I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Not far from the statue of Jiang Weiguo, the living Jiang Weiguo is looking at the fleet of aircraft in the sky with great emotion: "Damn it! A basic fighter jet costs [-] US dollars, and bombers are more expensive. There are [-] planes in the sky." , It’s more than a billion dollars! Plus the pilots... My God, where are the planes flying in the sky, they are all my banknotes! After defeating Little Japan, I will have to squeeze out these Japanese slaves!”

The Soya Strait is only more than 40 kilometers wide. The Chinese Air Force fleet that took off from Sakhalin Island quickly flew across the strait, flew into the sky of Hokkaido, and flew into the airspace of Japan. Then, the big air battle and heavy bombing began.

Chapter 774 Landing in Japan (2)

The "Hokkaido Landing" launched by the Nanjing Army has many similarities with the "Normandy Landing" launched by the Allied Forces in the original history, but there are also many completely different places.

First of all, the scale of these two landing operations was extremely large, enough to shine in the annals of history and make the past astonishing. The total strength of the army, navy and air force that the Nanjing Army invested in the Hokkaido landing exceeded 140 million, and the total strength of the army, navy and air force that the Allied forces invested in the Normandy landing was even greater. As high as nearly 290 million; secondly, the Zongya Strait crossed by the Nanjing Army is very narrow, the narrowest point is only more than 43 kilometers, and the English Channel crossed by the Allied Forces is also very narrow, the narrowest point is only more than 34 kilometers; etc., but, The difference between the two landing operations is also very obvious, the main one is that when the Allied forces landed in Normandy, they adopted a huge and ingenious strategic deception, and then launched a surprise attack, while when the Nanjing army landed in Hokkaido, they carried out a strong attack openly.

A surprise attack is of course superior to a strong attack in the military. The Nanjing army landed in Hokkaido not because they did not want to make a surprise attack, but because of the objective conditions that made it impossible to make a surprise attack in this battle.

Before the Allied forces landed in Normandy, they assembled a large amount of troops and materials in the UK. This is a "very normal thing", because the Allied forces and the German forces have already launched a protracted war around the UK. The increase of the Allied forces in the UK is a It "makes sense", but the Nanjing Army is completely different. Before landing in Hokkaido, the Nanjing Army assembled a large number of troops and supplies in Sakhalin Island. This is "very abnormal" because Sakhalin Island belongs to the In the desolate and bitterly cold border area, the greatest strategic and military value of this island is that it was used by the Chinese army to attack the Japanese mainland. It is "completely unreasonable" for the Nanjing army to increase troops in Sakhalin Island. The only explanation is that Nanjing The military is preparing to use Sakhalin Island as a forward base and springboard to launch a war against the Japanese mainland; in addition, the distance between Sakhalin Island and the Japanese mainland is too close. Such a big movement on Sakhalin Island caused the Nanjing Army to conduct a frontal attack when it landed in Hokkaido; not only that, the Allied forces landed in Normandy to return to the European continent and enter Germany, but the Nanjing Army did not land in Hokkaido. It is entirely for the purpose of landing on the Japanese mainland and entering Tokyo. The Nanjing Army has deeper strategic intentions.

Since it is a strong attack, then the battle is a head-to-head confrontation between the two sides in terms of strength.

The narrow Soya Strait instantly became the place with the largest number and density of aircraft in the world. The number and density of aircraft were almost as good as the English Channel before the German army landed on the British mainland, and the intensity of the air battle surpassed the latter.

The airspace of the Soya Strait, which is only 101 kilometers long, 70 kilometers wide at its widest point, and 40 kilometers wide at its widest point, was almost saturated by countless planes of the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Army. The big air battle, the scene has reached the point where it is indescribable.

