Ding Yi seemed confident about whether he could hold Changchun before the reinforcements arrived, because of the additional air assistance from the naval aviation force. However, with the arrival of midsummer in 1945, when the weather began to remain above 20 degrees Celsius, one day Something happened that gave him a huge headache, because nearly two weeks of continuous fighting resulted in a large number of casualties on both the offensive and defensive sides. Most of these dead people had not been restrained and now began to rot and deteriorate. Ding Yi had to worry Will there be a plague?
The relevant situation was reported to Ouyang Yun. Ouyang Yun did not dare to take it lightly and immediately ordered Tielin Fei to mobilize medicines from all over the country and airdrop them into the Changchun war zone. At the same time, he urged the Second, Third, and Eighth Group Armies to speed up their offensive pace. , we must drive all Japanese troops out of China by the end of October.
One day at the end of August 1945, just as Representative Koizumi and representatives from the United States began to sign a secret agreement in Melbourne, an unprecedented war broke out between the Chinese and Japanese armies near Changchun. The reason why it was called unprecedented was because this battle was over Changchun. For this purpose, China and Japan invested a total of more than three million troops. The two sides fought fiercely in five battlefields: Changchun, Fuyu, Shenyang, Tongliao and Dalian. Thousands of soldiers from both countries were killed every day.
Not only on the Chinese battlefield, in order to cause trouble for the Japanese army and relieve the pressure on Ding Yi's headquarters, Ouyang Yun also gave orders to Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi, asking them to strengthen their offensive in Japan at this stage.
Calculating time, it has been almost four months since the Chinese army sent troops to Kagoshima and set foot on the Japanese mainland. However, what greatly disappoints the Chinese people is that so far, the Chinese army has not been able to make substantial progress on the Japanese mainland. This has made those who are eager to The Chinese people were extremely dissatisfied when they saw Japan subjugated and Hirohito turned into a bereaved dog. At one point, demonstrations even broke out, demanding that the Supreme Command replace the command headed by Chen Ce.
The performance of the Ryukyu Group Army and the Pacific Fleet in the Japanese mainland was indeed poor, but this was not due to the slackness of frontline officers and soldiers, but to Ouyang Yun's orders.
Since Japan began to recruit large-scale troops on the mainland and continuously shipped them to North Korea, Ouyang Yun ordered Chen Ce to slow down the offensive pace. The reason why he did this was that he saw the hope of wiping out the effective Japanese troops on the Korean battlefield. As long as he could If this is achieved, then even if the Japanese government wants to make a desperate struggle at the last moment, because of the lack of fresh troops, it may not cause too much trouble for the Chinese army to attack the Japanese mainland.
Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi were actually quite dissatisfied with Ouyang Yun's intention. They were not time travelers like Ouyang Yun, so they could not see what would happen decades or even hundreds of years later, and naturally they would not think of the present " "Close allies" will one day become China's most powerful enemy. Furthermore, they have experienced too many wars and seen too many deaths. They have long been indifferent to soldiers dying on the battlefield, and even think that this is the best thing for soldiers. destination, so in their view, as long as the goal can be achieved, there is not much difference between more people dying and less people dying.
Of course, Ouyang Yun is the supreme commander, and even if they have doubts about the supreme commander's orders, they can only carry them out seriously.
Previously, the Japanese attacking troops had been unable to perform to their fullest due to orders from the Supreme Command. Now they suddenly received combat orders. From Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi to ordinary soldiers, they all went crazy.
On the day when Ouyang Yun's order was issued, the leading troops of the Ryukyu Army, about one division and one brigade, flew a hundred kilometers under the cover of bombers about the size of an aviation division, and suddenly hit Kumamoto.
The Chinese army remained motionless and moved with great force, which frightened the Japanese government. On the same day, Hirohito urgently summoned Hideki Tojo and asked him.
Because of Tojo Koji, Tojo Hideki, who came to power again, was completely different from before. Not only did he take many constructive measures in the military, but he also made many pioneering achievements in people's livelihood and politics, even to the extent that his mortal enemy Kanji Ishihara Now I have to admit that "Tojo-kun has made progress and may really be able to lead Japan out of the current predicament."
Tojo's outstanding performance earned him Hirohito's trust, which is why Hirohito immediately summoned him to see him as soon as he heard about changes on the Kagoshima front line.
Hirohito didn't know anything. When Tojo Hideki first received the battle report from the front line, he reacted in the same panic as him. He thought that the Chinese army was finally going to launch a full-scale offensive. The reason why he could face Hirohito with a calm expression was because However, before the audience, I had an explanation from my nephew Tojo Koji, and listened to the latter's analysis of the current war situation. I was convinced that this was just a response made by the Chinese army to cope with the war situation in Northeast China, and I was able to maintain a normal mentality.
"You are saying that the Chinese army is only doing this to support the Northeast battlefield, but what if the Chinese army really launches an offensive because of the weak resistance of the frontline troops." Hirohito is not a military idiot, and Tojo's answer copied from his nephew does not make him convinced. Satisfied, he asked.
"Your Majesty, this will not happen. Although we have moved all the main forces to North Korea, we still have more than three million troops in the country. And as long as you agree, I can organize more than three million troops in one week. Five million troops, Your Majesty, in order to defend the honor of you and the Japanese Empire, our soldiers can die together with the Chinese soldiers at any time. The Chinese army in Kagoshima only has a total of more than 200,000 troops. They can withstand it. This kind of consumption, so you don’t need to worry at all.”
Tojo's answer was not satisfactory to Hirohito, because the latter knew exactly what the so-called five million army was. He frowned and said: "I don't need to assume that the Chinese army has captured Kumamoto now. What do you have to say about this?" There is no solution. After Kumamoto, the Chinese army will definitely attack Saga, which was our important military port before. If the Chinese army takes it, it will mean that they will have another good military port..."
"Your Majesty, please rest assured that the Chinese army cannot occupy Saga. In Saga, we have assembled more than 500,000 troops. They will definitely be able to stop the Chinese army."
"is that so."
"Your Majesty, please trust me and your soldiers, we will not let you down."
Tojo's words are not lies. In order to deal with the threat of the Chinese army to Japan's homeland, the Japanese government not only mobilized the whole people to organize an unprecedented scale of troops, but also gathered manpower to build a solid fortress between Kumamoto and Saga based on a massive number of bunkers. According to rumors, in order to build this defense line in a short period of time, more than 3,000 Japanese people died of exhaustion on the construction site alone. Among these people were middle-aged women and old men, as well as teenagers and even children. .
It can be said that in order to win this homeland defense war, the Tojo cabinet is milking Japan's vitality like a cow.