lcionline Chapter 375: Night Offensive
Chapter 375: Night Offensive
Starting from Jiangxi, they passed through southern Zhejiang, which had not yet been completely occupied, quickly cleared out the Japanese pirates who occupied northern Zhejiang, and rushed directly to the vicinity of Shanghai.
Along the way, because of their large number of people, their whereabouts could naturally not be concealed from the Japanese pirates. Although they tried to hide and disguise themselves, they were still bombed many times by the Japanese pirates' planes.
Fortunately, Jiang Li also has the Air Force and has some experience in air defense, so even though he suffered several rounds of bombing, the casualties were less than a thousand.
Therefore, these sporadic bombings failed to stop them. It is worth mentioning that Jiang Li opened the road to Shanghai.
He also brought along an engineering team consisting mainly of Xiangling Lishi and other talented people, who were specifically responsible for repairing roads and building bridges.
In order to ensure the logistical supply of the army, and in order to allow aircraft to provide air support, Jiang Li also specially asked people to cooperate with local people to start building an airport, thinking that it should be able to be used when the time comes.
As for the third route, it was to use Han Yong's fleet to travel by land and water, starting from Hubei, going down the Yangtze River, passing through Anhui and Jiangsu, and finally arriving in Shanghai.
The group was divided into two parts. One part carried the soldiers and went ahead, acting as both a pioneer and a vanguard. The second part was composed of the remaining soldiers, who escorted the food and supplies and followed behind to ensure the logistics for the army.
As for the Japanese pirates, they were originally divided into three groups, and each group had no more than 300,000 troops.
Later, he deployed a large number of soldiers for defense in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and sent an army of 100,000 to attack the Shanghai defenders, so there were not many defensive troops in the surrounding areas.
But there were only a few hundred thousand of them, so when they discovered that a million reinforcement troops were coming from the southwest, they hurriedly dispatched troops from other directions.
He also urgently recruited the private soldiers of the warlords who had surrendered previously into the army to block the aggressive southwestern coalition forces.
When Mutō Yoshinobu learned that so many Chinese soldiers were coming to support, he immediately sent a telegram urging them to speed up the attack on Shanghai.
At the same time, we negotiated with the Navy and asked them to provide air support from carrier-based aircraft.
Speaking of which, since Japan invaded earlier in this time and space, their naval power is much weaker than in the previous life.
There was only one aircraft carrier in the true sense, which was the Kaga aircraft carrier, which was built first. Later, due to its backward performance, it had to be eliminated and used as a training ship, and survived until the end of World War II.
Having said that, although they only have one real aircraft carrier, they have converted several merchant cruise ships into "special aircraft carriers."
Just to be able to take off and land aircraft and provide air fire support for ground forces.
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Back to Jiang Li, after he used his numerical advantage to drive back the Japanese pirates and puppet troops in southern Zhejiang, he immediately ordered his troops to rest in the woods during the day and march at night.
This was to avoid the increasingly frequent take-offs and landings of enemy planes. However, it was not until today, when he led his troops to camp in the woods, that he remembered that he had not prepared many anti-aircraft weapons.
Because he had never encountered an enemy with an air force before, he only deployed some aviation artillery around Nanxi County to deal with possible attacks from the British army.
He knew that he would encounter enemy bombing this time, so he dismantled all the anti-aircraft guns and had the baggage troops behind him transport them.
However, since he had not considered this problem before, he now only has fifty-nine doors. Whenever he thought of this problem, he felt a headache.
The attack of these Japanese pirates was so sudden that he was caught off guard and even forgot such an important matter.
"The war hasn't started yet. We should send someone to urge Han Yong to purchase a batch of anti-aircraft weapons. I hope it's not too late!"
After the news of purchasing anti-aircraft weapons was issued, Jiang Li felt a gloomy mood when he thought that these anti-aircraft guns might need to be shipped across the ocean.
But just when he was getting annoyed, he suddenly thought of Britain's obsolete heavy weapons. He seemed to have seen them before, and there seemed to be anti-aircraft guns among them.
It was just that there were too many things on the list at that time, so I didn't check them one by one.
Thinking of this, Jiang Li immediately sent out another order, urging Han Yong to speed up the acquisition of the weapons, then count all the anti-aircraft guns, and then transport them over via the logistics troops.
Now that the problem with the anti-aircraft guns was solved, he was no longer worried and just stayed in the tent, carefully deducing the subsequent operations.
Soon, time passed, and with the roar of planes overhead, it was night without any danger. He gave the order to break camp to the troops who had packed up early.
After walking all night, they finally heard the loud sound of artillery fire ahead.
After Jiang Li used an encrypted telegram to contact the combat team at the front, he learned that it was Li Jiayu and Li Renzong's troops who were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army.
After brief inquiries, we learned that although they have suffered heavy casualties, they are still in a stalemate overall and show no signs of defeat.
Therefore, he did not lead his troops directly to support, but immediately ordered people to build fortifications, dig trenches and prevent artillery holes, so as to minimize casualties when the enemy's aircraft bombing came.
In addition, he ordered people to immediately dig and build air-raid shelters to protect ammunition supplies, food supplies, and to accommodate officers and wounded soldiers, as well as important people and objects such as radio stations.
He himself was under a big tree, looking at the map carefully.
As far as he knew, in the previous life, both sides had fought fierce battles in Shanghai and its surrounding areas and had deployed large numbers of troops. Ultimately, after months of fierce fighting, the Chinese side was defeated for various reasons.
Now, although his side has an army of 1.2 to 300,000, only his own 700,000 people can really fight tough battles.
The enemy had at least 300,000 or 400,000 elite Japanese pirates, as well as an unknown number of puppet troops, plus the air support of the Japanese Navy.
If they continued to fight the enemy head-on like in their previous life, their ending would probably not be any better.
So he began to think carefully about countermeasures. When he thought of the enemy's aircraft and heavy firepower advantages, he thought of the Volunteer Army's night offensive.
This so-called night offensive is to use the cover of night to secretly approach the enemy's position and understand the enemy's deployment through excellent reconnaissance and intelligence work.
When a battle is launched, it is often unexpected and the enemy is caught off guard.
The volunteers, who are good at close combat and night combat, can quickly break through the enemy's defense lines and cause heavy casualties to the enemy.
The Volunteer Army also made full use of flexible and maneuverable tactics, using small units to distract the enemy's attention while the main force carried out key breakthroughs.
The night offensive effectively reduced the threat of enemy air power and heavy weapons, fully exerted the fighting will and skills of the volunteers, and won many battles.