After paying hundreds of casualties, the Jewish troops finally gained a foothold on the beachhead with great difficulty, and the addition of subsequent mercenary troops showed a precursor to the collapse of the already precarious defense line of the Ichito Brigade." Your Excellency Nakasa, our line of defense cannot be held, and we must order our soldiers to retreat backwards, and our heavy artillery can only open fire if we distance ourselves from the other side. Ichito Sakai's lieutenant suggested that the Totsuka Wing have heavy artillery in the harbor, but there is a scuffle on the beachhead, and firing the artillery at this time will hurt the soldiers on their own side.

"Fire the cannon now, and let our soldiers serve the emperor." Kneeling in the command headquarters, Ichito Zuoyan carefully wiped his command knife, with the appearance of the second batch of landing troops, Ito Zuoyan already knew that this batch of tidal flats could not be defended, he had the heart to be loyal to the emperor to the death, and he would definitely not take half a step back if he held on to the tidal flats.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I see." Ichito Saoiwa's adjutant bent down and bowed away, he had already heard the mortal heart from Ichito Saoiwa's words, so he no longer persuaded Ichito to retreat. After the deputy left, the other officers in the command also bowed to Ichito Sayan and left, not to be deserters, but to the firepower point of the forward position. The young officers, who had been educated in militarism since childhood, saw it a shame to retreat, so they planned to fight until the last moment, even if they died here.

The fourth round of air strikes came as scheduled, and from time to time there would be violent explosions on the dragon's spine, which had been burned to the ground by incendiary bombs, and it was the explosion of ammunition hoarded in the closed firing points of the Japanese army. The firepower from the direction of Longji was getting weaker and weaker, but Yan Wudao, who was hiding in the trenches, did not dare to take it lightly, and directly drew out a wing of troops to move towards the port under the cover of those amphibious armored vehicles. "Send a signal to Sir that the beachhead has been secured and that the landing force is moving to both flanks as originally planned."

Under the salvo of US naval guns and the uninterrupted air raids of fighter planes, the Japanese defense facilities in Incheon Harbor were almost completely destroyed, and now in Incheon Harbor there are only more than 100 Japanese soldiers who are busy fleeing for their lives. Most of the Japanese ships that had been relied on by the Japanese at Inchon were sunk in the first round of naval gun salvo fire from the American fleet, and the Japanese ships that were still floating in the harbor were only holding on, and after another round of naval artillery salvos, all the Japanese ships anchored in the harbor were all scrap metal. Zhao Zhi's biggest advantage as a descendant is that he was born in the United States, received an American-style education since he was a child, and knows a little about the role of the US military in World War II and some major battles. The main combat mission of the US military in the later stage of the Pacific Campaign was the landing war, of which the US Marine Corps was the leading force in the landing operation, of course, the high casualties of the US Marine Corps were also unique in the Pacific War, after the war, Nimitz, the commander of the US Pacific Theater of Operations, gave high praise to the Marines who participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima: "The Americans who fought on Iwo Jima, extraordinary bravery is their common characteristic!" ”

Especially famous is the Battle of Iwo Jima, Zhao Zhi even found it hard to believe that the Japanese army carried out a landing war on an island like Iwo Jima that was almost completely isolated, with 20,000 people, relying on fortifications to resist 100,000 American troops for a whole month, if it were not for the Japanese army's reserves of ammunition and materials were exhausted before being occupied by the American army, the Japanese commander Kuribayashi Tadamichi was also because of his strategy and tenacity. He led and organized the anti-landing battle on Iwo Jima, and even won the respect of the U.S. military for him.

The U.S. military suffered more casualties than the Japanese in the capture of Iwo Jima, and this was the only case in the Pacific War in which the casualties of the landing side exceeded those of the anti-landing side. With no naval and air support and no reinforcements and supplies, the Japanese army put up stubborn resistance with the ground forces relying on strong and concealed fortifications, adopted correct tactics, and made the small island that the US had planned to capture in five days. It took 36 days to fight and pay a heavy price for human casualties.

Historically, Iwo Jima can be called the battle of the US Marine Corps, but due to the bloody battles between Kuah Island and Saipan, the casualties of the US military top brass for the front-line troops have reached the limit of domestic public opinion and the public, and even most of the congressmen are worried about the casualties of the United States in the follow-up operations in the Pacific Theater. For many of these reasons, the U.S. Marine Corps did not receive the credit they deserved, and instead many Americans focused their attention on Saipan.

The landing operation of the US troops in the Philippines seemed to be unusually smooth, and the Japanese army actually had the posture of abandoning the Philippines to a great extent; except for the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was fighting in search of opportunities, the Japanese Army in the Philippines had only four divisions and two independent brigades. Historically, in order to hold on to the strategic base of the Philippines, the Japanese army had formulated the "Jie" battle plan to prepare for a decisive battle with the US army.

To this end, the Japanese army established an army front in the Philippines, and because Yamashita was appointed as the commander of the Indian Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Suzuki Sosaku, who was the deputy commander in history, became the commander of the army, and commanded a total of 8 infantry divisions and 4 independent mixed brigades.

