On October 12, 1942, the battle for the Amur Peninsula, which lasted for more than two months, finally came to an end. In this battle www.biquge.info, known as the "Oriental Meat Grinder", the Japanese and Soviet sides invested nearly 1 million troops and a large number of aircraft, artillery, chariots, and ships in total. During the battle, the Japanese ground forces advanced to a position only 17 kilometers from the port of Vladivostok, and then no matter how frantic they attacked, they could not move a single step forward. By the end of September, the main force of Soviet Russia, which had completed the build-up of troops and the preparation of materials, launched an offensive from the front line of the Mudanjiang River, approaching Hunchun in just six days, directly threatening the land supply line of the Japanese troops on the northern front. During this period, the Japanese navy was never able to break through the defenses of the Soviet Russian army in the Amur Bay and the Ussuri Bay, and in order to avoid being encircled, the Japanese troops on the northern front began to retreat on October 6, and completely withdrew from the Amur Peninsula on the 9th.

In this battle, which was not inferior to the severity of several major battles of the Russo-Japanese War, the number of losses announced by the Japanese army was 37,329 killed, 3,619 missing, and 115433 wounded, while the losses announced by the Soviet and Russian troops were 43,299 killed, 7,905 missing, and 12,617 wounded. On the whole, the Japanese army relied on a strong navy to gain the local initiative, and through the joint actions of the navy, land and air force, it caused very great damage to the Soviet and Russian defenders, but the Japanese army also lost more weapons and equipment as a result -- the Soviet and Russian sides announced that they had shot down 1,317 Japanese fighters, captured 935 Japanese pilots, destroyed and captured 2,265 Japanese combat vehicles, sank 47 Japanese surface ships and 14 submarines, and captured 487 Japanese crew members and 177 crew members, while the Japanese army only shot down 971 Soviet and Russian fighters, 79 pilots were captured, 1,176 Russian combat vehicles were destroyed and captured, 23 Soviet and Russian surface ships and 17 submarines were sunk, and 434 Russian crew members were captured.

By the end of October, the Soviet Russian army had not only swept away the Japanese troops in the Russian Far East and reoccupied the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, but also captured Changchun, the capital of the puppet Manchukuo, which was known as "impregnable," in one fell swoop with the help of the anti-Japanese forces, forcing the puppet Manchurian government to move its capital to Shenyang in a hurry, severely damaging the morale of the puppet Manchurian army and greatly boosting the confidence of the anti-Japanese army and people in the three eastern provinces. However, the Soviet and Russian armies were constrained by the long supply lines and were unable to further expand the results of the battle, and the Japanese army also fell into a situation of lack of follow-up after consuming a huge amount of ammunition and supplies, and the two sides temporarily formed a confrontation on a new front.

On the Soviet and Russian sides, although the military aid of European and American countries has been reduced by a large margin compared with the previous period, on the whole, the military and the people are united and have no worries, while the Japanese side is not so comfortable. In mid-October, just as the Japanese army was fighting the Russian army with all its might, the Federal Republic of India, which had been cultivated by the Western allies, suddenly attacked Hindustan under Japanese control without declaring war. After more than 600,000 troops crossed the 77th parallel like a rolling flood, the head of the Federal Republic of India issued a unified declaration, vowing to return the Hindustani people to an independent, whole, free and national state, and to declare support for the reasonable independence and self-determination of all the peoples of the South Asian subcontinent, and to encourage them to free themselves from Japanese colonial rule through armed struggle.

More than 600,000 Indian federal troops not only have the spirit of reunifying India, but also have quite good weapons and equipment -- although the Mauser 1898 series is a discarded commodity of the German Army, its combat performance, especially reliability, can fully meet the needs of the Indian Federal Army, and the old Krupp artillery certainly has shortcomings such as short firing range and slow rate of fire, and it is more than enough to deal with the second-line troops of the Japanese army, as for the Focker-XI and Fokker G-51, "Teutonic Knights" and "Heavy Cavalry", These were all German-style weapons that shone during World War II.

Because the Japanese-Soviet War pinned down the main force of the Japanese army in the distant Northeast Asia, the Indian Federal Army crushed the border guards of Hindustan and a small number of Japanese troops, occupied hundreds of towns and countless villages on hundreds of square kilometers of land in only half a month, and liberated more than 40 million people from Japanese colonial rule.

