On February 9, 1944, when the Japanese army was retreating to Sinuiju and Yongcheon County in North Korea, the 19th Infantry Division and the Second Brigade of the Third Cavalry Division of the puppet Manchukuo National Defense Army mutinied.

Taking advantage of the Japanese army's unpreparedness, the rebel troops occupied the arsenal of the Japanese 154th Division and withdrew to a hill in the northwest area of Longchuan County to hold on to reinforcements. At the same time, a report was sent to Li Yifeng's headquarters, which was crossing the river, asking for support. After receiving the telegram from the rebel army, Li Yifeng was overjoyed and personally led the armored troops forward and rushed to Longchuan County to rescue.

Okamura Ninji was extremely angry about the rebellion of the puppet army, and ordered the 154th Infantry Division on the front line to eliminate the rebel troops of less than 10,000 people at all costs, and at the same time strictly ordered all departments to closely monitor the puppet army units, and when the supply ammunition was issued, the puppet army could only receive no more than two days of food and ammunition, and more than two days needed to be reported to the Kwantung Army headquarters.

The 154th Division of the Japanese Army is the base camp in the newly formed third-class division not long ago, in which 80% of the recruits are recruited, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, and the rebel army is the essence of the puppet Manchukuo, except for the unfortunate weapons and equipment, the others are not bad, so for a time the Japanese army can beat the position of the rebel army, the two sides are entangled in Dalongshan in Longchuan County, and no one can help anyone.

On the other hand, when he learned that a division of the Japanese army had stayed behind to encircle and suppress the rebels, he was overjoyed and ordered the rebels to hold off the 154th division at all costs, and his troops could reach Longchuan County in eight hours at the latest.

11 p.m. on Feb. 9. The two sides had been fighting for 15 hours at Dalongshan, and both sides had suffered heavy casualties, and since the Chinese Defense Forces had crossed the Yalu River, the commander of the 154th Division, Major General Ito, requested an immediate withdrawal from the battle to prevent being surrounded and annihilated by Chinese troops.

Okamura Ninji was not stupid, knowing that once the 154th Division was entangled, the consequences would be unimaginable, and it was likely to be completely annihilated, so he thought twice and agreed to the withdrawal of the 154th Division from the battle.

However. The Japanese army wanted to withdraw. The rebels disagreed, there was less than an hour before the eight hours Li Yifeng said, how could they let this group of little devils escape! Under the command of Li Guoyao, the leader of the rebel army, the remaining more than 7,000 rebel troops took the initiative to launch a frantic attack on the Japanese army. The two sides began with a shootout. This was followed by the group's charge with bayonets.

When Li Yifeng arrived at the battlefield, he was stunned by the scene at the scene. The hillside was almost flattened, and the slopes were littered with corpses, and neither of the warring sides noticed that a steel lion had appeared not far from them. are all fighting unwillingly.

In this raging war, Li Yifeng saw that the two troops with similar clothes were almost evenly matched, and neither of them had the upper hand.

Li Yifeng ordered the troops to rush to the battlefield immediately, divide and surround the two forces, and then assist the rebels to eliminate the little devils.

The 154th Division was completely annihilated, and in less than an hour, a third-class division of the Japanese army was completely annihilated. Unlike in the past, when it was better to die than surrender, in the face of more than 600 steel chariots under Li Yifeng's command, the Japanese army's will to fight soon collapsed, and more than 5,000 of the more than 8,000 Japanese troops chose to surrender, and more than 3,000 who were unwilling to surrender were completely annihilated.

The success of the uprising of the 19th Puppet Manchurian Infantry Division seems to have detonated a huge explosive, which caused an uproar in the puppet army, and all the puppet troops seemed to see hope, and in the next few days, from time to time there were puppet troops fleeing in formations, and there were even two small-scale uprisings, but they were easily extinguished by the Japanese army.

Okamura Ninji was deeply disturbed, the state of the puppet army was too unstable, not only would it not become the help of the Japanese Imperial Army, but now it is more and more likely to become a resistance, plus the number of puppet troops is not much, there are less than 100,000 people left, after careful consideration, and reported to the base camp, Okamura Ninji ordered the disarmament of all the puppet army on February 28, and all the less than 100,000 people were turned into logistics people.

This practice of the Japanese army completely angered the puppet army, and two infantry regiments mutinied in less than half an hour after the order was issued, and then a number of puppet regiments responded, and as of 6 o'clock in the evening of the 28th, all 60,000 puppet troops on the Sinuiju front line joined the rebel army and fought with more than 100,000 Japanese troops.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yifeng ordered his headquarters to immediately launch a full-line assault, and more than 300,000 vanguard troops rushed down like wild horses and floods bursting embankments, and the Japanese defense line was destroyed like papier-mâché.

At the same time, 240 warships of the Chinese Navy and the Soviet Far East Fleet, carrying three Soviet Red Army divisions, landed at Wonsan in central Korea and headed for Pyongyang, an important town in North Korea.

The Japanese army, which was caught between the north and the south, seemed to be stunned and unable to organize effective resistance, and in the absence of armor and artillery forces, as well as the loss of air and sea supremacy, even Okamura Ninji despaired of the situation. The only thing the Japanese units could do was to retreat, to South Korea.

