On the Russian battlefield, there were 5 million Russian prisoners of war and less than 1.5 million survived the war. The Japanese were even more outrageous than the Germans. The many horrific massacres on the Far East battlefield had already defined the Japanese.
There are no truly civilized savages.
The officers of the East India Army were all of Chinese descent, which explains why they did not want to take prisoners.
After all, prisoners have to take care of their food. Giving them only two meals in twenty days like the Germans did is completely abusive. The East Indian Army cannot do this kind of thing.
Li Feizhou and his subordinates did not know that their battle set a record. The Japanese navy and army dispatched a total of more than 6,400 people, and not one of them escaped. This was the real "annihilation of the entire army."
What was worse than the annihilation of the entire army was that there were not a single prisoner among the more than 6,400 people. It was simply tragic.
Such a result is definitely unacceptable to the Japanese who are "invincible" in the East Asian battlefield.
As a result, the Japanese navy and army began to habitually shirk responsibility from each other.
The Japanese Army accused the Navy of insufficient support and that the fire cover provided by the four warships was too weak and was completely perfunctory.
The navy was dismissive of this. It was obviously the lack of strength of the army that led to the final disastrous defeat. It had nothing to do with the navy. After all, no matter how strong the combined fleet was, it could not drive the battleship ashore.
Then the problem comes.
Since the battleship cannot go ashore, why should we devote all our efforts to building the "Yamato"?
It would be better to free up a few more tons of steel to build tanks.
This statement immediately encountered a collective counterattack by the Japanese Navy. The "Yamato" was commissioned on December 16, and the construction of the "Musashi" has also reached the most critical period. It was originally expected to be commissioned in June next year because the United States has cut off ties with Japan.
Trade and service are expected to be postponed to August. From top to bottom, the combined fleet is looking forward to a decisive battle with the powerful Southern African Indian Ocean Fleet after the two super battleships are commissioned.
Sneak attacks should never happen again. Southern Africans were much more vigilant than Americans, otherwise the Combined Fleet would not have chosen Pearl Harbor.
Since there is no chance for a sneak attack, we can only fight head-on.
The Indian Ocean Fleet in southern Africa is strong, with six aircraft carriers carrying more than 100 aircraft. All of Japan's combined fleet does not have that many carrier-based aircraft. The combined fleet places its hope of victory on two super battleships.
Ships have become the spiritual pillar of the Japanese people.
The thickness of the main armor belt of "Yamato" and "Musashi" reaches an astonishing 410 mm, the thickness of the turret frontal armor is 650 mm, and the caliber of the three triple-mounted main guns is 460 mm. In the words of the Japanese, these are basically two "forever" ships.
The unsinkable island”.
It is precisely because Japan spends all its resources on the navy that it cannot take care of the equipment of the army.
When dealing with an army with backward equipment, the Japanese Army's equipment is pretty good.
Even compared with the better-equipped British-Indian troops and the US-Philippine coalition forces, the Japanese Army still has the upper hand with its tenacious awareness and excellent grassroots officers and soldiers.
However, being able to defeat the British-Indian troops and the US-Philippine coalition forces does not mean anything. Everyone knows how poor the quality of the British-Indian troops is. When fighting with the southern African army, they are not even qualified to fight, and they are just making up for it.
The U.S.-Philippine coalition was even worse. When Jonathan Wainwright was ordered to go to Northern Luzon to command the U.S.-Philippine coalition to prevent the Japanese from landing, his army was actually composed of refugees and boy scouts, and the result was a collapse.
This is also understandable.
The United States has always paid insufficient attention to the army. Troops composed purely of Americans are considered "beggar troops." It would be good if one of the Filipino servants can be given a gun.
The Japanese made an empirical error in measuring the strength of the Southern African Army. They believed that even if the Southern African Army was stronger than the British-Indian Army and the American-Philippine Allied Forces, it would not be much stronger. As a result, they encountered the East Indian Army when they faced it.
Got the nail.
According to the West, this is just a servant army of the southern African army.
The Japanese Army does not accept the Navy's "quibbles".
But the Japanese Army has no choice. The "Musashi" has already been built more than half, and it cannot be dismantled and then built into tanks. Even if the Japanese government wants to increase its support for the army, it will have to wait until the "Musashi" is built.
While the Japanese Army and the Combined Fleet were quarreling with each other, the Malay Campaign and the Philippine Campaign were still developing according to the established rhythm.
Probably to prove that all the responsibility for the failure of the Diaomen Island battle lies with the navy, and the Japanese army gave greater support to the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines.
