Chapter 66: Let's Fight

It had been raining heavily since the morning in Kyushu Bay, and the fog that had risen over the sea brought the ships transporting troops to a standstill, and less than 20,000 of the 50,000 Jewish troops stranded on the island of Kyushu had crossed to Honshu. The suicide flying teams organized by the Japanese mainland had already carried out two attacks on the ships in Kyushu Bay, and Zhao Zhi's poor wooden sea ships in his hands were now even fewer, and Zhao Zhi had to dispatch Thunder fighter troops to serve as air guards when the troops crossed the sea.

The cloudy weather and heavy rain made Zhao Zhi feel very bad, and the wooden fishing boats that were snatched from the Japanese fishermen could not cross Kyushu Bay in such weather, but this was not the main thing, and the reason why Zhao Zhi was in a bad mood was that Kim Il Sung's hundreds of thousands of Korean People's Army could not stop the two divisions of the Kwantung Army from moving south. The weapons used by the Korean People's Army were far better than those of the Kwantung Army, and the number of people was several times that of the Kwantung Army.

The more Japanese troops gathered on the southern coast of Korea, the greater the threat to Kyushu Island and Honshu Island, once these Kwantung Army assembled on the southern coast of Korea crossed the sea and landed on the Japanese mainland, Zhao Zhi and the troops under his command will face the situation of the Japanese army being flanked in front and rear, and now is the time for Thunder to do his best to strike a thunderbolt blow, and the slightest carelessness will cause Zhao Leiting's attack plan to face failure, and Zhao Zhi's hard work will also be in vain.

Playing with the cigar in his hand, Zhao Zhi looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, the thunder is now ready to be sent on the bow, and the only way to do this is to strike with all his strength, as for whether it is successful, it depends on the meaning of God. "Sir, our forward troops are ready, and the Japanese would never have imagined that we would attack them in such weather." Zhao Zhi's operational staff officers brought the news that the forward troops were ready.

The fire of war has been successfully burned by Zhao Zhi to the island of Honshu, participating in the rain attack is the Thunder Jewish troops, 20,000 Jewish soldiers will be divided into three directions to press on the whole line, Zhao Zhi for this attack, used almost all the heavy weapons and equipment in hand. "Contact the mixed units and ask them if they are in place, and after the frontal battlefield begins, I want them to ensure that they can arrive at the predetermined location on time to launch a surprise attack on the flank of the Japanese army." The small black flag representing the mixed troops on the sand table was moved by Zhao Zhi towards the flank of the Japanese army, and Zhao Zhi did not stop until the small black flag reached the position designated by Zhao Zhi for them.

The 400,000 mixed soldiers had fought with the Japanese army and there were less than 70,000 left, and Zhao Zhi did not intend to let them continue to serve as cannon fodder for the frontal assault. Once the Jewish troops fought the Japanese army here in Yamaguchi Prefecture, the mixed troops assembled at the Saba River would take the opportunity to attack the flank of the Japanese defense line in Yamaguchi Prefecture, so as to achieve the purpose of tearing apart the Japanese defense line in a roundabout way.

"Tell the officers on the forward line that the battle must be fierce but don't be brutal, there is no fighter unit to cooperate with the battle today, tanks and armored vehicles will help in the battle when the time comes, everything depends on them." Zhao Zhi was well aware of what this impending battle meant, and often the outcome of a major battle could lead to a great change in history, and this battle that Zhao Zhi had planned for a long time was a great change in history, which could make Japan surrender early.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the Japanese troops deployed in Yamaguchi Prefecture did not relax their vigilance against the thunder because of the weather, but they never imagined that 30,000 troops had been assembled behind the opposite position and were preparing to attack them. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the battle started on time as Zhao Zhi expected, although the Jewish troops who were ordered to attack did not have the help of fighters, but they mobilized a large number of artillery to carry out a salvo bombardment of the Japanese defense line, and the fierce artillery salvo made all the soldiers on the Japanese position hide in the trenches and dare not show their heads.

The muddy water splashed by the explosion made the Japanese position more and more like a big quagmire, and the overwhelming artillery bombardment came too suddenly, and the Japanese troops on the defensive line were not ready to meet it. "Guys, it's our turn." A large cloud of smoke rose from the rear of the Jewish troops' position, and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles came out in unison, these tanks and armored vehicles included American tanks, British tanks, French tanks, lurker armored vehicles, Thor armored vehicles, and even a few Japanese medium tanks whose shells were painted black, Thunder's armored forces and the Japanese army fought not for the first time, but in Japan and the Japanese army, this is the first time, in a slippery and muddy environment, even a tank traveling on a track can not move forward at a normal speed, The 12 Lurker armored vehicles from Jiaodong were the first to stop 500 meters away from the Japanese defense line. The unknown Jewish infantry thought that the weather and environment affected the normal operation of the Lurker armored vehicle, but they didn't know that these 12 Stalker armored vehicles were another big killer weapon in Zhao Zhi's hands - the Lurker rocket artillery vehicle.

