Chapter 847: How They Landed
"The Chinese are still here!" Hirohito got the news and was no slower than Okamura Ninji, and after he heard it, he just said something slowly with an expressionless face, and then he didn't say anything, only the waiter next to him saw the exposed green tendons of his hands clutching the seat.
However, Hideki Tojo, who had just gotten rid of the political crisis with the news of Australia's victory, was going crazy and almost wanted to go berserk.
On the 4th, the news came that the Japanese army had captured Melbourne, Australia, and completely removed the last stumbling block in Australia. Seeing that the whole of Australia has fallen into the hands of the Japanese themselves, the Japanese empire, which has completely ruled a continent, is about to usher in the most glorious peak moment. When the whole country first began to celebrate, the Chinese people came up and slapped their H-spot away.
"How did they get there?" Hideki Tojo was also wondering.
The information received by Hideki Tojo was more detailed, but it was limited to the urgent report that the Chinese army had landed in several places at the same time.
There were reports of the landing of the Chinese army on the Korean Peninsula, as well as on Taiwan and Hainan Island, and even on the Indochina Peninsula, there was news of the landing of the Chinese army from Saigon in Vietnam and Kuala Lumpur in Malaya.
Huaxia had a large number of troops, and Hideki Tojo already knew about it. If this is a land war, it is not unusual for China to invest millions of troops. But what is now unfolding in China is a large-scale landing operation. Being able to land smoothly in various places, and being called a large army in various places, is definitely at the regimental level. Simultaneous joint landing operations in ** areas at one time, surpassing the Germans in Operation Sea Lion in Great Britain in numbers and scale.
Even if the Japanese himself landed in Australia, it was only under the riot of the local aborigines, plus the help of the secret service, that under the strong attack of the combined fleet, he broke through the weak link of the lack of defense of the Australian army, which was not well manned, and finally gained a firm foothold in Australia and expanded rapidly.
In any of these places, the Japanese army was heavily garrisoned, even if it was weak in some places. But it's not so vulnerable that it will be quickly broken by the Chinese army, right?
Tojo was also confused, he had been away from the army for many years, and he probably didn't know anything else. But he had just finished his tour of Taiwan.
The drawbacks of the elongated front of the Japanese himself, Hideki Tojo also understands.
The weakest maritime lifeline between the heavily guarded mainland and the iron-clad tail of Australia, which is heavily armed, is connected by a series of large and small islands.
Tojo understands that if any part of these islands goes wrong, it can easily become a fragile tofu waist.
In the case of the temporary retreat of the Americans in transoceanic warfare, the most vulnerable threat is undoubtedly an attack from China, especially Taiwan and Hainan, which are closest to China.
There has even been a proposal to return the two islands to Huaxia. But Tojo refused.
"The ambition of the Huaxia people is to fill the dissatisfaction with these two islands!" His views won the approval of many high-ranking Japanese officials, who would rather lose those territories piece by piece than succumb to the Chinese who had been defeated by them.
However, in order to prevent the strong attack of the Chinese, Tojo still arranged a heavy defense in Hainan, Taiwan, especially in Taiwan, which is irreplaceable on this island chain, and the coastal defense front was no worse than that of the Korean Peninsula, but it was still broken by the Chinese army.
"How so?" Tojo's voice was resentful like a resentful woman, and his eyes were staring at Kenji Dohihara.
Kenji Dohihara immediately replied in his sharp, more resentful voice, "The Huaxia landing directly used a chariot. Massive chariot troops! The defense line in many areas cannot be stopped at all! ”
"Chariots?" Tojo froze.
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"Unstoppable! Quick call for support! Kiyoshi Ikeda, who had a disastrous face on his face, commanded his men to keep calling home.
The head of the highest authority in Hainan should be the head of the Hainan Garrison of the Navy, but in fact, the administrative affairs under the control of the military system are all controlled by the Special Service Department of the Hainan Navy.
Because Hanoi was captured by the Chinese army, the governor of the garrison went to Changjiang and other western parts of Hainan to inspect the defensive line. Leave him in Hainan to preside over the overall situation.
Although he was the first director of the secret service department, the rank was equivalent to that of a lieutenant general, and he had previously served as the governor of Osaka Prefecture, the director of police and other positions, but in the face of the Chinese chariot army rolling up from the Qiongzhou Strait, like a wave of impact, quickly crushing the Japanese defense line on the coast, he was also panicked, and could only go up for help.
Because of the existence of the Philippines and Vietnam, Hainan is not an irreplaceable link in the island chain, and is not as important as Taiwan. However, the defense of the coast, especially the defense of the Qiongzhou Strait near Haikou, can also be described as a heavy killer.
But now the swarming tank army of China came directly from the sea. Crushed all the killing machines composed of numerous machine guns and infantry guns under his feet.
