[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1191: Total Rout (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

While China's national defense forces were advancing vigorously on the battlefield, the US military was not idle, and hundreds of thousands of troops stormed the Philippines. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The U.S. forces first captured the islands of Peleliu and Morotai, eliminating the flank threat. Subsequently, a large number of shore-based aircraft and naval carrier-based aircraft were dispatched to carry out large-scale air strikes on Japanese airfields in the Ryukyu Islands, Luzon, Taiwan, and other places.

As a result of the continuous air raids, the Japanese lost 1,200 planes, and by the end of December, the Japanese Army's Fourth Air Force in the Philippines had only 200 damaged fighters, the Navy's First Air Fleet had only 35 planes, and the Second Air Fleet in Taiwan had 230 planes. Before the battle began, the Japanese army had already lost the power to counterattack in the air.

In addition, before that, the U.S. forces almost completely annihilated the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. During the battle were sunk 4 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, 10 destroyers. 1 air battleship, 4 battleships, 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 3 destroyers were damaged. 288 aircraft were lost, and more than 10,000 casualties were lost.

As a result of this naval battle, the Japanese Navy almost lost its ability to fight in the ocean, and thus lost its battlefield control over the sea, thus leaving the 14th Front Army on land in a predicament of isolation and helplessness.

Immediately after the U.S. troops landed in Inyain Bay in the northwest of Luzon Island, and just as Ma Zheng's troops and the Chinese troops were engaged in the final showdown, good news came from the Philippine battlefield, the U.S. forces occupied Manila on January 3, and the 14th Front of the Japanese Army was annihilated in the Philippines, with 450,000 Japanese casualties and prisoners.

In the entire Philippine campaign, the Japanese lost 68 warships, including 4 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 13 destroyers. 42 transport ships were lost, about 170,000 tons. There are more than 7,000 aircraft, including 700 suicide planes of the "kamikaze".

The U.S. military suffered 62,000 casualties and lost 17 warships, including 1 aircraft carrier, 3 escort carriers, 9 destroyers, 1 frigate, 2 tank landing ships, and 1 minesweeper. Six transport ships, about 60,000 tons, more than 900 aircraft, and dozens of ships were damaged.

However, after the occupation of the Philippines, a very serious problem was discovered, that is, the Japanese army deliberately spread the virus among the indigenous people of the Philippines, which had caused a large-scale indigenous death, which also brought a lot of trouble to the US army, resulting in a large number of non-combat attrition of US soldiers.

Not to mention the final battle between the United States and Japan in the South Pacific, China and Japan have also entered the fiercest battle on the Chinese battlefield.

In fact, in Ma Zheng's view, once the Yangtze River defense is breached, it means that the Japanese rule in China has entered the countdown.

Jiangnan is different from North China, Jiangnan is not conducive to defense in terms of terrain or other aspects, so although the Japanese army has deployed heavy troops in Jiangnan, in fact, as long as the PLA crosses the Yangtze River, then the Japanese army can no longer do anything but be passively beaten.

Last month, Liangfu was a rare warrior, and the 11th Army on the front line of Wuhan and Changsha fought very bravely, which was a more brilliant battle fought by the Japanese army at the end of the war, but under the siege of the Chinese Communist Party in many ways, the 11th Army was also lonely, and soon the 11th Army was surrounded near Wuhan.

Fortunately, the dispatch army headquarters ordered it in time, and last month, Yoshio relied on the strength of the five complete infantry divisions in his hands to break through the gap in the south while the encirclement of the Chinese communists had not yet been encircled, and the army quickly fled south.

Immediately afterwards, the main force of the First Assault Group successively liberated Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi and other cities, cut off the Nanjing-Shanghai railway, and won over Chen Xianhua, commander of the Nanjing garrison of Wang's puppet regime, to lead three infantry divisions and two infantry brigades to revolt in the battlefield outside Nanjing.

Subsequently, the 3rd Group Army entered and occupied Zhenjiang, and the 6th Group Army occupied Nanjing, the center of the Japanese puppet army, on the night of the 26th.

