The temporary fleet commanded by McHausen went south to the waters of Okinawa and did only one thing, that is, to block as many ships and planes as possible from returning to the mainland by the Japanese army. McHauson was able to distinguish between the priorities and the priorities of www.biquge.info and chose to turn a blind eye to Okinawa, which was close at hand, but put all his energy into intercepting the Japanese army in Taiwan. As a matter of fact, the Provisional Fleet had already bombed Okinawa when it attacked the Japanese mainland in the previous time, and naturally it would not be excluded this time; as soon as the Provisional Fleet approached Okinawa, McHausen ordered carrier-based planes to carry out a strong bombing of several Japanese airfields in Okinawa.

As the saying goes, the predecessors planted trees and the later people enjoyed the shade, McHausen did not attack Okinawa, but the US-Australian coalition troops who came later picked up a big bargain. The current Okinawa is not the bloody Okinawa in Zhuo Fei's memory, after all, the US military has not yet launched a full-scale Pacific War, and the Japanese army has not stationed a large number of troops in Okinawa who fought against the water. After gaining the support of the Provisional Fleet, the landing force under MacArthur's command immediately launched a strong landing on Okinawa, and the loss of air superiority by the Japanese forces in Okinawa became the luck of the United States and Australia.

"Is this the rocket artillery weapon of the Umbrella?" MacArthur, who had been staring ahead with a telescope, asked the adjutant standing next to him that this was the first time he had seen rocket artillery used on a large scale in a landing operation. The ships that served as rocket batteries had already been completely enveloped in the heavy smoke after the rocket launches, and the landing site a few nautical miles away had already been covered by the smoke and flames rising from the sky. MacArthur couldn't imagine how much of the Japanese troops on the shore would survive under such dense artillery fire, and how many would still have combat effectiveness.

MacArthur's personal adjutant was also not very familiar with the rocket artillery weapons of the umbrella, so he had to temporarily ask an officer of the Zionist army to ask, but when the Zionist army broke away from the umbrella, the rocket artillery had not yet been equipped with the troops under the umbrella on a large scale, let alone deployed rocket artillery weapons on ocean ships. MacArthur was somewhat depressed when he didn't get the answer he wanted, but the news from the landing force at the front made MacArthur's mood instantly better, and his troops had successfully landed.

The forward troops of the US-Australian coalition rushed to the beach with the help of the cover artillery fire in the sky, but the Japanese troops, who were suppressed by the strong artillery fire of the temporary fleet, could hardly raise their heads, but they preferred to die rather than retreat, and the remnants of the Japanese troops who were lucky not to be covered by the rocket artillery and took their lives immediately launched a counterattack. For the sake of the safety of his own ships, McHausen had to order the temporary fleet to retreat to the open sea, while the Japanese took the opportunity to deploy troops to the shoreline to fortify the position.

The soldiers of the American and Australian coalition forces who poured into the beach like a tide launched attacks one after another, and were repelled by the Japanese troops who were waiting for them wave after wave, because of the large number of casualties in the troops and the lack of follow-up troops, in the face of the strong attack of the American and Australian coalition forces like a mad tiger, the Japanese army had to take the initiative to abandon the first line of defense. The cheers on the beach were one after another, the soldiers of the American and Australian coalitions who had captured the first line of defense of the Japanese army cheered in unison, and even MacArthur, who was still floating at sea, was happy.

The US-Australian coalition cheered loudly, but the temporary fleet watched coldly, and McHauson, as the commander of the fleet, was even more disdainful. "A bunch of fools, don't you think that taking a peripheral defense line is even taking the whole of Okinawa, hehe, the good show is still waiting for you, I hope you will be so optimistic at that time." McHausen is actually not optimistic about this landing operation of the US-Australian coalition forces, and compared with the performance of the umbrella troops on Kyushu Island, the US-Australian coalition forces are like an imbecile at the moment.

It would be absolutely impossible to say that McHausen was not interested in Okinawa, but after taking all the information that the umbrella could gather, McHausen knew that he would not be able to launch a landing operation on Okinawa at the moment with his own temporary fleet alone. MacArthur's voluntary invitation and the participation of the US-Australian coalition forces gave McHausen the opportunity to test the combat effectiveness of the Japanese forces in Okinawa, and if it were not for this, he would not have mobilized the rocket artillery ships of the temporary fleet to provide covering artillery support for the US-Australian coalition forces.

With overwhelming artillery support and air superiority to completely suppress the opposing side, it took the US-Australian coalition more than four hours to send the forward troops to the beach. If it weren't for the second round of suppressive artillery support provided by the rocket artillery ships of the Temporary Fleet, perhaps the forward forces of the US-Australian coalition would have been pinned down on the beach by the remnants of the Japanese army, let alone the first line of defense of the Japanese army.

