Glorious Mission 1937

In fact, the idea of ​​a decisive battle on the mainland had been conceived as early as the outbreak of the Pacific War, because in terms of the strategic environment at that time, Japan was not fully sure of defeating the United States and Britain, so while formulating a combat plan against the United States and Britain, it also had to think about it. Once the attack does not go well and the first phase of the war cannot completely defeat the US occupation of the South Pacific, then Japan intends to fight the United States and Britain at home.

Although later, due to the surprisingly smooth battle, the Japanese army captured most of the islands in the South Pacific within half a year of the war, so everything related to the decisive battle in the mainland was shelved.However, some of the preparations made before were not wasted. Therefore, after a period of preparations, the pre-war preparations for the decisive battle in the local area predetermined by the Japanese army were finally completed, and the equipment of the large corps was generally ready.

However, due to the intensification of Allied air strikes, a large number of factories in Japan were blown up, and the military production capacity plummeted.In addition, due to the bombing of a large number of bridges and roads, a large number of roads in Japan were blocked, and resources such as fuel, food, and cloth were also seriously insufficient.

In addition to these, the equipment and training of the various units of the Japanese army and the preparations for the rear were also very slow. The main reason was that when the Japanese army withdrew from various overseas colonies, they lost almost all of their heavy weapons and more than half of their light weapons.Without weapons, the army is not called an army.

Even the weapons and equipment deployed by the troops on the front line are not very complete. Some troops still lack some artillery and heavy weapons, especially horses and cars.Regarding the construction of the position, it is an important frontal battlefield along the coast of Kyushu, Shikoku, and Kanto.Only 60% to 80% of the plan has been completed, while most other frontal battlefields have only completed about 50%.

As for the training problem, except for the decisive battle corps assembled in the rear, they are busy building large-scale positions and have almost no time for training.

Regarding the most important logistical preparations, in Kyushu and Shikoku, 100% of ammunition, 94% of fuel, and 16% of food and fodder were completed in Kyushu and Shikoku; people worry.Kanto side.50% of the fodder has been assembled.However, the assembly of ammunition, materials and equipment, due to the priority supply to Kyushu, only a part of it was assembled.Other areas, except Kyoto.Logistical preparations were even more sluggish.

5月19日。盟军经过近一个月的苦战。终于在菲律宾西北部的山区内将日军No.14方面军仅存的十万余人歼灭，日军No.14方面军最高指挥官山下奉文大将被击毙，至此。统治菲律宾3年多的日军No.14方面军就此覆灭。

Knowing that the entire army of Yamashita was annihilated, the Japanese army made a large-scale report on this. The base camp officially posthumously awarded Yamashita Hokumi as Field Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army, and held a large-scale state funeral in Tokyo for handling fees.

The intention of the Japanese government and the military is to arouse the feelings of hatred among the Japanese people. After all, this battle is different from any previous war. This is to fight in Japan. Compared with the Japanese, the allies The army is the aggressor. If the propaganda is good, it will be of great help to the local decisive battle.

Sure enough, after the Japanese government's deliberate propaganda, the recruitment points set up by the Japanese army in various cities were crowded with young people with angry faces.

Not to mention that the Japanese government is trying to turn the whole of Japan into a big fortress, but on the other hand, let’s talk about the war in Europe. The preparations for the Normandy landing operations have come to an end.

In order to tear apart the German Western Front positions in one fell swoop, the Allied forces attached great importance to the Normandy landing campaign. In order to implement this large-scale campaign, the Allied forces assembled as many as 288 million troops.The army has a total of 36 divisions, including 23 infantry divisions, 10 armored divisions, and 3 airborne divisions, with about 153 million people.

The Navy has about 5300 warships in combat, including 13 combat ships including 47 battleships, 134 cruisers, and 1200 destroyers, 4126 landing ships, and more than 5000 transport ships.

The Air Force has 13700 combat aircraft, including 5800 bombers, 4900 fighters, and 3000 transport gliders.For this reason, the air strikes of the Allied forces changed from bombing German industrial areas to bombing German communication lines. Due to the Allied bombing of Germany, the progress of the construction of the Atlantic Fortress was repeatedly slowed down, and some workers who were building the Atlantic Fortress were even forced to build railway.

From the end of March to the end of May 1944, millions of troops from the United States, Britain, and Canada, 3 vehicles, and 5 tons of various supplies successfully crossed the English Channel.Deadline is May 17.The Allied forces are ready across the board. As long as the Allied Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower gives an order, millions of troops will appear in Normandy and launch a full-scale attack on the German troops in France.

But the troops on the front line were waiting, but the order was delayed. The landing plan originally planned for mid-May did not move until the 5th, which caused dissatisfaction among many senior officers on the front line.

