As for the troops participating in the Sicilian landing, the Allied side will be in place in a very short period of time as long as Han Yunhua asks for it. Toil. The British 8th Army under the command of General Montgomery and George W. The U.S. 7th Army Corps, commanded by General Patton, was already in place. Immediately, the Canadian 1st Infantry Division, commanded by the Royal Canadian Army Command in the United Kingdom, was asked by Han Yunhua to be incorporated into the 8th Army Corps to replace the British 3rd Infantry Division, and most of the 200,000 British and American troops stationed in North Africa were also transferred by Han Yunhua to Tunisia to assemble.

The Allied forces were very fast, and the 10 infantry divisions, 1 armored division, 2 airborne divisions, and 3 independent brigades responsible for the implementation of the plan all arrived at their designated positions, with a total of 558,000 troops, more than 4,000 combat aircraft, and about 3,200 combat ships and auxiliary vessels. According to the battle plan, the British 8th Army was commanded by Montgomery, whose task was to land in the area from Syracuse to Pachino in the southeast of the island and advance towards Messina; The U.S. 7th Army, commanded by Patton, was tasked with landing on the Jera to Licata section in the southwest of the island, cutting the enemy in half through the center of the island and clearing the northwest corner of the island of enemy forces. The landing date was set for February 20, 1943.

Although the Italian side did not know that the Allies were preparing to attack Sicily, in view of the collapse of the Northern Army and the strength of the American and British forces in North Africa, Mussolini ordered the Italian Southern Army to send some elite reinforcements to Sicily, and by February 17, the Axis defenders had a total of about 450,000 people, including about 400,000 Italian troops, about 40,000 German troops, at least 47 tanks and about 200 aircraft, and the whole army was composed of Italian General Alfredo. Guzoni commanded.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the battle, Han Yunhua demanded that all troops act decisively, never allow mud and water, and obey orders issued by the command headquarters 100 percent. On February 18, 1943, in order to obtain an advance base for attacking Sicily, Han Yunhua commanded the Allied forces to land on the island of Bantellella between Sicily and North Africa, and the battle went smoothly, because the Italian army did not expect the Allies to attack at this time, so there was almost no effective resistance, and after 3 hours of fierce fighting, the Allies achieved a major victory, capturing more than 11,000 Italian troops.

Han Yunhua then ordered the troops of Bantarella to besiege the two small islands around the island, and soon the Italian troops on the two small islands also laid down their arms. At the same time, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the battle, Han Yunhua commanded the Allied forces to carry out strategic bombing of Sicily and Calabria and southern Italian cities before the landing, and the Allied forces dispatched a total of 4,000 planes to bomb the airfields and facilities on Sicily one week before the landing. In addition, Han Yunhua also ordered the Allied naval forces to intensify their patrols in the Mediterranean, and demanded that the Allied ships must blockade the Mediterranean Sea and report to the headquarters immediately when they see the Italian Navy.

Han Yunhua's series of measures played a key role, and soon the Allies gained air supremacy in Sicily and southern Italy, and 1,400 German and Italian air force planes were withdrawn to southern central Italy and Sardinia, completely losing air aid to Sicily. On the 20th, the Allied attack fleet set off from six ports in North Africa, including Oran and Algiers, and carried troops to the island of Malta to rendezvous. At the same time, the British Navy dispatched the aircraft carriers "Invincible" and "Dreadnought", 6 battleships and other large warships to cover the attacking fleet. The aircraft carrier also made a feint in the direction of Greece to confuse the enemy.