The Chinese Air Force has the second largest number of aircraft in the world (after the U.S. Army Air Force) and the third largest comprehensive strength in the world (after the U.S. Army Air Force and the German Air Force), stabilizing the Japanese Army and Navy Air Force , but the Japanese air force is not vulnerable. At this time, Japan still has the ability to produce more than 2.5 aircraft per year (this number is continuously declining, while the aircraft production of the United States, Germany, and China is constantly growing), Although it was heavily consumed by the U.S. military on the Pacific battlefield, and a large number of aircraft were deployed in the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, the Philippine Islands, and the Indonesian Islands. The Japanese Army and Navy still took out more than 1.5 planes to protect the mainland, two-thirds of which were deployed to Hokkaido and the northern part of Honshu Island. It is conservatively estimated that the Japanese army invested nearly 1 planes for this counterattack The Nanking Army landed in Hokkaido.

The Nanjing army is powerful, and the Japanese army took out the capital at the bottom of the box to fight, thus resulting in this earth-shattering big air battle.

"This is a battle that is enough to make the Jade Emperor hold his breath while watching it on the cloud!" The report of "China Military Daily" described it like this, "Our planes are innumerable, although the Japanese planes are less than Our planes are still innumerable. Our fleets covering the sky from Sakhalin Island rushed to Hokkaido from north to south, and the Japanese army's overwhelming fleet flew from Hokkaido Island to Sakhalin Island from south to north. Then a battle broke out in the sky of the Soya Strait that would burn the sky and boil the sea.

The roar of the fleet was like the sky turned into a vibrating drum. The voices of people, the sound of waves on the sea, the gunfire of warships and air defense positions on land... were all submerged in the roar of the fleet, and the fleet pierced through the clouds and fog. , The billowing air waves set off caused gusts of wind to blow on the ground and the sea. The situation changed and the world moved. Together, it's like two heavy rains of different colors mixed together, and it's like two groups of soldiers shooting each other with submachine guns and flying bullets in midair, bursting out waves of huge energy. This is an unprecedented melee, but the planes of both sides are grouped or formed to participate in the battle. Several planes are formed into a combat team, and several combat teams are formed into a combat team, so that they can cooperate with each other. Soldiers are not fighting like knights. That way of going alone, but paying attention to collective combat and mutual cooperation, so as to exert the greatest combat effectiveness, the same is true for pilots and aircraft, but there are too many and too dense aircraft in the sky, and the overall melee environment makes the enemy and the enemy. Air tactics are almost ineffective. The enemy has me, and I have the enemy, so I can only start a full-scale dog-tooth melee.

Looking up, the sky is like a blue canvas painted by Avalokitesvara. A thousand or even ten thousand hands are quickly drawing intricate, rising and falling, and indefinite countless lines in the sky. The planes are chasing each other, speeding, dodging and dodging, thus cutting off various and countless dazzling trails, straight lines, curved lines, arcs, tangent lines, semicircular lines, great circle lines, full circle lines, etc. Circular lines, elliptical lines, spiral lines, wavy lines, S-shaped lines, U-shaped lines, 3-shaped lines, 8-shaped lines, etc., mixed together, make the sky look like a huge, beaten The shattered mirror is also like a huge, crumpled fishing net, which is ever-changing and fragmented, and in it, there are countless flashes of bullets like a bright galaxy. Fighting, strangling, and dancing wildly, countless aviation machine guns and machine guns spewed flames like rainstorm pear blossoms in the sky, making the sky like a pond under the rain of fire, splashing countless flame ripples.

There are too many planes!There were so many that the aircraft of the enemy and us collided with each other, the enemy's aircraft collided with each other, and our aircraft collided with each other when the pilots were caught off guard.

