Chapter 651: The Battle of Crossing the River

The surrender of Thailand was undoubtedly a huge blow to the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese army base camp originally planned to continue to block the Allied attack in Thailand, but whether it was Yan Shunroku, Okamura Ninjiza or the supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army, Terauchi Shouichi, thought that the Thais were unreliable, so they would decisively abandon Thailand.

After the surrender of Thailand, the land lines of communication between the Chinese allies could be opened to traffic, and they were no longer threatened by the Japanese puppet army, which was undoubtedly bad news for the Japanese. At the same time, the surrender of Thailand greatly inspired the suffering Chinese, and after receiving the news of the surrender of Thailand, Japan's largest accomplice in Asia, most cities in the country fell into revelry.

At the same time, the tide of the war in Europe took a turning point. At the beginning of October, the Allies began to launch a landing campaign in Normandy, France, and by the end of December, the soldiers were nearing the end. In this campaign, the Allied forces have mobilized 36 divisions with a total strength of 2.88 million troops, including 1.53 million army forces, 170,000 vehicles, and 600,000 tons of various supplies, preparing to cross the English Channel and open up the second battlefield in Europe. By December 24, it had been 69 days, and the war had about 240,000 casualties on both sides, including 122,000 Allied casualties and 114,000 German casualties and prisoners. By the end of December, the Allies had eliminated or inflicted heavy losses on 40 German divisions, three German marshals and one army commander had been removed from their posts or left their posts, 20 German army commanders, army commanders, division commanders, and other senior generals had been killed or captured, and more than 3,000 German artillery pieces of various kinds had been captured and destroyed, and more than 1,000 combat vehicles had been destroyed. The Germans lost 3,500 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 20,000 vehicles of various kinds, and 400,000 personnel. The Normandy landings were successful, and American and British troops returned to the European continent. This brought about a fundamental change in the strategic situation of the Second World War.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union also actively cooperated with the Allied landing in Normandy on the Eastern Front. After 51 major battles. Finally the Germans were completely driven out of the territory of the USSR, and the front was pushed into Eastern Europe. The countries of Eastern Europe were oppressed by the German army miserably, so after the arrival of the Soviet army, a large number of resistance forces from Eastern European countries came to the fore. Cooperate with the Soviet army to liberate Eastern Europe.

And on the Italian side, thanks to the help of Hitler. Mussolini continued to establish a government north of Italy and rivaled the current Italian government. But since the Italian government had already surrendered to the allies, and war was declared on Germany. As a result, the Allies began their march into southern Germany through Italy. Although there was no breakthrough in the troops at this time, it put a lot of pressure on Germany.

At this point, the Allies had basically taken the initiative in the war in Europe, Hitler's rule was in jeopardy, and although the German army was still strong, everyone saw that Germany's defeat was assured. The Second World War had come to an end.

On the Chinese side, Okamura Ninji actively organized troops to break through. However, in the face of Han Yunhua's momentum such as Mount Tai's overwhelming, he was also powerless, and on December 28, the Huai'an front-line position was broken through by the squadron, and the recruits of two infantry divisions and one infantry brigade stationed in Huai'an surrendered to the squadron. Immediately afterwards, the 6 infantry divisions of the puppet army under the control of the North China Front revolted on the battlefield and fell to Han Yunhua's department.

The Japanese army on the Yangzhou front line fiercely attacked the position of the squadron, this is already the 38th attack in a week, Okamura Ningji concentrated the most elite 330,000 troops to continuously attack the three lines of defense built by the Yangzhou front squadron, as long as the squadron builds these lines of defense, then the North China Front has hope of escaping.

However, Han Yunhua also gave a death order to the troops on the front line in Yangzhou, as long as it was not fought to the last soldier, China's battle flag could not disappear from the position, so although the battle on the front line was fierce and difficult, no one in the squadron retreated.

