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The U.S. military did not dare to attack Wake Island, does it mean that Li Guang was stupid and bold because he did not measure his strength? Li Guang's attack was risky, but it was not without brains.

Wake Island is located nearly 1,700 kilometers away from Truk, the core base of the Japanese army.

Midway is more than 2,000 kilometers from the U.S. military base in Hawaii.

There are similarities between the two. Midway was the forward position of the American troops, while Wake Island was the forward position of the Japanese army.

In other words, the naval resistance army's attack on Wake Island was actually a copy of the Japanese army's attack on Midway. Of course, Li Guang is in a certain superstitious mentality, but he avoids thinking in this direction.

Although the Japanese army was the home field, it was still barely a fair battlefield. After all, in the event of a crisis, the Maritime Resistance Force can also rely on the support of the US military at Midway, which is 1,950 kilometers away. Although the Japanese army has garrisons on many small islands in this sea area, the real support force can only rely on the Truk base 1,650 kilometers away.

Li Guang once carefully analyzed the reasons for the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Midway. One of the most important reasons is that the U.S. military deciphered the Japanese code, so that the U.S. military had already been prepared. If it weren't for the precautions, it would not have been difficult for the Japanese to occupy Midway.

One thing that the Naval Resistance Army is sure of is that there is absolutely no leakage of intelligence from the Naval Resistance Army. You must know that the preparations made by the Maritime Resistance Army for this long-distance attack are not just about changing all the passwords.

Except for a limited number of personnel in the Army and Navy who know that the destination is Easter Island (Wake Island is the English transliteration of Easter Island), the vast majority of people do not even know the name of Wake Island.

Moreover, the Maritime Resistance Army crossed two oceans and ran long distances, such a military operation is simply not something that common sense can analyze, and in World War II, it ran across the ocean. This is a feat. If the Maritime Resistance Army did not have the territory of Paradise Island, which is a foothold in the middle, it would not be able to and dare not think of such a military operation. And along the way, with good luck, this can reach the battlefield smoothly. Bad luck is a little worse, it is normal to delay for ten days and a half months, and it is not uncommon for ships to sink and die. This is also the reason why the scale of the naval resistance army's attack this time is not large. There were not many ships dispatched, but both warships and merchant ships were in the best condition.

As for reconnaissance activities, four ocean-going submarines of the First Submarine Squadron of the Maritime Resistance Submarine Fleet were deployed around Wake Island more than a month ago. Otherwise, Sato Toshi's two supplies would have been destroyed in more than a month. There is no such coincidence in the world. The American ghost animal bore the resentment of the little devil, but in fact, the two attacks were all carried out by the submarine of the Maritime Resistance Army.

For this battle, Li Guang has been busy running around the research institute until the torpedo machine is equipped with radar before he is willing to go to sea, also in order to make this military operation more certain.

Exercises of the She Jinsong detachment in the Indian Ocean. And even more for the success of this military operation. Thanks to Li Guang's landing on Wake Island in the first gift-giving operation. Get an intuitive impression of the topography of Wake Island. The Maritime Resistance Force found a very similar coral island in the Indian Ocean and conducted a number of confrontation exercises. Find a Japanese captured officer as an opponent. It is to better grasp the defense means and combat habits of the Japanese army.

On the high-speed merchant ship carrying the army, the Maritime Resistance Army made a beautiful sand table, and did not forget to simulate the exercise during the voyage.

It can be said that Li Guang was fully prepared, but he did not expect that the battleship Atlantic would be absent from this battle.

If only naval battles. The absence of the battleship Atlantic, while affecting the battle, was not so severe. In a landing battle, the firepower of the battleship Atlantic was an indispensable support force.

THE BATTLESHIP ATLANTIC'S EIGHT 330MM MAIN GUNS, ONE SALVO IS EIGHT 570-KILOGRAM BOMBS. The efficiency of ammunition delivery is much higher than that of more than 100 aircraft on an aircraft carrier. It is calculated. The ammunition delivery capacity of a battleship Atlantic is almost comparable to the efficiency of 300 fighters.

Moreover, because of the intuitiveness, the intermediate link of command is reduced, and the battleship's support for the battlefield will also be more timely.

Although the battleship has stepped down from the throne of naval warfare, its ability to attack the island is still the undoubted king of kings, and it is still the most reliable weapon for beach landing.

In the past few years, Li Guang's operational thinking has actually been quite conservative, and he has tried his best to fight battles that are prepared and will be won. Although the conditions have changed, we will not back down because of these difficulties.

On the night of the 15th, the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean and the submarine Pixiu No. 1 rounded. Lieutenant Colonel He Shuoheng, captain of the Pixiu No. 1 submarine, is also the captain of the first submarine team. Since Ji Keliang was promoted from the captain of the first submarine team to the commander of the submarine fleet, He Shuoheng took over this position.

He Shuoheng is a veteran, he is considered to be the crew of the first batch of Pixiu No. 1 submarines, and was seriously wounded in a sneak attack on a Japanese merchant ship, one ear was cut off by shrapnel, and his face was full of scars. He was completely deaf in his left ear and hearing impaired in his right ear.

