Ushijima's guess and approach were obviously correct, because after he made a series of deployments, the US military launched an attack on Okinawa in less than half a month. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Okinawa campaign launched by the U.S. military was most directly affected not by Okinawa, but by Tokyo......

In Tokyo, when Hideki Tojo stepped down and Kuniaaki Koshiki came to power, he threatened that the war situation would soon improve in order to appease the people or the people.

The "improvement" mentioned here is that Prime Minister Koshikuni Showa and Chief of Staff Umezu Mijiro have their own plans.

During this period, he got in touch with the puppet regime puppet Nanjing government and met with the puppet Nanjing government Miao Bin in Tokyo, hoping to contact the Chongqing government through the puppet Nanjing government, and reconcile with the Chongqing government while the Chongqing government was still besieged by the Japanese army, and then achieve the goal of armistice with the US army through the Chongqing government.

But Xiao Ji Guozhao's idea is a bit wishful thinking, Principal Jiang is not a fool, of course he can see that the Japanese army at this time is at the end of its power...... After so many years of fighting in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it seemed that little Japan was about to collapse, how could it be possible to reconcile with Japan at the last moment, so he categorically rejected Koshiko's request.

The strategy failed.

Needless to say, the plan of the chief of staff of the Japanese army, Umezu Yoshijiro, was to force the Americans back to the negotiating table through the decisive battle of Leyte Gulf.

But the result was also a failure.

Originally, the Japanese army kept this information secret, and it was nothing if the people did not know about it, but when the American army launched an attack on Okinawa...... I can't hide it anymore.

Less than a year after he became prime minister, he was forced to resign.

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki was forced to power by the Emperor of Japan...... The reason why it is said that he was forced to come to power is because no one in Japan at this time wanted to be the prime minister, and it was obvious that the Japanese army at this time was already defeated, and no one could clean up this mess, so they were unwilling to carry this black cauldron.

Kantaro Suzuki has an even better reason, that is, he was shot three times by the rebels at close range during the 226 coup d'état in Japan six years ago, hitting him in the head, chest, and abdomen, but even then he was able to save him...... Therefore, people also call him "the immortal ghost".

Kantaro Suzuki resigned as prime minister on the pretext that he was seriously injured and deaf, but the emperor forcibly appointed him as prime minister.

Umezu Yoshijiro is still firmly in the position of chief of staff, although many of these wrong decisions are made by him and have nothing to do with Koshiki Kuniaki.

One of these mistakes was his misjudgment of the US army's attack on Okinawa, and it was not until the US B29 bombers bombed Okinawa that Umezu Mijiro hurriedly sent a telegram to Ushijima: "Ushijima-kun, you must defend Okinawa Island, this is related to the life and death of the Japanese Empire, and I will send you reinforcements soon." Please! ”

Ushijima only "snorted" when he saw this telegram, and until this time Umezu Mijiro had not admitted his mistake.

As for what kind of "reinforcements", lie to the ghosts!

Everyone knows that Okinawa is an island, and there is no Japanese Combined Fleet...... Japan itself simply did not have the capacity to provide reinforcements to Okinawa.

Ushijima was wrong about this, and Umezu Mijiro really sent reinforcements to Okinawa, and this support force was the remnants of the Japanese battleship "Yamato".

Umezu Mijiro's whimsical thoughts...... When the US troops launched a landing operation against Okinawa, a large number of US troops rushed on the beach to fight the Japanese troops, because if a Japanese fleet could be inserted into the middle of the US landing force, wouldn't antiaircraft machine guns and artillery fire be able to bombard the back of the US landing force indiscriminately?

Although Japanese officers generally liked to gamble, this strategy was a bit too idealistic.

The reality was that the battleship "Yamato" was only halfway through the distance before it was blown up and sunk by US bombers...... The US military is not a fool, how can it be that the rear and flanks are defenseless during a landing operation, not to mention that the US military also has sea and air radars.

Fortunately, Ushijima did not pin his hopes on Umezu Mijiro's "reinforcements", otherwise he was afraid that he would be angry to death when he heard this.

Ushijima's maneuvering of forces soon proved to be far-sighted.

The U.S. military launched an attack on Okinawa in an orderly manner, and the B29 took off from Iwo Jima and the Mariana Islands, and immediately bombed several airfields on Okinawa Island...... If Ushijima had not withdrawn his troops and fighters from the central airfield to the south, where the terrain was more complicated, he would have suffered heavy losses at the first opportunity.

Then the U.S. military attacked the small islands around Okinawa, and to the surprise of the U.S. military...... They thought they would have to fight a tough battle when attacking the islands, but they easily captured the Kerama Islands (eight islands west of Okinawa), and the Americans paid a minor price of 31 killed and 81 wounded.

The U.S. military then set up artillery bases on these islands and stored supplies as a base for attacking Okinawa.

According to Halsey's thoughts, it is very likely that the Japanese army will shrink all its forces to Okinawa Island and prepare for a "decisive battle" with the US forces on Okinawa Island, so they thought that landing on Okinawa Island would be a difficult task.

Halsey even estimated that the U.S. military would most likely pay about 20,000 casualties to land on Okinawa and gain a foothold.

But the result was unexpected by Halsey......

Halsey's method of attacking the east and the west at the time of landing, that is, feints to attack the western beach in the center, is actually intended to attack the eastern beach.

However, the feint troops were basically not resisted, and they did succeed in landing by accident...... On the first day of the U.S. landing, only 28 were killed, 104 wounded, and 27 missing.

Most of those killed and wounded were injured by stray bullets or landmines.

Soon, the U.S. military took control of Yomitan Airport and Kadena Airport, and relied on modern machinery and equipment to quickly repair these two airports, so that Kadena Airport could be used for emergency landing on the afternoon of the day of landing, and Yomitan Airport could be put into operation the next day.

At this time, every American officer and soldier, including Halsey, was pondering the question: "Where is the enemy?" ”

Where is the enemy? This may be a ridiculous question, walk around the battlefield with a gun, and the enemy will be there wherever there is a gunshot!

But this is what happened on the island of Okinawa.

According to the US military's thinking, the most important thing in attacking an island is to capture an airfield on the island or control a piece of land to build an airfield, because in this way it can ensure the continuous transportation of strategic material resources to the island from the air. Just like Guadalcanal.

But what they didn't know was that at this time the battle for Okinawa had just begun.