Liang Chao realized that the Japanese attack was extremely resolute and fierce, which may have something to do with the surprise attack of the Japanese navy.
It was clear that the Japanese Army was cooperating with the Navy's actions.
In the distant sky, he could see planes with small black dots chasing each other without even using binoculars, and even some Japanese and American fighters chased them to the sky over Saipan.
The situation is likely to turn for the worse.
Liang Chao had made all the psychological preparations, now he had not many combat soldiers on hand, supplies, ammunition, and medical drugs were lacking to varying degrees, the intensity of the battle really exceeded his expectations, and the so-called temporary retreat of the support fleet also made the landing force lose its backup.
Liang Chao ordered the troops to centralize the management of fresh water, food, weapons, ammunition, and medical medicines, and after the inventory, the adjutant brought him a very bad news, that is, there was a shortage of fresh water, and there was still some ammunition, which could last for a day, and the medicine was about to run out, and the food was still sufficient.
Liang Chao knew that fresh water, food, and spare ammunition were all in the soldiers' backpacks, and the soldiers with gills discarded their backpacks according to the order when they grabbed the beach, because no one would have thought that they had occupied the beachhead, but the reinforcements were unable to land for a long time, and the fleet would retreat, although Shangfeng said that it was a temporary retreat, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force did not panic at all, they knew that Commander Song would not abandon them, and in the end it was just a little harder.
Liang Chao listened to the general statistics of various supplies, and he knew that if it weren't for the beaching of the St.
Mary's that brought some supplies to the beachhead troops.
His troops are now in a miserable state of running out of ammunition and food.
The Chinese Expeditionary Force troops on the beachhead exchanged fire with the Japanese army repeatedly, but they never gave up on the third line of defense, because the officers and men of the beachhead knew it.
It is said that there are three lines of defense, but in fact, there are only two lines of defense that can be used, and if they are beaten back to the last line of defense by the Japanese army, it will be no different from being dared to go into the sea by the Japanese army.
The officers and men of the Third Light Division of the Third Light Division are not the top troops in the First Corps of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and it is a coincidence that they can take on such a heavy task this time, and the officers and men of the Third Light Division cherish this hard-won opportunity, the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and the glorious banner needs blood to temper, and all the officers and men of the Third Light Division, including Liang Chao, regard the task of the first attack on Saipan as the ladder for the Third Light Division to become the trump card army The predecessor of the Third Light Division was the Temporary Thirteenth Division, which was fought for several days in Kunming City, and was fortunate to be selected by Song Yuhang and became a member of the expanded First Mechanized Army, so for Liang Chao.
Although he has served as the infantry commander of the Second Army, and the deputy commander is not far away, what he really thinks about in his heart is always the Third Light Division, which he started from, and most of the key officers in the division are the children of his Liang family.
Song Yuhang's transfer of him from the Third Light Division also made him depressed for a few days, after all, the position of infantry commander is not high or low, and there is also a suspicion of being promoted and secretly flattened, but the troops who have left the Pacific Theater have been finalized, and he was transferred back to the first; Liang Chao, who served as the division commander and the second deputy commander-in-chief of the front commander, and hung up the rank of lieutenant general in advance, can be said to be full of confidence this time, he also wants to become a hero like Song Yuhang, and let countless beauties be frivolous for him.
Song Yuhang and almost all the generals of the First Corps were fighting against the Japanese invaders for the sake of the nation and the country, the only difference was Liang Chao, under the premise of fighting a bloody battle against the Japanese invaders for the sake of the nation and the country.
He also has a personal little wish, that is, to become a hero who moves the whole country, so that his aunts and wives who talk all day long about marrying him and losing money can see what a real hero is, and by the way, he is meeting some new beauties."
If Liang Chao's thoughts or ideas were known to Song Yuhang, Song Yuhang's first reaction would definitely be to transfer him to the logistics farm managed by Xiao Guodong, because there are now more than 200 "girls" slaughtered every month.
However, what Song Yuhang was most worried about at the moment was the safety of Liang Chao and the landing force under his command, and the US Second Marine Division, the Fourth Marine Division, and the 27th Infantry Division were already about to blow up Turner's radio.
In particular, a US lieutenant at the Marquiches beachhead scolded his division commander Borden for being a bastard who cares about human life, Smith is the only senior commander of the US army to land, and his status as a major general and division commander has given Washington a high degree of attention, and American generals must not be captured by the Japanese army, this is Roosevelt's bottom line to Nimitz, if Nimitz cannot command and coordinate the landing operation well, Roosevelt will be influenced by Marshall to find suitable people, such as MacArthur.
Nimitz and Turner had no time to care about the landing force on the Saipan beachhead, because at the moment they were divided between them, the "Mrs.
Vilas" of the Task Force XVII of the Northern Fleet Cluster.
The escort aircraft carrier has already been attacked by Japanese carrier-based aircraft from the northwest.
The new Hornet, which belonged to the 17th Task Force, was also frantically besieged by Japanese planes, and the Hornet's thirty-two carrier-based planes had already been dispatched, and the remaining fighters circled over the aircraft carrier and circled with the Japanese planes, helplessly outnumbered.
Oh heart, reason.
