"Heavy artillery."

"Cannon group!"

In the underground prime minister's office in Tokyo, Fumiro Konoe, who was once again promoted to the position of prime minister, fell into a stupor.

Although the Devil Brigade stationed in the Ryukyus was sent to Yang by Zhang Dabiao's artillery fire, the correspondent still sent a telegram at the last moment to introduce the situation of his brigade.

It was bombarded by a group of artillery, including several twelve-inch guns.

But the tanks were powerless, and at that time the entire brigade communications detachment had been dusted by heavy artillery, and the reconnaissance planes could not get close, and the devil's high-level naturally could not know.

"Where did the heavy artillery come from? Where did the artillery group come from? ”

Konoe Fumiro was puzzled:

"Do they have battleships?"

It had only been a few hours since the enemy landed, and all of them had been disembarked by light motorboats, as the half brigade stationed at Naha made clear.

Light motorboats can also carry some light artillery, such as the enemy's excellent 105 mountain guns, but the way of landing on the beach will cause violent vibrations, which is not suitable for carrying artillery.

Not to mention the 12-inch heavy gun.

Even if the enemy has landing ships later, but the weight of this level of artillery, which weighs at least a few tens of tons, even if it is the tractor tracked self-propelled version of the bear in the north, it is impossible to land on a shallow beach.

There must be port unloading, and there must also be port equipment, which the Imperial defenders have destroyed.

Then there is only one possibility left.

The enemy already has battleships, or the Americans are there.

"It's a big problem."

Then, Fumiro Konoe realized a big problem.

If the enemy had battleships, or battleships from the Americans, plus the enemy's air superiority, then.

Naha is probably going to be far away from the Empire.

Once the enemy occupies Naha and where to build an air base to deploy aircraft, the western and southern routes of the empire will be completely cut off, and the empire's already fragile external blood transfusion channel will be severely damaged again.

"Contact Vice Takeshi Toyoda for me."

Konoe Fumi's tone was a little flustered.

Although he and Toyoda's vice martial arts are very incompatible, and the fingers of no less than two hands have been scolded each other, but now, he can't take care of these anymore.

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"12-inch heavy gun."

"Artillery swarm."

When Toyoda's vice president received the news, there was only a trace of afterglow left in the sky.

According to the battle plan, at this time, his fleet of two battleships, one heavy cruiser, and three destroyers was only more than fifty nautical miles away from Naha, and it would only take three hours to arrive.

"The enemy has a battleship?"

Staff Officer Kuroda on the side looked puzzled.

According to intelligence, it seems that the enemy has a destroyer, but the displacement will not be too large, at most ten thousand tons.

Don't be afraid.

But the battleships, absolutely not, as for the warships of the Americans, except for some of them, which were stationed on the east coast and the ports of nearby islands, the rest went to the war on the Western Front.

Although there are no satellites, the huge system of warships and the need for ports for logistics support, even if the devil's intelligence system is basically destroyed, it is not difficult to find out.

"Sure enough."

However, Toyota's vice martial arts flashed in his heart.

"They were prepared."

The base in Natuna, where the planes appeared, and the private reminders of Yamamoto and Gangmura made it clear to Toyoda that the enemy had a means of providing logistics that they did not know about.

"Order Nishimura to continue according to the original plan and cooperate with the army attack."

Toyota's face remained unchanged.

The possibility of a battleship is low, and it is more likely that it is shore artillery, but no matter what preparations the enemy had, the fleet led by Nishimura would launch an artillery attack on Naha as originally planned.

Yamato, Musashi, Zuizuru... The main force of the Combined Fleet still exists, but the enemy's technical capabilities are too strong, and he needs more intelligence to analyze the enemy's weaknesses and formulate targeted tactics for a decisive battle.

"Hey."

Staff Officer Kuroda immediately organized communications.

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"Speed up."

Nishimura Fleet, in the cockpit command room of the flagship Mogami, Nishimura Shoji immediately ordered the fleet to accelerate after receiving the order from Vice Takeshi Toyoda.

He didn't know that Vice Takeshi Toyoda used him as cannon fodder to test the enemy's weapons, but he also knew that the enemy's technical level was very strong, and this battle was very difficult to fight, even at night.

At present, the fleet still does not have effective means to deal with the enemy's 'missiles', and the chaff jamming bombs under development are full of problems, and it will take at least a month before they can be put into service.

"The Great Luo of the Worlds"

Only whether it has any effect or not still needs to be tested in actual combat.

But he can't even test it now.

But he wasn't tied up.

Studies have proved that thick smoke can interfere with electromagnetic waves, and radar uses electromagnetic waves to explore targets, which is the same reason for the impact on radar in bad weather.

Theoretically, as long as the smoke is thick enough, it is capable of jamming electromagnetic waves and making the radar lose its target.

As it turns out, this seems to have an effect.

