Take Taobao to fight against Japan

Jiao Xuezhi, Miao Dadong and others became interested immediately, and looked at Yang Fan in unison, wondering if he had a specific timetable.

"The situation on the battlefield is unpredictable, who can guarantee what will happen tomorrow?"

Yang Fan shook his head lightly, and said with a smile, "But as far as I know, the Allied forces have completed the reconstruction of the Hawaiian Islands, and within a month at the latest, it's time to use island-hopping tactics and take the initiative to attack Australia and Southeast Asia. "

Speaking of this, Yang Fan paused slightly and said, "Perhaps the next goal is to capture the Solomon Islands and open the door to the South Pacific battlefield!"

In another time and space, after the Battle of Midway, it would have been the Battle of Guadalcanal that lasted six months.

In this watershed battle known as the Pacific War, Japan and the United States fought more than [-] large and small naval battles within six months, including six large-scale naval battles.

The Battle of Guadalcanal began with a small US landing battle, and then the Japanese army gradually increased its troops to retake the island, and launched an unprecedented battle at sea, land, and air, which evolved into a decisive battle between Japan and the Allies.

The two sides fought for more than half a year, and both lost a large number of warships and aircraft, and the casualties of Japan far exceeded that of the US military.

In the end, Japan chose to withdraw its troops due to its inability to conduct attrition operations.

The U.S. military finally completely occupied Guadalcanal Island, and then captured the Solomon Islands, and finally the command of the sea in the entire South Pacific region. Therefore, the U.S. military began to carry out a strategic counter-offensive.

At the same time, Yang Fan had already handed over the strategy of attacking the Solomon Islands to Liu Qiang, so that he could use it after recovering the Hawaiian Islands.

Solomon Islands is an island country in the South Pacific, located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, and belongs to the Melanesian archipelago.It is 1600 kilometers away from Australia in the southwest, 485 kilometers away from Papua New Guinea in the west, and faces Vanuatu across the sea in the southeast. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

There are more than 990 islands in the Solomon Islands, with a land area of ​​2.84 square kilometers.

Talking about the Solomon Islands must talk about Guadalcanal, and talking about Guadalcanal must talk about the Battle of Guadalcanal. This is inevitable.

Because Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, is located on the northern tip of Guadalcanal, where the turning point of World War II in the Pacific was located.

Guadalcanal is the largest and most important island in the Solomon Islands. It is 150 kilometers long, 48 kilometers wide, and has a land area of ​​6475 square kilometers, which is equivalent to Shanghai, China.

Why did the Japanese army take a fancy to Guadalcanal, which was not well-known at the time, in the Pacific War?

It's very simple: the occupation of Guadalcanal by the Japanese army could cut off the life channel of the United States and its Western allies Australia and New Zealand.

The Japanese army gave up going north to attack the Soviet Union, but went south to attack Southeast Asia. One of the most important reasons is that Southeast Asia has strategic resources that Japan lacks, such as oil and rubber.

The resources of the Australian mainland may not be as rich as Southeast Asia, but the Australian mainland is huge. If the Japanese army can occupy the Australian mainland, it will make Japan reverse the passive strategic situation facing the United States after the Midway Island naval battle.

Japan is a country with a small land and a large population, while the Australian mainland is a large land with a sparse population. In fact, it is the most ideal place for Japanese to relocate.

As for the East Asian continent, the Japanese army fell into a bitter battle, and the "integrity" of the descendants of "Amaterasu" moved to East Asia was almost a fantasy.

Therefore, some people in Japan still believe that losing the Battle of Midway is not terrible, and Japan still has a chance to make a comeback; losing the Battle of Guadalcanal, Japan's defeat will enter the countdown.

Guadalcanal, or the strategic position of the Solomon Islands, can be seen here.

What's more, in the current time and space, the Japanese captured Australia in a fantastic way, and they have long regarded this vast and sparsely populated super continent as their own homeland, and they would never spit it out even if they tried their best.

Therefore, logically speaking, the next military target of the Allied Forces should and must be Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

It's just that many details have changed in the current time and space, and Yang Fan can't guarantee that the script will continue to act according to the script.

Chapter 1546 Indelible Contribution

In the early morning of September 9, at the port of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.

At this time, New Zealand is in winter, and the temperature is not high, and the sea breeze blows in the morning is even more chilly, but there are crowds of people on the port pier, and there is a festive atmosphere in full swing.

