Chapter 335: Sweeping Thousands of Armies
The sudden retreat of the Kwantung Army, as well as the retreat of Okamura Ninji's headquarters to Jinzhou? This was absolutely completely unexpected by Zhang Xuewu, Zhang Xuewu was originally going to give the Kwantung Army a pursuit blow, and it seemed that he was going to pounce on the northeast for a big counterattack, but in fact Zhang Xuewu's target was the main force of Okamura Ningji's North China Front, because as long as he could give the main force of the North China Front Army commanded by Okamura Ningji with a single blow to annihilate the surname, then the situation in the entire North China and Central China would immediately change, and even if Chiang Kai-shek was still determined to go his own way, I am afraid that Li Zongren would not lose the fight.
Zhang Xuewu is very aware of his family background, his own reserves of food, ammunition, oil, medicine and various materials, of which the grain can be used for four years, because of his own large-scale attack, Zhang Xuewu under the pretext of Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan three places have no harvest, stretched out his hand to the Soviet Union, in the face of the threat from the Kwantung Army, the Soviets will definitely not sit idly by and watch Zhang Xuewu's demise, so even if he pulls off his belt, the Soviets will support Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater of operations, What's more, the Soviets only need to mobilize a small part of the national strategic reserve to meet Zhang Xuewu's request.
The Soviets also supplied Zhang Xuewu with oil, and the machinery and equipment that had been deliberately delayed by the Soviets had purchased a large number of military supplies had arrived in Baotou with almost lightning speed, and the only ammunition that had been stretched out for less than a month was already overstretched.
In the early stage of industrial development, the benefits of the socialist system were relatively slow and scattered capitalism had an absolute superiority, so the Soviet Union was able to unscrupulously support Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater of war on a large scale, and even the national political axe that sat back and watched was thrown aside, after all, Zhang Xueliang and the Soviet Union also signed a "Boli Agreement" that the national political axe did not recognize, In the eyes of the Soviets, whether it is Zhang Xueliang or Zhang Xuewu, who is surnamed Zhang, is of great value for cultivation, and when the Nationalist Axe is attacking the 10th Theater on a large scale, it is just that the headquarters of the Second Theater will attack near Zhongtiao Mountain, which can be regarded as containing and cooperating, and the Fifth Theater and the First Theater, which play the role of 700,000 troops, seem to be doing the strategic adjustment and deployment that will never have a head.
Anyone with a little military common sense knows that the Nationalist Political Axe has actually marginalized the 10th Theater, and in general with the Eighth Route and the New Fourth Army, except for taking care of the military salaries of the 12th Division, there is no food, weapons, or military supplies; even so, the Logistics Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs still always has a lawsuit with the Logistics Department of the 10th Theater, the former believes that the latter has embezzled the ammunition and materials that should be allocated to the Nationalist Theater, and the latter believes that this batch of materials is an emergency material for the Soviet Union to assist the 10th Theater of Operations, and it has nothing to do with the National Civilian Axe. For the 10th War Zone, the war of words is nothing at all, since the national political axe is not allocated, then we will deduct it ourselves, so the relationship between the two sides is also extremely tense.
The national political axe wanted to change the aid route of the Dingyuan camp several times, and wanted to take the route of Xinjiang Province by abandoning the near and far, but in the end, considering the rejection of the Soviet Union and Zhang Xuewu's gradual infiltration of the power in the northwest, the remote and desolate place in the northwest where the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the materials to be received in full.
Zhang Xuewu's department, the 10th Theater troops are equipped with a Chinese type of semi-automatic rifle and a large number of automatic rapid-fire weapons so that the consumption of ammunition is far greater than that of the army, and Zhang Xuewu has always advocated that artillery speaks, use firepower to suppress, use firepower clusters for artillery fire coverage and many other tactical terms were invented by Zhang Xuewu, after actual combat tests Zhang Xuewu's tactics are also very effective, but the consumption of ammunition makes Zhang Xuewu also extremely burdened.
Either pay blood and lives, or pay enough ammunition consumption coefficient to blow up the person himself, the main force of the North China Front between Okamura Ningji also retreated to Jinzhou, and the two sets of battle plans drawn up by Zhang Xuewu in a row all failed, could it be that his tactical intentions were exposed? Or did the army have insight into his intentions for the decisive battle?
The number of ammunition and military supplies reserves in the 10th theater is highly confidential, and there are no more than ten people in the 10th theater who know clearly, among these ten people, Gao Fei does not think that any person has the possibility of being suspected, and the only explanation is that this time it seems that he Zhang Xuewu has met an opponent who is equal, or even slightly better, Okamura Ninji or Umezu Mijiro? Perhaps neither of these two people is a fuel-efficient lamp.
