Tank landing ships were parked horizontally on the sea near Izaki Island, and as the waves gently rose and fell, the waves crashed on the shore of Izaki Island, rolling up a large pile of waves. The officers and men of the 1st Marine Regiment of the Chinese Army riding in the landing craft all held steel guns in their hands, and their expressions were resolute and slightly nervous. This is their second amphibious landing operation in less than a week. In the last landing on Tsushima and in just two or three days of fighting on Tsushima, this elite marine regiment lost almost 600 people! It was the highest casualty among the nine Marine regiments participating in the Battle of Tsushima, and correspondingly the most feathered.

Their current regiment commander, Colonel Xu Syou, was still a lieutenant colonel and deputy regiment commander a week ago, and it was for leading a raid on the headquarters of the Japanese 106th Division that he was rewarded for catching more than 800 Japanese wounded soldiers and 12 Japanese female nurses, and was promoted to colonel commander in the line of fire, while their original regiment commander, Colonel Wang Shusheng, was promoted to deputy division commander. However, today, February 21, the landing on Izaki Island should not be dangerous. The topography of this Izaki Island is not treacherous, the main terrain of the island is paddy fields, with only a few low hills, in the eastern part of Izaki Island. Moreover, the reconnaissance planes of the previous air force and navy did not find any traces of large fortifications on the island that could place artillery, and it is likely that there was no heavy Japanese army on the island.

Despite this, Vice Admiral Bo Fuping, who was in charge of directing the landing in Japan, ordered the navy's artillery bombardment fleet to approach a very close place to the shore, bombarded all suspicious targets with the guns of cruisers and destroyers, and dispatched dozens of J-3D and J-4E and Qiang-1 planes to circle in the air for cover. Always ready to provide support. The garrison on Izaki Island is an independent garrison plus a Red Guard detachment, and you can see that it is a rabble by looking at the number, and its combat effectiveness is very different from that of the front-line units of the Japanese Red Army with division numbers. They also suffered great losses in the shelling of the Chinese warships just now. Now in a state of panic, as soon as the troops arranged in the defensive positions on the beach saw dozens of landing craft rushing up to the beachhead, all the firepower that could open fire was fired, and there was no accuracy, except for startling the officers and men of the 1st Marine Regiment, and there were no great casualties. However, the prematurely exposed firepower point was immediately covered by the guns of the Chinese warships and the firepower from the air, and the Japanese position was suddenly covered with a miserable scene of flesh and blood.

The ensuing battle was hardly suspenseful, and by the afternoon of the day. More than 7,000 elite marines of the 1st and 2nd Marine Corps have basically taken control of the entire island of Yitai Island, and the blue sky and the red flag are already flying over Yitai City, the only town on the island. Imagine that the scene of the military and civilians of the whole island working together to resist the war did not appear, and the situation on this island was the same as that of Tsushima Island. There were only soldiers and no civilians, and the peaceful residents had already retreated to the island of Kyushu, and there were less than 2,000 Japanese Red Army and Red Guards, and more than 1,600 of them became revolutionary martyrs in the battle. The rest betrayed the Soviet Motherland and became prisoners. But such a seemingly inconspicuous and unsuspenseful battle. However, it was carried out under the close attention of the top brass of the Chinese army and the Japanese front.

When the news of the seizure of Yitai Island reached the headquarters of the Japanese Front of the Chinese Army in Lushunkou, Lu Yixuan and He Yingqin all showed excited expressions.

"Okay, okay, Isakijima has been taken down!" Lu Yixuan waved his fist excitedly, handed over the telegram he had just received to He Yingqin, stood in front of the map with his hands on his hips and said with a smile: "Little Japan really didn't have a heavy defense on Yisaki Island, it seems that the tactical thinking of the Japanese Army is too far behind the times, probably there is no such word tactical air force in their military vocabulary at all, right?" ”

He Yingqin put the telegram on the table, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart. He didn't expect that Iwasaki Island would be built when it was only more than 20 kilometers away from Kyushu Island, and the terrain was flat. Islands with good deep-water harbors will be treated as outcasts by the Japanese army. It seems that as Lu Yixuan said, the Japanese Army does not have the concept of a tactical air force in its head at all, so it does not know the important role of an airfield close to the front line in land warfare. Otherwise, they will use human lives to defend Isaki Island, even if it is good to defend it for one more day.

