An Yi sat in the middle of the first row of seats in the conference room with a relaxed expression. On the large electronic display in front of him, a detailed satellite map was slowly displayed. It was refreshed almost every half hour, giving a clear view of the situation between the enemy and ourselves.
At the same time, on two smaller electronic displays in the surrounding area, the troop mobilization and response situations of the enemy and ourselves were collected in real time by the front line. A large number of staff members analyzed them immediately, and then used war chess to deduce possible changes.
The resolution of the satellite map is three by three, which means that each point represents a nine-square-meter area on the ground. This kind of precision scanning will inevitably cause a lot of fuzzy information in it, but this time it is a large-scale battle. Anjia
The military has mobilized more than one million troops, and some local information opacity will not affect the overall situation.
Moreover, judging accurate information from subtle changes has been An Jiajun's strength since the founding of the army. Since the Northern Expedition, An Yi and his team at that time would have been very difficult if they were not able to analyze the subtle information to the greatest extent.
It is difficult to survive and develop in such a difficult environment.
In An Yi's keen eyesight, even the smallest difference on the satellite map allowed him to deduce the movements of the Japanese army, not to mention the large number of staff members assisting him.
What adds insurance to all this is that high-altitude airship radars and reconnaissance aircraft will focus on scanning and investigating areas that cannot be observed by satellites at any time. Therefore, the Japanese army's response and troop deployment can be described as unilateral and transparent to the Anjia army.
Therefore, when the first good news came from the front line at noon, An Yi did not feel much surprise.
What made An Yi happy was the news that came in the evening. The five armies responsible for the landing operation achieved breakthroughs at all landing sites. Not only did they successfully gain a foothold, but they also launched a full-line counterattack against the Japanese army. The Japanese army was exhausted.
He resisted and retreated step by step under the attack of Anjiajun.
Judging from the news fed back from the front line, the strength and fighting will of the Japanese army are not as strong as imagined. As a result, the Battle of Sumatra may be over in less than two months, which can save a lot of time for the next war.
You will be better prepared.
At 5:50 in the evening, An Yi read the battle report sent by Gu Changfeng from the theater headquarters, pondered for a moment, and immediately picked up a pen and paper to write the communication himself.
An hour later, at 19:00, during the hourly news broadcasts of China Central Radio and China Central Television, and simultaneously broadcast in real time from the conference hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the military spokesperson read out the communication written by An Yi.
:
"My heroic People's Liberation Army officers and soldiers have successfully landed on the entire coastline of more than 1,000 kilometers from north to south of the Japanese-occupied Sumatra Island an hour ago. In more than 20 battles of various sizes, we have annihilated 12 Japanese troops.
With more than nineteen thousand people, the landing operation was a complete success!
"This victory will be a good start for the next series of wars. Next, we will attack Java Island, Borneo, Luzon Islands, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, until we land on the Japanese Islands, and completely destroy Japan's obsession with
Evil nations of invasion and massacre wiped from the face of the earth..."
...
On Sumatra, a successful landing does not mean the end of the battle, but rather the beginning of a series of battles.
Since the transportation arteries connecting the north and the south and some choke points were successfully occupied by the Anjia Army Airborne Forces, the Japanese army had to make great efforts to carry out long-distance detours from the mountains and jungle areas. After the troops were assembled, they were organized into brigades and squadrons.
Launched a fierce attack on Anjiajun.
To the northeast of Sumatra Island and southeast of Banda Aceh, Lansha is an important traffic artery connecting Aceh and North Sumatra. The person responsible for blocking the traffic here is the 9th Division of the Third Airborne Corps of the Anjia Army Air Force.
In the evening of that day, the Japanese army used a large number of artillery and ground troops to launch a fierce attack on the defense line of the 9th Airborne Division. The battle continued until dawn the next day.
Due to the cover of night, the Anjia Army Air Force was unable to exert its power. Limited by visibility and complex terrain, the Army Aviation Force could only look back and sigh. Under the continuous attack of the Japanese army, the defense line was broken through by the Japanese army in several places. There was a regiment on each of the north and south wings.
It was divided by the Japanese army.
A large number of Japanese troops cut in fiercely from the breach, and one large group of Japanese troops even rushed to the vicinity of the division headquarters.
The division-directed guard company of the 9th Airborne Division stood firmly in front of the Japanese attack arrow, guarding a 70- to 80-meter-high hill, and repelled more than ten Japanese attacks in just two hours.
The top of the hill and the upper part of the slope are open grassland, but the lower part of the slope and the valleys on the sides are covered with thick jungle.
The Anjia Army's defense line passed through the hills and extended into the jungles on both sides.
