Chapter 437: Attack on Indonesia (Part II)

On January 24, 1947, the Imperial Southeast Asian Army officially launched an offensive against Indonesia.

General Jobson commanded the battle in western Indonesia, Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi commanded the battle in the direction of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and General Wang Jun personally commanded the battle on Kalimantan Island, where the army was heavily entrenched.

The three-way army launched an attack on the main island of Indonesia, where the Japanese army was entrenched.

Because General Wang Jun was in charge of the offensive battle in Kalimantan, including the 19th Army, the 32nd Army, the 33rd Army, and the 35th Army, a total of four group armies, a total of more than 500,000 troops. In the process of transportation, I still encountered a lot of trouble.

However, because the 33rd Army and the 35th Army entered Hanzhong Province ahead of schedule, it was only 150 kilometers away from the planned landing site in Ritius, located at the western tip of Kalimantan Island.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Admiral Wang Jun personally flew to the Hanzhong airfield, boarded the landing convoy, and will land with the two divisions of the vanguard team.

At about 4 o'clock in the morning, Admiral Wang Jun came to the port of departure, and looked at the officers and soldiers lined up at the port wharf and carrying a full set of jungle field equipment ready to board the ship, he took a hand-held electric horn and jumped onto an amphibious tank, and said loudly, "Comrades, starting today, the last battle in Southeast Asia will be. In front of you is the man who has been forced to a dead end by us to fight the trapped beasts, as long as they are defeated, the territory of the empire will be connected from the south to the north of the earth, and I and you will be the heroes of history...... After this battle, I will go home with everyone and have a look.

Now I order, board the ship!! ”

The harbor was already full of seven or eight landing ships, and the huge Hanzhong wharf in Hanzhong Province was enough to provide enough boarding docks for the army at one time.

In the entire Hanzhong province, there are three docks, and there are 40 landing ships in the first wave, which will join the escort/fire support fleet that went to sea in advance, and they will go straight to Kalimantan Island.

The boarding was completed in 30 minutes, and the officers and men of the two divisions, who had conducted many amphibious landing trainings, and even the Burmese soldiers in the Burmese area were able to board the ship quickly and safely.

At about five o'clock, the first wave of landing ships headed for Indonesia under the cover of a group of planes rumbling through the sky.

When Xu said that he had just jumped out of the sea, if his fighter plane had flown over the sea, he would have seen ships covering dozens of square kilometers of sea, loaded with imperial troops rushing to Indonesia.

…… Located at the Ritius landing ground at the western tip of Kalimantan Island, the Indonesian puppet army with a wing and a division of the Japanese army was stationed here, relying on stronger coastal fortifications in an attempt to resist stubbornly.

Although the army faced difficulties in Indonesia such as the shortage of military supplies, during the long preparation stage of the imperial army, it also built strong fortifications and stationed a moderate number of troops in several places that were very suitable for large-scale troop landings, in an attempt to give the imperial army a head start at a relatively small cost of casualties.

Ritius is one of the most likely areas for Chinese to land, with 'weak' defenses, wide terrain, and close proximity to Hanzhong Province, from which there are easy access to the rest of Kalimantan. Even the army itself firmly believes that the Chinese choose this place as a landing site, at least one of the landing sites, is as likely as high as 80%.

"Maybe the Chinese are coming soon."

The heavy rain that had been falling for several days finally stopped, and although it was just after 5 o'clock, the wing commander, Major General Yahachiro Shiokawa, still came to the Rietius coastal defense line. However, Shiokawa Yahachiro still frequently raised the telescope, while constantly urging the radar station to repeatedly detect it.

But he knew very well that it was less than 150 kilometers from the Chinese's Hanzhong Province in a straight line at sea, and the only role of radar was not to wait for the Chinese to come to see them.

As for the large-caliber coastal defense artillery that the coastal defense line was supposed to be arranged, with the air fleet of the anti-landing war, these are luxuries. In the long-term battle with the Chinese, it was becoming more and more difficult for the Southeast Asian army to obtain supplies, and the planes were sharply reduced every day, and the barrels of the cannons could only be thrown away.

The domestic supply line was cut off by the Chinese fleet, the supply of the Americans from the Pacific Ocean was cut off by the Chinese fleet cruising near Australia, and the supply fleet from the direction of Malacca was beaten by the Chinese from the mouth of the sea to the sinking position.

There is nothing, the only thing that the infantry wing and the Indonesian puppet army division commanded by Yahachiro Shiokawa are 40 howitzers and a few shells, and there is a military airfield with two squadrons of fighters stationed in the rear, which is already a lot, because although the entire Indonesian island of Kalimantan has 85% of the fighters of the army, the total number is only more than 400.

On the other side of the Chinese, the air force on Hanzhong Island alone has exceeded this number, and the real Southeast Asian provinces of China on the other side of the strait have a huge fleet of more than 3,000 planes, and a sneeze can solve the remnants of the air of the Japanese army, so even if they Chinese know that they are going to land and fight, they can only secretly attack guerrilla ground defense.

