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- When the Pacific War came to an end, the generals of the Chinese High Command put forward various ideas on how to force the Allied forces to surrender as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost. Many people in the submarine force believe that just like German submarines blockading Britain, they can complete the task of defeating the Allies by using only submarines to blockade the United Kingdom to the end.
Scientists and military experts who participated in the creation of the atomic bomb believed that once the atomic bomb came out, the Allies would not be able to persist for a long time, especially since China had a Global Dominator heavy bomber that could carry the atomic bomb, occupied the Marshall Islands, and built a military base there that could directly attack the United States. After the deep airfield, the surrender of the Allied forces was only a matter of time.
Some people believe that the Soviet Union is on the verge of failure and the Caucasus is teetering under the combined attack of China and Germany. This is undoubtedly the last blow to the Allies and makes the Allies feel that it is useless to continue to resist.
?Obviously, each of the above views has its reasonable parts. Most of the Chinese generals and important officials of the Chinese government hold either this view or that view, or they advocate a combination of these views.
For the convenience of description, the above three propositions are respectively called the theory of naval victory, the theory of army victory and the theory of air force victory. However, it must be correctly understood that this is a general statement, and any of these three propositions must not be regarded as being put forward by a certain service or department.
Army victory theorists believe that in order to shake the Japanese army's will to resist, attacking the Allied homeland is an essential step. This view is borne out by the history of war. In previous wars, only invading forces captured large swaths of a country's territory (often including its capital). Only then can we sign an alliance under the city. This theory of the Army became more widely accepted after China occupied Hawaii.
In the Ogasawara Islands (Sulphur), Japanese civilians would rather commit suicide than surrender. This fanatical act of loyalty convinced many Chinese military officers that only by actually occupying the Japanese mainland could Japan be forced to stop the war.
??And Hawaii is just the opposite of the Ogasawara Islands. Both the natives of Hawaii and the Americans living there are not only dissatisfied with the arrival of China. There was no attempt to fight with death. Compared. In fact, they hate the Japanese even more. Because it was Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that year, which caused tens of millions of tons of heavy oil to be detonated and destroyed most of Oahu, regardless of the Americans. Still indigenous. All suffered heavy casualties.
This is the spring of the 17th year of ZTE in the China Pacific Theater. The reaction of the islanders after the capture of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, the United States has been completely driven out of the Pacific Ocean and its power in the Pacific. No one survived. As a result, the West Coast of the United States directly faced China's military front.
Naval victory theorists believe that based on the history of maritime wars, it is possible to defeat the Allies through naval blockade. Japan, like Britain, is most afraid of damaging their sea lines of communication. Japan is an island country with overpopulation. It cannot carry out this modern war solely relying on domestic resources. It is completely dependent on imports.
In order to obtain oil, rubber and other important war materials from the Dutch East Indies without any hindrance, Japan did not hesitate to gamble its vested interests in Asia and brazenly went to war with China. Of course, this was one of the reasons. The launch of a "Battle of Hunger" was also one of the main means to force Japan to surrender.
Air force victory theorists argue that Japan, one of the Allied Powers, can be defeated by continuing to bomb Japan's cities and industrial areas until it shakes the Japanese army's will to fight and deprives the Allies of their means of war.
And when necessary, large-scale air strikes on the mainland of the United States can also be carried out through the airports on the Hawaiian Islands. Of course, this may not be easy, because American bombers often visit this island group, and air battles between the two sides in the waters surrounding Hawaii are happening all the time.
The United States is working hard, but it is not easy for China to successfully launch an air attack on the United States. Because the United States also has a large number of jet fighters, the Saber's high-altitude combat capabilities can completely threaten the Global Overlord. Using a high-altitude assault method like the air raid on Japan has no effect at all in the United States. The United States has sabers with a ceiling of 20,000 meters and a large number of radars. Therefore, it is not easy to carry out air strikes on the United States. Even if it is done, China will have to pay a heavy price.
