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Volume 1: Up the Songhua River Chapter 3133: Fierce Battle (Part 2)

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    "Chief of Staff, order the troops to retreat quickly, establish positions on the Galbraith and Laura lines, and then pin them firmly for me!" Yuan Jinghao immediately issued the order, feeling cruel in his heart, "Wait for my follow-up troops  When we get there, we have to teach the little devil a lesson!"

    Mount Molloy, Major General Akutagawa, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Australian Front, no longer looked happy. He hurriedly walked into General Nagano's room and reported: "Commander, the pursuit force was suddenly appeared on the battlefield.  The division's aviation fleet was blocked by powerful firepower and the troops suffered heavy casualties. Now, they have opened a considerable distance from the China Independent Division troops! "

    "Alas!" General Ito sighed, his face full of regret and unwillingness. He knew that he had lost the best opportunity to completely annihilate the independent division troops coming south from Cape York Peninsula. The thing he was most worried about had happened.  , the China Independent Division aviation group came at the wrong time!

    "Akutagawa-kun, order the four divisions on the second line to stop entering the battlefield and return to the original defense area immediately!" General Ito ordered: "The troops that had previously participated in the counterattack were concealed and airborne on the spot. After the China fleet returned, they continued to York.  In the direction of the Cape Peninsula, attack forward!¡±

    He could only adjust his deployment like this. The consequences of not having air superiority were exposed. If he forced his troops to attack in broad daylight, he would be giving the China Independent Division a living target. He was not stupid enough to do so.  !

    "Okay! Le Yiqin's fleet appeared very timely!" After receiving Yuan Jinghao's telegram, Tang Qiuli breathed a sigh of relief. The five brigades of the North China Field Corps.  Not being entangled by the Japanese army made his heart.  Take it easy.

    However, Tang Qiuli also saw clearly.  But in terms of the direction of attack, the North China Field Corps is the weakest direction of the independent divisions on the entire Australian battlefield. It can easily be attacked by the Japanese troops that have been massed on the east coast of Australia and carry out a strong counterattack with superior strength.

    The current position of Yuan Jinghao's troops directly threatens Mount Molloy, one of the three major ports where the Japanese army evacuated from the Australian battlefield. It is a thorn in the side, and Ito Yanzaburo will definitely not give up.  If it were you, you would do the same thing.

    He thought for a while and issued the order: "Yu He, order Le Yiqin, the main tasks of the Southern Flying Group in the next few days are, first, to provide air fire support to the North China Field Corps to make up for the lack of firepower and troop strength of the Corps.  ! Second, the secondary mission is to find and destroy the Japanese aviation forces on the Australian battlefield and cooperate with the fleet!"

    Troops from the five brigades of the North China Field Corps were covered by the powerful air firepower of the Southern Flying Group.  Finally getting rid of the entanglement of the Japanese army, they quickly retreated to the Galbraith and Laura lines in the southern part of Cape York Peninsula, and took advantage of a rare opportunity in one day.  A solid line of defense was established.

    It was another night. During the day, under the bombardment of the Southern Flying Group's large fleet, hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers cowered and did not dare to move rashly.  They repeated their old tricks and launched a ferocious attack under the cover of night.  The battle raged all night, and the sound of gunfire echoed in the night.  The battlefield was ablaze.  Smoke filled the air.

    Both sides suffered heavy casualties, mostly the attacking Japanese troops. The brigades of the North China Field Corps did not lose an inch of ground. The battle lasted until dawn. The mixed fleet of Southern Flying Group came again. The Japanese troops quickly ceased their activities and took cover on the spot.  When they got up, the bombers dropped a burst of bombs, but the killing effect on the Japanese soldiers was not ideal. This made Le Yiqin, who led the team to take off and directed the battle, feel very unhappy.

    However, Le Yiqin¡¯s unhappiness immediately found someone to vent to. The Australian Japanese land-based aviation force, which had been beaten by the Southern Flying Group so that they dared not show their heads, actually came to attack!

    I don¡¯t know what Yanzaburo Ito was thinking. Perhaps he regarded Yuan Jinghao¡¯s five brigades as the biggest threat, and actually ordered the Australian Front Aviation Command to dispatch bombers and fighter jets to seize air supremacy and attack Galbraith and Labor.  Pull up the independent division troops' positions on the front line and conduct bombing.

    After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Kuroda, the commander of the Australian Army's aviation arm, was full of bitterness. After a long period of air combat consumption, he now had very little money left. In addition, additional combat aircraft had not yet arrived.  They were barely able to piece together more than 200 fighter jets and more than 100 bombers.

    But the Australian Front Army aviation has to face opponents, not only the fierce Le Yiqin, but also the elusive Liu Cuigang from the southern direction, and the two king kongs of the China Independent Division aviation, who have all arrived on the Australian battlefield, Kuroda  The commander doesn't know whether he is lucky or sad?

    Commander Ito¡¯s order was given in a very stern tone. Lieutenant General Kuroda did not dare to disobey it, but he knew that the current commander was like a wounded wolf, very cruel to the Chinese and his own people.

