Chapter 532: The Japanese Army Advances in the Pacific

The campaign to annihilate the puppet army was commanded by Zhang Shouhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info consumed a lot of fuel for planes and tanks, and got more than 20,000 soldiers and thousands of laborers for nothing, which is really a good deal.

Originally, I was going to ask the Rehe Column to take action, but the above still didn't let them move, because the Japanese army of tens of thousands of people in the Tangshan area had not moved, and that was the most important thing. Although Zhang Shouhou did not take the puppet army seriously, he still formulated a detailed plan, focusing on psychological warfare, and made preparations in two aspects.

Originally, many people were not sure whether they could make a forced landing on the puppet army, and when making a plan, they changed the forced landing of all the puppet troops to eliminate the leaders and force the landing of others, and were prepared for the forced landing to start the war.

In fact, after the demonstration of advanced weapons, the forced landing went well. These puppet armies are just a bunch of weapon-only guys, and with advanced weapons, they naturally work.

In addition, these puppet armies were the original Northwest Army, and the former Feng Yuxiang's subordinates had the habit of surrendering and rebelling against the water. It is not possible to fight, and in the past few years, I have long heard of the prestige of the Northeast Eighth Road, and now that I am fighting, once I know that the other party is worthy of the name, I will surrender immediately.

In the past few days, the war situation in the Pacific has gradually spread, the allies are not optimistic, and the Japanese army is winning one after another.

This time, in the war in Malay and other places in the Pacific War, the army was commanded by Terauchi Shouichi, and Yamashita Fumimi was the one he asked to come out of the Kwantung Army.

When Xiao Lu heard the news, he was very surprised that the temple had made a comeback, which showed that the experience of being captured did not have much impact on him, which was really strange. Today, Terauchi is a staunch southward marcher who, as in history, commanded Japan's Southern Army to begin the Pacific War.

At the beginning, at the same time as the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 400,000 troops of the Japanese Southern Army divided their troops into several routes to attack a number of Pacific targets.

Soon, the attacks on Hong Kong, Malaya, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Burma were successful, and the rest of the world progressed rapidly, except for Singapore and the Philippines, which took some time.

The First World War in Singapore made Yamashita Fengwen famous, known as the Malay Tiger. Yamashita Fumi's Japanese troops were equipped with bicycles to chase down Indian and British soldiers. The bicycle burst a tire, and the Japanese simply rode a bicycle without a tire, three people in a row, rumbling, it was the dry season, the road was full of smoke and dust, and the Indians thought that the tanks were pursuing, and they fled frantically.

The bicycle blitz, all the way to Singapore, is simply a wonder in the world.

Arriving in Singapore, the Japanese were extremely tired, however, Yamashita insisted on continuing the battle because "the enemy was even more tired." As a result, the Anglo-Australian-Indian forces in Singapore, numbering about 80,000 men, surrendered to the exhausted Japanese army. From then on, the large tribes of the Malay Peninsula fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

In addition, the Philippines fought and forced MacArthur away. The Philippines has an important strategic position, with 150,000 troops stationed in the US army and several air force units, and its combat effectiveness is still there, but because of the knowledge that Pearl Harbor was destroyed, it has been terrified. A proposal to bomb a Japanese military base in Taiwan was rejected.

The Japanese army had only 110,000 men, and they were registered from several places in the central, central and southern regions. After landing in the north, the Japanese army advanced from north to south, step by step, to Manila. After making a series of mistakes, MacArthur was taken to Australia, where the Japanese captured 110,000 Philippine troops.

Over the next two years, these 110,000 people have endured hardship in the Philippines. Among them, the Bataan march was the operation of the Japanese army to transfer prisoners, known as the death march, during the march, the death toll reached 15,000, and later reached the prisoner of war camp, where 26,000 people died in two months.

In addition, the Japanese army also attacked some strategic islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean, such as Guam, Wake Island, Bismarck Islands, and New Britain Island, thus achieving the goal of establishing air force forward bases. American power was driven out.

Because the oil depot and other infrastructure facilities at Pearl Harbor were blown up, history changed, and the US Pacific Fleet did not move at all in the Pacific Ocean because of the lack of fuel, and could not transport troops or dispatch the navy.

In addition, due to the fire at the oil depot, all the repair workshops and ships on the surface were burned down, and the destroyed ships of the Pacific Fleet were not repaired, resulting in the Pacific Fleet's insufficient combat strength.

Historically, U.S. bombers took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet to bomb Tokyo at all, and there was no mention of it on the radio.

U.S. oil in the Pacific is replenished by tankers from mainland California. In order to win the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government requisitioned dozens of civilian oil tankers to transport fuel to Pearl Harbor. In the first three months, the supply of fuel was insufficient, and the US Navy did not dare to go to war. In April and May, when the fuel gradually became sufficient, the American army began to attack.

In four months, the Japanese army won a resounding victory in the Pacific, and the United States had little power to parry.

Now, according to the latest information, the Japanese army has not only attacked the Solomon Islands, eastern New Guinea and Midway. It also transported 30,000 elite infantry drawn from the Kwantung Army.

On February 19, 1942, the Japanese air raid on Darwin devastated the Australian people, and Australia's hostility towards Japan began to spread. This incident was called the "Pearl Harbor Attack in Australia", and the commander was Tadaichi Nagumo.

