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Chapter 1,602: Allied Counterattack (6)

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    General Wei Lihuang, who commanded the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Yunnan, based on recent battles against the enemy, ordered three divisions of the 71st Army, the Honorable 1st Division and the additional 9th ??Division to withstand the enemy in the Longling area.  The attack of the 2nd and 56th Divisions.

    At the same time, the main force of the 6th Army and the newly formed 28th Division were ordered to capture Songshan within a time limit; the 36th Division and the 198th Division of the 54th Army were ordered to capture Tengchong within a time limit; the 2nd Army was ordered to capture Pingjia, about 40 kilometers southeast of Longling, within a time limit.

    The New 28th Division that attacked Songshan failed to capture it after five attacks, and then the 6th Army launched successive attacks.

    Major Keijiro Kanemitsu, captain of the Japanese garrison, knew that the end was near, so he sent a final farewell telegram to the 56th Division on September 5: "In the past 120 days of fighting, the junior officers were incompetent and the command was poor. The situation has become extremely serious."  It¡¯s so serious that within a few days all the officers and soldiers will have their jade broken into pieces. At this last moment, I just pray that the saint¡¯s longevity will be endless and the emperor¡¯s fortune will be prosperous.¡±

    "Your Excellency, the Division Commander, has always been very grateful for your concern for us and the love of the army and front troops. However, after all of us are killed in the battle, we will be buried in a foreign land for a long time! But I ask the Division Commander to protect the survivors of the fallen men.  , can be considerate and take care of you. Finally, I wish you, the division commander, a long military career."

    In this telegram, Kanemitsu Eijiro mentioned that all members would die in the battle, but in fact this was not the case. He himself was killed by the Chinese 6th Army on September 6. There were still about 80 people left, and they were burned down on the 7th.  raised the military flag.  When Huang Jie's 6th Army organized the ninth attack, they captured Songshan that night and most of the enemies were captured.

    Including the Japanese troops captured in northern Burma and Tengchong, a total of more than 600 people were escorted to the rear of China via Yunnan, and not all of them died in foreign lands.

    While the 6th Army conquered Songshan on September 7, the 54th Army attacking Tengchong also stepped up its attack and used artillery fire to kill the enemy. On that day, the artillery collapsed a corner of the southern city wall of Tengchong.

    Subsequently, the troops broke into the city and carried out street fighting.

    On September 11, Captain Masato Ohta of the 148th Regiment of the Japanese Army, with only about 70 men left, ordered the burning of the Japanese military flag given by the Emperor, and sent a farewell telegram to the division.

    Two days later, the warriors of the 54th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force recaptured Tengchong and annihilated more than 1,600 enemy defenders.

    After the fierce battle, Tengchong City was full of ruins, corpses of Japanese soldiers, and their abandoned guns, ammunition, and supplies.

    Based on the fact that Songshan and Tengchong had been recaptured by the Chinese Yunnan Expeditionary Force and all the defending Japanese troops had been wiped out, Honda Masato, commander of the Japanese 33rd Army, believed that the purpose of the rescue operation could no longer be achieved, so on the evening of the 14th, he ordered a halt to reinforcements  During the battle, only one garrison of the 56th Division was able to rescue Pingjia.

    When the division attacked Pingjia from the morning of the 17th, after six days and six nights of hard fighting, it broke through the position of the 2nd Army of the Expeditionary Force. On the 22nd, it entered Pingjia to join the defenders, and then withdrew to Longling together.

    The 71st Army and the 9th Division of the Chinese Yunnan Expeditionary Force fought fiercely with the enemy's 2nd Division and 66th Division east of Longling for 7 days and 7 nights to withstand the enemy's attack.

    At this time, the 200th Division of the Chinese Army had arrived at the battlefield from Kunming, and the 36th Division in Tengchong also went south to join the battle. The 87th Division, 88th Division, and 36th Division, which had contributed to the battle in Shanghai, also arrived in Longling, where they were joined again.  Created a glorious battle example.

    After everything was deployed, the national army decided to continue advancing into the hinterland of Myanmar, completely annihilating the Japanese troops in Myanmar, and regaining the entire territory of Myanmar.

    While conducting local counterattacks on the Burma battlefield, the Allied forces were also advancing vigorously on other battlefields in the Pacific.

    After capturing a large number of islands in the Pacific and defeating the main force of the Japanese navy, the United States changed its tactics and began to attack Japanese transport ships.

    American frontline commanders believed that Japan possessed an incomprehensible power. The German and Italian troops were easy to annihilate, but the Japanese army was difficult to annihilate. They had no choice but to launch a frontal attack, sink ships, and cut off transportation arteries.

    Therefore, the losses caused by U.S. military submarines and aircraft to Japanese transport ships are increasing day by day.

    The current position adopted by the top brass of the Japanese army is that even if the national strength is gradually declining, we must persevere and persevere in the fight to the end. During the war, we should open our own way to open up the war situation, and we should seek to stabilize the war situation no matter what.

    ?? Even Sugiyama Gen and others even clamored that even if Japan loses this war, it must fight to win.

    Under such desperate and crazy orders, the Japanese army lost millions of tons of ships in the five months from the fall of the Mariana Islands to March of the following year.

    Once maritime transport capacity plummets, national strength and combat capabilities plummet.

    Minister of Munitions and Supplies Fujiwara Ginjiro made the following report on the issue of national strength at the imperial meeting of the Koiso Cabinet on August 19, 1944.

