Chapter 349: Forced to return home
The next pursuit was without any suspense. Nearly 20,000 Japanese soldiers were chased by tank troops led by Qiao Anbang, and they were bloody and fled in a miserable defeat.
It was not until the air force of our side carried out indiscriminate bombing and strafing regardless of the casualties of our own ground forces that the pursuit speed of the special operations forces was finally slowed down, and won some valuable evacuation time for the 3rd Guard Division, which had already suffered heavy losses.
When the special forces teams got rid of the bombing and harassment of the Japanese Air Force, the main force of the Third Guards Division finally retreated to the rear town and began to quickly build fortifications in an attempt to rely on the town to resist.
Knowing that the time was ripe, Qiao Anbang immediately ordered the special forces to drive tanks around the 3rd guard division, which was huddled to defend, and head straight for Osaka.
Lin Fangtaro was determined to stop him but did not dare to order the troops to pursue him because he was afraid that this extremely powerful Chinese chariot unit would kill him again.
In this way, although he knew that Qiao Anbang led the tank troops to Osaka, Lin Fangtaro had no choice but to report this information to Seishiro Itagaki and Kanji Ishihara.
In fact, there is no need for Lin Fangtaro's report. Ishihara Kanji and Itagaki Seishiro's good friends have learned the whereabouts of Qiao Anbang's tank troops through the report of the aviation reconnaissance plane.
"Ishihara, what should I do? What are you good at?" Seishiro Itagaki, who was helpless, placed his hope on his good friends and asked sincerely and anxiously.
Ishihara Kaner shook his head with a heavy face and said, "The tanks and tanks equipped by the Chinese army are too powerful. With the current tanks in the Empire, the aviation troops can pose a threat to them, but the tank troops of the Chinese people are very mobile. It is difficult for our fighter jets to truly and effectively kill them, so now, we have almost no way to check and balance them!"
"Are you just sitting there and watching them attack Osaka again?" Seishiro Itagaki looked anxious.
"At this point, there is only one way!" Ishihara sighed.
"What's the solution?" Seishiro Itagaki asked urgently.
"Forcing the Chinese to take the initiative to evacuate the land of our great Japanese Empire!" Ishihara said with a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes.
"How to force me?" Seishiro Itagaki asked.
"In the Nanjing Battle last year, Qiao Anbang tried to save hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Nanjing. He tried his best to go deep into the rear of our main force in central China, and took advantage of the opportunity to capture Suzhou, Shanghai and other important places, and finally successfully forced the main divisions of the Imperial Army to join forces. This shows that this person attaches great importance to the people's hearts and his reputation. If we threaten the local people in China, we are not afraid that Qiao Anbang will not withdraw his troops on his own initiative!" Ishihara's eyes turned around.
"Using the local Chinese people to threaten it? Is this possible?" Seishiro Itagaki looked full of doubts.
"Using the orders of the new cabinet of the headquarters, the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army, to gather and detain the Chinese people. For example, Qiao Anbang's special forces will kill 10,000 Chinese civilians until he voluntarily withdraws from our territory in Japan!" Ishihara said viciously.
"But what if Qiao Anbang did not withdraw his troops and instead massacred our people in our country to retaliate?" Seishiro Itagaki objected.
"No, Qiao Anbang is a man who values national justice and will definitely withdraw his troops!" Ishihara Kaner said meaningfully: "No matter what, you must force Qiao Anbang to retreat, otherwise you will continue to attack and destroy the country in our country, and the consequences will be unimaginable!"
"Well, just do it!" Ichishiro Itagaki thought of the heavy damage caused to the local area by the special forces of the Tiger Army these days, and immediately made up his mind.
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Soon, Qiao Anbang, who was leading his army, received a telegram from the Tiger Army personally drafted by Kanir Ishihara. The general meaning of the telegram is as follows: Because the special forces led by Qiao Anbang of the Chinese Tiger Army sneaked into our Great Japanese Empire, killing our civilians arbitrarily, and openly despised the Geneva Convention. In order to protect the wealth and safety of our citizens' lives, the Imperial Japanese Army decided to take revenge. If Qiao Anbang led the special forces to not retreat for a day, the Imperial Japanese Army will take corresponding revenge actions in the occupied areas of the China battlefield! Hereby inform us!
After listening to the content of the Japanese army's explicit message, Qiao Anbang's face became unprecedentedly solemn, which he had never expected before. It seemed that the Japanese were really forced to be forced by him.
He had no idea that the Japanese army would threaten himself to withdraw from their homeland by massacring the Chinese people in the occupied areas. For a moment, Qiao Anbang was in a dilemma.
"Stop moving forward!" Qiao Anbang, who was worried, picked up the wireless intercom and issued an order to all the tanks. He originally wanted to take the opportunity to launch another attack on Osaka and completely destroy the Japanese military ports, shipyards and other industrial facilities in Osaka.
