Age of Rebirth

In the desert, it is impossible to rain, 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 an airplane appearing on the horizon in the distance under the scorching sun, but few Japanese soldiers wanted to move. I thought it was a plane from the empire, coming to drop supplies.

Just as Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake poured a mouthful of sweet water into his thirsty throat, he heard and then saw hundreds of planes approaching. If you didn't tell yourself in the telegram that if you send a plane to drop supplies, then it can only be the plane of the Chinese people!

"Air strike!" Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake shouted, "Baga! Order the troops to carry out 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 enjoyed happiness saw countless small black spots suddenly falling from the sky as the fleet approached. The black spots shone brightly under the bright sunlight. The dazzling luster fell rapidly, and almost instantly, the complexions of all the Japanese soldiers turned pale. They were all veterans who fought on the cruel battlefield, and they still don't know what fell down?

"Boom! Boom!—Boom!" A string of bombs, with a piercing scream, fell on the pile of Japanese soldiers, blasting up sand pillars, mixed with the fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers, scattered in the boundless On the sand, the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke diffused in the scorching air.

In the unobstructed desert, where there is no place to hide from the air raids, the bombs chased the Japanese soldiers and exploded.There were also fighter jets swooping down, and strings of bullets tore apart the bodies of Japanese soldiers.This desert has become a place of slaughter.The supply point carrying the life hope of 10,000+ Japanese soldiers was the main target of the bombing by the land-based aviation fleet of the Independent Division in the Australian battlefield. In a burst of explosions and fireworks, the drinking water and supplies accumulated at the supply point turned into ruins in the desert .

Liu Cuigang strictly carried out the division commander's order. However, the combat aircraft gathered at the field airport around Mount Vernon were not the three bomber regiments and the corresponding escort fighter jets.Instead, there are six bomber regiments and eight fighter regiments. Now Liu Cuigang has enough mobile combat fleets to use on any battlefield.

Tang Qiuli's order to Liu Cuigang was, "After receiving the order from the division commander, carry out a destructive bombing of the supply points of the Japanese army 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 in the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers.It was enough for the Japanese soldiers to find that one place was bombed.

However, Liu Cuigang was obviously following his master's orders.He sent out a reconnaissance plane, on the straight line from Royhill to Granitz.Do a blanket search, then.Take note of the coordinates and carry out the bombing at the same time. The first supply point that the Japanese soldiers arrived at was just one of the bombing targets.

After more than 40 minutes of bombing, the fleet of the Independent Division returned, leaving a mess. The corpses of Japanese soldiers were mixed in the sand, and the gravel was soaked in blood. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake got up from the sand and looked at the tragic scene Crying without tears, a few hours later, the remaining Japanese soldiers began to hurry, leaving the bodies of nearly ten thousand comrades behind.

Fortunately, more than half of the Japanese soldiers’ military water bottles were filled with drinking water, and they carried enough food in their backpacks to rush to the next supply point and save some food and drink. The situation of the air raid was immediately reported to General Ito. He hoped that the Commander-in-Chief would dispatch combat planes to cover the troops marching in the desert.

Deputy Chief of Staff Ji Wu was thinking about the threat of the independent division's aircraft to the troops trekking in the desert, but after a few days, he knew that the threat to the soldiers of the imperial army, which had been reduced a lot, 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 wanted to vomit blood. He made a risky move and let the imperial troops on the Western Front take a narrow escape. Make trouble, this is obviously not the rhythm of people's life?

Anyway, there is no war on the western front now, and the central battlefield is in a stalemate. General Ito still has room to mobilize some combat aircraft to provide air cover within his ability 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 great 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 a day.

Since the aviation of the Japanese and Australian Fronts wants to fight, Liu Cuigang is naturally willing to accompany them. Therefore, in the airspace of the Dasha Desert and under the scorching sun, the land-based aviation fleet commanded by Liu Cuigang and the fleet of the Air Force Command of the Japanese and Australian Fronts started a scene. Fighting in the air, on the desert, the Japanese soldiers squirmed like an ant colony. From time to time, they saw planes that were blown into pieces and landed not far away. Most of them were combat planes of the Empire.

