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Six days later, at dawn, Japanese naval aviation launched a fierce attack on the Aleutian Islands, and this was only a prelude to a large-scale offensive.

After nearly two years of continuous expansion, the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier task force now has 10 aircraft carriers, with nearly 600 carrier-based aircraft, plus a huge formation of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, and is now an invincible presence in the Pacific region.

On the other hand, the US forces in the Aleutian Islands, due to the early fall of Pearl Harbor, the US troops stationed in Holland Harbor lost their flank protection, and at the same time, with the two interruptions of the Panama Canal, the Pacific Fleet, which had been damaged one after another, was no longer enough to protect the North Pacific Sea area, and could only passively strengthen the batteries and build airfields, and the number of marines, air forces, and coast guards stationed in the Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard surged from more than 2,000 before the war to more than 16,000 now.

The Japanese army has never played its cards according to common sense, and the battle is always carried out with a sneak attack, from the *** incident, the 77 incident to the Pearl Harbor incident, the Japanese army has achieved the battle every time

While the attention of the U.S. government and military was focused on Latin America, the task force was already rapidly approaching the Aleutian Islands under the cover of night.

At dawn, an overwhelming fleet of aircraft attacked Holland Harbor.

Although the radar of the US military gave a timely warning, and a terrible siren sounded over Holland Harbor, it was Sunday morning, and there were not many officers and soldiers on duty... In addition, the commander of the Japanese army, Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, was calm and calm, relying on his own fleet and equipped with the latest radar warning system, so he allowed the carrier-based aircraft to take off when he was more than 30 nautical miles south of Unarasca.

In order to shorten the attack time, all the carrier-based planes did not form a formation, and after taking off, they flew directly to the port of Holland, and the first wave of dive bombers began to attack three airfields on Unarasca Island in only 10 minutes, and most of the US fighters were destroyed on the runway before they could start.

However, there were still quite a few US fighter planes that successfully took to the air to meet the battle, but in the face of the old birds of the Japanese naval aviation, the US pilots, who had almost no combat experience, performed poorly, and after shooting down four Japanese fighters, all the 16 fighters that took off were shot down by the Japanese Zero fighters!

In the harbor of Holland were moored some old cruisers and destroyers of the US Coast Guard, and Japanese torpedo planes appeared, and in the terrible whistling sound, one after another the battleships were hit by the cleaved torpedoes, which exploded violently, and then capsized and sank.

At the same time as the air raid was carried out, the Japanese landing operation was launched.

The direction of the landing of the Japanese troops, in addition to Unarasca, included the island of Acat.

In addition to being the base of the U.S. military in the Bering Sea region, and a large number of Army and Navy aviation and Marine Corps, Unararakaska Island is also home to the headquarters of the large U.S. Coast Guard fleet. The island of Acat, on the other hand, is home to a large airfield and radar station of the US military, and although there are few troops, they must be controlled at the first time.

This time, the Japanese army transferred three wings from the 7th and 20th divisions of the 17th Army to form the Aleutian Detachment to carry out landing operations.

The battleships Hiei, Kongo, and Kirishima, the heavy cruisers Aiwa, Torikai, Myoko, Haguro, Tone, and Chikuma, as well as a large number of light cruisers and destroyers, roared loudly, and countless shells rained down on the batteries and beaches of the two islands.

The warships of the US Coast Guard had already collapsed under the blows of Japanese carrier-based aircraft, and with air supremacy under the control of the Japanese army, they were almost powerless to fight back.

The morale of the US military, which had suffered heavy losses in its hasty response to the battle, was already low, and now it has almost fallen to a low point after being bombarded by such a large-scale large-caliber naval artillery.

The landing operation of the Aleutian detachment of the Japanese army went extremely smoothly, and by noon, the strategic points on the two islands were almost controlled by the Japanese army, and the commander of the US army, Brigadier General Sassoon, could not withstand the powerful offensive of the Japanese army and had to raise the white flag to the Japanese army. After a simple negotiation... Under the Japanese army's guarantee of the safety of the officers and men of the surrendered troops, the US troops surrendered unconditionally, and the sun flag was hoisted on the islands of Unararaka and Acat.

While the Aleutian battle was burning, heavy shelling rang out on both sides of the Bering Strait.

The Bering Strait is located between the Chukotka Peninsula at the northeastern tip of Asia and Alaska at the northwest tip of North America, connecting the Chukotka Sea to the north and the Bering Sea to the south.

The Bering Strait is located at a high latitude, with a cold climate, many snowstorms and fog, especially in winter, the temperature drops sharply, and the lowest temperature can reach; At minus 45 degrees, the surface of the strait is frozen, the ice layer is several meters thick, and it is the freezing period from October to April of the following year

The first batch of wagons loaded with supplies was loaded from the port of Pusan in southern Korea and headed north to Uelen on the Chukchi Peninsula, with a total length of more than 12,000 kilometers.