Although the Japanese army invested nearly three-fifths less troops in the Philippines than in history, Zhao Zhi knew that the Japanese were not fools or idiots, and they were not afraid of the US army when they showed a posture of avoiding war at this time. The Japanese military should have realized that it was gradually losing its vital naval supremacy in the Pacific Theater, and that the Japanese army was trying to carry out strategic contraction, and after losing its control of the sea, the Japanese army was setting up a trap for the US military in an attempt to compete with the US military on land.

The Japanese won the Battle of Midway at the beginning of the Pacific War, which gave the Japanese a strategic advantage, and the Japanese used nearly a year to strengthen the defenses of the Guadalcanal Islands and Saipan, and also carried out a large number of reinforcements. Iwo Jima is an extremely important strategic point in Japan's absolute defense circle, and its army and naval air forces can take off from Iwo Jima to intercept US bombers that are taking off from Saipan to bomb the Japanese mainland. Especially at this moment, it is a matter of life and death for the Japanese.

After carefully analyzing this information, Zhao Zhicai began to formulate a battle plan for landing in Korea, because he knew that history would eventually be the same as in the previous life, and Japan would finally have to rely on those islands to resist to the end. Zhao Zhi knew that the proud Japanese army had no way to retreat, and the Allies were also bound to win Iwo Jima and Saipan Islands, so this battle was already imperative. The U.S. military has been urging the Thunder to send troops south to help in the war, not to mention the geographical location of Singapore, that is, Indonesia, the Thunder may not be able to intervene, if Zhao Zhi does not take the initiative to find fighters, the last thing that will fall on the head of the Thunder is probably the Saipan landing battle or the Iwo Jima landing battle.

Can the Thunder repeat the mistakes of the U.S. military on Iwo Jima? The answer is naturally no, Zhao Zhi carefully recalled the information on the landing of U.S. troops on Iwo Jima and Saipan in his previous life, and if Thunder took over one of the landing missions, Zhao Zhi was sure that such a landing combat mission would likely become a battle of sand and sand for Thunder. In order to avoid this situation, Zhao Zhicai formulated a battle plan to land in Korea to distract the attention of the Japanese army, and in his subconscious, the Korean Japanese army should be weaker than the Japanese army in Nanyang.

In order to avoid heavy casualties among the US landing forces in his previous life, Zhao Zhi, who had referred to the materials of the Iwo Jima Battle in his previous life, formulated a highly feasible landing operation plan. Zhao Zhi planned to first carry out intensive bombardment of the landing site with absolute firepower, using a large number of naval guns and heavy bombs to bombard the Japanese coastal fortifications, and then the moving artillery observers relied on walkie-talkies to contact the fleet and eliminate the Japanese firepower points that were exposed one after another during the reconnaissance. Zhao Zhi knew that although this smoke isolation zone would affect the accuracy of the US naval guns and the accuracy of aerial bombardment, this smoke belt could play a role in providing cover for the beachhead team.

However, Zhao Zhi knows in his heart that a plan is always a plan, and many objective and unexpected situations are unpredictable, and Zhao Zhi has extremely high expectations for the cooperation of the US military, but he knows that he cannot completely count on the US military, and Thunder must formulate tactics and strategies suitable for himself based on the existing conditions, and reduce the dependence on the US military to the edge of the minimum demand. The collapse of the Japanese garrison at the port was exacerbated by the appearance of mercenary units, and after a large number of smoke grenades were thrown at the Japanese positions, the mercenaries in leather armor launched an attack on the Japanese positions.

This is often the case in war, no matter how energetic the defenders shout, but as long as there is the first retreat among them, the second and third will follow, and if the commander who leads the team cannot stop this situation as soon as possible, then the team will collapse, and I am afraid it will be contagious, especially when the two armies are facing each other. In the face of an infantry wing of the Japanese army guarding the port, Zhao Zhi not only used the naval guns and carrier-based aircraft of the entire Seventh Fleet, but also put more than 4,000 landing soldiers at one time.

The second batch of landed mercenaries reached 3,000 people, and in the face of such superior firepower and troops of Thunder, let alone Torizuka, even if Okamura Ninji was transferred, it would be useless. Looking at the smoky harbor from afar, Zhao Zhi ordered the third batch of landing troops to set off, and when the landing ships were transporting the landing troops back and forth by the wind, the first attack echelon commanded by Yan Wudao had already crossed the defense line of the Itoto Brigade and was outflanking Incheon Port from the right side.

"Send a report to Jiaodong immediately and start airdropping supplies." Knowing that the troops under the command of Yan Wudao had cut off the back road of the port, Zhao Zhi ordered the transport plane at Jiaodong Airport to take off and rush to Incheon Port to carry out the airdrop. Weapons, ammunition, medical equipment and medicines, as well as a large number of war materials will be airlifted from Jiaodong to Incheon, and what Yan Wudao has to do is to immediately build a defensive line to resist the counterattack of the Japanese army.