Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 637 Blocking the Supply Line

Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps used large-caliber artillery in repeated battles with the Japanese army outside Shijiazhuang, smashing the crazy attack of a Japanese armored brigade in one fell swoop, wiping out the entire Japanese army. This completely wiped out the Japanese army.

The Shijiazhuang frontline commander was completely hurt by the beating and hurriedly stopped. More than 10,000 Japanese soldiers could never return to their island country and died in a foreign country.

Tang Qiuli was very pleased with the results achieved in the battle for the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, and issued an order to commend all the soldiers of the Sulu Mobile Corps. His victory was the enemy's pain. News of repeated defeats in the battle outside Shijiazhuang reached the Taihang Mountains, and he ordered

Where was the commander of the North China Expeditionary Force, Okamura Neiji, who was conducting a mopping up operation? Okamura Neiji was extremely angry. The entire chariot brigade was wiped out beyond his expectation. He was so distressed that he almost vomited blood. This was his preparation for severely inflicting heavy losses on the Tang Dynasty in the central Hebei Plain.

A sharp weapon prepared by Qiu Li's master.

He is mobilizing troops to encircle Huangyadong. The troops scattered across the Taihang Mountains will take a certain amount of time to gather them back. What's more, the troops have to deal with the constant harassment of the ** division troops like flies, which makes him even more worried.

What is alarming is that a new unit was discovered in the Taihang Mountains. It was designated as the Eighth Route Army of the National Government and belonged to the armed forces under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

This unit is even more troublesome for Okamura Neiji. Their combat methods are completely different from the style of the Japanese Army. They are also very different from the Central Army. The colors of their uniforms are also different, and the weapons they are equipped with are messy.

This force is the greatest threat to the various imperial armies.

The troops were so large and entangled that they had no peace day and night and were exhausted. The fighting consciousness of their soldiers was no less than that of the troops of the Japanese Army. Neji Okamura was sensitively aware that this army would become the most powerful force except Tang Qiuli.

In addition to the division troops, the imperial army had another strong enemy in North China.

Okamura Neiji was reluctant to get hold of the extremely valuable strategic target, and decided to completely eliminate Tang Qiuli's supply base regardless of the dangerous situation in Shijiazhuang and the Pingjin area. He sent an order to the Pingjin garrison to form another division and provide reinforcements.

On the Shijiazhuang battlefield, after several days of fierce fighting, the empire's troops were so depleted that they were not enough to launch a vigorous offensive. They had to increase their troops. Otherwise, it was still a question whether they could hold on until they could return to the division.

At the same time, an order was given to the troops attacking Niangziguan to seize Niangziguan as quickly as possible, cut off the troops on the periphery of Shijiazhuang, and retreat into Shanxi. Since Tang Qiuli dared to take the risk of placing a large number of troops in central Hebei

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Ziguan's plan is to force the ** division troops outside Shijiazhuang to evacuate. In this way, the crisis in Shijiazhuang and Pingjin can be easily solved. This is the Japanese version of "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao". Okamura Neiji used the ancient Chinese strategy to

Are there any suspicions of cheating on the Chinese battlefield?

Okamura Neiji still had a sharp sword in his hand. The newly formed North China Dispatch Army Air Force, with more than 300 aircraft, was an unrivaled force in the skies of Northern China. He gave the order to the air force to bomb the air force.

, constantly bombing the *** division positions outside Shijiazhuang. What cannot be obtained on the ground must be obtained from the air.

Not only that, he specifically emphasized in his order to the air force that Tang Qiuli's supply base in the Taihang Mountains was already surrounded by the imperial army and it was impossible to provide necessary logistical support. There were hundreds of thousands of troops outside Shijiazhuang.

Troops, where do the large amounts of ammunition and materials consumed every day come from? Once you find it, completely cut off the logistics supply line of the ** Division at any cost.

It must be admitted that Okamura Neiji is a very smart senior Japanese general. He realized that the supplies and ammunition consumed by large corps in battle must be completed by a smooth supply line, and cutting off the opponent's supply line will undoubtedly be the end of the battle.

The key to victory in the battle.

Japanese aircraft began to take off frequently. Starting on April 6, the positions of the Sulu Mobile Corps were raided by Japanese aircraft. Thirty-eight Japanese aircraft took off from Peking and Tianjin airports to carry out the task of bombing the forward positions of the ** Division.

Immediately, the air defense brigade and the air defense regiments of each brigade attached to the corps launched a fierce counterattack. For a whole day, the fighting on the ground basically stopped. In the blue sky, in addition to the howling of Japanese aircraft, there was the smoke of anti-aircraft shells.

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The battle ended in the evening, when the Japanese army abandoned more than a dozen aircraft and hurriedly withdrew its troops. The Sulu Mobile Corps suffered slight losses. The experienced air defense forces changed their deployment according to the direction of the Japanese aircraft's attack. The next day, more Japanese troops

Planes swarmed from the sky like locusts. This time, the Japanese army

The planes did not take advantage. What awaited them were shells exploding in the sky, anti-aircraft machine gun bullets like whips of fire, the "Sky Eye" artillery sighting radar showing off its power, and more than thirty Japanese aircraft turning into a flower in the sky.

A few fireworks, more dragging black smoke, wailing and escaping into the distance.

