Chapter 244 Let me show you what the Fourth Division is! (First update!)

Seeing Alberts' confused expression, Cun Yunsheng did not explain but let him leave first.

After the other party left, Meng Fanle asked puzzledly.

"Doesn't this Alberts know the real reason behind this?"

"Judging from his expression, he probably doesn't know, otherwise he wouldn't say such a thing." Cun Yunsheng shook his head and then sneered.

"It can be basically determined that this matter was leaked by someone close to Alberts, and Turkey's actions should have been tacitly approved by Britain and the United States."

"Then next, the Soviet army should withdraw troops from the Far East and transfer them to the Eastern Front to make up for the shortage of troops on the Eastern Front."

"The situation has become even more chaotic, with two neutral countries being drawn into the war one after another."

"This war has been fought, and we must also take action next."

"The world's attention is now on Persia, and less attention will be paid to us."

Hearing this, Meng Fanle was stunned at first, then asked.

"Commander, didn't you say we should wait a little longer?"

"No need to wait. Old Duan told me that the soldiers have been trained. There is no point in training them further. They need to see blood." Cun Yunsheng shook his head.

"I thought about it for a while and felt that what he said made sense. So let him test the combat effectiveness of the new regiment. This can also be regarded as the first battle of our task force."

"Aren't you worried?" Meng Fan looked curious.

Who knew that Cun Yunsheng seemed so calm.

"The French army is not as strong as you think. We could have taken them down in one fell swoop, but we suspended the attack because of our lack of manpower."

"What's more, those natives don't have much combat power. From Li Ula's feedback, we can see that there is little point in training them. Every day they just bombard with artillery and charge with infantry. They are no different from the Japanese army."

Hearing this, Meng Fan looked at Cun Yunsheng in surprise and joked.

"Commander, you were really angry about the Japanese army's tactics at the beginning."

"Why has it changed now?"

"Really? Why do I remember that it was you who said this?"

"A thousand-year-old turtle is as good as a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise. The little Japanese who say they have not changed for ten thousand years, all they know is infantry charging, artillery bombardment, infantry charging after infantry charging, artillery bombardment after artillery bombardment, we rush up to fight, infantry retreat, artillery bombardment... We ignore them, artillery bombardment after infantry charging! You think they have been fighting in this rigid way all their lives, and they can still eat up most of you, don't you think it's infuriating?"

"You are the one who said this, right?" Cun Yunsheng said confidently.

"How long has it been? Have you changed?"

After hearing this, Meng Fan scratched his head subconsciously. It seemed that he really said this.

Because he felt it was too familiar, especially the way Cun Yunsheng imitated his tone of voice, which was so vivid.

"Commander, I said so many things, and you only remember this?" Meng Fanle said unhappily.

You know, Young Master Meng said so many things, but how come his own leader only remembered this one sentence?

"Isn't this enough?" Cun Yunsheng rolled his eyes.

"I didn't expect that we have become the Japanese army now, but we are still lacking in tactics and need more training."

"Let Duan Zhenguo's new regiment go to Cambodia and try to take down Cambodia in one go." Cun Yunsheng pondered for a while and then issued a new order.

"Yes."

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Upon receiving the order, Duan Zhenguo immediately led the new regiment that had been trained for a long time to the Cambodia area.

The defense zone originally guarded by Zhang Lixian and He Shuguang had already been evacuated.

Because with the establishment of the Zheng Dynasty, Siam also began a great purge.

Ambitious people in many places have jumped out.

Therefore, in order to clear up the situation in Siam as soon as possible and ensure that Siam can join the Allied forces smoothly.

Cun Yunsheng directly transferred Zhang Lixian and He Shuguang's troops into northern Siam and began to clean up the rebels.

At the same time, they cleared out the local tyrants who had surrendered to the Japanese army.

Cun Yunsheng demanded that these people be eradicated completely without mercy.

The excess land was also reclaimed and returned to the public, awaiting new distribution.

As for Zhao He's tank regiment, it remained where it was and took over the transferred position.

Not long after, the new regiment led by Duan Zhenguo arrived in the Cambodia area, and after a short rest, immediately launched an attack.

"The combat effectiveness of these French troops is too weak, isn't it?" Duan Zhenguo was in charge of the front-line command, and his troops could be said to be the most powerful troops in the task force.

It was built entirely according to the standard US military regiment, with more than 3,000 people.

The firepower of the team reached an extremely exaggerated level.