In the past, the Chinese Supreme Command had not thought of using the Global Overlord¡¯s ultra-long range to conduct air strikes on important cities in the United States. However, after repeated deductions, Chen Shao rejected them all. It is undeniable that the American peacemaker can directly attack the mainland of China with air strikes, and China can also use the Global Overlord to attack the mainland of the United States with air strikes. But both sides face a big problem, and that is the effectiveness ratio.
There are a large number of warning radars along the coast of China, and the United States is no exception. China has a large number of fighter planes that can annihilate the long-distance American bombers in the United States, and the United States can do the same.
When Hawaii facesWhen China directly attacked the frontier, the United States had already begun to plan a local combat plan. There was no place in the Pacific that needed assistance. The forty or fifty escort aircraft carriers operating in the Atlantic also returned to the west coast. Weapons and supplies supporting Europe have also been further reduced.
A large number of sabers and pilots joined the team to protect the mainland of the United States. This also leads to the fact that Chinese warships basically have no chance of approaching the US coast.
At the beginning, in order to capture Hawaii, China's Pacific Fleet and Attack Fleet had a huge fleet of aircraft fighting against American fighter planes every day. The United States had a large number of fighter planes, and most of them were Sabers with similar performance to the Seahawk-3. This put a lot of pressure on the naval aviation. .
If you have to face the entire U.S. coastline air force, whether it is the Chinese Pacific Fleet or the attack fleet, or a single airport on Hawaii, it will be really difficult for China.
??And it is not easy to ensure high-intensity air combat with a long supply line from mainland China to Hawaii. China simply does not have the ability to directly attack the mainland of the United States. At least, that's considered in terms of supply lines across the Pacific.
Of course, the United States will not be able to recapture Hawaii unless the U.S. Pacific Fleet is reborn, but this is already impossible. American industry. It has also reached a limit. It is not easy to persist, but there is no way to start a counterattack.
Since it is impossible to effectively land in the United States from the Pacific, a lot of attention is focused on Japan.
China's strategic policy is to "continuously suppress" Japan's army and navy. In accordance with this policy, the High Command decided that any means that could force the enemy to surrender could be used. In fact, except for the plan to attack the Japanese mainland, all other measures have been implemented.
The Pacific naval battle is like the Battle of Cape Trafalgar. The British fleet defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets near Cape Trafalgar on the Atlantic coast of Spain on October 21, 1805. Liu Haijiang and Di Lang defeated the Allied fleet in such a miserable state that it could no longer become a powerful combat force. This was the same as Nelson leading the British fleet to defeat the French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Cape Trafalgar in 1805. The situation is quite similar.
After the Pacific War. The Allied navies could no longer wage large-scale naval battles. In addition, the Chinese navy safely sent the army to Hawaii. This provides a guarantee for the navy to complete a basic task, which is to cut off the sea lines of communication between the Allied forces and the Nanyang resource areas.
More than a hundred years ago, after the Battle of Cape Trafalgar, the British naval chiefs did not know how to use this glorious battle fleet. leaving it idle for a long time. This fleet has been busy for several years participating in some insignificant local battles. later. Finally found its true mission. While the British navy controlled the sea, it transported army troops to the European continent one after another, and continuously delivered supplies and reinforcements. To support the army in fighting Napoleon's army.
After the Pacific War, the Chinese Navy was clear about the tasks it should undertake in the next battle. It was in the spirit of fighting side by side with our brother Army troops that we entered World War II. In the late autumn of the 16th year of ZTE, after the Chinese Navy achieved its main combat objectives, it continued to support the Army and Army Aviation in completing their respective main combat missions.
The Allied base camp had correctly estimated at this time that Chinese attacks across Taiping from two directions would converge in Hawaii.
Under the orders of Fleet Commander Shen Honglie, the 3rd Fleet, affiliated to the Chinese Pacific Fleet, carried out air strikes with the flagship Datang aircraft carrier as the core in the autumn of the 16th year of Zhongxing, which made the United States realize that the Chinese military An attack on Hawaii is imminent.
So, in early December, the Allied High Command transferred the most talented commander in the army and Australia's last stand, General MacArthur, from the Australian region to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Hawaii Expeditionary Force. MacArthur couldn't figure out where the Chinese army would launch the attack, so he dispersed 400,000 defenders on various islands.
