As the war in the Pacific drew to a close, the generals of the Chinese High Command put forward various ideas on how to force the Allies to surrender as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost. Many people in the submarine force believed that the task of defeating the Allies could be accomplished by using only submarines to blockade Britain in the same way that German submarines blockaded Britain.

Scientists and military experts who participated in the creation of the atomic bomb believed that once the atomic bomb was launched, the Allied forces would inevitably not be able to hold out for a long time, especially after China had the Globemaster heavy bomber that could carry the atomic bomb, occupied the Marshall Islands, and built an airfield there that could directly attack the United States in depth, and the surrender of the Allied forces was only a matter of time.

Others believe that the Soviet Union was on the verge of defeat and that the Caucasus was teetering under the combined attack of China and Germany, which was undoubtedly the final blow to the Allies, and that it would be useless for the Allies to resist any longer.

Obviously, each of these arguments has its own reasonable parts. The majority of Chinese generals and important members of the Chinese government either hold one or the other viewpoint, or advocate considering these views together.

For the sake of convenience, the above three propositions are respectively called the theory of victory of the navy, the victory of the army, and the victory of the air force. However, it must be properly understood that this is a general statement, and none of the three propositions can be regarded as being made by a particular branch or department.

Army victory theorists believe that in order to shake the Japanese army's will to resist, an attack on the Allied mainland is an indispensable step. This view has been proven by the history of the war. In previous wars, only the invading forces occupied a large part of a country's territory (often including the capital). in order to sign the alliance under the city. This theory of the army was more widely accepted after the Chinese occupation of Hawaii.

In the Ogasawara Islands (Iwo), the common people of Japan would rather commit suicide than surrender. This fanatical act of allegiance convinced many Chinese officers that only the actual occupation of the Japanese mainland could force Japan to stop the war.

And Hawaii, just the opposite of the Ogasawara Islands, both the natives of Hawaii and the Americans living there are not only dissatisfied with the arrival of China. There was no act of fighting to the death. Comparatively. In fact, they hate the Japanese even more. Because it was Japan that attacked Pearl Harbor that year, which caused tens of millions of tons of heavy oil to be detonated, destroying most of Oahu, whether it was an American. Or indigenous. All suffered heavy casualties.

This is the spring of the seventeenth year of the Chinese Pacific Theater of Operations in Zhongxing. The reaction of the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands after taking them. Today, the United States has been completely driven out of the Pacific, and the United States has power in the Pacific. None survived. led to the west coast of the United States, directly facing the Chinese front.

Naval victory theorists believe that, based on the history of naval warfare, it is possible to defeat the Allies through a naval blockade. Japan, like the British, is most afraid of sabotaging their sea lines of communication. Japan is an island country, overpopulated, and simply cannot carry out this modern war by relying only on domestic resources, it is completely dependent on imports.

Of course, one of the reasons why Japan did not hesitate to gamble with its vested interests in Asia was to brazenly go to war with China in order to obtain oil, rubber, and other important war materials from the Dutch East Indies without hindrance. The unfolding of a "hunger campaign" was also one of the main means of forcing Japan to surrender.

Advocates of air force victory argued that Japan, one of the Allied powers, could be defeated by continuing to bomb Japan's cities and industrial areas until it shook the Japanese army's will to fight and deprived the Allies of the means of warfare.

And when needed, it can also use airfields above the Hawaiian Islands to carry out a large-scale air attack on the continental United States. Of course, this may not be easy, because American bombers also frequent this group of islands, and the air battles between the two sides in the waters around Hawaii are staged all the time.

The United States has made great efforts, and it is not so easy for China to successfully attack the United States. Because the United States also has a large number of jet fighters, the Sabre's high-altitude combat capabilities are fully capable of threatening the Globemaster. The use of high-altitude assault methods, as in the air raids on Japan, is not effective at all in the United States. The United States has a Sabre with an altitude of 20,000 meters, and it also has a large number of radars. Therefore, it is not easy to attack the United States by air, and even if it does, China will have to pay a great price.

