Age of Rebirth

This is a question that requires an eye for battle. Chief of Staff Kawaguchi thought for a while and replied: "Commander, according to my personal judgment, the Allied commanders will deploy enough troops from the northeast where the pressure is relatively low. Break through the Royal Army troops on the front lines of Massari, Mirpalinka, and Warnering, and counterattack in order to block the opening, otherwise, our Royal Army troops will go south and take the southeastern part of Australia!"

"Kawaguchi-kun, your judgment is not unreasonable, but it is exactly what I hope!" General Ito said mysteriously, "Order the reconnaissance aircraft unit of the Air Force to strengthen the aerial reconnaissance of the Allied forces in the northeast, go, Kawaguchi Jun, accompany me to the battlefield to have a look!"

"No!" Major General Kawaguchi objected excitedly, "Commander-in-Chief, you are the supreme commander of the Imperial Army in Australia, and the battle is not over yet, and the troops are encircling and annihilating the remaining Allied soldiers, you can't risk yourself! "

"Kawaguchi-san! Don't you think your worries are unnecessary!" Seeing his chief of staff blushing in anxiety, General Ito said with a smile, "I like the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood on the battlefield very much, because that Reminds me of the old conquest years. Ever since I got the star of the Imperial General, there is almost no chance. I am on the battlefield, Kawaguchi-kun, you cannot deprive an Imperial veteran of his power !"

After finishing speaking, General Ito shook the cloak on his body and strode down the mountain. Chief of Staff Kawaguchi looked worried and helpless, and hurriedly called the captain of the guard, and ordered: "All the guards must be dispatched, and the commander-in-chief must be ensured." Personal safety!" Then, he hurriedly chased after General Ito's back.The boss wants to experience the breath of the battlefield, and the senior officers of the dispatched army headquarters will naturally not stay in the safe rear.They followed each other and got into the car.

At about ten o'clock in the morning on January 200th, Tang Qiuli was at the division command in Yangon, dealing with daily military affairs. Since the main corps of the independent division were transferred southward to Indochina Peninsula and Hainan Island, more than [-] million troops gathered. The affairs are very numerous and complex.The telegrams that fly to the teacher's fingers every day are like snowflakes.

The morning sun of Indochina in January shines through the open windows.Reflecting this small office transparently, Tang Qiuli looked at the thick stack of telegrams and documents waiting for approval, with a sad face.These telegrams and documents.Many of them were signed and issued by themselves, and then reported. Fortunately, Brother Qiusheng took on most of the daily military affairs and all civil affairs for him.

Sighing, Tang Qiuli picked up a telegram.Look carefully, "Bang bang bang!" The door of the office.Being knocked heavily, "Come in!" he shouted.

The door opened, and the division pointed to the chief of staff, Zhao Yuhe, and the chief of the staff, Ge Zhenzhuang, walked in, "Yuhe, chief of staff Ge, you came at the right time, this telegram will be sent to Han Tie of the Marine Corps immediately." !" Tang Qiuli said while saying hello.

Zhao Yuhe didn't have the telegram in his long hand, but took out another telegram and said, "Master, let's put other things aside first. You must be interested in this telegram!"

Tang Qiuli looked at Zhao Yuhe and said with a smile, "A chief of staff and a chief of staff have come together mysteriously. There must be something important happening. Tell me!"

"Nothing can be hidden from the commander!" Zhao Yuhe shook his head and said, "Received the information just sent by the intelligence department. Thousands of troops launched a fierce attack on the positions of the Allied forces on the line between the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains in Australia, and the battle is still going on so far!"

"Wait!" Tang Qiuli said, "The efficiency of the intelligence department is not high. It has been more than six hours before the intelligence on the Australian battlefield was collected. Yu Deshui's intelligence department and the intelligence network in Australia are very weak. ?"

Zhao Yuhe's face became bitter all of a sudden, and he said helplessly: "Master, please understand the difficulties of the intelligence department. The Australian battlefield is more than 40 kilometers long, and there are hundreds of battlefields. To verify the real situation on the battlefield, the strength of the two sides participating in the battle has reached as many as [-] million, you don't give the intelligence department enough time?"

"Don't make excuses for Yu Deshui. Information requires effectiveness. Well, what's the real battle situation?" Tang Qiuli said bluntly.

Zhao Yuhe was a little excited, and said: "It is very appropriate to describe it as the collapse of the defense line. The newly appointed commander of the Australian Allied Forces, the American Lieutenant General Barry Hessman, probably did not expect that Genzaburo Ito would take such a The fierce offensive, the Allied troops located on the front line of the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains have been severely damaged, especially the battles in the three directions of Massari, Mirpalinka and Warnering are the most intense!"

"It seems that Genzaburo Ito is using the above three areas as the key breakthrough direction. The eight first-class divisions that the Japanese base camp sent to the Australian battlefield have all been deployed there. The current situation on the battlefield is one-sided. !"