However, the Japanese soldiers who retreated into the desert from the Western Front had no interest in the rare air battle. They faced a greater crisis. It's fried food, the water source that has long been evaporated by the sun, and the oily 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 everyone was desperate, and officers at all levels could not suppress the despair of the soldiers. . . . . .

Ten days later, at the eastern edge of the Dasha Desert, a group of ragged and emaciated Japanese soldiers walked out. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake, who was so thin that he hardly had a human figure, finally walked out of the Dasha Desert alive. Behind him, six people followed. , [-] soldiers who struggled to get out of the desert by drinking the blood of their dead comrades.

The four armies on the Western Front, more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers, lost more than 7 on the battlefield, and the remaining 10,000+ people walked into the vast sandy desert and finally came out alive, but It was [-] to [-] people, and [-]+ people stayed in the desert forever. The entire Western Front battlefield in Australia swallowed up the lives of more than [-] Japanese soldiers.

Tang Qiuli achieved unprecedented success by using the method of replacing soldiers with sand. The corps directly under the Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps did not dispatch a single soldier, and 10,000+ Japanese soldiers were killed in the Dasha Desert. Otherwise, even In the end, all the Japanese troops on the Western Front were wiped out, and the casualties of the soldiers of the Independent Division were not small.

The almost inhuman Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake was taken back to Darwin in northern Australia by a plane sent by General Ito, while the [-] to [-] Japanese soldiers who had just come out of the desert still stayed in Granitz to rest. One or two months of recuperation will not be able to restore combat effectiveness at all, and it will consume a lot of resources.

For General Ito, he had to swallow the bitter fruit of failure on the Western Front, and he also had to face the question of how the hundreds of thousands of independent divisions would act on the Western Front that was freed up. This independent division, If it is added to any of the central and eastern battlefields, it will be a fatal blow to the Imperial Australian Front.

As for the more than 8 troops who rushed from the east coast of Australia to the western battlefield in an attempt to rescue the imperial army on the western front, General Ito never dared to send them to the tiger's mouth. When I was in the popular science area, I received an order from the Australian Front Army Command to be incorporated into the centerline battlefield combat force sequence on the spot. This is also the last force in the hands of General Ito.

Tang Qiuli also needs to think about it carefully. After solving the Japanese army on the western front, the direct subordinate corps and the Sulu mobile corps, the next attack direction will be in the city of Royhill. Tang Qiuli and Tang Qiusheng will meet. up.

The military meeting lasted all day, and finally made a decision. The directly subordinate corps and the Sulu mobile corps will be combined to attack from the north from the Sanggu and Mandola areas, cross the Kimberley Plateau, and point directly at the important town in northern Australia— —Darwin.

Then, attacking south from Darwin, together with Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison troops in the MacDonnell Mountains, encircled the Japanese army on the center line battlefield in Granitz, Wokop and Mount Isa.

This is a bottom-hunting campaign plan. After the Japanese army on the center line is settled, the Australian campaign is already a sure thing. In this plan, Tang Qiuli has another intention, which is to take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet to leave the northern waters of Australia. , the Jiang Yanming Department of the Songhu Guard 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 to form an absolute advantage in terms of strength against the Japanese troops on the Australian battlefield.

On the Australian battlefield, the core purpose of the Australian campaign was to annihilate the only group of overseas heavy troops of the Japanese army. Tang Qiuli could not allow the Japanese army on the Australian battlefield to have the opportunity to withdraw to the Japanese mainland and let the tiger go back to the mountain, so as not to give up the future battle plan for attacking the Japanese mainland. , increasing difficulty.

Therefore, no matter how much the price is paid, Tang Qiuli will let the Australian battlefield become the burial place of nearly 200 million Japanese soldiers. This is the meaning of .

The troops directly under the Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps rested for three days in Royhill, Sanggu, and Mandola. Tang Qiuli and Tang Qiusheng commanded an army of more than [-] troops and marched northward. The west coast of Australia without the main force of the Japanese army.

The independent divisions on the western front finally took action. This is the fact that General Ito Yanzaburo wanted to see, but he was afraid of seeing it. After moving, he felt unprecedented pressure again. The biggest problem was that General Ito didn't have enough troops.

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