The Japanese army built the railway, and more than 3 million road workers died, most of them indigenous to Southeast Asia. There are also some prisoners of war from other countries, and it can be said that there are the bones and blood and tears of the workers in front of them under every inch of rails.

The first wave to launch the sea-crossing campaign was the elite units of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

After the main force of the Japanese army moved south to attack Southeast Asia, the subcontinent, and Australia, the Kwantung Army almost changed, and many units were newly established, and their combat effectiveness dropped by a large margin.

However, due to its proximity to the Northeast Industrial Zone and the convenience of supplying troops, the Kwantung Army had a high degree of mechanization, which was the highest among the Japanese troops of the same level.

In particular, after the "Malay Tiger" Yamashita Fumimi was demoted to the post of commander of the First Front Army of the Kwantung Army, the equipment and training of the troops were markedly strengthened, and the Kwantung Army unprecedentedly formed an "armored corps" with eight tank divisions and regiments, with a total of more than 2,000 tanks of various types, plus the newly distributed anti-tank weapons such as rocket launchers and 37-57-war defense guns, and the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Japan's tank divisions are equivalent to tank divisions in Europe and the United States, with 200 to 300 tanks, and they are two brigades and four companies. Each tank wing is composed of three squadrons of medium tanks, one squadron of light tanks, one squadron of artillery tanks, and one maintenance squadron. The division also has an infantry wing, a search team, an artillery wing, an air defense team, an engineer team, a rearmament team, and a heavy team.

In the military manufacturing industry of the Japanese army before the war, most of the tank manufacturing enterprises were privately owned... Only 10 per cent of the production capacity is state-owned, and production capacity is generally low.

After many battles with the An Jiajun and a large number of tank samples from the rebels of the Far Eastern Army, the Japanese army's tank manufacturing technology has accumulated to a certain extent. After the outbreak of the European War, the German army used tank clusters to fight, swept Poland and France, so that the Japanese army realized the strength of tanks, and immediately changed the situation.

After more than two years of technological transformation and upgrading, although the Type 95 light tank and the Type 97 medium tank are produced on a daily basis, the proportion is already very small, and the vast majority of the products are imitations of the Far Eastern Army's B-knife tank, as well as the comprehensive Far East Army's Nakok and German Leopard tanks, and combined with Japan's actual Type 4 medium tank.

The reason why it is Type 4 instead of Type 1, 2, and Type 3 is that after comparing with the main battle tanks of the Anjia Army, the first three tanks of the project are not opponents, so although the project serial number exists, it has been shelved, and the research department focuses on the Type 4 Tanben with similar power to the Leopard Tanben.

The Type 4 medium tank has been finalized since September last year, with a total combat weight of 30 tons, a length of 6.5 meters, a total width of 2.9 meters, a total height of 2.8 meters, and a crew of five people.

The V-type tank equipped with the four-type tank, the maximum power of the air-cooled diesel engine is 412 horsepower, the engine can work normally in the polar region after adding anti-wave fluid, the maximum speed is 43 kilometers, hours, and the maximum travel is 300 kilometers.

This attack on the mainland of the United States was led by the First Front Army of the Kwantung Army under Yamashita Fengfumi, and after the front opened up the situation, the elite troops transferred north from the Australian mainland would appear, forming a continuous offensive and completely crushing the Americans' will to resist.

In order to ensure the safety of the army during the offensive, the sappers of the Kwantung Army and the crews of the Manchurian Railway, during the period after the freezing of the Bering Strait, kept a close watch, confirming that the ice was thick enough to support the passage of Type 4 tanks weighing up to 30 tons.

After the fierce artillery bombardment was launched, the Japanese sappers returned fire against the US artillery fire, and under the nose of Major General William Simpson, commander of the 12th Army of the US Army, who was responsible for the defense of the Bering Strait, they built more than a dozen roads suitable for the passage of armored troops with straw and tree branches, and even selected hundreds of suitable fuel supply sites and maintenance bases on the vast ice surface.

Long before the PAO attack, more than 2,000 fighters of the Army Air Force had successfully raided the airfields of the US military in Nome, Wales, Kotzeb, Noatuck, Anchorage and other cities in Alaska. All of Alaska's airports were devastated.

When the threat of the US Air Force was eliminated, the overwhelming fleet of planes flew over the artillery positions of the US troops, throwing aerial bombs to their heart's content, and suppressing the US army's PAO fire counterattack.

On 11 November, after two consecutive days of artillery to basically clear the US defenses on the east bank of the Bering Strait, seven tank divisions and 12 infantry divisions of the Japanese army began to launch a forced crossing operation, and the US-Japanese war entered a white-hot stage.