[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1184: Frog Jumping Tactics (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The Japanese army planned to counterattack, and Ma Zheng's division also did not plan to retreat, and at this time, the Saibei Corps was still advancing steadily on the battlefield in Xuzhou, in addition to the 550,000 troops who participated in the previous battle, Ma Zheng transferred 300,000 elites from other military regions to the south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In mid-August 1944, these 300,000 living forces arrived in Lunan, and then Ma Zheng ordered the armored troops who arrived at the front line to open the way and make a central breakthrough to the Japanese defense circle in northern Jiangsu.

On August 17, after the southern front troops captured Hanzhuang and Nigou Town, regardless of the resistance of the Japanese 10th Division and the 107th Division, the lone army went deeper, and after defeating the resistance of more than 60,000 Japanese divisions and regiments on the front line of Mufu Mountain, they went straight to Taierzhuang to break through, hoping to capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

And Okamura Ninji was not to be outdone, urgently transferred 650 fighters from central China to reinforce the Xuzhou battlefield, and also urgently transferred 300 tanks and a large number of weapons and ammunition, in order to ensure the supply of the front line, Okamura Ninji set up a material storage base in Anqing, Anhui Province, and sent heavy troops to guard it.

Okamura Ningji's strategic intention is not difficult to understand, it is very simple to say, it is completely a copy of what Ma Zheng used before, that is, regardless of the gains and losses of one city or one place, try to kill and injure the enemy's living forces.

Therefore, although the Japanese army set up a large number of blocking positions along the Xuzhou line, the resistance of each position was not extremely resolute, and the Japanese army retreated every time it hit the critical point, but every time it would cause huge casualties to Yang Chengwu's department.

Since the Battle of Xuzhou, although the Japanese army has lost many counties and cities, in terms of the price paid, Yang Chengwu's department is still more heavy, with more than 37,000 casualties alone, including more than 18,600 killed in battle.

Okamura Ningji's idea Ma Zheng was very clear, he did not let it go, nor did he order Yang Chengwu's troops to give up the attack, but ordered Yang Chengwu to increase the intensity and speed of the attack, because he wanted to play a game for the little devil that he had never seen.

In view of the experience of the defeat of the Japanese army at the time of the first Battle of Xuzhou, Okamura Ningji suddenly placed three infantry divisions in Taierzhuang and its vicinity, and also built Taierzhuang into a strong military fortress, all of which are reinforced concrete military fortifications, as long as Ma Zheng's department dares to come, Okamura Ningji believes that Taierzhuang will become a meat grinder in the eastern battlefield.

Ma Zheng already knew about the changes in Taierzhuang, but in order to attract the attention of the Japanese army, Ma Zheng still ordered the troops to continue to march towards Taierzhuang, but the speed decreased slightly.

At the same time, Ma Zheng was also busy testing his new tactics in the former enemy headquarters, although this tactic was said to be a new tactic, but it was not new in Ma Zheng's time.

Speaking of this new tactic, it has a lot to do with the Americans, and this tactic is actually the "frog jumping tactic" invented by the Americans. In the layers of fortified enemy formations, the attacking troops went beyond the front line and went straight into the hinterland to seize the central points one by one, which was the central theory of the new tactics mentioned by Ma Zheng.

The "frog jumping tactic" is a brand-new tactic that jumps out of linear thinking, and in the thousands of years when the land battlefield was dominant, the confrontation between the two sides of the war was a clear contest between the "Chu River" and the "Han Boundary". Whether it is to conquer a city or to destroy a city, there is always a clear front in the thinking of the commander. Both sides of the war are based on their own camps and advance one after another, and use troops according to law.

However, such tactics usually put the two sides in a state of see-saw, so that the two sides have to engage in a war of attrition, and the consumption of troops and strategic materials is very serious.

After World War II entered the counteroffensive stage, the Pacific theater fell into such a tug-of-war: the allied forces led by the United States began to counterattack, and the Japanese army resisted stubbornly.

The South Pacific Ocean is dotted with islands, and the two sides are fighting for each island, and the war is extremely difficult. In order to speed up the course of the war, a bold idea was born in the minds of two famous generals of the US military, MacArthur and Nimitz: abandon the traditional practice of pushing flat on the front line, jump forward, and attack across the island.

Under their command, the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater advanced in two directions, taking advantage of their naval superiority to avoid the Japanese army's first-line defense points, and to attack the weakly defended islands in their strategic depth, and then continue their offensive with this as support after they succeeded, thus greatly speeding up the course of the war and breaking through the Japanese army's inner defense circle in just over half a year.

