Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"Good, good, good, Xiaotera is indeed my favorite Imperial Eagle!"

Seeing that Kodera Kouta's tactics had achieved victory, Guizi Tianhuang was very happy: "Immediately broadcast this battle report to the whole country, tell the people that victory belongs to the empire, and commend those who fought bravely and sacrificed their lives for the country!"

"Hayi!"

"By the way, give some rewards to Kota Kodera..."

After the Japanese people got the news, the whole nation fell into carnival again. The information they received was very limited. They only knew that the empire had repelled an American landing operation, and the result of the second landing operation was unknown. Now that more than 5,000 American soldiers had been killed, it was worth celebrating.

The same tactics worked again the next day. Although the Americans were prepared this time, they still did not have a good solution and more than 4,000 people were killed by the Japanese. After the Japanese gained experience, their own casualties were reduced a lot, and they only lost more than 1,000 people.

On the third day, the fourth day... Although the Americans knew that the Japanese could climb trees, the Japanese were also summing up their experience and began to use a combination of real and fake methods. Sometimes they attacked the Americans on trees, sometimes underground, and sometimes they used the most primitive earthen bunker method to attack the Americans.

Moreover, as time went by, the Japanese dug a lot of tunnels, and the tunnels under the woods began to connect together. The Japanese could appear anywhere to attack American soldiers, causing considerable casualties to the Americans every day.

After the news was passed back to the Japanese homeland, the Japanese homeland once again fell into a frenzy. The previous defeats against Li Yunlong on the Chinese battlefield had made many Japanese lose confidence.

However, facing the victory of the Americans, they regained the feeling of being invincible as they did on the Chinese battlefield.

Compared to the excitement of the Japanese, the Americans were gloomy. The initial 5,000 people were not many compared to the landing troops of ten divisions, but this was just the beginning.

Later, there were thousands of casualties every day. Even when there was no attack, the Japanese would dig tunnels and appear outside the camp to launch sneak attacks, killing some American soldiers or destroying the camp.

Although the casualties were not great, the morale of the Americans was severely damaged.

Now some American soldiers no longer dare to enter the woods.

"We can't go on like this. Use incendiary bombs to burn down these forests and turn the Japanese hiding in the deep woods into corpses!"

The person in charge of this counterattack was a five-star general. Faced with such heavy losses, he could no longer sit still. Unable to find any other solution, he could only use the most primitive method, burning the forest.

"Sir, it's easy to burn down this forest, but it's hard to put out the fire. What if it spreads?"

"Then we have to burn down these damned forests. We can't let our soldiers continue to fight those invisible monkeys in the woods!"

"Okay, as you wish!"

Soon the Americans began to use indiscriminate incendiary bombs to bomb the forest, and the entire southern part of Odalia was engulfed in flames.

The flames burned to death some Japanese soldiers, but also delayed the American offensive, and the two sides once again fell into a stalemate.

The Americans were still transporting various weapons, ammunition and other supplies to Odalia, while the Japanese defenders began digging various tunnels in the rear city in preparation for the next defensive operations.

Two weeks later, a heavy rain put out the fire. After a large area of ​​forest was burned, the American troops were finally able to continue advancing towards Melbourne.

It can be said that the journey was smooth and there was no decent resistance from the Japanese.

"Those monkeys, without the forest, are just lambs to be slaughtered. Now I order my warriors to take Melbourne. I want to spend Christmas in Melbourne!"

Without the obstruction of the forest, the five-star general became full of confidence. Looking at the five infantry divisions, two armored divisions and some marines numbering more than 100,000 people advancing towards Melbourne, he couldn't help but feel proud.

At this time, the city of Melbourne was almost becoming a ghost town. The people in the city either worked for the Japanese underground or were sent to the northern wilderness to mine. There were still some people left, but the Japanese had killed them all in order to keep it secret.

The whole city looked deserted, as if the Japanese had abandoned it.

