Chapter 123: South to Donghu (1)
"The Thunder Army rushed to Taunggyi, Mandalay had less than 10,000 troops left, Yonmidin had been abandoned, and the enemy army was defending Mandalay with all its might" At the last moment before the big-nosed Jewish soldiers broke the door, Hirota Nobunaga finally sent out the situation that he had worked so hard to get at the risk. Faced with the muzzle of the black hole in front of him, Hirota Nobunaga chose to bite the poison sac in his mouth and kill himself, but he would never have thought that this group of Jewish soldiers who broke into the door had been waiting outside his door 10 minutes ago, and if he knew that the telegram he sent would kill more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Donghu, then he would have died and did not dare to close his eyes.
"Sir, I found three Japanese spies, but they all chose to commit suicide, and the codebook was not found" Luo Ying was a little uneasy, this was the first time he was assigned a task by Zhao Zhi, and he didn't find what he should have caught, and this mission should be regarded as a failure.
"Are you sure they've sent the information out?"
"Yes, we can't crack the Japanese code yet, but our people have heard the code."
"Since they have sent out the information, it means that you have done a good job in this mission."
Luo Ying was a little dumbfounded, his own husband was either talking nonsense, or he was confused by his own disadvantages, the Japanese spies in Mandalay sent out the information, and there was a threat to the action of Thunder to help Taunggyi, but Mr. still looked like an understatement. "Stupid" Xiao Ziyun stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Luo Ying's eyes, and said with a smile, "Sir's original intention was to use the method of searching and arresting the whole city to force the lurking Japanese to pass on the information, if the Japanese army in Donghu could not receive the information that our troops were empty, how could they run to send them to death"
"Ah, sir, even I was deceived" After listening to Xiao Ziyun's explanation, Luo Ying patted his head and his eyes were full of remorse. Mr. is bad enough, since he has other intentions, why didn't he tell himself earlier, he didn't even eat lunch. Seeing Luo Ying put on a resentful expression, the young officers in the command burst into laughter, and the angry Luo Ying fled without a trace.
Zhao Zhi, who was standing in front of the huge map, didn't know what everyone was laughing at Luo Ying, and in the past two days, he has been constantly deducing the war with the Japanese army, replacing his identity to simulate the Japanese army's actions, and seeing how to maximize the benefits of Thunder's attack on Burma. Divided into three routes, one way to attract the attention of the thunder, all the way deep into the eastern hinterland may touch the back road to cut off the thunder at any time, and the other way to advance to Ringanqiang to prepare to implement the countermeasures, the Japanese army is playing a multi-way attack this time.
Zhao Zhi has a bit of a headache about the current layout of the Japanese army, the 18th Division and the 55th Division stationed in Taunggyi seem to have added countless possibilities to the Japanese army overnight, the Japanese army currently has five divisions in Burma, although the 22nd Division and the 56th Division in Taungun have been hit hard by thunder, but they can at least come up with nearly 20,000 soldiers who can be used as mobile forces, so it seems that the Japanese army has a lot of choices, and the Japanese army in Taunggyi will get carried away and march wildly? Or will it be steady and steady? Zhao Zhi's heart was full of doubts and worries.
Suddenly, Zhao Zhi realized that he seemed to have entered a misunderstanding, that is, he cared too much about the number and strength of the Japanese army. The troops of the 18th Division and the 55th Division of the Japanese drama entered Taunggyi, which actually caused such an invisible pressure on themselves that they would have doubts about the battle plan they had drawn up with their own hands. No matter how exquisite the Japanese army's arrangement is, it can't withstand the speed and reality of the thunderous transport planes, Zhao Zhi can transport thousands of airborne troops to any corner of Burma in just two days, but the Japanese army, they have to guard against the Burmese guerrillas from the shadows while marching, and the speed of movement of the troops will be the key to the defeat of the Japanese army.
The command was quiet, everyone had already retreated, when Zhao Zhi was smoking and thinking about the problem, no one should disturb him, and those mercenaries who served as guards only listened to Zhao Zhi's command and orders, and no one was afraid of punches like sandbags. After repeated deductions, Zhao Zhi found that the order to command the armored division to attack Donghu was correct, and he believed that the strong combat effectiveness of the armored division would definitely break the Japanese army in Donghu.
Dealing with the Japanese army entering Burma, Zhao Zhi has been completely connected, I let you have extremely clever tactics, Lao Tzu just doesn't bird you, you set your trap, I will fight steadily and slowly eat your troops. Thunder's weapons and equipment are more than one grade higher than the Japanese army, coupled with the help of fighter units and armored troops, the southern Burma region of Pingchuan is simply Thunder's training ground, and in the face of the powerful Thunder armored division, Zhao Zhi can't find out where the Japanese army in Donghu can resist Joey's attack.
