.The Okinawa Battle is still in the planning stage. According to the geographical characteristics of Okinawa, the US military divided this volcanic island, which is about 108 kilometers long from north to south, 30 kilometers widest from east to west, and only four kilometers narrowest, into two battlefields north to south. The northern line is under the command of Major General Geiger, the commander of the Third Marine Army, and is under the command of the First Marine Division and the Sixth Marine Division. The troops on the southern line also have two divisions, the 7th American Infantry Division and the 96th Division, which are commanded by Lieutenant General Hodge, the commander of the 24th Army of the US Army.

There are four other divisions as reserves, the Second Marine Division is the reserve of the 10th Army, and the 27th US Infantry Division is the reserve of the ship. The 77th US Infantry Division is the task of capturing the Keirama Islands and Ie Island (both part of the Okinawa Islands.), and after success, it will automatically be converted into a combat reserve. The 81st US Infantry Division, the general reserve of the war zone, is on standby on the island of Shinkorenia. The above eight divisions have a total of 180,000 people, which is all the ground forces invested by the US military in the Battle of Okinawa.

Although the Marine Corps on the Northern Line often suffered suicide attacks from small groups of Japanese troops, their progress was generally smooth!

However, the situation of the US Army that attacked the mountainous areas in southern Okinawa was not so optimistic. With the stubborn resistance of the main Japanese army, which made full use of dangerous peaks and ridges and terrain, Lieutenant General Hodge's troops were seriously blocked, and fierce battles were not enough to advance for half a day, which became commonplace.

On April 9, the 27th Infantry Division of the US was ordered to disembark and joined the combat sequence of the 24th Army of the US Army.

After the US military increased to three divisions on the southern front, Lieutenant General Niujima, who was unwilling to consume too much of his living power on the peripheral positions, was forced to increase the attacks of the US military and abandoned several outpost positions in succession. The Japanese army's active contraction once improved the US military's combat situation in the southern mountainous areas.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long! On April 12, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in his private villa in Wolms Springs, Georgia.

Luo Qifu was elected President of the United States for four times and has been in charge of this world-class power for more than twelve years. It was the new economic policy he advocated that helped the United States get out of the abyss of the economic crisis. After the war in Europe broke out, he led the United States to ride the wind and waves in the sinister situation with his visionary strategic vision and tactful political skills, and obtained rich returns that exceeded his investment. His sudden death brought the American people a lifelong Black Thursday, and also made grief and shock firmly occupy the thoughts of the US military officers and soldiers fighting overseas.

Adhering to the enemy's pain is the great principle of our own happiness. The trapped beasts are fighting against the virtues of the earth, and the Japanese fascists are all cheering and barking for the death of Luo Qifu!

Compared with Nazi Germany, whose capital was surrounded and destroyed, Japan is still in a state of confusion! It is still a bit of strength and paranoid Japanese. They don’t think of ways to make some tricks. That’s only one possibility. Tens of millions of people have mutated their genes because they drank alien foot washing water!

The series of flyers entitled "The Tragedy of the United States" distributed by the Japanese army were very popular among the US military officers and soldiers. To be clear, the Americans were disdainful of the boasting that the Japanese army would use special attack operations to sink all US warships and turn more than 100,000 US troops who had boarded Okinawa into homeless orphans. What made them like was the exquisitely painted flyers themselves! Life in the battlefield is boring and arduous! It is hard to see the American soldiers who have to look at the comic strips. If there are more portraits of naked beauties in the flyers, it would be even more perfect!

Of course, although the Japanese have low IQ, they are not as low as they want to win the war with leaflets!

On the evening of April 17, Niushima, who had been repeatedly forced by Tokyo base camp, invested tens of thousands of troops to launch a fierce attack on the US troops on the southern front.

The US Army, which was hasty in response, could not withstand the Japanese counterattack and was almost defeated. Fortunately, the US military's naval and air superiority firepower was extremely effective, and the Japanese attack target was barely saved. Several airports in the southern part of the island were not lost. There were about two hundred US aircraft parked that night at those airports!

After a fierce battle overnight, the 24th Army of the US Army lost 7,000 troops and nearly 10,000 Japanese corpses!

