"The Americans have finally taken the bait!" Meng Xiang breathed a sigh of relief.

With no one knowing about the existence of the base, China's instigation of the United States and Japan to continue fighting in the Philippines is considered a conspiracy, and even if the United States and Japan know about it, they will continue to entangle. They all want to deal with China, and the Philippines is a springboard that no one can give up.

Only by controlling the Philippines can it be easy to jam the South China Sea and separate China from the north and south.

If it weren't for the fact that Meng Xiang had a base by his side, he would have risked turning his face with the Americans, plotting to seize the Philippines and completely encircle the South China Sea as an inland sea.

Of course, if there is really no base, it is impossible for Meng Xiang, an otaku, to grow to this point, and even the fate of Huaxia in the future is still precarious, where is there still the confidence to challenge the Americans.

Meng Xiang has restored a sub-base on Kalimantan Island, plus a sub-base on Sumatra, so that he can hold these islands without outside support. Australia's three sub-bases and Australia's abundant resources are also self-sufficient.

This also made Meng Xiang dare to throw the Philippines out, let Japan and the United States fight to the death first, and avoid too much resistance and too much external interference in China's next preparations for Japan's domestic offensive.

"It's a pity that we have to wait a little longer!" Fan Chong, who had always been steady, couldn't help but glance at the battle plan on the table again.

Counterattacking the Japanese mainland is a dream in the hearts of every Chinese person.

From 38 onwards, the staff department of the vanguard army began to formulate a plan for a counteroffensive against the Japanese mainland, which was constantly updated and improved, although there were only more than 30 simple pages on the table, but behind it there were at least a few wagons of detailed information.

But the plan is updated year after year, and Meng Xiang, who looks at the plan every year, always regrets that the best time is not the best.

In 40 years, China already had the strength to counterattack Japan, but many generals' requests for war were not approved.

Later, a series of changes such as the Japanese army going south and the United States and Japan turning their faces also made Fan Chong understand that Meng Xiang's plan was big. It's not just about being a king in a neighboring land.

And with Huaxia following behind the Japanese. After conquering Southeast Asia and Australia step by step, without Meng Xiang coming to find it, Fan Chong knew that the time had come to completely clean up the Japanese.

There is not much use value for letting the Japanese play with broadswords. What remains is to seize the greatest fruit of nearly 100 years of industrial accumulation in Japan.

Japan's industry is less than that of Europe and the United States, but it was once ranked first in Asia and among the top seven in the world. Many aspects of technology and level. Even Huaxia can't compare. Such a big piece of fat meat is a great tonic for the development of China. It is simply impossible to say that the Americans do not covet and do not interfere.

Meng Xiang could only first follow the original trajectory of history, bring in the Americans, use the Japanese to weaken the strength of the Americans, and use this opportunity to strengthen Huaxia's own strength.

Before the spring of 44 came, Meng Xiang finally had the confidence to challenge the United States and approved the plan to counterattack the Japanese mainland.

However, there are many things to prepare for this plan, and Huaxia, which is stabilizing the situation in the south and Central Asia, needs a time to prepare. And the Japanese still have the strength to fight, which is why Meng Xiang threw out the Philippines and gave full play to the surplus value of the Japanese. Again drain the strength of the Americans. Contrarily. It was also the use of the United States to crush the last resistance of Japan.

At present, the number of Japanese troops is claimed to be 7 million, although it is an exaggeration, but it still maintains more than 5 million. Even if the elite is less than a million. Most of them are recruits, and there are many teenagers and more than 50 old people who have not lost their milk, but once the Japanese go crazy, the destructive power is still quite large.

At least Meng Xiang didn't want the Chinese to endure the madness of the first few waves of the Japanese.

Moreover, although the vitality of the Japanese Navy was greatly damaged, its combat effectiveness was still not weak, and even if the emerging Chinese Navy could win, the losses would be very large, especially the damage to personnel. Meng Xiang also did not mind letting the last glory of the Japanese Navy manifest itself in front of the Americans.

"Don't worry, the US Navy has already attacked!" Meng Xiang comforted Fan Chongdao.

The threat behind them could not be cleared, and the Americans did not dare to attack the Philippines from a distance, or even further to the Japanese mainland.

Similar to New Caledonia, which has not yet been occupied, there is only the Japanese army on top, and even threatening air power cannot be dispatched, so the Americans who are in a hurry naturally do not take these things seriously.

