Chapter 647: Counterattack on all fronts
Not only was Okamura Ningji stunned by the sudden news, but even the entire Chinese Dispatch Army Command felt that the matter was tricky, although Anqing was only a small city, but it shouldered an extremely important responsibility, not to mention what kind of situation such a huge batch of military supplies would be in the hands of the enemy, just the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line became an important problem, that is not hundreds of thousands of people, with the Japanese army's airlift capacity on the Chinese battlefield simply cannot support the supply of so many troops, In addition, since the general of China has thought of the trick of cutting off his back road, then he will guard against the Japanese army's airdrop of materials, with the strength of the current powerful air force, as long as the Japanese air force dares to come, I am afraid that it will be swallowed without even dregs.
Fortunately, the troops often had to carry a week's worth of war materials with them when they were fighting, so Okamura Ninji still had a buffer of six or seven days.
The battle on the front line was in full swing, Han Yunhua ordered the troops to intensify the offensive, never give the Japanese army any time to breathe, the two major corps continued to attack the Japanese army from the north and south, in order to limit the reinforcements in Japan, Han Yunhua also ordered Lu Zhengcao to cooperate with Wu Ting, Kim Chong-il and others to start advancing into Korea, gradually encroaching on Korea. Thanks to Han Yunhua's strong support, the Korean People's Army at this time had grown to about 150,000 people, and its reputation in the country was extremely high.
Han Yunhua wants this effect, he wants the Japanese army to open fire on the whole front, only in this way, the shortcomings of the Japanese army's long front and lack of soldiers will be undoubtedly revealed, and the squadron will seize the opportunity to annihilate the enemy. Although ** has nominally become the ruling party in China and has unified the military and political power of the whole country, in fact, **'s orders are not extremely effective for the former senior Kuomintang officials, so Han Yunhua must come up with a strong offensive to give these people a warning.
Kill a chicken to show the monkey a chicken, although the North China Front is a tiger, but Han Yunhua feels that killing a tiger can deter those monkeys more. However, Okamura Ningji was really powerful, and under such unfavorable circumstances as the rear road was cut off and the logistics base was terminated, Gangmura neither asked the Chinese army headquarters for help, nor did he order the troops to break through. Instead, he ordered the troops attacking Henan to immediately withdraw to the Zhoukou line and hold it firmly, while at the same time quickly opening the line of communication between Xinyang and Wuhan and transporting supplies by land in the direction of Xuzhou.
But cutting off the supplies of the Japanese army was only one of Han Yunhua's intentions, and more importantly, Han Yunhua wanted to flank the Japanese army from the north and south, and completely annihilate the North China Front. Moreover, Han Yunhua prepared a luxurious meal for the Japanese army this time, and Han Yunhua believed that as long as the Japanese army was unprepared, I am afraid that it would not be able to support it for a few days and would completely collapse.
Han Yunhua's secret weapon is actually very simple, and all of them are from the hands of the Japanese, when the Northeast was liberated, Han Yunhua's department seized a large number of poison gas bombs, and also captured a huge number of Japanese military doctors, under Han Yunhua's coercion and temptation, these Japanese military doctors who were not soldiers quickly became Han Yunhua's guests, producing poison gas bombs for Han Yunhua.
Treating others in the same way, Han Yunhua just wanted to see what kind of expression Okamura Ningji would have when the poisonous gas produced by the Japanese fell on the heads of the Japanese on a large scale. Moreover, Han Yunhua knew that although the Japanese army could carry gas masks when marching and fighting, the number was far from one person, and only the troops in charge of the front line would be equipped with a little, and it would be good if 100,000 troops of the 500,000 troops on the Xuzhou front line could have gas masks.
Sure enough, in the battle on November 28, due to the large-scale use of poison gas bombs by Han Yunhua's headquarters, the Japanese forward positions were all occupied with only a weak resistance, and the battle line was advanced by more than 20 kilometers in one day. …,
The battle of Xuzhou was not only fierce for the army, but also for the air force to be idle, the Japanese army mobilized a total of more than 600 fighters to participate in the battle, and Han Yunhua also urgently mobilized more than 600 fighters from Shenyang Airport to participate in the battle, and the rest of the fighters continued to bomb the Japanese mainland.