Although Darwin was not as important as Pearl Harbor, the number of bombs used to bomb Darwin had already exceeded the bombs used in the air raid on Pearl Harbor.

Like Pearl Harbor, Australian towns were completely unprepared for the attack. The population of Darwin at the time was about 2,000 people, and the other 5,000 civilians had been evacuated beforehand. About fifteen thousand Allied soldiers were stationed in Darwin's harbor and air base.

On April 20, the Japanese army landed directly on the Australian mainland: the northern city of Australia, Darwin.

The 30,000 Japanese troops who landed one after another wiped out the Australian army in Darwin without much effort, and the more than 15,000 Australian troops in Darwin were killed, a few fled, and half surrendered.

The Japanese drove the captives to the interior of Australia, built a new airfield 20 kilometers from the coast, and within 10 days, the Japanese planes landed on the Australian mainland without the airfield was completely repaired, and began bombing the northern coastal cities of Australia.

Australians across the country are terrified. The Japanese invasion of Australia shocked the allies and shocked the U.S. military. Historically, the Japanese army did not enter the Australian mainland at all. This time, the Japanese army gathered vehicles in Darwin and attacked in all directions, and soon all the vicinity of Darwin fell. The Japanese army plundered cattle and sheep, oil, and grain here, and harvested a lot.

Historically, the Japanese only bombed the city of Darwin, but did not occupy it. This time, some island targets were abandoned and a direct attack on Australia was launched.

For the same reason, the historical Battle of the Coral Sea from May 7 to May 8 did not happen at all, and it is estimated that the Battle of Midway will also be aborted.

On the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese army began to participate in the war on the Indochina Peninsula.

On January 4, 1942, the 55th and 33rd Divisions of the Japanese Army launched an attack from Thailand to Dawei and Mawlamyine in southern Burma respectively, and on January 30, the Japanese army conquered the important town in eastern Burma, and then continued to advance in two ways. On March 8, Japanese troops occupied Yangon, the capital of Burma. In March and April, the Japanese attacked the important town of Mandalay in an attempt to cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

With the help of the British, Mr. Chiang sent troops into Burma, and the Chinese side, with Du Yuming as the acting commander, gathered about 100,000 Chinese expeditionary forces to march to Burma.

First, the Kuomintang Fifth Army advanced to Burma, and soon the Sixth Army also entered Burma.

The return from the United States is also coming. Soon, the Chongqing government signed a contract with the United States and received American aid, and the United States agreed to a loan of 500 million US dollars.

In March, Stilwell entered Burma.

On April 16, the Japanese cut off the retreat of the British and Indian troops from the flank. The Chinese Expeditionary Force rushed to the aid of the Anglo-Burmese army besieged north of Ringanqiang with 1 division, and rescued more than 7,000 people under Alexander. On the same day, the Japanese army captured Ringanqiang.

On April 29, the Japanese occupied Lashio and cut off the Yunnan-Burma Road.

At this time, Stilwell left Burma and visited Harbin. The situation in Burma was told by Stilwell to Xiaolu. Stilwell wanted to know how Xiaolu fought behind enemy lines, and besides, he was dissatisfied with Chiang and wanted to see the situation in the entire Chinese battlefield, so he took advantage of the battle to come to Harbin.

Shortly after Stilwell left Jinzhou, U.S. embassy officials and a private company came to Yan'an to sign a technology transfer contract for submachine guns, rifles, bazookas, and other conventional weapons, and the U.S. company paid for it in dollars, gold, and power generation equipment, machinery and chemical equipment.

In North China, because of the tension in Jinzhou, Okamura's army was on guard against Jinzhou, and there was not enough military strength to carry out the May Day sweep at all, and the pressure on the Eighth Route Army in North China was much less.

Now, the liberation of southern Liaoning and then the entire territory of northeast China has matured. After the reconquest of Harbin and other places, production quickly resumed. The industrial cadres trained by the Northeast Coalition Army for many years have shown great ability this time, and all industrial businesses are running smoothly. In the past, the Northeast Coalition Army was only capable of fighting a major battle once a year or two, but now it is different.

The whole Northeast is like a huge machine, running at high speed all the time. The major policy of Yan'an has been formulated, and the major battle plans are being discussed and formulated one by one. Large numbers of troops moved at high speed on the newly occupied railways, and large quantities of supplies were transported by rail and road.

The command center in the northeast had been moved from Yichun to Harbin, and while Harbin calmly observed the movements of the Japanese troops along the Far Eastern Railway such as Vladivostok, a huge net was opened to cover the Japanese troops in the entire northeast.

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1, Peng Dehuai later said to his subordinates with deep feelings: "Okamura Ningji is a more vicious and sophisticated opponent than Tada Jun. He has a lot of skills, can be realistic, meticulous and thorough. Every time he attacked, he had to investigate for half a year and make preparations. Without the inside line to cooperate with the maintenance, he does not carry out cannibalization.

He is not in the limelight, does not speak much, is not rude to his subordinates, and you can't see his movements from his speech. He often collected and studied our things extensively, and was one of the most powerful Japanese commanders in North China in history. ”

2. Zuo Quan died in the May Day Sweep in 1942.

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