    Maritime transport capacity, leaving aside the situation before and after the war, was originally planned to increase by 50% in the third year of the war. Due to the lack of capacity of the army and navy,??The lifting of ship requisition and war-damaged ships far exceeded expectations, and instead the plan was reduced by half. In fact, only 1/3 of the adjusted plan was completed.

    Therefore, steel production dropped rapidly, and military production also had to be reduced.  However, the proportion of military production has been increasing, civilian production has been further reduced, and national strength has gradually declined, which is really sad.

    The same is true for ships and oil. The plan is completely bankrupt. Ships and oil, the two major focuses of pre-war research, are in the most difficult situation, and national strength is facing collapse.

    What worries the Japanese even more is the U.S. Air Force's attack on Japan. According to the third phase of the U.S. military's strategy against Japan, it uses air strikes to destroy Japanese industry, making it impossible for Japan to use its extremely limited inventory to manufacture aircraft and other weapons and equipment, interrupting  Production and replenishment of weapons and equipment, and then carrying out deadly landing operations to determine the final outcome.

    Although before that, that is, on July 5, 1940, before the war against the United States and Britain, the Japanese Army established the Defense General Headquarters and established it in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kokura, Hiroshima, Sapporo, Seoul and Taipei 8  The city deployed air defense teams.

    But due to insufficient weapons, there are very few anti-aircraft guns.  In addition, there are only four anti-aircraft squadrons, deployed in the Keihin area, Hanshin area and Kitakyushu area, so electronic warning aircraft were hurriedly deployed in Shimoda, Oshima, Ohama, Katsuura, Choshi and Onahama to prevent enemy air attacks.  The capital has also taken measures to strengthen air defense measures, such as increasing the production of anti-aircraft guns.

    The emergence of aircraft during World War I required field anti-aircraft artillery to deal with them. The Army first trial-produced a 75mm field anti-aircraft gun in 1922.  However, due to the rapid development of aircraft, this type of anti-aircraft gun was no longer suitable. Therefore, a new 75mm anti-aircraft gun was trial-produced in 1928, which increased the effective shooting height from 5,000 meters to 7,000 meters.

    With the outbreak of World War II, the development of aircraft accelerated and their performance improved, such as higher ceilings, greater speeds, and stronger weapons and equipment.

    Therefore, anti-aircraft artillery must deal with such aircraft.  The Army referred to the Navy's 120mm anti-aircraft gun and stepped up its development with the technical assistance of the Navy. It was made in March 1943 and used for air defense in key areas.

    The new 75mm anti-aircraft gun has a firing height of 11,000 meters, the 120mm anti-aircraft gun has a firing height of 14,000 meters, and the 150mm anti-aircraft gun has a firing height of 20,000 meters.

    However, the 120mm and 150mm anti-aircraft guns were urgently trial-produced to strengthen air defense after the first air raid during the war. Therefore, starting from the second half of 1944, the monthly output of the 120mm anti-aircraft guns was about 10, while the monthly output of the 150mm anti-aircraft guns  Only 2 doors made.

    The Japanese military headquarters did not expect that there would be large-scale strategic air strikes during the war, causing heavy losses. Although they tried their best to produce 120 mm and 150 mm anti-aircraft guns, the output of anti-aircraft guns was extremely limited.

    In June 1944, the U.S. 20th Air Force, based in Chengdu, China, dispatched 47 B-29 bombers to attack Kitakyushu, focusing on the Yawata Steel Works.  The Japanese losses in this air raid were unexpectedly minor.

    Then, the B-29 bombers based in Chengdu carried out one air raid each on Manchuria and Kitakyushu in July. In August, they carried out multiple air raids on Manchuria, North Korea, Taiwan, and Kitakyushu, causing considerable losses to Japan.

    On July 6, the US military occupied Saipan in the Mariana Islands and built an aviation base in only about 100 days.  The first aircraft from the base conducted its first reconnaissance of Tokyo on November 1.

    Then, in the following period, the B-29 bombers concentrated on high-altitude precision bombing of aircraft factories in the Keihin area, Nagoya and Keihanshin areas, which had a huge impact on the production of the Japanese aircraft factories.

    In particular, the air raid on Nagoya coincided with a major earthquake in the city, causing Mitsubishi Airlines to significantly reduce production.

    The B-29 bombers¡¯ concentrated air strikes in the above three regions accounted for 16% of the country¡¯s total weapons production, of which 40% of the bombs were dropped on aircraft factories.

    The B-29 bomber from Saipan usually carries out high-altitude precision bombing.  For example, the Hachijo Island electronic warning aircraft immediately reported to Tokyo when it discovered a target heading north. The air defense fighter jets received the dispatch order and took off, quickly rising to an altitude of 10,000 meters. It took 85 minutes, but the B-29 bomber could fly over Tokyo in only 60 minutes.

    Japan¡¯s development of high-altitude fighter jets and electronic equipment is very backward. This is the fatal weakness of Japan¡¯s air defense. Japan¡¯s air defense force is weak.  Only anti-aircraft guns above 120 mm can attack B-29 bombers, but Tokyo is equipped with only 24 120-mm anti-aircraft guns, which is simply not enough to deal with the attacks of US aviation.

    And while the U.S. military is constantly dispatching aviation forces to bomb the Japanese mainland, it is also secretly gathering heavy troops to prepare for a counterattack in the Philippines, the most important base of the Japanese army in the Pacific.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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