In the extremely chaotic, fiery sky, one after another, multiple simultaneous, more than ten simultaneous, dozens of simultaneous fireworks and fireworks feasts are swaying endless ripples to their heart's content, which is so cruel that People were shuddering, and it was breathtakingly spectacular. At every moment, planes broke their wings and flew into the sky in this melee. Some of them had their fuel tanks exploded, and immediately exploded in the air. Both the pilot and the plane were smashed to pieces in a dazzling fireball. Explosions continued in mid-air, just like the stars twinkling in the night sky. Some of them were hit in the cockpit, and the pilot was killed on the spot. A ball of fire, some of which were damaged by the engine, and the plane immediately fell to the sea or the ground with billowing smoke, and some had their wings or tail shattered, and the plane immediately rolled and fell into the sky... The sky was full of thunder and lightning The flames are shining, the black smoke is flying, and the pilots who have abandoned the plane and parachuted are blooming in mid-air. On the offshore land on both sides of the strait, and on the sea of ​​the strait, planes continue to fall like a meteor shower, and the ground is one after another. Groups of fireballs bloomed, and water columns rose one after another on the sea surface at the same time, and the debris of the plane wreckage scattered all over the ground and floated all over the sea surface.

...There are so many things, even if there are thousands of words, it is difficult to describe them.

On both sides of the strait, the enemy and our armies stretched out. Millions of our officers and soldiers and enemy personnel watched this incomparable air battle together intently and clenched their fists. When the plane was shot down, our officers and soldiers all cheered, cheered and applauded, and waved their flags. When they saw our military plane being shot down, all our officers and soldiers sighed, felt sad, and took off their hats in mourning.

How can this situation be described as 'hot as fire'.

... "

When the aircraft fleets of the two sides launched a large-scale air battle, the land forces and naval forces of both sides were also fighting hard. The Nanjing Army set up air defense positions blooming everywhere on Sakhalin Island. The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were densely packed like trees. The Nanjing army's air defense positions immediately fired all arrows, and cooperated with their own aircraft in the air to kill them, and the Japanese army also set up a dotted air defense position on Hokkaido Island. However, most of the aircraft fleets dispatched at this time were fighter jets. Fighting for air supremacy is not so much about bombing the opponent's army and navy base, and there is no need to go deep into the opponent's land area. Therefore, the air combat area is basically over the Soya Strait. Because of this, nine out of ten pilots on both sides abandon their planes and parachute They all fell to the sea, so the naval fleets of both sides are constantly dispatched to search and rescue their own pilots on the sea.

Considering that the air battle is still going on, the sky is full of own and enemy aircraft, and the warships are extremely vulnerable to enemy air strikes. Therefore, neither navies of the two sides dispatched large warships, but basically destroyers, gunboats, gunboats, Smaller and faster warships such as torpedo boats, lifeboats, and speedboats, and the largest warships are no more than light cruisers. Despite this, fierce battles at sea still took place in the Soya Strait. Once the pilots of one's own side met on a narrow road, fierce battles broke out immediately, causing torpedoes to fly across the sea, shells fluttering in mid-air, and warships were constantly damaged and sunk, paralyzed on the sea, burning or sinking into the sea. The aircraft turned the sea surface of the Soya Strait into a melting pot of iron and fire. The wreckage of warships and aircraft fragments were scattered all over the sea. Not only that, if the ships of the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Army found the enemy in the process of searching and rescuing their own pilots who fell into the water, The pilots who fell into the water were shot and killed immediately and unceremoniously. As a result, a large number of pilots on both sides died on the sea, and the sea was stained with blood. After discovering the opponent's pilot who fell into the water, he will basically not shoot him to death, but rescue him and then imprison him. However, the two sides in this battle are the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Army. Both sides are the Eastern Army, and they will not show mercy to the enemy. .

It is the law of the eastern army to drive out the enemy.

During the whole day on July 7, the ground troops of the Nanjing Army did not cross the strait and set foot on Hokkaido, because the air supremacy had not been fully seized, and the ground troops and the navy of the Nanjing Army had to wait until the air force completely suppressed the Japanese aviation.

Throughout the day, from [-] o'clock in the morning at sunrise to [-] o'clock in the evening at sunset, the fleets of the two sides have been fighting continuously.

At various airports on Sakhalin Island, the Nanjing Army kept taking off and taking part in the battle, like silvery metal waterfalls flowing against the sky, and at the same time, planes kept returning.

