Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Meeting

In the battle room of the command center of the green paint area of Thirty Mile Fort, Zhao Yi was presiding over the meeting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info summarized and discussed the movements of the Japanese army after the ambush of the Japanese patrol and the situation of the Qing army in Jinzhou City.

"How did we ambush the Japanese with the IED?" Zhao Yi asked the platoon commander who led the ambush mixed squad.

"A total of two blasts were carried out against Japanese ground combatants, the first blast used inductive IEDs, which wounded and killed about 10 Japanese patrols. The second blasting was aimed at the Japanese demining engineers and medics who came to reinforce them, using radio-controlled directional blasting. Most of the Japanese reinforcements came into the effective kill range of the blasting, and about 170 Japanese soldiers were wounded and killed. Video footage from the scene has been copied to MI for summary analysis. The platoon commander of this mountain unit gave a brief report on the course of the battle and the results obtained.

"According to the video data provided by the ambush force, we killed at least half of the personnel of the medical team of the 1st Division and about all the demining engineers in this ambush." Lu Xiaobei held her small notebook and read.

"Judging from the establishment of the first division of the Japanese army provided by Inukai Kazuo and Masakichi Inoda, Nogi Noshinori basically has no available medical soldiers and demining engineers on hand." Lu Xiaobei closed her small notebook and made a final concluding speech.

The men in the war room couldn't help but whistle, without the medical guards and demining engineers, the Japanese plan to attack Jinzhou was postponed again. These technical classes are not so easy to supplement. At the earliest, it would be necessary to transfer from divisions and regiments on the Japanese mainland that had no combat mission, which would take at least more than a week. Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, it was becoming more and more difficult for the Japanese troops fighting outside the country to transport supplies. In order to change this passive situation, the idea of launching a full-scale attack on the 1st Volunteer Brigade will become more and more urgent.

And this situation is the most anticipated by the crossing, they have advanced reconnaissance equipment, in this area of less than 100 kilometers, can be able to know the movements of the Japanese army well.

It is foreseeable that when the Japanese army launches an attack, it will eventually be blocked in the battlefield that passes through the presets. At that time, their heavy tanks will no longer have to think about how to cross the river to reach the battlefield, and the various heavy firepower of the 21st century will teach the Japanese army how to behave.

"What new discoveries have been made by the Military Intelligence Department about the situation on the Qing army's side?" Zhao Yi asked for directions to Xiaobei.

"There is very bad news, Xu Bangdao is seriously ill and can no longer handle military affairs in person, and there is not much food in Jinzhou City. In fact, in addition to the abundant food of the defenders of Dalian Bay, the Qing troops on the entire Liaodong Peninsula were generally short of food. According to the information collected by Ma San, several units of the Qing army in Lushun fought for food. Lu Xiaobei said.

"Rub, what's this called, it's all a group of pig teammates, and the only one who is reliable is still Nima's seriously ill bedridden. Isn't Dalian Bay defender Zhao Huaiye a famous Zhao Ranran? Zhao Yi asked Yang Xiaodong of the Liehui.

"Yes, it's not just that he is hateful to run away, according to many posts on Tieba, he transported a lot of military rations and clothing back to Yantai for resale. Moreover, when the Japanese army occupied the Dalian Bay Fort in history, it obtained a large amount of supplies, and when the dog-day ran well, even the generator was not blown up. Yang Xiaodong said.

"Well, Dalian Bay has wharves and trestle bridges, and if the Japanese army occupies there, then the speed of their material transfer will increase exponentially. In such a situation, we will be passive, and our plan to spend the Japanese army on the Liaodong Peninsula will go bankrupt. Although the Japanese army considered the power of the Krupp shore defense heavy artillery on the Dalian Bay Battery, they always wanted to attack Dalian Bay from land. But now their plan to attack Jinzhou City has been delayed again and again, let alone any land attack on Dalian Bay. However, we should consider the possibility that the Japanese were forced to attack Dalian Bay from the sea. Lu Xiangyang voiced his concerns.

