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"Booming like a dark cloud of gunsmoke, the hill in the middle of Patkai Mountain that crosses the direction of the ancient tea horse mountain road rolls up, and 105 mountain howitzer shells and 107 rockets fall like meteors on the carefully constructed front of the Japanese army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The earth-shattering and incessant sound of artillery shook the mountains and the earthquake.

In a mountain valley only two kilometers away from the enemy's position, thousands of officers and men of the Fourth Mountain Division sat on stones one by one, and rushed out along the mountain road on both flanks with only one order, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy's position with a rapid climb of a steep slope of 40 degrees.

Relying on two mountains in the shape of a "man" and more than 10 kilometers of mountains, the Japanese army built three lines of defense, firmly blocking the way for the army to advance.

Because the rocks here are very hard, it is extremely difficult to dig caves and bunkers, the Japanese army can only use the original mountain crevices and caves to build positions, but because of the condescending, and the mountain road is winding, there is only one road to pass, in the eyes of the Japanese commander, such a terrain can be described as a man's key to ten thousand people, not to mention that the person responsible for stopping the attack of the Anjia army here is an independent garrison of 5,000 people, even if there is only an infantry brigade of 1,000 people, as long as it is equipped with enough machine guns and a small number of mountain artillery and field artillery, can block the offensive line of the main force of the An Jiajun.

At the same time as the Anjia Army was shelling head-on, two ragged troops, each numbering about 2,000 people, braved the fierce and strong winds and the thick smoke of gunpowder from the shelling more than 10 kilometers to the south, and slowly converged from the east and west flanks to the center of the "human" shaped mountain sorghum on the high mountain cliff behind the Japanese army.

Three days ago, these two teams climbed to the summit of the "human" shaped mountain on the two flanks of the Japanese front more than 30 kilometers away from the Japanese battle line, and then with almost no roads, they climbed for more than 70 hours on the ridge at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and under the biting cold wind, they finally came to their present position.

Under the strong wind, due to the sand and rock fragments produced by the shelling, the impact on the skin of the face caused bursts of stinging, and the commandos who were scattered on the mountain peak from the three divisions of the Second Mountain Group Army tore off their tattered I color military uniforms, wrapped their faces, and continued to move forward.

More than ten minutes later, the two teams successfully met, and more than 400 meters below them, a wide karst cave communicated the mountain road between the north and the south.

However, there was no jubilation or any celebratory action, and more than 4,000 officers and men scattered over the nearly 10-kilometer mountain sorghum untied their heavy backpacks and began to make intense preparations before the battle.

They covered their ears with rags, then took out special explosives bags weighing 20 kilograms, lit the fuses at the sound of commanders at all levels, and threw these "squeaking" explosives bags down the mountain within three seconds.

After about ten seconds, a series of violent explosions sounded one after another, and the members of the team with cotton cloth in their ears only felt that their eardrums were cracked, the mountains were shaking, and they felt that the solid peaks under them, the smoke rising into the sky, and the rain of stones shot in a radius of thousands of meters, kept shaking.

At least a few hundred elite mountain soldiers even felt dizzy and breathless under the impact of the sound, and then vomited violently.

The power of more than 4,000 specially made explosives was so great that one can imagine what happened to the Japanese troops in those positions below the valley.

After a quarter of an hour, the land gradually returned to calm, and the officers and men who were crawling and hidden, desperately following the rope, came to the narrow mountain road below, and then from the east and west wings, like two long snakes swimming quickly, meandered down the mountainside, and from time to time the officers and soldiers who stumbled and fell off the cliff were simply ignored.

The officers and soldiers fell off the cliff in a long and desperate scream, and they went crazy and moved forward, and there was only one thought in everyone's hearts, that is, before the stunned devil reacted, he took three positions. When approaching the rear position set up by the Japanese army, the officers and men saw a hellish miserable situation: because they were close to the explosive point of the explosive package, under the violent explosion sound and the raging impact B, one by one the devils who were killed in different postures had hideous faces and bleeding, and the corpses hit by the countless steel balls in the explosives package were horrible to see, and not half of the devils resisted at all.

As the team continued to advance, the corpses in front of them appeared in strange shapes, lined up all over the ground,

The area where the corpses were concentrated was bleeding into a ditch, emitting the stench of incontinence, and the officers and soldiers in front of them resolutely used bayonets to end the lives of one by one who were still struggling.

