Part 4 The Journey Chapter 175 - Iron-Blooded Earth (2)

This was the premise, and at the same time, with the return of the Hawaiian landing fleet, the southern side made a big attack.

The Sixth Army, which was responsible for the attack on French Indochina, cut off 16,000 French troops in Hanoi on January 18, and on January 24, Lieutenant General Rivera, commander-in-chief of the French Indochina garrison, led his troops to surrender. At the same time, several assault detachments based on the Vietnamese Restoration Department landed in Hong Kong, Nha Trang and Vung Tau, and on January 22, Hue rescued the "Restoration Emperor" (that is, the puppet king set up by the French) Nguyen Phuc Hoang. On January 25, it occupied Cam Ranh Bay, and on February 1, it recovered Saigon, and thus the whole territory of Vietnam was liberated.

During this period, Siam crossed the border with two and a half divisions to attack French Indochina, intending to recover the eastern territories of Vientiane, Rambrabang, and Ssophon (roughly Lao and western Cambodia) occupied by France in the last century, but was met with stubborn resistance from the French army, although the French army was defeated by the strong Chinese army, but in the heart of the Siamese who had been swallowing their breath and allowing the British and French colonists to bully, each department held its position and did not give up an inch of land, and the offensive of the Siamese army was repeatedly frustrated, and had to ask for help from the Chinese army.

After receiving the order from the base camp to support the Siamese army, the Sixth Army, with the 55th Infantry Division of the 109th Division as the backbone, formed the Cambodian Raider Army, transported it from the sea to the mouth of the Mekong River, and then transferred to a small boat to go up the river, and captured Phnom Penh on the 27th. With the 130th Infantry Division of the 65th Army as the backbone, the Laotian Raiders Army was formed, which entered Laos by three routes, and joined the army on the front line of Vientiane and Luang Prabang on the 211th.

In 213, the newly established Royal Government of Vietnam signed the "Declaration on the Liberation of Indochina" with Romania and China, announcing the end of French colonial rule in Indochina, and the formation of French Indochina, Laos and Cambodia were divided between Vietnam and Siamese at the same time. Siam and Vietnam formally joined the East Asian Alliance to jointly fight the "Asia-Pacific Liberation War" against Western colonialism.

The victory of the East Asian Combined Fleet at Lingjiayan Land directly advanced the strategic operation on the Philippine side, and Admiral Su Xiaoyu's Seventh Army quickly resumed the offensive, with Manila as the center, the 56th Army landed on Lingayen Bay from north to south, the main force of the 9th Army landed on Subic Bay from west to east, and the 54th Army landed on Ramon Bay from south to north, and six divisions of more than 100,000 troops surrounded on three sides, and the US Army had only two regular infantry regiments in the Philippines and seven Philippine regiments with Americans as officers, plus the garrison of Corregidor Island. The total strength of the army is only 40,000, among which the morale of the Philippine troops is extremely low, and they will collapse at the touch of a button in the battle, and even an entire company and battalion of soldiers carry weapons to surrender to the Chinese army in front of them after killing the US ** officer.

On January 20, the Seventh Army landed on Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, with the 115th Infantry Division, and began the operation to pacify the southern Philippines.

On the 29th, the Seventh Army's three-way army joined Manila, and on the 212th, 10,000 remnants of the United States and the Philippines, including Lieutenant General Wainwright, commander of the Philippine garrison, surrendered to the Chinese army, and most of the Philippines was pacified. Only the defenders on Corregidor Island at the mouth of Manila Bay are still resisting.

At the end of January, he was in charge of the First South China Sea Group in Malaya. and the 2nd South China Sea Group, which was responsible for the attack on Borneo, began to attack the target with a landing fleet returning from Hawaii.

According to the information gathered before the war, the strength of the enemy army on the Malayan side roughly included about 11,000 men from seven regular battalions of the British army, about 30,000 Indian soldiers (officers were British), about 20,000 from an Australian division, and a number of volunteers composed of local Malay troops and whites, totaling about 70,000 men.

