The battle of Kursk became more and more intense, and at any time there were tanks destroyed, and even after three or four hundred at the peak, when there were no problems with these steel behemoths, they went on a rampage, very majestic, but when something went wrong, they were motionless and clumsy.

In fact, the most vulnerable part of the tank is the track, and it is here that there are often problems, and there are not many tanks that are really completely destroyed and have little maintenance value. Ten out of a hundred tanks is not bad, and these tanks usually have their frontal armor penetrated and the internal ammunition bay is detonated, or the fuel tank is detonated and the vehicle can never be recovered.

Everything else is a minor problem, as long as it is properly maintained, it can rush to the battlefield again, but this has a premise, that is, it can control the battlefield in the war, if the other party has the upper hand, the power to clean up the battlefield falls into the hands of the enemy, even if the tank is slightly injured, as long as it can't move, it will fall into the hands of the enemy, and it will be completely finished.

The losses of the Soviet Union in the battle were often higher than those of the Germans, but the Soviet Union had a strong reserve force, which could often be replenished in time, and the Germans often lost much more tanks than the Soviets in the early stages of the war, but after the Soviet Union's large forces came to the rescue, they could only retreat, and the battlefield was left to the Soviets.

This was where the Soviet Union's powerful maintenance teams came into play, a considerable number of which were aided by China, using off-road trucks, carrying specialized machinery and equipment, capable of accompanying the armored forces, each truck with four professional maintenance personnel, carrying spare parts and maintenance equipment.

The general damage of the track can be basically solved for more than half an hour, even if there is a problem with the load wheel, it can be quickly replaced within an hour, and the damage to other parts can also be solved, and the maintenance vehicle is also accompanied by a supply vehicle, which can replenish ammunition and fuel for the tank. Soon a tank will be able to restore combat effectiveness.

Of course, if the damage is serious, it will be returned to the factory for repair. In practice, however, most of the time such tanks are disassembled into parts. Replace it with another tank, or reassemble a new one.

Basically, more than eighty percent of the damaged tanks can be repaired, and the Chinese maintenance team not only repaired the Soviets' own tanks, but also dismantled the German tanks in eight pieces at some time. After figuring out the structure, I then saved up a few German Tiger tanks.

China's efficient battlefield maintenance capabilities completely conquered the Soviet army, and they followed China's example and professionalized their maintenance teams as much as possible. This gave the Soviets a sweet taste. But the Germans were in full trouble, and they tried their best to eliminate a large number of Soviet tanks, but in the ensuing battle, the Soviet tanks were overwhelming, and there was no reduction, as if the Soviet tanks were endless.

This has become a nightmare for the Germans, and the German Supreme Commander Manstein also has a headache, and he gradually understands the secret of the Soviets' victory, but he does not have a good way to deal with it.

Manstein had studied tactics in China and knew a lot about the Chinese army, but the more he knew. The more frightened the Chinese are, the more advanced the technology may not be. The quality may not be the strongest, but China has a great ability, that is, it can use the power at hand to the extreme, and produce the best results.

Moreover, one of the viewpoints that the Chinese military has repeatedly emphasized is that it is necessary to become the master of the equipment and what kind of war it fights, and not to rely too much on weapons technology. In fact, Germany made such a mistake during the war, they pursued technical performance one-sidedly, and designed a lot of impractical equipment, Nazi scientists are a group of very good people, but Germany's military industry lacks an integration ability to give full play to its own advantages.

The situation of the war is becoming more and more unfavorable to Germany, the mobile force is decreasing, and it is difficult to recover, Manstein is also in trouble, as the so-called clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, the war has developed to the present, it is no longer a two excellent marshals can be reversed, the war has become more and more a contest between the national system, it is clear that Germany has become more and more powerless in the face of strong allies.

The situation in Kursk has slipped in the direction of Germany, the Germans have completely lost the strategic initiative, and their ally Japan is in an even worse situation, China and the United States have joined forces to sweep away all the Japanese colonies in the Pacific, and there is currently only one Borneo that has not fallen into the hands of the Allies, and there are more than six million Japanese living on it.

However, Qiao Yu had already ordered Borneo to be completely blocked, and not even a bird could fly out, just waiting to take the Japanese mainland and force Japan to surrender unconditionally.

After several months of intense preparations, both China and the United States were well prepared, with Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief of the landing operation and Janssen and MacArthur as the deputy commanders-in-chief, and the first batch of landing forces consisted of 27 divisions, including five tank divisions, with a total of 640,000 troops.