The huge losses horrified the commander of the Japanese Air Force and hurriedly ordered all aircraft to evacuate the war zone and return to the airport. Okamura Neji's attempt to use aerial bombs to blow up the Sulu Mobile Corps' positions failed. After a nightmare-like flight over Shijiazhuang,

After experience, the Japanese aircraft no longer dared to bomb indiscriminately in large groups. At most, they used a few aircraft to make a sneak attack, dropped a bomb, and turned around and ran away. Even so, more than half of them were left behind by the anti-aircraft fire of the Sulu Mobile Corps.

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After that, the attention of the Japanese Air Force in North China shifted to blocking the transportation lines of the Japanese Army. The transportation and supply line established by Zhou Yushan from Dingbian through Shijiazhuang, the capital of Taiyuan, was immediately targeted by the Japanese Air Force. Japanese pilots were happy to do it.

Such a job, a long transportation line, no anti-aircraft fire exploding all over the sky, chasing a car on the road, beating it into a ball of fire, watching the Chinese soldiers scream in the fire, there is no safer and more exciting task than this

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Zhou Yushan's transportation headquarters had all daytime transportation restricted. On the most day, thirty-nine vehicles were blown up, two to three hundred tons of ammunition and supplies were lost, and more than five hundred casualties were caused. The amount of ammunition transported to the front line dropped sharply.

What I have experienced is that the frontline troops of the Sulu Mobile Corps can no longer fight any kind of lavish battles. The firepower density has been reduced by half, but the intensity of the Japanese attacks has increased.

Especially the artillery, the supply of artillery shells was limited. The Japanese artillery, which was suppressed and could not lift its head, became more confident and dared to provide artillery support to the attacking Japanese infantry. The situation encountered by the troops outside Shijiazhuang was quickly reported to Tang Dynasty.

Where Qiu Li was, what he worried about still happened.

It was only a matter of time that the Huangyadong base area was discovered by the Japanese army. Three brigades of troops had been deployed there, and the division chief of staff Chang Feng was personally commanded. With the difficult terrain and permanent and complete reinforced concrete fortifications, the Japanese army did not need to

In the past two years, I couldn't eat anything at all, so I didn't worry about anything.

Only the transportation and supply lines worried him. He didn't expect that Okamura Neiji would think of this very quickly. He was such a cunning guy. The Japanese troops attacking Niangziguan were made difficult by the Eighth Route Army and Sun Zhenbang's troops. They lost their temper and were uncertain.

At some point, a series of landmines will suddenly explode on a quiet road. We can only advance ten kilometers a day. When camping, we don't know when we will be hit by bullets or grenades fired in the dark.

According to the marching speed of the Japanese army, no one in ten days or eight days can't climb Guanshan. There is no need to worry about this direction. There is a plan that Tang Qiuli has been unable to make up his mind about, which is to use the air force of the military commander Le Yiqin.

Break the Japanese aircraft's attack on the supply line

Blockade requires taking great risks. The Japanese army has more than 300 aircraft in North China, while Le Yiqin only has less than 40 aircraft. The balance of power is too great. He dare not gamble with his old capital.

If he loses all his money, it will affect his future plans.

Now, what Tang Qiuli is holding is the letter of challenge from Le Yiqin, Liu Cuigang and all the pilots. Ever since Japanese aircraft began to join the Shijiazhuang battlefield, Le Yiqin and the others have been staying in the radar room every day, looking at the display.

Each bright spot representing the Japanese aircraft appeared, and then they ran towards the fighter plane, dressed neatly, waiting for the order from the division commander to attack.

Every day, the planes are filled with fuel and bombs, and parked on the takeoff line to be ready. The mechanics keep the planes almost spotless, and the pilots are gearing up even more, holding back their energy, hoping that God will teach the little devil a lesson.

After waiting for three days, there was no movement at all. The division commander seemed to have forgotten that there was a group of people with wings who were anxious to go to the battlefield.

Le Yiqin and the others couldn't bear it any longer. Several squadron leaders got together to discuss and decided that we should take the initiative to ask for a fight. The division commander cherished us too much and was reluctant to let us go to the battlefield. Waiting like this was not the answer. Everyone brainstormed and wrote an impassioned letter.

, the impassioned petition came into Tang Qiuli's hands, but it also posed a problem for him.

The air force's letter of challenge was held in hand for two days, but the situation on the transportation supply line from Dingbian to Shijiazhuang became increasingly serious. The Japanese aircraft, which had not suffered any attacks, arbitrarily attacked Zhou Yushan's transportation convoy between Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang.

The anti-aircraft firepower assigned to the transportation headquarters cannot cover hundreds of kilometers of transportation lines.

A single Japanese aircraft dared to fight against a transport convoy. What was even more serious was that two Japanese aircraft actually crossed the Yellow River and entered the air defense fire control range of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone. Although they were expelled, they were also

A signal was enough to arouse Tang Qiuli's vigilance. Dingbian would become a key target of the Japanese North China Air Force. Once the city fell into endless air defense, all normal order in Dingbian would be disrupted.

The various military-industrial enterprises that support the army's operations will be greatly affected. As the strategic rear of all frontline combat units of the ** Division, the location of the fixed border is undoubtedly extremely important. This unexpected incident prompted Tang Qiuli to make up his mind to use the

The only air power attracted the sight and attention of the Japanese North China Air Force to the airspace around Pingjin.

Before Tang Qiuli issued the combat order to the aviation team, in order to ensure the safety of Jinan Airport, he transferred an air defense brigade to strengthen the ground air defense firepower around Jinan. After the air defense troops were in place, he issued an order to the Jinan Airport ** Division

Air Force.

(To be continued)