Han Yunhua reported to the Military Committee, proposing to concentrate the main force of the Northeast Front Army near Xuzhou and prepare to gather and annihilate the Japanese army. At the same time, it was hoped that Yan Xishan's Central Plains Front Army would immediately send troops to Henan, and cooperate with Tang Enbo's troops to immediately advance southward, so as to drive the Japanese army out of Henan in one fell swoop.
Although Yan Xishan is the warlord leader of the Jin Sui Army, this person has an advantage, that is, this person has a very deep affection for Shanxi, so he has a great contribution to guarding Shanxi. Although Yan Xishan was very unhappy to be co-opted like this, his old man could now see the situation clearly. With the support of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries, it is no longer a few years ago. It is an unprecedented victory to annihilate an infantry brigade of the Japanese army by himself, and then look at others, he doesn't want to say that he is guarding the three walnuts and two dates of the Jin Sui Army, and as far as the eye can see, Han Yunhua's front army alone has 3.5 million people, and all of them are elite.
After comprehensive comparison, Yan Xishan came to a conclusion, that is, this Jiangshan must be surnamed Gonggong, his little arm can't twist his thigh, and Han Yunhua sent someone to find him when he accepted the ** condition, and gave him a promise, so Yan Xishan did not dare to slack off after receiving the order from the central government, and united with the original Eighth Route Army to send 600,000 troops to advance parallel to Henan along northern Henan.
Just when the squadron was engaged in a counteroffensive on the entire northern front, in the Pacific theater, the U.S. military also invested unprecedented forces to launch the Philippine Campaign, in which the U.S. Army successively invested the 6th Army, the 8th Army and the Australian 1st Army; The Navy has the 3rd Fleet and the 7th Fleet, with more than 800 combat ships and about 1,700 carrier-based aircraft, including 16 large aircraft carriers, 18 escort aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 11 heavy cruisers, 15 light cruisers, 144 destroyers, and 25 frigates. The Air Force participated in the war, including the 5th and 13th Air Forces of the US Army and the Australian Air Force, with more than 1,000 aircraft. The specific division of labor was that MacArthur was responsible for the command of the landing operation, and Nimitz's Pacific Fleet was responsible for maritime support.
On the Burma battlefield, China, the United States and Britain jointly formulated a combat plan to counterattack Burma, that is, the third Burma campaign began, in the Burma battlefield, China invested 9 divisions of 170,000 people, Britain invested 5 Indo-Burmese divisions of 80,000 people, and the United States also invested a large number of naval forces to participate in the war, but their enemy was only the Japanese army was a disabled 15th Army.
In the face of the strong attack of the United States, the Japanese army was not to be outdone, and the Japanese army base camp quickly introduced the "Jie-1" battle plan to deal with the American attack. In charge of the overall situation in the Philippines was Han Yunhua's old opponent Yamashita Fengfumi, and the Japanese army headquarters ordered the Philippine side to form the 14th Front Army of the Army, which was commanded by General Yamashita who was nicknamed the "Malay Tiger", and had nine infantry divisions, one armored division, and four independent mixed brigades, totaling about 350,000 people. In addition, in order to deal with the U.S. Navy, the Japanese army organized all the remaining warships of the Navy into four fleets and put them into battle. In the Philippines, the 1st Air Fleet of the Naval Air Force and the 4th Air Force of the Army are the 1st Air Fleet, of which the 1st Air Fleet was completely lost in the just-concluded Battle of the Mariana Sea and is being rebuilt under the command of Vice Admiral Shinhei Teraoka, with about 250 aircraft stationed in the Philippines; The commander of the 4th Air Force is Lieutenant General Kyoji Tominaga, who has just been transferred from China to the Philippines, and as of early October, about 300 planes have arrived in the Philippines, with a total of about 550 combat aircraft. Considering that the aviation force in the Philippines was still relatively weak, the Japanese base camp decided to draw aircraft support from the Japanese mainland, Chinese mainland and Taiwan once the campaign began. …,
The two sides were tense, the war was on the verge of breaking out, and on November 29, 1943, the battle began. The U.S. forces first captured the islands of Peleliu and Morotai, eliminating the flank threat. In addition, a large number of shore-based aircraft and naval carrier-based aircraft were quickly dispatched to carry out large-scale air strikes on Japanese airfields in the Ryukyu Islands, Luzon, Taiwan, and other places. In particular, the continuous air raids from 2 December to 6 December caused the Japanese to lose 1,093 aircraft, leaving only 200 planes of the Army's 4th Air Force in the Philippines, only 35 planes of the Navy's 1st Air Fleet, and 230 planes of the 2nd Air Fleet in Taiwan. Before the battle began, the Japanese army had already lost the power to counterattack in the air. And only 102 US planes were destroyed or shot down.