Initially the fighting was concentrated on the right wing. Due to the fierce Japanese offensive, the under-strength guard company of the 9th Airborne Division was forced to retreat, and the rest of the entire front was moved accordingly to maintain contact.
In the early morning, the division headquarters finally transferred a company from other places and tried hard to counterattack, but failed to push back the Japanese army. With the serious depletion of troops, it was meaningless to hold on to the long front. The division commander, Colonel An Moyuan, had no choice but to order
The troops retreated again, so that the depth of the defense line was reduced to about 1.5 kilometers.
Although restricted by the rugged terrain, the Japanese army did not get as close to the division headquarters as imagined, but the front line of defense was still very thin and not integrated with each other. There were some defensive blind spots in the middle. Fortunately, due to the restrictions of night, the Japanese army
We didn't find any of these flaws and continued to attack the front.
At about three o'clock in the morning, a regiment in the southwest repelled the fierce Japanese attack and immediately sent two companies to the division headquarters for support. At this time, the Japanese troops in front were attacking the top of the mountain, and the two companies immediately supplemented the front line.
During the attack, the Japanese army used many tricks, deliberately talking loudly when approaching, in order to trigger the Anjia officers and soldiers to fire, thus exposing the defensive position. The Japanese army used smoke screens and shouted "poison gas attack", hoping to attract the Anjia officers and soldiers.
Panic and chaos. The Japanese soldiers who knew Chinese shouted out various insults and threats in Mandarin, as well as false orders, in an attempt to confuse the public.
However, since individual soldier radios had spread to the company and platoon level of the Anjia Army, the various tricks of the Japanese army had no effect. Seeing that the strategy was ineffective, the Japanese army had to command large troops to launch an attack along the entire ridge, and at the same time attack from the side.
Make a detour through the jungle and try to outflank them from behind.
As the battle became more and more brutal, and the sacrifices of the soldiers at the front increased, Colonel An Moyuan had to shorten the defense line for the third time. In the period before dawn, there were only more than 120 officers and soldiers from nearly three companies holding the line.
Mountain top.
Morning finally arrived in the expectation of the defending officers and soldiers. Anjiajun's fighter planes and armed helicopters appeared in the eastern sky. Aerial bombs and rockets fell on the Japanese positions like waterfalls. The Japanese were bombed to the point of howling like ghosts, especially
It was napalm bombs that built a wall of fire in front of the Anjiajun position. The Japanese army was shocked and had to retreat.
That night, the Japanese army paid a heavy price with more than 5,000 people killed in front of the position. However, they also caused more than 1,100 casualties to the defending officers and soldiers of the 9th Airborne Division. This was also the largest casualty in the entire Sumatra war.
After a night attack, with the heavy weapons and equipment of each airborne division, the Japanese army never achieved similar results again.
Another location.
As the landing troops consolidated the beachhead defense, Medan City was captured by the 19th Motorized Infantry Division and the 20th Tank Division of the Seventh Army commanded by Lieutenant General Liao Minlin at around 11 o'clock in the night. At this time, Medan City was captured
The 8th Airborne Division blocked in the area on the northwest shore of Lake Toba in Kabanjah and Shitigaland in the south is resisting the crazy attack of Japanese reinforcements from northwest Aceh and southern North Sumatra.
Unlike the 9th Airborne Division, the 8th Airborne Division is equipped with a 105mm mountain howitzer regiment flown in by an airship brigade. Even in the dark night, the artillery continued to carry out large-scale shelling to disrupt the Japanese army's will to attack.
Under the control of the excellent gunners of the Anjia Army artillery, the 105mm mountain grenade fire
The speed was extremely high and the hits were extremely accurate. However, in the later stages of the battle, the infantry of both sides actually fought together, making the artillery unable to exert force and could only wait for the infantry to deal with the opponent. After all, for officers and soldiers equipped with night vision equipment, the Japanese army
Being at an absolute disadvantage, as long as the commander does not act stupidly, the Japanese army will fail sooner or later.
At four o'clock in the morning, as the Japanese attack was repulsed, the fighting on this line calmed down slightly, but then a large number of Japanese troops penetrated into the rear of the 8th Airborne Division from the mountains and dense forests. However, this infiltration was blocked by night vision equipment.
The Anjia officers and soldiers resisted tenaciously.
The Japanese soldiers were shot and fell to the ground one after another at a very long distance. The Type II automatic rifles with flame suppressor made it impossible for the Japanese soldiers to know where the threat came from. Seeing the people around them fall one by one, the Japanese soldiers were scared to death.
He turned around and ran away, and the Japanese penetration failed.
In the early morning, the 21st Motorized Infantry Division from Medan City joined the battle group and pushed back the Japanese army. At this time, the Anjia Army Air Force and Army Aviation Unit also arrived on the battlefield and attacked the Japanese army from the air. The Japanese army had to follow suit.
