The Corpses Expeditionary Force is taking advantage of Hawaii's military strength and material security with the strong American dogs, trying to rebuild a steel force, and a large number of repeated exercises have enabled Chinese soldiers to become more familiar with the performance and tactical characteristics of the US military's weapons, so as to give greater play to the firepower strike effect of American weapons and seek perfect cooperation with all arms of the US military.
After the Battle of Saipan, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, after replenishing some of the lost carrier-based aircraft, did not withdraw to the country for refurbishment in accordance with Yamamoto's plan, because the US Navy's Pacific Fleet did not give them this opportunity.
In order to prevent the U.S. military from occupying the Philippines, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet had to drag its scarred body back and cooperate with the Army to break through the U.S. military.
The Japanese and US militaries invested all their naval abundance in the Pacific Theater in this war, and the naval battle was carried out from the old month to the day of the old moon, and within six days, the Japanese and Allied forces invested more than 2 million tons of ships, and about Wu aircraft carriers, the main ship of the battleship, the destroyer Qin, and the military aircraft near the export took part in the largest battle in the Pacific Theater.
Although the Japanese navy was inferior, after losing the battles of Saipan and the Mariana Islands, if it lost the Philippines or Taiwan, the lifeblood of the resources of the empire's "southern route" to the mainland would be cut off, and the connection with China, Korea, and the mainland in Southeast Asia would be severed.
Yamamoto therefore decided to concentrate all his forces on the first attempt to repel the Allied landing force on Leyte and defeat its maritime power.
In the face of the strategic deployment of the Japanese army, after several considerations, the Allied side gave up attacking Taiwan and landed from the Philippines first, and was determined to cover the landing with superior military strength, and crushed the Japanese navy that came to support it in one fell swoop, because only by mastering the absolute sea supremacy, the powerful land forces of the allied forces will exert the greatest power and give the enemy the most fierce blow, because the target of this battle is the Philippines in the Chinese agreement, so the Chinese Expeditionary Force only sent an officer observation group as an observer, Song Yuhang knows very well that now is the time to eat meat, Waiting for the time to gnaw the bones will be the turn of their Chinese expeditionary force.
As expected, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was far inferior in numbers, was defeated.
Large warships above the cruiser were sunk.
Japan's sea-based and land-based air forces in the area of Lebin suffered a devastating blow, and the serious losses of the Japanese army in the Philippines affected the strength of Japan's overall strategic situation, and the Japanese Navy ceased to be a complete strategic force in the Pacific War, and the US military successfully captured the Philippine Islands after this campaign.
Lay a solid foundation for future attacks on Iwo Jima, Okinawa and other places.
Due to the hopelessness of the battle, the Japanese army base camp decided to launch the "kamikaze special assault team" for the first time in this campaign.
A small suicide attack, the cruiser Australia, which belongs to Australia in the old moon and the sun, was heavily damaged, which seems to show that the special attack has some effect, from the old moon 10,000 days.
The Japanese began organized large-scale suicide attacks on Allied ships.
The army and navy of the Chinese Expeditionary Force are training in an intense and orderly manner, and Song Yuhang also has a rare time to calm down and think about the future development of the Chinese Expeditionary Force; the international war situation at this moment can be said to be changing, and the strategic superiority achieved by the Soviet army in the early stage of the European battlefield was quickly resolved by the German army, because the entire Caucasus is under the control of the German army, the Soviet army's crude oil supply is in short supply, and the Soviet army, which cannot be compared with the German army in terms of mobility, is superior to the German army in terms of strength.
However, it was never possible to effectively form a campaign division and encirclement of the German army, so the strategic counteroffensive of the Soviet army turned into a tug-of-war of attrition between the two sides.
In a series of landing operations in Italy and North Africa, the landing force commanded by the American army did not go smoothly in Italy, and the landing force commanded by Barton was frantically counterattacked by the German and Italian armies in Italy, and it was obvious that the second battlefield in the hinterland of Europe was not so easy to open up, so the Allies decided to carry out a larger-scale landing operation in Zego, and the target of the operation would be directly aimed at France occupied by the German army.
It is clear that history has changed dramatically.
Song Yuhang knew that if he could command the Chinese expeditionary force to land in Japan before the death of President Roosevelt in April of the United States, then the Americans' atomic bomb would be useless, and if the Japanese occupation rights were exchanged for a small place like Indonesia or Burma, Song Yuhang believed that the Americans would be very willing, provided that the British would not interfere with it.
The reason why Song Yuhang desperately wanted the United States to change its strategy of first Europe and then Asia was completely because he wanted to use the German chariot to consume the huge red empire of the Soviet Union, so that Japan would fall before Germany.
