After learning that the 23rd Division had been defeated by Thunder and almost completely wiped out, Okamura Neiji, who was stranded in Tokyo, could not sit still. Although Okamura Neiji had not received the exact battle report, he had already anticipated the situation he was about to face. Too bad, Thunder ignored the North Korean division that landed in Kitakyushu Bay, and instead attacked the 23rd Division that landed in Hakata Bay. This was something Okamura Neiji never expected. In his plan, he landed in Kitakyushu. The Korean division in the Gulf was simply a bait to lure Zhao Zhi to shift his focus to Kitakyushu, but the other party did not seem to be fooled.
"The Fourth Division is fighting fiercely with the intercepting enemy. The original march plan ensures that it will arrive on time." After reading the battle report sent by the Fourth Division, Okamura Neji laughed angrily. The damn Kwantung Army would actually destroy this useless division. The regiment was sent back to Kyushu Island. Do these guys want to see how destructive Zhao Zhi's power is? Zhao Zhi's troops have defeated several Japanese army divisions. Now Zhao Zhi has given Okamura Neji another feeling. , Zhao Zhi, who only played small tricks in Hebei, is now more like a qualified commander, and a commander who is difficult to deal with.
Although Zhao Zhi's current tactics have begun to favor large-scale operations, the harassment tactics that Zhao Zhi commanded in Hebei left a deep impression on Okamura Neiji, so he mobilized reserve troops from Honshu Island to Kyushu Island. At the same time as the rescue, Okamura Neiji also reported to the emperor to request another recruitment of troops to form a home defense force. In Okamura Neiji's plan, the Japanese home defense force will recruit more than 300,000 troops. These defense troops are mainly used in various parts of Japan. Daily defense of seaports and important military industrial sites to prevent Thunder's small infiltration forces from sabotaging Japan's military industries and ports.
Okamura Neiji was not afraid of Zhao Zhi facing him in a fortified position battle, but he was afraid of Thunder's infiltration troops that would attack for hundreds of miles at every turn. Faced with a small infiltration force of dozens or dozens of people, Okamura Neiji's hands There are no elites who can fight against them. "Damn the Ministry of Defense, if they didn't insist on putting the special forces training camp on Kyushu Island, we can now carry out a raid on Zhao Zhi." Okamura Neiji said about the special forces training The camp is the special training school that trained the Masako Fighting Team. This Masako Fighting Team successfully raided the Taihang Base of the Eighth Route Army in 1942 and almost strangled Peng Dehuai, deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army.
The special training school was originally located on Honshu Island, but after 42 years, the Ministry of Defense moved it to Kyushu Island and put it together with the sniper training camp. No one could have imagined that a year later, Zhao Zhi led his troops to suddenly land on Kyushu Island and was captured by the Japanese. The special schools and sniper training camps that the Army Ministry put a lot of effort into were all destroyed by Thunder's aerial bombings. Those student soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the bombings could not escape the pursuit of Thunder mercenaries. In fact, at this time The southern part of Kyushu Island has been completely controlled by Thunder, and the sporadic resistance forces can only rely on the mountains and forests to survive.
Of course Zhao Zhi didn't know that Okamura Neiji was racking his brains for his opponent, but he had already learned that Okamura Neiji's plan to recruit troops to strengthen the defense of ports and military industrial bases had benefited from the latent troops' operations in Japan over the past few years. After hard work, even the headquarters of the Japanese army base camp now has internal agents planted by lurkers. Of course, Zhao Zhi hopes that Okamura Neji will continue to recruit troops, and the more soldiers will be sent to coastal ports and military factories , which shows that the defense force in the hinterland of Honshu Island will become weaker.
Zhao Zhi also thought about concentrating the power of the lurker troops to carry out "chaos" operations against Honshu Island, but the thousands of lurkers who were secretly sent to the Japanese mainland now have less than 30% left. Soldiers should be used in the right place, rather than wasted in auxiliary operations such as throwing a few bombs and lighting a few fires. "Don't worry about this now. Our main task now is to defeat the 12th Division." Only the mixed forces of the division and Kitakyushu can withstand the attack of the North Korean division." Zhao Zhi looked around at his staff officers, and the large map was already filled with various colored arrows and dotted circles.
"Our fishing tactics no longer work. This shows that the 12th Division has learned smartly. Unfortunately, they have forgotten who is the master and who is the apprentice. We have consumed 30% of their troops using fishing tactics. If the 12th Division really If they want to shrink their troops and move forward in a hedgehog formation, then we can have a head-on fight with them." The Thor machine gun shined in the operation to defeat the 23rd Division, with that kind of volley that was difficult to defeat. It is the nightmare of all infantrymen. No one would think that the 12th Division could withstand the swarm "shooting" of Thor machine guns.
