Age of Rebirth

General Yamamoto’s approach was to generously allocate more than 1000 combat aircraft supported by the Germans to the Army Aviation Unit to make up for their combat losses. The Navy did not keep any of them. In fact, the Germans supported The combat aircraft in the country are all land-based. Without a carrier-based aircraft, even if you want to keep it, the navy fleet can't use it, so it's better to be generous to the end.

General Yamamoto's actions showed his impartiality and fairness, and his impartial attitude towards the army and navy. In one fell swoop, all the grievances and anger were quelled. The reputation of "Navy Portal View No.1"!

During this period, he and the chief of staff, General Nanye, spent a lot of energy and survived countless sleepless nights, and finally worked out how to land on the west coast of the continental United States, and after landing, how to conduct in-depth operations in the continental United States A complete set of plans, named "Hurricane Operations Plan!"

The time for the implementation of this combat plan is tentatively set at 29:20 pm on November [-], [-]. It will officially start, and as night falls, the first batch of nine divisions of the army performing the mission of landing operations will exceed the A force of [-] people began boarding ships at various staging areas, and after a night's voyage, they arrived at several scheduled attack locations on the west coast of the United States. Then, under the cover of the fleet's naval guns and the powerful air and sea firepower of the air force, the army began to grab the beach login.

The selected landing sites are Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Eureka. Each landing site uses two first-class divisions with more than [-] troops.But this is not the most important landing location. The main landing location is Portland in the northern part of the west coast of the United States.

Portland is a very ordinary little place on the west coast of the United States.There is no large port anywhere. In terms of geographical location and importance, it cannot be compared with places such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. From an offensive point of view, it is not suitable for large-tonnage warships to approach the beach, and there are no ports that can be used. ,therefore.The Japanese Navy's naval gun firepower can provide limited firepower support, no matter from that angle.Neither is suitable as a primary landing site.

However, General Yamamoto and Chief of Staff General Minano were two Japanese commanders who did not play their cards according to the routine. It was an ingenious plan to choose Portland as the main landing and breakthrough location.Portland's location.It just so happens that between the Cascade Ridge and the Sierra Nevada, the two mountains do not completely overlap here, but there is a gap of more than 50 kilometers wide.

It is most suitable for large-scale armored groups to carry out assaults, and the landing troops do not need to seize and break through the mountainous areas on the west coast of the United States. General Yamamoto plans to invest more than 8 strong troops in three divisions in the direction of Portland, and is equipped with the latest German troops. Aid heavy tanks.There are more than 350 heavy tanks in the two brigades as the main assault armored force.

Moreover, in this main landing direction, the army aviation is also assigned, four fighter wings equipped with German fighter jets, two bomber wings, and a squadron with two aircraft carriers as the core. The huge sea and air firepower.

Because the Portland area is extremely unsuitable for landing operations, it is also a place that is easily overlooked by the US West Coast Defense Command. The US military's defense system and defense forces are far less than those in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

After the successful landing in the direction of Portland, the Japanese troops of the three first-class divisions did not attack the United States in depth, but held the landing site with one division, and the other two divisions turned south to Los Angeles and Attack in the direction of San Francisco, destroy the defense system on the west coast of the United States in one fell swoop, and establish four to six stable landing sites. Then, the second batch of landing troops, with a total of more than 25 troops in twelve divisions, began to attack the already established landing sites. login.

The troopship convoy transporting successive landing troops began to return, and then transported the follow-up troops. From the tactical point of view of General Yamamoto, the only task of the first batch of Japanese landing troops was to establish several stable bridgeheads on the west coast of the United States to ensure Follow-up troops, land safely.

Two batches of about 46 troops may not be enough to attack the United States in depth in the past, but it is still no problem to hold a few landing sites. The prerequisite is that it must withstand the fierce counterattack of the US military for more than two days. Therefore, before The two batches of landing troops used the most powerful divisions, including three Marine Corps divisions.

When the U.S. Army Aviation has been exhausted to an unsustainable level, it is completely possible to hold the bridgehead for more than two days. Without the threat of the U.S. Air Force, the sky on the west coast of the United States belongs to the Empire of Japan. General Yamamoto's original intention and starting point for formulating the "Wolf Strike Tactic".

From the heart of General Yamamoto, he certainly hopes that the strength of the first batch of landing troops will reach more than 50. If so, he can be 100% sure of success. In the case of controlling the air, the US military does not need more than 10,000 million troops. It is impossible to repel the landing troops of the Empire of Japan in anti-landing operations. Unfortunately, due to the limitation of the empire's sea transportation capacity, only two [-]+ troops can be invested at one time.

