Chapter 138: All the way north

The Taiwan campaign has entered a critical moment, and the Japanese side knows very well that once Taiwan is lost, the battlefield will advance to the Japanese mainland. However, Taiwan's air supremacy has been ceded to the Royal Air Force of the Han State, and the only Zero that can confront the Han military aircraft cannot be consumed. On the east coast of Honshu Island, it is necessary to maintain a certain number of them in order to deter the direction of Liuhuang Island and the Mariana Islands, the two most powerful ocean fleets of the Han State, which have been eyeing the Mariana Islands.

There are too few advanced aircraft that can be used in Taiwan, and among the various armies of China, there is not even a single Zero type. "Tear down the east wall and make up the west wall" is probably the sentence that the senior officials in the Japanese army base camp want to express the most. Having lost the South Sea shipping routes and control of the South China Sea, it has become increasingly difficult for Japan to obtain some important resources for the war.

"We have to think of a way, otherwise we won't be able to hold on ourselves without the Han army attacking! The Combined Fleet has reduced its training intensity due to fuel shortages! The pilots of the new carrier-based aircraft that have just been put on board can only practice taking off and landing in front of the simulator, so how can the warriors of the empire go to war with the Han Chinese? "Admiral Minister Masamitsu Yonechi was the commander of the Combined Fleet before, and he is also most concerned about the situation of the navy!

"If it weren't for the fact that your navy has taken up so many resources that the army simply doesn't have enough steel to make heavy tanks, why would we be losing ground in China and Taiwan?" War Minister Seishiro Itagaki confronted him.

Although the discord between Japan's army and navy has a long historical origin, when the empire was alive and dead, Emperor Hirohito couldn't listen to the dispute between the ministers and the ministers! "The war situation is so unfavorable, the princes don't share the worries of the empire, the army and navy can't always work together, once the situation is out of control, can you survive alone?"

It is Hirohito's habit to use a lot of Chinese words in conversation, but such a Japanese emperor, who was deeply influenced by Han culture, launched a war of aggression against China, evil slaves bullied their masters, and evil sons killed their mothers.

Under the suppression of "Kamui," the Japanese Navy and Army have formed a rare unanimous opinion to go all out to increase the output of Japanese aircraft and strive to produce 50,000 advanced jet aircraft within a year.

This opinion was used as a means of morale boost, and it spread to various factories in Japan, and was also used as an important piece of information by the agents of the Han Military Intelligence Agency back to Weiyang Palace. When Zhong Yi saw this information, he smiled dumbly! 50,000? The little devils think they also have a Red Alert base? The supreme command organ of the army can actually come up with such a thing to bluff the people, it seems that the little devil is really going to be poor in donkey skills and is coming to an end!

Immediately, His Majesty shouted the slogan "End the war against Japan in 1941" at the enlarged meeting of the wartime Military Commission of the Weiqing Pavilion, which was seen as a signal for a general attack on Japan.

After three years, Ye Zhiqiu, chief of the General Staff, came to China again with the 77th Armored Army and organized the Second Battle of Changsha with Wang Yizhe, commander of the Northern Cluster.

In the first Battle of Changsha, the **** Ninth Theater, under the command of General Xue Yue, fought extremely fiercely with the Japanese Tenth Army, but in the end Changsha still fell into the hands of the enemy. This time, nearly 300,000 people of the Northern Han Army crossed the Nanling, liberated Binzhou and Leiyang, and surrounded and annihilated the Osaka 4th Division, which was nicknamed the "Merchant Division" in the Japanese army, and the commander of this 4th Division was the famous Yamashita Fengwen, but in this world, he never had the opportunity to become a Malay tiger. As one of the few advocates of mechanized warfare in the Japanese Army, he finally personally understood the real mechanized warfare before disembowelment!

