The 23rd Division had already been defeated, and the scattered 23rd Division would not exceed 2,000 people, and these 2,000 people were not gathered together, but scattered into dozens and hundreds of rout groups to flee the Saga front. After converging the 500 supplementary mercenaries sent by Zhao Zhi, the scout team commanded by Wu Tian had firmly controlled the marching speed of the Fourth Division, and without Wu Tian's permission, the Fourth Division, which was advancing at a rapid pace, would only spin in place.

The situation seemed to have taken a turn for the better, and after settling the 23rd Division and the 4th Division, Zhao Zhi shifted his attention to the last Kwantung Army Division to land in Kyushu. Compared with the 23rd Division, the Kwantung Army Division that landed on Kyushu Island is much more rigorous, and the Kurume Division, which is known as the 12th Division of the Kwantung Army, is the same as the 23rd Division, most of the officers and soldiers in the army are from Kyushu Island, and compared with them, Zhao Zhi's familiarity with Kurume's terrain is obviously inferior.

After the landing at Hakata Bay in Fukuoka, the 12th Division, which was supposed to be anxiously marching towards Kurume, did not make a big move, and in order to prevent the 12th Division from attacking Saga from the direction of Fukuoka, Zhao Zhi also specially dispatched 20,000 mixed troops to guard Fukuoka. Zhao Zhi didn't know that the 12th Division that landed on Kyushu Island was no longer the standard Kwantung Army's 44th Division, and since it was transferred to Manchuria in 36, the main task of the 12th Division was to clear out the anti-Japanese guerrillas, and in 41 years, the 14th Wing was withdrawn by the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and the current 12th Division is only a three-unit formed division.

The name of the shadow man of the tree, the current thunder is no longer the rabble who escorts the smoke and soil to the bodyguards, and the Japanese troops defeated in the hands of the thunder are no longer one or two, and even the famous Yamashita Fengwen has a defeat in the hands of the thunder. After Kitakyushu was controlled by Thunder, Kyushu Island was actually out of control of the Japanese government, and all the information related to Kyushu Island and Thunder by the Japanese army was the result of reconnaissance by reconnaissance planes from the local flying regiment, and the 12th Division, which was ordered to return to Kyushu Island, did not know how many troops Thunder had deployed here, so after landing in Hakata Bay, the 12th Division did not act rashly.

"Let them go, send the situation back to command, and see what the upper side says." Zhou Hai, who was hidden in the bushes, slowly retreated with his submachine gun in his hand, and more than thirty Japanese soldiers in khaki military uniforms appeared not far in front of his sight. Zhou Hai carefully observed this group of Japanese soldiers with binoculars, they were only equipped with rifles and grenadiers, and this looked like the sharp scouts sent by the Japanese army, but the light machine guns and mortars that the Japanese forward squad was routinely equipped with were nowhere to be seen.

Zhou Hai only had two snipers and an ammunition man with him, and several of them were here to do close reconnaissance, and 1 mile behind Zhou Hai, there were 26 mercenaries lurking, and their task was to guard the 12th Division of the Kwantung Army that might appear here. Today is the third day of the 12th Division's landing in Hakata Bay, and the 12th Division, which has learned that the 23rd Division has been defeated, finally can't bear to send scout teams to move north along Maimatsubara, and the two Korean divisions that landed in Koga are also trying to move south to join the 12th Division.

The 12th Division of the three formations had only 13,000 men, and in the absence of any knowledge of the strength of the Thunder, it was obviously the best plan to converge and assemble with the Korean divisions in the direction of Koga. Zhou Hai, who arrived close to investigate, didn't know that his husband would make such an arrangement, but Zhou Hai, who had served as a regimental combat staff officer in the national army, was not a brainless person, and the scattered enemy was of course easier to fight than after assembly, but now Thunder's direct troops on Kyushu Island were too small, and instead of being forced to disperse their forces to resist the attack of the Japanese army, it was better to push the boat down the river and let the two Japanese troops converge together.

Seeing this group of Japanese soldiers pass under his nose, Zhou Hai and his mercenaries returned to the hiding place just now, and continued to squat to guard the large force of the 12th Division. "This Zhou Hai is good, and it coincides with my thoughts." After receiving the information sent back by Zhou Hai, Zhao Zhi, who was rushing to the spring with the convoy, was very happy. Thunder has no shortage of ordinary mercenaries who can fight, what is lacking is a commander who can command mercenaries to fight, Yu Dazhi was left in Myanmar to garrison, Yan Wudao switched to war in Korea, Ye Kong is a person who will not lead troops if he is killed, and what Zhao Zhi lacks most now is an independent combat commander who can take charge of himself.

Ye Kong, who was gnawing on the apple, did not hide his laziness, his task was to protect Zhao Zhi, which was an order that Luo Lin gave him and Luo Ying in private. Zhao Zhi rolled his eyes angrily and asked Luo Ying to summon a few operational staff officers to come to him for an impromptu meeting. "Hey, don't look at me, this Zhou Hai was recruited by Brother Wu from Chongqing, and he was the regimental-level combat staff officer of the national army before he entered the thunder, how old is he, how old am I, it's good if I can manage these guards, you can save it." Seeing that Zhao Zhi seemed to want to lecture himself again, Ye Kong threw the core and turned his head and left.

