Chapter 1193: No War in China (Subscribe Only!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On 20 March, the Japanese Navy's makeshift naval fleet suddenly moved eastward toward Hawaii, with the intention of capturing Hawaii in a desperate gamble.

After learning of the movements of the Japanese army, the U.S. Navy urgently assembled and went to intercept the only remaining naval fleet of the Japanese army on the way.

However, just after the US Navy took action, the Japanese base camp suddenly ordered the troops on the Asian theater to immediately assemble to a nearby port. In order to be in a hurry, all units were required to carry only basic combat equipment and ammunition, and the rest could not be taken away to blow up all the rest.

Soon, the Japanese forces in various theaters of Asia retreated as quickly as if they were crazy, and even gave up some important strategic points.

By the time the Allies realized that the Japanese were about to flee, it was too late, and when the U.S. Navy was encircling and annihilating the Japanese Navy in the eastern Pacific, the first batch of nearly 400,000 troops withdrawn from overseas had already arrived at various ports along the coast of Japan.

The Japanese army base camp attaches great importance to this withdrawal of troops, after all, it is related to the security of the entire Japanese archipelago and the life and death of the Yamato nation. Therefore, at the beginning of the withdrawal, the tactics of simultaneous operation in both directions were adopted: when the Japanese convoy set off for the colonies, the Japanese troops stationed in the overseas colonies used the ships they had collected to return to Japan, and both sides were launched at the same time.

The Allies knew that they had to intercept the Japanese fleet off the coast of Japan before it returned to Japan, so under the command of Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Chen Shaokuan, more than 600 Allied warships, large and small, rushed to the Japanese archipelago from the Philippines, the South Seas, and Hawaii.

However, this time the Japanese Navy also worked hard, although there were not many remaining Japanese warships, especially only three large aircraft carriers that could be used for combat, and the rest of the large warships were not very many, the most were old cruisers and small destroyers, although the difference in strength between the two sides was huge, but the Japanese army still did not retreat, and the main force bravely faced the Allied fleet.

The Japanese side also knows that the two sides are in a hurry, and if they win in time, then this strategic withdrawal will be equivalent to which side has won the initiative in the war.

It has to be said that the Japanese army's performance in this withdrawal operation was amazing, and the information was kept secret in advance, and not only did the intelligence agencies of the United States and the Soviet Union not receive the slightest rumor, but even the former Nationalist Government's Military Command Bureau, which claimed to be the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, was not aware of it.

In the whole operation, the Japanese army not only acted quickly, but also had a clear division of labor. At the cost of less than 400,000 troops, more than 1 million troops from the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula were withdrawn to the Japanese mainland. In comparison, the so-called "generator" program in Britain is simply weak.

However, to the frustration of the Japanese army, this plan was severely damaged on the Chinese battlefield, and under the frantic attack of Ma Zheng's department, the Japanese army had no time to carry out the withdrawal plan, and the naval fleet cruising in the East China Sea also discouraged the armed merchant ships that Japan had easily assembled.

By the end of March, the Allies had reoccupied all of the South Pacific, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Burma, Thailand, Treasure Island, Hong Kong Island, and all of French Indochina.

Immediately afterwards, the 27th Division of Ma Zheng's division occupied Wenzhou. After clearing the obstacles, the follow-up two field armies of more than 100,000 troops entered Fujian from Wenzhou.

Subsequently, Ma Zheng ordered Huang Bingyan to lead 250,000 troops from southern Jiangxi to the south, and the forward was directed towards Guangdong. On April 8, the army defeated the remnants of the Japanese 21st Army and the 13th Army stationed in Guangdong, and recovered Guangdong.

After that, Ma Zheng's million-strong army, with the cooperation of the naval fleet, surrounded more than 600,000 Japanese puppet troops in the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions, and finally broke the defense line painstakingly managed by Okamura Ningji after half a month of hard fighting, and the troops approached the city of Hangzhou, encircling the only remaining 100,000 troops of the Japanese army in Hangzhou City.

A week later, under the powerful offensive of Ma Zheng's troops, the Japanese army was forced to surrender.

At the same time, except for part of the Japanese troops on the Korean battlefield, all the rest were annihilated, so that all the Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield were wiped out, and the whole territory of China was recovered.

The news of the unprecedented victory of the Allied forces in the Pacific theater, especially in the Chinese theater, quickly spread throughout the world, the Japanese army was completely reduced and forced to defend the island, the Axis powers were completely defeated, and the people of the anti-fascist countries all over the world seemed to see the dawn of victory.

On the other hand, the top brass and people in Germany and Japan are in a different situation, as if the end of the world has come, and the atmosphere in the country is very tense, especially in Japan.

Japan is different from Germany, although Germany has found heavy losses in the Soviet-German battlefield and the North African theater, but Germany still controls the whole of Western and Southern Europe, including Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark, Norway and more than a dozen countries are still under the control of the Germans, so Germany has not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

However, Japan is different, after losing the two important resource bases of Korea and Northeast China, as well as the energy base of the Dutch East Indies, Japan's main strategic materials have basically lost their replenishment, and Japan's domestic reserves of strategic materials such as steel and oil are very scarce, and they cannot last long.

