Glorious Mission 1937

The big actions of the Chinese government and the army made the Japanese side very nervous. After more than a year of war, Japan’s national strength continued to decline. Although the number of the Japanese army increased sharply due to the refusal of peace talks by China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, it once increased to 600 million, but the combat effectiveness It dropped to freezing point.

Regarding the Asian battlefield, Japan's only requirement now is to keep North Korea's nuclear treasure island, and it does not even ask for the situation to be restored to 37 years ago, but to 31 years ago.

However, China did not give Japan this opportunity. It is better to use the leftovers to chase down the poor, and not to be known as the overlord. These two sentences have become a common attitude in Chinese society.

Knowing that China has begun to gather troops in the direction of North Korea and Burma, the Japanese night economy has strengthened the troops in the direction of Burma and North Korea. Commander of the Kwantung Army and Governor of North Korea.

On the Burmese side, the base camp promoted the commander of the Burmese Front Army, Hebian Zhengsan, to general of the army, and at the same time added 4 divisions, and ordered the three generals, Hebian Zhengsan, to organize the second Burmese battle.

至1944年1月15日，日军在缅甸方向集结的部队多达5个军11个师团、5个旅团，另外还配以两个飞行集团和1个独立飞行队。

在朝鲜方面，日军布置了38个步兵师团、14个步兵旅团、3个战车师团、4个炮兵旅团以及19个伪军师，另外配以3个航空集团和一支分舰队，总兵力超过了80万人。

The two sides assembled more than 300 million troops in the north and south directions.It is unprecedented in terms of the scale of operations.For this battle, the people in China are full of support, because the area of ​​this battle is not in China, which has never happened in the past hundred years.

On January 1, Xue Yue visited the front line of Burma in person, took over the command of the Burmese battle, and ordered the two front divisions to launch an attack on Mandalay where the Japanese army was stationed. The third Mandalay battle broke out, which opened the 18 The prologue of the war.

At the same time, the Allied forces were progressing well in the European battlefield.Successfully defeated Mussolini's regime in Italy.Force Italy to surrender.

Italy's surrender actually began as early as July 1943. Years of wars have brought the Italian economy to the brink of collapse. The national budget deficit reached 7 billion lire, and income only accounted for 870% of expenditure.There is a shortage of food plaques all over the country.The black market is rampant.The people are in dire straits.

As for the funny army in Italy, it is even more unbearable.In a "collapsed state", there is a serious shortage of soldiers and low morale.After the defeat at Stalingrad.Hitler refused to provide Mussolini with new aid on the grounds that the situation on the Eastern Front was tense, and forced Mussolini to continue conscription as cannon fodder.

In this case, the Italian ruling group decided to abandon Mussolini to get out of the crisis. On the night of July 1943, 7, the Fascist Supreme Council passed a resolution to restore the constitutional monarchy and return the command of the army to the king.

The next night, King Emmanuel III summoned Mussolini, ordered him to resign, appointed Field Marshal Badoglio as Prime Minister, formed a non-partisan government, and announced the news to the world.Two days later, Mussolini was taken to the island of Pontza and then to the island of Maddalena.

After the fall of Mussolini, Hitler was worried that Italy would surrender to the Allies and the Allied forces would land in the south of Italy. Therefore, under the pretext of reducing the defense burden on northern Italy, he sent Rommel to lead 8 divisions of German troops across the border to occupy the mountain passes of the Alps, and in the north of Italy. The Pisa-Rimini line of defense was established to support another 8 German divisions stationed on the Italian mainland south of the line of defense.

On July 7, Badoglio announced the dissolution of the Fascist Party, ending 28 years of fascist rule.In order to avoid Hitler's retaliation, Palestine announced on the surface that it would continue to fight with Germany, but secretly sent special envoys to talk with the allies in secret, expressing their willingness to fight back.

Subsequently, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Roosevelt held talks in Quebec, Canada, and agreed on the terms of the armistice, authorizing Allied Commander Eisenhower to accept the surrender.

On September 9, representatives of Italy and the United States signed an armistice agreement in the olive grove near Siracusa, Sicily, stipulating that the Italian army immediately stop military operations, and the sea and air force withdraw to the designated location of the Allied forces, and immediately withdraw to the country abroad. Allied forces have the right to use various airfields and military bases of their choice.

However, the German side disagreed with Italy's approach. After the successful Italian government surrendered to the Allied forces, Hitler was extremely angry at this betrayal of the Italian ruling group.Order the troops on the front line to disarm the Italian army immediately, arrest a large number of Italian military officers, and occupy Rome on September 9, and then take over the Italian mainland as far south as Naples.

On the eve of the German occupation of Rome, the Italian royal family, Badoglio and members of the government fled in a hurry, and then took a submarine to reach the west of Brin on September 9.Afterwards, the Nazi SS successfully rescued Mussolini and made him appear on the stage. At the end of September, a fascist puppet regime was established in northern Italy to oppose the Badoglio government.

