Chapter 031: Attack with all your might
At the moment when the top level of the American defenders was discussing countermeasures, the Chinese airborne troops were still continuing to be airborne, and the airborne range of the troops was getting larger and larger.
The sky was full of Chinese and American planes fighting, and at 7 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese fleet that set off late at night arrived at the coast 30 kilometers south of Wayne Wright, and soon the squadron began to land.
40 air-cushion landing craft carrying more than 5,000 army soldiers and supplies began to rush to the beach, but frogmen had already touched the shore beforehand, and no American defenders were found here, so the landing did not encounter resistance.
There were no inhabitants settled here, the U.S. military was limited, it was impossible to send a large number of soldiers to garrison everywhere, and it was not suitable for ordinary ships to land, and there were no strategic locations, so it was abandoned.
The squadron carried out the landing in an orderly manner, and soon they all went ashore, and it only took about ten minutes, and there were dozens of tanks and a few heavy artillery pieces ashore.
After the soldiers landed, they began to march towards Wayne Wright, because the road was not easy to walk, and they were almost on foot, it took the soldiers two hours to reach Wayne Wright, they did not stop, under the cover of helicopters, launched an attack on this small place with only a few hundred people, the battle was very easy,
Previously, the airborne troops were airborne in Zhou, and half of the defenders went to pursue the airborne troops, and now there is only a battalion of troops guarding inside, although there are complete fortifications, but they quickly surrendered under the blows of helicopters and squadrons several times their own.
After the squadron captured Wayne Wright, more than 800 soldiers from two battalions were left behind to guard Wayne Wright, and the rest of the troops were attacked from all sides to converge with the airborne troops, and the next step was to seize Barrow, Umiat, Cape Lisbourne and other areas.
The remaining troops will build an airfield in Wayne Wright to prepare for the next air battle, at this time the Sino-US war has entered the era of air supremacy, and the navy and army seem to have become a supporting role.
The airborne landing and landing in the north of Alaska are still continuing, and the squadron on the Alaska Peninsula has also launched a feint, at this time the squadron in the Alaska Peninsula is on the front line of the Porter Sea and the US military is caught in a stalemate war, without the support of the navy, the enemy is too strong in all aspects, it is indeed not easy to fight on the narrow peninsula, this place is a must-defend place for the US military, the air force is huge, and the large-scale use of helicopters is also a target for the US fighters.
On the other hand, although the main force of the Alaska fleet of the US army is not there, it is the first navy in the world after all, and the fleet they left behind has a great lethal effect on the squadron at night, and it will organize army night raids, so the squadron's actions in the Alaska Peninsula have not been large.
At this moment, China can be said to be caught between two sides, which has had a very unexpected result.
The soldiers are lying in the trenches, they don't go out much now, now they just watch the air forces of the enemy and us fighting in the sky, and the other is the artillery bombardment,
If an attack was to attack in such a small place in broad daylight, the losses would be huge and intolerable for any attacking side, so both sides attacked at night.
The fierce battle lasted until the next day, and of course it will continue, and the squadron landed in Alaska in a steady stream, and interspersed attacks to the south, and the American troops were at a loss.
As we all know, although the two countries are also world powers, they are 108,000 miles behind the United States, so the two countries have to use a lot of tactics and stratagems to fight, so as to avoid one-to-one casualties as much as possible, it is obvious that they can't fight hard to fight the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other behemoths.
And the United States, because of its strong industrial power, and its strength is several times that of Germany and Japan,
Before the outbreak of the Pacific Ocean in 1941, Japan's industrial output value was 9 billion US dollars, the United States was more than 200 billion US dollars, Japan produced 5.8 million tons of steel per year, 500,000 tons of ammunition per year, and more than 33 million tons of steel produced in the United States. The total strength of the U.S. military has reached 10.5 million, and the scale of its military industry has developed to the level of producing 40,000 aircraft and 20,000 tanks per year, and the United States produced a total of 80,000 tanks during World War II, nearly 40,000 of which were M4 Sherman tanks produced at the Kleist plant in Detroit.
The comprehensive national strength of the United States is still much higher than that of Japan, here is a simple example of a set of data: 1. The national income of the United States is 7 times that of Japan, 2. The steel production of the United States is 5 times that of Japan, 3. The coal production of the United States is 7 times that of Japan, and 4. The automobile production of the United States is 80 times that of Japan.
