Chapter 57: Surprises

The "fire" machine gunner pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun with the commander's command, and the two heavy machine guns on the first line of blocking line of "da da" fired together, and the half-foot-long gun flame was like the flame in the mouth of the monster, and the barrage broom that spit out from the monster's mouth scraped through the Japanese front like a broom, just a face, and swept the opposing soldiers into a large area.

The "boom" and "boom" blocked the thunder mercenaries on the defense line and changed the usual practice of using machine gun fire as a strong attack weapon, and began to bombard the enemy position with mortars directly at the same time as the machine guns fired. The mercenary gunners didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, they just tried their best to shoot the shells out of the boxes, and the six mortars shot the three boxes of shells in one go before the Japanese side could fully react, and then the gunners carried the mortars and quickly evacuated the next line of defense.

The "retreat" heavy machine gun ran out of three bullet chains, and the mercenary commander who commanded the heavy machine gun battle ordered to retreat, and the rest was left to the mercenaries who used Garand to deal with, the mission of the heavy machine gun and mortar was over in this blocking line, and they had to move back to the next line of defense to continue standby. Zhao Zhi was bound to win this landing in Japan, and the 2,000 mercenaries who secretly infiltrated to Japanan were also full of means, not only blocking and intercepting the Japanese troops who rushed to Japan's rescue at all levels, but also once used small troops to sneak attack the flank of the Japanese army with roundabout tactics, although the killing effect was not ideal, but at least they slowed down the movement of the Japanese army.

Time is everything, whether it is the American mercenary troops that have begun to land in Ninan, or the Japanese army who are trying their best to return to Nara It takes time, and when he heard the news that the American fleet had attacked Nara and carried out the landing, Okamura Ninji was shocked and urgently ordered the troops that had been assembled in Yamaguchi Prefecture to move to Nara Prefecture. Not only that, Okamura Ninji also transferred back the aviation unit that was stationed on Kyushu Island to support the defenders of Nara, and the two local divisions stationed in Kyoto and Osaka also urgently went south.

Kitakyushu Bay was full of ships transporting troops back and forth, and Zhao Zhi, who was besieged in Fukuoka, had become a lost dog in Okamura Ninji's opinion, and it was naturally not necessary to contain so many troops to contain a lost dog, so Okamura Ninji only left the fourth division and a local division to continue to besiege Fukuoka, and the rest of the troops were all transferred by him to Honshu Island to the south to aid Nara. The Nihonan landing took place after Okamura Ninji took a plane to Honshu Island, and Okamura Ninji, who was beyond his reach, had to send a Kwantung Army division from Kitakyushu to Nichinan in the south, believing that a Kwantung Army division was more than enough to collect a mere 2,000 Thunder mercenaries with only light weapons.

But it turned out that Okamura Ninji was very wrong, before he was full of confidence to drive the American troops who landed in Nara into the sea, the Lockman family's ocean-going fleet had been successfully unloaded in Nichinan, and the 5,000 American mercenaries who were pinned on by old Rhodes had also come ashore to join Zhang Jinquan and them. The situation on Kyushu Island changed with the landing of a large number of American mercenaries, and hundreds of Thunder mercenaries who were arranged by Zhao Zhi on the outskirts of Fukuoka took the lead in starting a counterattack with modified Thor assault vehicles.

Armament is not the most important thing in the war, the Japanese army that can use bolt-action rifles is faced with the Thor machine gun with a rate of fire of more than 2,000 rounds per minute, as well as the tanks and howitzers that the American mercenary troops have landed ashore. The Thunder mercenaries who have been fighting continuously for more than half a month have consumed almost all their physical strength, including Zhao Zhi himself, who is also struggling to persevere, but when the Fourth Division shrinks its strength and makes the encirclement negligent, the mercenaries still burst out with a strong fighting spirit and combat effectiveness.

The mercenaries who were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in the mountains had long been holding back their fire, and received the order to attack, these mercenaries who had been forcibly restrained by Zhao Zhi were like wild horses that had been unleashed, and they used almost all the means they would have begun to attack the Japanese troops who had surrounded them, and the Fourth Division bore the brunt of their target. The 4th Division, known as the Waste Division, was not what everyone thought it was, but the 4th Division was also one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army, and the 4th Division was a behemoth with more than 18,000 soldiers.

The size of the Fourth Division is only relative to the mercenaries who attack in small groups, and the hippopotamus is large enough, but as long as it is targeted by the prairie jackals, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not end up with a bitten body. At this time, the mercenaries under Zhao Zhi were like a group of jackals staring around for food with red eyes, and the Fourth Division, which was large in number but weak in combat, was the target they were targeting. The wolf pack tactics were used to the extreme by the mercenaries, and as long as the troops of the Fourth Division who received the order to retreat and assemble were bitten by them, they could only be scattered and defeated.