The performance of the US military in the Philippines really frightened the Japanese, and the Japanese army base camp urgently discussed countermeasures, and if the fight continued at this rate, I am afraid that the US military will be able to take the entire Philippines in less than a month. But after discussion, almost all of Japan's top generals thought that it would be difficult for Japan to hold the Philippine island. Without air and sea supremacy, it is only a matter of time before the island is captured by relying solely on the troops defending the island.
However, the Japanese Navy believes that as long as the Navy can defeat the US Navy, the Philippine crisis will be resolved immediately, and although the Japanese Navy has lagged behind the US Navy on the whole, it still has the strength to fight a war. And according to intelligence, the Americans were likely to seize the natural port of Leyte Gulf, which just gave the Great Japanese Empire an opportunity. In addition, although the Imperial Japanese Navy has been left far behind by the Americans, the gap between them is not impossible to make up, and the navy has already figured out a way to deal with it, so the navy is willing to fight a final decisive battle with the US forces in Leyte Gulf.
The base camp sought the advice of Toyota, commander of the Combined Naval Fleet, on this matter, and Toyota himself believed that the Navy was capable of a strategic decisive battle with the United States. As for the gap between the daily navy, the navy will find a way to make up for it, but it needs to provide a large number of fighters in the country, the old and new are not important, they just need to be fast in speed, and the simple Zero fighter is the best.
In fact, many high-ranking Japanese generals have already thought of the method that Senior General Toyota said, and this method is the way there is no way, and many naval and army generals know that the method mentioned by Senior General Toyota is actually to form a kamikaze commando, and the kamikaze commando is also known as the kamikaze special attack team and the kamikaze death squad, and the so-called "kamikaze commando" is a suicide death squad composed of all 16 or 7-year-old teenagers. All members of the kamikaze commandos are made up of death squad soldiers, and their mission is dangerous and difficult, usually to turn the tide of battle, and the chances of survival are slim. The kamikaze commando was not the first time that the Japanese had used it, let alone the tactic pioneered by Admiral Toyoda, to attack enemy targets by suicide, which originated in the tactics of the Japanese army attacking the Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1939, the Japanese army marched north and launched the Battle of Nomenkan in an attempt to occupy Siberia, but was repeatedly thwarted by General Zhukov's rapid counterattack, and then the Japanese used kamikaze commandos to turn the tide of the war.
In fact, as early as after the Battle of Midway, the Japanese Navy began to set up a kamikaze commando, after the defeat of Midway, the Japanese army gradually lost control of the Pacific region and the initiative in the war, in order to resist the powerful superiority of the US Air Force and save its defeat, the Japanese Navy took advantage of the Japanese bushido spirit and carried out suicide attacks on US ship formations, landing forces, and fixed cluster targets in accordance with the requirements of "one man, one aircraft, one bomb for one ship."
In view of this trump card, the Japanese seem to have seen one after another huge tonnage Japanese warships wounded, flown and even sank directly under the impact of suicide planes.
