Chapter 951: The Japanese Picked the Wrong Battlefield
By the time Meng Xiang issued this order, the Chinese offensive on the Japanese mainland had lasted for 16 days.
As Meng Xiang expected, the Americans have no intention of interfering.
The main reason is that China, which is still spending time on a local scale with the Japanese who are rushing in one after another, does not show the momentum of the wind blowing.
"The casualties of the Huaxia seem to be large, but the casualties among their elite are very small, mainly those of the servant armies of other peoples." Major General Li Qiwei, who served as the leader of the military observer group, still reminded the country.
As soon as China landed on the Japanese mainland, the American military observer group came. After all, the two sides are still in a period of cooperation, and the observation team led by Li Qiwei, who is familiar with China, has experienced the next few battles.
In contrast to the battle of Kyushu, where air and naval battles accounted for the majority, the largest army battle between the two sides during this period was in Hokkaido.
As soon as the Japanese base camp heard the news of the landing of the Chinese army in Hokkaido, it ordered the Japanese troops in Hokkaido to assemble nearby and pounce on the Chinese landing force in the north, in a vain attempt to drive the Chinese army into the sea before they could gain a firm foothold.
But these hurried Japanese reinforcements that were not uniformly deployed hit the feet of the elite troops armed to the teeth in China.
There was no surprise in the ending, and the Chinese army easily gained a foothold.
The Japanese also seemed to be aware of the strength of the Chinese army's attack this time, and after hastily arranging the first wave of scattered counterattacks, the Japanese army, which had stabilized, mobilized the elite of the Hokkaido region and pressed towards the north.
At the beginning, the good news of breaking several lines of defense made the base camp breathe a sigh of relief, and they didn't understand that the tens of thousands of enemy troops they eliminated were all cannon fodder who took the initiative to get together.
Just when the Japanese army on the front line began to be a little fluttering, the Chinese elites that were constantly accumulating in the rear were dispatched again, and they were defeated for hundreds of kilometers in a row, and they were pressed to Asahikawa in one go.
When the reinforcements arrived on the main island of Japan, it was still the Chinese servant army that took the lead, and the two sides fell into a confrontation like a war of attrition.
"The Huaxia people didn't attack with all their might!" Although Li Qiwei was not aware of Meng Xiang's attrition tactics, he also knew that Huaxia had been hiding his strength.
He had been in China for more than a year and had a very comprehensive understanding of the Chinese army.
Look at the performance of those minions. It's not as good as the recruits he saw in Huaxia who haven't yet stepped out of the new barracks.
"Only those troops who protect the rear positions can be regarded as the elite of China, but they have been staying in the rear, what are they doing? Are you confusing the Japanese, or are you confusing us? Ridgway wasn't sure.
But at the same time, he also believes that according to the current performance of the Japanese, it is not enough for Huaxia to make an all-out move, close to the rabble of those servant armies, and the coercion of some of the elite troops of Huaxia. It has already made it difficult for the Japanese to break through.
"I have to say that apart from courage and madness, the performance of the Japanese Home Army is much worse than what they are rumored to be in the South Pacific." Ridgway had not experienced the battles in the South Pacific, and his experience of the elite Japanese troops and the American veteran soldiers was not very profound. But it is easy for him to make a comparison with the Chinese army.
In Li Qiwei's view, even many of them are inferior in terms of technique and tactics compared with the Chinese recruits who have undergone rigorous training.
It should be said that after the attrition of the Chinese and the Americans and the stationing in the Philippines, India and various island chains, there are really not many elite veterans left in the homeland by the Japanese. The largest number of recruits are left on the mainland, and many of them are still recruits who have not yet left the training ground. The only ones that can be relied on are the sophisticated weapons and new weapons that remain in the homeland.
However, even if many servants in China use P-40 submachine guns, the firepower is more fierce than the upgraded 99 rifle of the Japanese 38 rifle, and even the occasional 100-type submachine gun cannot withstand the strong pressure of the bullet rain of the Huaxia elite cloth ripping machine that presses the formation behind.
Compared to light weapons, the Japanese were not at all opponents.
But. The Japanese, who were in a hurry, took out a lot of their bottom goods.
"The Japanese used a lot of their new weapons. Sandwiched between their Type 4 medium tanks, a new type of tank appeared, which may have been the Type 5 tank they had just developed. Ridgway's record also includes intelligence gathering on the Japanese.
Because of the stimulation of the Chinese tank, the Japanese Type 4 tank was also born ahead of schedule. It's just that because of the problems of technology and resources, coupled with the adaptation of the environment, it has not been shown in the south.
However, under the leak of Skynet. Materials and pictures have long been sold for a sum of money from the Americans.
Even part of the information on the Type 5 tank was sold. The Japanese are no longer of much value, including some weapons programs that the Japanese are not capable of implementing, and Skynet has also been packaged and sold to the Americans with deep pockets.
