Chapter 455: No War in North China (1)

After receiving the telegram from the intelligence department and Yan'an, Han Yunhua was overjoyed, and the Japanese army really stretched out its claws to the United States at this time, which also indicated that the Chinese people finally did not have to fight against the powerful Japan in Asia alone. No matter what happens in the future, for the time being, this will undoubtedly be beneficial to the Chinese nation.

What's more, as a traverser with an avant-garde consciousness, the Japanese army seemed to have successfully attacked the most important US naval base in the Pacific Ocean this time, and severely damaged the US Navy. However, Han Yunhua knew that all this was an illusion, that this was a pit dug by the United States for the Japanese, and that the so-called Pearl Harbor incident was originally one of the operational plans created by the United States to invite the king into the urn.

Originally, there were two theories about Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, one was that the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was a real sneak attack. Second, the conspiracy of the Americans was to deliberately make the sneak attack successful. The first theory is, of course, a recognized history, and the second theory has been passed down among some military fans, especially some Japanese who have always insisted that the Pearl Harbor attack was entirely a grand conspiracy.

But now after Han Yunhua really integrated into this era, he found that in fact, neither the United States nor Britain and France were as unbearable as they said in the history books, although they did implement a policy of appeasement that connived at the development of fascist forces, but whether it was France, which had been defeated, or the United States, which was now declaring war on Japan, did not relax their vigilance against neighboring countries, especially fascist countries, and the United States began to aid countries including China very early. At the same time, it has also continuously sent relevant personnel to China for inspection, and even sent the so-called Flying Tigers of the Volunteer Army, which fully shows that the United States is wary of Japan. Therefore, how could the United States allow Japan's sneak attack to succeed, with Japan's strength at that time, it would not have been able to get close to the waters of Pearl Harbor and would be discovered, so the Pearl Harbor time was actually a big hole dug by the United States for the Japanese, and it was the Japanese who pitted it. Moreover, the Japanese raid seemed to be very successful, but some inexplicable coincidences prevented the Japanese army's strategic intentions from being achieved, and the US Pacific Fleet seemed to have suffered heavy losses, but the core of the fleet was not lost, and none of the 3 aircraft carriers was sunk.

In addition, there are many other suspicious points, such as the sudden dispatch of a large number of medical supplies and medical personnel by the US military to Pearl Harbor before the attack, and the notice that the next day's vacation was canceled the day before the attack and that it was on combat readiness duty, and that the day of the attack was a Sunday, which is well documented. At the same time, some unreasonable military movements of the US Navy also fully illustrate that the Pearl Harbor incident was not simple; before the attack, the US military dispersed some fighter planes to small remote airfields, while the planes left at the main airfield were left empty in hangars and neatly arranged on the runway, giving people the illusion that all the planes were there. The planes that took to the air after the start of the attack were all taken off from small airfields. Secondly, after the attack, the US military salvaged the sunken warships with an alarming speed, repaired them in a very short time, and carried out modifications, which raised the combat effectiveness of these warships to a new level. The modification of warships is very complicated, and the impact of new equipment on warships must be taken into account, when so many warships need to be refitted, it will take several months just to draw drawings, not to mention the procurement and production of various equipment and materials. When these warships began to be renovated, the workers found that everything was ready-made, including drawings, weapons, and radars, as if they were waiting for this day.

As for the losses of the Pacific Fleet, they were not as heavy as people in the outside world imagined, except that there were indeed many casualties, the losses of the navy ships were actually very limited, and among the warships sunk by the Japanese, the "California" and "West Virginia" were later salvaged and re-entered the war. The "Oklahoma" was later righted and towed away. The USS Utah was an old battleship launched in 1909, but most of its armament had been dismantled and downgraded to a target ship, so the US military did not save it. Built in 1907, the minelayer USS Oglala is the oldest warship in Pearl Harbor, and it is said that there are seabirds nesting in the chimneys, and naturally the US military will not repair it. So in fact, the final loss of the US military in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was only these four warships.

