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    At 6 o'clock in the morning on April 9, a shrill siren sounded over Okinawa. The PLA commanders and fighters who had been prepared for it immediately followed the pre-rehearsed procedures and began to enter the stall step by step.

    In order to confuse the enemy, the People's Liberation Army Okinawa troops have not consolidated their stall positions on a large scale these days, but have only strengthened their core positions.

    At 6:30, the first wave of Japanese fighter planes flew over Okinawa. At the same time, the new PLA Air Force fighter planes on Okinawa had also soared into the sky. Although the PLA fighter planes were very advanced and fought extremely bravely, in a short period of time,  It annihilated the first wave of Japanese attack aircraft. However, after all, the People's Liberation Army fighter planes only had more than 20 in Okinawa, and after killing more than 100 enemy aircraft in the first wave, the missile ammunition had been exhausted. This batch of  The fighter planes had to turn towards Taiwan because the Okinawa Air Force Airport had been blown up by Japanese bombers and the jet fighters could no longer land.

    At this point, the Japanese army gained short-term air supremacy over Okinawa.  Starting at half past seven, the first wave of Japanese landing ships, under the cover of naval battleships and other large gunboats, began beach landing operations.

    At this time, the truly brutal battle had just begun. When the bullets and artillery fire of the Chinese People's Liberation Army were indiscriminately covering the Japanese landing beach, the Japanese army's dance of death had already begun.

    Although the Japanese army temporarily gained air supremacy, the People's Liberation Army's anti-aircraft artillery fire was not free. It was difficult for Japanese fighters and bombers to get close to the People's Liberation Army's beachheads and artillery positions. The Japanese army lost more than a dozen just to complete the mission of bombing the Okinawa Air Force Base.  Large bombers, and dozens of advanced fighter attack aircraft.  Including the more than 100 fighter planes destroyed by the People's Liberation Army's Okinawa Air Force, the Japanese army had lost more than 200 fighter planes in more than an hour after the initial attack.

    Such losses were simply unbearable for the Japanese army, because although the Japanese army drove away dozens of PLA fighter planes on Okinawa, the PLA fighter planes did not cause much damage, and the battle had already broken out for more than an hour. Even if the PLA was fighting  There was no response until after the outbreak. Advanced fighter jets with a combat radius of thousands of kilometers from several air forces of the People's Liberation Army in Taiwan are about to fly over Okinawa.

    Therefore, the second wave of Japanese fighter planes taking off from the aircraft carrier had to be outside the range of our anti-aircraft firepower and drop bombs on our positions as if they were just scratching the surface. A small number of Japanese fighter planes were very brave and tried to attack our positions.  Launched a suicide attack, but every time before it could get close to our army's position, it was smashed into sieves by fierce anti-aircraft fire and exploded and disintegrated in the air.

    Therefore, Japanese fighter planes do not pose much threat to important military locations such as the Chinese People's Liberation Army's forward beachheads and artillery positions.

    Responsible for holding the Nancheng position in southwest Okinawa is the 323rd Division of the 32nd Group Army. Zhou Zhidao, deputy commander of the 32nd Group Army, personally sits at the headquarters of the 323rd Division and takes command from the front.

    The Japanese army also invested a lot of landing troops in the Nancheng position. Although a large number of landing ships were sunk by the People's Liberation Army's powerful artillery fire before they reached the beach position, many landing ships still rushed to the beach. Along with several large Japanese ships  The landing ship rushed to the beach. The huge hatch in front of the landing ship suddenly opened. From each landing ship, more than a dozen Japanese amphibious armored combat vehicles rushed out. Then, countless Japanese soldiers began to pour out of the landing ship in large numbers.  They poured out like ants and began to rush towards the beachhead held by the Chinese army.

    At this time, the real battle has just begun, but the battle is not as fierce as imagined. After the dozens of amphibious tanks that the Japanese army rushed to the beach were destroyed one by one by the Chinese army with anti-tank weapons, they gathered together on the beach.  , the Japanese landing force, which was difficult to deploy, simply became a living target.  Soldiers of the Chinese army hardly need to aim. Every burst of fire can knock down a Japanese soldier.

    In the end, the Japanese army could only lie in the pile of corpses, barely raising their guns and shooting aimlessly, which caused very limited damage to the Chinese army.

    However, the most miserable time for the Japanese army has not yet come. As the Japanese army followed up, a large number of warships, which were barely called landing ships and were converted from merchant ships, approached the beach one after another and began to flood the beach like a suicide. The casualties of the Japanese army suddenly increased, and the entire  Floating on the sea in the Nancheng area are the bodies of Japanese soldiers who were either bombed or shot.

    Because starting at around eight o'clock, the fighter planes taking off from Taiwan, China, had arrived over Okinawa. After successfully destroying and repelling the second wave of more than 100 Japanese fighter planes, they began to regain air supremacy in the Okinawa region.

    Immediately, bombers taking off from Taiwan also arrived over Okinawa. At this time, it was the end of a large number of Japanese landing ships and frigates. With the indiscriminate bombing of the Chinese Air Force, the casualties and losses of various Japanese landing ships were increasing.  Until the first wave of Chinese Air Force fighter planes ran out of ammunition,At this time, the third wave of Japanese fighter planes flew over Okinawa, and the Chinese Air Force withdrew from the Okinawa battlefield. The Japanese army regained air supremacy, and the Japanese landing ships and frigates were able to breathe a sigh of relief. However, when the landing ships approached the landing site, they still  It was difficult to escape the fierce bombardment of Okinawa artillery fire.

