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Chapter 1,404: Operation Plan No. 5 (Part 1)

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    Soon, the Japanese 56th Division made the decision to continue attacking northward.

    The specific deployment is as follows: Usuke Hirai's search wing and Colonel Matsui Kiroku's 148th wing will pass through Nankan, Manwen, Bhamo, Dunbaian, Mannan, and Baigon on the China-Myanmar border to capture the secret area.  **.

    Shizuo Sakaguchi's 56th Infantry Brigade, with the support of the two regiments to the west, captured Wanding, Zhefang, Jiudi, Luxi, and Longling along the highway in Yunnan, China, and reached the Lameng Street area to control the Nu River.  to the west.

    Sakaguchi Shizuo led his troops, and after repeated fierce battles with the national army, they captured Wanding on May 3, Longling on the 5th, and arrived at Lameng Street not far from the west bank of the Nujiang River on the 8th.

    At this time, the Huitong Bridge on the Nu River had been destroyed by the Kuomintang army. The 36th Division of the Kuomintang Army commanded by Li Zhipeng faced off with the first unit of the Japanese 146th Regiment on the east bank of the Nu River.

    After occupying the secret area, the 148th Regiment of the other Japanese army Colonel Matsui Kiroku moved east from there, crossed the Myanmar-China border, and occupied Tengchong, about 60 kilometers northwest of Longling, on May 10.

    After that, the 56th Division headquarters was stationed in Luxi, and its troops also stopped in the area west of the Nu River.

    At this point, the Japanese army finally invaded China's southwest, and the rear was no longer a safe place. This was a huge shock to the Chinese military and civilians.

    After the Japanese army entered Yunnan, they seized a large amount of materials through areas on both sides of the highway.

    Among the results of the 56th Division's invasion of Yunnan reported in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, 1,570 barrels of gasoline, 1,000 barrels of sticky oil, and 500 bags of rice were seized in Wanding; 310 barrels of gasoline and 1,100 barrels of sticky oil were seized in Zhefang; and 1,100 barrels of sticky oil were seized in Mangfang.  City, 900 car tires, 900 boxes of howitzer shells, and 600 boxes of anti-tank shells were seized; in Longling, 1,550 barrels of gasoline, 700 bags of rice, and 10,000 bags of cement were seized.  Other materials include copper, steel, tungsten, zinc and other materials.

    At this time, four divisions belonging to the 15th Army belonging to Shojiro Iida began attacking northern Myanmar in mid-March.  The 33rd Division on its west route captured Arakan on the west coast of Myanmar on May 4, and captured Tamanti in northwest Myanmar on the 30th.

    The 18th and 55th Divisions in the middle route occupied Tuojiao in the northeast of Mijun on June 9, the Lawa area west of Mijun on the 16th, and Sunbu north of Mijun on the 19th.  Pull the clam.

    So far, Myanmar has been completely occupied by them.

    The occupation of Myanmar by the Japanese army had a great impact on China. First, the large amount of materials that China had hoarded in Myanmar and had no time to transport them all fell into the hands of the Japanese. Second, one of China's most important external channels was cut off by the Japanese army.  .

    In fact, it was not until 1945 that the Japanese army that invaded Yunnan, China, was annihilated by the expeditionary force in Yunnan and the newly formed 22nd and 38th Divisions that retreated from Burma to India in the spring of 1942.

    After that, the road and oil pipeline from Ledo, Assam, India to Yunnan, China were opened and built at the same time. A large number of anti-war materials were transported into China via this road.

    Prior to this, China's external channels were almost completely blocked for two and a half years, and these two and a half years were also the most difficult period for the Chinese army during the entire Anti-Japanese War.

    Not long after the Japanese army captured Tengchong, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, Hisichi Terauchi, submitted a report on the successful conclusion of the first phase of the southern operation to the base camp.

    So far, the Japanese army has continued to launch large-scale offensives against the British, American, Dutch and Chinese expeditionary forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asia and achieved considerable results. Some of them have reached New Guinea and South of the equator, which the Japanese call Trans-Southern Ocean.  Solomon Islands; one entered the Indian Ocean and attacked India and Ceylon, causing the British fleet in this area to retreat to the east coast of Africa.

    The Japanese army and navy also captured Attu Island and Kiska Island in the American Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific.

    For Japan, this is the highest peak of foreign aggression since its founding.

    So much so that the Japanese writer Keiji Uehara called this "the greatest battle of all time" and was filled with admiration.