Tens of thousands of New Zealand soldiers and civilians were immersed in excitement and joy at the moment. They all waved their arms and shouted loudly at the huge naval fleet that was approaching the pier.

That's right, what the New Zealand military and civilians welcome is a task force of the Allied Pacific Combined Fleet that has just arrived in New Zealand.

As predicted by Yang Fan and others, not long after the end of the battle of the Hawaiian group, the United States of America, which was completely ignited, could not stop at all. After finishing its rest, it ordered the Allied Fleet to start a new stage of the Pacific War and gradually clean up Hawaii. Japanese strongholds around the archipelago.

As a result, the Allied Pacific Combined Fleet locked the first attack target on the Gilbert Islands located 1900 kilometers away from Hawaii Island.

The Gilbert Islands is a group of atolls in the central and western Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Marshall Islands and northeast of the Solomon Islands. It consists of 430 coral islands including Makin and Tarawa, with a total land area of ​​about [-] square kilometers.

The archipelago is in the middle of the sea line of communication between the United States and Australia, and it is a necessary place to enter the Solomon Islands and Australia.

Makin and Tarawa, which the Japanese army focused on defending, are two small coral islands, consisting of coral reefs and very low strips of land.

Among them, there are only more than 800 Japanese troops stationed on Makin Island, so the defense is poor.

It took only two and a half days for the Allied forces to attack the island, and they wiped out the Japanese defenders on the island at the cost of more than 240 casualties.

On the other hand, there are 5000 Japanese troops stationed in Tarawa, 3000 of whom are combat soldiers. There are everything on the island, such as beach obstacles, barbed wire, wooden piles, cement buildings, coastal artillery, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-tank guns.

The defense of Tarawa Island is extremely strong, and it is the most firmly defended island in the Pacific Ocean by the Japanese army, only comparable to Iwo Jima.

After a day and night of continuous bombing and shelling, with the fire support of the navy and air force, the Allied forces successively sent 6 battalions of troops to land on Tarawa Island.

After extremely hard and bloody fighting efforts and great sacrifices, the allied forces completely annihilated the stubborn Japanese army and occupied Tarawa Island after 4 days of fierce fighting.

In this attack, the U.S. military suffered 3301 casualties and missing persons, and the Huben Army suffered 172 casualties. The overall loss was extremely huge.

At the same time, the Allied forces raked grass and beat rabbits, and easily captured another nearby small island, Aramama Island.

Although the Allied forces captured Tarawa Island at a high price, it was of great significance strategically. The Allied forces gained a solid air base and forward base, laying a solid foundation for the next attack.

In the following time, the Allied fleet pushed and crushed all the way, selectively conquered several islands occupied by the Japanese army, and finally opened up not only the route to attack the Solomon Islands, but also the sea connection with New Zealand.

So the Allied Fleet took a two-pronged approach, sending part of its troops to New Zealand to strengthen its defenses, and made a gesture of using New Zealand as a springboard to directly attack the Australian mainland, in order to attract and contain Japanese troops.

New Zealand is located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean. Its territory consists of North Island, South Island and some small islands. The shortest distance between the main North Island and South Island is 2250 kilometers from the mainland of Australia.

In World War II in another time and space, the New Zealand army mainly followed the U.S. military at the beginning, and later followed the U.S. military to dominate various battles on the Pacific battlefield.

Unlike Australia and Canada, New Zealand supported Britain at the beginning of the war.

But as a world-renowned agricultural country, it doesn't have many weapons at all, and Britain's weapons are not enough for its own use, so it can only choose to make it by itself.

And this country had nothing when the tank was built, only agricultural tractors, so the engine of the tank was replaced by a tractor, and the final tank could only be described as shoddy and vulnerable.

The people refused to serve after seeing it, but they did not lose their confidence in participating in the war. In World War II, New Zealand spared no expense for their good brothers in the past.

在当时地广人稀的新西兰组建出了三个旅的军队，在1941年11月到1942年的北非战役中，不到四万4000人的新西兰官兵伤亡达到了两万一千500人。

On the Italian battlefield, casualties reached more than 600 people.

Until the end of the war, the New Zealand state has been exporting soldiers for the war.

Generally speaking, as part of the British Commonwealth Army, the New Zealand Army made indelible contributions to the victory of the Anti-Fascist War.

Logically speaking, after the Japanese army occupied the Australian mainland in the current time and space, they had the necessary conditions to take New Zealand, but unfortunately, the protracted battle in the Australian mainland consumed too much time and troops of the Japanese army.

