Chapter 24: Crazy Infrastructure!

"General?"

Looking at the clear code telegram in their hands, after contacting the defenders of Guam and receiving no response, the staff officers of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Fleet all looked at their commander, Vice Toyoda.

Vice Takeshi Toyoda fell into deep thought.

The speed of the defeat of the Guam garrison was too unexpected, and in less than a day, the main force was annihilated, which he never expected.

But that's already the case.

Guam has already been occupied by the enemy, and now the enemy is making every effort to build an airfield, shore artillery, and missiles on Guam, because there are no material restrictions, and the speed of construction is beyond imagination.

And now.

The advance of his combined fleet, two light cruisers, had already set off for half a day, but it would take at least forty hours to reach Guam.

As for the main fleet, battleships such as Yamato and Musashi, as well as the three aircraft carrier formations, have just pulled anchor, and it is expected that it will take 48 hours to reach Guam at the earliest.

No way.

The enemy's continuous bombardment during the day, the Nagato was directly blown up by the enemy and the superstructure was destroyed, and it took at least a year to repair, and for safety, the main forces of the Combined Fleet have been scattered and hidden in Southeast Asia and the mainland.

The mainland is 2,000 kilometers from Guam.

No warship can maintain the fastest speed all the time, and even at the fastest cruising speed of 25 knots per hour, which is 45 kilometers per hour and 2,000 kilometers per hour, it will take two days.

Forty-eight hours.

Toyoda came to the map, looked at Guam, in the Pacific Ocean, and fell into deep thought again.

Guam must not be lost, otherwise the empire, which has lost its external blood transfusion channel, will have to wait for death.

But the current situation of the Combined Fleet, there is only one chance, and if you lose, it will be all over, and the industrial situation of the Empire makes it impossible for the damaged ships of the Combined Fleet to be repaired, and he must be cautious.

"How long will it take for the main fleet to arrive in Guam?"

Vice Takeshi Toyoda looked at General Kuroda on the side.

Although Guam is not within the combat radius of its shore-based air forces, those torpedo boats and missile support cannot reach a distance of 2,000 kilometers, so the enemy has only one missile destroyer.

But the enemy had two days to prepare, and in order to retake Guam, the entire combined fleet had to be assembled.

"Forty-eight hours."

Staff Officer Kuroda replied immediately.

"Command."

Taking a deep breath, Toyota's vice-takeshi exhaled:

"Departure of the Combined Fleet in its entirety, target, Guam."

"Full speed ahead."

He didn't believe it, and in just forty-eight hours, the enemy could gather enough strength on Guam to stand up to the entire Combined Fleet.

Although in several months of tug-of-war, the combined fleet suffered considerable losses, two battleships, seven heavy cruisers, ten destroyers, and two light cruisers were sunk by the enemy's shore-based aviation.

The Nagato also suffered a heavy blow.

But!

Battleships: Yamato, Musashi, Kongo, Zhenmei, Ise, Hyuga. Aircraft carriers: Zuizuru, Chiyoda, Ruifeng, Chitose, ···· The Combined Fleet remains the third navy in the world.

Second only to Britain and the United States.

Even if there were enough supplies, it would be absolutely impossible to build a position that could withstand the world's third navy in just forty-eight hours.

Without an airfield and complete logistical facilities, it would not be possible to take off enough aircraft, and without a balanced reinforced concrete position, it would not be possible to block the bombardment of the Yamato's 460-mm main guns.

This cannot be done in 48 hours.

What's more, the enemy is still short of manpower on Guam, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away and relies entirely on air transport, so how many people can be transported?

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"We have forty-eight hours at most."

Guam, Zhang Dabiao lay on the table, looked at the detailed topographic map of Guam above, and exhaled:

"It is more than 2,500 kilometers away from our mainland, which is already beyond the operational range of shore-based air forces, and once we occupy Guam, we will be able to completely cut off the transportation routes of the devil's homeland."

"There is absolutely no way that the devils will allow us to occupy Guam."

As he spoke, he looked around and looked around:

"Therefore, within 48 hours, we will build an airfield that is enough for 1,200 attack planes to take off and land, and 18 large-caliber shore guns."

