Calculate the time. The US military had just ended the Battle of Saipan on the Pacific battlefield, and the front line was approaching Japan again. In the distant Europe, the Allied forces that had just completed the Normandy landing were in full swing and were advancing deep into France. The red on the east side

After entering Poland, the army began to counterattack the German East Prussia region. The entire World War II battlefield seemed to sound the horn of the counterattack at this moment.

Things in Europe are too far away and there is nothing to do, but the Japanese army in the Pacific makes the Americans feel more and more stressed.

Although the success of the island-hopping tactic has turned the Japanese proud island chain defense into a decoration, the US military has repeatedly approached the local area, which has also prompted their determination to resist to the end.

The crazy Japanese are preparing to shrink their troops on the Pacific battlefield, intending to establish an absolute national defense circle, and fight the Americans to the end with just one last bit of strength.

One of the islands, which were originally not so strategic and only 350 kilometers away from the local area, has now become the focus of defense. The Japanese army has been increasing troops on the island, intending to turn this place called Iwo Jima into an attacker.

Nightmare.

Japan's so-called absolute defense circle generally refers to the main occupied areas of the Japanese army, including the Kuril Islands in the north, to the Japanese archipelago, the Philippine Islands, the Ogasawara Islands, as well as Malay, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Northeast Asia in Northeast China.

and North China.

This range is calculated based on the flight distance of American bombers at that time. Within this range, it is difficult for American long-range bombers to fly to Japan in intensively, and the Japanese archipelago is relatively safe.

But once the Allies break through this so-called "defense circle", there will be no more Japanese in the Japanese archipelago. The b29 bomber can turn Tokyo into scorched earth, so this is equivalent to the last fig leaf for the Japanese. If it is really torn apart by the Americans, it will be

Isn’t the unclothed *** still being played with and bullied by others?

Therefore, the importance of the absolute national defense circle is self-evident. In addition, in order to seek breakthrough points, the top Japanese leaders turned their attention to mainland China again... The long-planned "Army 1 Operational Plan" has officially begun to be implemented.

In order to reverse the adverse situation on the Pacific battlefield, the base camp decided to open up the mainland transportation line from Northeast China to Vietnam, and at the same time destroy the airports in North China and central China to avoid the situation where the US military uses the China Airport to act as a springboard to bomb the local area. Just recently, in May not long ago

The Japanese invaders mobilized 500,000 troops, and cooperated with land, sea and air to implement the "No. 1 combat plan".

The fourth Changsha Campaign began, and the Henan, Hunan and Guangxi Campaign officially began. This time, the Japanese army was the largest attack on the Chinese battlefield since the invasion of China.

Since the attacks were mainly concentrated in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, the Japanese wanted to connect the occupied areas of the "pseudo Manchukuo, North China, South China, Southeast Asia" to replace the maritime routes blocked by the US military. This led to the Kwantung Army and mainland China to send them

The army and the southern army became a whole and rely on each other.

Some time ago, the Battle of Myitkyina had just ended. Chiang Kai-shek was eager to call the expeditionary army back to his country. It was for this reason that the Japanese army was approaching, and wars were everywhere. The military emergency reports came one by one. He could

Don't you have a hurry?

Although the 20th Army and the 11th Army returned to Korea, the situation of the entire Henan, Hunan and Guangxi battle was still not optimistic. After all, this battlefield covered half of China.

Since the end of 1942, because the Japanese army focused on the Pacific and Southeast Asia, the encroachment of China slowed down and transferred a large number of elite troops to the battlefields of the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Domestic senior officials thought that Japan was gradually dragged by the United States.

Stay with several phased battle victories, most people relaxed their vigilance, thinking that the Japanese were beginning to go downhill, but they didn't expect that they would play a big game and could not resist it at all.

Shortly after the battle, the Japanese army launched an extremely fierce attack on Changsha. However, due to the victory of the first three battles, the Ninth War Zone was blindly optimistic from top to bottom and was not prepared for the war. In addition, the top leaders were trapped in the imbalance in the internal fighting force, so the Japanese army took it lightly.

Yuelu Mountain destroyed the heavy artillery position of the Kuomintang army, making the entire battle situation irreversible. Xue Yue was forced to retreat to Hengyang, and the fourth Changsha defense battle was declared defeat.

Japan assembled 500,000 troops, 250 aircraft, built 14 new mixed brigades and 8 field supplementary teams, equipped with thousands of cannons, 100,000 war horses and 15,000 cars, and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles.

The huge combat troops were designed to shoot a fierce punch, which severely damaged China and then opened up the road traffic line connecting Southeast Asia.

The inertia that took place was still so huge. Although this time, Hunan and Guangxi received reinforcements from the two major armies of the Expeditionary Force, they still could not stop the iron hoof of the Japanese cannon armor. The front lines in various places were tight, and other places except Hengyang battlefield were defeated.

