Chapter 191: A slave after all

On February 24, the roar of the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet in the waters off Kagoshima continued to roar from midnight, and more than 50,000 shells of various types formed an iron curtain that covered the Japanese positions in Arimachi and Kushikino.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, the sea gradually began to shine, and the carrier-based planes on the three aircraft carriers began to take off. The 58th Division of the 20th Yangzhou Army launched a diversion attack on the six-kilometer-wide sea flank of Aria-cho, while the troops of the three divisions of the 19th Army would then launch a landing charge on the fourteen-kilometer-wide sea front.

At 4:30 p.m., the Okinawa Air Force Headquarters sent a message that the Fengshenlong early warning plane and its subordinate Tenryu fighters were in position, and that the first batch of Howler bombers had arrived at the Tianfu Star shipwreck, and began to name the Japanese fortifications.

The fire of the fleet on the sea was even more ferocious, and the troops that left first boarded the landing craft through the ladder. The amphibious dock landing ships, which were not engaged in battle on the first day, also made a domineering appearance, and the 24 Scribe-class dock landing ships broke through the waves in the face of the Japanese army's not too dense coastal artillery fire, and acted as the vanguard of the landing. The WZ-10B Falcon Unit of the 102nd Air Cavalry Division of the Coastal Corps successively appeared at low altitudes on the Xiongxing Heights and Mengxing Beach, and carried out intensive rocket attacks on the sad places of the 19th Army in Yangzhou, and the Japanese suffered casualties and had no choice but to withdraw from the heights.

At five o'clock in the morning, when the general headquarters received the news of the dispatch of Japanese planes from Fengshenlong, the 58th Division had already rushed to Fuxing Beach and launched an attack on the Guixing position on the left. The bombardment of the air force destroyed the anti-tank obstacles on the two beaches, and Dong Chengbin immediately ordered the 60th Division of the Amphibious Armored Force of the 20th Army to engage in flank fighting.

At this time, it was the low tide in the sea south of Kagoshima, and the wind and waves were strong, which was not suitable for the attack of amphibious armored forces. However, yesterday's battlefield violation incident made the entire Yangzhou army feel gloomy, and the amphibious army, known as the strongest army of the Han Dynasty, was holding back its strength to regain face in today's battle. One hundred and twenty walrus tanks of the 60th Amphibious Panzer Division left the dock landing ship in the wind and waves and charged four thousand meters from the coast. When they rushed to the shore, 17 tanks sank in the wind and waves, but the rest of the tanks immediately formed on Fuxing Beach and launched an attack on the Guixing position together with the 58th Division.

On the front, although the commander of the 55th Division of the 19th Army was announced by Commander Dong yesterday to be swept to the end, the commander of the 55th Division, wearing ordinary non-commissioned officer uniforms, was still exercising the rights of the division commander, and the soldiers were also willing to obey the orders of the "sergeant" division commander, and the landing craft also smoothly rushed onto the beach of Mengxing under the cover of the helicopter unit, and only a few hovercraft were overturned by the wind and waves, and dozens of soldiers were missing.

In the waters of Japan in February, the sea temperature was low, and it was difficult for the soldiers who fell into the water to climb into other landing craft because of fatigue and wet cold.

At 6:20 a.m., the two divisions of the 20th Army on the flank cooperated with each other, linking the three positions of Guixing, Yingxing, and Weixing, and converging with the 55th Division at the Xiongxing Heights, connecting the landing ground. However, the Japanese kamikaze forces had already launched an attack on the fleet, and the landing force was ordered to hold on to the tidal flats and wait for an opportunity to expand the landing grounds.

After the first day of fighting, the Japanese army's hidden airfields were destroyed a lot, and this time, Ugaki used all his strength to take off only more than 600 planes. Because of the insufficient number of aircraft, Admiral Ugaki made some tactical improvements. At the same time, the Japanese army also began to use a new type of suicide plane -- "Sakura," which was actually a manned aerial bomb boosted by a rocket, carried by an attack plane to reach the theater of operations and then separated from the carrier plane, and was piloted by a daring pilot to rush to the target, loaded with a ton of high intensity bombs, propelled by three solid-fuel rocket engines, and at a speed of up to 800 kilometers per hour. Almost about the same speed as the first-generation jets, and the explosion was more powerful.