The missile attack planes are heavy, coupled with a large amount of electronic equipment, and have high requirements for take-off and landing airports, and they must level and harden the runways, and the number is also small, with a total of only 30 planes, after all, air-launched missiles have high requirements for technical personnel, and some of them are also deployed in Natuna and Ryukyu to patrol, and only 20 can go to Guam.

Moreover, the devils came to the entire combined fleet this time, so when the battle plan was formulated at the beginning, it was not them who were the main force to deal with the devil's fleet.

Without the support of the Navy, relying on 80 missiles of just 20 missile attack aircraft did not make much difference.

The reloading of missiles is very cumbersome.

Moreover, the intelligence said that the devil has been equipped with chaff jamming bombs, which will reduce the missile's hit rate, although the devil's technical interference rate will not be very high, but it will eventually reduce the hit rate.

This decisive battle with the Devil's Combined Fleet relied on more than 1,000 'bomb truck' attack planes.

"That's fine."

The commander of the 1st Engineer Battalion, who arrived on the first transport plane, spoke confidently:

"Don't worry."

"It doesn't take 48 hours, at most 40 hours, and I can set up an airfield on Guam with 18 large-caliber shore guns, enough for 1,000 attack planes to take off and land."

Supplies are plentiful.

All kinds of supplies, what you want.

Guam's topography is also ideal for the construction of an airport, with a vast area of flat terrain.

They are also well manned.

Because there was no need to carry equipment, the first batch of 100 transport planes transported five engineer battalions, totaling 9,000 people, but due to airport restrictions, they have not yet landed.

Only the first, second, and third engineer battalions gathered, and the fourth and fifth were still landing, after all, there was not enough space at the airport.

But the impact is not significant.

They will show what a real infrastructure madness is!

"Contact the Air Force."

Walking out of the temporary headquarters, the commander of the engineer battalion, who is also the deputy commander, gave the order:

"Start clearing the field."

"The first battalion and the second battalion immediately assembled, went to collect engineering equipment, and then waited outside the clearance area."

Ten minutes later, next to the warehouse, the first to arrive was an engineer battalion and two infantry battalions, using construction machinery and tanks, on the earthen runway with perforated steel plates, more than a dozen four-engine transport planes slowly flew into the sky one after another - as transport aircraft, when the load is low, the four-engine transport plane can take off from the dirt runway.

Subsequently.

In a huge warehouse built with steel plates, canvas, and wooden planks on the side, more than a dozen ammunition traction loading and unloading trucks slowly pulled out huge cylindrical bombs and parked them in the loading and unloading area.

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"The captain jade is broken."

Guam, in the dense forest of a mountain peak, a few devil soldiers covered in mud gathered here.

"How did the enemy's tanks and heavy artillery get there?"

The tone of one of the devil squadron leaders trembled slightly, and it was obvious that the battle just now had left a deep fear in his heart.

He saw with his own eyes that the enemy had landed.

He and his squadron were stationed right on the seashore, a little more than four kilometers from the enemy's landing beaches.

One of the nearest troops.

There is also the Koike Brigade.

He is also worthy of being a samurai of the Great Japanese Empire, reacted quickly, and led the team to rush over at the first time, but hundreds of enemy planes landed on the sea in turn, and then drove directly to the beach, the scene was very spectacular, so that he was stunned for a while, plus today his squadron repaired, and it took a while to gather the troops.

So arrived at the enemy landing site a little later than Koike's brigade.

With a distance of four kilometers, including the gathering of troops and a rapid march, Koike's brigade took only twenty minutes to arrive, while his squadron was seven minutes slower.

However.

It was these seven minutes late that saved his life.

He saw it clearly.

When Koike's brigade reached the enemy's distance of only one and a half kilometers, suddenly, unimaginable firepower burst out from the enemy's position, like a meteor shower, and countless shining fireballs fell from the sky and smashed into the position of Koike's brigade.

Then it exploded.

The power is much more powerful than the mountain artillery, and it is almost comparable to the 105 heavy artillery.

In just a few minutes, at least a thousand fireballs comparable to 105 heavy artillery shells smashed into the formation of Koike's brigade, and because of the rapid charge, the formation of Koike's brigade was very dense.

