The Japanese machine is the fish, so who is the bait?
Naturally, it was the super large convoy of the Independent Regiment and the Third Army Guard Regiment. More than a hundred cars and nearly a thousand three-wheelers were marching on the road. The mechanized queue stretched out for seven or eight miles, not to mention the Japanese spies.
Even if you are blind, you can probably hear the roar of the engine!
Liu Tuanzuo braved the risk of being bombed by Japanese planes and drove arrogantly along the way. This was not a show of bravery or a blind military adventure. From the beginning, Liu Lang knew that the advance of the convoy could not be concealed from the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Force Headquarters. As the saying goes: Don't be afraid.
Thieves are only afraid of being missed by thieves. You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days. Instead of being anxious all day and night and being stared at by the Japanese planes, it is better to give them a stick in the Chinese defense zone to make them grow longer.
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And how did Liu Lang judge that the Japanese army would use planes to attack at this moment? The reason is very simple. In this era, there was no satellite navigation. When planes flew into the sky, except for having a compass to know the southeast, northwest, and northwest, it was basically impossible to find the way.
Just like the last time the "Aviation Volunteer Force" raided Qigen Village, the plane had to rely on the bonfire on the ground to guide the way to the battlefield in eastern Shanxi in the dark. Otherwise, even if they were given a direction, there might be
Deviation, even a slight deviation in the air, may cause it to deviate from the battlefield by dozens of kilometers.
Even in the daytime, if you want to find the battlefield, you have to rely on the pilot to lower the plane and stare at the ground with wide eyes. However, for pilots who are not familiar with the terrain, if there are no obvious signs to locate, it is basically a waste of time.
.Bombing the wrong target or even blowing up one's own people is not uncommon in this era. Even in the future, there will be satellite navigation systems that can be accurate to the decimeter level, and pilots have done it a lot.
To put it bluntly, if they want to cause trouble for their own convoy, the Japanese aircraft must first have someone to navigate and locate them. How to determine it? Although there are no satellites in this era, there are radio stations.
The Japanese are very stingy. In order to save fuel and increase the maneuverability of the aircraft in turning and climbing, they have dismantled the radio stations of most of the fighter planes. However, in order to facilitate the issuing of orders and communication, some of the radio stations of the aircraft are still retained, and they are usually used as
The existence of the pilot for the fighter formation.
As long as the Japanese army provides a radio frequency band, Japanese spies can use the radio to communicate with the Japanese aircraft and use the radio's position to locate the Japanese aircraft formation. As long as the independent regiment's convoy cannot run dozens of kilometers in half an hour, the convoy has a huge target.
It would be discovered from the air by Japanese planes flying accurately towards here, and a major bombing would naturally be inevitable.
The sudden increase in radio signals has basically convinced Liu Lang that the Japanese spies are using the radio to guide the Japanese bomber formation staying on the Hangzhou Bay aircraft carrier. The Japanese planes may arrive in less than thirty minutes.
The distance from Hangzhou Bay to Yixing is only 0 kilometers. If the Type 96 dive bomber currently equipped with the most equipment by the Japanese army flies at the top speed of 00 kilometers per hour, it can arrive at the battlefield from Hangzhou Bay within 50 minutes by taking off from an aircraft carrier.
As for why Liu Lang dared to conclude that the Japanese army would definitely dispatch dive bombers instead of using other types of bombers, that was because there was no bomber that was more awesome than dive bombers to bomb convoys and personnel on the road.
Although the bomb load is small, the hit accuracy of dive bombers is much higher than that of other bombers when conducting dive bombing from high altitudes, and the bomb delivery efficiency is also much higher.
The space on the aircraft carrier is limited and cannot store more ammunition for bombers to squander. This kind of dive bomber, which can accurately drop hundreds of kilograms of bombs on the opponent's head, is the only choice for the navy. For the Japanese who have always been stingy.
That's even more true. What they need is precision, not waste.
Liu Lang's guess was absolutely correct.
After he led the independent regiment on a mad dash on the road for four hours, the commander of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Force, no, to be precise, had been reorganized into the commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force, and received the imperial intelligence department's comprehensive analysis of multiple intelligences.
result.
This unit advancing from Nanjing along Liyang to Yixing was the Chinese Sichuan Army Independent Regiment that slipped away from the battlefield in North China. Although Matsui Iwane and his generals had never interacted with this unit, its performance was not impressive.
If they were not allowed to attract attention, it would lead to the resignation of an Imperial Army general, two Imperial lieutenant generals, and several Imperial major generals.
Due to the indescribable inherent pride of the Imperial Japanese Army, no one was surprised as to why this unit also arrived in Songhu. But they were by no means stupid. No matter how lucky they were, they would not lose two divisions in a row.
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Unprecedentedly, General Matsui Iwane paid special attention to the movements of a small Chinese regiment-level unit. Under his attention, Japanese spies hidden in high-level positions in China searched everywhere regardless of the risk of exposure. Combined with the marching direction of the independent regiment, they finally figured out the direction of the march.
Hours later, it was concluded that the Independent Regiment and another unit with an unknown number would reinforce Songjiang. The 67th Army, which was marching toward Songhu from the direction of Wuxi, would also reinforce the Songjiang battlefield.