Japan's troops used to fight in the United States must reach more than 120 million. According to the plan of General Yamamoto and General Minano, the entire landing operation will last at least two weeks before all the troops can be transported to the United States.

The complexity of the entire hurricane landing operation plan is unprecedented, and various specific problems that need to be formulated and resolved are intricate, involving force transfer, fleet escort, infantry coordination, ground-air fire coordination, sea-air fire coordination, and Haitian firepower. In terms of cooperation and other aspects, even with the abilities of General Yamamoto and General Nanye, they were exhausted and mentally exhausted. Fortunately, they were finally completed. After locking the landing operation plan in the safe, both of them had a kind of A feeling of exhaustion.

After only one day's rest, General Yamamoto and General Nanye, regardless of their exhaustion, rushed back to Tokyo in person on a special plane with the hard work of the two, the hope of the Japanese Empire to dominate the Pacific Ocean - "Operation Hurricane Plan." His Majesty the Emperor and the bigwigs in the base camp reported that as long as the plan is approved, the plan will enter the countdown stage.

From June to the end of September in [-], not only the Japanese and Germans were busy, but also the Americans. Tang Qiuli in Yangon on the Indochina Peninsula was not idle either, but The level of busyness obviously did not reach the point of tension.

During this period of time, what Tang Qiuli needed to do was to look at the intelligence analysis centers of the General Staff Office, the Operations Office, and the Intelligence Office every day, summarize and synthesize the results, and infiltrate more than a hundred teams of the Special Warfare Detachment in the Japanese-occupied islands in the Southwest Pacific, and launch The returned information, as well as the information collected by Yu Deshui's intelligence department through various channels, and then, with the deputy division commander Tang Qiusheng.Chief of Staff Zhao Yu and two others studied the intelligence content.

Although these massive amounts of information have been collated and summarized, the reflected information is also fragmented. Tang Qiuli wants to assemble these fragmented information into a complete information map of the Japanese occupation of the islands in the Southwest Pacific.

After working for more than two months, a map of the Japanese occupation of the Southwest Pacific became increasingly clear in Tang Qiuli's mind. Among them, two pieces of information aroused his great attention.

One is about the distribution of the Japanese army's garrison forces in the current Australian region. Judging from the intelligence, the Japanese army base camp is still very reassuring to Australia, leaving only a defensive force of more than 30 people, which is far less important than stationing separately Already, Kalimantan and Sumatra with more than [-] troops,

Tang Qiuli could deduce the intentions of the Japanese. With Kalimantan and Sumatra in front of the Indochina Peninsula, Australia is relatively safe. In the rear, there is no reason for the independent division to go as far as East India, but it is the reason to attack Australia first. It is a typical defensive posture with heavy troops at the front.

The corner of Tang Qiuli's mouth revealed an evil smile. Whoever said that the battle for islands is to be fought step by step one by one. Even that guy MacArthur created the famous "leapfrog tactic" in history. Conventional style of play, fight island by island with little devils, bite slowly?

However, this idea is only a rough idea now. Tang Qiuli still needs to look at the progress of the North American Continental War in the next few months, as well as the changes in the Japanese defensive force on the islands in the Southwest Pacific. Only then will the specific play be determined!

The other telegram was personally sent back by Chu Tian, ​​the leader of the Special Warfare Detachment who had infiltrated into Kalimantan Island. In the information, the deployment of Japanese troops and the situation of the defense system on the island were different from those of other Special Warfare Detachment teams. What a difference.

The only thing is, Chutian mentioned, "Master, the Japanese Supreme Command stationed on the island may have recruited a large number of Indonesian aborigines and formed a force of more than [-] people because of the lack of troops. , and awarded it the designation "The First Corps of the Indochina Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire," and its organizational system is divided into ten detachments, and officers at all levels from the commander to the team leader are all served by Japanese military officers!"

"The weapons and equipment used are exactly the same as those in active service in the Japanese army, and the training is very intensive. It can be seen that the Japanese army attaches great importance to this local indigenous army. Therefore, I am worried that this Japanese army servant army who is familiar with the local conditions , is very likely to become a major obstacle for us to attack Kalimantan, hereby remind us!"

"Indonesian monkey!" Tang Qiuli's face immediately darkened, his heart felt a sharp pain, and his hands clenched into fists. He couldn't forget the several violent atrocities and inhumane massacres committed by Indonesian indigenous people in history!

Tang Qiusheng noticed his abnormal behavior and ugly expression, and asked strangely, "Teacher, what's wrong with you?"

(to be continued) (to be continued...)