971 Gentleman

The construction of the radio navigation point for the Japanese army was rather hasty, but the equipment was ready-made. As early as the moment when Makino was unconscious, a set of "lame" systems imitating Germany had been shipped to the Philippines, of course, in an attempt not as large as Makino's current plan, but only as an experiment and general navigation, so as to prevent the pilot from missing a target as large as the island. Now the second set of equipment has been rapidly deployed to South Vietnam.

Before the attack, the only test was carried out by a B17 bomber captured and repaired in the Philippines a year earlier, and of course another goal of the test was to test the possibility of the B17 bomber penetrating the Allied front. Air traffic control in this era was still sloppy, and there were no friend or foe identification devices. Visual recognition is almost the only way. To test this project, the Japanese army boldly carried out daytime infiltration.

The aircraft flew over the clouds completely independent of the terrain and initially followed a roughly straight course with the help of a compass and traditional radio polarization measurements, and then after entering the skies over Vietnam, the aircraft picked up the first correction signal, which was sufficient for course correction because the beam was confined in a very narrow range.

The radar station set up by the Allies according to the suggestion of Chief Chu Dinh was discovered as soon as the plane passing at 4,000 meters entered the sky over Nha Trang. However, we were unable to confirm the model. On the display of the meter-wave radar, the plane is just a point of light, perhaps a returning bomber, or several fighters that are very close. U.S. planes have crossed Vietnam and conducted reconnaissance operations against Japanese shipping in the South China Sea, but not frequently. The verification could not be carried out because the system for disseminating and aggregating the information was still imperfect (after all, it could only be processed manually through telephone lines and the lack of computers), although the follow-up on this objective was carried out. The ground intelligence center conducted a voice inquiry after the plane entered the airspace over Laos, but the Japanese side did not answer (no crew members with enough English were found during takeoff), and then the ground center called two P40C fighters of the 14th Air Force returning to the country to approach and identify. The P40 was 2 kilometers away, and it was confirmed that it was an American bomber with a movie star on it, and it was reported to be its own B17 aircraft, and it did not come close to observe, and if it flew closer, the pilot had a chance to find that the pilot in the cockpit had a Rendanbeard.

The ground personnel hastily checked today's take-off records and found that no B17 planes flew to the south that day, and only one group of B24s flew to the Jinou Peninsula to bomb the positions of the 79th Division to cover the attack of Chu Tingchang's troops there. Of course, the communication between the army aviation and the air intelligence center was not as perfect as Chu Tingchang's plan, and it was common for take-off information to be delayed for several hours or even a day or two, so no one studied it deeply.

After several precise course corrections, the B17 finally completed the entire course, and the plane swooped down, using visual vision, to accurately find an old fort abandoned by the Japanese on the top of the mountain, and then the bomber returned. As a result, the Japanese side has completely made up its mind to dispatch suicide nuclear attack planes at night, and although this flight proves that there is also a chance to attack during the day, the base camp believes that a night attack can have the best lethal effect.

Huang Tianyang led the army and began to attack by crossing the river. Huang Tianyang is currently the only person in the Allied forces who dares to launch an offensive against the threat of the Japanese nuclear bomb, of course, Chu Tingchang judged that the Japanese will not throw the nuclear bomb on the secondary target of Huang Tianyang through the study of Itagaki, but Huang Tianyang's thoughts are different, and he does not take the nuclear bomb in his eyes at all. In an interview with an Associated Press reporter, he expressed contempt for Japan's nuclear bomb — a bluffing thing that would not play any tactical role other than to anger the Allies.

The 79th Division, which faced Commander Chu Ting, studied operations against the Soviet Union and anti-tank operations in the northeast all year round, and had some confrontation exercises with Japanese armored units and at the wing level, and the tactical level was mostly just talk on paper.

Like the Japanese troops who fought with Chu Tingchang before, as long as they have fought with the Japanese armored forces in attack and defense, they will leave many problems, such as believing that positional warfare is the most efficient way to deter armor, which is of course because Japanese tanks rarely make long-distance detours.

The division deployed valuable anti-tank weapons in several key positions, waiting for Huang Tianyang to hit him with his head.

Huang Tianyang's attack was fully reconnoitred from the air. He roughly knew where the enemy was waiting for him and what the width of the defense was.

After a few months of in-depth study of Chu Tingchang's tactics, Huang Tianyang felt that he could become a teacher, and he commented that among Chu Tingchang's subordinates, Zhou Youfu was good at attacking, and Tao Minzhang was good at defending, none of them had fully learned Chu Tingchang's art of war.

The commander of the 79th Division, Lieutenant General Kyozaburo Shibata, did not take Huang Tianyang in his eyes at that time. The bulk of the report on the enemy situation in the southern organs was the personnel of the Chu family's army, and this information was relatively easy to collect, and the Japanese army was beaten all the way from Burma to the face and swollen, and it was easy to judge the character of the enemy's generals and the characteristics of the troops by collecting battle examples. The records under Huang Tianyang's name indicate that this person is from a Malay Chinese family, and Chu Tingchang used him more for political considerations. Its style of use of troops is more reckless, good at inspiring morale and often take the lead in charging into battle, but the tactics are rigid, partial positional warfare, its troops are mainly recruited in Burma and northern Thailand, the troops are not well trained, and they are second-rate in Chu Tingchang's whole army, and they have strengthened their heavy firepower, but they are not good at infantry and artillery coordination.

