Chapter 50: Dogfight (1)
Zhuo Fei, who was inspecting the shipyard with Angela, didn't know that Vivien's secret meeting with McHarken was planning ahead of time, and he didn't expect Vivian and McHarken to divert the special forces they originally expected to use for other purposes, because the four ships in front of him in the sun had already attracted all his attention. The lack of maritime force www.biquge.info has always been the shortcoming of the umbrella, which is the main reason why the umbrella has not moved.
The four warships built at the Kuala Lumpur shipyard are not very high in class and not very large in tonnage, but they sail at speeds of up to forty knots per hour. Moreover, these four warships are not cruisers or frigates, but four large landing ships, and under the bow are landing hatches. "Boss, it is better to convert a freighter into a large landing ship, it is better to directly convert it into a frigate or cruiser, once they hit the beach, it will be difficult for them to return to the sea without relying on external forces." It's not just Angela who doesn't understand, even the person in charge of managing the shipyard can't think of the use of these ships.
Zhuo Fei just smiled at this, but did not explain the reason to Angela and the others, before the plan was carried out to that point, Zhuo Fei would never tell others the true use of these large landing ships. After leaving the shipyard, Zhuo Fei took Angela to the seaside resort, where he enjoyed the clear water and blue sky and delicious seafood while Zhuo Fei told Angela and Vivian his next plan.
"The Germans planned to use the strength of the Japanese aircraft carrier formation to cooperate with the landing force to attack the British mainland, I have to say that this is indeed a good trick, our Mr. Hitler has finally learned wisely, if he had thought of this move earlier, he might have driven the British into the sea long ago." After wiping his hands with a towel after wiping his hands with a towel, Zhuo Fei, who had just finished the battle with the lobster, smiled at Angela and Vivian.
"The Germans are going all out to attack the British Isles, and it is not only an aircraft carrier group that will be drawn from the Japanese Combined Fleet, but it is likely that there will also be a German submarine force that has been cooperating with the Japanese Navy in blockading the American coastline. If the United States is faced with a significant reduction in the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Navy, you say, is this a good opportunity? If I were Roosevelt, I would have mustered the remaining naval forces of the United States to besiege the remaining fleets of the Japanese Combined Fleet after learning of this news. ”
Before Zhuo Fei said this, he had already sent a telegram to the United States, and the umbrella had more than a dozen agents in the United States, including Wynedton Matthew, who had a close relationship with the military. Wheaton's father was a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, and Wheaton's two older brothers were mid-level officers in the 101st Infantry Division.
After receiving a telegram from Zhuo Fei from Kuala Lumpur, Whiton immediately went to find his father, although his father had retired, he still had a certain say in the military. Upon learning that the German army might transfer the Japanese fleet to the English Channel, the US military immediately secretly ordered the US Navy, which had been playing hide-and-seek with the Japanese Combined Fleet, to prepare for a counterattack, and sent a large number of ground engineers who had received modification training in Australia to the Navy to help the Navy modify the weapons systems of carrier-based aircraft.
Whitton quickly passed on the reaction of the U.S. military to Zhuo Fei, and when he learned that the U.S. military was planning to fight the Japanese for control of the sea, Zhuo Fei smiled, and laughed heartily. "The Americans are going to roast themselves on the fire this time, but they don't know who is more powerful, so let's watch the big show on the wall." After receiving Zhuo Fei's secret order, all the troops under the umbrella, including the Dangkou Army, were all temporarily dormant.
With the efforts of the US and British ambassadors three times a day, the New Army, together with more than 300,000 second-line troops that followed north, launched attacks one after another against the Japanese troops entrenched on the front line in Changchun. The Japanese army did not seem to expect that the Chinese army would have such determination and courage, and the two sides immediately launched a large-scale battle on the front line of Siping and Liaoyuan, and the melee lasted for more than half a month, until the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which advanced eastward from Inner Mongolia, captured Tongliao and threatened the flank of Siping, and the Japanese army slowly withdrew to Changchun.
In the melee of hundreds of thousands of troops, the troops on both sides suffered casualties on each other, and while the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, the Chinese army also saw its own shortcomings and shortcomings. It's just that Chongqing doesn't see it that way, and Chongqing is ready to send troops north again to support, but it didn't expect that the final result will be that the Japanese army will retreat first. In Chongqing's view, who wins and who loses must not be based on casualty figures, and in their perception, the Japanese troops who retreated first and then were obviously the losing side.
Siping victory! Liaoyuan victory! News like this was already flying all over Chongqing, and all newspapers were eager to fill the whole page with the news about the great victory of Siping and Liaoyuan, and under the deliberate promotion of the Chongqing government, the anti-Japanese war in China was growing day by day. As a result, against such a background, the New First Army, which had always been the vanguard of the New Army, went into battle again and once again formed a state of confrontation with the Japanese army on the Changchun front.