At the same time that the situation in Korea was out of control, the Japanese army also suffered unprecedented blows on the Burma battlefield and the Philippine battlefield, on the Burma battlefield, the Burmese Front Army of General Hebian Zhengsan was defeated by Xue Yue's 12 integrated divisions, and five divisions of the Japanese army were disabled in the Third Mandalay Campaign, two of which were completely annihilated, and the headquarters suffered heavy losses, and lost the ability to attack after this battle.

After switching to the defensive, the Japanese army was even more unbearable, and in the face of the formed armored units of the Chinese Defense Force, the Japanese defense line was completely vulnerable. In addition, Xue Yue had already met with Aung San, the leader of the Burmese Independence Army, and Aung San agreed that Burma would be annexed to China, and that the Burmese army he led would also be incorporated into the Chinese National Defense Forces after the Japanese were driven out.

With the assistance of Aung San and his troops, Xue Yue's headquarters made smooth progress, and for the Japanese army's key defensive city fortresses, Xue Yue's headquarters often bypassed and directly attacked its rear, although there were more than a dozen Japanese strongholds on the road to southern Burma, but in the entire strategic direction of the attack, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated, and it was infinitely close to Yangon, the largest city in Burma.

In the Philippine Theater, 14 divisions, 8 mixed brigades, 1 tank division, and 1 aviation corps of the 14th Front Army of the Japanese Army were also heavily damaged by the Allies.

The Japanese army deployed 300,000 troops on the battlefield in the Philippines, and the Allied forces used only more than 300,000 troops for the attack.

On 17 February, the Allied naval fleet, with the cooperation of radar units, locked on the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and then assembled 320 large and small ships to encircle and suppress it, and the two sides engaged in a naval battle in Leyte Gulf.

At this time, the Japanese Navy was also looking for fighters to fight to the death with the Allied Navy, not because the Japanese Navy's strength had increased much, but because the Japanese Air Force stationed on Treasure Island lied to the base camp about the results of the battle, claiming that "11 Allied air carriers were sunk, 8 air carriers were damaged, and 4 warships were sunk, a total of 45 ships were sunk."

Now it's a big deal, how many warships are there in the Allies, 400 ships? 500 or 1000? This is really difficult to calculate, but it is very easy to calculate how many main aircraft carriers and battleships the Allies have, no more than 30 aircraft carriers, less than 15 battleships, and now the aviation force has sunk and damaged so many enemy warships at one time, which makes many people, including Emperor Showa, mistakenly believe that the main force of the Allied Navy and Air Force has been eliminated, so he directly ordered Staff Officer Ryuzo Sejima to change the location of the decisive battle and ordered the Navy to seek opportunities to annihilate the remaining Allied naval fleet.

This is how the oolong was laid out, when the 177 large and small battleships of the Japanese Combined Fleet met the Allied fleet in Leyte Gulf, the Japanese Navy was stunned, Nima, this is the main force was completely annihilated? Is there 20 aircraft carriers, there is, absolutely enough! Is there 20 battleships, there is, absolutely enough!

The Japanese Navy was cheated by its own people, there is no way, it is still possible to live if it is a sin made by heaven, and if it is a self-inflicted sin, then there must be no way to live. In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the combined Japanese fleet was almost completely annihilated, and only the North Korean side had a third fleet, with 70 or 80 ships still surviving, and the rest were either captured or sent to the bottom of the sea.

In this battle, the Chinese Navy's missile cruisers shone brightly, shooting down 340 Japanese carrier-based aircraft and sinking more than 80 Japanese ships, including the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

No one denies that the Japanese navy is the nurse of the army, because without the navy, the strategic materials needed by the army and the replenishment of troops will not reach the army.

The Japanese Army in the Philippines is now facing the embarrassing situation of weaning, after the defeat of the Navy, the food needed by the Japanese Army on the Philippine Island must be collected on the spot, and the ammunition can only be saved, plus there is a small arsenal in Manila that can supply some ordinary bullets and shells, and the rest is gone, don't think about medicine and replenishment of soldiers, there is no such thing at all.

More importantly, with the defeat of the navy, the Japanese army on the island of the Philippines became the king of the urn, unable to run if they wanted to, and there was no other way to retreat except to hold on and wait for reinforcements. And where are the reinforcements? Yamashita didn't know, and Shouichi Terauchi didn't know either.

There is no hope to count on the Japanese mainland, and even if there are ready-made troops without a navy, they will not be able to transport the Philippines, but fortunately, there are still more than 300,000 troops on the island, and the troops are quite sufficient for the time being, and there is no way to do it if it really reaches the point of being unsustainable.

Now many Japanese officers and soldiers are no longer as optimistic about the war as before, no one is a fool, they all know what to fight in a war, this is not the same as fighting, the war between countries is about the economy, and the war between countries is about to fight logistics, and now Japan's domestic economy is on the verge of collapse, and logistics is about to be paralyzed, and once the navy is defeated, logistics will need to be done by the troops on the front line themselves, and how long such troops can last, Terauchi Shouichi and Yamashita Fumimi themselves do not know the bottom of their hearts. (To be continued......)