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Chapter 126 Marching into Nanyang (1)

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    When Hong Kong and Macau were successfully recovered, the good news from Kunming in the Southwest Theater also flew via radio waves to the National Military Commission in Wuhan and the Northeast Frontier Defense Department in Shenyang.

    After entering November, the southwest region finally got rid of the annoying autumn rainy weather and began to enter the dry season of early winter. Along with the weather, the situation in Kunming improved.  On October 27, Anning City, an important town to the left of Kunming, was captured by the 175th and 177th Divisions of the Sichuan Army after four days of bloody battles; on the 28th, Yiliang City on the right of Kunming was also captured by the 180th and 275th Divisions of the Sichuan Army.  , the 288th Brigade jointly eliminated; the two Sichuan troops responsible for the flank attack killed, wounded, and captured more than 15,000 people from the Japanese 125th Division and the 140th Division.  The Japanese troops in Kunming City were surrounded by Chinese troops on three sides.  At this time, the initiative in the southwest battlefield was completely in the hands of the Chinese army, while the originally arrogant Japanese army was reduced to the tragic situation of being passively beaten everywhere.

    At this point in the war, Lieutenant General Kanbaru Hanyu realized very clearly that the Japanese army no longer had the ability to attack. If they stubbornly insisted on taking the initiative to attack, they would inevitably lose everything.  After thinking about it, Lieutenant General Kanbaru and Lieutenant General Kobayashi finally decided to give up the active attack and take a step back to defend with mutual cover. They relied on Kunming and the surrounding towns, villages, roads and rivers to compete with the Chinese army for a long time; at the same time, Central Kambara  The general was also prepared for the fall of Kunming and the entire Yunnan Province, and began to make every effort to evacuate the essence and elite troops of the Japanese army in Yunnan Province to Guizhou through the Dianchi Lake south of Kunming.

    Lieutenant General Kanbara's defensive retreat is undoubtedly the most sober and wise decision for the Japanese army, which is currently in a declining situation. However, for the more than 77,000 officers and soldiers under his command at this time, it is equivalent to announcing that the Japanese base camp was originally  The "Southwestern China Strategy" formulated was a complete failure.  And "protracted confrontation" means nothing more than "defending". This kind of so-called "defending" and "all being broken" are just different terms. This kind of battle will not have reinforcements until the last moment.  Almost everyone in the Japanese army, who had lost their last hope and staggered forward in the mud, felt this kind of worry and despair.

    In the clear sky again, waves of Northeastern Army aircraft were bombing and strafing day and night over the city of Kunming; on the streets and alleys, carloads of wounded Japanese soldiers were struggling to drive; the ruins of the city were  In the corner, piles of Japanese corpses in various strange shapes were piled up on top of each other. The Japanese soldiers had no time to deal with the remains of their companions.  In the bloody battles for several days, the Japanese independent 9th Brigade at the Sanjianshan Fortress in the south of the city has been the most miserable recently. Under the devastating and ferocious attacks of the Northeastern Army's 1st Brigade and the 33rd Brigade, the entire brigade's original 8,000 people supported the short-term  Three days later, there were less than 3,000 people.  The brigade commander, Major General Mizuhara Yishige, had no choice but to issue a fatal order to the troops never to retreat after his fifth request for reinforcements from Lieutenant General Kanbara was rejected.  Then, Major General Suwon burned the brigade flag with tears in his eyes. That night, he quietly climbed to the highest peak of Mount Samjianshan and committed suicide by caesarean section facing the distant direction of Japan.

    The death of Major General Suwon undoubtedly reflects that the morale of the Japanese army is no longer what it used to be and can no longer be revived.  On the other hand, the Chinese army was noisy all night long on the Sichuan-Yunnan Highway from Sichuan to Yunnan. There were convoys of cars, mules and horses, and long infantry columns loaded with various military supplies, as well as more than 100,000 migrant workers in front of the Sichuan branch.  Baggage, food, medicine, uniforms and other supplies and reserve troops were continuously replenished to the Kunming front line.  With victory in sight, all units of the Chinese army on the front line have high morale and are determined to win, and their combat effectiveness has also increased dramatically.  Under the opponent's stormy offensive, the Japanese defense lines such as Sanjianshan collapsed in an instant.  On November 2, the Northeastern Army's three-pronged army surged through the Japanese defense lines outside the city like a rolling tide, and marched straight into Kunming's city with overwhelming force.

    In the street fighting, the Northeast Army, which has superior infantry weapons and sufficient ammunition, continues to maintain the momentum of victory.  On the morning of the 5th, Major General Chen Qian, commander of the 1st Independent Brigade of the Northeastern Army who first invaded Kunming, reported the battle report on the recovery of Kunming to the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Major General Chu Qiming.  Major General Chen was young, energetic and victorious, and his pride was evident on paper. He declared eloquently in the telegram: "Our army has killed and wounded nearly 10,000 Japanese troops and captured the entire city of Kunming."

    In fact, when Major General Chen sent the report, there were still about a thousand Japanese troops remaining in Kunming City, guarding more than a dozen strongholds in the south of the city with their backs against Dianchi Lake. However, Major General Chen believed that these remnants of the Japanese army were not as good as the eight soldiers of his 1st Brigade.  Qian Xiaoyong was nothing compared to him, so he reported the results of the battle carelessly.  However, the situation in the battle took a turn for the worse. The Japanese troops in the city fought stubbornly and refused to retreat. They not only used a large number of suicide "meat bomb" tactics to repel several assaults by the Northeastern Army, but also commandeered more than a hundred fishing boats from local fishermen to take advantage of them.  At night, thousands more Japanese troops were transported from the Dianchi Lake waterway to supplement Kunming.Only then did he realize in despair that the other party had been targeting him for a long time.

    When Zhang Xueliang was preparing the war mobilization and strategic deployment of the Northeast Army to march into Southeast Asia in the Northeast Frontier Defense Department, the Prime Minister of the British Empire was writing a letter asking the United States to join the war amidst the sound of German bomber air strikes.  At this time, Churchill was in the most gloomy mood since the war began, but he was also anxious. He wrote in a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

    " Mr. President, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium have all been conquered, and the United Kingdom and Japan are also on the verge of collapse. The collapse of Japan will mean that China has become the new master of Asia; and the collapse of the United Kingdom will mean that Germany will dominate  Europe. The two newly rising fascist empires in the East and West are insatiable and have unfathomable war potential. While they are annexing Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan and other countries as well as the colonies of these countries one by one, their own  The strength is also growing like a snowball Japan has been abandoned by the world, and the UK is still leading Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and other countries alone to support the final stability of the world structure We are doing our best  , fight endlessly, and never give in But our situation has become increasingly embarrassing We can no longer hold on Mr. President, this is a world war, and it is also related to the survival of the United States. Please think about it, what if  Britain, the last defender of the world, will eventually collapse, and two-thirds of the entire earth will fall into the hands of the Axis group The last hope to save the world and the great historical responsibility have fallen on the Soviet Union and the United States, but  More hope still needs to be borne by the United States. Mr. President, the United States of America can no longer stand by and watch, otherwise, the United States, which has always stayed out of the war and watched from the other side, will eventually become the last target of the Axis Powers' attack.  . I beg you not to underestimate the serious consequences of Britain's defeatThe United States mustenter the war"

    At this time, the British Empire is already faltering and declining. When the disaster is about to come, Britain will also mourn.  But the final saving force they prayed for and counted on was actually the United States, which had historically separated from the British Empire. This is really a black humor of history.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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