Chapter 60: Attack on Kitakyushu (1)
"Niang Xipi, what is this Zhao Zhi going to do? Did he think that by leaning on the Americans, his waist would harden when he spoke? Chiang Kai-shek, who was rejected by Zhao Zhiwan, scolded angrily, and smashed the teacup handed to him by Song Meiling. However, Song Meiling's face was calm, and after waving off the overwhelmed attendant officer, she grabbed an empty teacup and handed it to Chiang Kai-shek, looking at the posture, as long as Chiang Kai-shek continued to drop the teacups, she would keep handing the teacup to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek, who had already dropped a teacup, saw Song Meiling acting like this, so he had to wave his hand to signal that he was fine. "You just don't know if you're in the game, what kind of person is Boyuan, don't you believe it?" Putting down the teacup in her hand, Song Meiling stepped forward and pinched her shoulders for Chiang Kai-shek, who was sitting on a wicker chair, "Boyuan's greatest wish is to form a pure army, and he doesn't want to participate in any political faction. ”
"Can he call it an army? The Jewish army alone has exceeded 300,000, and I heard that this kid has a training camp in Burma, in which 200,000 people are being trained. Chiang Kai-shek angrily criticized Zhao Zhi again, which caused Song Meiling to snicker.
Knowing that Rowling was pregnant, Song Meiling made a special trip to Myanmar to visit Rowling last month, and after chatting with Rowling in private, Song Meiling really got to know Zhao Zhizhi. Her husband has always regarded Zhao Zhi as a confidant, but he is not willing to participate in the troubled waters of the Nationalist Government at all, and now is the critical time for Zhao Zhi to fight in Japan, and the Nationalist Government will send troops to fight in Japan, isn't that forcing Zhao Zhi to be estranged from the South Shore Villa?
Although he was very dissatisfied with Zhao Zhi's refusal, under the persuasion of Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek temporarily extinguished the fire. Although he was discouraged, Chiang Kai-shek still sent another harshly worded telegram to Zhao Zhi, accusing Zhao Zhihao. The CCP has no blame for Zhao Zhi's refusal, and Thunder is not an armed force subordinate to the CCP, and of course Zhao Zhi has no obligation to train troops for the CCP, not to mention that Zhao Zhi has now almost stripped all the armed forces under his command from the Chinese theater, and people understand that they just don't want to participate in the affairs between the national government of the Republic of China.
In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's rebuke, Zhao Zhi could only shake his head and smile bitterly, but this is also good, Lei Ting has already expressed his attitude towards the Nationalist Government and the CCP, and I believe that neither the CCP nor the Nationalist Government will pull Thunder to their respective camps in the future. The imminent surrender of the Fourth Division is still a secret, and before Zhao Zhi can not lead his troops across Kitakyushu Bay, this news cannot spread out of Kyushu Island, because Zhao Zhi also needs the Fourth Division to continue to "fight" with himself on Kyushu Island, only in this way will Okamura Ninji give hope to the battle on Kyushu Island.
Fukuoka Prefecture was the place where hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops besieged Zhao Zhi at that time, but now it has become a detention place temporarily assigned to the Fourth Division by Thunder, and the officers of the Fourth Division, led by division commander Sekihara Roku, guaranteed that their soldiers would obediently stay in Fukuoka Prefecture until Zhao Zhi agreed to return to Osaka. After seeing the large amount of ordnance and heavy equipment that had been transported ashore from Nichinan to Fukuoka Prefecture, Sekihara Roku was glad that he had chosen to fight such an opponent with the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Division, and I am afraid that no one in the Fourth Division would be able to return to his hometown of Osaka safely, and surrendering to Thunder was indeed the best choice.
"Your Excellency, Commander, I swear in the name of the Sekigahara family that our Fourth Division will remain here as agreed until you allow us to return to Osaka." Zhao Zhi was very satisfied with Guan Yuanliu's knowledge, and then Zhao Zhi agreed to let Guan Yuanliu and his officers keep their personal weapons and swords, and also allocated 100 rifles to the gendarmerie of the Fourth Division for daily military discipline inspections.
Looking at the long yellow dust dragged out of the tail of the tank that had gone away, Guan Yuanliu's heart was full of excitement, and Zhao Zhi had a small chat with him privately when he left. "I think I very much need a new Japanese prime minister who is close to Thunder to take charge of post-war Japan, Mr. Lieutenant General, don't you have the idea of going into politics? The next time we meet again, I hope you can give me a definitive answer. The words that Zhao Zhi said half an hour ago seemed to be still lingering in Guan Yuanliu's ears, and it was Zhao Zhi's words that made Guan Yuanliu's heart stir.
"Idiot." Of course, Zhao Zhi also saw the figure of Guan Yuan Liu, who had been submerged in yellow dust, and pretended that he would support a new Japanese prime minister, which was just an idea that the staff members gave Zhao Zhi in private in order to stabilize Kyushu Island. Although the Fourth Division has laid down its arms and agreed to accept the supervision of Thunder, it is a Japanese division after all, and no one can rest assured that such a Japanese army unit is placed in the hinterland of Kyushu Island. But Zhao Zhi still needs the cooperation of the Fourth Division to perfunctory Okamura Ningji, since he can't kill them yet, he can only give them incense bait.
