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Chapter 1371: The Invaders¡¯ Carnival Feast (1)

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    On April 30, Li Guoyao held an army-wide military affairs meeting in Sumushan and made small-scale adjustments to the strength and organization of his units.

    The main objects of adjustment are several main forces, including the 177th Division, the 194th Division, the 9th Temporary Division, the Cavalry Group, the Independent Brigade, the Women's Brigade, etc. The establishment of most of these troops has been determined before, but due to the problem of soldiers, the major adjustments have been made.  Some of the troops were not at full strength.

    This time, through the training of the army, eight main regiments of new recruits were identified from more than 80,000 recruits, as well as ten second-line defense regiments.

    There are also many new units in the technical arms. The cavalry has added 4 regiments, the artillery has added 8 battalions, and the engineer has added 11 battalions. In addition, air defense and transportation units have been expanded.

    The garrison troops naturally have to stay in the base area. There is nothing to say about this, but other troops have become the favorites in the eyes of each division and brigade. Therefore, Li Guoyao decided to add all these new troops with qualified combat effectiveness to the main forces.

    After some fighting, the 177th Division, which had arrived in the Suicha area, received three regiments of supplementary troops. In addition, the cavalry, artillery and engineers directly under the division headquarters were all expanded into regiments. At this point, the Ninth Army was the first fully-staffed Class A  The division is officially formed.

    Secondly, the cavalry group was also supplemented by two cavalry regiments. After the supplement, the establishment of the cavalry group increased from three regiments to five regiments, with a total strength of more than 13,000 people.

    The independent brigade also received the establishment of a regiment. In addition, the artillery, cavalry and engineers were partially supplemented, and the strength was greatly enhanced.

    Especially in order to increase the mobility of the independent brigade, Li Guoyao specially transferred one of the two transportation groups to the independent brigade.

    After adjustment, the independent brigade has four infantry regiments and one transportation regiment, as well as one reinforced battalion each for artillery, cavalry and engineering, with a total strength of 15,000, which is comparable to a reinforced division of the national army in terms of strength.

    The 194th Division in southern Hebei has also been supplemented by three regiments. Like the 177th Division, after the supplementation, the establishment of the 194th Division has also been full.

    The female military force has also been taken care of. The female soldier brigade, which originally had only two regiments, was officially expanded into a Category A brigade. Not only did it receive a regiment of supplementary soldiers, but at the same time, two thousand technical personnel that were originally under the direct jurisdiction of the military were temporarily put under the command of the female soldier brigade.  From now on, the arms will be directly placed under the combat order of the female soldier brigade.

    After adjustments and additions, the women's brigade has also expanded to three infantry regiments and four reinforced battalions of technical arms, with a total strength of more than 9,000.

    Counting the Ninth Division in Shandong, the size of Li Guoyao's main force has been unprecedentedly increased.

    However, Li Guoyao also understood that relying on this force alone to fight back to his hometown in Northeast China was far from enough. Moreover, the Ninth Division was still fighting in Shandong, so it was of little use at the moment.

    Therefore, while vigorously building base areas and expanding troops, Li Guoyao also issued orders to the troops on the Shandong battlefield to go north in a timely manner.

    According to the requirements of the National Government, all the Ninth Army should have withdrawn to southern Hebei before last year to fight. However, because Li Guoyao was worried about the situation in Shandong at that time, he did not let the entire army go north.

    However, the troops have now established a foothold in the Saibei area, and according to Li Guoyao's plan, the troops will head to the Northeast no later than mid-43, so it is necessary to integrate the troops under his command.

    As for the territory left behind after they evacuated, Li Guoyao arranged it like this. All areas close to the Sulu war zone were handed over to the commander-in-chief's troops, southwestern Shandong and northern Anhui were all handed over to the Eighth Route Army, and central Anhui was handed over to the New Fourth Army.

    However, in view of the fact that the economic conditions in the northern Saibei area could not support so many troops for the time being, Li Guoyao decided to establish a Jinan base area under the actual command of Xu Hu after careful consideration.

    The Jinan Anti-Japanese Base has jurisdiction over the 194th Division, the 9th Temporary Division and the Women's Brigade, with a total strength of 55,000 troops, in addition to about 30,000 logistics personnel.  Their mission is to go deep into the southern Hebei region, centered on the Daming and Guantao front lines, to deal with the Japanese troops in Shandong, Hebei and Henan, and to secretly accumulate strength.

    In this way, the main force of the Ninth Army was divided into two, one in the south and one in the north to take care of each other. In a short period of time, they were not afraid of heavy encirclement and suppression by the Japanese army.

