977. The U.S. Army went into battle

As the saying goes: the agency is too clever to calculate, but it costs Qingqing's life.

The original idea of the American lame Roosevelt was to let the Japanese devils fight Bai Shujie first, and it was best to have two enemies die and one to be disabled. And then sit on the fisherman's own profit, this wonderful design did not succeed.

At the critical juncture, the cripple wanted to take advantage of Bai Shujie's extreme hatred of Japanese monkeys to "encourage him" to rescue the commander-in-chief of the British army, Major General Waver, but this plan of "driving the tiger and devouring the wolf" still did not work.

I thought about all the ways I had to think of it, but it turned out that half of the fish didn't take the bait, and all the wonderful designs became fantasies.

The lame man of the United States has no choice but to go into battle shirtless, let his people go into battle and bleed, do his best to rescue the little British brothers, and fulfill his promise to others.

Admiral Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Fleet, quickly came up with a plan for this campaign in accordance with the president's order, named it "Operation Surprise Attack" and personally commanded it.

To this end, more than 640 warships of various sequences, including more than 1,000 carrier-based aircraft and 620 land-based aircraft, were dispatched, including the US 5th Fleet and the 58th Aircraft Carrier Task Force. The landing force was 3 Marine Divisions, 2 Infantry Divisions, and 1 Marine Brigade, totaling 128,000 men.

Guam, the largest island in the Mariana Islands, was snatched back by the Americans from the Spanish colonizers in 1898 and was once known as the "unsinkable aircraft carrier".

But on December 10, 1941, three days after the debacle at Pearl Harbor, it was occupied by Japanese imps, and the island was captured by Lieutenant Colonel George and Lieutenant Colonel McNulty, the second American defeat in the Pacific.

After a lapse of two and a half years, the Americans decided to recapture this "unsinkable aircraft carrier" at any cost and establish an advance base for attacking the Japanese mainland.

Measuring 30 miles (48 km) long and 9 miles (14 km) wide, Guam is surrounded by reefs, cliffs, and large rocks, making it a major nuisance for the attacking forces.

In order to save time, minimize their own casualties, and also hope to be able to do it once and for all, the US military decided to bypass the Caroline Islands and go straight to the Mariana Islands.

Its tactical purpose was to first conquer Saipan and Tinian. After clearing the perimeter, they will take Guam back, so as to break through Japan's inner defensive circle and open a gap to attack the Japanese mainland.

As Japan's Pacific strategy delineates the "absolute defense circle," Guam and its surrounding islands are at the core of this "absolute defense circle," so naturally they dare not be careless in their defense deployment.

At this time, the defenders of Guam and its surrounding islands were the 31st Army of the Army, and the supreme commander was Lieutenant General Hideyo Obata.

Including the 29th Infantry Division, the 48th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 10th Independent Mixed Wing, the 52nd Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, the 54th Naval Garrison, and the First Air Fleet, a total of more than 30,000 people.

First Air Fleet: 22nd Air Force, 26th Air Force, 61st Air Force, 62nd Air Force.

The defenders of Guam were the 29th Division, and their supporting firepower included more than 20 artillery pieces of the 52nd Antiaircraft Artillery Group, more than 40 tanks, 36 land-based fighter-bombers, and 12 torpedo attack aircraft.

These troops numbered about 10,000 and were under the unified command of the commander of the 29th Division, Lieutenant General Gao Pinbiao.

The main force defending Guam was the 29th Division, which was originally the Kwantung Army, which had fought bloody battles with the Russians. It can be described as well-trained, well-equipped, and strong in combat.

The main forces defending Tinian were the 29th Brigade of the 135th Wing of the 50th Wing of the 135th Division, a tank squadron of 12 Type 95 combat vehicles, the 48th Separate Mixed Brigade, the 56th Garrison of the Navy, and the 1021st and 121st Air Fleets of the First Air Fleet.

The army has 3,929 men and the naval air force has 4,110 men, a total of more than 8,000 people, and Vice Admiral Kakuharu Tsunoda, commander of the First Air Fleet, serves as commander.

The main forces defending Saipan are the 10th Independent Mixed Wing and the 54th Garrison of the Navy, with a total number of more than 3,000 people.

It's a pity that in order to kill India with a stick, Hideki Tojo transferred a piece of heavy equipment that could be deployed, and the number of artillery pieces of the defenders of Guam was too small, especially the anti-aircraft firepower was almost equal to zero.

A limited number of anti-aircraft guns, against the bombardment of nearly 2,000 US planes in turn, are not equal to zero, but tend to be negative. Because these anti-aircraft guns not only do not work, but also need a lot of people to be buried.

The U.S. campaign began on Tinian Island.

The US Navy dispatched three battleships, five cruisers, and 16 destroyers to bombard Tinian Island at one time, and 358 planes also carried out 18 hours of artillery preparation.

However, the little devil's combat endurance far exceeded the imagination of the US military, and under such a fierce bombardment, the battleship Colorado was sunk on the spot by the little devil, and more than 1,000 US troops died in the sea.

The first landing of the 4th Marine Division, which was a tentative offensive, was dealt a fatal blow, repeating the bad luck of the previous battle of Kuah, and a battalion followed God on vacation without seeing where the enemy was.

In order to alleviate the casualties of the 4th Marine Division, the U.S. Army temporarily adjusted its plan, and the 2nd Marine Division made a fake landing in front of the most heavily defended southwest beach.

Precise artillery shelling of exposed Japanese firing points and the attraction of Japanese forces covered the real landing of the 4th Marine Division in the north.

Not only did the Japanese army not expect it, but the American army did not expect that as soon as the two sides came into contact, the battle would be white-hot.

