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Chapter 1,603: Allied Counterattack (7)

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    After the Battle of the Mariana Islands, the main force of the powerful Japanese navy was almost completely lost. There were only 165 major warships left in total, with a displacement of about 880,000 tons.  The US military has nearly 800 ships on the Pacific battlefield, with a displacement of 3.52 million tons.

    Even so, the Japanese base camp was still thinking about how to make a comeback. It transferred 6 elite divisions from the Kwantung Army to the Philippines, and assembled the remaining main naval force, trying to defeat the US military there and reverse the situation in one fell swoop.

    After occupying Mariana and New Guinea, the US military decided to first seize Leyte Island and then occupy the entire Philippines in order to cut off the sea lines of communication between the Japanese mainland and the Dutch East Indies and Burma, and establish sea and air bases to enter the Japanese mainland.

    In order to defend this strategic base, the Japanese base camp decided to implement the "Jie No. 1" operation and fight to the death with the US military.

    To this end, the Japanese army established the 14th Army Front in the Philippines, which was promoted from an army to a front army, with the famous Japanese general Yamashita Tomofumi as the commander-in-chief.

    At this time, the 14th Front Army in the hands of Yamashita Fengfumi already included 9 reorganized divisions and 3 brigades, totaling 230,000 people. This force was also regarded as the last Japanese force with strong combat effectiveness and relatively complete organization in World War II.  .

    In addition, this Japanese army also received the cooperation of the Navy. At that time, the 3rd, 2nd, and 5th Fleets of the Japanese Combined Fleet totaled 4 aircraft carriers, 9 battleships, 21 cruisers, 35 destroyers, 17 submarines, and the Army's 4th Air Force.  Army and naval aviation provided support to the Yamashita Corps.

    After all calculations, the total number of Japanese troops in the Philippines has approached 600,000. Troops of this size were rare for Japan throughout World War II. Only the Kwantung Army had reached such a scale.

    At this time, the U.S. military was under the unified command of General MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the Southwest Pacific Theater. The participating troops included the Army's 6th Army, the First Section of the 8th Army, and special forces, a total of more than 280,000 people, as well as support from the Navy.

    The cooperating navies include the 3rd and 7th fleets of the U.S. Navy, with a total of 35 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 26 cruisers, 144 destroyers, 29 submarines, and 650 landing ships and transport ships.

    In terms of aviation, the US military is supported by the Army's 5th and 13th Air Forces and the Australian Air Force, with a total of about 2,500 aircraft.

    Statistics show that the total number of U.S. army and navy troops attacking the Philippines exceeds 500,000. In terms of strength comparison, the Japanese army is far from an opponent of the U.S. military, especially in terms of navy.

    But even so, the United States naturally does not dare to take it lightly.

    On October 20, the US military landed on Leyte Island.

    At that time, the Japanese garrison on the island was only the 16th Division, while the US landing force was the 6th Army, with 5 divisions totaling 200,000 people.  The Japanese army could not resist it at all and had to abandon the island and flee inland.

    The Battle of Leyte Island was very tragic. Of the 13,778 soldiers of the 16th Division, only 620 survived.  The famous "Battle of Leyte Gulf" also broke out at this time. The process was very tragic. The Japanese army suffered a disastrous defeat. The super battleship "Musashi" was also sunk in this battle.

    Although both the army and navy suffered a disastrous defeat, the Japanese military leaders still decided to reinforce Leyte Island.

    The base camp believes that it is the typhoon season in the Philippines at this time. Although the US military has occupied the airport, it cannot be used by the US military due to heavy rain. Therefore, Japan is not far behind in air superiority.

    "Compared with air combat and naval combat, the Japanese army's land battle is relatively certain.  Therefore, the Japanese army sent troops such as the 1st and 26th Divisions and the 68th Brigade to Leyte Island. The Japanese army on the island once reached 70,000 people.

    Coincidentally, the Japanese troops had just finished gathering on the island, and starting in mid-November, the weather suddenly improved.

    The U.S. military deciphered the Japanese code and learned that the Japanese transport fleet was approaching Leyte Island from the south. It immediately sent 347 aircraft to bomb the island. The Japanese drowned nearly 10,000 people on the spot.  The Japanese army on Leyte Island subsequently fell into the dilemma of being cut off from supplies and could only resist stubbornly.

    From then until January 1945, the U.S. military almost wiped out all the Japanese on the island at the cost of nearly 3,500 people. Even the 1st Division, known as the "Jade" Division, was completely wiped out, with only 743  People survived.

    At this time, the base camp had to abandon Leyte Island and instead focus on Luzon Island.

    The U.S. military invested 850 ships of various types in the battle to attack Luzon Island. In the face of the huge landing force, the Japanese army resisted desperately and finally fled.  They hid in the jungle, originally planning to use the complex terrain and climate conditions to fight the US military to the end, but unexpectedly it turned into a hell for the Japanese army.

