Shadow Spy

Chapter 445 Be fully prepared for combat

While the troops were changing uniforms and training in full swing, Li Junhao began to think about the combat missions he would take on by sea and land!

According to the course of the war, the Allied forces led by the United States have begun local counter-offensive operations, and the combat tasks of the US military can be divided into three major categories:

One 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 obstacles for attacking the Japanese mainland;

The third is to prepare for a major Allied counterattack on the European continent and confront the Germans head-on.

The latter two types of tasks are all related to sea and land, and the sea and land now have better conditions than in the previous life. To expand to a larger scale, they will naturally have to bear greater responsibilities, so Li Junhao must prepare for a rainy day.

In the battle to seize the island and the counterattack, the first step is to land on the beach. This task is the duty of the sea and land. Li Junhao decided to do one thing to the best; as for the previous life, the sea and land were used as the army to carry out large-scale positions. He must resolutely resist wars and offensives, and cannot waste land and sea forces on this!

For the current armies of various countries, landing warfare is still at the stage of attacking hard and exchanging the lives of soldiers for results. However, the theory of landing warfare that will be verified in the future is a three-dimensional warfare model with sea, land and air cooperation. This model is what he has now Master the tactics.

If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools! The first thing he needs to consider is landing ships, amphibious tanks and other beach equipment... Oh, there is also the configuration of naval gun firepower, amphibious infantry fighting vehicles accompanying infantry attacks, helicopters for low-altitude support, etc. All of these latter equipment are already available , just need to be used in combination, but the landing ship does not meet his requirements.

Especially in the command of amphibious operations, because there are no useful amphibious command ships at all, the command was in chaos in the previous operations to seize the island, which was also an important reason for the heavy casualties of the landing troops.

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

Rear Admiral Kent Hewitt, whom Li Junhao recruited from the Navy, visited the British Navy as early as June 1942. After returning to the United States, he promoted the U.S. Navy's move to equip amphibious command ships. However, the Navy is currently using the C6 freighter hull modification The three "Appalachian-class Administrative Flagships (APF)" and the newly launched "Barham"-"Amphibious Fleet Flagship" are far from a true amphibious command ship.

A true amphibious command ship must have a powerful battlefield radar, a high-power communication integration system and a comprehensive combat command center, and unified command of the entire landing formation to implement ferry, transfer, landing, fire support, anti-submarine, air defense, and logistics dispatch. Wait for the task.

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

Li Junhao certainly knows that it is impossible to build the "Blue Ridge-class" amphibious command ship of later generations now, and because of time constraints, he can only take the same route of modification. After inquiry, he learned that the Construction and Repair Bureau of the Department of the Navy was renovating the hulls of five new C2 freighters. He immediately appointed Rear Admiral Hewitt as the director of the Amphibious Support Department and sent him to the Department of the Navy with the modification drawings he issued. Coordinate and require the amphibious command ship to be transformed according to his plan. To this end, he also called Minister Knox specifically 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, etc. However, current conditions are limited and can only be borrowed, reused, or substituted. The landing formation formed under such conditions, Unified command is even more needed.

Li Junhao can only learn to be a good "chef" and combine various non-standard ingredients to try to make a good dish!
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The Spring Festival of 1944 was on January 1th. Because there were a large number of Chinese in his troops, Li Junhao asked the logistics department to prepare for the holiday in advance. In order not to favor one or the other, all the sea and land personnel celebrated the holiday together!

In various bases affiliated with the sea and land, 27.5 veterans who were undergoing uniform training enjoyed a three-day holiday from the 24th to the 26th without leaving the camp and holiday meals. The 80 recruits receiving training only had one day of holiday meals and did not even have a holiday. !

This is not because Li Junhao is stingy, but because time is really tight. No matter the country or the battlefield situation, they are all waiting for them to go to the battlefield!

During these three days, he was not idle at all. He took a special plane to go to the recruit training bases one by one, condolences and spoke one by one...

These recruits, aged between 20 and 30, are all in their prime. They will embark on the battlefield after four months of military training. It is really a cruel thing, but this is a sweeping event. In wars all over the world, if any country wants to gain the right to survive, it must make sacrifices. Now it is the turn of the United States - because the United States wants to gain more!

For him, he can only try his best to arm them with the best weapons and command them with the best tactics so that they can reduce casualties, but it is impossible to completely avoid sacrifice!

Due to the needs of the military, the brilliant achievements of the Allied Forces in the India-Burma Theater are still being publicized. When he, the commander who created these achievements, appears in front of the recruits, they feel the eyes of eager admiration, especially The hot looks in the eyes of the female soldiers participating in the training made him feel a little overwhelmed! ——

From January to February, when the Marine Corps was undergoing large-scale training and training of new recruits, the U.S. Pacific Theater continued to organize "Flintlock" and "Bailiff" combat operations, seizing Kwajalein, Roy Island and Namur Island. , Eniwetok Atolls, and occupied the entire Marshall Islands, creating conditions for the next attack on the Mariana Islands.

In these two operations, the US military fought relatively well, killing and wounding about 1.1 Japanese troops, taking 329 prisoners, 568 of its own were killed or missing, and 2108 were injured. This is a very good record!

However, in the previous Battle of the Gilbert Islands (Operation Current) in November last year, although Tarawa and other islands were finally captured, the troops suffered heavy casualties. The results were entirely based on the lives of soldiers. This caused the army and navy to have a conflict. Great contradiction.

The Army accused the Navy generals of completely disregarding the life and death of Army soldiers, with crude combat plans, improper command measures, inadequate fire support, and inadequate logistics support...

The Navy sarcastically said that for a combat force of the same size, the Army is far behind the Marine Corps. Even with advanced weapons, it cannot fight as well as the Marines...

(End of this chapter)