639: Overwhelming
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the First Fighter-Bomber Group, which had rested for more than two hours, set sail again, this time in the direction of the west, and after several hours of sailing, the Japanese Navy's fleet also advanced a distance of about dozens of nautical miles, and this distance of dozens of nautical miles also meant that the First Fighter-Bomber Group would stay in the air for a longer time, and it also meant that they could slowly still keep their bombs on the warships of the Japanese Navy without hurrying or impatient. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
By the time of the departure of the naval aviation, four divisions of marines had successfully landed on the Ajune beachhead and completely occupied the entire defensive line.
The sappers used a large amount of explosives to directly blow up several passages about 20 meters wide on the three-dimensional defense line about two kilometers long, which would be necessary for the passage of troop vehicles, while the marines who had no defensive task for the time being gathered the bodies of their comrades on the beach.
Everyone wants to be the first to land on the territory of the enemy country, but everyone knows that being the first requires taking huge risks, and not everyone can be the first.
Of the more than 2,000 soldiers who landed in the first batch, less than 200 survived, and more than 130 of them were seriously wounded.
And if nothing else, it is very likely that these people will no longer have the opportunity to go to war in the future, and perhaps the rest of their lives will be spent in the new barracks, but everything is not easy to say, there are always exceptions to everything, right?
The four divisions of the Marine Corps quickly opened up a wide landing field, and more than 300 landing craft were divided into two, of which about 200 were used to transport army soldiers ashore, and more than 100 were used to transport various materials, tanks, vehicles, etc.
As an experienced veteran, the first order given by You Botai was to steadily advance and attack the second line of defense of the Japanese army detected by reconnaissance planes.
The Marines continued to defend the beachhead and secure the landing ground until all the troops had successfully landed before they were given any other tasks.
For Jiang Baili, this battle was the first large-scale battle he personally commanded, and there were many bright spots in the middle, but there were also flaws, such as the first batch of 2,000 landing troops, of which less than 200 survived.
The direct cause of this situation is caused by the lack of preparation of advance intelligence, and as a commander, Jiang Baili has an unshirkable responsibility, because according to records, the ground intelligence personnel have uploaded the suspected information, and Jiang Baili's command did not pay enough attention to this result.
Of course, the responsibility cannot all be attributed to Jiang Baili, and the naval aviation also has a certain responsibility, after all, they abandoned the first line of positions during the bombing and went to directly attack the second line of positions, and they did not pass on the situation of the first line of positions to Jiang Baili.
In fact, if the air force had been able to convey the news of the more than 10,000 men hidden behind the first position to Jiang Baili during the bombing of the beachhead, then the battle would not have been so embarrassing.
In general, the performance of this battle is quite remarkable, but the problem is also very serious, especially in the area of multi-arm coordinated operations, and it can even be said that these 2,000 people died on their multi-arm coordinated operations.
None of the Japanese troops on the beachhead were alive, and all the Japanese soldiers became cold corpses, which was a massacre order directly issued by You Botai over Jiang Baili, strictly speaking, You Botai was overstepping his command, because the command of the Marine Corps had been handed over to Jiang Baili, unless You Botai first deprived Jiang Baili of the command, otherwise it would be a violation.
And Jiang Baili also tried to persuade You Botai to cancel this order, because the massacre would not bring any benefit to China, and the negative news or anything was left aside for the time being.
Once the news of the massacre spreads, will the Japanese people resist them more stubbornly in order to survive? Will the losses of the troops be even greater by then?
And the landing place showed a butcher-like posture, which was extremely unfavorable to the overall situation of the battle.
But You Botai only used two words, which made Jiang Baili speechless, and he no longer objected. These two words are Lushun!
Everything that the Japanese did in Lushun is still fresh in our minds now, and now the Chinese side is only targeting the Japanese army, and the Japanese did not distinguish between military and civilian in those days, but all Chinese, they will be killed, so if you compare your heart to heart, the Chinese's current approach is already relatively humane.
