Compared with the Japanese Army, which was subjected to a sudden attack, the reaction of the Japanese aviation troops was indeed fast. In order to support the Battle of Ryukyu, the Japanese army concentrated a large number of aviation forces in the Kyushu area and have not dispersed until now. This saved the trouble of assembly and naturally mobilized quickly and conveniently.

When the Japanese base camp learned that the Qiong Army had landed, it immediately issued orders to various aviation troops in the Kyushu area and began to organize an air counterattack.

The Japanese who were actually landing at their doorstep were furious as if they were lit with their tails and acted quite resolutely. On the afternoon of the day when the Qiong Army landed, they dispatched the first attack formation of 378 various aircraft to fly to Seed Island to attack the Qiong Army landing troops, which were cleaning the remaining Japanese troops in Seed Island.

It is obviously too difficult for the ground troops to deal with such a large number of aircraft groups alone without air force. The Japanese air strikes will cause huge casualties to the Qiong Army's ground troops. However, the counterattack of the Japanese aviation force has long been considered by Chen Xuchu in the combat plan, and it was an expected reaction, and Chen Xuchu made a response to this.

Chen Xuchu's main fleet, who had previously sneaked into Sasebo, was too lazy to check the results after launching two rounds of attacks, so he turned around and left. He turned the bow of the ship to Seed Island before noon. At full speed, he finally joined the fleet of two aircraft carriers in Seed Island at 1:23 pm and began to provide air cover and support for the landing troops. After the carrier-based radar detected the situation of the Japanese aircraft group, a large number of Fw-190 carrier-based fighters carried by the Qiongya Navy aircraft carrier immediately took off for interception.

The naval aviation soldiers in Qiongya had already exclaimed their true anger in the battle of the Ryukyu Islands, especially this group of pilots were filled with pilots who were swept from the four sunken left-behind fleet aircraft carriers, and they had nowhere to vent their anger. How could they let go of such a large-scale Japanese aviation force?

In contrast, the Japanese aviation troops in the Kyushu area at this time were all troops who were under rest and resting in the Battle of Ryukyu. As for those troops that were still combat-capturing, they were all transferred to the front-line airports of the remaining Ryukyu islands such as Amami Oshima to delay the Qiong Army's island capture process. But unexpectedly, this arrangement has allowed the Qiong Army to take advantage of the loopholes and hit their weaknesses all at once.

The fierce air confrontation continued until the evening. Although the Japanese aviation formations that rushed to attack were huge, they were filled with a large number of old aircraft, and many reconnaissance seaplanes were even forced to be used to carry out bombing missions. These temporary pieces of troops were not only equipped with miscellaneous equipment, but also had poor quality of pilots. Most of them were rookies who had just added to the army.

The Japanese aviation troops were not as good as the Qiong Army, neither personnel nor equipment, and they were able to gain any advantage in the battle with the elite naval aviation troops of the Qiong Army. They could only watch the Qiong Army's ground troops rush forward with the assault action of the tank cluster, completely observing the defense of the Seed Island Japanese army as nothing, allowing the tanks to suddenly break through the semi-finished fortifications that had not yet been built, and the overall situation of Seed Island was determined in just one day.

On the night when the Qiong Army landed on Seed Island, Emperor Hirohito held another meeting to discuss countermeasures. He was beaten off guard and almost messed up all the previous combat plans. So it was a routine program. Just as the meeting began, the Minister of Army Minister Sugiyama Moto and Nagano Cultivation had a fierce quarrel, accusing each other of the mistakes that led to the successful landing of the Qiong Army.

Army Minister Sugiyama Moto accused the Navy of not fulfilling his patrol obligations. He actually made the Qiong Army fleet touch the doorstep and did not find it. It was the navy's negligence that led to the Qiong Army appearing on Seed Island and Sasebo.

Regarding Sugiyama's accusation, Navy Minister Nagano Cultivation defended his argument that the next target of the Qiong Army must be other Ryukyu islands such as Amami Oshima, which are unanimously recognized by both the navy and the army. The previous stage's defense plan was also based on this judgment. The army recognized the focus of the surveillance of the navy and the army. Now they actually ran over and said that the navy is not. It is really nonsense.

