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After Zhang Xinghan saw them leave, he turned his head to Jiang Baili beside him and said, "Chief of Staff, it's up to you to announce the specific battle plan to everyone." ”

"Okay." Jiang Baili happily agreed, stood up and walked to the huge battle map hanging on the wall behind Zhang Xinghan.

When he came to him, he picked up a wooden command pole that had been placed next to the map, pointed to the battle map, and began to tell the battle plan that had been drawn up a long time ago.

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&\Pig\Pig\Island\Novel(zhu)(zhu)(dao)nbsp; At the Busan Military Port, hundreds of large and small warships and transport ships are ready to go.

On the dock on the shore, the 60,000 troops of the three integrated divisions began to board the ship in a tense and orderly manner.

Amid the deafening roar, the No. 4 tanks drove directly onto the transport ship with billowing green smoke, and armored vehicles and trucks began to board the ship with howitzers in tow.

From a bird's-eye view from above, the soldiers and tanks and armored vehicles on the dock slowly moved towards the ship like a dense colony of ants.

In the city of Busan, in the former enemy headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Army, now the commanders of all divisions have received combat orders and left, leaving Zhang Xinghan, Jiang Baili, Wang Yizhe, Zhao Zhenfan and others.

Suddenly, a rush of footsteps sounded from outside, and Guo Zhong, the commander of the guard battalion, walked in quickly, saluted Zhang Xinghan and the others: "General seat, staff seat, the first echelon of the Air Force has been prepared, General Gao Zhihang asks for instructions if you can take off?" ”

"Commander Wang, are the landing forces ready?" Zhang Xinghan turned his head and asked Wang Yizhe.

"Back to the general seat, all 60,000 vanguard troops have boarded the ship and are ready to set off at any time." Wang Yizhe replied.

"Okay, immediately order Gao Zhihang to take off immediately and carry out a devastating air attack on Guanmen Seafood, completely cutting off the connection between Kyushu Island and Honshu Island.

Create conditions for the landing of my first landing troops, told Wang Tiehan. Their mission was to hold the Kanmon Strait and, with the cooperation of the submarine force and the air force, to block the possible arrival of Japanese reinforcements from the direction of Honshu Island.

Before the main force of our army destroys the resistance forces in the territory of Kyushu Island, not a single Japanese soldier can be allowed to pass through the Kanmon Strait! Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered.

The Kanmon Strait, formerly known as the Shimonoseki Strait, is the water area between Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the western tip of Honshu, Japan, and Moji Ward, Kitakyushu City, the northern tip of Kyushu, Japan (130 degrees 48 minutes east longitude, 33 degrees 56 minutes north latitude), and the western gateway to the Seto Inland Sea. Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for soldiers.

It is conceivable that once Kyushu Island is attacked, the Japanese troops on Honshu Island will definitely rush to reinforcements. Therefore, the blockade of the Kanmon Strait was crucial to this campaign to capture the island of Kyushu. Thankfully, it was only 1935, and Japan had not been able to build a bridge over the Kanmon Strait.

As for the later famous Guanmen Undersea Tunnel Railway, construction has only just begun, and it will not be opened to traffic until 1942 at the earliest.

Therefore, as long as Wang Tiehan's 60,000 army forces are properly coordinated with submarines and air force fighters, the main force of the Japanese army on Honshu Island can only look at the sea and sigh even if there are one million.

Of course, all this will be based on the premise that submarines and naval and air forces will be able to inflict heavy damage on the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy.

Without the backing of the powerful air force and naval submarine forces, the 60,000 army is said to be a lot less, but I am afraid it is not enough for the powerful naval artillery firepower of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet to bombard it for a day.

Today, the number of fighters of the Northeast Frontier Army has exceeded 2,000, and their performance far exceeds that of the Japanese army's active fighters for ten years. Almost ahead of an era.

You must know that the total number of fighters of the Japanese navy, army, and air force in 1937 was only more than 2,700, and after several major battles in Northeast Asia, the Japanese army even had less than 1,500 fighters. However, in the past two years, in order to supplement the shortage of aircraft, the Japanese have started to produce at full capacity, and now the number of fighters has exceeded 3,000.

But the performance is still far from the BF109 of the Northeast Border Guards, as well as the Zero fighter. Not at all above a level.

The blockade of the Guanmen Strait was the first and most important step in the battle plan of Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili.

The second step, followed by the first step, was a fierce battle with the Japanese naval fleet near Kyushu Island after the submarine force and the navy and air force jointly covered the approach of the 60,000 landing force to Japanese waters.

Among them. The air force fighter group and the submarine force of the Jiaolong task force played the leading role, and the underwater and air joint attack on the Japanese fleet, and the not powerful naval ships were mainly responsible for protecting their own landing force from Japanese ships.

The first echelon of the Air Force, which took the lead in taking off, aimed to bomb the ports on both sides of the Kanmon Strait, as well as the various ships anchored and the military defense facilities of the Japanese army, and first cut off the maritime connection between the Japanese army and Kyushu Island in the direction of Honshu Island.