"Alright, let's all come in." Looking at Ye Kong's back, Zhao Zhi, who was not angry, clicked his lips, and helplessly beckoned the combat staff officers who had been called into his tent. "The forward scouts who are staring at Hakata Bay have sent back the news that the 12th Division has sent spearhead scouts to move north along Maimatsubara." The pencil in Zhao Zhi's hand drew an arrow along Hakata Bay, and the arrow continued north across Maimatsubara.

"There are also two North Korean divisions here, will they do this to go north to join the North Korean division?" Zhao Zhi's intelligence staff officers used a pencil to mark Koga's location. The staff officers surrounding the map couldn't help but nod their heads again and again, looking at this situation, the 12th Division sent a sharp scout to the north, and it was indeed possible to want to join Koga's Korean Division. Koga's Korean divisions numbered more than 24,000 troops, and with the addition of 12 divisions, their combined strength would exceed 35,000 men, and such a large Japanese force did not seem to be able to compete with the Thunder troops on Kyushu.

"The Japanese army has already transferred two local divisions from Honshu Island to assemble in Shimonoseki, and if Koga's Korean division follows Miyawaka and Naokata to copy the back road of Kitakyushu, the two divisions that the Japanese army has assembled in Shimonoseki will immediately cross the North Kyushu Bay and enter Kyushu Island, plus the 12th division, and the Japanese army we need to face will be five divisions at that time." Understanding the intentions of the 12th Division, Zhao Zhi's operational staff began to deduce the situation that Thunder was about to face.

"Very correct" Zhao Zhi took over the conversation and marked Kitakyushu with a pencil, "We have deployed 160,000 mixed troops in Kitakyushu, and less than 40,000 of these 160,000 are equipped with thermal weapons, and the thermal weapons units are now deployed in the front line of Moji and Komori to guard against the Japanese army's native divisions in Shimonoseki. According to the deduction you have just considered, if the mixed forces deployed in Kitakyushu are copied by the Korean division from the straight side, it is only a matter of time before the Japanese division in Shimonoseki crosses the North Kyushu Bay. ”

"Why don't we defeat Koga's North Korean division first, I heard that the combat effectiveness of these North Korean divisions is similar to that of the Imperial Cooperative Army in China, pull our Thor machine guns up and break through a few times, no matter how powerful the North Korean division is, it will have to be overturned." After the defeat of the 23rd Division, Zhao Zhi's combat staff officers respected Thor to the point of almost blind obedience, they believed that there would be no Japanese army that could withstand the salvo of hundreds of Thor revoltaining machine guns, and the Japanese army against Thor machine guns could only have one choice in the end, and they were defeated and dispersed in the stormy barrage of Thor.

"You're thinking well, don't look at how much ammunition we have." The opposite is Zhao Zhi's logistics staff, and after landing on Kyushu Island, Zhao Zhi's busiest staff officer is this person. "Thor's firepower is indeed not something that the Japanese army can resist, but that thing is too bullet-intensive, so we fought with the 23rd Division for five minutes, and the bullets we saved were less than one-third. If, as you said, with Raytheon and the North Korean divisions, the remaining bullets can support a maximum of 10 minutes of fighting, and if Thor runs out of bullets, what if the two North Korean divisions do not collapse? ”

The shortage of materials was the biggest problem that plagued Zhao Zhi, and since the Japanese army mobilized two flight regiments from the mainland to garrison Honshu Island, Zhao Zhi's fighter troops could only rest at the temporary airfield in the mountains. The transport plane that took off from Jiaodong had been intercepted by the Japanese air team in succession, and although the two sides had suffered losses in the air battle, Zhao Zhi's side completely lost the possibility of airdropping supplies. The ammunition and materials that Zhao Zhi uses now are all transported from Jiaodong by the Seventh Fleet when he landed in Nagasaki, but fortunately, Zhao Zhi only has 10,000 mercenaries under his command, if there are another 30,000 or 50,000 people, those ammunition supplies may have been consumed long ago.

"First fight the 12th Division, dispatch 30 teams of 20 people to Hakata Bay, use wolf pack tactics to attack and harass the 12th Division without interruption, and then dispatch 2,000 mercenaries to the north to Maimatsubara and Chihaya to deploy defenses, forcing the Korean Division to move to Kitakyushu." Zhao Zhi marked a few arrows on the map, and finally added a sentence, "Contact the mixed troops scattered in the southern part of Kyushu Island, and transfer 100,000 troops from among them to Jiama and Tagawa to deploy defenses, once the mixed troops in Kitakyushu are dispersed, Jiama, Tagawa, and Kasuga will be our forward defense line." ”

Using a large number of mixed soldiers to delay the convergence of the 12th Division and the North Korean Division, this is the method that Zhao Zhi thought of, although the hundreds of thousands of mixed troops deployed in Kitakyushu are a rabble, but the North Korean Division wants to completely defeat these hundreds of thousands of people, it will take a lot of effort. Zhao Zhi never regarded the mixed troops as Thunder's troops, they were just cannon fodder troops used by Thunder to consume the Japanese army. In Zhao Zhi's opinion, it is extremely cost-effective to exchange more than 100,000 mixed soldiers for the chaos of the entire Kitakyushu and the 12th Division of the Kwantung Army, not to mention that he still has more than 200,000 mixed soldiers waiting to be thrown into the melee.