In the past, the Chinese Supreme Command did not fail to think of using the ultra-long range of the Global Overlord to attack important cities in the United States. But after deduction again and again, they were all denied by Chen Shao. It is undeniable that the peacemaker of the United States can directly attack the Chinese mainland, and China can also use the Global Overlord air to attack the American mainland. But both sides face a big problem, and that is the ratio of results.

There are a large number of warning radars along the coast of China, and the United States is no exception, and China has a large number of fighters that can completely annihilate American bombers that are traveling long distances, and the United States can do the same.

When Hawaii was facing a direct attack from China, the United States had already begun to plan its own battle plan, and there was no need for assistance in the Pacific. Forty or fifty escort aircraft carriers operating in the Atlantic Ocean also returned to the west coast. The supply of weapons and supplies to Europe has also been further reduced.

A large number of sabers and pilots joined the team to protect the continental United States. This also leads to the fact that China's warships basically have no chance to get close to the coast of the United States.

At the beginning, in order to defeat Hawaii, the Chinese Pacific Fleet and the Attack Fleet, a huge fleet of aircraft was fighting against American fighters every day, and the United States had a large number of fighters, and most of them were Sabres with similar performance to the Seahawk-3, which put a lot of pressure on naval aviation.

If you want to face the air force of the entire US coastline, whether it is against the Chinese Pacific Fleet or the attack fleet, and just one airfield above Hawaii, it is really difficult for the Chinese side.

Moreover, it is not easy to ensure a high-intensity air game with a long supply line from the Chinese mainland to Hawaii, and the Chinese side simply has no ability to directly attack the US mainland. At least, this is considered from the point of view of the supply lines that span the entire Pacific Ocean.

Of course, the United States is also unable to retake Hawaii unless the American Pacific Fleet is reborn, but this is already impossible. Industry in the United States. It's also a kind of limit. It is not easy to hold on, and there is no way to talk about a counteroffensive.

Since it was impossible to effectively land on the U.S. mainland from the Pacific, much attention was paid to Japan.

China's strategic policy was to "continuously oppress Japan's army and navy." In accordance with this policy, the High Command decided that all means that could force the enemy to surrender could be used. In fact, all but the plan to attack the Japanese mainland was put into effect.

The Battle of the Pacific Ocean was like the Battle of Cape Trafalgar, in which the British fleet defeated the combined Franco-Spanish fleet on October 21, 1805, near Cape Trafalgar on the Atlantic coast of Spain. Liu Haijiang and Di Wolf had beaten the Allied fleet to such an extent that it could no longer be a formidable fighting force, similar to Nelson's 1805 victory over the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Trafalgar.

After the Battle of the Pacific Navy. The Allied navies could no longer wage large-scale naval battles. In addition, the Chinese Navy safely repatriated the Army to Hawaii. This provided a guarantee for the Navy to accomplish a fundamental task, that is, to cut off the sea lines of communication between the Allies and the resource areas of the South Seas.

More than 100 years ago, after the Battle of Cape Trafalgar, the British naval chiefs did not know what to do with this highly successful battle fleet. So that it is in a state of idleness for a long time. This fleet was busy for several years in order to participate in some inconsequential local operations. Afterward. It has finally found its true mission. While the British Navy was in control of the sea, it transported land units to the European continent one after another, and continuously sent supplies and reinforcements. to support the army in the fight against Napoleon's army.

After the Pacific Naval War, the Chinese Navy was clear about the tasks it should undertake in the next operation. This is what entered the Second World War in the spirit of fighting side by side with fraternal army units. At the end of the autumn of the 16th year of Zhongxing, after the Chinese Navy achieved its main operational objectives, it continued to support the army and army aviation in accomplishing their respective major combat missions.

By this time, the Allied base camp had correctly estimated that the Chinese attack across the Taiping Wave from two directions would converge at Hawaii.

Under the orders of Fleet Commander Shen Honglie, the 3rd Fleet, which is subordinate to the Chinese Pacific Fleet, carried out an air raid operation in the autumn of 16 years with the aircraft carrier strike force with the flagship aircraft carrier Datang as the core, which made the United States realize that the Chinese army was about to launch an attack on Hawaii.

