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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 3046 The War in North America Restarts

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    "The meeting will begin soon!" Nan Yunzhong nodded and said, "I am rushing to Honiara, just to get familiar with the current situation of the combined fleet as soon as possible!"

    More than a hundred senior officers of the Combined Fleet had rushed back to the conference room in advance, waiting for the arrival of their new boss. When they saw General Nanyun Zhong Long Xiang walking in, they all stood up and shouted: "Welcome to your Excellency, Commander."  !¡±

    Nagumo Tadashi had a stiff smile on his wooden face, waved his hand, motioned for the officers to take their seats, and said: "Admiral Yamamoto, the former commander of the Combined Fleet, is the most outstanding commander of the Imperial Navy. I myself have  I am very honored to have participated in a series of combat operations against the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet under the command of General Yamamoto. Now General Yamamoto feels unwell and is temporarily staying in China to recuperate! "

    "Therefore, the base camp has given me the important task of commander of the Combined Fleet. Commander Yamamoto has left the best tradition to the Combined Fleet. We should continue to carry it forward, but I want to remind you that from now on,  , the commander of the combined fleet is Nagumo Chuichi!"

    "Okay, the regular meeting is over. The fleet commanders and department heads at all levels of the headquarters are here to stay. The rest of the officers can adjourn the meeting and return to their respective jobs!"

    "That's it. The more than a hundred senior officers who were about to listen to the new commander's long speech were all dumbfounded. It seemed that Commander Nagumo Chuichi didn't say anything. He just emphasized Commander Yamamoto's achievements and was confused?

    Nagumo Chuichi has been idle at home for many years and has long become an unknown role, among most of the officers of the United Fleet.  I have never even heard of this person's name before, but I am going to mention it in today's commander's speech.  Officers who have found some clues and prepare for outstanding performance in the future.  I couldn't help but be disappointed.

    But some officers with bright minds smelled something different from the sentence "I would like to remind you that from now on, the commander of the combined fleet is Nagumo Chuichi!" In one sentence,  "With one emperor and one courtier, the Combined Fleet will change, and the cards will be reshuffled internally. At least, until Admiral Yamamoto recovers from his illness, the Combined Fleet will be ruled by Chuichi Nagumo!"

    General Nagumo Tadashi kept saying "Commander Yamamoto," and Chief of Staff Matsuda felt his heart twisting as he heard the inside story. He even heard a different meaning in those crucial words, and he couldn't help but think dejectedly.  Said: "It is not yet known whether the combined fleet can continue to be glorious in the future!"

    In the next higher-level military meeting, Admiral Nagumo Tadashi maintained his usual cautious style and listened carefully to each fleet commander.  The current specific situation of the escort mission was not given any new instructions at the meeting.  Just a few instructions, "Continue to execute the original orders from the base camp. The current main mission of the combined fleet is still to focus on army escort!"

    This way.  On the contrary, these fleet commanders were confused about the identity of the new commander. Unintentionally, they gave Nagumo Chuichi a mysterious veil. After the meeting, only General Nagumo Chuichi was left in the conference room.  and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Matsuda.

    Nagumo Chuichi had something on his mind, and Chief of Staff Matsuda felt that he had nothing to say. The two giants of the combined fleet were relatively speechless and silent for a while. After a while, Admiral Nagumo sighed and said: "  Chief of Staff Matsuda, tell me, what happened to General Yamamoto?"

    Compared with Nagumo Chuichi who took up his new position and used two fighter groups to escort him, General Ito Genzaburo, the new commander of the Japanese Australian Front, is much more low-key. He is the first person who was transferred to Australia from the North American battlefield.  The troop transport fleet of the Seventh Army arrived at the port of Darwin in northern Australia together.

    The accompanying personnel, in addition to several staff officers and more than a dozen guards, also included his old subordinates, Major General Akutagawa, who had just served as deputy chief of staff of the North American Combat Command. Just the day before boarding the ship in Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States, General Ito  It has been proposed to the base camp that Major General Akutagawa serve as Chief of Staff of the Imperial Australian Front Headquarters, and it has been approved.

    The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Seventh Army who came all the way from the North American battlefield had no idea that they were on the same boat as the number one and number two figures of the Imperial Australian Front. General Ito did not want to be too showy and arrived  After arriving at the headquarters, the first thing he did was to send a long telegram to the base camp based on General Minamino's suggestion, replenishing a large amount of heavy equipment and requesting more Army aviation.

    Then, in the name of the newly formed Imperial Australian Front Army Headquarters, orders were issued to the troops arriving one after another, "After arriving at the Australian battlefield, all troops will mainly rest and adapt to the local conditions in Australia. There will be no combat missions in a short period of time!"  "

    The second thing is that after resting for more than two hours at the headquarters, General Ito took Chief of Staff Akutagawa andAlong with the staff and guards, he left the Darwin headquarters and rushed to the battlefield in central Australia where the independent division troops were fighting fiercely and under heavy artillery fire. He wanted to visit the front line in person to obtain first-hand information.

