Therefore, in history, he was just a mere big leader, because he repeatedly predicted success in the island-hopping tactics against the Mi army, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats, he has become the lieutenant general and chief of staff of the Jiannan Group by now.

Although Eizo Hori showed great talent for war, he was too young, only twenty-six years old, and he had no experience on the battlefield, even if he was already the chief of staff, it was not enough for everyone to obey him.

Just today, he meticulously concocted what he thought was a perfect anti-landing operation plan, which was opposed by almost all of them.

The most difficult stage of the landing operation is the stage of beach-grabbing, that is, the so-called "first 24 hours." Once the landing party succeeds in seizing the beach, it develops in depth and the landing is basically successful.

In a series of island-hopping counteroffensive landings in the early stage of the Mi Army, the island army's consistent anti-landing focus was on counterattacking on the beachhead, and the deployment of troops was heavy at the front and light at the rear, which was also in line with the general law of anti-landing operations.

However, after researching, Eizo Hori decided that this was not the case, and he first carefully calculated the firepower of the Chinese army.

The current Chinese army is no longer what it used to be, and their strong firepower has become common sense for the island army, but to what extent it is strong, no one in the island countries who are superstitious about "spiritual omnipotence" has calculated it and does not bother to count it.

However, Eizo Hori calculated that taking the Battle of Hainan Island as an example, the number of destroyers and cruisers owned by one of their aircraft carrier battle groups was about 50, and the weight of naval artillery shells they could carry was about 1,900 tons according to their displacement.

Even if only half is used for firing at the opposite shore, the firepower is equivalent to the combined power of the five army divisions of the Locust Army.

According to the intelligence gathered by the special high school, the number of light and heavy bombers on the Indochina Peninsula is not less than 500, and in terms of distance, the airfields in the coastal areas can make three round trips within 24 hours, and the bombing capacity can reach at least 6,000 tons.

Taking Lingayan Bay, which is the most suitable for landing, as an example, the coastline is 56 kilometers long from north to south, and if you choose a landing site 10 kilometers long, according to China's establishment of only one three-aircraft carrier battle group, their offensive firepower can reach more than two tons of ammunition per meter on the defensive line.

And the locust army can put five cannons on the front of each kilometer is already very generous, there is no fire suppression at all, and the collapse of the defensive line is only a matter of time, but it will only increase casualties.

Therefore, Hori Eizo's suggestion was: abandon the coastal fortifications, retreat to the inland mountains to resist, and leave the coastline 50 kilometers beyond the range of naval guns, and the firepower superiority of the Chinese Navy will be greatly reduced. The island army can reduce unnecessary casualties in the early stage, preserve its strength, free up all the materials and manpower, and use the mountainous terrain to step up the construction of inland mountain defense lines, resist inch by inch, fight a protracted war with them, and drag them down.

From the perspective of historical results, this is definitely a genius-level tactic, but it is a pity that the top leaders of the Zhennan Group of the island army are some fanatical militarists, who are short-sighted and stubborn, and they cannot listen to this kind of speech of taking the initiative to show weakness.

They believed that the artillery fire of the Mi army was also strong enough, at least compared to that army, but in the previous battles, the locust army drove them into the sea again and again with shore-based firepower and fortress defense, and the Dutch East Indies fought for more than a year without harm.

Although the Chinese navy is strong, the locust army also has the Southern Fleet, the Shinano supercarrier, the Musashi invincible battleship, and the cherry blossom machine carefully prepared by the locust army waiting for them, and they may not be unable to fight a decisive battle with the navy of that army.

In addition, the decisive battle in the interior may not be the magic weapon for victory, the expeditionary force is Jiang Haoran's own troops, and it can be regarded as his descendant troops, whether in terms of equipment, commander's command ability, or soldiers' fighting will, tactical literacy, compared to the locust army.

Moreover, jungle warfare and urban siege are what they are best at, and if they are really put in to fight, the locust army has no advantage.

On the contrary, the landing operation is the disadvantage of the army, although they have conquered Hainan Island, but it is opportunistic, as for Singapore, it is also the locust army voluntarily abandoned, it is not a large-scale landing war, so they are almost inexperienced in the landing battle, at least far worse than the Mi army, even the Mi army locust army is not afraid, is it still afraid of them.

To sum up, Eizan Hori's tactics are fundamentally to play up his weaknesses and avoid his strengths, which is simply unrealistic.

In the midst of opposition, Hori Eizan finally died down and sat lazily in his seat, but his face was still unwilling to be lonely.

Yamashita Fengwen got up, patted Hori Eizo on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "Hori Ei-kun, you haven't fought against that army on the battlefield, so you don't know their strengths and weaknesses, and you don't know their ferocity and cunning, this is normal, your suggestion does have merit, but it is not in line with the enemy we are facing." So, you should play to your predicted strengths and calculate where they will choose to land from. ”

Hori nodded helplessly and said, "I have carefully studied the terrain and the information we have obtained, and their landing sites are nothing more than two places, one is Lingjiayan Bay in the northwest of Luzon Island, and the airborne landing site will be near the west of Dagupan City. The other is at Subic Bay on the southwestern coast of Luzon, where airborne troops will land at Nasugbu, south of Manila. Between the two, I personally prefer the latter. ”

"Why?" Yamashita Feng Wenqi said.

Hori Eizo thought for a moment and said: "Because of Manila, Manila is the narrowest place on the entire island, as long as they take Manila, the linkage of the locust army in the Philippines will be immediately cut off by them, and the battlefield will become two battlefields, east and west, and the land transportation of the locust army in Visayas and Mindanao will be cut off, and they will soon fall into a logistical dilemma. ”

Yamashita Fengwen nodded silently, and seemed to feel that there was some reason, and then said: "According to the intelligence of the special high class, all the airborne troops of the Chinese army have been transferred to the rear for intensive training, and I have not heard that they have any signs of dispatch, why do you stubbornly think that they can still dispatch airborne troops?" ”

Hori Rongsan smiled bitterly: "Don't forget, Nimitz has been to Vientiane, this time it is a joint attack by China, Miria, Britain and Australia, and China's airborne troops are intensively trained, but aren't there any of the United States?" In particular, Jiang Haoran has always been good at making good use of strange troops, and he is also familiar with the important position of the airborne troops in the landing campaign, and he will never give up the airborne part. ”