Chapter Seventy-Three: Strong Strangulation

The battle on Honshu Island is changing every day, Zhao Zhi's Jewish Legion broke through the Japanese Yamaguchi defense line, and continued to advance towards Hiroshima, the overwhelming Jewish Legion relied on strong firepower and armored formations, and broke through the Hiroshima defenders the next day, while Tojo Hideki was busy drawing troops back to Tokyo, the Jewish Legion commanded by Zhao Zhi continued to advance inland to Honshu Island.

Zhao Zhi did not inform China that Thunder had joined forces with the US fleet to carry out a landing operation in Tokyo Bay and capture the Japanese emperor, but Halsey informed the US Department of Defense of the incident. Song Meiling also has a lot of friends in the U.S. Congress, so the U.S. Department of Defense knows about it, which means that Song Meiling knows about it, so the fourth after the explanation naturally knows about it. Chiang Kai-shek, who was worried about the unsatisfactory war at home, learned of this time, and his first reaction was to send a report to Zhao Zhi to confirm the truth.

Chiang Kai-shek did not care about landing in Tokyo Bay, he cared about Emperor Hirohito, who had already fallen into the hands of Zhao Zhi, and Chiang Kai-shek even thought that it would be best to bring Emperor Hirohito to Chongqing, so that the people could regain confidence in the Nationalist Government. Zhao Zhi neither ignored nor replied to Chiang Kai-shek's confirmation telegram, and simply threw all the telegrams from China into the wastebasket.

Zhao Zhi's follow-up plans have almost all been separated from the Chinese battlefield, and Zhao Zhi has already transferred all the Thunder troops on the Chinese battlefield to fight on the Japanese mainland, and Zhao Zhi does not want to have anything to do with the Nationalist Government or even Chiang Kai-shek personally until the Nationalist Government can not make substantial help to the Thunder. "What is this Zhao Boyuan doing? Why is there no reply to my telegram? Zhao Zhi ignored the telegram from Chongqing, but Chiang Kai-shek in the villa on the south bank was already impatient.

Knowing that a commando under Zhao Zhi had been ordered to capture Hirohito's palace, Chiang Kai-shek applauded excitedly, and learned that Emperor Hirohito, his empress and more than a dozen close ministers had all been taken prisoner by thunder, and Chiang Kai-shek was even more excited and immediately sent a telegram to Zhao Zhi to confirm the matter. But what annoyed him was that Zhao Zhi did not reply to his telegram for a long time, and the news of Thunder's landing in Tokyo Bay and the occupation of the imperial palace were all privately revealed by the United States, and Chiang Kai-shek's heart hanging in the air could not be settled down before Zhao Zhi's confirmation and reply.

At the beginning of Zhao Zhi's landing on Kyushu Island, the Japanese army had frequently contacted the top level of the Nationalist Government through intermediaries, in a vain attempt to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to give up support for Zhao Zhi through a peace armistice, and the Japanese army hoped that Chiang Kai-shek's 74th Army and the Youth Army would open a passage so that the troops of the Kwantung Army going south to Jiaodong could smoothly control Jiaodong and cut off Zhao Zhi's back road. If this was at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, perhaps Chiang Kai-shek would have thought a little about it in order to accumulate strength, but now the situation has gradually begun to become clear, and the defeat of the Japanese army has basically become a settlement, and Chiang Kai-shek believes that as long as the national army can withstand the Japanese army for half a year, Japan's defeat will become a fact.

Chiang Kai-shek was naturally angry when he was played like a monkey by the Japanese for no reason, so he was in a hurry to contact Zhao Zhi, because he wanted to get Emperor Hirohito to Chongqing, and he also wanted to play the Japanese emperor like a monkey. "Oh, look at you, Bo Yuan must have a reason for not replying to your telegram, maybe Bo Yuan didn't receive your telegram this time when he was marching and fighting, and even if he replied to your telegram to confirm that the emperor was in his hands, then how could he send the emperor to Chongqing? Chongqing and Japan are so far apart. ”

Song Meiling coaxed Chiang Kai-shek like a child, although she didn't know what was going on on Zhao Zhi's side, but she knew that Zhao Zhi was now fighting alone, and the landing force provided by the U.S. army was at most a kind of goods, and it was Zhao Zhi's thunder troops who were under pressure. Chiang Kai-shek was entangled in whether Emperor Hirohito was really captured at this time, which would only add more pressure to Zhao Zhi, so Soong Meiling did not approve of Chiang Kai-shek's approach, you must know that if Zhao Zhi really captured the Japanese emperor, the biggest beneficiary would be the Nationalist Government.

Zhao Zhi did not have time to reply to Chiang Kai-shek's telegram now, and the troops that landed in Tokyo Bay were strongly intercepted and blocked by the Japanese army, and more than 300,000 volunteers using various weapons were like locusts blocking mercenary troops. Although the weapons used by the volunteers were rudimentary and did not have much lethality, they were hundreds of thousands of living people, even if hundreds of thousands of pigs were released, and the mercenaries who landed in Tokyo Bay had to work hard to slash and kill, not to mention the artillery support provided by the Guards Division of those volunteers.

