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This was already the third day after the Battle of the Ryukyus. The news of the war between China and Japan continued to spread to the whole world. In the Penghu base, the returned 23 fleet was cleaning up the damage, and the three injured capital ships returned to Shanghai and Fujian for repairs early. Only the seaplane home port is still busy, and since there are still many bodies of the fallen soldiers that have not yet been found, the maritime reconnaissance squadron has to go deep into the war zone every day to continue the search.

The "Plan Z" formulated by the Japanese Navy Staff completely failed, and a large number of soldiers who were preparing for a sneak attack and landing were stranded on the islands and turned into island-defending troops. And the Republic of China did not seem to be interested in landing in the Ryukyus immediately, so the confrontation on the southeast coast fell into calm for the time being. In addition to the daily sorties of bombers, the main battlefield temporarily shifted to Korea and Sakhalin. Before the war, the Republic of China had only one National Guard battalion on Sakhalin, and in the face of a brigade of Japanese troops, it simply destroyed the oil fields and retreated to the mainland. On the contrary, the 15th Fleet took advantage of the cover of night to successfully attack two Japanese supply ships, sending more than 800 Japanese troops into the sea, and also shelled the coast of Okhotsk and destroyed two docks. The presence of Ruan Shao paralyzed the northern shipping lanes of Japan, but with the return of Shan Wuliu and the mobilization of eleven warships, including the King Kong, to participate in the encirclement and suppression, the situation of the fleet became more and more dangerous. Although the Japanese army in the Korean theater was fiercely attacking, it lost air cover, so the battle situation was still deadlocked on the line between Kaesong and Mount Kumgang.

But under this calm, a strong murderous intent is already slowly brewing.

It was in this atmosphere that Ye Zishan was stationed at the Penghu base with two airborne regiments ten days earlier. Compared with Taiwan, the Penghu base is easier to keep secret, and has become one of the most important sea and air bases on the southeast coast. The Navy's original garrison group has already left for Keelung, and the apron is occupied by more than 200 Feilian-1 Blue Swan and Feilian-2 Seahawk seaplanes drawn by the Navy from various places. In the bay take-off and landing field, there are also six giant figures moored. Just looking at its 48-meter-wide upper wing, 39-meter-long fuselage, and six liquid-cooled 1,500-horsepower engines, no land field airfield can accommodate it.

It is the largest water passenger aircraft in China, and the military code name is "Sea Overlord". In the autumn of 1937, after learning that Germany and Japan were developing giant seaplanes (BV222 and Type 2 boats), Chengdu Sikorsky Aircraft Company, the largest seaplane manufacturer in China, also came up with the idea of manufacturing the world's largest seaplane. Sikorsky, the company's boss and chief designer, has set the target range at 8,000 kilometers, that is, it can take off from Shanghai and fly directly to Hawaii. In the technical conditions of the time. Such a large voyage was very difficult, so Sikorsky personally visited Wang Zhu, Zhou Houkun and Jian-8 chief designer Cross and other top domestic aviation experts for help. Finally, a 1,500 horsepower liquid-cooled engine with reduced wind resistance and a large number of retraction technologies were adopted, and the prototype was finally produced after two years of hard work. In the first test flight, it set a record for the largest domestic passenger flight of 5,500 kilometers from Vladivostok to Natuna with 22 passengers. Subsequently, it successively set a record of 8,530 kilometers without a load and 4,400 kilometers with a 10-ton load. Just as Sikorsky was ambitious to set a world record, several airlines that were interested in buying cancelled orders because of the acceleration of Japan's southward movement and the threat of war on the southeast coast. In addition, the military was not interested in such a large and inappropriate and extremely expensive seaplane from the beginning, so Sikorsky, which bears all the development costs, fell into a serious financial crisis. Later, considering that the company is the largest seaplane and the second largest helicopter manufacturer in China, on the one hand, it is to support the domestic aviation industry. On the other hand, at that time, the Navy was already making plans for a surprise attack on Guam, and it was in urgent need of aircraft with a large load and range, so it decided to pay for the 12 orders that had been cancelled. However, the "Sea King" is too expensive, and the seaplane is more limited. So there is no additional quantity.

