Age of Rebirth

Simple addition, General Ito was taken aback by the number obtained, and his mind was a little confused. No matter how he thought about it, it seemed that it was impossible for Tang Qiuli, the Chinese devil, to use more than 200 million troops on the Australian battlefield. matter. ∮,

In the Southwest Pacific Theater, he also left two field corps with 10,000+ people stationed on Irian Island and Java Island, which has the exact intelligence support of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau. In the Far East, he left two more The field corps has more than one million people. According to the collection of the imperial intelligence system for many years, the total strength of the independent division of China will never be so many!

It was my own miscalculation, and it was impossible. While surrounding and attacking the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army with more than 80 imperial soldiers in the hinterland of the MacDonnell Mountains, they deployed at the northern foot of the army. Without a strong blocking force, without a force of [-] to [-] people, how can it be impossible to fight?

General Ito realized that he could not see through the real strength of the independent division on the Australian battlefield, but he knew one thing very well. Rescuing the besieged Sixth Army and Seventh Army is the top priority. Otherwise, once two 10,000+ Imperial soldier Yu Sui, on the battlefield in the middle, the comparison of his own strength with the independent division's troops immediately reversed.

It was already very late, and the battlefield at the northern foot of the MacDonnell Mountains, which had been noisy all day, began to quiet down. Smelling the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air, which was so thick that the evening wind could not blow it away, General Ito stood in the tent Outside, listening to the faint sound of artillery from a distance, he knew that it was the troops of the China Independent Division, which was besieging Miura Kazuhito's troops.

General Ito sighed, and seemed to have made a difficult decision. He said to Major General Akutagawa, the Chief of Staff of the Front Army who was always by his side, "Mr. Akutagawa. Give the order now, the No. 14 Army of the General Reserve of the Front Army. Go south immediately and join Join the attacking troops in the center. In addition, the troops that have arrived in northern Australia in the past few days can only have three days of rest, and then they will be formed on the spot and put into the central offensive battlefield!"

Chief of Staff Akutagawa thought for a while, and reminded: "Commander-in-Chief, the No. 14 Army is a strategic reserve force, and it should not be used lightly until the critical moment. Now, the full-line counterattack has just begun, and the general reserve force has just been used. inappropriate?"

"I counted the number of troops that arrived in northern Australia from the North American battlefield in recent days. There are about 15 troops belonging to different command systems. Will the reorganization disrupt the original command system and bring about greater inconvenient?"

"Akutagawa-kun, I have considered everything you said!" General Ito said in a dry voice, "Now, the key points of the Australian battlefield are all concentrated on the battlefield in the McDonnell Mountains. The Sixth Army and the Seventh Army cleared the siege. This is the key to Australia's decisive victory, so we must use all the mobile forces of the front army to form a huge force advantage!"

"That's the way. It is possible to severely damage the hundreds of thousands of troops of the China Independent Division, which has been exhausted for a long time. It is on the battlefield in the MacDonnell Mountains. Now, the attacking troops on the west and east roads have more than enough to protect themselves, but they cannot spare troops to reinforce the central road. We We can only use the general reserve team, do you understand?"

"Also, send a telegram to Yoshio Matsuo, commander of the Army Aviation of the Front Army. No matter what method he uses, I must see tomorrow that there are no less than [-] fighters and bombers over the battlefield in the McDonnell Mountains. Yes. Besiege the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army's China Independent Division troops to carry out air strikes!"

Ito Yanzaburo used his old books and was desperate. In this way, the total strength of the Japanese attacking army in the middle will reach nearly 90 within five or six days, and most of the air force will also be concentrated in McDonnell. Naishan battlefield.

Time waits for no one, that idiot Miura Kazuhito said that he can only last for three days, and now a day and a night have passed, and the independent division's attack does not stop at night, and the northern foot blocked his own independent division, which is another indestructible Whether Miura Kazuhito's troops can last for three days or not is still unknown. All kinds of factors are added together, and General Ito will not succeed if he wants to work hard!

On the same night, Tang Qiuli was also thinking about things on the battlefield. He said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "With the bombardment and attack all day and night, the Japanese troops in the encirclement have been divided into multiple independent battlefields. More than [-] Japanese troops created the conditions!"

"Ito Yansaburo personally commanded more than 14 reinforcements. He fought with Feng Jiwu's regiment for a whole day and did not take advantage of it. Tomorrow, Ito will do his best. He will call in his last reserve team No. [-] Army, and recently It is even more likely that the Japanese troops who have reached northern Australia will send in a large number of combat aircraft!"

"Yuhe, send telegrams to Liu Cuigang and Le Yiqin respectively. In one sentence, they must master the air supremacy on the Australian battlefield. As for how to fight, the two of them will study it. In addition, give Zheng Yong an order that the artillery will shell all night. The Japanese army took a breather!"