Tang Qiuli looked thoughtfully at Zhao Yuhe and Ge Zhenzhuang, and asked, "What do your staff think about this?"

Zhao Yuhe immediately replied: "Master, the staff believes that the defeat of the Allied forces in Australia is inevitable. The southwestern defense line of the Allied forces was breached by the Japanese and lost a favorable defensive zone. The door is wide open, and the Allied forces deployed on the second line have a strength of only over 40, most of whom are British and Australian troops exhausted from long-term battles, and cannot stop the in-depth attack of nearly a million Japanese troops!"

"According to intelligence information, the Allied forces are now engaged in melee with the Japanese in an attempt to regain lost positions. However, in the face of the superior Japanese forces, the Allied defense forces on the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains will soon They were wiped out, and as for the Allied forces on the second line of defense, they were unable to stop the Japanese attack. Therefore, Director Ge and I judged that the Australian War would end within two months, and the Allied forces would be defeated! "

"Master, the Australian war has won and lost, and it's our turn to take action!" Zhao Yuhe said with bright eyes, eager to try.

"The Allied forces must be defeated?" Tang Qiuli was not as excited as Zhao Yuhe expected, but shook his head slowly, frowning and muttering to himself.

Zhao Yuhe was taken aback for a moment, exchanged surprised looks with Ge Zhenzhuang, and then asked tentatively, "Teacher, what concerns do you have?"

Tang Qiuli raised his head, looked at the green under the sun outside the window, and said: "Yuhe, the rapid defeat of the Australian Allied Forces is not in our interests. The Japanese army under Ito Genzaburo occupied Australia without a lot of consumption. The next step must be to return to defend the current Japanese-occupied area with enough troops, after all, we have an army of more than two million soldiers stationed in the Indochina Peninsula, and our intentions are obvious!"

"Yuhe, in my current capacity as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia theater headquarters of the Allied Forces, I sent a telegram to the Australian Allied Forces Commander Barry Hessman, requesting that the Allied Forces on the front line of the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains Troops, don't fight to the death with the Japanese army, take advantage of the opportunity not to be encircled by the Japanese army, quickly retreat to the second line of defense, and reorganize the defense system!"

"Send a telegram to several commanders who are in charge of transporting the Allied troops to reinforce the Australian battlefield troops to speed up the transportation of the Allied troops, and send a telegram to the Chief of the Logistics Department, and send the second batch of troops who have arrived in West India as quickly as possible. Allied troops, change equipment, some good things, don't hide them!"

"Master!" Zhao Yuhe rolled his eyes and said, "Your second order is easy to execute. The key to the two telegrams is to give the order to Barry Hessman, and the American can obey it." Is it? The Australian Allied Forces have accepted your order, and if the retreat turns into a rout across the board during the retreat, your responsibility is not small!"

"Stop rambling, go!" Tang Qiuli said dissatisfied, "Looking at Barry Hessman's style of play, he wants to fight the Japanese army on the line between the Flinders Mountains and the Baril Mountains, and his strength is already at a disadvantage. , I still don’t know how to avoid the edge, Ito Gensaburo is eager for the Allied forces to do this, if they don’t withdraw, they will be surrounded! As for whether the American can accept my order, it depends on God’s will!”

On the Australian battlefield, Massari and General Ito Yanzaburo, surrounded by a large group of senior officers, walked onto the battlefield full of bomb craters and corpses of allied soldiers, surrounded by countless Japanese soldiers whizzed by.

General Ito was obviously very interested. Regardless of the pungent bloody smell, he leaned over to inspect the corpses of several Allied soldiers who had been stabbed to death by bayonets. He nodded in satisfaction, and said to the generals and officers around him: Have you seen it, this is the brave and invincible performance of our soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, hand-to-hand combat is the best embodiment of the bravery of imperial warriors!"

"When the sharp bayonet pierced the chest of the enemy soldier, the blood splashed, accompanied by the enemy soldier's fearful eyes and mournful screams when the casualties came, what a wonderful moment! Thinking about it makes me It's a pity that I can't go to battle in person, and I can't experience that kind of beauty. What a pity!"

General Ito was immersed in his own artistic conception, using the beautiful language of poetry, speaking to himself, all the Japanese officers around him were speechless, but there was also some admiration, war is cruel, although every big Japanese The soldiers of the empire all lack the desire to shed blood and the wild killing in their hearts. They regard the destruction of the enemy as their ultimate goal, but not everyone can describe killing on the battlefield as beautifully as poetry!

Obviously, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is one of the alternatives. Looking at the stunned and admiring officers around him, General Ito was very satisfied, and said to the Chief of Staff, Major General Kawaguchi: "What is the movement of the Allied troops in the northeast direction? No?"

(to be continued) (to be continued...)