ZhongShengZhiHongXingChuanQi Chapter 1228: Shouyi's Power in the Temple (Continued) (existed for Boo
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On December 8, Touichi Terauchi showed his power and ordered a full-scale launch.../--/--Full text of the advertisement
At this time, Juichi Terauchi had already received the news of the successful attack on Pearl Harbor by the combined fleet. He was holding his command knife and sitting on the flagship, looking like a general strategizing and winning a thousand-mile victory, waiting for the troops to attack and occupy.
Groups of fighter planes took off from warships, airports in Vietnam, Taiwan, and South China, and pounced on Southeast Asia.
Chief of General Staff of the Southern Army Tsukada, together with Deputy Chiefs of Staff Shigemai Aoki, Yoshitaro Sakaguchi, and Senior Staff Officer Masami Ishii, commanded the combat staff, communications staff, and confidential staff to build a command post on the flagship, using radios to communicate with the Southern Army
The army's fleets, aviation groups, armies, and divisions contacted each other, and in accordance with the combat plan, they commanded the combat groups in an orderly manner to launch large-scale sneak attacks.
The British, American and Dutch troops stationed in Southeast Asian countries are indeed ready for battle.
However, because of the war in Europe, Britain did not have the strength to invest more in the defense of Southeast Asia. It only sent a "fearsome, fast, advanced battleship and aircraft carrier task force" in Churchill's words to rush to Singapore.
Deterring the provocative activities of the Japanese Navy. Unfortunately, in early November, the aircraft carrier Invincible ran aground in the West Indies and was unable to join the New Far East Fleet. Only the Prince of Wales, Repulse and four destroyers remained in the New Far East Fleet.
The United States has not yet decided whether to participate in the war. Although it has provided reinforcements to Southeast Asia, they are limited.
The Dutch army is even more pitiful. Their country has been occupied by Nazi Germany. The troops stationed in Southeast Asia have completely cut off the possibility of domestic reinforcements.
The greatest hope of Britain and the United States is to use their brand of great power to scare the Japanese and use economic means to sanction the Japanese so that the Japanese dare not take action in Southeast Asia. In this case, the fate of Southeast Asia and Pearl Harbor will become so the same.
It makes people sigh with regret.
As soon as Juichi Terauchi commanded the army to launch the attack, the British, American and Dutch troops stationed in Southeast Asia discovered that the disaster had come so suddenly and the shock was so powerful. In panic, they began to engage in resistance operations.
Resistance is futile!
The core target of the Japanese attack was the oil-rich Dutch East Indies (now central Indonesia), which had to pass through the British Malay Peninsula...-/--Full text of the advertisement
On the evening of the day when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Vice Admiral Phillips, the commander of the British Royal Navy's "New Far East Fleet", who received intelligence that the Japanese had established an invasion beachhead in Songkhla, the Malay Peninsula, led the fleet to set sail. He wanted to destroy the Japanese bridgehead.
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Phillips, known as the "Little Napoleon" in the Royal Navy, firmly believed that bombers were no match for battleships. In fact, he had never seen a large number of bombers bombard a battleship.
Vice Admiral Phillips told his sailors: "We're going out looking for trouble," prompting loud cheers from the sailors.
On December 9, the former commander of the Manchuria Defense Force of the Japanese Kwantung Army, who was humiliated by Liu Yimin when he was the chief of staff of the North China Front, was the new commander of the 25th Army of the Southern Army, Lieutenant General Yamashita Tobumi. He was grateful to General Toshiichi Terauchi for knowing him.
Due to the deep feelings, he commanded an elite assault group composed of the 5th Division, the 1st Guards Division, and the 18th Division. After traveling south from Sanya on Hainan Island, they arrived at the sea of the Malay Peninsula and began to launch an assault on the Malay Peninsula.
The task given by General Terauchi to the 25th Army was to cross the 700-kilometer Malay Peninsula within 100 days of the war and capture Fortress Singapore, the center of British rule in the East, known as the "Unbreakable Fortress" from behind.
A swarm of Japanese fighter planes took off from Saigon Airport in Vietnam and attacked the British airfield in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula, destroying only 10 of the 158 Royal Air Force aircraft in the Malay Peninsula.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the new Far East Fleet led by Vice Admiral Phillips was discovered by the Japanese submarine I-65. Terauchi Juichi immediately ordered the Kondo fleet composed of 7 cruisers and 2 battleships to quickly go south to intercept. As a result, the Japanese fleet did not arrive.
, the Japanese Air Force departing from Saigon, Vietnam, discovered the British New Far East Fleet at 11:45 am on the next morning, December 10. Just like a pack of wolves discovering their prey, 85 Japanese Army Air Force fighter planes pounced fiercely.
Down, aerial bombs and torpedoes all appeared. By 2 noon, the once extremely glorious and huge Royal Navy battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were destroyed. A total of 793 people were killed on the two warships, including Vice Admiral Phillips.
and Captain Rich. The Japanese army only destroyed 3 aircraft, damaged 27 aircraft, and killed 21 crew members. This battle is called the Battle of Malaya in the history of war.
In other words, only two days after the Japanese attack was launched, the British army in the Malay Peninsula completely lost air and sea control.
