Hideki Tojo took advantage of the "Decisive Call" to ascend to power, and at the same time, he was able to re-emerge from the mountain, and the former chief of staff of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Ugaki, who was appointed commander of the rebuilt Japanese Fifth Fleet.

"Sakagaki on land, Ugaki on the sea" are already a few words on the emperor's lips, and for Hirohito, these are the two generals he can and must rely on. The others are not credible, and the generals of the military who had spoken so much before the war were either killed or captured. Since the Han army entered the war, the Imperial Japanese Army, which won two national wars in the Meiji era, actually won a miraculous victory, and the battlefields everywhere were shrinking except for retreat.

Hirohito now regrets launching a full-scale war of aggression against China in the first place, why is he not satisfied with North Korea and Manchuria? "It's all to blame on those arrogant warriors in the military department, who mistook the king and the country!"

Now, I can only hope that the imperial uncle of Kurenomiya and Ishihara-kun will be able to turn the tide, otherwise the empire will have to face a humiliating surrender, and he will have no shame to face the emperors of the past in a hundred years - so far, Hirohito has never thought that he will have to worry about his life, and even the emperor's status is unshakable, even if he is defeated and surrendered, the will of nearly 100 million Japanese people cannot be violated.

Ugaki was promoted to admiral and appointed commander of the Fifth Fleet. The so-called Fifth Fleet is actually the few remaining ships of the Japanese Navy, plus kamikaze suicide planes, man-operated torpedoes, and dwarf submarines.

Yamamoto Isoroku, who was knowledgeable underground, may be disappointed, and the golden mask on which he has high hopes is not to reorganize the Japanese navy, but to be assigned to carry out a "kamikaze" suicide attack. As the defense of Kyushu was imminent, the fleet began to train pilots and assemble combat aircraft.

Because of the strength of the Han Royal Air Force and the annihilation of Japan's advanced fighter Zero, Japan's defense has become more and more heavily dependent on kamikaze attacks. With the exception of a few fighters and bombers, almost all of the aircraft were assigned to special attack teams in an attempt to compensate for the lack of quality in quantity. By January 1940, there were more than 5,000 suicide planes available to the Japanese army, and the number continued to grow. Japan planned to use all of these aircraft, capable of approaching the Allied fleet, for suicide attacks. Ugaki also oversaw the production of hundreds of suicide attack boats, which would cover man-operated torpedo attacks on any Allied ships approaching the shores of Kyushu.

Ugaki's combat objective is to rely on a massive kamikaze aircraft group attack, or be able to achieve a 6-to-1 hit ratio in a matter of hours. The Japanese side is expected to sink more than 400 Allied ships, with transport ships as the main target. Such a tactical approach meant that the Allies could inflict extremely heavy casualties, and the General Staff Headquarters even optimistically predicted that one-third to one-half of the landing force would be wiped out at sea by kamikazes.

Quanguo Lin personally flew back to Chang'an to ask His Majesty about the kamikaze. His Majesty did not know much about the deployment of the Japanese army, but only said four words: "Operation Kikusui".

Then Mu Yu sent the detailed information of the kamikaze special attack team, opened the folder, and on the first page there were four big characters "chrysanthemum water as 戦". Quanguo Lin suddenly opened his mouth wide and gave a thumbs up, "Your Majesty, high, really high!" ”

Zhong Yi rolled his eyes, these boys and devils haven't finished fighting, but they have learned to look like traitors! The Military Intelligence Bureau has infiltrated Yu Tantang's battle plan quite well, and the basic battle plan has been written. In order to avoid the continuous bombing, the operational headquarters had to move several times a day, and it was not until Ugaki was appointed as the commander of the Kyushu Defense Command that a number of underground headquarters were repaired, and the staff officers ended their part-time jobs as employees of the moving company.

In this case, it is not surprising that the Military Intelligence Bureau can get a combat plan, the Japanese people are very fanatical, but if they don't have enough food and clothing, can there be fewer Japanese traitors?

The General Staff Department has already begun to revise the operational plan, and there is nothing surprising about the "Jushui Operation." Since we have a preliminary understanding, it is not impossible to deal with the military strength of the Han Dynasty.

increase the number of destroyers, frigates and anti-submarine helicopters to deal with those who operate torpedoes; The Flying Dragon fighters returned to the base in Taichung to install missile pylons, and all the J37-Cs of the Navy's two oceanic fleets were replaced with J37-E, and the new Sea Dragon can carry eight air-to-air missiles with super air-launch capabilities; The Air Force's Tenryu fighter units were all transferred to Okinawa, and the commander of the Royal Air Force, Lieutenant General Yun Jiu, personally commanded the air interception.

Of course, in the face of the enemy's frenzied suicide attacks, simply increasing one's own firepower and using missiles against them cannot solve the fundamental problem, and missiles can only increase the downing rate and reduce losses, but in the face of the collision of thousands of planes at the same time, it is impossible to defend all of them, let alone the missiles in these years...... The ones produced by the base are not good, and it would be better if they were all replaced with "immortal birds".

-- AIM-54 Immortal Bird air-to-air missile is a heavy long-range air-to-air missile system developed by the US Navy, which adopts radar active guidance mode, has a long range, great power, and the ability to attack multiple targets at the same time.

The radar active guidance method of the immortal bird, the base technology has not been able to do it, and the most advanced fairy penguin at this stage is only semi-active guidance, let alone attacking multiple targets at the same time.