As a result, when the Chinese army began to land on Midway Island on December 20, there were only 22,000 defenders here. In addition, according to the judgment of the base camp, the decisive battle in Hawaii must take place at Midway Island. Therefore, MacArthur hurriedly dispatched troops to reinforce the island, and Japanese naval forces also began a centripetal movement targeting Midway Island. In the Battle of Midway from December 23 to 26, although the Allied navy suffered a devastating defeat, the base camp did not change its basic combat plan because of this.
It was the trade wind season at that time, and the heavy rain quickly turned Midway into a quagmire. This made it difficult for the Chinese army, which had a large number of troops and modern equipment, to exert its advantages. After the Chinese army landed, they found a usable airport on the island, namely Midway Airport.
Chinese Army Engineer CorpsThe team renovated other airports on the island and began to build a new airport. However, due to continuous heavy rains and unsuitable soil conditions, the project progress was slow.
On the contrary, the United States can send aircraft from Pearl Harbor and the mainland for reinforcements, and conduct operations based on the all-weather airport on Oahu. Just a few days after the Battle of the Pacific, MacArthur decided that the Army Air Force would take over the escort aircraft carrier formation of the remaining U.S. Pacific Fleet to assume the air support mission to the Midway area.
However, it was discovered after the escort aircraft carrier formation withdrew that it was difficult for the Army Aviation to complete this task. This is because the Army Air Corps has insufficient aircraft capable of operating, limited airfields at its disposal, and its pilots have not received the necessary training for such air support.
As a result, the fleet had to be transferred back to Hawaiian waters.
From late December to the end of January in the 16th year of Zhongxing, the carrier-based aircraft of the 3rd Fleet mainly carried out air attacks on airports in the Oahu area and ships operating in the waters of Oahu. They successively destroyed about 700 Allied aircraft, Sunk 3 cruisers, 10 destroyers and a large number of transport ships and auxiliary ships. An Allied convoy convoy was also wiped out, and tens of thousands of reinforcements were also killed.
In January, in order to strengthen the shore-based aviation force, MacArthur ordered Marine Corps aircraft stationed in the United States to come to provide aviation fire support.
Despite all efforts, China still failed to regain air supremacy over Midway Island. In addition, Japanese "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft frequently collided with the ships of the 3rd Fleet.
? 6 cruisers of Shen Honglie¡¯s fleet were damaged, and 2 battleships, 2 cruisers, 2 landing troop transports and 7 destroyers of the attack fleet were damaged.
After the "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft carried out a particularly fierce assault on the 8th Task Force of the Attack Fleet on January 25, the 3rd Fleet temporarily stopped its combat activities in the Hawaiian waters. This fleet fought almost continuously at sea. for three months.
This is by far the best result achieved by the Allies in this war. Yet the irony is. These results were all achieved by Japanese kamikaze members. The United States has made absolutely no achievements in this regard.
Despite heavy losses, the United States had assembled about 100,000 troops on Midway Island by mid-January to confront the approximately 50,000 Chinese troops who had landed on the island.
China¡¯s torpedo boat fleet is responsible for preventing the United States from carrying out reinforcements. Sometimes there is a detour to the west side of Midway Island. to attack American ships. Several ships transporting U.S. troops were sunk, including 2 cargo ships, 2 small transport ships, and 2 patrol boats.
After the 3rd Fleet withdrew, Xiao Jinguang, commander of the attack fleet, ordered the minesweeper fleet to clear the waterway between Midway Island and Bohol Island. later. Destroyers were dispatched several times to carry out night minesweeping to clear mines in the waters near Umu Port.
The destroyer sent to clear mines for the first time sank a submarine on the surface in this area; the destroyer sent to clear mines for the second time sank a small cargo ship; the destroyer sent to clear mines for the third time attacked a U.S. ship bound for Umu. A convoy escorted the port, but it also encountered a fierce counterattack by U.S. aircraft and two destroyers.
As of December 1, the death toll in the United States has greatly exceeded its reinforcements, and the number of Chinese troops who have landed on Midway Island has actually reached 80,000.
