As the Sino-Japanese Southeast Battle and the Ryukyu battle were in full swing, Germany finally joined forces with Poland to launch a war of military aggression against the Soviet Union. Perhaps the word "Unitedoffensive" is not correct, but it is also undeniable that Poland itself really wants to do this, they are just helpless.

He handed over all military command to Nazi Germany, or was completely vassalized by the Third Reich.

The tragedy of the Soviet Union lies in the fact that too many elite military officers lost in the previous purge, especially those middle and grassroots officers who are loyal to the country and nation, and are also facing the possibility of two-line combat. On the Sino-Soviet border and the Chinese Empire

The Central Defense Forces maintained the strength of more than 30 elite divisions, and most of them were mechanized divisions. In addition, China and the Soviet Union have not been able to reach a truly effective agreement on peaceful complementary violations, which forced the Soviet Union to maintain the same garrison in the Kazakh region.

Under such circumstances, the possibility of the Soviet Red Army resisting the German-Polish coalition on the Western Front was almost zero. From the outbreak of the Soviet-German War on May 4 to May 23, the German blitzkrieg won, and its elite

The Sixth Army broke through the Soviet Red Army's defense line and occupied the Belarusian area. The Polish army also captured most of Ukraine, approaching Kiev at the limit.

The Type 4 tank jointly developed by China and Germany showed its power in the war, which shocked the whole world for a while, but its prototype tank, MBT30 tank and its subsequent model, MBT33 tank, were not so glorious on the Korean battlefield.

Overall, China did not show its true military strength during the Third Sino-Japanese War, because China's regular defense force had only 74 army divisions, but it had to take into account the defense of the entire Asia, including only in the Middle East and allies.

The troops stationed include three armored divisions and one conventional mechanized infantry division. In Cambodia and Thailand, the Imperial Navy, Army and Air Forces also have troops in Cambodia and Thailand, East Africa and the South Pacific.

Of course, the war mobilization, military reserves and military industrial production strength of the entire Chinese Empire were not accessible to Japan. By May 1940, the Imperial Central Defense Army had expanded to 172 divisions and 53 reorganized brigades, and the entire army's armored vehicles had been accorded to the entire army.

, tanks, armored transport vehicles, amphibious tanks, amphibious armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery, have exceeded 77,000, and the Air Force chief organization has increased to 55 Air Force aviation combatants, 10 airborne divisions, 17 transport divisions, and the Navy chief organization has been re-adjusted to

The Central Air Combined Fleet, the headquarters' coastal defense fleet, the Pacific Combined Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet, the Far East Fleet, and the Marine Corps were expanded to 52 brigades.

At this point, the Imperial Navy, Army, Air and Strategic Forces combined with more than 5.7 million Central Defense Forces, an expansion of 2.3 times compared to before the war. Even so, this is not the limit of the Imperial Defense Forces. The Imperial still has more than 4 million retired ages.

The reserve of officers and soldiers is not recruited to serve. If the reserve of Imperial recruits is added, the limit of the Imperial Wehrmacht can be expanded to about 20 million.

In the whole world, except for the Soviet Union, no other country can compete with the empire in terms of total number of soldiers. In terms of total military reserves, the Soviet, Germany, the United States and Britain may not necessarily surpass the empire. The empire's military education system is not only at a higher level.

, the scale is also larger, with more than 24,000 young officers entering the service every year, and is well-deserved as the world's largest military education power.

According to the plan of the Central Military Department, by the end of 1940, the Imperial Navy, Army and Air Force chiefs would not reach 6.5 million. This will be the time for the Imperial Defense Force to attack Japan in full swing and attack Japan's mainland. Before that, the Imperial Defense Forces would

What he did was to continue to consume Japanese resources and block Japan into the ocean, so as to ensure that before attacking Japan's mainland, Japan could not effectively obtain overseas resources and could only rely on local resources to fight against the Imperial Defense Forces.

This is a long-term lockdown battle.

The empire does not need to devote all its national strength to the Sino-Japanese War, but if necessary, the empire can burst out stronger power at any time to curb the Japanese army from winning victory at a certain stage, such as in chaos.

