Without an adult man, the naïve Uchiha Shimiku could make a decision on his own, a decision that saved the lives of thousands of people. But this situation is a minority after all, and most of the area is still sinking in killing and crying, and the Filipino soldiers unleash the dark side of their hearts here, becoming a butcher's knife in the hands of the Chinese army, bearing the charge of slaughter for the Chinese army.

The number of massacres by the Chinese army was far greater than that of the Philippine Legion, and after several cuts by the armored forces, the ensuing battle was not much different from the massacre. Lacking ammunition and food, the Japanese troops cowered in place and held on to resist, but courage and mental strength were difficult to resist steel and bullets, and the only thing left after the infantry followed behind the tanks and rushed to the Japanese positions was massacre.

The 300,000 soldiers in southern Kumamoto perished within a week, with only more than 10,000 being taken prisoner and all the rest killed. The battle was very dull, exhausting the soldiers of the Eleventh and Second Armies, and the mental exertion was even more devastating. Fortunately, the purpose of the General Staff was not to collapse its own soldiers, they had enough forces to rotate, so on the fourth day, the convoy of convoys departing from the Chinese mainland transported the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army ashore.

The high intensity of firepower meant extremely high ammunition consumption, which increased the logistical burden, and many ports were used in the occupied areas of Kyushu to become bases suitable for transports to dock and unload supplies under the labor of the engineering troops. The huge number of troops of the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army required a large number of transport ships, but the supply ships bound for Kyushu Island and Shimonoseki were also indispensable. This led to a reduction in the efficiency of rotation, and when the soldiers of the Eleventh Army and the Second Army were rotated and left the battlefield, their eyes were full of death numbness, so that the freshly landed and neat Chinese soldiers did not dare to look directly.

The battle in the Miyazaki direction was equally hard, with relatively large losses from several mountain divisions, but fortunately the battle here was basically over. The Fifth Army and the Sixth Army came to rotate, and of course, the fighting here would not end immediately, and when the Chinese army advanced to the Hyuga-Saigo line, there were still tens of thousands of Japanese stragglers hiding in villages or jungles in the rear.

The first phase of the battle was huge, with more than 750,000 Japanese troops annihilated in the Kumamoto and Miyazaki directions, including more than 250,000 standing troops. The campaign of this number even attracted the attention of the West, where a large number of military observer groups were distributed among the Chinese and Japanese armies, who were shocked by the frenzied mobilization capabilities of the Japanese on the one hand, and focused their attention on the Chinese army, which was equipped and tactically advanced. In their view, the gap between the Chinese army and the world's advanced army is getting wider and wider, and even German army officers dare not guarantee that their army will be able to defeat the Chinese army -- at least there is a big gap in terms of firepower and joint operations of various services. In addition to German officers, Austro-Hungarian officers, Bulgarian officers, and even some Allied officers were allowed to enter the Chinese army for close observation.

In addition to the number of Japanese troops annihilated, the General Staff believes that the more than 500,000 elite army soldiers with rich combat experience will gain even more, and those Chinese soldiers who return to China for rotation will become the basis for the Chinese army's invincibility, and the relatively weak equipment of the little devils is the best platform for exercising combat effectiveness.

Of course, the battle will not end there, and the process of training continues. More Chinese soldiers were sent to the Japanese archipelago, and in the Kumamoto direction, the Chinese army continued to advance in accordance with the pattern of armored forces cutting and encirclement, and infantry followed up and annihilated, and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops entered the encirclement of the Chinese army again. In the Miyazaki direction, the Chinese army entered the territory of Oita Prefecture with the aim of annihilating the 150,000 standing army and 960,000 reserve troops in the eastern part of Kyushu Island.

In the direction of Shimonoseki on the island of Honshu in the secondary battlefield, the resistance of the Chinese army was even more intense, and the Japanese could not resist the penetration of armored forces, but they could take advantage of the familiar terrain and fortifications to resist resolutely. Before completely losing ammunition and food, the Chinese army could only attack at the cost of casualties. After capturing Hiroshima and annihilating 550,000 Japanese troops, the Chinese army had to halt its advance and take a period of rest and recuperation, waiting for the arrival of rotational troops and supplies.

Interestingly, the first Japanese unit to surrender in formation appeared in the Battle of Hiroshima, and although it was only a large group of soldiers, it was enough to excite the top brass of the Chinese army. If possible, the Chinese army did not want to fight to the end with the Japanese army, training troops is one thing, and too many casualties are another. Moreover, the situation in the European war is constantly changing, and China also needs to make early plans, and the United States on the other side of the ocean is vigorously expanding its armaments, and China does not have much time and energy to spend on the Japanese archipelago. In the first phase of the operation, the Kyushu direction and the Shimonoseki direction have already provided the Chinese army with about one million elite soldiers, which is half of the plan. At the same time, there were about 40,000 casualties, although most of them were external troops such as the Korean Army.

