Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 3052 Difficult Decision

The chariot unit led by Dai Anlan attacked at a very fast speed. When the commander in charge of the defense along the way, the Japanese army general Haruki Hyakutake, received the report and dispatched the air force to support the first line of defense, Dai Anlan and the others It has crossed the first line of defense and rushed into the second line of defense of the Japanese army.

As soon as the Japanese air force was dispatched, the Chinese air force also appeared on the battlefield.In this way, the Japanese air force could not effectively attack Dai Anlan and the others, and could only watch helplessly as the Chinese chariots continued to rampage and continued to advance deep into them.

Neither Hyakutake Haruyoshi nor Honma Masahiro expected that the Chinese side would use large-scale chariot troops to charge the battle.This was not due to their deliberate negligence, but based on the fact that the Battle of Malan had been going on for so long, and a large number of actual battles had already proved that the special tropical jungle climate of the peninsula was not conducive to large tanks and even chariots.In fact, the confrontation between China and Japan on the Malay Peninsula has lasted for so long, and the Chinese and Japanese troops have fought from the Denver defense line to Malan. There is indeed no precedent for the Chinese Third Expeditionary Army to launch a tank-scale battle.

The accidental acquisition of the unnamed position was indeed an opportunity for the Expeditionary Third Army to break the deadlock in the Battle of Malan.But for the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, isn't this an opportunity to wipe out the vital forces of the Expeditionary Third Army?It is precisely because of this realization that Masahiro Homma hoarded a large number of troops between the unnamed position and Ganbang, and Toshiichiro Koizumi moved to the idea of ​​selecting qualified soldiers from the National Independence Army through actual combat.The idea of ​​the Japanese is actually very simple, that is, to consume as many as two Chinese elites in the early years of the unnamed position through their superiority in strength.

After deciding to select brave soldiers from the National Independence Army for the headquarters, Toshiichiro Koizumi organized his army into five fronts, namely the Southern Front, Northern Front, Western Front, Eastern Front, and Central Front.

Momotake Haruki only recently came to Singapore from Japan. Senior generals like him with considerable actual combat experience are what the Japanese army in Southeast Asia lacks most. Therefore, after arriving in Singapore, Koizumi Toshiichiro immediately entrusted him with an important task and was appointed as the Southern Commander. The commander of the front army is responsible for leading more than 20 National Independence Army and nearly [-] Japanese troops to defend between the unnamed position and Kampong.

When Hyakutake Haruki first received the report, he also thought it was just a routine offensive by the Chinese army, so he didn't issue special instructions to the first-line, second-line, third-line, and headquarters troops.When the first line of defense was breached and the second line of defense was in jeopardy, he realized the seriousness of the problem. He immediately called Wada Narizawa, the commander of the artillery unit of the Southern Front Army, and asked him to use the heavy artillery unit to prepare for indiscriminate shelling.

His order was questioned by the chief of staff, Tamura Masa: "Your Excellency, if the bombardment is indiscriminate, will it cause turmoil in the National Independence Army? You know, under the high-pressure policy, the Nanyang people are already very dissatisfied! We must not do not worry……"

"Nagata Army, we have already made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. Are we going to make the same mistake again?" Haruki Hyakutake interrupted Nagata's words: "We thought that the tropical jungle was not conducive to chariot combat. But we forgot that this piece of land has been trimmed into a flat position by us. If this position is captured by the Chinese army, what will it mean to us? It means that the Chinese army will then attack Kampang from the flank The line of our army absolutely cannot tolerate this kind of thing happening!"

It is well known that the Japanese army is good at civil engineering work, and the National Independence Army obviously inherited this fine tradition under the training of the Japanese army.Therefore, the National Independence Army may not be able to fight, but its ability to dig trenches and build fortifications is first-class.In the past, Hyakutake Haruki was gratified that the Nanyang natives under his command could have such a role, but now, he only hates himself for not being able to predict the future, otherwise, he would definitely not allow the National Independence Army to take this piece of tropical jungle. The land was trimmed into trenches and trenches.

The reason why the unnamed position was an opportunity for the Expeditionary Third Army was that it could flank the Kambang Japanese army.Hyakutake Haruki's final battle, it is naturally impossible to be confused about such a major matter.It's just that he hastily decided to use the only heavy artillery unit under his command, and he seems to have forgotten such a problem, that is, the artillery battles between the enemy and the enemy have always ended with the Chinese side winning the final victory.And the reason why he hid the artillery unit in depth was precisely to prevent the artillery unit from being consumed prematurely.

The battle situation on the front line was urgent, and Haruka Hyakutake could be forgiven for ignoring this point in his haste.Fortunately for him, perhaps because he was deeply affected by it, the commander of the artillery unit, Wada Narzawa, did not ignore this point in the same way, so after receiving the order, he thought about it and immediately called back to ask whether to fire in bursts or continue. shelling.Wada Narizawa's questioning method is clever. When Momotake Haruki asked him strangely what the difference was, he expressed his concerns, saying that there would be no problem at all if it was a burst fire, but if the shelling continued, it would be very likely to be attacked. To retaliate against the Chinese artillery, then you must be mentally prepared to lose the heavy artillery wing.

"Your Excellency, although I am very unconvinced, I have to admit that the artillery of the Chinese people is more advanced than ours, and their artillery quality is also higher than ours."

In the past, Narizawa Wada would not have dared to say such a thing, and whether it was Haruki Hyakutake or other senior Japanese generals, they would definitely scold Wada for "struggling with others' ambition and destroying their own prestige" when they heard such words.But now, don't say that Wada's words are very smooth.Even Momotake Haruki couldn't bear the slightest bit of grievance when he heard this, because this is indeed a manifestation of the truth.

Is it necessary to sacrifice the heavy artillery unit in order to block this round of attack by the Chinese army?Hyakutake Harukichi hesitated.

Haruki Hyakutake could not be tolerated without hesitation. In contemporary warfare, the importance of the artillery unit is self-evident.As the king of artillery, heavy artillery can sometimes even determine the success or failure of a battle.Since the Battle of Malan, the reason why the Chinese army has a slight upper hand with its weak force, on the surface, seems to be related to the overall superiority of the Chinese army's weapon performance (as for the individual quality of the Chinese army and the command level of the commander, etc. Hyakutake Haruki is resolutely unwilling to admit that he is inferior to others), but the core factor lies in the stable performance of China's artillery and aviation units.In view of the many previous battles in which our artillerymen were beaten up by Chinese artillerymen as soon as they showed their heads, under Wada's reminder, Hyakutake Haruki had to be more cautious when making a decision.

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