No wonder they have such thoughts. In fact, the ferocity of the Japanese army left a deep impression on them. Think about it. On September 18th, more than a thousand Japanese troops dared to chase away the 300,000 Kwantung Army and turned them into lifeless rabbits. Think again about the First Battle of the Great Wall. The Japanese army of 20,000 to 30,000 people dared to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army that was ten times their size, and actually won... The past events are still vivid in our minds, and the lessons are profound, but now, when , the Japanese army is so decadent,
Compared with the Aangtian Brigade, the Indonesian National Liberation Army gave the First Division greater resistance. These dark-skinned and thin Nanyang natives not only did not flinch when faced with the automatic weapons fire of the First Division, they even dared to risk A hail of bullets launched a counterattack, and most of the casualties suffered by the First Division were attributed to the Indonesians. The Japanese army was not as difficult to fight as expected, but the Indonesians were more difficult to deal with than expected. This made Zhang Lingfu hesitate for a while. From his From a perspective, the Indonesians have simple equipment and lack of training. Fighting with them is no different from massacre. It seems that they are victorious without force. Moreover, when fighting in a foreign country, these local forces should be the targets they strive for, as they can cause less killing. , it will also be helpful for the next dealings. However, as soon as this idea came to his mind, he was immediately denied by reality. He watched more than a hundred meters in front of him on the left. Three soldiers were killed under the siege of the Indonesians. One of them was After he died, the Indonesians chopped off his head with a machete. Zhang Lingfu raised his Wei Qing-style assault rifle into the air and roared: "Kill, no one will be spared."
Zhang Lingfu didn't know that Ouyang Yun had given specific instructions on his attitude towards dealing with the indigenous peoples of various ethnic groups in Nanyang. Among them, the Malaysians and Filipinos were the ones who could be united to fight for, while the Indonesians had to be severely punished. Yes, the limit is until you scare them away.
As soon as Ouyang Yun issued this military order that could not be recorded in the records, it once aroused the suspicion of senior officers in the expeditionary force. Of course, the facts proved that his decision was right. There really was nothing to talk about with the Indonesians.
At the Japanese base camp in Tokyo, when news came back from Nanyang that Pami was attacked by hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, Hideki Tojo immediately jumped out to attack the Navy Ministry, pointing out that the strategy formulated by Yamamoto Isoroku was wrong in direction. This led to the current unfavorable situation in the Pacific War situation. In his words, if the Navy Ministry had allowed the Army Ministry to fully take over the Nanyang Front, then the Imperial Army would have completely occupied the Indochina Peninsula and even completed a two-sided attack on Chongqing, "... not only It is Chongqing, Guangdong and Guangxi, and the home base of the Xuebing Army is now under the threat of artillery fire from the Imperial Army. So, does Ouyang Yun still dare to go north to Chongqing to reorganize the Central Army? Why are the Chinese people getting bigger and stronger? Because the rear area of Guangdong and Guangxi continues to manufacture weapons? Severe facts prove that the empire's previous Pacific strategy was absolutely wrong, and there was a serious misjudgment of the direction of the strategy..." Hideki Tojo roared midway through the meeting. The venue had become It became normal, but under normal circumstances, Yamamoto Isoroku would tit for tat, thus bringing the meeting into Tojo Yamamoto's routine. But this time, because Guadalcanal and Piaimai fell one after another, and this was indeed the navy's fault, so Yamamoto sat in There, there was no word from the beginning to the end. Yamamoto was speechless. Naturally, other navy people had no right to speak. Therefore, Tojo Yamamoto's program became Tojo's one-word hall, and this meeting also completely became the army people's. The crusade against the navy,
Three days later, Mitsumasa Yoneuchi submitted his resignation to Emperor Hirohito, which also meant that the three-year-old Yoneuchi cabinet came to an end, and history seemed to have returned to its starting point, with successive defeats in the wars in Australia and Indochina, plus the previous war in the Timor Sea. Someone from the Japanese Navy Ministry had to be responsible for the defeat in the naval battle. In order to protect Isoroku Yamamoto and allow him to continue to be in charge of the military department, Mitsumasa Yoneuchi voluntarily resigned and compromised with the Army Ministry headed by Tojo Hideki. However, his The compromise failed to win the approval of Hideki Tojo. After Hideki Tojo was appointed as the Prime Minister of Japan's new cabinet, the first thing he did was to issue a national mobilization order, order to expand the level of reserve recruitment, and announce the annual Japanese men over the age of sixteen must participate in military training. At the same time, he used extremely tough methods to seize the production and management rights of the Mount Fuji super fighter and the Fifty Special Attack Aircraft from the Navy Ministry, and demanded that Mitsubishi and Nakajima The company focuses on the production of these two fighter jets and regards them as the decisive force to turn the tide of the war.