In the Arrow Plan, Fu Zuoyi's failure and Hata Shunroku's extraordinary performance failed to prevent the empire from continuing toward its final victory.

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After the Imperial strategic troops were put into war, the Imperial adjusted its original tactical offensive steps and began to emphasize the strategic troops' first attack. First, relying on the missile attack of the strategic troops, it eliminated important Japanese airports, communications, ammunition depots, and command agencies.

Then the Air Force sent large-scale fighter bombers to attack aircraft groups to clear the Japanese fortresses, fortresses, logistics, roads, railways, ports, artillery positions, and then the Army's large-scale ground attack.

In this case, the Japanese army was completely unable to adopt an effective counterattack strategy and could only rely on the advantages of the mountain to conduct local defense, and the role this defense can play is greatly weakened.

In order to save the situation and prevent defeat, the Japanese army was forced to continue to use chemical weapons to contain it. The scale of the subsequent retaliation war of chemical weapons carried out by the Imperial Defense Forces also expanded rapidly. When the Japanese army was unable to effectively use chemical weapons to attack China's mainland, the Empire relied on

The advantages of the air force and strategic forces were carried out with the first wave of retaliation against Japan's Maguan on May 27, and then expanded to cities such as Tokyo, Kobe, Kyoto, Hiroshima.

The war became extremely cruel. Both sides violated international treaties and launched a large-scale chemical warfare on the Korean Peninsula. In such wars, although the Japanese army had the ability to threaten and even severely damaged the Imperial Army, the countermeasures encountered were even more

To be serious, the Japanese army mainly used erosive poisons, while the Northeast Defense Force mainly used neurological poisons. Tabeng and Salin were the chemical poisons that the Imperial Defense Forces adopted the most.

Compared with the Japanese army, relying on more abundant military expenditure and years of development and war preparation, the Imperial Weapons have prepared more fully on the prevention and equipment of chemical weapons. The Japanese army that initiated chemical warfare first is more passive and more likely to be affected by chemicals.

The heavy blow to weapons was even more miserable than the Japanese army, including North Korean civilians and Japanese civilians who had no ability to prevent.

War is so cruel.

On May 30, Lieutenant General Tadakayasu Hosokawa commanded his troops to attack Jindoling and used mustard gas shells at the first time. However, half an hour later, the unit was bombed by the 24th Division of the Imperial Central Air Force stationed in North Korea.

Retaliation attack, and several sarin artillery shells were fired at the Jindaoling artillery position.

This battle is destined to be very famous. It is not because both China and Japan used a lot of chemical weapons during the entire battle. However, after the end of this battle, the Japanese garrison in North Korea was completely cut off from two parts.

The anti-encirclement of Matsui Ishiro's roots at the same time determined the demise of the Japanese Army.

Before the outbreak of the Jindaoling Battle, the Imperial Air Force Transportation Division had already provided supplies to the Jindaoling garrison many times. Xue Yue's troops did not lack the defense equipment for chemical weapons, because the Japanese army used chemical weapons more frequently, and even regarded them as the only one.

Xue Yue was also extremely cautious in preventing this by overturning the situation.

Starting from the early morning, the Japanese army launched four rounds of artillery bombings on the front and back of the position, and about 20,000 shells were fired, of which about 1/3 were poisonous gas bombs, with a complete range of types. In addition to neurotoxins, the Japanese army could have almost all chemical shells.

All used.

This made Xue Yue very angry. He had been in the underground command post, constantly giving orders to the rocket launcher troops in the rear, and also generating electricity to the air force, demanding strong counterattack and revenge for the Japanese chemical warfare.

The chemical war between the two sides lasted for about two days, and it was not until 2 pm on the third day that the Japanese army launched the first round of positional attack.

Amid the roar of artillery fire, about two infantry corps Japanese troops launched a strong attack on the 303 Highlands. Tan Zhengfu's 203 Battalion happened to adjust the defense zone and lay it here. On this high ground at an altitude of 410 meters, Tan Zhengfu's foundations on the three forts left by the Japanese army.

