Chapter 19: The curtain will be opened
"Baga, why can't you find their airport?" Several waves of reconnaissance planes were sent to Jeju Island to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance, and the few ace pilots who were triumphant on weekdays all returned in vain, and this result made the commanders of the Korean Japanese air corps who were ordered to be stationed in Gwangju very dissatisfied. Following the massive bombardment of the port of Nagasaki, Saga and Okamoto were also bombed, and although the actual casualties were not very large, the damned Thunder used powerful incendiary bombs, and a large number of buildings were destroyed in the fire, leaving at least one million Kyushu residents homeless.
Finding the airfields built by Thunder on Jeju Island and blowing them up was a task received by the Korean Japanese army Gwangju Flying Team, but three days had passed, and the reconnaissance planes they sent out had not even found a shadow of the other side's airfield. "Otherwise, we will also send planes to bomb China as a warning and retaliatory action." Someone among the officers who was at a loss made a suggestion, but his suggestion was not adopted, not to mention that the Japanese army was now facing a shortage of supplies and soldiers, and whether a place as big as China alone could be bombed, and how many planes would have to be used to do it.
In the end, this proposal was transmitted back to Japan from Gwangju, but the cabinet members, who were also at a loss, seemed to see the dawn of meaning, yes, the thunder can bomb Nagasaki, why can't we choose a city of Shina as a target for revenge and warning. The Cabinet members, who were well aware of the nature of the Nationalist Government, were pleased, and after convening a large number of staff officers to deliberate, the Cabinet decided to attack Jeju Island while mobilizing a large number of planes from the Shina battlefield to carry out an air raid on Chongqing, forcing the Nationalist Government to intervene to persuade Thunder to withdraw from Jeju Island.
Zhao Zhi on Jeju Island naturally does not know these things, there are as many as 15 airports built on Jeju Island, each airport is covered with camouflage nets, from the air, these airports are no different from the surrounding grass and trees, but as long as these airports receive the order for fighters to take off, it only takes less than five minutes, and all the fighters hidden under the camouflage net can take off into the air. All eggs can't be put in one basket, this is an economic quote in the previous life, but Zhao Zhi believes that this sentence also applies to the military.
These 15 temporary airfields on Jeju Island are parked with all the 120 fighters that Thunder can use at present, and the average number of planes parked under the camouflage net of each airport does not exceed 10. Although Zhao Zhi, who has almost 60,000 troops in hand, cannot do anything to prevent the defense of Jeju Island, he can now spare more manpower to protect the airfield on the island, and once the planes promised by the US Congress arrive on Jeju Island, Zhao Zhi will definitely have a place to park them.
The situation seems to have begun to stalemate, Zhao Zhi's side is thunderous and dispatches fighter troops to bomb Kyushu Island every day, and the Japanese side also begins to bomb Chongqing and Jinan, but under the joint attack of the Soviet aid to China flight team and the US aid China flight team, the offensive of the Japanese air force in the Chinese theater is immediately reduced. By the time Zhao Zhi received the relevant news, the number of Japanese fighters bombing Chongqing and Jinan had changed from a few hundred at the beginning to more than a dozen a day, but these things seemed to have nothing to do with Zhao Zhi, but he wanted to thank the Japanese fighters for turning around and running to Chongqing and Jinan, leaving him precious time.
Three days is nothing in the eyes of most people, but this is different for Zhao Zhi, three days means that the mixed troops going north by sea are closer to Jiaodong, and the 60,000 landing troops under the command of Yan Wudao have caused more confusion to the Korean Japanese army, and three days is enough time for the Jewish troops who went north to Jiaodong by land from Sichuan to the border between Henan and Shandong. Zhao Zhi is not lacking in Sun Meng now, but he lacks time, and the blitzkrieg on Jeju Island still seems to be a bit hasty, if it weren't for Zhao Zhi's bombing of Nagasaki that made the Japanese miscalculate the strength of the thunder, I am afraid that Jeju Island would have been robbed back by the Japanese long ago.
The air defense sirens sounded again, and the soldiers at the airport began to cover the airfield runway and those planes with camouflage nets, and by the time the Japanese reconnaissance planes flew over the airport, it had become a meadow that was no different from the surrounding scenery. The frequent arrival of Japanese reconnaissance planes made it impossible for the Thunder fighters on Jeju Island to take off at night to bomb Kyushu Island, and now Zhao Zhi did not dare to make any air defense moves, because that would attract a large number of Japanese fighters to attack, and Jeju Island without planes would pose no threat to the Japanese mainland at all.
"Sir, the convoy transporting the mixed forces has entered the waters of the East China Sea and is heading towards Jiaodong, a distance of 300 nautical miles." After lunch, Zhao Zhi received the only good news in a few days. The appearance of the fleet means the arrival of 200,000 mixed soldiers, and the port of Nagasaki, which has been bombed into ruins, will definitely not be able to stop the landing of 200,000 mixed troops, as long as half of them can land on Kyushu Island, Zhao Zhi's follow-up plan can be implemented smoothly, and it will not take three days, and the Japanese will be anxious.