The improved "Sea Overlord" for the Navy has an empty weight of 28 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 53 tons, a cruising speed of 330 km, and a maximum speed of 390 km. The ceiling is 8,500 meters, and the maximum no-load range is 8,400 kilometers. The maximum range is 6,800 kilometers when carrying 16 marines and 5,500 kilometers when carrying 8 tons of bulk cargo. So far, six Sea Masters have been added to the service.

These are all things that Ye Zishan heard from the HNA Officers' Club, he just didn't understand, what kind of mission was it? These monsters need to be dispatched. Moreover, the sailors are loading a large cylindrical object covered with tarpaulin into the plane with a transport boat, and the draft should be heavy. After looking at it for a while, he walked towards the combat office of the HNA Brigade at the airport. "Report, Ye Zishan, the Second Airborne Division, came to report." After the East Kazakh Campaign, Yezishan switched to the Kizylorda Blockade, the Urgench Airborne Battle, and the Samarkand Siege Battle, and his combat experience was already quite rich. However, in contrast to his friend Zhuo Fan, who shone in the Kurgasen tank and the subsequent siege of Chelinograd, he did not participate in the subsequent battles in Central Asia or the battle for Annam, but went to Hainan with the 2nd Airborne Division, where he trained in the tropical jungle for two months.

"Come in."

After walking into the conference room of the war department, there was no noise and busyness as he imagined. On the contrary, in the more than 100-square-meter combat conference room, only a few officers gathered around an island-shaped sand table and exchanged ears, as if discussing something. "You are Ye Zishan?" When he quietly looked at the sand table, a general in the middle, about sixty years old with gray temples, turned around. "It's good to hear about your performance in the Northwest! Get to know, my name is Qiu Bin, this is Chen Shiying, chief of staff of the Second Fleet of the Navy, Dongfang Chen, commander of the Marine Corps, Zong Lei of the Falcon Commando, you know, and Major General Luo Hu, captain of the Hunter Brigade. I won't introduce these two, your Air Force's own system, you should know each other, right? Qiu Bin pointed to Major General Mo Wannian, the new commander of the East Asian Air Defense Command, and the commander of the Taiwan garrison of the Air Force, and introduced with a smile.

Ye Zishan was a little bored, he didn't expect to see so many senior officers at once. Especially Qiu Bin, the commander of the theater, felt a little nervous. Mo Wannian hurriedly patted him and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, are the troops ready?" Mo Wannian is also a veteran pilot of the European War, and interestingly, he was the first naval pilot, because after signing up for Europe as an air force during the European War, he simply "betrayed" the navy after the war. To this day, there are rumors that he has a bad relationship with Chen Shaokuan, the commander of his navy, and every time they meet, they quarrel so much. Together with Qiu Bin, commander of the Southwest Theater of Operations. They are privately known as the two "rebel generals" of the Wehrmacht.

"Report to the chief, you can go at any time."

After Qiu Bin asked a few more questions about the situation of the troops, he pointed to the sand table and asked, "Come and see this, do you know?" ”

After Ye Zishan led his troops to parachute in the East Kazakhstan Siege, he organized resistance on the spot when he encountered an accident, and his performance in winning time for the main force was impressive, especially the style of being fearless in danger and not being surprised by changes was quite a general's style, so Chen Shiying and others next to him also looked at him. Being watched by so many high-ranking officers, Ye Zishan's breathing was a little urgent. After combining the sand table with the map of the main islands in his mind, he raised his head: "Sir, this should be a topographic map of Guam." ”

"Yes, it looks like you've put in a bit of work." Qiu Bin smiled and waved his hand to Chen Shiying: "Shiying." Say it. ”

Chen Shiying pointed to the sand table and said: "The General Staff has decided to attack Guam, and I asked you to come here to tell you that from now on, the two airborne regiments will be under your command, and the task is to cooperate with the brother troops to seize Guam." "As an airborne unit, it was required to go abroad to fight at any time from the beginning of its formation, so Ye Zishan had an understanding of the terrain and landforms of the main surrounding areas. So when he heard this, he immediately frowned, and he didn't care about Chen Shiying's identity. Worried: "Sir. Guam is surrounded by reefs, cliffs and rocks, and the island's mountains are high and forested, which is a typical tropical rainforest landform, and mountains account for 80% of the island's total area. Only the western Agania and the Bay of Tumon have flat clearings. The Japanese had taken control of the area after driving out the Americans, and if they jumped, they would be surrounded. Elsewhere, mountains and rainforests are not suitable for parachuting. ”