By the time the blast wave dispersed, there would be at most a third of the more than 1,000 people left in Koike's brigade.

And the vast majority of logarithms are wounded.

Then, he saw dozens of tanks rushing towards Koike's brigade.

He immediately ordered his troops to retreat

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, only then did he escape from the shelling of the 'meteor shower' that covered his squadron, the pursuit of tanks, but his squadron was less than half left.

The enemy frantically fired more than a thousand heavy artillery shells at one of his squadrons, and then sent thirty tanks to pursue one of his squadrons!

After that, he saw that a more powerful shot, comparable to a heavy artillery of naval guns, launched an artillery bombardment on the divisional positions, and the 'meteor fire shower' also fiercely pounced on the positions from time to time, and then more than 100 tanks rushed towards the divisional positions.

Among them, there are also terrifying Spitfire tanks.

In less than an hour, the divisional position was breached, and the division commander was forced to enter the mountains and forests with his troops, fortunately, he was not injured.

I thought that in the forest where the tanks could not move, in the dense forest where the artillery fire would be weakened, their Japanese locust army would be able to use the complex environment to teach the enemy a lesson and hit the enemy hard.

But as it turned out, he was overthinking.

Instead of attacking the dense forest, the enemy used a new type of cannonball, which still shone with flames, and still thousands of shells fell at once, but the explosion was different from ordinary shells, it did not form craters, but it would burn a raging fire, and the blast wave of the explosion would be wider, and it would even suck up the oxygen and suffocate the surrounding samurai.

That time, he was almost suffocated to death.

Moreover, this bomb will also burn down the woods, which were originally dense after a few rounds of 'meteor fires', and they have to retreat deeper, and finally the enemy shells all the way, and they retreat.

During this period, the division commander died, the wing commander died, the brigade commander also died, and there were fewer and fewer warriors in the locust army, while the enemy was more and more numerous, to be precise, the more tired the firepower.

There were more and more shells, more and more heavy artillery, and even bombers began to appear, dropping even more terrifying 'meteor showers' on the woods.

Eventually, after most of the day, there were only a few of them left.

"What now?"

Several devils looked at the devil squadron leader in unison.

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After being silent for a long time, the devil squadron leader gritted his teeth:

"Wait."

"We waited until night to launch a surprise attack and harass the enemy."

Although the enemy is strong, with heavy artillery, tanks, and planes, and a large number of people, so many artillery, tanks, and planes, it is conceivable how many people there should be, and the main force of their division and regiment is completely destroyed, and the division commander is all broken, and the remaining people are estimated to be no more than one brigade.

But.

As a samurai loyal to the Japanese locust army, he is not afraid of difficulties or jade breaks, no matter how difficult it is, he will fight bravely against the enemy, and death is the ultimate destination of the samurai.

"Hey."

Several devils around also bowed their heads.

As soon as the words fell, more than ten large planes suddenly appeared in the sky, with four engines, at an altitude of about one thousand meters, and these planes attracted the attention of the devils and looked up one after another.

This height can be seen clearly even with the naked eye.

A minute later, the doors of these planes were opened, and from the tail a huge cylinder was thrown, which also carried a small umbrella in the tail, which grew into a huge parachute in the wind.

The moment the cylinder fell, the dozens of large planes immediately accelerated away.

"What is this?"

A few devils were stunned.

They continued to stare into the heavens,

The landing point of these cylinders is not here, and the distance is very far, so these devils continue to watch with peace of mind.

When the huge cylinder was only a few dozen meters above the ground, suddenly, boom, the cylinder exploded, looking like a bottle of exploding milk, spilling all over the sky.

And then.

Boom...

Huge fireballs, more than a dozen fireballs hundreds of times larger than the explosion of the battleship's main guns exploded, and even hundreds of meters in the sky rose at the highest point, and the surrounding trees were also shrouded in fireballs.

The fireballs dispersed, and what appeared in the eyes of several devils was more than a dozen clearings hundreds of meters wide and circular - the trees inside were burned clean, and the ground was burned evenly.

Gollum...

The Devil Squadron Leader swallowed his saliva with difficulty.

He recognized it, it was the horrible, suffocating bomb from before.

But.

