Chapter 56: Everything is ready

"Airplane" Luo Ying, who got up early to pee, just unbuttoned his pants, and rushed back with his pants Zhao Zhi woke up, under the first rays of the dawn, a large number of fighters flew from the west of Fukuoka, and the familiar lightning sign under the wings knew at a glance that it was a thunderous plane. "Sir, it's our plane, it's our plane coming." After holding out in the mountains and forests for three days, the US fleet, which had not arrived for a long time, finally appeared in the Hyuga Sea area in the south of Kyushu Island, and the Thunder fighter unit that had taken off from Jiaodong rushed over to join the US carrier-based aircraft flying team.

"Tell everyone to pack up their gear and get moving." Zhao Zhi was not at all happy because of the appearance of the US fleet, the Japanese army in Fukuoka launched a new siege of the mercenaries yesterday, a total of more than 60 mercenaries ran out of ammunition and food and died in desperate battles, if it were not for the US fleet did not keep its promises and came a day late, those mercenaries would not have died in the hands of the Japanese army. Zhao Zhi didn't know if the U.S. fleet was in trouble and delayed time, but he had already calculated the account on the head of the U.S. Navy, and the thunder people could not die in vain, and the United States had to make compensation.

Thunder's fighter unit was the first to enter the skies over Fukuoka, and several transport planes mixed with the fighter group lowered their altitude and dropped supplies in the airdrop mark area made by the mercenaries, but the fighters were already mixed up with the Japanese fighters arriving from Honshu Island. This should be the largest air battle in the history of the Thunder fighter force, and Mo Lun transferred all the fighters left in the Chinese theater and Burma to Jiaodong, which has the meaning of breaking the kettle and sinking the ship.

These European-style fighters of the Thunder were either retrieved from Britain and France when Zhao Zhi was working for Hitler, or Zhao Zhi used the military aid agreement to get them from the US military, and if you can ignore the insurance money and military salary of those big-nosed pilots, the Thunder fighter unit actually did not cost Zhao Zhi a penny. Thunder is now a big business, and has expanded into a behemoth-like existence, and the broad-minded Morren no longer cares about these old-fashioned European fighters, and when they are gone, they will be gone, and it will be a big deal to ask for them from the Americans.

No matter how fierce the air battle was, the people on the ground couldn't help, so the mercenaries scattered in the mountains of Fukuoka only watched for a while, and then moved to the assembly area according to Zhao Zhi's order. Most of the ammunition and medicine that were airborne by the transport planes were not very many, but they were enough for the more than 2,000 mercenaries under Zhao Zhi to get at least 1 base amount of ammunition each. "Sir, the scout troops have set out, and it is expected that in another three hours, they will be able to make contact with the Japanese troops surrounding us." Zhao Zhi's intelligence staff officer was obviously the busiest person, and he had already gone back and forth between the telecommunications room and the command headquarters more than a dozen times.

The mercenary teams scattered in the mountains need to be assembled, the airdropped ammunition also needs to be distributed, and the tasks of each mercenary team are different, all of which need to be coordinated and arranged. The mercenary team that got the airdrop ammunition set off one by one with the mission briefing, and Zhao Zhi and his escort team were the last team to leave here.

The desperate air battle ended with the Thunder fighter unit retreating on its own initiative, and the number of fighters deployed by the Japanese army on the mainland was too large, and the more than 100 fighters that flew over the Thunder Sea were not enough for the Japanese air force to attack. The 32 Thunder fighters shot down by the Japanese army would not die in vain, and they attracted most of the Japanese fighters on Honshu Island for the US fleet that was about to blitz the coast of Honshu Island.

Before the air battle over Fukuoka was over, the US carrier-based aircraft group that took off from the US aircraft carrier began to bomb the coast of Honshu, and more than 400 US warplanes took part in the bombing of the coast of Honshu. The several bombardments of Kyushu Island by Thunder were only a few dozen warplanes, and now the number of warplanes deployed by the US military is several times higher than that of Kyushu Island, and more importantly, the Japanese do not know how the US fleet escaped the encirclement of the Japanese Combined Fleet and appeared in the waters of Honshu.

After the Battle of Midway, the battered Japanese Combined Fleet was not discouraged, but reorganized into a Combined Fleet after integrating all the ships on the mainland. Although it can't be compared to the combined fleet before Midway, it is still second to none in Asian waters. The news of the joint operation between the US military and the Thunder is a top secret returned by the United States, and the Japanese Combined Fleet, which has carried out blockade strikes in Philippine waters, has not relaxed its vigilance against the North Pacific, but they did not expect that the US fleet would directly attack their homeland at any cost.

The main reason why the US fleet appeared one day later than the time agreed with Zhao Zhi was that after a whole day of fierce fighting, the US fleet split into two and used the Seventh Fleet to entangle the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the Third Fleet, which was loaded with a large number of landing troops, was able to continue to move forward.

