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Chapter 1,605: Preparations for local defense (Part 1)

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    Time has entered March 1945, and the Allied forces have entered Germany on the European battlefield. Germany's defeat is no longer a matter of time, but now.

    Compared with Germany, although Japan's situation is a little better, it is only a little better. Japan has been completely defeated from all battlefields, and the war has inevitably burned into the Japanese mainland.

    When the US military successively captured Saipan, Tinian, Guam, etc. in the Mariana Islands, they immediately stepped up the expansion of the original Japanese airports on these islands and improved various flight facilities.

    After that, the US military's B-29 strategic bomber groups flew to these airports one after another.

    Since then, the Japanese mainland has been subjected to large-scale bombing by the U.S. Air Force taking off from these bases. As a result of this large-scale continuous bombing, Japanese society has gradually lost its functions and maritime and land transportation has been paralyzed.

    Except for the ancient cultural cities of Kyoto, Nara and other large cities, they have all been razed to the ground without distinction. Industry and commerce have been suspended, and education has been suspended. A large number of people have been displaced as a result, and they have also lost confidence in the future of the war.

    In fact, as early as November 1, 1944, a US military B-29 reconnaissance aircraft took off from the Mariana base and flew to the Tokyo area of ??Japan for reconnaissance.

    ¡°Afterwards, the pilots and navigators of the reconnaissance plane believed that nothing could be as easy as reconnaissance of Tokyo.

    Because after they flew over the Iwo Jima and Ogasawara Islands, they could see the Izu Islands scattered on the sea about 350 kilometers parallel to the flight route.  The connection of these small islands guides the aircraft to Sagami Bay and Tokyo Bay facing the Pacific Ocean.

    When the Miura Peninsula was first discovered in the air, the Yokosuka Naval Base on the west coast of Tokyo Bay, Yokohama City, Kawasaki City, and Tokyo City on the northwest side of Tokyo Bay came into view one after another.

    To reconnoiter this area, the planar reflective landmarks - Tokyo Bay, Inbamannuma, Kasumigaura and the linear reflective landmarks - Sagami River and Tone River can provide a favorable basis for determining the position and determining ground targets in the air. It is very simple.  .

    After conducting aerial reconnaissance, the US military will air-drop printed Japanese leaflets in the Tokyo area to advise residents to leave Tokyo to avoid aerial bombing.

    However, the Japanese people under the rule of the military and police were ordered to hand in the leaflets they found.  Dissemination and discussion were prohibited, and the atmosphere in the Tokyo area was as before.

    In order to paralyze the Japanese in the Tokyo area, the US military did not send any planes to Tokyo within 20 days after dropping the leaflets.

    But just when the Japanese thought this was just a verbal intimidation from the Americans, on November 24, 1944, the U.S. military used 110 B-29 bombers to suddenly bomb Tokyo and the Mitaka Nakajima Aircraft Factory to the west.

    These 110 US military fighter planes, each carrying 9 tons of bombs, dropped thousands of tons of aerial bombs near Tokyo, Japan that day.

    For the first time, Tokyo citizens and upper-class people felt the threat of a major bombing.

    However, for the U.S. Strategic Air Force, this is just the beginning.

    The high-level military command organs of any country always have an extremely clear understanding of the relevant situations of their own country and enemy countries in order to provide a basis for defense and attack.  In this regard, the command organs of the US military are no exception.

    Entering 1945, the U.S. Air Force¡¯s bombing of the Japanese mainland became more intense.

    Based on previous data and knowing that most of the houses in Japanese cities were made of wooden structures, the target team members of the U.S. Pacific Strategic Air Force put forward the suggestion of using "fire attacks" against Tokyo and other cities in Japan, and received approval.  approve.

    The weather personnel of the US military are always paying attention to the meteorological changes in Japan, especially the emergence of seasonal winds, but this day has finally arrived.

    On March 9, strong winds of more than 20 meters per second blew in the Tokyo area.  As planned, the U.S. Strategic Air Force sent 334 B-29 bombers, carrying a total of 3,000 tons of bombs, to the sky over Tokyo at night, and dropped incendiary bombs according to the designated bombing area.

    Tokyo was suddenly engulfed in flames, and thousands of people jumped into the cold Sumida River or nearby river ponds to escape.

