In the evening, the night is like sand suspended in the turbid current, gradually settling down when it is still. Blue mist rises from the sea, and it surrounds the warships docked at the dock and the feet of the Japanese soldiers who are queuing up to board the ship.
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Marshal Juichi Terauchi, commander of the Japanese Southern Army, came to the dock surrounded by a group of staff officers and guards, preparing to board the heavy cruiser "Kumano" to welcome him out of Java.
Halfway to the gangway, Shouichi Terauchi stopped without warning, turned around and looked at the city of Surabaya in the distance, with a trace of tragedy and helplessness on his face.
"Commander, please hurry up!"
Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Shigenori Kuroda reminded him softly. Seeing the pale and haggard face in front of him, Kuroda felt very uncomfortable, but he didn't know how to comfort his commander.
Terauchi Shouichi was unmoved. He took off his military cap on his head, revealing his smooth bald head. He paused for two or three minutes, then pointed at Surabaya City and said to the anxious Kuroda Shigenori:
"Over the years, I have moved around from east to west, from Tokyo to Fengtian, from Fengtian to Peiping, and then to Xinjing. At the beginning of the 13th year of Showa, I was transferred from the Kwantung Army to the Southern Army... I left Java Island this time. I don't know if it will be my next move.
At the beginning of the war? From the bottom of my heart, I don’t want to leave! If I stay here and lead my troops to fight against the An family army, my role may be greater!"
"Commander, we have not given up the fight!"
Kuroda Shigenori comforted him by saying: "According to the base camp plan, the troops remaining in Java will be divided into parts and use guerrilla warfare to fight the Chinese army. Tonight, the divisions, independent infantry brigades and guards stationed in Lanyin and Luzon will
An operation codenamed 'Broken Arrow' will be taken against the Chinese, their property will be confiscated, and the Chinese will be imprisoned together. This will not only cut off the eyes and ears of Anjiajun, but also serve as hostages!
"His Majesty the Emperor has no intention of blaming the commander for the defeat in the Sumatra Island battle. This is proved by the fact that the Southern Army is still under the command of the commander. The headquarters is currently moved west to Guinea Island. It is just for overall strategic considerations.
Changchun China's military front, give full play to the advantages of our army and navy, and concentrate our efforts to defend Australia."
Juichi Terauchi sighed: "What a pity... As a result, our close cooperative relationship with Xiangjiang Group and Hongxing Society for many years will be destroyed. It will not be so easy to obtain penicillin, sulfa and other drugs in the future!
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"There's nothing we can do about this!"
Kuroda Shigenori shook his head: "Over the years, it is precisely because of the existence of Xiangjiang Group and Hongxing Society that we have treated the Chinese well. Although Mr. Ishihara believes that it is reasonable to drive the Chinese to serve the empire's strategy, rather than simply push them into the empire's
The opposite is more in line with the interests of the empire!
"However, the richest ethnic group in Lanyin Islands and Luzon Islands is the Chinese. If we cannot seize and confiscate the Anjiajun before they land, then the huge wealth will definitely be left to our opponents. This is an asset worth billions of dollars.
.The empire will never allow it to be lost in vain.”
Juichi Terauchi nodded slightly and continued walking on the escalator. He soon arrived on the deck of the heavy cruiser "Kumano". He was greeted by the captain and senior officers and walked to his rest cabin.
The ship is very fast. In the next week, the warship will cross the Bali Sea, Savu Sea, Banda Sea, Arafura Sea, enter the Gulf of Papua, and disembark in Port Moresby. There will be Juichi Shin Terauchi
The headquarters of the Southern Army is located.
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The Chinese community in Jakarta - Tangcheng under the cover of night.
After the Japanese army attacked the Lanyin Islands, the Heung Kong Group and Hong Hing Society gathered Chinese scattered across Java and Borneo to build Chinese communities on the grounds of protecting their own industries. These Chinese communities generally cover an area of several square kilometers.