The reason why the Qiong Army was able to escape reconnaissance is that they sailed within the escort range of the Qiongya Air Force most of the time. Their navy's reconnaissance planes would not go deep there for reconnaissance, and then used the night to use radar to avoid patrol ships in the waters near Japan. Only in the end can the raid be completed. This is not an action that their navy can block, and the navy should not be responsible.

Immediately afterwards, Navy Minister Nagano Cultivated, in turn accused the Army of neglecting to prevent such an important strategic point in Seed Island. Not only was the number of defensive troops but they were also recruits. It could almost be said that they would collapse in one battle. We must be fully responsible for the current poor situation in Seed Island!

In response, Army Minister Sugiyama Moto also argued that their army had issued an order to strengthen defense. It was just that because the order was issued too short, the Qiong Army attacked.

In the end, the two who were quarreling were at least stopped by Emperor Hirohito. After some reprimand, the meeting was brought back to the main topic. After a quarrel and discussion, the army and the navy finally came up with a plan under the mediation of Hirohito. People from the army and the navy realized that the fragmented attacks could not stop the Qiong army from operating on islands such as Seed Island. Only by concentrating enough troops could they regain the islands such as Seed Island in one go.

It takes time for the army to concentrate its forces, and it takes time for the navy to raise enough escort and transport ships. The deployment of the aviation troops also takes time. In addition, both the navy and the army believe that the frontal attack on the Qiong Army, which has air superiority, is irrational, so the final counterattack time was set for 4 days, but the specific time was not determined. If the meteorological department believes that there will be bad weather in the short term, then the plane will not be able to take off the air. The Qiong Army loses the opportunity to cover the air. If the weather is really good, you will not be able to wait for the bad weather in a short time. Then you can only take a risk to launch a night attack.

While the Japanese army was busy preparing for the big counterattack, the Qiong Army's troops on islands such as Seed Island were not idle either. Everyone on the island, even the chef, were using the tranquility before the storm to build a life-saving line in the future. Only the iron wall of defense can allow them to ultimately ensure control of Seed Island.

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"Hurry up, hurry up, move more quickly. There are three bunkers here to be installed!"

At the greeting of the non-commissioned officers, a group of shirtless Marine soldiers lit up their oily muscles, the workload was heavy, the weather was hot, and the humidity was still high, and after a while, almost all the soldiers were dressed in this style. Several people huffed and carried a steel plate sprayed with gray camouflage to a newly dug round pit. Then a quiet soldier took out a tape measure and measured it. After calculating on the notebook, he walked to six corners of the round pit and sprinkled lime powder. Then he directed several people to set up a manual drill bit to start drilling at the location marked with the lime powder.

After drilling the hole, several soldiers picked up a thick iron pillar placed next to it and inserted it into it. Then, using the six thick iron pillars as the axis, they installed the six camouflage armor plates that had just been lifted, thus forming the prototype of a simple steel hexagonal bunker.

After circling out the prototype with steel plates, the soldiers of Qiongya were busy adding gravel and cement to the gaps inserted into the ground to reinforce them. They piled sandbags on the outside of the armor plate to dig anti-grenade trenches to enhance the defense effect. Finally, adding a roof cover that was also assembled by multiple armor plates to the bunker was considered to be a complete task.

Although this simple bunker, which was specially produced for Seed Island landing war, is not high in armor thickness for easy installation and transportation, and is difficult to withstand the attack of large-caliber artillery, it is still stress-free if it is just small-caliber artillery and ordinary bullets. The most important thing is that the construction of this simple bunker is much simpler than that of traditional bunkers. As long as the movement is proficient, a squad of troops can build a simple bunker in one morning, and the speed is very fast.

In addition, although this kind of bunker is simple, its firepower configuration is absolutely not low. Each armor plate has two shooting holes, which allows the defenders to shoot from the bunker with their weapons. The top cover of each bunker has a turret race, and you can choose to install an assembled machine gun turret or mortar turret.