That is to say, there are no walkie-talkies now, otherwise, an infantry squad could call for artillery support.

According to Cun Yunsheng's idea, once the air-to-ground communication system is established in the future, even an infantry squad will be able to call for air support.

The firepower configuration of a squad is definitely enough to crush a Japanese unit.

The firepower of a platoon far exceeds that of a Japanese squad.

Not to mention that the company is equipped with powerful weapons such as 60mm mortars and recoilless guns.

As for the battalion-level units, it goes without saying that if they were equipped with self-propelled artillery, they would probably have to be equipped with self-propelled artillery.

Even so, a battalion is equipped with two 120mm heavy mortars and the rest are eight 8mm medium mortars.

Faced with such terrifying firepower, the native army composed of French officers had their defense line broken through almost instantly.

On the ground, artillery of various calibers took turns to fire.

By the time the infantry rushed up to the position, there were few trenches left.

For French officers, this level of firepower was comparable to the scale of war among the great powers.

Do not!
Even far beyond them!
Because the tank regiment that was watching closely on the sidelines did not move out.

Not to mention the natives, they had never experienced such fierce artillery fire.

So when the artillery fire ended, the natives had already been scared away.

"Sir, with our current firepower configuration, if we can't defeat these natives, our superiors will skin us alive," a major officer said jokingly.

"That's right. Our current firepower configuration is indeed very strong. Even our regular troops do not have the scale of our firepower." Duan Zhenguo nodded in agreement.

"Next, follow the orders from our superiors and take over the entire Cambodia in one go. Don't forget, our superiors are still waiting for good news from us."

"This is the first battle for our new regiment, and we must not let our superiors down."

"Yes!"

Next, Zhao He's tank regiment was responsible for taking the lead. They basically pushed forward all the way, and if they encountered resistance, they would just fire their artillery fire.

If that doesn't work, then use two shots!
If it really doesn't work!

Then let the infantry send out the heavy artillery!
For a moment, the French troops in Cambodia were hammered to the ground and had no power to fight back.

In just a few days, most of the Khmer territory was lost.

"What did you say? More than half of our two divisions in Cambodia were lost?" Governor Degu had a gloomy face when he received the news.

Some time ago, Governor Degou held a celebration banquet to express his joy for the French Navy's sinking of the British Mediterranean Fleet.

As a result, before they could be happy for a few days, the Sichuan Army launched another attack.

It is obvious that after the Allied forces suffered defeat in the North African battlefield, they asked the Sichuan Army to attack them.

This made Governor Degu angry, and he kept scolding Stilwell for not being able to play.

Didn't you say you would give him time to think?

result?

Just launch an attack suddenly?
The terrain of Cambodia could not stop the attack of the Sichuan Army.

Therefore, he specially dispatched a native division composed of French officers to reinforce Cambodia.

The purpose is to stop the Sichuan Army's attack.

Who would have thought that in just a few days, more than half of the people would be killed or injured.

In fact, most of them were frightened and ran away. Not many were actually beaten to death.

"Your Excellency Governor, the Sichuan Army's combat effectiveness is too strong, especially their firepower, which is extremely powerful. We are no match for them at all." The combat staff said helplessly.

Unexpectedly, not long after that, the strength of the Sichuan Army was strengthened again.

It is obvious that the Allied forces had long planned to force their way south to Annan and other places.

After all, I can't allow others to snore beside my bed.

Originally, Governor Degu wanted to accumulate troops for a period of time and then deal with the Sichuan Army, but now it seems too late.

"Governor, if we don't send reinforcements, Cambodia will probably be destroyed." The combat staff advised again.

Hearing this, Governor Degu frowned even more.

There were only about 10,000 French troops in the French Indochina colony.

Apart from the major towns that needed to be garrisoned, there were very few French troops left to be mobilized.

The main task of the French troops in these towns was to prevent harassment by guerrillas.

After the French army suffered a loss due to insufficient manpower some time ago, Governor Degu learned his lesson.

It was decided to use the French army as the backbone and recruit the natives to form an indigenous division.

The main thing is to learn from the British Indian teachers in India.

But the situations of the two sides are fundamentally different.

The natives of India are very gentle and don't cause any trouble.

But it’s different in Annan, there are a lot of unexpected things.

If there had not been a high proportion of French officers and soldiers in these native divisions, they would have mutinied long ago.

Even so, the combat effectiveness is not that high.

Faced with the attack of the Sichuan Army, they basically collapsed at the first touch.

Totally live up to that statement.

