Chapter 111: Encroaching on Japan Step by Step (Sixth Update)

When the Japanese 71st Cavalry Wing was destroyed, Fan Yize, who was far away in Tokyo Bay, also received good news from the First Army.

The arrival of the 1st Army was accompanied by a good news from the 1st Infantry Division.

When the 1st Army succeeded in taking Sasebo, the 1st Division also took Vladivostok by surprise.

The battle on both sides was very smooth.

Two good news were placed in front of Fan Yize, and after simply scanning the content of the good news, Fan Yize showed a little smile.

The Red Guard Corps' strong combat effectiveness and advanced operational and tactical concepts have a great advantage over the armed forces of this era.

Coupled with the high allocation of firepower and the density of firepower like money, based on the current military establishment of various countries, pulling out the same number of troops, no army can defeat the Red Police Force at all.

Of course, on the battlefield, it does not mean that whoever has the most firepower will win, nor does it mean that whoever has advanced tactical thinking will win.

In particular, when the enemy is fighting on the enemy's own soil, many of the problems that he has to face are far more complicated than fighting against the enemy on the battlefield.

"The First Corps is going well, has the Second Corps already started its operation?" Fan Yize knocked on the table and asked the housekeeper beside him.

The Third Fleet is still shelling Tokyo, but the density and intensity of the fire have decreased, after all, even if there is enough ammunition, it is necessary to consider the feeling of the barrel.

And now, the Third Fleet seems to have become the core of Fan Yize's entire corps, and the First Fleet completed the occupation of Sasebo according to the original plan and within the mission time.

The Second Corps, which was fighting in concert with the First Corps, also began to move an hour after the First Corps began to operate.

On the island of Kyushu, the Japanese Army has two main towns, and in addition to Sasebo, the rest is the Nagasaki Town.

Nagasaki Town, with an artillery wing and infantry brigades, was naturally the main target.

The base steward replied: "There is a real-time battle report from the command center, the Second Army has launched an attack on the Nagasaki Town Guard Mansion in half an hour, and has now destroyed the artillery unit of the Nagasaki Town Guard, and the troops have entered Nagasaki, and the battle is expected to be resolved before dawn." ”

"After that, there is important news about the First and Second Legions, and I will report it as soon as possible." Fan Yize ordered.

The capture of Sasebo and Nagasaki was the two most important steps in the invasion of Japan, and its strategic importance was not only to allow the two armies to gain a foothold on the island of Kyushu, but also to have an important goal, that is, the ports of Nagasaki and Sasebo.

These two ports will serve as important support ports for the navy's next offensive, controlling all the islands west of Kyushu and supporting the second support point for the attack on Korea and Siberia.

Although the Red Guard Corps is very advanced, it is not much better than this era in terms of logistics and supply.

Especially for the supply of the navy, without advanced supply equipment at sea, the sea supply operation is very dangerous, and before there is no professional supply warship, the fuel supply will be very troublesome.

While fleets can pass through the Chrono Portal and return to the world of Expedition for supplies, the fleet must return to the Tsushima Strait and then enter the Chrono Portal.

From Sasebo to Nagasaki, the chrono portal is all on land, and warships can't pass through the chrono portal at all.

Therefore, the construction of the ports of Sasebo and Nagasaki will be conducive to the support of the fleet to fight south or west.

With these two places as supplies, the range and efficiency of the navy's operations will be greatly improved.

In particular, the military operation against Japan's Pacific coastal region will require the role of the port of Nagasaki.

Before unfolding the space-time portal, Fan Yize had carefully thought about the location of the space-time portal.

With a length of 500 kilometers, he finally chose to connect the Japanese island of Kyushu with North Korea's Busan.

In this way, there is no need to carry out a landing operation in Korea, and supplies can directly enter the territory of North Korea.

At the same time, it can also meet the needs of operations in the Japanese mainland, so in this place.

The reason why the direct connection of Hokkaido to Russia is not considered is also due to the weather, and once the cold winter begins, these two places are not suitable as supply lines or departure points for troops.

Coupled with the long Sea of Japan, if you cross 500 kilometers, whether it is Hokkaido or Siberia, the chrono portal will not be able to penetrate deep into the land, and there will be no strategic depth.

At the same time, in order to allow the fleet to arrive in the Tsushima Strait faster and annihilate the Japanese Combined Fleet, the chrono portal was finally chosen to be deployed in this place.

If it weren't for the relationship between North Korea and Siberia, Fan Yize would have preferred to directly unfold the chrono portal in Tokyo, Japan.

However, this world is not suitable, and in the future, when you go to another time and space, maybe you will really do it.

While the First and Second Army Corps were responsible for attacking the Japanese mainland, the Third Army Corps was ready for a full-scale attack on Korea, although it had not yet been officially launched.

Korea was a semi-colonial country, the army of the Joseon Dynasty was completely negligible, and the real opponent of the Third Army Corps was the Japanese Korean Dispatch Army, as well as the First and Second Armies.

In fact, the combat mission of the Third Army Corps was the most difficult.

Although the 1st and 2nd Army Corps attacking the Japanese mainland had to face the whole of Japan, there were not many elite combat units left in Japan at this time, and the Japanese troops in Korea and Siberia were all elite troops.

Of course, the First and Second Army Corps were not easy, with a total strength of only 200,000, and they had to face tens of millions of Japanese, as well as Japanese troops who could call up millions at any time.

Thinking of this, Fan Yize somewhat expected that the previous bombardment of Tokyo would really kill Meiji and the Japanese cabinet with one shot.

Otherwise, the existence of these people would greatly invigorate and encourage the resistance of the Japanese.

Of course, these were only a little troublesome for the Red Guard Corps, and Japan's resistance only made the war more sacrificial.

This is true for both the Japanese nation and the Red Police Corps, no one can not die, and the Red Police Corps is no exception, and the pressure is still very high in the face of an enemy who is very likely to be dozens of times its size.

In particular, Japan, a crazy nation, no one knows how Japan will conduct its own defensive operations.

The risk continues to increase especially when the forces of the First and Second Army Corps are diluted by the expansion of the occupied zone.

Fortunately, Fan Yize is not in a hurry to eat Japan in one go, and eat it step by step, anyway, ten years is enough time to squander.