Up to now, the entire coastline of Seed Island is full of these simple hexagonal bunkers. And the number is still growing at a rate visible to the naked eye. Every day after the Japanese counterattack, four or five hundred simple hexagonal bunkers will be added on this small Seed Island, becoming a roadblock to land on the Japanese army and the Grim Reaper's Scythe.

Looking at the busy soldiers in front of him, Chen Xuchu couldn't help but smile with relief. This time the landing operation was proposed by him. He didn't want the Seed Island he finally got to take it back by the Japanese. In the end, the bamboo basket was empty. That would be very unbeautiful, so the more the defense facilities on the island were improved, the better Chen Xuchu's mood would be. Although their navy could stop some of the landing troops, the final battle would still be solved by the ground. These simple hexagonal bunkers in front of him could form a solid support point for the entire Seed Island defense line with tanks half buried underneath, which greatly improved Seed Island's defense ability.

In addition to the trenches being built and the hexagonal simple bunkers mixed with them, there are also a large number of engineer doors busy on the beach not far away, and they are laying dense wires on the originally empty beach.

This time, in order to prevent the Japanese from counterattacking, Roger spent a lot of money and transferred all the barbed wire in Qiongya to Chen Xuchu. He loaded the cargo ships that could not load them, and then spread them to the decks of each transport ship, such as each place where more cargo could be loaded, in order to install as much barbed wire as possible.

Such a large amount of barbed wire can also make these engineers squander. Now it is the third day of landing. The engineers have used barbed wire to surround the beach of Seed Island three times. From a bird's eye view, the originally mixed coastline of Seed Island has now turned into a gray and black, all covered with barbed wire. If it weren't for the limited time, the engineers would have wished to lay every inch of land on Seed Island on barbed wire, so that even if the Japanese landed, they would be unable to move forward.

Although these barbed wires were not carefully laid out in order to speed up the progress, they were just piled up on the beach in circles and then inserted some metal pillars as support, which was completely simple, but this is enough. At least in front of these dense barbed wires, the Japanese should not expect to be able to lie down on the beach. Every time they advance one meter, they must prepare wire cutters. Obviously, the trenches and bunkers a hundred meters away in front of these barbed wires will not allow the Japanese to deal with these barbed wires calmly.

Roger's idea was to lay out barbed wire on the beach, because he noticed that the Japanese did not seem to have the ability to transport tanks to land on the beach, and even there was no real special infantry landing craft, let alone tank landing craft. The legendary two-type internal fire boat that can be used for landing operations has not been developed yet, which means that the Japanese landing operations are almost certainly not supported by any armored forces!

In addition, Roger also did not think that Chen Xuchu's navy would allow the Japanese Navy to use artillery to support its landing troops without restraint, and the landing troops would obviously not have any heavy equipment. So, that is to say, the Japanese soldiers who were landing would have to rely on the light weapons they carried on to seize the positions of the Qiong Army.

For light infantry that lacks heavy weapons, the best defense is barbed wire! Roger wanted to have a one-war trench war with barbed wire and machine guns on the beach of Seed Island! Even if the barbed wire and trench bunker on the beach cannot completely eliminate the Japanese landing troops on the beach, it can at least greatly consume their living power and exhaust the Japanese's ability to continue attacking. Then, they only need to use their armored forces to launch a counterattack to regain their position.

This is a defensive plan that Roger thought he was satisfied with. If it were the Atlantic defense line arranged by the Germans during World War II, this kind of barbed wire defense was obviously far from enough. The powerful armored forces of the Allied forces could use crawlers to crush a way for the landing troops, and the powerful firepower at sea could also destroy these barbed wire. But now the opponent is the Japanese or the Japanese who were damaged by the navy, then the barbed wire has become a wall of iron in front of the Japanese. {Piaotian www.PiaoTian.com Thanks to all book friends for their support, your support is our greatest motivation}
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