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Okamura Neji was transferred from North China, which is definitely good news for the Jiuji Army.
For Okamura, a difficult opponent, Li Guoyao did feel a lot of pressure. Compared with his predecessors, Sugiyama Moto and Tada Shun, Okamura was in the most difficult situation after taking office, but he performed the best. .
If the commander of the North China Front had always been Shunlai Tada, Li Guoyao would have been confident that he would have defeated the North China Front 44 years ago.
However, Okamura Neiji quickly reversed the situation after taking office, revitalizing the North China Front and restoring its decline.
Although the North China Front also lost a lot of territory in the past two days, the reason was that the base camp continued to mobilize elite troops from the North China Front to go south, which greatly weakened the North China Front's combat effectiveness. It cannot be attributed to the command of Okamura Neiji.
At present, Okamura is transferred to the commander of the Sixth Front Army, and the commander of the North China Front is General Naosaburo Okabe!
Compared with Okamura, Okabe Naosaburo is not even a star. Without the threat of Okamura, and the Japanese troops in the pass are restrained by the national army on the battlefields of Gui and Liu, Li Guoyao's troops can also feel at ease. Fighting in the Northeast.
More importantly, the current situation is already very bad for the Japanese army.
During this period, the Japanese army suffered successive defeats in the Pacific Theater and South Asia. Saipan in the Mariana Islands was captured by the US military on July 7. Due to the disparity in equipment, the US military only killed 3,441 people, while all 41,244 Japanese soldiers on the island died.
On August 2, Tinian Island, about 5 kilometers south of Saipan, was captured by the US military. Colonel Ogata Keishi, captain of the 50th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Division of the defenders, and about 5,100 people were all killed in the battle. The Japanese Navy's 1st Air Fleet The commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Kakuharu Tsunoda, committed suicide.
On August 11, Guam was captured by the US military again. Lieutenant General Obata Hideyoshi, the commander of the 31st Army on the island, committed suicide and all the defenders were wiped out.
At this time, the U.S. military had broken Japan¡¯s far-sea defense circle and was preparing to attack the Philippines, Ryukyu Islands and Japan¡¯s mainland.
The Japanese troops in northern Myanmar are being annihilated by the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the American and British troops. The New 1st Army and the New 6th Army of the Expeditionary Force commanded by Zheng Dongguo were refitted and trained in India and attacked eastward from Assam in eastern India with the US military forces commanded by Stilwell.
After defeating the defense of the Japanese 18th Division, they passed through the Hukang River Valley and captured the secret base close to Yunnan, China, on August 3. Major General Genzo Minamizu, commander of the 56th Infantry Regiment of the enemy's 56th Division, who led troops from Longling, Yunnan, to reinforce the enemy, was forced to commit suicide on August 4 in a secret area.
At this time, the Chinese expeditionary force in Yunnan, commanded by Wei Lihuang, and the expeditionary force commanded by Zheng Dongguo, who had returned from India, were continuing to fight to open up the last section of the international highway from India to Yunnan, China, in order to transport all the supplies needed for the counterattack. combat supplies.
In Europe, the Allied forces captured Rome, the capital of Italy, on June 4, and launched a large-scale landing in Normandy on the north coast of France, opening up the second battlefield in Europe.
The heroic Soviet Red Army also advanced westward from Ukraine and invaded Romania, which was enslaved by the Germans, on August 20. The focus of the Red Army in the middle was Bucharest and the Ploiesti oil fields in the area to the north. At this time, the Soviet Red Army had reached Romania. The western border leads to Yugoslavia.
After the Allied forces landed in France and defeated the Germans, they liberated Paris, the French capital, on August 25. At this time, the demise of Germany, Japan's main ally, was only a matter of time.
Under such circumstances, the U.S. military began to use all its strength to deal with Japan in the Pacific battlefield.
Especially after September, the US military changed its previous tactics of attacking the main combat forces of the Japanese army and focused on attacking the non-combat troops of the Japanese army. This had a devastating blow to the war potential of the Japanese army.
A few days ago, carrier-based aircraft of the US military task force attacked Manila and sank 10 Japanese transport ships in Manila Bay. The total displacement was 60,000 gross tons. More importantly, they carried extremely valuable bauxite, tungsten, Tin and oil sank to the bottom of the ocean.
The U.S. military should have dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese fleet and the garrison on the island, but it attacked this kind of transport ship during this period. This had an unprecedented impact on the Japanese army.
Japan always looks forward to a decisive military battle, but the US military knows that cutting off the resources and materials shipped into Japan is the best tactic. This is truly a long-term war and a total war.
At the same time, US military fighter planes conducted reconnaissance on Okinawa and dispatched 400 sorties to attack Naha in 4 batches. 90% of the buildings in Naha City were burned to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, the US military task force attacked the Bay Island and bombed the Ryukyu Islands on a large scale. The bombing intensified.
