Chapter Seventy-Five: The War Is Deadlocked
About 2 hours later, most of the 40 ninjas of the Black Dragon Society were found by Zhang Hua's commandos, and in the stunned eyes of the Japanese soldiers outside the palace, the corpses of 27 ninjas were neatly lined up outside the main gate of the palace. I advise you, how many people are still in the palace, please call them out quickly, if we find out again, we may not even be able to keep the whole corpse. The leader of the mercenary squad guarding the main gate of the palace looked at the Japanese officers who came to receive the corpses playfully, and his eyes were full of murder.
The ninjas of the Black Dragon Society are the best at hiding their whereabouts, Tojo Hideki They didn't think that these ninjas would rescue the emperor immediately, but they shouldn't have been killed more than half of them in just 2 hours, could it be that there are martial arts masters among these thunderous mercenaries who are more skilled than ninjas? "My lord, those corpses have been examined, and all of them died from gunshots, American-made caliber bullets, it should be the mercenaries of Thunder who shot directly to kill these ninjas of the Black Dragon Society." Hideki Tojo quickly got an answer, but this answer made him even more puzzled.
The Japanese didn't know that the commando team was equipped with Thunder's newly developed night vision device, and those Black Dragon Society ninjas who wore black clothes and used the night as a cover were no different from normal search in broad daylight under the mercenary's night vision device search. With the pistol equipped with a silencer, the commandos were able to shoot ninjas with much easier than normal combat. "Close the door" quietly watched the remaining 13 Black Dragon Society ninjas leave the palace empty-handed, the main entrance of the palace closed again, and the ninjas who were summoned from the palace by Hideki Tojo's messenger were not very happy to have their equipment confiscated, but in the face of the mercenaries' strange methods and the muzzle of the black hole, the ninjas could only bow their proud heads and leave the palace in a gloomy manner. Zhang Hua's most urgent task now was to stall for time, to use the emperor and those cabinet ministers to concentrate the attention of the Japanese troops in Tokyo on the Imperial Palace, and to relieve some pressure on the landing force in Tokyo Bay.
The assault team showed Tojo Hideki the means of mercenaries, temporarily dispelling Tojo Hideki's plan to attack the palace, and compared with the landing force, Zhang Hua, who was deep in the palace, seemed to be relaxed. When the first rays of sunlight shone on the city of Tokyo as usual, Hideki Tojo, who had not slept all night, sat alone in his temporary headquarters with a pair of bloodshot eyes, and the thunder mercenaries who captured the palace did not make their demands for a long time, which made Hideki Tojo even more uneasy, and he couldn't sit back and watch the emperor hold the enemy in his hands but couldn't directly attack the palace, which made Hideki Tojo very depressed.
Konoe Fumima's volunteer army organization was relatively smooth, and when it was learned that the Shina people were attacking Tokyo, the young men in Tokyo received a call order, and more than 400,000 young men in Tokyo were gathered by Konoe Fumima to intercept the landing force in Tokyo Bay. No matter how strong the enemy's firepower was when they landed in Tokyo Bay, they would not be able to shoot all 400,000 people in three days, and as long as it took three days, Hideki Tojo's regular troops drawn from other places would continue to rush over, and at that time, whether it was the enemy in the palace or the enemy who landed in Tokyo Bay, they would only be turtles in the urn.
I have to say that Konoe Fumima's idea is very correct, first use the so-called volunteers to consume the ammunition and weapons of the landing force and their physical strength, and then concentrate the superior forces and the landing force for a combat duel, Konoe Fumima, who occupies the geographical advantage and the advantage of people, is absolutely confident that this joint landing of Thunder and the US army will be thwarted. In Konoe Fuma's view, Zhao Zhi is indeed an opponent worth taking seriously, looking at Thunder's previous examples, Thunder, who has always joined the battle with a disadvantage, can always win in the end, but this time, Konoe Funma hopes that he can win against Zhao Zhi.
"The mercenary unit broke away from the battle group to fight and assist the battle, the American army unit fought head-on, and the Rockman team expanded the scope of the assault." After consulting with Zhao Zhi, Halsey replaced the mercenary unit that had been fighting for a day and a night, and his 2,000-strong Marine Corps was about to change careers to become a baggage soldier, which Halsey absolutely couldn't bear. Zhao Zhi, who was interested in pulling more American GIs into this battle, naturally agreed to Halsey's request, and under Zhao Zhi's instructions, the Thunder mercenary troops fighting head-on were directly withdrawn.
After a day's tossing, the amphibious armored vehicles carried by the Halsey fleet finally succeeded in going ashore, although this kind of big guy similar to a personnel carrier does not have a tank as strong as a tank's tank cannon, and can resist the armor of light machine guns and the two heavy machine guns attached to it, but it looks majestic, Halsey knows that his Marine Corps is no match for the means of Thunder mercenaries, and can deal with some Japanese resistance forces that are no different from civilians, and these marines are completely sufficient.