Again, the slaughter of the army does not seem to be a big deal for an army, it is nothing more than a little more talk after that, but on the whole, as long as you do it enough, the outside world will not be able to catch your handle, for example, you can announce to the public that the Japanese army is stubborn in resistance, swearing to die and other reasons, anyway, this kind of thing is indeed done by the Japanese, and the current status of the Chinese Empire in the international community is relatively special, and no one will hype up the bad things of the Chinese Empire because of this matter.
The landing of hundreds of thousands of people is by no means a trivial matter, and more than 300 landing craft will not only have to drop troops to the shore, but also a large amount of supplies will have to be put on the shore.
It took two days for the whole launch to take place, and it was not until the early morning of 6 June that the landing craft stopped going back and forth between the formation and the shore, and at this time, and not far from the shore, a large amount of supplies and ammunition were hoarded, as many as thousands of military trucks, and hundreds of tanks were ready to go.
The four Marine Divisions also received their new mission, but no one was happy about this mission, although they did not have to go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese army, but for the soldiers, they would rather go to the battlefield to shed blood than stay here, guarding this large pile of supplies, and continue to ensure the safety of the landing ground.
The huge naval fleet slowly left the sight of the shore, and after two days and nearly 100,000 troops landed, they left the sea for the first time, but in a few days, they would be here again.
But until then, the troops that have already landed cannot sit still.
The first two days were basically only petty fights, and the two sides were more of a tentative attack, and the Chinese side also used this time to take a little rest and relieve the fatigue of the journey.
At 10 o'clock in the morning of 6 June, an infantry corps, after a brief rest, with the cooperation of an armored division, launched a fierce assault on the second line of defense of the Japanese army, which was about 20 kilometers behind the landing site.
Although the Japanese army made preparations and built complete fortifications, under the impact of an armored division, the Japanese army only relied on flesh and blood, but it was still difficult to resist the impact of the torrent of steel.
Soon, in less than two hours, Nogi Noshinori's carefully arranged defense line was declared lost, and this loss was not a complete loss, but because the Chinese army deliberately divided, encircled, and eliminated the living forces of the Japanese army to the greatest extent.
Within two hours of the full-scale battle, more than half of the Japanese divisions deployed in the rear had been damaged, only a small part of the troops had escaped ahead of schedule, and the rest were either struggling in the encirclement or had become corpses on the ground.
At this time, the Japanese army had lost its superiority in strength and had completely lost its superiority in the time of landing on the beach.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, six hours after the start of the battle, a division of Japanese troops deployed in the second line of defense was declared annihilated, and Nogi Noshinori, under the protection of the guards, fled in a hurry, and even the headquarters did not have time to clean up.
However, after solving the immediate trouble, the army did not rush to pursue, but chose to stabilize the defensive line. At the same time, two divisions were sent eastward to capture Kagoshima, another important military position on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
According to the information detected by the reconnaissance plane, all the damaged Japanese warships retreated to the Kagoshima military port, and according to aerial reconnaissance, there was about the strength of a division stationed there.
However, the aircraft carrier battle group has no chance to participate in the war at this time, because they have to continue to provide military protection for the fleet with the return of the fleet, and for a long time, the task of the aircraft carrier battle group is to escort the ship.
Although the aircraft carrier is not used in this way, Deng Haohong has no objections, because he knows the importance of this transport fleet, and when the naval strength is insufficient, only the aircraft carrier battle group can narrow the gap between the navy and the naval fleets of other countries.
Besides, the aircraft carrier has not yet been completely completed, and the aircraft carrier is carrying almost 400 shipyard workers this time, and they are stepping up the final construction of the aircraft carrier when there is no task.
Therefore, the order of aircraft carrier escort seems to be a bit overkill, but in fact, in this time period, only this order can maximize the role of aircraft carriers.
At this time, the Hokkaido side was no longer continuing to increase troops, and the existing forces had already won a great victory there, and the battle of Hanguan annihilated several divisions of the Japanese army in one fell swoop, and the Japanese army lost more than 200,000 troops in a short period of time. In the south, with the landing at Akune, in just two days, the Japanese lost two and a half divisions.