In order to coordinate the operation, China and the United States also dispatched powerful maritime forces, with a total of 12 large aircraft carriers as the core of the fleet, mainly using carrier-based aircraft to attack Japan's transportation system, destroy Japan's rear, and prevent the military from aiding each other.

In addition, seven battleships were sent in the direction of the landing site, of which five were sent by the American side, two by the Chinese, thirteen cruisers, forty-two destroyers, and five shallow gunboats, which created three fire cover fleets, mainly to provide fire support for the landing force.

As far as China is concerned, this is a reckoning with one of the most vicious enemies in modern times, and only by completely crushing Japan and making the four islands harmless can China completely stand tall in the east of the world and become a powerful power in the Asia-Pacific region, and at the same time it is also a battle to eliminate the burden of history.

Since the Opium War, China has suddenly fallen from the top country in the world to the bottom, the country's fortunes have declined, and the Chinese people have even lost confidence in Chinese civilization for a time.

Any country that becomes a world power must defeat a great power, and China will completely crush Japan, and internally it will let the people calm down, put aside the burden of history, and stride forward to a new era with their heads held high. Externally, it is to swear China's status as a great power and officially become the leading force in the world.

As for the fact that the United States also attached equal importance to this landing operation, Roosevelt's landing in Japan was regarded as an exercise to counterattack Western Europe, and the United States should find the know-how of large-scale amphibious operations in order to cope with possible more brutal landing operations. Of course, the United States is also very interested in Japan, and the United States also wants to maintain a strong presence in Japan, which is of great value to the expansion of American influence in the Pacific.

Being valued so much by both China and the United States was not a good thing for Japan, especially after the four islands were cut open, Japan could only send supplies to Kyushu Island through some remaining small boats at the risk of being sunk, which was simply not enough to build fortifications.

However, this is already Japan's greatest energy, Japan was unstoppable in the early days of the Pacific War, beating the Americans to the ground, but soon Japan showed its original form, this is an island country after all, with limited national strength, and there is no way to conduct a long war of attrition.

Emperor Hirohito removed Prime Minister Tojo not long ago and replaced him with Koiso Kuniaki, Tojo is honestly very loyal to Hirohito, it can be said that he is a dog, especially obedient, and obedient. But Hirohito was not satisfied, because the dog was too stupid, and he caused Japan to suffer heavy losses one after another, and someone had to bear the blame. Hirohito is sacred, he can't be wrong, then he can only sacrifice Tojo.

After Koiso became prime minister, he first advocated expanding the scope of suicide attacks, recruiting more young men to fly Zero fighter jets to ram Chinese and American warships and even important warehouses in southern North Korea. However, both China and the United States have experienced, and these suicide attacks have had little effect.

Koiso Kuniaki did not usher in a good start, he thought of a more decisive method, that is, the use of biological and chemical weapons, after the Japanese occupied Nanyang, using the local indigenous people to conduct a series of live experiments, to produce a large amount of chemical gas.

Now there is a large number of chemical shells stored in Japan itself, and this is already Japan's last trump card. Kuniaki Koiso suggested that after the landing of the Chinese and American troops, Japan should use a large amount of poison gas on the mainland to kill and injure the Chinese and American troops.

This idea is not evil, and Koiso Kuniaki also knows that the army has measures to prevent poison gas, and the final result may be to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 10,000 themselves, and the people who die are ordinary Japanese people, but these war maniacs can't care about these anymore.

Only by giving a large number of casualties to the Chinese and American armies can these two countries be forced to retreat in spite of difficulties, and Japan can end the war with dignity, rather than surrender unconditionally, which is also the supreme instruction of Emperor Hirohito, who knows that China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain have issued the Dehran Declaration, saying that they will only accept unconditional surrender, and that they will completely punish war criminals, which is something that Hirohito cannot accept. He is a son of God, and he must not be judged and humiliated by these mortals, and for the honor and dignity of the emperor, he can only sacrifice the Japanese people unceremoniously.

Under the cover of the air force, the first island to be seized was Tsushima Island, which is located between Japan and North Korea and is an important maritime point, and China has been bombing this island for several months, and there is hardly any living creature on Tsushima Island, and the Chinese and American troops have easily captured it.

After the establishment of an improvised port and airfield, the landing force approached Kitakyushu and officially launched a war campaign against the Japanese mainland. (To be continued.) )