At this time, Lieutenant General Zhang Hao, commander of the Second Mountain Army, who had received the news from the radio, immediately ordered the Fourth Mountain Division, which was ready to attack, to carry out a surprise attack.

Although most of the Japanese soldiers were stunned by the explosion of the explosive packets behind them, and the higher the death rate was higher the higher the rear, the more they were on the front line, there were still hundreds of survivors, and they still picked up their guns and shot when they were dizzy.

However, the speed of the mountain soldiers' assault was too fast, and before the devils could shoot a few shots, the first batch of officers and soldiers had already rushed into the position, and the hand-to-hand battle quickly broke out.

The mountain soldiers used all means to eliminate the enemy in front of them mercilessly, and the sound of gunfire, the sound of bayonets stabbing into the human body, the dull sound of the butts of the guns, the roars, and the wails resounded, and the remaining mountain soldiers of the Japanese Anjia Army fell to death in the face of the thunderous attack.

After nearly an hour of fighting, under the front and rear attacks, the Japanese army was strangled to death, and the Japanese army's self-proclaimed insurmountable natural danger in front of the second mountain cluster collapsed, and the northeastern region of India, like ripe fruit, was within reach.

Just when the three theaters of the Anjia Army were galloping across the country, and the Japanese Malay Front and the Burmese and Indian Front were losing ground on all fronts, the situation in the Pacific region changed again.

In the Southwest Pacific Theater, on 11 September, following the bloodless capture of Port Lincoln in the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula by the troops of the Japanese Army's 2nd and 5th Tank Divisions and the 4th Division of the 28th Army on the previous day, and receiving a large amount of war materials that the US forces could not transfer, General Shi 11 Koyi, commander of the Japanese Australian Front, concentrated the fourth, 10th, 14th, 23rd, 32nd, 35th, 52nd, and 12th divisions directly under the theater, with the assistance of the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Wings of the Field Heavy Artillery. Fierce attack on the fortified positions established by the Australian Army on the line of Fladers Ridge and Grey Ridge.

In order to protect the rich land on the southeast coast, and also to maintain the safety of their relatives and homes, the Australian army fought back on a frontline of hundreds of kilometers, and the battle was extremely fierce, and after four consecutive days and four nights of fighting, both sides of the battle were exhausted.

On September 15, bad news came from the rear of the Australian army, and the main force of the Japanese army suddenly appeared outside the important town of Yanta along the South Australian Express... After a night of fighting, before reinforcements arrived,

The city has fallen.

After repelling the counterattack of the Australian army, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack along the railway line from east to west, and the cities of Nacala, Peterborough, and Jamestown were successively broken by the Japanese army.

At this time, the 4th and 6th Japanese tank divisions and the four divisions of the 17th Army, which were the new force, set out from Port Augusta, moved south at high speed along the plain area on the east shore of Spencer Bay, and in the early morning of the 19th, together with the two Japanese paratrooper divisions and the two divisions of the 18th Army that came from the rear of the Australian army, they made a strong attack on the Babar fortress group, and pierced a large hole in the Vladers Ridge carefully constructed by the Australian army.

Subsequently, the Japanese army, which opened the gateway to Southeast Australia, would attack Port Peree and take the large port city on the east coast of Spencer Bay.

Some people may ask, where did this army that appeared from behind come from? In fact, it was very simple: after the frontal offensive was launched, the Japanese army once again adopted very practical airborne tactics, making full use of Australia's vast and sparsely populated characteristics, first using overwhelming air strikes, the ground-based radar of the Australian army, concentrating transport planes in the grassland area on the south bank of Lake Fromm, carrying out parachuting, and quickly opening up an airstrip for transport planes to take off and land. In the following three or four days, the transport fleet transported about 30,000 personnel and some light weapons to the rear of the Australian army.

After the Japanese army silently captured Flåmdowns, Conamone, Batana and other towns, they got some food supplies and weapons and equipment, but the harvest was still to conquer Yanta City, in addition to the rear of the Australian army to lay a nail, here is also an important transit center for the Australian army's combat materials, the Japanese army, which originally only had light weapons, suddenly had more than 100 cannons of various calibers, and also got more than 200 American-made military trucks and 36 armored vehicles, 18 tanks, so that the operation behind it is getting smoother and smoother. After conquering the city, you get more and more equipment. The Japanese army fed the war with war, and finally broke through the defense line that the Australian army had painstakingly managed.

