Chapter Twenty-Seven: Add Another Fire

It is better to give up Indonesia and return to the Philippines to defend the Philippines, as soon as such an idea comes out, it will be like a crazy weed. In order to maintain Japan's superiority in the American theater, after only a cursory discussion, Yamashita Fumifumi, who was far away in Kalimantan, received a reply from the cabinet, demanding that the Southern Advance Corps abandon Indonesia and return to the Philippines.

The purpose of returning to the Philippines was to guard against an attack on the Japanese mainland, and at present, there seems to be no single country's maritime power in the Pacific that can pose a threat to the Japanese mainland. The Japanese were prepared to retreat voluntarily in exchange for temporary peace and time, waiting for the Japanese to break through the Far East and then bring back to China and the combined forces of the United States and Australia. It's just that this decision of the Japanese cabinet, whether it is Yamashita Fengfumi or Zhuo Fei, is whimsical.

The counteroffensive of the US-Australian coalition this time was a bloody one, and MacArthur would never be satisfied if he only took back Kalimantan Island, after all, the US army was driven out of the Philippines by the Japanese army. Yamashita did not think that the Americans would stop there, the Philippines had many resources, and the Americans, who were as greedy as the Japanese, could be willing to abandon the Philippines. Out of military considerations, Yamashita sent a telegram to Japan and put forward his own proposals, but it was a pity that the Japanese cabinet did not pay attention to his telegram.

At present, in Asia, the only thing that may have maritime superiority is Japan, and as long as Yamashita Fumifumi leads the army to retreat to the Philippines and mobilizes the navy to blockade the Philippine seas, the US-Australian coalition forces can only look at the ocean and sigh. At present, Japan has no surplus troops to spend in Southeast Asia, and at a time when everyone is optimistic about the war in the Americas, the Japanese cabinet is only thinking about how to expand the empire's superiority on the American continent and ensure the smooth operation of the Far East theater.

The Japanese army has always had a tradition of going down to the top, but Yamashita Fengfu is not the kind of young officer who can be stimulated by blood and dizzy, Yamashita Fengfumi, who has experienced ups and downs, knows that it is not easy to work hard, so he accepted the order of the cabinet and decided to lead the army back to the Philippines. Zhuo Fei soon received information from the Japanese mainland, and learned that Yamashita Fengfu was going to lead the Southern Advance Corps to retreat to the Philippines, and Zhuo Fei immediately revealed this information to Sir James.

"Sir Sir, this is a good opportunity, and the Japanese have decided to withdraw their troops, which shows that they have no intention of fighting us in a decisive battle. If it's just to take back control of Indonesia, then we've won. However, if the coalition forces are to resist the Japanese army in the entire Southeast Asian region, they must mobilize heavy troops to encircle the Japanese army, and they must not be let go so easily. Between him and Sir James, Zhuo Fei had no scruples, and his words couldn't help but have a tone when he was still commanding the Independence Army.

Sir James was a good messenger, and after the meeting with Zhuo Fei, MacArthur, who was far away on the island of Kalimantan, commanding the battle, received a telegram from Sir Lockgate. Knowing that Yamashita was going to retreat and say goodbye, MacArthur also saw what the Japanese were planning, and while he was not sure that he would leave the entire Southern Advance Corps, MacArthur was determined to leave an indelible impression on Yamashita Fumi.

As soon as the order for a general attack was issued, the various units of the US-Australian coalition began a frenzied attack on the Japanese army, completely regardless of ammunition consumption. In particular, the hundreds of thousands of indigenous servants provided by the umbrella attacked the Japanese supply lines and rear stations day and night, and MacArthur was happy to exchange these indigenous soldiers for the lives of Japanese soldiers one-on-one. The flames of war covered the sky, and the gunfire did not stop at all, and the most unfortunate of all in this battle was the Indonesian natives on the island of Kalimantan.

Whether it is the Japanese army or the United States and Australia, they all regard the Indonesian natives on Kalimantan Island as spies or servants sent by the other side, and in just half a month, more than 300,000 Indonesian natives have died in this battle, and countless people have been disabled. "Look, you said at the beginning that our umbrella killed a lot of Southeast Asian natives, you look at Lao Mai, kill hundreds of thousands of natives in half a month, I think Kalimantan Island continues to fight, there will be hundreds of thousands more natives who die in the hands of Lao Mai."

From the time Zhuo Fei learned that the US-Australian coalition had regarded the Indonesian natives as enemies on Kalimantan, Zhuo Fei gave MacArthur such a name with an obvious Chinese flavor. Calling MacArthur Lao Mai shows that Zhuo Fei did not regard MacArthur as an enemy, at least when it came to dealing with the natives of Southeast Asia, Zhuo Fei felt that MacArthur's attitude was the same as his own.

