829 Sea and Land United
Why did the Soviet Union dare to draw troops from the Far East to reinforce the battle in Moscow? This is about another country that has not appeared in a long time.
This country is Japan! After suffering a little loss in the Battle of Nomenkan, the decision to go south overshadowed the opinion of going north, which could be regarded as indirectly fostering Pearl Harbor sneak attacks.
At this moment, although Japan has won the championship, it has encountered a problem that it cannot solve in a short period of time.
Constrained by the naval transportation capacity, Japan hoarded a large amount of supplies on Midway Island and prepared to rely on this place as a base to plot against the Hawaiian Islands in the United States.
As long as the Hawaiian Islands are captured, the United States will have to retreat south to Australia, or east to its west coast, and hand over the Pacific Ocean to the Japanese Navy.
No matter how powerful the US Navy is in the future, it cannot break through the defense line composed of islands such as the Hawaiian Islands and the Pesme Islands, so it can only shake hands with Japan.
With this script, Japan hoarded supplies to Midway Island and fought to the death with the American troops. This is something that will inevitably happen.
Midway Island is a small island with an American airport here, but it has long been blown into ruins by Japan.
Now, everything here is very simple, because Japan's transportation capacity and the ability to rebuild a region are so weak that it makes people laugh and cry.
Not everyone can be an infrastructure maniac. Even in Japan's strongest 100 years, Japan's construction capabilities have not reached a true height.
Perhaps everyone once admired that Japanese chemical companies could develop large ethylene projects of hundreds of thousands of tons, but they had technology and construction speed, which were completely different concepts.
After the United States occupied an island, even if the island had been sieved, it could be restored to use within a few days.
But Japan could not do it. Although it barely transported more than 300 engineers to Midway Island, the work of rebuilding Midway Island was very slow due to the lack of heavyweight construction equipment.
The radar station destroyed by the shells of Japanese battleships is still in ruins. The US military airport can be barely used at this moment.
Ninety percent of the more than 3,000 Japanese Marines' standby soldiers on the island are sleeping in tents, while the other 10 are not even sleeping in tents, so they can only sleep in the ruins.
Even so, at the airport on Midway Island, the number of planes that can barely take off is only the most pitiful 40.
The losses on the navy are really unbearable. Half of the aircraft carriers were seriously injured. The sunken aircraft carriers, together with the aircraft and pilots, the Japanese Navy was really injured.
Under such a general premise, the island is arranged with the Army's KI fighter jets, not the Zero fighter with better performance.
Yamamoto Iroku wanted to seize the Hawaiian Islands of the United States at all costs, hoping to use this to force the United States to negotiate peace or complete its invincible defense.
This time he almost came out in full swing. The three aircraft carriers and the battleship fleet, the remaining battleships that could be used on the table, sailed towards Midway Island in a fierce manner.
The fleet's supply does not matter, mainly because the other 5,000 landing soldiers transported from the local area protected by the fleet need to replenish heavy weapons there.
In comparison, Japan does not have the US Navy's extraordinary transportation capabilities, and their heavy weapons and equipment are transported to Midway Island in batches.
Including the Army Bean Warriors, which are not heavy weapons and equipment at all, and the heavy artillery with a caliber that does not even have 100 mm.
It has to be said that in terms of weapons and equipment, the army can be said to be the worst among the three types of troops. How bad is it? Compared with the United States, Soviet and Germany at the same time, it is not on the same level at all.
It is with such army weapons that Japan relied on its well-trained troops and a complete and strong national mobilization and military preparation system, which made the Asian countries at that time abandon their armor.
To be honest, it is not that the opponent was too strong, but that the Asian countries at that time were colonies and semi-colonies, which were really too weak.
"This time... we mobilized the elite of His Majesty the 8,000 Emperors united by the Navy and Army, hoping to capture the Hawaiian Islands in one fell swoop." Standing in the conference room of the Nagato battleship, Yamamoto Iroku said to the generals who came to the meeting.
This time the Japanese fleet used almost all its strength. As the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, Tadakaichi Nagamo was ordered to make meritorious service this time and continue to command the mission of attacking Pearl Harbor.
Although the Japanese Navy won a great victory in the previous Midway Battle, the price was extremely high. It was so high that even His Majesty the Emperor shed tears, and Tadonico Nagamo was scolded.
"The army has too many people... Why do we need to draw so many troops? This is our Navy's business." A navy general said with disdain on his face when he mentioned the army.
This is a landing operation, and it should have been dominated by the navy. When it comes to this matter, the navy's several prominent figures were very dissatisfied with the army.
In such a critical battle, the Army actually wanted to show off its face! Not only did it show off, but it also had to take on the main offensive mission.
Moreover, the army is not aimless. Originally, they had KI fighter jets on Midway Island, and sent another wing soldiers to participate in landing operations. What's wrong?
What's more, the Navy learned from the experience and lessons learned from the troops that they lost a lot of experience during the battle on the landing on Midway Island. This time, the Navy's Special Type 2 internal fireboat did not have a large amount of equipment, so it could only draw tanks from the Army to participate in the battle.
This time, the Army had an excuse and drew a large number of troops in one breath, and changed the battle landing on the Hawaiian Islands to a joint combat operation between the Navy and the Army.
As a result, the Japanese Army sent a corps, which was more than 3,000 people to participate in this attack mission.
The navy played the leading role, with a larger number of troops, a total of one corps and a brigade of troops, with almost 5,000 people.
"Don't say anything else if you complain... Anyway, the army will put 20 Type 97 tanks on the beach, which can reduce our casualties." Yamamoto Iroku glanced at Tadaichi Nagamo, who was hanging his head without saying a word, and said this.
"My Japanese Imperial Army is the warrior of His Majesty the Emperor. How could he be afraid of some casualties?" A general raised his chin and said with a proud look on his face.
"Diet not be scary... If you die without completing His Majesty's great cause, wouldn't that be guilty?" Yamamoto Iroku spoke coldly and scolded.
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Chapter completed!