There was a region called Chifeng on the northeastern border.
Chifeng had convenient railway transportation and was a junction of provincial boundaries!
The Japanese cavalry mixed brigade, 800 war horses, galloped rapidly through the mountains.
Da-da-da
Tip-tap-tip-tap...
The cavalry's mobility was very fast in the mountainous terrain, and the cavalry brigade gradually approached Chifeng.
"Speed up, we must take Chifeng!"
The Japanese brigade commander looked up at the sky and heard a series of sonic booms!
A Red Alert fighter jet dropped a bomb!
The brigade commander breathed a sigh of relief! Only one!
Boom——
An incredibly intense shockwave, this single thermobaric bomb covered a range of several hundred meters in length and width, encompassing most of the cavalry force.
Thermobaric bomb! The principle of a thermobaric bomb is that fuel and oxidizer mix together, increasing the pressure and temperature of the explosion!
The ultra-high temperature cloud produced by the explosion would destroy a person's lungs, burn them, and as they breathed the scorching air, it would destroy the respiratory system, leading to suffocation and death!
Hundreds of war horses and Japanese cavalrymen suffocated to death!
Hundreds of Japanese soldiers had contorted faces in agony!
The brigade commander stared at this scene in disbelief, unable to comprehend what kind of terrifying bomb this was!
The key point was that their chance to capture Chifeng was gone!
Two hours later, another Japanese cavalry mixed brigade arrived. Seeing the hundreds of cavalrymen who died in such a strange way, they were also extremely horrified. Upon inspection, they discovered that the internal organs, respiratory tract, and lungs were cooked!
"It must be a new type of bomb! Be careful!"
A Red Alert aircraft swept across the sky again, dropping another thermobaric bomb, and the second cavalry mixed brigade was also wiped out!
Two consecutive cavalry mixed brigades failed to capture Chifeng, because Lin Zheng was also attacking in the Yingkou region!
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Northeastern region.
Yingkou was about 120 kilometers from Jinzhou.
Yingkou was known as the northeastern strategic seaport and the gateway to the sea.
The 117th Division of the Japanese Army in Yingkou, division commander Suzuki Hirohisa.
Over 10,000 Japanese soldiers were stationed on the beachhead, equipped with over 30 150mm coastal guns.
Boom-boom-boom...
20 Red Alert destroyers on the sea surface bombarded the beachhead with their naval guns!
The beachhead was a scene of bloodshed!
The Japanese army on the beachhead was covered by naval gunfire.
An entire regiment was wiped out!
The Red Alert destroyers' naval guns were equipped with range-extending shells, allowing them to fire five kilometers further than the Japanese coastal guns.
The Japanese 117th Division was thoroughly beaten up!
Division commander Suzuki Hirohisa raged incessantly!
He had no means of retaliation!
The Red Alert and Japanese forces often engaged in unequal combat, with each battle!
The Red Alert's various unprecedented new types of naval, air, and ground forces would make the strongest empire in Asia, Fusang, seriously reflect!
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Suzuki Hirohisa led the remaining few thousand soldiers of the 117th Division to withdraw from Yingkou.
The Japanese army in Yingkou had amassed looted resources.
100,000 tons of precious metals, 100 tons of gold and silver, countless amounts of food and meat.
The importance of Yingkou lay in the 30 to 60 kilometer wide landing point.
After landing, it was a 100 kilometer wide plain.
The plain could accommodate a defensive line of over one million troops.
Lin Zheng chose Yingkou as the landing point.
This was to allow him to deploy an army of over one million!
To protect the landing of a million-strong army, air defense must be secured.
Lin Zheng built twenty new airfields at the Yingkou landing point.
Each airfield housed a squadron of Red Alert fighter jets, taking off in batches to intercept Japanese aircraft!
Both sides fought in the air above Yingkou, shooting down 127 newly produced Japanese aircraft!
Lin Zheng's million-strong army was gathering, and a larger-scale battle was brewing.
Transport ships, each with a tonnage of thousands of tons, crowded Yingkou harbor.
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Red Alert Base
In the office
Lin Zheng sat on the sofa.
Standing in front of Lin Zheng was a thin man wearing glasses.
The famous Little Zhuge, Bai Chongxi.
Bai Chongxi was a member of the Guangxi Clique, a powerful warlord.
"Congratulations, Commander Lin! You've captured the two key points of Chifeng and Yingkou!" Bai Chongxi had accepted orders from his superior, Li Zongren.
To cultivate a good relationship with Lin Zheng in advance!
Lin Zheng discussed various military and economic matters with him, and Bai Chongxi nodded repeatedly.
For a long time, the Nationalist government had been weak and impoverished, suffering from humiliation at the hands of Western powers.
Bai Chongxi had witnessed with his own eyes the British warships bombarding Nanjing, killing 2,000 people.
During negotiations with Western envoys, Bai Chongxi's eyes expressed sorrow, anger, hatred, resignation, and a sense of relief!
The Western powers were a mountain looming over their heads!
The mountain that could never be toppled was shattered by Lin Zheng!
The destruction of the British and Soviet fleets was known to all...
Lin Zheng: "Little Zhuge... I understand your intention. You can tell Li Zongren to come and see me."
"I have something I want to discuss with Li Zongren."
"It concerns the survival of the Guangxi Clique!"