On the British Borneo side, there were 1,000 regular troops and 2,500 troops in the main area of Indians

On the Dutch East Indies, the enemy's army strength consisted of about 50,000 men in the 2nd Division of the Interior Army (Regular Army), which was a mixture of Europeans and locals, and the locals were mainly Europeans

There are about 2 of the 15 battalions of the foreign army (auxiliary forces). The total is about 70,000 people.

In view of the fact that the progress of the East Asian coalition forces was much faster than expected, the First South China Sea Group of General Yuan Shikai and the Second South China Sea Group Army of General Ou Zhixing were reorganized on the eve of their departure, and the Korean and Japanese troops that were originally incorporated into the attack force were converted into reserves, and the Nanyang Volunteer Army was composed of overseas Chinese in exile in Nanyang and focused on amphibious combat training.

The reorganized sequence of operations of the two groups is as follows:

*1st South China Sea Group (Malayan Raiders).

Jurisdiction:

Land Warfare 3

Step 110 (transferred from the 55th Army, which had just finished fighting in Vietnam)

72nd Army (advance 143

The 2nd Asia-Pacific People's Liberation Army (301st, 302nd,

Reserves: 1st Marine Brigade of the DPRK, Janissary Division of the DPRK

- A total of 8 divisions and 1 brigade, 170,000 people.

Friendly Support: Siam 1st Army (1st Infantry Division,

*2nd Sea Group (Borneo, Java, Sumatra Raiders)

Lu 4

73rd Army (Pre-Infantry 145146 Division)

The 3rd Asia-Pacific Liberation Army (303304 and 306th Divisions of the Nanyang Volunteer Army)

Reserves: 1st Marine Brigade, Japanese Guards Division

- A total of 7 divisions and 1 brigade, 150,000 men.

With the cooperation of the Siamese army. The 1st South China Sea Group landed in Songkhla, Pattani, and Pattani, all of Romania with the 72nd Army and the 2nd Division of the Asian Liberation Army, and planned to advance along the west coast of the Malay Peninsula together with the 1st Siamese Army. With the 1st Division, which had undergone rigorous amphibious warfare training and had recently participated in the landing operation in Halong Bay, and the 3rd Marine Division, a specialized amphibious unit, landed in Kota Bharu, a key area in the northeast of British Malaya, and planned to advance along the east coast of the peninsula. By 212, the two attacking forces were progressing smoothly, the British army was demoralized and retreated, the Western Route Army entered Alor Setar and began to advance towards Penang and Taiping, and the Eastern Route Army defeated the heavily fortified defenders after several days of fighting, captured Corusda, and began to march towards Kuala Terengganu......

The Second South China Sea Group sent a detachment of Lee Mingyi, based on the 10th of Lu 4, to occupy Seriyah (in Brunei) and Miri in northern Borneo under LinkedIn at the end of January. The Lu Daoming Detachment, based on the 908th Division of the Nanyang Volunteer Army, occupied the Sulawesi Sea under the cover of the Navy in early February, and entered Talagan, a famous oil-producing area in Borneo. Subsequently, the Huodongge Detachment, based on the 304th Regiment of the Nanyang Volunteers, was dispatched to march towards Balikpapan under the cover of the 2nd Sulawesi Contingent......

With the early end of the Indo-Chinese raid on the battlefield, the strategy for British Burma was also put on the agenda, and on the 211th, the base camp of the Chinese army ordered the formation of the Southwest Front Army, which was organized as follows:

* 21st Army: (Yunnan side, i.e., the former Burma|:.

70th Army (141st Pre-Rifle,

79th Army (157th Pre-Cavalry,

*31st Army: (Siamese side), under the jurisdiction of:

The 57th Army (113114 infantry, transferred to Luo after completing the Hong Kong Raiders)

74th Army (148th Advance Rifle

- Eight divisions, together with auxiliary units, totaling 140,000 men.

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The time of launching the Burma campaign was preliminarily determined to be after the 218th day of the first lunar month.

The 25,000 British and Indian troops in Burma did not have a few days to live......