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Naha's catastrophe had just begun, and on the night after the task force fled, 350 B29s flew over Naha. The www.biquge.info dropped 2,000 tons of napalm, the sea water was boiled, and the entire military port was completely destroyed, and if it wanted to recover, it had to be rebuilt. The sharp knife that was pressed against the throat of the East China Sea was burned like this.

All this was just the beginning, the next night, 300 B29 bombers visited Miyako Island, Ishigaki Island, the fire burned for two days and two nights before it was extinguished, the airport was the focus of this bombing, the stones on the island were burned, what else could be spared. The main force of the Second Fleet, which returned to Shanghai, rested for a while, and three days later fought out of the East China Sea again, this time not just a fleet, but two marine divisions with them.

There are not many ground forces in the Navy, and there are only three marine divisions in total, and they are not willing to be organized into one army. The Marine Division is the only ground force of the Navy, equipped to the teeth, so to speak. One Marine division has three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a self-propelled artillery regiment and, quite outrageously, a tank regiment. There is always a way to get new equipment from the navy, such as the latest 40mm grenade, which is currently only equipped by the Marine Corps in the Wehrmacht sequence.

With the establishment of the five regiments, together with the division's automobile battalion, baggage battalion, engineer battalion, communications company, and field hospital, one marine division is a large establishment of more than 23,000 men. This kind of establishment is that the navy is still playing, and the army's new units are all under the three-three system, and the establishment of the old division of the first division would have been canceled if it had not been for the war.

Off the coast of Miyako Island, the task force that returned from a sneak attack on Naha was rounded. The strength of the entire fleet skyrocketed. Six aircraft carriers, seven large battleships, ninety percent of the Chinese Navy's family is together. At this time, the Japanese Combined Fleet was on its way back to Sasebo. He didn't have a chance to play, and even if he had the opportunity to play, Yamamoto Fifty-six might not have that mind.

Seven large battleships and 20 heavy cruisers bathed Miyayajima with their guns, and the spectacle was breathtaking. All kinds of fighters are not lonely, they fly very low, and as long as there is a live target, they will rush down and strafe and drop bombs. There were not many Japanese fighters on the two islands of Miyako and Ishigaki. Tossed by the continuous bombing, thirteen Zeros barely flew up, and were immediately beaten to the ground by more than a hundred wild horses. Bullying people to the extreme.

The soldiers of the Marine Division, who were preparing to land, could not see what the small island covered in artillery fire looked like, and the whole island was surrounded by fire and disgust. Under such heavy artillery fire, the Japanese should have died all of them, right? It must be easy to fight later. That's what a lot of soldiers think.

Despite the fact that there is no Naha military port. It was difficult for the Japanese Navy to quickly support Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island, but the Navy's aircraft carrier battle group was still very careful to play an interception role, and the destroyers were released, and the radars on all sides detected whether there were any Japanese warships risking their lives to attack.

When the Marine Division began to land, the Japanese army had a little sporadic counterattack, probably because the battle was too sudden, the Japanese navy was not ready, and the Japanese troops on the two islands were only five or six thousand. The landing went smoothly, and the small port was careful to survive the artillery fire. After the assault team of the Marine Division occupied the port, the Japanese artillery fire suddenly came up when the freighter approached.

A large group of Japanese artillerymen, hiding in the city of Miyako County, launched a decisive attack on the steamers in the harbor with Meiji 38-style field guns. These artillerymen knew very well that once the target was exposed, what was waiting for them would be a dead word.

Sure enough, at the same time as the port of Pingra was shelled, the naval guns quickly locked onto the target and carried out fierce suppression. The artillery fire caused a lot of casualties to the landed ships, and the marines who were landing in an orderly manner had nowhere to hide during the shelling, causing more than 100 casualties. Shen Honglie, who was in charge of commanding the landing operation, was extremely unhappy, and picked up the microphone and called: "HNA, throw napalm bombs into the city, and the Japanese who die are good people." ”

There was no plan to drop napalm into the city, after all, this thing was so cruel that the Svens of the Navy couldn't bear to use napalm against civilians. Now that the casualties are not small, Shen Honglie doesn't care so much, and directly lets the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier hang napalm, and doesn't care if there are civilians or not.

Fifty-five horizontal bombers finally came into play, and this kind of carrier-based aircraft equipped by the navy did not have a chance to appear in previous battles, on the grounds that the effect of horizontal bombing was not good, and the bomber, known as the "penguin", was a bit clumsy, slow, and had a bomb load of two and a half tons. If it weren't for the difficulty of the B17 and B29 to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, this kind of special bomber would have been eliminated long ago, and now the Navy is using this kind of bomber, and the airborne division of the army is still using it to tow gliders. Because the number of C47 is insufficient, it is still a matter of interests, and orders for domestic transport aircraft naturally take precedence, and this bomber (transport aircraft) manufactured by the Wuhu airfield of the Eurasian Group will naturally be given priority in military orders.