However, strategically, the main force of the North China Front of Kaioka Village Ningci retreated so suddenly in the direction of Jinzhou, which also means that if Zhang Xuewu insists on attacking Jinzhou, then he will encounter unimaginable difficulties. This is obviously unlikely, and the most important thing that Zhang Xuewu can't afford at this moment is time, he can't let the army realize that our army's ammunition can't last for such a long time, which is the key to this operation.
In Zhang Xuewu's view, since he could not grasp the main force of Okamura Ningji's North China Front, then he had to immediately adjust his strategic and tactical deployment, and first eat the troops of the 6th Division and the 16th Division, the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 12th Wing of the Reading Tank.
Eliminate the broken troops who are regarded as heroes by the Yue Army, and the thieves cut off their fingers like tails, and immediately strangle Shanhaiguan, so that the main force of the North China Front Army of the Yue Army who entered the northeast will have a headache! Since Okamura Ningji is a strategist and tactician, he should naturally know that Zhang Xuewu's 10th Theater Headquarters will completely blockade Shanhaiguan, and if the main force of his North China Front Army is not in North China, what will happen to the North China battlefield where the troops are extremely empty?
Zhang Xuewu knew that if the main force of the North China Front Army retreating to the northeast wanted to return to North China, then it could only be boarded from Dalian, Jinzhou, and Huludao and transported to North Korea, and North Korea would change the big ship and sail directly to Tianjin. The reason is to avoid the fixed combat radius of the Saker fighters in the 10th Theater of Operations, otherwise the ships directly departing from Dalian and Jinzhou are just on the edge of the combat radius of the Saker fighters, so Zhang Xuewu estimated that he would rather spend more effort for safety, and Zhang Xuewu believed that this method was more in line with his consistent style and habits, after all, his own air force had already made him aware of the importance of air supremacy.
In fact, from a certain point of view, the weapons and equipment of the Imperial Navy are second to none in Asia, especially the huge combined fleet of the Imperial Navy, which is completely comparable to the world's maritime hegemon Britain, so he can affix the word "empire" to the name of the country.
Said his own weapons and equipment is to deal with the overall level of equipment in the whole of Asia, tactically rigid and rigid, the offensive is always a front and rear triangular attack formation, even so lack of training and weapons and equipment in the [***] team is still difficult to defeat the crazy attack of the people, the Chinese [***] people are the best soldiers in the world, their hard-working tenacity is not worse than the name of the person, the spirit of sacrifice to the end is even more victorious, what they lack is systematic training and sophisticated weapons, history proves, In fact, if the strength of the two armies is equal and the weapons and firepower are average, the Chinese [***] team can beat Yue himself to the point that he can hardly find the north.
The main reason why the army suffered heavy losses in the battles with Zhang Xuewu was because Zhang Xuewu used the tactical theory of the 21 st century, and the Second World War and the Second Sino-Japanese War were already historical materials that had been thoroughly studied by later generations for Zhang Xuewu.
In the face of the approaching fighters, ferocious artillery fire, and the cluster assault of armored forces with extremely high attacks and super-strong mobile surnames, not to mention the backward and rigid tactical thinking, even the Soviet and German armies at this moment will also suffer great losses when they encounter this kind of tactical tactics.
Zhang Xuewu turned all his energy back to the troops after the break, and it was also a coincidence that the troops after the breakoff turned out to be Zhang Xuewu's old enemy, Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division and Nakajima's Sixteenth Division? Emperor Hirohito was looking at the two. At the time of the 26th mutiny, Gu Shoufu was the first to support the royal family to quell the riot, and exonerated Gu Shoufu, and Gu Shoufu was able to choose a life, and he was a person who made meritorious contributions to the crime like Nakajima Jinchao, so the arduous task of this break naturally fell on the heads of the two of them.
For Gu Shoufu, at this moment, he has long lost all the arrogance and arrogance he used to have! In the face of the rolling torrent of steel, the overwhelming artillery bombardment, and the never-ending air raids, the defensive points supported by the Sixth Division soon faced the threat of being divided, and the previous defeat can be said to be a light enemy, but what is the explanation for the current failure?
It is true that the army of the Imperial Army of this empire is no match for the people of China, who have always been looked down upon by him? Gu Shoufu sadly realized that all this was not an illusion, but a real fact! Perhaps the fate of the 6th Division was decided from the moment it was cut off for the front.
All the tactical arrangements are useless in the face of unequal firepower, the entire defense line is in a hurry everywhere, and the speed at which the [***] team breaks through is faster than he can mobilize reinforcements? How can this battle be fought? Gu Shoufu sat alone in the headquarters, all the staff officers were assigned by him to the wing and even the brigade, and his final order to all the wing commanders was to fight to the death and defend the honor of the sixth division!
In fact, fools know that the Sixth Division has long had no honor! From the day the flag was lost, the 6th Division had embarked on a road of no return, or in other words, it was actually a mistake to fight in China.
(To be continued)