They fled along the West Coast Highway towards Banda Aceh City.
On the battlefield, there were more than 4,000 corpses of the Japanese army. As for the number of casualties in other places and during the retreat, it is impossible to check. However, after the two blocking battles in the north, the Japanese army lost at least one division, plus the number of those killed near the coastline.
The Japanese army in the northern part of Sumatra has at most one division left to defend various towns in the north.
At 10 o'clock in the morning on the 24th, after a brief rest, the three divisions of the Anjia Army's 7th Group Army that came ashore divided into two groups and pushed towards Banda Aceh from the east and west coasts, attacking the center of gravity of the Japanese army's northern defense with overwhelming force.
The third thing worth mentioning is the war in the central and north.
In the Labuan Ruku area to the north of the Tanjong Balai landing site, Japanese troops from Tinggi, Xianda and other towns launched a fierce attack on the Anjia Army positions outside the landing site.
Under the cover of artillery fire, nearly 10,000 Japanese troops were divided into several groups to carry out assaults, and the fighting continued all night.
The Anjia Army always focused on defense. No matter how tired they were, they would build three defenses before they could rest. Therefore, the Japanese attack hit the iron plate.
The Anjia officers and soldiers were placed behind the barbed wire. Relying on the fortifications, the Japanese army could not penetrate no matter which direction they attacked. After a hard night's fighting, the Japanese army finally retreated in disgrace, leaving more than two thousand corpses in front of the position. The casualties of the Anjia officers and soldiers were
There are only seventy-two people.
In the south of the oil port Dumai, in order to prevent the Japanese army from destroying the oil fields, Zong Xingzhen's 10th Army marched overnight, and the Japanese troops fled. The two divisions of the 10th Army that came ashore got behind the Japanese army and pursued them fiercely.
Don't give your opponent a chance to breathe.
The Japanese troops were being pursued urgently. Some soldiers, led by junior officers, turned around and charged with bayonets. However, they were easily repelled by the officers and soldiers of the 10th Group, who were covered by tanks and armored vehicles. During the night-long battle, the Japanese troops launched fierce attacks several times.
offensive, but all ended in failure.
In the southern area of Panjiang Strait, the multiple lines of defense that the Japanese army hastily built in the north of Jambi were broken by the vanguard of Fu Guanjie's Third Group Army and Lu Xiong's 20th Group Army, while the Japanese troops distributed in Riau, West Sumatra and Jambi were defeated.
Japanese army
The attack on the Anjia Army air force paratroopers in Langat, Maradensibe, Bangko and other places also failed. The Japanese army was never able to gather into a whole, resulting in the scattered Japanese army retreating steadily, and the central town of Jambi City was in danger.
Why did the Japanese army's offense and defense appear so weak? According to the plan drawn up by the pre-war staff department, it was expected that there would be a stalemate near the coastline for at least a week, and then the Japanese defense line would be broken through the attack by the powerful air force of the Anjia Army.
Burning the flames of war to the heart of Sumatra.
What is happening now has completely broken the previous understanding of the Japanese army. The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is at least several levels lower than expected by the General Staff.
After the war, the General Staff and the National Defense University jointly conducted a research project and found the following problems:
First, the Japanese army continued to expand its army, and the quality of its officers and soldiers varied greatly. Especially the troops deployed in the northern and central areas of Sumatra Island were almost all established after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They have been living in Sumatra since their completion and have not experienced actual combat.
Test, limited combat effectiveness;
Secondly, in the face of the Anjia Army's continuous defeat for many years, failure is almost the only theme. Facing the Anjia Army's attack, the Japanese army has become frightened. When the war comes, they do not have the determination and courage to fight to the death for victory. On the contrary, they have many difficulties.
As a result, during the war, he could not perform even half of the level of his usual training. Then, driven by his superior officers, he could only die in vain.
Third, the Anjia Army was equipped with night combat weapons such as infrared night vision devices, as well as artillery to assist in the battle. Although there was no air force to help, the Japanese army still suffered extraordinary blows during the movement, which made its offensive progress extremely slow.
It gave Anjiajun time to calmly mobilize troops for defense and reinforcements;
Fourth, in a densely jungled area like Sumatra, it was very difficult for the Japanese army to communicate without widespread use of walkie-talkies. In fact, during the multi-channel Japanese attack, the only effective communication tool seemed to be signal bombs, but the backlash was also obvious.
, so that Anjiajun’s artillery could clearly judge the direction of the Japanese army’s advance and strike accurately.
With the combined efforts of so many factors, the reality of the Japanese army's crushing defeat happened so suddenly.
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