This tactic is successful in the Southeast Asian battlefield, but now it may not be successful if it is moved to land by Ma Zheng, so Ma Zheng is also worried about whether he can jump this frog jump.

The Americans' "leapfrogging" tactic uses the navy as a "jump aid" and is mainly used in landing operations. However, Ma Zheng knew that after World War II, with the improvement of air transportation capabilities, the "frog jumping" tactic gradually became the main theory of the US military's airborne operations.

The 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, which shocked the world, was a typical "leapfrog" parachute operation. The US commanders abandoned the traditional tactics of rushing to the beach and landed on the beach, and directly relied on airborne troops to cross the Georgian army's defensive positions and seize the airfield. The airborne troops parachuted at an ultra-low altitude of 150 meters, the ship did not moor the shore, and the soldiers did not wet their boots, and they disarmed the Georgian army in just four days.

China does not have a strong navy, so Ma Zheng's test of this new tactic is to use the air force as a jump aid, but China's air force is not very strong, although it can barely protect most of its airspace, but in terms of transportation capacity, it is still far away, so Ma Zheng had to ask the United States and the Soviet Union for help.

Hearing that Ma Zheng was about to carry out a large-scale counterattack, the United States and the Soviet Union were also extremely excited, and when the US military campaign against the Philippines was about to begin, the Americans desperately hoped that the Chinese would contain the Japanese forces, so Ma Zheng's request was quickly answered.

On 20 August, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Pacific Theater ordered General MacArthur to send a telegram to Ma Zheng's department, saying that the United States was willing to transfer 399 large transport planes of the Air Transport Corps, which was originally transporting war materials for China, to the Chinese battlefield to participate in the war, and at the same time, the Soviet Union also promised to send 300 transport planes to help Ma Zheng's department.

Ma Zheng carefully calculated that the transportation capacity of the air transport troops of the United States and the Soviet Union, plus the 300 transport planes of the Joint Air Force, each transport plane could transport 50 soldiers with live ammunition at a time, and the strength of one field army could be transported at one time.

It takes up to 2 hours to travel between Zhangjiakou and the Beijing-Tianjin area to and from Anhui, and 3 times can be transported in one night. That is to say, as long as Ma Zheng is hard-hearted, regardless of the casualties of the troops, Ma Zheng can put about 150,000 troops into the predetermined area in one night.

Ma Zheng has already formulated a specific battle plan, on the one hand, Ma Zheng used Yang Chengwu's headquarters to contain the main force of the Japanese army in front, and on the other hand, he sent transport planes to drop the troops directly into the Anqing area, and then captured the Japanese army's logistics base by surprise.

After succeeding, these two armies flanked the North China Front in the north and south, completely eliminating the last strategic group of the Japanese army north of the Yangtze River.

However, there is another very important problem, that is, the vast majority of Chinese soldiers are peasant troops, and not many have participated in formal military training, and only more than 16,000 soldiers from three parachute brigades have participated in parachute training, so at least 150,000 people must be parachuted before the plan is implemented.

Originally, Ma Zheng felt that it was necessary to conduct airborne training for these soldiers, but he thought that it would take at least two months to half a year to train a qualified airborne soldier, and it would not work at all if it was short, and now what they lack most is time.

Subsequently, Ma Zheng decided to take a more risky approach, that is, to seize the Japanese airfield and use the airfield as a springboard for airborne operations.

Soon, Tie Niu left the Shandong front line with a thousand special combat soldiers at night and went straight to Anqing, thousands of miles away.

On the night of August 24, Tie Niu and others successfully arrived in Anqing and prepared to seize Anqing Airport, while a large number of Allied transport planes also flew to the Pingjin area to wait for Ma Zheng's order.

On the 26th, under the order of Ma Zheng, 1,117 transport planes took off from 14 airports including Baoding, Zhangjiakou, Beiping, and Tianjin at the same time under the protection of 150 fighters, and rushed to the Anqing area, transporting three divisions of infantry on board.

At one o'clock in the morning, a telegram came from Tieniu's side saying that they had successfully captured Anqing Airport.

At half past one, the first transport planes landed at the airfield, and the soldiers of a regiment successfully landed and laid siege to the city of Anqing, fifteen kilometers away.

At a quarter past six o'clock in the morning, Xu Hu, the general person in charge of this operation, reported to Ma Zheng that 147213 people had completed the assembly, and 104 people had lost in the process of landing, and the vanguard had already entered Anqing City.