This is the arrangement that is most in line with China's interests, because in the original history, China, as the victorious country of World War II, did not receive any compensation, not only that, but also lost a large part of the country, and the division of Mongolia was caused by the ambition of the polar bear and the dirty intentions of some people, and China, as the victorious country, lost a large part of its inherent territory, and the culprit was not lost in the past.
Song Yuhang absolutely could not sit idly by and watch history repeat itself, even if he risked the world's condemnation to launch an attack on the Soviet Union, he did not hesitate to do so, and the Chinese people shed blood for it and sacrificed the land they defended.
Some of the deaths express the determination and ambition of the Chinese people to defend the territorial integrity of the country and the freedom of the nation.
Song Yuhang knew that this was the main reason why Roosevelt dared to use the Chinese Expeditionary Force on a large scale, because the Chinese Expeditionary Force did not have a stable logistics system, and all relied on the support of the US military, and in terms of China's comprehensive national strength, it could not afford the astronomical consumption of this force.
In Roosevelt's subjective wishes, he hoped that China could be called a part of the US global strategy in Abyss, and that the Chinese expeditionary force, which was extremely combative, would be called the forefoot of the US army.
However, Roosevelt gave strong support to Song Yuhang's request to establish a production line in Kunming and other matters to achieve self-sufficiency, but in fact he asked Marshall and others to delay under many excuses such as insufficient transportation capacity, and the Americans did not want the Chinese expeditionary force to get out of their control.
For Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Expeditionary Force was like a bargaining chip that was constantly appreciating, and he wanted to exchange the interests of the part for the interests of the whole; From a certain point of view.
Song Yuhang and his Chinese expeditionary force were already doomed to a tragic end It is a great pity that the development of history and events has never been carried out according to people's subjective wishes, and since the US military captured the Mariana Islands in August, it has begun to establish air bases and dispatch heavy strategic bombers to attack the Japanese mainland.
However, the Mariana Islands are nearly a nautical mile from the Japanese mainland, and due to the limitation of the range, the Mariana Islands can only carry 3 tons of bombs due to the range restrictions.
It is only a paste with the maximum bomb load of the feather.
Moreover, because the range was too long, the fighters could not escort the whole process, so Yu could only carry out area bombing at the height of Baowa to Gami, and the effect was very unsatisfactory.
Iwo Jima is 0 nautical miles west of Tokyo in the north and 6 nautical miles away from Saipan in the Mariana Islands in the south, almost in the middle of the two places, and the Japanese troops on the island can not only provide early warning to Tokyo, but can also take off fighter planes to intercept them, and even constantly dispatch planes to attack US airfields on Saipan and other places, which has greatly reduced the role of the US military in strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland.
Iwo Jima is like a throat for the U.S. militaryIf the U.S. forces occupy Iwo Jima, all the disadvantages will be turned into advantages, and the flight range from Iwo Jima will be cut in half.
The bomb load can be doubled, and fighter jets can provide escort for the entire journey if they take off from Iwo Jima.
Even such medium-sized bombers can take off from Iwo Jima to attack the Japanese mainland, and more importantly, Iwo Jima can also be used as an alternate airfield for the injured to land or refuel.
Therefore, it is imperative for the US military to win the US Army Air Force, that is, Admiral Arnold, the predecessor commander of the US Air Force, to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff to capture Iwo Jima on the other day.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff immediately agreed to this request and tasked the Pacific Theater with undertaking the operation.
Admiral Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Theater and commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, was the commander-in-chief of the Iwo Jima Campaign, and Song Yuhang was the commander-in-chief of the ground forces.
At the end of the new year, the personnel of the Pacific Fleet Command worked out a plan for attacking Iwo Jima, and the ground of the Chinese Expeditionary Force under the First Corps believed that the Second Mechanized Corps and the Third Mechanized Corps under the First Corps of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had under their jurisdiction the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Light Infantry Divisions, the Mountain Infantry Cluster, the Chinese Expeditionary Force's gunboat and aircraft brigade was short of personnel, the Navy Transport and Escort Brigade, the First Marine Brigade, and the Sixth Heavy Artillery Division of the US Army, totaling about 140,000 people.
All ground forces were commanded by Song Yuhang, the landing formation and support formation were commanded by Vice Admiral Kelly Turner of the US Pacific Fleet, and the No. 1 Mixed Formation commanded by Vice Admiral Mitchell was responsible for sea and air cover.
Song Yuhang knew that although the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest command body of the United States, had approved the operational plan for landing on Iwo Jima, the Chinese Expeditionary Force did not have the actual ability to land on the island and seize the beach at the moment, and there were still problems in coordination and coordination with various branches of the US military.
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