I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Zeng Yiding closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "Cause heavy losses to the Japanese and us, so that we dare not continue to participate in the war, so that they can destroy you on land!"

"Yes!" Feng Shengfa laughed, "If the Japanese were to kill a capital ship, battleship, or heavy cruiser by the Americans, Narumi Inoue would probably retreat, well, this is probably MacArthur's wishful thinking! Very good, I can just do my tricks!" He looked at Cai Renjie, "The 17th Division is coming here from Vietnam soon? Tell them, they will be able to join the war soon!" He looked at Zeng Yiding again, "Zeng Junzuo , please make a trip to meet Narumi Inoue and ask him to cooperate with us!"

Zeng Yiding said with a smile: "You and I are both Chinese soldiers, it is our duty to talk about any troubles!"

In the middle of the night of April 4th, the U.S. Asian Fleet submarine force dispatched more than 4 submarines to launch a dangerous and tragic battle against the Chinese and Japanese fleets (mainly aimed at the Japanese fleet) cruising in Lingayen Bay. In a storm attack, these submarines sneaked from the port of Cavite to Lingayen Bay in a fan shape, some entered the bay to launch an attack, and the other part carried out an ambush outside the bay.

At around ten o’clock in the evening, the destroyer Nerchinsk of the Chinese Navy slowly passed the entrance to the southwest of Lingayen Bay. The sonar detector on the ship suddenly caught a suspicious underwater target, and the sonar soldiers jumped up. , hurriedly reported to the captain, and the captain immediately reported to Zeng Yiding.

"You keep on patrolling, just pretend you didn't see it!" Zeng Yiding instructed.

The Nerchinsk, with its depth charge dropper loaded, passed over the U.S. submarine Stingray as if nothing had happened.

Inside the Stingray, hearing the sound of the enemy destroyer slowly driving away on the sea, all the crew members who were already terrified like falling into the abyss breathed a sigh of relief in cold sweat.

"Thank God! They didn't find us!" The captain was terrified.

Zeng Yiding is sending a telegram to Chengmei Inoue: "Commander Inoue, the U.S. submarine is coming!"

"Thank you so much!" Narumi Inoue expressed her thanks while secretly making up her mind that after the war, she must convince Yamamoto 56 and the top Japanese navy to attach as much importance to anti-submarine as the Chinese navy, and strengthen the anti-submarine capabilities of warships and submarine search capabilities.

In this late night, Narumi Inoue did not feel sleepy, Zeng Yiding and Feng Shengfa did not feel sleepy either, and top U.S. military leaders such as MacArthur, Wainwright, Hart, and Weeks also did not feel sleepy.

In the headquarters of the US-Philippine Army in Manila, MacArthur waited anxiously. He paced back and forth, muttering in his mouth: "One... as long as one of the Japanese battleships is sunk, all problems can be solved. Well, heavy cruisers are also fine, one, as long as one can be sunk, even sacrificing the submarine force is worth it! This is war, and war requires sacrifice! Yes, I am not wrong!"

For MacArthur's battle plan, the submarine force commander Weeks strongly opposed it. He believed that "this is completely letting the submarine soldiers die." Hart, the commander-in-chief of the Asian Fleet, did not support it in his heart, but he knew that soldiers just want to fight. The point is to be ready to die on the battlefield at any time. An army that dares not face death is destined not to be a victor in the war, so he adopted a default attitude.

Weeks was indignant and helpless, and finally asked, "Can you give the submariners a good vacation, let them relax and do things that they may not have the opportunity to do in the future?" "You know, many of them are doomed. I can’t come back.” Hart agreed to this, and he also thoughtfully ordered that all U.S. submariners be paid three months in advance. Therefore, during this day, the city of Cavite is full of money-spending U.S. submariners.

Amid worries about gains and losses, MacArthur heard heavy and hasty footsteps outside the door. His heart moved, and he hurriedly looked up at the wall clock on the wall. It was 4:5 a.m. on April [-], and he knew that the result had come out.

Major General Richard Sutherland, chief of staff of the U.S. Philippine Army, strode into the headquarters.

