Chapter 1538 Missed Opportunity
1538 After Hu Bin learned that the Second Army in Afghanistan stopped the Japanese troops, he did not launch an attack, but was waiting for the troops behind to come.
This news made Hu Bin very angry. This missed the opportunity to fight, which made Hu Bin curse the commander of the group army below.
"Commander. Our troops are still on the road now, and there are two armored divisions in the past. If the assault is launched like this, the strength will be completely insufficient!" Cai Xin heard Hu Bin's curse and said again.
"Not enough, it's enough. I ask you, there are 500,000 troops and 500,000 Japanese troops ahead of you. Do you want to transfer all the troops of your army group over?
We are armored troops, mobile troops, and fast-moving troops. You act quickly, why don’t you fight? What are you afraid of? Hum?
Are you afraid that the Japanese will eat your troops? The Japanese will be more afraid than you, and you don’t even have the determination to fight? What else can you fight?" Hu Bin shouted there again.
"Yes, I will order the troops to fight immediately!" Cai Xin responded when he heard this.
"When will the troops behind arrive?" Hu Bin asked after taking a deep breath.
"It will take about 2 hours!" Cai Xin replied.
"The troops were ordered to attack immediately, mainly to kill the enemy's tank troops. The troops behind arrived and blocked the Japanese's retreat.
I want you to block the retreat, not to let you set up a defensive position there. We don’t want to defend the position, and use the mobility of our troops to attack me and rush in and kill me.
Don’t hesitate, don’t care that the Japanese troops ran away. What I want is to kill their large troops.
If possible, kill to India and let our troops take turns to kill them. Use the Japanese troops to train troops and execute them immediately!" Hu Bin shouted to Cai Xin.
"Yes, execute immediately and attack the Japanese troops!" Cai Xin repeated the order.
"Play the piano randomly!" After Hu Bin hung up the phone, he stood there, his anger was not gone, and the staff officers next to him looked at Hu Bin.
At this time, Li Nian and Xu Jing, who learned that Hu Bin was angry at the command center, both came over!
"Commander, what happened?" Li Nian asked.
"Mad, I stopped the Japanese, but I didn't attack. I had to wait for the troops behind. He didn't know that the Japanese were also waiting for the troops behind. I killed him first. The Japanese troops behind will naturally become honest and kill slowly.
Now that we stop, the Japanese have gathered superior forces and will break through immediately, set up positions, and fight position wars with our armored forces.
We are tank troops, not infantry troops, what positional warfare are we fighting?" Hu Bin stood there and cursed.
"The cadres below may not know the usage of the tank. They thought they were auxiliary infantry attacks, and they might be behind in tactics.
Unlike our previous troops, they knew that tanks should make good use of their mobility, defense capabilities, and powerful artillery capabilities to assault the enemy." Li Nian nodded and said to Hu Bin.
"Well, now they are going to fight. I have to wait a moment to see if there are any changes over there and miss the opportunity to fight.
If they fought last night and they could even rest during the day today, the Japanese would definitely not dare to act.
Now that this stops, the Japanese will know that there are not many troops in our past. As long as they disperse and break through, they will definitely have a way to escape the troops of the large army!" Hu Bin said as he sat down, touched his head, and said with some distress.
"Well, now that you fight, you have to look at what's ahead. It's useless to be anxious! Look, you have to teach those officials, don't let them fight with the old tactics, this won't work.
What we will face in the future is the German troops, and the German troops are famous for their mechanical and armored troops!
If we still follow the previous style of fighting, our troops will definitely suffer. This time you are also careless. If you don’t hand over the command to the lower level, maybe this will not happen.
I know, you are worried that the cadres below will think that you have exceeded your authority, but now they have not formed such a combat concept. If you give them such combat tasks, there will definitely be problems!" Li Nian said to Hu Bin.
When Hu Bin heard this, he nodded in a sigh. He also discovered this. The cadres below were still used to commanding traditional infantry. They did not know how to use the current armored troops and mechanized troops. Their tactical thinking has not changed yet.
"Commander, the troops have started fighting now?" Chief of Staff Xu Jing asked, looking at Hu Bin.
"Not yet, I'm still waiting. I just issued a combat order. I didn't go directly to command before, just because I didn't want them to feel that my commander was holding all the power in my hands.
Now, I'll shoot myself in the foot!" Hu Bin said with a wry smile on his own.