This is the case in the Malay Peninsula, and the Japanese army that attacked the Philippines was also unambiguous. It turned out that the old playboy Masaharu Honma, the commander of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, was beaten to a pulp by Liu Yimin in Shandong, and the entire division was wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
Vice Admiral was so lucky that he was favored by General Juichi Terauchi. He was promoted to the commander of the 14th Army of the Southern Army. Under the leadership of Vice Admiral Takahashi Imo, he owned 10 cruisers, 29 destroyers, and 1 aircraft carrier.
With the cooperation of the Philippine Campaign Joint Formation of three seaplane carriers and about 100 transport and auxiliary ships, Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Kohyo's Army Aviation 5th Corps with 200 aircraft and Lieutenant General Tsukahara Tsukahara's 5th Corps
Under the cover of the 11th Air Force of the Naval Base Air Force with 300 aircraft, the Philippine Army launched an attack on the U.S. military stationed in the Philippine Islands.
At this time, the U.S. military in the Philippines had a total of 31,000 army troops. Including the 100,000 Philippine troops, a total of 130,000 people. The overall commander was MacArthur. The U.S. and Philippine troops had more than 270 aircraft, of which only 142 could take off and participate in the war.
, and the U.S. Asia Fleet with 45 combat ships commanded by Admiral Hart also cooperated with the operation.
At the beginning of the raid, the Japanese army and navy aviation launched a surprise attack on the US military airport and the Cavite naval base in Luzon, destroying half of the US heavy bombers and more than 1/3 of the US fighter planes on land, creating conditions for the landing operation. Sober
Yes, the main force of the U.S. Asia Fleet was stationed at its base in the southern Philippines and was spared.
Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army made a large-scale landing, and one unit captured the Batan Islands north of Luzon Island. The Tanaka Detachment and Sugano Detachment of the 48th Division also landed in Apali and Vigan in northern Luzon Island respectively and occupied the airport. The 16th Division
The Kimura detachment of the regiment landed at Legazpi in southern Luzon Island, occupied the airport and further expanded the results.
By the 17th of the war, the remaining 17 B-17 bombers of the US military had withdrawn to Australia, and the Japanese had complete control of the sea and air.
Next, the main force of the Japanese 48th Division landed at Lingayen Bay on the west coast of Luzon Island, and the main force of the 16th Division landed at Lamon Bay in the southeastern part of Luzon Island, forming a north-south pincer attack on Manila, encircling and annihilating the main force of the US-Philippine Army, Mindanao Island
and Jolo Island also fell into the hands of the Japanese.
At this point, the American soldiers, the British soldiers, and the Dutch soldiers, who all had their eyes high above their heads, suddenly discovered that the Japanese//fastest text update--no ads//military was so cruel!
Especially those Japanese infantrymen who landed, carrying 38 big caps, short stature, and wearing yellow military uniforms. They looked like a group of yellow-skinned monkeys, but they fought with their lives at all costs and dared to attack the American, British, and Dutch troops without artillery cover.
Launch an attack. At night, the Japanese army is like a ghost, launching night attacks wantonly. American soldiers, British and Dutch gentleman soldiers are all dumbfounded in the face of the Japanese offensive!
MacArthur, the top commander of the US military in the Philippines, had his fragile defense in the Philippines shattered and was forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula with the remaining 79,500 US troops and the Philippine army. Manila in the Philippines became an undefended city.
, waiting quietly for the Japanese troops to enter.
The Thai government, which had been holding the pipa half-hidden and colluding with Japan, suddenly discovered that the friendship between the Japanese was so unreliable. The Japanese army landed in Bangkok under the command of the commander of the 15th Army, Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida, and soon the Japanese army landed in Bangkok.
They quickly took control of the entire Thailand as a rear base for attacking Myanmar. Only at this time did the important people in the Thai government realize that the Japanese not only wanted Thailand's cooperation and support for them, but also wanted Thailand!
At the same time, the Japanese Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai commanded the 38th Division, which had been completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army on the Longhai Road defense line, and launched an attack on Hong Kong. Japanese garrisons from Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Guangzhou rushed into the concession.
, began to attack the British and American concessions in China.
A strange scene happened. The Japanese army marching towards Southeast Asia was welcomed by the upper-class elites of Southeast Asia in many places. The Japanese army launched all its propaganda machines, publishing articles in newspapers and radio stations about the true content of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
It means liberating the colonies, expelling the British and American powers, and building an Asia for Asians.
The propaganda of Japan's Pen Army is even more outrageous, saying that the Japanese army's march into Southeast Asia is to eliminate the arrogance and prejudice of the British and American troops, to share the pain and joy with people of color, and in the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in the great spirit of democracy,
Establish a just rule of law and promote the development of local society so that all ethnic groups and individuals can obtain corresponding rewards according to their respective abilities.
The newspapers of the Japanese army even published recruitment advertisements for various Japanese schools and major enterprises, saying that they would train talents for Southeast Asian countries for free and revitalize the local economy.
For a time, Southeast Asia was filled with the devilish laughter of the Japanese army and seductive lies. It seemed that the Japanese army was the liberation army of the Southeast Asian people, coming to rescue Southeast Asia enslaved by colonialism!
At this moment, Terauchi Juichi felt extremely comfortable, and the depression of losing the battle with Nishio Juzo for the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was swept away. The battle reports sent by this devil to the emperor were full of joy!
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