The 77th Armored Army, which was mainly formed by the officers and men of the former Northeast Army, is the only corporate-level mechanized unit in the Han Army other than the Guards. In the battle of Hengyang to encircle and annihilate the Japanese Osaka Division, Yu Xuezhong commanded the 77th Army to maneuver in a wide area, and with the help of the mechanized chemical troops, the whole army rushed to cross Laishui within five hours, and cut off the Hanyue Railway at the foot of Hengshan Mountain in the southern army, blocking the last escape road of the Osaka Division.

After the 4th Division was besieged, Yamashita also planned to organize troops to retreat into Hengshan, but the cruel reality made him thoroughly understand how naïve the mechanized warfare discussed by the Japanese officers at the Tokyo Land University and the General Staff Headquarters many years ago was. The 77th Panzer Army's Panzer Group charge really gave him a glimpse of the power of the Panzer Corps, but it was his entire Osaka Division that had to pay the price.

Infantry meets armor, and the plot is different, but the ending is the same. The Japanese army once again repeated the tragedy outside Zengcheng, only this time the protagonist was changed from the 1st Guards Division to the 77th Army. At the last moment, Lieutenant General Yamashita wrote in a farewell telegram: If the empire has such a strong army, Sugiyama-kun's plan to conquer China in March will definitely succeed!

The unfulfilled dream of General Wan Fulin, the commander of the Youzhou Army, was fulfilled by the 77th Armored Army for him! The Northeast Army, which was driven out of its hometown by the Japanese Kwantung Army, is back! Although their numbers have been changed to the Han Imperial Army, their uniforms have been dyed dark green.

At the end of the Battle of Hengyang, General Yu Xuezhong, who was very old on weekdays, chatted about his youthful madness, holding the "Imperial Gift" command knife of Fengwen under the mountain, climbed into a tank, and yelled heart-rending at the beautiful Nanyue Hengshan: "All the way to the north, fight back to your hometown!" I-Yu Xuezhong is back again! ”

This sound relieved the depression of several years, and roared out the courage and determination of tens of thousands of Northeast masters! Soon after, an officer of the 77th Army made a special small red flag and planted it on the tank turret, and the flag was embroidered with gold thread from the eight characters shouted by the army commander, which caused the whole army to follow suit, and nearly half of the tanks and armored vehicles of the 77th Army were planted with a small flag embroidered with the words "fight back to their hometown", which made the tailor shops in Hengyang City make a small fortune.

Yu Xuezhong was quite emotional when he saw this scene, although he felt that something was wrong, but he also let it go and did not delve too deeply. But just when the Northern Group Army continued to move north with a great victory, approaching Zhuzhou, an important town in eastern Hunan Province, and preparing to launch the Battle of Changsha again, Yu Xuezhong received an order that the entire 77th Army was on standby, and its combat mission was taken over by the 1st Guards Division.

Yu Xuezhong, who was on the rise, was like being poured a basin of cold water, and a phone call was made to the general headquarters of the Northern Group Army, and he was angry and looked for the commander-in-chief Wang Yizhe, but he didn't think that Wang Yizhe, who was also from the Northeast Army, refused to answer the call, but just asked Chief of General Staff Ye to say a word on his behalf: obey the order and wait for the investigation.

"Investigation?" General Yu Xuezhong was taken aback by this word, and was investigated on the battlefield, doesn't that mean that when ......he was in China, he suffered a lot in the years after following the young marshal into the customs, and Commander Yu was too familiar with this word. Don't...... Yu Xuezhong suddenly realized that the 77th Army, which has always been valued by His Majesty, was suddenly investigated on the battlefield, and it could only be caused by those small flags on the tank!

"Hey!" A heavy punch hit the tank body, I don't know that Yu Xuezhong, who hurts, is full of remorse, young soldiers are easy to be impulsive, but they have been in the army for more than 20 years, don't they still understand that the most taboo general in the army has two hearts? The soldiers' actions, they did not block or even acquiesce, they really committed a taboo in the army!