Chapter 395: The "Trident" Convergence
After breaking through the fortress of Songshan, Wu Xiaolong advanced to the northwest with the remnants of his winning streak, and then swept away several Japanese forces entrenched along the Nu River.
The mountain road is rugged, and the climb is very difficult, only one step at a time, you will fall into the abyss if you are not careful, and the rough Nu River is beside you.
However, the difficult terrain was also an obstacle to the enemy, and the Dragon Legion divided its troops into several companies and scattered them to attack the surrounding enemy strongholds, so that the Japanese could not distinguish which side was the main force.
Moreover, after the heavy rain stopped, a thick fog rose in both places along the Nu River, which hindered the enemy's patrols and defenses.
However, Wu Xiaolong decisively ordered the whole army to stop the attack, and instead used mortars to bombard the enemy formation, and this bombardment lasted for half an hour.
When the fog cleared, the soldiers rushed to the enemy camp to find that those foxholes, communication trenches, or bunker fortifications, had collapsed and collapsed, and some even buried the Japanese soldiers hiding inside.
The Dragon Legion fought as they went, annihilating 14 Japanese brigades along the way, more than 6,000 deserters, and more than 5,000 prisoners.
Needless to say, Hu Rentian's side relied on his mobility to leave the enemy behind all the way, while Wang Lianhao's side had the Northwest Army and the Sichuan Army as cover, fought several beautiful large-scale joint battles, and drove the Japanese army to the east step by step.
Finally, the tridents were all in place, and the three group army commanders, Hu Rentian, Wu Xiaolong, and Wang Lianhao, had a historic meeting.
"Hahahaha~~~ Brother Long! Haozi! I miss you guys~! ”
As soon as the three of them met, Hu Rentian, who had not shaved for a long time with a big beard, opened his arms and hugged Wu Xiaolong and Wang Lianhao tightly in his arms, and regardless of the opposition of the two, rubbed his beard stubble on the cheeks of the two.
"Lao Hu, you are now the commander-in-chief of the armored group army, can you have a look? What kind of system?! ”
Wu Xiaolong pushed the sour beard away, and wiped it on his face with his sleeve in disgust.
And Wang Lianhao also pushed Hu Rentian behind him and said: "You guy, you have married a wife and have children, why are you still so unrecruiting?" We are here today to discuss important matters. ”
Hu Rentian wiped his mouth, sat down on the chair, and put his feet on the table.
"Of course, the meeting of the three of us is a big deal for the little devil in itself, and the counteroffensive trident that Mr. Zhou originally set has all been put in place, and the next big battle must not only be won, but also won beautifully, so that the whole world knows that we are not easy to mess with.
I'll give you the bottom first, and I'll hand over the charge to me and my armored corps, and the hardest bones to gnaw will also be handed over to me Lao Hu, the little devils are now at the end of the crossbow, fighting on two fronts, they must give up one head, and compared to the weakness of the army, their navy seems to have a certain advantage, so this is a good time for us to take advantage of the victory and pursue! ”
The trident forces converged in Yichang, and the nearest heavily fortified city for the Japanese army was Changsha.
After failing to capture the city of Nanjing, the Japanese army went south all the way through Hangzhou, Jinhua, Shangrao, Ji'an, and Hengyang, and finally captured Changsha in a circle, and used Changsha as the base point to radiate its power to the surrounding Changde, Shaoyang, Guilin, Guangzhou and other places.
However, now, the trident Wu Xiaolong of the Dragon Chamber of Commerce has annihilated all the Japanese troops in Burma, and has killed all the generals from Yunnan, and has taken Nujiang, Kunming, Songshan, and Guiyang.
Wang Lianhao led a large army to drive the enemy out of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Luoyang, and according to their intelligence, many Japanese troops had begun to assemble in the coastal port cities.
Due to the daily decline of the Japanese army in mainland China, the war department has already quarreled, and the generals of several different factions want to focus on their own troops, and finally, due to the strategic depth of the land of China and the supply line is too long, so that the Japanese army can not fight on a large scale for a long time, so they can only reluctantly shrink the defense line, and use the relatively strong navy as a cover to hold several important coastal cities, including Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
After the three giants of the Trident met, Wu Xiaolong was appointed commander-in-chief of this group army, Wang Lianhao was the deputy commander-in-chief, Hu Rentian was still the commander-in-chief of the armored mobile force at his request, and Wu Xiaolong transferred him some trucks, motorcycles, jeeps, and more than 20 planes.