Because in the operational concept of the tactical air force, ammunition and fuel can be converted to each other, and the load of the aircraft is just like that, and the more fuel you load, the less ammunition you need. So a large airfield close to the front line is invaluable for the tactical air force. However, Tsushima Island, which has just been controlled by the Chinese military, is full of mountains, and there are too few places where an airport can be built, and there is only one Mitsushima airport built by the Japanese themselves, and it is not too big, so not many planes can be deployed. However, the terrain of Izaki Island is much flatter, almost half of the island can be used to build an airport, and it is closer to the northern part of Kyushu. If a few bomber aviation regiments equipped with strong 1 Orion aircraft were deployed on Isaki Island, the entire Japanese army in Kitakyushu would have a good feeling.

"Yes, yes, little Japan's air force is not a little bit behind us, and they are mainly developing naval aviation. According to intelligence, Japan's army air force has a total of about 500 aircraft, all of which are fighters, medium bombers, and transport planes, and there is not even a single dive bomber or attack plane. Moreover, they have not fought against a really strong enemy all these years, and even the Soviet military advisers have long since withdrawn from the Japanese Red Army, and it is normal for them not to know the value of Izaki Island. He Yingqin slapped his face and thought about it, as if he had thought of something.

"Brother Zixiu, since little Japan doesn't have this string in its head, why don't we hide the strength of the air force, don't bomb the Japanese ground forces in the Kitakyushu area too hard, and give them a little illusion?" He Yingqin pointed to the flat area of Kitakyushu.

"I can give them a little illusion, I don't know if little Japan will put their troops in Kitakyushu to fight a decisive battle with us, if their main force retreats to the mountains of Kumamoto, I'm afraid we will have a hard battle." Lu Yixuan's expression became solemn, and he took out a cigar from his pocket and lit it.

"Bitter battles are certain, and the folk customs of Japan have always been that the two ends win the middle and the middle is soft, Kumamoto Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu. Yamaguchi and Hiroshima prefectures in western Honshu, as well as Sendai and Yamagata prefectures in the northeastern region of Japan, have always been strong...... At that time, I am afraid that not only will I have to fight with the Japanese Red Army, which is hundreds of thousands or even millions, but I am afraid that I will have to deal with the attacks from the Japanese people! The smile on He Yingqin's face swept away. Replaced with a sad face, as a Japanese intellectual, of course he knew the fierceness of the Kyushu samurai in Japanese history. At present, among the three main divisions of the Japanese Red Army, there are the 6th Division, which is supplemented by Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures, and the 5th Division, which is supplemented by Hiroshima and Yamaguchi.

"Fight hard, fight hard! If you don't fight hard, little Japan won't be convinced! Lu Yixuan turned his head and gave He Yingqin an order: "Respectfully, prepare a plan for a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Kitakyushu." In addition, the engineering and air force headquarters were ordered to immediately begin the construction of an airfield on Izaki Island for a period of one month. No, a large airfield with two tactical bombing aviation regiments can be completed in three weeks! ”

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"Prime Minister, I just received a secret message from Tianyan. Takeda Heng, the Red Emperor, is ready to make his Red Army desperate! The Japanese army is preparing to start a decisive battle with us in the Kitakyushu region! Zhao Fatzi rushed into Chang Ruiqing's office in a hurry, and reported to Chang Ruiqing eagerly before he saluted. Although the tone was hurried, the smile on the face of the chief of the general staff could not be concealed.

