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Chapter 1507: Return to Datong (please vote for me!)

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    When the Japanese army launched an attack on the first theater, Xu Hu and others who were far away in Datong immediately reported the relevant situation to Li Guoyao. After learning about the situation, Li Guoyao immediately gave instructions, and the main forces of the Ninth Army immediately secretly assembled.  Always ready to strike.

    Li Guoyao knew about this battle launched by the Japanese army with the main purpose of opening up the mainland's transportation lines, and he also knew the final result of this battle.

    If the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain is the greatest shame of China¡¯s Anti-Japanese War, then this decisive battle, which China calls the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, is even more of a shame among shames.

    This battle was the last large-scale battle in the history of the Anti-Japanese War and the most tragic battle in which the Chinese army suffered a defeat.

    In this battle, the Japanese army suffered 30,000 casualties in exchange for 60 casualties from the Chinese army, a ratio of 1:20.

    Not only that, China also lost 200,000 square kilometers of land area. It is no exaggeration to say that it was the largest defeat in the history of anti-Japanese war.

    This is a shame for the entire national army and the darkest moment in the entire history of China¡¯s Anti-Japanese War.

    This battle has been criticized a lot, because in 1944, the Allied Powers were winning successively and launching a major counterattack, but the National Army actually retreated steadily under the Japanese "Battle No. 1". This made people have to doubt the National Army.  real combat capabilities.

    In Li Guoyao's view, one of the reasons why the Chinese army was defeated so miserably in this battle was that they underestimated the enemy's carelessness.

    At the beginning of this battle, the Japanese army had deliberately released the news, saying that Japan had focused on attacking Chongqing. Therefore, the Kuomintang had already focused its attention on Chongqing, and naturally it would not focus on other areas.  It's not taken into consideration.

    The second point is that there is not much difference between the strength of the national army and the Japanese army. In order to win this battle, the Japanese army put almost all the troops on the Chinese battlefield into the battle. It used 510,000 combat soldiers alone. At the same time, it also  There are 1,550 large-caliber artillery pieces, 15,000 vehicles, and even the baby pimple-like third division of tanks was dispatched.

    The last point and the key point is that the people in the national army were already divided at that time. Most of them had their own selfish motives and wanted to preserve their strength. For example, Tang Enbo on the battlefield in Henan. In this way, naturally he would not be able to fight with the Japanese army.  To fight.

    Li Guoyao was well aware of the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, and he also knew that it was obviously impossible for the Ninth Army alone to reverse the entire war situation, but he still wanted to give it a try.

    It¡¯s not that Li Guoyao didn¡¯t have self-awareness, but because the consequences of the tragic defeat in the Henan-Hunan-Guangxi Battle were so serious that they even affected China¡¯s post-war international status and territorial integrity.

    This battle started in April and ended in December 1944. The Japanese army took over four provinces from the national army, covering an area of ??more than 200,000 square kilometers, and more than 30 airports were bombed by the Japanese army.

    And this battle took place a year before the Japanese surrender. The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army could no longer be compared with that of the Japanese army at the beginning, and many of them were new recruits.

    The Japanese army lost the Pacific War and its momentum was not as high as before.

    You must know that the international situation at this time is that the Soviet army has completely eliminated the German threat to Leningrad and severely damaged the German Army Group North.

    The Chinese Expeditionary Force in Myanmar launched the second dry season offensive, and all Japanese troops collapsed.

    In the Battle of Saipan, after 25 days of fighting between the US and Japanese armies, the US military occupied the entire island of Saipan and achieved a tragic victory.

    The Soviet army completely defeated the German Army Group Center, liberated all of Belarus and invaded Poland.

    The U.S. military landed in Normandy, and the Allies entered Europe's major counterattack.

    It can be said that everything is very beneficial to the national army.

    But the final result was heartbreaking.  This battle not only caused China to lose its land and caused more Chinese people to be enslaved by the Japanese army, but also caused China to lose face.