"How?" MacArthur asked impatiently.

"Unfortunately, it didn't work!" Sutherland's reply made MacArthur feel like his heart fell into a hole in the ice, but the other party's next sentence revived his frozen heart, "But it didn't fail either! "

"Ricky (Sutherland's nickname)!" MacArthur was surprised and delighted, "Please don't talk to me in this way in the future, you made my heart feel like a roller coaster ride! What's going on?"

Sutherland reported: "Three large enemy battleships exploded and caught fire during the torpedo attack. Although they were seriously injured, none of them sank. However, our goal has been achieved. The Japanese fleet has all withdrawn from Lingayen. Bay!"

"Great!" MacArthur was ecstatic, "We succeeded!" He was overjoyed, and after being excited for a long time, he remembered another important question, "By the way, what about our losses?"

Sutherland sighed softly: "Twenty-six submarines attacked, only half returned, and thirteen submarines were lost!"

MacArthur patted Sutherland on the shoulder: "Don't be sad, their sacrifice is worth it.

Contact Joseph (Stilwell) immediately and tell him, take this opportunity and attack!attack!Attack again!Drive all the Chinese into the sea! "

Chapter 641 Attacking the Philippines (5)

Considering that one's own side has lost air supremacy and will be bombarded indiscriminately by the opponent's bomber fleet when launching an attack during the day, MacArthur set the time for the "general counterattack" after dark on April 4th, and during the daytime on April 5th. Here, on the one hand, the U.S. and Philippine troops were actively preparing for the next "general counterattack"; There is only the Chinese naval fleet on the sea in Gayan Bay, and the Japanese fleet has not returned.

Without the Japanese fleet, the sea power of the Chinese army has been reduced by at least 4%. The large warships are only the light aircraft carrier and the heavy cruiser of the Chinese Navy. The 4 battleships and the [-] heavy cruisers of the Japanese army will no longer participate in the battle. up.

"Great! Our plan has succeeded! Without the powerful Japanese fleet, relying on the Chinese's own warships, they will not be able to cause dangerous naval artillery strikes on our troops on land!" MacArthur said excitedly, "However, there is no guarantee that the Japanese fleet will not come back again, so we only have one chance, and we must defeat the Chinese troops that have already landed!"

Stilwell nodded: "Based on what I know about the Chinese and the Japanese, after the Japanese fleet was attacked by our submarine and left due to heavy damage, the Chinese must have been very dissatisfied and had a big quarrel with the Japanese, demanding When the Japanese bring back the fleet, the Japanese are definitely unwilling or disagree. If our army can wipe out the Chinese troops that have already landed in the Philippines, the Chinese will not hate us, but only the Japanese, because the Chinese will think that, It was the Japanese's desertion that led to the annihilation of the Chinese army that landed on the shore. Next, the chances of the Chinese and the Japanese making a comeback together are very low, because the Chinese think that the Japanese are unreliable, and the Japanese think that the Chinese Ask them too hard, and they'll get caught up in endless internal battles over this failure, shirking each other's responsibilities, and even tearing each other apart completely.

Don't forget that the Chinese and Japanese have deep hatred and hatred. Even if they have an alliance, they have different dreams. The stability of the Sino-Japanese alliance is very poor. A relatively large failure is enough to destroy the Chinese and Japanese. There is already a low level of trust between them!"

"Yes! Yes! That's the truth!" MacArthur was elated when he heard that, "As long as we wipe out the Chinese troops that have already landed, the Chinese will definitely hate the Japanese, and the Japanese will also hate the Chinese, so they will no longer jointly attack the Philippines. At the very least, it will be impossible to jointly attack the Philippines for a long time, and the Philippines will turn the corner. We have enough time to consolidate our defenses and wait for a large amount of assistance from Washington!"

Wainwright agrees: "Yeah, that's our best and possibly only way to win!"

"Everything depends on the next general counterattack!" MacArthur was full of confidence, "We must wipe out the Chinese troops that landed in one fell swoop, success or failure depends on one action! Therefore, we must devote most of our military power to this battle! Victory cannot be defeated!"