This tactic was successful to a certain extent, and more than 200 suicide planes pounced on the sea, inflicting considerable losses on the Pacific Fleet. In this operation, the Japanese army crashed and sank one Allied destroyer and one landing ship, damaged one battleship, six destroyers, three frigates, and one landing ship, and 12 Yanhuang ships were sunk. However, the second Kikusui operation also released the last few drops of blood of the Japanese naval and air forces in Kyushu. At the landing site of Arichimachi, while the Japanese army dealt a heavy blow to the Pacific Fleet, 600 planes of various types were wiped out again, and 150 cherry blossoms were short-lived, because the manufacturing plant was bombed, and the ability to replenish was passively reduced.

At the same time, at Mukaiha, Ugaki commanded the Fifth Fleet, the last force of the Japanese army, to launch a desperate attack on the Indian Ocean. Suicide jet skis, man-operated torpedoes, dwarf submarines, and even fish boats filled with explosives sail out of the Seto Inland Sea for the final journey through the Bungo Waterway.

The Indian Ocean Fleet, consisting of a radar alert fleet consisting of one light cruiser and two destroyers, detected their whereabouts in time. The news soon came back to the command ship Xuande, and Mao Quartz commanded the fleet of four aircraft carriers, four battleships, six heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, and one hundred and sixty-four drives, frigates, to meet the battle. By 12 o'clock, Japan's last battleship, the Hyuga, sank in the Hyuga Beach, which can be regarded as a return to the roots. At 2 p.m., the last capital ship of the Japanese Navy, the Heavy Cruiser Atago, was hit by a bluefin tuna fired by the Heavy Cruiser Mengqi, causing a violent explosion. The flames and pillars of smoke in the sky represent the fireworks of the Japanese navy.

As a radar alert ship, the young constant (Ma Tan) light cruiser, the Royal Navy's most casualty battleship in this battle, the first to discover the enemy situation and send back the information was hit by two man-operated torpedoes in the battle, and two suicide boat collisions, the left and right side rear chord was blown open two large holes, despite the sailors risking their lives, the loss of power of the young constant actually miraculously balanced on the surface of the water, did not sink. Although after being dragged back to Tanegashima, due to his injuries, he announced his retirement. However, with its exploits and the fighting spirit of the sailors who never gave up, the Yutsune was known as an unsinkable ship. After the end of the war with Japan, the Youngtsune was towed to the Izumo Island Naval Base in Nanhua Bay, where it became a maritime education base for the Navy's fighting spirit.

His Majesty also wrote an inscription for the Youchang number: Ma Tan Street Pavilion is a big mistake, and the Youchang fights endlessly. He also bestowed the first-class merit on the young sailors of the ship, and issued the second-class Golden Dragon Medal.

Inspired by this, in the next few days, the Allied attacks became more intense, and Ugaki, who had lost the strength of naval and air counterattacks, could no longer return to the sky, so he could only organize the Japanese army to resist step by step, but retreated step by step. The Allied forces, which had succeeded in opening up the landing ground, landed 700,000 troops in southeastern Kyushu within two weeks.

The Yizhou Army and the Nanyang Second Army, which were the former leaders of the Allied forces, had successfully converged at Takamori in central Kyushu, compressing 300,000 Japanese troops and nearly one million national volunteers to the northern part of Kyushu Island. The Yangzhou army also landed in Minami-Arima Bay near Nagasaki for the second time, fought bloody battles for several days, captured the military stronghold of Sasebo, and controlled the area around the Goto Islands.

Ugaki led the Japanese army to retreat to the Saga line, but the Shimonoseki Bridge was bombed, the retreat route was cut off, and the allies were attacked from three sides, and the Kyushu defenders may have only one way to surrender.

