The Japanese army was really not weak during this period. Even if the Fifth Division lost its command center, it did not completely collapse. It had been fighting for several years. The experienced grassroots officers still maintained control of the troops and waited for the next order from their superiors.
It is a pity that their efforts are destined to be in vain. The Australian army is the most effective force in the British Commonwealth, and the East Indian Army is also the strongest within the Southern African Union and outside the Southern African Defense Force. Now that the three parties have joined forces, the Fifth Division has no chance.
When the follow-up support troops of the 6th East India Division arrived, the 5th Division completely lost hope of escaping.
The "Clouded Leopard" tank is an excellent tank with excellent maneuverability in rainforest areas. The 45mm turret frontal armor at 60 degrees is not too thick and is enough to cope with the 47mm tank gun of the Type 97 tank.
The 75mm tank gun can easily penetrate the 25mm riveted armor of the Type 97 tank.
That's right, the armor thickness of the Type 97 tank is only 25 mm, which is about the level in the middle of World War I. The armor thickness is probably only one line thicker than the French Renault.
In another time and space, there were still people who boasted about Japan's armor-piercing bullets, saying how powerful Japan's armor-piercing bullets were and how they performed better on the battlefield than American armor-piercing bullets...
This is pure nonsense. The core material of armor-piercing bullets is special alloy steel. Japan is famous for its lack of resources. The demand for ordinary steel cannot be guaranteed. Where can we get so many special materials?
Don't look at the data.
The Japanese are very good at fabricating data.
When the Germans copied the British, they only plagiarized technology. The Japanese didn't even bother to save face and directly falsified the data. What about the craftsmanship they promised?
Moreover, the Japanese fabricating data is not an isolated phenomenon. As time goes by, the real technology has not improved much, but the technology of fabricating data has become more and more proficient. Even the Japanese themselves are convinced that Japan's technical strength has really improved.
Beyond southern Africa.
Compared with Japan, Southern African companies do not need technology and can just use resources to crush the Japanese to death.
This is what the Southern African Air Force does.
The retreat route of the Fifth Division has been cut off. The Australian 8th Division and the 19th Southern African Division are advancing steadily. The remaining troops of the Fifth Division that have lost their command system also tried to resist, but unfortunately all were crushed by the "Leopard" tanks.
The tank crews were extremely happy, just like the wild wolves introduced by the Australians to limit the crazy breeding of rabbits. They had no natural enemies at all and there was delicious food everywhere.
The Japanese's ability to cope with difficulties is really poor. The headquarters of the Fifth Division was destroyed. In another time and space, Yamashita Fengfumi, known as the "Malay Tiger", did not appoint a successor commander in time, leaving the remnants of the Fifth Division alone.
The troops fought independently and stayed where they were, waiting to be annihilated one by one.
Yamashita Fengwen was fooled.
In another time and space, Yamashita Fengfumi performed well, mainly because the British and Indian troops performed too poorly, not because of how strong Yamashita Fengfumi was.
Now encountering the ace combination of the Southern African Army, the Australian Army, and the East India Army, the 25th Army commanded by Yamashita Tomomi was defeated before the full three rounds were fought, and the Malayan Tiger became the Malayan Rabbit.
This is an incorrect description. Rabbits are so cute and cannot be used to describe Japanese people.
While the ground forces were encircling and annihilating the remaining troops of the Fifth Division, the Southern African Air Force was dispatching frantically.
Influenced by Roque, the guiding ideology of the Southern African military has always been that if a problem can be solved with the advantage of weapons, don't use human lives to solve it.
The Fifth Division has no professional anti-aircraft weapons at all. Cannons used to kill mosquitoes are often a mockery, so it is very suitable for the Fifth Division.
It is a pity that the Fifth Division is only equipped with 92 infantry guns and has no anti-air shooting capability at all.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun is not good either. It seems that the only thing that can play a role in air defense is the crooked gun.
It is unreliable to expect that the various bombers in Southern Africa can be dealt with by crooked tactics. At the beginning, the Southern African Air Force strictly dispatched only dive bombers, but soon found that the bomb load of the dive bombers was too small. The next step was the "Flying Fortress"
and "Super Sky Fortress".
Heavy long-range bombers are not only useful when carrying out strategic bombing, they are also very effective against field troops.
