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The reason for this is to strengthen the opposition between Japan and the United States. If you know, you will get involved. The number of people who die is limited, but the army is different. At least hundreds of thousands of people participate in a battle, and the casualties must be calculated in tens of thousands. Moreover, the Japanese have always been very poor. If the Japanese have the upper hand, the Japanese will definitely carry out some massacres.

This will force the United States and Japan to a state of perseverance, and at the same time, those who plead for the Japanese will see what kind of beasts the Japanese are and whether they are worth saving. When they think of the Japanese, Zhao Gang was so angry that he began to ravage the woman who stood up.

The woman's name is Masako, and was sent by the Japanese Emperor. Zhao Gang was disrespectful and generously accepted it. This time, the Japanese Emperor sent a total of 500 women, almost all the daughters of high-ranking officials. It means that he completely obeyed the leaders of China and even sent his own daughters as slaves and servants, with a terrifyingly low attitude.

In fact, since the Japanese were defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the Japanese have begun to use women to generate income. Generally speaking, there are two ways for Japanese to export women to their own countries. One is to sell them in China and the other is to sell them in individuals. The country sells them with national administrative power to collect women and then send them to China. In return, China will relax a little, allowing Japan to gain some benefits. For example, this time the joint fleet harassed the US Dabai Fleet. Although China's own strategic intentions are China's own, the five hundred Japanese women also played a certain role.

As the situation was stalemate, Zhao Gang was very happy to see that the Japanese occupied the initiative on land, compressing the United States to twenty-two states in the east, and he occupied twenty-six states in the central and western regions. Of course, although the Japanese occupied the territory, over time, the Japanese lack of land resources would show that the Americans still had a way to reverse the decline.

According to information, as long as you delay for another month or two, a large-scale battle between Japan and the United States will break out, and the number of all participants will reach 1.5 million. And most of them are armored troops. After this battle, Japan and the United States will definitely suffer losses, which is also a situation that Zhao Gang is happy to see.

So despite Roosevelt's stern voice and threatening China not to join the battle to regain the United States' territory, China still ignored it. The United Fleet hung the Great White Fleet all day long, and the officers and soldiers on the Great White Fleet were almost tortured to madness. Every day, members of the battleship jumped into the sea because of this pressure. It was not until the Battle of St. Louis that the Great White Fleet broke out from this hellish torture. It was able to block the west coast of the United States, and Japan's supplies were cut off, and the momentum was slowly reversed by the Americans.

The Battle of St. Louis can be said to be the turning point of the Japanese-US war. It is a big city in eastern Missouri, St. Louis. It is located on the banks of the middle reaches of the Mississippi River, the longest in the United States. The center of the mainland of the United States is located in the geometric center of the United States, and has important strategic significance in geographical location. The economic development of the United States was promoted from the eastern Atlantic coast to the vast desolate areas in the west. European colonists and later lands also continued to flow from here to the western region. American geographers usually call this place a gateway for moving westward.

Historically, St. Louis was the Indian fur trading market port and the largest cattle market in the United States, and later developed into the center of the American leather shoe industry. In 1764, French adventurer and merchant Peelle came from New Orleans to the confluence of St. Louis and the Missouri River. At that time, the French Empire was declining. With the desire to break away from the control of British colonists to establish the last French-style city, he established the prototype of the early urban form on the west bank of the Mississippi River. In order to commemorate the French King St. Louis IX, the place was named St. Louis. From 1800 years later, St. Louis showed initial prosperity and development to develop into a medium city with a population of more than 161,000, which was the 11th largest city in the United States at that time.

After the Civil War, due to the construction of railways, rapid development of transportation and industry and commerce, the city of St. Louis became a hub for water and land transportation and an important base for development to the western region. The city of St. Louis was vast in economic hinterland, with excellent transportation and water conditions. The nearby areas were rich in natural resources such as coal, iron, limestone and non-ferrous metals, providing extremely favorable conditions for the development of modern industry. The St. Louis metropolitan area has more than 3,000 industrial enterprises: one of the districts. Therefore, diversification, specialization and modernization are the most prominent features of St. Louis industry. The automobile manufacturing industry once took the lead in the country.

If Japan takes St. Louis, it can divide the United States into two sections, north and south, and then encircle them separately. Whether it is to obtain the northeast with developed industries or the southeast with rich oil resources, it can do whatever it wants. Once the United States loses St. Louis, it will be in an extremely unfavorable position. The north and south cannot echo and are defeated one by one by the Japanese.

In order to capture St. Louis, the Japanese gathered 800,000 troops and 8,000 tanks, which were almost half of Japan's most elite troops. The Japanese General Staff Headquarters said with confidence: "Taking St. Louis within three days will bring glory to the Emperor!" In order to defend St. Louis, the United States also hurriedly mobilized four armies, more than 900,000 people, as well as a large number of tanks, aircraft, artillery and other supplies.