There are so many suspicious points, so Han Yunhua believes that the Pearl Harbor incident is a conspiracy of the United States. The United States had long been aware of the Japanese army's plan for a sneak attack, and the Pearl Harbor incident was nothing more than Roosevelt's bitter ploy. Because the isolationist ideology in the United States was very serious at that time, many of President Roosevelt's plans to aid Britain, the Soviet Union, and the middle countries were constrained, and as an outstanding statesman with great foresight, Roosevelt knew very well that if he did not provide timely assistance to the anti-fascist countries such as Britain, China, and the Soviet Union, which were fighting hard, the United States would be powerless to resist the German, Italian, and Japanese Axis powers that were already firmly rooted when the Axis powers did control the Eurasian continent. Therefore, it is advantageous to enter the war early rather than later, but domestic isolationism is only interested in short-term interests and is unwilling to enter the war. Therefore, Roosevelt did not hesitate to use Pearl Harbor as a way to awaken the people's awakening and hostility and smash the isolationist mentality. At the same time, the Japanese attack must be successful in order to arouse the resolve to crush the isolationists into the war. …,

Of course, whether the Pearl Harbor incident was a bitter ploy or not, Han Yunhua didn't dare to make a conclusion, but he himself believed in his own judgment, but he didn't stupidly preach it everywhere, because even if he said this, no one would care, and Han Yunhua has always only done things that harm others and benefit himself and others, as for this kind of thing that hurts others and is not beneficial to himself, he will not do anything that he has nothing to do.

Saibei. Gui Sui.

Since the United States and Japan have officially started the war, Han Yunhua has finally waited for the time for the Inner Mongolia Military Region to play, and after waiting for nearly half a year, Han Yunhua is about to suffocate. After the news came, Han Yunhua immediately issued orders to the military and political cadres of all units, and all units immediately entered the prepared attack positions and carried out the plan according to the No. 1 plan.

Plan No. 1 is a battle plan formulated by Han Yunhua and Luo Ronghuan, Tan Zhenlin, Su Yu and others for nearly three months. According to this battle plan, Han Yunhua's department used a million-strong army as the main force, and then combined with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army and other friendly troops to launch the final blow on the Japanese North China Front, striving to completely annihilate the Japanese puppet army in North China within three months, and completely quell the war in North China.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that he could not send troops when the United States did not really send troops to participate in the Pacific War, and at the same time did not send a request to China, and it would not be possible to maximize its interests if the time was not ripe. Therefore, after receiving Han Yunhua's order, the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region quickly and secretly assembled in the predetermined area, and secretly set up a command headquarters for the former enemy.

However, whether it was a conspiracy led by the U.S. government or a real successful Japanese sneak attack, the overall result was that the Japanese army's operations in Southeast Asia were very smooth, and huge results were created in a short period of time.

Vice Admiral Nagumo of the Japanese Navy led a sneak attack on the ship eastward, and the smoke of gunpowder billowed over Pearl Harbor, it was the time when the Japanese army was rapidly trampling southward.

According to the arrangement of the Japanese high command, the southward operation was divided into three stages: first, the rapid capture of the Philippines and Malaya; the second is to march into the Dutch East Indies and carry out the Javanese operation; The third is to consolidate the occupied areas and conduct operations in Burma.

On September 1, 1940, the Japanese launched simultaneous attacks on Thailand, Malaya, the Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, Gilbert Island, and Hong Kong. On the morning of September 2, the Japanese 15th Army crossed the eastern border of Thailand from southern Indochina. At dawn on the 3rd, the advance force entered Bangkok. Another Japanese army, advancing from the sea, also landed near Bangkok at dawn on the 8th. In the face of a powerful Japanese attack, the Thai government was forced to agree to the Japanese demands. On December 21, the two sides signed a treaty of alliance. The treaty stipulates that the two sides respect each other's sovereignty and independence, and that in the event of a conflict between either party and a third country, the other side shall provide comprehensive political, military and economic assistance. In this way, Japanese imperialism tied Thailand to its chariot.