And under the city, the various tunnels that the Japanese had spent more than half a month digging had connected all the rooms. Yamashita Tomotake was preparing to completely defeat the American army here.

Chapter 734 Lost again?

The Japanese started a fierce battle with the Americans in Odalia.

The Japanese soldiers who started climbing trees caught the Americans off guard, and the two sides fought in the direction of Odalia for about half a year.

Half a year later, the Americans announced that they had successfully recaptured Odalia. However, after learning the news, the Japanese immediately announced that Odalia was still in their hands. In order to prove the authenticity of the news, the Japanese also added photos to their news.

A photo of the devil's plaster flag flying in Odalia.

Neither side lied, but both sides engaged in some artistic processing.

The Americans did recapture part of Odalia, including some large cities in the southern region, which are suitable for human habitation.

The Japanese did not lose the entire Odalia. In the wastelands and deserts in the north of Odalia, there were still Japanese troops struggling. Yamashita Tomotake led about four divisions of about 100,000 Japanese soldiers and was still holding on.

The northern part of Odalia is too large and is all desert and wasteland. The Americans have no time to continue cleaning it up. After deploying troops in some important cities, they are ready to continue attacking Southeast Asia.

In the Odalia region, the Americans delayed for too long, a full half year.

The Americans were very anxious because they had obtained important intelligence about the Japanese. The Japanese in Southeast Asia had already built various fortifications on various islands. As time went on, these fortifications became more and more complete.

The Americans knew that they could no longer wait and needed to continue advancing into Southeast Asia.

Because of the delay of half a year in Odalia, the Americans' island-hopping tactics were once again used, preparing to abandon some unimportant islands and attack some islands located at key nodes.

However, these six months were not all bad news for the Americans. There were also a lot of good news. The American Navy and the Japanese Combined Fleet had several confrontations in these six months, and the Americans won every time.

The US Pacific Fleet has reached as far as the coast of the Philippines and bombarded several ports.

In addition, a total of more than 20 battleships of the Japanese Combined Fleet were destroyed. Even if the battleships added by the Japanese later were included, there are only about ten battleships left in the Japanese main fleet.

It is also for this reason that the Americans used the island-hopping tactic, because the Japanese combined fleet could hardly threaten the logistical security of the American fleet.

The Japanese Combined Fleet suffered heavy losses, but the Japanese battle reports showed something completely different. According to the Japanese battle reports, the American Pacific Fleet had been defeated at least four times, and at least forty battleships or even more had been destroyed.

There was even news that the same battleship was sunk three times in a row.

But the Japanese also gave a reasonable explanation, that is, the battleship was sunk, and the Americans renamed it after the sunken battleship.

This reason may fool some ordinary people, but some Japanese have begun to realize that they are about to reach their end, especially the senior Japanese officials, who have begun to consider the future.

Especially after the American five-star general once again set foot on Philippine soil, most of the Japanese high-ranking officials had realized that defeat was inevitable.

At the same time, the Japanese domestic economy has completely collapsed, the people have begun to have no food to eat, and the arsenals have begun to stop production in large numbers. Having lost the source of materials from the four eastern provinces and the resources of Odalia, the arsenals have no raw materials.

Although some resources can still be seized from East and West Siberia, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the huge war consumption of the Japanese.

The number of Japanese army soldiers has reached about seven million, but among these seven million, only about three million can be equipped with complete weapons and equipment. The remaining Japanese soldiers are training with wooden guns and waiting for the distribution of weapons.

After the Philippines was recaptured by the Americans, the Japanese transportation lines in Southeast Asia were completely paralyzed. Without the cover of the Combined Fleet, it was difficult for Japanese merchant ships to leave Southeast Asia.

But even so, the Japanese still caused a large number of casualties to the Americans. Their tactics of climbing trees and digging holes made the Pacific battlefield much more brutal than before.

The Japanese soldiers at the bottom did not know that defeat was inevitable, and still believed that they would win and that the locusts would protect them, and then they launched a long live charge.

From Odalia to the Philippines, the Americans suffered at least 500,000 casualties.

