Age of Rebirth

East of Honshu Island, Xinzhuang, directly under the First Brigade of the Corps, which is also Tang Qiuli's temporary headquarters, Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe is reporting the battle situation, "Commander, Deputy Division Commander Tang sent a telegram, I am on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island The troops have encircled the Japanese army in an area of ​​less than [-] square kilometers from Maizuru, Kyoto, and Kobe in the east to Okayama and Tottori in the west!"

"The Feng Jiwu Division of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps and most of the Southeast Mobile Corps, which attacked from the direction of Yamaguchi, have already stationed on the line from Hiroshima to Songjiang. The No. 20 Ninth Corps attacked from the direction of Qibu, and the Sulu Mobile Corps attacked from the direction of Shizuoka. They have already entered the front line of Maizuru, Kyoto and Kobe, forming a front and back attack on the Japanese army!"

"After continuous attacks by our left-wing attack group, the Japanese army on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island suffered heavy casualties. According to preliminary estimates, the total force has dropped to less than 50. Deputy Division Commander Tang called to ask for instructions on whether the left-wing attack group should launch an attack on the Japanese army. Final attack?"

"In addition, Commander Sun Zhenbang and Commander Yuan Jinghao of the right-wing offensive group also have the same request. Their vanguard troops are about 10,000+ people, and they have occupied the line from Morioka to Akiyoshi, ready to launch an attack at any time!"

"Call back!" Tang Qiuli looked up at the large military map, and said, "Brother Qiusheng, the left-wing attack group will continue to maintain a strong oppression of the Japanese army in the encirclement, but will not launch an attack for the time being. Relying on Morioka and Akiyoshi, we will not launch a full-line attack on the Japanese army for the time being, and when to launch a general attack, we will wait for the order of the division commander!"

After the order was issued, Zhao Yu and the division commander's deployment.Not quite understanding, he said: "Master, the Japanese army is now a remnant and defeated general. At the end of the battle, the casualties are heavy. The situation on the two battlefields of Honshu Island is very beneficial to our army. The encirclement has been formed. Why not immediately launch a general offensive to eliminate the Japanese army. The last two heavy-armed groups. Instead, give them a chance to breathe?"

"I want a large number of prisoners!" Tang Qiuli told the truth, with a sly gleam in his eyes, and said, "On the two battlefields on Honshu Island, there are at least 60 to [-] Japanese soldiers left, and how many Good workers, Siberia has a vast territory and sparse population. If you want to develop, you need a lot of labor, and these Japanese prisoners of war are labor without cost!"

"It's not difficult to wipe out. There are thousands of combat aircraft in the sky, more than ten thousand artillery pieces on the ground, and thousands of tanks. What we are dealing with is the remnant soldiers who have been wrung out of their blood. There are enough Japanese for us to fight. Therefore, at present, we can persuade them to surrender." Lord, on the verge of extinction, it is the best time to persuade the Japanese army to surrender, but I am reluctant to turn the hundreds of thousands of Japanese laborers who will develop Siberia in the future, a meal of shells and bombs, into corpses!"

"You ordered the division to refer to the News Office to print and distribute a large number of leaflets explaining our army's policy. Japanese officers and soldiers in the encirclement of the battlefields in the northeast and northwest of Honshu Island, from the day they see the leaflets, those who surrender with their weapons will be entitled to prisoner-of-war If there are those who refuse to surrender and stubbornly resist, we will resolutely annihilate them!"

"At present, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, has been completely surrounded by our Chinese army. Your emperor is also in danger. He is already a turtle in a urn, and he will become a prisoner of our Chinese army at any time. I hope that all Japanese soldiers will recognize the situation and take the initiative to surrender. Those who take the leaflets , which is the proof of surrender!"

"In addition, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang were ordered to send out bombers and transport planes. However, instead of dropping bombs, they dropped propaganda leaflets on a large scale. This is called a political offensive. It breaks the Japanese's fighting spirit and will to resist. It is a lucrative business worth doing. Bundle!"

After listening to Tang Qiuli's long speech, Zhao Yuhe's doubts were all gone, and he also sincerely admired, and said with a smile: "Master, I see that your eyes are similar to those of a human trafficker."

"Is there?" Tang Qiuli refused to admit it, and said, "This is just another way of war! The Japanese are not suitable for living on islands. I just want to find a place for the Japanese to live in!"

Inside the encirclement, there are dejected and demoralized Japanese soldiers everywhere, as well as a large number of wounded. There is no medicine to treat them, and no one cares about them. They can only lie in the blazing sun and suffer from the sun's exposure unobstructed , Crying in pain, corpses that were too late to deal with, pieces of flesh and blood were everywhere, under the scorching sun, emitting bursts of stench, mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke, filling the lungs of the Japanese soldiers who were still alive.

The extreme lack of drinking water, the little food and ammunition left, the interception in the front, and the desperate situation of chasing troops in the back made these Japanese soldiers see no hope. Desperation, uncertain future, failure and low morale permeated the hearts of all Japanese officers and soldiers, like a heavy dark cloud, weighing on the hearts of every Japanese.

