When the Northern Expedition Fleet sailed out of the port of Yecheng, He Feizhou and Rommel were mobilizing before the war.
The smooth flow of information allowed He Feizhou to immediately know the results of the Battle of Ningbeigang and the Battle of Camlan Bay. He Feizhou immediately launched an attack on the 16th Infantry Regiment and the 29th Infantry Regiment under the Japanese Second Division.
Attack violently.
Strictly speaking, there has been a generational difference in equipment levels between the Lanfang troops, which are already equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and bombers, and the Japanese troops, which mainly use rifles. The huge difference in equipment levels makes the Lanfang troops and the Japanese troops
During the battle, the only result was that Lanfang's troops defeated the Japanese troops.
Since the 11th and 18th Divisions accelerated their offensive tempo, there have been several battles in which Lanfang surrounded and annihilated a Japanese regiment with just one regiment or even one battalion.
The reason for this situation was not that the Japanese army was too weak, but that Lanfang's army was too strong.
Since the war began, the 63rd Regiment led by He Feizhou has successively annihilated the Fourth Regiment and the 30th Regiment of the Japanese Second Division, ranking first in terms of record among all the units participating in the attack in Lanfang.
Today is probably the last battle. Come on everyone, kill all the little devils as soon as possible so that we can go back to the commander to receive the reward. There are still two requirements. The logistics department should provide logistical support and increase the speed of the artillery battery. Don’t do what we did yesterday.
It seemed that on the battlefield, the tanks were lying down, the infantry was about to start charging, and the artillery was not ready to provide fire cover. Today, I paid attention to the fact that He Feizhou was not very nervous, which was in sharp contrast to the serious look of Rommel next to him.
Boss, today we are the ones taking the lead. If we push too fast, Commander Qu will have a hard time explaining it. Second Battalion Commander Liu Zian is worried.
Commander Qu is Qu Feixiang, commander of the 62nd Regiment, and both the 63rd Regiment and the 11th Division.
The 62nd Regiment was the reserve team for this war against Japan. Qu Feixiang was already deeply resentful about this. He had protested several times to the commander of the 11th Division, Xiang Ankang, but was rejected by Xiang Ankang.
Cut, ignore him, there is only so much meat. If you give them the 62nd regiment, we will not have a share in our 63rd regiment. If you don’t want to take the lead, your second battalion will serve as a reserve team today. He Feizhou knows very well that there are too many monks and too little rice. In this issue
Go ahead, I don’t even want to leave any soup for the 62nd Regiment.
It is estimated that we cannot advance too fast today. The troops have very little fuel left. If the fuel cannot be delivered at noon, our tanks will probably lie down in the afternoon, so we must control the rhythm of the attack. Rommel is calm enough.
Dare He Feizhou's eyes widened, and there was hatred in his tone: If Jiang Renhui doesn't deliver the oil at noon, I will put him in solitary confinement.
When Lanfang's troops reach the regiment level, they have a transportation company directly under the regiment headquarters. Jiang Renhui is the commander of the 63rd regiment's transportation company.
The transport company probably couldn't solve this problem. If the general logistics department had enough fuel, the transport company would have shipped it long ago. Rommel was still in no hurry.
The more machinery the army uses, the higher its reliance on logistics. Lanfang's army is equipped with a lot of mechanized equipment. Whether it is tanks or armored vehicles, all of them are oil tigers and require an extraordinary amount of fuel.
The Northern Xinjiang region itself does not produce oil, so all the oil needed by the Northern Xinjiang region must be transported from Lanfang itself, which further increases the difficulty of logistical support.
After the war between Lanfang and Japan, due to the strength of Japanese warships, Lanfang's supply to Northern Xinjiang has been interrupted. The oil currently used in Northern Xinjiang is still stored before the war. Although there is currently no oil crisis, the commander of Northern Xinjiang
The ministry has begun restricting oil supplies.
Having said this, it is necessary to extend the point that the higher the degree of modernization, the stronger the control of the central government over the army. For example, the Lanfang army in northern Xinjiang is indeed powerful, but if Chen Kangjian has any small thoughts, Qin
As long as Zhiyuan interrupts its supply to the northern Xinjiang region, the troops in the northern Xinjiang region will be in chaos without a fight.
Of course, given the relationship between Chen Kangjian and Qin Zhiyuan, the probability of this happening is not high.
It's okay. We fight at the normal pace. Even if our tanks and armored vehicles are lying down, based on the quality of our troops, we are sure to drive the little Japs into the sea. After this period of training, He Feizhou is already full of confidence.
In fact, He Feizhou has never lacked self-confidence. What he lacks is just an understanding of the Japanese troops.
To be fair, in Asia, the Japanese army is indeed good, but it is still incomparable to Lanfang's army, which was tempered by the world war.
If we must compare them together, then the gap between the Japanese army and the Lanfang army is almost the same as the gap between the militia and the Japanese army.
