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Chapter 1836 is on the verge of breaking out

After attending the opening ceremony of the Yaoting Bay Nuclear Power Plant, An Yi did not return to Beijing immediately, but came to Saigon, on the one hand, to visit Zhu Yun and their common precious daughter, and on the other hand, to convene a meeting of the generals and colonels of the Malay and northern Burma fronts to understand the reorganization of the army, and at the same time to give specific instructions on the next step. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Through successive meetings, An Yi learned about a series of problems and practical difficulties in the reorganization of the army some time ago, resolved them one by one through consultations, and formally determined the operational plans for the next stage formulated by the general staff departments of the two fronts.

On the afternoon of September 6, when the meeting ended, An Yi had no time to drink with Gu Changfeng, Xia Jian, Yang Guan, Xie Chi, Wang Xulun, Zong Xingzhen, Zhang Zuying, Lu Xiong, Yan Yaohuan, Fang Pengxiang and other brothers.

It turned out that Roosevelt, in his capacity as the president of the United States and an ally of the allies, sent three distress telegrams to An Yi in succession, requesting that South China launch military operations in advance to save the situation in the two major theaters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which had been mired in many crises.

The Pacific theater was divided into two theaters of operations. In the Pacific theater, fierce battles broke out on Kuah Island and Georgia Islands during this period.

When the first army and navy cooperated to launch landing operations from the northwest and north of Australia, the first navy in the South Pacific, with attack instead of defense, successively occupied Bougainville Island, Shortland Islands, Georgia Islands and other places, and helped the local people to establish a national government on Kuah Island, and wantonly armed the indigenous people in order to free up troops, seize the islands, and consolidate the defense of the British Islands, Bismarck Islands and Ireland Islands.

The Americans were worried that the construction of an airfield on Kuah Island by the Japanese army would threaten the security of Espírito Santo, Efate, and Caledonia and block the sea communication line between the United States and Australia.

In the face of the powerful U.S. fleet, Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo, commander of the South Pacific Fleet of the Japanese Navy, who had weak troops, knew that he was invincible, and immediately ordered the defenders of Kuah Island to withdraw into the jungle in the center of the island together with the indigenous forces to conduct guerrilla warfare.

In order to show support for the indigenous government of Kuah Island, the *** Navy launched the Kuah Island Sabotage War with the aim of hindering the actions of the US military on Kuah Island and thereby disrupting the US counteroffensive plan in the southwest Pacific.

On the night of 1 August, Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo sent eight destroyers from the Shortland Islands to carry out a sabotage mission against the transport ship on Kuah Island.

At about nine o'clock that night, when the destroyer fleet arrived near Tasa Falonga on Kuah Island, it collided head-on with the US Task Force 67 that had come to meet it!

Compared to the *** fleet, which has only eight destroyers, the 67th Fleet of the US Navy under the command of Rear Admiral Wright has four heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and six destroyers.

Judging from the balance of forces alone, it will be a one-sided battle, compared to the four 10,000-ton heavy cruisers equipped with 203 heavy guns, the *** destroyer fleet with an average tonnage of only 2,000 tons, there is almost no possibility of victory.

However, the truth is not as simple as it seems.

The American fleet, which had large-caliber artillery, began to bombard Japanese ships with heavy artillery as soon as the battle began. However, the Japanese ships did not fire at the US ships, and the original fleet commander had clearly instructed the ships before they set out: "The purpose of this operation is to destroy the enemy's transport ships, not to annihilate the warships, and to attack with torpedoes without the use of naval guns until they reach their destination." ”

The eight captains of the destroyer fleet of the Navy faithfully carried out this order.

On the pitch-black sea, the flash of the guns of the US Navy battleships has become a good aiming point for *** destroyers.

In less than half an hour of chaotic night fighting, the excellent torpedo skills of the *** people were quickly proven.

The Japanese destroyer fleet, armed with Type 93 oxygen torpedoes, won a complete victory in this naval battle. Of the four heavy American cruisers in the battle, one was directly hit by two torpedoes and sank into the sea, and the remaining three were heavily damaged. Two other U.S. destroyers were mistakenly shot by their own cruisers and towed back to base.

In comparison, the *** Navy paid only a slight price for the sinking of the outpost destroyer.

During the night battle, the flagship of Rear Admiral Wright, commander of the 67th Task Force of the United States Navy, was damaged, and the fleet was evacuated from the battle under the command of Rear Admiral Campbell on another light cruiser.