If the Indian Federal Army can maintain this kind of high-flying posture, then it will not take too long to reunify India, but the Japanese top brass obviously will not easily give up the South Asian colonies rich in natural resources and a large working population, and they quickly formed the South Asian Front, appointing the Japanese general Yamashita Fumi, who had made great achievements in South Asia and Australia, as the commander of the Front, and sending elite combat units from all over Southeast Asia and the mainland to India. On the last day of October, four and a half divisions of the Indian Union Army and the Japanese 31st Division fought fiercely near the harbor city of Chiang Mai.

Immediately afterwards, the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, which was originally stationed in Malaysia, landed at Nellore, north of Chennai, and the 20th Division, which was previously stationed in the East Indies, arrived at Kakinada 400 kilometers from Nellore by boat, and the headquarters of the 18th Division, which had returned to the mainland from the Northeast Asian battlefield in the early stage, also arrived in eastern India one after another. By late October, the offensive of the Indian Federal Army had been contained in the southeastern regions of Andra, Telangana and the central and eastern regions of Chhattisgarh, and as more and more Japanese troops arrived in India, the Indian Federal Army began to take the initiative to shrink the front, preparing to rely on a few stronghold cities far from the coast for defense, and at the same time with the help of local guerrilla forces to continue to contain and consume the opponent.

Although the Western Allied bloc led by Germany was behind the unification war launched by the Indian federal army, the top decision-makers did not believe that the Hindustani had the ability to completely expel the Japanese army in the absence of the direct participation of European troops, but used this battlefield to draw Japan into a two-front battle and further disperse their military forces.

By the beginning of November, although there was no reduction in the number of troops dispatched by the Japanese troops stationed in Australia, more than 400 fighters of the three air groups originally assigned to them were transferred to India, and the number of naval ships deployed around Australia was also reduced by half. Seeing that the time was basically ripe, the Allied Navy launched a military operation codenamed "Dynamo", the goal of which was to transport 45,000 Australian soldiers, 9,000 international volunteers, and 300,000 tons of war materiel to the southern coast of Australia within a week.

Since the Western Allies were not directly involved in the war, the greatest difficulty of Operation "Dynamo" was how to avoid the blockade and interception of the Japanese Navy and Air Force and escort more than 300 transport ships to the shore safely. After the operation began, the Allied Grand Fleet Command quickly assigned some ships of the 4th and 5th Fleets to enter the Indian Ocean, while the transport ships participating in the operation sailed from various ports in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and southwestern India, and formed four transport groups in the Maldives waters according to the pre-set order, and were escorted to Australia by the four aircraft carrier groups of the Allied Navy. All transport ships need to sail 2,700-3,200 nautical miles after leaving the place of departure, and it is likely that they will have to add a lot of extra range to avoid Japanese aircraft and ships on the way, which means that Australian fighters and international volunteers will have to drift at sea for at least half a month, and there will be little time to rest after landing - they cannot expect thousands of guerrillas to rely on limited weapons to hold off the Japanese on the periphery of the landing area for a long time, if the guerrillas do not fight well in the blocking war, They may even have to fight the Japanese as soon as they come ashore......

On 21 November, the No. 1 Boat Regiment, which participated in Operation "Dynamo," stubbornly overcame a series of difficulties such as weather, sea conditions, and supplies to reach the southern waters of Australia, but a small Japanese patrol fleet became the biggest obstacle to its entry into Australia's territorial waters. Fearing the strong force of the Allied fleet, the Japanese patrol ships did not dare to forcibly come forward to investigate, but they put on a desperate posture near the territorial sea line. At this point, the Allied fleet ordered three destroyers belonging to the Indian Union Army to raise the naval battle flag, and then unceremoniously stepped forward to crush the Japanese patrol fleet to powder.

After bringing ashore well-equipped Australian soldiers and an all-white international volunteer force, all but three ships belonging to the Indian Federal Forces continued to linger in the coastal waters, while all Allied ships left Australian territorial waters. In the early morning of the 22nd, seven light ships dispatched by the Japanese Navy from a naval base in Western Australia arrived, and the fierce Japanese ignored the Allied carrier-based aircraft and large ships operating nearby, and went straight to the transport ships that were still unloading supplies. Although the three destroyers belonging to the Indian Federal Army were relatively new, they had no advantage in design and technical content over the Japanese ships, and it was difficult for them alone to stop their opponents. The six-on-seven naval battle ended without any suspense in the victory of the "main fleet of the Indian Federation," but the Japanese side's reaction far exceeded the expectations of the planners of the operation -- the Japanese Government not only condemned in harsh terms the open support of the Western allies for the Australian rebels, but also issued an ultimatum to the European and American countries, led by Germany, demanding that they immediately cease all military operations in Australian waters, otherwise Japan would unilaterally sever diplomatic relations with these countries and reserve the right to take further countermeasures.

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