Lieutenant General Saito Yoshiji, the commander of the 43rd Division of the Japanese army, received information. The Chinese Expeditionary Forces landed on both sides of the island. The Chinese army actually ran to the Pacific Ocean to conduct island landing operations. Saito Yoshiji recalled that there were rumors that the Chinese dispatched troops were wiped out, the Kwantung Army was defeated and retreated into North Korea in the Far East. The local area suffered huge bombing by American aircraft. It seemed that those were not rumors, otherwise why did the Chinese army appear in the Pacific?

Standing in front of the map, Saito Yoshiji quickly decided to command his troops to fight against the Chinese Expeditionary Forces landing in the Charancano area on the west coast of Saipan, and commanded Nagamoto Tadichi to fight against the US military. Because in the impression of the Japanese, especially the Japanese army who passed the offensive and defensive battle in the Guadalcanal Islands, the amphibious land forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The strong combat effectiveness and fighting will of the Chinese Expeditionary Force made the Japanese army afraid.

Ota Hideyasu instructed Saito Yoshiji to block the enemy at all costs and annihilate the Chinese Expeditionary Force landing troops through the radio station. However, not long after, Ota Hideyasu sent another telegram saying that it would be better to block the Chinese Expeditionary Force troops than to hit the Chinese Expeditionary Force troops, and use the main force to counterattack the US landing troops and defeat them all the way, because the amphibious landing troops of the Chinese Expeditionary Force far exceeds that of the US Army in terms of combat experience and fighting will.

It can be said that when the landing operation was launched, Hidera Ota, the commander of the 31st Army of the Japanese garrison army, went to Guam to inspect the island, so the defense was actually led by Lieutenant General Saito Yoshiji, the commander of the 43rd Division.

The U.S. troops attacking Tinian Island and Guam were the Fifth Marine Corps Army, with Lieutenant General Holland Smith as the commander. The basic troops under its jurisdiction are the First Marine Division, the Second Marine Division, the Third Marine Division and the Fourth Marine Division, with a total of more than 80,000 people. Among them, the 27th Army Infantry Division was transferred to Song Xilian for command. The landing on Saipan Island was only used for combat, and the 29th Army Infantry Division was used as a reserve. The blood sacrifice of mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese War 931

It can be said that due to the retreat of the Japanese joint fleet, the US military can invest more ships to carry out fire strikes, and to be responsible for transportation and direct support, the US Pacific Fleet has invested five battleships, seven escort aircraft carriers, eleven cruisers, forty-two destroyers, more than 30 minesweeping and anti-submarine ships, more than 150 landing ships, more than 30 transport ships, a total of more than 270 ships. The landing forces are mainly Chinese Expeditionary Forces. The 27th Division of the U.S. Army Infantry Cooperation to carry out a general assault on Saipan, find the Japanese defense line, destroy, annihilate the Japanese live forces, quickly and completely eliminate the remaining enemies, and restore the operation of the island's airport.

Under the unprecedented fierce artillery fire and napalm bomb attack, the Japanese counterattack troops on the second line suffered heavy casualties. The main Japanese army and navy forces gathered near Tapoqiao Mountain were bombarded by cloud explosion bombs. This was something that the Japanese army had not expected when the war started. Only the Japanese troops who participated in the Nanjing Battle and the offensive and defensive battle in the Heilongjiang Fortress in the Northeast had experienced the terrifying power of cloud explosion agents and explosive bombs. Especially in the dense forest, the Japanese troops who were preparing to fight back based on simple fortifications suffered a catastrophe. The First Amphibious Land War Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force successfully seized the beach without any effort.

Song Xilian was looking forward to the combat plan formulated before the war. Now Song Xilian can be said to admire Gao Fei's strategic and tactical talent from the bottom of his heart. He obtained the plan formulated in Peking and was still on a secret island in the Pacific Ocean. As a result, the Japanese could not find it. The Japanese counterattack troops with more than 4,000 people were all buried in the sea of ​​fire. The Japanese troops arranged on the beach suffered heavy losses and almost no strong blockade was formed. In Song Xilian's view, Gao Fei was simply a god. Did the Japanese really distribute and deployed troops according to his firepower? Just as the Japanese were worried that American shells would be wasted.

However, the US Marine Corps landed on Tinian Island and Guam were not so lucky. Especially the Japanese army on Tinian Island did not implement the plan of Ota Hidera's decisive battle against the beachhead according to the deployment of Taki Yiichi in Guam. Instead, they scattered the troops across the island, forming a network encirclement state. No matter where the US troops attacked, they would fall into the siege of the Japanese. Moreover, the main fortifications on Tinian Island and Guam were not on the beachhead.

The US Marine First Division was considered to have kicked the bricks hard, the main reason was that the firepower preparations were not sufficient before the attack. Holland Smith looked down on the Japanese at all. At the same time, intelligence analysis supported that about 75% of the Japanese troops were concentrated on Saipan, while Tinian and Guam were just a few mixed fish, but they ignored the Japanese artillery positions built on the counter-sloping surface in the anti-landing area, and the firepower points, solid support points and camouflaged trenches and other defensive fortifications were mostly not destroyed. The Japanese army adopted defensive counterattack tactics with these fortifications. As a result, after the United States landed, it began to suffer strong blockades, and the troops were once stagnant.

The US Marine Division encountered difficulties on Tinian Island and Guam, and Song Xilian was also very depressed. The troops of the two Amphibious Landing First Amphibious Landing Division and the Sixth Amphibious Landing Division advanced more than 30 kilometers respectively, controlled the three main airports on the island on the flanks, and the Second Amphibious Landing Division, which subsequently landed, began to eliminate the remaining enemies, strengthened the front-line defense with the Fourth Amphibious Landing Division, and devoted the main force to carry out division and encirclement on the Japanese army, defeated the Japanese army's face-to-face blockade, drove the Japanese army towards Taboqiaoshan, and then used napalm bombs to attack on a large scale.

But what made Song Xilian a headache was that the troops of the 27th Army Division of the US Army were slow to move. Major General Ralph Smith was simply a timid and cowardly guy. The same was true for his troops. Even if it was a machine gun fire point of the Japanese army, they could wait for half a day for fire support and bombing support, which made Song Xilian very difficult to understand. The 27th Army Division of the US Army also undergoes training in island landing warfare, but its fighting will and speed could not reach an agreement with the amphibious land forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Song Xilian directly expressed dissatisfaction with Nimitz about the 27th Division of the US military, and Holland Smith and others on the US military were also very troubled by the low combat effectiveness of the US Army.
Chapter completed!