In terms of training time, the Chinese Navy may not be enough, because by this time the team from the Chinese side has already arrived at Rabaul, an important transit station. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two divisions of the 6th Army were basically in place, and the 53rd Army, another corps, had also entered the marching process...... Since Halsey conveyed the message to Principal Jiang that "if the quality of the troops is not good, it is very likely that it will take time to train", Principal Jiang really did not dare to just stuff a unit to deal with the matter.

The 53rd Army and the 54th Army, although their combat effectiveness is not particularly outstanding, they are all units of the thirty army divisions that Stilwell trained in Yunnan...... After the training of Stilwell and other US military instructors, it is natural that they will have a great understanding of the tactics and equipment of the US military, although there are still differences in equipment, most of the US aid equipment provided by the United States for China is the equipment that the US military has eliminated and is relatively weak, such as the rifle is the Springfield type, the artillery is basically the M1 howitzer that the Yankees do not like to use, and the machine gun is still the old water-cooled machine gun.

But these problems are not big, because Zhang Chi set up training institutions all the way in the transit station, and by the time these troops arrived at Rabaul to gather, they had almost mastered the advanced American equipment.

It is worth mentioning that the 53rd Army is still the Northeast Army...... This is undoubtedly very useful, they are familiar with the terrain, and more importantly, this time they are allowed to fight back to their hometowns, so they will naturally die if they start a war. Principal Jiang may have chosen the 53rd Army with this in mind.

Because of these circumstances, the training time of the Chinese Navy may only be more than a month...... Objective conditions also do not allow for too long preparation time, one is that China's defense may not last that long, this is not the case, because the historical battle of Yuxiang and Guihui lasted for more than eight months, and Zhang Chi considered hoping to reduce the casualties of the Chinese military and civilians as much as possible. The other is that the United States also urgently wants the campaign to start as soon as possible, which also puts a certain amount of pressure on Zhang Chi.

However, the short training time does not seem to be too much of a problem.

Because Zhang Chi took the time to meet with Major General Robert of the "Solomon", he knew it from Major General Robert...... In fact, the training of US sailors is not enough, and there is even a gap compared with Chinese sailors.

This is not surprising...... Yankees' warships, escort carriers, aircraft carriers, etc., are piled into the water like dumplings, and the output of escort aircraft carriers reaches 50 a year, where to find so many experienced sailors to operate these warships.

Therefore, most of them are transferred from other warships to a few experienced sailors to serve in the main positions, and the other sailors only go through basic training or even basic training before boarding the ship, and the next thing is to learn while fighting...... American sailors often quipped: "If you die early, you won't have to work hard to learn how to sail!" ”

In other words, the level of training is almost the same, and the level of training of the Japanese is not much better or worse until now.

Having said that, when the battle is at a fever pitch or a lot of casualties, it's really not easy to train enough and then go to the battlefield.

Zhang Chi did not need to worry about these trainings, and Zhang Chi handed them all over to Zhang Junhua, Liu Guangzhong, and the instructors and advisers of the US military.

What Zhang Chi has to think about is that it's time to make a landing plan.

At this time, Zhang Chi encountered a problem......

The northeastern coast of China is in the hands of the Japanese army, whether it is from the sea, air or land, it can be said that it is the hinterland of the Japanese army, and it wants to carry out the landing here...... Easier said than done.

"First of all, we have to think about the air threat from the enemy!" Halsey pointed to the map and said, "We don't have many landing sites, only the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea...... And when we enter this sea area, we are almost surrounded by Japanese troops! ”

"There is not much threat from the Chinese direction!" Zhang Chi replied: "The Japanese don't have many fighters in China and Korea!" ”

This is dictated by the fact that there is not much air power in the Chinese direction...... There is a saying that "how strong the enemy is, how strong you are". On the Chinese battlefield, because China's air power is weak, the Japanese army does not need many fighters to easily seize air supremacy, so its air power will naturally not be much stronger.

In addition, the Japanese army's offensive on the front of China's defense required air support, and on the other hand, it had to ensure the bombing of Chongqing, so the Japanese army basically had no air power in the northeast...... The Japanese did not expect that there would be a war in the northeast, so they would not deploy their fighters in this area.

Halsey nodded and said, "So...... The air power of the enemy we are facing comes mainly from the Japanese mainland......"

"No!" Zhang Chi shook his head and said, "The bigger threat should be this...... tw！ ”

“tw？”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied: "Although the TW is far away from the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and the Japanese fighters do not seem to be able to threaten the landing plan of the Chinese army in the northeast, the focus is ...... The supply lines of the Chinese landing force were under the blow of the Japanese fighters of the TW......"

Halsey let out an "oh" and nodded slightly in agreement.

You must know that this is a Chinese army with more than 100,000 people in three armies, and it is conceivable that this will be a vicious battle, and the ammunition and supplies required will not be a small number, once the Japanese army uses TW as the fulcrum to attack the transportation lines of the US army, then the Sino-US coalition forces are likely to face an unfavorable situation of fighting on both sides or even cutting off supplies.

"So!" After thinking about it, Zhang Chi said: "What we have to do is to defeat the air power of the Japanese in TW first!" ”

Halsey couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "This ...... Will it prematurely reveal our strategic intentions? ”

"I don't think so!" Zhang Chi replied: "The reason is that the Japanese army in TW has been supporting the Philippine operation, including the army and the flying division. Therefore, it should be said that it is very normal for us to launch an attack on TW, and the Japanese will take it for granted that we are here to support the war in the Philippines! ”

Halsey nodded: "Then, it's time for me to draw a fleet from the Philippines!" ”

"No!" Zhang Chi said: "Just use the Chinese fleet!" ”

It's not that Zhang Chi wants to be stronger, but that Zhang Chi needs to use a small-scale battle to train his troops...... Zhang Chi considered that although the Japanese army did not deploy many fighters in Northeast China, the problem was that the Japanese fighters had an ultra-long range and occupied a large number of airfields, so they could change from having no fighters to having a large number of fighters at any time.

Therefore, Zhang Chi needs to train before the big war, and defeating TW's air power is undoubtedly an opportunity.

(To be continued.) )