However, China could only use some muddy and difficult roads for supplies, and combat operations progressed slowly. After that, the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Army rushed through the mountainous area from north to south towards Umu Port. The 7th Division of the Chinese Army's Jungle Group advanced along the coast from south to north, pointing directly at the Midway Port.
In order to speed up the attack on Midway Port, General Chen Ce, commander of the Jungle Army, decided to land troops from the sea between the northern and southern lines of Midway Island in order to divide the enemy and annihilate them one by one. On December 6, two regimental combat teams of the 77th Division boarded landing boats and destroyers, escorted by 12 destroyers of the 7th Fleet, and detoured to the west side of Midway Island. On the morning of the 7th, they were 3 nautical miles south of Midway Island. Start logging in.
The U.S. garrison tried to stop the Chinese army from launching attacks from both north and south directions at the same time. However, because a large part of the troops in the Midway area had been transferred away, the Chinese army that landed did not actually encounter any resistance. It was not until the landing troops landed safely that the United States began to counterattack.
However, the naval forces that were still near the landing area were violently attacked by "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft. The number of Japanese aircraft far exceeded the number of Chinese aircraft serving as air cover;
The impact of the "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft severely damaged the transport destroyer, and it sank soon after. A few days later, the "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft launched another attack on the Chinese convoy heading to this landing area and sank two destroyers.
Facts have proved that the Chinese army's landing on the west coast of Midway Island played a decisive role in the attack on the island. After the 7th Division captured the central part of Midway Island, its main force immediately transferred and marched towards Midway Atoll. In DecemberOn the 21st, it joined forces with the 1st Division advancing south. At this time, most of the remaining United States was trapped in the southwest peninsula, and its retreat had been cut off, but it would take at least four months to annihilate it.
MacArthur announced on Christmas that the United States¡¯ organized resistance at Midway had ended. The relatively weakly defended islands near Midway were also occupied by China at this time.
During the Chinese army's attack on Midway Island, about 1,000 U.S. troops defending the island evacuated, 400 surrendered, and about 68,000 died in battle, died of illness, or starved to death. The Chinese army suffered 500 casualties and 2,000 injuries in the land battle of this offensive.
The 3rd Fleet rested in the Marshall Islands for two weeks. On December 13, it reappeared in the waters east of Hawaii and began to attack the airport on Oahu. This is actually a firepower preparation for China's landing on Kauai, 300 nautical miles northwest of Midway Island.
At the same time, a landing convoy of the 7th Fleet of the Attack Fleet, the Kauai landing assault force (12,000 ground troops, 9,500 aviation troops, and 9,000 logistics troops), sailed to Kauai via Midway Island.
Shen Honglie sent cover troops to serve as maritime security. The covering force consists of 6 escort aircraft carriers and several battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. In addition, the 5th Air Force was ordered to provide cover and support from Midway.
Under the tactical cover of the escort aircraft carrier aircraft and shore-based aviation on Midway Island, as well as the strategic support of the fast aircraft carrier, the Chinese assault force landed on Kauai on December 15 without encountering much resistance. to the beach. After the landing assault troops landed. Kamikazes and a large number of American fighter planes counterattacked. Sinked 2 tank landing ships of the amphibious combat formation.
From December 14th to 16th, the aircraft that came to attack the Chinese forces on Kauai all took off from central Hawaii. The 3rd Fleet dispatched carrier-based aircraft to implement a 46-hour blockade over U.S. airports on Oahu, paralyzing U.S. aviation in the area.
During this lockdown. Carrier-based aircraft of the 3rd Fleet destroyed nearly 400 American aircraft. Most of its Japanese aircraft were destroyed on the ground. The reason why this brilliant result was achieved. It was because General Xiao Jinguang adopted a series of new countermeasures to protect the task force from the threat of "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft.
He reduced the number of dive bombers on escort carriers to less than half and more than doubled the number of carrier-based fighters. The types of carrier-based aircraft have been adjusted as above. This strengthened the assault force of the aircraft carrier.