, some are even more than ten square kilometers, with mainly two- to four-story reinforced concrete buildings on the periphery, supplemented by antique buildings in the Tang and Song Dynasty styles in the middle. They look beautiful and are proudly called Tangcheng by the Chinese.
Beginning in August and September this year, all the Chinese scattered in major cities and suburbs of Lanyin evacuated to various Tang cities, and the troops quietly sent ashore via submarines and speedboats organized all the young adults in Tang cities into "
Self-Defense Forces" and issued guns and ammunition to raise the alert level.
In the vast rural areas of Java and Borneo, villages imitating the earth forts in Fujian, Guangdong and other places stand in the wilderness. These villages are brick-concrete structures with walls more than 20 meters high and one or two hundred meters long.
The slightly smaller auxiliary forts, the earth forts are about 500 meters apart, can be very convenient for fire support. No matter which fort is attacked, the other earth forts will threaten the flanks.
It would not be possible for the Japanese army to eradicate all these villages one by one in a short period of time. Each village had already organized a "self-defense force" and invented local methods such as message trees and beacon towers to report news, in addition to preventing the Japanese army from suddenly turning against them.
, and can also mobilize troops to carry out harassment or ambush in a targeted manner based on the actions of the Japanese army.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the Japanese 74th Division, which was guarding the port of Jakarta, sent a regiment and quietly moved towards Tangcheng, preparing to use the cover of night to catch all the Chinese.
Just as the Japanese troops passed through the street, more than a dozen red flares were launched into the sky, illuminating every detail inside and outside Tangcheng.
In order to prevent the Japanese army from using building cover to approach Tangcheng, all areas connecting Tangcheng to other urban areas were built into green spaces and parks, leaving a full 500 meters of green belt in the middle.
"Kill me!"
Seeing that his whereabouts were exposed, the Japanese commander Yongguang Kobayashi pulled out his command sword from his waist and shouted: "Post a black card, on board... After rushing into Tangcheng, the sword will not be sealed for three days!"
The Japanese army let out a roar of cheers and rushed towards Tangcheng like a tide.
"shooting!"
Following the commander's order, the general-purpose machine guns mounted on the buildings on both sides of the street opened fire violently, and the charging Japanese troops fell one by one. However, the Japanese troops were extremely brave, stepping on the corpses of their companions and charging madly toward the street entrance.
, dozens of crooked-handle and chicken-neck machine guns were firing whip-like bullets behind the Japanese troops, and grenade launchers repeatedly threw grenades wildly at the firepower points arranged on the buildings on both sides of the street.
The barricade facing the direction of the Japanese army's advance was made of sandbags. The bullets made a "swishing" sound like raindrops. For a while, the sand was flying and the fire was shooting out.
Although the fighting was fierce on the buildings on both sides, the barricade was as quiet as death, and no one fired. The self-defense team members, mainly composed of special officers from the Anjia Army and members of the Hongxing Society, huddled behind the bunkers, holding hands tightly.
I-type automatic rifles and more than a dozen general-purpose machine guns were waiting quietly.
The Japanese army attacked very quickly. After the grenade and machine gun fire suppressed the firepower points deployed by the Anjia Army on the buildings on both sides, they rushed towards the street with roars, and the distance between them became closer and closer, from two hundred meters to one hundred meters.
Fifty meters, then a hundred meters, no one fired, but the self-defense team members had quietly revealed their heads under the cover of night. Their eyes filled with hatred were fixed on the direction of the muzzle of the gun pointed at the Japanese army.
"beat!"
Lieutenant Tai Yiyuan, captain of the Self-Defense Forces who serves as the commander of this route, comes from the Special Forces Group directly under the Third Army and has rich combat experience. He raised his automatic rifle and fired a shot at the charging Japanese. Before the gunshots were heard, there were already people around him.
The self-defense team members took a breath and fired vengeful bullets at the enemy in front of them.