Some planes returned intact, or ran out of ammunition or fuel, and returned to the airport to replenish ammunition and fuel. When the cockpit was opened, the pilots inside were all sweating profusely and covered with hot white steam. After getting off the plane, the legs were all weak and wobbly. The high-intensity battle made the pilots exhausted. Seeing the returning pilot, the ground crew who had been waiting for a long time rushed up immediately, and got busy with a clear division of labor. The pilots went to the rest room to rest and eat, some inspected the plane, some refueled and reloaded the plane, and another group of pilots immediately made up for it.

The Nanjing military has been recharging for more than four years. It is fully prepared and has sufficient resources. Not only are there sufficient aircraft, but there are even more sufficient pilots. An aircraft is equipped with one or a group of pilots and one or two or one or two groups of backup Pilots, after the outbreak of the battle, change personnel without changing the aircraft, and the aircraft does not stop, so that the aircraft can continue to participate in the battle.

"Thank you for your hard work, senior! Welcome back!" The reserve pilot solemnly stood at attention and saluted the front-line pilots.

"It's up to you next!" The front-line pilot returned the salute with difficulty, "I wish you a safe return! Come on! Contribute to the country!"

"Yes! Don't worry senior, leave it to me!" The backup pilot rushed towards the plane without hesitation.

Waves of planes took off again, rushing towards the lightning and thunderous Soya Strait air battlefield again.

Some planes returned home with scars, and the fuselage was full of bullet holes or full of smoke. The pilots drove them back to the airport for maintenance with great difficulty; some planes had basically intact fuselages but the cockpit was spattered with blood. The pilot was seriously injured when he returned three feet away, and he took his last breath in the cockpit after trying his best to drive the plane back.

According to Jiang Weiguo's regulations, the pilots of the Chinese Air Force must cherish their own lives more than cherishing the plane, because the plane is valuable and can be rebuilt if it is lost, but the life of the pilot is priceless, and people cannot be resurrected after death. A well-trained pilot with actual combat experience is even more valuable.

Jiang Weiguo clearly stipulated that if the plane cannot be saved, the pilot must abandon the plane and parachute to save his life; if the plane can be saved but he needs to risk his own life, the pilot must also abandon the plane and parachute to save his life.

However, in actual combat, sometimes such a situation occurs: the plane is fine, and the pilot is seriously injured. In this case, most of the pilots will try their best to drive the plane back to the base, so as to save the property of an aircraft for the country .

The air battle in the Soya Strait was a head-to-head battle between the two sides, and it was also an out-and-out war of attrition. However, this form of battle was beneficial to the Nanjing Army, because the strength of the Nanjing Army surpassed the Japanese Army, and it was completely worthwhile in the war of attrition. consumption of Japanese forces.

In the middle of the night of July 7, Huang Guangrui, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Force who personally directed the air battle at the front line in Jinshui County, handed over the battle result and battle damage report calculated overnight to Jiang Weiguo, who was also in Jinshui County but was in a hidden place.

"Well, the loss is really not small!" Jiang Weiguo looked at the report seriously, "In just one day, more than 2000 planes were lost, tsk tsk!"

Huang Guangrui said: "Among the more than 2000 planes lost, about 1500 were directly damaged in air battles or crashed after being injured in air battles, and about 500 were returned after being injured. Most of them can be repaired, but it only takes a while." Repair time!"

"What about Little Japan?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

Huang Guangrui said: "According to the reports of various air teams, the Japanese army should have lost 3000 aircraft, of which more than 2500 were completely damaged and could not be repaired!"

"It's okay, I made it!" Jiang Weiguo nodded.

"Of course, in today's battle during the day, both the enemy and us are basically fighters playing the leading role. Our fighters not only surpass the Japanese army in quantity, but also in quality, especially our jet fighters, which can be called an enemy. Ten!" Huang Guangrui laughed, "Second Young Master, there will be good news at dawn!"

"Oh?"

"Second Young Master, it's getting dark now, the air battle is still going on, and the situation is further in our favor.

Second son, have you forgotten?Our army has night combat aircraft, both night fighters and night bombers, and the Japanese army basically has none.

