Chapter 64: Battle Clouds Gather
Leaving the three armed chariots behind, picking out six trucks in better condition, and dumping the trophies from the trucks onto the others, the nine chariots formed a new convoy. Let the remaining trucks full of goods turn around and head back into the mountains. These trucks are full of loot, and they can't participate in the battle, so it's better to go back first, and let Zheng Guotai count it as soon as possible, and calculate how much money it can sell.
Colonel Hong came over with the command. The soldiers of the guard company were all excited to see their company commander get out of the tank, and the big guys thought that the guard company would be upgraded to a motorized unit in the future.
"Move everything to the truck." Looking at the radio and other materials and equipment loaded on the cart, Gao Quan hurriedly ordered the soldiers to carry everything to the truck. Isn't that what these trucks are for?
Tang Wenjuan acted with the military headquarters, saw tanks, armored vehicles, and these six brand-new trucks, jumped and jumped excitedly, took out the camera is "click" and snapped violently, after filming, pulled Jin Hu and immediately began to interview on the spot. She wanted to interview Gao Quan, but seeing that Lord Junzao kept directing people to do that, she didn't dare to make do with it. I didn't look at it, Hong Yingying and Huiqin were still standing next to them, and after they met, they just said hello, didn't they even have time to speak?
Sun Lianzhong commanded three armies under his command and pursued them relentlessly. The 3rd Division, which was invincible in the past, has completely become a defeated quail and a defeated chicken this time, and only cares about fleeing in a hurry along the way, even if the broken troops are dispatched, they are often defeated with one blow, and they have completely lost the style of being able to fight well in the past.
Not only did the devils run fast, but even the tanks and tanks they had always relied on were all abandoned. The pursuing troops of the Second Army kept spotting bombed tanks and cars along the way. In order to escape for their lives, the devils don't even want tanks? Don't the devils know that the wheels run faster than the two legs of a man? Sun Lianzhong, who received the report from the troops below, was puzzled.
Gao Quan knew that these things could be sold for money, and of course the fighters of the second group also knew that they were not rich! As a result, the waste materials thrown by the commander of the Yamawaki Division and the leader of the Ishimoto detachment along the way became their life charms. If the pursuing troops want to take away these vehicles and supplies, of course, they will occupy a lot of manpower, and if all the people are withdrawn to do this, the pursuing force will naturally decrease.
In this respect, the vehicles abandoned by the 3rd Division really played a role in delaying the enemy's troops. It's just that General Yamawaki doesn't want such a role at all. Having discarded so many cars and tanks, he still doesn't know how to explain it when he goes back after the war!
Matsuyama Daisa called, and the fourth broken rear unit sent by the Sixth Wing cut off contact with the wing headquarters again. In this case, everyone knows what it means to cut off contact, that is, it was killed by the Chinese army!
Every time it is a brigade, just these four broken troops, have already lost 4,000 people! A multi-wing, and just like that, it's gone! No matter how many people there are in the Third Division, how many wings can there be?
The 3rd Division was not like this before! If it was in the past, although a brigade-level unit might not be able to win the battle, they would have been able to cause some trouble to the Chinese army, and it was even possible to disrupt the deployment of the Chinese army! Sending four broken troops in a row, Sun Lianzhong's pursuit should have slowed down completely!
Since listening to Japanese songs in the middle of the night that night, the combat effectiveness of the 3rd Division has plummeted. Those powerful troops in the past are now completely on the same level as those miscellaneous armies and police forces in China's local military system! A brigade, thousands of Japanese soldiers, just sent a telegram saying that they had come into contact with the Chinese army, and then asked about the battle, and there was no news at all! All four armies are like this! Lieutenant General Yawaki no longer dares to send out the rear troops!
The brigades are like this, send out a few squadrons, and they will only die faster! Could he still have left a wing or brigade behind? If he really dares to do that, when he returns, the Commander of the Park Department will definitely send him to a court-martial!
"Shi Ben-kun, how are you there?" In addition to his division headquarters, Lieutenant General Yawaki also had to worry about Ishimoto's armored troops. The Chariot Wing was originally a fist unit with excellent speed and strength, but now it has become a group of cowards who can only rely on the mobility of vehicles to run faster than anyone else!
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, I'm very bad here! The tanks of my detachment have fallen behind by more than sixty percent! ”
Major General Ishimoto's shouting on the phone made Yamawaki Masataka fall into a state of stupor in an instant. Originally, I thought that Shi Ben Zhenzhi would abandon some chariots that were not very easy to use, and it would be good to throw away one or twenty chariots when they reached the sky, but now they have fallen behind more than sixty percent! Sixty percent? Doesn't that mean that the current tank brigade is no longer able to even form a tank wing?
"And what about your charioteers?" I really didn't know what to say about this arrogant and stupid major general of the armored corps, and General Yamawaki asked a meaningless question dryly.
"Oh, your Excellency the division commander can rest assured. I'm not disbanding these soldiers who have lost their chariots, they are the elite of the Empire, and there will be a time when they will show their talents! I put some of the soldiers who had lost their tanks on the roof of the chariots that could be driven, and some of them went to stay with the engineer wing. My soldiers have good stamina, and they can keep up with the team! ”
When Taro Ishimoto said this, he looked very pleasant. He can't be unhappy, although the loss of the chariot has become like this, he does not have to take responsibility after the war! How could he not be light-hearted?
General Ishimoto has already contacted the military headquarters. A heavyweight in the military department who has a good relationship with him thinks that as long as it can be proved that the order to abandon the chariot was given by Yamawaki Masataka, and Ishimoto Sadamao only obeyed the order, then he can be completely exempted from responsibility if he uses his energy to move! And that evidence is now in the pocket of his military jacket. Just as he was sending the chariot to Lieutenant General Yamanwaki, Major General Ishimoto personally went with the chariot and made a special trip to ask His Excellency the division commander for this handwritten warrant. With this thing, no matter what the battle ends up in, he is not responsible!
"Alright, Shimoto-kun, please try to keep the remaining chariots. Perhaps, we can still use them in Zaoyang! ”
On the second day of the engagement between the 3rd Division and our army, the 13th Division of the Japanese invaders launched an attack from Zhongxiang, and on the same day, it broke through the front of the 33rd Group Army and marched all the way north, pointing directly at Zaoyang. On 4 May, the 39th Division of the Japanese invaders launched an attack on the central front, quickly breaking through the frontal defense line of the 11th Group Army and attacking in the direction of Zaoyang.
For a while, the battle clouds were dense and the black clouds overwhelmed the city, and the two divisions of the Japanese invaders formed a situation of encirclement of Zaoyang against us.