      Just two days ago, a major general brigade commander on the Eastern Front battlefield, due to poor combat and improper command, was bitten by an independent division when his troops were gathering on the east coast. More than 10,000 people were killed.  A full brigade was formed, and the number of soldiers who ran to Townsville was less than 2,000. As a result, Commander Ito ordered them to be shot on the spot!

    Lieutenant General Kuroda believed that if he did not carry out Commander Ito's order, he would definitely dare to kill him. Therefore, he dispatched the only remaining members of the Aviation Command to form a mixed fleet and dispatch all of them. With the solemn and heroic desperation, he found  Le Yiqin's fleet came with all their might.

    Just in time, Le Yiqin also caught up, so an air battle began in the airspace between Galbraith and Laura. Le Yiqin saw the big fish coming, and she was so happy that she couldn't smile from ear to ear.  Time has passed, and the little devil's combat aircraft has become a turtle and does not dare to go into battle, which makes him very depressed and lonely without his opponent.

    Now, the opportunity for a big fight came. According to Le Yiqin's judgment, this mixed fleet of more than 300 Japanese combat aircraft should be the last asset of the Japanese aviation force in Australia. He immediately ordered the second echelon fighter group to take off.  , determined not to let go of the last piece of fat.

    On the Australian battlefield, the last large-scale air battle ended. The Japanese Australian Front aviation force lost its last air power. There were less than thirty fighter jets that escaped back to the airport, and all of them were injured. They were lucky to be able to fly back, and  The bomber group was completely wiped out.

    Seeing more than twenty fighter jets landing crookedly, Lieutenant General Kuroda wanted to cry without tears. He knew that from this moment on, he, the aviation commander, had almost become a polished commander. Under the hot sunshine of northern Australia, he was  After staying for a long time, he reported the situation to General Ito.

    After receiving the telegram from the aviation commander, Lieutenant General Kuroda, General Ito also had a dull look on his face. Then, he silently tore the telegram into pieces, sighed heavily, and the shadow of failure hung over his heart.

    On the southern battlefield of Cape York Peninsula, that night, the Japanese army, accustomed to avoiding air attacks during the day and launching attacks at night, took advantage of the darkness to launch an attack on the North China Field Corps positions of the Independent Division on the Galbraith and Laura lines. However,  After several days of air raids and the blocking of the independent division troops, the Japanese army had lost the spirit of attack. Every time they attacked, except for the corpses of soldiers left behind in the dark night, nothing was recovered.  !

    It was also on this night that the second batch of sea-crossing troops of the North China Field Corps landed at Cape York, and then headed south. At about three o'clock in the morning that day, they arrived at the front-line battlefields of Galbraith and Laura, which were filled with smoke.

    After receiving the report, Yuan Jinghao was immediately overjoyed. The troops were complete. Now, he had more than 200,000 troops in his hands. It was time for a fierce counterattack against the little Japanese who had been attacking for several days. He came out of his heart.  He had a bad temper and was beaten by the little devils for several days. He was so depressed that he almost vomited blood.

    Under the orders of Yuan Jinghao, Galbraith and Laura's five brigades of the North China Field Corps on the front line suddenly retreated after repelling another Japanese attack. The door to the Cape York Peninsula was opened and they fought for several days.  , the Japanese troops, who were having a headache, suddenly rushed in.

    At the same time, the second batch of arriving North China Field Corps, with hundreds of thousands of troops, quickly outflanked them from the left and right wings. Yuan Jinghao had a big appetite and wanted to eat hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in one bite.

    It is a pity that the terrain of Cape York Peninsula is narrow, and the large-scale operation of hundreds of thousands of troops of the North China Field Corps was learned by the Japanese reconnaissance force. The Japanese commander, who had a premonition of danger, quickly reported the situation. After receiving the report, General Ito immediately  His lips were blue and his face was pale with surprise, and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably. Then, he hurriedly issued an order for the troops to retreat to the line from Almaden to Mount Molloy.

    Sensing that the Japanese troops who had taken the bait were moving back, Yuan Jinghao was immediately furious and ordered the retreating five brigades to counterattack on the spot, making sure to hold back the Japanese troops so that they could not retreat.  Immediately encircle the heart.

    However, it is very regrettable that because the Japanese army retreated very promptly, after the North China Field Corps pounced on more than 200,000 troops, it only captured a small part of the Japanese army, about two divisions and more than 40,000 people.  Groups of artillery shells were thrown at them. By daybreak, the battle was over and the battlefield calmed down. Of the more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers, more than 20,000 were killed and the rest were captured.

    Yuan Jinghao was quite dissatisfied with such a result. He had an appetite to swallow hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops who had been chasing him for several days. Now, he only had this little food in his mouth. How could he be willing to accept it?

    Yuan Jinghao issued an order. All the troops of the North China Field Corps were divided into four groups and immediately began to attack from Mount Molloy to Almaden. They must capture Mount Molloy. He was now confident that the second batch would arrive.  AustraliaThe troops at the front were full of vigor, and they were so excited that they screamed at the performance of the vanguard.

    However, the order from the division commander made him very regretful and extremely depressed, and he stopped the upcoming full-line offensive operation.

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