Chapter 40: Guiding the War
"It's a big game of chess, and the worst-case scenario is that we don't get back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 But if we can entangle the Japanese army on the border between China and North Korea and win a few small victories, we can also burn the flames of war into North Korea. Once we entered Korea and engaged the Japanese army, the Chinese air force units in Yantai would cooperate with our flying teams to carry out a major bombing of southern Korea to provide support to the ground forces. ”
"Boss, if that's the case, North Korea will be completely destroyed." Huffman reminded Zhuo Fei in a whisper, but greeted the white eyes of the others, Huffman didn't know what to do, he didn't know why these guys were rolling his eyes at him, and only Angela patiently explained to Huffman, which allowed Huffman to solve his doubts.
"North Korea is broken, it's broken, it's not our place anyway, and besides, the old man surnamed Kim is only thinking about his Republic of Korea, and that stubborn old man will never agree to our proposal. In this case, why should we still take into account the interests of Korea, as long as we can contain the Japanese troops moving south and achieve our goal, it will not hurt to completely destroy Korea. Zhuo Fei behaved so easily, but Angela and the others were already uncalm in their hearts, because Zhuo Fei's attitude represented the interests of the Dangkou Army and the umbrella.
Zhuo Fei will behave so easily because the US-Australian coalition under MacArthur's command has just suffered a defeat, and MacArthur, who is self-defeating, tried to counterattack the Japanese army in the Philippines, but was caught off guard by the Japanese army who were waiting for him. Although Zhuo Fei didn't know what the Philippine Japanese army was fighting in mind, he could already guess that Yamashita Fengwen was preparing to fight a protracted war with MacArthur, and since MacArthur could not capture the Philippines in a short period of time, Zhuo Fei was relieved.
If the US-Australian coalition forces cannot capture the Philippines in a short period of time, they will not be able to pose a real threat to the Japanese mainland, and in a sense, if the Dangkou army uses North Korea as a springboard to attack the Japanese mainland, then this great credit will only belong to the umbrella family. That's right, Zhuo Fei's mood was depressed some time ago, precisely because MacArthur tried to counterattack the Philippines, Zhuo Fei has been worried that if MacArthur successfully leads the attack on the Japanese mainland, the efforts of the umbrella may be ignored.
With the cooperation of the Mexican army, the Japanese army even sent people to contact the Indians in the United States, trying to persuade the Indians to change their flag to fight the Americans under the pretext that they were also yellow-skinned. The prosperity of the United States has made the Japanese forget about it, especially the convenient transportation in the United States is a great help to the Japanese attack, and the American army, which has low combat effectiveness, has been even more ill by the Japanese army.
The U.S. government was anxious to extricate itself from this predicament, and could not drive out the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops who had invaded the mainland, so it had to secretly order MacArthur to launch a counteroffensive against the Philippines in advance. The Americans believed that as long as they took the Philippines and then used the Philippines as a springboard, they could directly take the Japanese mainland, and as long as they took the Japanese mainland, the Japanese army's attack on the American mainland would stop. It's just that the reality is not as good and smooth as imagined, MacArthur's first counteroffensive has failed, and next, the US-Australian coalition forces commanded by MacArthur are bound to shed more blood for this illusory battle plan.
"Just do it, order Zhuo Yan to immediately launch an operation against the rear line of the Japanese army in Dandong to facilitate the eastward advance of the Dangkou army." Zhuo Fei's order turned into radio waves and flew thousands of miles to Zhuo Yan's hands, and Zhuo Yan, who had already been prepared, did not say a word, and immediately commanded the Korean Independence Army that crossed the border to launch an attack on the rear line of the Japanese army in Dandong. The confrontation with the Dangkou army consumed a lot of energy and attention of the Dandong Japanese army, so that they did not notice any movement outside their rear line.
The Korean Independence Army under Zhuo Yan was reduced to zero, attacking many Japanese defense lines overnight, and by the time the Japanese army in Dandong learned the news, the Korean Independence Army had already fled hundreds of miles away. "Eight Geyalu, these damn cowards, can't they just fight us in a dignified manner?" The dilapidated camp in front of him made Kobayashi Hiroichi who rushed to the rescue very angry, and what made him most angry was the corpses in the camp, because all the corpses in the camp were stripped like pigs.
The attackers not only killed all the Imperial soldiers in this camp, but also stripped the corpses of their military uniforms, which was a provocation for Kobayashi Koichi, an extreme provocation. The scouts who had gone out to reconnoiter soon returned, and they had already found traces left by the attackers on the east side of the camp, and Kobayashi Hirokazu had already been carried away by anger, and without saying a word, he ordered his squadron to pursue the attackers who had fled.
Kobayashi commanded a regular infantry squadron of 210 men, armed not only with three light machine guns, but also with two heavy machine guns and three mortars. According to the situation of the Kwantung Army in the past, Kobayashi Koichi's squadron could at least fight a battalion or even a larger Chinese army, but Kobayashi Koichi did not know what kind of enemy he was going to face at the moment.
