In July, they disturbed, and Anjiajun sang in various fronts.
On the 6th, the two armored groups and the two Mobo Group Army of Anjia Army formed three combat clusters on the 6th, forming three combat clusters, in the north section of the Suez Canal, the middle and southern section of the river.
The line of defense built on the west bank of the Suez Canal and promoted to depth.
The Northern Army followed the Suez Canal North, and captured the port of Hekou on the eighth. It is worth noting that the two light cruisers and eight destroyers of the Anjia Army Navy's Indian Fleet participated in the attack on Saiho Port.
And after occupying the port on the ground forces, they settled in the first time.
Later, the North Road Army followed the coastal highway on the north bank of Lake Manzlay, moving towards the highway west. On the 19th, he captured the port of Dumas on the lower reaches of the Dumst River and confronted the Germans along the river.
The most powerful Middle -Road Army, almost no amount of money, attacked the city of Ismelia, and then attacked the city all the way. By July 20th, most cities on the east bank of the Dumst River had been occupied, and there were many of them Mansuo.
La, Zhaogegel, big cities.
After the Southern Army occupied Suez City on the first day of crossing the river, he attacked the west along the road from Suez City to Cairo. On the afternoon of the 9th, the sound of the German army was defeated in the Macro City.
The two step divisions of Anjiajun settled in Cairo smoothly and arranged the defense line along the Nile.
In the next week, the South Road Army attacked everywhere, not only successfully won the cities and towns such as Jisa, Bobela, Schubra Haimai, Tura, Hemimaiwan.
Muswurd City at the point. It is integrated with the line of defense of the Central Army. It is out of the west from the west to the throat of the Alexander Port to the Cairo Highway.
The retreat of the German army between the Dumat River and the Racheid River and the German army west of the Rahid River. The south south took the city of Fayum and included the whole piece of Galon Lake Oasis.
On the morning of the eighteenth, under the cover of the Air Force, an armored infantry division crossed the Mount Gutraini and marched towards the Harry Oasis.
The turtles shrink in Rumana in the eastern part of the Suez Canal, and the Allied officers and soldiers from Mestig to the Alibaba line are stupid, especially General Moncore, commander of the African Army.
The German army. Why did you suddenly change from the hungry wolf in front of Anjiajun?
Based on all aspects of intelligence, especially those German prisoners of war pulled down from the battlefield, tens of thousands of people have accumulated for two consecutive weeks, which proves that the front line war is indeed very fierce.
In the situation of Egypt, Montgomeli felt a little bit fog to look at flowers.
Egypt's "big shot", Madagascar has also changed.
On July 19th, after careful preparation, the Anjia Army Indian Ocean formally launched landing operations in the Mahazanga area northwest of Madagascar.
As early as a week ago, the Anjia Army Air Force was departing and newly built on the military airports such as Mozambique, Namupra, Nakara, Pengba, and the new field airports in the Southeast Africa.
The Japanese army conducted a violent crackdown on important goals such as defense work and barracks on the coast and depth of Madagascar Island.
Naval aviation used Reunion Island and Mauritius Island as bases to conduct intensive bombing of Japanese ports and military airports in the east and south of Madagascar.
In just one week, except for some hidden spare aircraft, no trace of Japanese fighter planes could be seen in Madagascar, whether in the air or underground.
At four o'clock in the morning on the 19th, he led the Fifth Fleet belonging to the Indian Ocean Navy to the sea near Mahajanga and began to violently bombard the Japanese beachhead.
After receiving the urgent report, General Kotaro Nakamura, commander of the Japanese African and Indian Ocean Forces in the central city of Antananarivo, knew very well that the Anjia Army's landing was about to be launched.
Mahajanga is the largest port in Madagascar after Toamasina, with transportation in all directions. As long as the Anjia army can gain a foothold in Mahajanga, they can go north to capture Antsiranana, the third largest port, or go south into the central part of the country.
In the plateau area, even heading east to directly attack Antananarivo and Toamasina is out of the question.
In this case, Nakamura Kotaro had to mobilize troops from other places to quickly reinforce Mahajanga.
In the early morning, the bombers of the Anjia Army Air Force arrived near Mahajanga Beach, echoing the naval gun attack. Intensive bombing before the general attack also began.
The B1 and B3 bombers of the Anjia Army dropped incendiary bombs on the Japanese frontline positions and the roads and barracks behind them to undermine the morale of the Japanese army and block the Japanese reinforcements coming along the road in the depth direction. Then, the B2 dive bombers and the Japanese troops carrying aerial bombs
The fighter jets began to drop bombs, and together with the naval guns, they plowed the Japanese defense line back and forth over and over again.
In a short period of time, four to five hundred bombers dropped thousands of aerial bombs ranging from 100 to 500 kilograms, and the beachhead of Mahajanga was almost razed to the ground.
Continuous attacks caused extremely heavy losses to the Japanese army.
When the first wave of bombers returned, the Japanese troops deployed on the beach were almost crippled, and the reinforcements trudged hard on the road to Mahajanga because of the air force's obstruction of the bombing.
The 50-caliber 203mm naval gun shells of the French heavy cruiser equipped by the Anjiajun Navy's Fifth Fleet are extremely powerful, and the accuracy of close-range shelling is very high. As the landing time gets closer, the Fifth Fleet
The fleet's bombardment reached **.
According to convention, this is the most intense stage of firepower before landing. Its main purpose is not to destroy many enemy defenses, but to completely paralyze the enemy's defense system and cause all departments to lose contact and coordination.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a large landing fleet escorted by two battleships, four light cruisers and twelve destroyers successfully arrived off the coast of Mahajanga.
