810 The longest three days four
On the early morning of March 3, Tangshan, Nanjing, the Command Center of the Ministry of National Defense.
Chang Ruiqing stood beside him with his arms in his arms, watching Zhao Zhen, Wu Shi, Chen Shaokuan and others, as well as several senior staff members pointed to the giant sand table and discussed in a low voice, his thick eyebrows became tighter and tighter.
These days are probably the most critical time after the Greater East Asian Unification War began. Not only is the day when four marine divisions landed on the beach in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kitakyushu, but also a very large airborne battle that was said to be caught off guard by a Japanese Japanese off guard. The Nanyang Fleet, which had been patrolling the ocean near the Ryukyu Islands for several days, also found traces of the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Although no five Japanese main battleships were found, eight airlines were found.
The mothership (actually 10 ships) is also an extremely valuable target. If it can be sunk all, it will not only completely control the power of the East Ocean, but also reduce the troubles when conquering the South Ocean in the future. Through Yasuda, a big spy, Chang Ruiqing has long known that Takeda's deployment of anti-China. This person will not surrender like the Japanese emperor in history, but will lead the people of Japan and the South Ocean Islands to resist to the end. Even if he finally fled to India to establish a revolutionary and exile government, he would do whatever he could...
So it is best to stew the main force of the Japanese joint fleet in one pot, so as not to become part of the Indian Red Army in the future.
However, it is not easy to achieve this goal, because Japan under the leadership of Japan took the "large naval route", and more than 80% of the annual military expenditure is given to the navy. Their army is extremely simple. Since its defeat in North Korea in 1932, even armored soldiers have been cancelled. According to the information provided by the Sky Eye, the Japanese army now does not even have a tank available, and there is not enough number of cannons. Only the division level is equipped with a 36-organized artillery corps. The combat units below the division only have mortars at most. It is certain that they are not opponents of the Chinese Defense Army, which are well-equipped and have extremely rich combat experience. The only doubts in the battle on land now are the resistance of the Japanese people, not the combat power of their army.
However, the Japanese Navy is truly elite, with 5 new battlecruisers/battleships, 5 old battleships, 10 to 12 aircraft carriers, nearly 100 light and heavy cruisers and destroyers, and hundreds of submarines of various types and about 2,000 combat aircraft. If this opportunity cannot be used to damage them in one fell swoop, they will retreat to the South China Sea, even if they adopt harassment tactics, it will be enough for China to drink a lot.
More importantly, the prelude to the naval battle has begun, so it is inevitable that the winner will be decided, and the Chinese navy will have a certain chance of being defeated! In this way, even the battle to land in Japan will probably be affected. At that time, China can only use the atomic bomb that has just been manufactured and has not yet been tested!
Can atomic bombing be used to force arriving in Japan? Chang Ruiqing is not sure about this.
"Report, I received a telegram from the USS Zhongshan aircraft carrier. An hour ago, a special melee team composed of the Nanyang Fleet Battle Patrol Team, the First Cruiser Team, and the First Destroyer Team encountered the Japanese fleet about 200 nautical miles south of the Ryukyu Islands! The two sides immediately launched a fierce battle. Our battle cruiser, the USS Zhejiang battle cruiser, the USS Vladivostok, the USS Bangkok cruiser, and the USS Nanyang destroyer sank!
The three most superior cruisers in Japan (actually one of them is the Ligan class) were severely damaged (all of them were abandoned in the early morning of that day)....”
A naval lieutenant colonel rushed into the combat command center and loudly reported the battle report he had just received. The atmosphere in the combat room suddenly became solemn! One battle patrol, two air defense cruisers were severely injured, and one destroyer sank, which brought three Japanese heavy cruisers... It sounded like they had been defeated! It seemed that the Japanese joint fleet was really famous!
"How is the damage to the battle cruiser Zhejiang?" Navy Commander-in-Chief Chen Shaokuan hurriedly asked.
"A powerful torpedo was caught in the bow of the ship. The front section was almost completely destroyed and it would take at least 6 months to completely repair!"
The Zhejiang will not be able to go to the battlefield for six months! Not to mention the senior officers and staff members in the room, even Chang Ruiqing's face looked a little ugly.