So, in early December, the Allied High Command moved the Army's most talented commander, Australia's last to hold out, and Admiral MacArthur was transferred from Australia to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Hawaiian Troop. MacArthur could not figure out where the Chinese army would attack, so he scattered 400,000 defenders across the islands.

As a result, when the Chinese began landing at Midway on December 20, there were only 22,000 defenders here. In addition, according to the judgment of the base camp, the decisive battle in Hawaii must be held at Midway. Therefore, MacArthur hurriedly dispatched troops to reinforce the island, and the Japanese naval forces also began to carry out a centripetal movement with Midway as the goal. In the Battle of Midway from 23 to 26 December, the Allied Navy suffered a devastating defeat, but the base camp did not change its basic battle plan.

It was trade wind season, and the downpour quickly turned Midway into a swamp, making it difficult for the Chinese army, which was large in strength and equipped with modern equipment, to play to its advantage. After the Chinese army landed, it found a usable airfield on the island, namely the Midway airfield.

The Chinese Army Engineer Corps rebuilt other airfields on the island and began to build new ones, but the progress of the project was slow due to heavy rains and unsuitable soil.

Instead, the United States could send reinforcements from Pearl Harbor and the mainland, and operate from an all-weather airfield on Oahu. Within days of the Battle of the Pacific, MacArthur decided that Army Air Corps would take over the escort aircraft carrier formation from the remnants of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and assume air support for the Midway area.

However, it was only after the withdrawal of the escort aircraft carrier formation that it became clear that it was difficult for army aviation to complete this task. This is due to the fact that the army aviation unit has a shortage of aircraft capable of operating, a very limited number of airfields to use, and the fact that the pilots have not received the necessary training to carry out such air support.

As a result, the fleet had to be transferred back to the waters of Hawaii.

From late December to the end of January of the 16th year of Zhongxing, the carrier-based planes of the 3rd Fleet mainly carried out air raids on the airfields in the Oahu area and ships operating in the waters off Oahu, destroying about 700 Allied planes, sinking 3 cruisers, 10 destroyers, and a large number of transport ships supporting the ships. It also completely annihilated an Allied convoy, and tens of thousands of reinforcements were killed.

In January, MacArthur, in order to strengthen the strength of shore-based aviation, ordered Marine Corps aircraft stationed in the continental United States to come and provide aviation fire support.

Despite all its efforts, China was still unable to regain air supremacy over Midway. In addition, the Japanese "kamikaze" special attack aircraft frequently rammed the ships of the 3rd Fleet.

Six cruisers were damaged in Shen Honglie's fleet, two battleships, two cruisers, two landing force transports and seven destroyers in the attack fleet.

After the "kamikaze" attack planes launched a particularly fierce surprise attack on the attacking fleet's 8th task force on 25 January, the 3rd Fleet ceased its combat activities in Hawaiian waters for a time, and the fleet fought at sea for almost three months.

This was the best result of the war the Allies had achieved so far. Ironically, however. These results were achieved by Japanese kamikaze. The United States has made no achievements in this regard.

Despite the heavy losses, the United States had assembled about 100,000 troops at Midway Island by mid-January to confront the 50,000 or so Chinese troops who had already landed on the island.

The Chinese torpedo boat fleet was responsible for preventing American reinforcements. Sometimes it takes a detour to the west side of Midway. Go and attack American ships. Sinking a number of U.S. troop transport vessels, including 2 cargo ships, 2 small transport ships and 2 patrol boats.

After the withdrawal of the 3rd Fleet, Xiao Jinguang, commander of the attack fleet, ordered the minesweeper fleet to clear the waterway between Midway and Bohol. Afterward. On several occasions, destroyers were dispatched to carry out special night minesweeping to clear the waters near the port of Omu.

The destroyer sent for the first time to clear mines sank a submarine in a surface state in this water; the second destroyer sent to clear mines sank a small cargo ship; The destroyer that went to clear the mines for the third time attacked a US convoy bound for the port of Omu but was also fiercely counterattacked by American aircraft and two destroyers.

By 1 December, the U.S. death toll had greatly outnumbered its reinforcements, and the Chinese troops landing at Midway had actually reached 80,000.