It's dark, which means we can bomb them, but it's hard for them to bomb us. Even if they want to sneak attack us, we still have radar.

During the day, our high-altitude reconnaissance planes repeatedly reconnaissance the situation of the Japanese military airports, and identified more than a dozen large Japanese military airports.

Previously, in order to confuse the Japanese army, we built many fake airports on Sakhalin Island. All the fake planes parked on the runway were made of wood. The Japanese army also built many fake airports on the island of Hokkaido. Made a fake plane.

During the daytime battle, our high-altitude reconnaissance planes passed through which Japanese military airports really took off, thus determining which Japanese military airports are real and which are actually fake. Tonight, our night bombing will surprise the Japanese. !"

Jiang Weiguo laughed expectantly: "Okay, then I will wait for the good news!"

On this night, the night bombing fleet of the Nanjing Army successfully raided more than ten large airports of the Japanese army in the northern part of Hokkaido Island, destroying more than 1000 Japanese aircraft and many large oil depots of the Japanese army. The explosion caused a huge fire And the soaring flames can be seen by the ground troops of the Nanjing Army on the other side of the strait.

During the daytime on July 7, the two sides continued to fight in the air. The Nanjing Army once again made more money and lost less. It shot down and destroyed more than 8 Japanese aircraft at the cost of losing more than 1400 aircraft. That night, the Nanjing Army’s night bombers bombed again. destroyed the Japanese aviation base on Hokkaido Island, and once again blew up a large number of Japanese aircraft on the airport runway;

On July 7th and July 9th, the two sides continued to fight in the air, and the Nanjing Army still earned more and lost less. At night, the night bombers of the Nanjing Army bombed the Japanese aviation base on Hokkaido Island for the third and fourth times. A large number of Japanese aircraft were blown up each time;

On July 7, the Japanese air force, which was severely injured, no longer launched a large-scale attack. Then adopt flexible and maneuverable tactics to continue fighting with it;

From the war to July 7th, the two sides fought continuously for eight days and nights. In this big air battle that lasted eight days and eight nights, the Nanjing Army lost a total of more than 15 aircraft and shot down, destroyed, and destroyed more than 4500 aircraft. The Japanese aircraft basically achieved air supremacy, making the objective conditions for the Nanjing ground troops to land in Hokkaido mature.

Chapter 775 Landing in Japan (3)

General Yamada Otosan, the commander of the Japanese army in Hokkaido, is undoubtedly the Japanese who feels the most pressure at this time. At this point in the war, the Japanese mainland has begun to partially become the front line of the war. The Korean Peninsula is under full-scale attack by the Nanjing Army. When the Nanjing Army suddenly attacked, Hokkaido Island was about to be attacked by the Nanjing Army. Among the above three "sacred lands of the imperial kingdom", there is no doubt that the weight of Hokkaido Island, one of the four traditional Japanese mainland islands, greatly exceeded The Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands were originally other countries’ territories that were conquered and annexed by Japan in the past few decades. This caused General Yamada to bear much more psychological and spiritual pressure than Ning Okamura. His pressure came not only from the unprecedented severe battle situation, but also from the Tokyo base camp, not to mention the telegrams and phone calls sent to him every day by Chief of Staff Yoshijiro Umezu, Army Minister Hayao Tada, and others. Even Emperor Hirohito personally met General Yamada in the palace, which made him not only fortunate to see His Majesty's "divine face" with his own eyes, but also heard His Majesty speak to him with a "golden voice" Encouraged, when he left the palace, Empress Kojun presented him with a silk handkerchief woven by Empress Kojun herself, and these made General Yamada feel flattered and grateful, and repeatedly vowed in his heart, "Even if your body is broken and your heart is smashed, you must repay His Majesty the Emperor." and the Queen's grace", and at the same time made him feel even more pressure that he could hardly breathe.

