It took more than two months for the 7th Army to finally take Okinawa!
All the more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers on the island died in the battle with the support of protecting the country. Before the last moment came, the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers who resisted frantically drove all the hundreds of thousands of residents on the island into a valley.
, after raping tens of thousands of women for several days and nights, all hundreds of thousands of residents were killed.
Okinawa, which the 7th Army captured at great cost, has almost become a white land.
The Battle of Okinawa was a tragic victory for Japan. Although it wiped out more than 50,000 Japanese troops on the island, it also paid a huge price of more than 60,000 casualties, of which more than 20,000 were killed and seriously injured.
There are more than 9,000 retired people. Of course, this casualty number also includes the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers who died in the first failure to seize the island.
On July 15, 1944, Yue Weihan's special plane slowly landed at the military airport of Naha Base.
When Yue Weihan slowly walked out of the cabin, General Xu, the commander of the 7th Group Army, had already led the political commissar, chief of staff, deputy chief of staff and more than a dozen division commanders, and the chief of staff lined up on the airport runway to greet him. Further away, the engineers of the 7th Group Army
We are working intensively to repair and expand the Naha Military Airport.
After greeting the other generals, Yue Weihan went straight to the Memorial to the Fallen Soldiers outside the airport.
I don’t know since when, the Communist Party of China has had such a practice regarding the burial of fallen officers and soldiers. They are cremated and buried wherever they died in battle. This is to save trouble, and secondly, it is also to warn future generations that this was the place where soldiers died in battle.
**This is the place where soldiers fought and died. Therefore, this is China’s territory, or at least China’s sphere of influence!
Standing in front of the Memorial to the Fallen Soldiers, looking at the symbols and names engraved on the monument, Yue Weihan was used to seeing his comrades farewell, and at this time, he couldn't help but feel a different kind of feeling. *** Finally, he was on the island of Okinawa.
He built his own military base. The Naha base that once choked China in his previous life now belongs to China!
In the past life, China suffered deeply from the invasion of the first island chain, especially the Naha base, which was a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the Chinese people and could be cut off at any time! Because
, the nuclear missiles deployed at the Naha base can cover mainland China in a very short period of time, and China’s strategic missile force does not even have time to warn at all!
However, in today's China, such a situation is unlikely to happen again. First of all, the relationship between the United States and the United States is very different from that in the previous life. In the past life, China and the United States were eternal enemies. However, in today's China, ideologically, the relationship with the United States is different.
The confrontation between the two countries has become much less intense. Not only are the two governments now closely cooperating, but the two peoples are also extremely close. Yue Weihan, in particular, is a household hero to the American people!
The most important thing is that today, China has directly captured Okinawa by force. In the near future, it will seize the entire Japan by force. As long as no unexpected changes occur, Asia will definitely become China's Asia, at least the entire Asia.
The Far East and Southeast Asia will become the back garden!
In today’s world, China can no longer be surrounded from all sides!
Therefore, even if China is at odds with the United States in the future, China will no longer be as dangerous as it was in its previous life, always walking on thin ice!
President Xu immediately held a combat meeting at the commander's office.
At the combat meeting, Mr. Xu introduced the next plan to seize the island to Yue Weihan in detail.
After seizing Okinawa, the 7th Army will next seize the Amami Islands and Osumi Islands further north. In the entire deployment of the counterattack, the Amami Islands and Osumi Islands play the role of providing troop gathering and material dispatch.
As well as the forward base role where the Air Force ships and aircraft are parked, it must be taken down.
The battle plan formulated by the 7th Group Army Staff Headquarters is very detailed, taking into account various factors such as maritime geography, ocean current environment, meteorology, monsoons, etc., and there are even detailed research reports by relevant experts, such as Professor Zhu Kezhen's.
A detailed report on the recent weather forecast for the Ryukyu Islands.
Yue Weihan couldn't help but glance sideways at Mr. Xu, who was sitting in the first place on the left.
After experiencing the defeat in the first battle to seize the island, Mr. Xu learned his shame and became brave. After just over two months of practice and summary, he has now become an expert in the battle to seize the island. If Mr. Su is now
He is the most powerful senior general in commanding large corps in the field and even in the entire ***, so Mr. Xu is definitely the most powerful general in amphibious warfare among ***!
The subsequent evolution of the war also completely verified Yue Weihan's judgment.
The Battle of Okinawa had twists and turns, but Amami Island and Osumi Island fought smoothly. First, the Japanese army had exhausted its energy in the Battle of Okinawa. Most of the Japanese soldiers who dared to launch a suicide attack had been killed and injured. Second,
However, the 7th Army of the Four Fields became better and better as they fought, and would never make the same low-level mistakes as before.
At the end of July 1944, the Shino 7th Army successfully captured the Osumi Islands.