According to MacArthur's order, the 2nd Armored Division, the 7th Division, and the 42nd Division of the U.S. Army were all thrown into the battle, with a total strength of more than 5000 troops, and six divisions of the Philippine Army and more than 5 people helped out.

MacArthur already knew that the Philippine army was a mob. He reckoned that it would be impossible to use the Philippine army to fight tough battles, but it should be no problem for the Philippine army to follow the US army to pursue victory after the US army defeated the Chinese army. It is also good that tens of thousands of people help to strengthen the momentum.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, as night fell, MacArthur officially issued the order of "general counterattack".

On the beach of Lingayen Bay, Zhang Lingfu, the deputy commander of the 74th Division and the commander of the 74th Brigade, was sitting in a foxhole. He saw waves of American artillery shells coming through the air.

"Just by looking at the bullet marks of the shells, you can tell that the U.S. military is really not doing well in the war!" A voice came from Zhang Lingfu's side. It was the division commander Liao Yaoxiang. , the U.S. artillery shells have been falling continuously, blasting the fireballs on the land into the air and the water column on the sea, but Liao Yaoxiang still has an enthusiastic expression on his face, commenting on the U.S. artillery bombardment, "Look, the U.S. artillery is adjusting the artillery of different calibers. It is obviously lack of actual combat experience when shooting from the upward angle. The parabola after ejection of the cannon is very chaotic, and the impact points are neither dense nor uniform. It is neither concentrated strike nor fire coverage.

It seems that if an army does not fight for a long time, it will really be used up and down, and its martial arts will be slack!"

"Master, why are you here?" Zhang Lingfu was a little surprised.

In fact, Zhang Lingfu was three years older than Liao Yaoxiang, and Zhang Lingfu was in the fourth phase of Whampoa, and Liao Yaoxiang was in the sixth phase of Whampoa, but Liao Yaoxiang was already the division commander at this time, and Zhang Lingfu was the deputy division commander and brigade commander.

"Where the army is, that's where the army commander should be!" Liao Yaoxiang disagreed.

"Master, we have already been killed by a Yankee brigade commander..."

"What? No confidence? Do you think your army will be defeated by the US military, and then I will become the result of the US military's victory?"

"Of course not, it's just..."

"Stop talking nonsense, the U.S. military has launched shelling, and their armored forces are coming soon!" Liao Yaoxiang waved his hand, "Lingfu, do you know the purpose of our battle?"

"Repel U.S. Army!"

"Not only this!" Liao Yaoxiang looked serious, "Not only do we need to repel them, but we also need to defeat and defeat them.

Commander Feng (Feng Shengfa) has put a lot of effort into this, the Seventeenth Division is already on the way, we want to achieve the greatest victory at the least cost!"

"I understand!" Zhang Lingfu nodded. He walked out of the foxhole with a solemn expression, walked to a reef by the beach amid deafening shelling and explosions, and shouted, "Brothers! Let the Americans know that we How terrifying! Fengtian kills the thief!"

"Fengtian kills the thief!" The soul-stirring Chinese shout of killing resounded through the night sky, covering the sound of shells exploding in full swing.

This is not the first time that the 2nd Armored Division of the U.S. Army has fought against the Nanjing Army. The officers and soldiers of the division who thought they had "experience in fighting the Chinese" were greatly shocked after the outbreak of this battle.

Seeing the U.S. tanks coming up with claws and teeth, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army showed no fear. Dozens of anti-tank guns ambushed on the defense line opened fire together. Immediately afterwards, Leopard tanks rushed out of the Nanjing Army's defense line with roaring flywheels, and rushed into the U.S. tank group head-on with the momentum of hungry wolves rushing at sheep, flying like lightning and invincible. The anti-tank soldiers of the Nanjing Army carrying iron fist anti-tank rocket launchers, under the protection of infantry armed with submachine guns, put their lives into battle. The US tank group suddenly seemed to have entered a furnace and a steel crusher. The anti-tank guns of the Nanjing Army continued to burst With a roar of thunder, the Leopard tank continuously spewed out flaming fire dragons, and the iron fist warheads swished like arrows off the string and shot at the U.S. tanks continuously. The molten iron danced and splashed wildly. Facing the well-prepared Nanjing Army, the "steel attack" of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division fell apart in an instant. The U.S. tanks that were shot exploded, caught fire, burned, disintegrated, and paralyzed one after another. , The aggressive offensive turned into chaos and collapse.

