgyong Province in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula suffered heavy blows one after another, and the number of casualties had exceeded 10,000, while the interception of the Japanese army was always the Korean Independence Army. The large number of new weapons and equipment used by the opponent in the battle also put pressure on the Japanese troops moving south, especially when they knew that the opponent still had more than tens of thousands of troops and had not appeared for a long time, and the speed of the Japanese army's southward movement dropped to a turtle speed again.