Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 2384 Are you ready?

"Zero War Drunken Tiger" Masai Inamoto died like this, which was beyond everyone's expectations.With his fall, the morale of the Japanese army seemed to be exhausted. Gradually, the performance advantages of the Golden Eagle and the Baiji Dolphin were vividly reflected. The balance of victory and defeat in this super heavy battle also began to tilt towards the Chinese Air Force.

This super air battle, which was named "Xuzhou Air Battle" by history, basically determined the winner and loser.Although the Japanese army has a numerical advantage, and the officers and soldiers participating in the war are not lacking in determination to die, but with the fall of Masai Inamoto, the Devil Air Force seems to suddenly become unable to fight, and as one after another Zero Fighter from the battlefield The Japanese army gradually disappeared from the offensive side to the defensive side, so that they could only survive without even having the courage to launch special offensive tactics.

There is a reason why Hideki Tojo and Keiichi Honda attached great importance to this air battle.After the self-student army entered Chongqing, the Japanese air force not only lost the opportunity to show off their might over Chongqing, but even before each routine training, they had to send enough reconnaissance planes to scout the movements of the Chinese Air Force in case they were attacked by the Chinese Air Force.Under such background conditions, concentrating all air forces and fighting a decisive battle with the Chinese Air Force is actually the only choice for the Japanese army when they are at their wits' end.In this battle, if the Japanese army can win, then they will have plenty of time to develop, relying on the strong local military industry to produce more fighters, so that the imperial army can continue to maintain its air superiority over the China battlefield.

For this purpose, Tojo Hideki and Honda Kei can be said to have used all their strength to breastfeed.It is a pity that the huge gap in the performance of the fighters cannot be made up for by the so-called bushido spirit. Therefore, despite the great efforts of the Japanese army, the ending of the Xuzhou air battle still ended in their defeat.Inamoto Masai's fall, and so on if the Japanese were sentenced to death.In the ensuing battle, the Japanese army behaved cautiously. On the contrary, the young Chinese Air Force pilots were particularly brave.As a result, in the airspace of the battle, one after another Zero War and other types of Japanese planes exploded in the air or smashed to the ground with thick smoke. The situation of the air battle in Xuzhou began to enter a frequency that was beneficial to the Chinese Air Force.

The Xuzhou air battle was not isolated. At the same time, the Chinese and Japanese navies had another violent collision in the Coral Sea of ​​the Pacific Ocean.In this battle, Tsukahara [-] sent a fleet of three aircraft carriers as the main force to launch a surprise attack on the Pacific Fleet squadron that was attacking Guadalcanal Island.The two sides fought fiercely in the Coral Sea area near Guadalcanal.The final result was that although the Japanese army took the initiative and successfully launched a surprise attack, they ended up losing two aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser, and had to flee the battlefield in embarrassment.

In terms of learning from the Pacific Fleet, it is still Qi Minghao's missile speedboat unit that has made great contributions.This was unexpected by the Japanese. They clearly had air superiority. However, under the attack of the missile speedboat, their aircraft carrier and heavy cruiser lacked self-protection capabilities and had to flee the battlefield.Therefore, even though its air force temporarily took the initiative, it had to move with the fleet, and even watched the Pacific Fleet squadron sailing below the sea level, and did not dare to attack easily.

For the Japanese and Allied forces, the importance of Guadalcanal Island lies in that whoever can control Guadalcanal Island will have the initiative in the war. Therefore, the Japanese army will never give up once there is a slight possibility.As far as the Allied forces are concerned, as long as they can hold Guadalcanal, no matter how big the sacrifice is, it is worthwhile.Ouyang Yun should have seen through this point, so after the Pacific Fleet captured Guadalcanal, he entrusted the defense of Guadalcanal Island to the Allied Forces under the pretext that the Pacific Fleet needed to rest, and put the Pacific Fleet into a dormant state.

As I said earlier, the United States has a very complete military industry system and great potential for war.Learning from the Pacific Fleet and the Learning Expeditionary Force to voluntarily abandon the defense of Guadalcanal Island, for the Western allied forces led by the United States, this is an opportunity for them to show their existence and performance.Therefore, the Americans and Australians took over the defense of Guadalcanal without hesitation, and based on this, they began to plan a counterattack.The United States is known as the engine of the Allied Forces in World War II because it undertook 60.00% of the Allied armament supply tasks.In the past, the Allied forces were able to finally defeat the Axis powers, which was not unrelated to the strong military production capacity of the United States.In this time and space, these factors have changed. The turning point is that although the United States has strong military production capabilities, its military technology no longer has leadership qualities. Therefore, although the United States has produced a large number of military products for the Allied Forces, but Because the role of these military products can only play a tit-for-tat role.Therefore, under the missile offensive of the German army, all the resistance of the Soviet Russian government was in vain, and even Moscow was lost.

The U.S. military took over the command of the Guadalcanal offensive in the name of the Australian War Joint Command. This is indeed a great diplomatic victory, which is enough to prove that the U.S. is the backbone of the allies.However, it turns out that in terms of army combat power alone, the Americans are still much worse than the Japanese.At the same time that the Chongqing News Agency of the Chinese coalition government issued a report of "Xuzhou Air Battle Victory", the Japanese army launched a counterattack on Guadalcanal Island.As a result, the U.S. air force had a superior force and failed to stop the Japanese counterattack. It not only caused [-] U.S.-Australian coalition forces to be fed by the Japanese, but also caused the sinking of one aircraft carrier and two aircraft carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Maintaining the initiative in Australia and even the Pacific War is the basic requirement of the US government for MacArthur.In fairness, in order to achieve this goal, MacArthur has made great efforts.However, after the U.S. Pacific Fleet was defeated by the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Americans had actually lost the ability to dominate the Pacific war. It has been decided, in fact, they have lost the dominance of the Pacific War - how much role the US Pacific Fleet and the US-Australian coalition forces can play depends on the attitude of the Chinese commander.

Whether it's Ouyang Yun or Chen Shichang, their thinking, in fact, they hope to imitate the strength and ability of the Pacific Fleet to hide underwater, and only show up at the most critical time.However, the US Pacific Fleet and the US-Australian coalition forces are vulnerable, but they have to show their strength in advance.In this way, although the Pacific Fleet has become the leader, China’s war responsibilities seem to have increased accordingly—a military alliance always needs a leader. After the United States lost this right, Ouyang Of course Yun didn't mind taking it over.

But, is China really ready?
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