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Chapter 1,408: Prelude to the Eastern Expedition

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    The Eastern Expedition is Li Guoyao's current battle plan, and the Eighth Army has been waiting for this opportunity for 12 years.

    The three words "September 18th" have gone through dozens of years. As the historical lens moves forward, it has become a symbol of a distant event.

    ¡°However, for the people in Northeast China right now, the meaning of these three words is their personal misery.

    With the fall of Northeast China, a large number of Northeastern people fled to the pass in order to avoid the power of the Japanese army. A song "On the Songhua River" sang out their desolate situation and resentment in their hearts.

    The Northeasterners who stayed in their hometowns, with Japanese bayonets on their necks, watched their parents and brothers being killed, their wives, daughters and sisters raped, and their fathers and fellow villagers being brutalized.

    Twelve years ago, the Japanese Kwantung Army occupied the entire Northeast in a huge accident. Amid the weak mediation efforts of the League of Nations, Northeast China seemed to be struggling in a huge quagmire, sinking deeper and deeper.

    Within a hundred days, pieces of land rich in white mountains and black waters fell under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders.

    The fall of the three eastern provinces caused China's mountains and rivers to change color, the sun and the moon to lose light, and the entire Chinese people felt that they had fallen into a long and painful night.

    Since then, the Northeast Army has also been pushed to the forefront of history, and the three words "non-resistance" have become a shameful label that will always be attached to the Northeast Army.

    And it has become a lifelong dream for many Northeastern soldiers to fight back to their hometown!

    "But with the Xi'an Incident, the young marshal was placed under house arrest, the Northeast Army was divided and used, and became a mess. Fighting back home became a slogan.

    However, the sudden rise of the Ninth Army gave the Northeast Army hope again, and Li Guoyao did not disappoint them and had already begun preparations in this regard.

    For Li Guoyao, due to the support of the United States, Britain and other countries in the next battlefield in China, the Japanese army had no hope of completely conquering China.

    Especially after the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Japanese Southern Army¡¯s troops in the Solomon Islands encountered joint counterattacks by the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, and began to suffer defeats.

    So since the summer of 1943, the U.S. military has divided its attacks northward in New Guinea in the Western Pacific and the Gilbert Islands in the Central Pacific.

    The strategic intention of the US military is: the Army troops in the Western Pacific will attack Japan along New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Ryukyu Islands; the naval forces in the Central Pacific will attack the Marshall Islands, Guam, and Mariana Islands in the northwest along the Gilbert Islands.  , Iwo Jima, and the Army of the West Route, roughly arriving at Ryukyu and Iwo Jima in the spring of 1945, to form a pincer-shaped attack on the Japanese mainland from the sea.

    According to this plan, the commander-in-chief of the US Army in the Southwest Pacific, 63-year-old Army General MacArthur, commanded the US 37th, 43rd, 25th Divisions, the American Division and the 6 Australian Infantry Divisions, led by Major General Twining's 13th Infantry Division.  The air force cooperated with the navy to attack the Solomon Islands.

    And with Lieutenant General Kruger's 6th Army, along the northern coast of New Guinea at Lae, Madan, Wewak, Vanimo, Jayapura, to Lieutenant General Nakahiro Nomitsu's subordinates of the Japanese 18th Army.  The 51st Division and the Nanhai Detachment of Major General Horii Tomaro launched successive attacks, pushing the Japanese army into the natural rainforest inland of New Guinea, and continued to expand the offensive from the sea.

    The troops attacking northwest along the Gilbert Islands were commanded by the 58-year-old Admiral Nimitz, who was the former Chief of Military Affairs of the U.S. Navy and is now the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The landing force consisted of 9 divisions.  , and Major General Haley's 7th Air Force.

    The Pacific Fleet, with Major General Smith's 5th Amphibious Corps established on August 30, 1943, commanded 1 Marine Division and 1 Infantry Division to attack north along the Gilbert Islands.  The fleet and land forces commanded by Admiral Halsey, in cooperation with MacArthur's Army Division, attacked the 6th and 38th Divisions and the Navy of the 17th Army of the Japanese Army in the Solomon Islands.

    As the Japanese army suffered successive defeats in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, and the situation became more serious, the Japanese army base camp was forced to modify or suspend some planned invasion plans, and began to dispatch troops from its own country, from the Kwantung Army, from China, and from the Korean Army.  Deploy troops to the above-mentioned areas in an attempt to prevent the US military's attack and form new troops to enhance its military strength.

    By the end of 1942, the Japanese Army had a total of 53 divisions. By 1943, in order to prevent the U.S. counterattack from the Pacific, 12 new divisions were formed, namely the 61st Division, the 31st Division, the 30th, 42nd, and  43, 46, 47, 62, 63, 64, 65, 2nd Guards Division, etc.

    By 1943, the Japanese Army had 70 infantry divisions.  At this time, the Japanese Navy had 19 fleets below the Combined Fleet, with 12 battleships; 4 aircraft carriers; 16 heavy cruisers; 17 light cruisers; and 103 destroyers.  57 submarines.

