Why did the USSR dare to draw troops from the Far East to reinforce the fighting in the Moscow direction? This brings us to another country that hasn't played in a long time.

This country is Japan! After the Japanese Empire suffered a small loss in the Battle of Nomenkan, the decision to go south overshadowed the opinion of going north, which can be regarded as indirectly giving birth to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

At this moment, although Japan has won a victory, it has also encountered a problem that it cannot solve in a short period of time.

Constrained by the Navy's transportation capabilities, Japan stockpiled a large amount of supplies at Midway, preparing to rely on it as a base to plot against the Hawaiian Islands of the United States.

As long as the Hawaiian Islands are captured, the United States can only retreat south to Australia, or east to its own west coast, and surrender the Pacific Ocean to the Japanese Navy.

No matter how strong the U.S. Navy is in the future, if it cannot break through the defense line formed by the Hawaiian Islands and the Bismarck Islands, it will have to shake hands with Japan.

With this script, it was inevitable that Japan would hoard supplies to Midway and fight to the death with American forces.

Midway is a small island with an American airfield, but it has long been bombed into ruins by the Japanese.

Now, everything is very simple here, because Japan's transportation capacity, and its ability to rebuild a region, is so weak that it makes people laugh and cry.

Not everyone can be an infrastructure maniac, and even in the 100 years of Japan's greatest power, Japan's construction capacity has not reached a real height.

Perhaps everyone once looked up to Japan's chemical companies to build hundreds of thousands of tons of large ethylene projects, but the technology and construction speed are completely two concepts.

After the United States occupies an island, even if the island has been beaten into a sieve, it can be restored to use within a few days.

But Japan could not, although it barely transported more than 300 sappers to Midway, and the rebuilding of Midway was carried out very slowly due to the lack of heavyweight construction equipment.

The radar station, which was destroyed by the shells of the Japanese battleships, is still in ruins. Military airfields in the United States are barely usable at this moment.

Ninety percent of the more than 3,000 Japanese Marines on standby on the island are sleeping in tents, while another 10 percent are not even sleeping in tents, so they can only sleep in the rubble.

Even so, the number of planes that can barely take off at the airport on Midway Island is only a measly 40 at most.

The losses on the naval side are really unbearable, half of the aircraft carriers are seriously damaged, and the sunken aircraft carriers plus planes and pilots, the Japanese Navy can really be regarded as a broken bone.

Under such a premise, the KI fighters of the army are arranged on the island, not the Zero fighters with better performance.

Isoroku Yamamoto is desperate to seize the Hawaiian Islands of the United States, hoping to force the United States to negotiate peace or complete his own invincible defense.

This time he almost came out of the nest again, three aircraft carriers plus the battleship fleet, and the remaining battleships of the combined fleet that could be on the table, all sailed to Midway Island with great momentum.

The replenishment of the fleet did not matter, the main thing was that the other 5,000 landing soldiers brought from the mainland under the protection of the fleet needed to be replenished there with heavy weapons.

Comparatively speaking, Japan does not have the anti-natural transportation capacity of the US Navy, and their heavy weapons and equipment are transported to Midway Island in batches.

Including army bean combat vehicles, which are not considered heavy weapons and equipment at all, as well as heavy artillery with a caliber of not even 100 mm.

I have to say that in terms of weapons and equipment of the Japanese army, the army can be said to be the worst among the three arms, to what extent? Compared with the United States, the Soviet Union and Germany at the same time, it was not on the same level at all.

It was with such army weapons that Japan relied on well-trained troops and a well-established and super-strong national mobilization armament system to defeat the Asian countries at that time.

To tell the truth, it is not that the opponents are too strong, but that the Asian countries at that time were all colonies and semi-colonies, and they were really too weak.

"This time...... We mobilized the 8,000 elites of His Majesty the Emperor from the combined forces of the Navy and Army in the hope of taking the Hawaiian Islands in one fell swoop. Standing in the conference room of the battleship Nagato, Yamamoto said to the generals who had come to the meeting.

The Japanese fleet used almost all of its strength this time, and Nagumo Tadaichi, as the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, was ordered to continue the mission of attacking Pearl Harbor with meritorious service.

In the previous Battle of Midway, although the Japanese Navy was said to have won a great victory, the price was not high. So high that even His Majesty the Emperor was in tears, and Nagumo Tadaichi was reprimanded.

"The army is a little too many...... Why should so many land forces be transferred, this is originally a matter for our navy. A naval general said with disdain on his face when he mentioned the Army.

This is a landing operation, which should have been led by the navy, and when it comes to this matter, several leading figures in the navy are very dissatisfied with the army.

In such a crucial battle, the army actually wanted to show its face! Not only to show your face, but also to take on the main mission.

Moreover, the army is not without a target, people originally had KI fighters on Midway Island, and then sent a wing of soldiers to participate in the landing operation, why not?

Moreover, the navy has learned the lesson of the relatively large losses of troops in the course of the operation of landing on Midway, and this time it intends to use tanks, but the navy's special type II fireboats have not yet been equipped with a large number of units, so they can only draw tanks from the army to participate in the battle.

At this time, the army had an excuse to transfer a large number of troops in one go, and insisted on changing the battle of landing on the Hawaiian Islands into a joint combat operation between the navy and the army.

As a result, the Japanese Army sent a wing, that is, more than 3,000 people, to participate in this mission.

The navy plays the leading role, and the number of troops is a little larger, a total of a wing plus a brigade, almost 5,000 people.

"Don't complain anymore...... Anyway, the army wants to put 20 Type 97 tanks on the beachhead, which can reduce our casualties. Yamamoto Fifty-six glanced at Nagumo Tadaichi, who hung his head without saying a word, and said this.

"I, the Imperial Japanese Army, am a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor, how can I be afraid of some casualties?" A general said with his chin raised conceitedly.

"Death is not scary...... Isn't it a sin to die if you don't accomplish His Majesty's great deeds? Yamamoto Fifty-six opened his mouth coldly and scolded.

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