Age of Rebirth

"Wang Shijie! What is he doing here?" Chairman Jiang couldn't help being stunned. In the eyes of his colleagues and subordinates, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government was short and fat, with a serious face and a scholarly demeanor. There is nothing important, and he never troubles himself. He is a subordinate who makes Generalissimo Jiang very worry-free. ,

"Could it be that it has something to do with the Americans who let Tang Qiuli's subordinates drive away?" Generalissimo Jiang suddenly had a heartbreak, and ordered his attendants to say, "Minister Wang, please come in!"

Wang Shijie walked in a hurry, with sweat on his face, "Xue boat, why did you come to see me in such a hurry?" Generalissimo Jiang called Wang Shijie's name and said kindly.

Wang Shijie wiped the sweat off his face and replied: "Chairman, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just received a written protest from the US ambassador to China, Tadreus, protesting against our military personnel and violently expelling the diplomatic personnel from the Allied headquarters. And wounded the observers at the Allied headquarters, this is a great insult to the Allies and the United States, the US government lodged solemn representations, demanding that we severely punish the perpetrators and give the US government a satisfactory explanation, you see..."

Wang Shijie didn't know that Zhang Qun hadn't had time to inform him of what had happened before, so he believed that only the Central Unification Bureau and the Military Unification Bureau had the courage to drive the Americans away and fight them regardless of diplomatic etiquette. They are those arrogant soldiers of the Central Army. However, these people are all the confidantes and confidantes of Chairman Jiang, and they may have been instructed by the Chairman. How to explain to the Americans is up to the old man to make up his mind!

"Niang Xipi!" Generalissimo Jiang broke out again, "Niang Xipi's Tang Qiuli, everyone has left. You left me with a big trouble! Bastard!" As he said, he put the water glass on the table.He fell hard to the ground, trembling with anger.The lips are pale and the face is blue.

"What?" Wang Shijie was taken aback, his mind turned for a moment, and he understood the general idea, but he still asked: "Chairman, you mean that it was Vice Chairman Tang's subordinates who drove away and injured the Americans?"

"Who else is there besides him?" Generalissimo Jiang said bitterly.

"The protest of the Americans..." It involved Vice Chairman Tang, who stomped his foot and the country was shaken.Wang Shijie didn't dare to make his own claims, and had to obey Chairman Jiang's decision.

"Let the Americans go to Tang Qiuli to protest!" Chairman Jiang gritted his teeth and said: "Xue boat, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs will immediately form a diplomatic document of the incident and reply to Tadreus. The matter was definitely not done by the Nationalist government, but Tang Qiuli's arbitrariness, and I hope it will not affect the relationship between China and the United States!"

"That's the only way to go!" Wang Shijie said with a wry smile.He knew very well that Vice Chairman Tang dared to do this to show that he was not afraid of American protests and he had confidence.You don't take Americans seriously, but you always lack diplomatic etiquette?

Sitting on the special plane, Tang Qiuli was admiring the scenery under the wing.I don't know that the US ambassador to China, Tadreus, submitted a letter of protest to the Nationalist government.I don't know how Wang Shijie, the foreign minister of the state government, talked to the Americans.Anyway, anyway, there is no more content, the Americans don't protest, they don't shout, and the flags die down, this matter is over.

Tang Qiuli may have forgotten this matter a long time ago. In his opinion, if you drive out the Americans, you will be driven away, and you will be beaten if you beat them. What's the big deal? You Americans go to China Come to fan the flames, provoke a civil war, do not kill, it is already very controlled, not to mention, the United States now, hum!What kind of role?

After Tang Qiuli returned to Yangon, he stayed in Yangon for three days. In the early morning of August [-]th, he led his teachers and members, bid farewell to his three wives, and left the Indochina Peninsula by special plane, heading for southern Australia. The route he took was the East Indian Ocean. Close to the Chagos Islands route, the flight route is always within the combat radius of the independent division's land-based aviation.

In order to ensure the air safety of the division commander along the way, Major General Le Yiqin, the commander of the Southern Aviation Group of the Independent Division Air Force, did not spend much time. From the selection of the route to the deployment of the escort troops, he personally drafted it to be foolproof and strictly confidential. Even the commander of the escorting fighter jet group learned of his specific mission only after Tang Qiuli's special plane took off.

In the airspace of the Northern Mariana Islands, Le Yiqin ambushed Yamamoto 56, but he didn't want this scene to repeat itself on the commander. For this reason, the number of escort fighters he dispatched reached more than 120 from two regiments, and along the way The land-based aviation combat units are all in a state of battle. Once the Japanese fighter jets intercept the division commander's plane, Le Yiqin can mobilize more than 600 fighter jets to provide support.

Regarding such a large-scale escort fleet, Tang Qiu had surprisingly no objection. That afternoon, after the special plane landed at the Adelaide Field Airport in southern Australia, the first thing he did was to instruct Chief of Staff Ge Zhenzhuang, " Director Ge, immediately send a telegram to Le Yiqin, we have landed safely at the Adelaide Field Airport, otherwise, that guy is in a hurry!"