After the war in Okinawa started, the most tragic and grand battle awakened the Allies with bloody facts, and the Okinawa war began!

On the afternoon of April 19, in order to coordinate the next tactical actions and to mediate disputes between US field commanders, the commander-in-chief of the Allied Pacific Theater, William, the five-star Navy general, pulled the commander of the US Marine Corps, General Van der, and under the escort of a fighter squadron, to Okinawa for field inspection.

Earlier on the same day, Cheng Jiaji was also summoned to Okinawa Island to wait for the journey.

The 10th US Army Command is hidden behind a Ishiyama in central Okinawa.

"The Marines are running, the Army is climbing!" The speaker was Cheng Jiaji's acquaintance, Lieutenant General Turner, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Landing Form during the Battle of Mariana.

"There are very few Japanese troops in front of the Marine Corps, and there is no danger to defend the northern plains! But my children are going to defeat the mountainous attack of 70% or 80% of the 32nd Army of the Japanese army. This can be said to be a fair race!" Lieutenant General Buckner, who could not stand Lieutenant General Turner's sarcasm, fought back against tit.

Lieutenant General Turner, nicknamed the madman, was not the one who would easily admit defeat. He immediately accused Buckner of his low command ability and weak army's fighting will.

These two people just kept saying this, and they were like a bull.

Cheng Jiaji, who was sitting on the other side of the rectangular conference table, also learned about the content of Turner and Buckner's quarrel from the translator who was with him.

Although it was not up to me, Cheng Jiaji still sighed in his heart.

In terms of level, Lieutenant General Turner, who is the commander-in-chief of the landing formation in this battle, is half a square meter higher than Buckner, the commander of the 10th Army of the US Army. However, Lieutenant General Buckner was granted the full authority to command the landing ground forces by the US Army. There is no need to look at Turner's face. There is enough trouble if he is confused about his authority. Then he will penetrate into the US sea. The long-standing confrontation between the army, and even the strategic differences between these two branches on the Pacific battlefield. These two people did not perform their military actions, which are all restrained!

This disagreement between generals is a big taboo in military strategists!

"General Cheng! Hello!" Cheng Jiaji was just thinking about it. The two American generals stood in front of him as soon as they walked into the tent. The old man was one of them. There were five golden stars on each of his shoulders!

"Hello, sir!" Cheng Jiaji's mentality is very simple to General William, who is also the commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Fleet. Respect, respect from the heart! In contrast to General Doug, who was once attacked by opponents as a remnant of American colonialism, the posthumous son of this generation of German immigrant who was a newspaper boy in his youth was poor and had no family background. He was able to have the glory today because of his down-to-earth work style and extraordinary personal abilities. He is approachable, caring about his subordinates, and good reputation for listening to different opinions, which made General William a standard model of outstanding military personnel!

"I haven't seen a young lieutenant general like General Cheng for many years. It seems that the benefit of war to reduce the average age of generals is a common land in the world! In order to transfer you, Mike and me, the old man, have been angry several times. He also blackmailed me a box of aged whiskey!" Admiral William, who had a peaceful and kind face, was as evil as a domineering person. While smiling, he signaled Cheng Jiaji, Turner, and Buck, who were sitting down, quipping with ease.

Knowing that the two five-star generals also had natural conflicts in which two commands commanded a battlefield. General William, one of the parties involved, took the initiative to reconcile and support him, and endured and gave in from time to time. Cheng Jiaji, who had no obvious cracks, only smiled faintly.

"Gentlemen! The strategies and tactics of the Allies in Okinawa need to be adjusted!" William set the tone for the meeting.

The generals were all right about General William's decision, but when they adjusted in which direction they could not pee in a pot.

Cheng Jiaji once again witnessed American-style efficiency.

The meeting lasted ten minutes and everyone's opinions were placed on the table.

Lieutenant General Buckner insisted that the battle in Okinawa should be dominated by the US Army. Even the top naval leaders should not intervene too much, and the Chinese have to stand aside. To break the current deadlock, Markner thought that he only needed to transfer all three US military advisors who had not yet entered the battle to the southern line. With the large number of soldiers and strong firepower, he could press over in a step-by-step manner and embrace victory!

