Chapter 156: The Final Choice
The high-speed dive fighters made a heartbreaking sound, and the two fighters rushed directly to the Kwantung Army position that was assembling in the rear as if they were going to die, and the soldiers on the ground hurriedly dispersed when they saw this, although they had never been attacked by air strikes, but this did not mean that they had not been trained in air defense knowledge.
At a distance of two kilometers, the two fighters directly pounced at a speed of nearly 450 kilometers per hour, and even the fast-reacting Yue army could not make any reaction measures in the crowd, and only a few people left there.
'Da! Da! Da! ’
Li Fei put the enemy on the ground into his shooting halo early, only after entering the range, his fingers never left the machine gun firing button, such a dense crowd, the fighter roared by, at a distance of about two hundred meters from the ground, Li Fei began to adjust the elevation angle of the fighter again, and then continued to strafe, all the way to the time when there was no enemy in sight, then he pulled the fighter up in a hurry.
Peng Yongchang, who followed behind Li Fei, piloted the fighter plane, passed basically the same route as Li Fei, and learned Li Fei's movements to strafe the ground in a similar way. The Kwantung Army, which had not had time to dodge for a while, was suddenly killed and wounded, and the troops that had just been assembled showed signs of collapse in an instant.
The commander on the ground shouted helplessly, to regroup the troops, the pressure on the front line is too great, if they can't get through, the imperial army in front is very likely to be eaten by the enemy, the battlefield where everything was normal, who would have thought that two fighters would suddenly rush towards them, which directly broke their plan.
The casualties caused by the two fighters were not small, and the troops that had been assembled were almost as many as one or two thousand, and the two fighters suddenly strafed without any preparation, and Rao, the well-trained Kwantung Army, also lost nearly fifty soldiers as a result.
And the two-stage fighters rushed at a speed of more than 100 meters per second, and they had nowhere to hide if they wanted to, no matter how fast they ran, they could still outrun the plane? (100 km is equal to 27.78 m/s) When the assembled Kwantung Army was scattered by a dive of fighters, it was not so easy to assemble again.
At the same time, the ten fighters in the air were also constantly diving and strafing, and then pulling up the fighters and finding the assembled crowd before diving and strafing again, of course, in order to ensure the accuracy of the shooting, they did not drive the speed of the fighters too fast, and the Kwantung Army did not have any air defense weapons, so they did not have to worry about being shot down or something.
As for the Kwantung Army, Ishihara Waner scolded the intelligence department even more angrily, what kind of fucking intelligence is this? Before, it was only said that the 99th Army had about 100 tanks, but now 300 suddenly appeared, and there was not even a word about the aviation matter, and what about it now? Not only did they have aviation, but they also defeated the aviation of the empire, which made Ishihara, the deputy chief of the General Staff, feel very disgraced.
Until now, Ishihara Wanji even wondered if this war was a premeditated conspiracy, his relationship with the former chief of staff Hideki Tojo had always been strained, and he also understood that Hideki Tojo had been looking for an opportunity to bring him down, but Ishihara, who was known as a genius monster, couldn't believe that Hideki Tojo would bring him down in such a way.
Hideki Tojo, who has left office, seems to want hundreds of thousands of soldiers to break jade with him, damn, didn't he just call you Tojo senior soldiers and idiots, don't you need this? If you want to bring me down, why don't you just stand up? Why let so many soldiers be unlucky?
In fact, Ishihara was transferred to Maizuru Fortress in Kyoto City as a commander in the near future, and although he is a relatively talented person, he has made too many enemies, and the entire Kwantung Army is basically his enemy. However, he really wronged Hideki Tojo, the fact that the 99th Army had 300 tanks and fighters was only after they came here, and the intelligence department naturally could not detect the information, and when Ishihara Waner was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the campaign to exterminate the 99th Army, Hideki Tojo even spoke out against it.
It's just that even Hideki Tojo himself didn't expect that when he spoke out against Ishihara's decision to serve as commander-in-chief of the campaign, he inadvertently saved himself.
The fighters continued to fly in the air, and the Kwantung Army in the rear was simply unable to organize effective support, often as soon as this side began to assemble, the Chinese fighters over there would directly dive, and the troops would be scattered again, no one remembered how many times they had assembled, but they all knew that it took several hours to assemble the troops, but in the end they did not succeed once, and the casualties in the front were getting bigger and bigger, and it was a sure thing that the front could not be saved.