"Let go!" Eighty-eight guns roared angrily, and the American tank hit by the shell exploded violently like a gunpowder barrel. Countless steel fragments roaring and flying in all directions killed the American infantry advancing behind the tank bloody, and fell down in a large swath. The armored soldiers in the tank almost died, or were killed in the explosion. The tanks were blown into pieces together, or were thrown into the air incompletely in the blast wave. The bloody heads bounced and rolled, and the severed limbs were scattered all over the ground.

"Let go!" the Leopard tank roared unstoppably, and started a steel-to-hand combat with the American tank. The two sides fired at each other fiercely. Hitting a dent on it and then being bounced off, the Leopard shell pierced firmly and exploded the US tank. The shell directly broke through the armor of the US tank and exploded inside the tank. In the thunderbolt flames, the tank was blown up. It became a fragmented metal tortoise, with fire and thick smoke jetting out and rising from the cracks and gaps, and the American armored soldiers inside were either blown into a cloud of flesh and blood that splashed and bloomed in the tank, or were shaken so that their internal organs ruptured and their seven orifices burst. Bleeding to death, or crawling out of the tank covered in flames, screaming heart-piercingly, jumping to the ground and rolling desperately, being burned into a scorched corpse with limbs curled up and facial features smashed.

"Let it go!" The anti-tank soldiers of the Nanjing Army kept shouting, beams of flames whizzed away from their shoulders, and the American tanks hit by the iron fist bullets burst into flames. Penetrates enemy tank armor like an anti-tank shell or tank shell, but sets the enemy tank on fire like a Molotov cocktail and is much more effective.

The U.S. tank that was blown into a ball of fire by the iron fist was immediately paralyzed to the ground, followed by howling ghosts and wolves in pain, and the U.S. armored soldiers covered in green smoke desperately climbed out of the tank, their uniforms, hair, and eyebrows were all burning, and their skin was burned Melting like a candle, screaming and rolling on the ground, in fact, even if the fire on his body was extinguished, he would die of extensive burns and severe infection from the burns.

The U.S. armored soldiers looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief. They saw those wolves and tigers in the east, like the rising tide of the sea, constantly churning and surging, roaring, running, and jumping, with means Skilled, tactically excellent, and tacitly cooperated to attack and kill them.

In the group of U.S. tanks, Patton was leaning out of one of them and watching through the binoculars. He saw scenes that shocked him one after another: a group of Chinese soldiers was rushing towards a U.S. tank. The tanks kept moving and firing, but those Chinese soldiers didn't care about the death that would come at any time. They fought with a clear division of labor, stuffing grenades under the tank tracks, and when the tank couldn't move, they jumped into the tank like leopards On the ground, a grenade was stuffed into the hatch of the tank; a group of Chinese soldiers was bombarding the US tank with iron fists, and the US tank was driving towards them. They were calm and composed, not afraid at all, let alone escaped. Launched a confrontation with the US tanks at a distance.

"My God!" Barton felt his nerves, which he had always thought to be as strong as a steel wire, tremble slightly, "These Chinese..."

The fierce fighting, which lasted for half an hour, caused the 2nd Armored Division of the U.S. Army to collapse completely. The tanks and armored vehicles owned by the division were destroyed to pieces. Patton followed MacArthur's instructions, "Go all out" To fight on the ground, all the tanks and armored vehicles were pushed up. Unexpectedly, the anti-tank firepower and anti-tank capabilities of the Nanjing Army far exceeded the expectations of the US military. The anti-tank rocket launcher fired ten thousand arrows, and the bullets flew like rain. It defeated the 2nd Armored Division like a storm, so fast that the 2nd Armored Division had no chance to turn around and retreat. Most of the tanks, armored vehicles and A larger number of cars turned into scrap iron fireballs scattered on the ground beyond recognition. More than a thousand American soldiers were killed or injured. The wreckage of the tank burned quietly.