    In this bombing, 270,000 houses in Tokyo were burned down, accounting for 18% of Tokyo¡¯s housing.  A total of 72,489 people were burned to death or burned, and the Japanese invaders began to be severely punished.

    Immediately afterwards, in accordance with the U.S. military's plan to launch landing campaigns on Okinawa and Iwo Jima, and in accordance with the air force combat plan to paralyze Japan, the U.S. Strategic Air Force used a large fleet of aircraft to conduct night bombings on Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe.

    There were a total of 207 cities in Japan at that time. Except for Kyoto and other designated cultural cities that were not bombed, 115 cities and municipalities were bombed.

    Faced with the strong Allied offensive and the continuous bombing of the homeland, the Japanese people andMembers of the government have a clearer understanding of the cause of this war, and anti-war sentiment has become stronger.

    In fact, it is easy to understand. Before the mainland was bombed, almost all Japanese people, whether they supported the war or opposed the war, actually spoke out of their own feelings and thoughts, but they did not have too strong feelings in their hearts.  idea.

    After all, this war started in 1931 and has been fought for nearly 14 years. In these 14 years, it was only after 1944 that Japan was bombed. Before that, Japan had various problems.  , but the people¡¯s basic right to life can be protected.

    Because of this, whether the Japanese army is fighting well overseas does not actually have much impact on the people at home.

    But things are different now. Large numbers of US military strategic bombers are constantly visiting the Japanese mainland, dropping large quantities of bombs. A city that took hundreds or even thousands of years to develop will be turned into ruins after a few rounds of bombing, and a large number of people will be destroyed.  Being killed and injured during the bombing was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, which greatly stimulated the hearts of the Japanese people.

    The same is true for the people and the same is true for the army. For this reason, there are disagreements within the Japanese army on a series of issues such as the use of troops in combat. The biggest disagreement is between the headquarters and the base camp of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces.

    Originally, the purpose of the Japanese army to open up the mainland communication lines and capture the air force bases along the lines was to prevent the air forces from these bases from bombing Japan, but in fact this has lost its role.

    Because at this time, the US military had already captured the Mariana Islands, and a group of planes took off from the air force base there to bomb Japan. The distance was roughly the same as Guilin and Liuzhou.

    And its aviation fuel, bombs, equipment, etc. can be directly transported in large quantities by sea. This is very different from the situation where the fuel, ammunition, etc. required by Guilin and Liuzhou regional airports are transported by air from India.

    After the 11th Army captured the entire county, almost all Japan's Army Ministry and General Staff Headquarters, with the exception of Major General Joichiro Sanada, Chief of Operations, and Colonel Hattori Takushiro, Chief of Operations Section, opposed continuing the offensive.

    The reason is also very simple. The 15th Army of Lieutenant General Mutaguchi Renya of the Burmese Front was defeated when it attacked Imphal in eastern India and was counterattacked by the British and Indian troops. Although it used quite harsh methods, it successively replaced three division commanders.  duties, but the combat situation has not changed.

    When the three divisions attacked, there were about 100,000 troops, including supporting troops and logistics units, but after the general retreat, only 30,000 people remained.

    After retreating eastward, they could not even hold on to the Kindon River line, and retreated to Mandalay east of the Irrawaddy River and the areas south of it. This left a gap in the Japanese front in Southeast Asia.

    Then there is the 31st Army of Lieutenant General Obata, which successively failed in its defenses on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam.

    Because there is another gap on the Pacific front, some senior officers in the Japanese military's decision-making body believe that the U.S. military will next attack the Philippines with its superior land, sea, and air force.

    Therefore, if we use the main force to penetrate deep into China's rear on the mainland and fight the Kuomintang army in a decisive battle with the supply shortage, it is very easy for a situation like Hengyang to occur, which will directly affect the current and future war situation in the Philippines, the main battlefield.

    Therefore, the base camp hopes that the Chinese Expeditionary Forces Headquarters can stop the offensive and concentrate part of its forces to open the southern section of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway from Shaoguan to Yingde, so as to respond to the troops on the southern line at any time, or to reinforce the Philippine battlefield.

    To this end, the Japanese base camp sent Lieutenant General Kenshiro Shibayama, who was formerly the top adviser to Wang Jingwei¡¯s puppet central government and is now the Army¡¯s deputy minister, to China to convey this intention to Shunroku Hata.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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