Great time travel

Chapter 59, United Fleet Attacks!

June [-] was a dark month for the U.S. forces stationed in Japan, the U.S. Pacific Fleet Command, and the Pentagon.

——The Japanese army, which had been suppressed and beaten for several months, finally launched a massive and terrifying counterattack!
In this battle named "Kansai Counter-Offensive" by the Hiroshima base camp, the Japanese Army devoted almost all its strength to a desperate attempt.And the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, which had been huddled in Wugang for several months, once again exposed its deadly sharp fangs to the US military!

As a result, before the Pentagon and the White House had time to react, they were overwhelmed by the snowflakes of bad news that came from the Japanese front one after another.

At first, the Second Marine Division in the southern part of Shikoku Island was wiped out—the Japanese say it is "jade broken". Facing the ground attack of the superior Japanese army, as well as the sea surface bombardment and blockade of the United Fleet, from the beginning of receiving the news, The Pentagon has already understood that this partial division is doomed.

Then, the artillery fire and bombs of the Japanese Combined Fleet turned back to the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea, where the U.S. military occupied Wakayama, Osaka, Kobe and other ports.The Anzacs, which had been half-sieged in Kobe for several months, were the first to lose.These brave and tough fighters, who had a vendetta against the Japanese Empire, were extremely tenacious, comparable to any famous army in history.But in the face of the uninterrupted bombardment of hundreds of warships, the repeated bombing of tens of thousands of planes, and all kinds of strong poisonous gas permeating the air all day long, even a man of iron can only end up being crushed into minced meat little by little. .

With the fall of Kobe, the frontier stronghold of the US military, and the annihilation of the most elite backbone troops, the war situation in the Kinki area was finally completely corrupted and out of control.After inspecting the battlefield from the air by plane, General Patton, commander of the US military stationed in Japan, had to issue an order for a full retreat from the western front.

However, before leaving, the thousands of remnants of the Anzac Army who were ordered to die seemed to have completely lost their minds by the bloody hatred. They not only detonated the ammunition that was too late to take away, but also carried out the third massacre of the citizens of Osaka. And the remaining gas bombs were released-this humanitarian disaster was naturally once again widely publicized by "relevant parties", and it also made the U.S. military further confirm the name of the devil in the eyes of the Japanese.

Next, from Kyoto to Osaka, to Nara and Wakayama, the US troops stationed in Japan in the entire Kansai region began to run eastward in a panic.However, the road to retreat was not smooth—the shipping route was blocked by the Japanese United Fleet, and except for a few small boats, there was no way for big ships to leave.The railway in the occupied area had already collapsed during the war, and neither the locomotive nor how to dispatch it could be found.In the past, the U.S. military mainly relied on roads to transport supplies, but now there are countless Japanese guerrillas active on almost every road, digging pits, bombing bridges, and planting landmines, making the U.S. trucks and The jeep broke down.Even the inland water routes of the Yodo River and Lake Biwa were laid by the Japanese guerrillas with sea mines that they did not know where they got...

We all know that organizing an attack is difficult, but organizing an orderly retreat is even more difficult than organizing an attack.Because when attacking, the soldiers all know that they are the attacking side, and they will subconsciously think that their side will be stronger and more confident.But when retreating, the situation will be reversed.Soldiers will subconsciously think that they are the weak side, and their spirits will become tense and depressed. Soldiers who fall behind will worry about being chased by the enemy, and they will also worry that their comrades in front will not come to rescue them... There used to be many The defeated army who became a frightened bird during the retreat would suddenly collapse on its own even if it was only frightened by the sound of birds or rumors.

Therefore, in history, there are many armies capable of defeating powerful enemies and conquering fortified cities in field battles.However, there are very few armies that can be defeated without dispersing, and defeated without chaos-an army that can fight and retreat like this.As long as he doesn't fall in the middle, he will sooner or later become a prestigious Iron Army.

It is a pity that on the Japanese battlefield, the actual quality of US military officers and soldiers is obviously far from the honorable title of "Iron Army".

Although the staff officers of the U.S. Army did race against time and conscientiously made a plan before the front-line troops began to retreat, and formulated a very detailed and cruel scorched earth policy: in the towns and cities in western Japan that were about to be abandoned, destroy ports, Bridges, power plants, waterworks, burning food, polluting water wells, and even massacring the remaining Japanese civilians are simply going to bring this civilized country back to the barbaric prehistoric era.However, in fact, the collapse of the front line far exceeded their expectations, making the retreat quickly turned into a rout, and the whole plan was completely turned into waste paper.

