Glorious Mission 1937

Such a strategic decision involving the life and death of the country is definitely not something that a small combat staff can decide, nor can a small navy department. Soon this combat plan was sent to Emperor Hirohito. Strategic decisions can only be made by the 42-year-old Emperor Hirohito.

After consulting all high-level military officers, except for some fanatics, the vast majority of sane military officers believe that if they continue to fight in the entire Asian Allied Forces, all of Japan's elite forces are likely to be defeated one by one by the Allied Forces. Therefore, the only way to save Japan's already royal face is to fight a decisive battle with the Allies on the mainland.

The Japanese base camp believed that it would be the most unwise choice for the Allied forces to attack the Japanese mainland, and their inherent disadvantages made it difficult for them to succeed.If the Empire of Japan can withdraw all overseas troops to the country, Japan will be able to deal with the allied forces.

After all, for a decisive battle on the mainland, the Imperial Japanese Army is fighting on the land inherited from its father and ancestors. It has a perfect backbone of the army and can concentrate all its forces on the enemy's landing site. offensive.

And it can pour all the strength of the air and sea special attack forces to meet the enemy in the coastal seas of the homeland.The more local feature is that, in addition to the 7000 million (actually [-] million) citizens who have the loyal spirit of defending the imperial country and the invincible spirit of Yamato, cooperate with the army and fight with the army, the geographical advantage is also absolute.

From the perspective of high-level Japanese officials, in the past when fighting on remote sea islands and oceans, the Imperial Japanese Army mostly fought against the enemy with no support and no supplies.He even fought against the enemy's concentrated attack with a small amount of combat power many times and won the final victory.Compared with this situation, the strategic situation of the two sides is now reversed, presumably the Imperial Japanese Army will not even be able to defend its own home.

Even General Umezu Yoshijiro, who has always advocated foreign wars, said: "At present, the only way to preserve the inheritance of the Great Japanese Empire and the line of emperors is to withdraw troops and then fight the enemy's homeland. When the enemy comes to attack, carry forward [-] million people. We should use the spirit of special attack to annihilate them; we must use the determination not to let a single soldier of the enemy survive, implement the belief that if we win, we will die, and fight with bayonets."

"When the enemy's landing forces approach the coastal waters of our homeland, we must first deploy all sea and air combat forces, and use our country's unique air and water offensive warfare to sink the US military transport fleet. Try to destroy the enemy at sea. And for the enemy that is still landing Concentrate all the local army forces on the enemy's landing site, launch a continuous and violent attack, and quickly annihilate the enemy in the coastal areas. Ground operations should also implement special offensive tactics, and the people should go all out to assist Do a good job in the army's various logistics, air defense, and construction of fortifications. And directly cooperate with the battle."

March 1944, 3.The Emperor of Japan issued an order to withdraw troops.At the same time, the navy and army were ordered to implement the withdrawal plan in accordance with the strategic vision of Ono, the Ministry of the Navy.

Soon, the top commanders of the strategic headquarters of the Japanese army stationed in North Korea, Bay Island, Hong Kong Island, Myanmar, French Indochina, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Dutch East Indies, and South Sakhalin Island received dispatches from the base camp. A secret telegram was sent, ordering the troops to recruit large ships on the spot immediately.And shrink its troops to various port cities, ready to withdraw at any time.

At the same time, the No. 14 Front Army Command of the Japanese Army stationed in the Philippines received a completely different telegram. If the enemy army cannot be completely wiped out, it is necessary to carry forward the offensive spirit of the Imperial Japanese Army to prevent the enemy from surviving, implement the belief that if you win, you will die, and complete the sacred mission of the empire.

As for the more detailed telegram, only Fengwen Yamashita knew that the No.14 Front Army had to make sacrifices for the millions of Japanese imperial troops scattered throughout the islands of the South Pacific. Then make your final contribution to the Great Japanese Empire!

MacArthur and others were very surprised that the retreating Japanese army suddenly stopped. At the same time, they built fortifications on the spot and took the initiative to attack.On the other hand, the Allied forces thought that the Japanese army had been defeated. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army suddenly came back with their carbine, and they were caught off guard, and many troops were severely damaged.

At the same time, the Allied fleet cruising around the Sea of ​​Japan was met with a deadly counterattack by the Japanese naval aviation. What is a deadly counterattack?It means that when the enemy came, he never thought of going back alive!

On March 3, this day was definitely a black Sunday for many people in the Allied forces. On this day, the Allied fleets near Iwo Jima, the Ryukyu Islands and the Philippine Islands encountered unprecedented terrorist battles.