With the opening of the Japanese army into Southeast Australia, the defeat of the US-Australian coalition has officially been put on the agenda.

In the previous retreat from the Eyre Peninsula, the U.S. military had retreated to Tasmania, and was originally going to reorganize its troops before putting it into the Southeast Australian battlefield, but seeing that the danger of Vlads Ridge had been breached, Admiral MacArthur, commander of the Allied Southwest Pacific, immediately changed his mind, seized the time to build a Tasmanian coastal defense fortress, and at the same time rushed to repair the military airfield on the island, and began to work hard to accumulate fighters to deal with the possible landing operation launched by the Japanese army.

MacArthur knew very well that with the disastrous defeat of the Allied naval and army offensive in the southwest Indian Ocean, the Allied forces and the Japanese army were currently fighting on the front line of Mount Otneyqua and Mount Lange between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and in order to prevent the Japanese army from entering the Atlantic, the main force of the US army was continuously plunging into the South African battlefield, and it was impossible to draw more troops to support the Pacific operation in a short period of time.

Therefore, MacArthur, who had been defeated repeatedly, had to bow his proud head, honestly do a good job of defensive tenon first, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

In the Central Pacific Theater, after learning in early September that the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet had appeared in the waters of the southwest Indian Ocean, Admiral Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Theater Theater, was so relieved that he immediately decided to take advantage of the fact that the main force of the Japanese Navy was not in the Pacific Ocean to continue the Solomon Islands operation.

At this time, the reorganized Pacific Fleet of the US-Solid Navy had two battleships, two aircraft carriers, and 12 heavy cruisers, in addition to one escort aircraft carrier, 15 light cruisers, and more than 40 destroyers.

As the U.S. forces resumed their attacks on Georgia, Vice Admiral Kusaka, commander of the Japanese Navy's Southeast Fleet, had to order another fleet sortie to withdraw the Japanese forces on Georgia.

After receiving the order, Rear Admiral Yorizo Tanaka, commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Destroyer Squadron, was tasked with withdrawing troops, and he resolutely divided the fleet into two parts, with the alert team personally led by him, and the six destroyer convoys under his command, commanded by Admiral Seiichi Kuroiwa, consisting of four destroyers and 10 transport ships.

At half past five o'clock in the morning of 15 September, Major General Tanaka commanded the alert team to set sail from Rabaul, and at half past eight in the evening of the same day, Kuroiwa Daisa commanded the convoy to sail from Buin.

The Allied coastal surveillance posts soon discovered the formation of Japanese ships and immediately sent a report to Admiral Halsey, commander of the aircraft carrier task force, who had received the report and telegraphed Rear Admiral Hans Walker to the command post headquarters to intercept it.

By this time, Rear Admiral Hans Walker's ship formation, reinforced by the task force, consisted of three cruisers and six destroyers. Rear Admiral Hans Walker, having received Halsey's order, set out from the port of Tulagi at 5 p.m. on the 15th and crossed the Strait of Georgia diagonally around midnight on the west coast of St. Isabel Island towards Cape Vesuvesou.

At 0:00 a.m. on 16 July, a US night reconnaissance plane reported that six Japanese destroyers had been spotted 26 nautical miles northwest of the fleet, sailing at a speed of 30 knots at a course of 127 degrees.

It has to be said that the report of the US reconnaissance plane was very timely and accurate, and this destroyer formation heading south was the alert force of the Japanese Navy.

Hans Walker immediately ordered the formation to change from a sailing formation to a battle formation, with Admiral Robertson commanding five destroyers as the avant-garde, Rear Admiral Hans Walker himself commanding three cruisers as the main group, and Admiral Lefasson commanding a destroyer as the rearguard, and the ships lined up in a single column in turn, advancing in a northwesterly direction at a speed of twenty-eight knots.

At 1:90 a.m., the five destroyers of the U.S. Advance Fleet began firing torpedoes at the Japanese destroyer, followed by the main guns of the cruisers of the U.S. Navy's own fleet, which also began firing.