On October 10, the Pakistani government officially withdrew from the fascist alliance and declared war on Germany at the strong request of the Italian people.At the same time, the governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union also issued a declaration recognizing Italy as a joint fighting party.

The fall of Mussolini and the unconditional surrender of the Badoglio government and the declaration of war on Germany marked the disintegration of the Berlin-Roman axis and a major victory for the anti-fascist alliance.

In January 1944, the Allied forces occupied most of the cities in southern Italy and used this as a base to attack the Mussolini regime in the north. The Allied forces finally landed on European land again.

On January 1, just two days before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese Burma War, the senior commanders of the Allied Forces held a meeting in Washington, and Chen Feng personally attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Chen Feng suggested that the Allied forces open up a third battlefield in Europe, together with the Soviet-German battlefield in the east and the Italian battlefield in the south, to attack Germany.

This proposal was supported by all the senior commanders present at the meeting, and then the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces decided to conduct a large-scale landing operation in the south of France from March to May 44, opening up the third battlefield in Europe.

On January 1, the same day that Chen Feng returned to Chongqing from Washington, China and Japan fought fiercely in the Paektu Mountain (Changbai Mountain) area in northern North Korea. Both sides dispatched a large number of armored troops and fighter planes. , The Japanese army received a death order, and the headquarters demanded that all departments of the Kwantung Army should not take a step back even if the entire army died in battle, and they must not withdraw from North Korea.

Although Neiji Okamura did not agree with the actions of the base camp, he was helpless. He also knew that North Korea had now become a fig leaf for the entire Japanese high-level and military. If North Korea is also lost, then Japan is really close to defeat. Not far away.

Since there was no way to retreat, Okamura Ningji's ruthless side was fully exposed. He transferred hundreds of thousands of troops to the front line, leaving only a few divisions in the rear to prevent the Chinese navy from raiding. In the forward position, if a brigade is destroyed, more troops will immediately fill in. Neji Okamura's idea is very simple. He just wants to use this style of fighting without fear of life and death to frighten the Chinese government and army, and let them Know that even if it can occupy the entire North Korea, China will have to pay at least one million casualties.

At the same time, Neiji Okamura was still recruiting soldiers in North Korea. All Korean citizens aged 16 and under 50 or men among Japanese expatriates must serve in the military as long as they are in good health. Therefore, in a short period of time, In addition to the nearly 90 regular troops in his hands, Okamura Ningji also formed 70 armed farmers.

Neiji Okamura is indeed crazy, but the Chinese generals who commanded the frontline battles are not cowards. Wei Lihuang and Boss Zhu commanded the battle in the rear, and Li Yifeng and Xu Shiyou commanded the battles in the frontline. Both of them have seen big battles. People in the world, especially Li Yifeng, a big bandit.

The Japanese army was crazy, and Li Yifeng was even crazier. Regardless of the opposition of the combat staff, he personally led the guards to the front line to participate in front-line operations.Although this move was severely criticized by Chen Feng, Wei Lihuang and others, it greatly encouraged the morale of the frontline officers and soldiers.

The Dandong-Yalu River Bridge is the most important passage leading to North Korea, and it is also the focus of competition between the two sides.In order to prevent the Chinese National Defense Forces from entering North Korea, the Japanese army sent troops to blow up the Yalu River Bridge before the battle broke out.

However, after the outbreak of the battle, the 4 engineering brigades of the Chinese National Defense Forces built 14 pontoon bridges on the Yalu River in succession for the troops to cross the river.And these dozens of bridges have become the most important battlefields for both sides. One side builds the other side destroys them. Aircraft and cannons are used to the extreme.

Every day, a large number of troops died on the bridge or by the river bank. The corpses flowing down the river covered the entire Yalu River. Blood donations turned the river red.

The war lasted from January 1th to February 19th. In the end, part of the Chinese National Defense Force detoured to Linjiang, and with the cooperation of the airborne troops, they captured the Japanese position in Linjiang. The army broke into North Korea, and the front line of the Yalu River lost its strategy. As a result, the Japanese army had to withdraw from the front line of the Yalu River.

The battle in just 19 days caused huge casualties on both sides. The Chinese National Defense Forces killed more than 2 people and injured 3.8 people.Because the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army were inferior to those of China, the casualties of the Japanese and puppet troops were even more severe. As many as 6.8 soldiers were directly killed in battle, and as many as 9 were injured. In a devastating blow, more than 1100 fighter planes were shot down, and 960 tanks were destroyed.

In comparison, the loss of China's technical arms is much smaller. Not as many as 80 fighter planes were shot down, and less than 200 tanks were destroyed.

The bloody battle on the Yalu River was not intimidated by the Chinese National Defense Forces, but it frightened the puppet Manchukuo troops who accompanied the Japanese army to North Korea. The Japanese army used a large number of puppet troops in this battle, completely using these puppet troops as cannon fodder. The regiment was disabled within an hour after going up. Even so, the Japanese army would not let the puppet army retreat, and ordered them to fight to the last person. Under such circumstances, panic, hatred, and regret permeated the puppet army. , and at the same time an undercurrent was brewing. (To be continued..)