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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 3109 The War on the Western Front Ends

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    It can't rain in the desert, so where does the thunder come from?  The Japanese soldiers lying on the sand opened their happy eyes and looked at the sky. They saw the shadow of the plane appearing on the horizon in the distance under the scorching sun, but few Japanese soldiers wanted to move.  I thought it was an imperial plane coming to airdrop supplies.  ¡Ñ

    Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake had just poured a mouthful of sweet water into his thirsty throat when he heard and saw hundreds of planes flying in. He was momentarily absent-minded, and then his face turned pale. General Ito and  If you didn¡¯t tell yourself in the telegram that you would send a plane to drop supplies, then the only thing that would come would be a Chinese plane!

    "Air strike!" Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake shouted, "Baga! Order the troops to conduct air defense immediately!" He yelled at all the staff officers around him.

    The Japanese soldiers who had replenished their drinking water, filled their stomachs, and were enjoying their happiness saw countless small black dots suddenly falling from the sky as the fleet approached. The black dots shone under the bright sunshine.  The dazzling luster fell rapidly. Almost in an instant, the faces of all the Japanese soldiers turned pale. They were all veterans who had fought hard on the cruel battlefield. You still don't know what fell?

    "Boom! Boom! - Boom!" Strings of bombs, with ear-piercing screams, fell on the pile of Japanese soldiers, blowing up pillars of sand, mixed with the fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers, and scattered everywhere.  On the sand, the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke spread in the hot air.

    In the unobstructed desert, wherever there was shelter from air raids, bombs chased the Japanese soldiers and exploded.  There were also fighter jets swooping down, strings of bullets tearing apart the bodies of Japanese soldiers.  This desert became a place of massacre.  The supply point, which carried the life hopes of hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers, was the main target of the independent division's land-based aviation group bombing in the Australian battlefield. Amidst a burst of explosions and fireworks, the drinking water and supplies accumulated at the supply point turned into desert in the desert.  ruins.

    Liu Cuigang strictly followed the division commander's orders. However, the combat aircraft assembled at the field airport near Mount Vernon were not three bomber regiments and corresponding escort fighter jets.  Instead, there are six bomber regiments and eight fighter regiments. Liu Cuigang now has enough mobile combat aircraft groups to be used on any battlefield.

    Tang Qiuli¡¯s order to Liu Cuigang was, ¡°After receiving the order from the division commander, carry out destructive bombing of the Japanese supply points in the Dasha Desert.¡±

    According to Tang Qiuli¡¯s meaning, in the vast desert.  It is very difficult to find the supply points set up by the Japanese army. Liu Cuigang's fleet can follow the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers.  It was enough for the Japanese soldiers to endure the bombing of one place.

    However, Liu Cuigang obviously followed the command of his master.  He sent reconnaissance planes on a straight line from Roychier to Granitz.  Do a blanket search, then.  Note down the coordinates and carry out bombing at the same time. The first supply point the Japanese soldiers arrived at was just one of the bombing targets.

    After more than forty minutes of bombing, the Independent Division aircraft fleet returned, leaving behind a mess. The bodies of Japanese soldiers were mixed in the sand, and the gravel was soaked red with blood. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake got up from the sand and looked at  The tragic scene made me cry without tears. A few hours later, the remaining Japanese soldiers began to rush on their way, leaving the bodies of nearly 10,000 of their comrades behind.

    Fortunately, more than half of the Japanese soldiers had their military kettles filled with drinking water and carried enough food in their backpacks. They rushed to the next supply point and saved some food and drink, but it was still enough. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake sent the troops under attack  The situation of the air raid was immediately reported to General Ito. He hoped that the Commander-in-Chief could send combat aircraft to cover the march of the troops in the desert.

    Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake was thinking about the threat posed by the Independent Division aircraft to the troops trudging in the desert, but a few days later, he knew that the threat to the Imperial Army soldiers, who had already lost a lot of strength, was not just bombs falling from the sky.

    General Ito, who received the report from Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake, was once again so angry that he vomited blood. He made a dangerous move on his own, allowing the Imperial troops on the Western Front battlefield to escape a narrow escape, but the Chinese combat aircraft came again.  Making trouble, this is obviously not a way for people to live, right?

    Anyway, there is no war on the western front now, and the center battlefield is in a stalemate. General Ito still has room to mobilize some combat aircraft to provide the best possible air cover for the imperial soldiers struggling for their lives in the desert. What he doesn't know yet is  , from Granitz on the eastern edge of the desert to the hinterland of the desert, the supply points set up along the way were basically destroyed by the fleet sent by Liu Cuigang within one day.

    Since the aviation force of the Japanese Australian Front wanted to fight, Liu Cuigang was naturally willing to accompany him. So, in the desert airspace and under the hot sunshine, the land-based aviation group commanded by Liu Cuigang and the aircraft group of the Japanese Australian Front Aviation Command started a battle.  ?Fighting in the middle of the desert, the Japanese soldiers squirmed like a colony of ants. From time to time, they saw planes blown into pieces falling not far away. Most of them were imperial combat aircraft.