At this time, the fire support ships included in the landing fleet quickly moved forward and joined the shelling of the opposite shore.
When the rocket launchers on the twenty fire support ships began to fire salvos, the scene was extremely spectacular. All the rockets were fired. Each fire support ship was shrouded in smoke, and thousands of rockets roared.
Hitting the Japanese beachhead, a single salvo was enough to cover an area of four to five square kilometers, blasting the sand and rocks on the beach to pieces, and turning the ground red like a volcanic eruption.
At half past nine, the first batch of beach-washing officers and soldiers of the landing fleet got off the landing craft and launched an attack on Mahajanga Beach at ten o'clock.
When more than 500 landing crafts gathered the sea, when the direction was charged, the scene was undoubtedly extremely spectacular, and at this time the firepower strike also reached **. The main guns and auxiliary guns of the Fifth Fleet participated in the shelling.
Two battleships that arrived together also joined the other side attack.
Although the firing speed of the 340 mm cannon is very slow, when the 20 -gate guns are shot in a round. The huge loud noise of the sky can be described as shocking, especially when these guns are firing in the same direction in the same direction.
At the time, the two warships of more than 27,000 tons of hulls would involuntarily move in the opposite direction.
No surprise, as long as it is directly hit by the 340 mm caliber, even the Japanese work that is buried in the underground is still completely destroyed like a paper paste.
The violent shells lasted until 10:30, and then the firepower began to extend to the rear of the Japanese beach head position. At this time, the 500 landing crafts of the tenth division officers and soldiers approached the beach.
The entire landing field is divided into three sections. The front width of the landing field on the north side is about 3.5 kilometers, and the front width of the landing field in the middle of the central part is about three kilometers.
The width is close to ten kilometers.
On the ten -kilometer landing field, the fourth group of the fourth group army of the entire army forward will be ashore in the first time.
With the support of the cannon and the power, it breaks through the beach head position of the Japanese army in one fell swoop.
The second batch of ashore troops is the 11th Division and the 12th Division. Before 3 pm, they will send nearly 50,000 troops to Madagascar Island in one breath.
In addition to occupying the size of the six divisions, in addition to occupying Mahazana Port, the entire landing venue should also extend to the east for more than 10 kilometers to establish a solid line of defense.
When the first batch of landing boats rushed to the beach, the Anjia Army Air Force's fighters and bomber were hovering in low altitudes. Most of these fighters were mounted rockets and small air bombs.
The Japanese firepower point of the troops.
At 10.35, the first batch of landing crafts had rushed to the beach, and the fierce battle started quickly.
"Baga! What panic!"
A Japanese military officer waved his command knife and scolded loudly in his mouth: "Hold, for the Emperor's His Majesty, for the Emperor's Emperor Tu Gong, we must persist until the last moment!"
However, after being continuously attacked by the guns and fighters, the Japanese defense line has long been sore, and it is not enough to protect the safety of the Japanese soldiers who hid in the shooting inside. In addition, the rocket and bomb will fall at any time.
The firepower point that the Japanese army just exposed instantly fell into silence. From beginning to end, the Japanese army's resistance was extremely weak.
Since the main force of the Japanese Indian Ocean fleet was sent in early May, General Nakamura Taro recognized the situation clearly and evacuated the troops in a timely manner.
With the general rate of General Chief of Staff Matsui, in the short period of more than two months, the Japanese army's main division and other troops were all sent away by the transport ship. At present
The infantry brigade. For the troops of more than 50,000 people, it is necessary to defend the coastline of nearly 4,000 kilometers. Its difficulty can be imagined.
In this case, the Japanese army could only carry out key defenses. The Mahajanga area, which is flat and close to the East African mainland and the Mozambique Channel Islands occupied by the Anjia Army, became the focus of defense. Kotaro Nakamura deployed a*
*The strength of the infantry brigade, and mobile forces deployed in Maruvuai, Madirualu along the Bezibuka River, and Anchuhixi, Antunibe and other places in the north.
On the front-line beachhead, at least one-third of the more than 5,000 Japanese troops were killed by Anjiajun air force bombings and naval gunfire, and most of the others were injured. Facing tens of thousands of lively troops,
The difficulty of the attack by Anjia officers and soldiers can be imagined.
After the landing craft docked one after another, as the front baffles were lowered, the Anjia officers and soldiers rushed ashore quickly and charged into the Japanese positions with unstoppable momentum.
The Japanese front-line positions quickly fell. Although the Japanese troops in the rear counterattacked, under the combined attack of mortars, general-purpose machine guns and automatic rifles, groups of Japanese soldiers fell in pieces like harvesting wheat.
Down.
At 12 o'clock at noon, the Japanese troops were dead and wounded, and all the beachheads were occupied by the Anjia Army. The officers and soldiers of the 10th Division immediately seized the time to build a defense line and sent out reconnaissance troops to find out the situation of the Japanese troops within a radius of fifty square kilometers. At this time,
Officers and soldiers of the 11th and 12th Divisions have begun to come ashore continuously, and a large amount of heavy equipment has been delivered to the beach, including more than a hundred Leopard II tanks.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the officers and soldiers of the 11th Division, who had completed their assembly, marched south and rushed towards the Mahajanga Port area. It took just over four hours to completely wipe out the defenders, who numbered only three brigades before dark.
, successfully occupied the largest port city in the west. In this way, the subsequent transport fleet can transport troops and combat materials directly through the deep-water dock in the port area.
While the 11th Division was attacking the port area, the 12th Division began to rush in depth, rushing out 20 kilometers before sunset, and began to build a ring of fortifications to defend the beachhead and the safety of the Mahajanga Port area.
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The landing operation on Madagascar was surprisingly easy!
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