All general-purpose machine guns were neatly placed with sandbags and fired fiercely at the Japanese troops. More than thirty machine gun fire points suddenly appeared on the buildings on both sides. The dense rain of bullets was tantamount to a naked massacre.
The general-purpose machine gun shoots very fast, cools down quickly, can replace the barrel faster, and has almost no malfunctions. The unprepared Japanese front-line commanders were horrified, and the soldiers around them were cut off like crops.
Sweep him to the ground.
In just a few minutes, the Japanese offensive formation was cleared of a large gap.
The crooked-handle and chicken-neck machine guns, which had almost no cover, were silenced. The Japs' machine gunners seemed to have been beaten to pieces by whip-like bullets. For a time, the Japs' gun positions used to cover the attack were almost completely destroyed.
In confusion, one after another stopped shooting and began to move.
The Japanese commander, Colonel Yumitsu Kobayashi, who led the team, quickly ordered all infantry artillery and grenade launchers to be concentrated to cover the firepower points guarding the entrance to the street.
The Japanese army's offensive tactics are very simple. They use infantry cannons and grenade launchers to kill the opponent's machine guns, use heavy machine guns to suppress the rifles, then charge desperately to a distance of 20 to 30 meters in front of the position, drop grenades, and then rush into the position to fight with the opponent's bayonets.
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The Japanese infantry guns and grenade launchers can be said to be the most threatening weapons at the moment. They are numerous and can strike from various angles.
For a time, the entrance to Tangcheng fell into a blazing hell. However, the wildfire could not be burned out. When the Japanese artillery fire stopped, new firepower emerged, and the Japanese army was pushed back again.
An hour and a half passed quickly. Under the cover of infantry artillery and grenade launchers, the Japanese army charged five times in a row, leaving behind 1,100 corpses and more than 500 casualties.
The outer defense line of Tangcheng stood firm and motionless. Correspondingly, the casualties of the escort team were also not small. More than 300 people closed their eyes forever, and more than 400 people were transferred to the hospital for rescue.
The Japanese army was stunned!
When Lieutenant General Sadae Yamazaki, commander of the 74th Division, heard the report of casualties at the former Dutch Governor's residence in the east of the city, he simply couldn't believe his ears. The troops who went to collect Chinese property were not only attacked, but also held for an hour and a half.
So many people were lost in the attack. Could it be that the main force of the Anjia Army has landed on Java Island?
The chief of staff next to him, Inoue Nakamori, seemed to have seen the division commander's question. This lucky man who was only a squadron leader when he was stationed in Jakarta and was promoted from lieutenant to general in just seven years was very good at figuring out people's thoughts and won the trust of all his colleagues.
To please his boss, he quickly came over and explained:
"According to my understanding, most of the guards in Tangcheng come from the Hongxing Society, a gangster organization, which is similar to our Black Dragon Society. The members have undergone certain military training and have considerable combat effectiveness. Moreover, the Xiangjiang Group and the Hongxing Society
Not short of money, I must have secretly purchased a lot of weapons and equipment from the Anjia Army over the years. I suggest immediately outflanking the two wings of Tangcheng and dispatching artillery to bombard Tangcheng."
Yamazaki Sadoe thought for a while and realized that taking down Tangcheng and plundering the huge wealth of the Chinese was a plan formulated by the base camp, and there was no room for error, so he immediately nodded in agreement.
The Japanese army's outflank was very effective. After all, Tangcheng did not have that kind of formal protective city wall. When the Japanese army attacked several street intersections at the same time, the defense line immediately became precarious. If it were not for the excellent weapons and sufficient ammunition,
It is estimated that the Japanese army will rush in.
What is particularly worrying is that the Japanese army has begun to mobilize artillery units deployed in the northern port area of Jakarta to Tangcheng. Once they are allowed to be deployed, Tangcheng will surely suffer devastating damage.
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