"Commander Feng also said in the telegram that the Nanyang Fleet will fight to the death with the Japanese Joint Fleet after dawn today! The Nanyang Fleet has made up its mind to become loyal! "
"Are Feng Yundong angry?" Chang Ruiqing snorted coldly, and showed a hint of anger, saying to Chen Shaokuan: "Call back to Feng Yundong. Just say... I, Chang Ruiqing, wait for his good news! Tell him not to be afraid of losing the aircraft carrier. As long as it can annihilate the main force of the Japanese joint fleet, it will be nothing to sink a few aircraft carriers!"
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At the same time, on the aircraft carrier of the Flying Dragon, Takijiro Oshiki received a war report from Jisaburo Ozawa, and his eyebrows were tightly twisted.
"I actually lost three heavy patrols... In the end, the Red Army warriors could barely get back a little face! Unexpectedly, the violent navy was so powerful!"
"Commander, Ozawa Jun has achieved his goal." The Kuroshima Turtle took the battle report and looked carefully. He breathed a sigh of relief.
“Have you achieved the goal?”
"Yes," Kuroshima Turtle smiled slightly and explained: "Ozawa's battle report said that the Fierce Fleet first evacuated the battlefield, and Ozawa ordered the three heavy cruisers, including Kumano and Sanju, to give up the three heavy cruisers after the Fierce Fleet retreated. In other words, the Fierce Fleet did not know that we had lost three heavy cruisers, so they didn't know that they had won this naval battle tonight."
"So what?" Oshiki Takijiro glared at Kuroshima, the "Immortal Staff" who always likes to keep half of his words.
The Kuroshima Turtle shrugged and said with a smile: "Nothing is true... If I were the commander-in-chief of the Fierce Fleet, I must have wanted to win a game after dawn now, right? Since the beginning of the world war, the Fierce Fleet has been invincible on the battlefield! I don't think anyone wants to be the first Fierce General to defeat the Fierce Fleet?"
Indeed, the mentality of the countries participating in the war has indeed undergone subtle changes. Basically, the armies of China and Germany performed the best, so the generals and citizens of these two countries have long regarded winning battles as natural. The tolerance for failure is extremely low. The five countries including the United States, Britain, Japan, Jiangsu and India have suffered too many defeats, so no one takes the defeat seriously.
"Yaxi!" Takijiro Oshiki's face finally showed joy. His First Air Fleet's mission in this battle was to lure the enemy. What is most afraid of is that the enemy will not come to pursue. As for the loss of three heavy cruisers, it is not a problem at all. If the Japanese mainland falls, what is the point of the joint fleet even if it is intact? Will join the Greater China Federal Navy gloriously? Although Takijiro Oshiki has already obtained a Chinese passport, it is still impossible for him to work hard for Chinese imperialism...
At this time, the voice of the communication officer rang in Dashi's ears: "General, General, Commander Yamamoto, the Joint Fleet, Commander Yamamoto, asked us to lead the Fleet to the Philippine Islands at all costs."
Daxi received the telegram, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "Nanyun's Red Army warriors must be ready in the Philippine Islands... Call back to Commander Yamamoto. Even if all members of the First Air Fleet are broken, they will complete their mission!"
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Just as the decisive battle on the sea surface entered the sky, the raid in the air had just begun. Just a few hours after the dummy airdrop ended on the evening of March 2, nearly 1,000 ju.52 transport aircraft and hundreds of ju.88,he-111 bombers roared into the useless Japanese airspace. This time their target was the southern coastal area of Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Honshu, Japan.
According to information, this area is probably the most empty defense territory in the entire western part of Japan. Because it is close to the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, not the Sea of Japan or the Korean Strait. It is impossible for the landing troops of the fuku army to break through the tightly defended Guanmen Strait and run to the Seto Inland Sea coast to land. And everyone knows that the main target of the fuku army this time is Kitakyushu. Therefore, the best airborne location should be the eastern or southern part of Kyushu Island, so that they can cooperate with the landing fuku army. However, no one in the Japanese army would have thought that this ** team would have unexpectedly happened.