At the same time, the Japanese army invaded Malaysia with heavy troops, and the 25th Army, a strong Japanese army under the command of Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, was responsible for the land operation. The establishment of the army was originally based on four divisions and regiments. When the attack on Malaya began, there were 3 divisions of the 55th, 18th, and Guards, as well as 600 army and naval aircraft. In the early morning of September 4, the 1st Division of the Japanese 5th Division made a surprise landing in Songkhla and Pattani, the southernmost part of Thailand; The 1st Division of the 18th Division made a surprise landing at Kota Bharu, Malaya. On the same day, Vice Admiral Phillips, commander of the British Far East Fleet, learned of the Japanese attack, immediately convened an emergency operational meeting and resolved to personally lead the fleet in a counterattack. However, the Japanese army was not able to resist the British troops, who had already lost the will to fight, and the Japanese army, under the cover of air superiority, quickly advanced from north to south along the Malay Peninsula. The 25th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, took control of the southern part of the Malay Peninsula in one fell swoop. On September 11, the Japanese 55th Division stormed Kuala Lumpur. On 29 September, British forces on the east and west shores of the Malay Peninsula retreated to the southern tip of the peninsula. On the 30th, all British troops retreated to Singapore. In this way, the Japanese army occupied Malaya in just 30 days. Lieutenant General Yamashita also received the nickname "Malay Tiger".

However, during the attack on Singapore, the Japanese army encountered desperate resistance from the British army, but due to the loss of almost all logistical support, in the end, under the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, General Passibar was forced to surrender unconditionally due to lack of water and artillery shells. In this battle, the Japanese and British each suffered 10,000 casualties. Of the 138708 British defenders, 100,000 were captured. In this way, the "Gibraltar of the East," which Britain had painstakingly operated for 20 years, and Singapore, the world's famous fourth-largest military port, fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and the gateway to the Indian Ocean was opened. Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army, which had fanned south from the mainland archipelago, rushed to the Philippines, the country of a thousand islands, like the water that had burst its embankment. In the Philippine Islands, Admiral MacArthur, the commander of the U.S. Far East, has about 130,000 troops. Among them, there are nearly 20,000 US troops, more than 110,000 Philippine troops, 45 warships, and more than 200 aircraft. …,

It served as the 14th Army of the Japanese Army that invaded the Philippines, with 2 divisions and 1 brigade. The 3rd Fleet and the 11th Air Fleet of the Navy and the 5th Flight Group of the Army are supporting the operation, with a total of 43 combat ships of various types and more than 500 aircraft. After three consecutive days of air raids, the Japanese basically destroyed MacArthur's air force, and the US Asian fleet had to flee south to the Java Sea in a hurry. Soon the Japanese landed at Apari, Vigan and Legazpi, occupied the forward airfield, and advanced in the direction of Manila, and the untrained US-Philippine forces could not stop the Japanese attack at all. On October 12, four-star General MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Garrison in the Philippines, fled the Philippines on a plane to Brisbane, Australia. Soon the Japanese 16th Army entered Manila.

Immediately afterwards, the fall of Hong Kong, the fall of Bataan, the fall of Wake Island, the fall of the Dutch East Indies, and the fall of the Dutch East Indies, in just two months, the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries were defeated, and hundreds of thousands surrendered to the Japanese army. In addition, before the outbreak of the Pacific War, in September 1940, the Japanese army took advantage of the defeat of France and invaded Indochina, and by this time the Japanese army had effectively controlled all of Southeast Asia except Burma.

The victory of the Southern Front greatly stimulated the Japanese, and Japan, which had been dragged by the Chinese battlefield and was already about to collapse, quickly found resources to compensate in Southeast Asia, and a large number of materials were plundered to Japan, and for a time Japan's economy had a tendency to turn around, and the whole of Japan fell into a frenzy of madness.

At the same time, the Japanese military headquarters began to plan an attack on Burma, hoping to directly attack China's rear through Burma, and even India.