At this time, the battlefield in central Australia has undergone tremendous changes. The Japanese troops who were desperately resisting began to retreat quickly to northern Australia. Especially in the four main attack directions of the independent division troops, the Japanese troops retreated very simply. All gave up favorable terrain conditions. On the surface, the Japanese army could not support it, gave up blocking, and had to retreat in great strides, so as not to be consumed by the independent division troops on the battlefield in central Australia.

On this day, the independent divisions attacking from all directions made rapid progress, as if they had entered no one's land. The front line advanced an average of more than [-] kilometers, and the soldiers pointed directly at the last nest of the Japanese army. momentum.

"Guanghan, have the Japanese troops on the battlefield in central Australia reached the point where they cannot sustain it?" After receiving the reports from the commanders of the various troops, Tang Qiusheng, the deputy division commander and commander-in-chief of the Australian troops, was not overjoyed and asked the staff Longer than Guanghan.

Yu Guanghan replied without hesitation: "Deputy division commander, although the Japanese troops on the battlefield in central Australia suffered heavy casualties under our army's multi-pronged attack, they are far from unbearable. It is judged that the Japanese army's retreat northward across the board should be a conspiracy to lure our army to continue to attack north!"

"Hmph! Luring the enemy deep, old-fashioned trick!" Tang Qiusheng said with a sneer, "It should be the trick that Gensaburo Ito used after he took office. He hasn't fought for several years, and he hasn't made much progress!"

"Deputy Commander, do you want to order the troops to stop attacking immediately and stand by?" Yu Guanghan suggested, since he has seen through the conspiracy of Ito Gensaburo, the most correct way to deal with it is for the troops to stop attacking and not be fooled!

"No!" Tang Qiusheng's eyes were shining with wisdom, and he said: "The Japanese army retreated from the solid defense system, which just created a good opportunity for us to order the attacking troops from all walks of life to allocate half of the troops to fight against the enemy. Mainly mechanized troops, forming a fast pursuit force, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army being exposed to the wild, biting a few bites hard!"

"The principle of combat is to attack quickly, concentrate all firepower, strike quickly and withdraw quickly, and strive to focus on annihilation, pursue the depth within [-] kilometers, and at the same time, order Wu Zhenjiang to dispatch fighter jets to provide air fire support. Send a large number of reconnaissance planes to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese army in northern Australia!"

"Deputy Commander, your move is ruthless enough. Old devil Ito wanted to lure the enemy into deep, so we took the opportunity to bite hard and then quickly retreated. It was useless for him to mobilize heavy troops to encircle our pursuit troops!" Yu Guanghan refined summed up.

"Okay, stop flattering!" Tang Qiusheng said with a smile: "We must remind the commanders of the rapid pursuit troops that a depth of [-] kilometers is an insurmountable limit. Each department can make specific decisions about the depth of the pursuit according to the situation of the enemy in front. Adjust, but don't break through the command's regulations!"

Before Yu Guanghan left, a communications staff officer came in, "Reporting to the deputy division commander and chief of staff, he received a top-secret telegram. The division commander led the division members and arrived in Adelaide in southern Australia, where they established an Australian campaign command." !"

"It's finally here!" Tang Qiusheng looked relaxed. It was not easy to control such a huge battlefield. Now that Xiao Qiu came, the burden on his shoulders could be lifted.

In Darwin, northern Australia, where the headquarters of the Japanese Australian Front is located, General Ito Yanzaburo, the commander-in-chief, returned to the headquarters after completing his inspection of the central frontline battlefield. , issued an order for all the troops in the central battlefield to retreat.

General Ito is determined to play a big game of chess in northern Australia. The goal is to attack the fiercely offensive four-way independent division troops on the battlefield in central Australia. Simply put, it is to lure the enemy deep. After spending all their money, they did not hesitate to expose the backs of the troops on the battlefield in central Australia to the independent division troops.

In all fairness, General Ito never liked this relatively passive strategy of luring the enemy deep. According to his plan, the battle was not fought like this. It should wait until the follow-up hundreds of thousands of troops from the North American battlefield arrived in the Australian battlefield. The total strength of the people, from north to south, lined up in a line, attacked from multiple directions, and launched a counterattack against the entire line of the independent division troops. What is needed is a majestic crushing momentum.

In this way, it is in line with my own command habits and the fighting style of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. However, because of the decadence and incompetence of Koji Morishita, the former commander of the central Australian battlefield, the situation on the battlefield is extremely unfavorable to the Imperial Army, which forced General Ito , Before launching a full-line counterattack, fight an outpost campaign to lure the enemy into depth.

There are two more important factors that forced General Ito to change his style of counterattack across the board. First, the troops transferred from the North American battlefield to the Australian battlefield. There are too many troops. So far, there are only more than 80 troops assembled in various parts of northern Australia, which made General Ito's eyes burn with anxiety.

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