Chapter eight hundred and eighty seventh Mon Haiti and Bigela
The second plan was to use the aviation force to open up a breakthrough path for the 6th Cavalry Division. This plan was only joined by Bai Liusu at MacArthur's insistence to calm the trouble. What MacArthur didn't know was that from the beginning, Bai Liusu
I never thought about the need to launch this plan. In other words, Bai Liusu was full of confidence that he was bound to win this battle. The source of Bai Liusu's confidence has something to do with the students who entered the former Osaka Fourth Division.
It was because their existence could provide her with first-hand information that she could know herself and the enemy from the beginning, so she didn't have to worry about losing the battle at all.
Bigla seems to be far away from the battlefield of Grass, and it seems to have nothing to do with the Battle of Grass. In fact, because Koizumi ambushed about 100,000 Japanese troops in the area east of Bigla, this place actually became the decisive point of the Battle of Grass.
The decisive area for victory in the battle. From Bai Liusu's point of view, the reason why she asked the 6th Cavalry Division to outflank and the 3rd Cavalry Division to hold on to Bigla was really not because she wanted the Americans to be used as cannon fodder. In fact, she was
This choice was made because he did not trust the 6th Cavalry Division. The reason why Koizumi dared to take the initiative to attack and provoke the Battle of Grasse was that the 100,000 elite Japanese troops lurking in the area east of Bigla were his greatest reliance.
The complex terrain of the Bigela area is very suitable for hiding troops. Not to mention Koizumi hiding 100,000 people here, it is not a problem to hide an additional 100,000 or 200,000. And once the Battle of Grass reaches a stalemate, lurking in Bigela
If the Japanese army to the west can carry out a surprise attack, then the Battle of Grasse may really become the Waterloo of the Allied Australian battlefield.
The 100,000 Japanese troops lurking in the area east of Bigola were a secret that Koizumi had buried long ago. Not to mention MacArthur had no way of knowing this information, even among the top brass of the Japanese army, there were very few people who knew about it. Koizumi suffered a lot during the Battle of the Philippines.
After losing the battle, he understood the importance of intelligence confidentiality and began to strengthen efforts in this area. However, he never imagined that as early as two and a half years ago, the Xuebing Army had already penetrated the Osaka Fourth Division, and
Because of his appreciation, some of them even became military commanders at the division and brigade levels.
On the tenth day of the Battle of Grasse, the 6th U.S. Cavalry Division finally could no longer hold on. At this most critical moment, Bai Liusu dispatched a helicopter unit directly under the Marine Corps Command of the Expeditionary Force, using about 300 helicopters in one fell swoop.
Smashed the Japanese and South Asian Co-Prosperity Army's offensive against the 6th Cavalry Division.
This is not the first time that helicopters have appeared on the battlefield of World War II. However, for some unknown reason, neither the Allies nor the Allies, not even Japan, which had suffered heavy losses from helicopters, paid enough attention to this new type of fighter aircraft.
This also gives the helicopter a chance to make a splash.
As the commander of the 6th Cavalry Division, Dane witnessed the sharpness of this new weapon with his own eyes. The American uncle was completely shocked: "... wherever the helicopter passed, the Japanese soldiers rolled over and chaos immediately broke out. As for the so-called
The South Asian Co-Prosperity Army, due to the lack of armored troops, was unable to fight back under the attack of helicopters... I thought I would definitely go to heaven this time, but unexpectedly, in just over two hours, the Japanese army was completely
The army was defeated -" This was a passage from Dane's report to MacArthur after the war.
The top brass of the U.S. military are no strangers to helicopters, but they don’t take them too seriously. At this time, Americans are only thinking about Golden Eagles, Thunder missiles, and surface-to-surface missiles. They simply don’t like this kind of limited-range, air-to-air missile.
It was a new fighter aircraft with limited capabilities, limited bomb load, and seemingly limited usefulness. After the Battle of Grasse, the Americans finally woke up. So, not long after, Roosevelt personally gave Ouyang Yun power and sincerely requested the relevant technology.
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This is a story later, back to the Grasse battlefield - the appearance of the National Expeditionary Force helicopter unit not only immediately saved the fate of the 6th US Cavalry Division from destruction, but also forced Koizumi Toshiichiro to use his trump card.
When more than 100,000 Japanese troops appeared in the area east of Bila, the Americans collectively lost their words. Only then did they understand Bai Liusu's real intention of sending the third national expeditionary division to Bila. It turned out that the country's daughter
The general did not want to preserve his strength. It turned out that the female general in the country had already anticipated this Japanese backhand.
Biggra has become a new fighting spirit. At first, the Americans led by Dane did not take it seriously. It is already recognized around the world that the combat power of the cadet army is stronger than that of the US military. So, the 6th US Cavalry Division can withstand a hundred thousand soldiers with one against ten.
Under the siege of the Japanese Army and the South Asia Co-Prosperity Army, the Third National Expeditionary Division should naturally be able to withstand the attack of 100,000 Japanese troops. I don’t know what their psychology is, but here, the Americans equate the Japanese Army with the South Asia Co-Prosperity Army, and
There was no mention of the fact that the helicopter unit directly under the Marine Corps Command of the National Expeditionary Force provided support to the 6th Cavalry Division.
"Hell!" "Meat grinder!" "Is there any more brutal battle than this?"... The above are the evaluations of the "Battle of Haiti" by American and British war reporters. "Haiti" is exactly what it said.
The name of the small town where the 6th U.S. Cavalry Division resisted the siege of the Japanese and South Asian Communist Army. In terms of media language, this can be regarded as the highest level of evaluation.
"Is there any battle more tragic than this?" The American war correspondent Busser used this sentence as the title to report on the "Battle of Haiti". Busser thought hard about this title for a day and night.
For this reason, he was complacent for a long time, thinking that there was no better idea than this in war reporting. However, when he arrived at the Biggra battlefield three days after the Battle of Grass, he was faced with numerous obstacles.
With the corpses of Japanese and Japanese officers and soldiers intertwined, he realized that there was such a cruel war in the world, and that there really was a battle more tragic than the Battle of Haiti in Mongolia.
"Human language is no longer enough to describe the tragedy of the Battle of Bigla" - this is the title that Busser came up with for reporting on the Battle of Bigla after thinking hard for three days and nights again. This time, after coming up with this
After answering the question, he did not mean to be complacent at all, but looked towards the east with a very solemn expression - Bigela was in that direction.
How tragic was the Battle of Bigla? In the Battle of Mongolia, the casualty rate of the 6th US Cavalry Division was 40%, and the casualty rate of the Japanese army and the South Asian Co-Prosperity Army was 20%. In other words,
The 6th Cavalry Division suffered a total of about 4,000 casualties in this battle, and the result they gained was nearly 20,000 Japanese and South Asian Co-Asia Army soldiers killed and injured, which also included the number of enemies annihilated by Chinese helicopter troops. Bigla's
What about the war? Post-war statistics showed that the Third Division of the National Expeditionary Force suffered 8,225 casualties and 109 missing, while more than 38,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded by them.
You know, from the beginning to the end, the Third Division of the National Expeditionary Force has been fighting alone without any support.