    However, the Japanese soldiers who retreated from the Western Front battlefield into the desert had no interest in the rare air battle. They faced a greater crisis. The next supply point was bombed, and everything within a few miles was bombed.  It was fried food, water sources that had long been evaporated by the sun, and the sun-drenched corpses of the soldiers left behind.

    When these exhausted Japanese soldiers, with their bodies almost depleted of body water, saw the scene in front of them, almost all of them were desperate, and officers at all levels were unable to suppress the desperate mood of the soldiers.  .  .  .  .  .

    More than ten days later, on the eastern edge of the Dasha Desert, groups of ragged and haggard Japanese soldiers walked out. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake, who was so thin that he was almost inhuman, finally walked out of the Dasha Desert alive. Behind him were six soldiers.  , 70,000 soldiers who struggled out of the desert by drinking the blood of their dead comrades.

    The four armies and more than 400,000 Japanese soldiers on the Western Front lost more than 100,000 people on the battlefield. The remaining 200,000 people walked into the vast desert and finally came out alive.  There were only 60,000 to 70,000 people, and more than 100,000 people stayed in the desert forever. The entire Australian Western Front battlefield swallowed the lives of more than 300,000 Japanese soldiers.

    Tang Qiuli's method of replacing troops with sand achieved unprecedented success. The Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers in the desert without dispatching a single soldier. Otherwise, even if  It was the last time that all the Japanese troops on the Western Front battlefield were wiped out. The casualties among the soldiers of the Independent Division were also not small.

    The almost humanoid Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake was taken back to Darwin in northern Australia by a plane sent by General Ito. However, the 60 to 70 thousand Japanese soldiers who had just come out of the desert were still resting in Granitz.  One or two months of recuperation will not restore combat effectiveness at all, and will consume a lot of resources.

    For General Ito, he had to swallow the bitter pill of failure on the Western Front battlefield, and he also had to face the problem of how hundreds of thousands of independent division troops would act on the freed Western Front battlefield. This independent division troops,  If it is added to any part of the central and eastern battlefields, it will be a fatal blow to the Imperial Australian Front.

    As for the more than 80,000 troops that rushed from the east coast of Australia to the Western Front battlefield to try to rescue the Imperial Army on the Western Front, General Ito never dared to send them into the tiger's mouth. Therefore, they walked to Wo  While doing science popularization in the area, they received an order from the Australian Front Army Headquarters and organized them into the center-line battlefield combat unit sequence on the spot. This was also the last unit in the hands of General Ito.

    Tang Qiuli also needs to seriously consider the issue of the next direction of attack for the Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps after solving the Japanese army on the Western Front battlefield, which is in Roy Hill City. Tang Qiuli and Tang Qiusheng met  .

    The military meeting lasted all day, and finally it was decided that the Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps would be united and attack from the north from the Sanggu and Mandola areas, passing through the Kimberley Plateau, and aiming directly at the important town in northern Australia -  ¡ªDarwin.

    Then, they attacked south from Darwin and, together with the Feng Jiwu Niangziguan garrison troops in the MacDonnell Mountains, surrounded the Japanese troops on the central battlefield at Granitz, Waukop and Mount Isa.

    This is a bargain-hunting campaign plan. After eliminating the Japanese troops on the central battlefield, victory in the Australian campaign is already certain. In this plan, Tang Qiuli also has another intention, which is to take advantage of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet to leave the northern waters of Australia.  , the Jiang Yanming Department of the Songhu Garrison Corps staying on Java Island, and the Yuan Jinghao Department of the North China Field Corps staying on Irian Island, crossed the sea and went south, forming an absolute advantage in strength over the Japanese troops in the Australian battlefield.

    On the Australian battlefield, annihilating the only heavy overseas Japanese army group was the core purpose of the Australian campaign. Tang Qiuli could not allow the Japanese troops on the Australian battlefield to have the opportunity to withdraw to the Japanese mainland and let the tigers return to the mountains, so as not to interfere with future battle plans to attack the Japanese mainland.  , increasing the difficulty.

    Therefore, no matter how high the price is, Tang Qiuli will make the Australian battlefield a burial place for nearly two million Japanese soldiers. The Japanese have lost their last overseas heavy military group, and the local defense force is extremely empty. Australia  This is the point of the decisive battle.

    After the troops of the Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps rested for three days in places such as Royhill, Sanggu and Mandola, Tang Qiuli and Tang Qiusheng commanded an army of more than 500,000 and marched northward, attacking almost  There is no main force of Japanese troops in the west coast of Australia.

    The independent division troops on the Western Front battlefield have finally taken action. This is a fact that General Ito Yanzaburo both wants to see and is afraid of seeing. If the Independent Division troops on the Western Front battlefield stand still, he will not sleep or eatHowever, after he started to move, he felt unprecedented pressure. The biggest problem was that General Ito did not have enough troops.

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