Chapter 325: Stalemate Europe
Having successfully captured the Mariana Islands, the Xuanwu Fleet achieved good results, but it also faced huge attrition and urgently needed to replenish it.
During the past 20 days of operations, the Xuanwu fleet fired 12,580 rounds of 406-mm naval artillery shells and 280-mm shells, 6,854 rounds of 256-mm and 203-mm shells, 3,315 rounds of 175-mm shells, and countless other small-caliber shells.
The fuel and bombs consumed by the aircraft also need to be replenished on a large scale.
There is no doubt that the war is fought about attrition, because in fact, even the Red Guard Corps consumed more shells than the total number of Japanese soldiers killed in this battle, not to mention the individual ammunition consumption of the Marine Corps.
If it is really possible to kill a Japanese with one shell and destroy an enemy with 10 bullets, the consumption of this battle can be reduced by 80 percent.
However, the one-to-one consumption is just a fantasy, even if every soldier of the Red Police Corps has the ability to penetrate the Yang in a hundred steps, on the surface of the battlefield, it is still maintained at the ratio of fifteen bullets to destroy an enemy.
The main consumption is the bullets of light and heavy machine guns, and the automatic firepower of the Red Police Regiment is all equipped, so the combat mode is naturally very different.
However, Fan Yize has a lot of money, and he doesn't care about the amount of ammunition consumed on the report, so he directly asks the logistics center to replenish the consumption of the Xuanwu fleet as soon as possible.
At the same time, let the base, start the construction task on the Mariana Islands.
The Guam base will also be used together with the Alaska Air Force Base to launch air strikes on the Japanese mainland.
In the following days, the Xuanwu Fleet, which had completed the task of capturing the Mariana Islands, also launched a rapid attack on the Caroline Islands.
The Caroline Islands are in front of the Mariana Islands, and the Red Guard Corps has jumped over the Caroline Islands to launch an attack on the Mariana Islands, and now it is looking back.
The attack on the Caroline Islands also went very smoothly, after all, the Japanese defenders on it were not too many, and the supply lines were completely cut off.
In just a few days, the war in the Caroline Islands was over.
After the capture of the Caroline Islands, all the battles on the islands of the South Pacific came to an end.
The 1st and 2nd Marines also entered a state of rest, and the time slowly came to the beginning of 1943.
On the European battlefield, the remnants of the British and American armies were still in a stalemate with the German army on the African battlefield.
The United States has been defeated, and the history of the United States of America has come to an end, but in Africa, the American army led by Patton, following the example of France, formed an overseas government, still occupies a place in the Allied combat system.
Although hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have lost the support of the United States, they are still able to maintain a certain combat capability under the huge colonial system of Britain.
Under the joint efforts of Montgomery and Patton, despite some help from the Red Police Air Force, Rommel's Afrika Korps was unable to wipe out the million-dollar Anglo-American coalition in Africa in one go.
What's more, Britain and the United States have also formed a huge colonial army in the Middle East and the colonies of the United States in the Middle East, as well as British India and a steady stream of soldiers, making the future of the African battlefield and the Middle East battlefield still confusing.
Germany's attempts to quickly eliminate its opponents and end the war made no progress, much to the chamoiss' annoyance.
Compared with the global attention of the Pacific theater, the war in Europe and Africa has fallen into a stalemate.
This situation is the best outcome for the Allies, but ironically, the current situation of the Allies is to put their hopes on the Red Alert Empire.
In the same way, Germany also placed its hopes on the Red Alert Empire, and because of Germany's cooperative relationship with the Red Alert Empire, Japan had unilaterally withdrawn from the Axis Powers, which was Japan's greatest resistance to Germany's inability to fulfill its obligations as an Axis Coalition.
Moreover, it was difficult for Japan to get any help from Germany, and Germany refused to take any action against the Red Alert Empire, but was still trying to deepen its cooperation with the Red Alert Empire, and Japan angrily left the Axis camp.
But Japan did not join the Allied camp because of this, one was that the Soviet Union could not agree, and the other was that the Allies did not dare to offend the Red Alert Empire now.
After all, the Red Alert Empire has already indicated its relationship with the Shenzhou Continent, and in such a situation, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, led by the Allies, also hope to ease their relations with the Red Alert Empire with the help of the relationship with the Shenzhou Continent.
Japan became independent and did not form alliances with any country, but the international situation did not change much.
In the Pacific Theater, the Japanese Navy was almost completely annihilated, and the Pacific region was gradually under the control of the Red Alert Empire.
The Japanese base camp is also carrying out local defense, shrinking its military presence in Shenzhou, a large number of troops have been mobilized to Southeast Asia and the mainland, and even the Kwantung Army in Northeast Manchukuo has been sent to the Pacific theater on a large scale.
It is already clear to the eye that Japan is already planning a last-ditch effort.
However, this is also what makes Germany anxious on the European battlefield, and maintaining a balanced state on the African battlefield is acceptable to Germany.
But on the Eastern Front, a single Stalingrad has not yet been captured, which is simply a shame for Germany.
Germany desperately needed the lifeblood of the Soviet Union: a grain and industrial production base.
And the Soviet Union, with its huge industrial base, already has some signs of gradually grasping the initiative in the war.
This also made the German high command quite anxious, Germany had already invested enough troops and sacrifices on the battlefield of Stalingrad, and the consumption of materials was quite amazing.
On the battlefield of Stalingrad, millions of soldiers on both sides were killed and wounded, more than the total number of casualties in any other battle since the outbreak of World War II.
No matter how you look at it, the Battle of Stalingrad has become the most tragic battle of World War II.
Since the outbreak of the war, more than a dozen German divisions have been crossed out of the battle sequence, and a large number of German troops have been eliminated.
In order to salvage this unfavorable situation, the German High Command is already seeking a mutation and trying to reverse the current situation with another campaign.
Fan Yize didn't care about this, no matter who had the initiative in the European battlefield, he would eventually have to face the powerful forces of the Red Alert Empire.
Because with the completion of the first mission of the base, the second mission in this time and space also begins, and the second mission is also the last mission in this time and space.
PS: There will be an update later