Chapter 159 Occupation of Kyushu in Japan
Early on the morning of the 29th, Zhang Wei first appointed Wang Dajun as chief of staff of the Taiwan Provincial Military Region, under the jurisdiction of the 18th Division and the garrison division being formed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At the same time, Du Shihui was ordered to be the chief of staff of the Northern Theater of Operations, Xia Yu was appointed as the deputy chief of staff, and the Northern Theater temporarily subordinated the 19th Division, so that the 19th Division was temporarily stationed in Keelung Harbor and replenished with full personnel.
At the same time, a telegram was sent to Lu Weimin to send another 5 regiments of mercenaries to Keelung Port, except for the two divisions stationed in Australia, each of the remaining divisions should form at least one regiment of mercenaries.
Zhang Wei took Li Zhaoshui and Du Shihui into the system and asked them to come up with a plan to occupy Jiuzhou and Hokkaido; Xia Yu temporarily acted as chief of staff in Keelung Port, and asked him to contact Governor Zhao Xiaolong to organize a transport fleet, as for the number, it can transport 35,000 troops and equipment, and it can be used within 4 days.
Zhang Wei was going to Naha Port first, and the occupation of Jiuzhou required the cooperation of the navy, and he had to communicate with the navy first.
It is 310 nautical miles from Keelung Port to Naha Port, and it takes about 16 hours to take a Xinhua-class torpedo boat. At 9 p.m., Zhang Wei departed from Keelung Port and is expected to arrive at Naha Port at 1 p.m. on the 30th.
After arriving at Naha, Li Zhaoshui and Du Shihui were released from the system, their opinion was that neither Kyushu nor Hokkaido would take into account that the Lanfang Kingdom would attack the Japanese mainland, they would definitely not prepare in advance, it was not difficult to land, but the difficult thing was the resistance of the people, Hokkaido was good to say, the land was vast and sparsely populated, Kyushu Island was densely populated, the people were fierce, and the civil resistance would definitely be fierce, so occupy Kyushu first, and Hokkaido could occupy it at any time in the future.
To occupy Kyushu, their Jianyang City first occupied Fukuoka, and then divided their troops into several routes, the first road first occupied Kitakyushu, and then occupied Oita Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture; the second way was to occupy Kurume and Saga Prefecture, and then Sasebo and Nagasaki; The third route starts from Kurume and occupies Kumamoto and Kagoshima, which is the biggest and the resistance will be fierce.
Zhang Wei asked, "Why don't you start the attack from the south first?" ā
Li Zhaoshui explained: "We have a system, we don't have to worry about logistics, and there is no army stationed in Kyushu now, Fukuoka is the richest area, we must occupy it first, in addition, if we start to occupy it from the south, there will be preparations in the north, and Japan can send troops and weapons to Kyushu from the Seto Inland Sea, which will increase our occupation; Let's occupy the north first, that is, to isolate Kyushu, from the Seto Inland Sea there is no way to support Kyushu, and the southern sea is under our control, they can't escape, and they can't get outside support, we can slowly eat and occupy. ā
Zhang Wei felt that their plan was very reasonable, so he almost began to implement it according to this, and asked them to make the plan more detailed and perfect.
Zhang Wei introduced Du Shihui and Zhang Hailong to each other, and in the future, they will be in charge of the navy and the army in the Northern Theater in the future, and they must cooperate well.
When Chief of Staff Zhang Hailong heard that Kyushu and Hokkaido were to be occupied, he said that this was definitely a good idea, and the navy would definitely cooperate well with the army. I thought to myself, if I occupied these two places, I would be the chief of staff of the justifiable Northern Fleet, and the sea surface under my control was still too small.
Li Zhaoshui only asked Zhang Hailong to strengthen the patrol of the sea east of the Osumi Strait to prevent the Japanese army from sending support troops to the southern part of Jiuzhou.
At 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, Zhang Wei and others set off for the waters of Fukuoka to prepare for landing in Shingu Town, north of Fukuoka.
The distance from Naha Port to Fukuoka is 600 nautical miles, and it takes about 31 hours to ride the Xinhua-class torpedo boat, and it is estimated that it will be as far as Shingu Town after 3 a.m. on October 2.