However, China could only use some muddy and difficult roads for supplies, and the progress of combat operations was slow. After that, the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Army galloped from north to south through the mountainous area towards the port of Omu. The 7th Division of the Chinese Army's Conglin Army advanced from south to north along the coast, heading straight for Midway Port.

In order to speed up the process of attacking Midway Port, the commander of the Jungle Army, General Chen Ce, decided to send troops to land from the sea between the northern and southern fronts of Midway, so as to divide the enemy and annihilate them individually. On 6 December, two regimental combat teams of the 77th Division, escorted by 12 destroyers of the 7th Fleet, embarked on landing boats and destroyers, made a detour to the west side of Midway, and on the morning of the 7th, began landing 3 nautical miles south of Midway.

The U.S. garrison attempted to stop the Chinese forces attacking from both the north and south, but because a large part of the forces in the Midway area had been relocated, the landing Chinese forces actually met no resistance. It was not until the landing troops landed safely ashore that the United States began to counterattack.

However, the naval units that were still staying near the landing area at that time were fiercely attacked by "kamikaze" special attack planes, and the number of Japanese planes far exceeded the number of Chinese planes serving as air cover.

The "kamikaze" special attack plane caused heavy damage to the transport destroyer, which sank soon after. A few days later, the "kamikaze" special attack planes launched a surprise attack on China's escort convoy heading for this landing area, sinking two destroyers.

The landing of the Chinese army on the west coast of Midway proved to be decisive in the process of attacking the island. Immediately after the 7th Division conquered central Midway, its main forces shifted to Midway Atoll, and on 21 December, joined up with the 1st Division, which was advancing southward. At this time, most of the remaining United States was trapped on the Southwest Peninsula, and its retreat had been cut off, but it would take at least four months to annihilate it.

MacArthur then announced at Christmas that the American organized resistance at Midway was over. The weakly defended islands near Midway were also occupied by China at this time.

During the Chinese attack on Midway, about 1,000 U.S. troops evacuated, 400 surrendered, and about 68,000 died of battle, disease, or starvation. The Chinese army suffered 500 dead and 2,000 wounded in the land battles of this offensive.

The 3rd Fleet rests in the Marshall Islands for two weeks. It reappeared in the waters east of Hawaii on December 13 and began assaulting the airfield on Oahu. This was actually a firepower preparation for China's landing on Kauai, 300 nautical miles northwest of Midway.

At the same time, a landing transport group of the 7th Fleet of the attacking fleet, the Kauai Landing Assault Force (12,000 ground forces, 9,500 air forces, and 9,000 logistics troops), sailed to Kauai via Midway.

Shen Honglie sent a covering force to serve as a maritime guard. The covering force consisted of six escort aircraft carriers and several battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. In addition, the 5th Air Force was ordered to provide cover and support from Midway.

The Chinese landing transport force landed on the beach on 15 December without much resistance, under the tactical cover of escort aircraft carriers, carrier-based aircraft and shore-based air forces at Midway, and with the strategic support of fast aircraft carriers. After the landing assault force landed. Kamikaze planes and a large number of American fighters counterattacked. Sink 2 tank landing ships of amphibious combat formations.

From 14 to 16 December, the planes that came to attack the Chinese troops on Kauai took off from central Hawaii. The 3rd Fleet sent carrier-based aircraft to impose a 46-hour blockade over U.S. airfields on Oahu, paralyzing U.S. air forces in the area.

In the course of this blockade. Carrier-based aircraft of the 3rd Fleet destroyed almost 400 American aircraft. Most of its Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground. The reason for this brilliant result was achieved. It was because General Xiao Jinguang adopted a series of new countermeasures, thus ensuring that the task force was protected from the threat of "kamikaze" special attack aircraft.

He reduced the number of dive bombers on escort carriers to less than half and more than doubled the number of carrier-based fighters. The types of carrier-based aircraft have been adjusted as above. The assault forces of aircraft carriers were strengthened.