In any case, the landing battle of the US-Australian coalition was a good start, and after taking the opponent's first line of defense, the follow-up troops of the US-Australian coalition army braved the sporadic artillery fire of the Japanese army in Okinawa and began to send troops to the beach one after another and build positions. MacArthur was very satisfied with the large number of casualties among his troops, and compared with the casualties of his soldiers, MacArthur paid more attention to the follow-up attack on the Japanese troops in Okinawa.

After receiving a telegram from the Japanese army in Okinawa asking for help, the Japanese cabinet members, who were already exhausted, were about to go crazy, God knows what happened, it seems that since the armistice between the empire and the government of China, bad luck has been following the empire. First, the Empire's military operations in Southeast Asia were resisted by the combined efforts of the Umbrella and the United States and Australia, then the Empire's forces in the northeastern and Far East regions of China were encircled and suppressed, and then the situation on the Korean Peninsula deteriorated further, forcing the Empire to make another concession and voluntarily withdraw all its troops from the territory of China.

But before everyone could celebrate the victory of the Imperial Army in the Americas, the Korean Peninsula deteriorated again, and the area controlled by the Imperial Army had been fully compressed to the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, and the Umbrella revealed an offensive posture against the Imperial mainland. Before the Umbrella launched a surprise attack on Kyushu, no one, including the Emperor, would have believed that the Umbrella would take the initiative to provoke the Empire of Japan, but it turned out that they were all wrong, and the Umbrella did launch an attack on the Empire of Japan.

The attack on a sovereign country by an armed force with almost no roots is undoubtedly explosive news that most countries in the world cannot believe. But the umbrella has done so, and now it has controlled more than three-fifths of the territory of Kyushu Island, and the Japanese cabinet has not yet thought of how to deal with the attack of the umbrella, but it has received the news that the United States and Australia have launched an attack on Okinawa, which is undoubtedly worse, and the Japanese cabinet members suddenly feel more pressured.

What to do? The Emperor of Japan, who heard the news, convened the cabinet members to discuss countermeasures, and because of the decision to continue to send troops to the American theater to expand the war, there were not many so-called elite troops left in Japan. At present, more than half of the Japanese troops mobilized by Hideki Tojo to Kyushu Island are second-line troops and new divisions that have never been on the battlefield, and in the face of the vicious umbrella troops, the cabinet members know that these new troops who have not been on the battlefield will definitely not be the opponents of the umbrella.

"Why don't you send someone to ask Zhuo Fei what he wants? The Umbrella is a mercenary organization, and they will definitely not have any national righteousness in their hearts, and it is likely that this war against the empire itself was hired by the United States and Britain. "Finally a member of the cabinet made a suggestion, and after some deliberation, it was decided that before there was any other good way, it was better to send an envoy to Kyushu Island to test the purpose of the umbrella.

Knowing that the Japanese cabinet had sent a special envoy to Kyushu Island, Zhuo Fei did not show up, but gave up this opportunity to meet with the Japanese envoy to Vivian, who had just come to Kyushu Island from Chongqing and was a little eager to try. Vivien has always been the head of the umbrella's external affairs, and sending Vivian to meet with the Japanese envoy is not a disrespectful act on the umbrella side. The meeting between the two sides took place in Xiongen Prefecture, and in order to show his sincerity, the Japanese envoy only brought a few personal entourages with him, and Zhuo Fei did not order a halt to the attack on the northern part of Kyushu Island.

In order to show the determination and attitude of the umbrella, Vivian ordered a large sand table and military map to be prepared at the meeting place, and then every hour, the attack route and current location of the umbrella troops would be updated on the sand table and map. Vivien's ostentatious behavior added great pressure to the Japanese envoy and his party, and no one could maintain their composure and composure in this atmosphere.

"If I were you, I wouldn't have come here in vain to ask what our umbrella wants, but I would have seized the time to arrange a way out." Vivien looked at the other with a smile, and the more flustered the other person's face became, the stronger the smile on Vivien's face became. "Actually, there is no deep hatred between our umbrella and you Japan, but this time the umbrella's military action against the Japanese mainland will never be easily stopped and abandoned, because the umbrella has always paid great attention to credibility."

Vivien's last words made the Japanese envoy feel moved, and this sentence alone can show that the Umbrella's military operation against the Imperial mainland was a passive act of hiring, not a unilateral initiative of the Umbrella. Before the excitement in the Japanese envoy's heart dissipated, Vivien threw out another big news, "I don't know what kind of decision you will make, but I want to tell you in advance that the Chinese government will soon declare another declaration of war on Japan." ”

"Once the government declares war on Japan, more than 2 million Chinese troops will be drawn here, I don't know how many troops you still have to mobilize, and I don't know if you can withstand a full-scale war against you, I just want to remind you. If there is no way to resist our all-out attack, it is better to make a plan, I personally think that you are fighting well on the American continent, maybe it will be a good choice and decision to take the initiative to withdraw from the American continent. ”