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    Starting from the fourth day, the second wave of more than 16 people from the Japanese Southern Expeditionary Force arrived in Okinawa and began to move like moths to a flame.  The Japanese heavy-armed battleships began to violently bombard the Okinawa positions. The first batch of landing ships in the second wave of landing operations once again rushed onto the beach like monsters. The Japanese devils also poured out of the landing ships like ants and began to attack.  Rushing towards the beach.

    However, the battle situation on the fourth day did not improve as Yamamoto Isoroku expected. The People's Liberation Army's artillery fire was still so fierce, the People's Liberation Army's counterattack was still so sharp, and the People's Liberation Army's beachhead was still so stable.

    Even the beachhead position that the Japanese army seemed to have consolidated in the first three days seemed to be crumbling under the fierce artillery attacks and repeated bombings by aircraft from the People's Liberation Army.

    However, for Isoroku Yamamoto, there was no choice. Therefore, driving groups of Japanese soldiers to the position to be cannon fodder and to be shot has become the only thing he can do.

    In the end, the Japanese army ran out of landing ships, and when the temporary landing ships, which were mainly modified from merchant ships, appeared on the beach, they became the targets of massacre by the People's Liberation Army.

    In this way, the fighting started from early morning and lasted until night. On the first day, the Japanese army invested a total of 70,000 troops in an attempt to land. However, they actually landed on the beach, and less than 30,000 people gathered at the original two beachheads.

    The sound of artillery fire at night showed no signs of stopping, causing the more than 70,000 Japanese soldiers on the beachhead to live in a state of not knowing where they would be next.

    With such panic, the Japanese army welcomed the fifth day. Likewise, this day truly became the swan song of the Japanese army.

    In order to strengthen the intensity of the Japanese army's attack on Okinawa, Yamamoto Isoroku ordered the Japanese army to increase the density of landings, and more than 90,000 people who were originally planned to be dropped in two days were dropped at once today. This was also a helpless move by Sanmoto Isoroku, because  Starting yesterday, an aircraft carrier formation of the Chinese Navy has been deployed on the Okinawa battlefield. The fighter jets taking off from the aircraft carrier have greatly extended the combat time, and the threat to the Japanese army has become surprisingly large. Yamamoto predicts that China's second aircraft carrier  The formation will rush to the waters of Okinawa today and engage in combat against the Japanese Navy. Yesterday, although the Japanese naval aviation tracked the Chinese aircraft carrier formation, the opponent's fighter planes took off in time. How can they treat dozens of their own fighters?  When they approached the opponent's fleet, they were all annihilated by the opponent's advanced fighter planes. By the time the second wave of fighters from their own army arrived at the scene, the Chinese aircraft carrier formation had already moved at high speed and left the combat sea area.

    For this reason, Yamamoto Isoroku would spare no expense and ordered the landing troops to strengthen their attack today. At the same time, he ordered the troops that had successfully seized the beach to expand their results and establish a stable landing site to ensure that the third wave of 140,000 Japanese troops could land relatively smoothly.  .

    Therefore, on the fifth day, the battle was even more tragic than on the fourth day.  The Japanese army's spirit of sacrificing life was really terrifying. In order to reduce casualties and further confuse the enemy, Hu Tiantao issued an order to abandon the third beachhead.

    By noon, more than 20,000 of the longest Japanese landing force of 90,000 had successfully landed, with nearly 40,000 casualties.  Bodies and wreckage of Japanese ships were scattered all over Okinawa.

    Just when the Japanese army was preparing to intensify its offensive efforts, further consolidate the beachhead, and attempt to attack the People's Liberation Army Army troops in the mainland of Okinawa, Hu Tiantao received a telegram that the network had been closed, and he finally calmed down after five days of nervousness.

    Receiving this telegram means that the six aircraft carrier formations that the Japanese Navy has invested so far are all within the encirclement of our navy and air force. It also means that the Japanese third wave of landing troops of more than 100,000 people will never have the chance to reach Okinawa.  If we carry out landing operations on the island, we will be wiped out at sea by our powerful navy and air force. In the end, we will only be buried in the belly of the fish.

    After receiving this order, Hu Tiantao ordered that the People's Liberation Army push into the second-line position in an all-round way, leaving the entire beachhead to the Japanese army. With Hu Tiantao's order, the hundreds of thousands of People's Liberation Army who had been holding the first-line beachhead position for five days began to retreat in an orderly manner.  The Japanese army was overjoyed by the People's Liberation Army's retreat. Yamamoto Isoroku also believed that this was because the Okinawa People's Liberation Army had suffered heavy casualties and could no longer consolidate its first-line positions. It tried to shrink into second-line positions and third-line tunnel positions in preparation for a protracted war with the Japanese army.  .

    Therefore, Yamamoto Isoroku ordered the second wave of more than 30,000 troops who have not yet landed not to be afraid of the People's Liberation Army's artillery fire and aircraft bombing, but to seize the opportunity to land on the beach, complete the landing operation as quickly as possible, and expand the results on the spot, for tomorrow afternoon  The third wave of Japanese troops that began to arrive on the battlefield vacated the beachhead position.

