North Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Alaska.

It's almost June, the sea breeze is still cold and transparent, and the sun seems to be too gentle.

On the dark blue sea, dozens of steel ships were suddenly lined up, neatly drawing a snow-white track that connected each other from end to end.

This is a fleet of dragon flags fluttering, not mixed with the Rising Sun Flag or the Taiji Flag, all colors, dragons.

The dragon's brain was in the center of the fleet, on the roof of the battleship "Yangbo", which was flaunting four twin 35-centimeter caliber cannons, Admiral Liu Guanxiong, commander of the East China Sea fleet, was holding a bomb-shaped thermos teacup and looking into the distance.

Strategic operations in the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula began at the beginning of 5, and according to the deployment of the joint base camp after the start of the war, the area was the exclusive theater of operations for the Japanese army, and the Chinese army provided naval support only when necessary.

A month earlier, the Japanese had captured Petropaprovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula with a small force, gaining the first exclusive trophy of the Japanese Empire. Without waiting for the entire Kamchatka Peninsula to be completely pacified, the Japanese army could not wait to rush to Aleutian and Alaska, only this time, in the face of the behemoth of the United States, they did not dare to act alone.

At the end of the 4th, the Japanese Navy assembled 2 armored cruisers, 4 old cruisers and 8 destroyers of the North Sea Front Fleet in Danguan Bay, Hokkaido, as well as 3 special cruisers and 1 special water engine carrier "Wakanomiya Maru", requisitioned 10 merchant ships and 3 coal ships, and carried about 2,000 men of the 3rd Marine Corps of Maizuru Town Shofu and about 3,000 people of the North Sea Detachment of the Army. The plan was to use the Marines to first seize Unarasca, which has a natural deep-water port in the east of the Aleutian Islands, and then the Army to seize Kodiak Island, which has the largest port in Alaska, on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Port, to establish a solid base chain, and then attack the peninsula or the mainland as appropriate.

The Aleutian Islands are a group of volcanic islands separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean, located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. It stretches from Unimac Island in the east to Attu Island in the west, and consists of more than 70 small islands, with a length of C kilometers and a total area of 18,000 square kilometers. Most of the islands are volcanic islands, and some of them still have intermittent activity. The climate of the archipelago is influenced by the Alaskan Warm Current and the polar ocean air mass, with rain, fog and strong winds. The temperature difference between the four seasons is small, and the temperature in winter is higher than that in the eastern part of the continent at the same latitude. Due to the strong wind, there are no trees on the island, and the vegetation is mainly meadows, and it is a "bald island" through and through. In an alternate plane history. In World War II, the Japanese army launched the Aleutian operation for the purpose of containment while launching the Midway attack, and once occupied the unsettled Attu Island and Kiska Island in the western part of the archipelago, and the following year, at the cost of the Japanese army on Attu Island, both islands were effortlessly recovered by the American army.

The Alaska Peninsula is located in the northwest corner of North America, facing Russia across the Bering Strait to the west, the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Alaska to the south, the Yukon Territory of Canada to the east, and the narrow strip extending southeast including the continental coast and the Alexandria Islands, bordering the Yukon Territory of Canada and British Columbia. It covers an area of 153 square kilometers.

To the north are towering mountain ranges. The Yukon Plateau in the central part and the mountainous terrain in the south. Among them, Mount McKinley is 6193 meters above sea level, which is the most southeastern and south-central temperate climate in North America, with an annual temperature of 0-15; The interior has a continental climate, with polar daylight hours of 26-15 in summer, and the west and southwest are affected by the ocean, and the cold and windy are strong. The Arctic Circle has a polar climate, and the temperature is below zero throughout the year.

The northern coast was inhabited by Eskimos, and the southern forest area was inhabited by Indian tribes. In 1741 the Danish explorer Vithas Bering was hired by the Russians and arrived in Alaska for the first time. The Russians established their first settlement on the southern shore of Kodiak Island. In 1799 the Russian Continental Company was opened. Colonial rule was imposed on the local population. In 1867, the U.S. government bought it from Russia for $720. In 1896, the discovery of gold in the Yukon Plateau set off a gold rush. In 1912, the Alaska region was established.

In alternate history, the Alaska region, including the Aleutian Islands, became the 49 states of the United States, at this time. Alaska's mining industry is starting to grow by leaps and bounds. In the 50s, oil was first discovered in the southern Cook Bay region. In 1968, the discovery of the large oil field on the north slope made oil exploitation leap to the first place in the mining industry in the region. The Prudhoe Bay oil field in the North Slope oil field belt was also the largest oil field in the United States for a time. Other minerals include gold, copper, silver, coal, etc., all of which are quite large.

Here, at this time, the general impression of Alaska in the world is only "very cold, very cold, and there are many mountains", and it is rare to know that there was a gold rush here, and the main industries were fish and wood processing.

The Japanese government's and the public's interest in Alaska began during the Asian-Russian War.

Relying on the establishment of the Sino-Japanese alliance, during the Asian-Russian War, the Japanese army recovered the Hokkaido islands that were occupied by Russia in 1895.

With the signing of the New York Peace Treaty, the Japanese army was forced to spit out the Kamchatka Peninsula that had already been reached, and the domestic radicals were resentful, and even the theory of "being used by the Chinese and betraying them fiercely" was once popular.

Soon after the war, the US state of California passed a new education bill that discriminated against Asian Americans, and Chinese and Japanese public opinion was furious, and the Chinese side added fuel at the right time, successfully transferring the Japanese people's resentment against China to the United States on the other side of the ocean.

In order to more fully arouse the enthusiasm of the Japanese in the future world war, and also to meet the needs of the overall strategic deployment, after deciding on the strategy of joining the Allied side and attacking the United States first, the Chinese high-level officials disseminated information to the Japanese side through various channels that "Alaska contains rich resources and there are large reserves of oil fields in Cook Bay." The Japanese, who were suffering from lack of resources, were quickly whetted up.

Sure enough, when it came time to negotiate the conditions for entering the war, the Japanese side not only proposed to get Kamchatka, which had been swallowed and spit out, but also attached the need to "obtain the right to dispose of Alaska alone"