As Hideki Tojo organized a large number of volunteers to join the battle, the speed of the landing mercenaries gradually slowed down, and the forward mercenaries were almost fighting with the volunteers for control from room to room, but fortunately, the Bazooka rockets and light mortars prepared by Zhao Zhi for the landing force were very sufficient, otherwise in these repeated battles with the volunteers, the mercenaries would also be exhausted of all their physical strength.

"Don't entangle with them too much, just use strong firepower to defeat them." The battle report was fed back to Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi, who was organizing a large army to march towards Hiroshima, was so angry that he couldn't help but be happy, once he left the mountains and forests and entered the city, wouldn't there be a war? It was rare that he had prepared enough weapons and ammunition for them, and the American mercenary troops also brought more ammunition and supplies from Florida, and those ammunition was enough for just over 10,000 people to fight all the way to the city of Tokyo, and they were a little helpless in the face of some so-called volunteers.

In the face of the uninterrupted use of crowd tactics by the Japanese civilian volunteers, the Japanese commander who commanded the volunteers did not pay attention to their concubines' lives, urging and driving a large number of volunteers to pounce on the front of the mercenary troops. In the mist of blood raised by the bullet hitting the human body, the Japanese civilians who had been incorporated into the Volunteer Army rushed up with a howl of despair on their faces, were repulsed, and then counterattacked again.

The mercenaries are more likely to encounter veterans with white headbands with the word "death" on their heads, holding old-fashioned rifles, katanas, or bayonets tied to bamboo poles. It can be said that these people are the most crazy among these so-called howling and desperate volunteers, but their impact is almost meaningless, in fact, these volunteers' tactics are just constantly adding casualties.

The mercenaries were the attacking side, and because they were relatively hasty and turned to passive combat, the mercenaries didn't even have time to dig field individual bunkers, and the nearby ruins or ridges, trees, and stones became natural bunkers. During the short intervals in the fighting, many mercenaries even built cover for themselves with the corpses of the Japanese, although there were artillery groups in the rear and fighters and bombers overhead to provide fire output. However, once the Volunteers entered 100 meters, the 'grenadiers' equipped by the regular Japanese troops would cause casualties to the mercenaries who lacked effective fortifications, and the greatest threat was the death of the Volunteers who howled and rushed towards them when they entered within 30 meters.

The huge casualties caused by the frenzied Japanese attack also affected the psychology of the mercenaries, and it was impossible for anyone who watched hundreds of people fall in front of their machine guns all the time. Often, subtle changes in psychology can easily lead to polarization in the psychology of soldiers, one is hysterical and wild bloodthirsty, and the other is the inability to pull the trigger, which is actually an extremely typical battlefield psychological illness.

Under the intensive fire of the mercenaries, the volunteers who were fooled up by the regular officers of the Japanese army fell to the ground one by one like cutting wheat, especially within 200 meters, 'the corpses of the Japanese were already stacked on top of each other, and the follow-up interception forces of the Japanese could only step on the corpses of their companions to continue the attack, but their agility was greatly affected. "Fire, fire, don't save bullets, fire all." The officers who had already circled to the flanks shouted loudly, and the flanks of the crescent-shaped mercenary forward formation suddenly burst out with super firepower.

After receiving Zhao Zhi's reply, Tang Lei, who commanded the landing force, finally planned to use the 30 Thor revolver machine guns that followed them to Tokyo Bay. The strong fire attack on the flank of the mercenary striker forced the attacking volunteer troops to slowly assemble in the middle, and after several rockets in a row set fire to more wooden houses, more and more Japanese appeared in the middle, and after asking those machine gunners again to be confirmed, Tang Lei ordered to use the Thor revolver machine gun to fire in the middle.

The appearance of the Thor Runner is an innovation in the history of infantry weapons, and in the Florida Weapons Laboratory has been developing an improved Raytheon Runner Gun with a larger caliber that can be installed on fighters, and the Thor Lance Lance Gun, which has a rate of fire of more than 2,000 rounds per minute, is definitely an indispensable heavy firepower weapon in the battle. In the face of the Volunteer troops congested in the middle, the use of the Thor Minigun is undoubtedly the best choice, compared with the light machine gun submachine gun, the lethality of Thor will be greater and more shocking.

"Fire" With the order of the forward commander to fire, the 12 Thor fired first, as if the buzzing sound of a chainsaw sounded instantly, and the visible barrage flew out towards the volunteers, just in an instant, the crazy attacking volunteer army shape was cut out of a concave, and as the barrage continued, the concave shape that appeared in the volunteer army shape became a larger depression.

The Japanese officers who commanded the volunteers with hoarse voices were also dumbfounded, they had never seen a weapon with such terrifying lethality, it was simply a blink of an eye, and more than half of the thousands of volunteer soldiers crowded together were killed and injured by the other side, I am afraid that if they blink their eyes, the remaining half of the volunteer soldiers will not survive.