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Chapter 169 The Ryukyu War

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    This flash flood-like tide and lava-like sea of ????fire lasted for a full four hours of ravage. Not only did the Japanese army's defensive positions and tomb chain bunkers collapse to pieces, they were also drowned and destroyed.  More than 3,000 Japanese soldiers were burned, smoked, and choked to death.  Taking advantage of the great opportunity when the Japanese army was in disarray, the Northeastern Army's 28th, 30th, and 38th Marine Brigades, the 277th Field Division, and the 23rd and 37th Army Field Brigades gathered on the southern Arasaki Beach.  Launched the final charge ferociously.  Amidst the shouts of killing and the roar of bullets as dense as raindrops, the soldiers of the Northeast Army were like a winding torrent of camouflage, following the rolling tide and raging fire and rushing into the Japanese army's front line.  On the ground of the tomb and fortress formation.  Since most of the Japanese troops hiding in the tunnels and bunkers had been drowned and burned to death by the torrent of water and fire that swept over the mountains, the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army effortlessly fought with sporadic firepower that hardly posed a threat.  Then he stepped on the broken bricks and tiles scattered everywhere, and then bravely chased the defeated Japanese army among the soaked or blackened corpses of the Japanese army and rolled forward.  Misty rain vapor and pungent corpse odor enveloped the entire tomb group. Among the bright firelight and splashing water, countless bright three-edged bayonets were shining with a bloody light.

    "Brothers, go ahead and kill! Whoever finds Yamada Otsuzo's body should come directly to receive a reward of 800 oceans!" Major General Qu Jidong, commander of the 37th Brigade, sat directly on an inflatable kayak, "Tu tu tu tu tu tu  "Driving quickly on the thigh-deep water.  Seeing the miserable scene of Japanese corpses floating in the water and people being burned, Major General Qu danced excitedly on the kayak.

    The Japanese army, which was already at the end of its struggle, barely managed to survive for half an hour. The entire chain of fortresses in the tombs finally collapsed under the fierce attack of the Northeast Army's steel swords and hammers.  Most of the Japanese 141st Division stationed here suffered casualties, while the remaining troops fled in panic toward the northern Naha city under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Northeastern Army's naval guns and bombers.  The five divisions and brigades of the Northeastern Army that followed immediately launched a comprehensive pursuit, sweep, and suppression of the Japanese troops who were fleeing like rabbits.  Japanese soldiers of Ryukyu nationality in the Japanese positions along the way abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side in large numbers during the Ryukyu civilian propaganda and psychological warfare offensive organized by the Northeastern Army. This caused the Japanese army's fragile defense line to quickly collapse like an avalanche.  By noon of the bloody battle, the entire southern part of Okinawa had fallen into the hands of the Northeastern Army. Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, who was in the general headquarters of Kunigami in the north of the island, immediately ordered all the Japanese troops in the southern and central parts of the island to "break it into pieces" behind the scenes.  Withdraw to the north to build the "final line of defense" and never allow suicidal attacks to preserve the strength and continue to resist.

    When various Marine brigade units and the 14th, 23rd, and 37th Infantry Brigade units, under the command of Major Generals Lee and Major Generals Moon, were busy searching for Japanese stragglers and the entrances to the crisscrossing underground fortifications of the Japanese army, the city of Naha and the former Ryukyu Kingdom  The capital of Japan, Shuri Castle, has fallen into a sea of ??joy.  Because the defeated Japanese army retreated too hastily, they had no time to carry out barbaric acts such as destroying cities and forcing local residents to commit suicide "for the Emperor and the Empire."  In Shuri Castle, when it was learned that the army from the "Celestial Kingdom" that had been waiting for sixty-three years had smashed the Japanese invaders' defense line and was about to enter the city, the whole city of Shuri was boiling.  Nearly 100,000 excited Ryukyu residents immediately poured into the streets in large numbers.  In the crowded Shuri Castle, the Ryukyu people who were extremely excited and filled with tears desperately waved colorful flags and flowers, eagerly waiting for the "Chinese army" to advance into Shuri Castle.

