Chapter 61: Attack on Kitakyushu (2)
With a muffled "boom", a fortress fortification on the Japanese defense line suddenly soared into several large fireballs, and an M3 tank no more than 100 meters away slowly turned its turret to aim at the next target. After the thunderous artillery salvo, the mixed soldiers who rushed forward like a tide pointed out the Japanese firepower fortresses for the follow-up Thunder mercenaries, and the M3 tanks moving forward at high speed became the killer weapon for the targeted uprooting of these Japanese firepower fortresses.
Under the cover of smoke, the M3 tanks were like beasts from ancient times, and if they could not change their position in time to fire on the Japanese army, what awaited them would be a shell with the breath of death. With a speed of more than 50 km/h, the M3s rampage through the battlefield, and their protective armor of more than 10 mm makes them unafraid of the Japanese light and heavy machine guns, and as long as they are not targeted by the Japanese anti-aircraft guns or 92 rifles, these M3 tanks may always beat the Japanese defense line to a counter.
"Sir, the troops in front say that they are in trouble, the casualties of the mixed troops are too great, the officers who command them are some of the bullets that cannot be suppressed, and those indigenous soldiers may break up." The war began to develop as Zhao Zhi expected, but it was not all good news that came back to the headquarters, and the news brought by the intelligence staff at this moment made Zhao Zhi's originally good mood instantly worse.
The 120,000 mixed troops that were arranged in the attack forward position were regrouped by the mercenaries after scrapping their old strength, which was the last remaining soldier of the 400,000 mixed troops, Zhao Zhi never regarded these natives as thunder people, they were just cannon fodder used by the thunder to attract Japanese firepower, but if the mixed troops collapsed at this time, it would inevitably affect the development of the entire battle situation, which Zhao Zhi would never allow.
"Kill the leader, there must not be any problems at this time, tell those officers that now is not the time to be soft, anyway, after entering Honshu Island, there will be no need for these indigenous soldiers, just take this opportunity to kill them all." Zhao Zhi's killing order listened to the several staff officers around him in horror, that is more than 100,000 natives, say that they will kill them all, and his own husband is really not ordinary cold-blooded.
Zhao Zhi had already made up his mind, he would rather kill all the natives who wanted to disperse, rather than let their rout cause a riot in the entire attack formation, and besides, these guys with low combat effectiveness and sloppy military discipline were really useless, if Thunder still used them on Honshu Island, it might attract the condemnation of the so-called international people. Suppressing the military rebellion is not a difficult thing to do, as long as the law enforcement team is set up with a row of machine guns, those who have the intention to retreat must also weigh in their hearts whether their heads are hard or bullets are hard, as long as they still have some brains, they should come up with a correct answer.
The offensive lasted for four hours, and in the face of the non-stop attack of 120,000 mixed soldiers regardless of casualties, the soldiers on the Japanese defense line were exhausted, and more importantly, their ammunition was already insufficient. The rout of the great war is terrible, it can infect all the troops and soldiers on the line like a contagion, and the soldiers who are anxious to get out of the war will even throw away their weapons and equipment in order to survive, just to run faster than their companions.
In the face of the Thunder's strong attack, the first to break out was the Korean division on the left flank of the 12th Division. The Korean division was not a well-known Kwantung Army unit, the composition of officers and soldiers in the Korean division was mostly Koreans and a small proportion of Japanese officers, and those Japanese officers who commanded the Koreans did not regard the Korean soldiers under their command as soldiers at all, and there had always been contradictions between the two sides, and the powerful attack of the thunder finally triggered the final intensification of the contradictions, which led to the rout of the Korean divisions.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, you guys are blocking us." The M3 tank, which had stopped suddenly, shook its hull and fired a shell, and a Japanese machine-gun fire point in the distance turned into a ball of flames, and the commander drilled out of the turret and waved his arm at the mixed soldiers lying in front of the tank. The collapse of the Japanese line in front of them was already obvious, but these damned indigenous soldiers were standing in front of his tank, and if they didn't take advantage of the opportunity to attack, the Japanese could resurrect and reorganize another line of defense.
The sound of chainsaws suddenly sounded, and more than a dozen Thor chariots from the attacking cluster burst out of their ferocity, and the Thor chariots, which were far faster than the M3 tanks, broke into the Japanese defense line like excited bulls, and slammed the Japanese troops with the powerful barrage of fire chains of Thor revolver machine guns. There are 30,000 rounds of ammunition on the Thor chariots, and there are hundreds of thousands of large-caliber bullets on more than a dozen Thor chariots, and all of them have been hit into the Japanese defense line in just ten minutes.