There are various signs that Japan¡¯s national power has entered a rapid collapse.This period is also the best time for the Chinese army to launch a comprehensive counterattack.
Therefore, when the storm was surging in the hinterland of Northeast China, Li Guoyao once again issued an order to the troops in the pass to mobilize troops to move eastward.
According to the agreement between the Ninth Army and the Soviet Union, the second batch of weapons and equipment for a total of 10 divisions has also been transported to the Sino-Mongolian border and will arrive in Xilinhot in the near future.
Therefore, Li Guoyao ordered the troops in the pass to immediately mobilize 50,000 main troops to go north to Xilinhot to change equipment. This force will then be incorporated into the northeastern combat force.
After receiving Li Guoyao's order, Xu Hu, Wang Zhanhai and others did not dare to neglect, and immediately mobilized the main force of 20 regiments from the front-line troops, and then rushed to Xilinhot in batches.
At the same time, the local security forces in the defense zone were upgraded again to make up for the vacancies left after the transfer of these troops.
Fortunately, the North China Front is also in dire straits at the moment. In addition, Naosaburo Okabe has just taken office and has no clear idea at all. He has no intention of attacking the Jiujiu Army for the time being.
At the same time that Li Guoyao was dispatching troops, the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Yamada Otsuzo, issued an order to encircle and suppress Lu Zhanwu's headquarters. The Japanese 111th Division, 71st Division, 75th Division and a large number of independent mixed brigades Fight directly towards Phoenix Mountain from three directions: Shulan, Jiaohe and Mudanjiang.
Soon, Changlingzi and Heishantou to the south of Fenghuang Mountain and Xinkailing, Longtoushan and Hulongling to the west were engaged in firefights. The Japanese troops in the direction of Mudanjiang also engaged the defenders at the front lines of Heixizigou and Changding Town. On the first day of the battle, more than twenty positions were engaged in fighting, which was very large.
In order to successfully complete the mission this time and annihilate Lu Zhanwu's headquarters, the Kwantung Army Headquarters specially mobilized almost all bombers and fighter jets that could be mobilized to join the battle. Even the rags that were about to be retired were all pulled out and used. Regardless of the serious aging of these fighters and their poor condition.
In fact, the Japanese can still take care of these things now. The Chinese battlefield is okay. On the Pacific battlefield, faced with attacks by American fighter planes and warships, the Japanese army has no power to fight back and can only use suicide attacks to respond to the American attack. .
On May 27, 1944, the U.S. military landed on Biak Island in the northwest sea of ??New Guinea, an important place for the Japanese mainland and the southern sea transportation line. In order to retake the island, the army and navy collaborated to forcefully land on the island repeatedly.
At this time, Major Katsushige Takada, captain of the Japanese Army¡¯s 5th Flying Combat Team, led four planes to ram the approaching US warships, causing damage to many US warships.
After this incident was reported to the Japanese Southern General Army Headquarters, the commander, General Juichi Terauchi, issued a certificate of merit for this feat and informed the entire army. This incident also caused a sensation in the country after it was announced, and also gave the Japanese hope of reversing the situation in the war.
The tactic invented by Takada, in which people and aircraft sink enemy ships together, was a life-saving straw for Japan, which was on the verge of destruction. In the view of the Japanese government and base camp, the main reason why the U.S. military was able to defeat the Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield was The reason is that they have a strong navy and air force.
In terms of these two arms, the Japanese army is now far from being an opponent of the Americans. Therefore, if you want to defeat the Americans, you must restrain the Americans in the navy and air force.
But as we all know, the navy is very particular about its foundation, and the construction of naval warships also takes a long time, and it cannot be done casually.
For now, Japan has fallen behind in terms of the speed of building warships, the production capacity of aircraft, and combat effectiveness. It is no longer possible to catch up and surpass it.
However, Takata's combat methods greatly inspired Japan. If a fighter plane with little combat effectiveness is fully loaded with aerial bombs and explosives, it will rush towards a U.S. warship from a high altitude, and the probability of sinking an ordinary U.S. warship will be 20%. Above, the probability of damaging a US warship is as high as 50%.
¡°A soldier plus an airplane can replace a US warship that loses its combat effectiveness. This is a good deal!
To be honest, this was an unexpected tactical move made by Major Takada during a critical battle, but it was regarded as a standard by the Japanese, and they increasingly fell into a situation where they had to pay attention to this kind of special attack tactic against their will.
However, it goes against the rules of leading troops to formally form a force that regards death as a prerequisite for performing tasks. Therefore, loyal and martyrs who are committed to special attacks are assigned to combat troops in their own names, and combat troops temporarily assign these soldiers to them. Form a special attack team.
In this way, after the fall of Mariana in July 1944, the army and navy had to shift the focus of combat preparations to special offensive operations and began to study the use of sacrificial tactics of aircraft and boats to attack enemy ships. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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