Although many high-ranking officials of the Japanese GCD sent their families to China before China and Japan turned against each other, it does not mean that these people are not loyal to the Japanese GCD and the Japanese people. Nor does it mean that China's intelligence services can use their families to coerce them into acting as Chinese spies – the families of these high-ranking Japanese officials are all federal citizens. The intelligence departments can only try to buy them, but it is very difficult to coerce them by violent means, and besides, the Japanese and the Japanese have already used the Iron Curtain to cut off the communication between the country and the outside world, and except for Yasuo Yasuda, the head of the Japanese and G secret services, even if other high-ranking Japanese and Japanese officials have the heart to take refuge, there is no way to establish contact with the Chinese intelligence departments. Therefore, the intelligence work of the National Intelligence Agency did not go smoothly, and it did not obtain much valuable information, and now the value of this information sent by Tianyan is very high. But it's almost worth a few armored divisions!

Chang Ruiqing was holding a report sent by the Ministry of Armaments on the nuclear fission bomb detonation by the U Engineering Committee, and heard Zhao Zhen's report. raised his head and smiled: "Zixiu, do they know?" ”

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "I will report to the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief Lu as soon as possible." Lu Zixiu told me on the phone that the Japanese Front was already preparing a plan for the decisive battle of Kitakyushu, and this time it could be regarded as a right shot, but Zixiu was still a little worried, afraid that the Japanese would resist desperately and this battle would not be easy to fight. After all, we don't have an advantage in numbers, and it's Japan's home stadium, so it's still a bit difficult for little Japan to really fight hard. Prime Minister ......" he lowered his voice: "How many nuclear fission bombs are there now?" Can it be used on the heads of the Japanese? ”

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand: "Don't think about this, the nuclear fission bomb is a strategic weapon, and it is okay to use it to destroy cities, but it is not good to use it in field battles." However, it can't scare the Japanese by bombing Japanese cities...... Youlin, otherwise, would it be okay to add a few more group army units to the Japanese Front? ”

Zhao Zhen's face was slightly disappointed, of course a senior officer of the National Defense Force at his level knew what the U Engineering Committee was doing. I don't know how much I have read the report on the power of nuclear fission bombs, of course, I also know that it is not very appropriate to use nuclear fission bombs to fight field battles, the price of this thing is too expensive, and the production difficulty is too high, it is not suitable for a large number of troops, and the killing range of a nuclear fission bomb is only a few kilometers away, and it can kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people if thrown in the center of Tokyo, but it is too cost-effective to kill one or two wings on the top of the Japanese defense line, and it is better to use conventional artillery shells and bombs to cost-effective. But in his mind, if he can lose ten or eight in large and medium-sized cities in Japan, he is still afraid that the Japanese GCD will not surrender? Unless they really don't care about the survival of the Japanese nation.

Chang Ruiqing closed the report in his hand and walked to the military map hanging on the wall of the office, and Zhao Zhen also leaned over to look at the map with him. Chang Ruiqing said in a low voice: "It is said that it is the battle of Northern Kyushu, but how big is Northern Kyushu?" It's just three counties, how many troops can be placed? In my opinion, the battlefield of this battle will probably include Kumamoto and Oita prefectures in the central part of Kyushu Island, and Yamaguchi Prefecture in the western part of Honshu Island...... Look at the terrain is all hard bones! What do they have in mind? What is the idea of the General Staff? ”

Zhao Zhen pointed to the map: "There are already a lot of assumptions, and some people want to attract the main force of the Japanese army to Kitakyushu and then implement the tactics of closing the door and beating dogs; It has also been proposed to land in the three ports of Tsuruga, Kohama, and Tsurumai in central Honshu. Then he went directly south to Kyoto Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture and then attacked the Nobi Plain, cutting Honshu Island into two sections from the middle; There are also people who simply take a big detour, on the one hand, using the Battle of Kitakyushu to attract the attention of the Japanese army. On the one hand, the surprise troops made a detour to Tokyo Bay to land, and directly took the Japanese capital Tokyo, maybe they could catch Takeda Heng......" Zhao Zhen gushed endlessly and proposed seven or eight proposals to Chang Ruiqing, all of which were drummed up by the elites of the Japanese Front and the General Staff these days, and it sounds like there is a possibility of implementation. At present, Japan has lost the sea power around the Japanese archipelago, and without sea power, this island nation cannot escape the fate of being attacked on all sides, and the squadron is completely capable of landing at any point in the Japanese archipelago.

