980. There is self-knowledge of suffering
The battle of Guam showed the Americans what a real bloody war was, and they had nightmares every day since.
The lame Roosevelt listened to the report of the battle at the Chiefs of Staff Liaison Conference, and his old face turned green.
You must know that the lives of American devils are very valuable.
It is the creed of a democratic country that would rather die the people of the world than the people of the country.
But now the battle has reduced the 126,000-strong troops by half, and there is no way to explain to the people at home.
Maintaining the belief that the people will win in wartime is the basic strategy of the country, so the official media of the United States unanimously said: "The Battle of Guam won an unprecedented victory, and the heroic US Marines annihilated more than 60,000 little Japanese devils at the cost of 3,431 casualties, close to 20:1!" ”
It's very simple, directly compress the casualty figure by 20 times, it seems that we Americans are all small and strong people who can't be killed, first plug the mouths of the domestic people, and then be able to talk about other things.
The times call for heroes, so the lame people in the United States believe that it is necessary to get a few heroes out, at least to boost the morale of the people.
Three members of the U.S. Marine Corps were awarded the Medal of Honor for their bravery in the Battle of Guam:
Private Frank Wei Ruowang: Hand-to-hand combat with Japanese devils, biting off the neck of his opponent and dying togetherPrivate Leonard Mason: Death with a grenade with Japanese devils in a field hospital Captain Louis Wilson: A survivor of a Japanese raid on a field hospital thought of so many people dying in one battle, and the American lame man was very angry and very scared, and he didn't dare to sleep alone at night.
What to do?
In the end, he really thought of a way: it is definitely not possible to fight to the death, too many dead people are really a huge trouble, and China's "Art of War" said that "attacking the heart is the top".
As a result, for the next three months, the B-29 took off from the front line of Guam every day to send empty letters of persuasion to the Japanese islanders.
Of course, the lame man knew that persuasion could not solve the problem, and he had to find a way to reduce the casualties of the American GIs in order to solve his own problems fundamentally. Otherwise, he will be like Hideki Tojo, and the presidential throne will definitely be unstable.
Atomic bomb, be sure to get the damn atomic bomb out of it as much as you can, and throw it on the heads of the Japanese monkeys!
Suppressing the opposition at home and replenishing the front line with troops and much-needed supplies as much as possible is the only thing that can be done at the moment.
American devils, including lame, are having a headache.
"The Devil" Bai Shujie hid in the office, and while he was in a daze at the map all over the wall, his whole body was in pain, and the pain was terrible.
Now is the time to be in a daze, otherwise it will be too late.
Bai Shujie clearly remembers: According to the inherent history, after the American devils seized Guam, they should go west to take the Philippine Islands. This led to an earth-shattering sea battle: the Battle of Leyte Gulf!
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last confrontation between the fleets of the Japanese and the Americans, determined who was the true master of the Pacific Ocean.
But now that the Philippine Islands are in their own hands, the American devils will only think of taking the Philippines back at this time unless they are crazy.
The question that Bai Shujie needs to consider: Since the Battle of Leyte Gulf is no longer possible, and Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi's First Air Fleet has been put back in the Taiwan Strait, where will the remnants of the naval combined fleet of the American devils and the Japanese devils have a "warrior-like showdown"?
This is a crucial question because it involves Bai Shujie's next strategic move.
Yes, it is a question of long-term strategy for the future, not just a matter of tactical action.
In Bai Shujie's view, after the Battle of Guam, in fact, the Japanese dwarf has been finished, and now it is the grasshopper after the autumn, and it is useless to jump if you want to.
But Bai Shujie also knows that the little devil's killer weapon has not been used up, that is, the kamikaze.
That is, a group of teenagers left over from the Japanese dwarf have not yet been pulled out to be cannon fodder.
Bai Shujie believes that these people must let them die before they can talk about the implementation of long-term strategic plans.
The way to let all these teenagers die is the "kamikaze death squad" of the Air Force, the "hand-to-hand assault boats" of the Army, and the "Huitian torpedo submarines" of the Navy.
This is a trick that Lieutenant General Takijiro Onishi came up with, and even the "Devil of China" Bai Shujie thinks it's a brilliant idea.
That's why he ordered Yang Manchu in Taipei to let him go, so that Lieutenant General Onishi Takijiro could go back very safely, and quickly put the genius's idea into action.
I didn't expect that both Japan and the United States would have to accumulate strength, so there is no clear news about the two nuclear submarines lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, which makes Bai Shujie unpleasant and unable to sleep.
Bai Shujie's only worry is that the American devils suffered a big loss at the hands of the little Japanese devils, and suddenly made a move on their own Philippine Islands, which caught them off guard.
This possibility is existential.
After all, Guam is just east of the Palau Islands, and if the Americans decide to tear their faces now, although their Jinbikuan Second Fleet has strong firepower from a single battleship, the number of warships is too small and it is not an opponent of the Americans at all.
The current global shape is very delicate, and a small action can cause a catastrophe.