During this period, not a single US plane flew over the task force. In order to further strengthen the air defense capability, Xiao Jinguang adjusted the number of special task forces to which he belonged from the original four to three, so that he could use anti-aircraft artillery fire and air cover forces in a relatively concentrated manner.

In addition, when carrying out a surprise attack, destroyers on radar alert were placed on both sides of the target azimuth, and the Task Force was 60 nautical miles ahead of the attack, so that the Japanese attack could be reported as soon as possible. Destroyers, which served as radar guards, had their own patrol aircraft.

According to the regulations, the Chinese planes returning after completing the air raid mission must circle over the above-mentioned alert ships for a week, so those "kamikaze" special attack planes that were mixed in with the returning Chinese planes to capture the Chinese aircraft carrier could be identified and shot down one by one. Any aircraft that does not fly from the designated position of the alert ship to the task force will be regarded as Japanese aircraft and will be intercepted.

On 17 December, the task force withdrew from the battlefield and headed east for refueling. However, the weather was getting worse and worse, and after noon, Shen Honglie's fleet had to stop refueling at sea. On the morning of the 18th, a typhoon, which was not even predicted by the sounding station, was small in scope, but the wind speed was very strong and fierce, causing huge losses to the task force.

The captains of three of the destroyers, because of the urgent need to replenish the fuel that had been exhausted, did not inject seawater into the empty tanks in time to stabilize the hulls. As a result, the 3 destroyers capsized and sank at the height of the storm. Seven warships were also seriously damaged. Some of the carrier-based aircraft were thrown into the sea, some were blown off the sea by the wind, and some caught fire and burned due to collisions with each other, with losses of as many as 186 aircraft. Some 300 officers and soldiers were killed. It was as if the task force had experienced a large-scale naval battle and suffered heavy losses.

Owing to the typhoon and the failure to replenish fuel on time, the task force was unable to carry out air strikes on Oahu on 19-21 December as planned. On the 21st, a typhoon was passing over Oahu, and air strikes were still impossible. As a result, the 3rd Fleet returned to the Marshall Anchorage, where the crew took the necessary rest and supply ship formations to repair ships damaged in the storm.

Xiao Jinguang and his staff officers took advantage of the short few days of rest in Marshall to study and propose various measures that would help improve the combat effectiveness of the Third Fleet. Several aircraft carriers increased the number of fighter-bombers, and even transferred two squadrons of Intruder fighters belonging to the Marine Corps Aviation to aircraft carriers for the first time.

They also decided to form a special task force with two aircraft carriers, the Datang and the Daqin, as the main body and six destroyers as the guard, to be subordinate to the Eighth Task Force to carry out night battles, that is, to carry out special tasks such as bombing, searching, and air patrols at night. On 30 December, the 3rd Fleet set sail from the Ulisi anchorage. Attack Pearl Harbor in support of the upcoming Oahu landing.

At this time, Chinese forces on Kauai Island and in the waters adjacent to it were continuing to fight, and from time to time they were attacked sporadically by the United States. On 21 December, U.S. warplanes raided a convoy carrying munitions supplies and sank two more tank landing ships.

On Christmas Eve, a US cruiser destroyer squadron was discovered by a Chinese shore-based reconnaissance plane at Midway Island when it entered the waters 200 nautical miles south of Kauai due to bad weather. Then. None of the Chinese warships fighting in the waters off Kauai are larger than the torpedo boats.

Late night of December 26 to early morning of December 27. The U.S. surface vessels arrived in the waters off Kauai Island, shelled the airfield for a short time, and then retreated after receiving air strikes. During the retreat, 1 destroyer was torpedoed by a torpedo boat and sank.

At the end of the year, the Chinese army sent an escort convoy to Kauai to transport military supplies. On the way to the crossing, he was attacked by American aircraft. 4 transport ships were sunk. 1 of them is an arms ship. After causing a violent explosion, the hull and crew of the ship were buried on the seabed. Later, this escort convoy was again attacked by the "kamikaze" special attack fleet. 4 more ships were damaged. In the days that followed, three cargo holds were bombed off the coast of Kauai, and one munitions ship was hit by a "kamikaze" special attack plane, which immediately exploded and sank into the sea with the crew and its people.