October 1914

The Sixteenth Division forced the Mississippi River to start the bloody battle of St. Louis

The Battle of St. Louis was a key battle in the US-Japan War. It was a battle carried out by the US military to defend St. Louis and crush the Japanese group in that direction. This battle began on July 17, 1942, and on 22, 1943, the Imperial Battle and the Offensive Battle.

In response to the Japanese attempt, the U.S. Supreme Command formed the First, Second and Third Front Army of St. Louis, and started the Battle of St. Louis on July 17. The U.S. troops carried out two defensive operations at the approaching ground to St. Louis and the city of St. Louis and south of and lasted for a total of 155 days.

The basic strength of the St. Louis Front was concentrated in the Great Bend of the Mississippi River. The Sixty-second and Sixty-fourth Army defended the Japanese army along the nearest road to St. Louis.

Starting from July 17, the 62nd and 64th Army of the US Army fought fiercely with the 6th Army of the Japanese Army, and began the battle for the main defense areas of the Front. The Japanese army attempted to attack the two wings of the US military on the bending of the Mississippi River and encircle them. From the west to St. Louis. The tenacious defense and counterattack of the US army broke the Japanese army's attempt and delayed the Japanese attack.

Before 810, the US troops retreated to the east bank of the Mississippi River and blocked the Japanese army's advancement on the outer layer of St. Louis. In the southwest of St. Louis, the Japanese tank 4th Army also carried out assaults, but was stubbornly resisted by the US troops. It was forced to temporarily move into defense. By 8 days ago, it was also blocked in the southern part of the outer layer of defense. In order to facilitate command, the St. Louis Front Army was divided into two fronts, St. Louis and Southeast.

Starting from the 819th, the Japanese army launched another attack, carrying out centripetal assaults from the west and southwest to capture St. Louis, and dispatched thousands of tanks to conduct intensive assaults on the city. Part of the Japanese army's forces approached the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, attempting to carry out assaults along the Mississippi River from the north to capture the city. The US troops retreated to the northwest direction carried out counterattacks from north to south. This part of the Japanese army was blocked in the northwest suburbs.

The Supreme Command of the US Army mobilized two armies from its strategic reserves, and together with part of the US military's forces in the St. Louis area, carried out a series of assaults against the Japanese army entering the Mississippi River, forcing most of the Japanese Sixth Army to the north, greatly weakening its assault on St. Louis. In September,

Near the south of St. Louis, the Japanese Tank Fourth Army fought fiercely with the US military. The Japanese army broke through the defense and posed a threat to the rear of the 64th and 62nd Army of the US military. The two armies were ordered to retreat to the inner defense encirclement. The fierce battle here lasted until 912. At this point, the Japanese Command launched a simultaneous attack with the Sixth Army and the Fourth Tank Army, and the plan to seize St. Louis from the procession went bankrupt.

When the Japanese army approached the city from the west and southwest, the 62nd and 64th Army of the US defending St. Louis launched fierce battles with the Japanese army. From September 13 to 26, the Japanese army repeatedly launched attacks on the 62nd Army's corps in the city center, and the ties between the 62nd Army and the 64th Army were cut off. The Japanese army launched a second strong attack on the Red October village and began a battle and street fighting.

On the 28th, the St. Louis Front was renamed the Mississippi River Front. The Southeast Front was renamed the St. Louis Front. In mid-10s, the Japanese army attempted to capture St. Louis for the third time and launched an assault on several large factories in the suburbs. The Japanese army captured the tractor factory and approached the Mississippi River on a 2.5-kilometer-wide area.

The situation of the US 62nd Army was extremely complicated. The battle began to be held on every street, every house, and every inch of land. At this time, in order to aid the St. Louis defenders, the Mississippi River Front carried out continuous counterattacks north of the city. The 64th Army carried out counterattacks from the south to the flank of the Japanese offensive forces.

The counterattacks of the Mississippi River Front and the Sixty-Fourth Army alleviated the pressure on the Sixty-Second Army. On November 11, when the US military was fully prepared for a counterattack, although the Japanese had entered the seven central districts of the city, the last strong attack still failed to occupy the entire city. Through fierce battles between St. Louis and the city, the Japanese army's offensive power was exhausted.

The Supreme Command of the US Army formulated a counterattack plan for the St. Louis during the defensive battle. The battle was jointly implemented by the Southwest Front, the St. Louis Front and the Mississippi River Front. The strategic offensive battle to crush the Japanese army in the St. Louis area consists of three stages: encircling the Japanese army group; developing offensives and crushing the Japanese army's attempt to rescue the besieged groups; annihilated the besieged Japanese army group.

On November 19, after fierce artillery fire preparations, the attack was launched, opening the prelude to the counterattack. The next day, the St. Louis Front began to attack. After two days of fighting, all the U.S. fronts broke through the Japanese defense, and the Tank Army and the Mechanized Army were given the opportunity to attack the ground in depth of the battle.