Whether it is his own Lanfang People's Liberation Army or Zhao Meiyan's Chinese Volunteer Army, they are all radishes and pits, and they can't move anywhere casually. Otherwise, it will become a hole all over the body, and there will be flaws everywhere.
Especially not long ago, he had greeted the five field divisions alone, and he had a clear plan for the future direction of operations, so Bai Shujie did not dare to lightly mobilize troops from other directions, and there was no way to reinforce Jin Bikuan's Second Fleet.
Facing the critical juncture of life and death, what should be done is a critical period for testing the psychological quality of decision-makers.
Bai Shujie's palms have been in cold sweat these days, and it is not unreasonable.
According to the normal use of troops, if the enemy's strength is strong, in order to protect himself, he should attack first, which is the most basic tactical principle, that is, to attack instead of defend.
But now the Japanese devils don't move, and the American devils don't move. In this way, there are all kinds of life-and-death changes hidden in the tranquility.
It is not clear whether the Americans will do it with him, and Bai Shujie does not dare to take it lightly against the American devils, let alone do it to the Japanese devils at this time.
If the American devils have no intention of doing it to themselves at all, and they take the initiative to attack, they will get through a hornet's nest, and then they will sting themselves to death.
To be honest, both the American devils and the Japanese devils have reasons to do it to themselves, and there are also reasons why they dare not do it lightly.
It is precisely because their two enemies have both reason and reason not to do it that things get so complicated.
Bai Shujie, who has always been scheming, is now in his heart, and he doesn't know how to deal with the current strange situation.
The American lame Roosevelt had a headache, the "China Devil" Bai Shujie had a headache, and the Japanese dwarf also had a headache.
Umezu Mijiro, in fact, is not a good thing either, he is a crazy warmonger through and through, not much worse than Hideki Tojo.
Now the "absolute defense circle" has been torn open, and all kinds of advanced weapons can only stay on the drawings, because the steel has been completely consumed.
In particular, the hastily launched "supersonic fighter" project requires a huge aluminum material, and this is exactly what the Japanese dwarf does not have in China, so in the end it can only be abandoned.
However, even an ant has to stretch out his legs twice before he dies, and Umezu Mijiro naturally has to struggle to the death.
After some deduction, a brand new class of troops that "went down in history" appeared: kamikazes!
Of course, such a wonderful genius was not the work of Umezu Yoshijiro, but the work of Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commander of the First Air Fleet, at the Iwo Jima Defense Research Conference held by him.
Commander Lieutenant General Takijiro Onishi pointed out at the Military Research Conference: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, gentlemen: The First Air Force was ordered to return from the Gulf of Thailand to reinforce Iwo Jima, but fortunately it was not attacked when it passed through the Taiwan Strait. But I only have 40 planes in my hands now, and I can't do the job at all. ”
"The only way to delay the Americans' offensive is to crash the limited number of planes loaded with explosives and crash them into the US aircraft carriers, paralyzing them for a few weeks and buying time for the base camp."
Such a wonderful and brilliant genius idea, of course, was unanimously approved by the conference.
In order to form a "kamikaze squad" as much as possible, Lieutenant General Takijiro Onishi personally went out and recruited the first batch of 23 cadets from the military school at the end of October.
These students are generally 14-17 years old, which is also the age at which it is easy to be fooled. And they have already learned some basic aviation knowledge training, at least they know what an airplane is.
Lieutenant General Onishi Takijiro worked tirelessly, and he personally led this group of personal disciples to train, and the results were excellent.
The so-called excellent standard is that these little miscellaneous things that are not sensible at all make rapid progress. After only a month of training, at least everyone was able to get the plane up and down, and they knew how to lower the nose of the plane and dive violently after hearing the order.
Lieutenant General Onishi Takijiro once asked them if they were willing to sacrifice for the country, but he did not expect that these team members were so enthusiastic that they chose to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor without the slightest hesitation.
With death squads, there must be a leader in the deaths. This person must have a certain military mind, at least be able to know the American warships, otherwise the war will be disrupted.
It would be too bad if you saw your own fleet on the sea, and these little bastards began to dive violently.
After some comparison, Takijiro Onishi finally found a usable talent, and this person was Captain Seki.
Captain Guan Xingnan is 23 years old and has just been married for four months.
Seeing that the commander of the fleet was talking to him in person, Captain Guan Xingnan was so excited that he couldn't even speak very well.
However, after listening to the commander's exquisite genius idea, he still closed his eyes, lowered his head and pondered for more than ten seconds before he said, "Please let me lead them." ”
The world's first "kamikaze" group was born.
Captain Kwan became the twenty-fourth member of the squad.
Thinking that he would never see his wife again in this life, Guan Xingnan wrote two lines of poetry and left them to his wife as a precious legacy: "Seven lives have not been completed and prayed to die in battle, turning into a loyal soul to protect the country." ”
Nimitz sat at Pearl Harbor, desperately replenishing the front line and delivering a strategic supply that could be transported.
Oti Takijiro trained his "kamikaze drones" day and night to make a splash when the time came.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.