    In this way, at the end of the day, the losses of the Chinese island defense troops were not great, but the losses of the Japanese landing troops were extremely heavy. Of course, what made Yamamoto Isoroku happy was that the Japanese army paid five  Sixty thousand people lost their lives, but more than 20,000 people still successfully landed on Okinawa and seized a beachhead.

    After losing this beachhead, the Chinese army carried out several counterattacks. However, because the Japanese army fought tenaciously and bravely and was not afraid of death, it seems that the Chinese army was somewhat afraid of war and death. Therefore, the Chinese army was paying some casualties.  After paying the price, they no longer competed with the Japanese army for this beach position, but retreated to the second-line position to hold on.

    This made Yamamoto Isoroku feel a little lucky. Of course, Yamamoto Isoroku did not know how many troops the People's Liberation Army currently has in Okinawa. According to the original military intelligence of the Japanese army and Yamamoto's inference, the People's Liberation Army in Okinawa is at most a group army plus  There were some marines, hundreds of thousands of people. Judging from the confrontation between the Japanese army and the People's Liberation Army on the first day, the Chinese army did only have a strength of hundreds of thousands in the Okinawa area. This gave Yamamoto Isoroku a hint of victory in the Battle of Okinawa.  hope.

    Therefore, Yamamoto resolutely ordered the follow-up troops to rush to the Okinawa area. Yamamoto believed that even his first and second waves of more than 300,000 troops would all be consumed equally with the People's Liberation Army, and the hundreds of thousands of troops on Okinawa would be exhausted.  The casualties will be exhausted, and by the time the third wave of hundreds of thousands of troops arrives in Okinawa, Okinawa is already dominated by the Japanese army.

    At that time, even if the Chinese Navy's aircraft carriers arrive in the Okinawa waters, several of its aircraft carrier formations will have room for maneuver as long as they do not undertake escort missions. Even if there is a confrontation with the Chinese Navy, there will be heavy casualties, but the entire army will not necessarily be defeated.  annihilated, and may severely damage the Chinese Navy.

    Because the Okinawa area is not far from the Japanese mainland, the lost aviation power can be replenished close to the Japanese mainland. Therefore, this gave Yamamoto Isoroku a sense of luck.

    Unfortunately, Yamamoto Isoroku did not know that the People's Liberation Army's garrison in Okinawa was not more than 100,000 people, but a terrifying more than 200,000 people. Moreover, the Chinese Navy, Taiwan's Fourth and Fifth Aircraft Carrier Groups and Fiji's Sixth Aircraft Carrier Group  It has arrived near Okinawa and is lurking in the predetermined waters. It will only wait for Japan's third wave of landing troops from the Philippines and two aircraft carrier escort formations to arrive in the theater to deal a devastating blow to the Japanese navy.

    The battle on the second day was still fierce. Although the Japanese army obtained a landing beach position, which served as a landing site, it greatly relieved the pressure of the Japanese landing ships being unable to approach the beach. However, after all, the landing range of a beachhead position was too small, and the Japanese army still had to  Feint attacks were launched on other beaches to prevent the People's Liberation Army from transferring all the main troops and annihilating the Japanese army's newly consolidated beachhead position in one fell swoop. Therefore, the next day, the Japanese army was still playing a sad movement in the symphony of death.

    The next day, the Japanese army once again succeeded in landing more than 20,000 people at the cost of more than 40,000 people. At the same time, the Japanese army also captured a temporary landing site on the western beach of Okinawa.  Although the Japanese army desperately tried to expand the scope of this temporary landing site, all their efforts ended in failure due to the fierce artillery fire and secret bullets of the People's Liberation Army.

    This brought a great turning point for the Japanese army¡¯s landing operation on the third day.  But Three Books and Fifty-Six could not be happy for long.

    That night, a counter-offensive assault by the Chinese Marine Corps caused the temporary landing site captured by the Japanese army the next day to be recaptured by the Chinese army. More than 10,000 Japanese soldiers holding the beachhead were all killed by the Chinese army.  This made Yamamoto Isoroku go crazy, and he wanted to crash into the iron plate of the Yamato battleship.

    However, for Yamamoto Isoroku, the Japanese army has no way out and can only continue to attack Okinawa with all its strength. Either the entire army is destroyed, or Okinawa is successfully captured and lingering for a few days is Yamamoto Isoroku's only choice.

    On the third day, the battle was equally brutal. Under the continuous bombing by the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese landing ships had suffered all casualties. However, no matter what, on the third day, the Japanese army still successfully sent more than 20,000 soldiers to the beachhead.  And the second landing site was successfully opened again. Since then, the first wave of 180,000 troops has killed more than 130,000 people, all kinds of landing ships have been lost, and the ships serving as landing escorts have also been exhausted.

    But what makes Yamamoto Isoroku feel lucky is that after all, more than 50,000 troops successfully landed, and they also controlled two landing sites. This brought great hope to the subsequent landings of the second and third waves of troops.convenient.  It can greatly reduce Japanese casualties¡ª¡ª

    The unit has entered the busy year-end summary, and Qingshan is also extremely busy. Therefore, we can only guarantee one update per day recently. When we have time, we will try to add one chapter.  Sorry everyone.
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