Chapter 1062: Island Hopping Tactics
According to post-war statistics, the bombing caused nearly 100,000 casualties, and most of them died from napalm sticking to burning to death, and the scene was extremely cruel and terrifying. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Countless factories and houses were burned, and even the Meiji Shrine, which was dedicated to the Meiji Emperor of the island country, was burned to the ground, but fortunately, Roosevelt, out of humanity, strictly ordered the air force to avoid schools and palaces, otherwise the casualties and losses would be greater.
If Jiang Haoran were to command this mission, the result might be completely different, not to mention the school, the palace would definitely become the focus of this bombing, and it would be better to take all the rats and bugs in Hirohito's nest.
In fact, casualties and material damage are nothing, and the greatest effect is that it has caused an indescribable psychological shock to this nation that has thought that its homeland will not be attacked for generations, and it has had a huge psychological impact on those radicals in the general staff headquarters of the island country.
The apotheosis of "the locust army is brave and invincible" collapsed overnight in the hearts of the people of the island country, because the war made their happy life miserable, and they still have to suffer from the suffering of their relatives at any time, and even have "broken jade", now even their survival is threatened, and the anti-war and war-weariness are irrepressibly growing in the hearts of the people.
After dropping all the bombs, the 24 B-25 bombers quickly withdrew from the sky over the island country and headed for the East China Sea.
Because the island army did not think of this air attack at all, there was almost no defense, and when they reacted, they immediately sent fighters and bombers to look for the Mi aircraft carrier fleet, who knew that the aircraft carrier fleet was already far away from them, and when they turned back to pursue the bomber group, 24 B-25 bombers had already entered the sky over the East China Sea.
Major General Chennault, deputy commander-in-chief of the Southeast Asian Theater Air Group, personally led dozens of fighters to form a huge air formation over the East China Sea to welcome the hero's triumphant return.
Dozens of minutes later, all 24 B-25 bombers landed at Wenzhou airfield, and there were no casualties. In this regard, I don't know how many times stronger than in history, but none of the 16 bombers in history survived, and all of them were shot down by the island army or ran out of fuel and crashed.
At this point, the entire Battle of Midway was completely over, and the Sino-Mi coalition forces won an absolute victory.
The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific region closer to the strength of the islands and aircraft carriers. Although the loss of seven of the island's 25 aircraft carriers seems harmless, four of these seven aircraft carriers are the island's most offensive main carriers.
At the same time, more than 500 air units of the island army were killed and more than 20,000 sailors were killed or captured. These are all elite veterans of the island army who have experienced countless baptisms of war since the war of aggression against China, and they are far more precious treasures of the island army than aircraft carrier warships, and even if it takes another three to five years, the island army will not be able to restore its previous combat effectiveness.
From then on, it was inevitable that the island army would lose its strategic initiative in the Pacific theater, and the war situation took an important turn in favor of the allied forces.
At noon on the same day, the news of the successful bombing of Tokyo reached Midway Island, and the laughter and noise on the island shook the sky, and the officers and men of the United States and the Chinese student soldiers fell into a state of complete madness and were so excited that they could not help themselves.
But Jiang Haoran and Nimitz stayed out of the matter, locked themselves in the war room and didn't come out at all.
Nimitz has always been thinking about the "gift" that Jiang Haoran promised him, so as soon as the war ended, he couldn't wait to drag Jiang Haoran into the war room, and Jiang Haoran certainly wouldn't break his promise.
The general trend of the combined fleet of the island army in the Pacific theater has passed, and the next step will be to usher in an all-out counteroffensive by the Mi army, and the battle for islands in the Pacific Ocean will also begin.
And Jiang Haoran's so-called "gift" is a set of tactics for this series of battles -- island hopping tactics.
The so-called island-hopping tactic is to break through the mindset and not adopt the conventional tactic of recovering each island one by one, but to jump over the next island and capture the next island after recovering one island, especially skipping the relatively well-defended island, and to isolate the islands occupied by the island army by means of sea and air blockade through island hopping, forcing them to finally surrender.
Its characteristic is that it avoids the strong strongholds of the island army, instead lands on the weakly defended islands, and then makes use of the abundant engineering capacity and material supplies of the Mi army to quickly establish advance airfields and ports, and then carries out a naval and air blockade of the bypassed strongholds of the island army. In this way, not only can you avoid the loss of direct attack, but you can also move forward quickly.
The island army has a strong stronghold, and after being blockaded, it has suffered air raids every day, and even supplies have become a problem, and they often do nothing or destroy themselves, so that the defense chain established by the island army has become fragmented, and they cannot take care of each other, and a large number of personnel and war materials have been consumed in vain, so that the recovery of the Philippines by the Mi army is just around the corner.
After Jiang Haoran explained and drilled on the sand table, Nimitz finally understood the full essence of this set of tactics, and praised Jiang Haoran's plan.
And the reason why Jiang Haoran gave this opportunity to make a contribution to Nimitz is that he actually has his own little Jiujiu in his heart, he will never give it to others for nothing, and he will consider his own interests first at every step.
Nimitz's promise to help him build a navy is only a small profit, and he really doesn't like this, once the Mimi army starts the battle for the Pacific islands, the island army has to increase troops in the Pacific Ocean again, which can not only relieve the pressure on the domestic battlefield, but also reduce the pressure on Burma accordingly. At the same time, with Nimitz as a strong reinforcement in the Pacific, whether it is the Chinese Navy or the Burmese expeditionary force, if there is any danger in the future, with the relationship between Jiang Haoran and Nimitz, aviation support can be mobilized at any time, which is also a powerful security guarantee for Jiang Haoran.
But these are not the main ones, the main thing is to successfully suppress MacArthur from the top.
MacArthur was an outstanding and controversial general in the history of the United States, and he received more praise and criticism than any other American general. Among the dazzling generals of World War II, he was neither as approachable as Eisenhower, nor as suave as Nimitz, nor as impartial as Marshall. He is a person with an extremely complex and colorful personality, and his admirers think that he is the greatest soldier in the history of the United States, and those who criticize him think that he is a five-star general who is arrogant and vain.
Jiang Haoran didn't care what kind of person he was, but there was one thing that Jiang Haoran could not tolerate, that is, he had always been hostile to China, especially in the Korean War, he actively promoted the intervention in the Korean Civil War, eagerly dispatched troops to launch a series of offensives, and tried his best to clamor to bring the war to China.
918, don't forget the national shame!