Chapter 1292: Tank Warfare Expert
At present, the Pacific Fleet of the United States is frantically suppressing the locust army on the Pacific islands, and a set of island-hopping tactics has not been tried and tested, and the locust army does not know which island their next target will be, and some of them are unable to guard against it, so that the locust army has suffered enough, and if this situation continues to be bad, Singapore, Malaya, and even the Philippines are all in danger.
Since the defeat at Midway, the United Fleet of the Locust Army has been greatly weakened and is almost in a state of passive defense, but the Pacific Fleet of the Mi Army is becoming stronger and stronger, once this balance is broken, the Chinese Pacific Fleet will definitely take advantage of the void to enter, and Jiang Haoran is too good at picking up this kind of leakage.
And once the Chinese Pacific Fleet sails into China's waters and has a logistics base, it will definitely be a nightmare for the locust army that will not wake up.
Not to mention that the garrisons in Southeast Asia will become lone troops, Guangdong and Guangxi in China will be undefended, and then Hong Kong and Macao, and then Fujian and Taiwan will be lost one by one.
If the locust army does not take the initiative to withdraw, within three months, it will run out of ammunition, and the entire locust army in central China will face the enemy with bayonets.
At that time, it will be easy for the Chinese army to attack Pingjin and the three eastern provinces again.
I have to say that Ishihara Wanji is indeed very strategic, and as for these remarks, he only heard Okamura Ninji in a cold sweat, and almost did not hesitate at all, and immediately called the base camp to report in detail on the analysis of Ishihara's battle situation, and asked the base camp to immediately strengthen the defense of Singapore and Malaya.
At the same time, the vanguard troops drawn from the mainland immediately left for South China, and ensuring the security of the two regions was the first priority.
If Ishihara's inference comes true, then Central China will be safe for the time being, in fact, Okamura Ninji is also biased towards this possibility, Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou are the most prosperous and wealthy cities in China after all, he does not believe that Jiang Haoran will hope that the war will destroy them, from this level, Ishihara's inference can stand.
As for the Pingjin side, Admiral Kleist, who came from Germany, lost no time in reassuring Okamura Ninji, patting his chest and saying that the safety of the Pingjin defense line was on their shoulders of the Eastern Expeditionary Army.
After more than a month of emergency transportation, 300,000 infantry, more than 1,000 tanks, and more than 500 planes have arrived in the Pingjin area, and together with the four divisions and regiments that the Locust Army has withdrawn from the Shandong battlefield, it is enough to withstand any frantic attack by the army.
In another month or two, more than half of the 1 million troops, 3,000 tanks, and 5,000 planes promised by Germany will enter China.
In order to convince Okamura Ninji, Kleist personally practiced on the sand table how to use tank clusters against the heavy pressure of the national army.
Although the Nationalist Army also has tank divisions and tanks that are ahead of the international level, the troops have been formed for a short period of time, they have little experience in actual combat against the enemy, and they do not have outstanding commanders.
On the other hand, although the Eastern Crusade Army was composed of Soviets, the Soviet Union formed its first tank unit in 1920, and after more than 20 years of development, the number of tanks was even much larger than that of the German army.
Therefore, their tank soldiers and officers have rich battlefield experience, coupled with the numerical superiority, the national army has no chance of winning, even if Jiang Haoran has an extraordinary tactical level, but Kleist from the German nation is the real expert in tank warfare, and no one can do tank group warfare except for German generals.
At this point, the fact that the Germans were numerically inferior to the Soviet Red Army and that the Red Army lost its armor and was defeated all the way is the best proof of this.
Kleist spat endlessly, constantly pushing the wargame drill in his hands, only dazzling Okamura Ninji.
The island army has always believed that the armored forces are not the decisive factor in the battle, and the tank is just an auxiliary team of the infantry, so they do not have any regular tank tactics, even if it is a senior general like Okamura Ningji, he still knows nothing about tank combat, it can be said that Kleist's "performance" is very powerful in Okamura Ningji's opinion, and a worried heart is slowly calming down.
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Three days later, Wuhan set camp.
The military meeting seemed to have ended, and the senior generals began to walk out of the headquarters in twos and threes, including the generals of the national army and the generals of Yan'an.
But it is obvious that the generals of the national army have joy on their faces and talk and laugh. However, the Yan'an generals were not very interested, and even had some anger on their faces.
In this vigorous "integration", although Yan'an cadres entered the upper echelons of the party-state army, and even began to take over local government affairs, the world felt that Jiang Haoran once again exerted his magic and "digested" Yan'an, the most powerful proof is that half of their army was classified into Yan Laoxi's second war zone, which in the eyes of the world is Jiang Haoran's means of differentiation, he "eats the army" not once or twice, there are always no bones left, and this time will not be an exception.
Although a high-sounding war zone was opened for Yan'an, this is to cut off a piece of meat and reward a bone, and the great future Yan'an regime will end up as the governor of Shandong Province.
It's a pity that Yan'an didn't see such a simple truth, so the party-state generals were enjoying themselves, and the Yan'an generals were a little worried.
Yan Laoxi's voice in the crowd was the loudest, and it was easy to distinguish the Shanxi dialect of corn dregs, and he walked out of the gate of the Wuhan camp with his generals talking and laughing, followed by the generals of Wei Lihuang, who were also happy.
If you want to say that the happiest are the two of them, Wei Lihuang pocketed Wang Linji's 30th Group Army, not to mention, Jiang Haoran also gave him the establishment of a tank division, although the tanks are all from the captured Japanese system, but they are always tank troops, and there are only a few tank divisions in the current national army?
Not to mention Yan Laoxi, who ate the 300,000 troops of Yan'an in one go, and a brand-new German tank division, it can be said that the promise Jiang Haoran made to him was fulfilled in one step, so fast that he felt like he was dreaming.
Although Yan'an's Eighteenth Army was subordinate to the battle sequence of the Second Theater for a long time, Yan Laoxi never really commanded them. But this time is different, Jiang Haoran's methods are not comparable to the chairman, the chairman buckles the noose, and wants to use them, but he guards against them, and even suppresses them from time to time, so who can follow you?
Jiang Haoran was atmospheric, and he gave everything as soon as he came up, from military salaries to logistics to weapons and equipment, and even tanks and helicopters.