At this moment, the only thing Ishihara could do was to order the troops on the southern front to intensify their attacks, break through the defense line of the Huaxia army as early as possible, and then form a north-south flank attack on the 766th Division with the troops on the northern front. It's just that the result was very disappointing, and when the two divisions on the southern front reported that they could not complete the task, Ishihara's heart was broken.
Originally, a battle that seemed to be ten out of ten is safe, but now it has become a little bit certain, everyone originally thought that this was a meritorious battle, but now it has become so helpless. In just a few days, Ishihara felt what it means to go from heaven to hell.
From the beginning of the war to the present, it has only been half a day, and the six divisions and more than 100,000 elite troops commanded by Ishihara have lost nearly 20,000 people, and the most losses were caused by the 767th Division's surprise attack on the positions on the Western Front in the early morning.
With so many Imperial warriors lost in such a short period of time, Ishihara didn't dare to imagine what this battle would be like if it continued to be fought. He also didn't dare to imagine his future, the opposing army was attacking more and more, while the defense on his side was becoming more and more tricky, and there were faint signs of collapse on multiple fronts at the same time.
As for requesting reinforcements, it was simply impossible, most of the main forces of the Kwantung Army were transferred to the border areas, intending to have a decisive battle with the Soviet Red Army, of course, the main thing was that the Soviet Red Army put on a decisive posture, and they did not dare to ignore the actions of the Soviet Red Army.
When the Soviet commander learned that the Chinese army had dragged more than 100,000 troops of six divisions of the Kwantung Army in Jinxi, he gave the order to attack an hour earlier. Tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops resolutely launched a general offensive under the cover of tanks, armored vehicles and fighter planes, and the news of the resumption of war was transmitted to Ishihara Waner half an hour ago, and General Ueda Kenkichi, then commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, ordered Ishihara Waner to end the Jinxi Campaign within two days, completely destroy the 99th Army, and then immediately move north to support the border.
In short, the battle that was supposed to take place a year later was deliberately advanced by Su Dao by a year, and this battle changed not only time, correspondingly, the two sides invested more troops in this battle at this time than in history, especially the Kwantung Army, originally in history, because it has been two years since the start of the war, a large number of elites of the Kwantung Army have been transferred to Guannai, and there are even many troops in that battle are newly formed troops.
Now that the time is advanced, although some of the elite of the Kwantung Army have been transferred to Guannai, most of the elite troops are still in the northeast, and Zhukov also saw this, so he will gather troops on the one hand, and on the other hand, step up the mobilization of reinforcements, if it were not for the news that the Chinese army was fighting with the Kwantung Army of six divisions in Jinxi, it is estimated that this battle should be launched in a few days or ten days.
Regarding this matter, Su Dao went with the attitude of just provoking trouble and not burying people, so he didn't care about what happened to the north, and now the Kwantung Army had sufficient troops, so it was unlikely that a war would be fought in the northeast, and it was very likely that a war would be fought in Mongolia. In short, all of this was a decision made after careful consideration, otherwise Su Dao would really not dare to provoke a war between Su and Yu at will in order to reduce his pressure.
"Baga, despicable Chinan, inform the troops that they are ready to use special ammunition and prepare the follow-up support forces for a counteroffensive." In a fit of rage, Ishihara decided to go crazy for this war, and at the moment he really didn't have any solution.
"Your Excellency, there are still nearly 10,000 Imperial warriors on the front line, they can't go back at all, if you use special ammunition, wouldn't you also have to let the Imperial warriors bury the Chinese people?" Ishihara's staff officers hurriedly dissuaded him.
He did not object to the use of special ammunition, but at the very least, he had to let the troops on the front line withdraw and use it again, and no one could afford to suddenly use special ammunition when his own people were still fighting against the people of China without any defense. Although they look violent, they are still more concerned about their own people, which can be seen from the corpses of the fallen soldiers, no matter where the corpses of the Yue soldiers are, they will find a way to snatch the corpses back.
The use of special ammunition on the battlefield where there are still their own people, if the base camp knows about it, even if it is too much to shoot them.
"We have no choice, we have lost nearly 20,000 Imperial warriors in just half a day of the war, if we don't take measures, the warriors on the front line will not be able to survive, and we warriors who are behind don't know how much they can live, Matsuno-kun, convey the order to go, the warriors of the Empire will not die in vain." Ishihara Wan'er clasped his hands tightly together, the green tendons on his arms were faintly visible, he knew what kind of result this decision would lead to, but he didn't care about it so much, whether to lose nearly 10,000 warriors on the front line, or to lose more warriors, he could only choose the former. (To be continued.) )