However, Eisenhower had no choice. This was an order from the Allied Supreme Command, requiring them to continue to assemble and stand by. Only with the order of the Allied Supreme Command could they launch a landing campaign.

Why did the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces take no action?That was because someone asked them to wait, and this person was none other than Chen Feng.

Ten days ago, Little William sent a telegram saying that Rommel had been contacted, but he still had some concerns about assassinating Hitler, and he was trying to convince him.

5 days ago, Little William sent back news again, saying that they had contacted Hofaker, the young officer leader who opposed Hitler in the German army, and persuaded Rommel that they were making a plan to assassinate Hitler. action.

According to the agreement between the two parties, after Hitler's death, Rommel, who was in charge of Group B on the Western Front, would let go of the Western Front and try his best to persuade the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, Kruger, to cooperate with the Allied forces.However, the Allied forces can only encircle and suppress the Nazis in Germany, and cannot attack the Wehrmacht. The trial of Germany after the war must be fair and just, and the mistakes of World War I must not be repeated.

Chen Feng communicated with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin on this matter, and they agreed in principle to Rommel's request.This is a win-win cooperation for both parties, because based on the evidence collected so far, the German army has already made defensive preparations on the western front. If they log in forcibly, the Allied forces will suffer heavy losses.

If Rommel could cooperate with the Allied forces to open up the Western Front, then the Allied forces would be able to land in France in a very short period of time, and then drive straight to capture Paris and Berlin. End this damn war as soon as possible for a small price.

With the promise of Roosevelt and others, Rommel also expressed his willingness to fully cooperate with the actions of the Allied forces, and at the same time, he would personally cooperate with the assassination of secret agents.However, before the assassination operation began, Rommel hoped that the Allied forces would not rush to attack.This is also the main reason why the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces required the troops on the front line to assemble and wait for orders and refused to attack!

On May 1944, 5, an earth-shattering event took place in Berlin, Germany——Hitler, the head of state of Germany, was assassinated by a car bomb, and his life and death were uncertain!

Judging from the situation at the scene, it seems that Hitler was going to attend a speech at the Berlin Army Academy that day, and the assassin seemed to have known his destination in advance, so he set up an ambush on the only way to the Berlin Army Academy. When Hitler's convoy was passing through an intersection, a car full of explosives rushed out suddenly and slammed into Hitler's car bitterly, followed by a big explosion.

Rommel didn't know whether Hitler was dead or not, but it didn't matter anymore.According to the results of hundreds of experiments and the vague news, Rommel and others can judge that even if Hitler did not die on the spot at that time, he would be seriously injured and temporarily unable to act.

For Rommel and others, a dead Hitler is the same as a Hitler who cannot be a director. As long as he does not interfere in Germany's military and political affairs, then Germany will not perish with him.

On the same day, under the order of Kruger, the commander-in-chief of the German army on the western front, 138 million German troops released their positions on the western front to welcome the Allied forces to land, and at the same time cooperated with the Allied forces to counterattack Germany.

The European battlefield has undergone a major reversal in a very short period of time. It can be expected that within a month at most, there will be good news from the European battlefield, and Chen Feng owes a lot to all of this.

On May 5, the Allied forces captured Paris, and at the same time, the Soviet Red Army entered Warsaw.

On the 31st, the German Wehrmacht issued a statement on the Eastern Front, willing to cooperate with the Soviet Red Army to counterattack Germany.At this point, the two major groups of the German army betrayed the Hitler regime at the same time, and the Third Reich created by Hitler was crumbling.

On June 6, an astonishing news came out of Berlin. On the evening of May 1, Hitler, the German head of state, died of his injuries in Berlin. Before his death, he left a political will.In the will, Doenitz was appointed as the President of the German Empire and the Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, responsible for the military and political affairs of the entire Germany.

For this appointment, Dönitz was very surprised. Since July 1943, he himself has only talked to Hitler in public.Hitler never hinted to Dönitz that he was considering making him his heir. Before that, Hitler had already decided that the Reich Air Force Marshal Goering would be his heir.

However, because of the continuous defeat of the German army on the front line, Goering suggested to Hitler that he hoped that Hitler could authorize him to take charge of all affairs of the country, and suggested negotiating with the Allied forces.Hitler became furious and regarded it as the most serious crime of treason, and decided to remove Goering from all his posts.

Even after Goering lost his inheritance rights, Dönitz never got hints of this from other sources.According to Dönitz, no leading Nazi would have guessed this.Although everyone understands that it is impossible for Goering to become Hitler's heir.But Himmler was moving around, trying to take Goering's place.Unexpectedly, in the end, the head of state would choose to make him the new head of state of the empire. (To be continued..)