Subsequently, the Navy sent two destroyers close to the officers and men of the US ship and used the ship's anti-aircraft machine guns to carry out frantic strafing, and more than 900 US officers and men who fell into the water were brutally slaughtered, and none of them escaped.

The other five destroyers went straight to the anchorage of the US transport ships, sank six transport ships in one fell swoop, and returned home smoothly before dawn.

Although the US Navy suffered heavy losses in this raid, because the US engineers used large construction machinery to quickly build an airfield on Kuah Island, the US fleet fighting in this area was provided with strong air cover, and the Navy's hope for victory suddenly came to naught.

On 10 August, after several sorties to no avail, the *** Navy suspended the sabotage battle on Kuah Island and helped the Japanese troops and a regiment of indigenous forces holding Kuah Island to evacuate from Kuah Island.

In late August, after consolidating the defense of Kuah Island, the U.S. military began to launch a landing operation on the Georgia Islands, but the Japanese decided to abandon the Georgia Islands on their own initiative and use destroyers to withdraw the defenders, considering that the number of troops was insufficient and there was no strong fleet support.

At half past six o'clock in the evening of 28 August, four destroyers of the Navy set sail from Port Buin, passed through the east coast of Shivazel Island and Cologne-Bangara, and sailed into Kura Bay in the early morning of 29 August.

Seeing that the US Navy formation had a relatively large firepower superiority and did not dare to engage in a confrontation, the naval destroyer fleet took advantage of the darkness of night to carry out a sneak torpedo attack at a distance of 6,000 meters.

One of the destroyers fired six torpedoes, and the other two fired four torpedoes each, then immediately turned around and returned safely to Port Bouin at 8 a.m. on the 29th.

When the American warship had just discovered a suspicious target in the northwest direction, the torpedo fired by the Japanese ship was already quietly approaching!

A destroyer was hit by a torpedo, the engine room was flooded, the hull tilted to the right, and it quickly lost its ability to sail and sank into the sea only half an hour later.

The U.S. Navy commander sent two destroyers to the rescue, but they were fired upon by the Japanese shore guns, and the two destroyers immediately split into two lines, one suppressing the Japanese shore guns to cover the rescue, and the other approaching the sunken destroyer, saving 217 crew members.

Subsequently, the U.S. warship formation, still in accordance with the original plan, prepared the landing force with naval artillery fire, and shelled the Japanese positions in nearby Baloko and Vera, and then returned to the port of Tulagi via the Georgia Strait.

Despite the successful torpedo attack carried out by the Japanese destroyer formation, a US destroyer was sunk, but the task of retreating the defending troops was not completed.

Therefore, the Japanese had to organize a fleet again on the 30th to go to transport.

This time, ten destroyers of the *** Navy departed from Port Buin at noon on the 30th, stopped at Shortland Island, and departed from Shortland Island at half past seven in the evening.

The formation was divided into three parts: the first convoy consisted of three destroyers, the second convoy consisted of four destroyers, and three more destroyers served as cover.

As soon as the Japanese fleet went to sea, it was spotted by Allied coastal surveillance posts.

According to the report of the coast watch post, Admiral Halsey, the commander of the navy, who commanded the 16th and 17th task forces in the American Samoa Islands and commanded the yet-to-be-formed task force, immediately ordered the battleship formation, which had just returned to the port of Tulagi, to go to sea again to intercept the attack.

The fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Hans Walker, consisted of three cruisers and four destroyers, and sailed at a speed of twenty-nine knots through the Strait of Georgia to Kura Bay.

In the early morning of the 31st, the naval fleet sailed into Kura Bay, and the naval commander ordered the three destroyers of the 1st Transport Group to continue their march and sail straight to the shore to contain the personnel, while the 2nd Transport and Cover Group were at the mouth of Kura Bay and deployed to take up the guard, of which the 2nd Transport Group was deployed behind the covering team.

However, the Army's wounded were slow to get on board, and only 100 people were accommodated in an hour.

At one o'clock in the morning of the 31st, the American formation also sailed into Kula Bay, completed its combat preparations, reduced its speed to 25 knots, and began to advance.

At 1:45 a.m., the US troops, with the help of the few ship-mounted radars that had just been equipped with ships, took the lead in discovering the Japanese covering group, and Rear Admiral Hans Walker led the formation to turn northwest in order to seize a favorable position and prepare for battle.