Barton suppressed the shock and pain in his heart, and tried his best to contact MacArthur: "The battle failed! The enemy has long been prepared, and the anti-tank firepower is very strong. The Second Armored Division has been defeated! It must retreat! Please stop the battle immediately! Let the The infantry retreat immediately!"

The war situation is no longer under the control of the US military.

"Kill!" Amid earth-shattering Chinese shouts of killing, more than 74 officers and soldiers from the 11th Brigade of the Nanjing Army and the [-]th Marine Brigade of the Navy launched an overwhelming counterattack.

Under the bright moonlight, the mountains and plains on the three beaches of Lingayen Bay are covered with bayonet light spots like the Milky Way. The various positions and lines of defense of the Nanjing Army hurricanely burst out a dazzling storm of bullets and fire. Amidst the screams, they continued to fall down, and the bloody rain spread crazily. The U.S. soldiers who had been shot were twitched and fell down one after another in the red cloud-like blood mist like an electric shock. Hundreds of mg-34s emitted deafening sounds. The sharp hissing that frightened the souls of the US troops continued to drown pieces of US troops in pools of blood and screams.

"This is not a battle at all! This is a massacre!" Li Qiwei watched this scene with a heartbroken heart. The tank unit that opened the way for the infantry unit was quickly defeated by the opponent, causing the infantry unit following the tank unit to be completely exposed to the opponent's early warning. In front of the defensive machine gun firepower net, a storm of bullets slaughtered the American infantry who were leaning up side by side, falling down piece by piece like a wheat field swept by a tornado. "Retreat immediately!" Li Qiwei did not ask MacArthur for instructions. Directly giving orders to the troops, he knew that time was imminent. If he asked MacArthur for instructions, MacArthur would conduct research, consider, discuss, etc., and he did not know how long it would take. American troops were killed.

Li Qiwei could see clearly that his soldiers rushed into the enemy's firepower network in a daze, panic, and involuntarily, and then their bodies collapsed like smashed tomato sauce cans, and were crushed. The U.S. military who was hit on the head by the bullet immediately had his head burst and his brains splattered. Incomplete U.S. troops were scattered everywhere in front of the opponent's line of defense, blood flowed like rivers, and there were still many wounded U.S. soldiers who were not dead in the piles of dead people and pools of blood, screaming and wailing in despair, fear, and unbearable pain. Shouting and shouting, the English screams converged into an overwhelming sound that made other US troops shudder, breaking down the morale and fighting spirit of the US military.

Chinese soldiers are used to these shockingly tragic battlefield scenes. Japanese soldiers, German soldiers, Soviet soldiers, and British soldiers are all familiar with it. Only American soldiers have never seen it. They are commonplace, but the officers and soldiers of the US military are terrified. Many US troops are stunned because they have not "seen blood" for many years.

"Retreat! Retreat immediately!" Li Qiwei desperately shouted an order.

Frightened by the death and blood, the American officers and soldiers had already turned around and ran back, many of them turned pale and yelled. After hearing Li Qiwei's order, the last sliver of faith in the U.S. military to persevere was completely lost The ashes were wiped out, and the U.S. troops who had rushed to the beach turned into fleeing from the beach in a mighty way, and then there was chaos. The U.S. troops behind were still advancing, and the U.S. troops in front were desperately running backwards. The two sides collided and pushed each other. Crowding and trampling on each other, coupled with the fact that it was night and the visibility was not high, further made the chaos of the US military uncontrollable, and the order and organization were completely lost.

"Come on!" Zhang Lingfu was overjoyed seeing the chaos of the U.S. military, and gave the order for the entire attack.

More than 3 Chinese soldiers are like a tsunami and torrents, rushing towards the defeated U.S. army in extreme chaos. At this time, there are more than 5 U.S. troops, and there are more than [-] Filipino troops behind the U.S. military.” The number of Chinese troops is only half of that of the U.S. Army, and less than one-fifth of that of the U.S.-Philippines. However, the situation of the battle has completely turned to the Chinese army. The U.S.-Philippines army is completely defeated. Hole, destroyed.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Behind the U.S. soldiers scrambling around, the sound of killing in Chinese echoed endlessly, and the Chinese soldiers pursued the U.S. troops like a tiger.