    At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the Ryukyu tombs that had been "flooded with water" and "fired for 700 miles" finally faded away from the baptism of torrents and flames, and the Japanese positions were reduced to charred rubble and piles of messy tombs.  In the ruins, corpses of Japanese soldiers with various dead shapes were piled up in random directions, and large swarms of flies began to gather "buzzingly". In order to prevent the spread of the plague, the fire-breathing soldiers of the Northeast Army were immediately ordered to step forward and remove the miscellaneous things.  The rotten flesh was burned to ashes with a flamethrower.  After the Northeast Army engineers on the Arasaki beach stopped releasing floods and setting fires, they began to work hard to drain floods, extinguish fires, and clean up ruins.  After struggling for more than an hour, the leading troops of the 101st Armored Division and the 250th Infantry Division were finally able to stride slowly towards Shuri Castle.  At this moment, a spectacular scene that can be called a miracle appeared: in the sky where the rain was rapidly getting smaller and smaller until it stopped, the haze and clouds that originally shrouded the sky were slowly dissipating, and the weather gradually became rainier.  The weather will clear up later.  Pieces of splendid rays of sunlight began to break through the clouds and fog through the cracks of the vast sky; among the vast rays of light that sprinkled on the earth, groups of tropical birds began to stretch their wings and fly.? launched a suicidal counterattack against the Northeastern Army; at the same time, more than 40,000 Japanese who fled to northern Okinawa began to support the elderly and young and jump off the cliff one after another to die for their country.  Amid the stormy fire from the Northeast Army's light and heavy machine guns and the hysterical shouts of "Long Live!", rows of Japanese troops who carried out suicidal attacks were swept into a hornet's nest, with piles of mutilated corpses strewn across the field;  The waves mercilessly devoured the Japanese immigrants who committed suicide by jumping off the cliff. The piles of corpses even covered the entire northern sea of ??Okinawa, and streams of blood spattered the cliffs.  On the reef, large numbers of sharks gathered to devour human flesh.

    At around 5:30 in the evening, General Ushijima Mitsuru and 27 Japanese general-level officers and colonel-level officers committed suicide by caesarean section in the final command post; while the Northeastern Army continued to carry out mountain search operations and comprehensive sweeps, making every effort to clear out the Japanese army.  Remaining soldiers.

    At 10:00 a.m. on June 22, 1941, Lieutenant General Long Yunfeng and Major General Jiang Bin, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army and Navy in the Battle of Okinawa, solemnly announced: The Battle of Okinawa is officially over!  The Northeastern Army successfully captured Okinawa!  Immediately afterwards, the Northeastern Army's Pacific Fleet and the 43rd and 46th Marine Brigades continued to brave the wind and waves and captured the Sakishima Islands, Amami Islands and other Ryukyu Islands near Okinawa one by one; on July 1, the entire Ryukyu Campaign  Only then did the curtain really come to an end.

    The land and sea amphibious landing campaign on the entire Ryukyu Islands lasted for 25 days from June 6 to July 1. China¡¯s Northeastern Army successfully captured a total of 55 large and small islands in the Ryukyu Islands, including the Okinawa Islands, the Amami Islands, and the Sakishima Islands.  , breaking the "first island chain" that restricted China's territorial waters to the high seas of the Pacific Ocean, and gained access to the Pacific Ocean for the Chinese navy.  In this battle, the Northeast Army deployed a total of 5 mechanized field divisions, 5 marine brigades, and 3 mechanized field brigades, with a total strength of approximately 160,000 troops; it also dispatched more than 2,000 sorties of land-based combat aircraft of the Air Force and the Pacific Fleet of the Navy.  The two main aircraft carrier fleets participated in the war; the navy fleet and the army artillery force fired a total of 180,000 artillery shells of various calibers, and the air force bombers dropped more than 10,000 types of aerial bombs, white phosphorus incendiary bombs, napalm bombs, cloud bombs, rockets, etc.  In the end, 14,577 people were killed or missing, and 17,639 people were seriously injured or disabled. The total number of casualties exceeded 41,500 (including lightly wounded), and 19 officers were killed or above the school level; more than 500 tanks, armored vehicles, heavy vehicles, etc. were lost.  There were more than 70 landing ships of various types, 2 destroyers, and 41 aircraft (half of which crashed due to bad weather, and the other half were shot down by the Japanese army); while the Japanese island-defending troops suffered more than 60,000 casualties, and were  82 people were captured, and all senior commanders were killed or committed suicide; in addition, more than 370 aircraft (mostly suicide planes), more than 260 ships (mostly suicide motorboats), and 3 large submarines were lost; in addition, from  Almost all of the more than 55,000 Japanese immigrants from Japan who immigrated to the Ryukyu Islands committed suicide by jumping off cliffs.  The ratio of casualties between the armies of both sides was approximately 1:1.45. The Northeast Army, which had absolute air and sea supremacy, could be said to have achieved a tragic victory. However, the Northeast Army's land, sea and air forces all learned a lot about amphibious landings in this Okinawa battle.  The valuable experience of combat, and the close combat understanding and cooperation between different services and arms also became increasingly important in this battle, and were taken seriously by the generals of the Northeast Army.  This battle also allowed a large number of young generals from the Northeast Army's "Zhang Xueliang Era" to quickly grow up, and made all Northeastern officers and soldiers stop despising the Japanese army.