"It seems that you have really studied it, so I might as well say it directly." Chen Shiying praised with satisfaction and continued: "This time it is not parachuting. It's a plane drop-in. "Airborne?" Ye Zishan thought of the seaplane outside and somewhat understood. But seaplane landing needs to be close to the beach. And it has no defense, and it is also easily affected by wind and waves, so the danger is no less than parachuting. Chen Shiying saw his concern and continued: "We initially estimated that the Japanese army had 8,000 to 10,000 troops on Guam, but recent intelligence shows that the Japanese navy does not value Guam. In fact, there were only 5,000 garrisons of the 55th Division, about 80 artillery pieces and a company of Type 94 tanks, as well as more than 20 96 warships, three special gunboats, and one destroyer. However, on the island of Saipan to the south, there is not only the main force of the 55th Division, but also three naval garrison groups, with a total strength of more than 16,000 troops. There are three large-caliber shore guns, more than 100 cannons, more than 40 aircraft, one coastal defense ship, and 11 other warships. ”

"The vast majority of the Japanese forces on Guam were in Agana, Apra Harbor, and Agana to the north, and there was only one squadron in Merizzo to the south. You pay attention. Chen Shiying pointed to Cocos Island south of Guam: "This is Cocos Island, six kilometers from the Big Island, and between the two islands is a flat lagoon three kilometers wide surrounded by coral reefs. I sent frogmen to scout, and the width and depth were enough to take off and land ten seaplanes at the same time. In addition, there are coral reefs all around, and if supplies and equipment are airdropped here, they will not be washed away by the sea even at high tide. So once the operation begins, the main attacking force will attack from both sides in the northwest, and after distracting the Japanese army, the seaplanes will send you to the lagoon. You have to pay attention! This lagoon is our only point of airdrop until the fleet arrives, and you must not only transfer the supplies ashore in time, but also hold on until the fleet arrives. If the proceeds go well, the fleet and the three Marines will be there in six days' time, and you will be able to advance along the west coast of the island towards Apra Harbor, and if you don't go well, this landing ground will be a lifeline for you and the rest of the landing force for a long time! ”

The last sentence made Ye Zishan feel slightly, and it could be seen that after the accident of the Ryukyu naval battle, he was also sweating in the face of this surprise attack that spanned 2,700 kilometers. "Sir, with such a large landing, the noise will definitely alarm the Japanese squadron in Merizzo. After landing, the seaplane has no protection capability at all, and once it builds an artillery attack, it will suffer heavy casualties. Also, how did the seaplane come back? Is it stuck in the lagoon all the time? ”

"You don't have to worry about this, the Falcon Brigade will clear out the Japanese squadron in Merizo before you arrive. We will also seize Agrihan Island as soon as possible and set up a seaplane refueling point here. After Chen Shiying finished speaking, he pointed to a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old second lieutenant standing in the corner: "Second Lieutenant Yan Yu is the person who formulated this plan, and he will act with you." Ye Zishan looked at this round-headed and round-headed officer who hadn't spoken since he entered the door, and secretly exclaimed. Even if the airborne troops play with life and death all the year round, he has to admit that this second lieutenant named Yan Yu is simply a genius, and he actually thought of using the Coral Lagoon as an airborne landing field. This solves the danger of airdropped supplies being washed away by the sea.

After speaking, Chen Shiying took out a boy who was only three or five pages the size of a slap: "The operation code name is the whaling ship, which is the password and password of the operation." ”

Ye Zishan immediately hid the password close to his body and asked, "Sir, when are we leaving?" "Three hours later." In Qiu Bin's words, six "Sea Lords" with blue bodies and white backgrounds and camouflage outside the window began to start their engines.

Late at night on August 27.

