Take Taobao to fight against Japan

共有37艘军舰向岛上发射了180000多不同口径炮弹，其中15艘战列舰发射炮弹165000发，7艘新型快速战列舰发射炮弹2400发。

However, in order to avoid coastal minefields, the U.S. Navy bombed at a distance of at least 9100 meters, and due to the lack of experience in shore bombing by the crew and the tight defense of the Japanese army, it did not cause a serious blow to the Japanese side.

Because the Japanese army built complicated fortifications on the island, and they had a firm resistance attitude, and adopted the combat policy of annihilating the enemy on the waterfront beachhead, the US military suffered more than 2000 casualties on the first day of landing.

Later, in the process of clearing the Japanese army, the US military was also affected by the Japanese fortifications, crypts and other fortifications, making it difficult to advance.

Even though the Japanese side's defeat was fixed on July 7, the Japanese guard Yoshiji Saito organized a suicide charge of more than 7 people, including a large number of wounded and civilians.

On the previous day, senior generals such as Nagumo Chuichi and Saito Yoshiji committed suicide by harakiri after sending a farewell telegram to Tokyo University.

4.1 Japanese garrison troops on Saipan were killed, including 2.61 soldiers, 1.5 navy, and more than 2000 captured.

In addition, 2.2 Japanese civilians committed suicide, accounting for almost two-thirds of the island's residents.

Saipan has become an eternal pain for the Japanese.

The U.S. military also suffered a lot of casualties, with a cumulative casualty number as high as 1.65. This was one of the most casualties in the Pacific War.

The capture of Saipan by the U.S. military created conditions for the capture of other islands in the Mariana Islands. At the same time, it greatly boosted the morale of the Allied forces, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of Japanese fascists, and provided a bombing base for B-29 long-range strategic bombers.

After the Battle of Saipan, the Allies soon targeted Tinian and Guam.

Tinian Island is located about five kilometers southwest of Saipan Island. Although it is small in size, it is too close to Saipan Island and poses a greater threat to Saipan Island.

Moreover, the island has a large airport with complete facilities, which can become the departure base for B-29 bombers with a little modification. Therefore, after capturing Saipan, the Allied forces decided to capture the island as soon as possible with the northern landing formation.

提尼安岛上日军兵力海军第56警备队、第82、第83防空队，以及第一航空舰队的空勤、地勤和司令部机关人员，共约4100人，配置有140毫米岸炮10门、75毫米高平两用炮20门。

陆军为步兵第29师团第50联队、步兵第135联队第一大队和一个坦克大队，总兵力4000余人，配属75毫米山炮24门、88毫米反坦克炮12门、坦克36辆。

The 50th Wing was originally the Kwantung Army stationed in Northeast China. It is well-trained and well-equipped and is the backbone of the island's defense.

The highest military rank on the island is Vice Admiral Kakuji Kakuda, commander of the First Air Fleet, but his unit is shore-based aviation, and it has been almost lost in previous battles, so the actual command of the ground battle is the 50th Wing Colonel Ogata Keishi Colonel.

Guam, with a total area of ​​549 square kilometers, is the largest island in the Mariana Islands. Its strategic position is naturally much more important than that of Tinian Island, and its defense force is correspondingly much stronger.

At first, the Japanese army did not pay much attention to the defense of Guam. It was not until the fall of the Marshall Islands that the Japanese army began to strengthen the defense of Guam.

The supreme commander of the Japanese defenders in Guam is Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Obata, commander of the 31st Army. The defenders are the No.20 Ninth Division of the Army Infantry, the No.40 Eighth Independent Mixed Brigade, the Tenth Independent Mixed Wing, and the Second Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade Wait for the troops.

The total force on the island is more than 29, equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns, artillery, tanks, armored vehicles and other technical equipment, under the unified command of Lieutenant General Gao Pinbiao, the head of the [-]th Division.

As the backbone of the 29th Division was originally the Kwantung Army, well-trained, well-equipped, and strong combat effectiveness.

Although Guam was a U.S. territory for more than [-] years before the war, the U.S. military did not find out until it began to plan to attack Guam. Aerial photography reconnaissance.

In view of the fact that only two days of artillery preparations were carried out before the landing on Saipan, the effect was far from ideal, and the landing troops suffered huge casualties, so the Allied forces greatly strengthened their artillery preparations.