The artillerymen of the China Independent Division fired shells, no matter how many lives they took away from their companions, they would not cause any waves, because they might be the next person to be blown to pieces by the shells. Fortunately, the devilish China plane is rare All day long the Japanese soldiers hovered overhead, dropping deadly bombs and giving Japanese soldiers time to take a breather and consider their fate.

The next day, the good days of the Japanese soldiers came to an end. Early in the morning, the sun had just risen, accompanied by the brilliant rising sun, the plane of the Independent Division that almost covered the sky, and the sound of the roaring engine resounded in the sky , like waves of thunder rolling across the sky, pressing down heavily.

The Japanese soldiers looked blankly at the figure of the plane getting closer and closer in the sky. They didn't even think about hiding and letting go. There was only such a large area in total. Tens of 10 people are crowded together, and there is nowhere to run.

Many Japanese soldiers simply lay on the spot, motionless, resigned to their fate, waiting for the bombs to roar from the sky, and the fleet flew over rumblingly. The coercion from the sky made them feel ashamed, but they did not Hearing the explosion of the bomb, the Japanese soldiers opened their eyes and found that there were many colorful leaflets falling from the sky like fluttering snowflakes.

The Japanese soldiers picked it up casually, and were quickly attracted by the content on it. More Japanese soldiers picked up the leaflets and looked carefully, and many Japanese officers at all levels also saw the leaflets. , It’s just that every soldier who picked up the leaflet read it alone. Soon, soldiers in twos and threes gathered together, whispering, with strange expressions.

"Report to the commander, the combat aircraft of the China Independent Division dropped a large number of leaflets!" Major General Yokota, chief of staff of the Northeast Defense Zone Headquarters of Honshu Island, broke into the tent of the commander, Lieutenant General Yano, with a large number of leaflets in his hand. , shouted angrily.

"Commander, I have read the content of the leaflets. If you don't stop them, the morale and morale of the soldiers will be shaken! I suggest that the leaflets in the hands of the soldiers should be collected immediately and burned centrally. Those who wantonly spread the content will be severely punished by military law. , Shoot him on the spot! Otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous!" He put forward his own suggestion.

Lieutenant General Yano brought over a leaflet, read it carefully, and said with a wry smile: "Yokota-kun, how can you stop it? It cannot be stopped. I am afraid that most of the soldiers have already read it. Are they all shot? This is the end of the matter. Let him go!"

The same scene took place on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island, surrounded by the Japanese army. The difference was that Lieutenant General Morita Takiro, the commander of the Northwest Defense Zone Headquarters, adopted much more aggressive measures. Leaflets were burned centrally, and soldiers who hid leaflets and did not turn them in were shot on the spot as soon as they were discovered. For this reason, hundreds of soldiers and dozens of junior officers were shot to death within one day.

Three days after the encirclement of the Japanese army, the Japanese army in the encirclement was cut off from food and water. After despair, the crazy Japanese army launched a breakout battle again. This time the breakout was not an order issued by the commanders of the two Japanese defense zone headquarters, but some Japanese troops. The junior officers and soldiers acted spontaneously.

These lower-ranking officers and soldiers of the Japanese army still had the thought of being loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and the Great Japanese Empire in their minds, and they were still full of Bushido spirit. They would rather die in battle than be prisoners of the Chinese.

The Japanese soldiers with [-] guns rushed up howling, and slammed into the fire net woven by the ground and air firepower of the Independent Division. They were instantly torn into pieces by shells and bombs, and covered in bloody corpses. On the body of the Japanese soldier who fell before, this is the Japanese soldier in the encirclement. The swan song before the last dying struggle also completely shattered the last trace of luck and bloodiness of the Japanese soldier.

On the fourth day of the siege, the Japanese soldiers never made any breakthroughs. On that day, Lieutenant General Ma Chaoyang, deputy commander of the Left Attack Group and commander of the Southeast Mobile Corps, led ten brigades from the command post to fight against the enemy in tanks and aircraft. With the cooperation of the Japanese army, more than [-] troops under the headquarters of the Kyushu Island Defense Zone of the Japanese Army were wiped out in Miyazaki and Kagoshima in the southern part of Kyushu Island. hand.

On the same day, Han Tie, the commander of the Marine Corps of the South Route Offensive Force, led the command post to encircle and annihilate the troops under the headquarters of the Shikoku Island Defense Area of ​​the Japanese Army in Takamatsu and Tokushima in the northern part of Shikoku Island, and wiped out more than 23 enemies. Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima, none of them slipped through the net. Dozens of officers above the rank of major general in the Japanese army cut themselves open collectively, and Shikoku Island fell into the control of Hantie.

On the evening of the day when the Kyushu and Shikoku battles ended, Han Tie and Ma Chaoyang called the division headquarters respectively, requesting to lead the division to participate in the encirclement and annihilation battle against the Japanese army on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island.

Tang Qiuli called back, "Ma Chaoyang, the deputy commander of the left-wing offensive group, I am very pleased to hear all the calls. At present, on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island, our independent division has enough troops. Therefore, the main task of your department now is to stabilize In the occupied area of ​​Kyushu Island, wipe out the remnants of the Japanese army!"

After receiving the call back from his teacher, Ma Chaoyang raised his head to the sky and sighed deeply that he had missed the biggest battle of attacking the Japanese mainland.

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