Rear Admiral Felges, the commanding commander of the task force, should have immediately moved closer to the main force of the fleet, but Felges thought for a moment, and in a burst of surprise, he decided that the fleet would retreat in the opposite direction of the main force.
And the news of the attack on the fleet was transmitted back to the main forces of the fleet.
According to the practice of the Japanese Navy, there were no seats in the bridge, but due to the transcendent status of Yamamoto Isoroku and the deliberate welcome of Rear Admiral Kazuo Shida, the captain of the Yamato, in order to highlight the importance of Yamamoto to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
In the bridge of the Yamato, a seat was set up at the bottom left of the viewing seat of His Majesty the Emperor on the day of the launch, so that Isoroku Yamamoto, who was already looking old, did not have to suffer from standing for a long time.
Yamamoto Isoroku was stunned but did not forget what he had done, and when the blade frame mixed aircraft group he sent to surprise attack the light and heavy aircraft carrier formations of the 17th Task Force of the United States, which had been tracked by the old Ichi submarine for a long time, and the Japanese reconnaissance planes and submarines had originally transmitted information that the two aircraft carriers were only escorted by four destroyers, and the heavy aircraft carriers seemed to have released the carrier-based aircraft to stop for refueling, Yamamoto Isoroku thought hard for a long time, and finally he finally figured it out, this was not some bait for the US military, and the large fleet of the US Pacific Fleet was grouped.
Its cruisers and battleships must have been transferred to the waters of Saipan to serve as fire support formations.
As a result, the US aircraft carrier group is bound to be in a state of defensive emptiness.
Through the precise calculations and inferences of the combat staff officers, although Yamamoto 56 had already locked on the location of the US aircraft carriers, the sea area where the US aircraft carrier group was located was indeed on the edge of the maximum combat radius of the Japanese Zero fighters, and without the cover of the Zero fighters, it would have been impossible for the slow-moving lightning planes and horizontal bombers to approach the attack position.
And that kind of attack would be more than worth the cost.
In the end, Yamamoto decided to use a mixed cluster to surprise the U.S. fleet, sink its light carrier, and drive away the heavy aircraft carrier Hornet.
Yamamoto 56 has a deep memory of this US aircraft carrier, which was stupid, and after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, it was the bombers carried by this aircraft carrier that bombed Tokyo, causing the navy to lose face.
Later, in the Battle of Midway, he ordered that when conditions permitted, priority should be given to sinking the ship, and after the Battle of Midway, Nagumo Tadaichi personally handed over to himself aerial reconnaissance photos of the sinking of the US aircraft carrier Hornet, and at that time he also deliberately opened a bottle of aged wine for many years to celebrate the sword feud with Nagumo Tadaichi.
To Yamamoto's surprise, only a year later, this ghost-like hornet appeared again in the battle sequence of the US Pacific Fleet.
"How many more bumblebees do we have to sink?"
Yamamoto Fifty-six's emotion was full of helpless desolation, a feeling like the twilight of the sunset made Yamamoto very uncomfortable.
Yamamoto is well aware that every heavy aircraft carrier is very important to the navy of any country in the world, and to drive the Hornet to the main force of the US fleet, and the US military will inevitably send carrier-based aircraft to the rescue, and when all the fighters of the first echelon are shot down by the US military, it will be the time for the main force of the carrier-based aircraft of the United Fleet to dispatch.
According to Yamamoto's assumption, he could have used this beautiful time difference to deliver a devastating blow to the main ships of the US Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers.
However, no matter how good the tactics and operational planning are, it is always just a calculation" Yamamoto Isoroku's point of view is based on Japan's national conditions, a heavy aircraft carrier is indeed extremely valuable to Japan, which lacks resources, and if it is replaced by the Imperial Japanese Navy, even if it is aware of the trap, as long as there is a glimmer of possibility, the Japanese army will still rescue its own aircraft carrier.
Yamamoto 56 ignored that his opponent was the United States, a behemoth that he was shocked by and admired incomparably for its national strength, and when this behemoth really showed its fangs and claws, Ben 56 realized how naïve he was when he wanted to sweep away the thunder of the US Pacific Fleet and then force the Americans to negotiate peace, and it was he who gave this behemoth an excuse to jump into the battle circle.
Yamamoto fifty-six completely miscalculated, and Ferges, who was on the Hornet, was at ease under the siege of the Japanese machine, and from time to time told his subordinates a few small jokes about his hometown, and Fergers knew that as a qualified general, he should always give confidence and encouragement to his subordinates.
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From the moment he was appointed captain of the so-called ship of doom by the Admiralty of the USS Hornet.
He has always been ambitious to create a miracle and make his bumblebee work hard, but unfortunately the obsession with this ship of doom is too strong.
However, Ferges was surprised to find an anomaly in the Japanese air fleet, that is, the proportion of fighters in the Japanese air group seemed to be too large, and even in air battles, the Japanese planes did not leave the external auxiliary fuel tank, which surprised Fei Erges, who was born in naval aviation.
It was precisely this that prompted Felds to be determined to sacrifice himself and use his ship as a bait to lead the Japanese planes in the opposite direction of the main force of the fleet, so that the main force of the fleet could calmly prepare for war
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