Among these 500,000, at least nearly 150,000 American soldiers were killed and more than 300,000 were injured.

Most of the American soldiers who died in battle were killed because of the Japanese tactics of climbing trees or digging holes. Only a few of them died in actual positional warfare.

Later, before the Americans landed on the island, they simply used incendiary bombs to burn the island where the Japanese were stationed, setting fire to all the ignitable places, and then began the landing operation.

Doing so did reduce a lot of casualties, but it also greatly delayed the American landing.

The battle that originally took only seven days to resolve may take more than ten or even twenty days, as we have to wait until the wildfire is extinguished before landing.

While the Americans and the Japanese were fighting to the death, Li Yunlong was not idle either.

The size of the army has expanded to about 1.5 million, of which 1.2 million new recruits have completed training. Some have been sent to Siberia to start sweeping the Japanese in Siberia and taking control of some areas.

Some of them went south to support other brother units, while also training new recruits and conducting actual combat training on the battlefield in North China.

Another part has begun to gather and prepare to go north to deal with the Japanese in Harbin and other places.

However, just as Li Yunlong was waiting for the general attack, he received shocking news.

"What the hell?"

Li Yunlong rubbed his ears carefully, suspecting that there seemed to be something wrong with his ears.

"The Nationalist Army was defeated. The Japanese invaders attacked southward from Henan Province, launching several consecutive battles. The Nationalist Army was completely defeated! The Japanese invaders fought their way from Henan Province to Guangxi Province!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong rubbed his swollen head.

Isn’t this the great defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi?

Originally, Li Yunlong thought that he had beaten the Japanese into such a state that the main force had been almost wiped out by him. The remaining elite troops were either kept in the defensive positions on the front line of Harbin for training, or transferred to Southeast Asia to climb trees and act like monkeys.

The remaining teenage recruits and veterans with various disabilities should not cause any trouble. After all, the National Army has had an easy time in the past two years. The Japanese have not launched a large-scale attack, and they can also calmly reorganize their troops and improve their combat effectiveness.

What happened? I wasn't paying attention. To be more precise, I was busy with Miss Qiu's final preparations when the National Army had another big one.

Chapter 735 Shadow No.

"Ask Kota Kodera what's going on!"

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong rubbed his temples. Henan, Hunan and Guangxi suffered a great defeat. The impact of this incident was really too bad.

How to describe the impact of this defeat?

Before the great defeat in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, we were the victors and could sit at the table and eat after the war. Although we couldn't feast on the food, we could still eat some leftovers.

After the victory, there are more conditions that can be negotiated, such as taking back some rented places, or getting more compensation, etc.

As a result, a major defeat in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi caused us to fall off the dining table and almost become a dish on the table.

The original difficulty at the beginning was already hellish, and after the great defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, it became like starting at the eighteenth level of hell.

"Show me the battle report!"

Li Yunlong sighed. He originally thought that since there was no fighting after April and May, the Japanese Operation Plan No. 1 would not be activated. But he didn't expect that such a thing would happen when the New Year was almost approaching.

After reading the battle report, Li Yunlong silently lit a cigarette for himself.

It's embarrassing. So fucking embarrassing.

Gabbers, all of them are gabbers.

Thunder Dip performed stably, and his ability to travel thousands of miles after encountering an enemy was triggered again.

In addition, the poor logistical organization and coordination capabilities of the National Army were once again exposed. What was originally just a minor defeat turned into a complete rout.

This isn't 1937, it's the end of 1944!

The Japanese are no longer the Type A division they once were, but child soldiers who are not even as good as the Type C division.

After so many years of fighting, the National Army has not made any progress at all, and can be described as regressing rapidly.

"Report, secret message!"

Li Yunlong knew that this was a call back from Kotaro Kotera, who had now secured the position of Deputy Chief of Staff.

The reason why Li Yunlong sent him a telegram to inquire was because he had not received the relevant telegram, and he had to confirm Kota Kotera's condition.