    Western countries have always looked down upon China, and after this battle they looked down upon China even more.

    In 1943, at the Cairo Conference, Chiang Kai-shek, US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill discussed war-related matters.  By the time of the Yalta Conference, Chiang no longer received attention, and he was not even invited to attend the conference. This was directly related to the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi.

    Moreover, the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi greatly damaged the United States' goodwill towards the Republic of China government. The US military seriously doubted the combat effectiveness of the national army. The relationship between the chief of staff of the theater, Stilwell, and Chiang Kai-shek, which had deteriorated before this battle, reached a critical point.  .

    Stilwell compared the poor performance of the Chinese army in the battle with the strength of the Indian Ramkar Burma Expeditionary Force. He pointed out that the corruption and incompetence of the Chiang regime was the main reason for the prolongation of the war, and even went so far as to advocate that Chiang should be replaced as the commander-in-chief.The supreme commander of the US theater of war, and Chiang almost angrily demanded that the United States replace Stilwell.

    However, this is not the most serious, the most serious consequences are yet to come.

    U.S. President Roosevelt recognized the important role of China in the war of resistance. He hoped that China would become the main force in the counterattack against Japan. It would be better if the Soviet Union did not participate. Therefore, he paid special attention to China. He also hoped that China would become an Asian ally of the United States against the Soviet Union in the future.

    And he insisted on listing China as one of the five major countries in the world, and made China famous around the world as the five permanent members of the United Nations. This was the highest point of the reputation of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chongqing government.

    However, a battle in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi disappointed Roosevelt.

    The war is coming to an end. The Japanese army is actually engaged in a trapped beast war. The Chinese army is still defeated miserably at this time. Western countries have reason to doubt the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.

    In Roosevelt¡¯s view, with the strength of the national army, how can we expect China to counterattack the Japanese mainland?  How many more casualties will the U.S. military have to pay?

    Therefore, at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, in order to enable the Soviet Union to send troops to attack the Japanese troops on mainland China as soon as possible, Roosevelt secretly signed the "Yalta Agreement" with the Soviet Union, involving Outer Mongolia and China's sovereignty, behind China's back.

    The secret agreement allowed part of China¡¯s territory to become independent under the protection of the Soviet Union. The direct cause of this serious consequence was the failure of the Kuomintang army¡¯s battle in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi.

    So even though Japan surrendered a year later and China won, it still couldn't change its fate of being bullied.  Eventually, the Soviet Union forced China to recognize Mongolia's independence.

    It can be said that the tragic defeat in the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi had a profound impact on China, even catastrophic.

    Because of this, Li Guoyao decided to give it a try, even if he lacked strength, even if he was hitting an egg against a stone.

    So, in early May, he temporarily settled the situation of the Northeast Advance Army, and then returned to the pass.

    "Compared with the arduous trek when we came here, it was very easy and quick when we came back because Li Guoyao took a plane back.

    During the previous attack on Wangye Temple, the troops captured a flying team of the puppet Manchukuo government, captured more than 200 puppet pilots and ground crews, and seized 17 fighter planes.

    Although they are relatively old fighters, they are still regarded as treasures by Li Guoyao, and he sent people to transport the fighters to Xilinhot overnight.

    Li Guoyao then formed the first flying regiment of the Ninth Army based on these puppet pilots, and transferred Fang Li, who had risen to deputy brigade commander, to the flying regiment as its commander.

    After several months of training, the flight group has begun to take shape. Although there has been no actual combat, it can still serve as a transport aircraft.

    "Besides, Li Guoyao didn't intend to let these hard-trained pilots fly these old antiques to fight against the little devils. That was not a battle, but a suicide.

    On the evening of May 25, two fighter planes landed at Wangyemiao Airport. Early the next morning, Li Guoyao, who had been waiting at Wangyemiao for a long time, boarded the plane under the protection of a team of special forces members, and then flew directly to Datong.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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