After that, the United States, attracted by China's offensive operations on Oahu, abruptly stopped its air raids around Kauai. At that time, there were already 3 airports available in Kauai. These airfields proved to be of a huge role in supporting the landing campaign on Oahu.

The first landing on Oahu is scheduled for Waikiki Gulf. The landing force was scheduled to carry out a surprise landing on January 9, the 17th year of Zhongxing. Its strength was roughly the same as it had been during the attack on Midway, reinforced by the Pacific Fleet's 3rd Amphibious Combat Formation, in addition to the Jungle Army and the 7th Fleet.

Army Air Forces at Midway and Kauai were responsible for covering the landing convoys and suppressing American airfields south of Oahu. In addition, the landing transport team was covered by escort aircraft carriers accompanying the voyage. Shen Honglie's 3rd Fleet (at that time only Task Force 8 remained) was tasked with suppressing American airfields north of Hawaii and Oahu.

Advance fire preparation for the Waikiki landing area was a strong support force of 164 warships. These included 6 battleships, 12 escort aircraft carriers, 10 destroyers carrying underwater demolition teams and 63 minesweepers. The force entered Waikiki, cleared mines, surveyed the shipping lanes approaching the shore and beach, and carried out a three-day build-up of naval artillery fire to destroy the shore fortifications before the landing force arrived.

On the evening of 2 January, the vanguard of the landing force had just arrived at its intended location when it was spotted by an American observation post in a church spire in the north-eastern part of the island. After receiving the report, the United States immediately sent bombers to the Bohol Sea the next day to ram the oil tanker in the formation, and although two crew members were killed or wounded, they did not cause much damage to the oil tanker.

This is a bad omen for the US Air Force.

As mentioned above, when the formation led by the landing force arrived at the landing, the United States abruptly stopped its air raids on ships off the coast of Kauai in favor of new, larger targets.

On 6 January, as soon as the large ships entered Waikiki under the guidance of minesweepers, they were fiercely attacked by "kamikaze" special attack planes and the US Air Force. The U.S. air strikes began at 11:45 a.m. and continued until sunset, damaging 11 ships and sinking one.

If the 3rd Fleet had not insisted on a surprise attack on the Hawaiian Island airfield in dense fog on 4 or 5 January, the U.S. attack on the Waikiki Fire Support Formation would have been even more intense. Air strikes by the 3rd Fleet prevented Allied aircraft from reinforcing Oahu from the north.

Shen Honglie's carrier-based planes planned to violently bomb the airfield in the Oahu area on the 6th, but because the weather had been bad, they were unable to completely suppress the Japanese airfield.

On the 7th, at the request of Shen Honglie, the planned flanking attack on Hawaii Island was canceled and the Oahu Island was again airraided. The air raid was carried out by a joint effort of aircraft carriers of the 3rd Fleet, escort aircraft carriers of the 7th Fleet, and army aircraft, and nearly paralyzed all airfields on Oahu.

On this day, only a small number of U.S. warplanes flew over Waikiki, and many were shot down. However, 2 more minesweepers were sunk by bombs and aviation torpedoes, respectively. Then. The United States decided to withdraw all air forces that could be withdrawn from Hawaii.

Therefore, after 7 January, the United States almost ceased its organized anti-Japanese activities against China, and only a few Japanese planes sometimes spontaneously attacked Chinese ships.

At this time, the elite units of the Jungle Army, which had been assembled from the South Pacific and the Southwest Pacific, were heading for Oahu on ships of amphibious combat formations.

Despite the desperate resistance of Allied fighters, the amphibious combat formation reached Waikiki as originally planned. A few minutes after the landing convoy arrived at sunrise on 9 January, three "kamikaze" special attack planes flew in, one of which broke the mast of a frigate and the other crashed into a cruiser that had already been heavily damaged.

During this period, the landing assault force, in addition to being countered by American artillery on the heights on the north side of the landing site. Almost no other resistance was met before landing on the shore. Because the United States adopted new anti-landing tactics. The deployment of limited forces only in shore and beach positions delayed the actions of the landing force, so the landing force formation did not have to use large-caliber naval guns for a long time to prepare for artillery fire.