At 1:53 a.m., the Japanese cover team discovered that a suspicious target had appeared in the right front, and the Japanese commander immediately made a judgment that it might be a formation of US Navy ships, and immediately led the cover team to meet the enemy head-on, ordered the second transport team to set up a formation in the rear, and ordered the first transport team to suspend the containment mission and outflank the rear of the US fleet.

The Navy's operational policy was to maximize the power of torpedoes and not engage in artillery battles with the US Navy.

At 2:20 a.m., the distance between the US Navy ship formation and the Japanese cover group had been shortened to 6,200 meters, Rear Admiral Hans Walker ordered the cannon to be fired, and the US ship's guns were guided by radar, and the shooting was quite accurate, and the first salvo of the cruiser's main guns hit the Japanese lead ship, forcing the destroyer to withdraw from the battle, and the main gun of another destroyer was shot, the ammunition box of the machine gun caught fire, and the hull was penetrated in many places, and one destroyer was hit by a bullet in the anchor chain compartment, fortunately it did not explode, and the food compartment was flooded.

However, the U.S. Navy warships did not use flameless powder, and the muzzle fire of the guns produced a large amount of flames, which was very conspicuous in the night, making it an ideal aiming point for Japanese destroyers.

Although the Japanese destroyers were hit one after another, they did not completely lose their combat effectiveness, and quickly fired torpedoes to return fire, and two destroyers fired all 16 torpedoes in the torpedo tubes!

At that time, the US formation was sailing in a single column, with two destroyers as the vanguard, three cruisers in the center, and the other two destroyers in the center, and the flagship in the center of the queue became the base point for the Japanese ships to aim, and was hit by four torpedoes one after another, the front deck of the warship was blown off, and a large number of water entered the hull.

After the torpedo was fired, the naval commander quickly retreated, but did not cast smoke.

The U.S. fleet was in hot pursuit, and the artillery fire was extremely fierce, and it just happened to be the target of the second convoy.

Four destroyers aimed at the U.S. Navy ships, frequently firing torpedoes, the two destroyers of the vanguard sank in mines, the two destroyers of the rearguard hurriedly went out to cover, the Japanese destroyers retreated and disengaged, so the U.S. destroyers ran to rescue the drowning, and the cruisers went east and withdrew from the battle.

Soon, six destroyers of the *** Naval Cover Team and the Second Transport Group returned to the battlefield and, together with the First Transport Team, sent the two destroyers of the US Navy that were left behind to the bottom of the sea.

In this battle, one US cruiser and four destroyers were destroyed, and more than 2,000 naval officers and men were killed.

After a long delay in the night battle and the subsequent massacre of the American Navy soldiers who had fallen into the water, fearing that they would be bombed by American land-based aviation after dawn, the Navy commander immediately suspended the retreat and returned to Port Bouin.

The US Navy, which had a certain advantage, unexpectedly suffered a miserable defeat, and at the same time, adhering to the established strategy of "Europe first and then Asia," the Americans did not dare to use their limited naval ships to launch counterattacks, and temporarily stopped attacking the Georgian Islands.

Seeing that the U.S. Navy had died down, the Japanese also gave up withdrawing their troops, and the two sides are currently facing off between the islands of Kuah and the Georgia Islands, but with the restoration and gathering of U.S. naval strength, the next wave of engagement will surely be shattered.

In the Southwest Pacific Theater, Admiral MacArthur, the former hero of World War I, seemed to have suddenly become unable to fight, and he made frequent moves.

When the Japanese army landed in the Soviet port of the Far Eastern Republic and attacked the middle and lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, the Japanese army parachuted down, bypassed the rear of the Gulskoye Line, and attacked the front and rear to capture this almost impassable Xiongguan, and after a lapse of more than two years, the Japanese army further perfected this tactic.

On 22 August, the 6th and 7th Flying Regiments of the Fourth Air Force of the Army Air Force concentrated more than 800 warplanes and carried out intensive air raids on the US defense lines on the Ayr Peninsula and around Lake Giles, Lake Gairdner, Lake Ayland, and Lake McFarland.

The lack of combat experience of US pilots, coupled with the fact that the number of aircraft far outnumbered those of their opponents, lost air supremacy over the region. At the same time, the radar system of the US military was covered by bright spots in the sky, and there was no time to discover that the air force had mobilized nearly 200 transport planes and carried out a concentrated parachute in the steppe area southeast of Lake McFarland.

