Chapter 881 - You Can Have More Cannon Fodder
From the very beginning, the Japanese learned the policy of Chinese immigration in Siberia and armed the immigrants.
Although they were not like the Chinese immigrants, almost all young men and women had a gun in their hands, and the guerrillas and resistance elements in Soviet Russia had nowhere to hide, but the more than 400,000 immigrants could also raise 50,000 or 60,000 guns.
After Britain and the United States released the water, they also quickly contacted a batch of weapons and ammunition.
In order to build a new continent, the vast majority of Japanese immigrants were young and strong, and they could become a substitute for the Japanese army.
These expatriates don't need much military skills to be cannon fodder. The Japanese were willing to sacrifice their soldiers, let alone civilians. What's more, the current situation has to be like this.
Seeing that the last piece of land on the Australian continent is about to be occupied by China, where can those expatriates flee to?
When they came, they could be delivered by continuous shipping, but now the ships are busy transporting troops to Australia and transporting all kinds of strategic materials, where can they have the energy to evacuate so many expatriates.
Unlike the Americans, who treat Japanese expatriates, the Chinese have never been polite to Japanese expatriates, and it is considered a good fate to directly use them as laborers or as bargaining chips with the Japanese government, and many expatriates often die due to various accidents. Rather than being captured by the Chinese people, it is better for the whole people to be crushed.
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"There are hundreds of thousands of more troops in the Japanese army at the front?" Meng Xiang was surprised.
Since he had decided to launch a general attack on the Japanese troops stationed in Australia, he would definitely not leave behind.
In addition to the Huaxia Army continuing to exert heavy pressure in Central South China and the Korean Peninsula, so that the Japanese did not dare to draw too many reinforcements, the Huaxia Navy also dispatched one after another.
In line with the principle of low-key development step by step, the navy of the Huaxia National Defense Force was temporarily organized into three fleets.
The North Sea Fleet is responsible for the Sea of Whales, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, and the coastal zone of the Arctic Ocean.
The East China Sea Fleet is responsible for the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the Bohai Sea in the Inland Sea, and the Pacific Ocean near East Asia.
The South China Sea Fleet is responsible for the South China Sea and the waters around the South China Sea.
At present, there is no formal ocean-going fleet, and if there is an ocean-going mission, it will be an elite one. Provisional designation number.
For example, the support fleet that appeared in Australia. It is a temporary establishment directly under the General Headquarters of the Navy.
In addition, there is a small Chinese naval fleet operating in the Arabian Sea region of the Middle East and near the Gulf of Guinea in Africa, and even in the Caribbean Sea and the South Seas, there is also a Chinese fleet in the name of piracy. None of this is known to outsiders.
When Meng Xiang ordered Australia to launch a general attack. In addition to continuing their training cruises in the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Caribbean Sea, the fleets in Australia and the South Seas, together with the three major fleets, launched an attraction and interception campaign against the Japanese navy.
One Dreadnought-class battleship of the Northern Fleet and two Red Alert Dreadnought-class aircraft carriers from Vladivostok crossed the default boundary line between the two sides in the Whale Sea. They even cruised to the vicinity of the Oki Islands, and even the Hellcats that took off from the aircraft carrier dropped bombs near Kyoto and Hakodate.
While the Japanese were nervous about the north, the formation of two second-class dreadnoughts and two second-class aircraft carriers of the East China Sea Fleet threatened Jeju Island and the Ryukyu Islands from Shanghai, Qingdao, and Keelung, respectively.
The South China Sea Fleet from Guangzhou and Hainan has been cooperating with the war in the Indochina Peninsula, but at the beginning, in order not to attract too much hatred from the Japanese, it was just out of low-key operation, at this time, with Meng Xiang's order, 2 Midway aircraft carriers, 1 second-class Red Alert aircraft carrier and 1 Dreadnought-class second-class battleship showed their powerful attack power. After quelling some unrest in the coastal areas of French Indochina, he crossed the Spratly Islands and slaughtered Brunei and other places.
In addition to the attacks of these capital battleships. Under the command of the airship, eight cruisers and 19 destroyers of the East and South China Sea fleets formed five fleets and cruised in the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan. Hunted the Japanese cargo ships and other supply ships that connected the South Seas, Australia, and the mainland.
China's submarine forces, on the other hand, are separate armies. More than 60 assassins from Huaxia formed 5 formations under the command of the airship. All three of the formations had their main attack points on the Pacific Ocean on the eastern side of Taiwan.
To keep them safe. In addition to the three airships following, there was also a formation with a second-class Red Alert aircraft carrier as the core that broke through the Bass Strait, with its back to the base in Hualien, Taiwan, guarding around the submarine and providing support at any time.
The fleet, which had been active in the South Seas, was composed of a mixture of destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines, and in addition to constantly providing supplies and energetic support to the Chinese armed forces in various places, it was now doing its old job again, targeting Japanese cargo ships and supply ships.
