Chapter 488: Ambush
Occasionally, I will encounter some tricky bunkers and artillery towers that are geographically tricky. For example, only the perforation holes are exposed at high places, and it is difficult to accurately aim the artillery fire located at low places. ?
This kind of problem is not big... At this time, the Chinese Expeditionary Force was a sea-6, air-wide force. They no longer rushed forward without regard for casualties when they encountered hard nails like before. Instead, they called back to ask for support from the air force. So soon several bombers would fly into the air, and after diving, they threw a piece of it in the direction indicated by the ground forces... The next second, the Japanese bunkers and artillery towers turned into flames, and the soldiers could clearly hear the heart-wrenching screams of the Japanese army from inside.
Because the reconnaissance troops in front were very powerful... the Japanese fortifications were destroyed like dominoes under the extreme coordinated attack of their firepower, which made the main force following behind continuously advance forward at a rate of kilometer per hour, and after six hours, it advanced nearly 200 kilometers.
At this time, Wu Yuhang heard the Air Force report: "The enemy troops are 50 miles ahead, and the troops are mostly cars!"
As mentioned before, a very important part of "blitz warfare" is intelligence, so Chinese troops have also arranged reconnaissance planes in the air and maintained them with the ground forces in a timely manner.
"Stop moving forward!" Wu Yuhang turned around and gave orders to the troops.
After thinking about it, Wu Yuhang reported this situation to Zhang Chi who followed behind.
At this time, Zhang Chi was on the second wave of follow-up troops, that is, a m3 half-tracked car in the first regiment... Officers generally like to ride jeeps, but Zhang Chi knew that jeeps would often become the target of attack by the Japanese army because that was telling the Japanese army that the enemy officers were in it, and the m3 half-tracked car could avoid this very well.
In fact, Zhang Chi not only had this information, but he even knew that the Japanese corps had left Shenyang to reinforce Lushun... At this time, in Northeast China, it can be said that the Chinese team's eyeliners were everywhere. These eyeliners were not only the scouts of fellow villagers, but also the people and guerrillas that were spread out in various places.
Therefore, at this time, the Japanese army located in the northeast can be said to be under the control of Zhang Chi.
The Japanese reinforcements were still on the way, which shows two points:
First, the Japanese army in Shenyang did not know that Lushun had been lost.
Second, the Japanese army did not know the strength of the troops attacking their attacks.
Otherwise, the troops that reinforced Lushun should have stopped marching and built defenses on the road instead of continuing to marching without any brains.
Zhang Chi was very satisfied with this, because it meant that the reconnaissance troops who had been involved in the Northeast in advance were executed in good condition... At this time, it had been six or seven hours since Lushun was captured. According to common sense, even if Lushun was captured too quickly, Shenyang could not obtain more information, but when the Expeditionary Force further captured the bunkers and artillery towers along the way, the Japanese had full time to use the telephone number in the artillery tower to transmit the information.
but……
Zhang Chi had already made arrangements. He asked his fellow villagers to find telephone lines on various sections outside the artillery tower and prepare them. When the appropriate time comes, they would cut off the Japanese telephone lines.
It is not difficult to do this, because the guerrillas often do this, so even if the telephone line is blocked, the Japanese will only curse: "Bastard! These hateful guerrillas!"
The Japanese army had no idea that this time it was not the guerrillas but a regular force, not only a regular force but also an elite force.
Therefore, when these Japanese troops were attacked, the Japanese troops could not transmit the news of being attacked to Chenyang.
This is actually an information war... This not only bought time for the Chinese troops and the suddenness of the battle to attack Chenyang, but also allowed the Japanese army to send a unit of troops to the Chinese troops.
After looking at the map and calculating the degree of the Japanese army, Zhang Chi ordered Wu Yuhang: "The enemy will meet you in half an hour, and set up an ambush immediately!"
"Yes!" Wu Yuhang responded and immediately issued a series of orders to the soldiers.
This Japanese army rashly reinforced by Lushun was the 20th regiment of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army, and the captain was Colonel Matsumoto.
Colonel Matsumoto was actually not a rash person. On the contrary, he was quite cautious... This is also the reason why he chose to march from the highway rather than the railway, and he did not march until this time to more than 200 kilometers away from Chenyang.
(Note: Chenyang is 443 kilometers away from Lushun. The Matsumoto wing uses car maneuvers, which is calculated at 50 kilometers per hour. At this time, it should have marched 300 kilometers.)
Originally, Lieutenant General Fumio Yamashita meant that Matsumoto's troops took a train to Lushun, so that they could get to Lushun as fast as possible and could carry a lot of heavy equipment.
But Matsumoto believed that... it was too dangerous to take a train. As long as the guerrillas buried a few on the rails, it might cause the train to cause casualties and the more important thing was... Once this happens, the troops would have to walk to Lushun.
Lieutenant General Yamashita also agreed with this view, because it is not uncommon for guerrillas to bomb the railway tracks. Although the Japanese army has strict protection around the railway tracks, it is a railway of more than 400 kilometers. Any section of the railway has flaws that may lead to irreparable losses.
The facts also proved that this decision was correct.
Because the railway was blocked half an hour after being occupied in Lushun... As for what it was blocked, there is no need to say more. The "Sheerman" tank slowly drove onto the railway, and the "bombing" was a shot as the train coming towards him. The entire train transporting the coal mine collapsed on the railway like a giant python hitting the key.
Of course, this is just the end of one of the trains that did not obey orders and wanted to hit the tank, and more trains were braked and surrendered on the tyranny of the "Sheerman" tank.
It is conceivable that in the near future, these trains will soon become a powerful tool for Chinese troops to transport supplies and ammunition.
As a result, Matsumoto collected almost all the division's cars, and even requisitioned a batch of transportation team cars, which was enough for a wing to go on the road... A large number of cars were used to transport supplies to the southern front line, and there were only a few Japanese cars left in Shenyang.
On the road, Matsumoto felt something was wrong several times because he saw several planes in the air from afar.
Although he was not an air force, he still knew that those planes were not Japanese aircraft.
If it is an enemy plane...what guerrillas will have planes?
However, this can also be interpreted as a long-range plane flying from the Pacific Ocean of the United States.
Chapter completed!