During this period, not a single U.S. aircraft flew over the task force. In order to further strengthen the air defense capabilities, Xiao Jinguang adjusted his task force from the original 4 to 3 so that he could use anti-aircraft artillery fire and air cover more intensively.
In addition, when conducting an assault, the destroyers serving as radar warnings were deployed on both sides of the target azimuth line, 60 nautical miles ahead of the mixed fleet, so as to report the incoming Japanese aircraft as early as possible. The destroyer serves as a radar guard and has its own patrol aircraft.
According to regulations, the Chinese aircraft returning after completing the air raid mission must hover over the above-mentioned warning ships for a week. Therefore, those "kamikaze" special attack aircraft mixed with the returning Chinese aircraft to capture the Chinese aircraft carrier can be identified and shot down one by one. Any aircraft that does not fly towards the task force from the designated position of the guard ship will be regarded as a Japanese aircraft and intercepted.
On December 17, the task force withdrew from the battlefield to replenish fuel and headed east. However, the weather became worse and worse, and after noon, Shen Honglie's fleet had to stop refueling at sea. On the morning of the 18th, a typhoon was not even predicted by the sounding station. Although the range was small, the wind speed was very high and the force was fierce, causing huge losses to the task force.
The captains of three of the destroyers, because they urgently needed to replenish the exhausted fuel, did not inject seawater into the empty oil tanks in time to stabilize the hull. As a result, the three destroyers capsized and sank when the storm was at its peak. Seven other warships were seriously damaged. Some carrier-based aircraft were thrown into the sea, some were blown out of the sea by the wind, and some caught fire and burned due to collisions with each other. As many as 186 aircraft were lost. About 300 officers and soldiers were killed. The task force seemed to have experienced a large-scale naval battle and suffered great losses.
Due to the attack of the typhoon and the failure to replenish fuel on time, the task force was unable to carry out air strikes on Oahu from December 19 to 21 as scheduled. On the 21st, the typhoon was passing over Oahu, and air strikes were still not possible. Therefore, the 3rd Fleet returned to the Marshall anchorage, the crews took necessary rest, and the support ship formation repaired the ships damaged in the storm.
Xiao Jinguang and his staff used the few days of rest in Marshall to study and propose various measures that would help improve the combat effectiveness of the 3rd Fleet. Several aircraft carriers increased the number of fighter-bombers, and even two Marine Corps aviation aggressor fighter squadrons were transferred to aircraft carriers for the first time.
They also decided to use the two aircraft carriers Datang and Daqin as the main body, and six aircraft carriers.The destroyer serves as a guard and forms a special task force, affiliated with the 8th Task Force, which specializes in night combat, that is, performing special tasks such as bombing, search, and air patrol at night. On December 30, the 3rd Fleet set sail from Ulithi anchorage. Depart for the air raid on Pearl Harbor in support of the upcoming landings on Oahu.
At this time, the Chinese troops on Kauai and in its nearby waters were continuing to fight, and were subject to scattered attacks from the United States from time to time. On December 21, U.S. fighter planes attacked a convoy transporting military supplies and sank two tank landing ships.
On Christmas Eve, a U.S. cruiser-destroyer formation was discovered by a Chinese shore-based reconnaissance aircraft on Midway Island when the formation entered the waters 200 nautical miles south of Kauai due to bad weather. then. None of the Chinese warships operating in the waters off Kauai are larger than torpedo boats.
From late night on December 26th to early morning on December 27th. U.S. surface ships arrived in the waters off Kauai, shelled the airport for a short period of time, and then retreated after being attacked by air strikes. During the retreat, one destroyer was torpedoed by a torpedo boat and sank.
At the end of this year, the Chinese Army sent an escort transport team to Kauai to transport military supplies. During the voyage, they were attacked by American aircraft. Four transport ships were sunk. One of the arms ships. After causing a violent explosion, the hull and crew were buried at the bottom of the sea. Later, this escort transport team was attacked again by the "Kamikaze" special attack fleet. Four more ships were damaged. In the following days, three more cargo holds were bombed in the waters off Kauai. An arms ship was hit by a "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft, exploded immediately, and sank into the sea with the ship and its people.