On 24 February, the Allied fleet assembled on the east and west sides of the island of Malta and prepared to land when the weather changed suddenly, with fierce winds and fierce waves, and the Germans and Italians relaxed their vigilance. Han Yunhua did not let the carrier-based troops move first, but ordered the airborne troops to attack first at 2:40 a.m. on the 25th, and 5,400 officers and men of the US 82nd Airborne Division and the British 1st Airborne Division took 366 transport planes and gliders from Tunisia and flew to Sicily. …,

At 3:45 a.m. on the 25th, the 160,000 U.S. and British landing troops under the command of Patton and Montgomery landed in the southwest and southeast of Sicily under the cover of 3,200 warships and transport ships and 1,000 aircraft. The Italian troops on the coast were demoralized and put up only weak resistance. By noon that day, Patton and Montgomery's forces had successfully ascended to their respective target beachheads and maintained an offensive posture.

On the 26th, the defenders of Sicily, under the command of Lieutenant General Guzzoni of the Italian army, began a counterattack. The German 15th Panzer Division was moved from the west of the island to the east coast to stop Montgomery's British 8th Army from moving north to Augusta; The German Göring Panzer Infantry Division and two Italian motorized rifle divisions launched a counterattack against Patton's US 7th Army. The Luftwaffe dispatched 481 planes to bombard the Allied beachheads, and the Allied planes came to intercept them, resulting in a scuffle, with Allied anti-aircraft weapons on the ground shelling indiscriminately. Heavy fighting lasted a day, and German tanks advanced almost to less than 2 kilometers from the beachhead of the US 7th Army. Patton personally went to the front line to direct the American troops to fight back, and the navy also bombarded the German tanks with heavy artillery fire. By the end of the evening, the Germans had lost a large number of tanks and were forced to retreat. The U.S. military took advantage of the situation to capture the city of Jera.

At the same time, when the Allied air force planes frequently attacked the airfields on the island, the Italian air force carried out a resolute counterattack, with 690 sorties of Italian fighters and 500 sorties of German planes to counterattack. When the Allied forces marched towards Sicily with a large number of ships, the Italian air force attacked the weakly defended landing commando ships five times, and German planes also attacked and sank and damaged several Allied transport ships on several occasions. The most regrettable thing was that the German and Italian bomber units concentrated their forces to attack the British landing areas in the east, and sank the destroyer "Eskimo," the hospital ship "Talamba," and four liberships.

However, none of this has much to do with Han Yunhua, because Han Yunhua is only responsible for the formulation of the campaign, and the specific tactical command is personally carried out by the generals of the United States and Britain. Despite some flaws, the campaign went relatively smoothly overall.

While Han Yunhua was busy implementing the plan for the Sicily landing campaign, the entire world anti-fascist battlefield was quietly changing. On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army, with a large amount of material assistance from the United States, took the lead in launching a counterattack campaign, using the battle plan formulated by Han Yunhua, millions of Soviet Red Army carried out a large detour and in-depth operation on a front that stretched for thousands of miles, so that the German army did not know where the main offensive direction of the Soviet Red Army was, and with the help of millions of guerrillas in the German-occupied areas, the German army appeared extremely passive from the beginning of the battle.

On the Asian battlefield, the Allied forces continued to invest a large number of troops on the Burma battlefield, and more than 78,000 people of the 300th Field Army, which was expanded from the elite 300th Division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, received an order to prepare to go south to participate in the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Prior to this, the Allies had launched an attack on Tonggu in an attempt to open a passage to Rangoon. At the same time, the newly equipped U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy formed a joint fleet to enter the Pacific Ocean and besiege the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy in Southeast Asia. Due to the defeat of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway, coupled with the great war some time ago, the Japanese Navy has been comprehensively surpassed by the US Navy in terms of weapons and equipment and the number of ships, and more importantly, after nearly a year of research and modification, the latest US fighter has been officially put into service, and this fighter named F6F by the United States has completely surpassed Japan's Zero fighter in many aspects such as flight altitude and speed and fire system. Moreover, this fighter is completely designed to deal with the Japanese Zero War, and this time the US Navy came completely prepared.

