Chapter 519: Yamashita Fengfumi's countermeasures
The shock caused by the performance of the Dead Word Legion to the Japanese army was amazing, especially after hearing that the Dead Word Legion was also Li Tie's unit that had caused heavy losses to the Japanese army, the Japanese army of the entire 25th Army was a little uneasy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info.dt
Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumimi no longer dared to say that the Fifth Division alone could block the 200,000 Dead Word Legion on the opposite side, and now how not to be wiped out by the Dead Word Army is true.
Fortunately, at this time on the Thai-Malaysian border, the 25th Army still had the advantage of naval and air forces, while the Death Word Army still did not attack Malaysia even after defeating the 5th Division. Only then did the Fifth Division not suffer a rout after the initial defeat.
However, with the cooperation of the navy and air force, the Fifth Division still failed to defeat the Dead Word Army after several repeated battles, and the Fifth Division had no choice but to ask Lieutenant General Yamashita for tactical guidance.
Although Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwen didn't understand why the Death Word Legion didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, the Eye Word Legion was eyeing the Thai-Malaysian border, and Yamashita Fengwen was also afraid of long nights and dreams.
He immediately drew a large amount of indigenous cannon fodder from all over Malaysia and went to the Thai-Malaysian border to help the 5th Division establish a defense on the spot to resist the attack of the Death Word Army.
On the contrary, he personally led more than 30,000 men of the Guards Division all the way south to reinforce the 18th Division that was attacking the Anglo-Malaysian coalition army, and he wanted to capture Singapore in the shortest possible time and wipe out the last Anglo-Malaysian coalition army.
And Yamashita Bongwen's tactics were very successful, and with the reinforcements of the Guards Division, the defenders of Singapore were even less motivated. Finally, after hundreds of planes bombed in turn, dozens of warships shelled incessantly, and then through the fierce attack of two veteran divisions at any cost. After half a month of hard fighting, the Anglo-Malaysian forces finally could not resist the powerful offensive of the Japanese army and surrendered.
Yamashita fought in Singapore and captured more than 100,000 Anglo-Malaysian troops. For a while, the morale of the 25th Army was greatly boosted, so he immediately waved his division north to reinforce the Fifth Division with the prestige of a great victory.
Now, with their 25th Army, the three main divisions of more than 100,000 troops, plus 600 planes and dozens of ships, if he can't defeat the Death Word Army, he might as well be killed head-on.
But before he could move north, Yamashita received an order from the domestic base camp, ordering him to rest on the spot and not to attack the Death Word Army.
It turned out that at this time, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma of the Japanese 14th Army was attacking the Bataan Peninsula, the last stronghold of the American army in the Philippines, and the Bataan Peninsula at this time had 100,000 US-Philippine troops.
The Japanese base camp did not expect that the American-Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula would still resist desperately despite the loss of foreign aid. The 100,000 US-Philippine troops were actively resisting the war under the leadership of General MacArthur, and with the help of the powerful coastal defense artillery system on the Bataan Peninsula, the US-Filipino forces actually inflicted great casualties on the Japanese army.
After a whole month of fierce fighting, the two sides were still evenly matched, but the 14th Army had been fighting at sea, and the army was not adapted to survive at sea for a long time. So there was a lot of non-combat attrition in the Fourteenth Army.
Seeing that the morale of the 14th Army was declining day by day, the Japanese army was in danger of defeat, and once Lieutenant General Honma Masashi was defeated by MacArthur, the 25th Army could only rush to the Philippines in Singapore to help in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, before the battle of the Philippines was decided, the 25th Army could no longer start a big battle with the squadron, so as not to fall into a bitter battle and not be able to get out.
Only when the Fourteenth Army completely occupied the Philippines could Yamashita Fumi's army move on to the next move.
Yamashita Fengwen saw that the morale he had accumulated with great difficulty was about to be exhausted by the 14th Army, and the unwilling Yamashita Fengwen could only recruit a large number of local natives again and send them to the Taima-Malaysia border to be cannon fodder for the Japanese.