In submarine forces, hearing loss can be a big problem. However, it also created a strange person in the Naval Resistance Army, who compiled a mute language textbook according to the combat and defensive position of the special squad of the Navy Resistance Army, and after the war, he actually perfected this textbook into a mute monograph and became a world-renowned dumb language expert.

The arrival of He Shuoheng brought more information about Wake Island. The brethren of the 1st Submarine Squadron took great risks and made many close observations, and the information about the deployment of the Japanese army was quite complete. Although it is impossible to be exhaustive, the most important Japanese shore artillery arrangements and anti-aircraft gun emplacements are marked quite accurately.

The staff officers of the Naval Resistance Force immediately fine-tuned their combat plans on the basis of this information.

On the broad deck of the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier, Li Guang breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the sky. The rain has stopped, and the night sky is shining with stars.

This is a good sign.

Without the battleship Atlantic, aircraft carrier operations need good weather. The time and place are favorable, and the naval resistance army occupies the sky first.

As for the location, Wake Island is just a coral island, with the highest point only six meters above sea level. Although the Japanese army had turned Wake Island into a fortress, it was not a geographical advantage.

And people, although Li Guang can't find an advantage. You must know that the army brothers of the Maritime Resistance Army, after twenty days of sea sailing, are not good in terms of physical strength. What he didn't know was. The physical strength of the little devils is not good, and almost one-tenth of the devils have diarrhea to the point where it is difficult to get up. And at least a quarter of the devils are also due to serious lack of physical strength due to diarrhea. In fact, the two armies are about the same in this respect, and the naval resistance army still has a little advantage.

Li Guang didn't know what kind of psychology those famous generals in history who were as brilliant as stars and moons had before the war. Maybe he's as worried?

Sometimes, people know where their problems are, but they can't ignore them. For example, Li Guang knew that his decision was the right one. And the trouble comes from the psychology of not being able to afford to lose. The number of ships and the strength of the army are not large, but it is the essence of the naval resistance.

World War I overwhelmed the country. This concept has been entrenched in Li Guang's mind for several years, almost ingrained.

Haitang is not American. Not the UK, not Japan. It's really impossible to afford to lose a battle, and Haitang doesn't have that capital.

As the saying goes, riding a horse and taking a boat is three points of risk, and there is no foolproof strategy for fighting.

Can't afford to lose? Li Guang asked himself.

No. Historical trends. It has been established that China will win. The general trend has been set. Why dwell on the possible twists and turns and setbacks along the way?

Looking up at the stars (someone's patent). Li Guang took a deep breath at the sky, the vast universe, the endless starry sky.

A breath of cool breath seems to enter the chest and lungs, and the psychological distress is swept away. At this time, Li Guang was sublimated again, quite a bit from a rich man in the countryside to a big capitalist, although the power at hand was still the same as before.

War.

The spirit of war is high.

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At 1 a.m. on the 16th.

Twelve reconnaissance planes on board the USS Indian Ocean were the first to take off.

1:20 a.m. The first wave of attack aircraft took off under the cover of night.

Twenty F4F Wildcat fighters, forty-four SBD dreadnought dive bombers, twelve TBD torpedo bombers. A total of 76 fighters took off within 25 minutes. This speed may not be enough to catch up with the most elite aircraft carriers in the early days of the Japanese war, but the performance is already quite good.

At 2:20, twenty-four F4F Wildcat fighters were raised from the hangar to the take-off deck, ready for the eventuality.

From the procedure for releasing fighters, you can see the advantages of the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean.

First, the night take-off fighters, although they benefit from the bright night, the sliding take-off deck also provides higher security.

Second, twenty-four fighters were able to stand on deck, thanks to the sloping deck design. If there was no inclined deck, due to the danger of recovering fighters, the all-through deck would not have dared to park fighters in the take-off position at all. On the deck, there are 24 Wildcat fighters on the deck, which greatly guarantees the safety of the aircraft carrier itself. If the Japanese aircraft carriers had been designed with a slanted deck during the Battle of Midway, then Nagumo Tadaichi would not have had the trouble of recovering the fighters first or releasing the fighters first, and perhaps the Japanese Navy would not have lost so badly. The diagonal deck design adds more than one level to the combat effectiveness of the USS Indian Ocean.

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Three o'clock in the morning.

The first wave of strike aircraft of the Maritime Resistance Force flew over Wake Island.

In the first furious bomb roar, Major General Toshiichi Sato was awakened from his bed. Toshiichi Sato was not unprepared for a possible air raid, but his inertial thinking made his vigilance greatly reduced. You know, the U.S. military has always bombed during the day. For most of the year, the nights on Wake Island have been quiet and warm. Well, it's not been very quiet at night lately, and the devil with diarrhea is humming and chirping.

At night, there were not a few devils on duty at the anti-aircraft artillery position on Wake Island. Therefore, at the first time, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery was not able to counterattack in time. But if you can't fight back in the first place, then there will be no chance to fight back.