"Don't stop, keep pursuing, keep pursuing." After replenishing the Thor chariot with ammunition for the third time, Tang Lei, who commanded the peripheral mercenaries, ordered to continue the pursuit of the scattered Japanese army. "Don't use Thor, use the Japanese machine guns we captured to pursue these stragglers, and keep Thor for the right place." The ammunition supplied for the third time is already the last ammunition reserve in Tang Lei's hands, which is the logistics staff officer who has repeatedly disobeyed Zhao Zhi's orders and saved his neck, Tang Lei will only defeat the chariot troops now is only the peripheral troops of the fourth division, once the Thor machine gun runs out of ammunition, the rampaging Thor chariot can only become a live target for the Japanese army.

Fukuoka Prefecture has become a mess, the Fourth Division does not know why the Thunder, which has been besieged for three days, still has the strength to counterattack, and the local division that cooperated with them tried to use superior forces to meet Zhao Zhi and his 3,000 mercenaries, but unfortunately it was the local division that had been formed for less than 7 months. Almost all the officers of the 4th Division of the "Yaga" were secretly scolding Okamura Ninji, and if it weren't for Okamura Ninji's order to transfer other troops to aid Honshu, the 4th Division might not have faced such an unbearable situation alone.

The 4th Division thought about going north and retreating to Kitakyushu, but unfortunately the way to the north had been blocked by those damn South Asian natives, and the South Asian natives who had learned to use firearms to fight broke out with a stronger fighting spirit than the 4th Division, unless the 4th Division was willing to pay the price of increased casualties, otherwise they could only be blocked by the hastily assembled mixed forces in Fukuoka and circling in place.

To say that Zhao Zhi's most unexpected thing was the mixed army blocking the road to the north, Zhao Zhi didn't even know how this mixed force with a number of about 9,000 people managed to avoid the encirclement and pursuit of those North Korean divisions in Kitakyushu, but they were indeed blocking the passage of the fourth division to the north, which was enough to surprise Zhao Zhi. "Sir, the Fourth Division has raised the white flag, and they have sent representatives to negotiate with us." Another piece of news that surprised Zhao Zhi came too suddenly, so sudden that Zhao Zhi couldn't believe that the Fourth Division, which was caught between the mercenaries and the mixed troops, actually chose to surrender.

Onohara, who had been serving as a messenger back and forth to the Fourth Division, had already died in the melee, and this time the Fourth Division sent an officer who could speak a few words of English, and he brought with him a few requests from the commander of the Fourth Division, Roku Sekihara. "Your Excellency Honorable Commander, on behalf of the division commander Sekihara No. 6, I will negotiate an armistice agreement with you in the future, these are some small demands of our Fourth Division, as long as your unit agrees to these conditions, our Fourth Division will unconditionally lay down its arms and stop fighting." The Japanese soldier Shaozuo, who was sent to the command by the mercenary team, didn't know what rank Zhao Zhi was, so he had to call Zhao Zhi a general commander.

The few conditions put forward by Guan Yuanliu were nothing in Zhao Zhi's opinion, but one of the conditions for the Fourth Division to retain a certain amount of weapons and equipment made Zhao Zhi frown a little. "When you go back to your Sixth Lieutenant General Sekihara, we basically agreed to these conditions, but if you want to keep a certain amount of weapons and equipment, you will definitely not be able to." Zhao Zhi took out a cigar and put it in his mouth, and continued with an expressionless face, "If you surrender now, you can return to your hometown alive, if you don't surrender, I will order you to be killed, and then bury all of you on Kyushu Island to use fertilizer for the farmland here." ”

Zhao Zhi's words were obviously cold, and the Japanese army Shaozuo, who originally underestimated Zhao Zhi, realized that the seemingly young guy in front of him was actually Zhao Zhi, the Zhao Zhi who was hated by the military department and gritted his teeth. The Japanese soldier Shaozo, who was escorted back all the way by the two mercenary squads, didn't know how he went back, until he saw the division commander Guan Yuanliu, and the Japanese soldier Shaozo realized that he had been coming back with trembling legs.

Handing over the division flag of the Fourth Division and his own saber, the division commander Sekihara Roku let out a long breath, and the huge pressure that had been pressing on his heart seemed to dissipate in an instant, and these young men from Osaka finally saved their lives. "Your Excellency, I am very grateful to you for accepting our surrender, and for setting aside a reserve for us to house our Fourth Division." With a deep bow to Zhao Zhi, Guan Yuanliu, who was already half a hundred years old, straightened his body, and the decadent aura when he first saw Zhao Zhi was completely gone.

"Lieutenant General, I have to say that you made the right choice." Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand to Guan Yuanliu and made a gesture to sit down, and took out his own cigar and handed one to Guanyuan Liu, "The U.S. Pacific Fleet is making a feint landing on Nara, Okamura Ninji not only transferred all the troops on Kyushu Island to aid Honshu, but also transferred several local divisions and regiments, and here, just two days later, my other army will land in Honshu, how long do you think Honshu can hold out under the attack from the north and south, maybe the current Kyushu is Honshu's tomorrow." ”

Seeing the place where Zhao Zhi was at the beginning of the map, Guan Yuanliu was stunned, and he didn't even know that the cigar in his hand had fallen to the ground, the place where Zhao Zhi pointed was actually Shenchuan Bay, and Guan Yuanliu couldn't help but curse Zhao Zhi in his heart that he was a demon at all.