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Chapter 1,617: Japanese Counterattack (End)

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    April 13th is a day worth remembering for Li Guoyao and the Kwantung Army.

    On this day, after 15 days of fighting, the Chinese army finally captured Jinzhou City, annihilating not only the more than 4,000 original defenders in the city, but also a temporary force composed of more than 10,000 Japanese expatriates.

    At the same time, on the northern front, Lu Dashan's troops also captured Jianping and Chaoyang, advancing their troops to the Fuxin front line.

    Compared with the battle on the northern front, the southern front went more smoothly. Under the command of Chow Tai Fook, more than 40,000 Chinese troops defeated the Japanese army in the direction of Shanhaiguan and annihilated the reinforcements that originally came south from Jinzhou City.

    At the same time that Xu Hu and others captured Jinzhou, Zhou Dafu led the main force south to Shanhaiguan and launched a fierce attack on this most powerful pass in the world.

    In just half a month, the situation in Southern Manchuria took a turn for the worse, catching everyone off guard.

    After capturing Jinzhou, Li Guoyao personally issued the combat order to advance towards Fengtian.

    With the issuance of the combat order, 180,000 troops belonging to the Jehol Front Army and the South Manchuria Front Army moved northward in three routes, with their frontline directed towards Fengtian.

    The Kwantung Army headquarters was shocked at this time and immediately decided to mobilize troops from Hailar and Qiqihar to go south to reinforce Fengtian.

    However, as soon as the Japanese troops on the northern front showed signs of gathering, Li Guoyao ordered the North Manchurian Front to immediately launch an attack on the northern front. According to Li Guoyao's order, the main task of the northern front troops was not to conquer many cities and annihilate how many troops, but to hold back the northern front with all their strength.  The little devil created an opportunity for the main force to attack Fengtian.

    But Li Guoyao still underestimated Yamada Otsuzo's determination. Since the Japanese troops on the northern front could not be mobilized, he simply ordered the Japanese troops in Harbin and Xinjing to go south to reinforce Fengtian.

    When Li Guoyao's troops arrived at the outskirts of Fengtian, four divisions of the Kwantung Army plus four mixed brigades and a large number of technical arms also arrived at the front line of Fengtian. Nearly 300,000 troops from both sides gathered outside Fengtian City, and the war was about to break out.

    However, what the Japanese army did not expect was that when the Japanese army was accumulating strength and preparing to use Fengtian City as the main battlefield to engage in a strategic decisive battle with Li Guoyao's troops, Li Guoyao's troops actually withdrew.

    Although it was a retreat, it only withdrew the main force to the Beizhen and Panshan front lines, and faced the Japanese and puppet troops in Panjin, Anshan, Taian, and Heishan lines.

    The national army took the initiative to retreat, which made Yamada Otsuzo relieved.

    Although the total strength of the Japanese army in Fengtian now exceeds 100,000, when facing Li Guoyao's troops, Yamada Otozo still does not have much chance of winning.

    This is not only because of the psychological shadow caused by repeated defeats on the Japanese army, but the current international and domestic situation has made Yamada Otsuzo realize that they no longer have the ability to use all combat forces against Li Guoyao's troops.

    After entering the 20th year of the Showa era, the Japanese army has suffered huge defeats on multiple battlefields. First, the Burmese front army suffered a disastrous defeat and had to withdraw from Burma. At the same time, the troops stationed in the Philippines commanded by General Yamashita Tobumi began in October last year.  In the decisive battle between Japan and the United States, extremely heroic and desperate battles were fought.

    The U.S. military invested 850 ships of various types in the campaign to attack the Philippines. In the face of the huge landing force, the Japanese army resisted desperately and finally fled.  They hid in the jungle, originally planning to use the complex terrain and climate conditions to fight the US military to the end, but unexpectedly it turned into a hell for the Japanese army.

    After a month of street fighting, the U.S. military finally captured Manila on March 3. General Yamashita withdrew his troops to southwestern Luzon to continue resistance.

    Although the commander of the 14th Front Army General Yamashita Nobumi Yamashita had ordered his troops to destroy all bridges and infrastructure and dig trenches to prevent the US troops from advancing during the retreat, it was still difficult to resist the US troops commanded by MacArthur.

    The 14th Group Army used the Cagayan Valley, a rich rice-producing area, as its base, and used the mountains from the west of Baguio to the north of San Jose as the southern barrier. It deployed the 19th Division, the 58th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 23rd Regiment from west to east.  Division, the 2nd Tank Division, the 10th Division and other units to resist the fierce attack of the US 1st Army.

    Especially in Barlet, a fierce battle broke out at the Salaksak Mountain Pass. The US military used bulldozers to open roads in the steep mountains, pushed forward tanks and heavy artillery, and attacked the Japanese army with overwhelming force.