Large bubbles swelled up in the calm sea south of Guam, and two minutes later three long black backs abruptly surfaced. The middle one is the Jiao 87 Aconitus-class transport submarine that supplied weapons to the Indonesian rebels during the Nanyang Riots, and the Jiao 191 and Jiao 192 on the left and right are the successor models of the Aconitum Fish. Hammerhead shark-class large supply submarine. The hammerhead shark resembles a Xib boat, with a big belly that can hold 400 tons of fuel and 45 tons of food, but unlike the XIB boat, the hammerhead can carry a commando of 80 people and 200 tons of ammunition and food when not carrying fuel. When transporting people, though. Due to air and other reasons, the diving time is only one hour, so it is necessary to keep the snorkel in a state for a long time.

For this operation, the Navy dispatched all six Aconitum and four hammerhead sharks, transporting a total of 470 special operations teams and 500 tons of aviation gasoline to refuel seaplanes in case of emergency. With the exception of Merizzo, the remaining two teams went to Aganja and were scheduled to land on the beachhead. Fearing that the noise would alarm the enemy, all three submarines switched to battery propulsion after they surfaced. One hundred and sixty-six special combat personnel of the second team were drilled out one after another. After opening the inflatable rubber raft, he paddled towards Merizzo like a silent water ghost.

In the spring of 1939, the Japanese government sent 5,000 soldiers to forcibly take over Guam in order to shorten the shipping lane. and announced the replacement of the United States for the trusteeship of Guam. As a result of not receiving orders, 172 U.S. soldiers and staff on the island were disarmed. Fearing that the massacres and imprisonment would lead to war, the Japanese Navy packed up all the personnel and U.S. military equipment on Guam and sent them to Shanghai. After the incident, Roosevelt wanted to use this as a breakthrough to enter the war. However, domestic isolationism felt that it was a worthless trusteeship island with no loss of human and property. It was ignorant to declare war on Japan, which had a strong navy, so the Diet rejected the proposal on the spot. Afterwards, however, Roosevelt persuaded Congress to impose a total embargo on Japan and to strengthen military deployments in Hawaii and Wake Island.

It should be said that the fact that the day has come to this day has a lot to do with the Guam incident. There was no opponent in the southward expansion, and China ignored it, and even the United States adopted a disregard attitude towards the Philippines and Guam, which led to a transition in Japan's internal self-confidence, and blindly believed that both China and the United States were afraid of war with Japan. As I said earlier, Japan is a country with abnormal thinking, and narrow-mindedness, paranoia, and fanaticism pervade all aspects of the state and society, and this kind of character is very terrifying, and often at the slightest disturbance, the Japanese people will be directly labeled as "threatening," "hostile," "going to kill tens of millions of Japanese people," "showing signs of attack," and so on. As this kind of thinking became more widespread, arrogance and arrogance began to grow, so that when China intervened in the French East Indies, the discourse advocating punishment for China grew sharply.

In the end, Nagata Tetsuyama was assassinated in the street.

This incident had a great impact on the Japanese top leadership, and neither the Yama Fifty-six nor the naval faction, who had been the most staunch opponents of the Sino-Japanese war, dared to say a word, because countless blood proved that all officers who stood in the way of "public opinion" would be burned to death by flames from below. The navy's acquiescence to the Z plan of the Black Island Turtle Man also led Yang Qiu to resolve the issue early, otherwise he would not turn around until at least Petropavlovsk was laid down and a solid defensive line was established according to the original plan.

Of course, these things will not be known or thought about in the future. News of the naval battle between Sasebo and the Ryukyus had reached Guam, but there was little atmosphere of war readiness here, and the 2,700-kilometer distance from Taiwan was enough to wreck the most powerful bombers. As for the fleet, let's go over the mountain first.

In a safe corner, far away from family with no entertainment, and on an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I am afraid that only women are left to boost morale. Guam has a large number of Japanese expatriates and Chamorros, but the image of being close to the people is still needed, so comfort women from Turkey and North Korea have become the most sought-after resource for overseas troops. It was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and the cries of comfort women could still be heard in the Japanese barracks in Merizo, and torturing these poor women day and night seemed to have become the only thing that many of the island-defending troops could do.