While other New Army units were re-forming a state of confrontation with the Japanese army, Dai Anlan's armored troops were encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Japanese army and bandit forces in the Baishan and Tonghua areas, including the Japanese army in Changchun, and few people could see why Dai Anlan's armored troops were sent to Baishan and Tonghua to do those thankless drudgery. In fact, before Dai Anlan received Zhuo Yan's telegram, as the commander of the armored force, he was also very angry, and Dai Anlan couldn't think of what his armored pair was sent to Baishan and Tonghua for.
"General Dai, you will understand everything after reading this plan." Zhuo Yan, who took the helicopter, rushed to Dai Anlan's camp, and after a few casual greetings, Zhuo Yan immediately straightened his face and took out a battle plan and handed it to Dai Anlan. It was originally Zhuo Fei's idea to transfer Dai Anlan's armor to Baishan, if the new army wanted to take Changchun and Jilin, Dai Anlan's armored troops must be able to attack them by surprise in order to defeat the enemy.
Zhuo Fei first persuaded Chongqing to agree to transfer Dai Anlan's armored troops to Baishan, and then secretly ordered the armored division of the Dangkou Army assembled in Pyongyang to secretly go north, and after the armored division and Dai Anlan's armored troops converged, the armored division pretended to be the armored troops of the new army to stay in Baishan to attract the attention of the Japanese army, while Dai Anlan commanded his armored troops to quietly go north to attack Jilin. Once the new army takes Jilin, the situation in Changchun will be precarious, in this situation, the Japanese army will either send reinforcements to continue to hold Changchun, or take the initiative to invite the new army to fight hard and then withdraw from Changchun.
Zhuo Fei didn't care whether the Japanese army would hold on to Changchun, all he cared about was whether the new army could attract all the attention of the Japanese army in the northeast and facilitate the construction of bases and airfields on the Shandong Peninsula by the umbrella. After Dai Anlan saw the battle plan that Zhuo Yan brought, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, the armored division of the Dangkou Army, which secretly went north, would not only support him with a batch of ammunition, but also specially dispatched more than 100 trucks to help him transport infantry and supplies, so that his armored troops could have a guaranteed speed of movement.
In order to confuse the Japanese army in Changchun, Dai Anlan's armored troops attacked everywhere in the Baishan and Tonghua areas, sometimes just to clear a bandit cottage, but Dai Anlan wanted to send a large number of troops to clear it. The armored unit with the strongest combat effectiveness in the new army was not there, and the Japanese army in Changchun was temporarily relieved, but they did not know that the armored troops under the command of Dai Anlan had already been broken into pieces and quietly went north, and the armored division of the Dangkou Army that remained in the Baishan and Tonghua areas in place of them was already the armored division of the Dangkou Army.
Relying on the trucks provided by the Dangkou army, Dai Anlan's armored troops traveled north very quickly, and it only took them two days to suddenly appear on the outskirts of Jilin City. The vanguard troops that had rushed to Jilin by helicopter had already infiltrated Jilin City, and when the large army arrived outside Jilin City, a battle of internal and external attacks immediately began. Dai Anlan didn't think about leaving time for the Jilin defenders to react and arrange, as soon as the forward troops arrived outside the city, they immediately launched an attack, and the infantry who infiltrated the city also created all kinds of chaos in the city, trying to contain the living forces of the Japanese army in the city.
The siege lasted only a little more than an hour, and the armored troops outside the city rushed into the city with the help of the Imperial Cooperative Army in the city, coupled with the guidance of the underground party and military commanders in the city, Dai Anlan's armored troops quickly gained a foothold in Jilin City, forcing the Japanese troops defending the city to flee in a hurry. "Nani? Jilin lost? The news of the loss of Jilin was soon learned by the Japanese army in Changchun, who could not imagine how Dai Anlan's armored troops could suddenly appear under the city of Jilin hundreds of kilometers away.
With the loss of Jilin, the flank of the Japanese army in Changchun was greatly threatened, and in this case, the Japanese army in the Far East urgently ordered the Kwantung Army to reinforce Changchun and recapture the city of Jilin. The Japanese army intends to defend Changchun, and once Changchun is lost, the Japanese army's advantage in the northeast will be greatly weakened. However, in the face of hundreds of thousands of aggressive New Army troops, the Japanese army in Changchun actually had no bottom in their hearts, so they could only shrink back before follow-up reinforcements arrived.
The Japanese army could not shrink and held the defense line like a turtle, while the new army, which had formed a confrontation with them, did not care about 3721 and saw that the Japanese army could not retreat, so the new army immediately dispatched elite soldiers to form guerrilla squads and used scattered sorties to break up into pieces, and encroached on the Japanese defense line and the control area little by little. Infiltration and counter-infiltration, ambush and counter-ambush, sneak attack and counter-sneak attack, the two sides launched a new round of melee around the outer defense line of Changchun, and at this time, the armored division of the Dangkou Army stranded on the front line of Baishan and Tonghua suddenly turned around and moved south, and approached Incheon.