After receiving Li Junhao's report, Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff attached great importance to it, and while they began to study the world situation after the European war, they also notified Admiral Marshall in Europe, asking him to make preparations for the end of the European war.

Marshall, who received the report, was a little incredulous, but thinking of Panson's miracle before, he finally chose to believe it, and immediately asked the staff officers to start formulating a plan for the final battle and surrender.

The staff officers also couldn't believe it, but then they heard that this was the judgment of the miraculous sea and land commander, Admiral Pan Sen, no one dared to say that it was impossible, so they could only get busy immediately......

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On April 21, on Ryukyu Island, the 7th Division of the U.S. Army occupied the northern half of the island and Ie Island, and the battle to seize the island was half a success! The southern part of the island, which is the focus of the Japanese defense, is densely packed with hills and natural caves, coupled with all kinds of complex tunnel fortifications, the progress of the US army is extremely difficult, and the heavy casualty figures make the two commanders dare not look at the front-line report, but the battle has reached this point, and they must grit their teeth and persevere!

Admiral Spruance, commander of the 5th Fleet, and Vice Admiral Buckner, commander of the 10th Army, were mentally prepared to be dismissed at the end of the campaign.

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On April 25, Li Junhao's troops basically occupied all the towns on the western coast of Bay Island, eliminated more than 200,000 Japanese puppet troops, and suppressed a large number of traitors; On the east coast, units of the 213th Division, the Fourth Army and the Special Operations Brigade are working together to storm the last key city, Hualien, and the fighting is expected to end in two days at most.

Victory in the Battle of Bay Island is in sight.

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On this very day, on the European battlefield, a reconnaissance team of the 69th Division of the 1st US Army joined forces with the troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front of the Soviet Union in the Torgau area on the Elbe River, 120 kilometers south of Berlin.

The Elbe division cut the German army into two sections, north and south, and the two fronts of anti-fascist Germany were connected from then on.

On the 26th, the Soviets entered Berlin and engaged the Germans in street fighting......

At 1 a.m. on the 29th, Hitler announced his marriage to Eva Braun, who had been waiting for him for 12 years.

After the wedding, Hitler dictated his will, appointing Field Marshal Dönitz as his successor......

At 3:30 p.m. on the 30th, Hitler and Eva committed suicide by poisoning themselves in their bunker dormitories, and after taking poison, he raised his gun and pulled the trigger on his temple.

Goebbels and others then carried the bodies of Hitler and Eva to a bomb crater in the garden of the Chancellery, doused them with gasoline and cremated them.

Late at night on the 30th, the Germans requested a temporary ceasefire through radio and asked for negotiations with the Soviet army......

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On April 30, Li Junhao's troops basically wiped out Wandao and liberated all the large islands that had fallen since 1895, and the Battle of Wandao ended victoriously.

In this campaign, 6 divisions and 10 brigades of the 10th Front Army of the Japanese Army defending the island were completely annihilated, and 169,000 Japanese troops below Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, 57,000 navy under Kaohsiung Town Guard Navy, and 125,000 Taiwanese puppet troops were eliminated.

The U.S. Army and Navy forces, airborne troops, and the 121st Army paid the price of 6,500 killed and 25,000 wounded, but in any way, it was a brilliant victory!

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On the European battlefield, on May 2, the commander of the Berlin city defense, General Weidlin, went to the forward command post of the commander of the Soviet 8th Guards Army, Chuikov, and signed an armistice, and the remaining defenders of Berlin surrendered about 150,000 people.

At this point, the last decisive battle of the Soviet-German war, the Battle of Berlin, ended.

In this battle, the Soviet army annihilated 800,000 German troops, captured more than 380,000 prisoners, captured more than 1,500 tanks and self-propelled guns, and captured 4,500 aircraft; And the Soviets also paid the price of 300,000 casualties.

During this period, there was an episode when the remaining forces of the German 9th Army, which had been defending the Oder, suddenly counterattacked westward, and after getting rid of the Soviet army, they surrendered to the American army on the Elbe, knowing that a tragic fate awaited them after surrendering to the Soviet army.

I have to say that after the Soviet army invaded the territory of Germany, it frantically killed, raped/fornicated/captive/plundered while advancing, and turned into a beast army in the name of revenge!

In other European theaters, German forces in Italy surrendered on 2 May, and northern and southern Germany surrendered to the Allies on the 4th and 5th, respectively.

On the 7th, the representative of German Admiral Dönitz signed an agreement on total surrender at the Allied European Theater Command in Reims, France, and on the 8th, the Allies began to celebrate the victory in Europe.

The Soviet side did not agree with this and insisted on the formal signing of the agreement in Berlin.

On May 9, at the behest of Dönitz, the representatives of the German High Command, Field Marshal Keitel, Admiral Stummpf, and Admiral Fredburg formally signed the unconditional surrender to the Soviet Union and other allies in the canteen hall of the Berlin Military Engineering Academy.

The German army, the last in Europe to insist on fighting, was in Czechoslovakia, and it was not until the 13th that it announced its surrender, and the European war was completely over!

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The two commanders of the Battle of the Ryukyus were deeply irritated by the victory at the Battle of Bay Island and the victory in the European theater, and Spruance asked the army troops to intensify the offensive, and the angry Lieutenant General Buckner landed on the island on May 10 to supervise the battle, but unfortunately, when he reached the front line to observe, a Japanese shell hit the rock next to him, and the sharp rock fragments pierced his chest, and he stopped breathing after a few minutes.

Spruance was stunned when he received the news, a lieutenant general of the army, the highest-ranking general of the American army to die in the entire war, on the one hand, he urgently appointed the commander of the 7th Division, Major General Albert Brown, as the acting commander of the front, and on the other hand, urgently reported the situation to the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet and Washington...... His head is big at this point!

After receiving the report of the 5th Fleet, Admiral Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, frowned, it was the army general who was killed, but he was carrying out a campaign mission in the Pacific theater, which was both unexpected and troublesome, not to mention that the front-line commander was killed, and the formal appointment of a new commander still required the consent of the army staff, and he could only report.

When the Joint Chiefs of Staff received a report from the Ryukyu Front and the Pacific Fleet, it was also very surprised and had to hold an emergency meeting to discuss it. Marshall and Panson are currently on the front line, with only Leahy, Stark and Arnold in attendance.

The three of them discussed it for a while, and they all felt that under the current situation, the most convenient measure was to let Admiral Pan Sen in the Far East take over the command of the Ryukyu Islands Campaign, and the Bay Island Campaign planned and commanded by him had already ended victoriously, and they had just time to do this!

In addition, all three of them felt that now that the war in Europe was basically over, the main thing that remained was the affairs of the Far East, and after the current battle of the Ryukyu Islands, it was time to completely solve the Japanese problem, which required a unified commander, and they decided to discuss this matter with President Roosevelt......

(End of chapter)