You know, anti-aircraft artillery is not shore artillery and cannot be deployed in a fortress. All the anti-aircraft gun emplacements of the Japanese army were open gun emplacements, while the bombs carried by the 44 fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were all empty explosive bombs. The air explosion bomb has a huge lethality to the enemy on the surface, and after the devil wakes up, he wants to run to the gun position, which is completely dead.

In less than 10 minutes, the aircraft group of the Coastal Resistance Army completed the bombing.

This kind of ground bombing is really not too simple. Although the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Force were not very experienced, they did not drop a single bomb into the sea in the face of the bombing of an island chain several hundred meters wide and four or five kilometers long.

And a 500-kilogram bomb, as long as it is not thrown too far, the shock wave can sweep over an area of more than 500 meters. Sixty or seventy bombs. It's enough to cover tiny Wake Island twice.

When the results of the casualties came out, Toshiichi Sato was shocked by the heavy losses.

The ability of air-explosive bombs to destroy buildings and fortifications is not very strong, and on the surface, except for the barracks that collapsed by fire, the fortifications were almost completely intact.

Toshiichi Sato, because of his habitual thinking, was very random in his deployment at night - at least half of the devils were in the barracks and not in the bunker fortifications. In particular, none of the hundreds of prostrated devils who had diarrhea were in bunkers, and all of them slept in barracks on the surface.

Because of this, the Naval Resistance Army only had sixty or seventy bombshells. Incredible results were achieved. A wave of blows killed and wounded more than 1,600 Japanese soldiers. Five or six hundred people died on the spot, and thousands of devils were injured by the shock wave. Now some of these wounded soldiers who can still breathe are unconscious, and some are busy vomiting blood. Whether they can continue to live or not, their Aunt Amaterasu can't say well.

For such a serious consequence, Toshiichi Sato can't be blamed entirely, and the little devil himself is to blame. Bunker fortifications though safe. But it's hot and humid, and no one wants to stay there. And there are many "squeamish" officers and soldiers in the tank wing who are unwilling to be rats underground. As a result, it has suffered a lot.

The Naval Resistance Army is bombing. There is a miracle that there were 98 American prisoners and hundreds of Korean people held in the underground fortifications, all of whom were forcibly pulled by the Japanese army to build the fortifications, and not a single one of them died in the air raid, not even a single fur was injured.

In the command center, Toshiichi Sato was shirtless. Wildly brandishing the command knife and roaring wildly. Saying that the blood dripping from his heart is light, Toshiichi Sato is almost crazy.

At such an important strategic support point on Wake Island, the Japanese army naturally deployed elite troops. The more than 4,600 Japanese troops led by Toshiichi Sato are the real elite, otherwise how could he be a wing commander with the rank of major general.

The Japanese army on Wake Island had the main force of the 6th Separate Mixed Infantry Wing. A 4th tank wing main force.

In the Japanese army, such an organization of independent mixed brigades is common, but it is rare to have independent mixed wings, which is unique to the Japanese army in the Pacific theater. The Sixth Independent Mixed Wing, but the elite of the Kwantung Army, which was thoroughly elite, was transferred directly from the northeast of China to the Pacific Ocean, and there was not even a single recruit in the entire wing who had served for less than two years. And the fourth wing of the tank is the treasure of the Japanese army. There are only a dozen tank wings in the whole of Japan, and the deployment of one on Wake Island is already a super luxury deployment for the poor Japanese army.

In this way, more than 1,600 people went at once, and the weight of the blow to Toshiichi Sato can be imagined.

Here is a question, why are there only more than 4,000 people in two wings? According to the establishment of the Japanese army, even if the number of chariot wings is smaller, how can two wings have six or seven thousand troops. Plus medical, communications, artillery, it should be about the same in eight thousand people.

It depends on the specific combat mission. Toshiichi Sato's mission was to hold Wake Island, and he did not need the cavalry brigade, baggage brigade, and engineer brigade common in the Japanese infantry wing. Even the subordinate branches of the brigade have been cut.

And the chariot wing, on this small island, does not need any subordinate troops. And in any country's armored forces, the number of combatants is far less than that of auxiliaries.

Of course, the Japanese army is not abundant, and those skilled baggage soldiers and engineers are all technical arms that are in short supply in various units, and of course they are reluctant to throw them on small islands in the Pacific Ocean to blow the sea breeze. Another reason is that Wake Island is so small. The total area of the main island plus the two affiliated islands is only 9.5 square kilometers, and the deployment of 4,600 troops is really not small. There are almost 500 people in one square kilometer, and if there are more, they will be crowded into piles.

In other words, the more than 4,600 Japanese troops on Wake Island are all real front-line soldiers, the elite of the elite. Don't look at the number of people in the establishment is 40% less than the two complete wings, but the combat effectiveness is a real combat effectiveness of the two wings. A third of it went at once, how not to make Toshiichi Sato go crazy.

You know, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet Command specifically reminded him. In a certain sense, Toshiichi Sato is dereliction of duty, and according to the military law of the Japanese army, he will also be court-martialed, and the dismissal and investigation are all trivial matters, and if he doesn't get it right, he will lose his head.

Major General Toshiichi Sato is starting to go crazy.

(The big war is about to start, ask for votes.) (To be continued......)