Chapter 18 Everything is ready

Zhuo Fei's side has made all the preparations before the attack, and has also transferred the fleet in Jiaozhou Bay to Jeju Island, so the Umbrella's attack on the Japanese mainland this time is already ready to be launched. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info At the moment, Zhuo Fei is most concerned about the reaction of the Japanese, who were given a hard head-on blow by the US submarine force, and the Japanese, who have always been eager to retaliate, will definitely not do nothing.

The military commander has also sent a secret telegram to the nails lurking in the Japanese mainland, to pay attention to all the movements of the Japanese cabinet and the military in the near future, but the military commander did not expect that the purpose of Zhuo Fei's request for this information is to directly attack the Japanese mainland. Vivian couldn't remember how many times she had looked at her watch, but every time she felt that time was too slow, but she ignored that she had been waiting with Zhuo Fei in the command post for a full 5 hours.

In fact, in this command post on Jeju Island, there are not only Zhuo Fei and Vivian, but also more than 30 people in the command post, including Zhuo Fei's operational staff team. The place where 30 people gathered should have been full of hustle and bustle, but at this time, there was silence in the command post, and the only sounds were the radio stations in the corner of the command post. Everyone was waiting, waiting for the message that everyone was waiting for, and this message was the key to the attack on the Japanese mainland.

Time passed little by little, and it seemed that it was time for dinner, but the message that everyone was waiting for was still delayed. "Let's eat first, it's still early, maybe when we've eaten, the message will come." The first to break the silence was Zhuo Fei, the logistics staff officer in charge of logistics support had been hanging around the door of the command post several times, Zhuo Fei didn't want to deprive everyone of the right to eat because he was in a bad mood.

The seemingly sumptuous dinner did not make everyone's mood better, and even Zhuo Yan, who has always been very keen on eating, consciously slowed down, and his eyes would look at Zhuo Fei who was expressionless from time to time. "Boss, there's news from the military commander." An operational staff officer approached Zhuo Fei's side, lowered his voice and whispered to Zhuo Fei, who immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks and followed the combat staff officer back to the command post quickly.

The message sent by the military commander was a full two hours later than the agreed time, for no other reason than to confirm the authenticity of the message. After reading the telegram translated by the operator, the gloom on Zhuo Fei's face was immediately swept away, and the message sent by the military commander had confirmed his speculation, and the Japanese were indeed deceived. "Send a telegram to the Provisional Fleet at once, informing them to abandon the attack on Shikoku Island, and change the point of attack to Nagasaki in the western part of Kyushu Island, and if the war goes well, the attack area can be extended north to Sasebo."

Zhuo Fei's original mission to the Provisional Fleet was to attack Shikoku Island in order to attract or mobilize Japanese military forces on Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island, and then find an opportunity to attack the seaports and docks of Honshu Island to completely disrupt the situation on the Japanese mainland. However, the message sent by the military commander forced Zhuo Fei to change the mission of the temporary fleet, because the Japanese fleet that was attacked by the US submarine force did not return to the Japanese mainland, but continued to sail to Hawaii according to the original plan, and it was completely impossible for the current sea power in Japan to pose a threat to the temporary fleet.

There was no sea force in the Japanese mainland that could restrain the temporary fleet, and it was impossible for Zhuo Fei to waste the temporary fleet on the task of diverting the enemy's attention. "Order the fleet to lift anchor and target Nagasaki." According to the attack plan, Zhuo Fei first ordered the fleet that had arrived on Jeju Island a few hours earlier to set off first, and then issued another order to prepare all the fighters under the umbrella on the Jiaodong Peninsula to prepare for battle.

After thinking about it many times in his mind, and then conducting a sand table deduction with his combat staff, Zhuo Fei sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing. Chiang Kai-shek, who received the telegram, could hardly sleep at night, and pondered alone in his study for a long time, not caring that it was late at night, so he hurriedly summoned his henchmen to his official residence for discussion. "What? The umbrella is going to attack the island of Kyushu? "Not every confidant who was summoned to the official residence by Chiang Kai-shek knew the inside story, and there were many people who were surprised to hear about it.

Among the senior generals of the national army, no one doubts the combat power of the umbrella, but in the high-level government, there are still people who privately say that Zhuo Fei is just a hairy boy who has not dried up. But this hairy boy in their mouths may do earth-shattering things right now, which has to make these guys who have always looked down on Zhuo Fei a little overwhelmed. Attacking the Japanese mainland, perhaps many Chinese have dreamed of this day, but almost everyone knows that it is just a dream.

