Chapter 270: Cloud Burst Bomb (Part II)
The Japanese army knew very well that with the rapid development of China and the rapid increase in military strength, once the war between China and Japan began, the Chinese army, which had an absolute numerical superiority and a superior advantage in weapons, would be very strong in combat effectiveness. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Japanese knew that if they confronted the Chinese army head-on, even if they believed in the combat effectiveness of their Japanese army, they knew very well that it would definitely be their Japanese army that would lose in the end.
Therefore, in order to block the attack of the superior Chinese army, it is necessary to consume the living force of the Chinese army by building a strong defensive front, so that it can defend for a longer time.
Therefore, whether it is in Siberia in the north, or in Chaoxian and Southeast Asian countries, as long as it is facing the direction of China, as long as it is within its reach, it is necessary to rely on favorable factors such as terrain to build strong fortifications as much as possible.
This is the case with the Yablonov Mountain, where the Japanese army used the mountain to build a large number of tunnels deep into the mountain's belly, and they were connected together, which was definitely a strong fortress.
Because of this, the commander of the Japanese army, Iimura, was very confident that he would be able to hold out for at least three months.
If we follow the previous estimation of the tactical application and combat strength of the Chinese army, Iimura may really be able to do what he says, but the current Chinese army has already taken on a new look, not only in terms of weapons and equipment, but also in terms of tactical thinking and so on.
It has been several years since there has been a real war with the Chinese army, and although Japanese spies are active in China, how can they casually detect some core tactical content?
A strategic weapon can directly change the direction of a campaign or even a war, and the cloud burst bomb can undoubtedly be called a strategic weapon at the moment.
If it were in an open area, the power of the cloudburst bomb would be greatly reduced, but the Japanese army could not have thought of this, but instead built such a closed fortification on a large scale, providing the most suitable place for the cloudburst bomb.
The Chinese army attacked with a combination of incendiary bombs and cloudburst bombs, directly baptizing the Yablono Mountain. The first incendiary bomb attack had burned almost all of the vegetation in the mountain, and the air in the mountain's belly had become thinner, and then the Chinese air force quickly threw cloudburst bombs to deliver the fatal blow.
When the more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers hiding in the belly of the mountain felt that something was wrong, it was too late to think of it, and a large area of suffocation and death made Yablono Mountain completely become a dead mountain.
Including the Supreme Commander Iimura and his command staff, for the sake of the safety of the headquarters, the location of the headquarters was built relatively deep. As a result, after the cloud burst bomb took effect, the first ones to be fatal were those who hid relatively deep.
As for Iimura, except for a small number of people who died of suffocation, most of them, led by Iimura, were stoned to death or buried alive by rocks in the collapsed tunnel when they wanted to evacuate.
Of course, not all Japanese troops hid in the deep belly of the mountain, and the Japanese troops who were closer to the exit wanted to rush out as quickly as possible to breathe fresh air.
However, the explosion of the cloudburst bomb consumes the surrounding air regionally, and the density of the air outside is not much higher than that inside the mountain. There is another point, the explosion of the cloud burst bomb will produce a huge shock wave, which is difficult for the human body to bear at all, and many people are directly shocked to death, after all, even the solid mountain has been shaken down a lot.
Only two large-scale sorties of the air force before and after wiped out more than 10,000 Japanese main forces in the Yablono Mountains, and only a few who survived were still desperately resisting with strong fortifications.
For these stubborn Japanese troops, so many people died in the mountains, and weapons and rations were suddenly surplus, as long as they could withstand the attack of the Chinese army, they could still hold for a while.
However, the Chinese army will not be slowly depleted with these Japanese troops, and there are armed helicopters on standby in the vicinity at all times, and once they find the stubborn firepower of the Japanese army, they will immediately send armed helicopters to strike condescendingly.
Because the fortifications built on the mountain, they basically gave up their air defense capabilities, so in the face of the Chinese army's helicopter gunships, these Japanese troops had little way to do it, and could only be killed by rockets or machine guns.
The ground troops will often use flamethrowers to deal with the Japanese troops hiding in the tunnels to shoot, and the effect is also very good, while the Japanese troops who are dealt with by the flamethrowers are worse than the cloudburst bombs, and the terrifying howls accompanied by the fire seem to come from hell.
In the Chinese army's joint air-ground targeted elimination operation, no matter how stubborn the Japanese strongholds, could hardly withstand such a joint attack, and they were uprooted one by one.
Seeing that Yablonov was gradually occupied by the Chinese army step by step, the few remaining Japanese troops were desperate, and some launched a suicidal attack, and some did not want to become prisoners, so they cut themselves in the belly of the mountain. And the Yablono Mountain, which was expected to be defended for at least three months, was completely controlled by the Chinese army in less than a week.
The Japanese army also estimated that it would inflict at least 20,000 casualties on the Chinese army, but as a result, it was only one-tenth of their budget, more than 2,000 people, because the Chinese army did not have 20,000 ground troops directly attacking the Yablonov Mountain.
"Haha, yes, yes, this battle is so energetic...... got the statistical results, Xue Yue, the commander of the Northern Group Army, was very excited, and it was definitely not an exaggeration to say that it was a good start.
"It's still Wei Qidong who has a ......good command," Xue Yue said to Wei Qidong beside him in a timely manner.
Wei Qidong shook his head and said with a smile, "In terms of strategy and tactics, I, Wei Qidong, am far worse than you battle-hardened veterans, but in terms of the use of weapons, then I, Wei Qidong, am not modest, and I am definitely better than you." ”
"Haha, yes, my Great German Army has achieved such a brilliant front in the European theater, and General Wei's contribution is indispensable, and the Führer has praised General Wei in public more than once. Moreover, some of General Wei's advanced tactical ideas have been taught as textbooks in the major military academies of Germany, and it can be determined from this that General Wei will definitely be able to leave ......a name for eternity in the future," German military adviser Hiem Siem followed, and his words were full of admiration for Wei Qidong, because he knew that their head of state had never commended a person like this, and he was not a German.
"You, one by one, are going to hold me Wei up to the sky, this is a ...... of tormenting me" Wei Qidong smiled bitterly, if it weren't for the fact that he was a person in the future, and he had also studied the development of human military and the history of war, and directly copied and studied a lot of content, how could he, Wei Qidong, a young man in his twenties, be able to compare with these real people?
Of course, Wei Qidong doesn't need to explain these things to them in detail, it's not a bad thing to be praised by others, just don't get carried away.
After taking Yablonov Mountain, Army Group North quickly rushed all the way to Ulan-Ude, preparing to take the nearest important town to China as quickly as possible.
The Japanese troops defending Ulan-Ude did not expect the Chinese army to come so quickly, in fact, the most important thing was that they did not expect the defense of Yablonov Mountain to fall so quickly, which caught them by surprise.