After the submarine force and air force have inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese fleet in the waters off Kyushu Island, the naval fleet will, with the help of the submarine force, quickly cover Wang Tiehan's 60,000 army troops to land on the beach from the port of Kitakyushu Island.

After landing, Wang Tiehan needed to command the troops to immediately attack and advance along the shore of the Guanmen Strait to the southeast, capture the Guanmen, and block the Guanmen Strait.

About 50 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, escorted by 20 Zero fighters, also took off from Busan Airport and rose to an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters to fly in the direction of Kyushu Island.

On the vast coast of the Tsushima Strait, hundreds of warships, large and small, rode the wind and waves to quickly sail in the direction of Kyushu Island.

The muzzles of the ship's guns were raised high, ready to fire at any time, and tens of thousands of naval officers and men stood upright on their respective battery posts, staring at the front with a grim expression.

About 150 nautical miles ahead of the entire fleet, a submarine detachment of the Jiaolong Task Force had been lurking in the waters around it for a day and a night.

The number and scale of the Japanese naval ships cruising in these waters have long been under their control.

Inside an XXI submarine, a major officer said to the transmitter with a grim face: "Send a telegram to the general headquarters to report that our naval fleet is less than one hundred and fifty nautical miles away from the enemy's ship monitoring area, and ask them to prepare for battle in advance...... ”

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Busan Fortress, General Headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Army.

"Commander, Jiaolong has just called, our naval fleet is less than one hundred and fifty nautical miles away from the possible combat area, and at their speed it will be possible to arrive in four hours at the latest." Chief of Staff Jiang Baili held the telegram in his hand and said respectfully to Zhang Xinghan.

Zhang Xinghan sat in front of the map, and after hearing this, he lowered his head and looked at the map, then muttered for a moment and said: "Call back immediately to inform the Jiaolong task force that when the latest follow-up intelligence is reported to our department, it can be reported to the command of the naval fleet and the command post of the former enemy of the landing force at the same time, so as to share information with them, so that it is also convenient for the forward troops to understand the intention of our orders and quickly implement them."

In addition, the entire 2nd Flying Regiment of the Air Force, the Stuka Dive Bomber Separate Brigade, the 1st and 2nd Fighter Brigades of the 3rd Flying Regiment were ordered to immediately be combat-ready and ready to go at any time! ”

Jiang Baili replied and said, "Do you also want to inform the main force of the Jiaolong task force to gather as soon as possible, this time to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese fleet, you have to rely on Jiaolong and Feiying to join forces." ”

"Well, that's it." Zhang Xinghan nodded and decided.

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In the waters of the Tsushima Strait in the Sea of Japan, two light cruisers flying plaster flags are conducting routine patrols in this area.

Suddenly, about a nautical mile and a half from them, a lookout appeared under the wave layer of the water.

Underwater, an XXI submarine was slowly diving, and in the ship under the lookout scope, a lookout soldier was engrossed in observing for a while, then turned to an officer behind him and said: "Captain, the target has been found ahead, and there are two cruisers at a distance of 1,300 yards (about 1,300 meters), with a tonnage of about 5,000 tons." ”

The officer's grim face was not shocked, and his tone revealed a murderous aura: "Notify No. 076 immediately, we will each be responsible for one ship, and sink them together!" ”

"Yes!" A soldier standing beside him suddenly agreed, and immediately turned around and took the order to leave.

About three minutes later, the two XXI submarines spat out two torpedoes weighing a thousand pounds like dragons on the bottom of the sea.

Two torpedoes were launched from underwater, and they silently swooped down on the two Japanese cruisers more than 1,000 meters away.

Because it was launched from the bottom, it was not until Kankan hit the cruiser's hull that the Japanese on board found out the clues.

A ghost soldier was terrified and pointed to the water wave that was almost close to the water, and shouted bitterly: "There is an enemy, an enemy attack!" Enemy attack! There are torpedoes!! ”

However, it was too late, and the two torpedoes hit two light cruisers not far apart almost simultaneously.

There was a violent explosion underneath the ship, and a huge wave rose with the smoke of the fire.

The sturdy steel hull was instantly blown into ruins, half of the hull disappeared, and the cruiser that was cruising was stunned, because the position of the bomb was far behind, so the entire front half of the cruiser immediately tilted backwards, and the turbulent sea water instantly rushed in.

The Japanese service personnel on the ground floor were drowned before they could scream, and the boiler room that powered the ship was also doused by the icy seawater.

Almost instantly, the two cruisers that had been sailing normally just now were destroyed and destroyed in an instant.

The two cruisers had already been so badly damaged that they would be completely sunk in an hour at most, disappearing into the vast expanse of blue water.

So the two XXI submarines did not continue to attack, but immediately dived and evacuated, continuing to look for new targets.

The two Japanese ships will come to a certain end, and they do not need to waste more precious ammunition, this operation is a large-scale, multi-arms joint operation, and they must use the limited ammunition to create the maximum results and destroy as many Japanese ships as possible. (To be continued......)