With these troops, Hu Rentian was also able to derive some other possibilities from blind mobile warfare, although the speed was relatively reduced, but he also had the ability to fight a head-on battle with the enemy.
However, just as the three giants were studying the battle situation, an air defense alarm suddenly sounded outside.
"Sir! Three Chiefs! Quickly dodge, the Japanese planes are coming, and there are quite a few of them! ”
"What? The plane is coming? These dogs, the ground troops have been disabled by us, and there is still time to send planes? Is this a final round of bombing and then retreat? ”
Hu Rentian put his feet away and stood up from his chair, Wu Xiaolong said solemnly: "Very likely, this is the last madness of the little devils, what about Zhou Zhen and his pilots?" ”
The adjutant who came in to deliver the message pointed to the outside and said: "It has already taken off, but they only have 22 fighters, and the enemy has sent at least 100 planes this time, and according to the feedback from our other radar stations, the Japanese army has dispatched eight flight groups this time to bomb Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, Luoyang, Kunming, Guilin, Yan'an, and our Yichang at the same time." ”
Hearing this, the three of them glanced at each other, and they all noticed that there was something unusual.
The three of them did not hold on, but instead hid in underground fortifications to continue to study the direction of the battle.
The three of them unanimously agreed that the Japanese army's indiscriminate bombardment this time represented their preparation to abandon the large areas of territory they had already occupied in central and western China and to retreat to the east.
The three of them were not wrong in their guesses, this bombing was equivalent to a retaliatory bombing for the Japanese army, they sent all their flying squadrons, bombers and fighters together as many as more than 3,000, and attacked eight important cities at the same time, which can be regarded as using all their air power.
The three units met and were stationed in Yichang, a city equipped with many anti-aircraft guns, and the flying dragon squad from Zhouzhen rose into the air to intercept them, and the Japanese army only had time to drop a dozen bombs before they were beaten to pieces.
But apart from here, most of the other cities were handed over to Wang Xian and the local anti-Japanese coalition forces, although they were also equipped with anti-aircraft guns and some fighter jets, but the number was somewhat stretched.
However, the frenzied Japanese army did not seem to bomb and run, but bombed these cities almost 24 hours a day, day and night, in the next few days.
Soon, more than 1,200 houses in the urban area were blown up and more than 7,000 civilians were killed or wounded.
At the same time, Wang Xian also urgently transferred some planes from the rear to intercept them, and launched a fierce air battle with the Japanese army.
Although the enemy obviously outnumbered our troops, the heroic and fearless spirit of our soldiers really shocked those little devils.
Regardless of whether their plane was shot or ran out of fuel, they desperately tried their last breath to crash into the enemy's plane, and even if they crashed, they could not fall within the limits of their own residential areas.
The people in several cities that were bombed intensively also actively launched self-rescue and counterattacks.
They collected many mirrors, and began to use the refracted sunlight to affect the sight and judgment of Japanese pilots when Japanese bombers and fighters attacked during the day, and not only that, but the anti-aircraft guns hidden in residential buildings also began to exert their power, and even shot down 66 Japanese fighters participating in the air raid in one day.
At the same time, Zhou Yu also used his diplomatic status to exert pressure on the British troops stationed in India, who could only reluctantly send his own air force to take off from India and participate in the protracted air battle in order to ensure that British aid was not stopped.
Since the first operational meeting of the Big Three held that day, Japanese planes have launched a month-long non-stop fatigue bombing of those eight key cities.
According to incomplete statistics from various localities, in the past month, the Japanese army dispatched more than 10,000 sorties and carried out nearly 2,000 bombing operations, killing more than 20,000 civilians in China, injuring more than 30,000 people, and destroying more than 100,000 rooms.
However, after targeted counterattacks from Huaxia and its allies, the number of Japanese fighters and bombers began to plummet.
In that month, more than 3,000 fighters and 700 bombers were shot down, and countless more were damaged and unable to continue flying.
Perhaps these planes could continue to be produced in the Japanese mainland, but these thousands of pilots hurt their vitality so much that they were counterattacked in the subsequent Pacific naval battles, and they could only swallow the bitter fruit.