The advantage of the US military is the fierce artillery fire, and the so-called marines do not have the slightest will to fight.

The weakness of the Japanese army was that it was not vigorous enough, and everyone in the Japanese army was full of the will to fight to the death.

After three days of bloody fighting, the Americans had already suffered more than 3,000 casualties before they could even establish a beachhead.

In the last battle of Kuah Island, because Bai Shujie sent out helicopter gunships to help in the battle, the stalemate was quickly opened.

However, MacArthur offered to buy a helicopter gunship, but Bai Shujie was noncommittal, and finally it was dismissed.

Although these islands used to belong to the Americans, the Americans did not think that the Japanese were all rats, and they were geniuses when it came to building fortifications.

suffered a big loss from the US military on Kuah Island, and the little devils are the best at learning and summarizing, and now they have built a three-story fortress.

The first and second layers are used to withstand artillery and are shockproof.

As a result, the U.S. troops saw that the enemy's shore fortifications were already facing the sky, but they did not expect that there were still intact fortress fortifications in the ruins.

The enemy and the enemy are intertwined, and the powerful air and naval power of the US military have all been turned into waste.

This trick of the little devil is to learn the tactics summed up by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army: Lao Tzu will be an ostrich first and endure the destruction of your fierce artillery fire. Then engage in hand-to-hand combat, exchanging lives for lives to get back.

The infantry fought alone, and the three American troops who did not have the slightest will to fight could not defeat a little Japanese devil who did not take death seriously at all, and the number of casualties suddenly rose sharply.

The U.S. 2nd Marine Division, which was originally a feint attack as a diversionary force, was finally forced to gradually increase its strength, and the fight ended in a stalemate.

The tactic of adding fuel is a war of attrition.

This is what the little devil is best at, and it is also the most clumsy tactic, but it is the most effective tactic.

In the Russo-Japanese War of that year, the little devils used this tactic to completely crush the Russian army's will to fight.

The little devil has been fighting for many years, and of course he is constantly summarizing, so he naturally has his own conspiracies.

Always after killing and injuring the main force of the landed American army in large numbers, trapping a small part there, you can only keep refueling.

The 2nd Marine Division of the U.S. Army did not expect the battle to be like this, and Yan Zòng's lack of ideological and tactical preparation naturally fell into a vicious circle of having to desperately refuel.

Although the US military has more than 120,000 troops, it cannot be used in a narrow battlefield at all. If the density of added personnel is too large, it will not work at all, except for adding greater casualties.

Besides, the 120,000 U.S. troops are still preparing to enter the main island of Japan and become the last occupying force. There is still a vast battlefield of thousands of nautical miles behind, and it is naturally impossible to consume all of them here.

The bloody battle lasted for seven days, and the total number of troops lost on both sides exceeded 10,000, and they were all exhausted.

The little devils still have some supplies on the island, but the remnants of the American troops who were deliberately trapped on the beach and in the jungle by the little devils are terrible.

However, with the passage of time, the technological and industrial strength between the two countries finally showed a huge force that affected the course of the war.

On the seventeenth day of the battle, the latest flamethrower urgently developed by the United States, an upgraded shoulder-fired bazooka, the famous Bazooka, was finally sent to the front line.

The brutality of the First World War in Guam made the officers and men of the US Navy finally realize that mortars are basically waste in the jungle, and there is no way to fight without direct firepower.

Bazooka was originally used to attack tanks, but it was also the most suitable direct fire for infantry, and it was best to attack forts and caves.

At the same time, the submarine forces to which the US fleet belonged completely cut off the Japanese army's sea supply lines, and the balance of war finally began to tilt in favor of the US military.

The factor that really led to the victory or defeat in the offensive and defensive battle on Guam was that General Yamamoto, who had originally gone to the Bay of Bengal to command the naval battle against the British, heard the news that Guam was already in danger, and when he returned urgently on a special plane, Xiao Lamei's radio listening group intercepted the telegram and deciphered it.

After Bai Shujie got the news, he did not send an aircraft to intercept it for the first time, but gave the Longcheng Missile Regiment an order to test a surface-to-air missile.

For this live-fire test, 64 large radars on the front lines of Long Thanh, Kuching, and Sabah were all linked to seamlessly scan the entire airspace.

In Bai Shujie's impression, the landline of General Yamamoto's 56th General should be a G4M medium bomber, with six combat escorts.

The G4M medium bomber has a wingspan of 24.3 meters, a length of 20.2 meters, a crew of 7 people, twin engines, a maximum speed of 436 kilometers per hour, an ceiling of 9100 meters, a range of up to 3640 kilometers, equipped with 3 7.7mm machine guns, 1 20mm gun, and can carry 1 ton of bombs.

Bai Shujie did not use the air force, because he didn't want people to know that he was involved in the battle of Guam. lest the little Japanese devil be angry and have to fight with himself again, but instead relieve the American devil, this is not the ending that Bai Shujie likes to see.

The only way is for Yamamoto Isoroku and his fleet to suddenly disappear.

No matter how long this suspense can be hidden, the good show on Guam has only begun, as long as the Japanese devils do not point the finger at themselves for the time being, and continue to fight hard with the Americans first.

At 10:36 a.m. on June 29, 1944, the radar first discovered the target: "A group of aircraft appeared over the Gulf of Thailand, and it was preliminarily determined that there were seven planes, flying at a speed of 385 kilometers per hour and an altitude of 7,500 meters. ”

"The radar kept tracking, and all twenty-four missiles of the missile regiment went into firing and then tracked in groups. Enemy planes immediately launched when they entered the skies over Wan'an Bank, striving to destroy the target in the first round. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.