"If the Japanese really dare to do this, we will bomb their warships, and it is impossible for them to succeed." Hao Dajian's flying team has obtained a large amount of bomb supplies from the materials transmitted by D+15, and it is full of energy when it comes to talking.

"You think too highly of Zhao Huaiye, in history, the Japanese army occupied the fort in Dalian Bay without a single shot. Zhao ran away when he saw the Japanese army attacking Dalian Bay, and then the soldiers collapsed. Are you sure that by the time you fly there, there will still be Qing defenders on the battery? Yang Xiaodong looked at Hao Dajian with a look that you are too stupid and naïve.

Zhao Yi habitually pinched the pencil again, and his fingers kept on the location of Dalian Bay in the map, tapping rhythmically and gently. After a long time, he smiled self-deprecatingly and shook his head.

"Is there a new big move in the Japanese army now? Have you sent any more troops to the front line of Pulandian? Is there any information on the activities of the Japanese fleet in the waters to the west? Zhao Yi asked.

"No, the flight team's reconnaissance during the day and at night did not find any signs of the Japanese army increasing their troops on the front line of Pulandian. The focus of the Japanese fleet's activities was still to encircle Lushun and Dalian Bay, and our fishermen did not find any small Japanese ships carrying out activities such as measuring the water depth along the western coastline of our base. Lu Xiaobei reported.

"Well, that's a bit weird, if you want to launch a full-scale attack on us, you have to make a lot of preparations. What else can they do but kill us with people? If you want to use a pile of people, you have to attack on multiple fronts, and now this situation is not right. Lu Xiangyang was puzzled by the recent movements of the Japanese army.

The southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula is very small and unsuitable for the deployment of large forces. The traffic situation near Dalian is not as convenient as it is in the 21st century. There are two relatively large roads from Huayuankou to Jinzhou City that can be used by large troops, one is Jinzhou Avenue against the coastline, and the other is Fuzhou Avenue that bypasses Fuzhou City. Of course, there are some trails that can be passed over the mountains, but those roads are of little value for launching a large-scale military campaign, and there is not enough food for the porters to transport supplies through these paths.

In order for the Japanese army to launch an all-out attack on the crossings, it must be carried out on multiple fronts at the same time, so that it is possible to give full play to the superiority in troops. When the range of light and heavy firepower is not as good as that of the opponent, only the sea tactics are carried out from the front line, which becomes a refueling tactic, and it is purely a head-off.

Of course, the participants did not feel that they had traveled with an aura of retardation, and that they could lower the IQ of the Japanese army to the point of using refueling tactics to send them to death. What the hell were the Japanese on their minds? The only offensive route they could choose was to attack directly from Fuzhou Avenue, bypass Shimenzi from Jinzhou Avenue and outflank Shimenzi, and finally land on the coast west of Thirty Miles Fort.

In terms of Xu Bangdao's combat strength and temper, it is very likely that the Japanese army will cut off their retreat when they attack Thirty Mile Fort behind them. If the Japanese army did not receive the news that Xu Bangdao was seriously ill, the Japanese army would most likely launch a two-front attack, that is, from the coast west of Fuzhou Avenue and Sanshilipu. It's just that now they don't have any big moves, what's the situation?

"Is it possible for the Military Intelligence Department to see if it has directly learned about the internal situation of the Japanese army?" Zhao Yi asked for directions to Xiaobei.

"Without this possibility, we currently do not have the conditions to send spies within the Japanese army." Lu Xiaobei directly dispelled Zhao Yi's thoughts.

The Military Intelligence Department is an amateur player who sings on stage, and now he can reach out to Jinzhou, Dalian Bay and Lushun because the Qing army is so rotten to the root, not because of how strong Lu Xiaobei's business ability is. It was really difficult for the former trainee nurse to understand the combat intentions of the Japanese army from the inside.

"Okay, the missile launch bunkers on the western coast still need to be built to ensure that our "Hellfire" shore defense missiles can hit the Japanese landing ships. Zhao Yi told Chen Yongqing, who was present at the meeting.

The crowd here was discussing passionately in the battle room, and in Fuzhou City, the bigwigs of the Japanese Second Army were also almost fighting over whether to attack the First Volunteer Brigade.