"No, no." The staff officer in charge of logistics supplies shook his head like a rattle, "As I told you last time, we don't have much medicine shipped by warships or airdropped by aircraft. I now control the air superiority. If our transport planes cannot carry out airdrops next week, our people may have to use 38 rifles to engage in firefights with the Japanese army. I don’t want to save ideas at the moment. Wait until we really do it. What to do when there is a melee with the Japanese army."[
From the first day before landing on Kyushu Island, material supply has been a problem that has been bothering Zhao Zhi. The mercenaries are accustomed to using current weapons and equipment. If they are asked to switch to Japanese-style weapons to fight, their combat effectiveness will inevitably drop significantly. Moreover, it would also leave an opportunity for the Japanese army to take advantage of. Zhao Zhi did not want this, "Ignore the matter of fighting with the 12th Division. After all, our troops are not as large as theirs. We should use our own advantages to fight with the Japanese army." Fight quickly, strike when you find an opportunity, and leave with one strike without leaving the opponent a chance."
The number of mercenaries intercepting the 12th Division has been increased to 3,000 by Zhao Zhi. These mercenaries are organized into a team of 30 people and are specialized in roaming around the 12th Division, conducting sniper attacks, harassment, landmines, shelling, and night attacks, as long as they are there All the techniques they had received in the training camp were used by the 12th Division. Among them, the snipers had the most impressive results. A sniper rifle with the silencer unscrewed could easily hit a target 500 meters away. Unless this distance was Only the opponent's guns with a caliber of 80 mm or above can be attacked, but snipers are on the move at any time, and the counterattack effect of the 12th Division's mortars is not very good.
The 12th Division also organized veterans to go out and kill the mercenaries who attacked them, but what they faced was not soldiers from the regular army. What they faced were soldiers trained in hundreds of battles in the mountains and forests of Myanmar and the bloody battlefields. Soldiers, the 12th Division sent several batches of veterans to serve as search missions. Unfortunately, most of them were killed by mercenaries in the wilderness. Those who managed to escape also collapsed several times. In the end, the 12th Division had to call for reconnaissance planes every day. Taking off to perform forward reconnaissance and search, the 12th Division could only gather and march like the 23rd Division. Although it did not cover much distance every day, it was safer.
The 12th Division had to assemble and march in order to protect themselves, but their accidental move made the mercenaries who intercepted them unable to recruit. The mercenaries scattered in small teams were really at a disadvantage against the 12th Division who was gathering and marching. Seeing the 12th Division getting closer and closer to Koga, Zhao Zhi's staff began to frown. The mixed troops that Zhao Zhi transferred from southern Kyushu had not yet arrived at Nogata. If they were mixed in Northern Kyushu at this time, The Korean division, which was fighting in a melee, divided its forces and marched towards Fukuoka Prefecture. The Japanese army had the opportunity to control the entire Kitakyushu. This situation was definitely the worst thing for Thunder.
"Just let them join together. If one can fight two, it will be a good thing for us to join together. At least our backs will be clean." If the 12th Division and the Korean Division heading south merge in Kitakyushu, At most, Zhao Zhi will lose control of Kitakyushu, while the rest of Kyushu Island is still under the control of Lei Lei. After the convergence, the Japanese army's strength will reach the size of three divisions. With so many troops gathered in Kitakyushu, it will be difficult to The supplies consumed by these troops every day are enough for Honshu Island to drink a pot, and Lei Lei, who is good at guerrilla tactics, can afford to consume them.
The 3,000 mercenaries who were ordered to intercept the 12th Division were depressed. The orders from above changed three times a day. In the morning, they said they would do their best to intercept the 12th Division's troops heading north. Now it's just past lunch time, but the order they received has changed. Get out of the way to the north and harass the 12th Division along the way. An order is an order. This is an unchanging law. The first rule of the mercenary code is to obey the order. You don't have to worry about intercepting the 12th Division anymore. Let's just let it go. The mercenaries were freed up to increase the intensity of their attacks on the 12th Division along the way.
The 12th Division would be harassed by no less than a hundred attacks every day, even at night. When the exhausted soldiers of the 12th Division saw Koga from a distance, most of them knelt down and cried. The continuous attacks on the road have made them panic. The sound of a gunshot or the explosion of a grenade will make them frightened. Only a dozen soldiers who serve as night guards can gather together to inspect the camp. If they dare to act alone, they will definitely be attacked. No one knows how the other party discovered those hidden whistles in the dark night when they were unable to see anything.
"Sir, there is news about Zhang Hua and the others." After learning that the 12th Division had finally arrived in Koga, Zhao Zhi stayed alone in the headquarters and fiddled with the map filled with arrows. For the whole morning, Zhao Zhi was silent. Without saying a word, Zhao Zhi's complexion improved until his intelligence staff quickly walked into the headquarters and sent a telegram.
Zhang Hua is a mysterious figure in the mercenary army. Apart from Zhao Zhi and a few close people around him, only Zhao Zhi's intelligence staff has seen Zhang Hua. All information involving Zhang Hua comes from the intelligence staff alone. Damn it, all the intelligence will be burned on the spot after being read by Zhao Zhi. All the staff officers and mercenary officers under Zhao Zhi only know that Zhang Hua is commanding a mercenary unit alone, and he only accepts direct command from Zhao Zhi , it was not until the Thunder defeated the 6th Division and the 22nd Division that Zhao Zhi announced Zhang Hua's mission. Zhang Hua's team, who was proficient in Japanese, had already blended into the defeated Japanese army and entered Honshu Island.