On the 23rd, the Fourth Army of the Southwest Front Tank Army and the St. Louis Front mechanized the Sixth Army of the Japanese Army in the middle of the Mississippi River and the Mississippi River.

A unit of the Fourth Army had a total encirclement of 330,000 people. The Southwest Front Army gradually compressed the encirclement and established frontal external fortifications to ensure the smooth elimination of the besieged enemies.

In order to rescue the besieged Japanese troops, the Japanese commander established a "Mississippi River" army group. The commander of the group originally planned to establish two assault groups to rescue the besieged Japanese troops. However, he had a premonition that the Japanese army would perish near St. Louis. He urged the commander to launch an attack without waiting for the troops to be concentrated. The Japanese army group launched an attack on the 12th US troops along the subway to St. Louis, but the progress was slow and he was forced to turn into defense.

On the 24th, the US military launched a resolute attack on the Japanese Kotelinikovo Group and the ball. On the 16th, the Southwest Front and its subordinate troops launched an attack, smashing the Japanese army in the middle of the Mississippi River and advancing to the rear of the Japanese offensive group. In order to stop the rapid breakthrough of the Southwest Front, the Japanese Command was forced to exhaust the reserves used to attack St. Louis. This attack forced the Japanese Supreme Command to finally give up the attempt to rescue the Japanese army surrounded in St. Louis.

In early January 1915, the Japanese army compressed into the encirclement deteriorated sharply and there was no hope of any solution. In order to stop bleeding, the Supreme Command of the US Army ordered the leaders of the Mississippi River Front to issue an ultimatum to the Japanese Sixth Army, asking the Japanese army to surrender according to customary conditions, but was rejected by the Japanese army.

On the 10th, the Mississippi Front began to divide and eliminate each of them, and the Japanese army was divided into two parts. The Japanese army was destroyed in the south of the Japanese army, and the remnants led by the commander of the Sixth Army surrendered. On February 2, the remnants of the northern army surrendered. The Battle of St. Louis ended. The US army wiped out about 120 of the total Japanese army. The Japanese army was in a slump after this battle and lost the ability to take the initiative to attack.

People all over the world are paying attention to this war. When the war started, most people believed that the United States would be defeated, and Britain, France and Russia even began to recruit soldiers. They were unable to save the Americans. However, Chinese President Zhao Gang pointed out very clearly that "Japan will be defeated" and creatively proposed "On the protracted war!"

After the war, although Americans were hostile to the Chinese, they were far less than the Japanese. Americans were hostile to the Chinese and found some respect. This had something to do with Zhao Gang's "On Protracted War!". At that time, when the Japanese were in full swing, Americans were generally afraid of the powerful force of the Japanese, and some even advocated cede land and pay compensation, which concealed the Japanese's legitimate demands.

After the end of the Japanese-US War, the Americans conducted statistics. In just two years of war, the death toll of Americans reached 7.5 million, and the death toll of civilians reached 6 million. Wherever the Japanese went, hell was in the concrete image of the earth, burning, killing, looting and doing everything. Moreover, with the continuous failure in the late war, the Japanese destroyed everything. The rich Midwest of the United States has been in a slump since then and can never recover to the 1900s.

This is the real purpose of Zhao Gang's proposal of "On Protracted War!". When he realized that Britain, France and Russia were about to intervene in the war between the United States and Japan, he knew that Japan would fail quickly. In order to save Japan's fate of rapid failure, Zhao Gang put forward this argument, which was a good result. The Japanese dispersed after the defeat of the battle and carried out guerrilla warfare with American civilians as the target. Although this also led to a large number of deaths of the Japanese, it also hit the United States, the most powerful enemy in China in the future.

These things are so hidden that Americans began to express their gratitude to the Chinese. They did not expect that the initiator of all this was China. Without China, the Japanese would not be powerful, without China, the Japanese would not travel east, without China, the United States would not be so declining, without China, Americans could even reach out to the Philippines!

All of this was blinded by Zhao Gang's "good intention" proposal, but Zhao Gang was not ashamed. What he had done was what the United States did to China. He did this by himself just to take the initiative. In the original time and space, how did the United States deliberately weaken China, and then gradually support Japan and indulge Japan. Finally, when all the dust fell, he would find that the biggest winner was not someone else, but this American Uncle Sam who was justice and brave. Japan was crippled by Uncle Sam, and China was beaten to death by Japan. No wonder such a method turned into the world's biggest overlord!

China is now moving in this direction and striving to reach the throne of world hegemony!

Although the United States won the war, its losses were also huge. The Japanese still did not surrender until the year. A large number of soldiers trained to pieces and fought against the US military in the vast countryside. The United States' national strength was consumed a lot, which made the American president, who refused to seek peace in the Japanese emperor, regretted it:
Chapter completed!