The first to be dispatched were shore-based aircraft from the aircraft carrier and the Marshall Islands to the east. After gaining air supremacy, the battleships would conduct near-shore bombardment.

7月10日起，美军就将No.20四野战炮兵军的近200门155毫米火炮部署在塞班岛西南海岸，对提尼安岛北部地区进行炮击.

In fifteen days, as many as 24536 shells were fired, with an average of one shell dropped every minute.

At the same time, the U.S. military also vigorously strengthened its artillery preparations for Guam. Starting from July 1944, 7, it carried out a fierce shelling that lasted for 8 days.

累积发射406毫米炮弹和356毫米炮弹6258发、203毫米炮弹3862发、152毫米炮弹2430发、127毫米炮弹16214发。

Although the Japanese army took advantage of the delayed landing of the US military to set up a large number of obstacles and mines on the beaches where the US military might land, and rushed to repair some permanent firepower points and fortifications on the island.

However, the long-term shelling by the U.S. Army seriously damaged the Japanese fortifications and almost destroyed all the exposed firepower points of the Japanese army, and the effect was relatively significant.

By August 1944, 8, most of the nearly ten thousand Japanese troops on Tinian Island were wiped out. Lieutenant General Kakuji Kakuda, commander of the First Air Force, committed suicide in defeat on Tinian Island.

That night, General Smith announced that Tinian Island had been fully occupied, but in the following days, a small group of remnants of the Japanese army carried out a suicide charge, and they were unable to recover.

In this landing battle, the U.S. military killed 389 people and injured 1816 people. It took only nine days to capture Tinian Island with minimal casualties. The most successful amphibious landing of the war."

The U.S. captured Tinian Island and basically wiped out the garrison, which seriously deteriorated the Japanese strategic defense situation in the Pacific.

The U.S. military has gained a forward base to continue its march in the Central Pacific, and Japan will be directly attacked by U.S. B-29 bombers flying from the Mariana Islands.

Conversely, the "absolute defense circle" stipulated by the Japanese base camp is facing collapse due to the loss of the core area.

Chapter 1617

With the clean end of the landing battle on Tinian Island, the Battle of Guam is also coming to an end.

After a long and intense war, at the beginning of August 1944, the Japanese army in Guam was in a desperate situation of lack of food, ammunition, and technical equipment.

Under such circumstances, Hideyoshi Obata knew that the U.S. military had an absolute advantage in firepower, and the Japanese army had no ability to confront it head-on.

In order to carry out persistent resistance, Hideyoshi Obata could only withdraw his troops to the south of Guam, planning to use the Santa Rosa Mountains in the central part of the island to carry out the final stubborn resistance.

However, the ideal is full of reality and skinny, and the Allied forces have mastered absolute sea and air control in the vicinity of Guam.

Therefore, no matter how stubbornly the Japanese army resisted, they would not be able to supply and reinforce them. At best, they would delay the complete defeat by a few days.

Days of torrential rain and thick jungle made the Allied offensive extremely difficult, but they could not stop the victory.

8月2日至1944年8月4日，盟军在巴里加达山取得突破性进展，日军防线全线崩溃。

The rest of the battle is nothing more than advisable to chase the poor bandits bravely, and continue to pursue to the north until all the enemy troops who dare to resist stubbornly are wiped out.

Similar to the situation in other Pacific battlefields, the Japanese army refused to surrender and fought desperately until the end, almost all soldiers were killed.

On August 8, Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Obata, commander of the 10st Army, the supreme commander of the Japanese defenders in Guam, sent a final farewell telegram to the Tokyo base camp, and then committed seppuku.

But the battle did not end because of this. It was not until August 8 that the U.S. Army captured the last position of the Japanese army. Xiaobata and the staff of the headquarters were either killed or committed suicide.

So far, the Japanese resistance was basically subsided.

There are still about 9000 Japanese soldiers hiding in the jungle and caves on the island, and they come out to harass them from time to time, and the battle to wipe out the remnants of the Japanese army lasted until the end of the war.

In September 1945, the last batch of about 9 Japanese soldiers came out to surrender. Most of the 9000 Japanese soldiers died of freezing and starvation in the jungle and caves because of the lack of supplies.

In the first battle of Guam, the Japanese army killed 18560 people and captured 1250 people. The American army killed 1435 people and injured 5648 people, which was almost half less than the Saipan battle.