This information actually has little impact on the tenth army who are fighting fiercely with the Jinshan Guards and the 6th Division. For the commander of the army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, he has three complete divisions and two heavy artillery brigades under his command.
The supplementary brigade has a strength of more than 100,000. Not to mention a Chinese infantry army with no more than 10,000 and less than 10,000 people plus an independent regiment with no more than a few thousand people. Even if it is against the majority of the centaurs in China's third theater, he will not feel guilty.
There were less than 40,000 troops to reinforce Songjiang, not to mention that he had captured Songjiang before that. Even if he had not, plus the original defenders, there were only 50,000 Chinese troops. The Sixth Division alone could crush them.
It was shattered. The Sixth Division was not the Eighth Division nor the 0th Division. It was a powerful army known as one of the two most powerful divisions in the empire. Even the Fifth Division, known as the "Steel Army"
It's all slightly different.
Without such confidence, how could Yanagawa Heisuke be so arrogant that he even changed the original battle plan of the base camp staff and planned to swallow up the entire Chinese army in the Songhu area? He even blatantly led the army to attack first.
Heading to Nanjing!
But Matsui Iwane was very cautious. He actually had an intuition that perhaps the arrival of this small force would bring variables to the empire's seamless combat plan of delivering a final fatal blow to the Chinese army in the Songhu area.
After discussing with his staff, he finally made the decision to inflict heavy damage on the independent regiment before it arrived on the battlefield. Of course, you cannot rely on infantry to severely damage the enemy on the enemy's territory. You have to rely on aircraft. But for this combat mission, he
The general commander who has more than 200,000 troops in his hands cannot complete it. The aviation wing belonging to the army is still on the bay island. The only ones who can take off to bomb the independent group are the grandsons of the navy.
Matsui Iwane quickly transferred the combat mission to the Navy. If the navy and army can assist smoothly, the Navy's bombers can arrive at the target battlefield to bomb it within basically one hour, and then return successfully.
It's a pity that the grandsons of the Navy have made trouble for the Army's red deer again. When carrying out bombing missions in the Songhu area, the Navy generals did not dare to be careless. There was a battlefield planned by the base camp staff, and military bosses were watching from behind.
, but for such a battlefield that extends beyond the combat area and even reaches more than 100 kilometers near the defense circle of the opponent's capital, they have all kinds of reasons to delay or even refuse.
You know, a month and a half ago, the bomber formation that took off from the aircraft carrier to bomb the Chinese capital was severely beaten. Not only was it intensive anti-aircraft fire, but the remaining aircraft were not many, but they were powerful!
If there were not enough vigilance and enough fighter escorts, two squadrons of bombers might not be able to come back. Even then, one squadron of bombers and half a squadron of fighter planes would be left somewhere!
Anyway, without the cooperation of ground troops, the Navy has no plans to leave the Songhu area.
Matsui Iwane was also anxious, and sent a telegram directly to the Japanese base camp. After analyzing the actual situation, the Japanese base camp agreed to Matsui Iwane's combat plan and strictly ordered the naval aviation to attack, severely damaging this army that the empire hated so much on the march.
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The navy pinched his nose and agreed, but after you discussed it and he discussed it, more than an hour passed. This is why Liu Lang waited for a full seven hours before receiving the final news.
In order to fish, Liu Lang, a fisherman, waited for seven hours using himself and the entire independent group as bait. Others did not know the hard work involved.
Of course, although the Independent Regiment has deployed a lot of anti-aircraft machine guns and 0mm cannons, if they want to be fishermen by using ground firepower and high-speed diving bombers or even fighter jets, no matter how stupid they are, Langdanza will not think so.
Ground firepower has always been a passive defense. If you want to catch a "fish" that can accurately hit your head with a bomb and fly fast enough, you have to rely on someone who is also flying in the sky, and can fly faster than them.
Even faster.
China's last air force in Nanjing is Liu Lang's biggest support.
Of course, Liu Lang couldn't mobilize the air force to complete his plan to dig holes and beat up the Japanese. No one could. That would have to be the order signed by the supreme leader.
However, the battle report that the Japanese bomber formation ferociously crossed Songhu and headed towards the capital reached Nanjing. In addition, Zhou Dapeng asked for orders to attack. He must not just wait for the capital to be blown into a sea of fire! The boss who has had this experience also
I won’t let a bomb be dropped on my head.
But Liu Lang couldn't guarantee 100%, but he could only bet. If he didn't bet this time, the unscrupulous Japanese would cause him big trouble. Every minute he was delayed in arriving at the battlefield, he didn't know how many Chinese soldiers would die. Moreover,
If the Japanese air force is not taught a severe lesson, they will bomb the highways more recklessly. In the next few days, the roads will be filled with retreating Chinese soldiers.
It is possible to catch fish with bait, but it is also possible that the fish is too big and swallows the bait and breaks the fishing line and takes the fishing rod away. The fisherman suffers heavy losses.
Liu Lang, who was sitting in the woods with a calm expression, was smoking quietly, as if he had no awareness of being a bait. (To be continued)