Chapter 521: Kaiyuan

Zhang Chi, of course, is not a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

In fact...... Wu Xuexin is indeed older than Zhang Chi, and he has fought with the Japanese army for a longer time than Zhang Chi, but his combat experience and understanding of the Japanese army may be far less than Zhang Chi.

To be precise, it should be that Zhang Chi's experience in using American-style equipment to fight the Japanese army and his understanding of the comparison between the enemy's combat strength and our own combat strength are deeper than Wu Xuexin's; if the troops were using Chuntian-style rifles, medium-formal rifles, or the pitiful logistics in China at this time, then Zhang Chi's experience and understanding of the enemy would be far inferior to Wu Xuexin's.

Kaiyuan is a county town more than 100 kilometers away from Shenyang, and the 1st and 2nd regiments of the expeditionary force fought all night along the railways and highways before they reached here...... Needless to say, the Japanese army at this time already knew that the Chinese troops were attacking Xinjing (Changchun), so they were prepared along the way.

The preparations mentioned here are to break roads, blow up bridges, and lay mines, but fortunately, the terrain in the northeast is relatively flat, and the engineering regiment under the expeditionary force is fully equipped, so these actions can only play a limited role.

Breaking the Road...... The terrain in the northeast is relatively flat, and even if the roadbed is blown down, sappers can use excavators and bulldozers to build a new road in a few clicks.

Mine-laid, the expeditionary force has minesweepers...... The structure of this minesweeper is actually very simple, that is, a minesweeper is installed in front of the "Sherman" tank, and several iron chains are installed on it, and when it is driven forward, the iron chains will be whipped forward with a lot of force because of the rolling of the minesweeper, so the mine will be detonated all the way.

Blowing up the bridge...... There are only two rivers from Shenyang to Kaiyuan, the Fan River and the Chai River.

Among them, the Fan River is located next to Tieling County, and the success rate of such a river is small because of the cost of seizing it...... So simply let the Japanese bomb the bridge.

The Japanese originally wanted to rely on the Van River to defend for a while, but they were bombarded by the expeditionary force's aircraft and artillery, and then sent a tank to seize the bridge, and the Japanese had no choice but to blow up the bridge...... If you don't bomb it anymore, I'm afraid that you won't even have the opportunity to blow up the bridge.

Then the Japanese tried to prevent the expeditionary force from building a pontoon bridge to cross the river, but they were horrified to find it...... The tanks of the Chinese army actually drove into the river and swam towards them in the river.

This is actually "Donald Duck", for this thing, the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater is more familiar, but the Japanese army in Manchu has never seen this world.

So where did the Japanese army dare to block it, and hurriedly retreated to the rear as soon as the order was given......

Of course, the expeditionary force would not miss this opportunity, and after crossing the river as fast as possible, they pursued it all the way...... The "fastest crossing of the river" here means that some soldiers swim across the river with arms, and then chase with tanks, and the sappers behind build a pontoon bridge only for reinforcements.

The Japanese army had never seen such a way of fighting, and a river in front of them was not a problem for the enemy, and in less than half an hour, heavy tanks and infantry came over...... What the Japanese army didn't know was that the army they were facing had fought one landing battle after another in the Pacific theater, and it had fought all at sea, not to mention that it was just this small river.

The Japanese army, which was caught off guard, did not have time to break the road, and was chased by tanks all the way like ducks...... Many people hurriedly stepped on the mines they had planted on the road (note: after the Japanese troops laid mines, they would plant a small flag on the mines, and the last troops would pull the small flag away when they passed by), and they were chased by tanks from behind, so there were countless dead and wounded along the way, and there were corpses everywhere.

They originally wanted to rush to the Chai River Bridge and then use the favorable terrain at the bridgehead to buffer for a while, but unfortunately, it was ...... The Chai River Bridge was the first to be occupied by the reconnaissance troops of the expeditionary force.

These reconnaissance units are extremely poor units, and their methods of playing this time are relatively clever...... Disguised as a puppet army that came to reinforce it.

You must know that there is also a language barrier between the Japanese army and the puppet army, and seeing that the puppet army is so heroic to reinforce the imperial army, and it is still at this critical moment...... Of course, I won't ask much, just praise it with a thumbs up: "It's great!" ā€

But soon they won't get better...... As the sky grew dark and the expeditionary force advanced, the "puppet army" suddenly turned their guns and bayonets at the Japanese troops, and it took only a few minutes to end the battle and remove the explosives on the bridge.

When the Japanese army fled to the Chai River Bridge in disarray, they didn't understand what was going on, and it was a row of bullets that cut their heads...... The Japanese didn't even know what was going on with the soldiers in the pseudo-army uniforms, and shouted at the bridge pair: "Bastards, your own people!" ā€

Then the tanks in the back quickly followed, and the front and back were flanked...... An engineer brigade of the Japanese army was solidly wiped out at the head of the Chai River Bridge.

The expeditionary force hit Kaiyuan in one go, and then occupied the Qinghe Bridge north of Kaiyuan, and then stopped to rest for a while.

More than 80 kilometers ahead, the 135th Division of the Japanese Army is building a defensive line along Siping and Liaoyuan, and the soldiers need to recuperate and fight a battle...... After all, it was not a small battle to deal with a division of the Japanese army with the strength of two regiments.

When Zhang Chi arrived at Kaiyuan, it was eight o'clock in the morning, and the first group had already rested for three hours and set out on the road again. Only the 2nd Regiment was still seizing the time to rest, and behind Zhang Chi, the 3rd Regiment of the New 1st Division followed closely...... The 3rd Regiment was originally stationed in Port Arthur, but with the landing of the 6th Army, the 3rd Regiment was free to take the train to Shenyang, and then followed the footsteps all the way behind.

Behind the three regiments, the 50 divisions followed.

These two infantry divisions can be said to be the elite of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the main force attacking Changchun is, of course, these two divisions.

"Wu Junzuo!" When Zhang Chi got out of the car, Wu Xuexin was already waiting for him next to the temporary headquarters, Zhang Chi stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Let the military seat wait for a long time!" ā€

"Don't dare!" Wu Xuexin replied politely.

The two walked into the headquarters, and immediately someone spread out the map on the shell box.

Zhang Chi pointed to the map and said to Wu Xuexin: "Junzuo, we know...... The location of the airport is in the north and east of Shenyang, which is the key defense area of our army, and there is also a key defense area, which is the railway station! If you use your defensive mode, that is, deploy your troops like the Japanese army in the main city of Dongdaying, Beidaying, and Shenyang, and add two more lines of defense outside the railway station...... Then it is inevitable that the airfields and railway stations will be bombed by the Japanese army! ā€

Wu Xuexin couldn't help but wonder and said, "Can you avoid being bombed?" ā€

You must know that there is artillery in modern warfare, and this artillery can hit several kilometers or even more than ten kilometers at every turn, and what is the way to avoid being bombarded by enemy artillery fire?

(To be continued.) )