The main reason is that before the launch of the landing battle, the Allied forces greatly strengthened the preparation of naval guns and aviation firepower, and used bloody facts to prove the importance of artillery preparation in the landing battle.

At this point, the Battle of the Mariana Islands came to an end, and the US occupation of the Mariana Islands broke through Japan's inner defense circle.

The Japanese ruling group panicked and internal conflicts aggravated. Tojo was forced to resign from the positions of prime minister, army minister and chief of staff, and withdrew from the military and political arena.

Subsequently, Koiso Kuniaki, the former governor of North Korea known as the "Tiger of Korea", served as the prime minister.

And at this time, the largest landing campaign of the 20th century, the Normandy landings, also came to an end.

On August 1944, 8, Paris was liberated, and the Normandy campaign officially ended.

For this campaign, the Allied forces successively mobilized 36 divisions, 17 vehicles, and 60 tons of various supplies, with a total force of 288 million, including 153 million in the army.

The Allied forces suffered a total of 12.2 casualties, including 7.3 Americans. The Navy lost 1 battleship, 3 cruisers, 8 destroyers, 3 frigates, and 48 other ships.

德军伤亡7.3万人，被俘4.1万人，损失飞机3500架、坦克1.3万辆、各种车辆2万辆、各种火炮3000多门，人员40万。

The successful Normandy landing and the return of American and British troops to the European continent brought about a fundamental change in the strategic situation of World War II.

The Battle of Normandy lasted 3 months in total, and the total casualties on both sides reached 70 people. Its war was comparable to the Battle of Stalingrad.

As Eisenhower said after the Normandy landings:

"There is no doubt that Normandy is one of the greatest slaughterhouses that has ever occurred in the field of war. The aisles, roads and fields there are full of abandoned weapons and equipment and human and animal corpses, even passing through this area. It's also extremely difficult."

"I saw a scene that only Dante can describe. Walked hundreds of yards at a stretch, and my feet were all dead and rotting corpses..."

In a blink of an eye, the war has come to an end, and the Allied Forces are rapidly reversing the situation.

The Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front became more and more courageous. After Kursk, the German army never took the initiative on the land covered by the Bolsheviks.

And now the Allied forces on the Western Front have to let the head of state understand the cold reality of the reversal of the plot, and the moment when the Nazis and fascists spread their teeth and claws on the European continent will be completely ended.

August 8th was really a good day for the whole world to celebrate. Just when Paris was declared liberated, Yang Fan's long-awaited first home-made Worcester-class light cruiser was finally completed and launched.

As the first self-produced large-scale warship of the Chinese Huben Army, its significance and inspiration are self-evident. As the top leader of the Huben Army, Yang will naturally not be absent, and he has asked people to organize and plan related events early on. Celebrations.

This morning, before the sky was completely bright, the Jiaozhou Bay Military Port was already crowded with people. The whole scene was even more joyously decorated, with colorful flags fluttering everywhere, and various inspiring banners and slogans.

Such a festive and important event naturally needs to be well organized. There were not only reporters from various newspapers and newspapers, but also representatives from all walks of life such as military, government and business organized by the official organization to watch the ceremony, and countless ordinary soldiers and civilians who came to see it.

At this moment, on the slipway of the slipway by the port, there is a huge monster with a length of 202 meters and a width of 21.5 meters, which attracts everyone's eyes and attention.

As long as journalists and audiences have cameras in their hands, they will spare no expense to take pictures from various angles and poses, so as to leave precious historical imprints.

Its majestic steel body, as well as the dense weapon system full of power and murderous aura, really inspire and fascinate people.

That's right, this is the protagonist of today's launching ceremony: the light cruiser Yingyang!

After the atmosphere was full, at ten o'clock in the morning, Yang Fan "arrived long overdue" and formally presided over the launching ceremony of the light cruiser Yingyang.

Amidst a burst of extremely high-pitched military music, Yang Fan walked up to the rostrum with a breezy face, facing the fiery eyes of the crowd, and under the illumination of the flashlight.

"Today is a good day for the whole world to celebrate. Just two hours ago, the Allied forces officially liberated Paris, and the Normandy landing that lasted for three months ended successfully!

And today, the first modern light cruiser produced by our Huaxia Huben Army is about to officially enter the water. At this moment, I am in the same mood as everyone else,..."

Looking at the enthusiastic crowd in the audience and the freshly baked cruiser in the distance, Yang Fan felt like a rough sea in his heart at this moment, with each wave getting higher and higher, full of surging passion!