"We're up, we're up." Thor's rate of fire exceeded 2,000 rounds per minute, and 30,000 rounds was only enough for them to shoot continuously for more than ten minutes. Finally, some Japanese soldiers rushed up regardless of life and death to drag the attacking M3 tanks, but unfortunately the presence of burning sticks in their hands was not light, and the Ariyama rifle bullets did not pose any threat to the M3's armor at all.
Fortunately, the commander of the tank cluster saw that the situation was not good, and urgently ordered his tank cluster to turn around and run to the flank position to play interspersed, and in the face of the Japanese suicide soldiers like moths fighting fire, the tank cluster had to choose to retreat.
"Leave this stuff alone, rush up and crush them, rush up." The mercenaries who followed up came up, and the first thing that came into their eyes was the mixed soldiers who were competing for weapons and equipment, and the mixed soldiers who used hot weapons knew the benefits of hot weapons, especially the Japanese light machine gun was their favorite, and this kind of firearm that could fire in bursts was much more powerful than the bolt-action rifles issued to them. The mercenaries, who were in a hurry to crush the Japanese army, were naturally furious, and the loss of the great opportunity in front of them meant that more soldiers would die here.
Between the military boots and fists flying, and the snot and tears were soaring, the mixed soldiers who were violently beaten by the mercenaries had to give up the various weapons at their feet and rush over in the direction of the mercenary force. "Sir, sir, go up, go up." An operational staff officer under Zhao Zhi rushed into Zhao Zhi's former enemy command post, and the M3 formation, regardless of ammunition consumption, finally entered the enemy position along a hole torn by the mixed troops, and expanded the opening to a width of 100 meters, and the Japanese soldiers who could not resist the M3 assault finally broke up, and about 1,000 Thunder mercenaries had already entered the Japanese defense line.
"Continue the pursuit, tell the troops in front that as long as they still have bullets in their guns, they will shoot me, as long as there is fuel in the car, they must continue to pursue the Japanese army, and we must chase the scattered Japanese army all the way into Kitakyushu and chase them to the sea." Knowing that the Japanese army was in chaos, Zhao Zhi finally pressed the last bit of troops in his hands, and even his escort team had to take on the task of identifying corpses and wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
"General, it's our turn, please give the order." The commander of the American mercenaries, Parks, broke into Zhao Zhi's temporary command post, and the Thunder mercenaries had already been killed, but their mercenaries from the United States were still in place. In fact, Zhao Zhi didn't let the American mercenaries stay idle, but they were arranged in the third position in the attack formation, and even Zhao Zhi didn't expect that the Japanese troops on the opposite side would not even be able to stop the mixed troops and be torn open, so the American mercenaries would not have a chance to play now.
Parks is a typical straight person, which can be seen from his eyes, Zhao Zhi likes to deal with such people very much, since they are eager to fight, Zhao Zhi plans to fulfill them, and let them experience the cruelty of actual combat earlier, which is not a good thing for the future growth of this all-American mercenary force. Zhao Zhi pondered for a while, and drew a range on the map with a pencil, "This may be the only way to pass in the rout of the Japanese army, I only arranged 500 Thunder mercenaries to garrison there, I hope you can take your people here to assist in the defense, this is also a march assessment for you, is there a problem?" ”
Parks didn't hesitate at all, and after saluting Zhao Zhi, he went to gather his 5,000 mercenaries and rushed to the location marked by Zhao Zhi. Zhao Zhi marked the location of Parkes at least 30 kilometers away from here, and according to the actual distance, it was more than 35 kilometers. The Japanese army had already broken out at this time, and it was only a matter of time before their entire line collapsed, and Pascal and they needed to arrive before the routed Japanese army passed by that position, otherwise only Zhao Zhi's 500 thunder mercenaries would intercept the Japanese army.
"Sir, are these big American noses reliable?" Zhao Zhi's operational staff officers did not care that the Americans of those staff groups were still at the command post, so they directly doubted their credibility. Regardless of whether Zhao Zhi and Rowling already have children, and regardless of whether Rowling is part of the Rockman family, Thunder can only be the Thunder belonging to Zhao Zhi, and these mercenaries of Thunder, including the officers, only believe in Zhao Zhi alone.