Although Hengyang is the city that has been persisted for the longest time, due to ammunition consumption and casualties of soldiers, logistics supplies cannot be delivered to the front line in time, which makes it difficult for Hengyang defenders to maintain the defense line. The Japanese army rushed into the city several times to engage in more cruel street battles with the defenders.

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But because the Japanese army was determined to win against Hengyang, in addition to the offensive end, there were also a large number of reinforcements on the periphery. The 11th Army that supported it was still slower and was obstructed by the Japanese army and could not enter the battlefield at all. Hengyang's defense could only rely on the first line.

Tens of thousands of people from the ten army.

Song Xilian's command phone number was almost blown up. Chiang Kai-shek urged him, Xue Yue urged him, and Fang Xianjue, who was surrounded in Hengyang, was also urging him, but if he couldn't get in, he couldn't get in.

I thought that the troops would have an advantage over the Japanese army after they were equipped with some American weapons, but the actual result was unsatisfactory.

Compared with the Indian Army, the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force is much behind in terms of combat effectiveness or equipment. To put it bluntly, the former is just slightly better than the domestic front-line troops, and it really does not have much advantage compared with the Japanese.

It is even more impossible to achieve the situation of less enemies and more enemies like the Indian Army and the 88th Army.

During the long Changheng Battle, the Chinese and US Air Force fully supported ground operations and once cut off the Japanese logistics supply line, but it was difficult to make up for the overall disadvantages of the Kuomintang army and the consequences caused by the wrong command.

The Hengyang defense battle lasted more than two months, killing more than 25,000 Japanese troops and injuring nearly 60,000, breaking the dream of Huangliang, which was originally planned to open the Hunan-Guangxi Line and reach Yunnan-Burma within 7 days.

The Hengyang defenders sacrificed more than 16,000 people, and in the end, fewer than a thousand remained.

The people of Hengyang alone sacrificed more than 3,000 people to transport ammunition for digging fortifications, and the thousand-year-old ancient city was razed to the ground. The anti-Japanese soldiers and the people of Hengyang paid a heavy price.

In the end, when there were no reinforcements outside and the ammunition and food were exhausted, the highest commander of the city defending the city, Fang Xianjue, and other senior generals, finally surrendered to the Japanese army on the condition of protecting the wounded.

The situation on the battlefield in China has taken a sharp decline since the half-year war. Until October, most of the land in Henan, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian and other provinces had been lost. The troops suffered more than 400,000 casualties, and five air bases and more than 20 airports were killed and killed by the Japanese army.

After the destruction, China suffered heavy losses.

The defeat in the country seems to have not received assistance from allies, and the Western Front battlefield has dragged it down again, but in fact the biggest reason is that the vacancies of various divisions of the National Party Army are very serious, nominally, it is a unit of 1.3 million people, but in fact it is the most important thing.

There are not many people, and there are many internal factions, and they are intrigued by each other.

When the Japanese army launched a large-scale invasion in central China, the units stationed in Henan took the lead in fighting, but the fifth and ninth war zones did not launch a large-scale attack on the Japanese army, restraining the Japanese army from reinforcements to the first war zone.

Similarly, when the Fourth and Ninth War Zones were attacked, other war zones were also ineffective in their support, let alone large-scale reinforcements. Let me ask, can they win such cooperative combat?

Wherever the Japanese army went, they burned, killed and looted brutally. During the war, hundreds of thousands of refugees were displaced. Every day, hundreds of people died of illness, cold and hunger, countless people were killed, and more than 60 million people were homeless.

However, the Kuomintang did not retreat in full swing, and several major war zones were still preparing for war and intending to counterattack, and civil organizations in various places were also trying their best to fight against the Japanese invaders.

Fortunately, the Expeditionary Force opened the Yunnan-Burma Highway six months in advance, and this lifeline of China began to transport a large amount of materials to the country. Compared with the original time and space, at least the military losses were not as high as that of the original space-time, and it also retained more counterattack power.

At this time, the 88th Army advanced straight in, defeated Mandalay, Mitella and other Japanese defenders one after another, captured a large amount of land, and wiped out more than 60,000 enemies. Finally, a shot of a heart-warming agent was given to Jiang Binto, who was so worried.

Bald man is worthy of being an excellent politician. He immediately began to publicize the proud record of the New 88th Army of the Expeditionary Force to stabilize people's hearts and encourage morale, as if saying: Look, although we failed to resist the Japanese attack this time,

The expeditionary force also severely damaged the Japanese in Myanmar. Although we were in pain, the Japanese were beaten up, and they were not feeling well. So as long as we persisted in the struggle and then fought back, we would definitely be able to do so.

Win...
Chapter completed!