General Van der proposed the plan to use the Second Marine Division, and the three Chinese divisions carried out amphibious landings at the southern end of Okinawa Island, and cooperated with the frontal forces to form a pincer attack on the Japanese army.

What is most unexpected is that Lieutenant General Turner's opinion is quite similar to his mortal enemy Barnack. The only difference is that he wants to transfer all three existing land divisions to the southern line to charge. And is the US Army? It will be done with firepower support, guarantee logistics supply, and eliminate the Japanese stragglers! After hearing this, Barnack was so angry that his face was tilted!

Admiral William, who rejected Barnack's request on the grounds that every day the battle would sink a half warship, did not openly deny Turner's proposal, could see that he was inclined toward Admiral Vander! Otherwise, why would he have made many improvements to the Vander plan on the spot?

Among the five people here, Cheng Jiaji, who did not want to be involved in the US military, did not speak out!

If another American general was replaced, either ignore this foreign general and just give orders to the other party to execute, or ask in public what was going on. But the meticulous General William chose to keep Cheng Jiaji and his translator in the church.

The shrewd General William made the words clear as soon as he opened his mouth: "General Cheng, no matter which plan you fight below, your troops will join the war!"

"General! From north to south, the Japanese army's defense line in the southern mountainous areas can be roughly divided into three layers. The first layer is based on the Naha Highlands as the support point. To be honest, Lieutenant General Hodge's troops have only injured the fur of this layer of defense line. The second layer is the core position of the Japanese army, and its main position is Shuri, the former capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom. The headquarters of Ushimajima Man is stationed in Shuri City! The third layer is the southernmost end of Okinawa Island. The Japanese army called it the Jade Broken Line." Seeing that Cheng Jiaji could not escape, he gestured to the conference table on the entire map of Okinawa Island: "Think about it, although the two sides are better than the flat pushing effect of the first line, they still need to be stripped layer by layer, and a trench cannot be beaten less. If there are really five casualties.

, 60,000, which took several situations. From a military perspective, the Allies would lose the best time to attack Japan's mainland. The wave of anti-war in your country is also surging. The miserable victory or defeat in China's military strategy refers to this situation." Cheng Jiaji took advantage of the opportunity to wait for the translation to take over the severity, glanced at General William, who listened carefully and nodded frequently, and then smashed his fists heavily on the map at the position representing Shuri Castle: "In my opinion, the elite troops of our two divisions detoured from the northern part of Okinawa, forced into the hinterland of the southern mountainous areas under the cover of warships and aircraft, took the second layer of the Japanese defense line, seized Shuri Castle first, and disrupted his formation!"

"Attack through the gap, the center blossoms!" Admiral William, who nodded and knew the tail, admired Cheng Jiaji's courage and recognized the feasibility of this tactic. What he was not sure about was whether the Chinese army could complete this difficult combat action that even the US Army could not even care about in the barrier area of ​​fortresses.

Admiral William said with great compromise: "I will let the Second Army Division occupy a quota, and your army will send one division."

What was waiting for was Cheng Jiaji, who said William, who struck while the iron was hot, proposed an attached condition: "Please agree to support the command power of the US naval and air forces that interspersed with combat, and the power of reward and punishment will be controlled by our Group Army Command!"

Admiral William rarely hesitated. With the precedent on Luzon Island, it is no big deal to temporarily hand over the command of the sea and air forces to Cheng Jiaji. However, it is a different matter to leave the honor and disgrace of American soldiers to the Chinese to judge.

"General! If you want to successfully achieve the center blossom, the plane will fly low and dive, and the accuracy of the naval gun must be improved!" Cheng Jiaji, who was unable to achieve the above two points when he encircled and annihilated the 6th Division that day, even though he was unable to make the above two points, reminded him solemnly.

If you can think of this Shangfang sword without the power of reward and punishment, Cheng Jiaji would not be able to say anything. He ordered the delicate American pilot and the proud warship captain to the limit to General William, thought for a long time before he let go: "Okay! General Cheng! I will give orders!"
Chapter completed!