In addition, the US Army has also waged an all-out battle over the islands in Southeast Asia occupied by Japan, and has completely put on the posture of a decisive battle with the main force; from the vast Pacific waters to the dotted islands, and from the reckless primeval forests to plantations in Southeast Asia, the entire South Pacific region is full of wars, and gunpowder smoke is everywhere. …,

In Chinese mainland, the Japanese are also facing tremendous military and political pressure, militarily the Inner Mongolia Military Region led by the Chinese Communist Party, the Eighth Route Army, and the New Fourth Army are pressing the border, and a major war may break out at any time, although the Japanese base camp has received the news that Han Yunhua himself is now in North Africa, this news has greatly relieved them, but the Inner Mongolia Military Region has not stopped as the Japanese imagined, and Yang Chengwu's headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region stationed in Shandong and Hebei have constantly provoked the North China Front Army, And small Chinese troops appeared in the hinterland of Shandong from time to time, causing the North China Front Army to be anxious.

In the Jiangnan region, Chiang Kai-shek, who was worried that the CCP would go south to seize territory, was also desperate this time, and all the 38 infantry divisions that had just been reequipped were pulled onto the battlefield, and a full 1.2 million troops launched the third Wuhan Battle against the Japanese army, and at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also ordered Wei Lihuang's headquarters in Henan to immediately march eastward, join forces with Yu Xuezhong's Sulu Theater, and wait for the dispatch of the Military Commission at any time, and the troops of Yan Xishan in the Second Theater stationed in Shanxi also received an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government to transfer 100,000 troops of the Jin Sui Army to fight in the south.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek sent an application to the Combined Air Force Command, hoping that the Air Force Joint Command would be able to provide air support to the forces of the Nationalist Government. It is best to mobilize some fighters to go to Wuhan to participate in the war, and the Nationalist Government is willing to open Chengdu, Chongqing and other airports. Han Yunhua had no reason to refuse, so he readily agreed, and even Han Yunhua specially sent the pilots of the CCP led by Shangguan Qingyun to Wuhan to participate in the war.

The military pressure is still secondary, and now the Japanese army stationed in China is also under great political pressure, and the fall of the puppet Manchukuo has terrified the entire puppet forces, especially the fate of those hardcore traitors who have not had time to escape. In the month after the end of the Battle of Northeast China, in order to prevent the resurgence of the Japanese puppet forces, and also to win over the hearts of the people, Han Yunhua ordered the troops to purge the traitors in the Northeast.

The word purge is generally not used, as it is often accompanied by extreme bloodshed. Cleaning and clean-up, although similar in meaning, represent two degrees. After the establishment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the traitors were rarely purged, on the one hand, there was a dry sky and a dry day for excessive killing, and on the other hand, the previous enemy-occupied areas were very good, and there were some hardcore traitors, the vast majority of them were some traitors who were forced to do so or for their own interests and ambitions, and these people often only needed Han Yunhua's special combat team to send a few bullets to their homes, and if they didn't work again, they would not be able to dispose of them directly, and it would not take much effort.

But the Northeast region is different, it has been a full 12 years since it fell, and the power of the Japanese puppet army has penetrated into all corners of the Northeast. Therefore, if Han Yunhua wants to gain a firm foothold in the northeast region and win the trust and support of the people, then these tumors must be resolved.

Although Han Yunhua was unwilling to make too many killings, in order to complete the great cause of reviving China as soon as possible, he still ordered the troops to carry out a large-scale purge of the traitor forces in the northeast, and more than 16,000 people were executed in just one month, and more than 40,000 people were sentenced, with sentences ranging from 1 year to 20 years, but not more than 20 years.

Han Yunhua's actions greatly deterred the Japanese puppet forces, and at the same time made the puppet army traitors in Jiangnan tremble. As the doglegs of the Japanese, they usually heard their masters boast about how powerful the Kwantung Army was, but now the Kwantung Army, which seemed to them to be like a mythical heavenly general, had been wiped out by the Communist general they knew, and the impact was not ordinarily strong.