Kenjiro Oshima lifted his pants with satisfaction and said goodbye to the dead and alive comfort women who were tossed by him. Only then did he pick up his gun and go to the changing of the guard. In fact, there was no need for a post in Merizogen, because there was a reef outside the fishing village, where even the rice cattle were not interested, and behind the fishing village were dense forests and high mountains, so even if an enemy attacked from the sea, the ships could not drive in. However, Lieutenant Sasaki said that he should maintain morale and combat readiness, and insisted on going out for drills every day and keeping watch at night.

However, there really aren't too many sentinels in this kind of place, so only two unlucky ones are selected each night. The outpost was located in a sheltered place from the wind in the fishing port, which was actually a pier made of planks that jutted out to the sea, and could only be used by Chamorro rafts to enter and exit. The moonlight is nice tonight. When Oshima walked into the outpost, he found that his partner had fallen asleep, and just as he was about to play a prank to wake him up, he felt a sudden pain in his neck, and he couldn't breathe well and couldn't even make a sound. Before he could figure out who attacked him, several of them were wearing wetsuits. The soldier with the gun plunged his dagger into his partner's neck.

"Frogmen? Enemy Attack! The last thought flashed, and Oshima collapsed limply in the outpost. After Pei Jian put away the tightrope and signaled with a bamboo clip, dozens of kayaks appeared on the beach. After leaving a squad to guide the seaplanes behind, the special combat team members immediately reached for the Japanese barracks.

Meanwhile, at the Guam Command in Agana, Major General Kasuga was woken up by a knock on the door. "Bastard. Is there anything you can't say tomorrow? After the major general, who had been disturbed by his dreams, scolded and opened the door, the second lieutenant on duty hurriedly took out a telegram: "Your Excellency General, I just received a telegram from Hongyumaru. An hour earlier, they had spotted two destroyers and three transports seventy nautical miles to the southwest, which looked very much like the Qinling-class in China. ”

"Yaga! Discovered an hour ago. Why is it only being reported now? The bastard captain of Hirotamamaru should be shot! Major General Kasuga scolded loudly. How many things can be delayed in an hour? If the warships were at full speed, they would have driven more than 30 nautical miles. Of course, he was not nervous at all, because it was impossible to take Guam with one or two destroyers. So he was excited. In this distant and hopeless place, he can actually contribute to the empire.

It's just that he really wronged the Hongyu Maru. After encountering a destroyer. Captain Hirotamamaru immediately sent a telegram. However, the problem is that the Hirotamamaru is a special gunboat with only 16 knots (the special ship refers to the gunboats and other types of ships converted by the Japanese navy from civilian ships, and after the southward expansion began, about 60 freighters were converted into special ships, which became one of the main reasons for the lack of sea transportation). Because he did not return to Hong Kong, he did not know that the new password had been changed, so he was unable to contact the Saipan Naval Telegraph Station using the new password. In the end, it was another special ship that had gone out of the port yesterday to patrol the port received the signal and informed Saipan with the new code, and it was a full hour of delay in going back and forth.

"Call the units and ask them to be on alert and increase the number of patrols. Inform Haname Daisa, prepare the heavy artillery. ”

"Hey!"

The Guam Garrison Command, formerly known as the Pan American Hotel, is a three-story brick and wood structure with telegraph stations downstairs. So the second lieutenant came to the telegraph room depressed, and immediately picked up the phone and dialed the airfield and the artillery unit, and it was not until all the notices were made that he remembered the Merizo squadron to the south. "Toot toot." The phone rang for a long time and no one answered, and the second lieutenant thought that the other party was lazy again, so he secretly cursed a couple of sentences and was just about to hang up, when a vague moan suddenly came from the earpiece, and the sound of gunshots could be faintly heard. "Hey, hey!" The second lieutenant shouted several times, but there was no reply on the other side of the phone, and after a while, he was hung up.

"What's going on? How can there be gunshots? The second lieutenant didn't dare to slack off, but when he was about to report again, the sound of a motor was faintly heard outside the window. Is there a plane coming tonight? Hearing the voice, Atsuya Kasuga came down from the upstairs in his pajamas, walked to the window and picked up the binoculars, and asked while searching. The second lieutenant didn't dare to slack off, and even put the matter of Merizo behind him for the time being, and after taking out the flight record and reading it carefully, he shook his head affirmatively: "General, there is no record on the schedule." "Oh? Show me. "Kasuga took over the flight record and found that there would be a plane delivering medicine from the earliest day after tomorrow. Since there is no one on the schedule, whose plane is it outside? Judging from the noise decibels, there should be several, could it be the reconnaissance plane of the fleet just now?