In addition, when the Japanese army withdrew its troops, it lost 80 percent of its heavy weapons and 30 percent of its light weapons, and at the same time lost 50 percent of its military production capacity.

It is precisely for this reason that the Japanese top brass has different ideas on how to prevent the Allied forces from landing on the Japanese mainland, and the commanders of the combat units headed by the base camp still lack confidence in the immediate destruction of the enemy's landing force by launching an offensive on the coast.

Coupled with the deep experience of the Japanese army's naval artillery fire and bombardment and the power of the flame tanks in the previous Philippine operations, many people thought that it was unwise to fight the Allies on the coast, and a large number of senior officers believed that the in-depth attack defense method was more suitable for Japan.

But whether the Japanese wanted it or not, with the occupation of Iwo Jima and the Ryukyu Islands by the Allies, the battle plan for landing in Japan was put on the agenda.

In order to reverse the declining trend and defend the Japanese archipelago, the Japanese army base camp implemented the basic idea of a decisive battle on the mainland and put forward the operational slogan of "100 million pieces of jade."

On 15 April, the War Department of the Base Camp issued the "Manual of Tactics for Decisive Battles on Territory," emphasizing that decisive battles on territory are offensive battles of annihilation, and that defense and fortifications should not be relied upon, and coastal defense should also be carried out in the form of decisive battles. The construction of positions should be selected in the places where the enemy must attack, and attention should be paid to the combat fortifications on flat ground. It is necessary to attach importance to securing airfields, and combat fortifications, training, and combat should be dominated by antitank warfare, and attention should be paid to the method of hand-to-hand combat by assault.

On the same day, the War Department of the base camp issued the "National War of Resistance Must Be Carried", requiring the people to fight for the defense of the country with the determination to participate in the decisive battle, that is, to fight for the defense of the country with the spirit of 100 million people rising up to fight for special attacks; and formed a national volunteer combat team to conduct combat training and build positions; Each defended the countryside and assisted the army in combat with the method of hand-to-hand combat.

In the propaganda of the Japanese government, the decisive battle at home was the final decisive battle of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army gambled the glorious tradition of the army over the past 80 years with this final battle, and could only and must win the final victory in the decisive battle at home.

While the Allies were actively planning to land on the Japanese mainland, the war in Europe also took a new turn. At the beginning of February, the Soviet army had already captured most of Eastern Europe, and with the help of the partisans of Eastern European countries, the Soviet army advanced very quickly, and launched an attack on the German mainland in early March, that is, the East Prussian Campaign.

The 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts of the Soviet Union, the 1st Baltic Front, and the Red Banner Baltic Fleet were mainly carried out, and the main purpose of this campaign was to crush the German army groups in East Prussia and northern Poland.

The 2nd Belorussian Front of the Soviet Army, which participated in this campaign, was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Army Rokossovsky, the 3rd Belorussian Front was commanded by Marshal Vasilevsky, and the commander of the 1st Baltic Front was General Baglamyan.

In order to win this battle, the Soviet Red Army dispatched a total of 14 composite armies, 1 tank army, 5 tank armies and mechanized corps, and 2 air force armies, about 1.67 million men, more than 25,000 artillery pieces and mortars, 3,859 tanks and self-propelled guns, and 3,097 aircraft. The artillery density is 200-230 artillery pieces and mortars per kilometer of frontage, 20-25 tanks for direct support of infantry.

Compared with the Soviet army, the strength of the German defenders was extremely thin, and in East Prussia, which was fortified by strong fortifications, was the German Army Group Center, with the supreme commander General Rendulic, under the jurisdiction of 1 panzer army, 2 field armies and 1 air force, totaling 780,000 men, 8,200 artillery pieces, 700 tanks and assault guns, and 775 aircraft.

After nearly two months of hard fighting, the Soviet Red Army almost completely annihilated the German regiments in East Prussia, destroyed the eastern outposts of the German army, and liberated parts of northern Poland.

After losing East Prussia, Germany not only lost an important national economic zone, but also 25 divisions were annihilated and 12 divisions were heavily damaged, which greatly weakened the German armed forces.

On the Western Front, after the Allies recovered France, they liberated Belgium, Luxembourg and other countries, and by the beginning of March, they pushed the war into Germany. At the same time that the Soviet Red Army launched the East Prussian Campaign, the Allies gathered all the forces they could now muster to launch a final assault on Nazi Germany.

At this time, Germany had to face not only the attack of the Soviet army on the Eastern Front, but also the frantic attack of millions of troops from Britain, France, the United States and other countries on the Western Front.

At the beginning of April, the Soviet, American, British, and French armies were only 60 kilometers from Berlin, and although the Germans still had a large number of troops at this time, most of them were surrounded by the Allies, and all the troops were losing ground one after another.

On the Northern Front, the Kurland Group was fighting against the Leningrad Front, and in East Prussia it was the Center Group against the 3rd Belorussian Front, and in any case Germany was now in its final moments.