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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2801 Fierce Pursuit

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    When a dozen jeeps and large trucks from the Australian Allied Forces Command turned a mountain ridge, more than 20 Japanese tanks, followed by thousands of Japanese soldiers, rushed to an open space in front of the cave. It was so dangerous.  In just over thirty minutes, the majestic U.S. Army Lieutenant General Bachlisman became a prisoner of the Japanese army.  ¡¶

    The Japanese soldiers began to search and soon discovered the cave. There were ashes of newly burned paper, bombed radio stations, and rags that were too late to clean up. The whole cave was in a mess. The Japanese commander who led the team was very worried.  With experience, he judged that this must be the location of a high-level headquarters of the Allied Forces, at least a division-level headquarters, which meant that there were big fish nearby, so he immediately reported the situation to the division headquarters.

    Coincidentally, General Ito Genzaburo happened to be in the direction of the division's advance. After listening to the division commander's report, he became interested and went to the cave to check it in person, including not putting away every scrap of paper with writing on it.  Yes, look at it very carefully and carefully.

    "Gentlemen, what is certain is that the Allied commander here has just left, and he left in a very embarrassed manner. It can be seen that the Allied troops are now in disarray. They immediately ordered the troops to search nearby to capture anyone alive.  !" General Ito ordered confidently.

    Then, he said to Chief of Staff Kawaguchi: "Kawaguchi-kun, don't waste too much time on these allied troops that have lost their combat effectiveness. Each division has enough troops to leave one regiment. The rest of the main forces will be sent immediately.  Go to the northeast and outflank the Allied forces. What I want is a battle of annihilation!"

    Thanks to General Ito¡¯s order, the superior Japanese troops were beaten to pieces on the front line of the Flinders Mountains and the Baril Mountains.  The Allied soldiers who had been trapped by the Japanese army were desperate. There were big holes everywhere in the defense line. Countless Japanese soldiers surged in like rising tides. The Allied troops had long lost their original organization.  .  They were divided into countless pieces by the Japanese army and surrounded, awaiting their fate.  Either captured by the Japanese army or beaten to death!

    I don¡¯t know why, but most of the Japanese soldiers who surrounded me suddenly withdrew.  This was for the Allied soldiers who were on the verge of despair.  It was tantamount to surviving a desperate situation. Taking advantage of the darkness and the small number of Japanese troops encircling them, the Allied soldiers had been dispersed and gathered together automatically. Three groups of two went to the roadless and far away place.  They walked away from the sound of gunfire and used various means to slip out of the Japanese encirclement.

    And in the northeast direction.  After nightfall, hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers became organic soldiers.  They quietly left the position and retreated to the south. They walked in such a mess that they didn't even have time to bury the bodies of their fallen comrades, and even abandoned artillery and other heavy equipment. What they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops  The soldiers, like hungry wolves, rushed towards me ferociously.

    As of the early morning of January 16, the troops of the 11th Allied Division in the northeast, numbering about 150,000, had been separated from the battlefield dozens of kilometers away, while the Japanese troops on the opposite side were not aware at all that their enemies were  It has slipped away, not because of the carelessness of the Japanese frontline commander, but because the headquarters has not ordered a high-intensity attack for so many days. What's more, the Allied troops, who have been suppressed by the Imperial Japanese Army, have not paid much attention to them.  in the heart of the Japanese commander.

    After daybreak, the Japanese artillery began to bombard the Allied positions at the same pace as before. The bombardment lasted for more than an hour. Then, a large number of Japanese infantry began to charge. However, when the Japanese soldiers were beaten to death, they rushed forward.  When they reached the position, they found that there was no trace of the Allied soldiers who were beaten so hard that they could not lift their heads. They only saw empty trenches, as well as ammunition boxes and weapons and equipment that they had no time to take away.

    Walking onto the empty position, Lieutenant General Okada Haruki, the commander of Japan's Northeastern Transfer Force of the Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force and the commander of the Ninth Army, was dumbfounded at the time. He immediately reported the situation to the headquarters of the Expeditionary Force in the Southwest Pacific. At this time,  The hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops outflanking the Allied retreat in northeastern Australia, the fastest vanguard, were still more than a day away from the scheduled battlefield.

    After receiving the telegram from Lieutenant General Okada, General Ito Genzaburo was almost furious. He was not able to encircle and annihilate hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers in northeastern Australia. This made him very angry, not because the combat attempt failed, but because  He had greatly lost face in front of his subordinates and escaped with hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. He was confident that he would wipe them all out in the subsequent battle, and the entire Australia would be under his control!

    General Ito, who was deeply embarrassed, naturally wanted to vent the evil fire in his heart. Therefore, Lieutenant General Okada, the commander of the Northeastern battlefield, became the target of course. In addition to being dismissed from his post, he was also imprisoned by General Ito.  The gendarmerie.