In addition, coupled with the diversion effect of the Hawaiian Islands, the Burmese theater, and the domestic battlefield in China, even if the Japanese army is going crazy and violent, they still have no way to cover everything. new Zealand.

However, in the one or two years after occupying the Australian mainland, the Japanese fleet still organized several tentative attacks, but in the end they were all resolutely and thoroughly resisted by the New Zealand people, and the Japanese army was frustrated one after another.

Seeing that the New Zealand people's will to resist was extremely strong, they did not make up their minds to capture the Japanese base camp in New Zealand, so they temporarily shelved their plan to attack New Zealand.

It's just that the plan was not as fast as changing. As the battlefields were tense, the Japanese army completely ignored New Zealand. Until now, New Zealand is still in the hands of the Allied forces.

It is also because of this that the Allied task force arrived in the capital of New Zealand swaggeringly today, and the New Zealand military and civilians were greatly inspired and encouraged.

Not only did the cloud of national annihilation that had been weighing on their heads dissipate in an instant, but the enthusiasm for war also reached an unprecedented height.

"What a beautiful island, what a lovely people, those ambitious invaders and war executioners will all die!"

Standing on the deck, looking at the beauty and kindness in the distance, and seeing the enthusiastic welcome team not far away, Qiao Qingshan couldn't help but feel emotional, and naturally thought of the motherland who had many disasters.

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, is located at the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand and is a transportation hub between the two islands.It is also one of the best deep-water ports in the world.

At the same time, under the influence of the maritime climate, Wellington is full of sunshine all year round like spring, and the surrounding mountains are full of green and beautiful scenery. It is a famous tourist attraction in the South Pacific region.

Such beautiful scenery and mild climate, coupled with such enthusiastic allied soldiers and civilians, can indeed touch the softest part of everyone's heart.

Chapter 1547 Axis Disintegration

"Yes, as long as all the peace-loving people of the world are firmly united, we will surely defeat the Axis of Evil Alliance, and the victory will eventually belong to us!"

Liu Qiang was also full of emotion at the moment, and then sighed, "I'm going around the world in circles, and now I'm getting closer and closer to home."

Qiao Qingshan nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, it won't be long before we can regain Australia, we can go all the way to the devils' hometown, defeat the Japanese devils, and we can return in triumph!"

"Being able to defeat the little devil and the Axis of Evil Alliance with our own hands, our life is really worth it!"

Liu Qiang nodded in a good mood, looking at the present and recalling the past, a burst of pride and ambition involuntarily surged in his heart.

……

Tokyo Imperial Palace.

Just when the Allied task force arrived in New Zealand and the New Zealand soldiers and civilians were immersed in the sea of ​​joy, the Japanese emperor was holding an imperial meeting to discuss the worsening war situation.

Hirohito frowned, patted a document on the table and said: "Italy has signed the unconditional surrender, and according to reliable information, they will soon join the camp of the Allies and declare war on Germany.

This is a great bad news for the Axis Alliance, and it is also a great blow to the Great Japanese Empire.

The Great Japanese Empire can be said to be troubled now, and it is facing increasing pressure from all aspects. If you have anything to say, feel free to say it. "

In 1943, due to Italy's defeat in North Africa and the defeat of its elite troops on the Soviet-German battlefield, especially after the Allied forces landed in Sicily, the Fascist Parliament passed a majority vote to demand Mussolini's resignation.

Subsequently, Mussolini was arrested when he was summoned by the king, and the Mussolini government collapsed.

On August 1943, 8, the new Badoglio government asked Hitler to relieve Italy of its alliance obligations, but Hitler ordered the German army to prepare to capture Italy.

Under the insistence of the people, the Badoglio government signed an unconditional surrender on September 9, and stipulated that the Italian armed forces immediately cease military operations; Italy should make every effort to "deny the Germans the convenience of fighting the United States conditions”; the Allies had the free use of Italian airfields and naval bases.

At this time, the German fascist army occupied Italy and let Mussolini, who was kidnapped by the German paratroopers, establish the so-called "social republic" in the German-occupied area in northern Italy, making a dying struggle.

On October 10, Italy declared war on Germany, and the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, China and other countries issued a declaration at the same time, recognizing Italy as a party to the joint war.

The axis of Germany, Italy, and Japan began to disintegrate.