    After the Ryukyu Campaign, the highest authorities of "Longyan Dayue", the Central Military and Administrative Department of Nanjing, and the Military and Administrative Department of the Northeast Frontier Defense Department immediately "generously and generously" awarded medals, promoted military ranks, and gave material awards to the generals and officers and soldiers who had outstanding performance in the various units participating in the war.  , for a time medals rained down and the ocean flew all over the sky.  Among them, Lieutenant General Long Yunfeng, the commander-in-chief of the Army, was awarded the Medal of the Blue Sky and the White Sun Medal and the Gold Tomahawk Medal of the Second Class respectively, while the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Major General Jiang Bin, was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Navy and awarded a First-class Golden Tomahawk Medal.  Silver Tomahawk Medal; thirty-four generals of the army and navy, including Major General Xiong Hu, Major General Shu Guosheng, Major General Zhao Haijun, Major General Li Xihao, Major General Jin Jiahao, Major General Qu Jidong, Major General Muzanchun, Major General Wang Zi, and Colonel Pei Yong;  Colonel Yin Xiaotian, leader of the "Skeleton Regiment", Lieutenant Colonel Ling Chengyu, captain of the destroyer "Fushun", and other seventeen officers who were injured in heroic battles were awarded the Silver Tomahawk Medal of Level 2 to Gold Medal of Combat Ax of Level 2  Various awards including the Ax Medal; Colonel Yin Xiaotian was promoted to Army Major General and commander of the new 299th B Infantry Division of the Northeast Army, while Lieutenant Colonel Zhong Yuxuan, who had outstanding performance, was promoted to Army Colonel and promoted to the 911th Infantry Division of the Northeast Army.  Regiment commander; in addition, 6,458 officers and soldiers from various ministries who died heroically were posthumously awarded medals, promoted to military ranks, or received the honorary title of "Martyrs of China"; 15,752 officers and soldiers who fought bravely were awarded, promoted, and  Military rank, promotion to government, or the honorary title of "Chinese Hero"; General Zhang Xueliang, Minister of Defense and Supreme Commander of the Northeast Army, also specially allocated 3.5 million oceans and 1 million oceans to respectively compensate the families of the fallen officers and soldiers and reward meritorious services.  Officers and soldiers and other matters.  In addition, on July 7, the Northeast Frontier Defense Department announced that the recovered Ryukyu Islands were officially established as Ryukyu Province of China and placed under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Special Administrative Region of China. Shuri City was designated as the capital city of Ryukyu Province.  At this point, China's Northeastern Army's first large-scale land and sea amphibious landing campaign ended with final victory.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The Ministry of Border Defense announced that after the liberation, the Ryukyu Islands were officially established as Ryukyu Province of China and placed under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Special Administrative Region of China. Shuri City was designated as the capital city of Ryukyu Province.  At this point, China's Northeastern Army's first large-scale land and sea amphibious landing campaign ended with final victory.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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