In addition, the level of modernization and automation of factories in the United States was higher than in Europe and Japan, and the production management of the Americans was the same as in the world
The most advanced in the world, the combination of the two aspects, the per capita productivity of American workers is the highest in the world, Japan has basically no potential to tap, Japan before the start of the Pacific War, the domestic military, economy to reach the peak, that is to say, if Japan can not use the existing forces to quickly eliminate the opponent, then after entering the war of attrition, Japan will undoubtedly lose, military production: 1941-1945
Japan produced a total of 17 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 9 cruisers, 63 destroyers, and 147 submarines, while during the same period, the United States produced 131 aircraft carriers (including escort carriers), 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 355 destroyers, 498 frigates, and 203 submarines. However, the United States had more than 740 anti-submarine ships completed and launched during the same period.
Comparison of the annual production of combat aircraft between Japan and the United States: the allies not only had the upper hand in the number of aircraft, but also continued to introduce new types of aircraft in the war, and by the end of the war, the performance of the American military aircraft was far superior to that of the Japanese army.
On the other hand, Japan basically used the 'Zero' or its modifications throughout World War II, and the 'Zero' was indeed a very good fighter in many ways, but by 1943 its performance had significantly lagged behind the new American model (because the Japanese army despised the protection of pilots and only paid attention to the performance of the aircraft, and used excessive wooden materials and skin, the 'Zero' type was easy to catch fire and burn after being hit, resulting in the destruction of the aircraft).
About 97,810 of the aircraft produced in the United States are multi-engine bombers (twin or quadruple engines), while Japan has only produced 15,117 (basically twin-engines), therefore, whether in terms of the number of aircraft produced, or in terms of the total load of aircraft, the difference between the two countries is very obvious, due to the gap in industrial base and technical capabilities, the Japanese Army during the Pacific War could not talk about mechanization at all, and the gap between its heavy equipment supply and actual demand is very far,
In 1941-1945, the Japanese army only produced 604 field guns with a caliber greater than 105 mm and 6512 artillery pieces with a caliber of 70-105 mm, while the United States produced 7803 heavy artillery pieces and 27082 other medium-caliber guns during the same period, and in 1941-1942, Japan included tank production in Class A (that is, the highest level), but due to the backwardness of science and technology and production technology, Japan only produced 1065 medium tanks and 1024 light tanks,
The United States has produced 24,997 medium tanks, 4,052 light tanks, it should be pointed out that during World War II, Japan's medium tanks were equivalent to the light tanks of the Allies in terms of artillery power and armor thickness, due to the poor performance of Japanese tanks in battle, the production of tanks was downgraded to the D level in 1943, Japan not only lacked tanks, vehicles were also the weakness of the Japanese army, and Japanese vehicle production was 47,901 units in 1941 at its peak. At 621502 the end of 1941, Japan's arsenal was enough to equip 103 divisions and regiments, and the army had 51 divisions and 59 brigades in the battle sequence, and the army's production and consumption of weapons and ammunition in the early days of the war were roughly the same, but with the continuous expansion of the scale of the war, the number of armies increased sharply, while Japan's weapons and ammunition holdings did not increase significantly.
In 1943, the size of the Japanese army rose from 2.4 million to 3.1 million, and the United States surged from 4.15 million to 8.89 million, and by the end of the war, although the Japanese army's weapons and ammunition could be equipped with 104 divisions, its combat sequence reached 171 divisions, not including a large number of paramilitary personnel in Japan, in 1940, Japan's native population was 73.14 million, although a large number of Chinese and Korean laborers were forcibly recruited, but it did not mean that the freed up of the country's manpower could form a strong combat force, In fact, the victory of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific in the first six months of the Pacific War relied on the elite troops accumulated over the years, in 1944 Japan had 13.35 million female laborers, but 7.8 million of them were engaged in agriculture and forestry, and only 2.25 million were engaged in industrial and military production, while the United States had 14.6 million women in 1941.
All of the above shows that if it were hard fighting, Japan would have lost faster and would have died even worse, in fact, Japan was indeed like this, and if it were not for the Americans' policy of putting Europe first and then Asia, the Japanese would have almost surrendered in 1943.
And the reason why the United States formulated this policy is nothing more than two, one is that Germany's atomic bomb lacked German breakthrough progress long before the war, the Americans are worried that it will drag on, and the Germans will make an atomic bomb, then the allies want to defeat Germany is a fool's dream, and Japan is limited by strength, and it is a grasshopper after the autumn no matter how arrogant it is, and it has not been a few days, anyway, the United States has not been ravaged by Japan, and the Americans do not care about the feelings of Asians,
If Japan is defeated first, the Americans are worried that China will take advantage of the European war to expand its influence in Asia, and it will take advantage of the big ...... This is absolutely not what the United States wants to see, if that happens, not only will Europe and the United States lose their privileges in China, but their interests in the Asian region may be taken away by China.