When the U.S. troops on the ground began to retreat in great strides, the U.S. and Japanese pilots in the sky were still fighting desperately.In order to compete for air supremacy on the Kinki battlefield, both sides basically went all out.Although the American pilots who were forced to lower their standards many times and expanded on a large scale due to the brutal war of attrition were much worse than those at the time of the Pearl Harbor incident.But the Japanese pilots who couldn't hold back were the rookie among the rookies, the parallel importers among the parallel importers--basically they were all cute newcomers who had been trained quickly in the past two months, and according to the pre-war medical examination standards, I'm afraid that among the four they had to There are three unqualified... Although the trainer planes in the base camp and the high-octane gasoline after the mark of 100 are flooding right now, so these rookie Japanese pilots have managed to fly for a hundred hours, but a lot of experience and Hand feeling and other things that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words cannot be stuffed into the students' heads only by force-feeding teaching, and there are also flaws in physique and physique, which cannot be made up by only spiritual will.

Therefore, the American pilots on the front line felt very comfortable at first, and dubbed this kind of battle of ravaging and beating Japanese rookies as the "Turkey Fighting Contest". airplane.However, despite this, more Japanese planes continued to go up to meet the next day-since the invention of the plane, there has never been such a precedent for so many planes appearing on such a small narrow battlefield at the same time!Moreover, those Japanese pilots who were originally clumsy and childish enough to make people laugh have gradually become sophisticated and difficult after passing the test of one big air battle after another: After all, the most effective way to train troops in the world is always Learn war in war!

All the unlucky ones who didn't study hard or couldn't learn, all died in battle logically. Those who survived the hail of bullets were either lucky or master... This is how war is. Anyone who can survive in the fighting field, The more you can survive in the future.

——Relying on the black-tech artifact [chronological vending machine] that can explode equipment infinitely without cost (provided that Japan has the legal right to issue money), the current Hiroshima wartime base camp has almost completely abandoned industry and agriculture Production, all the population under its jurisdiction, regardless of gender, were thrown into the war.Normal people except myopia and presbyopia, caught one by one, and played the National Airplane Contest and the National Tank Race... Anyway, the planes, tanks, fuel and ammunition are all free, as much as you want, It doesn't feel bad if it crashes and falls into a ditch, and even if it breaks, it doesn't bother to repair it, just throw it in the wild and replace it with a new plane and new tank.So much so that the road from Kobe to Sekigahara was littered with discarded iron bumps everywhere, and there were tank cemeteries and aircraft cemeteries everywhere. In the future, it is estimated that selling scrap iron alone can support many people...

Due to the gradual change of ownership of the air supremacy on the battlefield, the U.S. troops on the front line had to retreat on two legs against the bombing and strafing of Japanese planes, and soon lost their formation, turning into a big rout like an avalanche and a dike burst. ——Obviously, this way of retreating while walking and being beaten is absolutely not advisable. The U.S. military on the Japanese battlefield is not the Chinese Red Army on the Long March.

In order to curb such a messy general decline and prevent this retreat from turning into an avalanche-like disaster, General Patton bit the bullet and assembled the new force of three divisions in the chaos, going up against the flow of fleeing people, and preparing to attack after Kyoto. Fight a blocking battle in the eastern region to cover the calm retreat of the main force.Then, on the famous ancient battlefield of Guanyuan in the west of Kinki, Japan, one of the few open fields in the Japanese island, a tank battle broke out between the main armored forces of the US and Japanese armies—even though the Japanese army’s three-type medium tank theory The performance can only be said to be average, but the current batch of Japanese rookie drivers and gunners who have only been trained for a few weeks are even more desperately poor in terms of tactics. Some directly drove tanks into the ditch to pretend to be submarines, which made the American ironclad athletes on the opposite side laugh out loud... But the terrible problem is that the number of Japanese tanks on the opposite side is really too many, which is even more desperate!No matter how many Japanese tanks the U.S. military can destroy, there will definitely be more Japanese tanks coming up in a few hours!Even if these are enemies like tofu dregs, too much tofu dregs can still crush people to death!
After four days and four nights of fierce melee, the U.S. military successfully destroyed more than 7000 Japanese tanks and shot down more than 1 Japanese aircraft on the Guanyuan battlefield, but it also lost more than 500 tanks and armored vehicles. , plus more than [-] field guns and anti-tank guns, and more importantly, the ammunition and fuel have been basically exhausted, and the logistics supply line is on the verge of collapse at this time, and it is barely maintained by airdrops...

