As soon as Kishimoto Muraki died, the Japanese in Chifeng fell into chaos.
From the perspective of the Japanese system, the Japanese should not fall into chaos, because even if their commander dies, they will immediately have a subordinate officer to take over the command. This system has become a habit in the Japanese army.
But the troops stationed in Chifeng are different.
The reason is that in order to keep it secret, Kishimoto Muraki only knows about the air defense system himself and a few people around him.
This is necessary because once the news about the air defense system in Chifeng is leaked to the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army will be able to guess their plan immediately and prepare in advance.
Once Kishimoto died, his headquarters and even the radio station were buried in the rubble. As a result, no one knew Kishimoto's battle plan. Even if he continued to command, he would still be confused and not know how to fight next.
At this time, Li Yunlong simply ordered "Sherman" to divide and surround the Japanese.
The "divide and encircle" technique is most suitable to be used after the enemy commander is beheaded, because the beheading of the commander means the loss of unified command and the reorganization of the troops in every possible way. Once they are divided and surrounded, they can be directly divided into several units that cannot be unified.
Partially breaking this reorganization leaves them at a loss and creates even greater chaos.
This is indeed the case. After the Japanese were divided into several parts, they were like a piece of loose sand fighting on their own. With the help of the people of Chifeng, it didn't take long for the Japanese to start surrendering one by one.
After more than two hours, the battle in Chifeng has basically ended.
The reason why it is said to be "basically over" is because there are still many Japs scattered in private houses that have not been eliminated... Urban warfare is like this. Once the Japs hide in private houses, it is difficult to find them and eliminate them.
As for the Japanese air defense system, it was not used in the end, and even the anti-aircraft missiles were returned to the Eighth Route Army intact.
In fact, it was not only Chifeng's air defense system that played a role, but also the air defense system in the direction of Duolun County. The Japanese thought that there were two divisions in Duolun County and had air defense systems to seize air supremacy, but they were beaten to death by the Eighth Route Army.
Dark lines on face...
The reason is that the anti-aircraft missiles cannot work at all. Just when they are about to hit the Eighth Route Army fighter planes, they explode with a "boom". One of them can be said to be an accident, but if all of them are like this, there is a problem.
Only then did Naosaburo Okabe finally react.
"These bastards!" Naosaburo Okabe slammed his fist on the desk in front of him: "They actually joined forces to deceive us!"
Naosaburo Okabe suspected that the stubborn army and the Eighth Route Army had a quarrel.
No wonder Naosaburo Okabe thinks so. The equipment was given by the stubborn army. Now that these problems have arisen, do you dare to say that you don't know about it?
Only a fool would believe it!
Then Naosaburo Okabe exploded: The Imperial Army cannot afford to offend the Eighth Route Army, but it is more than enough to deal with your stubborn army, right? The stubborn army has an air defense system? Then see if you have deployed it in all directions, and see if you have enough missiles.
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This is one of the side effects of the stubborn army selling the air defense system to the Japanese... Although the Japanese air defense system did not play any role in actual combat, they at least knew the performance and data of the air defense system.
This is also important in wartime.
For example, if the Japanese do not know the range of the air defense system, then their pilots will not be sure how far is a safe distance.
For another example, if the Japanese did not know that the air defense system requires dozens of vehicles to transport, they would not know that it is difficult for the air defense system to operate on the move.
For another example, if the Japanese did not know that the air defense system was so fragile: it had to be warmed up and tested and yet it failed at every turn, then they would not be able to formulate a targeted combat plan to attack the air defense system.
Because the Japanese knew this, Naosaburo Okabe was able to formulate an almost perfect bombing plan for Chongqing:
Naosaburo Okabe first sent helicopters to conduct reconnaissance to prepare the recalcitrant air defense system, and then sent a few fighter planes to test the location of the air defense system.
How did the Chongqing side know that there was something wrong with the air defense system they sold to the Japs? At this time, the Japs were furious, and they were still scolding the Japs for crossing the river and destroying the bridges: "Mom, you bought our missiles over there, and they will bomb here right away, the Japs
It’s just not believable!”
Then the Chongqing side used the air defense system based on the principle that they must give the Japanese a little color so that they would not dare to act rashly...
The stubborn army never thought that this was a test by the Japanese to detect the location of the air defense system.
The stubborn army thought that they should suppress the Japanese from the beginning and make them give up their further combat plans.
That's why intelligence is so important on the battlefield. If you don't have it, it's easy to misjudge the enemy's actions and make wrong reactions.
The recalcitrant army launched two missiles in the first batch, which accurately hit a Japanese fighter plane.
Afterwards, the stubborn army clapped their hands and celebrated, thinking that they would be able to sit back and relax in the future... They seemed to only have to do one thing, and that was to buy as many anti-aircraft missiles as possible from the Eighth Route Army.
If we have anti-aircraft missiles, we will have air supremacy. If we have air supremacy, we can ensure that Chongqing will not be bombed. This mountain city, Chongqing, can sit in a corner and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.
The idea was good, but before they could open the champagne to celebrate, the Japanese fighter planes came back again... This time the number was several times greater than before, and they were still divided into four directions and flew around the range of anti-aircraft missiles.
Naosaburo Okabe's move was very clever. The fighter plane was wandering on the edge of the anti-aircraft missile range. Should the stubborn army launch the anti-aircraft missile or not?
Let's launch. The Japanese fighter planes are at the edge of the range. They only need to turn a corner to escape from the range of the missiles before they arrive.
Don't launch it. All radar troops are highly nervous and on alert. In particular, the air defense system must remain on for a long time.
The Japanese's "Zero War" is famous for its long range. If it is equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks, it can fly in the air for five or six hours.
Finally, after more than an hour, the air defense system failed.
What the Japanese didn't know yet was that they couldn't know the situation on the ground while flying in the air.
But when the radar soldiers of the stubborn army knew that the air defense system was malfunctioning and could no longer stop the Japs, they turned on the escape mode. The Japs pilots immediately knew what had happened and started bombing indiscriminately.
After this battle, Naosaburo Okabe was still a little proud. He thought to himself:
If this tactic can be used to deal with the air defense system of the stubborn army, can it also be used to deal with the air defense system of the Eighth Route Army?
The only trouble may be that the Eighth Route Army has "La 5" fighter planes.
But the "La-5" fighter can use the "Feiyan" to deal with it.
The more Naosaburo Okabe thought about it, the more he was right, and then he began to plan his next attack.
What he didn't expect was that at this time, the Eighth Route Army had begun to upgrade its air defense system as the scale of transistor production expanded.