    Based on the circumstances of the defeat in the Solomon Islands, andSeeing that the US military will expand its offensive, the Japanese base camp determined the "absolute defense circle" that must be protected at the imperial meeting, and established a new command system accordingly; increased defensive forces, and determined the transportation organization and various supplies at sea and in the air  accumulation base; establishing a defense system and coordination between the army and navy, etc.

    The "absolute defense circle" that must be protected is the Kuril Islands, the Japanese mainland and the Ogasawara Islands, the Mariana Islands, the Truk Islands, the Western Caroline Islands, the western half of New Guinea, the Southeast Islands, and the Lesser Sunda Islands  , Java Island, Sumatra Island, Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands, and Myanmar.

    Various signs have shown that the powerful and arrogant Japanese militarist group has prospered and declined, and is on the decline.

    In order to ensure an absolute defense perimeter, prevent the U.S. military from approaching the Philippines from the southern sea area, and enhance the defense of western New Guinea and the Maguru Islands, the Japanese base camp began to transfer the 2nd Army Headquarters of General Anami Weiji in Qiqihar to the south of the Philippines in 1943.  Halmahera Island; Lieutenant General Toshima Botaro's 2nd Army headquarters stationed in the Yanji area was transferred to Manokwari in western New Guinea.

    Since then, the U.S. Navy and Army have gradually increased their forces in the South Pacific, attacking in two directions.  Its army reached a maximum of 21 divisions, including the 11th Airborne Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, and even the navy had 6 marine divisions.

    With the cooperation of many surface ships and air force, starting in 1943, the US military successively captured Tarawa Island and Abemama Island, which were fortified by the Japanese army in the Gilbert Islands in the Central Pacific.

    A total of about 280 Japanese naval garrisons on these two islands were wiped out and no one escaped.

    Subsequently, the U.S. military continued to advance north.

    The two divisions of Major General Smith's 5th Amphibious Corps also unexpectedly captured Kwajalein Island, which was strongly fortified by the Japanese army in the Marshall Islands, and completely annihilated the 1st Maritime Independent Mobile Brigade formed by the Kwantung Army.

    At the same time, after many operations, the U.S. Navy and Air Force sank a large number of Japanese transport ships, aircraft carriers and various types of combat ships, and controlled the sea power in the Central and South Pacific, leaving tens of thousands of Japanese troops on various islands.  , severed from each other and from their home countries.

    Based on this situation, the US military proposed and implemented a new maritime combat method-the leapfrog tactic, or a tactic called "cross-island attack".

    This method of combat is to send only a small number of waterborne troops to monitor the Japanese troops stationed on isolated islands at a certain distance on the sea surface, so that the Japanese troops trapped on the isolated islands endure hunger and disease and gradually lose their combat effectiveness.

    Due to successive defeats after Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific, the Japanese army had to dispatch troops from its own country, as well as the Chinese Dispatch Army, the Korean Army, and the Kwantung Army to the Pacific region in an attempt to prevent the US military from attacking.

    Therefore, starting in 1934, the Kwantung Army repeatedly formulated various combat plans against the Soviet Union. In fact, they have been cancelled, and instead they continued to mobilize troops to the south.

    According to relevant information, the ground troops deployed by the Kwantung Army in 1943 alone included: the 12th Field Air Defense Command transferred to New Guinea and the South Pacific; the 54th and 57th Field Anti-aircraft Artillery Teams; the 2nd Front Army Headquarters;  2nd Army Headquarters; 1st Military Police Brigade; 49th and 53rd Field Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalions, 4th Field Searchlight Battalion.

    Those transferred to the Malayan side include the 15th Tank Regiment; the 1st Independent Field Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion; and the 11th Mortar Battalion.

    Those transferred to the Philippines include the 22nd Independent Engineer Regiment; the 51st and 57th Independent Engineer Brigades.

    Those transferred back to China include the 24th Independent Engineer Regiment; the 52nd, 55th, 56th, and 58th Independent Engineer Brigades; the 16th Tank Regiment; the 1st Independent Maritime Mobile Brigade; and the 2nd and 3rd Nanyang Detachments.

    As for the aviation force, the 15th Aviation Intelligence Wing, the 85th Combat Team, the 1st Aviation Repair Shop, the 12th Flying Regiment and the Air Transport Squadron were transferred to the China Expeditionary Forces.

    Relevant to New Guinea and the Southeast Pacific, the Eastern Army's Aerial Photography Team; the 14th Flying Regiment Headquarters; the 68th Combat Team; the 78th Combat Team; the 15th Communications Wing; and the 26th Light Bombing Team.

    Those dispatched to Malaya include the 8th Flying Regiment Headquarters; the 60th Heavy Bombardment Group; the 70th Heavy Bombardment Group; the 8th Aviation Area Command; the 77th Combat Group; the 204th Teaching (Fighter) Group; and the 87th Combat Group.  ; Air Transport Squadron 1.

    With so many troops being transferred out of the Northeast in just one year, Li Guoyao saw the opportunity to regain the Northeast, so the Eastern Expedition Plan came into being.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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