At the beginning of the offensive, planes and naval artillery of the Miao-Australian coalition bombarded Saipan indiscriminately for nearly two hours, destroying a large number of fortifications and artillery positions of the island army.

Because he followed Jiang Haoran's suggestion and divided his troops to attack Tinian and Guam at the same time, there was a shortage of landing ships, so Nimitz concentrated his offensive focus in one place, and the location was set at Charangano on the west coast of Saipan.

After the bombing, the 4th Marine Division of the Mi Army began to land on the beach with more than 300 landing ships.

Dozens of battleships, heavy cruisers, and destroyers dropped anchor about 1,000 meters from the coastline of Chalangano, naval guns fiercely shelled the positions of the island army, and more than 100 planes taking off from the escort aircraft carrier suppressed the island army's fortifications with aviation fire.

The gunboats in the landing craft convoy were supported by 40-mm guns, and the amphibious tanks were on the flanks and in the middle of the tracked landing convoy to clear the Japanese obstacles and cover the landing of the tracked landing vehicles.

Under the cover of these fires, it took only an hour for the first batch of troops to land on the ground.

Sensing the threat, the island army braved the heavy fire of aircraft and naval guns to frantically counterattack, and all kinds of artillery fire poured down on the front line, causing the tracked landing vehicles of the Mi army to drive to the designated place at all.

The former enemy commander of the Mi army adjusted his tactics on the spot, unloaded the personnel near the waterline, and let the soldiers wade through the water to land.

However, the Mi Army Marine Corps did have a very good quality, and there was no trace of confusion, and the soldiers rushed forward with all their strength, and it took less than half an hour for a division to rush ashore, although countless corpses were left on the sea, but the first step of the beach-grabbing plan was successful.

Under the cover of aircraft and naval guns, the landing force quickly advanced and successfully laid down the enemy's first line of defense, which meant that they had a foothold on Saipan.

Next, the Miao-Australian coalition forces on the warships on the sea will follow the road they have walked, continuously march towards the island, and crush the island army with three times the strength of the island army.

And almost the same scene, staged at the same time on Tinian Island and Guam, the three important islands in the entire Mariana Islands are fighting on all fronts, and what awaits the 31st Army of the Island Army will be a battle that will never stop to the death.

Three days later, in the early morning, in the South China Sea, the command of the aircraft carrier "Qi Jiguang", the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Chinese Pacific Fleet.

Liu Dakun, commander-in-chief of the enemy, Zhao Liangyu, chief of staff, Xie Chen, commander of the Third Fleet, and general staff of the fleet, as well as military commanders of various divisions of the Yuanyi Group Army, gathered together.

Two hours later, when it was time for a large-scale attack, Liu Dakun convened a pre-war military meeting with all the generals.

"If there are no other problems, let's go back and prepare, set off at eight o'clock, and start landing on the beach at nine o'clock." Liu Dakun got up and said.

"Yes." All the generals stood up in unison and agreed with a bang.

Liu Dakun hammered a fist on the table with his right hand, and said fiercely: "Before leaving, I reiterate again, to get the main attack of this battle, I have made a military order in front of the main seat, if there is a round of chaos among the soldiers, the general seat will cut off my head, but you remember, before the head seat cuts off my head, I will definitely cut off your head first." ”

"Don't worry, Commander, we will never do such a dirty thing, and this time will be no exception, it's always too much to worry about." Duan Ruyi, the commander of the 211th Division, said unashamedly.

Liu Dakun's eyes bulged, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Bastard, the most worrying thing about Lao Tzu is your kid, the battle of the Leizhou Peninsula is your kid who took the lead in the little devil field hospital, don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't know." ”

There was a burst of laughter in the headquarters, but all the generals also said that this time, even if it was for Liu Dakun's head, they would definitely not do it again.

They probably never dreamed that it was Jiang Haoran's order that saved the lives of countless officers and soldiers of the Yuanyi Group Army, and the Miao-Australian coalition army was not so lucky.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the national air force appeared on the stage, and dense fighters and bombers flew over Subic Bay on the southwest coast of Luzon and began carpet bombing.

On the sea, warships of all types launched in unison, and the target direction was directed at Subic Bay.

Hori Eizan guessed correctly, the main direction of attack of the Yuanyi Army was Subic Bay, and even the landing place of the Airborne Division was not bad at all, which was Nasugbu south of Manila.

At this moment, in Lingjiayan Bay, northwest of Luzon Island, the First Fleet of the Navy is also attacking in formation, but it is only a feint, which is used to confuse the public, and there will be no substantive offensive posture.

At 8:30 a.m., more than 30 heavy cruisers, destroyers, and frigates of the Third Fleet dropped anchor more than 1,000 meters from the front line and set up an attack formation toward the coastline.

The carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier also began to take off one after another, cooperating with the heavy bombers of the Army Aviation to carry out fire suppression.

Explosions and fires erupted along the entire coastline, and the thick smoke of gunpowder made the entire forward position disappear.

More than 600 landing ships, carrying the 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions, began to advance to the shore with all their strength under the cover of aircraft and naval guns.

Originally, it was expected that it would be able to advance to the coastline on time and start the landing, but the minesweepers in front sent back information that the enemy had placed a large number of * in an area several hundred meters in front of the coastline, as well as countless shipwrecks, barbed wire, wooden spikes, and jagged concrete corner cones, which may not be cleared in a short time.

The landing was in a stalemate, and several hundred landing ships and warships were in a dilemma on the sea, so they could only temporarily drop anchor and wait for the progress of the minesweepers and salvage teams ahead.

Because the offensive momentum was blocked, the air force had to return to the air force one after another to refuel and reload ammunition to prepare for the next round of attacks.

The island army was able to breathe, the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the dense warships on the sea were enough to make the island army frightened, and the shore-based firepower began to return fire.

In the end, the island army has been operating in the Philippines for several years, and they have lost all the way in Southeast Asia, so they have long expected that they will have today, so they have already had a method, and the shore-based firepower is still very powerful, and dozens or hundreds of cannons with a caliber of more than 200 have opened fire on the coastline of more than 10 kilometers.

For a time, the water column on the sea soared into the sky, the explosions rumbled, and the landing ships were destroyed one after another, and the rest were also swaying in the huge waves set off by the shells.

The division was unfavorable, Liu Dakun jumped like thunder in the command headquarters, and urgently ordered the landing ships to anchor and disperse and retreat, away from the center of the explosion, and at the same time ordered the ship's guns to fire rapidly to suppress the fire.