Chapter 1618 The launch was a complete success

"Qian'er, it's up to you next!"

After some impassioned speeches, Yang Fan handed a large bottle of 1000ml champagne to the "First Lady" Wu Qian who was standing beside him with a smile.

"President, don't worry, I'll definitely smash it beautifully! Guaranteed to be safe!"

Wu Qian nodded with a smile on her face, and happily took the champagne with both hands.

Immediately afterwards, surrounded by Yang Fan, Cang Junquan, Wang Liguo, Wu Rongbang and others, and under the eager attention of the surrounding people, Wu Qian came to the bow of the light cruiser Yingyang step by step.

Walking under the bow of the cruiser, Wu Qian stopped, then took a deep breath, joined her waist and horse together, rounded her arms, swirled the champagne around, and then slammed the thick steel on the bow armor.

Bang, there was a dull explosion, and the champagne bottle was smashed to pieces without any suspense, turning into thousands of fragments, and fine glass shards splashed everywhere.

The full bottle of champagne also splashed around under the violent impact, stirring up mist after wave, and most of the wine was sprayed on the hull, and then flowed straight down three thousand feet.

Immediately afterwards, bursts of extremely rich, refreshing and alluring wine fragrance quickly permeated.

The rich aroma of the wine really made the mouth water, and the people around couldn't help swallowing saliva and taking a deep breath, showing expressions of extreme enjoyment.

The "Louis Princesse" champagne purchased with 200 wealth points is really worth it!

Princess Louise, one of the top ten brands of champagne, was born in France in 1776. It is one of the most expensive champagnes in the world.

Everyone knows that when a new ship launching ceremony is held abroad, an indispensable ceremony is to ask the wife of the ship owner to "smack champagne" before the ship goes down.

This custom originated in the ancient West. At that time, due to backward navigation technology, navigation was a very life-threatening occupation, and shipwreck accidents inevitably occurred frequently.

At that time, radio had not yet come out, and people's means of communication were very backward.

Therefore, whenever a ship is in distress, the crew has to write down the name of the ship in distress, the date of the wreck, the location of the wreck, the names of the crew members in distress, their place of origin, and other matters to be notified to others.

Then roll up the paper and stuff it into an empty bottle, seal the mouth of the bottle and put it into the ocean, let it drift, hoping to be found by passing ships or people who flow to the coast, and come to rescue.

Because Westerners generally love to drink champagne, and sailors are no exception, they often drop champagne bottles.

However, cruel facts are always difficult to meet people's most basic wish.

In fact, there is very little hope of those crew members being rescued after being killed at sea. Once a crew member drops such a wine bottle, it means that he is facing danger and death at sea.

Therefore, the last thing the family members of the crew want to see is this champagne bottle.

So there is a bottle throwing ceremony, wishing that there will be no more such floating bottles on the sea, and making the mellow fragrance of the wine fill the bow to drive away evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

Over time, year after year, a habit has gradually been formed. Whenever a newly built ship is launched, the owner's wife will represent it and smash a bottle of champagne on the bow, so that the mellow wine will be scattered around the bow. , to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters, and pray for good luck.

The more broken the champagne bottle is, the better, which indicates that after the ship is sailed, everything will be smooth sailing forever.

With the continuous development of science and technology, the safety of navigation is more and more guaranteed, and the means of communication at sea are more convenient and quicker.

Although shipwrecks have been basically eradicated nowadays, the custom of throwing bottles still exists, but when champagne is served when the ship is launched, it has evolved into a traditional festive ceremony and has been extended to various occasions.

After smashing the champagne, the salute that had been prepared for a long time rang out, and the deafening sound of the guns pushed the launching ceremony to a climax. At the same time, the long-awaited launch of the cruiser Yingyang was officially launched.

After the restraints were removed, the imposing steel body of the Eagle Yang cruiser began to slowly accelerate along the slide, rushing from slow to fast towards the sea surface of the port.

The so-called slideway refers to the ramp that connects the berth and the water area for the ship to get on the berth and launch in the shipyard and shipyard.

Early boats were built using natural bank slopes as slideways, which are still used.

The longitudinal slides used for boats to go up and down are commonly known as butter fangzi. Large square logs are laid on the slope, and the square logs extend to the depth of the water to float the ship.

Put a slide plate on the square wood, and spread butter between the two to reduce frictional resistance.