Chapter 337: The First Battle of Ryukyu Independence (1)

In March 1945, the Japanese army was defeated in the Pacific theater and had been forced to retreat to the Philippines by the British and American forces, and on the European battlefield, with the victory of the Allied forces in the Normandy landing campaign, the German army also showed a powerless trend, and the world anti-fascist war was about to usher in a victorious ending.

At a time when the anti-fascist war in the world was bright, the Japanese military department still put up stubborn resistance, continued to practice a bloody and high-pressure policy in China and Southeast Asia, and at the same time threw nearly 800,000 troops from Hokkaido into various battlefields in a vain attempt to change the unfavorable situation.

"Japan is already on the wane, and now it's just a rebellion before death, but it's also the most dangerous time, everyone must cheer up!" Lin Junxiong said and glanced at the people around him with his eyes, Shang Tianen had a solemn face, Xiang Beigen was clenched with his fists, and Fang Yun was expressionless waiting for Lin Junxiong's arrangement.

"Lin Shuo, you take the wolves to Tokyo, Japan, to learn the details, I want to know the details of every place in Tokyo." Everyone thought that Lin Junxiong would arrange the next battle of Iriomote Island, but they didn't expect to arrange a group of wolves to Tokyo, and looked at him in confusion.

Lin Junxiong didn't mean to explain, and continued: "The shadows were all dispatched to attack the Japanese stationaries in Okinawa and Amami Oshima, so that the devils in the Ryukyu Islands were panicked, and they also wanted to make a big deal about the fact that it was me who avenged the dead souls of Iriomote Island, and had the courage to come to Iriomote Island to find me. ”

"When the Japanese army is in a hurry, they will definitely send a large force to Iriomote Island to encircle and suppress us, and we will give them a hard blow and start the first battle of Ryukyu independence."

Lin Junxiong stood up and slammed the table hard, and made a rough deployment of the strategy of the first battle.

For six days from March 3rd to March 8th, Shadow continued to attack the garrisons of the devils, perhaps knowing the importance of the first battle, and a few even killed several Japanese officers above the rank of Nakasa at the cost of their own lives, so angry that Nakamura Kiyohide's face turned blue for several days, and even though strict defenses were taken everywhere, many Japanese soldiers were still killed every day.

"Damn the Soviets, we've driven Lin Junxiong to the Ryukyus, we won't be able to hold out for long in the Ryukyus!" Nakagawa Kiyohide, who had been silent for several days, finally slowly spit out a dejected word.

The surrounding officers also became depressed, the Kwantung Army was the elite unit of the Japanese Empire, and hundreds of thousands of people were beaten to the ground by Lin Junxiong in the Northeast, not to mention that there were only three divisions here in the Ryukyus, even if Lin Junxiong did not lead the new army of his descendants, the combat effectiveness of the Ryukyu People's Revolutionary Army should not be underestimated.

A soldier walked in and handed a telegram to Toshihiko Kojima, chief of staff of the Ryukyu garrison, and as soon as he read it, he had a look of joy on his face.

Walking to Nakagawa Kiyohide who was facing away from a few people and whispered a few words in his ear, Nakagawa Kiyohide quickly turned around, took the message and read it carefully, with an excited look on his face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the golden opportunity has come, the Sixth Fleet, which the Empire is preparing to assist the Philippines, will soon arrive in Okinawa, and the Eleventh Fleet will also be rushing from Taiwan to Iriomote Island. Last time, the 11th Fleet rushed to Taiwan to assist in the elimination of Lin Junxiong and others, but I didn't expect him to run away, and he also escaped on Iriomote Island. ”

Kojima Toshihiko also breathed a sigh of relief, since Nakagawa Kiyohide was almost killed a few years ago, his whole temperament has become ruthless, and he will beat or even shoot the people around him at every turn, this time seeing that he was tortured by countless bad news and was about to collapse, Kojima Toshihiko was worried all day long, and when he saw that Nakagawa Kiyohide finally had a smile on his face, he relaxed.

"Kojima-kun, order Kiyota-kun to prepare and go with us to Iriomote Island in two days, and at the same time order Asamasa-kun to closely monitor the Ryukyu bandit army in the Amami Oshima area, and order Fujiwara Hiroki's division to strengthen martial law on Okinawa Island. I think maybe Shang Tianen and others are also on Iriomote Island, fighting for this battle to eliminate the mastermind of the Ryukyu bandit army. ”

Nakagawa Kiyohide has grown into an excellent commander, but every time he confronts Lin Junxiong, he is miserable, and he has a sense of fear for Lin Junxiong in his heart, although this time it seems that there are two fleets outside the blockade, and he can rush to Iriomote Island under the cover of fleet artillery fire, but he always feels heavy-hearted, and it seems that everything will not go according to his expectations.

On March 12, when the entire island of Okinawa had been in a state of turmoil a few days earlier, it suddenly became quiet, and Kiyohide Nakagawa and his regiment set off from Naha Port and headed straight for Iriomote Island.

When Nakagawa Kiyohide arrived at the north of Iriomote Island with his troops, he stopped, as if he was waiting for something, and seemed to be watching something.