Therefore, when the [-] Japanese Red Guards in the Hokuriku area went south from the Hida Mountains, rushed into the ruins of Gifu and Nagoya, and cut off the rear and supply lines of the U.S. Army in the Guangao battlefield from the rear, the battle of Sekigahara was finally inevitable. The land ended in a disastrous defeat for the U.S. military—at least [-] U.S. troops were dumped in the Kinki area. General Patton, the commander of the U.S. Army stationed in Japan, escaped with only a few entourages in a seaplane.But even if the U.S. military was lucky enough not to be imprisoned in the encirclement, its future is not bright.Because what follows is the end time of chasing death and chasing north.

——After the failure of the Sekigahara blockade, the retreat of the U.S. military was completely in a panic.

In the beginning, the U.S. troops retreated along several roads, and there was some formation and order, but after being attacked and bombed by Japanese planes several times, all the troops were completely chaotic, and everyone ran freely. , I don’t even know where my boss and colleagues are. Some unscrupulous guys even took off their military uniforms and changed into Japanese civilian clothes that they robbed.The reconnaissance planes flying over their heads, whether they are American planes or Japanese planes, are indistinguishable except that there are "American and British ghosts and animals" below them. The defeated U.S. troops who instinctively rushed along the road became ideal targets for Japanese aircraft. Many trucks and jeeps full of soldiers were bombed by Japanese pilots with aerial cannons; some American officers and soldiers even killed each other in order to rob roads or rob vehicles.

What's more, some daring Japanese guerrillas found an opportunity to take advantage of it, and even changed into the uniforms of the US military and mixed in to fight coldly. A series of horrific accidental bombings.

From Kyoto and Osaka to Tokyo, on both sides of the coastal road of Tokaido in Japan, abandoned tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and artillery can be seen everywhere, which has become the most eye-catching scenery on both sides of the road.Most of them were naturally dropped by the U.S. military, but many of them also came from the pursuing Japanese troops.

Then, many U.S. troops who had nothing to eat or drink were so hungry that they tried to break into the Japanese countryside to collect food and drinking water. As a result, the Japanese militia guerrillas in the countryside set up ambushes as prey. The tradition of "Samurai Hunting", that is, sneak attacking defeated warriors and robbing them of property and weapons and equipment. For example, the famous Akechi Mitsuhide died under the sticks of a group of greedy farmers.Now it is replaced by the American and British ghosts and animals who have been defeated and left alone, and they have the righteous name of patriotism against barbarians as an incentive, so it is natural to fight accordingly.

What's more, in order to further motivate the villagers' fighting spirit to kill the enemy, the wartime base camp also issued a very high reward: whoever got the head of a "white ghost" can get ten gold coins, and if the head of a "black ghost" is rewarded, then The reward is halved.In addition, a lot of guns and ammunition were air-dropped to the villagers one after another, so that the villagers behind the enemy lines were more powerful to beat the dogs in the water. Therefore, the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who landed in Japan seemed like a lot, but in a country with a population of tens of millions In Japan, in the face of such an enthusiastic national guerrilla warfare, it is still like a drop of water falling into a wine glass, which will soon be gradually dissolved without a trace...

Just like that, they were beaten all the way and fled all the way. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops gave up a large piece of land they had just seized after repeated bloody battles, and fled frantically all the way to Shizuoka Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji. Once again a confrontational situation was formed.However, the occupied area of ​​the U.S. military in the Japanese archipelago has shrunk by more than half during this period, and the loss of soldiers, materials, and technical weapons has reached the point where even the U.S. military has deep pockets.In addition, the morale of the entire army has also plummeted, and it is difficult to recover.

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After finally waiting for the Japanese army's "Kansai counteroffensive" to come to an end, the terrified U.S. troops stationed in Japan finally took a breather. After roughly checking their own losses and reporting their losses to Washington, the Pentagon and the Oval Office of the White House immediately It was gloomy again.

"...in just one month, we once again lost 28 Army and Marine Corps soldiers, 140 artillery pieces of various types, [-] tanks, more than [-] ships, [-] aircraft and Forty-eight thousand flight crew, and thirteen thousand ground crew..."

President Truman was almost grinning at the frightening figures on the document, and at the same time had a serious headache on how to deal with the inevitable congressional inquiries that would follow, "...and the results of the preliminary statistics are... shot down about 20 Japanese aircraft?!"

This unbelievable number made him stunned at first, showing a dumb expression of disbelief, and then, as if thinking of something, he gradually turned from shock to anger, and finally slapped the document on the desk hard, deeply Inhale, exhale long, and then... the Tucao Cannon is fully fired!

"...What jokes are the Pentagon and that bastard Patton playing! 20 Japanese planes?! The Japanese haven't produced so many planes since the start of the war, have they? Are you counting kites and seagulls as battle results? That's right. Make up stories that are a little bit more similar to me!"