After nearly a day of air fighting, the Japanese army transported more than 8,000 troops to this area. Subsequently, this part of the Japanese army went out day and night, and suddenly appeared outside the port of Augusta on the night of the 28th. The U.S. troops in the rear were caught off guard, and after a night of fierce fighting, the city changed hands.

Located at the mouth of the Torrens River, this important town is a rail, road, shipping and maritime transportation hub in South Australia, stockpiling large quantities of U.S. military war materiel, as well as being a choke point for U.S. troops deployed on the Ayr Peninsula to retreat east of Flinders Ridge.

MacArthur, who commanded the operation at Port Lincoln on the Ayr Peninsula, once again felt the heart-wrenching scene when the Philippine capital Manila was trapped, and hurriedly deployed troops on the front line of Coopa Hill, Sturt Hill and Newkey Bluff in the western part of the Ayr Peninsula to launch a counterattack on Port Augusta.

MacArthur, who was busy with his mistakes, went so far as to negligently carry out air raids on the three airfields at Port Augusta, resulting in the Japanese army sending an additional division of troops to this area in just three days, and in addition to the large amount of US military stocks and equipment obtained, the US counterattack launched on 2 September was quickly routed by the Japanese army.

It was then that MacArthur remembered to ask for help from the Australian forces east of Flinders Ridge and Nimitz in the Pacific theater. However, the Australian army needed to defend the long Flinders Ridge defense line to ensure the safety of Australia's elite Lenwales and Victoria, and did not dare to divide troops to rescue, and Nimitz could not save the near thirst from the water, and at the same time, in the war in the Central Pacific, the 16th Task Force and the 17th Task Force under the command of Admiral Halsey suffered heavy losses in personnel, and had no ability to redeem the defeat on land.

Under these circumstances, in order to preserve the limited strength of the US forces in the southwest Pacific region, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff made a decision to order the Fifth Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Spruance to cooperate with MacArthur's Seventh Fleet to carry out the withdrawal mission on the Eyre Peninsula.

In general, the sharp deterioration of the situation in the Southwest Pacific theater is inseparable from MacArthur's rigid command thinking.

In fact, at this time, many British and American generals still stayed in the state of the last European war in their operational thinking, thinking that building a solid defensive line, coupled with complete logistics supplements in the rear, was enough to defeat the opponent just by fighting for attrition, but they did not know that with the progress of aviation technology, the war has evolved into an all-round struggle for space, and the front and rear may become battlefields

In this contest, how to limit the opponent's advantage to a large extent has become the number one issue.

In the Indian Ocean theater, from late August, a large-scale naval battle broke out again between the Allied fleet and the combined fleet of the *** Navy.

Commanded by Admiral Yamamoto's 56th Lieutenant Navy, the Navy Aircraft Carrier Task Force and the Second Aircraft Carrier Squadron have six battleships, four high-speed battleships, eight fleet aircraft carriers, ten escort aircraft carriers, ten heavy cruisers, 12 light cruisers and air defense cruisers, 42 destroyers, and 91 other auxiliary ships.

The Allied navies include the three battleships of the US Navy, the USS Arkansas, the USS New York, and the USS Texas, and the three aircraft carriers USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, and USS Assault, as well as the heavy cruisers USS Portland and USS Indianapolis, and four light cruisers of the Omaha class.

The Royal Navy fleet has six light aircraft carriers, including the battleships "Queen Elizabeth", the battlecruisers "Royal Princess" and "Prestige", six light aircraft carriers including "Unicorn", "Giant", "Honor", "Ares of War", "Glory" and "Ocean", four "Kent" class heavy cruisers, and four "Southampton" class light cruisers.

In addition, the Allied navies had twenty-five destroyers, thirty-two escort destroyers and forty-six minesweepers, which was still quite strong.

Since the outbreak of the World War, Britain has recalled the sale of old warships from South American countries. For example, the battlecruiser "Lion", "Royal Princess", and "Tiger", after the end of World War I and during the economic crisis, these three battleships were sold to the navies of Brazil, Argentina and Chile respectively, and now they are all put on the battlefield, but the battlecruiser "Tiger" and the battlecruiser "Lion" were unlucky and sank in the attack on the port of Diego Suares.