After that, the United States¡¯ attention was attracted by China¡¯s offensive operations on Oahu, and it suddenly stopped air strikes in the Kauai area. At that time, there were three airports available on Kauai. Facts have proved that these airfields played a huge role in supporting the landing campaign on Oahu.
The first landing on Oahu is scheduled to take place in Waikiki Bay. The landing force is scheduled to carry out a surprise landing on January 9, the 17th year of ZTE. Its force composition was roughly the same as that of the attack on Midway. In addition to the Jungle Army and the 7th Fleet, it was reinforced by the 3rd Amphibious Combat Group of the Pacific Fleet.
The Army Air Forces on Midway and Kauai were responsible for covering the landing convoy and suppressing the U.S. airport in southern Oahu. In addition, the landing convoy was protected by an escort aircraft carrier accompanying the voyage. Shen Honglie's 3rd Fleet (only the 8th Task Force was left at that time) was tasked with suppressing the American airports on Hawaii Island and northern Oahu.
The advance fire preparation for the Waikiki landing area is a powerful support force composed of 164 warships. These include 6 battleships, 12 escort aircraft carriers, 10 destroyers carrying underwater demolition teams and 63 minesweepers. This force entered Waikiki, cleared mines, measured the channel approaching the beach, and carried out a three-day naval gunfire preparation to destroy the shore defenses before the landing force arrived.
On the evening of January 2, when the leading force of the landing force arrived at the predetermined location, they were discovered by an American observation post located in a church steeple in the northeast of the island. After receiving the report, the United States immediately sent bombers to the Bohol Sea the next day to ram the oil tanker in the formation. Although two crew members were injured or killed, the oil tanker did not suffer much damage.
This is an ominous sign for the U.S. Air Force.
As mentioned above, when the formation led by the landing force arrived for landing, the United States suddenly stopped air strikes on ships in the waters of Kauai and went to capture new and larger targets.
On January 6, as soon as the large ship entered Waikiki under the guidance of the minesweeper, it was violently attacked by "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft and the U.S. Air Force. The U.S. air strikes began at 11:45 and continued until sunset, damaging 11 ships and sinking one.
If the 3rd Fleet did not insist on conducting an assault on the Hawaii Island airport in dense fog on January 4 or 5, the U.S. attack on the Waikiki fire support formation would definitely be more violent. 3rd Fleet air strikes prevented Allied aircraft from carrying out reinforcements towards Oahu from the north.
Shen Honglie¡¯s carrier-based aircraft planned to violently bomb the airports in the Oahu area on the 6th, but due to poor weather, they were unable to comprehensively suppress the Japanese airports.
On the 7th, according to Shen Honglie's request, the planned pincer attack on Hawaii Island was canceled and another air strike was carried out on Oahu Island. This air strike was jointly carried out by aircraft carrier-based aircraft of the 3rd Fleet, escort aircraft carrier-based aircraft of the 7th Fleet, and army aircraft, which almost paralyzed all airports on Oahu.
On this day, only a small number of American fighter planes flew over Waikiki, and most of them were shot down. However, two more minesweepers were sunk by bombs and aerial torpedoes respectively. At this time. The United States decided to withdraw all aviation forces that could be withdrawn from Hawaii.
Therefore, after January 7, the United States almost stopped its organized resistance activities against China, and only a few Japanese aircraft sometimes spontaneously?Chinese ships attacked.
At this time, the elite troops of the Jungle Army assembled from the South Pacific and Southwest Pacific were sailing towards Oahu on ships of the amphibious combat formation.
Despite desperate resistance from Allied fighter planes, the amphibious battle formation arrived at Waikiki as planned. A few minutes after the landing transport team arrived at the transfer sea area at sunrise on January 9, three "Kamikaze" special attack aircraft flew in. One of them broke the mast of a frigate, and the other hit the already damaged ship. On the heavily damaged cruiser.
During this period, the landing assault troops were not only resisted by American artillery on the high ground on the north side of the landing site. They reached the beach with little other resistance. Because the United States adopted new anti-landing tactics. Only deploying limited forces on the beach positions delays the actions of the landing troops, so the landing force formation does not need to use large-caliber naval guns for long-term artillery preparations.