The 1 million-strong Chinese army dispatched by the PLA was broken in less than a month due to the dispersion of troops, and now except for more than a dozen infantry divisions and regiments that have withdrawn south to the area around Hangzhou, only a dozen infantry divisions and regiments in Wuhan, Nanchang, and other places are still resisting stubbornly, and the PLA continues to pursue at the expense of casualties.

Yan Xishan was very angry about the escape of Liangfu last month, this old general was bullied by the little devil in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and Itagaki Seishiro only used half a division to defeat the Jin Sui Army and part of the Central Army's more than 300,000 troops, so Yan Laoxi came to take revenge this time.

But this revenge was not avenged, but the enemy ran first, allowing Yan Laoxi to hit the cotton with a heavy punch.

On January 12, 1945, Ma Zheng crossed the Yangtze River with the former enemy headquarters of the Northeast Front, and the army quickly attacked in the direction of Shanghai and Hangzhou.

For these things, Ma Zheng handed over to Political Commissar Luo and others who came later, and the large army continued to attack south, and must not be distracted by this.

On the 20th, Terauchi Toshiichi, the supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army, ordered six divisions under his command to send troops to Guangxi, China, along French Indochina, which is now Vietnam, to join up with the defenders of the Chinese dispatch army in Guangxi.

Terauchi Shouichi believed that at this time, the imperial army was in a complete rout, and if he still had to hold such a large territory under the condition of limited troops, he was afraid that the final result would be broken by the Chinese.

Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi suggested that it would be very feasible for Okamura Ninji to gather hundreds of thousands of troops from the Chinese Dispatch Army and hundreds of thousands of troops from the Southern Army to hold the Indochina Peninsula and China's Guangxi, Guizhou, and Guangdong.

Terauchi Shouichi's suggestion is very tempting, now that the Japanese army is losing battles in various places, the discerning people have already seen the trend of the development of the war, but if the Japanese army concentrates its forces to stick to a corner of a province, then it is still very guaranteed.

But Okamura Ninji knows very well what Jiangnan represents in the eyes of those bigwigs in the base camp, that is the wealth of Hongguoguo, if they agree to the army to take the initiative to abandon most of the cities in Jiangnan, then I am afraid that those people will eat him directly.

However, Okamura Ninji was very moved by this, and he had no other way at this time, so he couldn't watch the hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Chinese Dispatch Army being annihilated by the Chinese people one by one.

Now the strength of the Chinese has exceeded Okamura Ningji's imagination, he thought that after the assassination of Lao Jiang, China's various forces would suddenly collapse, but he did not expect that the Chinese would become more united under the dual pressure of internal and external pressure.

According to the intelligence department, the Chinese's national defense forces have developed by leaps and bounds, and now the total number of troops in China has exceeded 7.5 million, and nearly 4 million troops have been engaged in the battle in the Jiangnan region alone, in addition to hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops fighting in Korea, not counting the large territory north of the Yangtze River.

But all this is not very clear in the empire, in their eyes, although the people of China have become powerful, but they have not yet reached the point of turning their hands into clouds and turning their hands into rain. There are even many people who think that the Chinese are still the little sheep of a few years ago, but they do not know that now the sheep have become man-eating tigers, which can tear the Great Japanese Empire to pieces at any time.

Out of consideration for the lives of millions of soldiers on the Chinese battlefield, Okamura Ninji still sent a retreat application to the base camp, hoping to withdraw to the Liangguang area and join forces with the Southern Army in order to preserve its strength.

But the result made Okamura Ninji speechless, and instead of agreeing to his request, the base camp reprimanded him severely.

At the same time, the base camp demanded that he immediately organize resistance in the Suzhou-Hangzhou region, and absolutely not take the initiative to give up most of the land in the south of the Yangtze River, which was the land that millions of warriors of the Japanese Empire had exchanged their lives for, and it was irresponsible to give up the names in the Yasukuni Shrine at will.