Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 459 Zhang Dabiao is not particular

The sky is full of stars and the moon is bright.

The torrent of steel gathered in Qinhe Township, fifteen kilometers south of Huairen.

Li Yunlong, Wang Meng and Zhang Dabiao sat in the temporary command post, looking at the military map in silence.

Li Yunlong threw the pencil forward and stood up.

"Tell me, how do we deal with these anti-tank cones now?"

Zhang Dabiao pointed at the anti-tank cone with such a wide range and was a little undecided.

"Commander, if we drive our tanks up there, we'll be trapped inside. If the Japanese take the opportunity to bombard our armored forces from the high ground on both sides, the tanks will probably become fixed targets, which is very dangerous!"

"End?"

Zhang Dabiao spread his hands helplessly.

"This is the first time I've encountered this kind of situation, and I don't have any better solution right now!"

Wang Meng looked at Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao staring at each other and burst out laughing.

Li Yunlong rolled his eyes at Wang Meng, feeling very unconvinced.

"Mengzi, what are you laughing at? Come on, come on, give us an idea!"

Wang Meng stood up and pointed to the sky.

"Anti-tank cones can restrain our tanks, but our planes can restrain them! Give it a carpet bombing, I don't believe this thing can't be blown to pieces!"

Zhang Dabiao slapped his forehead and realized he had actually forgotten about this.

He originally thought that if it didn't work, he would let the engineers go first and use high explosives to clear them out one by one.

However, it is very inefficient to ask engineers to clear anti-tank cones, and the engineers will be completely exposed to the direct fire of the Japanese!

"Chief of Staff, you are very knowledgeable. I'm afraid I can't come up with such a good idea even if I rack my brains!"

Wang Meng waved his hands. He knew very well that it was not that Zhang Dabiao and the others could not think of this solution, but they had never thought of using artillery shells and bombs to solve the problem.

"Biaozi, now that we have powerful weapons in our hands, we should let fewer soldiers fight desperately with the Japanese. If a bomb can solve the problem, bullets must not be used. If a bullet can solve the problem, bayonets must not be used!"

"Yes! I'm going to call for artillery support now to blow up all those damn anti-tank cones!"

Wang Meng nodded. Any problem that could be solved with bombs was not a problem.

The biggest problem facing them now is how to deal with the Japanese permanent fortifications on the mountains on both sides.

According to intelligence, these fortifications were buried in the mountains. Relying on Datong's abundant coal and steel production, these fortifications were built very thick and could withstand direct fire from large-caliber shells.

Of course, if these fortifications are bombarded with 150mm howitzers, they will not be able to withstand long, but the speed is too slow.

Once the Japanese's large forces have assembled, all they need to do is to firmly control Datong, and the independent column's iron torrent will be held back in Shanxi.

So, now the independent column must speed up!

Li Yunlong looked at Datong which was so close to him and suddenly had a bold idea.

"Since the Japs have placed their main forces in the front, let's ignore the Japs on these two hills and directly attack Huairen and head straight to Datong!"

Wang Meng's heart moved. Although this tactic was a bit risky, it had a very high success rate!

Once the obstacles of the anti-tank cones were cleared, the tank regiments and armored infantry regiments of the 2nd Armored Division and the 4th Armored Division were assembled and quickly passed through the pass under the cover of artillery fire from the divisional artillery and artillery division.

Wang Meng calculated carefully that the two tank regiments and armored infantry regiments that arrived earlier, with a total of 60 Tiger tanks, 120 Type 400 tanks, plus more than 4000 armored vehicles and more than armored infantry, would most likely break through Huairen and reach the city of Datong.

By then, Fumio Saeki would be like an ant sitting on a hot pot, and would the Japanese soldiers on Wuzhou Mountain and Heng Mountain still be able to stay? It is very likely that he would withdraw them back to Datong.

The Japanese infantry without turtle shells are just a group of sheep.

"Lao Li, I agree!"

Zhang Dabiao was ready to take on this job.

"Commander, let our Second Armored Division take over this job. Huairen is just a field artillery regiment of the devils, plus a few thousand puppet troops. I have a tank regiment and an armored regiment, so we can easily take it down!"

Li Yunlong shook his head. His target was not just Huairen, but Datong behind Huairen.

If only one tank regiment and one armored regiment broke through the defense line, Fumio Saeki would know at a glance that this amount of troops could not capture Datong at all, and he would naturally not order the 11th Infantry Regiment and the 12th Infantry Regiment at Wuzhou Mountain and Hengshan to the rear, and the defense line would still exist.

"Zhang Dabiao, now is not the time to be in the limelight. Where is Ding Wei's Fourth Armored Division now?"

"We have arrived at the designated location. Commander Ding will be here soon!"

“Who’s thinking about me?”

A loud voice was heard, and Ding Wei, dressed in military uniform, stepped into the temporary command center.

"Old Ding, you are finally here. You must have worked hard on this journey!"

Ding Wei gave Li Yunlong a bear hug, then shook hands tightly with Wang Meng. Finally, when he saw Zhang Dabiao stretch out his right hand, he rolled his eyes at him and ignored him.

"Zhang Dabiao, you still have the nerve to shake hands with me? Your soldiers left the bodies of the Japanese and puppet soldiers everywhere without cleaning them up. The tracks of my tanks and armored vehicles are full of minced meat. It's so hot, they're almost stinking!"

Zhang Dabiao lowered his head embarrassedly, then glanced at Ding Wei with a smile.

"Old Ding, I'm sorry! Our Second Armored Division has a mission to complete, and we have been busy killing the Japanese. We haven't had time to clean up the bodies of the Japanese. However, I have told the guerrillas along the way that they will deal with the bodies. Maybe there are too many bodies of the Japanese and puppet soldiers, so we haven't had time yet!"

"That's not polite, that's not polite! You could at least ask them to move the bodies to the side of the road a little bit, so that they don't block the road, right? As a result, they are all lying in the middle of the road."

"hey-hey!"

Li Yunlong saw the two people bickering and complaining, so he just let them do what they wanted.

"Well, since you two are the first comrades to arrive in Huairen, I will hand over this mission to you! Order the tank regiment and armored infantry regiment of the 2nd Armored Division, and the tank regiment and armored infantry regiment of the 4th Armored Division to form an independent column advance team, which will be commanded by me personally.

Tomorrow at eight o'clock, after the planes destroy the anti-tank cones, the divisional artillery and artillery division will suppress the enemy fortifications on the hills on both wings with firepower. The advance team will quickly pass through the pass, defeat the enemy field artillery regiment in Huairen and the Datong security army, and aim at Datong! "

Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei put their legs together and saluted in unison.

"Yes!"

Only Wang Meng, with a strange look on his face, glanced at Li Yunlong.

However, Li Yunlong pretended not to see it and discussed the formation of the team and the tactics after arriving in Huairen with Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei.

After talking for half an hour, they formed the final battle plan and handed it over to Wang Meng.

"Hey, help me take a look!"

Wang Meng took the battle plan, read it and nodded.

"Old Li, are you just going to send yourself to the front line like this?"

"Hey, it's your turn next time!"

"make a deal!"