In order to deal with the sea of Chinese people at the possible landing site, the "Day" himself concentrated a large number of machine guns in those places, but now the "Day" himself hit the front armor of the PT-76 amphibious tank floating from the sea, and it was only a futile clang.
Even the armor of this classic amphibious tank developed by Soviet Russia after World War II is its weak point, but it is not something that can be bullied by the small and medium-sized machine gun of the Japanese itself.
The amphibious tanks that climbed up from the sea did not pay any attention to the bites of the Japanese machine guns and stabilized themselves on land. He raised a 76.2-mm D-56T tank gun and bombarded the coastal artillery positions of the Japanese themselves. There were even some PT-76 tanks that fired directly in the sea, although the accuracy was a little worse, but the salvo of hundreds of tanks was enough to overwhelm the already small artillery that he had arranged in Hainan.
As for the large-caliber artillery of the Japanese themselves, they had long been suppressed by the Huaxia cruisers in the rear of the amphibious tanks.
In the vicinity of Haikou, the German Scharnhorst-class cruiser, which was very early equipped with the Chinese Navy, was raising its 280-millimeter naval guns to clean up the large-caliber coastal defense guns of the Japanese country one by one, and even if it was difficult to reach some places, the SBD-5 dreadnought dive bombers flying from the second-class Red Alert aircraft carrier behind it quickly dropped heavy bombs there.
Many more F4U pirates have joined the dive bombing bandwagon.
The F4U Pirate can also carry bombshells, and after dropping the bombs, it can be transformed into advanced fighters and Zero fighters that rush to intercept them.
Because pirates are prone to problems taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, Meng Xiang also included them in the ranks of fighters of the Huaxia Marine Corps from the beginning. In this landing operation, the Huaxia Marine Corps was the main force, and their pirate fighters took off directly from the Leizhou Peninsula and crossed the Qiongzhou Strait to attack Haikou and other places.
For a time, the sky was full of F4U pirates, and even obscured the last generation of the SB2C-5 Hell Diver dive bomber.
If it weren't for the fireworks that erupted on the beach from rockets from the Helldivers, this alternative to the Dreadnought was received coldly due to many criticisms, but it could easily be overlooked again in the face of the hapless fighter of the dive bomber era.
But in the end, it showed its presence with a 11.75-inch Tiny Tim rocket, a 500-pound warhead of about 227 kilograms, which rained down on the Japanese defenses.
The coastal defense line of Hainan under the defense of machine guns and infantry guns was detonated by pieces of artillery fire in the coastal minefields, and it could no longer stop the gallop of PT water and land combat vehicles behind.
The three-level multi-function tank that followed closely beside the amphibious tank swept away with a rain of bullets from a 20mm cannon and a 12.7mm machine gun, and smashed the devil's last unwilling impact bullet into pieces of minced meat.
After being upgraded to the third level, the multifunctional combat vehicle already has the function of floating crossing, which is much more powerful than the BTR-50 armored transport vehicle of Soviet Russia.
The landing vanguard formed by its partner PT-76 is unrivaled, and at least the beachhead troops in Hainan alone cannot be stopped.
The unwilling reinforcements from Japan were rushing to hear the news, and after the landing vanguard of the Chinese army, various Crocodile-class landing ships had already landed on the beachhead, and the first to come down was not the infantry wading in the water, but the T-55 tanks and the second-class multi-purpose combat vehicles and other armored vehicles on which the infantry was riding.
Their large army will replace the thinly armored PT-76 and become the main force of the attack, sweeping across Hainan with the help of Hainan guerrillas and resistance forces deep in the mountains.
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"Is it really Huaxia's heavy chariot?" When his subordinates reported that Huaxia's tank appeared on the road in Taipei, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was also in a daze.
Since he was defeated by the Huaxia Navy, with his excellent connections, although he was a little late, he finally sat on the throne of the governor of Taiwan after Tojo drove out Kobayashi Takuzo.
The rich treasure island can satisfy all the dreams of a soil emperor, but the rise of powerful Huaxia around him makes Hasegawa Kiyoshi a little uncomfortable.
It wasn't until with the support of the top that a solid defensive line was built, and I was relieved.
But it wasn't long before the nightmare came without warning.
At about 5 o'clock in the morning, it was just reported that Huaxia had landed in Taiwan, and in an instant, it was like a beacon fire, and many cities in Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan were alarmed. Not only the side of the Taiwan Strait, but even Hualien and other places facing the Pacific Ocean have frequently asked for help.
He had just given a series of orders when he received the news that Huaxia's tanks had driven onto the road in Taipei.
"How did the chariot of the Huaxia people get here?" Hasegawa Kiyoshi stood on the tower in the middle of the Taiwan Governor's Mansion in Taipei, looking at the thick pillars of smoke in the distance, and felt a little like sleepwalking at this time.