MacArthur has led most of his troops to retreat northward, preparing to fight in the mountains. By sunset on the 9th, the landing force had expanded the landing site by three kilometers in depth.
Night. When ships inside Waikiki cast smoke screens. While trying to avoid Japanese air strikes. About 70 Allied motorboats made of plywood rushed towards the Chinese surface ships carrying explosives. Most of these motorboats were repelled or destroyed by naval guns, and only a few of them delivered explosives to the sides of Chinese warships and escaped. This U.S. waterborne special offensive operation. It sank an infantry landing craft of the Chinese Army and damaged a transport ship, an infantry landing craft and four tank landing craft.
When the 1st Army of the Jungle Army contained MacArthur's troops in the hilly areas northeast of Waikiki, the 14th Army of the Jungle Army advanced towards Manila.
On January 29, the 17th year of Zhongxing, the 7th Amphibious Combat Group sent about 30,000 landing troops ashore near the west coast of Oahu, and they encountered little resistance. After this part of the landing force comes ashore, it can not only prevent the United States from withdrawing to the rear of the island, but also ensure that friendly forces can invade Oahu from the north.
Two days later, another 8,000 Chinese soldiers landed in southern Oahu in order to invade Oahu from the southwest. The final assault launched by the 14th Army from the north progressed rapidly with the support of two Marine Corps flying groups. Aviation successfully provided direct aviation fire support to ground forces, thus allaying the concerns of Army commanders.
On February 4, the 14th Army had entered Honolulu, where the United States had 50,000 U.S. Marines and 30,000 U.S. Army troops responsible for defense. The street fighting here was fought street by street, building by building, and even hand-to-hand combat. The fighting lasted for more than a month and did not end until all the defenders were wiped out. The city of Honolulu is in ruins.
Three weeks before the capture of Honolulu, China took active actions to seize Honolulu's harbor. On February 15, a regimental combat team landed on the southernmost tip of Oahu despite weak resistance from the United States. The next day, a regimental combat team composed of paratroopers and a battalion landing team, working closely together, launched an attack.
When Chen Ce's Jungle Army pressed MacArthur's remaining 170,000 troops toward the mountains of Oahu, Shen Honglie's 7th Fleet cooperated with General Eichelberger's 8th Army to sweep away the remaining U.S. troops on the Hawaiian islands.
From late February to mid-April in the 17th year of the ZTE, amphibious combat formations conducted no less than 38 landing battles in central and southern Hawaii. However, the scale of these landing battles was much smaller than the two landing battles at Midway and Oahu. Although several islands were heavily defended, the U.S. command believed that Hawaii must be lost, so it provided almost no air or sea support.
¡°And according to the new tactical principles, the American garrison no longer desperately resisted on the waterfront beaches, but tried their best to defend the city. When forced, they would blow it up and then withdraw to the mountains. As a result, a large number of Americans died from starvation and disease, which was much greater than the combat casualties. By the time the U.S. surrendered at the end of the war, there were very few surviving garrison members.
In one landing battle after another, the first landing battle was carried out on Kauai Island on February 28, and then the landing battle was carried out on the western end of Niihau Island on March 10. During these two landing operations, the Chinese aviation force prevented the US surface ship formation from attacking central Hawaii from the Sulawesi Sea and the South China Sea.
Since then, the Chinese army has successively recaptured Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe and some small islands in central Hawaii. At the same time, China also advanced from the southwest, and encountered little resistance before landing on the small islands in the south.
Finally, China conducted several landing operations on Oahu. At that time, 25,000 Chinese soldiers were active on the island, controlling 95% of the island, and besieging 42,000 American garrison troops in various cities and several strongholds.
Therefore, the main purpose of the Chinese army¡¯s landing is to support the guerrillasComplete the mission of annihilating American forces. The Chinese army landed from three directions on the west coast, north coast and south coast of the island, and then advanced in depth to separate the United States so that it could not be connected as one. Then, the Chinese army drove the United States from the city to the hinterland of the island to facilitate the troops to encircle and annihilate them. This operation continued until the end of the war. (To be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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