    At this moment, on the battlefield in central Australia, Lieutenant General Morishita, the former commander of the Japanese Army in Australia, who was commanding his troops to engage in a fierce battle with Tang Qiusheng's troops, was extremely disappointed and angry. An order from the base camp completely changed everything. Not only the plan  Among them, the throne of the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Australian Front has no chance for him. Moreover, the designation of the original Australian Army was revoked, and the designation of the Army's Fourteenth Army was restored, which was placed under the command of the newly established Imperial Australian Front Command.

    In other words, from the moment he received the order from the base camp, he became one of several military commanders under Ito Genzaburo. He was reduced from his previous unrivaled position in Australia to an insignificant role.  The psychological gap is so huge, almost to the point of extreme disappointment!

    So much so that Lieutenant General Morishita, who was clamoring for a full-scale counterattack, became discouraged and began to treat the war on the front line negatively, seeking no achievements but no mistakes. This attitude affected the emotions of the first-level commanders of the divisions.  , which in turn affected all Japanese troops on the battlefield in central Australia.

    Tang Qiusheng's experience is so sophisticated that he is keenly aware of the changes in the Japanese troops on the front line. Although more and more Japanese troops are gathering in northern Australia, the troops used on the battlefield in central Australia are still the same. Seize the opportunity and move forward in four directions.  The independent division troops heading north began a fierce new round of offensive.

    Tang Qiusheng¡¯s order to the commanders of various offensive forces was, ¡°Take advantage of the weak fighting spirit of the Japanese army to launch a powerful offensive against the enemy in front of you. You do not want to occupy many areas, but mainly kill and injure the effective strength of the Japanese army.  Before launching a full-scale counterattack, wipe out most of the Japanese troops in the central Australian battlefield!"

    When General Ito Genzaburo rushed to the front line with his capable command team, it was exactly when the Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties and were retreating steadily on the battlefield in central Australia.

    Tang Qiuli, who had left the Phnom Penh Naval and Air Force Base in the Gulf of Thailand and returned to the Yangon Division, received the information that Ito Genzaburo was appointed as the commander of the Japanese Australian Front. In front of Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe, he said with a smile.  : "Ito Genzaburo, I'm an old acquaintance. We fought against each other on the Yunnan-Burma battlefield before. At that time, Ito Genzaburo was commanding the Japanese Southern China Expeditionary Force, but he didn't get any favors!"

    "Forward the original text of this information to Deputy Commander Tang. He is more familiar with Ito Yanzaburo. At the beginning, it was Deputy Commander Tang who commanded the Southeast Mobile Corps and the 29th Corps to drive Ito Yanzaburo and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.  The Savage Mountain at the junction of Yunnan and Myanmar, and the one who drove out the Indo-China Peninsula, he is more familiar with Ito Genzaburo's methods than I am!"

    The Japanese naval combined fleet still focuses on escorting. The number of Japanese troops arriving on the Australian battlefield has exceeded one million, but they have not been invested in the central Australian battlefield. Generally speaking, the Australian battlefield is still roughly the same as before, except that  In recent days, the offensive of the independent division troops has been strengthened, and the Japanese army has only suffered a loss. The overall change has not been much.

    The Australian battlefield has not changed much, but the North American battlefield, which has been silent for several months, has once again ignited the flames of war. According to the instructions of the head of state Hitler, more than one million Japanese troops were forced away, and the commander of the German Army Group South America had no worries.  Marshal Rommel could no longer hold back his murderous aura and began to fight against the Americans.

    At the end of July, Rommel commanded more than four million elite German troops to launch a full-line offensive into the northern and eastern United States from Denver, Cheyenne and other places in the center, and Austin, Abilene and other places in the south.

    The German Army Group South America, which had been recuperating for a long time, under the command of Rommel, was obviously going to decide the outcome with one blow. It was like thunder. The German Seventh Army Group Army and Eighth Army Group on the south road  , Ninth Army, Eleventh Army, Twelfth Army, Thirteenth Army, Fifteenth Army, Sixteenth Army and other units fought fiercely with the US military in Oklahoma, Little Rock, and Jackson.

    The rest of the troops in the center fought fiercely with the U.S. and Canadian troops on the Lincoln, Topeka, and Kensington lines. In addition to the two main offensive directions, Rommel also used the strength of five armies to attack the northern United States.  Bismarck, Peel, Williston and other places, launched attacks, aiming directly at the U.S-Canada border in the northern United States, thereby threatening the U.S. wartime capital of Duluth.

    Rommel's violent attack immediately put great pressure on the US and Canadian forces. The situation in the eastern battlefield was still sustainable. After all, there was a vast and deep area that could offset the German offensive. However, the situation in the northern battlefield was not optimistic, especially in the northern battlefield.  It was Duluth, the wartime capital, about to be exposed to the spearhead of the German attack.

    Restricted by the US-Canada border, it is impossible for the US military and the Canadian army to maneuver on a large scale and to defend point by point and place by place.?The Canadians obviously do not want to bring the war to their own country. On several battlefields, the fighting was the most intense in the north, and the US military suffered the heaviest casualties.

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