General Yamada knows that His Majesty the Emperor, as a "god living in the world", is unworldly and does not care about the worldly affairs. However, His Majesty the Emperor has personally cared about the Hokkaido War. This shows the importance of the Hokkaido War. How huge is sex.

Think about it, this is actually very normal. Japan is an island country surrounded by the sea and has natural barriers. In the past thousand years, due to the underdevelopment of science and technology, it has been difficult for other countries to form a fleet that can cross the sea. Then attack the Japanese mainland. Therefore, for thousands of years, except for the two Yuan-Japanese Wars during the Mongol Empire (during the Yuan-Japanese War, the Yuan Army made some landings in the coastal areas of Japan, but after some land battles, the Yuan Army did not The enemy Japanese army was driven back to the ship. However, this was not because the Japanese army was strong and the Yuan army was weak, but because the Yuan army came across the sea by boat. The fleet's transportation capacity was limited, and it could only carry more than [-] troops at a time. Logistics transportation is also very difficult, and the Japanese army is fighting in the local area, and it is very convenient to gather more than [-] troops to fight back. The more win the less), the Japanese mainland has always been safe, only the Japanese army invaded other countries across the sea, and almost no other The army crossed the sea to attack Japan, but now, the world has changed, science and technology are advancing with each passing day, giant ships and cannons made of steel have replaced the wooden ships of the Yuan Dynasty, and the protection of Japan by the sea surrounding the Japanese archipelago no longer exists.

General Yamada is very clear that today's Nanjing Army poses a far greater threat to the Japanese mainland than the Yuan Dynasty army back then.

As for whether he can resist the Nanjing Army in Hokkaido Island, although General Yamada appears calm and calm on the surface, in fact, he has no idea at all in his heart.

Before the war, after repeated research, General Yamada believed that the Korean War was of great reference value for the Hokkaido War, because the two were very similar, and both were large-scale land battles between the Japanese army and the Nanjing Army.

Neiji Okamura more or less disobeyed the instructions given to him by the Tokyo headquarters to "defend the enemy outside the country" on the Korean battlefield, but the facts have proved that his strategy is very correct, although it has not been effective. Resisted the Nanjing Army, but at least preserved a large number of Japanese troops, and did not let a large number of Japanese troops die in vain on the south bank of the Yalu River, which was destined to fall after the war, so that they could resist steadily all the way from Pyongyang to Seoul, and finally in Seoul The urban agglomeration is engaged in comprehensive defensive operations-the Nanjing Army has already deduced that if Neiji Okamura really deploys most of his troops on the front line on the south bank of the Yalu River, after the war breaks out, the Japanese army will immediately be the third. more than double.

Therefore, General Yamada decided to follow the example of Ningji Okamura on the Korean battlefield. The total area of ​​Hokkaido Island reached more than 8.3 square kilometers, more than 60% of the island was mountainous, and more than 70% was forest. These natural factors were beneficial to the Japanese army. Fighting defensively.

General Yamada believed that the Japanese army on the island should be "evenly" scattered all over the island, step by step for the camp to resist the Nanjing army that is about to land, not to fight hard with the Nanjing army on the beach, that is, the first line, but to turn the whole of Hokkaido into an island In other words, General Yamada felt that the seaside could be abandoned, and the Nanjing Army was brought into or placed in the hinterland of the island. The Japanese army adopted comprehensive defense in depth tactics, and fought with the Nanjing Army all over the island. Repeatedly seesaw battle.

When General Yamada apprehensively submitted his battle plan "Hokkaido Area Defense Outline" to the General Staff Headquarters, as expected, what he received was exactly the same as Okamura Ningji's original reprimand, or even better.

"Bastard! Ridiculous! Nonsense!" Prince Zairen, who glanced roughly at the battle plan and only read the first part of the battle plan at a glance, didn't read the whole battle plan at all, because his anger made him He was almost dizzy and his lungs exploded with anger. How could he have the patience to read through this battle plan, which in his opinion was nonsense, "Commander Yamada! You have disappointed me so much! You have disappointed His Majesty the Emperor so much!" Already!"

