Shadow Spy

Chapter 430 The Situation of the Pacific Battlefield

February 2th was the Spring Festival of the Renwu year, and Li Junhao spent it in the military camp in Mandalay with Yang Shixiong, Sun Liren, Peng Xuefeng and other Chinese generals. This time, he even suggested that instead of orderlies and cooks, each of them cook a dish and spend New Year's Eve together.

Although each person's skills were different, when various dishes were put on the table, all the generals burst out laughing. They had never had such a creative New Year's Eve dinner in so many years!
  For men, the experience of a drink is enough to make good-natured people make friends. This was the case that night. The generals from the government and northern Shaanxi became friends while drinking - although they could not really talk to each other. , but on this foreign battlefield, they will cooperate with each other and fight side by side! ——
  After the Spring Festival, the recruits in northern Shaanxi began to receive American-style military training. This time, Li Junhao did not use the American instructors, but sent his own New England Battalion to take charge. The Americans and British among them can now speak fluently. Chinese speaking, coupled with sufficient military literacy and his personal guidance of modern tactics, he is enough to be an instructor.

On the 15th, all personnel of the 82nd Airborne Division arrived in three batches by boat and began adaptive training in Tonggu. Li Junhao rushed over to deliver a speech to the 1.25 officers and soldiers, welcoming them to join the Indo-Burmese theater; in the evening At that time, he had dinner with the officers of the division and above in the officers' restaurant, which was regarded as a recognition of the middle and high-level officers.

The next day, accompanied by Li Qiwei, he inspected various grassroots units and learned thoroughly about the operational procedures of the 82nd Airborne Division!

When he left on the third day, he handed Li Qiwei a textbook he had written overtime during this period. This was a development trend and new training plan for airborne troops, which made the other party feel like they had found a treasure!
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  After arranging everyone's work, Li Junhao turned his attention to the counterattack launched by the US military against the Japanese army, and carefully studied the battle situation in the Pacific battlefield.

After attacking the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the Japanese navy and army launched attacks across South and Southeast Asia. At the same time, in order to expand its homeland defense circle, the Japanese army launched attacks in the west and south Pacific areas, quickly gaining control of the air and sea in this area, and then implemented coordinated operations between the army and the navy, gaining a temporary strategic advantage and controlling a total of more than 700 million people. For square kilometers of land and a population of up to 1.5 million, the United States has launched a fierce competition with the United States on a front of more than [-] kilometers from the Aleutian Islands in the north, Australia in the south, the Indian Ocean in the west, and Midway Island in the east.

On April 1942, 4, Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle led 18 B-16 bombers to take off from the USS Hornet commanded by Vice Admiral Halsey and successfully bombed Tokyo.

The Doolittle Raid is known as the United States' first victory in World War II. The material losses caused to Japan were actually negligible, but it greatly shocked the Japanese government and opposition parties psychologically.

Japanese losses: 50 dead, 252 injured, 90 buildings destroyed, material losses of US$320 million.
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  On May 5, the Battle of the Coral Sea broke out, which was the first large-scale confrontation of aircraft carriers in human history.

During the battle, the U.S. military sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho and seriously damaged the Shokaku, but lost the Lexington and the Yorktown was also severely damaged.

The Battle of the Coral Sea played a decisive role in stopping the Japanese invasion of Australia.
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  During this period, the U.S. CIA worked closely with allied intelligence forces such as the Naval Intelligence Agency, the British MI6, and the Dutch Intelligence Agency to successfully decipher the Japanese Navy's JN-25 communication system code and gain a clear understanding of its next operational plan. , but the intelligence they received showed that the next attack target of the Japanese Navy was "AF", but they were unable to determine where this code referred.

At that time, Donovan and Wen Qiang, who were in charge of CIA work, contacted the director in Myanmar and asked for help. After Li Junhao saw this information, he immediately concluded: This "AF" is Midway Island! This battle plan of the Japanese Combined Fleet is the "rice-shaped plan" formulated by the Japanese Navy Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku. The specific plan is: first send a fleet to attack the Aleutian Islands, and attack Attu Island and the Keys in the archipelago. Landing on Kashima used this as bait to draw the attention of the US fleet to the north, and then sent Chuichi Nagumo to command the main fleet to take the opportunity to seize Midway Island. The combat date is initially set for early June.

Because of Li Junhao's special status in the U.S. intelligence community, his identification was taken seriously by the U.S. Navy.

Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, although he has never met the young Director of National Intelligence, Director of the CIA, and Commander of the Indo-Burma Theater, Lieutenant General Panson, he has many deeds about him, so he is very confident in his determination. of this information.

After careful consideration, Nimitz decided to pretend not to know the movements of the Japanese fleet, but ordered the three aircraft carriers "Enterprise", "Hornet" and "Yorktown" and eight cruisers to be sent to Midway Island.

Midway Island covers an area of ​​4.7 square kilometers. It is 2800 nautical miles away from San Francisco in the United States and Yokohama in Japan. It is midway on the Pacific route between Asia and North America. It is 1135 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor. It is an important military base and transportation hub for the United States in the Central Pacific region. It is also the gateway and outpost of Hawaii.
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  In the Battle of Midway on June 6-5, the Japanese combined fleet dispatched most of its main warships. It was its largest naval battle. The purpose was to annihilate the remnants of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, occupy Midway Island, and blockade Hawaii. .

Because the U.S. Pacific Fleet was well prepared, it won a complete victory in this naval battle with the loss of one aircraft carrier, one destroyer, 307 officers and soldiers, and 147 aircraft.

The four Japanese aircraft carriers "Akagi", "Kaga", "Soryu" and "Hiryu" and one heavy cruiser were sunk, resulting in the loss of 322 aircraft (283 aircraft were sunk with the mothership), and 3507 aircraft were killed in action. There are [-] officers and soldiers, including dozens of experienced and battle-hardened flight and maintenance personnel.
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  Seeing this, Li Junhao knew that the United States' major counterattack in the Pacific Theater was about to begin!

After the Battle of Midway, the Japanese combined fleet will be in ruins and will no longer be able to launch large-scale sea and air operations. This is because Japan’s industrial capabilities cannot quickly make up for the lost warships and will become weaker and weaker, while the United States It will become stronger and stronger, and the outcome is already doomed.

This can be seen from the data. Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan's industrial output was 90 billion US dollars, and the United States's was more than 2000 billion US dollars. Japan's annual steel production was 580 million tons, and the United States' more than 3300 million tons. Japan relied entirely on grabbing oil, and the United States was more than self-sufficient. It can also be exported in large quantities...

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