When the troops began to change their outfits and train in full swing, Li Junhao began to think about the combat missions to be taken over by sea and land!

According to the course of the war, the allied forces led by the United States have already begun local counteroffensive operations, and the combat missions of the US military can be divided into three categories:

The first is the Navy's annihilation operation against the Japanese Navy in the Pacific Theater;

The second is to seize key islands in the Central Pacific region to clear the way for an attack on the Japanese mainland;

The third is to prepare for a major Allied counteroffensive on the European continent and face off against the German army head-on.

The latter two types of tasks are related to the sea and land, and the current sea and land have also obtained better conditions than in the previous life, and if they want to expand to a larger scale, they will naturally have to bear greater responsibilities, so Li Junhao must take precautions.

In the battle to seize the island and the counteroffensive operation, the first step is to carry out a beach-grabbing landing, and this task is the duty of the sea and land, and Li Junhao decided to do the best in one point; As for the kind of large-scale positional warfare and fortified battles in his previous life, he must resolutely resist the use of the sea and land as an army and carry out large-scale positional warfare and fortified battles, and he must not waste the strength of the sea and land in this regard!

For the armies of various countries at present, landing warfare is still stuck in the stage of attacking hard and fighting hard and exchanging soldiers' lives for results, but the theory of landing warfare that has been verified in the future is a three-dimensional warfare mode of cooperation between land, sea and air, and this mode is exactly the tactics that he has mastered now.

Better tools make good work! The first thing he had to consider was landing ships, amphibious tanks, and other beach-grabbing equipment...... Oh, and the configuration of naval artillery firepower, amphibious infantry combat vehicles accompanying infantry attacks, helicopters for low-altitude support, etc., the latter equipment is already available, and it only needs to be used in combination, but the landing ships do not meet his requirements.

In particular, in the command of amphibious operations, because there were no good amphibious command ships, the command was chaotic in the previous operations to seize the island, and this was also an important reason for the heavy casualties of the landing force.

In this era, the British Navy was the first to propose to renovate and build a dedicated amphibious command ship, and carried out experimental implementation.

Rear Admiral Kent Hewitt, who was previously recruited from the Navy, visited the British Navy as early as June 1942, and after returning to the United States, he promoted the US Navy's initiative to equip the US Navy with amphibious command ships, but at present, the Navy uses the C2 freighter hull to transform the three "Appalachia-class administrative flagships (APF)" and the "Balham" - the "amphibious fleet flagship" that has just been launched, which is far from the real amphibious command ship.

A true amphibious command ship must have a powerful battlefield radar, a high-power integrated communications system, and a full-featured operational command center to give unified command to the entire landing formation to carry out tasks such as ferrying, transfer, landing, fire support, anti-submarine, air defense, and logistics dispatch.

In view of the current actual situation, because there is no computer, the operational command center on the command ship will have to be enlarged to accommodate more intelligence analysts and staff support personnel to assist the commander in making decisions.

Of course, Li Junhao knew that he could not build the kind of "Blue Ridge-class" amphibious command ship in later generations, and because of time constraints, he could only follow the same path of modification.

After inquiry, he learned that the Admiralty's Bureau of Construction and Repair was renovating the hulls of five new C2 freighters, and immediately appointed Rear Admiral Hewitt as the head of the Amphibious Support Department of the Sea and Land, and sent him to the Admiralty with the modification drawings issued by himself to coordinate and request that the amphibious command ship be renovated according to his plan. For this reason, he also made a special call to Minister Knox and received his support.

In addition to amphibious command ships, there should also be amphibious assault ships, amphibious landing ships, amphibious transport ships, amphibious supply ships, and so on.

Li Junhao can only learn to be a clever "chef", combine all kinds of non-standard ingredients, and strive to make a good table!

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The Spring Festival in 1944 was on January 25, because there were a large number of Chinese in his troops, Li Junhao asked the logistics department to prepare for the festival in advance, in order not to favor one over the other, all the personnel of the sea and land celebrated the festival together!

In the various bases under the sea and land, the 275,000 veterans who are being redressed and trained have enjoyed a three-day non-camp holiday and holiday meals from the 24th to the 26th, and the 800,000 people who have received new recruit training only have one day of holiday food, not even a holiday!

It's not that Li Junhao is stingy, but time is really tight, whether it is the country or the battlefield situation, they are waiting for them to go to the battlefield!

In the past three days, he has not been idle at all, and has taken a special plane to the recruit training base one by one, and has expressed his condolences and speeches one by one......

These recruits between the ages of 20 and 30, all of whom are in their prime, will set foot on the battlefield after four months of military training, which is really cruel, but this is a war that has swept the whole world, and in order to gain the right to live, any country has to pay its own sacrifices, and now it is the turn of the United States - because the United States wants to get more!

For him, only by trying his best to arm them with the best weapons and command them with the best tactics so that they could suffer fewer casualties, it is impossible to avoid sacrifice altogether!

Because of the needs of the military, the glorious achievements of the Allied Indo-Burma Theater are still being promoted, and when he, the commander who created these achievements, appeared in front of the recruits, he felt a piece of eager admiration, especially those female soldiers who participated in the training, and the hotness in his eyes made him feel a little unbearable! ——

During the period from January to February, when the Marine Corps was conducting large-scale training and training of new recruits, the US Pacific Theater successively organized "flintlock" and "bailiff" combat operations, seized Kwajalein, Roy-Namur Island, and the Eniwetok atolls, and occupied the entire Marshall Islands, creating conditions for the next attack on the Mariana Islands.

In these two operations, the U.S. military fought relatively beautifully, killing and wounding about 11,000 Japanese soldiers, 329 prisoners, 568 killed or missing, and 2,108 wounded, which is a very good record!

However, in the previous Battle of the Gilbert Islands (Operation Current) in November last year, although the islands such as Tarawa were finally occupied, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and the results were completely piled up with the lives of soldiers, which caused great contradictions between the army and the navy.

The army accused the admirals of having no regard for the lives of the army soldiers, poor battle plans, improper command measures, inadequate fire support, and inadequate logistical support......

The Navy sarcastically said that the Army is far inferior to the Marine Corps in a combat unit of the same size, and even with advanced weapons, it is not as good as the Army soldiers......

(End of chapter)