When those staff members heard this, no one dared to speak. They knew that Hu Bin was in a bad mood now, but they admired Hu Bin's command ability very much.
However, at this time in Australia, Okamura Nagaki received a report from the people below in his office, saying that Hideki Tojo had come over and Okamura Nagaki immediately asked him to come in.
"Prime Minister, I just received the news that the troops we went to help started retreating yesterday, but on the way to retreat, they were stopped by Chinese troops.
Now our troops there don’t know what to do. Many Afghanistan are desert areas, and the direction of their breakthrough is not easy to determine!" Hideki Tojo came over and said directly to Okamura Yanji.
"What did you say? Our troops were surrounded?" Okamura Yanji heard this, stood up, and looked at Tojo Hideki in surprise.
"Yes, I'm stopped by Chinese troops now, but I'm not surrounded!" Hideki Tojo nodded and said.
"Damn it, I said not to go, not to go, and to go, and to fight with German troops, and not to fight alone.
Now, as soon as the German troops retreated, Hu Bin took action against our troops. Why didn’t anyone listen? Now that our troops are over there, do you know how much important information we have exposed?
China can estimate how many troops we have in India. Look, Hu Bin's troops will definitely go to India if they have the chance, and then our troops will suffer huge casualties.
Haven't we suffered enough losses? Why don't anyone have a good memory? Why do we make such low-level mistakes again and again?" Okamura Yanji saw Hideki Tojo nodding and immediately started cursing.
Tojo Hideki had long expected this situation and sent a telegram to Sugino Naochi, but he was completely treated as a warning. Now that something happened, their army base came to find him.
"Commander, now things have happened. Sugino Naochi asked our base camp how to retreat.
We are there, but there are more than 400,000 troops and a large amount of supplies. If they are completely wiped out by Chinese troops, it will be a huge loss to our empire.
Even if you said, if Hu Bin seizes the opportunity and attacks our troops in India, then these troops will be even more rescued. In this way, we have enough troops to stop Hu Bin's troops in the north of India!" Hideki Tojo looked at Okamura and said.
"Well, how many casualties are our troops now?" Okamura Nishi sat down with his eyes closed. He thought that there must be many casualties among those troops now.
"Does? Do you mean the casualties of the troops we attacked Afghanistan before, or do you?" Hideki Tojo asked.
"It was after we were stopped that Chinese troops attacked us. How many casualties are we now? How many troops are there in China? Don't you know this?" Okamura Yasuji opened his eyes and looked at Hideki Tojo and asked dissatisfiedly.
"There has not been a fight yet. The Chinese troops have not assaulted our troops. Our troops have been transferred to defense!" Hideki Tojo said.
"Nani?" Okamura Yanji stood up in surprise when he heard this, and looked at Hideki Tojo in disbelief.
"That's right, China now seems to be the army of two tank divisions. Well, that's about it!" Hideki Tojo stood there and continued.
"How could this happen? This is not Hu Bin's style of playing at all? It's impossible!" Okamura Neji began to mutter when he heard it. This style of playing is completely different from that of Hu Bin, who he is familiar with.
"Prime Minister?" Hideki Tojo saw him standing there muttering, and immediately shouted.
"They are sure they didn't attack?" Okamura Nishi asked, looking up at Hideki Tojo.
"Yes, there is no attack yet, but we don't know whether to fight a position with them or break through!" Hideki Tojo said.
"Work a positional war, don't break through, order our armored troops to face the Chinese armored troops immediately, just stop them for us.
At the same time, we ordered our troops to start building a line of defense. Now the planes cannot pass. Pay attention to protecting our artillery, especially heavy artillery, and must protect them and not let their armored troops attack.
At that time, our heavy artillery troops will be able to bring devastating disaster to the Chinese attacking troops. How could Haga, Hu Bin make such a mistake and actually stop our troops and give us time?" Okamura Yanji said to Hideki Tojo.
"Yes, this is the case, their troops are insufficient and they dare not launch an attack, which is normal!" Hideki Tojo said.
"Hmph, don't say it's two armored divisions, Hu Bin has an infantry division in his hands, and he dares to order the troops to assault.
Something must have happened this time. I don’t know what Hu Bin is planning or whether it is indeed something wrong with them!" Okamura Nishi heard it, snorted coldly, and said to Hideki Tojo.
Chapter completed!