General Yamada trembled suddenly, sweating profusely.

Prince Zairen was angry and impatient. He jumped up and pointed at General Yamada with trembling fingers: "Hokkaido, what is it? That is the sacred and inviolable imperial land of the empire! How can foreign enemies be trampled on by one soldier at a time? How sacred and majestic is the sacred land of the Imperial Kingdom of Japan! It is a blessed land bestowed by God Amaterasu on the Yamato people! Letting even a single soldier of a foreign enemy step on it is an unprecedented shame and humiliation of the empire for thousands of years! It is His Majesty's shame and humiliation! How can we allow His Majesty to suffer such a shame! Commander Yamada, as the humerus of His Majesty, we want to share his worries and sorrows for His Majesty!" Death', the simplest truth, don't you understand?" He was furious and furious.

General Yamada plucked up the courage to defend: "His Royal Highness, such a strategy is helpless. The enemy army is powerful and has advantages in land, sea and air. The imperial army must..."

"It's another cliché!" Prince Zairen was furious. "From the Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War, when did the Empire of Japan and the Imperial Japanese Army not defeat the strong with the weak? The empire was able to rule the roost and rise! If you can only fight a war where the strong can defeat the weak, then what do you want? Who can’t win a smooth battle? The victory of the weak against the strong is the invincible Yamato soul of the imperial army. Where! A real Japanese soldier should have the courage and wisdom to defeat the strong with the weak! Instead of finding various excuses to shirk their responsibilities and cover up their incompetence!"

General Yamada blushed immediately: "Your Highness, I am by no means saying that the imperial army will lose in Hokkaido, on the contrary, it is precisely for the imperial army to win in Hokkaido that I drew up this plan..."

Prince Zairen laughed back in anger: "Let the enemy enter the empire's territory swaggeringly, is this for victory?"

General Yamada hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness, what Commander Okamura did on the Korean battlefield is the best teaching material..."

Prince Zai-in angrily interrupted General Yamada: "You think you should fight like Okamura? You still think that what he did on the Korean battlefield was right? That's unreasonable! Don't you see? Okamura According to his set of clever tactics, he said to avoid insignificant casualties, let the enemy in to fight, slowly consume the enemy, delay the enemy, but the result? He is completely opening the door to steal and lure wolves into the house! Hundreds of thousands of that army because of him The passive avoidance of the war flooded into the Korean peninsula like a tide! More than half of the Korean peninsula was occupied by the Chinese army! What next? Okamura wiped out the Chinese army that he put into the Korean peninsula? No! He Now they are shooting themselves in the foot with a rock! Because of his stupid plan, the Chinese army has completely gained a foothold on the Korean peninsula, and then completely suppressed Okamura! It’s miserable! Today, such a thing is going to happen again in Hokkaido? Commander Yamada, don’t you know? How can Hokkaido be compared with the Korean Peninsula! Although the Korean Peninsula is also the territory of the Empire, it is not considered a real holy land of the empire, while Hokkaido is It is truly the holy land of the imperial kingdom! Also, if the Chinese army invades Hokkaido on a large scale and invades the mainland of the empire, what will the citizens of the empire think? They will think that the imperial army is powerless to defend the mainland of the empire! Because the enemy troops have all entered the mainland of the empire Already! The belief in war of the people of the empire will be shaken! His Majesty the Emperor’s supreme divine authority will also be affected! The harm that will be brought about in all aspects can be imagined!"

General Yamada shrank his head and didn't dare to speak. Firstly, he was afraid of Prince Zairen, and secondly, he found that he really didn't have enough reasons to refute Prince Zairen.

Seeing that General Yamada did not continue to be stubborn, Prince Zairen reluctantly calmed down his anger, and finally gave a slight concession: "Fifty kilometers! At most, the Chinese army can only invade the inland area of ​​Hokkaido fifty kilometers away from the sea. ! And don't let them stay for too long! They must be driven back into the sea!"

General Yamada smiled wryly, and silently accepted this innocuous order.