The Chinese navy's attack was even more fierce than that of the Germans, while the Japanese escort force was not strong, and their air defense and anti-submarine capabilities were much worse than those of the allies. For three full days, no more than single digits of ships returned to the Japanese mainland from the south. The supply of military supplies from the mainland to Australia and the Indochina Peninsula has not returned, and there is no response at all.
A series of broken engagements directly cut off the fragile supply lines of the Japanese, and immediately made the Japanese realize the seriousness.
One of the things that both Meng Xiang and the Americans did not pay much attention to the Japanese was to grasp the fragile supply lines of the Japanese. The Japanese, although powerful, were far inferior in actual transport capacity to the British.
After the Japanese laid down such a vast territory, even if they were running at full capacity, they had been in a state of insufficient capacity, and if it weren't for Meng Xiang's support behind them, they would have collapsed long ago.
Now that Meng Xiang has withdrawn, the problem of insufficient logistics supplies for the Japanese has been seriously exposed, and the Huaxia Navy has dealt another heavy blow, and the entire supply line of the Japanese has completely collapsed at once.
Without the support of the Americans, relying only on the shipbuilding capacity of the Japanese mainland, it is basically said that the loss of one cargo ship is one less, and there is no time to replenish at all. The Japanese have long been aware of this, but the strength of the Japanese navy made them think that they could block all external attacks, but the attack of the Chinese navy pinched their seven inches, so that their dreams were shattered at once, and they had to rush to redeem it.
A large number of Japanese warships were sent out to escort the ship, and even some of the warships stationed in Australia were dispatched to participate in the escort mission, delaying the decisive battle between the Australian fleet and the Chinese support fleet.
Hideki Tojo felt that his head was big now, and there were fires burning everywhere, if it weren't for the fact that Britain and the United States had stopped a lot recently, Tojo would have suspected that he would not be able to hold on.
"India can also send out three divisions to stabilize Southeast Asia." Sugiyama Mototo said in a deep voice, he was transferred to India to sit down, and after private negotiations with Britain and the United States, at least both sides stopped large-scale operations, and instead sent their own troops to deal with the crisis behind them.
"It's not enough!" Hideki Tojo's bottom line is 5 divisions. After the 2 million troops invested by the Chinese army in Indochina swept through Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, in addition to leaving some troops to continue the clearance, more elite troops were drawn out and rushed to Thailand and Burma, as well as the Malayan Peninsula.
The Japanese originally thought that the Chinese army relied on sophisticated weapons, but in mountain warfare and jungle warfare, the Chinese army, which had undergone formal training and was equipped with relevant equipment, once again suppressed the Japanese army. Even though the Japanese had a large number of elite troops everywhere, they still suffered heavy losses. There are frequent emergencies on all fronts.
But the Japanese no longer had any surplus reserves in their hands.
"Of the seven Indian Imperial Allies we have formed, we can send two of them over together." Sugiyama said again.
The Indians were also outnumbered, and more obedient than the Chinese, and if it weren't for the lack of weapons, the Japanese stationed in India would have formed more puppet armies.
"Yes!" Hideki Tojo groaned for a moment, then nodded in agreement. Although these Indians are not strong enough to fight, it is not bad to use them as cannon fodder.
With the expansion of the army, the quality of the Japanese soldiers became worse and worse, and the combat effectiveness of some recruits was not necessarily comparable to that of the elite of the Indian army.
The Indian army of the two armies has at least 4 divisions, which are put on the Indochina Peninsula where the environment adapts, and it can contain the Chinese army for at least a while.
"You can form another part of the Imperial Association Army in India!" Hideki Tojo saw a glimmer of hope in this.
There were many Indians, and from them it was possible to draw troops that were not inferior to those of China.
In his opinion, since the obedient Indian army can follow the British to fight in North Africa, then those Indian puppet troops can also be sent to fight farther away in Australia.
"The Indian Ocean fleet does not need to be transferred back, they only need to cover the landing of India's Imperial Allied Army in Australia and contain the Chinese army!" Hideki Tojo immediately suggested to Hirohito.
"Yes!" Hirohito also said happily.
Australia is in a frequent emergency, and the Chinese people are breaking the war, so that Australia's supplies cannot be supplied, and the reinforcements cannot be supported, and those expatriates can only rely on cold weapons and even wooden sticks and stones to fight against the Chinese army that has rushed to Canberra.
Although the Japanese don't care much about civilian casualties, so many seeds selected to form a new continent are used as cannon fodder in such a large area, which still makes Hirohito a little unbearable. It's much better to have Indians in front, and you won't feel distressed to fill in no amount of cannon fodder.
"The indigenous people of Southeast Asia can also be drawn out!" Fumiko Konoe was inspired by the side and also spoke.