At the same time, five fortresses were further built, with three trenches connected to each other, and strongly suppressed the Japanese army's strong attack on the positions.

During this period, the Northeast Defense Forces had all replaced the M35 assault rifles. With light and heavy machine guns, a large number of general machine guns, as well as grenade guns and mortars, they did have a great advantage over the Japanese army in positional warfare.

, but due to the serious shortage of troops, Tan Zhengfu, as the battalion commander, was also in person.

Soldiers, like bullets, are consumables in war.

Every battle is divided into parts, and it is just a battle of attacks and captures from each stronghold.

Tadakayashi Hosokawa sent two infantry corpses to launch an attack from both flanks of the 303 position, constantly luring the Northeast Wehrmacht to use machine guns and then try to use mortars to eliminate the opponent's machine gun strongholds, but this command method is too cruel because

The Imperial Army, which was guarding here, not only had a large number of light and heavy machine guns, but also generally equipped with assault rifles. Lieutenant General Hosokawa Tadashi was not aware of the changes brought about by this.

In the case of a large number of assault rifles, the position of heavy machine guns and general machine guns in tactics has been greatly weakened. With a small number of light machine guns and assault rifles, the Japanese infantry charge is easily strangled, and the firepower can still sweep the battlefield in an instant

The degree of the Imperial Army's ammunition consumption rate was also increased sharply, so it required a stronger transportation capacity compared with the Sino-Japanese War of 1911.

Major General Xue Yue grasped this very experiencedly. He had thoroughly studied the classic position war theory. The first thing he emphasized was the construction of transportation trenches in the trench system and strengthened the construction of temporary highways from Jindaoling Line to Weilihuang Department.

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The Japanese army also temporarily set up a large number of light machine guns, exchanged fire with each other, and tried to use firepower to cover the attack. The sound of dada dada never stopped on the battlefield. The dull mortar sounded from time to time and burst out on the battlefield.

A brief explosion.

The Imperial Army has more ways to attack mobile phone gun points. In addition to mortars, the main attack methods are 30mm caliber grenade guns and machine guns, and they can even use rocket launchers to attack machine guns more than 300 meters away from each other at a distance.

point.

The complex system of light weapons has very good value for position warfare. The Japanese army also tried to attack with a small number of light tanks and tanks, but the Japanese 97 land combat vehicles were too thin, not to mention that they could not stop the 37mm anti-tank gun and 60mm caliber

The attack of the rocket launcher could not even withstand the 20mm machine cannon at close range.

In addition to the forces, the Japanese army, which was at a disadvantage overall, had difficulty in progress, and the forces of the two infantry regiments were quickly exhausted. Tadakayashi Hosokawa was forced to continue to mobilize troops to cover the frontal attack, and there were only more than 40 Type 97 medium-sized vehicles.

Most of the chariots were destroyed.

Hata Shunrok was very wise in the early stage of the Southeast Battle of the entire Korean battlefield, but in the Battle of Jindaoling, he made a fatal mistake. In fact, when the Japanese army besieged Fu Zuoyi, even in the previous Kaesong Battle, the Japanese army had already been

The problem of forcibly breaking through positions is exposed.

In the Third Sino-Japanese War, with the renewal and development of infantry equipment, the possibility of relying solely on infantry charge and tactical advancement was already very low, and the Japanese army was still in this field during World War I, which was not allowed by the Japanese army.

Reasons for not using chemical weapons on a large scale.

However, the Japanese army that provoked the chemical warfare was actually in a more severe disaster because the chemical weapons levels of both sides were not equal.

The artillery fire on Jindao Ridge became more and more fierce. In just a few hours, the Japanese army fired more than 13,000 shells, but this kind of attack was short-lived. As the air force arrived on the front line to support the operation, the Japanese artillery positions were quickly contained.

The long-range-supported J-15 Tiger Shark fighter bomber dropped a large number of incendiary bombs at high altitude, burning the entire Japanese battlefield as brilliant as a flaming mountain. In modern warfare, there would be no land attack without the air force, which is a law that is difficult to break through.