With such little money, why work so hard?
"What is the Japanese 4th Division doing?" Governor Degu took a deep breath and asked instead of answering immediately.

"Ah?" The combat staff officer was a little confused by the question, then he came to his senses and spoke immediately.

"We have been busy eliminating guerrillas recently. I have to say that the Japanese army is really good at dealing with guerrillas. The guerrillas that we were unable to deal with before are now easily eliminated by them."

"During this period, we have wiped out several thousand guerrillas, and even annihilated the guerrillas in some important towns."

Hearing this, Governor Degu finally felt relieved.

Originally he was still wondering why the Japanese 4th Division lost Bangkok so easily.

After the incident in Cambodia, he realized that the strength of the Sichuan Army was absolutely beyond imagination.

The Sichuan Army Corps, after being equipped with Allied equipment, became extremely powerful.

So it is not surprising that the Japanese army lost Bangkok.

Now seeing that the Japanese army was busy clearing out the guerrillas, they finally came up with the idea of ​​letting the Japanese 4th Division join the battle.

"Let the Japanese 4th Division go out to assist us in driving away the Sichuan Army." Governor Degu pondered for a while and then gave the order.

"Will they agree?" the operations staff asked hesitantly.

"There is a saying in China that goes, 'If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.' If the Cambodians are gone, the Sichuan Army will definitely attack Hanoi next." Governor De Gu said confidently.

He believed that the Japanese army could definitely see this.

After all, this is a top-ranked Type A division.

such a pity!
Governor Degu really didn't know the reputation of the 4th Division.

Otherwise, we would never place all our hopes on the Fourth Division.

Because then the 4th Division showed him what the real 4th Division was.

The first thing is to pretend that the signal is bad and the telegram was not received.

I really can't hide it anymore.

Just say the radio is broken and is being repaired.

Then the French army sent a large number of spare parts.

The results of it?
The 4th Division said that all their radio parts were purchased locally.

There was no other choice, so the French army dispatched fighter planes to Hong Kong and purchased a batch of radio parts from there.

The French army originally thought that they would not be able to find any other reasons this time.

result!

The subsequent performance further refreshed the French army's bottom line.

After walking just a hundred meters, many people started to feel diarrhea and said they wanted to rest.

The French army could understand this.

Non-combat casualties!

Very normal!
After all, the French army often has it!

but!

A squadron of search troops had more than half of their casualties as non-combat casualties. Isn't that a bit unreasonable?

In response, the French army sent a large amount of medicine.

For the sake of these medicines, the Japanese army once again rushed to the battlefield fully equipped.

very good!

This time I walked one thousand meters!

Someone broke his head!

Someone lost a weapon!

Anyway, all kinds of weird things are happening!
The French army was completely confused.

If the enemy’s flag had not been for the Japanese Army’s 4th Division.

He even suspected which indigenous army this was.

Do not!
Even the natives are not so lame.

"Bastard, bastard, bastard." Governor Degu cursed three times in a row upon hearing the news. It was enough to show that he was really mad at the Japanese 4th Division.

"Immediately send a telegram to Terauchi Hisaichi of the Japanese Southern Army and ask them to severely reprimand the 4th Division. They have no moral bottom line as a soldier." Governor-General Tokugu roared angrily.

During these few days of delay, the Sichuan Army occupied a large area and it was expected that in two days, it would occupy the entire Cambodia.

Even the long-lost royal family of Cambodia raised the uprising again, saying they wanted to restore the Khmer dynasty.

This made Governor Degu extremely angry.

The results of it?
Terauchi Hisaichi, who received the telegram, seemed very calm.

Not even a hint of emotion!

Because he is used to it.

He was not surprised at all that the 4th Division could do such a thing.

Even if the other party did not do so, he would suspect that the Fourth Division had taken the wrong medicine.

"Commander, how should we reply to this telegram?" the communications staff officer asked cautiously.

"How to reply? Do you need me to teach you? Tell him that the 4th Division is directly under the headquarters, and we, the Southern Army, have no right to mobilize them." Terauchi Hisaichi didn't want to care about the other party at all.

Because not long ago, the officers he sent out to investigate the 4th Division have not returned yet.

There were even rumors that the investigation team was attacked by guerrillas as soon as it arrived at the 4th Division’s base, and no news was heard from them again.

This made Terauchi Hisaichi suspect that, if nothing unexpected happened, the 4th Division must be involved.

After all, it's all just too coincidental.

(End of this chapter)