In early November 1940, after the Japanese occupation of Malaysia, the invasion of Burma began. On November 12, the Japanese army conquered the important town in eastern Burma, and then continued to advance in two directions, and on the 18th, the Japanese army occupied Yangon, the capital of Burma. On the 27th, the Japanese army attacked the important town of Mandalay in an attempt to cut off the Yunnan-Burma road.

At this time, with the help of the British, the Chinese side, with Du Yuming as the acting commander, commanded by Stilwell, chief of staff of the China-Burma-India Theater, gathered about 100,000 Chinese elite forces to form the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and began to march towards Burma.

In just half a year, the entire international situation has become extremely chaotic, and even Han Yunhua, a person who knows the trend of history well, is also dumbfounded, and Japan's achievements in Southeast Asia also surprised Han Yunhua. However, all this has nothing to do with Han Yunhua, from Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor to the Nationalist Government's dispatch of troops to Burma in just three months, Han Yunhua's department has set up another 100,000 troops, and now the Inner Mongolia Military Region has a full 30 infantry divisions, 6 cavalry divisions, 8 garrison brigades, and 10 garrison guard regiments with a full 700,000 troops, and the speed of its development has also made the military and political cadres of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region dumbfounded.

However, at present, there are less than 20 infantry divisions that are truly fully equipped and have strong combat effectiveness, and the remaining dozen or so infantry divisions have only a small amount of weapons, and some divisions even have only one or two thousand rifles in their entire divisions.

Although other leaders of the military region are very worried that something may happen if the troops continue to be expanded in this way, Han Yunhua is not worried at all, although there are more than 300,000 troops without or lack weapons, but Han Yunhua believes that now is the best time for the development of the troops, the Japanese army now has no time to take care of the Chinese battlefield, and there are only more than 200,000 Japanese troops in the entire North China battlefield, and although there are still more than 300,000 puppet troops, a large part of the puppet army has now become his Han Yunhua's troops. So he was confident that he would completely solve the Japanese puppet army in North China within three months.

Han Yunhua believes that as long as there are troops, there will be weapons and ammunition, and the weapons and ammunition that the Japanese army has hoarded in North China are not to mention 300,000 troops, even if it is one million, it is enough to equip them, and the Japanese army has a huge arsenal in Taiyuan and Shimen, as long as it is captured, it is not a word to equip as many troops. Therefore, Han Yunhua only vigorously ordered the armed forces to pull troops to train the troops, and did not care about anything else.

On the one hand, he asked the Chinese Dispatch Army Headquarters for help, and on the other hand, he ordered the Japanese troops in various localities to actively prepare for war, and at the same time ordered the garrison headquarters in various localities to organize all the Japanese nationals who could organize themselves as well, just in case. At the same time, the puppet North China Security Army, which is now the puppet North China Jingsui Army, was also mobilized and began to reinforce the border between the security area and the non-security area.

Han Yunhua didn't care about the military movement of the Japanese army at all, he was waiting for an opportunity. When the news of the expeditionary force's dispatch to Burma came, Han Yunhua finally issued an order in the name of the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and secretary of the Northern Bureau to "launch the last battle against the Japanese army in North China," ordering the 700,000 troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to launch a comprehensive attack on the Japanese army in North China from the four directions of eastern Hebei, southern Chanan, northern Shanxi, and northwest Shanxi.

At the same time, the Party Central Committee issued an order to the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to fully cooperate with the Inner Mongolia Military Region. At the same time that the Inner Mongolia Military Region launched the attack, the 120th, 115th, and 129th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Central Hebei Military Region, the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, and the Shandong Military Region also quickly launched attacks on the Japanese puppet army in the defense area.

For a time, the whole North China region was full of smoke, and the Eighth Route Army launched an attack on the towns defended by the Japanese army like crazy, and the unconscionable artillery was everywhere, and several iron buckets were set outside the small artillery towers of the Japanese army, and the small strongholds of the Japanese brick and concrete structure were turned into flying ashes with a bang, and in a short period of time the Japanese army lost most of the rural areas and towns that had been solved, and had to defend the major county towns and important transportation ......points with heavy troops.