King Fushimi Gong Hiroshi said in a stern tone: "Since the Italian government has betrayed the Axis Alliance, then they should pay the price for it, and the Great Japanese Empire no longer needs to protect their interests in China, unless they choose to be loyal to the Italian Social Republic. "

"Suoga! This is what it should be, and it is necessary!"

Hirohito nodded his head lightly, and a look of sternness flashed in his eyes, he naturally knew what King Fushimi Gong Hiroshi was referring to.

When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, in order to protect its interests in China, Italy sent three warships to China in 1941, among which the "Eritrea" and "Ram-3" arrived in Shanghai and Tianjin.

Although Italy and Japan were allies at the time, the relationship between the two countries was far inferior to that with Germany.

These Italian soldiers stationed in various places along the coast of China have lived a very comfortable life in the past few years. The Japanese army will not come to harass them, and the Chinese people are also afraid of them, so they will make troubles everywhere while having fun, which has caused the local Japanese army to treat these Italian troops. Very disgusted.

Now that Italy is forced to withdraw from the Axis powers, the good days of these Italian soldiers stationed in China are naturally coming to an end.

More than 500 Italian troops stationed in Tianjin, Beiping, Shanghai concessions and embassy and consulate areas were soon surrounded by more than 6000 puppet troops.

In order to force these people to surrender, the Japanese army also transferred artillery and aircraft.After 10 hours of deterrent bombardment and air strikes by the Japanese army, these Italian troops had to choose to burn the confidential documents and then surrender.

The Japanese army also called this event the "September Justice Surrender Incident". The Japanese army also captured 1100 Italian citizens and asked them to pledge allegiance to the "Italian Social Republic" supported by Hitler. If they were unwilling, they would be sent to concentration camps.

In the end, only 1000 of the more than 170 Italians were willing to join the Japanese army, and the rest were imprisoned in Japanese concentration camps and suffered two years of abuse.

It was not until Japan announced its unconditional surrender that these Italians who were imprisoned by the Japanese army returned to their motherland.

"However, these are insignificant and trivial matters. The top priority is how to deal with the increasingly complex war situation."

Hirohito continued, "The U.S. Pacific Task Force has arrived in New Zealand, and they are only 2000 kilometers away from the Australian mainland. It will not take long for them to attack the Australian mainland.

Gentlemen, the Australian mainland is already the most important overseas territory of the Empire of Japan. It is related to the future of the Empire of Japan. We must not lose it. This is the bottom line of the Empire of Japan! "

"Hayi! Please rest assured, His Majesty the Emperor, the Australian mainland will not be lost!"

Tojo nodded confidently, and said in a cold tone, "The Australian mainland is not a small island in the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese Empire has enough strategic space and defensive power. If the Americans dare to directly attack the Australian mainland, they must There will be an unbearable price to pay.”

"Tojo-kun, what I want now is not harsh words, but practical strategies and tactics!"

Hirohito frowned. As the war situation deteriorated day by day, he became more and more disappointed with the cabinet prime minister who held multiple positions. He had long since lost the original favor and absolute trust.

Tojo also knew what the specific situation was, but what could he do? At this moment, he could only bite the bullet and say: "Your Majesty, the US fleet can go directly to New Zealand to attack the Australian mainland, but New Zealand has no oil and no industrial production capacity." However, the supplies of the Allied forces had to be transported to Hawaii by the mainland of the United States, and then transferred to New Zealand.

At present, the Solomon Islands are still firmly in the hands of the empire, so the Allies can only take a detour. Their long supply lines will be a fatal weakness! "

"On the other hand, the Empire of Japan can rely on its strong geographical advantages to continuously replenish its soldiers and supplies, and it is not afraid of the allied war of attrition at all!"

"So I'm not worried that the Allied forces will use New Zealand as a springboard to attack the Australian mainland. On the contrary, I think they will probably take the Solomon Islands first, and then take it slowly!"

Tojo can be said to be the most special and wonderful prime minister in Japan. In the process, he unlocked a "personal achievement": supporting most of the Japanese government cabinet on his own.

Since Tojo established the so-called Tojo Cabinet on November 1940, 11, Hideki Tojo has not only served as Prime Minister, but also served as General of the Army, Minister of Army, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Minister of Commerce and Industry.

However, Hideki Tojo still felt that he did not have enough work. In 43, he proclaimed himself a Minister of Military Supplies. He also worked as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education for a period of time. chief of staff.

However, strange things belong to strange things, Tojo's personal ability is still very strong, and what he said is clear and logical, and it sounds very reasonable.

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