"Could it be a Shina bomber? I heard about Sasebo. ”

"Stupid! Even if the bomber can fly here, how can it fly back to Baga! Who hit the flare?! Before the second lieutenant could speak, Kasuga Atsushi interrupted and scolded. But before he could finish scolding, he saw two flares suddenly rising in the direction of the airport. Soon after the flares were lifted into the air, several huge black shadows rushed down from the sky.

"Zhina, it's Zhina!" Seeing the approaching giant plane, and thinking of the short gunfire he had heard on the phone just now, the second lieutenant suddenly shouted. The face of the Kasuga Atsushi by the window changed greatly, he just said that the bomber could not fly here, it was estimated according to the standard of the largest H-7 in the Republic of China, but the volume of these big guys in the sky was obviously more than double that of the H-7, and the length of the wing was even covered by the moonlight!

"Baga, what are you doing in a daze? Go send a telegram, Shina has attacked us! Someone, raise the alarm, call everyone up! Atsushi Kasuga reacted immediately. I also comforted myself in my heart, there were only a few dark shadows in the sky, and even if it was full of soldiers and bombs, there would not be many. Just as the Japanese soldiers hurriedly got up and sounded the air defense siren with sleepy eyes, the first "Sea King" had already descended to 600 meters, circled over the airfield and opened its hatch. Two special "giant snake eggs" weighing three tons broke away from the cargo hold one after another, and after slowly descending to 300 meters with the help of parachutes, they suddenly turned into two red fireballs. This is a solid submunition specially designed to deal with field airfields, and the bullet is larger than the anti-personnel snake egg. Because of the poor conditions of field airfields, planes are often parked in the open air, so the bullets of the "giant snake eggs" can easily penetrate the aluminum aircraft and destroy the internal structure.

5,700 "bullets" were enveloped in the blast wave of the explosion, forming a steel rain covering two square kilometers. The whirling bullets instantly smashed all the more than 20 planes on the tarmac, and even pierced the windows of the dormitory, killing several Japanese soldiers by the windows. To ensure destruction, the second "Sea Overlord" dropped two more "giant snake eggs" from another direction. In just a few minutes, the field airfield left behind by the US troops was blown to shreds, and even the runway was covered with sharp bullets. Even if there is an escape, it will not be able to take off without a day or two of cleanup.

At the same time as the explosion was heard in the direction of the airfield, three flares suddenly burst out of the Japanese headquarters in Agania. With the precedent just now, Kasuga Atsushi knew that Guam had been infiltrated for a long time. When he picked up his clothes and rushed to the motorcycle to go to the airport to see the damage, the remaining four "Sea Lords" had already killed their heads and successively dropped five tons of "Fury" special bombs from a height of 2,000 meters.

The "Fury" special bomb resembles the famous cabinet bomb, with a total weight of 5,500 kilograms, containing 2,400 kilograms of aluminum-magnesium mixed explosives, which can penetrate a concrete layer 5 meters thick and produce a large crater with a diameter of 30 meters and a depth of 24 meters, which can destroy all non-cement buildings within a radius of 1,000 meters, and the destructive power is no less than a small earthquake. Each weapon has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the biggest flaw of Fury is that it is too large to be machined, so it must be made by hand, which is expensive. Peculiarly, it was the Republic of China Navy that proposed the "Fury" bomb, and it was not until early May that the Air Force joined the joint procurement after the successful development of the bomb.

Rumble! Kasugatsu's motorcycle hadn't gone far when he heard an earth-shattering bang behind him, and then several large trees on the side of the road fell suddenly, almost hitting the motorcycle. When he got up and looked back, he was stunned! I saw that a huge black and red mushroom cloud had appeared in the direction of the headquarters, which was still rising and hundreds of meters high. Below the mushroom cloud, the Pan American Hotel, where the headquarters is located, has all collapsed, and the churning sea of fire is wrapped in smoke, like a rushing wave, and continues to spread around.

Before he and the Japanese soldiers could come out of their panic, three more bombs exploded one after another