"I agree!"

"I agree too!"

……

One by one, the U.S. admirals responded. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although MacArthur was a little embarrassed on his face, under the gaze of the admirals, he still nodded and said, "This is indeed a feasible plan. But Colonel, I have to warn you that the battlefield is often not as simple as you think! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile, MacArthur was telling the truth, the battlefield is never so simple. But MacArthur didn't need to be reminded of this, and Zhang Chi's experience was much deeper than MacArthur's.

In fact, Zhang Chi knew that the reason why MacArthur said this was because he wanted to resolve his embarrassment on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to tell the admirals...... Zhang Chi's plan is just a theory, and whether it is feasible depends on the battlefield. If one day, the Chinese army or the U.S. military used this plan to fight on the battlefield and there was an accident, then MacArthur could say triumphantly: "Look, I told you that it wasn't that simple!" ”

"That's right, General!" Zhang Chi replied: "However, if you have a better plan, a plan that can control the casualties to the minimum, I will listen to you!" ”

Another implication of this is that if there is no better solution, then it is time to shut up.

MacArthur couldn't understand Zhang Chi's words, his face changed, but soon changed to a smiling face: "I have no objection." But I have reservations about possible casualties! Colonel, we can't afford to lose a battle like Tarawa! ”

MacArthur is putting a trap on Zhang Chi, if Zhang Chi replies angrily, "We'll see!" Then it becomes a matter of responsibility for future war damage.

Of course, Zhang Chi was not so stupid, he smiled and replied: "This has nothing to do with me, I just made a suggestion, as for whether to use this suggestion, it should be up to the generals to decide, isn't it?" ”

MacArthur couldn't refute Zhang Chi's words, so he had to spread his hands and acquiesce.

As a result, the work soon entered the stage of drawing up a detailed battle plan......

The plan sounded simple, but it was basically unchanged compared to the Battle of Tarawa, which was to change the direction and time period of the landing operation, and if anything, it would be to occupy the outer islands of the atoll and deploy artillery.

However, the implementation is not so simple.

The US military must accurately grasp the tide situation in the Marshall Islands, even to the point of accuracy, because as long as there is a slight mistake, a large number of landing troops may run aground and a tragedy similar to the massacre of Tarawa will occur again.

However, this is not difficult to solve, the US military only needs to send a few submarines to the Marshall Islands, and then send divers to the relevant islands to reconnoitre...... This was the first time that the U.S. military used divers for reconnaissance, and since then it has become the norm, even frogmen have become a norm for the Marine Corps.

It is said that this kind of reconnaissance is also very exciting, because the divers are only a dozen meters closest to the Japanese, in order to more accurately detect the low tide conditions on the coast.

As some divers put it, "We were close to the enemy, and in the water we could see the torches lit by the Japanese shaking." Although we knew that this was unnecessary and dangerous, some people couldn't help but poke their heads out and look curiously at the Japanese defenses! ”

Of course, this behavior was soon strictly forbidden.

As the diver said, this behavior is dangerous and unnecessary.

This is because sticking your head out will not detect anything, but will expose yourself. You must know that at this time, it was the first case of using divers to reconnoiter hydrology, and the Japanese did not know that the US military had such a move, so they did not take precautions at all, so they would not send gunboats to defend against frogmen, which gave frogmen great convenience.

What's more, most of these frogmen were sent to the coast on the lagoon side to conduct reconnaissance, and if the Japanese were to find out, the Japanese would most likely be alerted...... It is likely that the area where these frogmen will land is the area where the Americans will land, so the Japanese will prepare in advance.

Divers usually enter the area to be scouted before dawn and then hide behind the reef, and their job is simply to wait for low tide to measure the water level and record them. The U.S. Navy Command then gets a table of the low tide of each atoll and the water level in the associated sea area. The other is to reconnoiter the unimpeded situation of the relevant sea area, such as whether there are mines and obstacles.

The result of the reconnaissance was exactly as Zhang Chi expected, and most of the Japanese army's defenses were on the sea side.

"That's good news!" Halsey said excitedly to Zhang Chi: "Colonel, we just got the information from the divers that the Japanese basically do not have any fortifications in the direction of the lagoon, and there are no mines even at the entrance to the atoll!" This surprised us, because in the Battle of Tarawa, we conquered Bito Island from the direction of the lagoon, didn't we? I thought the Japanese would have learned this lesson and taken precautions! ”

Zhang Chi just smiled, he didn't think that the Japanese would learn this lesson and take precautions in the direction of the lagoon from the beginning.

The reason was that the Japanese thought that the island of Bito would be captured by Chinese troops from the direction of the lagoon...... It was just a careful and careless sneak attack by the Chinese, and this sneak attack, once used, can not be used a second time, and the second time will undoubtedly be surrounded by their fire and wiped out in the lagoon.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that the Chinese and American coalition forces continued to plan to "sneak attack" from the lagoon...... To be precise, this time it was no longer a sneak attack, but an open attack in the daytime, a forced landing under the cover of artillery and fighters.

In fact, the Japanese army's idea was not only because of this, but also because they believed that the Sino-US coalition had a natural advantage in attacking from the sea side.

The lagoon side is surrounded by atolls, so the wind and waves are smaller, and the smaller wind and waves mean that the reef is less washed and the corals are easier to reproduce.

This meant that if attacking from the sea side, the U.S. forces would have to wade shorter distances after disembarking from the ship and under Japanese fire, and the reef on the lagoon side would be much longer than on the sea side.

So the Japanese take it for granted...... The Americans would sail the landing craft into the treacherous lagoon unless they had a broken head, and they would have to travel a longer distance to launch an effective attack.

But the battlefield is such a magical place, and sometimes it is often these seemingly impossible things, which under certain conditions will become a stroke of genius. (To be continued.) )