MacArthur had led most of his forces to retreat north, preparing to resist in the mountains. By sunset on the 9th, the landing force had expanded the landing site by three kilometres in depth.

Nighttime. When the ships in Waikiki cast a smoke screen. When trying to avoid an air raid by a Japanese plane. About 70 Allied motorboats made of plywood carried explosives and rushed to the surface ships of the Chinese army. Most of these motorboats were repulsed or destroyed by naval guns, and only a few escaped after sending explosives to the side of the Chinese warship. This water special attack of the United States. Sunk 1 infantry landing craft of the Chinese army and wound 1 transport ship, 1 infantry landing craft and 4 tank landing ships.

While the 1st Army of the Jungle Army pinned down MacArthur's forces in the hilly terrain northeast of Waikiki, the 14th Army of the Jungle Army advanced towards Manila.

On January 29, 17 years of Zhongxing, the 7th Amphibious Combat Formation sent about 30,000 landing troops ashore off the west coast of Oahu, and met with little resistance. After this part of the landing force is ashore, it can not only prevent the United States from withdrawing to the rear of the island, but also ensure that friendly forces can attack Oahu from the north.

Two days later, another 8,000 Chinese soldiers landed in southern Oahu in order to attack Oahu from the southwest. The final assault of the 14th Corps from the north was rapidly progressing with the support of two Marine Flying Groups. Aviation successfully carried out direct aviation fire support to the ground forces, thereby dispelling the doubts of the army commanders.

On 4 February, the 14th Army had advanced to Honolulu, where the United States had 50,000 U.S. Marines and 30,000 U.S. Army troops in charge. Street fighting here was fought street by street, building by building, and even hand-to-hand fighting, which lasted for more than a month until the defenders were all annihilated. The city of Honolulu is in ruins.

Three weeks before the capture of the city of Honolulu, China took active action to seize the harbor of Honolulu. On 15 February, a regimental combat team braved weak American resistance and landed on the southernmost tip of Oahu. The next day, a regimental combat team of paratroopers and a battalion landing party, in close coordination, launched an offensive against them.

While Chen Ce's Jungle Army pressed MacArthur's 170,000 remnants into the mountains of Oahu, Shen Honglie's 7th Fleet and General Eckerberg's 8th Army swept away the remnants of American troops on the Hawaiian islands.

From late February to mid-April of the 17th year of Zhongxing, the amphibious combat formation conducted no less than 38 landing battles in central and southern Hawaii. However, the scale of these landing battles was much smaller than that of the two landing campaigns at Midway and Oahu. Although several of the islands were heavily defended, the U.S. High Command believed that Hawaii was about to be lost, so it provided little air or sea support.

Moreover, according to the new tactical principle, the U.S. garrison no longer desperately resisted the beachhead, but held the city as much as possible, blew it up as a last resort, and then withdrew to the mountains. As a result, a large number of Americans died of starvation and disease, which was much greater than combat attrition. By the time the United States surrendered at the end of the war, there were very few surviving garrisons left.

Landing battles have been carried out one after another, beginning with the landing on Kauai on 28 February, followed by the landing on the western tip of Niihau on 10 March. During these two landing operations, China's air forces prevented U.S. surface ship formations from attacking central Hawaii from the Sulawesi Sea and the South China Sea.

Since then, the Chinese army has recaptured Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahulawe, and a number of small islands in central Hawaii. At the same time, China also marched from the southwest, and landed on the small islands in the south with little resistance.

In the end, China conducted several landing operations on Oahu. At that time, 25,000 Chinese soldiers were active on the island, controlling 95 percent of the island, besieging 42,000 American garrisons in cities and several strongholds.

Therefore, the main purpose of the landing of the Chinese army was to support the guerrillas in completing the task of annihilating the American forces. The Chinese army landed on the west coast, north coast, and south coast of the island, and then advanced in depth, dividing the United States and making it impossible to connect them. Then, the Chinese army drove the United States from the city to the hinterland of the island so that the troops could encircle and annihilate it. This operation lasted until the end of the war. (To be continued......)