But Zhong Yi came up with a better way to deal with the kamikaze - AWACS. Although the current first-generation early warning aircraft Fengshenlong has various defects, the basic early warning function can still be realized. The Royal Air Force has absolute air superiority, and it has deployed the Fengshen Dragon outside a certain range to detect the movements of Japanese planes in advance, so that they can take off and shoot down before they get close to the coast, so as to ensure the safety of sea surface transport ships.

Zhong Yi's idea was a cabbage-level concept in his previous life, but in this era, for Ye Zhiqiu and Quanguo Lin and others, it was absolutely new, and even the expert-level Yun Jiu was greatly inspired. Air Force commanders are keenly aware that with the advent of missiles and early warning planes, there will be epoch-making changes in the air force's combat methods, and such terms on the battlefield as "dog fights, sneak attacks, and dives" will be replaced by "early warning and coordination." In particular, with the increase in the detection range of radar and the improvement of missile range and guidance methods, the ratio of fighters will not be acceleration, climbing, and torque, but whose avionics, radar, and missile performance will be more advanced.

This is a period of rapid development of science and technology, this is an era of extremely rich human imagination, Yun Jiu suddenly has a kind of "troubled times, my generation is a hero" heroic surge, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the Royal Air Force will resolutely complete the task and protect the landing force!" ”

The whole country Lin grinned, "Lao Jiu, come on, buddy's life depends on you!" ”

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On February 14, 1940, Valentine's Day in Western countries, the postponed "White Rainbow" plan was restarted again, and the long-awaited "Guanri" came as scheduled.

The Air Force's H40 Helleye strategic bomber unit suspended its "routine pre-meal inspections" of Japan's major cities and began spreading a carpet of napalm flames of thousands of degrees to strategic locations in southern Kyushu.

The Royal Air Force's 3rd Army on Jeju Island was responsible for bombing Japan's airfields and transportation arteries in Kyushu and Honshu, including the Gwanmun Undersea Tunnel, which was a key target.

"Cut off all connections between Honshu and Kyushu Island, there's a small sampan in the Seto Inland Sea, and you're going to have to blow it up for me." This was a death order given by Yun Jiu to the commander of the Third Army.

The Seventh Army of the Royal Air Force was ordered to transfer Tanegashima and Yakushima, and there was only one airstrip on Tanegashima Island, and in order to take off and land Cerberus large bombers and accommodate more than 1,000 fighters of all kinds of the Seventh Air Force, during the truce of more than a month, nearly 100,000 Korean and Nanyang migrant workers took turns working on Tanegashima day and night, and more than 1,300 engineering vehicles of all kinds were also fighting on the construction site, the H40, which requires a runway of more than two thousand meters to take off, is not within this consideration, and the flight range of more than 6,000 kilometers in Hell's Eye does not require a front-line airfield.

On Yakushima, the troops stationed on the three airstrips are not the air force, or a special air force unit, they belong to the Coastal Corps, and the full name of the unit is the 102nd Air Cavalry Division of the Coastal Corps of the Han Imperial Army. More than 300 improved WZ-10B Falcon helicopters will be under the command of the DZ-3 Black Swan to clean up all kinds of "garbage" on the landing field, beehive uncontrolled rockets on cannons and short-weapon pylons will be used against infantry and improvised fortifications, and Gentleman Penguin light surface-to-surface missiles on long-weapon pylons will be used to deal with more valuable targets.

The 102nd Air Cavalry Division had just arrived on the battlefield in Japan, and with the arrival of the "Falcons," the Allied army's beach firepower would be greatly strengthened.

"Crush the Japanese army with advanced equipment and powerful firepower, and make it desperate!" Remembering His Majesty's words, the artillery bombardment that began on Valentine's Day lasted for nine days, with the naval guns of the two oceanic fleets raining 42,000 rounds of various shells on the three landing sites, and the strategic bombers of the Air Force dropping 20,000 tons of incendiary bombs on the southern part of Kyushu, covering an area of 2,000 square kilometers. The port facilities of Kagoshima's famous town were burned to the ground; Large swaths of trees in Kushikino were set on fire by incendiary bombs, and the seaside bushes were reduced to char. Only the vast Hyuga Beach was not covered with a carpet of flames, and the bombing of Miyazaki was not serious, only the nearby airfield was completely destroyed.

All indications are that the landing of the Allied forces is about to begin, and that the main landing point will be at the Hyuga Sea, "for the heavy bombardment of Kagoshima, only to disguise the direction of their main attack." After Ugaki made his judgment, he tried to suppress his ecstasy. Commander Yamamoto, please bless the great victory of the Imperial Navy's kamikaze attack, and the day of revenge for you is coming! ”

The Japanese army on Kyushu Island also began to move, in order to confuse the Allies, Ugaki ordered a division of the Miyazaki defenders to urgently reinforce Amanamachi during the day, and then secretly withdrew at night, tossing for two days in a row, creating the illusion that the Miyazaki defenders were withdrawn and the troops were weak.

On the Allied side, they just watched the excitement for two days of Ugaki's little tricks. The Japanese may not know that today's advanced fighters have a feature called "all-weather", and the airborne radar with infrared line-of-sight function has made the fighters no longer limited by day and night. More than two dozen small dragons took off from Tanegashima and took turns to monitor the Kyushu Peninsula in turn, and the actions of the Japanese troops fell into the eyes of the pilots, but they were like clowns juggling.

At 3 o'clock in the morning of 23 February, nearly 600 warships of various types of the two oceanic fleets on the open sea joined more than 800 transport ships departing from Taiwan and the Ryukyu islands, and together they forced into the waters of Kyushu, and the landing began!