Hearing so many plans that could kill Japan, Chang Ruiqing's heart also warmed up. He whispered to himself, "...... There are a lot of ways to do it. It seems that there is no problem in occupying Japan, and now it will be up to us to see if the means used in the government can work. ”

At a time when Prime Minister Chang Dai is looking forward to the bright future of coexistence and co-prosperity in Greater East Asia. There was a knock on the door of Chang Ruiqing's office. Chang Ruiqing turned his head and saw Adjutant Chancellor Chen Xinrui standing at the door. His face was full of solemnity: "Prime Minister." Briefing by the U.S. delegation...... Their 18th Task Force was attacked by Japanese naval aviation as it crossed the Strait of Lacey into the Coral Sea, sinking three battlecruisers, severely damaging four battleships, and the aircraft carriers Saratoga and Essex were all battered and incapacitated. Now Task Force 18 is retreating towards Port Jackson, Sydney. Not completely out of danger yet......"

Chang Ruiqing's face suddenly darkened: "How can the Yankees ...... The Army can't. Now even the navy can't beat the Japanese, I really don't know what to eat! ”

Chen Xinrui's words were not finished, she frowned tightly, and handed a copy of the telegram to Chang Ruiqing: "The urgent telegram from the Navy's Singapore base, the naval reconnaissance aircraft at the Singapore base have found at least 3 Akagi-class battlecruisers and 2 Kaga-class battleships near the port of Surabaya on Java Island!" ”

"What? 5 Japanese capital ships went to the South Seas? "Chang Ruiqing is not doing much, Zhao Fatzi has already jumped up." We can't let them make trouble in our backyard, Prime Minister, let the Nanyang Fleet attack! The Japanese fleet must not be allowed to destroy Brunei's oil fields! ”

Chang Ruiqing just smiled coldly: "Little Japan is playing Wei to save Zhao!" All right. They want to play naval battles, so let's play with them! But it's not us going to the South Seas. Rather, I want them to come to the East! ”

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South Pacific, Coral Sea. The red background gold sun flag flutters high.

On the deck of the aircraft carrier Wyvern, there were more than two dozen Type 96 fighters and Type 93 dive bombers that were stained with the smell of gunpowder. The commander of the First Air Fleet, Takijiro Onishi, shuttled among these planes with a very solemn expression. This Canglong-class aircraft carrier, which can carry up to 72 carrier-based aircraft, now has only 27 carrier-based aircraft left! Among them, there are 14 Type 96 shipboard fighters, 10 Type 93 dive bombers with two wings, and only 3 Type 96 carrier-based torpedo attack planes that have just been equipped with troops! It seems that the price of the "great victory in the Coral Sea" that the Japanese Red Navy Combined Fleet has just achieved is very high.

No, it is difficult to say whether the winner of the Battle of the Coral Sea was the Japanese Combined Fleet or not, although it was confirmed that three American capital ships were sunk. But do the Americans care about capital ships? They have 30 capital ships, and after sinking three, there are 27! Although the Japanese Red Army warriors drove suicide planes to severely damage two American aircraft carriers, they ...... The Yankees have 36 large aircraft carriers and about 50 escort aircraft carriers, so what if 2 aircraft carriers are temporarily unable to go to war? They also have 84 aircraft carriers ready to go into battle!

