Song Xilian knew that the Japanese tactic was to introduce the Chinese landing troops into the battlefield they preset, so before that there were only the Kings Team and the Loyal and Brave Team repeatedly counterattacked and rushed. The Chinese Expeditionary Force also made very rapid progress. However, after entering the battlefield preset by the Japanese, the troops' offensive speed began to slow down and casualties began to increase. The battle, which was originally expected to end in thirty days, now it seems that it will take at least two months. Moreover, the US military will also increase the support for air strikes. The complex terrain structure of Okinawa Island really made Song Xilian very helpless.i^

Okinawa is known as the national gate of Japan because of its important strategic position in Japan's local defense. Therefore, the landing war on Okinawa is called a battle of breaking the gate. The Chinese Expeditionary Force concentrated the forces of the 12th Division to divide and encircle the Japanese troops on the island. However, if you want to completely annihilate the Japanese troops who have fallen into madness, the landing forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force still need one meter to advance by one meter. The Japanese resistance was crazy and tenacious, and even tenacious to the point that made the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force incredible. Compared with the temporary calming of the Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front, it is particularly important for the landing war on the Japanese mainland.

As long as Okinawa is captured, the Allies will have a huge springboard. According to the final battle intentions discussed by Gao Fei and Nimitz, they will focus on strategic bombing, regardless of civil or military facilities, with the intention of eliminating the Japanese will to resist. They will also land in Honshu, Shikoku and Hokkaido at the same time, and adopt the tactic of bombing against Kyushu, which seems to be concentrated in heavy troops, consume the main forces and materials hoarded by the Japanese army in Kyushu, and carry out a large-scale mobilization of Japan from Honshu, Hokkaido and Shikoku, and annihilate all armed forces that dare to resist on the spot.%&*";

In order to shorten the process of the entire battle, it can be said that the Chinese Expeditionary Force needs to mobilize the main forces stationed in Southeast Asian theater, the two divisions stationed in Myanmar, Annan, and Yunnan, and five divisions and two brigades of the first mountain infantry cluster must also be put into operation. In addition, Song Xilian's twelve divisions and four brigades of the amphibious land warfare cluster have invested a total of 42 divisions and nine brigades to carry out full landing operations on the Japanese mainland.

Now Japan's defeat is only a matter of time. The attitudes of the United States and the Chinese government are unified, that is, it is necessary to speed up the progress of the battle, because the repeated tug-of-war on the Soviet Union have caused a huge crisis in the Soviet Union. The replenishment of troops and the consumption of weapons and equipment have caught the Soviet army off guard. Although US aid materials can be transported from China's Far East, the problem facing the Soviet army is too much blood loss. Nearly tens of millions of German main forces are all pressing on the Eastern Front. The Soviet army is constantly counterattacking and counterattacking under tremendous pressure, intending to consume the German army's vitality, but the Germans pulled seven servant countries to fight with nearly one million Soviet puppet troops. The blood sacrifice of mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese 7

Stalin urgently requested the European army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to enter the Soviet Union to fight, and it was not too late to open a second battlefield in Europe in early 1945. Everyone knew very well, that it was equivalent to gathering troops in Britain to land in the heart of France. This was definitely the biggest adventure in World War II. Moreover, before landing, the Allied strategic bombing forces needed to destroy strategic industrial goals such as ordnance factories and chemical factories built by the German army in France, and seize some active air supremacy in the coastal areas, and concentrate almost all the naval and air forces of the allied countries. Therefore, the battle against Japan must be ended within half a year, so that Japan completely withdraws from the Axis war circle. For this reason, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States believed that if the war was to be ended quickly, it would be necessary to use the most fierce firepower to strike all targets on the Japanese mainland, and to kill and destroy the Japanese's ultimate sense of resistance as the target of the battle.

The fierce battle on Okinawa made the Japanese army continue to send the so-called Kamikaze Special Forces and the Torpedo Restoration Team in vain. However, the quality of the Japanese army, especially the pilots of the army and the navy, was getting worse and worse, and it was basically difficult to break through the US air interception network. The Yamato, which was injured in the attack, really went to Wu Hai for a temporary rest. It seemed that the Japanese Navy was still reluctant to leave the Yamato, the giant ship. The Japanese Navy believed that if there was no time to complete the maintenance, the Yamato would be stranded in the lock, and the bottom cabin was filled with water, and used as a fixed turret.

The news that the Japanese Navy Yamato returned to Wu Hai for repair also made Gao Fei breathe a sigh of relief. As long as he drove back to Wu Hai, he had a way to use large-scale bombing to make the Japanese uneasy first, and then implement the ship-catching plan, and place the giant ship that the Japanese regarded as treasures in the future as a spoil of the Naval Officer's School at the door of his home. Is there anything that can show military power better than this? Obviously not.

However, the battle on Okinawa also made Gao Fei realize that the Japanese army's resistance in the future may become more and more fierce. In this battle, the Chinese Expeditionary Force Song Xilian's troops had absolute superior forces. The allies had control of sea and air control, and chose a favorable landing point. However, the landing forces relied too much on firepower, were too rigid in tactics, fearing night battles, melee and infantry forcing attacks, and did not carry forward the tenacious style of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's strong individual combat capabilities and no waiting or relying on them.

The Japanese army used tunnels and reverse slope positions to offset the firepower advantages of the Chinese reinforcements landing troops and the air advantages provided by the US military. They used melee firepower and small teams to attack at night, and fought tenaciously for more than 50 days. In addition, the Japanese mainland destroyed the Kamikaze suicide aircraft, which injured a large number of US naval ships. However, the Japanese army also gave up the great opportunity to fight on the beach due to the incoordination of its army, navy and its aviation forces.

It can be said that this battle also began to expose some problems of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Some divisions, brigades, and regiment-level commanders lacked their understanding of the cruelty of the war, and their blind victory must be corrected in a short period of time. The Chinese Expeditionary Force conquered the Okinawa Islands at a huge cost, in order to open the southwest gateway of Japan and obtain a sea and air base to attack Japan, creating favorable conditions for landing in Japan.
Chapter completed!