The Japanese army seemed not aware of this. They just wanted to rely on spiritual weapons to support victory and to defeat their opponents with their brave fighting spirit. They could only attack the positions one after another, regardless of the damage and casualties.

The two sides repeatedly fought over three positions 303,314,332, and the two armies gradually expanded from the initial one brigade to three brigades to one infantry division against four brigades and one brigade.

It was not until June 3, 1940 that the newly formed 105th Infantry Division, which had arrived on the Korean battlefield, marched 70 kilometers overnight and arrived at the Jindaoling defense line at 3 a.m. The final suspense of the battle was lost. With the support of the Imperial Army, the Imperial Army arrived.

The subsequent new divisions of 106 and 107 will also arrive one after another within a week. The Japanese army was forced to give up their attack on Tunkiri, and the battle also changed from the Japanese offensive to the counterattack of the Second Army.

Wei Lihuang used the power of two armored divisions and three infantry divisions to curb Matsui Ishienen, concentrate the newly added troops in the Battle of Jindaoling, aiming at Tadaoyashi Hosokawa, who was overly consumed, and Xue Yue, who was responsible for commanding the Battle of Jindaoling, was not allowed to wait for details.

Tadao Kawashima retreated with the remaining troops, and used hundreds of MT22 tanks as the main force to break through the Japanese defense line, annihilated Tadao Hosokawa's two brigades, and then headed north to occupy Kinquan County, completely cutting the Japanese army's Matsui Ishikebu and Shinrobu Hata.

open.

The Battle of Jindaoling was the biggest turning point in the battle between China and Japan in southeastern Korea. Since then, the Japanese army has completely lost the initiative on the battlefield, and the entire East Asian dispatched troops were also cut into two pieces by the Imperial Army. As the Imperial Central Army adjusts its operations

Plans: More than 20 newly formed divisions have crossed the ocean to reach the Korean battlefield. Wei Lihuang bypassed the Chiyi Mountain and launched a clamp attack on Matsui Ishigen from Xianyang and Hedong, and sent 170,000 Japanese East Asia.

The 3rd Army of the Army was annihilated.

In the Shangzhou War Zone, Xu Wei was ordered to replace Fu Zuoyi as the commander of the First Army, and joined forces with Zhang Zizhong's Third Army to defeat Yoshio Iwamatsu's 1st Japanese Army, and Chen Wu's 4th Army crossed the Japanese Taibai Mountain Defense Line, 400

Li Yuejin raided Pohang, and attacked the Japanese headquarters in Daegu with Zhang Zizhong's Third Army, east-west. The Japanese army was forced to retreat completely to South Gyeongsang Province, North Korea.

It was not until then that Emperor Song Biao flew to Quanzhou on a special plane, considering the final decisive battle against Japan. The command headquarters of the Imperial Northeast Defense Force had moved to Quanzhou at the end of May, and the scale of Quanzhou's military airport also expanded.

, three air force divisions and an air force transport division were stationed locally, responsible for comprehensive support for the front-line battlefield.

When Song Biao's special plane arrived at the Quanzhou Airport, the commanders of the Northeast Defense Forces headquarters were all welcomed at the airport. Now it is time for the Chinese navy, army and air force to have an absolute advantage. The remaining 700,000 troops of the Japanese army are concentrated in Gyeongsangnan.

The total force is less than 1/3 of the Imperial Army. The air force and armored forces have been completely lost, and more than 6,000 artillery pieces have been lost. It can be said that the artillery has been completely damaged. It is no longer able to fight with the Imperial Army. In addition, there is no way out.

I can only resist stubbornly in Gyeongsang South Province.

After the plane stopped, Song Biao, accompanied by Fu Liangzuo, the deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Department, walked out of the cabin door and glanced over. He saw Cai E, Liu Gengyun and Wei Lihuang standing in front in the crowd, but he was not the case.

Chen Wu, whom I really want to see, has Fu Zuoyi.
To be continued...