Napalm set fire to small urban areas, and the previous night bombardments were aimed at military targets, and now the bombardment doesn't care about the lives of your civilians. The generals of the Wehrmacht only cared about the lives of their soldiers.

The fire was set out in a timely manner, and more than 3,000 Japanese troops hid in the city, and when more than half of them were killed and wounded by the fire, and they ran out of the fire in embarrassment, what awaited them was the merciless shooting of the soldiers of the Marine Division.

The landing on Ishigaki Island was carried out later, and after drawing on the experience of Miyaya Island, a fire was first lit in Ishigaki Prefecture before the official landing and landing. As a result, the casualties caused were much smaller, and the landing on the two islands lasted three days, killing and wounding more than 5,800 Japanese soldiers and taking only 15 prisoners. Our troops suffered about 300 casualties, most of which were caused by that shelling.

For this reason, the Navy has set a new rule, and whoever mentions any civilian casualties is not responsible for the soldiers. If Japan started a war, it should pay for it.

The Japanese Combined Fleet, which had returned to Tokyo, was still adding to its wounds, and could only watch as Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island were captured. The fall of these two islands meant that the connection between Japan and the South Seas could only be taken by the long route of the North Pacific. In fact, this route is now full of crises, the Sino-US joint fleet is in full swing, every day Japanese merchant ships are sunk by heavy cruisers with cannons, of course, just a few warships, it is impossible to cut off the entire route, there are always fish that slip through the net.

The defeat of the Navy caused a lot of turmoil in Japanese politics! The power of the army began to rise, and at this time, the Japanese navy and army still did not forget the internal fighting, and the opponent should be brought down before fighting according to their own will.

The Konoe Fumiro cabinet was forced to go into the field, and the army, which had not yet tasted the might, won a great victory in the internal strife, and the Minister of War Sugi Sugimoto came to power to form a cabinet, and Nagata Tetsuyama, who was known as a representative of the rational school, became the Minister of War.

The new cabinet is still faced with the question of war, or the defeat of the squadron from land. In this regard, the army's previous plan to attack from North Korea now seems to be intensifying, and the army needs a victory to sit firmly under the butt.

However, this proposal to intensify the offensive cannot be smoothly adopted within the army. Sugi Mototo, at which the new Minister of War Nagata said on the spot that the army's offensive should not be like the navy's.

Emperor Hirohito asked: The war has reached this point, the empire needs a victory to boost morale, why is Qing opposed?

Nagata replied: "The Empire's war resources are limited, and the current resource reserves can only maintain the strength of the current war for a maximum of one year. And this war has only just begun, and the shipping routes in the South Seas are now basically broken, is the empire that has not been supplied with resources only ready to end the war in one year? ”

"Don't you, as Minister of War, think you're cowardly?" Admiral Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi naturally wanted to take a bite when he found an opportunity, and Nagata Tetsuyama was indifferent in the face of such an attack: "Your Excellency, although the Navy does not admit it, in fact, the Navy has been defeated. Under the premise that the South Sea route cannot be guaranteed, what will the military production of the empire maintain? How long do you think you will be able to hold out just by getting resources from Korea and the Far East? If I were Your Excellency, I would have taken the blame and resigned, not sat here and talked about it. ”

"Isn't the Army known as invincible? It is completely possible to defeat the Chinese army, occupy Manchuria, and seize China's resources. Mitsumasa Yonechi began to quibble, avoiding the topic of his resignation.

"Didn't the navy once claim to be invincible? You actually believe the statement that it boosts the morale of the people? As soldiers, we must calmly face the strength of the enemy, and after many mobilizations in the Sino-Soviet war, the scale of the Chinese Army has reached 8 million, and according to the establishment of the Chinese, it is 160 armies. The total strength of the Sino-Soviet front is about five million, maybe a little less, so may I ask your Excellency, how many land forces does the empire have now? After many mobilizations, the total strength of the empire was 150 divisions, of which 17 were Division A in Nanyang, 38 were Division B, and 22 were in the Far East. Don't you want it locally? "Nagata Tetsuyama quarreled with Mitsumasa Yonechi, it was a dispute between the army and the navy, and although neither Sugisugi Mototo nor Tojo could agree with Nagata, they both kept their mouths shut, and now they must be unanimous with the outside world.

"The empire can carry out another round of mobilization!" Mine's mouth was still very hard, and Nagata sneered: "Then please ask the navy to stop the construction of the Musashi and give up the steel to the army, otherwise our infantry can only fight the Chinese with wooden sticks." ”

"Yaga!" Minai jumped to his feet, gesturing to draw his sword, and Nagata looked at him with an unchanging sneer.

An imperial meeting broke up unhappily, and after Hirohito and the mud, let the army decide how to fight for itself. (To be continued......)