The mercenaries, who had given up frontal combat, used their jumping tactics like fish in water, and while Hideki Tojo was still sighing in his temporary command post, the Thunder mercenaries who had landed in Tokyo Bay had already broken into pieces and launched a jump raid towards the city of Tokyo. Killing and destruction were the tasks given to them by Zhao Zhi, and the maximum panic and pressure on the Japanese could make the citizens of Tokyo war-weary and war-afraid, which to a certain extent could be regarded as relieving the pressure on the American troops fighting head-on.
People who spoke Japanese fluently, wore dirty Japanese uniforms, and were equipped with Japanese-style weapons, appeared on the streets of Japan, and any Japanese citizen would think of them as soldiers of the Empire. Dozens of mercenary squads with a dozen or so people marched towards the direction of Tokyo City, and under Zhao Zhi's instructions, although these mercenary squads set off in different directions, they all had one thing in common, that is, to find various factories around Tokyo, and then find a way to destroy those factories.
Since the beginning of Japan's invasion of all of Asia, the Japanese government has strongly encouraged local nationals to open factories to produce supplies for the army in order to cope with the army's increasing demand for supplies. It is precisely with a large number of local factories that the Japanese army in Asia will have no worries, and the purpose of Zhao Zhi's invasion of Japan is to force Japan to surrender, and attacking these Japanese factories has become an important task for the mercenaries. Even if the Japanese army played the game of the generals, they would eventually have to put down their guns obediently because of logistical supply problems.
Of course, the war is not as simple as one plus one equals two, and under Zhao Zhi's careful arrangement, the Rockman family's ocean-going fleet finally arrived on the second day of the landing of the Halsey fleet on Tokyo Bay. 30,000 Jewish soldiers who were ready to fight were brought to Tokyo Bay by the fleet from Jiaodong, and a large number of military supplies and weapons and ammunition that Morun had hoarded in Jiaodong arrived.
The arrival of 30,000 Jewish troops relieved the U.S. Marines, who had been facing the front, and the U.S. troops, with their strong firepower, were not afraid of the frenzied Japanese volunteers, they just didn't adapt to these Japanese civilian troops who looked like they had died in vain. "General, I'm Bremen, the commander of the Jewish First Legion, please allow my troops to take over the Marines' defensive line, your boys have been working very hard, it's time for them to withdraw and recuperate." Halsey, who had already landed on Japanese soil, met Brayman, the commander of the Jewish Legion, at lunch.
"Welcome to Japan" Halsey, who was munching on Japanese rice balls, had a bit of a sense of being in charge, but Brayman and several of his officers all rolled their eyes at Halsey in their hearts. If it weren't for the fact that Thunder took the initiative to control Kyushu Island with a large number of casualties, the Americans would never have participated in this landing operation, and if it weren't for their own boss in the area of Yamaguchi Prefecture to contain a few regular divisions on the Japanese mainland, how could Halsey's fleet complete the landing on Tokyo Bay so easily, not to mention the role of a hidden force.
For an operation to land in Tokyo Bay, the already small number of Tokyo Bay lurking squad almost suffered casualties, and after the latent squad of dozens of people and the forward mercenaries took over, there were only three men, two women and five people left, for which the Japanese army paid the price of 19 coastal defense positions being destroyed and three ammunition supply points being razed to the ground, and the lurkers did not want to complete the task alive, and each of them was a dead soldier.
The head-on battle with the Japanese had reached a stalemate, and Halsey was not very happy to withdraw his Marines now, and the easiest way for a new recruit to become a qualified veteran was to kill, and only a soldier who had experienced brutal killing would truly grow into a qualified soldier. Now the Marines are playing against civilian units with low combat effectiveness, and Halsey will never give up such a good training opportunity to the Jewish Legion.
"The boss has long thought that this old guy will not be obedient, so he will let us come over and say hello to the US military, they beat theirs, we will beat ours ourselves, and see who will enter the city of Tokyo first." Brayman and his gang walked out of Halsey's command post, all with uncertain faces, if it weren't for the fact that the U.S. military had captured a large number of vehicles here, Brayman and the others would definitely not even bother to say hello.
"Are the people of the Thunder so rude? It seems that I have to find a chance to talk about it well. Coincidentally, when Breman and his gang expressed their dissatisfaction with Halsey, Halsey, who was munching on Japanese rice balls, was also resentful of Breman and their lack of respect for him, and the Jewish Legion had just set foot on the Japanese mainland, and there was a gap between them and the US commanders, which Zhao Zhi never expected.