"I want you to solve the Japanese tank divisions and their defense lines that are confronting us, is it difficult?" Zhao Zhi didn't have time to talk to Tang Lei in detail, and Zhao Zhi, who was eager to end the battle, could only pin his hopes on Tang Lei and his Qingfeng troops, otherwise when the southbound Kwantung Army took control of Jiaodong, there would be no way for him and his troops to retreat. It is obviously not suitable to use the small Jeju Island as a place to engage the battlefield in a flash, but Kyushu Island is not bad, and if it can control the entire Kyushu Island, Zhao Zhihe's troops will have enough space to meet the Japanese army.

Tang Lei usually doesn't talk much, but now he still doesn't like to talk much in the face of Zhao Zhi, and after carefully observing the surrounding terrain with a telescope, Tang Lei took out a self-made wind measuring tool and began to test the wind direction and speed. After discussing with his team members in a whisper, Tang Lei gave Zhao Zhi an affirmative answer, "If you want to solve the other party at one time, you can't do it at all, we can at most solve their peripheral positions, if we put the attack down at night, it will also cause some trouble to our own people, but we can try our smoke bombs." ”

The defense line of the 20th Division and the 6th Division is not the three-dimensional defense structure that the Japanese army is accustomed to, especially the defense line arranged by the rebuilt 6th Division is even more messy, even Zhao Zhi can't understand it, and the Japanese defense line that is several kilometers thick is not something that Tang Lei's Qingfeng troops can easily break through and disintegrate, unless Zhao Zhi has a way to send all the poison gas bombs brought by the Qingfeng troops into the Japanese army's position at one time, otherwise everything is empty talk and assumptions. The use of smoke is completely different, as long as the main attack force takes the antidote, the smoke will have no effect on them at all, and it will not affect their normal combat at all.

"Then use the smoke bomb to break through their outer defenses, and I'll leave the rest to others to do, you just have to do your own thing." Tang Lei's answer made Zhao Zhi a little frustrated, but he knew that Tang Lei was telling the truth, even if he used the mustard poison gas brought back from Germany, he was afraid that it would be difficult to achieve the desired results in his heart. Zhao Zhi had already planned to use poison gas to attack, and the operational deployment that had been formulated naturally needed to be adjusted, but Zhao Zhi did not put the mixed troops in the second line, but still lined up the mixed troops in the position of the attack vanguard.

The number of people is the biggest reliance of the mixed troops, the 20th Division and the 6th Division plus the tank divisions that arrived later, the total strength of the Japanese army is not more than 40,000, and the total number of troops arranged here by Zhao Zhi is close to 200,000, the ratio of 1 to 5 troops is Zhao Zhi's biggest reliance, as long as the smoke released by the Qingfeng troops can prevent or affect the attack of the Japanese tank division, Zhao Zhi will have the certainty of defeating the other party.

"The Kwantung Army has already dispatched elite divisions to fight in the south, and the 74th Army and the Youth Army as our backing have been entangled with them, and as the follow-up Kwantung Army troops continue to move south, they are likely to end up surrounded by the Kwantung Army." Zhao Zhi, who had summoned a meeting of his officers, looked around for a moment, and then continued, "The Nationalist Government means that it wants our Second Jewish Army in Xingtai to rescue the Youth Army, which means that we do not have enough troops in Jiaodong to resist the Kwantung Army troops who may continue to move south. ”

The pen in Zhao Zhi's hand drew a big arrow on the map, "The emptiness of Shandong's troops will lead to the southward Kwantung Army troops attacking Jiaodong, and the loss of Jiaodong means that our back road is broken, and there are only two roads in front of us, either stay on Kyushu Island and fight with the swarming Japanese army until the last moment, or retreat to Burma early to avoid the trapped situation." Personally, I am naturally reluctant to withdraw to Burma now, we have already paid too much in order to land on the Japanese mainland to fight, so we need to make a choice now, it is four o'clock in the afternoon, and by this time tomorrow, I hope to defeat the Japanese troops who are confronting us on all fronts."

The officers of the thunder have long been accustomed to obeying Zhao Zhi's orders, but Zhao Zhi's words just now still made the officers attending the meeting straighten their eyes, it is not the first time that the thunder has formed a formation to defeat or annihilate the Japanese division, but now the Japanese army that is facing them has two infantry divisions and a tank division, and three divisions are engaged at the same time, this is the first time in the history of the thunder, not to mention that Zhao Zhi asked to defeat the three Japanese divisions within 24 hours, if it were not for Zhao Zhi's means, I'm afraid they will directly treat Zhao Zhi as a psychopath.