    The first problem the Japanese army faced was the lack of food. After entering the jungle, they immediately looked for anything they could to fill their stomachs.All the birds and animals in the jungle were used as food.

    The second problem is disease. Not long after entering the jungle, foot rot and dengue fever killed many people.  Due to the lack of medical supplies, soldiers suffering from these diseases are basically equivalent to death.

    However, these were not the things that tortured the Japanese soldiers the most. There was a disease called "relapsing fever" that was even more intolerable.

    The first time you get this disease, you will usually have a high fever for several days, and then the high fever will subside for a few days; however, soon the high fever will continue to occur in cycles, and the cycles will become shorter and shorter, and more and more frequent, until the Japanese soldiers  He was tortured until he lost his human form and died in pain and despair.

    Therefore, under the dual torture of disease and hunger, many Japanese have lost their minds.

    There were four Japanese soldiers who were so hungry that they killed a sleeping second lieutenant and then roasted and ate his body.

    In the Battle of the Philippines, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses.  In this battle, 368,700 Japanese Army soldiers died and 117,900 Japanese Navy soldiers died.  Including some militiamen, the number of casualties exceeded 500,000.

    In fact, the number of people who died in the battle was limited, and most of them died of disease or cannibalism.

    While the Allied forces were launching powerful counterattacks in battlefields such as Burma and the Philippines, the Japanese army was launching a larger-scale offensive in China.

    In view of the changes in the situation at home and abroad, the Japanese base camp made major personnel changes to the China Expeditionary Force on November 22 and 23. Army General and Marshal Shunroku Hata was transferred from the Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary Force to the position of Director of Education; Oka  Ningji Murura was transferred from the commander of the 6th Front Army to the commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Force; General Naozaburo Okabe was transferred from the commander of the North China Front Army to the commander-in-chief of the 6th Front Army.

    In addition, Lieutenant General Shimomura Sada, commander of the Domestic Western Army, was transferred to the commander of the North China Front; Lieutenant General Yokoyama Isamu, commander of the 11th Army, was transferred to the commander of the Domestic Western Army; Lieutenant General Yoshio last month was transferred to the commander of the 11th Army; Yoshimoto Sadichi  Lieutenant General Raishiro Sumita, Commander of the 1st Army, was transferred to the General Staff Headquarters; Lieutenant General Raishiro Sumita, Commander of the 39th Division, was transferred to Commander of the 1st Army; Lieutenant General Sasano Shinosuke, Chief of Staff of the 13th Army, was transferred to the Commander of the 39th Division; Toshi Yamamoto  He was transferred from the guerrilla captain of the Southern Army to the chief of staff of the 13th Army.

    In this personnel transfer, Yokoyama Isamu, whom Okamura Neji disliked, was transferred from the Chinese battlefield; while Sumita Raishiro, who had a considerable relationship with Okamura, was promoted to a new position.

    After Okamura Neji took office, he immediately issued a combat order to capture Nanning.

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    Pingtian determined that the 23rd Independent Brigade would attack Nanning from Laibin via Litang and Gantang, and then took the 84th Regiment of the Division as the leader to support the 23rd Independent Brigade in attacking Nanning City from the northeast and northwest.

    The commander of the 84th Regiment, Colonel Tokinosuke Fukano, used his main force to attack Kot and Long'an from Shanglin County to the west, and then attacked Nanning along the Youjiang River. The 3rd Battalion, led by Major Kanichiro Nitta, attacked from Shanglin County to the west.  Attack Nanning City via Silong, Kunlun Pass and Qitang in the south.

    At that time, the national army was concentrated in Guilin, the area north of Liuzhou, and the area west of Liuzhou. The Nanning area was mainly composed of local teams from Guangxi Province.

    Nitta Kanichiro led his 3rd Battalion, heading south from Shanglin County. When passing through Kunlun Pass, he arrived at the place where he fought five years ago in the winter of 1939. At that time, he was a member of the 21st Brigade and 21st Regiment of the 5th Division.  A squadron leader of the brigade, who led them to fight there was the brigade commander Major General Masao Nakamura. Nakamura was seriously injured by the national army in a fierce counterattack, and was buried there immediately after he was killed.

    After that battle, in order to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country in the fierce battle at Kunlun Pass, the national army erected a monument to the fallen soldiers in front of their gravesites, and Chiang Kai-shek wrote the inscription "Blooded for a Thousand Years" for it.

    The 23rd independent mixed brigade responsible for attacking Nanning was repeatedly attacked by guerrillas along the way, but did not encounter major resistance and occupied Nanning Airport on November 24.

    Then Kanichiro Nitta¡¯s 3rd Battalion entered Nanning City, which was the same day as the enemy¡¯s 5th Division invaded Nanning on November 24, 1939.

    The main force of the 84th Regiment attacking Kot and Long'an was to send a brigade to attack from the southwest of Nanning via Wuxu, Suwei, and Shanwei toward Ningming and Zhennanguan.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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