He Feizhou now has enough confidence. If it is a frontal battle, the 63rd Regiment should have no problem resisting a Japanese division. Even if it cannot completely annihilate the Japanese troops, it can at least maintain a no-win-no-lose situation.
On this point, Rommel and He Feizhou had similar feelings.
During this period of time, Rommel's understanding of Lanfang's army was gradually deepening.
The more he learned, the more Rommel felt the excellence of Lanfang's army.
This excellence is not only reflected in the well-trained soldiers of Lanfang and the strong support of the army, but also reflected in the combat philosophy of Lanfang troops.
The military education Rommel received has always been discipline and obedience, which is also the first lesson that all German soldiers receive when joining the army. But in Lanfang, the requirements for discipline and obedience are more flexible, allowing commanders to be free within a general framework
This gives front-line commanders full freedom and greater space.
For example, in this battle against Japan, the Northern Xinjiang District Headquarters only proposed the campaign objectives, and left all the specific operations to the 11th and 18th Divisions. The Northern Xinjiang District Headquarters did not make any rigid requirements.
It was the same when it came to the 11th Division. Xiang Ankang only proposed the combat objectives, and the specific methods of fighting were left to the staff of the 63rd Regiment to decide.
Obviously, this method is more conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of frontline commanders.
Rommel saw these things in his eyes and remembered them in his heart. Rommel firmly believed that one day, these things would come in handy.
After the meeting, the 63rd Regiment launched an attack in accordance with the staff plan, targeting the remnants of the 16th Infantry Regiment and the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Second Division.
The reason why we say they are remnants is because in the battle some time ago, the two remaining infantry regiments of the Second Division have suffered several heavy losses one after another. Now the two companies' remnants combined, there is probably only one intact one.
There are so many alliances.
An infantry regiment of the Japanese army has less than 2,000 soldiers, while the 63rd Regiment still has close to 3,000 soldiers, and has only lost less than 500 soldiers. The gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides is evident.
The infantry attack of the 63rd Regiment is a standard infantry-tank collaboration, which is also the most familiar attack method of Lanfang Army.
The tank leads the way and clears obstacles on the way for the infantry to advance. The infantry protects the tank and prevents the enemy from approaching the tank to attack. Any Lanfang soldier who pulls out can explain this clearly.
Before joining the Lanfang Army, even military instructors like Rommel had never been exposed to the Bu-tank collaboration. This shows how much the Lanfang Army shocked Rommel.
In fact, after several days of attacks, the 63rd Regiment has almost reached the southernmost tip of Sakhalin Island, which is only more than 40 kilometers away from Hokkaido, Japan. This is the Soya Strait.
But these forty kilometers are destined to become a natural chasm for the Second Division, the Third Division and the Fifth Division.
After the Battle of Ningbeigang, the Beijiang Fleet sent destroyers to blockade the Soya Strait. However, the Japanese navy, which had suffered heavy losses and was temporarily unable to counterattack, was now unable to open the Soya Strait. Therefore, the Second Division, the Third Division and the Fifth Division had no choice but to jump.
The sea has nowhere to escape.
Accompanied by the roar of the tanks of the 63rd Regiment, the resistance organized by the Japanese army, which was no longer organized, collapsed one after another.
The command center of the Second Division had been completely destroyed in a bombing by Lanfang bombers the day before yesterday. The current resistance was just a spontaneous behavior of Japanese soldiers, not an organized resistance.
Even organized resistance could not withstand the impact of the Lanfang tank troops. Japanese soldiers had tried this before, and the 30th Regiment had failed to do so.
Come on guys, I can already smell the sea. Tom Warren's performance is still active.
You can smell this. Chen Wenyao feels incredible.
Is this so strange? My home is by the sea, and I am very familiar with the smell of sea breeze. Tom Warren explained it very proudly.
Well, I am from the ravine Chen Wenyao is a little envious of the sensitivity of Tom Warren's nose.
Over there, go take a look at that hillside, maybe you will get something unexpected. In addition to the sea breeze, Tom Warren also smelled something else.
Tom Warren and the others are scouts and do not need to move with the group, so Tom Warren has a high degree of freedom and can command the three-wheeled motorcycle to run around.
For these little guys, the fuel issue is not a problem. The fuel a tank needs to run for one hour can be driven by a three-wheeled motorcycle for three days.
The soldier driving the tricycle drove the vehicle to the hillside according to Tom Warren's instructions. Before the vehicle could stabilize, the two people on the vehicle were already petrified.
This side of the mountain is not the sea that Tom Warren imagined, but corpses scattered all over the mountains and plains. Men, women, old and young, of all ages. Some are soldiers in military uniforms, and some are civilians in civilian clothes.
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The circumstances of death are even more bizarre, including those who shot themselves, committed suicide by caesarean section, wiped their necks, hit rocks, hung themselves in the woods, etc. There are even more corpses lying in a circle on the ground. It seems that they were collectively killed by grenades.
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Tom Warren simply estimated that there were at least 5,000 corpses on this hillside. This was a large-scale mass suicide. Looking at the painful expressions and tears on some corpses, they were not willing to do so.
