Chapter 275: The British Army Falls into the Ground
In the face of Japan's clamour, the Chinese side ignored it and no longer urged Japan to surrender, but just kept bombing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Throughout October, the Chinese Air Force spent the entire month of large-scale bombing of the Japanese mainland, and none of Japan's industrial and economic cities were spared, and they were in ruins everywhere.
By November, the Chinese Air Force had slowed down the scale of the bombing a little, because the purpose of the first stage of bombing had been achieved, and on the other hand, the siege of the Japanese troops in Siberia and Chaoxian had been long enough, and it was time to liquidate them one by one.
In particular, due to the long siege and the fact that the cold in Siberia could not be replenished, a large area of the Japanese army in Siberia froze to death from frostbite, and its combat effectiveness dropped dramatically.
Many Japanese troops in Chaoxian County, after being besieged for a long time, were like savages, and the lack of food and water made the Japanese army even more uncomfortable than ammunition, and even large-scale cannibalism occurred many times.
By February 41, in Siberia and Chaoxian, except for some stragglers who fled to forests, mountains and other places to resist stubbornly, it was difficult to find the formation above the Japanese squadron.
Subsequently, Siberia and Chaoxian were taken over by the Chinese army, and a large number of Japanese expatriates became prisoners of the Chinese army, with men sent to some mining areas for labor and women mostly placed in the army to serve in the army.
After the war in Chaoxian in Siberia was almost settled, the main target of the Chinese army was placed in Southeast Asia, and the reason why Southeast Asia was put last was because the strategic location was not as important as Siberia and Chaoxian for China; On the other hand, Southeast Asia has more mountainous areas and primeval forests, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, so in order to reduce casualties, it is necessary to take a long-term view.
Of course, when the Chinese army attacked Siberia, it did not suspend its offensive in Southeast Asia, after all, at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war, Army Group South had also been established, and almost simultaneously launched a war against the Japanese army in Southeast Asia.
It's just that due to the terrain, it is not conducive to the deployment of mechanized troops, so the scale and speed of the operation are much slower.
In the direction of Southeast Asia, the largest number of sorties of Army Group South was the Air Force, and the Chinese Air Force swept almost the entire Southeast Asia.
Because the resistance in Southeast Asia was very weak, when the Japanese army occupied Southeast Asia, it did not invest much air force, and after controlling a large area of Southeast Asia, the role of air force was even smaller, so the Japanese army also withdrew a lot of air force.
Because of this, the air power of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia was much weaker than that of the Chinese army, and after being surrounded and suppressed by the Chinese air force several times, the main air power was almost wiped out.
Subsequently, due to the elimination of the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese army in Southeast Asia was cut off from the Japanese mainland and could not be replenished, and the air force could no longer turn over, and could only let the Chinese air force dominate the skies of Southeast Asia.
After gaining air supremacy, the Chinese army began to advance step by step in a planned way, and on the other hand, began to support the local guerrilla forces in Southeast Asia, allowing them to constantly harass the Japanese army, and at the same time providing various intelligence for the Chinese army.
The Japanese army in Southeast Asia fell into the quagmire step by step, and had to shrink the front and automatically abandon large areas. However, because the area is too wide, especially the Japanese troops who invaded and occupied Southeast Asian countries have been cut off from each other by the Chinese army, they can only fight their own battles, and what awaits them will be the step-by-step elimination of the Chinese army.
In order to expand the depth of Australia's defense, and at the same time, in order to train the army, when the Chinese army cleared the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, under the slogan of helping China eliminate the Japanese fascists, Churchill quickly sent troops to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Japanese-occupied islands in Oceania.
Although the British army escaped from their homeland in disarray, after this period of recuperation and expansion, the size of the army has expanded to more than one million by recruiting Australian locals.
Moreover, the British have also brought a lot of scientific researchers, and some military industrial facilities have begun to slowly recover with the efforts of these people.
Although the current British Empire is not as good as it used to be, I feel that I am still very confident in dealing with the Japanese army.
However, when the battle really began, the British realized that the reality was far more cruel than they imagined, and the tenacity of the Japanese army was far beyond their expectations.
After several air battles, the Chinese army was basically able to achieve absolute superiority in the air, while the British Air Force, in the confrontation with the Japanese air force, was only barely evenly matched despite the numerical superiority.
There are two main reasons for this situation, first of all, one is that the British army has almost lost all its excellent pilots in the European war, and the current pilots are all novices, and naturally they cannot compare with the excellent pilots of the Japanese army in terms of training and technology.
The second reason is that the performance of the British aircraft is actually not better than the Japanese Zero fighter, and the Zero is already a very good fighter in the eyes of the British army.
Because of this, in the air battle of the same specification, the British army did not have any advantage, and was almost chased and fought by the Japanese army, and in the end they could only save face by piling up numbers.
In the face of this result, some high-ranking members of the British army were even ready to retreat, because they knew how difficult it was for the British army to save some capital during this time, and it could not be consumed so easily. Otherwise, when the Chinese army destroys the little devils and fights again, what will the British do to resist.
But Churchill thought differently, he felt that no matter how many troops had no combat effectiveness, no matter how much they wanted, it was necessary to step up training while the Chinese army had no time to take care of it. Only when the troops are well trained and the Chinese army will come to fight in the future, will there be capital to defend.
The British can be said to be the country that really opened the door to China, but they didn't expect that a hundred years later, they finally managed to hide in Australia, but they had to defend the country that they had bullied and looked down on.
The British did not win immediately in the air, nor did they operate much better on the ground, and they also wanted to learn the tactics of the Chinese army in cutting, encircling, and then encircling and suppressing the Japanese strategic units, but they found it difficult to implement.
The funniest thing is that a stronghold defended by a Japanese squadron, a British division failed to win for half a month, and finally had to abandon the operation by detour.
This made the British army top brass very worried, compared with the Chinese army, the opponent is also a little devil, why the Chinese army can achieve such good results, while the British army is completely opposite. Could it be that the combat power of the British Imperial Army has been weakened to such a degree?