Chapter 481: Do things one step ahead

On 11 June, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff was discussing the next operational plan of the US military in Asia, the Far East General Headquarters implemented the Qiongdao operational plan after Li Junhao's telegram was revised.

During this time, the Japanese troops stationed on Qiongdao were basically all members of the navy, and its supreme command body was the Hainan Garrison of the Chinese Fleet, which had jurisdiction over the 4th Special Marine Corps of the Yokosuka Town Guard, the 1st Special Marine Corps of Maizuru Town, the 8th Special Marine Corps, the 15th Garrison, and the 16th Garrison of the Sasebo Town Guardhouse, with only about 10,000 regular troops, 5,000 Japanese policemen, 8,000 overseas Chinese, Japanese employees, family members, military families, and Korean laborers, 17,000 people, the total number of combatable personnel is only about 20,000.

According to Li Junhao's request, in addition to the landing of the First Army of the Navy and Army at Haikou and the Second Army at Sanya, the follow-up landing force was mainly the 121st Group Army.

And in accordance with his instructions, Commander Peng Xuefeng informed northern Shaanxi before the start of the operation, and then sent people to sneak to the island in advance, and handed over two high-power radios to the Qiongya Column that insisted on fighting on the island, and obtained internal support.

The Battle of Qiongdao was basically over in two days, and the style of the Japanese Navy was completely different from that of the Army, and the entire army surrendered after only 30% of the battle losses; It took more than ten days to follow, and it was basically the 121st Group Army, under the leadership of the Qiongya Column, rushing around, clearing out traitors, and receiving territory, because of the vast area, the naval and land forces sent seven special operations brigades ashore to help.

In this process, the rest of the US army, except for the logistics unit that transported supplies, did not go ashore - this was Li Junhao's order, and with the consent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he wanted to hand over Qiongdao to the underground party as a gift!

Of course, in this case, Chairman Chiang on the Chongqing side was furious, but without the support of the navy, he could not change anything at all! ——

Subsequently, the Far East Command was ordered to draw up an operational plan for attacking Northeast China, and Admiral Nimitz of the Pacific Fleet received an order from Washington to send naval forces except the 5th and 7th Fleets to begin blockading the Japanese coast and cutting off the possibility of it getting closer to the Chinese coast.

On June 22, Li Junhao returned to the Far East, moved his headquarters from the Philippines to Taipei, the Bay Island, and prepared to start attacking the Kwantung Army - he knew that in less than two months, Japan would surrender, and then he could directly accept the surrender, but what he wanted was: kill more little devils before that, and seize the northeast and refuse the Soviet army to enter China! So, despite the somewhat hasty plan, he gave the order to push it with all his might.

At the same time, he also contacted northern Shaanxi and asked him to prepare cadres and troops to prepare for receiving them at the customs.

The biggest advantage for Li Junhao now is that the highest level of the United States has accepted his views and is ready to abandon the Kuomintang and support the underground party to take power, and his actions can be carried out boldly.

In the original history, the Dulles brothers, who often jumped out to make troubles at this time, had been completely subdued by him, and at this time he was under the hardcore hands of the Senate and the CIA, and was also responsible for monitoring and dealing with other anti-communists! Together, these two brothers are not small, and they have already dealt with at least five councillors and thirty unstable elements! ——

On June 24, the U.S. Fifth Fleet began to attack Arthur and Dalian respectively, and after powerful naval and air strikes, the Second and Fourth Armies landed in both places, and it took only 48 hours to control these two important seaports and begin to advance in depth; Subsequently, the 19th Airborne Corps, consisting of three airborne divisions, went ashore and took control of the two seaports, and began to prepare for the next combat operation.

Then, the 7th Fleet, which had been prepared for a long time, rushed into the Far East Bay, attacked Huludao and Yingkou, and the 1st Army landed at Yingkou Port, followed by the 10th Army, and then immediately went out to attack Anshan and Liaoyang......

After that, the 14th Army, composed of the US forces in the Far East, the 16th Army composed of the troops of the Indo-Burma Theater, and the 17th Army, composed of the US troops withdrawn after handing over the Malay Peninsula and Singapore to the British Army, a total of 22 divisions and 450,000 army units came ashore one after another to assume the main offensive responsibility.

At this time, the Japanese Kwantung Army had a total of 33 front armies and the 4th Independent Army under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 3rd, and 17th armies, with 31 divisions and 13 brigades of about 970,000 soldiers, more than 5,000 artillery pieces, 160 tanks, 1,800 aircraft, and about 200,000 puppet Manchurian and puppet Mongolian troops.

However, the main defensive direction deployed by the Japanese army was the Soviet Union, and its 1st Front Army's 10 divisions and 240,000 men were mainly responsible for the defense of the northeast and eastern directions; The 9 divisions of the 3rd Front Army, with about 200,000 men, are mobile troops, deployed in the Changchun and Shenyang areas, and one division is responsible for the border defense in the northeast and western directions; The 3 divisions of the 4th Independent Army, with about 100,000 men, served as the defense of the north and northwest; Nine units of about 210,000 men of the 17th Front Army were deployed in Korea.

This top-heavy configuration of the Japanese army almost completely ignored the defense of the southern region, and the sudden landing of the American army stunned it all at once! Not counting the 17th Front Army in Korea at this time, the Japanese army had 22 divisions and 7 mixed brigades in the northeast, but the weaponry, equipment and soldier quality of these 700,000 Japanese troops did not even have the strength of 200,000 people in the ten divisions and regiments three years ago, or even worse!

How could the Japanese army in this situation be able to resist the heavily armed 450,000 mechanized American troops?

The 10th Army, which had fought in the Ryukyu Campaign, had to rely on the sea and land troops to rescue and finish, but when it encountered the Japanese army with poor strength, it went crazy......

On the 25th, the 7th Division of the 10th Army collided head-on with two divisions of the Japanese 3rd Front Army moving south from Shenyang, and it took only three hours to defeat them all......

In the following ten days, 450,000 U.S. Army swept through the Japanese Kwantung Army in the northeast, and the 5th and 7th fleets and the U.S. Air Force in the Far East dispatched more than 1,500 advanced fighters to help in the battle.

During this period, the anti-Japanese forces of the underground party that insisted on the anti-Japanese war in the northeast provided timely intelligence support to the US military according to the instructions of their superiors, and according to the instructions of Commander-in-Chief Pan Sen, the US army also delivered all the captured Japanese weapons and equipment to the underground party forces as a "reward......

At the end of the month, a large number of underground party troops rushed from Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu and Henan to the outside of the customs and arrived at the customs, and under the leadership of specially arranged Chinese naval officers, they followed the US troops and received weapons and equipment at the same time......

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