This made Lu Liang feel that it was necessary to speed up the pace of the war against Japan, and if the training ground turned into a quagmire, the gains would outweigh the losses. On the whole, the Japanese army only lost a small part of the army, and the standing army still had at least about 1.4 million, including more than 500,000 on the island of Kyushu. There are still more than 9 million in the reserve army, tsk, almost the number of all adult men in Japan, "jade crushing" is really not to say, even if it is 9 million pigs, the Chinese army has to be killed softly.

And unlike the European battlefield, a large-scale war of annihilation wiped out hundreds of thousands of people, of which more than two-thirds were captured. In the Eastern Battlefield, the Chinese army annihilated 400,000 Japanese troops, which is likely to kill so many people.

Perhaps the Japanese top brass would not be able to bear such large casualties in the first place and give in to the Chinese army, but Lu Liang did not know how many people he needed to kill before he could wait until that day. So, the new order was transmitted from the presidential palace to the General Staff, and if the main road did not lead, the small road was taken. The reason for the strong belief in the resolute resistance of the Japanese was the militaristic ideology of loyalty to the emperor, which made Japanese soldiers and civilians yearn for death. In order to change this situation, it is necessary to remove the tablets enshrined in the Japanese faith, that is, the Japanese emperor and the Japanese imperial family, which is the key to breaking the Japanese militarism.

The same killing, the Chinese soldiers do not have so much human burden, and for the special brigade, this burden is like a joke. If you don't kill a person, you will have to suffer for half a month, and you should not be a soldier at all, such a psychological quality is only suitable for becoming a second chair. (Did you find that the author Jun hated the second chair extremely?) ）

It is very appropriate to describe Jiang Maosheng, Song Hao and other special forces with killing people like hemp and killing people without blinking, although they are honest and ordinary soldiers from the point of view. After leaving Kyushu Island, the two of them joined up with the special team, trained for a week, and then left Kagoshima Port by boat, and boarded the aircraft carrier Shiraki at sea.

In the aircraft carrier combat briefing room, the commander of the special group looked at the team members with a serious face, and he stood with his hands on his hands, ready to introduce the combat mission. The briefing room, which can only accommodate 30 people, is crammed into 75 special combat personnel -- this is almost half of the combat strength of the special combat unit directly under the General Staff Headquarters.

"Our mission - to kill the Japanese Taisho Emperor!" The commander's words were simple and clear, and they went straight to the point from the beginning, like a bombshell falling into the briefing room, although the team members did not say anything, but the excitement in their hearts could be seen from their expressions.

More than a dozen photographs were pasted on the blackboard behind the commander by the staff officers, with a blurry map taken from the air in the center, flanked by portraits of members of the imperial family such as Emperor Taisho, high-ranking military officials such as Natoshi Osako, and major leaders of the Japanese government.

"The Navy's aviation brothers will help us in this mission, or the special operations group will complete this mission together with the Navy. According to the intelligence of the Investigation Bureau and the analysis of aerial reconnaissance, it can be determined that the Japanese emperor and members of the imperial family, high-ranking military and government officials are hiding in this complex. ”

The commander pointed to a photograph that could be seen to have been taken surreptitiously from behind a large tree a few hundred meters away from the building, so it was not clear, and only the general outline of the building could be seen.

"On an unnamed hillside about eleven kilometers east of downtown Urawa, it was transformed into the wartime headquarters of the Japanese army. Intelligence shows that after the last bombing of Tokyo, the Japanese were preparing for the next war, and the Emperor's Imperial Palace, the Military Headquarters Building, and the Government Building were all empty shells. This unidentified hillside has been hollowed out underneath, and members of the imperial family and the Japanese top brass are hiding in it, mainly to hide from the air attacks of our army. Moreover, this fortification has perfect fire prevention and explosive facilities, heavy reinforced concrete and mountain stone fortifications are enough to resist any of our bomb attacks, and there are also a large number of anti-aircraft artillery here, and more than 200 fighters are stationed on the airfield. ”

"Once the air force raids here, even if those fighters and anti-aircraft firepower are destroyed, it will be difficult to threaten the space inside the hillside with bombs, and of course, the possibility of the Japanese top brass taking the opportunity to escape cannot be ruled out, so it is difficult to rely on aerial bombardment alone. And the troops of two standing divisions are stationed within a few kilometers around here, and the reserve army of one army is stationed more than 20 kilometers away, and it is difficult to penetrate from the ground unless it is a large-scale ground attack. ”

"We have to thank the intelligence officers of the Investigation Bureau, because with the accurate information they provide, we can make a plan for the operation accordingly. This vital piece of information was that when there was a massive air attack, the Japanese top brass would move through the underpass, reach the ground at an exit three kilometers away, and then quickly leave by car to reach the reserve barracks twenty kilometers away. That is, we had the opportunity to attack only during the period when their convoys were transferred. (To be continued.) )