    However, due to the serious loss of weapons and equipment but the lack of timely replenishment, the 14th Group Army suffered heavy losses. By late April, Baguio fell.

    Subsequently, the US military entered the Cagayan Valley and completely opened up the two roads from Aparri to Baguio and Aparri to San Jose.

    thisLater, the Japanese troops were driven into the mountains and fought a protracted battle under the torture of hunger and disease.

    In the primeval forests of Southeast Asia, the first problem faced by the Japanese Imperial Army was the lack of food.  After they entered the jungle, they immediately looked for anything that could fill their stomachs. All the birds and animals in the jungle were used as food.

    The second problem is disease. According to reports, not long after the Imperial Japanese Army entered the jungle, foot rot and dengue fever killed many people.  Due to the lack of medical supplies, soldiers suffering from these diseases are basically equivalent to death.

    However, these were not the things that tortured the Japanese soldiers the most. There was a disease called "relapsing fever" that was even more intolerable.  When you first get this disease, you usually have a high fever that lasts for a few days, and then the fever goes away for a few days.

    However, soon the high fever will continue to occur in cycles, and the cycles will become shorter and shorter, more and more frequent, until the Japanese soldiers are tortured to the point of losing their human form and die in pain and despair.

    Therefore, under the dual torment of disease and hunger, the Philippine troops suffered heavy losses.

    ??The Zhenwu Group, which commanded the Manila Naval Defense Force, failed in the rescue operation and was attacked by the US 14th Army at the end of February. It was chased and retreated into the mountains.

    According to the enemy situation report from the base camp two days ago, there are currently less than 55,000 of the 152,000 Shomu Group left under the direct jurisdiction of Yamashita Tobumi, and only 12,500 of the 105,000 Zhenwu Group of Shizuo Yokoyama are left. Tsukada Rikichichu  The Jianwu Group's 30,000 people were left with 1,300 people.

    Current statistics show that the Imperial Japanese Army suffered 368,700 Army deaths and 117,900 Navy deaths in this battle.  Including some militiamen, the number of casualties exceeded 500,000.

    Subsequently, the U.S. military continued its pursuit and attack, compressing the remaining imperial army in the mountainous areas of northern Luzon, west of Clark, and east of Manila.

    Under the siege of the US military, the Japanese army's supplies were cut off, diseases were prevalent, and a large number of troops were reduced.

    At the same time, the U.S. 8th Army also successively captured Palawan, Mindanao, Panay, Negros and other islands in the southern Philippines.

    Under such circumstances, the Army and Navy determined the outline of the Imperial Army and Navy's operational plan for a decisive battle on the mainland.

    At present, the Imperial Japanese Army has approximately 10 army divisions, 6 independent mixed brigades, and 1 tank division in the mainland. The Navy has 28 ships of the 2nd Fleet and 52 submarines of the 6th Fleet. A total of  There are 80 ships anchored in the Seto Inland Sea, and the aviation arm, army and navy have a total of 676 aircraft.

    However, due to the half-century-long conflict between the army and the navy, the basic outline for the implementation of the decisive battle on the mainland had to be stopped after only one month of preparation. As a last resort, the army and navy could only step up preparations to complete the decisive battle on the mainland.

    However, because the decisive battle in the Philippines is at its most intense stage, this work has been hampered and the layout of local defense has been affected.

    Therefore, according to the predictions of the base camp, this year, the Empire of Japan will enter the decisive stage on both the eastern and western front battlefields, and the Allied offensive will reach its climax.

    On the eastern front, the United States will capture Luzon Island, cut off maritime communications between the Japanese mainland and the south, and intensify air strikes on the Japanese mainland in an attempt to destroy the military production of the Imperial Japanese Army and weaken the empire's combat capabilities and national strength. Relying on its absolute superiority, the United States will  The strength of sea and air forces determines the outcome of the war in one fell swoop.

    More importantly, the Soviets have officially notified the Empire of Japan that they do not intend to renew the contract, so once Germany surrenders, the Soviet Union is likely to send troops to the Far East, which is really a bad time.

    Under such circumstances, the Kwantung Army headquarters really did not dare to use all its strength to deal with Li Guoyao's troops. They must strengthen their surveillance of the Soviet Union.

    Especially when a large number of effective forces were lost, and while the national army was retreating, Yamada Otsuzo, as the commander of the Kwantung Army and the Manchurian ambassador, issued a mobilization order for all Manchuria.

    According to the requirements of the mobilization order, all Japanese expatriates in Manchuria, as long as they are between the ages of 15 and 50, must gather in nearby cities and then receive weapons and equipment to serve as reserve soldiers.

    In addition, the puppet Manchukuo government must also fully cooperate with the Japanese army and mobilize the Chinese people in the Northeast to join the Japanese and puppet troops and serve as cannon fodder for the Japanese army.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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