Moreover, Song Yuhang concluded that the lack of materials would be the Achilles' heel of the Japanese army, which could not fight for a long time, and the Japanese army, which was good at using war to feed the war, had absolutely no reason to let go of the opportunity to loot the Burmese natives of Taunggyi to collect supplies. It is also for this reason that Zhao Zhi will arm a large number of Burmese to attack the Japanese army in Taunggyi, if you want to let a person die, you must first make it crazy, in the face of the rescue of compatriots and the plundering of the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi believes that the Burmese natives on the Taunggyi line are bound to stand on the side of the thunder. All the people are soldiers, this is Zhao Zhi's only magic weapon to deal with the Taunggyi Japanese army, using the Burmese to contain the Japanese army until Joey takes Donghu.
"Send a report to Jiang Jianbo immediately, asking him to join forces with Pachai's guerrilla army to contain the 31st Division of the Japanese Army in Ren'anqiang, and if necessary, he can try to rescue the British troops who were imprisoned by the Japanese army in Ren'anqiang, and be sure to contain the 31st Division in Ren'anqiang for four days" Zhao Zhi ordered Jiang Jianbo to contain the 31st Division of the Japanese Army in Ren'anqiang for four days, in fact, it was only a rough estimate, and the Japanese army made up its mind to force Lei Ting to divide his troops, but Zhao Zhi didn't do it.
First use Jiang Jianbo and Pachai to contain the Japanese army of Ringanqiang, and use the iron fist of Joy to take Donghu in one fell swoo, it seems that Thunder has been flanked by the Japanese troops of Dongggyi and Ringanqiang, but in fact, the occupation of Donghu cut off the connection between the Japanese troops in these two places. Once Joey's Panzer Division took Donghu and continued to advance eastward to occupy Moltke and control the banks of the Salween River, the Japanese 18th and 55th Divisions that went out of Taunggyi would be caught in the thunder on three sides.
"Order Joy's armored division to immediately launch an attack on Donghu, be sure to take Donghu within two days, and then move east to Moltke to control the banks of the Salween River" In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Zhao Zhi revised the plan to lure the enemy into ambushing the Japanese army at Yangmidin, and changed to Joey's armored division as the main force to break the Japanese army in Donghu from the front. The war is changing rapidly, and a small delay will make a great opportunity to lose, and Zhao Zhi is imperative to attack Donghu, and I believe that Joey's more than 240 tanks and armored vehicles of all kinds will definitely leave a deep impression on the Japanese army in Donghu.
"Order the troops to take off their camouflage and set off immediately" Joy who received the new order was greatly excited, and Zhao Zhi originally planned to use the armored division as an ambush, but Joy did not agree very much. Let's not talk about whether the Japanese army in Donghu will follow the bait to chase Yang Midin, even if the Japanese army is chasing after me, I am afraid it is not a large force, and using a strong armored division to ambush the Japanese strikers with two or three kittens, Joey's heart is full of contempt, which is simply not used as the main force of the armored division.
"Let's go, I'm going to see the smoke from the cannonballs entering Donghu before lunch" Joey, who lifted the roof and stood in the command car, waved his fist excitedly, this is the first battle after the integration of the armored division, whether he can get the favor of the boss, it's all today, the steel monsters who threw away the branches and put away the camouflage net roared and jumped onto the road, all the way south to Donghu, where the Japanese army was entrenched.
Unaware that danger was looming towards them, the 22nd and 56th Divisions were still recuperating their troops, and Miharu Oshirodo and Masao Watanabe held a meeting with their respective officers to discuss new orders from the Burmese Dispatch Army Command and the latest information from Mandalay. The 22nd and 56th Divisions that returned to Taungoo did not find peace, and the Burmese natives roaming the outskirts of Taungoo would launch an attack from time to time, and although the Japanese casualties were not large, the officers were still weakened by the Burmese attack.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the order of the command is like this, combined with the intelligence sent back from Mandalay by the intelligence officers of the Special High Division, in order to prevent the 18th Division and the 55th Division that have rushed to Taunggyi from cutting off their rear route, Thunder has already dispatched a large number of troops to Taunggyi, and now there are only no more than 10,000 Jewish troops in Mandalay, this is the best time for us to take Mandalay" The intelligence staff officer of the 56th Division analyzed the current situation for everyone, and finally emphasized that the attack on Mandalay was an order from the command of the dispatch army, This means that this order cannot be modified, and everyone has to obey it.
"In terms of troops, we have the advantage, but the Thunder still has a large number of aircraft in Mandalay, once their fighters are put into battle, we have no anti-aircraft firepower, we can only be beaten passively, the command has not considered this?" The 22nd Division and the 56th Division were stationed in Donghu together, and the orders of the dispatch army were all issued directly to the 56th Division, which made the division commander of the 22nd Division, Miharu Oshido, very dissatisfied.
"I didn't say anything about this command, but I think we can find a way to crack it" Masao Watanabe tapped his finger on the table, "We march at night, and we should be able to reach Mandalay in two days, as long as we can get mixed with the Thunder troops stationed in Mandalay, their planes will naturally lose their threat, or we can send elite troops to attack their airport first, so that their planes don't take off soon."