Rear Admiral Hans Walker believed that his warships were equipped with advanced radars and could take the lead and would definitely be able to defeat the Japanese warships, but he did not expect that the Japanese Navy had already mastered radar technology, and although the warships now assigned to various theaters had not been modernized and equipped with advanced radars, they had undergone simple modifications and were equipped with devices that could accept radar pulses, so they had discovered each other earlier than the US Navy.

According to the course of the movement of the US Navy warships, Tanaka Yorizo ordered the fleet to meet the enemy in battle formation, and because he knew the direction of the US warship in advance, the Japanese Navy's lookouts discovered the trace of the opponent's ship one minute earlier than the opponent.

In a very short period of time, the US ships fired more than 200 rounds of 230 shells at the Japanese lead ship, and the lead ship was constantly hit by bullets and was scarred and forced to withdraw from the battle.

After firing all the torpedoes from the launch tubes, the remaining five destroyers of the Japanese Navy's Tanaka Formation turned around and withdrew from the battle, preparing to disengage from the US ships, reload the torpedoes, and kill them again.

A cruiser of the US Navy was hit by a torpedo fired by a Japanese destroyer, and the radio antenna was blown off by shrapnel. Twenty-nine people were killed on the spot, losing the ability to continue fighting, and in desperation. Rear Admiral Hans Walker sent two destroyers to escort him home. Admiral Lefasson commanded the destroyers, who acted as the rearguard, and accompanied the cruisers of his squadron.

At this time, the US night reconnaissance plane reported that the Japanese ships had retreated north at high speed, and Rear Admiral Hans Walker believed that the Japanese army had been defeated and fled, and immediately ordered Admiral Robertson to command the avant-garde destroyer fleet to pursue, Robertson took three destroyers to chase for a while, but did not find the target, saw that the sea was silent, and was worried that his own strength was insufficient to fall into the trap of the Japanese Navy, so the command post headquarters headed east through the Georgia Strait to return.

Colonel Robertson seemed that since the purpose of destroying the Japanese ships had been achieved, the fleet commander Hans Walker must have returned with his own fleet, and in his own opinion, he did not even call to confirm it. In fact, Rear Admiral Hans Walker did not return to the east, but sailed westward, preparing to coordinate with the avant-garde destroyer fleet to flank the Japanese naval destroyer fleet and strive for a complete victory.

However, the carrier-based radar operator of the US Navy made a mistake in his busy schedule, and took the oncoming Japanese warship for his own avant-garde fleet, and at 1:56 a.m., the shipborne radar of the destroyer accompanying the fleet's operation found that the Japanese ship was turning around in front of the left, and only then did it realize that it was the Japanese warship!

Rear Admiral Hans Walker immediately ordered a turn of sixty degrees to the right and opened fire on the Japanese ships! Unfortunately, before the two cruisers could open fire, the lookouts were horrified to find that torpedoes were cutting through the thorns and approaching the battleship.

It turned out that the battleship of the Japanese Navy turned around because it had just finished firing torpedoes and was about to slip away, five Japanese destroyers, a total of thirty-one torpedoes were fired, and the American ships were really caught off guard, and it was too late to evade them at this time, one of the cruisers was hit by two torpedoes, the bow sank, and the other cruiser was hit by a torpedo, the bow was twisted, the speed was greatly reduced, and the destroyer that accompanied the fleet's action was hit by a mine in the engine room, causing the fire to spread rapidly, Due to the large size of the fire, the rescue work was quite difficult, and the battleship began to sink.

Soon after, Yorizo Tanaka led five destroyers back to the battlefield and carried out the latter torpedo attack, two American cruisers sank to the bottom of the sea, and more than 900 US naval officers and men under Rear Admiral Hans Walker were frantically strafed by Japanese carrier-based machine guns, and all of them were killed, and blood stained the sea red.

While the Japanese Navy Alert Formation was engaged in a battle with the U.S. fleet, the Japanese convoy smoothly sailed into the Bell on Georgia Island and withdrew the Japanese troops from the warships and transports.

On the morning of 16 July, the Japanese naval alert team returned to Bouin Harbor, and at noon the naval convoy also returned safely to Bouin Harbor. The leading destroyer, which was shelled by US warships, was seriously injured and was sent back to the mainland for overhaul after emergency repairs.