Two weeks ago, the destroyer Yukikaze was attacked by enemy missiles and successfully jammed three enemy missiles by releasing a large number of smoke grenades, albeit dangerously, two of which flew almost past the deck.

Probably because there were too few smoke grenades on the destroyer.

But the result was that the Yukikaze-class destroyers were unscathed.

So, on his two battleships, one heavy cruiser, three destroyers, a large number of smoke grenade launchers were installed.

It is the number of weapons in the past.

With his order, a fleet of two battleships, a heavy cruiser, and three destroyers headed for the Ryukyus in the night.

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And two hours before that.

"The devil is coming."

In the second AWACS aircraft of the changing of the guard in the sky, the observer spotted the enemy's fleet on the radar screen:

"Six ships, one hundred and fifty kilometers from the port of Naha."

"Take off."

Two minutes later, at the coastal airfield, twenty radar attack aircraft, converted from four-engine transport aircraft, started their engines.

At the same time.

Near the port of Naha.

"Full speed."

In the bridge of the 01-class destroyer 'Heyuan', Wang Gensheng also gave an order.

Four gas turbines based on the LM1500 began to start, propelling the warship, which was more than 7,000 tons, to the position of the enemy fleet at a speed of thirty-five knots.

Around her, twenty missile boats, fifteen torpedo boats were scattered but orderly.

Two hours later.

By the time the Nishimura fleet was accelerating, twenty missile attack planes had already arrived at a position of 7,000 meters away from the Nishimura flotilla, forty kilometers away. Wang Gensheng's fleet was only thirty kilometers away from the Nishimura fleet.

Enter coordinates.

In the group, the commander gave the order.

Enter coordinates.

In the fleet, Wang Gensheng also gave the same order.

The current missile, before the attack, requires manual entry of coordinates.

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"Mr. President, here we go."

At the White House, a secretary reported a telegram to the president.

"Hmm."

Franklin nodded, pulling his thoughts away from the Western Pacific and shifting to the Western Front.

Today is not only the day when the men on the other side occupied the Ryukyus, but also the day when the Allies launched a general offensive on the Siegfeiler Line.

The first half of the night in the western Pacific Ocean is the afternoon in Europe.

In the Normandy region, three artificial ports, thousands of transport ships are being unloaded.

Tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, troops, and planes were unloaded from the harbor and stationed in the camp along the coast, looking down from the sky like a majestic ant colony.

The field of vision is forward.

You can see more, dense colonies are stretching deeper.

From June last year to April, the Zhen Overlord Project, which had been delayed for ten months, showed a larger size than the Overlord Project, with twice as many troops and twice as many ships.

As for the planes, they were due to losses, which were comparable to last year.

In the sky, jet fighter jets flew by at high speed.

In order to defend the skies of Normandy and prevent the bombers sent by the mustache to harass them, the Allies sent the most elite jet combat groups.

After delays due to weather conditions and various accidents, the offensive that had been delayed for a full five hours finally began, and five divisions launched another attack on two adjacent air defense towers in an area 50 kilometers north of Cherbourg.

The first to enter were thirty dive bombers and twenty fighters.

Dive bombers carry ground-penetrating bombs ready to destroy anti-aircraft towers, and fighters fire smoke grenades for cover.

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Also at the same time.

Eastern Front.

The five-figure No. 4 tank started its engines and surged to the defensive positions on the Eastern Front.

At the same time, along with the tanks, the opposing enemy positions were filled with troops that exceeded the total number of troops planned by Barbarossa, and a significant part of them were servants.

Especially Lomaria.

After the mustache became rich in his hands, he also gave this number one dog leg a lot of support.

Billions of marks in loans, massive quantities of low-cost supplies and even direct food aid have made domestic prices several times lower, as well as a large number of various orders, factories are full, and a large number of jobs are waiting for people to apply.

The people's living standards have risen several times,

Originally, I couldn't eat, I was sick and I had no money and medicine, and then, all of a sudden.

All of a sudden, life got better.

Cheap and abundant food, enough to buy it to feed livestock, there are so many opportunities to work that you can find at will, the pay is good, and medicines fill the shelves of pharmacies.

Straight from hell to heaven.

There's nothing more crazy than getting a benefit.

In an instant, the whole country fell into a frenzy, the credibility of the government increased dramatically, all the contradictions that had been exposed before were temporarily buried by affluence, and a large number of young people enthusiastically joined the army.

In the army, morale has also skyrocketed.

For the fanatical and combat-ready dogleg troops, the rich mustaches were also stingy, and the troops were also top-notch, generally equipped with tank fours, but in a slightly smaller number than their regular troops.

Fanaticism + advanced equipment + sufficient supplies, Lomaria has changed from a servant army to an ally comparable to the main army in an instant.

Going head-to-head, it didn't fall behind the Slavs.

Although the rest of the countries are inferior, they have no disadvantage in terms of equipment compared with the bearded second-line troops, and there is no problem in dealing with the partisans with a small number of German logistics troops and the transportation of supplies.