The tactics of the Dead Word Legion are also very simple, as long as the Japanese army does not take the initiative to attack, the Dead Word Legion will never go deep into the border, and sometimes, the Dead Word Legion will even take the initiative to send the wounded Japanese soldiers to the Japanese army.
However, the Dead Word Legion was extremely cruel to the cannon fodder army, as long as the cannon fodder army was seriously injured or lightly injured, they were all executed. What is even more excessive is that if the Japanese want to retrieve the corpses of soldiers, they have to exchange ten times the corpses of the aborigines.
In this way, skirmishes on the Thai-Malaysian border took place every day, and the Japanese casualties were getting fewer and fewer, but the Malaysian population, which had already lost a large number of young and strong people, was drastically reduced.
However, Yamashita Fengfumi's 25th Army did not take too long, and the situation was similar to that of the previous life, and the Americans were worried that General MacArthur would be captured by the Japanese army, so they sent planes to take General MacArthur to Australia early.
And the defenders of the Bataan Peninsula, after losing the command of General MacArthur, surrendered voluntarily after only a week of support.
The surrender of the US-Filipino coalition on the Bataan Peninsula also meant that the entire Philippines had fallen into the hands of the Japanese, and in this way, the Japanese army completely occupied the Philippines, Malaysia and more than a dozen surrounding islands and regions in half a year.
When Yamashita Fengwen's eye-to-eye army still showed no signs of attacking Malaysia until this time, Yamashita Fengwen judged Li Tie's true intentions.
"The Chinese Expeditionary Force just wants to ensure that their position in Indochina is not lost, and in this case, there is no need to fight to the death with the Dead Word Legion.
The Imperial Japanese Army could continue to attack southward, and after the Japanese army had completely occupied the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, including Australia, it would not be too late to move north to fight the Death Word Army. ”
Yamashita Fumi's judgment was unanimously approved by the Japanese base camp, so the Japanese only kept the 5th Division on the Taima-Malaysia border to continue the confrontation with the Dead Word Army, while the large army continued to attack the Indonesian Islands and Australia.
Without the pressure of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the speed of the Japanese army's attack increased again, and more than 200,000 Japanese troops waved south, all the way like chopping melons and vegetables, whether it was the Dutch army or the British and American armies under the Japanese attack, they were defeated one after another.
However, it was also at this time that the Japanese suddenly discovered that due to the vast and sparsely populated Southeast Asian region and the large number of islands, most of Japan's forces were trapped in China. So after occupying most of Indonesia, the Japanese were already seriously underwhelmed.
In order to occupy these areas, there is now only one veteran division in Japan that is responsible for defense. By this time, the Japanese could no longer afford to divide their forces and occupy Australia.
Fortunately, the Solomon Islands in southern Indonesia are already under Japanese occupation, and the Japanese plan to let Australia go first, and then occupy this vast and sparsely populated place after they have completely digested the rule of Southeast Asia.
As a result, the Peace Guards once again became accomplices of the Japanese, and Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, once again set off a genocidal campaign, and the Huaxing Guards carried out a large number of massacres of indigenous people in various countries.
And the Japanese are also very happy with this kind of action of the Huaxing Escort, and they will not know how to do it themselves, and they will not need to pull their own hatred to solve their biggest troubles, which is what all the occupiers want to see the most.
But what they don't know is that all the angry things that the Peace Convoy has done will be counted on the heads of the Japanese in the end.
While the Japanese were consolidating their occupation of the countries of Southeast Asia, Hitler had already completed preparations for an offensive on Stalingrad.
This time, Hitler prepared a full four million elite German troops, and more than a million cannon fodder troops. And Stalin had half a year to prepare, and Stalingrad was run by him like an iron bucket.
In response to Hitler's attack, the whole of Stalingrad had become a steel fortress, and all the streets and buildings were built into bunkers of all kinds.
At this time, Stalingrad had 10 million soldiers and civilians who were bent on resisting the enemy. The Battle of Stalingrad was destined to be the largest battle in history, and for the Russians it was a war of national fortunes.