849 Defense of the Peninsula
Cheng Dayang issued an order, rushed out of the sea at an elevation angle of 30 degrees, and according to the target's noise, track, and 419's active sonar detection, he had hit the shoddy submarine by the waist. He was confident that he would destroy the target without causing damage to SCP-419.
The nuclear submarine rushed out of the water at a speed of 30 knots, like a giant monster on the bottom of the sea, cutting Lu 101 into two. This is the second time this nuclear submarine has appeared in front of the Japanese Navy, the first time was more than a year ago, when she had just been transported to the entire era, and was once discovered by two Japanese pilots who did not know what to do, and strafed, when she lost power and almost had no power to fight back.
Now the situation has been reversed, her pressure-resistant shell is thicker than almost all tank front armor in 1943, the best steel is used, and most importantly, the bow uses an arched design, which is very crash-resistant shape, and the Lu 101 is too weak according to the technical indicators of later generations, especially the one that will be hit is still the most vulnerable middle position.
The Japanese sailors on the surface of the boat were hit by a huge impact and flew into the sky. Those who remained in the boat were hit at the first time, and most of them did not survive the blow, and then there was a huge flooding.
The water did not come in through any hole or crevice, in fact, the water poured in from the entire fractured section of the submarine, and there was no chance of escape at all.
The person who fell from the sky was immediately sucked into the bottom of the sea by the huge whirlpool brought by the sinking of Lu 101. The human body is insignificant in the face of such tremendous power. In such an attack, no one on Lv 101 could survive.
Rao was so, 419 was still on the surface of the sea, and he took the risk to stay for a while, making sure that he was not floating alive at sea, and of course he had to check his damage.
Surface group inspections showed that no one had suffered any losses, except for some forward anechoic tiles. The bow is the strongest in the whole boat, and the design requires it to be able to break through the two-meter-thick ice in the North Pole, and it is naturally nothing to destroy a Lu 101. The slight damage to the silencing tile does not have a major impact on the submarine, especially in this era, when the submarines of various countries still rely on human ear listening. For more than a year, SCP-419 has been pursued by almost no enemy (only once by a single voice*), and the principle of quiet, which was originally the most important, seems to have become less important.
419 waited for 15 minutes, but did not see any living person, sonar detection showed that the submarine had sunk to the bottom of the sea, no unnecessary movement was detected, but dozens of nautical miles, several large Japanese ships approached, probably received a telegram, came to answer. At the time of the 419 impact, Captain Ito's telegram had just been halfway sent and then was interrupted. So the boat that received it couldn't hold it back, so it came, so let them come.
Cheng Dayang ordered to dive, and the next move had to wait until he and Lin Xiuxuan summed up.
That night, the Japanese army completely controlled Kelantan and the south bank, but Tao Mingzhang calmly withdrew his troops, along with about 4,000 guerrillas, to the north bank of the river through his pontoon bridge. His offense may not be very sharp, but his defense and retreat are better than Zhou Youfu's, calm and thorough. The enemy's various detours and intersperses were difficult to bargain for in his defense, which was carried out step by step and covered by artillery fire.
In the middle of the night, the troops of the 201st Division began to retreat to deeper, more or less established positions. The Kelantan River was too winding to defend itself, and Tao Mingzhang decided to abandon the river for good reason, and now he had to slowly retreat to the vicinity of the Kra Isthmus, where one of his divisions could hold off three enemy divisions. Of course, he had more than two divisions, the 201st and 204th divisions, and more than 10,000 guerrillas were already on his side. In this way, he can set up a second and third line of defense, and then retreat one by one, waiting for the enemy to gnaw slowly. He was urging the military headquarters to speed up the replenishment of the guerrilla weapons, the guerrillas here have all experienced a year or so of war, and are far better at fighting and jungle than the boys who came out of the training camp, and all they lack is weapons. After he and Chen Ping talked all night, they both had the feeling of hating each other, and their discussion topic had even reached the level of how to establish a Lanfang Republic composed mainly of Chinese. Many years ago, this Chinese country appeared on this land, and if it were not for the invasion of the Dutch, this country might still exist.
Lin Xiuxuan had a brief communication with Cheng Dayang, and Cheng Dayang could guarantee that Lu 101 had not joined any enemy ships when he left the sea, which was the information obtained by his comprehensive sonar, although the sonar was always inaccurate near the mouth of the river, but this time it completely monitored the entire track and the movement of the diesel engine. Lu 101 came out of the estuary, and seemed to be in a hurry to float, and then what could be heard, except for the sound of the diesel engine or the pumping machine, the speed had been maintained at about 12 knots. Obviously, at such a fast speed, it is impossible to transfer anyone.