However, the Japanese army has a weakness, that is, their ammunition supply is seriously insufficient, this is the 13th day of supply cut-off, although the Japanese army headquarters in China sent transport planes to airdrop materials for the troops on the front line at all costs, but due to the air attack of Han Yunhua's department, this transportation volume is not even a drop in the bucket. As a result, the Japanese army had hundreds of thousands of troops in the air, but they could not all of them be put into battle.

On December 30, the squadron broke through the layers of resistance of the Japanese army behind the palace, advanced the battle line to the Xinghua area, and strategically tightened the encirclement, encircling Okamura Ningji and the entire North China Front in a narrow area of less than 100 kilometers.

At the same time, the 400,000 elite troops of the Northeast Front Army Lu Zhengcao and Li Zhaolin sent troops to Korea, and with the cooperation of the Korean People's Army, they quickly advanced into the hinterland of Korea, while the Far East Fleet of the Soviet Navy at the other end ambushed the Japanese troop carriers in the Korean coastal waters, completely annihilated the Japanese Korean detachment, and sank 23 Japanese ships, causing more than 28,000 Japanese young soldiers to go to the sea to feed Wang Ba.

At the same time, the anti-war sentiment in Japan is also getting higher and higher, and many people have already seen that if this trend continues, I am afraid that it will not be long before Japan will be wiped off the map by the Allies, so many people secretly united to form an anti-war alliance.

In fact, Japan under internal and external troubles has been in an absolute period of exhaustion in terms of war potential, there are no resources, steel and rubber and other strategies can not be produced, followed by the lack of equipment of the troops, due to the lack of equipment, the Japanese army in the Allied forces when fighting in addition to defeat or defeat, such a vicious circle has made the Japanese military top brass realize that they must find a way out for Japan, and even some people have proposed to negotiate with the allies, even if it is worth paying a considerable price.

However, the Japanese apparently did not expect that the Allied attack would be so rapid, and before the Philippine campaign was over, the Allied forces began to reconnoiter the waters of Iwo Jima, where the Japanese were stationed. In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Japanese Combined Fleet was almost completely annihilated, but the Japanese land forces were not seriously damaged, and they were still stubbornly fighting to the death against the American forces. However, it was clear that the Japanese Army at this time was no longer the formidable army of a few years ago in MacArthur's view, so before the Battle of the Philippines was over, the United States began to formulate a battle plan for the battle for the island.

In this battle plan, Admiral Nimitz suggested that the U.S. Department of Defense should first Taiwan, then the Ryukyu Islands, and then the Chiba Islands. Finally, they attacked the Japanese mainland. However, he did not get stuck, but he thought that Han Yunhua's frog jumping tactics were worth learning from, so he suggested that the US Department of Defense directly cross Taiwan to attack Iwo Jima, which was heavily guarded by the Japanese army. Then move the powerful Allied aviation forces to a sufficiently close enough distance to the Japanese mainland.

The US Department of Defense considers the advice of Admiral Douglas MacArthur, albeit a bit risky. However, it was possible to reduce the casualties caused by the fight for Taiwan, so it was decided to launch the Battle of Iwo Jima as soon as possible.

While the whole world was fighting tensely, only the fighting on the Huaihai side of the Chinese battlefield gradually subsided, as the ammunition ran out. However, the vast majority of the ammunition airdropped by the Air Force was taken away by the squadron, so the entire North China Front had lost the ability to attack. Although there are still more than 700,000 troops in the entire North China Front, they have been surrounded by the first squadron.

The Japanese command of the Japanese dispatch army had already sent a large army to the Huaihai side to rescue, but due to the loss of the surface support of the powerful Third Fleet. Therefore, the average daily speed of crossing the river is very slow. Coupled with the desperate resistance of Han Yunhua's troops, the Japanese army has not yet reached the north of the Yangtze River without advertising so far.

The entire North China Front Command was lifeless, and all the Japanese officers set their sights on the commander of the North China Front. [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］