    According to Li Guoyao's estimation, in a month or two, the Japanese army will suffer an unprecedented defeat in the Battle of Midway. After that, the Japanese army will turn from prosperity to decline.

    When their offensive in the Southeast Asian battlefield comes to a standstill, they will deploy elite troops from the Kwantung Army and China's Guannei battlefield to go south. By then, the domestic anti-Japanese situation will improve, and it will also be a good opportunity for them to compete with the Japanese army.

    And while Li Guoyao was busy building base areas and reorganizing the army to prepare for war, the Japanese army was manipulating everything on the Pacific battlefield, enjoying the privilege ofOur gluttonous feast!

    Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Juichi Terauchi, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, issued combat orders to all his units in Tokyo to capture Southeast Asia.

    Since it is already known that the United States, Britain and other countries have three important military bases in Southeast Asia, namely Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore, according to Terauchi Juichi's order, the Southern Army must coordinate with the navy to quickly capture these important bases and completely destroy the American and British forces.  main force.

    The main operations in the first phase are against the Malay and Philippine sides. Operations against these two sides will be started at the same time to achieve the combat objectives in a short period of time.

    At the same time, Terauchi Juichi gave detailed instructions to the 14th Army of Yamashita Tomofumi, requiring the 14th Army to concentrate all its air strikes on the U.S. Air Force in Luzon at the beginning of the war.  Starting from the day before the first attack on the US Air Force, each advance unit set off from their respective assembly points, landed in northern Luzon Island and near Legazpi, and occupied the air force base.  Along with the above-mentioned actions, the aviation force advanced to the aviation base and continued the air battle.

    In addition, the 14th Army will take advantage of the above-mentioned combat results to quickly capture Manila with its main force landing near Lingayin Bay and its first force near Lamon Bay around the 15th day of the operation.

    In order to capture Singapore, the 25th Army must first carry out a sudden attack and landing on the Malay side according to the following requirements, and try to gain a foothold in the southern Malay side.

    Terauchi ordered the 25th Army on the front line to enter the anchorage with a strong advance corps after 0:00 on the day of the start of the operation, make a sudden landing on the east coast of the central Malay Peninsula, quickly occupy the air base, and try to gain a foothold in the front  point.

    Around the 26th day of the battle, the main force of the army began to land in southern Thailand. On the one hand, it defeated the enemy on the front, and on the other hand, it made an assault southward along the west coast of Malaysia.

    At the beginning of the war, the 15th Army entered Thailand to facilitate the 25th Army's operations, while trying to ensure the stability of the country, and implement a blockade against Chiang Kai-shek from this aspect, while preparing for the subsequent operation against Burma.

    The 3rd Flying Group must first attack the enemy air force on the British Malay side at the beginning of the war, and then use one part to annihilate the enemy air force on the Burmese side. At the same time, it must use the main force and a part of the 25th Army to assist the 15th Army in combat.  .

    The 16th Army must quickly occupy Davao, Hele Island and Tarakan Island with one unit, and then occupy Balikpapan to obtain the necessary air bases and secure important resource areas.  Regarding the alert on the Palau assembly point and other matters, the 16th Army has to command the troops of the 14th Army.

    On November 25, 1941, Juichi Terauchi and his staff secretly entered Taipei. On December 2, after receiving a military telegram from the base camp ordering the "Vulture", the Southern Army  An emergency telegram was immediately issued to all affiliated armies: "Shoujia No. 5 is Yamagata".

    The so-called "Shoujia No. 5 is Yamagata" is the No. 5 order issued by the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army. This is a specially encrypted telegram. In Japanese, "Yamagata" is the lingo for "8", "1  The cryptic meaning of "2" is "Hiroshima", the cryptic meaning of "2" is "Fukuoka", etc. "Shoujia No. 5 is Yamagata" is translated as "The first item in Shoujia Order No. 5 is to start the war on the 8th."

    Needless to say, this telegram was the order of the Southern Army ordering the frontline troops to begin offensive operations on December 8.

    Under the order of Juichi Terauchi, the Southern Army units quickly took action and launched attacks on Southeast Asian countries.

    In order to facilitate the command, Juichi Terauchi arrived in Saigon on December 4. In the early morning of the same day, the advance corps of the 25th Army set sail from Sanya Port.

    At the same time, the 3rd Flight Group entered southern French Indochina from the intermediate deployment position between South China and northern French Indochina, and the deployment was completed on the 5th.

    At this time, the Japanese Navy was also quite fully prepared.

    But what no one expected was that the first target of the Japanese attack was not the Philippines, Singapore or Hong Kong, but the most unexpected Thailand.

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