"I know this battle will be difficult, but we have no other choice, and it is very important for us to take control of Kyushu Island as soon as possible for our next combat deployment, so I ask you to use all your combat strength to deal with this battle." Zhao Zhi took another map handed by Ye Kong and spread it out on the table, carefully explaining his deployment to the officers present, "Tang Lei's Qingfeng troops began to release smoke attacks three hours after nightfall, and after their outer defense line collapsed or was broken, all the mixed troops launched a surprise attack. ”

"The mercenary squads equipped with night vision devices are designed to deal with their tank units, and it is very important that if you want to defeat the Japanese troops on the opposite side on all fronts, it is very important to disintegrate their tank forces first. There were no reserves, no additional supports, everyone including me had to go into the attack, and all we could rely on was the airdrop after dawn, and until then everything was on our own. ”

Excluding the mercenary troops sent in the direction of Kagoshima and the sporadic mercenary squads scattered throughout Kyushu Island to clear out the resistance forces, Zhao Zhi's Thunder mercenaries were only 6,000 people, including the 500 mercenary snipers brought by Zhang Jinquan, who were useless in night battles. Originally, the plan to use the Thor machine gun group against the Japanese army tended to be aborted, but Zhao Zhi did not plan to give up the idea of using Thor, maybe in a blitzkrieg, the powerful Thor machine gun would be a good choice.

"While the mixed forces were carrying out the assault, all the light and heavy machine guns in our hands were lined up in the second attack echelon, and the Thor machine guns were arranged on our flanks. When the mixed troops attacked, they suppressed the Japanese defense line with firepower, and forced them to concentrate on the center with strong firepower, so as to achieve the possibility of defeating them on the whole line. "If Zhao Zhi wins this battle, he can still regain ammunition supplies from the airdrop, and if he can't win, then there is no need to bring these ammunition back to Myanmar.

This is a battle that will determine the future of Thunder, and the stakes are very high, and of course Zhao Zhi has to ask the opinions of his officers, and like most officers, Qiao Mulin, who is the battle planner, has his own concerns. "Sir, is it inappropriate for us to line up the mixed forces in the vanguard of the attack? After all, those guys are just a rabble, and the Japanese army can't stand there waiting for their heads to be cut off, and I'm afraid that once the mixed troops encounter a strong counterattack by the Japanese army, they may retreat or rout, and the attack formation we have arranged behind them may be broken up by them. ”

The gap between cold weapons and hot weapons, everyone here understands that Zhao Zhi used the Japanese-style weapons captured in advance to equip some mixed soldiers, but that bit of weapons is just a drop in the bucket for 400,000 mixed soldiers. In the face of three divisions of Japanese troops, most of the officers under Zhao Zhi did not think that the mixed troops could break through the opponent's defense line by launching an attack on the whole line, even if Tang Lei's Qingfeng troops attacked, because the thickness of the Japanese defense line was really surprising.

Zhao Zhi was obviously also thinking about this problem, and after pondering for a while, Zhao Zhi drew a big picture of an airplane on the blackboard of the battle situation analysis, "Airplane, at the same time as the mixed troops launched an attack, we mobilized all the planes in our hands to carry out an air attack on the Japanese position, but the time for us to launch an attack needs to be postponed until dawn, otherwise our pilots will not be able to find the target of the bombing." Zhao Zhi's words suddenly stopped halfway through, and after a short pause, Zhao Zhi had a new idea.

"Maybe we don't need to change the time of our attack to dawn, after the fighter unit takes off, we can use mortars to hit incendiary bombs into the Japanese position, and use the flames to guide the bombardment of the fighter troops. Zhao Zhi marked several points in the area representing the Japanese defense line, and it is clear that he set these points as sortie points for the mixed troops to break through the Japanese defense line.

"After nightfall, the mercenary troops carry mortars and small incendiary bombs to infiltrate the periphery of the Japanese defense line, and three hours after nightfall, carry out an incendiary attack on the Japanese defense line to guide the fighter troops, and then the Qingfeng troops take advantage of the chaos to release smoke attacks, and at the same time the mixed troops are pressed on the whole line to carry out attack and raid, before dawn, the Japanese perimeter defense line must be solved." Zhao Zhi deployed all the attack steps very tightly, believing that the performance of the sniper unit during the day had frightened the Japanese army, and the Japanese army would never dare to risk death to attack after nightfall.

"Those tanks of the Japanese army can be captured as soon as they can be captured, and we need tanks to help clear the remnants of the Japanese army on Kyushu Island." Zhao Zhi did not forget to tell a few words in the end, the lack of troops and heavy weapons is the biggest problem Zhao Zhi is facing now, if you want to get follow-up military aid from the US military, fighting this battle is the key, otherwise everything is not to talk about, and the Americans are very practical.

Zhao Zhi's position was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and it was completely impossible to see the busyness and tension before the big battle, in fact, except for the defensive troops on the outer line, the other troops in Zhao Zhi's hands were already secretly assembling under the command of the officer. The frenzied day of "departure" finally passed, and the 300 mercenaries, who had been waiting a little impatiently, took advantage of the night to turn out of their positions and sneak towards the Japanese side, the weapons they carried were only mortars and small incendiary bombs, and after firing the incendiary bombs, they only had one minute to retreat, otherwise they would be accidentally injured by the powerful incendiary bombs dropped by the fighter troops.