Chapter 56: The Pacific Campaign
The Japanese militarists instigated Emperor Hirohito to launch an attack on Pearl Harbor, His Majesty the United States broke the contract to support Asia to cut off our country's resources, oil and steel, and Southeast Asia is in our hands, what are the Yankees!
The great German Führer Hitler occupied France, Finland, and we occupy Asia on the horizon, send troops, since the Yankees don't give, then we will go to the Yankees where to take it, the Anglo-French alliance is even more vulnerable to our Imperial Japanese army, the garbage is very, our troops are sent to destroy him, as long as the American army is defeated, our resources, money, and oil will be continuously transported back to Japan, and we will be rich, Emperor Hirohito believed that he ordered the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet to be Vice Admiral Yamamoto 56, Hasegawa asked about 360 planes and 55 warships, led by Tadaichi Nagumo, to attack US warships and airfields at Pearl Harbor twice in succession, sinking or damaging 19 warships, including 8 battleships, and destroying or damaging more than 260 aircraft.
The U.S. military was caught off guard, and the main force of the Pacific Fleet was almost completely destroyed, with more than 3,000 dead and wounded. At the same time, the Japanese Southern Army, commanded by Terauchi Shouichi, had more than 400,000 troops, divided its troops into several ways to attack **, Malaya, the Philippines, Indonesia and Burma.
The Japanese army also attacked some strategic islands of the allies in the central and southern Pacific Ocean, such as Guam, Wake Island, Bismarck Islands, New Britain Island, and other places, achieving the goal of establishing air force forward bases.
In October and November 1940, in order to cut off the connection between the United States and Australia, Japan successively attacked the Solomon Islands, eastern New Guinea and Midway.
In the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7~8) and the Battle of Midway (June 4~5), the Japanese suffered heavy losses.
On August 7 of the same year, the U.S. military began a local counteroffensive and landed on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands, starting a long-term battle.
Because the United States had gained air and sea supremacy, the Japanese company suffered heavy losses, killing 24,600 people and losing more than 30 ships and 300 aircraft.
The remnants were forced to withdraw from the island in February 1943. After the Battle of Kuah, the war was relatively quiet, and the US military launched only limited attacks in the Pacific (such as the recapture of Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in May 1943); Although the Japanese counterattacked, it was in vain.
In April of the same year, Japanese Navy commander Isoroku Yamamoto was ambushed and killed by a US plane. In November 1940, the Allies began a major counteroffensive, commanded by C.W. Nimitz and D. MacArthur, respectively, to attack the Japanese occupation zone from the Central Pacific and the Southwest Pacific.
In the spring and summer of 1941, the United States seized the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands, which were under Japanese mandate.
In January, the Battle of Leyte Gulf broke out, and the Japanese navy and air force were completely depleted. In February, the Northeast Revolutionary Army dispatched 4 mechanized troops in the area of Beiping in the area of Jinmen to launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army there, on March 15, the revolutionary army navy just set off in Jinmen to attack the Japanese puppet army in Weihai, Yantai and Qingdao, and the Tianjin Army began to go south to compress the devils, and on April 15, the revolutionary army landed in the coastal area of Shandong with the cooperation of bombers and navy, and on the 20th, the revolutionary army was stationed in Jinan, and the Japanese puppet army fled to Xuzhou and Tengzhou in large numbers, and then fought fiercely with the eight-way guerrillas and the Kuomintang army there. After the Japanese launched the Pacific Battle, the British, French, and American coalition forces attacked Japan, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, the first military factory of the Northern Revolutionary Army was successfully developed with the help of Germany, and the new weapon radar was born, the Nanjing Revolutionary Army launched an attack on Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the Shanghai Revolutionary Army Navy mobilized a large number of destroyers to launch an artillery bombardment on the Japanese puppet army in Fuzhou, and the Southern Revolutionary Army defeated the Japanese puppet army in May and entered Anhui and Zhejiang. Li Ming knew that there was not much time for him, the Japanese emperor ordered the Japanese army to lay down their arms and surrender, and in the order of Gangcun Ningci, they could only surrender like the national army, the revolutionary army on May 20 Tengzhou devils did not surrender like the revolutionary army, Li Ming received an order and then launched an attack on the Tengzhou Japanese puppet army, Lao Jiang used this as an excuse to say that Li was a rebel, and then the United States signed an agreement with Stalin to give Kulen to the Soviet Union, and Lao Chiang signed and agreed, Li Ming saw these reports and sent almost all bombers in the south to attack, and on June 10, the revolutionary army took Tengzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, on the 25th, the revolutionary army was attacked by the Japanese puppet army, the national name party army, both sides had losses, the local guerrillas also joined the revolutionary army against the national army, the Japanese puppet army, the battle that should have ended did not stop, ** The Japanese army surrendered like the British, on the 15th, the revolutionary army guerrillas, the Eighth Route Army, and the New Fourth Army united to form an alliance, and in July the revolutionary army navy launched an attack on Kinmen Island and Hainan Island, and the Japanese puppet army was bombed by fourteen large groups of bombers, and the fierce battle was lost for a day and a night, The British, French, American, and Italian forces began to attack Germany, the naval forces of the Southern Revolutionary Army landed in the South China Sea, and more than 150 destroyers blocked the sea.