"Commander, the damage report is out." Ugaki, chief of staff of the First Air Fleet, wrapped his grip on Wen Jiàn and walked quickly in front of Onishi Takijiro: "The 10 aircraft carriers that participated in the war lost a total of 338 carrier-based aircraft and 591 pilots who sacrificed their lives for the country, and none of the 69 special attack planes that took off from Port Moresby returned...... Other than that...... Seaplanes have already found traces of the American fleet, about 180 nautical miles southwest of us. ”

"I see, let's get ready for the third attack!"

"Hay!"

With the order of Takijiro Onishi, 112 Type 96 carrier-based fighters, 84 Type 93 carrier-based dive bombers, and 45 Type 96 carrier-based attack aircraft took off from the decks of 10 Soryu-class aircraft carriers. Looking at the huge fleet of more than 200 aircraft, Takijiro Onishi had a feeling that the end was coming. The Battle of the Coral Sea was actually lost! Even if two heavily damaged American aircraft carriers could be sunk in the third air strike, it would not be possible to turn defeat into victory, because the battle losses of pilots and planes had already exceeded the sinking capacity of the Combined Fleet, and these two things were too precious for Japan......

In fact, by this time, the top brass of the Japanese Combined Fleet, including Yamamoto Isoroku, Tsukahara 243, and Onishi Takijiro, knew in their hearts that Japan had already lost the war. No, it is the world revolution that has failed. In this world revolution, Japan was only a small supporting role, and the real protagonist was the Soviet Union, whose fate was already decided when the Soviet Union was defeated by Germany and China on the Western Front and the Eastern Front. International imperialism will never allow a red country to remain on this planet forever (the Japanese are wrong in this view). For the top brass of the Japanese Combined Fleet, who already knew that defeat was inevitable, all they wanted to do now was to defend Japan with all their might, and it didn't matter what the outcome would be. In fact, in the hearts of Yamamoto and others, they all believed that "quick defeat" was the most beneficial to preserving the vitality of the entire Japanese nation. If the Japanese nation wants to revive in the future, the only thing to do now is to preserve the species.

And the best way to preserve the seed is to lose the war faster! In this way, the killing of the Japanese by the Chinese Defense Forces will stop, and judging by what the Chinese have done over the years, they really want to establish a common paradise for the yellow peoples of East Asia, which is not entirely propaganda. So once they completed their conquest of the Japanese mainland, the Japanese would soon become citizens of the Great Chinese Federation, so that the Japanese nation could be preserved for the future.

However, the Japanese GCD and Takeda Heng refused to admit defeat happily, and they were still tossing around there and preparing to lead 60 million people to fight the jade crushing war together, uh, it should be that the 60 million Japanese jade should be broken, and they themselves must escape at the last moment to save the revolutionary fire!

Therefore, Yamamoto's current thinking is the same as that of the three giants of the Japanese Red Army, that is, to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese, to finish the fight and pull down, to win is a fluke, to lose simply to lose the country, absolutely not to fight any protracted war! How many people are there in Japan? There are only 60 million, of which only about 10 million are young and middle-aged men, and if Japan dies in a protracted war, who will rejuvenate the future?

It doesn't matter if the Chinese want to treat Japan as a colony, but they like to play the trick of ethnic assimilation, and when the time comes, those local women who can't find a man will definitely run to the mainland to get married! Wouldn't Japan lose 20 million people at once? And they are also young and middle-aged men and women with the strongest fertility, and the rest of the old men and women will not have children, so how much fire is left of the Japanese nation? People are gone, and there is a revival of a fart! Even if the Second World Revolution is victorious, Japan will not have a share in the liberation of all mankind!

This is precisely the reason why Yamamoto decided to fight the US 18th Task Force in the Coral Sea, if the US fleet can be disabled, then the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet can rest assured and boldly go north to defend the homeland -- in fact, Yamamoto is completely overly concerned, and the Americans will not send a naval fleet to participate in the siege of the Japanese mainland at all, because Chang Ruiqing does not want the United States to get involved in Japan at all.

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