Chapter 029: Operation Alaska
Although the departure of the Alaska fleet made the Chinese army attacking the Alaska Peninsula a little worried, because they had not appeared, everyone was afraid that he had some conspiracy and would suddenly give himself a look.
In fact, the conspiracy of the Alaskan fleet has been carried out, but the Chinese side does not know that it was the Alaskan fleet that attacked Beiyang City.
On July 17, the weather had completely entered the summer, and the Chinese side was entangled with almost all of China's airborne troops preparing to land in Alaska.
The Americans knew that the Chinese side would land sooner or later, and now he, like Germany, had difficulty judging where the Chinese would land.
Will the Chinese land on the Seward Peninsula, which is only 80 kilometers, or will they land in the Yukon River estuary area a little farther away, as they did in the Normandy landing?
Of course, judging from the current military situation, the squadron has been attacking the Alaska Peninsula Holland Harbor was lost, and the southern Alaska Peninsula town of Onger was also lost.
Nowadays, the hinterland of Alaska, including the capital Anchorage, is often attacked by air raids, especially at night, although the radar of the US military can detect them in time, but the night is not conducive to interception.
At this time, the people of Alaska have fled in panic, they have never felt that the war is so terrible, before many people have picked up shotguns to say that they want to defend Alaska, but after being bombed, they understand that the broken guns in their hands may be useless, at least they did not even see the shadow of the Chinese was killed by the Chinese, their homes were also destroyed, now they are homeless, except for some young people who vowed to take revenge were armed, others have packed up and gone to Canada,
Seeing that the squadron was fighting vigorously on the Alaska Peninsula, MacArthur had to think that perhaps the main direction of the squadron's attack was here,
He made this judgment, the first of which was that in July, the climate here was much warmer than in the north, which was convenient for warfare; The second is that the final place of Alaska is concentrated in the south of the Alaska Mountains, as long as it is taken, the whole of Alaska will be at your fingertips, because the supplies of the US army are basically transported by the docks, and if they lose the south of Alaska, they will lose the basis of their operations, and the north is too cold to build a railroad at all.
"General Chennault, what do you think about the current situation, the Chinese are probably going to land soon, and they have concentrated a large number of troops on the other side of the Bering Strait."
Claire Lee Chennault, Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Captain of the Flying Tigers of the U.S. Air Force during the Sino-Japanese War, born on September 6, 1893 in Commez, Texas, USA, graduated from Louisiana State Teachers College in 1911 as a country teacher, graduated from flight school in 1919, and in 1923, was sent to Hawaii to command the 19th Fighter Squadron, where Chennault compiled the Fighter Flight Skills Manual, January 1936, Colonel Mao Bangchu of the Chinese Air Force invited him to serve as a flight instructor at the Central Aviation School in Jianqiao, Hangzhou, on June 3, 1936, Song Meiling appointed him as an adviser to the Chinese Air Force to help establish the Chinese Air Force.
Chennault participated in the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Wuhan, commanding battles with the commanders of the Chinese and Soviet air forces, and he also established an aviation school in Zhijiang, Hunan, and later served as the director of the flight instructor's office at the Kunming Aviation School, responsible for teaching advanced classes.
On August 1, 1941, the American Air Volunteer Corps of the Chinese Air Force was established, Chennault served as the captain of the colonel, on July 4, 1942, the American Air Volunteer Corps was transformed into the U.S. Air Force Task Force in China, and Chennault served as the brigadier commander, on March 10, 1943, the U.S. Air Force Task Force in China was transformed into the 14th Air Force of the U.S. Army, Chennault served as the commander of the Major General, on July 25 of the same year, Chennault was recruited as the chief of staff of the Chinese Air Force, and in October 1943, the mixed wing of the Chinese and American Air Forces was formed and put into combat, Chennault as conductor,
Historically, he left China after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, and he can be regarded as an old friend of the Chinese people, but now he is sent to fight with his old friend, it can be said that he has paid a lot of effort for the enemy in front of him, because of the special relationship before, he can be said to know the Chinese Air Force very well,
Chennault said: "General MacArthur, the Chinese are no longer what they used to be, judging from the more than ten days of air battles, the performance of the Chinese Air Force aircraft and the combat level of the pilots are not necessarily worse than us, but the combat level of the pilots is higher than ours, and we are often attacked, and it is difficult for me to imagine that the air force fighting with us in front of me is Chinese." ”
Chennault still doesn't know that because the Chinese Air Force has early warning aircraft, it has taken the lead in every operation, and if everyone does not have early warning aircraft, to be honest, it will be difficult for the Chinese Air Force to surpass the US Air Force.