Immediately, hundreds of engineering regiments landed on the Amami and Osumi Islands, turning dozens of islands into noisy construction sites in a short period of time, with thousands of engineering equipment, hundreds of thousands of engineering officers and soldiers, and
Tons and tons of construction equipment landed one after another, and the final preparations for the counterattack on the Japanese mainland began.
In early September 1944, after more than two months of intense construction, the military engineering construction on Okinawa, Amami, and Osumi Islands was basically completed.
Yue Weihan immediately ordered the establishment of a counterattack *** headquarters.
What puzzled the Western media was that Yue Weihan did not personally take command of such an important combat operation. Instead, he appointed Su, commander of the 8th Group Army, as commander-in-chief, Xu, commander of the 7th Group Army, and Liu, commander of the 3rd Group Army, as deputy commanders-in-chief.
The General Headquarters has jurisdiction over the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Group Armies, of which the 7th Group Army is the general reserve.
At the end of October 1944, 16 heavy infantry divisions, 2 army aviation divisions, 4 armored divisions, 4 heavy artillery divisions and 2 airborne divisions of the 3rd and 8th Group Armies were all stationed in the Osumi Islands and piled up on the Amami Islands.
The military supplies on Okinawa Island and Okinawa Islands have been piled up, enough to support the two armies to fight a large-scale strategic battle!
At the same time, more than 2,500 combat aircraft of various types from 8 aviation divisions of Shino Air Force and more than 100 naval warships, gunboats, transport boats, armed merchant ships and armed fishing boats of the Navy Corps also stationed in major ports in the Ryukyu Islands to counterattack*
The final preparations for ** are finally completed!
In early November, General Su held several operational meetings and made final arrangements for landing in Tokyo Bay.
The most important problem is how to deal with the "kamikaze" of the Japanese defense forces. According to intelligence, the Japanese General Staff has organized millions of "kamikaze", including not only the army, but also the navy and aviation.
, among which aviation suicide attacks pose the greatest threat!
Although the Japanese aviation force today only has some old-fashioned fighter jets and bombers, if these aircraft are not used for air combat, but are only used to hit Chinese surface warships or transport ships, then the threat is really not that great. If they can hit the target accurately, a
One plane is enough to kill a large transport boat!
Fortunately, although the Japanese army has tens of thousands of old aircraft, due to lack of fuel, only two thousand aircraft can take off to launch suicide attacks.
This small amount of fuel was smuggled into China by the Russians from Vladivostok. With the current strength of the Chinese navy, it is impossible to completely cut off contact with the outside world, especially with the recent naval requirements.
Taking on the heavy responsibility of transporting soldiers and supplies, it has no time to take care of the four islands.
However, even if there are only two thousand old aircraft, they are still a fatal threat to Japan, which does not have strong capital for amphibious operations. Therefore, the choice of weather is crucial, and the coordination of the air force, navy and landing forces is crucial.
Cooperation is even more important. The air force escort must shoot down these Japanese fighter planes before they take off or approach Tokyo Bay!
Fortunately, the 8th Group Army already has successful experience in land, sea and air coordinated operations in Jinzhou Bay. In addition, Yue Weihan has just purchased four early warning aircraft from the United States. It can basically ensure the safety of the airspace over Tokyo Bay. The Japanese army committed suicide.
It will not be easy for a Japanese aircraft to break through the Chinese Air Force's capabilities.
In addition to Japanese suicide planes, there were also suicide submarines.
However, the threat of suicide submarines is much smaller than that of suicide aircraft. First of all, when the submarine is hidden deep in the seabed, it is in a blind spot. It is not until it is close to the surface that the submarine can detect the enemy ship through its periscope and launch an attack.
Before that, our own submarines may have been exposed in advance.
Furthermore, the speed of the submarine is too slow, and the power of a direct impact is not even as powerful as a torpedo!
Unless a large amount of high explosives are buried in the submarine in advance and then detonated after approaching the enemy ship, it will be extremely difficult to destroy the enemy's large surface ships.
In the conference room, Mr. Su glanced over the faces of the generals with a stern look, and said solemnly: "Everyone, the battle plan for the landing in Tokyo Bay is roughly like this. Starting tomorrow, the Navy's 4th Task Force will first begin to clean the peripheral waters of Tokyo Bay.
The 1st Air Force Air Division continued to bomb the fortifications of Yokosuka, Yokohama and Chiba. The airborne divisions, heavy equipment divisions, armored divisions and heavy artillery divisions were on standby at any time. Once the time was right, they would immediately carry out beach landings!"
"Yes!" More than a dozen senior generals stood up in unison and agreed with a loud voice.
In less than a moment, combat orders were issued to all armies, divisions and regiments. In an instant, the more than 600,000 troops assembled on the Ryukyu Islands began to take action in an orderly manner.