Truk was completely paralyzed.

Under the onslaught of the Americans, the 286 fighters at the Truk base, including 86 Feiyan fighters and 18 newly commissioned Hurricane fighters, have all fallen victim to the Americans' war exploits.

This also made US fighter planes fly in the surrounding skies even more unscrupulously.

Moreover, in the bombing of the US army, the Japanese also lost 54 warships of various types, including 2 cruisers and 6 destroyers, in addition to the battleship Hyuga and the aircraft carrier Akagi, which had just come to the rescue, were also seriously injured and paralyzed, and had to go back for overhaul.

Although this was not as bad as the Americans' Pearl Harbor, it was already a heavy casualty for the Japanese.

And the most deadly thing is that the bombing by the Americans blew up the explosives depot and oil depot of the base, as well as the facilities and repair yards of the port, so that the Japanese could no longer use this place as a base for large warships.

A fleet does not need a sheltered harbor to anchor, it needs fuel, ammunition, food, fresh water and medicine for personnel, a dock where it can dock safely, and even a repair shop that can repair the damaged parts of the battleship, as well as ordinary maintenance. Ordinary islands are difficult to replenish with fresh water alone, not to mention the huge fuel consumption of warships

If you only rely on the oil tankers that follow you, not to mention the danger when replenishing the fuel, how many oil tankers does a huge fleet need to follow? In particular, oil tankers are definitely a time bomb in wartime, and they may be ignited by the opponent at any time. The main thing is the harsh climate at sea, sometimes even the battleships themselves cannot be saved, let alone those supply ships that are weakly defended.

Without the replenishment of the land base, it is likely that the long-distance voyage will not return.

But like Rabaul, Truk at this time had lost part of its function as a naval base. The main warships of the Japanese Navy could only continue to retreat and retreat to Guam.

After Wake Island was also recovered by the Americans. The American fleet can directly threaten the Southern Islands. And even closer to Japan. The main warship moved to Guam, which could not only defend the Carolingian Islands, but also strengthen the security of the island chain of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Southern Islands. But places farther afield, such as the Gilbert Islands, may be overlooked.

The Japanese can't take care of that much anymore. Under the attack of China and the United States, it is a great blessing to be able to maintain the security of the homeland. Even if Huaxia did not exert force, the Americans dispatched less than a third of their strength.

Although the Americans have already increased their troops in Asia at this time. However, a larger number of troops were deployed in Europe, and even at least twice as many troops were dispatched to the European theater while providing support to Asia.

Although the U.S. forces on the Italian and British fronts didn't seem to increase much, they secretly didn't know how many troops were lurking and preparing for a larger battle.

Before opening up the North African theater, Britain and the United States were planning a large-scale landing operation in Europe.

The reason why the Russians worked so the Eastern Front, in addition to their own complete fundamental reasons, was because Britain and the United States had promised to launch a second battlefield on the European continent on the Western Front.

Using Great Britain as a battlefield would not be enough to shake the very foundation of the Germans on the European continent, which is the source of all problems.

"Take advantage of the main forces of the Germans to fight out. Caught up in Soviet Russia on the Eastern Front and the British on the Western Front, we will take the opportunity to break into the European continent, and the effect will be better! "Americans want it even more.

Even the British opposed it at first. But after all, the initiative is in the hands of the Americans. Moreover, the second battlefield on the European continent will inevitably weaken the German offensive against Great Britain. So I finally agreed.

"Where should we choose?" After Britain and the United States agreed on the choice of the European continent as the target, they had a headache in choosing the landing site, and after repeated agreements, it was finally decided that France would be the target.

The landing in Italy was only an extension of the Torch program, and the place where Mussolini operated for more than twenty years could not open the situation at all.

By the same token, Spain and Portugal, although closer to North Africa, which the Allies already controlled, were both close to Germany, and had no popular base, and the landing would only be more difficult.

And the hostility of the French to the Germans provided the best popular base for the next move of the Allies.

The most powerful army power at the time also retained at least three inches of iron nails, and as long as they were well armed, the French could quickly organize anti-German forces. Britain and the United States held the two big chips of Charles de Gaulle and General Giraud, and some French troops remained in the Allied forces, and many people in the Vichy government were also deeply dissatisfied after the Germans fully occupied France and looted and squeezed it.