"Contact Yan Wudao and tell them to increase their efforts, and if they want to make North Korea chaotic, they will hold out for at least three more days." Zhao Zhi, who was excited, hurried back to the headquarters, and the staff officers who were smoking and chatting after lunch surrounded him. "I need the current location of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, the specific location of the Jewish Second Army, and the location of the Green Forest Guerrilla Army, and it would be better to mark the location of the Second Panzer Division for me." Zhao Zhi's series of orders kept the command busy again.
The location of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Jewish Second Army was the first to be marked on the map, and the location of the Second Armored Division was later found. "Order, the Jewish Second Army immediately went north to fight in Hebei, not to advance lightly, not to clash with friendly forces, to make a situation of opening a passage north to the northeast, and to force the Kwantung Army to send troops south to engage in battle."
"The Second Armored Division will be under the command of the Second Jewish Army from now on, and all captured Japanese-style weapons and equipment, except for heavy firepower weapons, will be shipped to Jiaodong." Zhao Zhi said as he marked the route of the Jewish troops on the map with a pencil, and the large arrows stretched from Henan to the north of Zhangjiakou and Chengde before stopping. There are only 100,000 soldiers in the Second Jewish Army, and Zhao Zhi is not worried about their numbers, but about the logistics supply of weapons and equipment.
"Immediately contact the Green Forest guerrillas, let them go to Shanxi, and go north along the line of Taiyuan, Shuozhou, and Datong to Zhangjiakou to stand by, and tell Yao Laoyu that if he can survive this battle, I will leave him a small island on the outskirts of Jeju Island." There are small islands on the outskirts of Jeju Island, and if Yao Laoyu can really share the attention of the Japanese army for the Jewish Second Army, it is not impossible to give him a small island.
"Ask the people of the U.S. Coordination Mission to contact the Seventh Fleet, and ask the Seventh Fleet to go around the Sea of Japan, and it is best to bomb Pusan and the ports along the coast of Japan to share a little of Japan's attention for us." Zhao Zhi's face showed a wicked smile, if the Seventh Fleet took over this job, their situation would definitely not be better. Although the Japanese Combined Fleet was defeated by the US Pacific Fleet, the dead camels were bigger than the horses, and the Japanese mainland defense fleet was enough for the Seventh Fleet to drink a pot, but fortunately, the shipyards that the Americans had were built quickly when they were broken, and the Rockman family was one of the largest shipbuilding enterprises in the United States.
July was destined to be a black July for the Japanese, on July 7, the Thunder launched a major bombing of the Japanese mainland, and in the next three days, the Thunder fighter units that took off from Jeju Island bombed Fukuoka and Saga one after another, but what they never imagined was that Zhao Zhi was ready to send ground troops to land on Kyushu Island three days later, and the number was 200,000. The mixed force looked like there were many people, but it was actually just a rabble, and Zhao Zhi didn't have too much hope on the mixed force, while consuming the number of Thai and Vietnamese aborigines, he just hoped that this mixed force could make Japan chaotic.
If Zhao Zhi's combat operations in landing in Japan can cause more than half of Japan's local military industrial enterprises to riot or paralyze, it is believed that this is the situation that the Americans most want to see, and it will also be extremely beneficial to China's anti-Japanese process. Zhao Zhi is naturally not as great as the Nationalist Government and the Americans imagined, and the reason why he suddenly decided to land on the Japanese mainland to fight is because Zhao Zhi has long known the fate of Japan's defeat, and all the preliminary preparations that Zhao Zhi has done have been in place, and now it is time to harvest the fruits.
In the previous life, the U.S. military in World War II was much stronger than now, and when Japan announced its surrender, they had already united with Britain, France, and the Soviet Union to force Germany to surrender, and the United States, which had freed up its hands from Europe, took the opportunity to send troops to Asia on a large scale, and also hosted Okinawa after Japan's surrender. Among all the countries that shared their interests after the war, the Americans made the most profits, but now that Zhao Zhi has come to this era, he naturally will not give up this great opportunity. At the same time that the U.S. military was caught in the bitter situation of the Philippine battlefield and the landing battle on the French coast, Zhao Zhi had to land in Japan first, so as to maximize the benefits obtained by the Thunder.
For a long time, the outside world thought that Zhao Zhi only had Jewish troops and mercenary troops in his hands, and the other was the Burmese servant army formed by Zhao Zhi. The 15 training camps contain 200,000 Thunder recruits, and these Thunder recruits are veterans who have experienced the baptism of war on the Chinese battlefield before entering the training camp in northern Myanmar, and they are Zhao Zhi's last hole card.