    Yamamoto Isoroku¡¯s expectations for achieving some results in this battle are getting higher and higher. Yamamoto even believes that even if all two aircraft carriers of the People¡¯s Liberation Army arrive, his six aircraft carriers will still be intact until now, andMoreover, he has also prepared a large number of suicide submarines for the Chinese Navy. With these weapons, Yamamoto Isoroku even thought at this moment that he might be lucky enough to win again.

    However, the subsequent telegram shattered Yamamoto Isoroku's glimmer of hope.

    Because an urgent report came from Lieutenant General Nagumo of the Japanese third wave of two aircraft carrier formations. Starting from noon, the Japanese third wave of troop transport fleets and escort fleets began to be intensively attacked by Chinese Air Force fighter planes. The vast majority of the two aircraft carriers  Before most of the fighter planes had time to take off, they were hit by bombs dropped by Chinese Air Force aircraft or missiles fired at Chinese fighter planes. Other large and small ships in the Japanese mixed formation were also attacked by Chinese Navy warships and submarines.  , a considerable number of ships have begun to sink.

    At this time, Yamamoto Isoroku fully understood the entire intention of the Chinese army. It turned out that they had included all their troops from the beginning. Therefore, in the first five days, they did not attack their front lines.  The purpose of the four aircraft carrier formations is to mobilize the last wave of two aircraft carrier formations. Now that the third wave of the fleet has been caught by the opponent, it is time for the Chinese army to close the net. The four aircraft carrier formations currently concentrated on the sea of ??Okinawa  Aircraft carrier formations, large battleships, cruisers, etc. will immediately become targets of attack by the Chinese army.

    The tens of thousands of people who have already landed will also become the targets of massacre by the Chinese army without logistical support and naval gun support.

    While Yamamoto Isoroku was thinking desperately on the battleship Yamato, emergency reports came from the other four aircraft carrier formations at the same time. A large number of aircraft and Chinese Navy submarines suddenly appeared in Okinawa airspace to attack ships. Several aircraft carriers were attacked at the same time.  , most of the fighters on the ships have been destroyed before they have a chance to take off. The attack power of Chinese submarines is even more powerful. Many large ships may sink to the bottom of the sea immediately as long as they are hit by a missile.  Several fleets of the Japanese army are facing the danger of total annihilation.

    When Yamamoto Isoroku received this information, his face was ashen and there was no life left in him.

    Just when Yamamoto Isoroku was about to end his life, a huge explosion came from beneath his feet. The Yamato battleship was hit by a submarine missile attack from a medium-range attack nuclear submarine. This pride of Japanese militarism was  After being hit in a vital part by a missile from a Chinese submarine, it began to emit continuous and violent explosions. In a series of explosions, the so-called soul of the Japanese navy, carrying their soul figure Yamamoto Isoroku, began to accelerate.  The sinking speed increased. Half an hour later, the Chinese Air Force flying over the Yamato battleship had almost no chance to perform air-dropping bombs. They just watched this behemoth finally sink to the bottom of the sea.

    April 13, 1945, was definitely the day of destruction for the Japanese Navy. Starting at noon on the 13th, the Chinese Navy concentrated on the 4th, 5th, and 6th aircraft carrier formations as well as other large sea surface ships of the Taiwan Navy and multiple submarines.  Coupled with dozens of long-range heavy fighters taking off from Taiwan and a dozen fighters hidden at the Okinawa Air Force Base, they launched a fierce attack on the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy's six aircraft carrier formations and the third wave of large troop carrier formations,  In less than half a day, they were all wiped out.  The third wave of more than 140,000 Japanese army troops was also killed on the seabed by the joint attack of the Chinese Air Force and Navy.

    The second wave of Japanese warships that were finally preparing to land were turned into debris by the joint air bombing of the Chinese Air Force. The entire Japanese Navy was almost wiped out. Some suicide submarines dispatched by the Japanese Navy at the last moment were not seen at all.  As soon as the shadow of the Chinese warship was detected, it was discovered by various anti-submarine means of the Chinese warship formation's anti-submarine aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters, and was eventually hit and sunk to the bottom of the sea one by one.

    The fate of the more than 90,000 Japanese troops who had successfully landed in Okinawa was not much better than that of the navy. When the Japanese army fully occupied the beachhead of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the People's Liberation Army detonated high-explosive weapons that had long been buried under the beachhead.  bombs. In the end, nearly half of the Japanese army was blown to pieces by this huge amount of high-explosive bombs.  The remaining more than 40,000 remnant troops suffered all casualties under the Chinese army's artillery fire and the air force's carpet bombing. By the 15th, less than 20,000 remnant troops were left, and they finally chose to surrender.

    In this way, the Okinawa landing and naval battle carefully planned by the Japanese base camp and Yamamoto Isoroku ended in a one-sided massacre.  The Chinese People's Liberation Army achieved a comprehensive victory.  It completely announced that the final demise of Japanese militarism is not far away.

    In this battle, the Japanese army suffered more than 450,000 casualties, and the Japanese navy suffered almost all casualties.  The Japanese naval aviation and army aviation also suffered heavy losses. The Japanese army had completely lost the ability to compete with the Chinese army and could only become an undefended lamb waiting to be slaughtered by the powerful Chinese army.
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