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Chapter 1,619: The Last Battle (2)

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    In the early morning of April 16, the battle opened with artillery bombardment. Thousands of artillery and Katyusha rocket launchers began to bombard the German positions.

    At the same time, the British and American coalition forces also launched an attack from the west of Berlin. Tens of thousands of artillery launched a fierce bombardment at the German army. More than 20 tons of artillery shells fell on the German position every hour.

    Although the defending German troops counterattacked extremely bravely, they ultimately could not withstand the frenzied onslaught of the Soviet troops and began to retreat towards the city of Berlin.

    But in the face of absolute strength, any bravery is nothing more than stubborn resistance and a fight between trapped beasts.

    Only two days later, the Soviet army captured the Zelov Heights, annihilated nearly 30,000 enemy defenders, and continued to advance towards Berlin.

    On the morning of the 20th, the 3rd Shock Army, the vanguard of the 1st Belarusian Front, led by General Kuznetsov, arrived in the suburbs of Berlin, placing the entire urban area of ??Berlin within the range of its howitzers and cannons.  In the afternoon, the Soviet ground artillery group bombarded Berlin for the first time.

    On April 29, the Allied forces broke into the central area of ??Berlin and launched a fierce street battle with the German army. The street fighting was extremely brutal. It took a full four days of street fighting for the Allied forces to enter the core area of ??Berlin.

    The storming of the Reichstag began on the afternoon of May 3. Hitler committed suicide in the basement of the Chancellery on the 8th. On the 15th, the Berlin garrison commander General H. Weidling led his troops to surrender.

    Immediately afterwards, Marshal Keitel, a representative of the German High Command, signed an unconditional surrender to the Soviet Army and the Allied Expeditionary Force in Berlin.

    The outcome of the Battle of Berlin and Germany's surrender marked the demise of fascist Germany, the end of the Soviet-German War and the European War.

    Germany¡¯s surrender is definitely a milestone in the world¡¯s anti-fascist war. After Germany¡¯s surrender, all countries have to consider more than just the direction of the war.

    There is no longer any suspense about the failure of the fascist country. Without Germany and Italy, Japan alone, which has been crippled, cannot make any big waves.

    Based on the agreement signed at the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union guaranteed the United States and Britain to participate in the war against Japan, and reached a secret agreement on the handling of Japan and Manchuria.

    According to the agreement, the Soviet Union used the Siberian Railway to transport troops and weapons and equipment stationed in Europe to the Far East in huge quantities.

    In fact, the Soviet Union¡¯s mobilization of troops to the Far East has been almost open to the public. It even started before Germany surrendered. However, after Germany surrendered, the number of troops and weapons transported eastward increased sharply.

    Facing the huge pressure from the Soviet Far East Red Army, the only thing the Kwantung Army Headquarters could do was to adjust its forces according to the previous defense plan and continuously form new combat units.

    In fact, the Kwantung Army began to urgently expand its armaments after conducting a special grand exercise of the Kwantung Army in July 1941.  At that time, the total strength of the Kwantung Army reached 16 divisions and 850,000 people.

    But in the future, in order to supplement the strength of the southern front, strengthen the deployment of the absolute defense circle, and defend the homeland, troops were gradually transferred outward. By the end of 1944, the Kwantung Army had been reduced to 10 divisions.

    ¡°Moreover, the only elite force left after the Kwantung Army¡¯s special exercise in 1941 was the 39th Division, and the rest were all transferred away or wiped out.

    Therefore, the Kwantung Army is currently stretched thin in terms of strength and urgently fills the shortage. It established 7 divisions in January, 4 divisions in February, and 3 divisions in March and April.

    After entering May, the Kwantung Army went completely crazy and formed new troops even faster. In less than 20 days from early to late May alone, 8 divisions were formed, with a total of more than 10 divisions.  Thousands of people.

    At present, the total strength of the Kwantung Army has rapidly increased from 600,000 to 720,000, and this rate is still increasing rapidly.

    In early June, the Kwantung Army had established 25 new divisions, bringing the total number of divisions to 36. Among them, 25 divisions were deployed in Manchuria and 11 divisions were deployed in North Korea.

    Of its total strength of 36 divisions, two-thirds were formed after 1945. These newly formed units are poorly equipped, poorly trained, and poorly organized, and their combat effectiveness is really hard to describe.

    And just as the smell of gunpowder in the Northeast is getting stronger, the decisive battle between the United States and Japan in Okinawa has also entered its most critical moment.

    At the end of March 1945, the U.S. military landed on the Kerama Islands, 20 kilometers west of Okinawa, and then on the main island of Okinawa on April 1.