In the early morning of September 1, Zhang Wei received the system score for August, reaching more than 17 million points, and there were more than 3 million points for destroying the enemy alone, which seemed to count the destruction of the Japanese army and the fleet together. With so many points, Zhang Wei decided to continue to synthesize soldiers, in order to control the occupied territory, Zhang Wei decided to synthesize several more militia divisions, each regular division is equipped with a militia division, control the areas that have been occupied, and be responsible for transporting logistics and other work.
Li Zhaoshui's battle plan was to commit five regular divisions, as well as the corresponding militia divisions, about 160,000 people. The 20th Division was responsible for the occupation of Fukuoka, the 21st Division for Saga and Nagasaki, the 22nd Division for Kumamoto, the 23rd Division for Oita, and the 24th Division for Kagoshima, dividing Miyazaki in two, with Oita to the north of Ozuyama and Kagoshima to the south.
This time the battle in Jiuzhou was all commanded by Du Shihui, and Zhang Wei and Li Zhaoshui only cooperated.
After arriving at Xingong and waiting for the land and it was more than 4 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Wei first released the 20th Division according to the request of Chief of Staff Du, the first to release the division headquarters, and then the regiments and the troops directly under the division headquarters.
Since the divisions had already been clearly explained their respective tasks, the rest of the work was for the divisions to arrange their own schedules.
According to the 20th Division's own arrangement, the troops directly under the division and the 1st Regiment first took Fukuoka City, and the other 3 regiments waited here, and after dawn, each regiment went to its own defense area.
The division commander demanded that the divisional artillery battalion and the 1st regimental artillery battalion all stay in Xingong, and it was inconvenient for the artillery to march at night, besides, there was nothing to do with the artillery battalion, and the mortars were not necessarily useful.
Since there were no Japanese troops stationed in Fukuoka, after the 20th Division went, as long as the police were eliminated and the prefectural governor and mayor were captured, even if the area was occupied, the next step would be to loot the wealth and arrest the opponents.
Shingu is 10 kilometers from Fukuoka, and the march is slow at night, and when it arrives in Fukuoka, the sky will soon be light, and according to the battle plan, the 1st Battalion will occupy and control the docks, the 2nd Battalion will occupy the police station, the 3rd Battalion will occupy the tax office and other government departments, the 4th Battalion will occupy the city hall and arrest the mayor, and the regimental troops will occupy the prefectural government and arrest the prefectural governor.
Since it was on the mainland, the Lanfang Kingdom had blocked the harbor, and there was no way to send ships out here; The bombing of the coastal areas of Honshu and Shikoku by the Ranfang Navy frightened all the inhabitants of the coastal areas of Japan into moving inland; As a result, the population of Fukuoka has decreased by three-quarters, and now the whole of Fukuoka is sparsely populated and depressed; This facilitated the actions of the Lanfang Army.
During the operation, only the 2nd Battalion had a brief exchange of fire with the police, less than 100 policemen, less than 10 rifles, more than 10 people were armed with pistols, and the rest were armed with wooden sticks. In the face of 1 battalion of soldiers, these policemen were completely annihilated without resisting for even 3 minutes.
In other places, there was no exchange of fire, and the soldiers rushed in and arrested people directly.
The prefectural governor and mayor were captured in their own homes, and by the way, even their family property became the spoils of the Lanfang Kingdom.
At this time, there was a shootout, and the people of Fukuoka could hear the gunshots, and the brave people looked out through the cracks in the doors and windows, and found that these troops were not the Japanese Imperial Army, it must be the army of the Lanfang Kingdom, everyone had known that the empire and the Lanfang Kingdom were at war, the port was blocked by mines, and there were warships of the Lanfang Kingdom patrolling in the open sea, and it was not strange to hit the city now, but I regretted that I didn't withdraw with everyone, and now it's too late to withdraw to the interior.
Zhang Wei and Li Zhaoshui had long expected that they would occupy Fukuoka very happily, but they didn't expect it to be so happy.
Hopefully the same will be true in several other places, where there is no resistance. (To be continued.) )