At this time, in Beimai, Aida Masao was facing the shouting and rushing Chinese soldiers, and was inserting the command knife that was wiped clean with a white cloth into his abdomen. Beimai, as Zhang Lingfu expected, was breached by them. , For China, this was just a partial counterattack and an unexpected gain. For the Japanese, because the Allies had actually established a foothold on Guadalcanal, they regarded it as the beginning of a comprehensive Allied counterattack. Once, Koizumi Toshiichiro thought that with the Marine Corps and Indonesian troops in his hands, the Malaysian National Liberation Army could complete the Australian strategy. But now, in front of the fierce Allied forces, he realized that his strength was still too weak. ,
The Battle of Guadalcanal entered the fifth day. The First Aircraft Carrier Fleet under Tsukahara 243's Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet cooperated with more than 30,000 Japanese troops to launch a counterattack against the Allied forces on Guadalcanal, and fought fiercely with the Pacific Fleet in the waters east of the Solomon Islands for three days and nights. , in the end, after being sunk one aircraft carrier, two heavy cruisers and several small ships, they had to flee to Guam. At this point, the Japanese army on Guadalcanal was actually surrounded by the Allied land, sea and air forces, and their destruction would be only a matter of time. ,
During the same period, Sun Liren completed the interception of the Japanese troops in Moulmein, and the two sides immediately began a month-long tug-of-war.
The war in the Pacific is raging, and on the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese army's counterattack is also in full swing. The counterattack of the Chinese National Defense Force is divided into two directions, one is Central China and East China, and the other is Northwest China, Central China, and East China. The student army is the main force, and then cooperates with it. With about 150,000 National Defense Forces, two regional battlefields were formed at the border between Jiangsu and Shanghai and in Hubei. They launched a decisive battle with about 500,000 Japanese troops, the Peace Army, and the Korean Common Army. To the northwest, 200,000 National Defense Forces were Xue Yue was the commander, forming an attack group to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army executing the Qinling Operation Plan. Fu Zuoyi, Hu Li, and the original Shanxi-Sui Army led by Zhu De, the Northwest Army of the Xuebing Army, and the Eighth Army were in Shaanxi, Suiyuan, The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region attacked everywhere, disturbing the local Japanese garrison...
The coming to power of Japan's Tojo Hideki Cabinet brought considerable turmoil to the senior Japanese military personnel stationed in China. Ishihara Wanji, commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force, was recalled to the country before he could even warm his seat. Anami, who took over his post, was A few days after he took office, Ishihara Kanji changed his original strategy and changed it to not giving up an inch of land. The result was a losing streak, which resulted in about 130,000 Japanese troops in Hubei being surrounded in the three towns of Wuhan.
On the Chinese battlefield, the situation suddenly changed in an instant. The Chinese army attacked everywhere and took the initiative, while the Japanese army was restrained and mired in quagmire. This made Tojo Hideki, who was still warm in the Prime Minister's chair, suddenly become an ant on a hot pot. ,