Now, as soon as there are torches, the comb of the Gallic chicken will be ignited and burned directly to the immediate mainland of Germany.

Anyway, no matter how much it is burned, even if the whole of France is also martyred, it will not do any harm to Britain and the United States. And once it landed in France, in addition to directly threatening Germany, the accumulation of hundreds or even thousands of years in France, those who did not have cheap Germans, I am afraid that part of them will fall into the mouths of Britain and the United States, especially the Americans.

It is necessary to choose the fattest one, and France is far better than Spain, which has not yet recovered from the civil war.

As a result, the inertia of history began to flare up again under the influence of some inevitable factors.

"We should choose Normandy!" Eisenhower Road.

This is a result of the collective calculation of many staff officers behind him.

In order to reassure the French, and to prevent the Germans from reacting in time, they controlled France with their backhands and dealt a heavy blow to the British and American troops who landed, and the location of the Allied landing was as close to the northeast of France as possible. And here it was close to the German border, and in some places it was not as well defended as the southwestern coastal areas of France.

"Although the landing conditions on the Contantine Peninsula near Normandy were better, the terrain there was too narrow for the deployment of large forces and could easily be blocked by the Germans. And Calais ......," Eisenhower continued.

After determining the northern coast of France, Britain and the United States quickly selected three landing sites: the Contantine Peninsula, Normandy, and Calais, based on the three conditions of whether they were within the range of Allied fighters, whether there was a large port where a large number of ships could dock to transport troops and subsequent supplies, and whether the distance to cross was short. In the first plan, Calais was the best.

"But Calais is gathering heavy German troops, and it will be difficult for us to conquer it in a short time!" Eisenhower Road.

The Germans were not yet another time and space facing the two-front counteroffensive of the Allies, and when the defense was emphasized, Calais did not have so many defensive fortresses and fortifications, but because Calais was one of the best passages for the Germans to land in Britain, there were always large armies, although the attention was insufficient, but the defensive strength was far beyond that of later generations.

The main force of this attack is the US military, and the Americans will certainly not be happy to let the Americans gnaw on the hard bone of Calais at a heavy cost.

They chose the Germans to defend Normandy, which was also somewhat careless.

The Germans, who were now in decline, did not yet expect a major Anglo-American counteroffensive.

About one-third of Britain itself is still in the hands of the Germans, and more than half of the territory of Soviet Russia is in the hands of the Germans, in addition to the Allied forces having a little advantage in North Africa, they are also being pressed down in Italy, and the Americans, the main force of the Allied forces, are still fighting hotly in Asia, how could they think that Britain and the United States planned a major counterattack on the European continent?

But Britain and the United States gave the Germans such a hand in places they didn't expect.

On May 7, the day of the full moon, the tides and the moonlight were sufficient, and the Allies took this as D-day and launched an attack.

At 1 a.m., the airborne landing began first.

After the successive victories of the Chinese airborne, both the German and Allied forces strengthened their offensive and defense in this regard. In order to defend against the bombers that the British often came over, there were also air defense forces near Normandy to intercept them, but the Germans did not expect the Allies to come so suddenly.

The Allies also chose five different locations for this attack, because the Germans were short of troops.

The Russians had been on a rampage, and nearly 70% of the Germans were concentrated on the Eastern Front.

The tens of millions of casualties of the Russians were not in vain, and after so many years of war, the elite troops of the Germans were sharply reduced. Even after the total number of troops was distributed to Italy and North Africa, as well as after the bombing of the localities, it was somewhat difficult. Especially when the Allies deliberately divided the German forces, in this area of Normandy, there were only two divisions and three brigades.

After noticing that the situation on the British side was somewhat abnormal, he added some troops. There was also an armoured division that patrolled Normandy and a large area around it.

Of course, the strength of the Allied forces was not as exaggerated as the original history. While the war was still raging on the British mainland, the large-scale military build-up could not hide from the Germans.

Obviously, the Anglo-American deception tactics were not bad, using the arrival of reinforcements and the terrain cover of Scotland, so that the Allies gathered more than a million troops for the landing.

Of course, the initial landing personnel were only two divisions and three airborne brigades, and the rest were overwhelmingly in the dark.

Even among the allied forces, until the moment before the operation, only a very small number of people knew about it, and as for outsiders, they didn't know about this overlord plan. Except, of course, Meng Xiang.