That's too big, isn't it? If the enemy had used this at that time, I am afraid that they would have broken the jade of the whole division long ago, covering a radius of hundreds of meters, and as soon as it was fired, a brigade would have disappeared directly.

There is absolutely no way that anyone will survive such an explosion, and I am afraid that it will not work to hide underground, and they will suffocate to death.

The devils were stunned for a long time, during which they were all quiet, and for about half an hour, more than a dozen four-engine planes appeared in the field of vision of several devils, and as the previous process, as more than a dozen large cylinders were dropped, more than a dozen open spaces with a radius of hundreds of meters appeared on the ground again.

"Shall we go back in the evening?"

After the second wave of planes left, a devil asked.

"The enemy should be bombing the locust warriors hiding in the dense forest, we won't go tonight, let's see the situation first."

The Devil Squadron Leader said this with some difficulty.

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That night.

The squadron leader was extremely glad that he had made the decision not to attack at night, because during the night, the enemy had been dropping those horrific bombs—more and more, from a dozen at one time at a time to forty at the last time.

In the middle of the night, a violent explosion coalesced, and the blast wave of the explosion even caused a violent vibration of the entire island, which they could feel from several kilometers away.

"What is this?"

Early the next morning, a devil pointed to the distance and said with some difficulty.

In the northern part of Guam, the dense forest was gone, and only a flat 'sandy beach' and a few fragments of stumps that had been burned to charcoal remained.

"What about the mountain?"

One of the devils said suddenly.

All the devils looked at it, and everyone was stunned.

They remembered very well that there was originally a mountain in the northern part of Guam, to be precise, it was actually a mountain bag, not high, only about five or six meters, but there were many rocks inside the mountain, and it was impossible to dig a position, and the mountain was covered with trees, and it was surrounded by an open and flat land.

But now.

The mountain dozens of meters high was gone, and as far as the eye could see, it was a vast flat land, an open land that had been flattened.

"What happened?"

The devils were completely stunned.

In less than ten hours, the huge mountain bag, full of hard stones, was gone, and the northern part of Guam was covered from the original dense forest to the beach in front of me.

At this time, the devils saw hundreds of 'tanks' driving from the enemy's position into the open space, and they were so frightened that they ran away.

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The other side.

"Tsk, this speed..."

Zhang Dabiao couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the more than 300 construction machinery that began to level the land, compact the ground, and then lay steel plates.

The 'big fireworks' cleared the field, burned the trees, and initially leveled the land, with a radius of several hundred meters.

Although at first the airfield was too small to throw about a dozen at a time, as the field airfield near the warehouse of the engineer battalion expanded, more and more four-engine transport planes took off at one time, and finally reached forty.

Forty 'big fireworks' can be dropped at a time.

Even if there was overlap, the efficiency was amazing, and the 'bombing' that lasted for ten hours still completely emptied the flat land north of Guam.

There's actually a mountain in the middle of the way.

It's still a stone mountain bag.

This is not a big problem, throw a few ground-penetrating bombs to make a passage for the mountain bag, and then the tracked armored vehicle transports the bomb, stuffs more than 100 tons of bombs into the mountain, and then detonates.

The mountain bag was blown to pieces.

Even these fragments were blown into powder by the 'big fireworks' that followed.

Next, it is only necessary to use bulldozers to bulldoze, compact, pave a prefabricated steel runway with anti-skid lines, divide the apron around the runway, and use prefabricated steel structures and multi-layer waterproof canvas to build a logistics maintenance center, warehouse, and several excellent military airports.

With the scale of the flat land north of Guam, as long as all of them are used, not to mention 1,000, even 2,000 take-off and landing 'bomb trucks' are more than enough.

More than 600 professional paving construction machinery, 5 professional engineering battalions with 9,000 soldiers, and specially designed prefabricated runway steel plates can reduce the need for land hardening, so that, in a maximum of 24 hours, this huge airport can be initially put into use.

As for what concrete warehouses, asphalt pavement, cement runways, and Rausch greenery, they have time to do it after killing the Devil Combined Fleet.

"Send a report to Huang Quan."

Zhang Dabiao smiled slightly:

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"Pilots can set off in twelve hours, to the highest standards."

He won the battle.