However, Prince Higashikure and Chief of Staff Ishihara ordered Ugaki to defend Kitakyushu, "If you have the will to die of the whole country, why do you care about the gains and losses of Kyushu." Even if ten people are exchanged for one life, it is necessary for the Han Emperor to taste the determination of our Great Japanese Empire to defend and resist bravely! Ugaki-kun, Ushiman-kun and other imperial heroes are watching you and me! ”

Ishihara's telegram was undoubtedly a reminder, cutting off Ugaki's last thoughts, "Commander Yamamoto, it's not that Ugaki can't bear the humiliation, but the empire has a determined heart." When the mountains and rivers are broken, how can Ugaki steal ......"

Relying on the excellent seaport of Sasebo, the Allies increased their forces in a big way, and the Liangzhou Army took over the position of the Yangzhou Army, and the north Ke Karatsu approached Saga.

The 2nd Nanyang Army occupied Hyuga, took Nobeoka, and set a fire to Saeki, who was frantically resisting, and burned down the largest port city on the west bank of the Bungo Waterway. Later, he bypassed the Kuju Mountains and fought a bloody battle with Hita, an important town in Kitakyushu garrisoned by 200,000 defenders, for several days, and could not advance an inch, and the offensive of the arrogant Nanyang colonial army was finally stopped. However, the march around the eastern half of Kyushu Island brought endless pain and suffering to the Japanese, and the cities occupied by the Nanyang Army basically turned into hell, even worse than hell.

Massacre was interpreted here by the Nanyang Army as a polysemous word that can be richly interpreted, and it was shot en masse, flooded and burned, and beheaded and buried alive...... The rich imagination of the Nanyang people has been greatly unleashed here. The few Han Chinese officers in the legion acquiesced to this, because they did not massacre civilians for no reason, because the Japanese always took the initiative to give them some reason to massacre. Poisoning and shooting black guns are all relatively reasonable attack methods, and the Japanese army is more likely to use suicide attacks. Pretending to be a civilian, he approached the Nanyang Army, and then suddenly pulled out his knife and stabbed it; Or in groups of three or five, hiding earth bombs in clothes, and carrying out human bomb attacks on the marching ranks.

Casualties were within the limits of what could be tolerated, and what really angered the Nanyang Legion was the more boring attack, the frivolous act of throwing dung water bombs into the barracks finally made the Nanyang natives unbearable. The Japanese, there is no distinction between soldiers and civilians, the only difference is whether they have weapons in their hands or not, if there are enough weapons, every Japanese can become a resistance army. So, the best way to deal with them is to kill them, kill them until they no longer dare to look at the allies, kill them to find their correct positioning, do a group of slaves who have died dare to be so arrogant?

For hundreds of years, the natives of Nanyang, who have no concept of a country, are deeply proud of the strength of their country at this time, although Nanyang is only a colony of the Han Empire, it is much stronger than these Japanese who are about to die, right? "At least we can slaughter them and ravage them at will!"

Powerful is the truth, and strong covers all ugliness.

To give a colonial army a sense of belonging, only the British have ever done it in this world, and the Indians for a long time were proud to be a British colony. Now, the mighty Han Empire is following the path that Britain once walked and is destined to be even stronger than Britain.

It's just that every road to power, every dream of hegemony, needs countless blood to render and countless lives to whitewash.

Japan and the Japanese are the natural stepping stones for the rise of the Han Dynasty. For hundreds of years, the Chinese nation has had unfortunate families and frequent evil slaves, and Japan is undoubtedly the most vicious slave among them, and even delusionally wants to take advantage of the master's weak and sick health to seize the position of the head of the family.

"Chinese orthodoxy, how can **** covet it. Although there is a faint Han flavor in the blood flowing in the blood of the despicable Japanese, a slave is a slave after all! ”

Regarding the massacre of the Second Army in Kyushu, His Majesty said lightly something that seemed to be unrelated.