Age of Conquest Reborn

In Xinzhuang, the eastern part of Honshu Island, in the first brigade of the directly affiliated corps, which is also Tang Qiuli's temporary headquarters, Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe is reporting the battle situation, "Division Commander, Deputy Division Commander Tang sent a telegram, I am on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island

The troops have surrounded the Japanese army in an area stretching from Maizuru, Kyoto, and Kobe in the east to Okayama and Tottori in the west, covering an area of ​​less than a thousand square kilometers!"

"The Feng Jiwu Department of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps and most of the Southeast Mobile Corps, which attacked from the direction of Yamaguchi, have been stationed on the line from Hiroshima to Songjiang. The 29th Corps attacked from the direction of Qibu, and the Sulu Mobile Corps attacked from the direction of Shizuoka.

It has already been stationed in Maizuru, Kyoto and Kobe, forming a pincer attack on the Japanese army!"

"After the continuous attacks by our left-wing offensive group, the Japanese army on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island suffered heavy casualties. Preliminary estimates indicate that the total strength has dropped to less than 500,000. Deputy Division Commander Tang called to ask for instructions whether the left-wing offensive group will launch an attack on the Japanese army.

The 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 of approximately 200,000 people have occupied the line from Morioka to Akiyoshi and can launch an attack at any time!"

"Call back!" Tang Qiuli looked up at the large military map and said: "Brother Qiu Sheng, the left-wing offensive group will continue to maintain strong pressure on the Japanese troops in the encirclement circle, but will not launch an attack for the time being. Sun Zhenbang, Yuan Jinghao, your troops will

Relying on the Morioka and Akiyoshi front lines, we will not launch a full-line attack on the Japanese army for the time being. We will wait for the order from the division commander when to launch a general offensive!"

After the order was issued, Zhao Yuhe did not quite understand the division commander's deployment and said: "Division Commander, the Japanese army is now a defeated force. It is at the end of its war effort and has suffered heavy casualties. The situation on the two battlefields on Honshu Island is very favorable to our army.

The encirclement has been formed, why not launch a general offensive immediately to eliminate the last two heavy groups of Japanese troops and give them a chance to breathe?"

"I want a large number of prisoners!" Tang Qiuli revealed the secret with a sly light in his eyes and said: "The remaining Japanese soldiers on the two battlefields on Honshu Island must be at least 500,000 to 600,000.

What good laborers! Siberia is a vast territory with few people. If it wants to develop, it needs a large number of laborers. These Japanese prisoners of war are costless laborers!"

"It is not difficult to annihilate them. There are thousands of combat aircraft in the sky, more than 10,000 artillery pieces on the ground, and thousands of tanks. They are dealing with the defeated generals whose blood has been wrung dry. There are enough Japanese for us to fight. Therefore, at present, we are trying to persuade them to surrender.

For the sake of our lord, we are on the brink of desperation. This is the best time to persuade the Japanese to surrender. But I am reluctant to turn hundreds of thousands of Japanese workers who will develop Siberia in the future into corpses with a single shell and bomb!"

"You ordered the division to direct the Information Office to print out a large number of leaflets explaining our army's policy. Japanese officers and soldiers in the battlefield encirclement in the northeast and northwest of Honshu Island, from the day they see the leaflets, those who lay down their weapons and surrender can enjoy the privileges of prisoners of war.

If there are those who refuse to surrender and resist in any corner, we will resolutely annihilate them!"

"Currently, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, has been completely surrounded by our squadron. Your emperor is also in danger. He is already a turtle in the urn and will become a prisoner of our squadron at any time. I hope that all Japanese officers and soldiers will recognize the situation clearly and surrender voluntarily. Those who take the propaganda leaflet, that is,

As proof of surrender!”

"In addition, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang were ordered to dispatch bombers and transport planes. However, instead of dropping bombs, they dropped propaganda leaflets on a large scale. This is called a political offensive. It disintegrates the Japanese people's fighting spirit and will to resist. It is a hugely profitable deal and is worth doing.

Bundle!"

After listening to Tang Qiuli's long speech, Zhao Yuhe's doubts disappeared and he was sincerely impressed. He said with a smile: "Teacher, I see that the look in your eyes now is similar to that of a human trafficker."

"Really?" Tang Qiuli refused to admit it and said: "This is just another way of war! The Japanese are not suitable to live on the island. I just want to find a place for the Japanese to live!"

Inside the encirclement, there were dejected and demoralized Japanese soldiers everywhere, as well as a large number of wounded. There was no cure, and no one cared about them. They could only lie in the hot sun, enduring the sun's rays without any protection.

, painful, corpses that were too late to be disposed of, and pieces of flesh and blood were everywhere. Under the scorching sun, they emitted bursts of stench, mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke, filling the lungs of the still-living Japanese soldiers.

The extreme lack of drinking water, the few remaining grains and ammunition, the desperate situation of interception in front and pursuit of troops behind, left these Japanese soldiers with no hope at all. From the top commander to ordinary soldiers, everyone knew that the entire army was deeply worried.

Desperate situation, uncertain future, failure and low morale permeated the hearts of all Japanese officers and soldiers, weighing on the hearts of every Japanese like a heavy dark cloud.

