Chapter 576: Reality
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For the soldiers of the expeditionary force, this battle was almost just a pull of the trigger to knock down the Japanese soldiers who appeared in front of them, especially the soldiers in the armored train...... ARMORED TRAINS ARE EQUIPPED WITH SHOOTING HOLES EVEN IN ORDINARY CARS, AND SOLDIERS CAN SET UP RIFLES, MACHINE GUNS, SUBMACHINE GUNS, ETC. ON THE SHOOTING HOLES TO SHOOT OUTWARD, AND AT THE SAME TIME THEY HAVE ARMOR COVER, ALTHOUGH THIS ARMOR IS ONLY 10MM, IT IS ENOUGH TO BLOCK MOST BULLETS AND SHRAPNEL, AND IT CAN BE SAID THAT IT HAS AN OVERWHELMING ADVANTAGE OVER THE JAPANESE ARMY.
The coal wagons used to transport troops were less protective, more like a steel trench in which the soldiers could half-crouch and hide and shoot with guns, although it was semi-open, but it was much better than the Japanese army having no cover at all.
As a result, the battlefield was asymmetrical from the beginning, and the Japanese army fell under the fire of the expeditionary force in pieces...... The total number of the main force of the Japanese 63rd Division was nearly 10,000, and there were 5,000 on each side of the armored train.
But this is only the surface, in fact, the elite division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force penetrated directly into the command center of the Japanese army, paralyzing the command of the Japanese army, making it a flock of lambs to the slaughter.
Soon, the Japanese army left behind a large number of corpses and began to disperse, and they were right...... The armoured train relied on railroad tracks, and theoretically the Japanese could avoid its powerful firepower by escaping far enough away from the armoured train.
But the problem is that the range of the artillery on the armored train is 15 kilometers, and the range of the Type 92 Gaoping dual-purpose anti-aircraft machine gun is 4.5 kilometers, waiting for the Japanese to escape their range...... I'm afraid that people are almost dead.
And Zhang Chi was unwilling to let them go, at this time it was the time to pursue the victory, where was there any reason to stop, and the order to pursue was given immediately.
So the soldiers turned over one by one and jumped out of the coal truck, and under the cover of the fire of the armored train, they killed the broken Japanese soldiers.
It is said that after the war, when President Chiang received the report of the battle in Guanguan, he did not believe anything...... Because although the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army is not a first-class division, its equipment and strength should not be underestimated, if the national army is allowed to fight against it, it is quite good for an army to defeat it with a force of three to one, while the expeditionary force is chasing the Japanese army with a force of more than 2,000 people, and the battle loss ratio is completely disproportionate, isn't this an insult to the national army?!
But the iron-clad fact is in front of us, the expeditionary force has so many troops in total, and these soldiers have even been recorded with Principal Jiang, so I can't help but believe Principal Jiang.
In this battle, the 63rd Division was completely broken up, and the formation could no longer be organized.
On the one hand, the reason why it could not be organized was because of the loss of command...... Lieutenant General Nobu Changdeok was seriously wounded by shrapnel from the armored train's artillery at the first time, and was desperately snatched out by several guards, but in the end he died of excessive blood loss because he could not get timely medical treatment, and the other commanders were also killed and wounded, and they were unable to reorganize the 63rd Division.
What's more, everyone knows that the 63rd Division was beaten like this, especially when they escaped from Xingren Town, most of the supplies and ammunition were not brought out, and at the same time, the supply line was cut off, so the reorganization was meaningless...... What if it is reorganized? Regrouped and starved together? Or a "jade crushing offensive" against the Chinese army?
The defeat of the 63rd Division was to tell Naosaburo Okabe that his plan had "died before leaving the division".
"No way, this can't be!" Naosaburo Okabe does not believe in this fact.
In fact, Naosaburo Okabe didn't believe it, but he didn't want to believe it...... Like most Japanese people, Naosaburo Okabe had a stubborn and arrogant personality, and he decided that the Japanese were superior to Chinese...... In fact, this is the "theory of racial superiority" that is very popular in Japan nowadays, and many Japanese people think that the Yamato nation is a very good nation, at least in Asia.
Among the various Asian countries, what Japan wants to prove most is that the Yamato nation is superior to the Chinese nation, because Japan is greatly influenced by China's Confucian culture, and has been defeated by China many times in history, and has always been learning from China.
This creates a sense of inferiority in the hearts of the Japanese, and only by completely defeating China and trampling China under their feet can we eliminate this inferiority complex and arrive at the correctness of the "theory of racial superiority."
In fact, this "theory of racial superiority" still exists in modern Japan, even if it is defeated and surrendered, a considerable number of Japanese still believe that it is not the Chinese who defeated them, plus Japan rose rapidly on the ruins after the war and left China far behind, so it strengthened Japan's idea of "racial superiority".
It was in 2010 that the Japanese really lost faith in this nonsense...... China's GDP surpassed Japan's to become the world's second-largest economy, and then doubled every few years, with GDP tripling Japan's in 2015.
This reality has made the Japanese people start to lose self-confidence, and they have begun to doubt the so-called theory of racial superiority and become irritated.
This can be seen in the changes in the Japanese media, which before 2010 rarely boasted about themselves, and confident people did not need to praise themselves. After 2010, all kinds of boastful remarks appeared in the media, and even published a book...... For example, bookstores will be full of books such as "China is about to collapse in three years" and "Chinese like Japan very much".
Needless to say, what is the reason for these books...... Because they are not confident enough, they need to look for confidence in these books and speeches, so these books are very marketable.
At this time, Naosaburo Okabe was the kind of person who had undergone a sharp change in mentality and could not face failure...... It's like always looking down on a poor relative, and this poor relative suddenly became a local tyrant, and this psychological gap makes Okabe Naosaburo unable to accept it.
"This is most likely false information from the enemy!" Okabe Naosaburo gritted his teeth and said: "Let's not be fooled, how could the Chinese army defeat one of our divisions in such a short time!" ”
"But...... Your Excellency, General! The staff officer said, "We have never heard from Lieutenant General Ye......
"Maybe the radio is broken!" Naosaburo Okabe interrupted the staff officer: "They may still be on the way to attack Qiqihar, we must not be discouraged!" Go on the offensive, understand? Good news soon! ”
"Yes!" The staff officer replied helplessly.
(To be continued.) )