Although the Japanese side tried their best to explain that the Kwantung Army had only strategically retreated to Korea, and the puppet state of Manchukuo had not been destroyed, and the ruling state of the puppet state of Manchukuo and the vast majority of officials and generals had all withdrawn to Korea and were preparing to plan a government-in-exile. But those traitors will not buy the accounts of the Japanese, and if they are not eliminated, then why organize a government-in-exile. Therefore, every day, a large number of traitors resign or directly abandon their official positions and run away, which is a headache for the Japanese puppet side. …,

In recent years, due to physical reasons, Wang Jingwei's control over this puppet regime, which had little control in the first place, has been greatly reduced, and the military defeat of the Japanese has led to a great decline in their influence on those puppet armies. More importantly, the years of war have severely damaged Jiangnan's economy. At the same time, since the Japanese army implemented the war to feed the war, they forced the puppet Nationalist government to collect money, food, and people for them, which led to complaints in the entire enemy-occupied area, so the Nanjing Nationalist Government at this time was about to come to an end.

Some puppet army officers began to quarrel with local guerrillas or other anti-Japanese forces, and some senior officers even secretly defected to the Nationalist Government, which made the Japanese army in Central China feel extremely angry but had nothing to do.

The power of example is great, and the October Revolution in Russia brought Marxism-Leninism to China. China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression also gave hope to the suffering Korean people, and after the Battle of Tohoku, Murjeong and Kim Il Sung were sent back to Korea by Han Yunhua, along with a full 50,000 Korean People's Army. What disturbed the Japanese top brass was that they had recently clearly felt that the Koreans in Korea had undergone tremendous changes in their spirit and temperament, and at the same time, a large number of North Korean troops had begun to attack the Japanese troops stationed in Baotian and villages, and even a unit under the command of the Korean People's Army had captured a county town not long ago.

If North Korea makes a mistake, Japan will completely lose the opportunity to turn the bill. For the Japanese, this war is over, and any further fighting will only increase casualties. The anxious new commander of the Kwantung Army and the governor of Korea immediately brought in a large number of troops from south Korea to suppress this elusive force. Originally, they all thought that it was the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region that did it, after all, the infiltration ability of the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was obvious to all. But soon the entire Japanese base camp panicked, because according to the news sent by the troops on the front line, this is an authentic Korean army, not to mention a large number, and the weapons and equipment are extremely sophisticated, the commander's command level is also very high, and the battle is very orderly, especially in the use of artillery, it is a strange trick, compared to the elite artillery units of the empire.

If it is played by the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it is acceptable for the Japanese to suffer psychological damage, after all, Han Yunhua has proved the strength of this army with facts, but if such an army appears even in Korea, then this will definitely be a great disaster for the crumbling Japanese Empire.

Angry, Nobuyuki Abe did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the Kwantung Army Command to draw up a joint anti-bandit plan, and it was estimated that 100,000 troops would be invested to carry out an all-round sweep of the mountainous areas along the border between China and North Korea. At the same time, Nobuyuki Abe also asked the puppet army of North Korea to increase its control over the North Koreans, and even did not hesitate to issue a joint order, one person joined the Korean People's Army, the whole family would be executed, and two families in a village would go out to join the Korean People's Army, and the whole village would be executed collectively.

No one could have imagined that the situation in the whole world would turn around so quickly, including the leaders of many major powers. The most surprising were Roosevelt and Stalin, especially Stalin, it can be said that Han Yunhua can not do without his support on the actual stage, but Stalin did not expect that this young Chinese friend would really promote the entire course of the war.

Stalin was a complete politician, and he was well aware of Han Yunhua's abilities, and he believed that such a person could only be a friend, not an opponent of the great Soviets. In line with Stalin's thoughts, Roosevelt also believed that people like Xiang Han Yunhua had better become friends with the United States, otherwise it would be a disaster for the whole of America.

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