Rabaul, where Japan's main warships have been evacuated, and Irian Island, which is also only threatened by the Japanese Army, are also not worth the time of the Americans, while the Caroline Islands and Midway, where the Japanese main warships are stationed, are thorns in the side of the Americans.

Without solving the problem of the Japanese Combined Fleet, landing in the Philippines is nonsense.

The strong mobility of the Navy also determined that the Americans would not only have to deal with Japanese warships near the Philippines, but also more Japanese warships in the Pacific.

As for the warships near the Philippines, the Americans also hope that they will continue to blockade China's cargo ships, so as not to let China gain first. So the first target of the attack was set on this other line.

The Americans want to open up the Central Pacific front.

With the construction of Pearl Harbor accelerating, many warships and merchant ships were able to dock in Hawaii to get enough supplies.

It is undoubtedly more convenient to travel from the west coast of the United States to Southeast Asia via Hawaii than to bypass the Panama Canal from the east coast and use the South Pacific islands of the French colonies as a springboard. In particular, the U.S. military lacks a suitable forward base, and the large amount of supplies needed has to be delivered by ocean transportation.

The surge in transportation costs has led Americans to consider opening up the Hawaii route.

From Hawaii to the west and south, you can't avoid Midway, Wake Island and the Marshall Islands.

The Americans first set their sights on Midway.

The Hawaiian Islands have not been completely recovered, so why continue to move west to south?

After occupying Midway, the Japanese did not continue their offensive to Hawaii and expanded their gains.

The Japanese did not have the ability to conduct long-distance landing operations at all, so they reluctantly overturned more than a dozen landing plans, and finally shelved their plans to attack Hawaii, and instead pinned their hopes on reconciling the Americans at the negotiating table.

The Americans quickly controlled the riots in Hawaii, imprisoned many Japanese expatriates, and quickly sent troops to help, so that the Japanese had no chance in the future.

The Japanese, who had already captured the island of Lysan, built an advance base around the core of Midway,

In 40 years, the Americans had already built a submarine base and an air base on Midway, and most of the Japanese took it over, and after a short rest, the Japanese submarines used it as a base, although it was not a great threat to American warships, but for those large cargo ship formations, it was sometimes fatal.

In addition, the aviation base of more than 100 aircraft and a battleship formation headed by the top class heavy cruiser have been stationed here for a long time, and it has become a thorn in the side of the Americans.

The Japanese naturally understood the important role of Midway, the central springboard in the Pacific Ocean and to the US outpost, and in addition to the heavily defended Midway, the battleships and aircraft carrier formations of the Combined Navy often cruised around it.

The Americans only touched here, which meant a large-scale naval battle.

Previously, due to the strength of the Japanese navy, the Americans only dared to harass in the vicinity, and the engagement was also small-scale. And this time, the Americans, apparently, are going to solve the problem of Midway once and for all.

On 7 February, three U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and the newly refurbished USS Hawaiian-Montana-class battleship swooped down on Midway with more than a hundred other warships.

"Get rid of these filthy Japanese dwarfs from the Pacific Ocean once and for all!" This time, Admiral Halsey, the commander-in-chief of the navy, encouraged his hands and said.

In the initial Battle of Midway, the United States lost its troops, and even Halsey was almost captured. This time, Halsey personally led his flagship, the Essex-class New Enterprise, to wash away the shame.

The U.S. fleet began with a three-pronged sortie, and the fighters on the aircraft carrier swooped directly at the nearby Japanese fleet.

Midway is 2,100 kilometers northwest of Hawaii, and even the 2,900-kilometer range of the B-17 bombers is somewhat inadequate, and they can only rely on the attack of the HNA Navy.

However, the combat effectiveness of the three aircraft carriers has already surpassed the fighters deployed by the Japanese on Midway.

A series of battles in the south had already drawn the Japanese elite. Aircraft carriers and new aircraft are first serving the battlefields in Southeast Asia and Australia, while on the Hawaiian front line in the United States, which has been playing soy sauce, fighter jets are still dominated by Zero and Super Zero, and the patrol of aircraft carriers has not come for a long time.

At the beginning, the Americans pressed and fought, but after all, the fighters could not land. The ship-borne bombardment could not shake the fortifications that the Americans had worked hard to build and that had been strengthened by the Japanese, and the Japanese had already learned to survive part of the aerial bombardment.

When the Japanese bought the Supreme Heavy Cruiser sank into the sea with 4 bombs and 2 torpedoes, the Americans were already preparing to land before the Japanese reinforcements arrived.