The artillery shells fired by the China Division will not cause any waves no matter how many lives of the comrades around them are taken away, because they may be the next ones to be blown apart by the shells. Fortunately, the devilish China planes are rare

It had not been hovering overhead all day, dropping deadly bombs, giving the Japanese soldiers time to take a breath 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. Along with the bright sunrise came the division planes that almost covered the sky. The roar of their engines resounded in the sky.

It was like bursts of heavy thunder rolling across the sky, pressing down heavily.

The Japanese soldiers looked blankly at the planes that were getting closer and closer in the sky. They didn't even think about hiding and flying. There was only such a large area in total, with no obstructions. There were neither dense forests nor mountains with complex terrain.

Hundreds of thousands of people were crowded together, with nowhere to run.

Many Japanese soldiers simply lay there, motionless, waiting for their fate as bombs whizzed down from the sky, and the fleet of planes rumbled past. The coercion from the sky made them feel despair, but they did not

Hearing the explosion of the bomb, the Japanese soldiers opened their eyes and found many colorful leaflets falling from the sky like fluttering snowflakes.

The Japanese soldiers picked it up casually and were quickly attracted by the content. More Japanese soldiers picked up the leaflets and looked carefully. There were also many Japanese officers at all levels who also saw the leaflets. At first

, but each soldier who picked up the leaflet read it alone, and soon, soldiers in twos and threes gathered together, whispering, with strange expressions.

"Report to the commander, China Division's combat aircraft dropped a large number of leaflets!" Major General Yokota, Chief of Staff of the Northeastern Honshu Defense Zone Headquarters, holding a large handful of leaflets in his hand, broke into the tent of the commander, Lieutenant General Yano, and

shouted angrily.

"Commander, I have read the contents of the leaflets. If they are not stopped, it will shake the morale and morale of the soldiers! I suggest that the leaflets in the hands of the soldiers be immediately confiscated and burned together. Those who wantonly spread the contents will be severely punished under military law.

, shoot him on the spot! Otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous!" He put forward his own suggestion.

Lieutenant General Yano took a leaflet, read it carefully, and said with a wry smile: "Yokota-kun, how can I stop it? It can't be stopped. I'm afraid most of the soldiers have already seen it. Should they all be shot? The matter is over.

Let him go!”

The same scene took place on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island, within the Japanese encirclement. The difference was that the commander of the northwest defense zone headquarters, Lieutenant General Morita Takiro, took much more extreme measures. Not only did he order the immediate seizure of weapons from the soldiers,

The leaflets were burned intensively, and soldiers who hid the leaflets but refused to hand them over were shot on the spot as soon as they were discovered. For this reason, hundreds of soldiers and dozens of junior officers were shot in one day.

Three days after encircling the Japanese army, all the Japanese troops in the encirclement were cut off from food and water. The desperate and crazy Japanese army launched another breakout battle. This breakout was not an order issued by the commanders of the two Japanese defense zone headquarters, but by some Japanese soldiers.

Subordinate officers and soldiers acted spontaneously.

These junior officers and soldiers of the Japanese army still had the idea of ​​loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan 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 carrying 38-guns rushed up howling, and ran into the fire net woven by the division's ground and air fire. In an instant, they were torn into pieces by artillery shells and bombs, and the bloody corpses were covered in the ground.

On the bodies of the fallen Japanese soldiers, these were the last songs of the Japanese soldiers in the encirclement before their last death struggle, which also completely shattered the last trace of luck and bloody spirit of the Japanese soldiers.

On the fourth day of the siege, the Japanese soldiers never made any breakout moves. On that day, Lieutenant General Ma Chaoyang, deputy commander of the left offensive group and commander of the Southeast Mobile Corps, commanded ten brigades, carrying out tanks and aircraft.

With the cooperation of the Japanese army, more than 100,000 troops belonging to the headquarters of the Kyushu Island Defense Zone were wiped out in Miyazaki and Kagoshima in the southern part of Kyushu Island. The commander, Lieutenant General Shirakawa Yoshizawa, committed suicide by caesarean section, and Kyushu Island fell into the hands of the division.

hand.

On the same day, Han Tie, commander of the Marine Corps of the South Route Offensive Force, commanded the headquarters in Takamatsu and Tokushima in the northern part of Shikoku Island to encircle and annihilate the troops belonging to the headquarters of the Japanese Shikoku Island Defense Zone, wiping out more than 230,000 enemies.

The commander, Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima, found that no one had escaped the trap. Dozens of Japanese officers above the rank of major general committed suicide collectively, and Shikoku Island fell under the control of Korean Railways.

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

Tang Qiuli called back, "Ma Chaoyang, deputy commander of the left-wing offensive group, I have received all the calls and I am very pleased. At present, our division's troops are sufficient on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island. Therefore, your main task now is to stabilize Kyushu."

The occupied area of ​​​​the island and eliminate the remaining Japanese enemies!”

After receiving a call back from his division commander, Ma Chaoyang looked up to the sky and sighed. He had missed the biggest battle in attacking the Japanese mainland.

(To be continued)r1152

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