Carrying out a surprise attack on the Japanese army was only Zhuo Yan's first step, and luring the snake out of the hole was his original intention, Kobayashi Koichi's squadron was not the only Japanese army pursuing Zhuo Yan and them, in the area east of the Japanese rear line in Dandong, there were at least three Japanese squadrons and two Japanese puppet mixed forces in pursuit of the Korean Independence Army that had withdrawn eastward. The Japanese puppet army that came after them exceeded 1,000 people, but fortunately they did not converge into one unit, but pursued them in four ways, which also gave Zhuo Yan the opportunity to attack them separately.
"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, the front is Pheasant Ridge, according to the news from the scouts, the target of our pursuit is on the left side of Pheasant Ridge, if we can occupy Pheasant Ridge, the enemy army that is preparing to bypass Pheasant Ridge will be doomed." Kobayashi's squadron hurried and finally caught up with the attacker's troops at Pheasant Ridge, and according to the terrain here, Kobayashi's lieutenant made a proposal that was extremely favorable to Kobayashi's squadron.
Holding up the binoculars and carefully looking around the surrounding terrain, Kobayashi Koichi was very satisfied with the adjutant's advice, as long as he occupied the Pheasant Ridge in front, his squadron could occupy a high position and fully suppress the enemy troops around the Pheasant Ridge. Pheasant Ridge is actually not very high, in the area east of Dandong, there are many dirt mountains like Pheasant Ridge, Kobayashi Koichi did not realize the hidden murderous and dangerous here, but just ordered his squadron to march to Pheasant Ridge.
A mere pheasant ridge is nothing to the Kwantung Army soldiers who practice every day, Kobayashi Hikaru gave orders one by one, and the soldiers of the squadron who opened the straggler line followed the scouts and moved quickly to the top of the mountain. The soldier who touched the top of the mountain looked up, saw the scout who had reached the top of the mountain first, and gave a warning signal, and immediately relieved himself and continued to climb. But just as they had climbed to the top of the mountain, the scout who had climbed to the top of the mountain first suddenly disappeared, and what appeared in their sight was the turf that continued to rise in the air.
"Fire, hit me." There was a loud shout from the top of the mountain, and a row of black muzzles was revealed under the large open turf. The half-foot-long spear flame suddenly appeared in Kobayashi Koichi's line of sight, and the dense machine-gun strafing sound coupled with the sporadic rifle fire sounded more corpses swept by the gunfire on the hillside in an instant. Kobayashi Koichi, who had only reached the halfway point of the mountain, was escorted by the adjutant and lowered his figure, and when he wanted to organize a counterattack, he suddenly found that the mortar team that had been following his side had already suffered heavy casualties.
At the moment when the battle broke out, the artillery squad that followed Kobayashi Koichi to the halfway up the mountain was deliberately taken care of, and several gunners in the squad were the first to be shot, and they didn't know what weapon the other party was using, and the corpse of the gunner who was shot looked very miserable. Looking at the fist-sized blood holes on those corpses, Kobayashi Koyi's heart flashed a spirit, this was obviously a wound caused by a large-caliber bullet, but the army was obviously not equipped with a weapon that used large-caliber bullets.
The Bandit Army can only be the Bandit Army, and only the Bandit Army of unknown origin is equipped with a large number of European-style weapons that use large-caliber bullets. Kobayashi Koichi suddenly came back to his senses, and immediately called the operator to send a report to the wing headquarters, reporting the information he had found on the small unit of the Dangkou Army to the wing headquarters. The completely suppressed Xiaolin squadron slowly retreated down the mountain, but just as they were about to withdraw from Pheasant Ridge, the enemy troops who had originally bypassed Pheasant Ridge suddenly appeared at the bottom of the mountain, and the back road of the Xiaolin squadron had been cut off.
There was a strong enemy in front and then intercepted, and the remaining 100 officers and men of the Kobayashi squadron were panicked, and after losing almost all the artillery and machine gunners, the future of the Kobayashi squadron was bleak. As troubled as Kobayashi's squadron, there were several other Japanese troops pursuing the eastward advance, and Zhuo Yan's plan to lure the snake out of the hole was a complete victory, and the rest was how to take out these trapped Japanese puppet army troops.
Zhuo Yan has never experienced large-scale combat, and Zhuo Yan, who has followed Zhuo Fei for the longest time, is best at small-scale combat. Zhuo Fei's advice to Zhuo Fei is also a guerrilla tactic of dividing the troops into zero and attacking separately, no matter how many troops the Kwantung Army has supported to the front line of Dandong, and no matter how many heavy weapons the Dandong Japanese army is equipped with, Zhuo Yan, who has more than 10,000 troops, only uses one trick to deal with it, that is, Zhuo Fei reminds himself of guerrilla warfare.
Divide a part of the Korean Independence Army into more than a dozen assault units to carry out a surprise attack on the rear line of the Japanese army in Dandong, and then use the remaining Korean Independence Army troops to lay traps on the retreat route of the decoy troops, waiting for the pursuers to step into the trap themselves. Kobayashi's squadron was unlucky enough to be one of the prey to step into the trap, and the Kobayashi squadron, which was facing an up-and-down attack, lasted only three hours at Pheasant Ridge before being annihilated by more than 1,000 Korean Independence Army soldiers in one place.