Originally, General Yamada seemed to be learning from Okamura Neiji's strategy of "following the yang and violating the yin". He half implemented the tactics requested by Prince Zain and half implemented the tactics he formulated himself. Prince Zain was already prepared for this move, and specially appointed Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi as the new chief of staff of General Yamada. On the surface, he was to advise General Yamada, but in fact he supervised General Yamada to "strictly implement the instructions of the Tokyo base camp."

In the end, the deployment of the Japanese army on Hokkaido Island was basically in accordance with the requirements of Prince Zain, and most of the troops were located in the coastal area, so as to "defend the enemy from outside the country."

——Before the Battle of Iwo Jima in the original history, Kuribayashi Tadamichi, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army on Iwo Jima, was ordered to come to the island to take over the command. After he got off the plane, he was surprised to find that the Japanese army on the island was digging trenches and building fortifications on the beach, because the Japanese army planned to "Let not a single U.S. Army set foot on Iwo Jima".

From the perspective of future generations, the behavior of the Japanese army digging trenches and building fortifications on the beach was simply death in vain, but that is what the Japanese army did.

This can be seen from the characteristics of the Japanese army's stubbornness and inflexibility in tactics.

On the other hand, since the Nanking Army's attack on Hokkaido Island has been made public, the Japanese Army Headquarters thoroughly concluded that "the Chinese Army's attack on the Korean Peninsula was to cover up its sneak attack on the Okinawa Islands, but its sneak attack on the Okinawa Islands was also an illusion. Covering its real purpose of storming Hokkaido and even the mainland of the empire" "The fundamental purpose of the Chinese army is to attack the mainland of the empire, but they used two layers of camouflage for strategic deception." Therefore, the Tokyo headquarters appropriately reduced the reinforcements to the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands. Instead, all of them were used to reinforce Hokkaido Island. As for Ishihara Waner's proposal that "the real purpose of the Chinese army is actually the Philippine Islands", it has been completely ignored by Prince Zaijin and others. Even the Japanese troops in the Philippine Islands and Indonesian Islands The troops were also transferred a lot, some were used to reinforce Ryukyu and North Korea, and some were transferred back to the country and sent to Hokkaido.

Prince Zairen and others believe that the Nanjing Army is about to land on Hokkaido Island, so the Sino-US coalition forces must attack the Japanese mainland from "north to south", first attacking Hokkaido Island, and then attacking Honshu Island, since the Sino-American coalition forces can pass this route If we attack the Japanese mainland, then there is no need for the Chinese and American coalition forces to attack Japan’s overseas colonies such as the Philippines and Indonesia. It would be a waste of military power to keep too many troops there. What’s more, the overseas colonies are not as important as the mainland. If the mainland is not lost, the colonies are lost. , it doesn't matter, if the mainland is lost, the colony will be lost if it is not lost.

It is said that after knowing the decision of the General Staff Headquarters, Ishihara Wanji said this: "Sure enough, Jiang Weiguo won again, and Jiang Weiguo once again led us by the nose perfectly.

This is where Jiang Weiguo’s strategy is truly terrifying, the conspiracy trap he set up makes you have to stick your neck in even if you have clearly seen through it, and then watch him calmly tighten the noose!”

On the morning of July 7, it was a sunny day with breezy wind, white clouds and scorching sun.

The Chinese Air Force is dispatched again. On this day, the number of fleets and sorties dispatched by the Chinese Air Force is even more than that on July 7. More than 7 fighter jets protect more than 4000 bombers from various airports in Sakhalin Island and the outer northeastern region. At multiple airports, they flapped their wings and flew into the sky according to the scheduled attack time of each unit, and finally flew to the northern airspace of Hokkaido at basically the same time. More than half of the bomber fleet was the "Panda" and "Phoenix" strategic bombers with amazing bombing power. More than 5000 bombers carried a total of more than 5000 tons of bombs, flying over the Soya Strait overwhelmingly, bringing a thunderstorm of steel and explosives to the Japanese army across the strait.