"Big brother, the situation is not right, what is this Nakagawa Qingxiu going to do, he has been staying on the sea for almost a day, is he waiting for reinforcements?" Fang Yun and Lin Junxiong stood on the top of Gujian Mountain, looking at the dense devil ships on the sea, and asked suspiciously.

Lin Junxiong put down the binoculars and said calmly: "Although there are nearly a thousand devil ships, there should be only one division in strength, and they should be waiting for reinforcements." To the south of Iriomote Island is Hateruma Island, where there are many reefs, so devils probably won't come from there, and the eastern waterway is even more impossible. If I'm not mistaken, the devil's reinforcements should be coming from the direction of Taiwan to the west. ”

"That is, in our expectation, our three lines of defense are concentrated in the west and north, and the intention of the eldest brother to arrange the first line of defense should be to confuse the devils, the more than a thousand small boats, the devils will all be destroyed in a burst of bombing, and they will not play any role at all."

Lin Junxiong turned around and smiled: "Confusing the devil is only one thing, the second is to consume some devils' shells, and the third is to make the devil form a sense of fear of Iriomote Island." ”

Ten nautical miles from Iriomote Island, the Japanese Eleventh Fleet stopped, and hundreds of small boats loaded with unknown things were floating and swaying in the sea in front of it.

At the same time, the Japanese Sixth Fleet discovered a similar situation, and the commander gave the same order, and for a while the cannon fire continued on the sea west and north of Iriomote Island, and it was only after half an hour that calm was restored again.

Nakagawa Qingxiu wondered, what was Lin Junxiong going to do with these countless camouflaged boats, it was impossible for him to spend manpower and material resources to build so many boats for no reason to confuse himself and consume shells? There is such a possibility, but these small boats simply cannot withstand the bombardment, is there any conspiracy afterwards? Thinking of this, Nakagawa Kiyohide immediately telegraphed to the Sixth Fleet and the Eleventh Fleet, beware of what tricks the cunning Lin Junxiong followed up.

The commanders of the two fleets knew that Lin Junxiong was powerful, and they didn't dare to be careless, and they moved forward slowly, and Nakagawa Kiyohide also followed closely with his troops, ready to wait for the opportunity to land on the island.

When the two fleets were only two nautical miles away from Iriomote Island, and there was no movement in the entire Iriomote Island, was Lin Junxiong not on Iriomote Island? This should be the best distance for a shore defense artillery attack. When the two fleets approached the shore, there was still no movement, and Nakagawa Kiyohide thought about it again and again, and in confusion and fear, he ordered the troops to land on the island.

Half of the troops had already landed on Iriomote Island, and there was still no movement, and the calmer Iriomote Island became, the more uneasy his heart became, and when the last troops landed on Iriomote Island, his heart trembled inexplicably, and then he heard countless shells falling.

Due to the extreme proximity of the two fleets to Iriomote Island, it was impossible to leave quickly in the face of countless shells falling, and many ships collided with each other when turning the rudder, and the two fleets were in chaos for a while.

The situation of the Kiyota Division, which landed on Iriomote Island, was even worse, almost exposed to the beach as a live target, Nakagawa Kiyohide immediately ordered the troops to retreat, and suddenly the Japanese troops on the beach ran desperately to the ship under the sound of artillery fire.

The defensive shore artillery built around the mountain on Mt. Komi on Iriomote Island did not stop until half an hour of shelling, and the two Japanese fleets took the opportunity to retreat to a distance of five nautical miles from Iriomote Island.

Nakagawa Kiyohide ordered his troops to retreat in frustration, but the commanders of both fleets resolutely resisted, and it would be a joke to send back home such heavy losses without seeing a single enemy. The two commanders ordered the gunboats to bombard Furumi in a frenzy, but because the distance was out of range, the shells could not reach the mountainside or above.

Nakagawa Kiyohide wanted to persuade the two to leave with the fleet again, but the commanders of the two fleets ignored Nakagawa Kiyohide's existence at all, and each led the fleet to bypass the direction of the fierce fire just now, and slowly approached.

When entering two nautical miles from Iriomote Island, with the explosion of a gunboat, the commanders of the two fleets suddenly woke up, this area was laid with mines, they hated not to listen to Nakagawa Kiyohide's words, ordered the fleet to retreat, although on the way to retreat encountered several mine explosions, but the fleet losses were not very large.

When they returned to a stop five nautical miles away from Iriomote Island, the two of them asked Kiyohide Nakagawa for his next move.

Suffering such a heavy blow, Nakagawa Kiyohide shook his head and sighed: "Retreat to Ishigaki Island to rest, now Lin Junxiong is a street rat, he will not leave Iriomote Island, he wants to turn this place into another Changchun, another slaughterhouse!" ”

The battle of Changchun is known to the two, Lin Junxiong relied on Changchun, took advantage of the nearby terrain, and defeated more than 20 divisions alive, if he attacked frantically desperately, it is likely that the two fleets were dragged alive by Lin Junxiong on Iriomote Island.

After Nakagawa Kiyohide left, the commanders of the two fleets looked down on the depressed Nakagawa Kiyohide, and the two of them exchanged views, and even wrote down the location of the dense shore defense artillery during the day, discussed it, and decided to leave temporarily, and then attacked the Iriomote Island coastal defense battery at night under the cover of night.