Compared with the national government with millions of soldiers, Zhuo Fei's umbrella company is just a toddler, but this toddler is now doing what everyone dreams of. "Zhuo Fei has rushed to Jeju Island to sit down, and sent me a telegram, saying that the arrow is ready to be sent and has to be sent. I called you here not to discuss whether Zhuo Fei was bold or not, but to discuss whether we should do something or do nothing and just be a spectator. Chiang Kai-shek looked around at his henchmen lightly, and the expressions on everyone's faces were taken into his eyes.

"Chairman, I don't know how many troops are going to be mobilized on the umbrella side? According to the information we have, the Japanese have deployed a large number of aircraft on their homeland. Moreover, on the islands around the Japanese mainland, the Japanese have also deployed troops and aircraft, and if the umbrella directly attacks Kyushu Island, it may first encounter interception and strikes by the Japanese air force. Zhou Zhirou, who was the former commander-in-chief of the Air Force's former enemy command at the time, was the first to raise questions, and at the same time, this question was also the most concerned by others.

Chiang Kai-shek did not answer Zhou Zhirou's question immediately, but looked at the telegrams sent by Zhuo Fei, and then took out a few of them and handed them to Zhou Zhirou. "All the planes of the umbrella have been assembled on the Jiaodong Peninsula and Jeju Island in advance, and the fleet of 120 heavy bombers and 130 transport planes will be the first wave of the attack, and one hour after the start of the air attack on Kyushu Island, the British flying team that has arrived from India to help in the war will take over the bombing mission."

"After two rounds of bombing, the newly built airborne division of the umbrella will carry out the airborne landing of troops on Kyushu Island, and then there will be a first-class bombing to provide fire support for the airborne troops. The figures provided to us by Zhuo Fei should not be fake, they will use 1,400 sorties of various aircraft to bomb Kyushu Island, and 350 fighters will serve as escorts. Chiang Kai-shek's figures were actually just numbers on the telegrams, and the actual number of fighters in the umbrella was not the only one, because Chiang Kai-shek ignored the carrier-based aircraft of the temporary fleet and the flight fleet of the United States and Australia.

1,400 sorties of fighters participated in the bombing operation, and the eyes of everyone present all showed envy; when the national army and the Japanese army were fighting fiercely on the battlefield, the air support provided by this side was at most a dozen old-fashioned old planes, and there would be a big scene of using more than 1,000 planes at once like a protective umbrella. But Zhou Zhirou was still not very satisfied, because he knew that the number of Japanese fighters deployed on the mainland had already exceeded 2,000, and if the umbrella flight team and the Japanese aviation unit fought hard, they might only end up with no return.

It's just that Zhou Zhirou's worries haven't come true, what Zhou Zhirou can know, how can Zhuo Fei not know. When the battle plan for attacking the Japanese mainland was formulated, Zhuo Fei and his staff officers were most worried about the Japanese army's aviation on the mainland, in addition to the Japanese navy deployed on the mainland. The large-scale withdrawal of Japanese troops from China did give China a chance to breathe and rejuvenate, but it also caused Japan to gather a large number of troops and equipment, especially the Japanese army's air force on the ground reached an unprecedented state.

Zhou Zhirou said that there are more than 2,000 fighters in Japan, in fact, his statement has long been outdated, according to the latest intelligence obtained by Zhuo Fei, so far, the number of fighters in Japan has already exceeded 3,200. The biggest obstacle to attacking the Japanese mainland was these 3,200 Japanese fighters, and Zhuo Fei, who was the commander-in-chief of the operation, could not ignore this difficult problem, and it was impossible to fight hard, so when the Dangkou army went south to attack Daejeon, he had already ordered three special forces trained to disguise themselves and blend into the Korean Japanese army.

It has been several months since the capture of Daejeon by the Dangkou Army, and those special forces members disguised as Japanese soldiers have already followed the retreating army into the Japanese mainland, and through the nails arranged by the military commander in the Japanese mainland, these special forces members have already lurked near various military airports in the Japanese mainland, and they will launch attacks on these military airports when Zhuo Fei's order comes. Zhuo Fei didn't expect to rely on more than 200 special forces soldiers to destroy all the fighters in the Japanese mainland, all he wanted was to destroy as many Japanese fighters as possible, and at the same time create riots in the Japanese mainland to facilitate and help the attack on Kyushu Island.

Zhuo Fei, who had a good night's sleep, woke up and heard the first good news and the first bad news of the day, the good news was that in order to support the umbrella attack on the Japanese mainland, Sir James, who had already taken charge of the North African war, sent all 1,200 British fighters from the North African battlefield to Jiaodong. The bad news is that Sir James has sent too many fighters, and the fighters that have been assembled in Jiaodong by the umbrella earlier, it seems that the secret airfields built on the Jiaodong Peninsula are not enough.