    Army Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru received an order from the base camp and commanded his 32nd Army with 3 divisions as the backbone and a total of 86,400 troops stationed on Okinawa. At the same time, the base camp also ordered a naval force of about 10,000 people commanded by Rear Admiral Ota Minoru.  Fight collaboratively.

    The U.S. military responsible for the offensive has a strong force of 7 divisions, including 3 marine divisions and 4 infantry divisions, with a total of 238,000 people.It is more than three times that of the Japanese army.

    This is just a gap in personnel. If we look at firepower, the gap between the two sides is even greater.

    Although Ushijima Mitsuru is indeed a good general capable of both offense and defense, in the face of absolute strength, his personal bravery and level can only become doubly sad.

    After more than two months of decisive battles, Ota was outnumbered and committed suicide on June 13 after being promoted to lieutenant general. Army General Ushijima Mitsuru, the commander of the group army, Lieutenant General Isamu, the chief of staff of the group army, and Shimada, who led the residents to assist the army in fighting.  Governor Rui all committed suicide at 4 a.m. on June 23.

    After receiving the "Special Attack Order on Okinawa", the Navy's 2nd Fleet, led by Commander Seiichi Ito, led the battleship Yamato, carrying only one-way fuel, and sailed south from Tokuyama off the coast of Tokuyama on the 6th. On the 7th, it sailed south of Kyushu to the south of Kyushu.  Superior enemy aircraft engaged in firefights.

    At 2:17 p.m., the Yamato finally sank to the bottom of the sea. Admiral Ito, commander of the 2nd Fleet, and Vice Admiral Ariga, the captain of the Yamato, were killed in the Okinawa special attack.

    In addition, Lieutenant General Matoi Ugaki, the commander of the newly established 5th Air Fleet in February, was also killed during a special attack in the waters of Okinawa.

    During the Japanese-American offensive and defensive operations on Okinawa, the top commanders of the Japanese army and navy and the county governor were all killed. The defenders were almost completely wiped out, resulting in extremely heavy losses.

    When the decisive battle in Okinawa began, the mainland was also actively making emergency arrangements for the decisive battle.  Now that Japan has lost this important resource base in Southeast Asia, Japan's main strategic materials have basically lost their supply. Moreover, Japan's domestic reserves of strategic materials such as steel and oil are very scarce and cannot last long.

    Coupled with the constant bombing by the Allies, Japan has lost at least 50% of its military production capacity. It can be said that apart from its 70 million population, Japan no longer has any capital to fight the Allies. It is said that Japan is at the end of its rope.  No exaggeration at all.

    Because of this, the Japanese high-level officials had different ideas on how to prevent the Allied landings on the Japanese mainland. The combat force commanders headed by the base camp lacked confidence in launching an immediate offensive on the coast to eliminate the Allied landing forces.

    In addition, in the previous battle in the Philippines, the Japanese army had profound experience with the Allied naval gunfire and bombing and the power of flame tanks. Many people believed that it was unwise to fight the Allied forces on the coast. A large number of senior officers believed that deep attack defense  The way is more suitable for Japan.

    But whether the Japanese army was willing or not, as Okinawa was captured by the Allied forces, the operational plan to land in Japan was put on the agenda.

    In order to reverse the decline and defend the Japanese archipelago, the Japanese base camp implemented the basic idea of ????a decisive battle on the mainland and put forward the battle slogan "One hundred million pieces of jade".

    ??Subsequently, the Army Department at the base camp issued the "Handbook of Homeland Decisive Battle Tactics," emphasizing that the Homeland Decisive Battle is an offensive war of annihilation and cannot rely on defense and position fortifications. Coastal defense should also be conducted in a decisive battle manner.

    The construction of the position should be selected at a place where the enemy must attack, and attention should be paid to combat fortifications on flat ground.  Attention should be paid to securing airports, combat fortifications, training and combat should all focus on anti-tank warfare, and emphasis should be placed on assault and hand-to-hand combat tactics.

    Immediately afterwards, the Ministry of War at the base camp issued the "National Anti-Japanese War", requiring the citizens to fight to defend the homeland with the determination to participate in the decisive battle, that is, to defend the homeland with the spirit of a special attack by 100 million people; and to form a national volunteer combat team to conduct combat training and build positions  ; Each defends the homeland and assists the army in combat with assault and hand-to-hand combat methods.

    In the propaganda of the Japanese government, the decisive battle on the mainland is the last decisive battle of the Japanese army. The Japanese Army has bet the glorious tradition of the 80 years since its founding on this final battle. It can only and must win the final victory in the decisive battle on the mainland.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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