Nan yun Junichi, a Japanese admiral (posthumously), was the front-line commander of the attack on the US naval base Pearl Harbor, in the early stages of the Pacific War, he first severely damaged the US Pacific Fleet, and then defeated the British Royal Navy stationed in the Indian Ocean, and was a "very prestigious" admiral in Japan at that time. After the Battle of Midway, due to intelligence leaks, The South Cloud Zhong's unit was completely lost, and he was finally dismissed and sent back to the reserve, and was not reinstated until the end of the Pacific War, when he became the commander of the Mariana Islands forces and was responsible for garrisoning Saipan. On July 6, 1944, as the commander-in-chief, Nanun Junichi chose to commit suicide on Saipan, so what kind of a big war occurred on Saipan that year, so that the Japanese "famous general" would be so pessimistic that he finally chose to end his life in this way.
Saipan, in the early years, was the "occupied land" of Spain, and then the Spanish-American War broke out, Spain was defeated, and had to be forced to cede this land to the United States. After the outbreak of World War II, Japan snatched the island from the United States and sent troops and civilians to garrison and reclaim it so that it could be used as a communication line to block the US military in the future. In September 1943, Italy announced its surrender, the fascist triangle axis collapsed, leaving only Japan and Germany to stubbornly resist, shortly after Italy's surrender, Japan urgently convened a royal conference, decided to adjust the strategic policy, to strengthen cooperation with Germany externally, internally it fully turned into a defensive state, in the Pacific many small islands to build fortifications, but the number of small islands in the Pacific is too much, the Japanese army does not have the strength and ability to defend one by one, So the Japanese base camp decided: choose the most important stronghold for defense, concentrate forces to build the so-called "absolute defense circle", and Saipan is the center of this "circle".
After establishing the strategic policy, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo assured the Emperor that he would never lose Saipan and issued an order to complete the defense of the entire Island of Saipan by the end of 1944. However, while the Japanese and civilians on the island were busy building permanent fortifications, the Americans began to "wait", and they magically arrived near Saipan in early 1944 using island-hopping tactics. In the face of the "rapid advance" of the US army, Hideki Tojo also began to panic, he even sent troops to aid Saipan, but the US submarines have been waiting for a long time on the only way for their reinforcements, as a result, when these transport ships carrying soldiers arrived at the open sea of Saipan, the US submarine launched a surprise attack, causing tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers and a large number of equipment and supplies to sink to the bottom of the sea, but even so, there were still a large number of Japanese soldiers luckily landed on the shore, but this "good luck" But they were not taken care of in the later Battle of Saipan.
The Japanese immediately began to build fortifications after landing, but they arrived only twenty days earlier than the large American troops, and due to the lack of heavy equipment, the positions they built were extremely rudimentary and could not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment of the American fleet, but even so, Hideki Tojo ordered them to hold Saipan. After the war broke out, the U.S. army first raided the Japanese airfield on Saipan Island, successfully annihilating the air power of Minamiun Junichi, and then shelled the Japanese Army's positions, destroying most of the ground fortifications on the island. Seeing that the superiority of aircraft and position artillery was gone, Nanyun Tadaichi could only pin his hopes on the army, although in the Japanese military circles at that time, the army and the navy had always been "full of contradictions", but at the moment of this great enemy, they could only unite sincerely and jointly resist the enemy, and although the commander of the army, Saito Yoshiji, was a lieutenant general in the rank of Nanyun Tadaichi, he did not show great confidence in the face of the outstanding nanyun Tadaichi, and often obeyed his orders.
After the landing battle began, Nanyun Zhongyi once again used the "surprise attack" tactic used in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor to catch the US troops off guard, which instantly caused thousands of casualties to the US troops, forcing them to be blocked in the first round of attack, and finally had to withdraw the fleet. After the "good news" reached Tokyo, Hideki Tojo happily told the Japanese Emperor that the Army would certainly be able to hold Saipan, but it did not take long for the Japanese to be happy, and the US army organized a second round of attack, and in this "counterattack war", in addition to the assistance of warships and aircraft, the US troops in the front of the charge were also fully prepared, and compared with the simple trenches of the Japanese army at the beachhead, this was not an opponent at the "strength level" at all, and soon, this round of attack achieved a lot of results. That night, the Japanese Army, which knew that it was not an opponent of the US Army, decided to adopt the "night sneak attack tactic" and prepared to take advantage of the dark night to raid the US Army, but when they shouted and rushed to the US Army, thousands of flares suddenly exploded in the sky, instantly illuminating the entire battlefield, and the Japanese death squads that became live targets finally ended up with a total annihilation.
When the news of the army's failed sneak attack reached the ears of Nanyun Tadaichi, he was very angry, and for this reason he scolded Saito Yoshiji, who was the same level as himself, but at this point, their troops were already stretched to the limit, and they could not fight with the American army, so they had to retreat to the mountains. Soon, the U.S. army surrounded the remnants of the regiment and cut off their water supply, and on the Japanese side, in order to reduce consumption, many Japanese wounded soldiers chose to commit suicide, and it was during this time period that the Japanese people on Saipan also chose to commit suicide, because the cruel Japanese army had brainwashed them before the war: "If you surrender, the American army will tie them all together and then crush them to death with trucks." It is also under the threat of such "lies" that the ordinary people on Saipan are very afraid, and in order to avoid being "slaughtered", they have to choose to end their lives by jumping off cliffs and throwing water.
At the end of the Saipan Campaign, the desperate Japanese army launched a "long live charge", never seen this kind of "no life to fight" The US army was instantly panicked, for a time, the entire battlefield was full of "shouting and killing", and soon after the Japanese charge, Nanyun Tadaichi and Saito Yoshiji both committed suicide, and in Saito's last telegram, he wrote such a paragraph: All the officers and men of our army hate jade, but we do not hate the US army, we will always hate the Japanese Navy. As a result, when the Army received the telegram, they did not reflect on their mistakes, but instead made solemn representations with the Navy, as if all this was the responsibility of the Japanese Navy, and the Navy was also very confused about it, and did not know what it was, and later after discussion, everyone roughly guessed the meaning of Saito's article: It may be that the Navy did not behave well in this battle!
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