However, the Japanese army suddenly issued such a warning telegram, which forced him to carefully consider it. Qiao Anbang, who was completely familiar with the temperament of the Japanese army's jackals, knew that since the Japanese said that, they would definitely do it.
Moreover, they have used any means to prevent their local industrial foundation from being attacked and destroyed by themselves.
If you don’t retreat, you can certainly continue to destroy the potential of the Japanese army’s war. But it is likely to lead to the death of tens of thousands of innocent people. Isn’t this a big price?
After pondering for a long time, Qiao Anbang finally decided to withdraw his troops. First, Qingdao has recovered, and it is time for him to start preparing for the establishment of a navy and other related matters. Second, the Hu Ben Army now urgently needs large-scale expansion and reorganization. Third, Qiao Anbang feels that he cannot achieve his strategic purpose of blocking and destroying the Japanese war potential and restoring national strength at the cost of his own people.
Otherwise, I would have rewritten history by myself and avoided the Nanjing Massacre and saved hundreds of thousands of Nanjing military and civilians. Now, countless compatriots will die because of their own failure to withdraw their troops. Then wouldn’t my previous efforts be wasted?
At the same time, Qiao Anbang also strengthened his idea, that is, he must eliminate all Japanese troops in China as soon as possible. Only by ensuring the absolute safety of his own local area can he use troops abroad with all his might, otherwise there will be a dilemma like today.
Originally, Qiao Anbang also planned to continue special operations against Japan, one to train troops, and the other to continue to destroy Japan's industrial foundation and war potential. It seems that this idea would not be possible before he could eliminate all the Japanese troops in China.
After deciding to evacuate, Qiao Anbang immediately asked Yali to send a statement message in a clear code. The message said that she decided to withdraw her troops, but the premise was that the Japanese army must terminate all targeted retaliation operations, including massacre of Chinese civilians in the area they occupied. Otherwise, Qiao Anbang will lead special forces to enter the Japanese mainland again and start a massacre to retaliate!
With Qiao Anbang's clear message issued, countries around the world who were just shocked and the Japanese army's clear warning message were shocked again.
At the same time, they also developed a strong interest in the special forces of the Hu Ben Army. What kind of special forces will make the Japanese government threaten at the cost of massacre of civilians?
At the same time, governments of various countries are also thinking about how to deal with such a special force if it goes deep into its own homeland for a large-scale destructive attack?
Just as countries around the world were still talking, Qiao Anbang made an action that absolutely regretted all countries.
That is, all the Leopard tanks that had just been produced for less than two days were blown up. In order not to leave any useful research value for the Japanese, Qiao Anbang piled up an astonishing number of tnt** inside and outside each tank.
In fact, Qiao Anbang doesn't have to do this at all. Not to mention the ready-made leopard tanks in Japan for research, even if Japan masters the relevant technologies of leopard tanks, they cannot produce them, and it is even more impossible to fully produce and install troops.
Because Japan is an island country with scarce resources, it does not have the ability to produce advanced tanks and combat vehicles on a large scale like Germany that is well-made and expensive.
For example, submachine guns, Japan, which already has various light and heavy machine gun production and development technologies, is not impossible to develop, but because they cannot afford to be equipped at all, because submachine guns have fast firing speed and poor accuracy, which put too much pressure on logistics.
If Japan was also a huge country like the United States, would Japan still advocate the so-called precision shooting?
It’s not that the Japanese don’t want to squander, but that they don’t have the strength.
What's more, Japan has no production line, core technical drawings and experience in manufacturing German tanks at all. Even if Qiao Anbang leaves Japan with a perfect Leopard tank, it will be impossible for Japan to successfully develop the production line equipment corresponding to the Leopard tank in ten or eight years.
Ten or eight years later, Qiao Anbang's Hu Ben Army should have destroyed Japan.
After destroying all the tanks, Qiao Anbang returned home triumphantly without hesitation with the special operations battalion soldiers.
When Qiao Anbang and the first group of special forces returned to Qingdao, the senior officers of the 11th Army stationed in Qingdao and hundreds of thousands of people from Qingdao had been waiting for a long time to greet them.
Because the attack on Japan's mainland failed to achieve its strategic goal of destroying Japan's war potential and comprehensive national strength, Qiao Anbang was no longer in the mood to accept the people's welcome.
However, the soldiers of the Special Forces Battalion were able to come back alive and made great achievements in Japan. They felt the warm welcome from their compatriots in the motherland and their hometowns. They were all so happy that they had eaten honey in their hearts.
The welcoming ceremony organized by the people and their subordinates was rushed to end. Qiao Anbang immediately issued an order to come to Qingdao for a meeting to the commanders of the various divisions of the Huben Army.
The forced suspension of the combat plan to attack Japan's mainland made Qiao Anbang extremely depressed. He wanted to complete the expansion and reorganization of the entire 11th Army as soon as possible. Then, with the advantage of the aircraft, he quickly developed the navy in order to clear all the Japanese troops on the local area as soon as possible and recover the land that fell!
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