    As for this time, General Ito¡¯s decision to abandon the battle was also widely criticized by the senior officers of the dispatched army headquarters.In the direction of the mountains and the Barrier Mountains, the elite troops of the Imperial Army broke through the Allied defense lines and quickly attacked southward. I am afraid that the flag of the Japanese Empire has been planted on the land of southeastern Australia!

    After learning from the painful experience, General Ito finally gave up his original plan to encircle and annihilate hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers in the northeastern region of Australia. In fact, it could not be carried out. The expected enemies had long since disappeared without a trace. He issued an order.  The entire army was ordered to rest for a day, and then the troops were divided into six groups, each with nearly 200,000 troops, and quickly moved south.

    One day later, the Japanese soldiers, who had regained their energy and physical strength, and with the remaining power of victory, and the murderous aura and bloodthirsty in their hearts, had been completely aroused, followed the footsteps of the retreating Allied soldiers, with a murderous aura soaring to the sky,  Like a flood opening, it rushed towards the Allied second line of defense along the high mountains and narrow plains of northern Australia.

    The exhausted Lieutenant General Bahlisman, with his headquarters staff, kept retreating all the way to the south. The sound of gunfire became more and more distant, but no one felt safe. During the retreat, what he saw was  The situation made the previously confident U.S. Army lieutenant general feel so heavy that he could hardly breathe.

    It's very miserable. Allied soldiers who have lost their organizational structure can be seen everywhere. They are walking on the rugged mountain roads with blank faces and ragged clothes. From time to time, they see the corpses of collapsed soldiers and wounded soldiers who have lost the ability to move on the roadside, shouting in pain,  He asked his companions to take him with him, but the passing Allied soldiers seemed not to have seen him, and did not even glance at his seriously injured comrade.

    "The army is defeated like a mountain!" Lieutenant General Bahlisman sighed and thought that all he could do was to find as many officers as possible to take care of the wounded soldiers along the way. Three days later, Bahlisman was so haggard that he almost lost his appearance.  Lieutenant General Sman finally arrived at the Allied second line of defense. At this time, General Phil Nades, deputy commander-in-chief of the Australian Allied Forces, had already established a headquarters in Berry City on the south bank of the Lachlan River.

    Lieutenant General Bahlisman, together with the headquarters staff, rushed to Berry without stopping. When the two met, they felt as if they were in another world. There was less of a barrier. They probably sympathized with each other. Both of them were attracted by Ito Yanzaburo.  The fight was so embarrassing that no one could laugh at anyone!

    In the next two days, General Fernades was busy taking in the withdrawn troops and adjusting the deployment of the second line of defense. He deliberately let Lieutenant General Bahlisman, who was beaten half to death by the Japanese, rest.  For a few days, although I rarely had a good impression of Americans, especially Lieutenant General MacArthur, I still admired Lieutenant General Bahlisman who had taken his position.

    Not to mention that he was able to safely withdraw many troops under the fierce Japanese attack, but he was also prescient in ordering the Allied troops on the second line of defense to dig a large number of air-raid shelters and artillery holes.  The artillery holes will become the biggest support against the Japanese army and the trump card to save lives.

    While General Fernadez was too busy to touch the ground, Lieutenant General Bahlisman, who was lying on the hospital bed, was bleeding from pain, watching the casualties of the front-line troops reported by the staff department.

    On the defense lines in southwest and northeastern Australia, there were 21 Australian Allied divisions and nearly 450,000 troops. A few days after the Japanese launched the attack, only more than 200,000 soldiers were withdrawn from the second line of defense.  People, especially in the direction of the Flinders Mountains and the Baril Mountains, of the nearly 300,000 troops, less than 100,000 were withdrawn. Even the five divisions that had gone up for reinforcements were beaten to almost nothing.  , the losses were all elite troops.

    More than 200,000 Allied soldiers fell on the first line of defense. The losses were extremely heavy. This added to Lieutenant General Bahlisman's deep worries. The second line of defense was  The terrain conditions of the defense line are obviously not comparable to those of the first line of defense. Only the Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River and Asle River are natural barriers.

    The troops are also insufficient. Counting the withdrawn troops, the total strength is less than 300,000. Compared with the Japanese army's strength, it is more than three to one. Moreover, it does not have an advantage in equipment, and there are still losses.  Air supremacy, defending a front of more than 800 kilometers,

    After summarizing all aspects of the situation, the two commanders of the Australian Allied Forces, the commander-in-chief and the deputy commander, both had a deep sense of crisis. The reconnaissance troops sent out kept sending back bad news. Even in Berry City, they felt that a hundred  Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers came from the north, filled with murderous intent.

    Short of troops, artillery, and no planes, the next battle would be very difficult to fight. After discussion, Lieutenant General Bahlisman and General Fernades decided to report the crisis situation on the Australian battlefield.  To Allied Headquarters.

    In the telegram, they jointly proposed that if there were not enough reinforcements and a large amount of heavy equipment, especially the support of combat aircraft, Australia would fall between February and March.

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