When the "Flying Fortress" performs short-distance missions, its maximum bomb load can reach nearly ten tons, and a formation can easily destroy a city.
Replacing high-explosive bombs with incendiary bombs will be most effective in tropical rainforest areas. The sultry environment is a natural accelerant. The remaining troops of the Fifth Division now deeply understand what it means to be ruthless.
What makes the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division even more desperate is that the ace combination will not take any prisoners in the battle with the Fifth Division.
It's not that they don't want it. The fighting will of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division is too tenacious. They all fight until the last moment when they run out of ammunition and food. They don't surrender at all. They keep the last bullet for themselves. Where are the prisoners if they don't surrender at all?
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This reason does not make sense, and the Japanese are not that stubborn. Just look at how docile the Japanese were in front of the Americans after Japan surrendered in another time and space.
The Japanese base camp did not do anything. After the Fifth Division was surrounded, Yamashita Tombumi sent the 18th Division and the Guards Division to attack Kinma in an attempt to rescue the surrounded Fifth Division.
At the same time, the combined fleet is also moving towards South Asia, and the naval showdown is finally about to begin.
On January 19, a 5,000-ton southern African merchant ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the waters near East India.
This is normal. After the outbreak of the World War, the total tonnage of merchant ships sunk by the Allies every month was more than 100,000 tons.
If a merchant ship is attacked, just send out an escort fleet to escort it. See who can survive until the end.
The Southern African federal government is different from the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom's merchant ship was sunk. Winston issued a statement to express condolences for the victims and called on the British to unite and fight for democracy and freedom for all mankind and squeeze out the last drop of residual value.
The Southern African federal government went too far. After the merchant ship was sunk, the Southern African federal government announced that there were 5,000 Japanese prisoners of war on the merchant ship. These prisoners of war had sunk to the bottom of South Asia forever with the merchant ship.
No one survived.
This situation made the Japanese very angry.
Didn't the Southern African Army take no prisoners when fighting the Fifth Division?
So where did these 5,000 prisoners come from?
No matter where they came from, there were 5,000 Japanese on the ship anyway, and there will always be some after being captured now. The Japanese are good at fabricating data, and the Southern Africans can do the same when needed.
This is the same way the Germans responded after being attacked in occupied territory.
The Germans occupied a large area of Europe, and rebels emerged one after another. The Germans were often attacked, especially patrols.
The Germans' approach to the attack was straightforward.
If one German soldier died in the attack, the German army would immediately arrest a hundred ordinary people in the attacked area and shoot them collectively.
The German army used this cruel method to attack the rebels in the ruled areas.
This is so scary. If a German dies, a hundred local people will be buried with him. Maybe someday bad luck will befall him. As a result, there are fewer and fewer resistance actions in the German-occupied areas, leaving room for the resistance forces to move.
It is getting smaller and smaller, and the people in the occupied area are becoming more and more obedient.
The Federal Government of Southern Africa refers to the tonnage of merchant ships, one ton per person. It doesn't matter if there are no prisoners now. The Japanese only need to remember that they owe the Federal Government of Southern Africa 5,000 people.
As for those people who are unlucky, the federal government of Southern Africa doesn't care, and the Japanese government doesn't care either.
If you want to talk about special steel, then the Japanese government really cares about it.
Three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged people are plentiful in Japan. During the Tsarist era, Russian soldiers were called "grey animals." The status of the Japanese in Japan is not much better than that of gray animals.
"So all the prisoners of the Fifth Division have died in this shipwreck?" At a press conference in Pretoria, journalist Jacob from the United States looked sad.
Jacob is of Japanese ancestry. His mother is Japanese and his father is an American black man. Therefore, Jacob's skin color is a bit dark and he has small curly hair. The only characteristic he inherited from his mother is his height.
Damn, this is so unlucky. I avoided all the advantages of my parents and inherited all the disadvantages.
"The current situation is like this, and I want to correct you on one thing. It was not a shipwreck, but a despicable sneak attack. Just like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States, the Japanese always do this, just like despicable sneak attacks.
They are like rats hiding in dark corners looking for targets." Major Dick, the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa, was even more angry. He is a pure white man. According to the mustache standard, he is of noble Aryan descent. He is tall, with deep-set eye sockets and brown pupils.
