Gao Fei reminded Shen Yingxiong, who was the Song Xilian group to grasp the strategic direction, to pay attention to the problems exposed by the Chinese Expeditionary Forces when landing on Okinawa Island. The land division of Song Xilian's amphibious land warfare cluster in the battle of Iwo Jima was fought tenaciously and bravely alone, but

This joint command of the operation, the infantry division was implicated by the land combat division, which made Gao Fei very angry and asked all troops to start self-inspection and wake up immediately to find the problems and causes.%&*";

On June 5, 1944, after Fang Guozhong's special operations troops completed the final simulation training and the seventh paratrooper division completed the deployment and assembly, the extremely fierce battle on Okinawa Island slowly came to an end. The Japanese Front Army garrison commander Kobayashi and others were all

The general committed suicide by cutting his caesarean section. The Japanese army launched a counterattack in the remnants of Okinawa that were separated from the south and north of Okinawa. On the same day, Yamashita's main force also launched a rare large-scale counterattack on Luzon.

Huang Junjie's long-awaited Japanese Yusha counterattack was launched in the early morning. It seemed that the Japanese wartime base deliberately coordinated the counterattack time between the Japanese army in Okinawa and the Japanese army in Luzon, and also dispatched seven waves of a total of 130 Kamikaze Special Attack Fighters.

Only one US transport ship was injured, and the rest were shot down. It was very difficult for Japanese pilots who lacked training to even fly to hit targets, not to mention crashing into US warships under the blocking of firepower in the sky, so the Japanese army selected the target.

For transport ships with relatively weak air defense firepower, as long as they are not intercepted and shot down by US fighter jets, the success of impacting the transport ship is relatively greater.

The Japanese counterattacks on Luzon and Okinawa can be said to have all fallen into the firefighting of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, especially in Luzon, gunboats and bombers dropped a large number of napalm-fire bombs to make the Japanese hid in the jungle.

Turning into a sea of ​​fire, it is not China's homeland anyway, so the Chinese Expeditionary Force has no consideration in the use of various weapons and ammunition, and has been using ammunition to talk to the Japanese army.i^

The Japanese army's counterattack on Okinawa only lasted for half a day, and more than 20,000 Japanese and their armed civilians were annihilated. A large number of Japanese troops carried bayonets tied to bamboo poles and launched futile attacks on the positions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and finally concentrated on

Under the fire of artillery, a very small number of surviving Japanese troops retreated into the mountainous areas, and more Japanese wounded soldiers were abandoned and centrally disposed of. In a depression in a valley, the Chinese Expeditionary Force's reconnaissance team led American journalists to discover it.

A large Japanese field hospital, including about 15,000 corpses, most of which were committed suicide or shot with grenades, and some seriously injured people who were unable to move were burned to death by gasoline. The Japanese army treated prisoners of war.

It is very cruel, and it seems to be even more cruel to treat itself. It burns a large number of seriously injured people on its side, which is a very rare act in the history of world wars. The blood sacrifice of mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese War 8

Yamashita Fengwen's counterattack was forced out by the chief staff of the General Staff, and Yamashita Fengwen was almost desperate for the battle of Luzon. He lacked food and bullets, and almost no medicine. More than one-third of the officers and soldiers fell ill, and civilians were killed and injured.

Even more amazing. If you delay and fear that you will be suspected of waiting for the entire army to be wiped out, what makes Yamashita Fengwen helpless is that his opponent Huang Junjie is not a normal Chinese expeditionary commander likes to take risks, but rather a regular heavy army group advancement, armored forces

With the cover of both wings, heavy artillery and gunboats, there was no chance for the mountain to be presented to the mountain. Dayou besieged the Japanese army in the northern mountainous areas and allowed them to fend for themselves.

However, the five-day battle also caused Yamashita Tomoto's main force to lose more than three-quarters, and the army's system was completely disrupted. The reserve assembly sites that were not invested in combat were even bombed by US strategic bombers with napalm bombs.

The tragedy was that a whole infantry regiment was completely annihilated within a few minutes. The retreat of Fengwen of Yamashita, who suffered heavy losses, was surrounded and intercepted by two Chinese Expeditionary Forces Mountain Infantry Divisions. The remnants of the Japanese army kept coming to the news of being encircled and annihilated.

Compared with Huang Junjie who cleared out the remnants of the enemy, Shen Yingxiong and Song Xilian sorted out the combat report of the Okinawa Battle. Nearly 200,000 Japanese defenders were in a nearly isolated situation of no help in the face of the allied forces with absolute advantages in naval and air force and ground forces.

Next, the battle lasted for more than two months, which showed the Japanese army's high ability to resist landing and tenacious fighting will. At the same time, the tactics adopted by the Japanese army also provided useful experience for the weak army's weapons and equipment to organize effective anti-landing wars.

Mainly relying on tunnels, natural caves and mountainous counter-sloping positions, we try our best to reduce the ground-air firepower advantages of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and actively carry out close combat and night battles, organizing small troops to frequently carry out fierce counterattacks, consuming the vitality of the Chinese Expeditionary Force landing troops.

Although the Japanese garrison and aviation forces on Okinawa suffered serious losses during the battle, they bought valuable preparation time for local defense and made the allies deeply aware that the landing on Japan would encounter more intense and cruelty

However, for Gao Fei, no matter how big the casualties are, the Chinese expeditionary force must land on the Japanese mainland, completely eliminate the Japanese resistance and destroy the Japanese will. The US government expects that the Japanese government can negotiate.

The strategy to surrender or withdraw from the war, while the Chinese side, especially the Youth Army, insisted on landing on Japan, which made the United States feel very difficult to understand, with an astonishing consumption and even the casualties of millions of officers and soldiers?

During the Chinese Expeditionary Force's attack on Okinawa, Japanese civilians were also very shockingly killed and injured in the Okinawa Battle. At the beginning of the war, there were about 500,000 Japanese civilians in Okinawa, of which about four-fifths died during the war. The US investigation

The figures show that about 350,000 civilian casualties were killed or killed in the Okinawa Battle, including those killed by artillery fire and air strikes and those forced to be soldiers by the Japanese army. Most of the Okinawa civilians committed suicide collectively under the forced Japanese army.

The Japanese base camp ordered local schools in Okinawa to organize teenagers aged 14 to 16 to form an Iron Blood King's Team to conduct military training and directly join the army to participate in combat in extraordinary situations. There are 12 middle schools in Okinawa.

Nearly 2,000 teenagers were forced to volunteer to join the Iron Blood Qinhuang Team to participate in the battle among the Japanese troops, and more than half of them were annihilated by the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the battle.

During the two months of fierce battle to capture Okinawa, the Chinese Expeditionary Force received great training, especially the close connection between ground and air firepower in mountain combat and the use of heavy artillery firepower and self-propelled artillery.
Chapter completed!