But Lin Xiuxuan still didn't dare to take it lightly, because during the pursuit of Lu 101 by Ma Qiang's troops, for a while, the submarine was out of Ma Qiang's sight. This period is short, about less than ten minutes. Subsequently, Ma Qiang saw through the night vision device that Lu 101 was stuck in the mud very close to the south bank, trying to reverse the car and get out of trouble. Since then, the submarine has been fleeing all downstream, and under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, no one has seen it stop and send anyone away. This process and 419 sonar found it again, although it was not seamless, but 419 captured the time it ascended, which means that it is unlikely to transfer people before it ascends.
"Team leader, can you say that the scourge of Makino has finally been eliminated?" Ma Qiang asked.
"Maybe." Lin Xiuxuan couldn't believe such an amazing ending.
"That'...... What do we do next? Qin Xiaosu asked.
"Wait for Xu Chong to come back, gather everyone first. Our team is still intact, and if it is certain that Makino is dead, we will have to abandon some high-risk operations. ”
Lu Qingshan, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said nothing, since he came back, he didn't talk much.
"And what about those weapon systems that Makino left behind? The Japanese will definitely continue to develop. They have quite a few weapons specialists. Qin Xiaosu said.
"Without Makino, the speed of development of the Japanese is bound to be greatly affected, from a historical point of view, most of the technical routes will not work, will waste a lot of time and manpower and material resources, Makino can provide, it is precisely from the perspective of the future people, technical feasibility, this is the most critical information. The experts of our time do not have such foresight. ”
"That's great, we can focus on how to get back." Qin Xiaosu said.
"I think we should not jump to conclusions first, let's stay here first, first help Deputy Captain Chu take Vietnam, and secondly, pay attention to the news of the southern authorities, maybe they can leak some news there, which can confirm that Makino is dead from the side."
"I really want to follow Chu Aiyun's team back to China." Ma Qiang gritted his teeth and said, he didn't seem to be very interested in returning to his own time, and he was bent on killing more Japanese.
The next day, Xu Chong arrived in a car, and behind him was already the rumbling sound of Japanese artillery. The Japanese had already tried to cross the river in several sections of the river last night, and found that the garrison had withdrawn. Sakagaki found that the original Chinese army did not plan to fortify along the river, which really made him regretful, he had known that he could use the cutting-edge 46th Division to hit the flank, he was most afraid of pushing all the way on such a peninsula terrain, it was best to run in front of the retreating enemy and prevent them from fortifying, just like Yamashita Fengfumi. But the fight with Chu Tingchang made him look forward and backward, and now he lost a few precious hours to watch the enemy retreat to the narrowest part of the peninsula, the Kra Isthmus, where the enemy was bound to fortify layer by layer. Without an amphibious offensive to outflank the rear, attacking such an endless line of defense would be a nightmare for the infantry.
Lin Xiuxuan planned to stay for a few days to see if Tao Mingzhang could hold here. 419 first drove in the direction of Vietnam to provide strategic reconnaissance for Chu Tingchang's attack, and now Zhou Youfu has reached the border between Thailand and Vietnam.
Marshal Thanh Ternai personally commanded the defensive operation, which was the highest rank of the enemy that Chu Dinh Chang had encountered at present, but the strength of the temple was insufficient, and the whole of Vietnam was very empty, only the 4th Division and a few brigades that were not satisfied with the personnel could not defend against tank attacks in the vast area, and could only retreat step by step, and had now retreated to the vicinity of Phnom Penh. Waiting for the 5th Division from the Philippines to land and rescue.
Chu Tingchang, who got 419 to invite Abo, hurriedly shouted Zhou Youfu to stop, lest he be dizzy and rush into Cambodia all of a sudden. In recent times, he has actually beaten the field marshal with no additional reconnaissance support; However, the Japanese still damaged part of the railway, and it still had to be repaired immediately, even if Zhou Youfu's division was maintained to attack. The road route through northern Myanmar and Thailand has also become inadequate.
419 took advantage of a drone launched at night to conduct a reconnaissance of the area west of Phnom Penh, using a thermal imager to clear the general deployment of the Japanese ground forces, obviously the panic and rout before Shouichi Terauchi was more or less acting, it seems that he is preparing to use a few offensive channels, ready to arrange a pocket for Zhou Youfu.
Although the temple is not a famous general of the Japanese army, he has not fought a great annihilation battle, but he still has a strategy, he was driven all the way to the east before, but he knows where to fight back after all.
He has been watching his opponent and waiting for his moment. Now the time has come. Aerial reconnaissance showed that the front of Zhou Youfu's attack was getting narrower and narrower, which showed that the enemy's strength was greatly weakened in the pursuit. This is consistent with the conclusions he came to from his study of the German Blitzkrieg. But the enemy is still attacking, because the attack is too easy, they can't hold back.
The easiest mistake for the Panzers is not to know that they have become a strong crossbow, just as Hitler's forces did after crossing Minsk, and they are still delusional that they can take Moscow further.
Zhou Youfu's troops, still maintaining mobility and firepower, were backed by fragile supply lines, and in order to maintain speed, he impatiently threw off most of the motorized infantry, leaving only some infantry that also marched on tracks. Phnom Penh, as an alluring fruit, is attracting him step by step.