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"Previously there was news that the Southern African army did not abide by the rules of engagement during the battle and shot a large number of prisoners of war. Therefore, even if the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Fifth Division laid down their weapons, they would be shot collectively." There is a problem with Jacob's position. This problem
Just deliberately looking for trouble.
"Never!" Major Dick said resolutely. Southern Africa is a member of a civilized society. How can it be the same as savages?
"Putting aside my personal position, I was very surprised by the performance of the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Fifth Division. They only had rudimentary equipment. When the troops went out, the soldiers only had two rice balls in their backpacks. This was their three-day supply, which was very small.
It’s hard to believe that the Japanese army is fighting with such primitive supplies. Their small bodies have huge energy. Compared with the Japanese soldiers, our army is too luxurious. The R&D department is actually trying to install air conditioners in tanks. Japanese soldiers
While they were eating cold and nutritious rice balls, our troops fighting in the desert were getting upset because they didn't have enough ice cubes and ice cream. They really shouldn't have done it." Major Dick didn't look like he was self-reflecting.
There is more to self-praise.
As for installing an air conditioner into a tank, installing a tank into an air conditioner is equally unreliable.
This is conveniently digging a hole for the Americans.
Since the United States entered the war, the United States has used Southern Africa as a benchmark and has to compare with Southern Africa everywhere.
There are Nyasaland semi-automatic rifles in southern Africa, and the Americans developed the M1 Garand.
There are island-class aircraft carriers in southern Africa, and the Americans copied York City.
There is a "Panther" in southern Africa, and the American one has a Sherman.
The Sherman is an excellent tank. It was finalized in September last year and has been equipped with a large number of troops.
The Sherman's combat weight was 34 tons, and it was equipped with a 75mm tank gun. The early model had 50mm of frontal armor. Soon the Americans found that 50mm was too thin, so they increased it to 101mm.:.
This thickness can kill obsessive-compulsive disorder. 101 is just one millimeter thicker than 100. It doesn’t increase the defense much, but it looks very uncomfortable.
Despite its shortcomings, the Sherman is still very good compared to the German No. 4.
Japan's Type 97 medium tank is obviously not the target of the Americans. Just like the point of anger of the third brother in another time and space, a large country with a long history and tradition does not discriminate against the third brother, but has never paid attention to the third brother, so the third brother has a strong self-esteem.
It was very uncomfortable.
"Major, my question is" Jacob was very dissatisfied with Major Dick's answer. Is this a way for you to praise yourself?
"Mr. Journalist from the United States, can I also ask a question?" Wang Ran, a reporter from The Times, was very dissatisfied. Pretoria is the home of The Times, and the Americans should not overshadow the place.
Major Dick made a "please ask questions" gesture, coupled with a heart-warming smile. This is the mentality that a winner should have.
"My colleagues in the Malay Federation told me that the Fifth Division massacred civilians in the Malay Peninsula. Has this situation been confirmed?" Wang Ran's question was very direct, and the smile on Major Dick's face disappeared immediately.
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"Yes, this situation has been confirmed. During the attack on the Fifth Division, the Australian 8th Division found that an entire village was massacred, and there were more than one. The Japanese are probably used to this situation, but I
It must be said that the brutal behavior of the Japanese Fifth Division is extremely rare in the entire history of human civilization. They did not massacre for the sake of conquest, but massacre for fun. There was no reason at all. All the women who were massacred were being massacred.
Everyone has been violated before, young and old." Major Dick's voice was full of grief and anger, and it sounded like he would apply to go to the front line the next moment and personally avenge those who were massacred.
"God, how could they do this?" Wang Ran is a woman. After listening to Major Dick's description, she immediately started to cry.
Feel the same.
"Our army is not fighting an army of a civilized country, but an army composed of barbarians. So if a similar situation occurs in the future, it is not that our soldiers have collectively fallen, but that they are fighting in the past.
I avenge the innocent people who were killed in my own way. I can responsibly say that as long as the Japanese officers and soldiers appear on the battlefield, each of their hands will be stained with blood." Major Dick will not stop it, and the Southern African army will continue to be like this in the future.
Do, hope people aren't surprised.
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