Chapter 823: Saturation Attack

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Although Japan finally succeeded in developing a jet carrier-based fighter on the basis of the J-2, due to the rush of time and the lack of running-in between the pilots and ground crews on the ship, the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was deeply anticipated by the Japanese government and people, was defeated and lost in the Battle of the Izu Islands, and all six aircraft carriers were blown up and sunk, while the United States only lost two, and the air supremacy in the waters southeast of Japan completely fell into the hands of the Allies

However, there are actually not a few large airfields in the Ogasawara Islands, and it will take a long time to build and expand them, not to mention that because most of the islands are small, the room for new construction and expansion is relatively limited, so the scale of the US military's strategic bombing has been greatly limited, and the Ogasawara Islands are difficult to become a reliable supply base for the Allied forces to land on the Japanese mainland, so the Allied Pacific Theater Command decided to attack Okinawa again. During this period, five more US giant aircraft carriers from Midway were completed and put into service, and the Panama Canal was finally reopened, allowing it to enter the Pacific theater of operations very quickly, thus greatly enhancing the strength of the US Pacific Fleet, which greatly increased the confidence of Nimitz and other senior US generals.

But the Japanese government was also aware of Okinawa's strategic significance, so even after the new defeat, it sent as many jet fighters and best pilots as possible to Okinawa, and the defenders more than doubled their strength. However, under the overwhelming naval and air superiority of the US military, Okinawa was still unable to hold on to it after all. Japan was finally on the verge of extinction, and although there were still hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers and more than a million Japanese immigrants in western and northern Australia, and although the mustache took advantage of the main force of the U.S. Navy to move to the Pacific Ocean to launch an attack on Norway and Sweden in northern Europe, it was still difficult to change the fate of Japan

Under these circumstances, two distinct arguments quickly emerged in Japan. The left-wing forces represented by the pro-China faction of the Japanese Communist Party have actively advocated accepting the Chinese Government's conditions in exchange for aid, and as long as there is enough oil and new weapons, and the masses at home are widely mobilized, the United States, which has so far lost more than 5 million soldiers and civilians, is absolutely unable to conquer Japan, which is resisting the enemy by the whole people. Because Japan's fall into the hands of the United States is absolutely bad news for China.

And the war criminals who escaped liquidation in Japan, the vast majority of the zaibatsu, and even the anti-centrists on the left (including the Japanese Communist Party) (because they were in prison when the Japanese Communist Party was rebuilt). Therefore, they are also called "prison faction"), and they generally believe that it is better to surrender to the United States than to take refuge in China, and their reasons are mainly that the United States is rich and capable of quickly helping the Japanese people get rid of their current poverty, and they also delusionally believe that the United States will be able to allow Japan to keep southern Korea and other territories that the Chinese side wants Japan to give up. But more importantly. They believed that surrendering to the United States would save them from being liquidated by the Chinese

The manic and radical national character of the Japanese quickly escalated the controversy. Soon it turned into a civil war, and the rightists tried to hold the emperor hostage in a coup d'état in Tokyo, but they were immediately suppressed by the Red elements of their own armed lower strata. Rightists outside Tokyo immediately rioted everywhere and took the initiative to send telegrams asking the US military to come and "rescue" Japan as soon as possible, but the US government was worried that the casualties would be too great, so it chose to drop atomic bombs on Japan to force the Japanese government to surrender on its own initiative.

As Japan fell into civil strife and its air defense system became weak, the U.S. B-47 strategic jet bomber easily penetrated deep into Japanese territory and dropped an atomic bomb with a yield of 15,000 tons over Hiroshima, which had been built only last month, killing more than 100,000 people one after another and severely damaging Japanese industry, which had already begun to decline significantly

However, what the US government did not expect was that the atomic bomb would instead prompt Emperor Noshihito, who was already more left-leaning, to make up his mind to betray his class and origin, and the next day he officially sent a telegram asking the Chinese government for help

Although the Japanese government had publicly agreed to the demand for the return of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula to the Korean People's Republic at the same time as asking for help, the reception of the Korean People's Army was somewhat hindered because the 100,000 Japanese troops in southern Korea were also mired in civil strife, but after the Chinese People's Liberation Army also moved south, the resistance of the Japanese diehards was quickly broken, and even Jeju Island on the sea was quickly captured by the Chinese People's Navy, and the Korean Peninsula was finally completely liberated

However, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the People's Army (KPA) did not stop, and after recovering the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, the two armies marched into Tsushima with only minor repairs in order to clear the way for the landing of the army in Japan. This strategically important island has been controlled by the Japanese left, but the main force of the US Pacific Fleet has entered the Tsushima Strait to intimidate and obstruct it, as it did when it intervened in China's war of resistance. However, at that time, the Chinese Navy was no longer what it used to be, and it would never be as reluctant to back down as it had at the beginning, and the hundreds of "Seahawk-1" heavy anti-ship missiles weighing more than 20 tons were a blow to the US Navy, which believed that it was already invincible in the world after destroying the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet

Originally, although the range of the "Sea Hawk-1" was long, it was still far behind the combat radius of the US carrier-based aircraft, so it was not easy to hit the US aircraft carrier, but the US Pacific Fleet actually swaggered into the narrow Tsushima Strait in an attempt to prevent the Chinese troops from crossing the sea again

Taizu is indeed a great man who has not been met in a century, but he has never cared much about this kind of thing, since the Americans themselves are now showing their flaws, the Chinese government will not miss the opportunity to severely damage the main force of the US Navy, as for forcing the Americans to fight with China endlessly, he is not too worried, for the United States, which had a population of only 130 million before the war, the number of deaths of five or six million soldiers and civilians so far can be said to be broken, and how much blood can they shed?

As a result, China's shore-to-ship missile forces were not polite at all, and under the saturation attack of several hundred "Seahawk-1s," the US Pacific Fleet, whose strength surpassed almost the sum of the navies of all other countries in the world, suffered a catastrophe, and four Iowa-class battleships, five Midway-class giant aircraft carriers (the other two were under repair and fortunately escaped) and dozens of other ships were sunk, and those US ships that escaped were soon frantically pursued by more than 1,000 Chinese land-based aircraft carrying air-to-ship missiles. In the end, except for the 16 ships that were forced to surrender and the 19 that escaped by chance, the other more than 100 ships of this huge fleet were all sunk (to be continued......