I don’t know if it was because of the fake airborne yesterday evening that led to the Japanese army in the southern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Now the roar of 2,000 planes was added together, but it did not attract much anti-aircraft artillery counterattack. Standing at the door of the already open cabin, Lieutenant Colonel Mao Yuanchang stretched out his neck and looked down. The flames below were sparse. It seemed that there was not much anti-aircraft artillery fire. Tonight’s raid was basically successful!
"You guys, Japan is right below us. Are you ready?" Mao Yuanchang shouted at the airborne soldiers who were fully armed in the plane in a fluent Yamaguchi Prefecture Tudi, who were wearing Japanese Red Army uniforms and holding the Type 38 rifle standard equipped by Japanese Red Army infantry.
The answer was actually Japanese!
Mao Yuanchang nodded with satisfaction and then said in Japanese: "Remember your current identities. You are officers and soldiers of the 56th Division of the Great Japanese Red Army and the 3rd Battalion of the 148th Regiment!"
"Hayi!"
Of course these people are not the Great Japanese Red Army, but the few of them were the Great Japanese Imperial Army! For example, this Lieutenant Colonel Mao Yuannaga! His original name was Mori Mori, a clan of the Mori family of the Nagashu family. Before the Japanese Revolution, he was a Japanese army lieutenant and once followed the troops to participate in the revolution. However, Mori Mori had a pair of parents who became "public tribes" and was sanctioned by Japanese justice on the day of the Great Suppression of Tokyo. Also sanctioned were Mori Mori's wife and young son.
!The news was obtained and the Moto-chan immediately fled, smuggled out of Japan on an American ship, and then came to China to participate in the reactionary activities of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association. After the outbreak of the World War, he also participated in the Chinese National Defense Forces and has now become a glorious leader. All the officers and soldiers in the "108th Task Force" he commanded were also the children of counter-revolutionaries who escaped during the Japanese Revolution. Most of them also had a deep hatred for the Japanese...
However, they were not the first counter-revolutionaries to return to Japan. In fact, three days ago, more than a dozen "Hanmen spies" had been quietly airdropped into the southern mountainous areas of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Their mission was to launch flares on the ground to guide the 108th Task Force to carry out airdrops.
The pilot of the plane saw several flares rising from the ground in the distance in the darkness, and immediately pressed the button of the alarm light. The yellow light flashed in the cabin, indicating that the parachute operation was about to begin!
Seeing the signal light on, Mao Yuanchang immediately shouted: "Three minutes to prepare! Check the parachute!" The parachutes in the cabin quickly stood up, but they did not hang the parachute hook onto the steel wire in the cabin before they jumped to the ordinary parachute. They were not ordinary parachutes, but special forces soldiers who had specially trained and had first-class parachute diving skills. In order to ensure that all of them could land at the closest area to the target set, they had to open the parachute at a low altitude of hundreds of meters above the ground.
"here we go!"
The red indicator light that represents the beginning of the parachute operation flashed in the cabin. "Quick, hurry, hurry! Jump!" As Mao Yuanchang's shout, the officers and soldiers of the 108th Task Force jumped out of the cabin one after another. After the last subordinate left, Mao Yuanchang also jumped deep into the endless void. Now is the darkest moment before dawn. Apart from a dark moonlight and a few stars in the sky, it is boundless darkness. Mao Yuanchang looked down and could not see anything, and he didn't know how far the ground was from him?
"1,2,3,4,5..." Every task force member who was falling rapidly began to count silently in his heart. When they counted to 30, they pulled the pull ring on the parachute bag. The round silk parachute opened, and Mao Yuanchang felt that he was lifted up by something and was instantly lifted up dozens of meters.
The wind in the night sky was very strong, and it also had a slight fishy smell of the sea breeze. This was the wind in Yamaguchi Prefecture, my hometown. When I thought that this land would soon be ravaged by the war, Mao Yuanchang couldn't help but feel angry, not against the Central Imperialism that launched this war, but against the Japanese GCD who ruled this land and the rebel Takeda Yuki who almost killed the Emperor of Heaven!
Chapter completed!