As an aside, the Navy at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii has also salvaged the US ships that were secretly attacked and sunk one by one, and is currently being repaired, and according to the drawings left by the Americans, they have been modernized and refitted, so that the combat effectiveness of these warships has risen to the level.

It is also strange to say that the modification of warships is originally very complicated, and the impact of equipment on warships must be taken into account, when so many warships need to be refitted, it will take several months just for drawings, not to mention the procurement and production of various equipment and materials.

However, when these warships were salvaged, the workers who were transferred to Hawaii from the mainland to participate in the repair of the ships found that the naval base material reserve center in the Hawaii military port was like a big treasure trove, and everything was ready-made, including drawings, weapons, radars, etc., which was very shocking.

At present, the Navy has imitated the shipborne radar left behind by the Americans at Pearl Harbor and modernized some of the ships.

At present, among the ships sunk in Pearl Harbor, only the battleships "Arizona" and "Oklahoma" cannot be repaired; the "Utah" is an old battleship launched in 1909 and has no significance for repair, while the minelayer "Oglala" was built in 1907 and is the oldest warship in Pearl Harbor.

Therefore, in fact, the final loss of the US military in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was only these four warships. If it weren't for the landing of the U.S. Army on Oahu, all of these ships would soon be rearmed by the U.S. Navy for operations in the Pacific, but now there will only be cheap *** people.

Unbeknownst to the book, the Allied Navy did not know that the Combined Fleet had completed its buildup in Canada in mid-August, replenished its carrier-based aircraft, fuel, and ammunition, and then marched aggressively toward the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Admiral Bertramsay of the Royal Navy, who commanded the retreat from Dunkirk, led a huge fleet on August 21 and rushed to the Seychelles, an important naval base in the Indian Ocean. The entire Allied naval fleet was divided into two groups, the first group with nine aircraft carriers went to Victoria Harbor on Mahe Island to carry out air strikes, and the main fleet of the second group was prepared to support in the rear.

Three days later, when the fleet reached a distance of 50 nautical miles from its destination, it released carrier-based aircraft and urgently made a tactical maneuver to the northwest sea.

In order to prevent a counterattack by the land-based aviation of the *** Navy, Admiral Bertram Ramsay also sent a group of alert aircraft.

Very lucky, did not see any enemy aircraft, the naval fleets of the allies were jubilant, and decided that the *** people must have been dizzy by this wave of air raids, and there was no strength to fight back, and the next step was to simply launch a landing operation to solve the problem. However, three hours later, when they saw the returning fleet, everyone was stunned: at least 150 of the large fleet of 300 fighters did not return.

When the air raider group landed, the vigilant cruiser reported that the radar showed that twenty kilometers in the direction of Mahe Island, a group suddenly appeared, and a group of no less than two hundred and fifty fighters swooped down viciously.

Bertram Ramsay immediately ordered all fighters to line up in the air, and every anti-aircraft gunner was in place, and then, they saw a huge lineup of one hundred and fifty Zero fighters and fifty Type 1 Land Attack, 30 Type 97 Heavy Bombardment, and 30 Type 100 Dragon Swallowing Heavy Bombardment.

After a fierce air battle, all 30 Tubenose Swallows of the air cover planes were shot down, and more than 50 "Buffalo", "Wild Cats" and "Sea Cats" fell into the sea.

The Japanese attack aircraft group broke through the air defenses of the British army and hit a number of warships, the light aircraft carriers "Unicorn" and "Giant", the old battleship "Arkansas", the heavy cruiser "Berwick" of the "Kent" class, two "Omaha"-class light cruisers "Milwaukee" and "Cincinnati" were sunk, and several other ships were heavily damaged.

Bertram Ramsey was so depressed that he had to lead the fleet back to the military port of Diego Suares. In his opinion, since the air raid plan ended in failure, the most important thing was to lead the warship back to the base safely.

The admiral did not know that when he led the fleet to launch an attack on the Seychelles, the 23rd Air Corps of the Navy and the 5th Flying Division of the Army had mobilized all their long-range bombers to suddenly attack the military airfields of the Allied forces in Eastern and Southern Africa.

As early as the end of July, he assigned the ships of the Indian Ocean Fleet to take advantage of the darkness to escort the 9th and 10th Independent Infantry Brigades to land at Matop Bay, a neutral Portuguese colony in Mozambique, on the other side of the strait.