Most of the American pilots flew their own private planes before joining the army, and they had a wealth of flying experience, and they had enough time to train after joining the army, and in addition they fought against Japan and the German army in Europe, it can be said that the standard of the US Air Force is absolutely world-class.
"The Air Force commander on the other side is called Zhou Zhirou, he studied in the Air Force in the United States, and he has a certain understanding of the United States, and he also has a certain understanding of the United States Air Force, plus most of the Chinese Air Force refers to the standards of the United States, has American instructor training, and also includes myself, so the Chinese Air Force still has a considerable understanding of us."
"Originally, I thought I knew the Chinese Air Force very well, but in fact I was wrong, so I always put our Air Force at a disadvantage on the battlefield."
"Then what do you say, the United States is not only facing the threat of China now, our main forces are still in Europe, and we cannot give them up yet, otherwise Europe will become the territory of Germany, Germany will concentrate European forces to attack the Americas, and then we will also be finished, so we must now prevent the Chinese from landing in the Americas, otherwise it is difficult for me to imagine how many troops we have to stop the Chinese who can recruit tens of millions of soldiers at will." MacArthur felt fear when he thought of the 500 million people in China, only the ocean can stop the Chinese and insist until the United States has a nuclear bomb, otherwise the consequences are really unimaginable,
Chennault pondered for a moment and said, "Unless we take the initiative to launch an offensive and bring the flames of war to China, we can only passively wait for their arrival. "The best defense is offense, everyone understands this sentence, but offense requires strength,
Stilwell, who had been silent for a long time, said: "With our current situation, there is no attack, and it is too late to continue our strength, and the Chinese will definitely attack before us." "Stilwell didn't have a good impression of China, he wanted to make meritorious service in Burma back then, but unfortunately both China and Britain were against him, Chiang Kai-shek also had a very bad relationship with him, he was already at home, but in the Sino-American war, she, a general who had a certain understanding of China, was transferred to Alaska by Marshall,
However, MacArthur looked down on Stilwell, although he himself was defeated again and again, and Stilwell also looked down on MacArthur, thinking that he had mastered so many troops and fled to Australia alone without the Japanese fighting, and although he did not achieve anything, it was because he had no soldiers and no power.
MacArthur always felt that Stilwell was a waste, he didn't understand what Marshall sent him to do, although he was defeated after the sneak attack in the Philippines, but he still found a place in Australia, the Japanese could get Australia is not something he lost, it was given to the Japanese by the government, if it weren't for the White House's policy of Europe first and then Asia, the Japanese would have been able to seize Australia and would have been counterattacked to Japan itself.
"Mr. Chief of Staff, can you have a better suggestion than sit back and wait?" MacArthur's words had a strong smell of gunpowder, and he thought that Stilwell always liked to say things that were not nutritious,
Stilwell got along with MacArthur for a few days, and knew that although MacArthur's ability was average, his temper was amazing, self-righteous, arrogant, and conceited, and he called "Yelang arrogant" in the Chinese idiom, he said: "Mr. Commander, I just said my opinion, China has gathered more than a million troops on the other side, and their equipment is not inferior to ours, and we are only more than 300,000 people, and the defense is okay, but if we attack, I am afraid that we are weak, not to mention that we did not intend to attack from the beginning, Therefore, there were no landing ships. ”
"The Alaskan fleet steals chickens and almost destroys the entire fleet, so do we have a better way than defense at this time?" The landing operation of the squadron is imminent, Stilwell is also a clear-eyed person, if you want to counter the landing, you must have that strength, even if the ships are complete, but the number of US troops is not much,
In the Normandy landing, the Allies gathered millions of troops, and the logistics were sufficient, on the other hand, the German army in France at that time was only about 100,000 people, and it was still scattered, and the logistics could not be guaranteed, and the air supremacy was completely lost.
The squadron is three or four times larger than the US military, and its weapons and equipment are no worse than those of the United States, and even better than the US military in terms of individual combat weapons.
Chinese have been bullied by European and American countries for a hundred years, and now that the government is strong, will the Chinese people follow the US imperialism in their eyes to eliminate their own government and return to the environment of being bullied by foreign powers?
Stilwell had been in contact with the Socialist Party before, and knew the horror of the Socialist Party's people's war, and the Japanese were so stubbornly entrusted to China by the Kuomintang and the Socialist Party.