If it is in China, maybe Yamashita Fengwen can still be free, but this is Kalimantan Island, and the US-Australian coalition he has to face has exceeded 500,000 people. It is not easy for anyone to retreat safely in the encirclement of enemy forces twice as large as their own, especially since the commander of the US-Australian coalition is MacArthur, who has a deep hatred for Yamashita Fengwen.

Zhuo Fei also didn't think about letting go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs, especially since Yamashita Fengwen is currently on Kalimantan Island, "Send our test team to Kalimantan Island as well, after training for so long, it's still time for them to show up." Zhuo Fei secretly ordered that the parachute helicopter attack force, which had been hiding in Vietnam for training, be urgently transferred to Indonesia, and 50 helicopters that had been perfected and upgraded and 400 soldiers of the attack force could participate in the battle.

At this time, the helicopter equipped by the Umbrella Assault Force was no longer the first generation of products, but a new type of helicopter after a large number of armor and engineers repeatedly upgraded by the Umbrella Weapons Laboratory. Unlike the kind of light helicopters currently being developed by Germany and the United States, the gunship developed by Umbrella not only has a bulletproof base plate and a rapid-fire machine gun, but it can also transport more than eight soldiers into the battlefield at a time, and use four electronically controlled air-to-ground rocket launchers to provide long-range aerial fire support for ground troops.

Vivien had always been reluctant to praise the new gunship because of its stocky appearance, but after months of training in human-machine cooperation, even the always discerning German engineers could not control the praise of the new helicopter. The 50 new helicopter gunships are not all the family of the umbrella, and the 400 soldiers of the attack force who rushed to Indonesia with the helicopters are only 2 percent of the entire attack force.

"An aircraft that can take off and land vertically?" MacArthur, who saw the helicopter for the first time, did not hide the amazement in his eyes, especially when he saw that the helicopter of the umbrella company could still directly participate in the battle, MacArthur's heart was already rolled up in turbulent waves. Strictly speaking, MacArthur was not the best commander in the U.S. military, but his insight and observation of war were outstanding, and MacArthur had already foreseen that helicopters would play a certain role in future wars.

"Nani? An aircraft capable of stationary circling in the air? Also as shocked as MacArthur was Yamashita Fumi, who learned that the troops in front had been attacked by strange fighters, and Yamashita Fumimi did his best to gather all the information related to the helicopter. It wasn't until he had seen the helicopter hovering in the air with his own eyes that Yamashita Fengfumi's mind was filled with the shadow of the helicopter, especially the appearance of the helicopter launching rockets in the air to destroy the fixed firing points on the ground.

With the assistance of the parachute helicopter attack force, the US-Australian coalition troops quickly tore dozens of holes in the Japanese defense line, and the US-Australian coalition soldiers, who were outnumbered, were in such a happy mood when they first found out that they were pursuing the Japanese army. The forward line positions were successively broken through by the US-Australian coalition forces, and Yamashita could only continue to shrink the position and defensive line, and at the same time ask the navy for help, preparing to fully withdraw to the Philippines.

The situation on Kalimantan Island has been reversed again, and the confrontation between the two armies has changed to the superiority of the United States and Australia, and MacArthur has constantly mobilized troops to try to cling to the Japanese like kraft candy. MacArthur finally resorted to a rogue dispatch, but Yamashita Fumimi had nothing to do about MacArthur's chaotic blow, after all, he didn't have so many troops to deploy at will.

The arrival of the third group of native servants provided by the umbrella continued to land on Kalimantan, and the arrival of this new force instantly changed the situation again, and the warlike native servant troops dared to attack the Japanese camp even during the day. Every gunshot or explosion meant that another Imperial soldier was killed or wounded, and the Japanese soldiers, who were already terrified, had been driven to the point of madness by these impermanence of the indigenous soldiers.

In fact, the psychological offensive can also be regarded as part of the tactics, and a large number of the panicked Japanese soldiers have lost the will to continue fighting. Whether to go or stay, Yamashita Fengfu had already made a decision and choice in his heart, but now, MacArthur did not seem to want to watch the Japanese army leave Indonesia with all their beards and tails. The battle between the United States and Australia and the Japanese army was hot, and Zhuo Fei, who was idle all day in the rear, was very satisfied with the current situation.

The umbrella company made a fortune by hiding in the rear and making a lot of money, and the test units sent to the battlefield also got the opportunity to fight in real combat, and demonstrated the strong combat effectiveness of the helicopter attack troops. Relying on almost no South Asian raw materials and hundreds of thousands of Jewish engineers and mechanics, the arsenal under the command of the Umbrella Company was able to produce a huge amount of munitions every day, all of which satisfied Zhuo Fei, and he did not want this war to bring great benefits to the Umbrella Company to end too soon.