More and more U.S. troops began to give up fleeing and surrendered in droves. All over the mountains and plains, the terrified and trembling U.S. troops raised their weapons and looked at the Chinese soldiers chasing them with terrified blue eyes. Chinese soldiers continued to capture an increasing number of prisoners.

The 74th Division fought against the U.S. Army for the first time. The officers and soldiers of the division were surprised to find that the U.S. soldiers were indeed very different from the Japanese and Soviet soldiers they had fought against before. The U.S. soldiers after the surrender were very honest. He was even more cooperative, simply "spineless", and even thought that it was only right for him to be treated, and would take the initiative to ask for treatment, saying "please! help! hellpme!" in his mouth miserably. When the medical soldiers treated the wounded US soldiers, the wounded US soldiers were very polite and kept saying "thank you".

The Nanjing Army chasing the U.S. troops kept taking prisoners, and more of them were prisoners of the Philippine Army than the U.S. prisoners.

After the U.S. military suffered a crushing defeat, the Filipino troops behind had no guts to participate in the battle. Seeing the Chinese soldiers rushing in like a mudslide, the Filipino soldiers who had never seen such a posture were all frightened out of their wits. Run away together.

The Philippine army was completely frightened and ran around in a swarm. Most of the soldiers even dropped their rifles in fright and ran for their lives. When they couldn't run, they raised their hands and surrendered like the American army.

However, the Nanjing army was too lazy to capture the Philippine army, because the Nanjing army had limited hands and did not have enough manpower to capture the prisoners. The Philippine army prisoners were "worthless" and not worth the Nanjing army's capture. Therefore, when encountering the surrendered Philippine army, the Nanjing army just took them away. their weapons, and then let them "roll where they come from and get out of the way".

The 2nd, 7th, and 42nd Divisions of the U.S. Army were all defeated in this battle.

Li Qiwei concluded afterwards: "The main reason for this defeat is that we misjudged the enemy's situation and seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.

Our soldiers will only lie in the trenches and fire according to the shooting regulations in the infantry textbooks, but the Chinese soldiers can run and charge while avoiding our soldiers' bullets while firing at our soldiers, even when they are moving fast. Their marksmanship is terribly accurate, and it is simply "no misses, and the shots fall down". I saw such a scene with my own eyes. One of our soldiers hid behind a tree and stood motionless with a Chinese who was jumping and running. Soldiers fired at each other, and the duel ended with our soldiers being shot and killed.

The marksmanship practiced by Chinese soldiers through actual combat far surpasses the marksmanship we have trained on the training ground, and their soldiers are also extremely strong and stable in terms of psychology. Fear and fear, concentrating on fighting, while our soldiers are frightened and flustered in the battle center. Chinese soldiers are very cooperative with each other, and different arms cooperate very closely, such as artillery and infantry. After the artillery shells fall, the infantry has already Rushing to the vicinity of the bombing point, there was no time for the opponent to react.

Chinese soldiers have the advantages of being smart, tenacious, flexible, fearful of death, and rich in actual combat experience, while our soldiers are clumsy, dull, timid, flustered, greedy for life and afraid of death.

Our battle with the Chinese army is simply a battle between a group of recruits who have just finished their military training and a group of veterans who have just come off the battlefield!"

The battle lasted until dawn and did not end. After dawn, hundreds of Japanese planes flew in to help and violently bombed the U.S. troops. Raised their hands to surrender in exhaustion or collapsed to the ground and then captured. It lasted until the night of April 4th. More than 6 U.S. troops were injured, and more than 6000 U.S. troops were captured. As for the casualties of the Philippine army, the Nanjing Army did not count, because they didn't care. In fact, the U.S. military didn't care much about the life and death of the Philippine army.

After this battle, most of the U.S. troops on the Philippine battlefield were destroyed by the Nanjing Army.