Kazushima's speculation and approach were obviously correct, because after he made a series of arrangements, the US military launched an attack on Okinawa in less than half a month.

The Okinawa Battle initiated by the US military was most directly affected not Okinawa, but Tokyo...

When Tojo Hideki stepped down to power, the Tokyo side threatened that the war situation would soon improve in order to appease the people or the hearts of the people.

The "better" mentioned here is that Prime Minister Kojikiku Showa and Chief of Staff Mijiro Umezu have their own plans.

During this period, Xiaoji Guozhao contacted the puppet regime, the puppet Nanjing government and met with the puppet Nanjing government in Tokyo. He hoped to contact the Chongqing government through the puppet Nanjing government, and to settle with the Chongqing government while the Chongqing government was still besieged by the Japanese army, and then achieve the goal of arbitrage with the US military through the Chongqing government.

But Xiaoji Guozhao's idea was a bit wishful thinking. Principal Jiang is not a fool. Of course, he could see that the Japanese army was at the end of his strength at this time... After so many years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was about to collapse. How could he reconcile with Japan at the last moment? So he flatly rejected Xiaoji Guozhao's request.

Xiaoji Guozhao's strategy failed.

Needless to say, the Japanese Chief of Staff Mijiro Umezu was the plan, which was to force the Americans to return to the negotiating table through the decisive battle in Wright Bay.

But the result is also a failure.

Originally, the Japanese army kept the news secretly and said nothing if the people didn't know it, but when the US army launched an attack on Okinawa... it could no longer hide.

Xiaoji Guozhao was forced to resign less than a year after serving as prime minister.

Navy General Kantaro Suzuki was forced to take office by the Japanese emperor... The reason why he was forced to take office was because no Japanese Prime Minister was willing to be the one at that time. It was obvious that the Japanese army was defeated at this time, and no one could clean up the mess, so he was unwilling to take the blame.

There is a better reason for Suzuki Kantaro, that is, during the 226th coup in Japan six years ago, he was shot three times in close range by the rebels, hitting the head, chest and abdomen, but even so he was still rescued... Therefore, people also called him "the immortal ghost kant".

Suzuki Kantaro resigned from the position of prime minister under the pretext of serious injury and deafness, but the emperor still forcibly appointed him as prime minister.

Meijiro Umezu still firmly sits in the position of Chief of Staff, although many of the wrong decisions were made by him and had nothing to do with Koji Kyoko.

One of these mistakes is his misjudgment of the US military's attack on Okinawa. It was not until the US B29 bomber launched a bombing on Okinawa that Mijiro Umezu hurriedly sent a telegram to Umejima Manta: "Umejima, you must defend Okinawa, this is related to the life and death of the Great Japanese Empire. I will send you reinforcements soon. Please!"

When Utsushima Manta saw the telegram, he just snorted, and until then Mijiro Umezu did not admit his mistake.

As for those "reinforcements", go and cheat!

Everyone knows that Okinawa is an island without the Japanese joint fleet... Japan has no ability to provide reinforcements to Okinawa.

Utsushima Man was wrong about this. Umezu Mijiro really sent reinforcements to Okinawa, which were several remaining warships mainly composed of the Japanese "Yamato" battleship.

Meijiro Umezu was whimsical... When the US military launched a landing war against Okinawa, a large number of US troops rushed to the beach to fight against the Japanese army. If a Japanese fleet could be inserted into the middle of the US landing troops, wouldn't anti-aircraft machine guns and artillery fire bombard the backs of the US landing troops?

Although Japanese officers usually like to gambling, this strategy is a bit too ideal.

The reality is that the battleship "Yamato" was sank by US bombers after only half of its journey... The US military is not a fool, how could it be without any defense in the rear or flanks when landing for combat? Moreover, the US military has sea and air radars.

Fortunately, Ushima Manta did not place hope for Umezu Mijiro's "reinforcements", otherwise when he heard this, he would be afraid that a mouthful of blood would be pissed on the ceiling and would be pissed to death.

Niujima's mobilization of troops was quickly proved to be very visionary.

The US military launched an attack on Okinawa on a regular basis. The b29 took off from Iwo Jima and the Mariana Islands, paralyzing several airports on Okinawa immediately... If Makoto Niujima did not withdraw his troops and fighter planes from the central airport to hide the more complex south, he would be afraid that he would suffer a heavy blow at the first time.

The US military then attacked the small islands around Okinawa. What surprised the US military was that... they thought there should be a fierce battle when attacking these islands, but they easily captured the Keirama Islands (8 islands west of Okinawa). During this period, the US military only paid a slight price of 31 people killed and 81 injured.

Then the US military set up artillery bases on these islands and stored materials as bases for attacking Okinawa.

According to Halsey's idea, it is very likely that the Japanese army would shrink all its troops to Okinawa Island to prepare for a "decisive battle" with the US army on Okinawa Island, so they thought that landing on Okinawa Island would be a arduous task.

Halsey even estimated that the US military would likely contribute about 20,000 casualties to land on Okinawa and gain a foothold.

But the result was beyond Halsey's expectations...

When Halsey landed, he used the method of vocalizing the east and attacking the west, that is, he feinted the beach in the west in the middle, but actually planned to attack the beach in the east.

However, the feint attack troops were basically not resisted, and they landed successfully if they accidentally... Only 28 people were killed, 104 were injured, and 27 others were missing on the first day of the US military landed on the two divisions.

Most of the people who were killed and injured were injured by stray bullets or landmines.

Soon, the US military took the Dugu Airport and Kadena Airport in their hands, and quickly repaired the two airports with modern mechanical equipment. Kadena Airport can be used for emergency landing on the afternoon of the landing day, and the next day, Kudena Airport can also be put into use.

At this time, every US officer and soldier, including Halsey, was thinking about a question: "Where is the enemy?"

Where is the enemy? This may be a ridiculous question. Walk around the battlefield with a gun, wherever there is gunfire sound, the enemy will be there!

But this happened on Okinawa Island.

Because according to the US military's idea, the most important thing to attack an island is to capture an airport on the island or control a piece of land to build an airport, because this can ensure that the source of strategic resources is continuously transported from the air to the island, just like Guadalcanal.

But what they didn't know was that the battle on Okinawa was just beginning at this time.
Chapter completed!