Li Junhao, who was on the command ship of the "Libesi", was also very surprised after receiving the reports from various departments, the Japanese army was completely defenseless and waiting to be beaten! Immediately ordered: the follow-up troops of the three main forces immediately landed and made all efforts to take the dock, and the three airborne divisions immediately took control of the communication arteries in the area where they were located and cut off the communication channels between the Japanese troops in the three places.

As of 5 p.m., the main force of the First Army that landed from Keelung had already entered Taipei, the 75th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army in Keelung Port had been completely annihilated, and the troops of the 121st Army were coming ashore;

The 11th Airborne Division completely occupied Hsinchu, leaving garrisons to guard the city and roads, and the main force marched north, preparing to respond to the 1st Army and attack the 9th Division in Taoyuan;

The Second Army had already disabled the 71st Division, which had only 12,000 men, leaving two brigades to clear the remnants of the enemy in Taichung City, and the main force went north along the Ring Road to attack Miaoli;

The 13th Airborne Division occupied Changhua, and the main force advanced to the south to attack and clear the Japanese puppet army;

After the Fourth Army landed, it took only three hours to annihilate the naval garrison in Kaohsiung, and the remaining more than 5,000 Japanese Navy personnel surrendered! The main force of the army marched to Tainan in the north, preparing to converge with the 17th Airborne Division and march north to attack Chiayi......

Before the war, Vice Admiral Kincaid, commander of the 7th Fleet, was still a little worried that with one-fifth of the naval and air forces and 300,000 infantry in the Ryukyu Campaign, he would attack Bay Island, which was more than ten times larger than the Ryukyus, and the Japanese army was twice as large. But when the battle began, even he had to laugh!

Subsequently, Kincaid began to admire Admiral Pan Sen, although he was suspected of exploiting loopholes, but he chose this time to launch the Bay Island Campaign, and his strategic vision was really amazing! This made him put away his other thoughts, and he was determined to fully cooperate with the action, fight a big victory, and add luster to his resume! ——

On the 15th alone, the Bay Island Campaign commanded by Li Junhao achieved brilliant results, occupying Keelung, Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Tainan, Kaohsiung and other places, attacking Taipei, Miaoli, Nantou, and Chiayi, annihilating more than 50,000 Japanese puppet troops, capturing 24,000 prisoners, seizing four airfields, and destroying and capturing 145 Japanese planes and 48 ships...... And its own casualties were less than 3,000.

In particular, the formation captured the Japanese Navy's Kaohsiung Town Guard, which was the first time that the Allied forces fought against Japan!

When the news came out, all walks of life were shaken, the Allied troops were surprised, the Japanese army panicked, but Admiral Spruance, who was commanding the Ryukyu Campaign, was depressed, and after the Admiral Panson left the Ryukyu battlefield, he immediately launched the Bay Island Campaign, and achieved such great achievements in just one day, while his progress here came to a standstill!

Although the 10th Army's attack from the central part of Ryukyu Island to the northern part of the island was relatively smooth, the attack to the south was met with stubborn resistance from the Japanese army, with heavy casualties and slow progress......

What made him most uncomfortable was that all the defensive measures that the Japanese army might have taken that Admiral Pan Sen had said before had been fulfilled! In the face of the Japanese army's strange and sturdy tunnel fortifications and combat methods, the army units were completely unadaptable, and almost every step forward had to pay a huge price...... With the US military having an absolute advantage in strength and equipment, the current battle loss ratio is actually 1 to 1!

At this point, the commander of the ground battle and the commander of the 10th Army, Buckner, was already a little angry, and in the absence of any other way, he could only order more troops to be thrown into the front line and attack at any cost!

This situation made Spruance very worried, worried that the battle for the island under his command would cause the biggest battle loss in the Pacific Theater! He had the heart to ask Admiral Pan Sen for help, but considering that the other party was commanding the Battle of Bay Island, it was difficult to disturb, so he could only find a way by himself......

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On the 16th, Li Junhao came to the outside of Taipei City, ordered the Gurkha Division to enter the battle, and the replaced main force of the First Army and the 212th Division of the 121st Group Army crossed Taipei, attacked and advanced to Taoyuan, and met the Japanese 9th Division that came to reinforce it head-on; The 213th Division moved south along the eastern line of the Ring Road and attacked Yilan, while the 214th Division left two regiments to guard Keelung Harbor, and the main force reinforced the Taipei battlefield as a reserve.

As for the central and northern battlefields of Bay Island, Li Junhao fully authorized the Second Army and the Fourth Army to make their own decisions, as long as the main premise is guaranteed - to wipe out the Japanese puppet army and occupy the whole island!

In the following two days, Li Junhao's troops won a series of battles, sweeping the entire western coast of Bay Island, and fought dozens of large and small siege battles, the largest of which was the complete annihilation of the 9th Division on the road from Taoyuan to Taipei, followed by the complete elimination of the Japanese 10th Front Army headquarters in the urban area of Taipei......

The 213th Division of the 121st Group Army has successfully occupied Yilan on the eastern coast, and the 100th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army has been completely annihilated.

The Fourth Army, which occupied Kaohsiung, separated a main brigade and led two newly landed special operations brigades, and also began to move north along the East Coast Highway to prepare for an attack on Taitung.

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Because the battle was going smoothly, Li Junhao handed over the front-line command to Lieutenant General Whitehead, the deputy chief of staff of the Navy and Army, and began to deal with other tasks, especially for the fastest European war situation at present, Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff both asked him to provide a reliable and predictable analysis of the war situation, so his focus changed slightly.

With the powerful communication capabilities of the amphibious command ship, he can receive intelligence information from all over the world at any time, which is the basis of his work.

On April 18, the Allies also won a great victory in Europe, with the US 9th Army occupying Magdeburg on the Elbe, and the remnants of German Army Group B of more than 320,000 troops surrendered.

On the 19th, the British 2nd Army entered Lauenburg-sur-Elbe, and the US 1st Army occupied Leipzig.

On the 16th, the Soviet army on the Eastern Front launched a powerful offensive from the Oder River to the German line to the west, and began the campaign to capture Berlin, for which 2.5 million troops (including 156,000 Polish troops), 6,250 tanks and assault guns, 42,000 artillery pieces, and 7,500 aircraft were mobilized.

Because of the emergence of these circumstances, Li Junhao combined the memories of his previous life and knew that the European battlefield had entered the final decisive stage first, which made his report easy to write!

His analysis was sent back to China on the 20th: "It is expected that the Soviet army will occupy Berlin in early May, the German Führer will commit suicide before that, the German army will all surrender in early May, and the European war will end in less than 20 days......"

This time in the report, he didn't even use any ambiguous words, it was a completely positive prediction, whether others believe it or not, he really believed it!

(End of chapter)