In addition to earning the last surplus value, many unrealistic plans will only confuse the attention of Americans.
According to the comparison of the pictures, Li Qiwei easily guessed the Type 4 tank, and also estimated the Type 5 modified according to the Type 4 tank next to it.
"Maybe the diminutive Japanese are really not suitable to design tanks. This Chilly, whom they call a 'huge' 'local decisive weapon', is already behind the times. "Li Qiwei, who still had a glimmer of surprise expectations for the secret weapon of the Japanese. It didn't take long for the enthusiasm for that Chilly to fade, and he sighed.
The eight Type 5 tanks of the Japanese were destroyed by a group of Haw Par tanks that swarmed in just an hour before they appeared.
Although the Japanese Type 5 tank went one step further and used the Type 99 88mm tank gun, which was based on the Germans' 45 times diameter 88 mm anti-aircraft gun, even though it had an additional 37 mm tank gun installed on its turret, it was against the one-on-one King Tiger. The appearance of the Type 5 tank Li Ghost immediately appeared.
Perhaps the 37-ton Type 5 tank with an 88mm tank gun is classified as a grade with the Panther, but due to the technological gap on the industrial basis, its 88mm copycat is nearly one-fifth worse than the 88mm gun of the German Flak18, and it can only scratch the frontal armor of the King Tiger a little bit.
If it gets closer, there may be hope, but before it gets closer, the King Tiger tank's 71 x diameter 88 mm tank gun is already bombarded head-on, and even from a distance of 2,000 meters, it can easily penetrate its thickest 75 mm frontal armor comparable to that of the No. 4 tank.
The 15 No. 4 tanks accompanying it only stood up in vain with a new tank gun modified from a Type 4 75mm anti-aircraft gun, and finally only damaged the tracks of a Panther tank, but then they were bombarded into piles of fragments by the Chinese Haw Par tanks.
Wolves have more meat and less meat.
Although there is a servant army in front, some sensitive weapons are also in the hands of the elite troops of Huaxia, once there is danger, it also needs to be cleared by more and more elite troops of Huaxia, which is equivalent to sending them combat merits.
Like the vanguard army, the Chinese National Defense Force had the heaviest military merits, and finally the Japanese armored units came up, and the Chinese tank troops, who had been neatly equipped from the sub-base from the very beginning of the landing, immediately rushed impatiently to share the food.
In addition to these new Type 5 tanks that need to collect actual combat data on the battlefield and need a knight's heads-up, the other well-known Type 4 and Type 3 have not been protected by the aura, and whoever grabs it is considered to be who's combat exploits.
With the addition of 48 Type III tanks and Type 97 or 97 tanks, the first wave of the Japanese large-scale armored counteroffensive gathered 71 vehicles, except for 3 tanks, which were left behind and halfway through, and the other 68 tanks challenged the more than 150 Hawpanohs and Panthers that the Chinese armored forces took the lead in rushing over.
After the Huaxia Tiger tanks were basically disposed of to the Germans, the mounts of the Huaxia tank crews were generally a combination of the Tiger King and the Black Panther when the Rhino Tank and Grizzly Bear Tank were not easily dispatched.
In addition to sending Rhino and Grizzly tanks to help stabilize the position at the beginning, the sub-base has increased production to produce Haws and Panthers for the use of the Chinese tankers who continue to land. If it had not been for the commanders at the front, the Japanese tank units would not have been surrounded by more than twice as many tanks, but more.
But now the Japanese tanks can only cry in the face of a herd of tigers and leopards.
The Tiger Kings fought to abuse the No. 4 and No. 5 tanks, and occasionally blocked the Type 3 tanks with 75mm tank guns, and the remaining ones and the 15-ton 97 and 97 could only be bullied by more than 80 40-ton Panthers.
Even if the fanaticism made all the Japanese soldiers full of energy and frantically launched suicide attacks, the gap in strength could not be bridged.
When he saw an 18-ton Type 3 tank rushing up at high speed being directly knocked off the ground by a Tiger King and flying out, Li Qiwei had lost interest in the final outcome.
"It's a pity that they picked the wrong battlefield. It should be said that the Chinese people calculated it from the beginning! As the number of Japanese reinforcements from home increased, and more and more battles were fought, Ridgway finally understood,
"The Hangis had enough strength to go one step further and directly capture Sapporo, or even the whole of Hokkaido. But they didn't, but kept attracting the Japanese to the battlefield they were familiar with through the servant army in front of them. If the Japanese use their familiar towns, mountains, and dense forests to block the Chinese layer by layer, I am afraid that it will greatly offset the weapon superiority of the Chinese people, and let China fall into the madness of the Japanese! Thinking of the frantic counterattack from soldiers to civilians shown by the Japanese during this period of time, Li Qiwei shuddered.