Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

Chapter 895: The Japanese Army’s New Tactics

Regarding the bombing of Kaesong, the Japanese Army strictly blocked the news and did not disclose any information to the outside world. However, it was different for the newspapers in China. When Ma Leizi sent the photos over, these major newspapers knew that this was an extremely hot news. Moreover, they still remembered the days when they made huge profits in the past, so they rushed to print it!

For several consecutive days, the front pages of major newspapers were all about the bombing of Japanese troops. Today it was said that more than 10,000 people were killed, and tomorrow it was said that more than 20,000 people were killed. Anyway, there was no accurate news, but everyone had a scale in their hearts. The photos published by major newspapers were different, and we also had our own analytical ability. The ground was full of pits, and the number of people killed was at least 10,000.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs finally could not withstand the pressure and issued a statement saying that their soldiers were better prepared and knew in advance the time when Ma Leizi's men would set off, so the various troops hid better. Please ask major newspapers not to follow the crowd.

According to the Japanese side, they only lost more than 2,000 people, and the rest all hid. As for those killed in the bombing, most of them were local civilians of Goryeo. They also used this to condemn the 72nd Army's Air Force, which did not distinguish between civilians and soldiers during the war, which was an anti-humanitarian act.

In response to Japan's accusation, our relevant departments have not been idle. They have published evidence of entire villages being burned down in Northeast China and North China, as well as dozens of captured Korean soldiers, and listed the crimes they committed on our land.

At the beginning, there were still many Taoist scholars who believed that Li Shaoyi's plane had bombed the wrong people and that civilians and the army should not be confused. However, after the dozens of captured Goryeo soldiers were pulled out, these people immediately shut up. The country supported what Ma Leizi did to the end.

Why were they allowed to come and murder our civilians when we were mistakenly bombing them on their maps? The 72nd Air Force had made it clear before the bombing that we had broadcast to the local people to paint red crosses on their roofs. You didn't, and you're blaming us? The surrounding area was filled with fleeing Japanese troops, and we thought these houses were Japanese barracks. Were we supposed to verify them under those circumstances? Not only could we not verify them, but I'm afraid other major powers couldn't either.

The people of the whole country unanimously agree with what the news department of the 72nd Army said. In the past, we often saw the foreign devils playing tricks on us, leaving us with no place to vent our anger and having to swallow our anger. This time, the 72nd Army also made the devils taste the same thing.

In order to avenge the Japanese army in Kaesong, the Japanese army in Tianjin organized a large-scale offensive, with more than six divisions participating. All the troops under Li Shaoyi retreated at the same time. At present, the territory occupied by Li Shaoyi in Tianjin has been greatly reduced for the first time.

Li Shaoyi also realized that no matter how hard our army persisted, it might not be able to hold Tianjin. As more and more Japanese troops arrived and the day of total retreat was approaching, the Japanese army also realized that if each unit wanted to achieve results, they had to attack at the same time. Only by leveraging their military strength and preventing Li Shaoyi's units from supporting each other could they achieve a series of victories on the battlefield in Tianjin.

In the past, the "you fight yours and I fight mine" approach could not do anything to the 72nd Army. Moreover, the 72nd Army, with its high mobility, could easily hit the weak points of the Japanese army. Often, at the beginning of the battle plan, for fear of losing some ace troops, the entire North China garrison began to shrink, and finally was defeated despite the superior force. This was the result of the Japanese army.

Now the Japanese army has changed its fighting style. After the battle plan is formulated, each unit must complete the original battle plan unless it is completely destroyed. Even if all your troops are killed in the local area, other troops will not come to support you.

This approach was taken to target Li Shaoyi's weak military strength and the small territory of Tianjin. It's true that the Japanese army had found a trick. If other troops did not change their combat plans to provide support, our troops would not be able to be mobilized on the long and narrow Tianjin front.

It turns out that our fighting style is very flexible. If we cannot defeat the Japanese army in front of us, we can call on friendly forces and mobilize a part of the army to cripple the surrounding Japanese army. Then the Japanese army in front of us will come to support us. While they are supporting us, we can give them a blow along the way.

After the two armies merged, only a little over one Japanese combat battalion was left out of the two, more than a thousand men. On the other hand, the losses on the 72nd Army's side were not that severe. When the two armies merged, the original two Japanese combat battalions were directly wiped out.

In this kind of mobile warfare, the Japanese army was slow to move and had too few mechanized vehicles, so they were on the run for almost the entire war. Even if they stopped for a while to prepare for battle, they had exhausted their strength in the process of running, and their combat rate was only about one-third of the usual rate, so they were easily defeated by the 72nd Army.

They were all sitting on armored vehicles and tanks, and their legs didn't have to exert much strength. After fighting for a whole day, they only had to exert some strength to pull the trigger. On the other hand, the Japanese army had not had enough food and water, and after running for a whole day, they had a battle with the 72nd Army. Could they be their match?

Moreover, in the middle of the war, Zhao Tiezhu specially formed some teams. These teams all used light armored vehicles and jeeps. Their mission was to attack the Japanese supply squadrons. Whenever these people wanted to transport supplies and ammunition to the combat troops, our commandos would appear around them.

The weapons used were flamethrowers and incendiary bombs.

Ordinary weapons were somewhat insufficient when attacking the supply squadron. When using flamethrowers on the battlefield, everything on the Japanese carriages would catch fire after one round of spraying. No matter whether it was food or ammunition, it was difficult to extinguish the fire. If they were pulling ammunition, then the surrounding Japanese troops would have spent all their money. They could still satisfy their desire to fly before they died, but it would be too painful to fall!