How much damage an infantry wing, an Indonesian division, can bring to the Chinese if they stay in the fortress and fortifications, Shiokawa Yahachiro does not know, but he knows that he will fight to the death here.

"Report! Discover the planes of the Chinese. ”

A staff officer ran in and shouted.

"How much." Yahachiro Shiogawa asked.

"The radar can't tell."

When Shiokawa Yahachiro heard this answer, he already understood that the Chinese had sent at least more than 100 fighters, and this scale had not been encountered before, but this time, he thought that this was a general attack by the Chinese.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, the thick sound of aircraft engines came from the air.

"Prepare to drop the bomb!!"

The T-35 and H-3 bombers of the 63rd Bomber Division who were carrying out the bombing mission opened the valves of their bombing compartments, and one by one the huge guys that had been prepared for a long time were dropped.

"The JD-2 giant bomb, weighing 2,500 kg, or 2.5 tons, is designed to break the fortifications ......"

A H-3 bomber can only carry 1, plus other ammunition, and a T-35 medium-range bomber can barely carry 2, which is still due to the huge improvement obtained by the T-35 modification, especially in terms of range and load.

At present, the medium and long-range bombers of the empire, T-35 is the protagonist, with a large bomb load and long range, but it is much more convenient to use than the T-40 Celestial Wrath strategic bomber.

The JD-1 bomb is a type of cloudburst bomb that is primarily used to clear woods, open landing sites, and sweep suspected enemy lurking areas.

The JD-2 bomb is designed to deal with giant aircraft carriers and break through strong fortifications, and the different types of bombs also have strong area kill and anti-armor combat capabilities, because they contain submunitions.

After these two bombs were dropped, the prelude to the war against Indonesia was set off.

Shout...... Rumble!!

A loud explosion far exceeded that of any bomb, or even any naval gun, and Yahachiro Shiokawa was directly knocked down when he was unsteady, and the ensuing wave of air even poured in from the lookout hole.

"What new weapons did Chinese use......

Although Yahachiro Shiokawa had heard of a giant bomb being developed by the military department, this kind of bomb had not yet been used on the battlefield, and to be precise, there were bombs, but there were not many planes that could carry them.

Judging from the explosion, the sound, and the concussion just now, he believes that this explosion is at least the explosive effect of a giant bomb of more than 1500kg.

Sure enough, soon, one of the Shaozo reported that the coastal line was heavily bombed.

Needless to say, Yahachiro Shiokawa also knew that the defense line was heavily bombarded.

The more than five-kilometer-long fortification group, which was built by Yahachiro Shiokawa personally escorting Indonesian civilians and puppet troops, has now been blown up by giant bombs dropped by groups of Chinese.

His location was relatively lucky, he was not directly bombed, but the constant shock made his whole person fall into a terrible buzz, just from the lookout hole through the lookout glass, he found that two or three kilometers nearby has been bombed into huge craters, the nearest squadron of the underground fortifications of the army even directly became a big pit, the army inside is absolutely not spared.

"General, we found out that Chinese is implementing airborne ...... in our rear"

Amid the intensifying explosions and bad news, Shiokawa Yahachiro calmed down and picked up his binoculars to look in the direction of the horizon, this time, he was not disappointed again, and saw some steel masts, which were the superstructure of the ship.

"Send a report to His Excellency Matsui Ishine, and all the samurai of the 94th Infantry Wing will break the ...... for the national jade"

Ten minutes later, a JD-2 giant bomb finally fell, blowing up the fortifications where Shiokawa Yahachiro was located into the sky, and in ten minutes, Shiokawa Yahachiro had just finished wiping his saber and did not have time to stab it in the abdomen...... When Matsui Shigen got the report, the imperial army had firmly occupied the landing field, and to Wang Jun's slight surprise, the army really gave up the idea of driving the [***] team into the sea on the tidal flats, as the intelligence said. First, because Indonesia is a country of thousand islands as a whole, and the strait is narrow, so it is not prudent to prevent it, rather than throwing the already small number of troops to the coast so that the Chinese can be annihilated at one time, it is better to concentrate on drilling the mountains and fight a jungle war with the Chinese.

This is also a forced and helpless army, which lacks artillery, mountain tanks and airplanes, and even all the military supplies that can be imagined, and no longer has the conditions for a large-scale decisive battle.

Matsui Ishone's order is to drag the Chinese as much as possible, and according to the military department, if it can be delayed until the world situation is reversed, it will be the best result.

On January 28, 1947, after four days of fighting, the imperial army basically wiped out the Yue army on West Kalimantan Island, to be precise, it should be driven away, and the Yue army was defeated by the 500,000 army commanded by Wang Jun, even if it hid in a ravine, it was surrounded by a circle.

In desperation, the army contracted again and retreated into the depths of the jungle, so the Chinese army began a five-month jungle encirclement and suppression war-

I am not very satisfied with these chapters of Xiaoyu, but the state is basically recovered, the plot of Indonesia will not continue to be written, and there are many wonderful ideas in the follow-up, accelerate and accelerate!! The loss of the semi-annual award was self-inflicted, alas, calm down and update.

(To be continued)