President Roosevelt actually still had doubts about launching the Philippine campaign, after all, from a purely military point of view, the battle plan proposed by Admiral Nimitz was the safest, so although President Roosevelt signed the battle order, he still felt very uneasy, so he inquired about this matter with Han Yunhua. …,
Han Yunhua has been busy with domestic affairs during this time, so he rarely pays attention to the outside world, especially other battlefields, because China's political and military aspects have undergone tremendous changes, so Han Yunhua's heart does not dare to deviate from the central region of China, so when President Roosevelt's telegram was forwarded to Zhangjiakou, Han Yunhua suddenly realized that the Americans had launched the Philippine campaign.
Although the Philippine Campaign had little to do with Han Yunhua, Han Yunhua knew that Japan was rapidly going downhill after the Philippine Campaign, especially after the Philippine Campaign, especially after the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Japan's navy almost lost all its combat capability, which is undoubtedly good news for China. Moreover, Han Yunhua also knew that at the most critical time of the Philippine Campaign, the Japanese army urgently transferred a large number of troops from the Chinese battlefield to the south to reinforce the Philippines.
However, Han Yunhua still felt the need to remind the Americans that the Japanese were not as weak as they imagined, and that the Japanese had a sense of battle far stronger than they imagined. Therefore, in his reply to Roosevelt, Han Yunhua affirmed the correctness of the Philippine campaign and said three questions, the first of which was about the Japanese army's will to fight, Han Yunhua hoped that the United States would not put too much emphasis on human rights and humanitarianism, and what they were facing was not ordinary soldiers, but Japanese soldiers who had been poisoned by Japanese militarist ideology, and every Japanese soldier believed that dying on the battlefield was the glory of a soldier, whether it was wounded or sick or captured. Every Japanese soldier could become an executioner who took the life of a soldier. In addition, Han Yunhua also told Roosevelt several cases of Japanese wounded people on the Chinese battlefield. The second problem Han Yunhua said was the conspiracy of the Japanese to release and create the plague in the Philippines, in fact, Han Yunhua knew about it, but it was disclosed after the war, and I am afraid that no one knows about it yet.
However, Han Yunhua clearly remembered that the post-war war history revealed that Japan's disastrous defeat in the Pacific theater caused Japan to lose its ability to compete with the United States, and when the United States attacked the Philippines, the Japanese government actually thought that the Philippines would not be able to hold it. So Japan, in secret, the Japanese military department has transported a lot of biological and chemical weapons in the past, such as bacteriological bombs, mold bombs, venereal disease bombs, etc. When the United States was about to conquer the Philippines, the Japanese used all these weapons on the local natives, and the Japanese knew that Americans' sex life was open, but this was the same as their Yamato nation, there were no taboos, and there was basically no appointment. The Japanese spread a large number of venereal diseases, syphilis, cholera, and plague to the island, causing many local residents to be infected with these viruses and causing a large number of casualties.
And the Americans were not so lucky to escape, many American soldiers were infected because of their relationships with local women, and some were infected with the plague, etc., and as a result, the number of people killed by these viruses in the Philippines far exceeded the number of people they died in the war. In order to rescue these soldiers, the United States had to order a ban on American soldiers to contact the local population, and the allies had to send a large number of health and medical teams to rescue these soldiers and residents, and the plague was a very powerful virus in the Philippines at that time, with an average of 4 out of 10 people dying of the plague.
Originally, the life and death of the Filipino natives and American GIs had nothing to do with Han Yunhua's half a dime, but there was one thing that Han Yunhua had to remind Roosevelt that was because of the virus, which caused the United States to delay a very valuable strategic time, which Han Yunhua did not allow. In fact, after occupying the Philippines, the United States was ready to immediately attack other parts of Japan, especially Japan's core defense circle, including Taiwan and Okinawa. However, it is precisely because of this virus problem that the United States has delayed time, not to mention thousands of lives for this, and has wasted a lot of time in order to control these viruses, which is why the United States did not immediately attack other islands after occupying the Philippines.
Since God has given Han Yunhua a chance, then Han Yunhua must not let history repeat itself, China's War of Resistance will not end in eight years, he wants China's War of Resistance to be shortened because of him, and China will be strong because of him.