In this naval battle, only one destroyer of the Japanese Navy was damaged, and the evacuation of the garrison in the Georgian Islands was successfully completed, and although the US Navy had a certain advantage in strength, it suffered heavy losses, two cruisers and one destroyer were sunk, and another cruiser suffered heavy damage.

After summing up the reasons for the defeat, the US Navy held that the defeat in the naval battle was mainly due to Rear Admiral Hans Walker's improper command, too much belief in radar superiority, and loss of the opportunity to strike first, and then relying too much on the power of the main guns, trying to sink the Japanese ship in one fell swoop at a distance of 10,000 meters, relying on the superiority in the caliber and number of the main guns, coupled with the accurate radar guidance, but despised the torpedo attack, did not organize a coordinated attack of the naval gun and the torpedo, and at the same time neglected the prevention of torpedo attacks on the Japanese ship. As a result, the Japanese army was heavily hit in the face of the tactics of repeated attacks by heavy torpedoes.

Despite the defeat of the US Navy in the naval battle, Admiral Halsey, commander of the aircraft carrier task force, did not relax its offensive against Japanese airfields on land, and by the end of September, the US Marine Corps had successfully landed on Georgia Island, Santa Isabel Island, Colombon-Ara Island, Vélala Island, and Chowasel Island, initially realizing the occupation of the Georgia Islands and consolidating the defense of the Central Pacific front.

September 22, 10 a.m.

Nanhua, Beijing, 1 Xiaonanhai Zhizheng Hall.

An Yi received information from the US side on the Pacific Theater and thought about asking the General Staff to report the situation in the Malaya and Burma-India theaters to the US side as well, so as to deepen mutual understanding and trust.

At present, the war situation in the Central Plains has suddenly turned for the better, and Chiang Kai-shek mobilized nearly 800,000 troops from the six armies of the Central Army to help in the battle, and under the command of General Li Zongren of the Fifth Theater, he counterattacked on all fronts, successively repelled the Japanese attack in Hanzhuang, Taierzhuang, Fujijiazhuang, Lijiazhuang, and other places, and launched a fierce offensive, and all fronts have returned to the situation before the war.

According to the information fed back by the CIA's internal line in Nanjing, Stilwell was lobbying Chiang Kai-shek to devote heavy troops to annihilate the Japanese army south of the Yellow River, and then tighten the fence of the Yellow River defense line, and after the An Jiajun army took the East Indies and Burma, and the Allied Navy gained sea supremacy in the Indian Ocean, he would draw troops from the Chinese theater to help South Africa and Australia.

An Yi thought it was very incredible for the Americans to think that the situation in Burma, India and Malaya was still uncertain, and the naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean region was still in the hands of the Japanese navy, and the Americans could not wait for the Chinese army to share the pressure on the Pacific region.

However, thinking about the strong productive forces of the United States, An Yi also thinks that it is completely understandable that Americans should take precautions.

According to the US shipbuilding plan, by April and May next year, at least six fleet aircraft carriers, eight battleships, and 12 heavy cruisers will join the US Navy's active service, and the US Navy Department has already issued a circular that for every loss of one of the Navy's active capital ships, aircraft carriers, and heavy cruisers, one warship will be produced to make up for the losses, and it will still be named after the original ship, which shows that the Americans have a lot of money.

Under these circumstances, the superiority of the Japanese Navy can only be maintained until the middle of next year, when the US Navy will be able to organize a huge transport fleet to bypass Madagascar and other strategic points, cross the Indian Ocean, reach the west coast of the subcontinent, and join the Chinese army to fight in South Africa and Australia.

As for why he didn't invite An Jiajun to participate in the war, An Yi knew that whether it was Roosevelt or Churchill, they could no longer tolerate the expansion of South China, and with Chiang Kai-shek's consistent performance, the Chinese army would definitely withdraw from the battlefield after the war in the future.

An Yi didn't know how Chiang Kai-shek would choose, but considering that Soong Meiling was warmly welcomed by President Roosevelt and the American people in the United States, and the U.S. Congress frequently increased the amount of aid funds to China, he knew that Chiang Kai-shek probably really agreed to send troops to South Africa and Australia to fight.