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First of all, a large amount of equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles were transported from Hawaii in batches, as Zhang Chi said, these tanks and armored vehicles are the backbone of the expeditionary force that can quickly occupy and hold the northeast, and of course they are indispensable.

The second is strategic materials, such as fuel and ammunition for tanks and armored vehicles, as well as ammunition and guns for troops and warships.

The piles of gasoline, bullets, and shells in the underground warehouse can be described as a mountain.

On the other hand, in order to cooperate with the Chinese army in this campaign, more than 200 B29 bombers located in the Mariana Islands are also ready.

Needless to say, their role is to carry out carpet bombing of targets when necessary.

However, at this point, Zhang Chi believes that it should be used sparingly.

For no other reason, the B29 bomber, as mentioned before, is a long-range high-altitude bomber. The advantage is a long combat radius, up to five thousand kilometers, and, more importantly, safety...... At an altitude of 10,000 meters, the Japanese army basically has no fighters in China that can reach this altitude and effectively intercept it, so the B29 can bomb wherever it wants.

But here's the problem...... High-altitude bombing also means low accuracy, the bombs at this time are not as accurate as modern ones, they are very primitive trigger or delay bombs, the plane flies over the target and opens the bomb bay and throws it down, whether it can hit the target depends on luck.

When a bomb is to be dropped from an altitude of 10,000 meters, its path is often affected by many factors such as wind and deviates from the target.

That is, bombing with B29...... Generally indiscriminate carpet bombing, just like the bombing carried out by the US military on the Japanese mainland in history, although it was initially called a bombing aimed mainly at military targets and not at civilians, it was just talk...... The time for the B29 to carry out bombing was usually at night, because the Japanese radar was backward and the fighters had poor night combat capabilities, which made it safer for the B29 to bomb at night. The bombardment was still at an altitude of 10,000 meters at night, and the bombardier looked down at the pitch black, and he couldn't see where the military targets were at all.

In the middle and later periods, they simply did not target any military targets, but directly bombed civilian targets and even civilian areas...... Historically, the Americans bombed the Japanese mainland was still quite cold-blooded, first sent a group of B29 bombers to carry out low-altitude bombing, low altitude means higher precision, this part of the B29 bombers in densely populated areas with incendiary bombs to blow up a big "X", this flame burned out of the "X" is very obvious in the dark night, even at an altitude of 10,000 meters B29 aircraft group main force can see clearly, and then the main force of the group to this "X" as the target, thousands of tons of incendiary bombs poured down.

According to Japanese records, under the bombing of the US military in this way, the fire that burned in Japan could not be extinguished for three days and three nights, and after the fire, the Japanese dragged out tens of thousands of charred corpses from the fire, not including those who had been burned so that they could not find the corpses.

This kind of bombing is really powerful.

But here's the problem......

If the Chinese forces want to attack northeast China, where the majority of people live Chinese, bombing in this way will only scorch the target and its vicinity, which will not only cause a large number of casualties among the Chinese people, but also not take advantage of the Chinese army's subsequent defense in northeast China.

So that's not what Zhang Chi wants.

On the other hand, Halsey transferred ten submarines to assist the Chinese army in its attack.

On the surface, the submarine thing doesn't seem to have much impact on the war...... As soon as the battle began, it was almost a heap of planes, warships, and artillery fire, and submarines, which were slow and had pitiful firepower compared to destroyers and cruisers, were always inconspicuous.

But in fact, it is really useful.

For example, now, Zhang Chi wants to have a preliminary understanding of the defense of the Japanese army in Port Arthur, and if he sends a reconnaissance plane or destroyer to reconnoitre, it is obviously not possible, because this will arouse the vigilance of the Japanese army and may expose the strategic target in advance.

However, it is easy to complete the task by sending one or two submarines, and even the submarines can sneak into Port Arthur or send divers to do further reconnaissance by taking advantage of the Japanese army's unpreparedness.

On the other hand, Zhang Chi had reason to believe that due to the importance of Northeast China, as soon as the battle began, it was possible for the Japanese army to transfer troops from the mainland to Northeast China for reinforcements. And submarines are the best option for blockading the seas...... If the blockade is blocked by destroyers, such a large warship or fleet can easily be detected by enemy planes at sea, so the Japanese can flexibly formulate a reinforcement plan according to the detected situation, suspend reinforcements when the enemy ships come, and quickly cross the strait when the enemy ships have passed.

In this way, for the Sino-US coalition forces that want to blockade the strait, they will be able to achieve the goal of blockade even if they exert great efforts.

But if you lose a few submarines in the sea, the situation is completely different.

Most of the time the submarines were lurking in the sea, and the Japanese had no way of knowing how many submarines were in the strait, and at the same time, they had no way of knowing their distribution and location, so they could not formulate any flexible and targeted reinforcement plans...... At this time, it is only possible to try it or use destroyers to escort the escort, and the result of doing so is often to become a target for the combined air power of China and the United States.

Therefore, these ten submarines are undoubtedly a good supplement to the Chinese Navy, which has no submarines available, but unfortunately these submarines are not "sent" to the Chinese Navy, but are only used to assist the Chinese Navy in combat.

This also reminded Zhang Chi that he would seize the opportunity to develop submarines in the future.

From the reconnaissance of the US submarines, Zhang Chi learned that the Japanese fleet in the Chinese direction was mainly stationed in Qingdao...... Except for the three or five Japanese warships that were repairing and replenishing supplies, the rest of Port Arthur were basically transport ships.

This was something that Zhang Chi and Halsey did not expect.

However, it seems normal to think about it, Qingdao is located at the mouth of the Bohai Sea, as long as it is held here, any enemy fleet that enters the Bohai Sea is very likely to be blocked in the Bohai Sea by the Japanese Qingdao fleet.

Further reconnaissance of the Japanese fleet revealed that this Japanese fleet was the Third Fleet, the original Fleet of Aggression against China, and later because its warships were constantly transferred to the Pacific Theater, it was first renamed the Third Fleet for Dispatch to China under the condition that its strength was greatly reduced, and then it was downgraded to a special base unit in Qingdao.

Until now, this warship has been continuously drawn from the fleet that has been continuously downgraded, and only two cruisers and seven destroyers remain.

The first step in the battle, of course, was to destroy the Japanese fleet.

(To be continued.) )