It was just dawn, and Japanese fighter planes flew to the battlefield. Unlike the previous dive bombing, Japanese fighter planes loaded with fuel and aerial bombs and torpedoes crashed into the Allied forces parked on the sea without looking back. warship ship.Often accompanied by a loud noise, a battleship or cruiser was severely damaged, and some small battleships were even sunk.

In just one morning, more than 70 Allied warships were sunk and damaged, including 3 aircraft carriers, 4 battleships, and 13 cruisers.

In fact, a large number of high explosives are installed on the plane like this, and placed in front of the pilot's cockpit. Once the target is found, even people and the plane will hit it, and the nose of the plane will immediately explode violently when it touches a hard object. Suicide attack. The Asian battlefield is not uncommon.

It's just that it didn't appear on such a large scale as today. The suicide attacks that appeared in the past only happened when the aviation soldiers were injured and unable to return.These people are generally unwilling to become captives, or are worried about being tortured and killed after becoming captives.For example, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Itada Futaro once drove a plane into the hangar of the US military airport.In the Sino-Japanese air battle in Wuhan, there were also Chinese pilots who died together with the Japanese army, but this was only an isolated phenomenon, and it was not an organized and large-scale suicide attack like the battle that took place today.

On the second day, although the Allied forces had made defensive preparations, more than [-] warships were damaged and sunk, and a large number of naval officers and soldiers were killed or injured.

The Japanese army's crazy suicide attack shocked the Allied forces. The Allied Command had to urgently order the navy to retreat.

Chen Feng has no good solution to the madness of the Japanese army, because the principle of the suicide plane is bomb + plane. It can fly at high speed. Under the control of the pilot, it is equivalent to a smart bomb. If two 2-pound heavy-duty aerial bombs or large torpedoes are loaded, the explosion effect is very good.Moreover, suicide planes are difficult to intercept. You can spot them from the ground, or send planes to intercept them. But the Japanese pilots who fly these planes came with the determination to die. When they encountered warships, they rammed them. Fighter planes can be said to be impossible to guard against.

If a suicide plane hits its target, it may sink a US destroyer or even an aircraft carrier.Compared with the results of the battle, the price paid by the Japanese army was very small, which became the reason why the Japanese military used suicide planes to attack on a large scale in the future.

What's more, by 1944, the Japanese Navy was decimated.Compared with the Allies, the Japanese Air Force still has an advantage only in numbers.With the fighting in the Solomon Islands and the northern port city of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, and the ongoing Battle of the Philippine Sea, Japan lost 400 fighters and pilots, and experienced fighter pilots began to be in short supply.Japan's First Air Force Commander and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Takijiro Ohnishi realized that his hundreds of pilots who had received little training could not strike the enemy in air combat and would only kill in vain.So he decided to form a suicide attack force, the kamikaze.

Japan's crazy offensive completely disrupted the plans of the Allied forces, and even caused panic in the navy. Thinking about that scene, it would be very scary. Watching the Japanese plane rush towards the warship, if it was not blown up in the air, then It means that the warship he is on will be hit by at least one large torpedo, and casualties are predictable.It's totally fitting that Grim Reaper is dancing, and nobody's not scared.

This is what the Japanese wanted. When the Allied navy was far away from the battlefield, a large number of ships carrying Japanese soldiers set off from the ports of North Korea, Bay Island, Hong Kong Island, Burma, etc., and headed for the Japanese mainland. At the same time, a large number of Japanese ships set off from the Japanese mainland to these overseas colonies.

Japan's troop withdrawal plan began, and the allied forces knew about Japan's troop withdrawal five days later, which was 15 days after the 5 days required by the Japanese troop withdrawal plan.

After the Allied forces realized that the Japanese army was about to escape, they ordered the navy to immediately go to the Sea of ​​Japan to intercept them. The Japanese soldiers overseas must not be allowed to return to the Japanese mainland smoothly.

The role of the Dunkirk evacuation was clear to the allied forces. If it were not for Churchill’s engine plan at that time, the final outcome of the more than 40 British and French allied forces would be wiped out. How could they participate in the follow-up war, and more importantly, the United Kingdom would be gone. Guarding the forces of the British Isles, the entire history of World War II will have to be rewritten.

It is precisely because of knowing this that the Allied forces will not allow the Japanese to withdraw their troops from Southeast Asia. Moreover, the British and French allied forces at that time were less than 50, and only 33 were successfully withdrawn to the British mainland.And what about Japan?Nearly 300 million, even if only half of them returned to Japan, the consequences would be disastrous. (To be continued..)