Zhao Zhi did not know that the U.S. fleet had been intercepted by the Japanese Combined Fleet, and he only cared when the U.S. fleet would carry out a landing attack on Nara on the island of Honshu. The choice of Nara as the landing site of the U.S. fleet was not the result of Zhao Zhi's special selection, what Zhao Zhi needed was to use the U.S. fleet's attack posture on the Japanese mainland to divert the attention of the Japanese army as much as possible, and Zhao Zhi's real killer move was the ocean-going fleet that had rushed to the southern coast of Kyushu Island.

After unloading the supply ammunition in Nichinan, the Rockman family's ocean-going fleet will bypass Kagoshima and enter the East China Sea and head north to the Jiaodong Peninsula, where the Thunder Jewish Legion, which has already assembled in Jiaodong, will carry some heavy equipment on board the ship to blitz Fukagawa Bay in Nagato, Honshu Island, and then attack in the direction of Nagato, Yamaguchi, and Otake in the direction of Honshu Island. After more than three years of hard work, half of the 40 infiltrators have entered the defense force of Deep River Bay, and with their help, it will be relatively easy for the Jewish Legion to land in Deep River Bay.

With the unsealing of the information of the Shenchuan Lurker troops, those combat staff officers under Zhao Zhi began to secretly call Zhao Zhi a half-immortal. After Zhao Zhi led the team to land on Kyushu Island, the information of all the lurkers had been unsealed within the thunder. But this Shenchuan lurker force was personally commanded and contacted by Zhao Zhi, and even Zhao Zhi's most trusted intelligence staff officer did not know about it. Considering all the battle plans and steps of Thunder in the past six months, the operational staff officers came to a conclusion in surprise that when Thunder sent a lurker unit to sneak into the Japanese mainland a few years ago, Zhao Zhi may have been planning to land in Japan to carry out the local operation.

"Hurry, hurry, we have to set up a blocking line before the Japanese army reacts, and we all speed up." Of the more than 3,000 mercenaries that Zhao Zhi had placed on the outskirts of Fukuoka, 2,000 had already rushed to Nichinan ahead of schedule, and Zhang Jinquan's sniper squad was among them. The line of Nihonan to the inland of Kyushu Island has been set up by these mercenaries to intercept no less than 6 lines, and their sole purpose is to buy time for the ocean-going fleet to carry ammunition ashore.

With the old Rod's temperament, it is impossible for the Rockman family's ocean-going fleet to have only crew members and sailors, and after recruiting a staff group for Rowling, the elder Rhodes recruited reserve mercenaries in the United States and conducted various trainings through the foreign mercenaries left in Florida by Zhao Zhi. It is impossible for the Lockman family to sell arms all the time, and the success of Thunder has made Old Rhodes see that the greater good is in front of him, and the 5,000 mercenaries, mainly Americans, are still called Thunder Mercenaries, but these big noses that Old Rhodes has high hopes for have not yet been affirmed by Zhao Zhi.

The 5,000 mercenaries trained by the Rockman family are a guarantee for the smooth unloading of the ocean-going fleet in Ninan, and it is also a practical exercise for old Rhodes to verify the combat effectiveness of these mercenaries. The ocean-going fleet does not have naval guns, but they have landing ships, American large-caliber heavy mortars on the modified deck, and they also have Zhang Jinquan's sniper team to help flank the Nisan defenders.

James was the only non-combatant in Zhang Jinquan's squadron, and the only English-speaking part-time translator in Zhang Jinquan's squadron, and followed the sniper squadron around Fukuoka for five days, and fought no less than four battles with the Japanese army, James admitted from the bottom of his heart that he underestimated Lei Ting and Zhao Zhi. If you talk about the quality of individual soldiers, maybe the German Daredevil unit and the British Royal Task Force can also handle it, but when it comes to the cooperative operation between small units, I am afraid that the mercenaries of Thunder consider themselves second, and no army of that country dares to recognize the first.

James's private admiration for this ranking has also been told to Zhang Jinquan, but Zhang Jinquan is a guy who ignores everything except sniper rifles, how does he know what the German Daredevil and the British Royal Task Force are. If Ye Kong was here, he might be able to chat with James, and maybe he would take the opportunity to tease James. Because James didn't know that the so-called German Night Demon unit was the commando team of the SS that the Germans had captured Buckingham Palace at the beginning, and that commando team was all apprentices taught by Zhao Zhi for three months from top to bottom.

"All cheered up, the Japanese army came up and was ready to fire." The mercenary commander who commanded the blocking roared loudly, and the mercenary next to him pulled the bolt to load the heavy machine gun, and only waited for the Japanese troops hundreds of meters away to get closer, and the Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun would immediately fire.