"How could the devil suddenly produce two formed divisions in this regard?!" Staff Officer Liang asked puzzled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Looking at the map, Zhang Chi replied coldly: "It should be from the direction of Nuomenkan!" ”

"Directions to Nomenkan?" Staff Officer Liang's eyes widened: "Don't they have to be wary of the Soviets?" ”

Zhang Chi didn't answer, but Zhang Chi realized it in his heart...... This is most likely a hint from the Soviet side to the Japanese army, after all, it is not in the interests of the Soviet Union for the Chinese army to fight smoothly in the puppet state of Manchukuo...... This piece of fat originally belonged to the Soviet Union, and not only the three northeastern provinces of China and even the Soviet Union could also get the four northern islands of Japan. But now, the USSR has nothing.

There is nothing surprising that there is only interest between countries.

"What to do? Division! Staff Officer Liang asked: "These are two divisions!" And these two divisions are only part of the ......"

Zhang Chi knew the meaning of Staff Officer Liang's words...... The Japanese army had two divisions and only one regiment of more than 3,000 regiments, which was more than 10 times or even more than 20 times the strength of the expeditionary force.

The reason why it is said here is that there are still many counties and townships near Qiqihar where a large number of Japanese and puppet armies are gathering in this direction, and it should not be a problem that the Japanese troops of these two divisions can reach 70,000 or 80,000 troops.

On the other hand, because the Chinese army is a parachute operation, it does not have tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy equipment in its hands.

To make matters worse, there were 100,000 poison gas bombs in the underground warehouse of the "Research Institute", which was like an invisible rope that tied the expeditionary force to the Research Institute and could not move...... As long as the expeditionary force moves, the poison gas bombs will fall back into the hands of the Japanese army, and there is no doubt that these poison gas bombs will definitely cause heavy casualties to the Chinese army or civilians in the near future.

"Master!" At this time, the signal soldier handed over another telegram: "News from Shenyang, about two divisions of Japanese troops are advancing towards Shenyang!" ”

Zhang Chi took the telegram and drew the Japanese offensive route against the map, and sure enough, it was interspersed with detours as expected, but the Japanese army with only two divisions in Shenyang made Zhang Chi feel a little surprised...... Zhang Chi originally thought that Shenyang was the main battlefield, where he would face hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops invading China by Okamura Ningji.

"Master!" At this time, another signal soldier handed over a telegram: "Telegram from 901......"

901 is the code name of Park Jung-hyung, and presumably there is another hostile situation in the direction of North Korea.

Sure enough, after receiving the telegram, I saw that it was written: "The 320th Division of the Japanese Army is heading for the Yalu River!" ”

There was only one division of the Japanese army in the Korean direction, which is understandable...... Supply is difficult, and a division may have reached the upper limit of the supply capacity of the 17th Front Army of the Japanese Army.

Suddenly, Zhang Chi felt the pressure of the soldiers...... The troops of these aspects of the Japanese army must have attacked the expeditionary force at the same time through a certain degree of coordination and organization.

It should be said that most of these situations were expected by Zhang Chi, and even the Japanese army Zhang Chi on the Manchurian-Mongolian border also took into account, and the only surprise was that there were fewer Japanese troops in Shenyang than expected.

If it had been according to the original plan, then there would have been no big problem in fighting this battle.

Although the Japanese army had the advantage of strength, Zhang Chi could take advantage of the mobility of the mechanized troops to quickly assemble troops to harass the Japanese army and break them individually.

For example, for the 320th Division of the Japanese Army in the Korean direction...... Zhang Chi could first harass it with several battalions of mechanized troops, which could not only exhaust the Japanese army but also consume a lot of its ammunition, and wait for the expeditionary force to gather two or three divisions of troops, and then defeat the 320th Division in one fell swoop by virtue of its superiority in equipment and quality.

The same can be done for other units of the Japanese army...... The flat terrain of the puppet state of Manchukuo, with roads and railways still in the hands of the Chinese army, made it an excellent battlefield for mobile warfare.

However, the sudden appearance of poison gas bombs and bacteriological bombs made the expeditionary force unable to move...... This disrupted Zhang Chi's original plan.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi sent a telegram to Halsey:

"General! It's time to bomb Tokyo! ”

Halsey replied: "Bombing Tokyo? You mean the Mariana Islands and Iwo Jima? But you didn't have that in your original plan! ”

"I didn't have gas bombs or bacteriological bombs in my original plan!" Zhang Chi replied: "It is in the interests of the United States to bomb Tokyo now...... Because the Japanese can't do it even if they want to transfer troops back to their homeland now! So what are we waiting for? ”

Halsey was right when he thought about it, Roosevelt had been reluctant to bomb Tokyo because he was worried that too many Japanese troops would be transferred back to the Japanese mainland, and now the puppet Manchukuo was stuck by the expeditionary force, and the Japanese could not go back even if they wanted to.

Halsey immediately got in touch with Roosevelt.

Of course, there would be no problem on Roosevelt's side, and Roosevelt would certainly not refuse such a situation that was in the interests of the United States and also in his personal interests...... You must know that this is the bombing of Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese, at the beginning the US military was embarrassed at Pearl Harbor, and even in the US-Japan war for a period of time after that, but now the US army can bomb the enemy's capital under his leadership to avenge the enemy, which will undoubtedly greatly boost the morale of the US military and even the Allied forces, and at the same time can also win a lot of votes for Roosevelt personally.

So with Halsey's order, the first batch of 88 B29s from the Mariana Islands took off in the early morning......

It only used the B29 that took off from the Mariana Islands because Halsey intended to leave more resources on Iwo Jima to support the Chinese army in Manchuria at this time.

The bombing campaign was chosen to take off in the early hours of the morning...... It was Halsey who considered two things:

On the one hand, the B29 is a high-altitude bomber, and the Japanese army basically has no fighters or air defense equipment to shoot down the B29, so the B29 can be safely bombed during the day.

On the other hand, it was Halsey who wanted to hit the target more accurately during the daylight bombing.

But Halsey was wrong on this point.

It stands to reason that a target that can be seen during the day is indeed likely to hit the target accurately.

However, this is not the case with the B29 dropping bombs from a height of 10,000 meters...... No matter what bomb is dropped from an altitude of 10,000 meters, it will seriously deviate from its original position due to air currents and other reasons, so this bombing is destined to fail to achieve the "precision bombing" expected by Halsey.

Even so, Zhang Chi's goal was achieved, because what Zhang Chi wanted was not for the U.S. B29 to blow up anything in Tokyo, but to confuse the command system of the Japanese army.

(To be continued.) )