    For the Japanese military, the Japanese military¡¯s operations in the Pacific and Southeast Asia have indeed achieved the intended combat effects through careful planning, adequate preparation, strict confidentiality, effective command, and organic coordination.

    They successfully attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing it to lose its ability to support the Philippines, Malaya and other places.

    At the same time, it also sank the battleship "Prince of Wales" of the British Far East Fleet and the aircraft carriers "Hamis" and "Arena", causing the British army to lose its reliance in the Indian Ocean.

    After half a year of fighting, the situation of the Japanese army in various battlefields is as follows:

    In Malaysia, the Japanese army annihilated the British defenders, occupied Malaya and Singapore, and forced the British commander in the area, Lieutenant General Percival, to lead theThe remaining British and Indian troops, about 100,000 men, signed a letter of surrender to Fengwen Yamashita of the 25th Army.

    Afterwards, the Japanese air raided Colombo, the capital of Ceylon, and easily sank the British aircraft carrier "Hamis" in the northern Indian Ocean.

    In Indonesia, Imamura Jun¡¯s 16th Army captured Jakarta on March 5 and easily captured Bandung a few days later.  Subsequently, Lieutenant General Deparden, commander of the Dutch garrison, went to Jakarta that day to surrender to Imamura Jun.

    In Myanmar, Shojiro Iida¡¯s 15th Army, after fighting with the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the British Army, invaded the western Yunnan Province of China from northern Myanmar and was not stopped until it reached the west bank of the Nu River.

    In the Philippines, Lieutenant General Winlett, commander of the US military, surrendered to Masaharu Honma, commander of the Japanese 14th Army, on Coricheru Island at the mouth of Manila Bay after resistance failed.

    Based on the above situation, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Southern Army Juichi Terauchi and the Chief of General Staff Tsukada reported to their base camp that "the Southern Army's combat mission has been completed."

    Of course, this does not mean that the Japanese attack on the Pacific Theater is over. This report by Juichi Terauchi only shows that the Army has completed the first phase of the combat mission set at the beginning of the war.

    As for the continued expansion of the occupied area in the Pacific, the operation to block the US Navy's sea routes to the Western Pacific and Australia, and the capture of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean, it has not yet fully begun.

    After the battle of the Southern Army came to an end for the time being, the Japanese army once again turned its attention back to the Chinese battlefield. After all, for the top Japanese military leaders, the Chinese battlefield was still the main battlefield so far, and even went south to wrestle with the United States, Britain and other countries. This was largely due to the  In order to destroy China as soon as possible.

    However, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army inevitably relaxed its offensive on the Chinese battlefield, so that the Chinese army launched several large-scale counterattacks.

    Especially in the third battle of Changsha, the ninth theater commanded by Xue Yue abruptly annihilated more than 50,000 elite troops, which was absolutely unacceptable to the base camp.

    In addition, the Japanese army had completed its combat missions in the Pacific and Southeast Asia at this time. The base camp believed that due to the influence of the world situation and the European war situation, the strength of the Japanese navy and army in the western and southern Pacific, as well as the short-term impact of these countries captured by the Japanese army,  There won't be much action within the time frame.

    At this time, the offensive operations in South Asia and the Pacific were over. The Japanese army's senior decision-making and command organs and the high-level headquarters in the field conducted full research on how to determine the next operational direction, and gradually formed a plan - taking advantage of the remaining power of the new victory to concentrate on  With a certain amount of troops, launch a large-scale attack on China's rear area, annihilate China's field army, destroy China's resistance base, and end the war in China.

    Most of those who strongly advocated attacking China¡¯s rear areas had experience in China and were high-ranking figures in the Japanese military circles who had ambitious ambitions for aggression.

    For example, Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, who once served as the commander of the North China Front and is now the chief of staff; Lieutenant General Tanabe, who once served as the chief of staff of the North China Front and is currently the deputy chief of staff; Shinichi Tanaka, who once served as the chief of staff of the Mongolian Army and is now the chief of operations.  Lt. Gen. et al.

    In addition, there are Marshal Hata Shuroku, commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, Lieutenant General Kengo Noda, deputy chief of staff of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, General Yoshiji Okamura, commander of the North China Front, and Yuki Anami, commander of the 11th Army stationed in Hankou, who are commanding operations on the Chinese battlefield.  Lieutenant General.

    Lieutenant General Harem Chun, Chief of the General Staff of China¡¯s Expeditionary Forces, also actively held this view before the outbreak of the Pacific War. However, after the Japanese army invaded Southeast Asia, he temporarily took a negative attitude towards it.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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