In general, the evaluation of the southern organs is slightly biased, especially Huang Tianyang is unwilling to be lonely, likes to be interviewed by various media, and always exposes the frivolous and arrogant side of the rich children, but this side just covers up the advantages brought by his good educational background, which is easier to accept fashionable and new things, such as new tank floating equipment. Zhou Youfu refused to accept these things that made the tank look like a tent, and the old Zhou felt that it was impossible to let the 30-ton Sherman float on the water. And it takes 4 to 6 hours to install a curtain for a tank, which he thinks is too long.

Huang Tianyang built a pontoon bridge in the delta area and pointed out the direction of the attack, which was of course for Japanese planes and locals to sit and visit, and as an overseas Chinese in Nanyang, he knew very well that the locals in any place were unreliable. The advice he received from an early age was not to show his wealth in front of the Malays, nor to show cultural superiority in front of the Malays, in short, to give them the illusion that the Chinese were not smarter than them; Naturally, the situation in Vietnam will not be too different, so he did not bother too much about counter-espionage, this is simply a vast sea of local natives, and it is impossible to prevent it, so he simply took advantage of this situation to show the enemy weakness and show the enemy false, he did not know that his own record in the Yugoslav organs has become the most important factor in misleading the Japanese.

Shibata accurately judged the enemy's attack route and time through the location and progress of the construction of the pontoon bridge at Huang Tianyang. He deployed the new * (vehicle-mounted) with a 45-kilogram heavy anti-tank warhead behind the main positions. This is a model of the Japanese Navy's Sakura anti-ship * miniaturization failure (the aircraft platform cannot be effectively controlled), and under the maneuvering of the base camp, it was used for the army's anti-tank and pillboxes. The two things he feared most in his life were the T34 tank in Manchuria and the Sherman here, and now he had the means to blow them to pieces.

Shibata himself is not familiar with the terrain of Vietnam, and does not know the river hydrology of the peninsula, only knows that it is the rainy season in Vietnam, and it is difficult for tanks to swim through, of course, his spies continue to send news, so that he knows a lot of enemy situations, and now he roughly knows the size of Huang Tianyang's 105 artillery and tank troops. Japanese planes continued to attack Huang Tianyang's pontoon bridge, and at the same time, guerrilla warfare experts from the Nakano School specially ambushed the pontoon equipment in Huang Tianyang's transport column in order to delay Huang Tianyang's attack.

A few days ago, during the ambush of a convoy of transports, his guerrilla unit discovered a strange kind of tent, carrying inflatable devices and propellers, accompanied by American military personnel, which seemed to be important equipment. However, Lieutenant General Shibata, the son of a Kumamoto miner, lacked enough imagination, and he thought that it might be something like a rubber boat, with at most a squad of infantry. As for what could make the Sherman tank float on the water, he couldn't imagine it like Zhou Youfu.

Huang Tianyang is different from Shibata or Zhou Youfu, he likes fashionable things since he was a child, believes that new technology can do anything, before the age of twenty-five, the family has four Aston Martin sports cars, more than 30 expensive watches, and his current hobby is to collect pistols, usually carrying an ivory handle Colt revolver and a gold-plated M1911 pistol.

A day earlier, the tank battalion, which had been waiting by the pontoon bridge, had suddenly received an order to move downstream. As soon as the tankmen arrived, the installation of the floating curtain began, and the Sherman tank needed to be surrounded by 15 steel bars to support the tent, followed by thrusters, which was not an easy process. However, Huang Tianyang set up a huge tent here in advance, and the interior is like a factory, which can be assembled in an assembly line. The assembly work was carried out after dark, so that the tanks could be seen by nearby spies assembling.

At dawn, he himself stood on the first tank, smiling at the apprehensive crew behind him and signaling to start. Subsequently, the tank slowly drove down the river, and the 30-ton iron lump actually floated on the water. Then Huang Tian leaned on the turret and headed towards Dong'an towards the sun in front of him. He stood not only on the first tank, but also in front of the armor, and did not wear a life jacket.

He never thought about the possibility of such immature equipment, which would lead to the capsizing of the tank, nor did he consider how easily recognizable he was, wearing breeches and leather boots with a golden pistol hanging from his chest. He had never suffered any setbacks in his life except for being slapped twice by the Japanese in the Singapore Gendarmerie, and he did not believe that a single bullet could have hit him; In his world, the earth and the sun revolve around him.

Lieutenant General Shibata patiently waited for the gentleman to crash into his own iron wall, and he carefully constructed a complete arsenal of weapons for Huang Tianyang, consisting of 20,000*, 200 light and heavy machine guns, 100 grenadiers, more than 40 medium guns, as well as various pillboxes and crossfire. Behind the defensive line, there were 20 of his tanks, which were used to launch a counteroffensive.