In order to keep secrets, the Japanese army adopted the strategy of exterminating the people along the way, bypassing the important port city of Matope in southern Mozambique, following the Drakensian Mountains, infiltrating British southern Africa, and eliminating radar stations near the coastline one by one.

By 24 August, the Japanese had infiltrated the periphery of Port Elizabeth. This is the command center of the naval and army of the allied countries, and according to the information fed back by the coastal radar stations, the aviation units on the east coast of Africa are uniformly dispatched and deployed.

At 4 a.m. on the 25th, the 9th and 10th Independent Infantry Brigades suddenly launched an attack on Port Elizabeth, and the Allied commanders did not expect that this place would be attacked.

Vice Admiral William Henry Gott of the British Army, Rear Admiral Hasbend, former commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, who was demoted due to the Pearl Harbor incident, and more than 50 Allied generals and colonels in the headquarters, as well as more than 4,000 British and American soldiers, were taken prisoner.

After dawn, the 23rd Air Corps of the Navy and the Fifth Flight Division of the Army suddenly dispatched 100 B17 bombers and 150 Zero fighters to attack the airfield on the east coast of South Africa.

By the afternoon of the same day, the airfields on the east coast had been almost wiped out by the air force one by one, and from beginning to end, the Allied Joint Command had not given warnings to the airfields or commanded operations.

At the same time as the air raid was launched, the deployment of the Zaratana Mountain in the north of the island of Madagascar to resist the southward movement of the Japanese army, the 30th, 19th, 67th, and 100th divisions, a total of four divisions, together with the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th divisions of the Japanese and Indian armies, and 20,000 Malagasy government troops, suddenly marched towards Puerto Diego Suarez.

The vanguard of the two armies, the rugged mountainous area of Ambudimanga, collided head-on and immediately engaged in a fierce battle. Due to the complex terrain and the hills and ravines, the superior mechanized troops of the Allied forces could not be used.

And on the northern sea, on August 26, the Allied naval fleet, which had retreated to the military port of Diego Suarez, was finally overtaken by the combined naval fleet of ***, which had rushed from the eastern Indian Ocean.

Three hundred warplanes were dispatched from the eight fleet aircraft carriers of the Navy, and the fighters of the Allied naval fleet, which were responsible for air cover, were already more than forty, and the rest were bombers and torpedo planes.

In the face of 150 Zero fighters, the "Buffalo", "Wildcat" and "Sea***" fighters of the Allied navy had no power to parry at all, and they fell into the sea one after another, and all the capital ships, aircraft carriers, and heavy cruisers of the Allied forces that had lost air protection were bombed and torpedoed.

With billowing smoke in tow, the aircraft carrier "Ocean" and the heavy cruiser "Cumberland" of the "Kent" class sank into the sea, in addition to five destroyers. The aircraft carriers "Yorktown" and "Hornet" each hit three bombs and lost their ability to take off and land. The light aircraft carriers "Respect", "Ares of War", and "Glory" were hit by a total of twelve bombs, but miraculously did not sink.

The Allied navies suffered a heavy blow and lost almost all of their carrier-based aircraft, but by this time they were close to the Diego Suarez military port, and finally before the next wave of fighters arrived, the fleet took refuge in the military port of Digo Suarez.

What followed was undoubtedly an extremely humiliating scene for the allies.

Under the combined attack of the Japanese army's superior land, sea and air, on September 5, after ten consecutive days of fighting, the military port of Diego Suares fell, and the main force of the Allied fleet became a prisoner of the *** navy.

In this battle, which lasted more than half a month, the Allied Army lost more than 20,000 people, about 50,000 were taken prisoner, and thousands more were missing. The navy has six aircraft carriers, including the USS Yorktown, USS Bumblebee, USS Assault, USS Honorable, USS Ares and USS Glory, four battleships USS New York, USS Texas, and USS Elizabeth, as well as nearly 100 ships such as cruisers, destroyers, and transports, which have become trophies of the Japanese army, and the naval power has reached an unprecedented peak.

In Eastern and Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Navy continued to increase troops to the African continent, and with the help of the Air Force, the Japanese army, with a total of four independent infantry brigades, maintained the front line on Mount Otneyqua south of Port Elizabeth, and the entire situation in Asia and Africa was chaotic.

Late on the night of 6 September, after An Yi returned to Beijing with Gu Changfeng and Xia Jian, he immediately convened a military committee and decided to convene an all-army military conference two days later.

The big war is about to break out.

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