"An order was given to Battelle and the brigades of the directly subordinate regiment to launch the final general attack on the Japanese troops that were divided in the evening at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning. By [-]:[-] tomorrow evening, the battle in the encirclement of the MacDonnell Mountains must be ended! "

Zhao Yuhe listened carefully to the commander's order, and then said: "Master, the original plan to encircle and annihilate the more than [-] Japanese troops in the encirclement circle was to take five to seven days. Later, you adjusted it to three days. Now, only In two days, is it too hasty!"

"Ito Yansaburo will do his best. We can't wait for the follow-up troops of the Japanese army to arrive, which will put tremendous pressure on the Niangziguan garrison!" Tang Qiuli explained, "At the fastest speed, annihilate the Japanese army in the encirclement, and then , the directly subordinate corps quickly went northward, took the initiative to attack, and together with the Niangziguan garrison, severely damaged or defeated more than [-] Japanese troops in the middle, then the game of chess in the Australian battlefield will be completely lost!"

It was another dawn. The originally clear sky at Mount McDonnell was shrouded in smoke and artillery fire. The Japanese reinforcements at the northern foot of the mountain began to go crazy. The shells made the ground tremble. Thousands of soldiers The Japanese soldiers were charging wildly, shouting and killing everywhere, the sound of shooting of various guns, and the explosion of shells.

Faced with such a crazy Japanese army, Feng Jiwu decisively issued an order to evacuate some positions that were not conducive to defense and were isolated and prominent, and carried out limited defensive contraction. The Japanese artillery group carried out suppressive shelling.

Especially those self-propelled artillery regiments, taking advantage of their own mobility, fired rounds of shells from unexpected directions, causing great losses to the Japanese artillery, and made the Japanese artillery want to retaliate, but they could not find the enemy artillery positions!

When the blockade battle in the northern part of the Macdonald Mountains was bloody, in the encirclement, the general attack on the remnants of the Japanese Sixth Army and Seventh Army also began. Battelle's armored troops and tanks roared, and the infantry followed closely behind. Finally, a fierce attack was launched on the Japanese army in a small area, and the Japanese soldiers who had been bombarded all night suffered another devastating blow.

When the ground was full of gunpowder, the Australian Air Force of the Independent Division and the Air Force of the Japanese Australian Front also launched a fierce aerial battle over the MacDonnell Mountains. According to the order of General Ito, the Japanese Australian Army Lieutenant General Yoshio Matsuo, the commander of the Aviation Command, exerted all his strength, and even spared no effort to withdraw a considerable number of combat aircraft from the air force of the land-based fleet of the independent division that intercepted the Southwest Pacific theater and dispatched from time to time, and strengthened them to the direction of the central battlefield. superior.

The Japanese Army Aviation dispatched more than [-] fighter jets and bombers to use bombs to blow up an evacuation channel for the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army in the northern part of the MacDonnell Mountains. The combat aircraft on the eastern and western fronts were not used, and all the fighter jets in their hands were dispatched.

In the vast sky of central Australia, they fought fiercely with the Japanese air force for a whole day. The two sides were basically evenly matched. , all are fighter jets.

As for Le Yiqin in the Southwest Pacific Theater, taking advantage of the opportunity that most of the Japanese combat aircraft in Australia were transferred to the south, they dispatched a large fleet of fighter jets and bombers, divided into multiple routes, and defeated the Japanese fighter jets in the Timor Sea. After the airspace interception, several cities in northern Australia were successfully attacked by air.

It was also Le Yiqin's luck. A mixed aircraft group he personally commanded broke through the Gulf of Carpentaria and launched an air strike on the port of Mount Molloy on the east coast of Australia. Coincidentally, he just took a boat from the North American battlefield and arrived. More than 170 people from the [-]th Third Division of the Japanese Army in Australia are landing on the pier.

Looking at the densely packed Japanese soldiers under the wings, Le Yiqin laughed happily, and yelled strangely, "I have a good taste, I have bitten fat!" Escorting fighter jets are on guard, and bombers are free to drop bombs, sending the little devil to the Pacific Ocean Go in! The bomber crew brought back a bomb, and I will go to the logistics base to raise pigs!"

Le Yiqin was insanely happy. He originally planned to drop a few bombs at the port of Mount Molloy, put pressure on that old devil Ito, and call the little devil's air team back from the battlefield in the McDonnell Mountains. In such a good event, under the excitement, I brought out all the words that the teacher used to scare me!

A burst of bombs was dropped, and the port of Mount Molloy suddenly burst into flames and filled with gunpowder smoke. After the bombers dropped all the bombs, the escorting fighter group, even if no Japanese fighter jets were found, was not to be outdone.

Taking turns to dive, another string of bullets poured down, even Le Yiqin himself felt itchy, after firing half of the bullets in the fighter plane, it was an addiction!

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