Zhao Zhi said to Guan Yuanliu that the new prime minister is the incense bait, and Guan Yuanliu is the old turtle who has swallowed this incense bait, from Guan Yuanliu's action of standing in the yellow dust for a long time and waving his hand, Zhao Zhi knew that this little trick made by the staff group was successful. With the beginning of the feint attack on Nara by the U.S. fleet, a large number of Japanese troops stranded on Kyushu Island were transferred to Honshu Island to fight, and after the surrender of the 4th Division, Kyushu Island returned to the situation after Zhao Zhi led the team to defeat the 23rd Division, Thunder was south of Naokata and Miyawaka, and the Japanese army was assembled in North Kyushu Bay to wait for the sea crossing to support Honshu Island.
When a large number of ammunition supplies and heavy equipment were sent by the Lockman family's ocean-going fleet, Zhao Zhi changed his tactics of dodging and dodging and not fighting directly with the Japanese army, and directly mobilized all the available means of transportation, and took all the ammunition and materials all the way north to Kitakyushu. "Our Jewish Legion has landed in Fukagawa Bay on the island of Honshu and is heading south to meet you, and what we have to do now is to attack Kitakyushu Bay with the cooperation of fighter planes, and send all the Japanese troops stranded there into the sea to feed the fish."
Zhao Zhi's battle plan made the mercenaries under his command enthusiastic, as long as they controlled the area south of Meiyu, including the Shimonoseki Wharf, they on Kyushu Island would have the opportunity and passage to enter Honshu Island, and the defeat of Tokyo that Mr. said before the war would no longer be a dream, but would become a real reality. "After taking Tokyo, let's bring my wife too, and let Mr. also live in the palace of the Japanese emperor, if Mr. lives in the palace, then we will not become Ouchi guards." Zhao Zhi's escort mercenaries were the happiest group of people, and they learned far more than other mercenaries with Zhao Zhi, and their benefits were much better.
The convoy from Fukuoka was filled with excitement, and the American mercenaries recruited by the Rockman family were also in this convoy, and they always heard the Thunder foreign mercenaries who trained them tell how powerful the Thunder mercenaries were, but these unruly guys still didn't believe it, thinking that it was just the instructors bragging. But during the landing battle in the south of Japan, Zhang Jinquan and his 2,000 mercenaries not only intercepted the southward rush of a local division of the Japanese army, but also divided their forces to meet their smooth landing.
"The main reason for sending you to the Asian battlefield is to give you an opportunity to learn and fight." This is what old Rhodes said to the Rockman family mercenary unit when they left Florida, and these big-nosed Americans now understand what they meant. Unlike what his staff officers were worried about, Zhao Zhi was not worried that the 5,000 American mercenaries would drag him back, these American mercenaries had gone through two years of intensive training, and the instructors who trained them were all foreign mercenaries who originally started with Zhao Zhi in Shanghai, even if they were not as good as the current main battle mercenaries of Thunder, but they were much stronger than the Japanese army.
Even more exciting than Zhao Zhi's escort mercenaries was the thunderous fighter unit, the Japanese army launched a large-scale counterattack on Kyushu Island, and all the fighter troops deployed on Kyushu Island secretly hid into the mountains, using hundreds of thousands of Japanese to dig caves to allow them and their planes to avoid the search of the Japanese army, but also deprived them of the power and opportunity to soar into the sky. Now that the opportunity has come, the Japanese aviation units that have been bombing Kyushu Island in turn have been transferred to Honshu Island to fight a fierce battle with the US troops, and the fighter units that received Zhao Zhi's order immediately transferred to Fukuoka Prefecture and are ready to attack at any time.
On August 8th, this is the 30th day that Zhao Zhi led the team to land on Kyushu Island, Zhao Zhi finally ordered the whole line to attack Kitakyushu Bay, 120,000 mixed troops were lined up in the first wave of attack clusters, they were the sharp knives that broke through the Japanese defense line, followed by an assault cluster composed of 5,000 thunder mercenaries, and the 5,000 American mercenaries sent by the Rockman family were arranged by Zhao Zhi at the end. The dozens of warplanes on Kyushu Island had taken off ten minutes earlier, and they were going to cooperate with the mixed forces acting as the vanguard to attack the Japanese lines.
The officers on duty of more than a dozen artillery units on the "open artillery" artillery position vigorously waved the small flags in their hands, and dozens of Japanese-style mountain guns, 92 rifle guns, howitzers, and field guns, large and small, began to spit flames, hitting the projectiles in the breeches of the guns at the Japanese defense line. These various Japanese artillery pieces are all from the capture of Thunder, when Okamura Ningji mobilized the army to attack, Zhao Zhi ordered all these cannons to be buried deep in the ground, and at this time, several mountain cannons that were firing fiercely still had a little rust on their bodies.
The artillery fire of the thunder is still the same artillery fire extension, two rounds of artillery fire salvo down, the Japanese defense line has been full of rising smoke and running soldiers, not waiting for the Japanese army's retaliatory artillery fire to come, and the American mercenary troops landed together with 30 M3 tanks mixed with 20 Thor armored combat vehicles have already killed the Japanese defense line, followed behind them by the mixed troops lined up in the first echelon, Zhao Zhi this time directly pressed the whole line, he wanted to force the Japanese army to fight to the death or retreat backwards.