Yamashita Tomofumi and Honma Masaharu also performed well and deserved the trust of the Japanese military. On January 11, the Japanese army occupied Kuala Lumpur. During this period, Percival did not organize any effective resistance. The Japanese army easily occupied the largest city in British Malaya.
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The Lion City is not a British dependency in Malaya, but belongs to the Straits Settlements.
In the Philippines, the Japanese army occupied Manila on January 2 and also landed on Mindanao and Jolo Island. Masaharu Honma believed that the overall situation of the Philippines was decided. Without destroying the US-Philippine coalition forces on the Bataan Peninsula, he ordered the 48th Division to march to Borneo.
Launch an attack.
Masaharu Honma did not lose his mind. He ordered the 48th Division to only attack the British Malayan territories in Borneo, and strictly prohibited attacks on the East Indian territories.
On January 9, the Japanese army launched an attack on the Bataan Peninsula, encountering strong resistance from the U.S.-Philippine coalition forces that had lost their retreat and were still fighting. MacArthur's plan had gone smoothly so far. He successfully dragged southern Africa and East India into the war.
Also on January 9, the Japanese 48th Division landed in Kuching without encountering any resistance during the landing.
This cannot be blamed on Percival for not paying attention to the defense of Kuching. The British and Indian troops were unable to defend the Malay Peninsula and had no ability to take care of Kuching at the same time.
Not far from Kuching is the position of the Southern African Army and the East Indian Army. On a clear day, you can see Kuching Port without using a telescope. The Southern African and East Indian Army will not let the Japanese rampage.
Attack, if the Japanese dare to occupy Kuching, just wait for the iron fist of justice in southern Africa.:.
As Percival expected, the Southern African and East Indian coalition forces were ready to take the initiative, but the civilians of British Malaya came faster than the Japanese. The 48th Division had not yet landed in Kuching.
Civilians living in Kuching flocked to Shilongmen, less than 30 kilometers away from Kuching.
After the southern African and East Indian troops stationed in Shilongmen, Shilongmen has developed into a military city no less large than Kuching, and the road connecting it to Kuching has also been built.
Valley/span> After the establishment of East India, many Chinese people living in British Malaya went to East India to settle. The Chinese people who remained in British Malaya were die-hard loyalists to the British and firmly believed that following the British would lead to greater success.
Bright future.
These Malayans who poured into Shilongmen are all refugees according to southern African standards. They are responsible for their own food, clothing, housing and transportation in East India, and the East Indian government does not care.
"There are many people who request to become East Indian citizens, but most of them are Malays and there are very few Chinese. Do they still have confidence in the United Kingdom now?" Huang Can, commander of the Sixth East India Division, could not understand and could only say
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
"It's normal. There are hundreds of people of all kinds. That's the United Kingdom, and some people are sought after." Shen Wei, commander of the 28th Division in Southern Africa, doesn't care. As the proportion of Chinese in Southern Africa is getting higher and higher, now by virtue of his Chinese identity
The benefits gained in Southern Africa are getting less and less. The British Empire is dead and alive. It is normal for some people to not see the situation clearly. The federal government of Southern Africa does not care about such people.
In the early years when there were few Chinese people in southern Africa, any Chinese immigrants who violated laws and disciplines would still have to be deported to their place of origin.
Nowadays, Southern Africa is able to meet its development needs with its own hematopoietic function, and the need for immigrants is no longer so urgent. In the past, the Southern African Immigration Bureau used to coax and trick people into getting on the ship, but now it is all about picking and choosing. If you don't have any skills, you can't even think about it.
Obtain Southern African citizenship.
What's more, in the early years, some Chinese people in Nanyang had a really bad reputation, especially the plantation owners and the scoundrels who followed the white people. Their attitude towards the Chinese was even harsher than that of the white people.
The number of Shilongmen garrison and residents was less than 20,000 before the war broke out.
After the East India increased its troops, the number of troops stationed at Shilongmen has reached 20,000, but the number of refugees who have poured into Shilongmen has been as many as 50,000.
Southern Africa is essentially a guest army in East India. Although Huang Can respects Shen Wei very much and relies on Shen Wei's opinions in everything, Huang Can is actually responsible for the management of Shilongmen.
Huang Can set aside an area of about ten kilometers in the east of Shilongmen City as a refugee camp to accommodate refugees from British Malaya.