Upon learning of Zhao Zhi's overall plan, Morun used all means to transport the rocket shells hoarded in Kunming to Jiaodong, where they were loaded into the Rockman family's fleet and transported to Honshu Island. The rocket artillery vehicles stopped advancing, but the other tanks and armored vehicles were still driving as usual, "boom" "boom" "boom" The mortars in the Japanese defense line opened fire to intercept the enemy combat vehicles attacking them, but their mortar shells could not pose a threat to the European tanks at all, and the Japanese troops in the defense line did not want to get artillery support until their field artillery and the thundering artillery were not separated.

The Thunder Chariot, with its tail trailing a long black smoke, accelerated in the rain, and the Jewish infantry, already drenched in rain, followed closely behind the Japanese position. The first to "open fire" was the Lurker light armored vehicle inserted from both wings, which only had a Browning heavy machine gun and was used by Zhao Zhi as assault fire. In order to cope with this big battle, Zhao Zhi also specially sent sappers and technicians to modify these light lurkers, and the original lurkers with only one heavy machine gun were added to two, and there was also an additional Bazooka shooter in the carriage.

The attack of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles was nothing to the defense line composed of tens of thousands of Japanese troops, and Zhao Zhi did not want to rely on them to defeat the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi just tore a few holes in the Japanese defense line with strong armor, so that the Jewish infantry who followed up could launch a surprise attack on the Japanese position. The 8 light stalkers that broke through on both flanks of the "da" fired at the Japanese defense line like swimming fish, and the side armor of the stalker armored vehicles had been reinforced again, and if the Japanese used weapons with a caliber of less than 75 mountain guns, they would not be able to break through the armor of the lurkers at all.

The "boom" and "boom" Thunder tanks opened fire, and the effect of more than a dozen tanks concentrated in one position to open artillery bombardment was extremely amazing, and the Japanese positions that had been bombarded by the Thunder and then the tanks did not show the slightest sign of preparing to counterattack, and the Jewish troops who followed the armored troops to rush forward took the opportunity to launch an infantry assault on this discovery. "Kill to give" was only 100 meters away from the Japanese position, and the Japanese finally responded, and under the command of a Shao Zuo, the Japanese soldiers who crawled out of the muddy water began to shoot and intercept the Jewish soldiers who rushed forward.

The "firing" had already received the coordinates sent back by the forward artillery observers, and the rocket artillery positions that were ready finally began their first battle against the Japanese mainland. As the officer on duty vigorously waved the signal flag, 48 rocket launchers from 6 rocket artillery vehicles were sprayed out in an instant, and the long smoke dragged out by the rockets in mid-air made the Japanese soldiers look sideways, many of them didn't even know what it was, only the veterans of the Kwantung Army who had experience in firefighting with the Soviet army would shout rockets and start to scatter to dodge.

The "boom" explosion could not be distinguished from the front and back, and the Japanese defense line marked by the forward artillery observer had become a new vegetable field by this time, except for the muddy water that was stirred up by the rocket explosion, and the Jewish soldiers who rushed past saw only some blood-red stumps, severed arms, or Japanese firearms twisted like twisted flowers. The first salvo of six rocket artillery vehicles opened up a passage 500 meters long and 300 meters wide for the follow-up Jewish troops, and before the Japanese artillery could prepare to cover the area, the second round of rocket artillery of the Thunder smashed into another Japanese defensive line.

The muddy Jewish soldiers poured into the depth of the Japanese position like the sea water in the gap, and relying on the superior weapons and firepower, the 30,000 Jewish soldiers were indistinguishable against the Japanese army more than twice as much, and the entire mountain pass defense line was already a mess. "Bage Yalu, this damn Zhao Zhi, I must cut off his head with my own hands." Knowing that Thunder had suddenly launched a strong attack on the Yamaguchi defense line, Okamura Ninji's anger scolded, and then two Sendai divisions that were supposed to change the defense of Nagoya were stationed in Okayama Prefecture.

Okamura Ninji mobilized the troops of Honshu Island to station in Okayama, but he was worried that Yamaguchi Prefecture would be lost, and once Yamaguchi Prefecture was lost, the two Sendai divisions deployed in Okayama would be able to intercept the Thunder troops that continued to advance eastward in time, thus buying time for Okamura Ninji to draw troops from other empires. Okamura Ningji is right to think so, Zhao Zhi has always been scheming with his troops, and the truth is so real that people can't guess it, instead of making up for the leaks everywhere, it is better to prepare for the failure of the Yamaguchi defense line first.

Of course, Zhao Zhi did not know that Okamura Ninji had sent troops to prepare to intercept his Jewish troops, and even if Zhao Zhi knew, he would not do anything, because the attack on the Yamaguchi defense line was a feint attack by Zhao Zhi, and when the attention of the Japanese army was attracted to the Yamaguchi defense line, Halsey's fleet had already transported Zhao Zhi's 5,000 mercenaries and 2,000 Jewish soldiers to the sea not far from Tokyo Bay. Zhao Zhi wished that the Japanese army and himself would start a big melee in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and only in this way would the troops landing in Tokyo Bay have a chance of success.