Most of these refugees are poor, and the rich have long since fled to Lion City or Coconut City. These refugees cannot even guarantee their basic livelihood. Huang Can has to allocate some supplies to meet the basic needs of the refugees.
"We can't let them be idle. We need to single out those who are capable of working and give them some work. It can be building roads, bridges, digging trenches or even breaking stones. We can't let them idle anyway." Shen Wei experienced the Great Depression. I have great experience in providing work-for-relief services.
In fact, this is the same as military training. Many things are free, especially for energetic young people. If you let them idle around all day long, something will happen sooner or later. You can simply find work for them and use up all their energy. Naturally, I'm not in the mood to think nonsense.
"Okay, we can't keep them in vain." Huang Can was very happy. This is all free labor, and he only needs to pay a little cheap food rations.
It's really all labor force, there are no old, weak, sick or disabled people at all.
The real old, weak, sick and disabled have no ability to escape from Kuching. The war is so cruel.
While Shilongmen was busy resettling refugees, the Japanese troops who landed in Kuching were warmly welcomed by the local Japanese in Kuching.
There are not only Chinese people in Nanyang, but also many Japanese people. The small islands in Japan are too narrow. As long as there is a chance, many Japanese want to escape from Japan.
Therefore, there are many Japanese immigrants not only in Nanyang, but also in South America.
After the establishment of East India, the Japanese in East India were also unlucky. Many Japanese were forced to leave East India, and some went to Kuching. These people hated East India and southern Africa. Taro Kono was one of them. One member.
Before the independence of East India, Taro Kono accumulated a plantation and two factories in East India with the efforts of several generations. He could not be said to be rich, but he was much better off than ordinary people.
When East India became independent, Taro Kono and his family fled East Indies. After the war, when Taro Kono returned to East Indies, his family's plantation had become the private property of a Chinese executive of an umbrella company, and the factory had also It has been destroyed in the war.
Taro Kono tried to get his family's plantation back, but was threatened and almost lost his life. After that, Taro Kono came to Kuching to run a shop to make ends meet.
After the outbreak of the Malay War, Taro Kono was unlucky again. Not only was the store emptied, but his family was thrown into a concentration camp for centralized management. When the Japanese army rescued Taro Kono from the concentration camp, he was the only one left in the family. one person.
The Anglo-Saxons never showed mercy to their enemies. When Britain entered the war, the Germans living in Britain were thrown into concentration camps for intensive management, and the same was true for the Japanese.
When he was imprisoned in the concentration camp, all of Taro Kono's property was confiscated and he was left penniless.
The people in charge of the concentration camp were Malays. Taro Kono used his daughter to bribe the Malays who managed the concentration camp, and the family finally survived.
"I know the terrain around Shilongmen. If the invincible imperial army launches an attack on Shilongmen, I can serve as a guide for the imperial army." Taro Kono hated southern Africans and East Indians deeply, and he obviously took the arrival of the Japanese army seriously. , as a turning point in the fate of a family.
"Very good, we need people like you." The Major who led the team smiled, obviously lacking enthusiasm for Taro Kono's suggestion.
As mentioned earlier, when the Japanese launched the Meiji Restoration, a large part of their funding came from the business practices of Japanese women around the world.
However, hard-working Japanese women do not get the respect they deserve in Japan. They have sacrificed everything for the rise of Japan. Many people in Japan are ashamed of this, especially those who were born after winning the Russo-Japanese War.
A generation of Japanese people, not only are they not grateful for the contributions of their predecessors, but they think it is a shame for Japan.
When you think about it, it is understandable that even the Japanese government is desperately trying to avoid this humiliating history. Ordinary Japanese cannot face it at all, and they even look down on Japan's overseas immigrants, thinking that they are traitors to Japan.
You have immigrated overseas for who knows how many years, and you still have no idea how much Japanese blood you still have in your body, so there is no loyalty left.
"I know the Southern African Army and the East Indian Army very well. As long as the Japanese Imperial Army launches an attack on Shilongmen, the Southern African Army and the East Indian Army entrenched in Shilongmen will quickly collapse, just like we did in Malaya and the Philippines.
Like that." Taro Kono hoped that the 48th Division would launch an attack on Shilongmen immediately, so that his value could be reflected.
"Your suggestion is very good, we will seriously consider it." Major said perfunctorily. He knew the southern African army better than Taro Kono.
attack?
Even senior Japanese generals did not dare to launch an active attack on the southern African army. If it were so easy to fight, Masaharu Honma would not be so cautious. We provide you with the fastest updates and free reading.:.
