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Text Chapter 934 Guam, the battle flag is flying!  (one)

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    Only Yang Qiu and the General Staff in Beijing knew whether Hopkins's guess was accurate.  But Roosevelt was already in deep trouble.  Although there is no law that states that a president cannot be re-elected for more than three terms, two terms seems to have become the default for American presidents starting from Washington, and voters do not want to break the old habit.  The unfavorable election is not his biggest headache. The chaos on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic is the most troublesome.  France withdrew from the competition for world hegemony. Hitler's interest seemed to have shifted from conquering Eurasia to annexing the Mediterranean. Confidential information that the Soviet Union was preparing to sell a fleet to Germany appeared on the desks of various countries. Italy also took this opportunity to take action in North Africa. One of the two heroes in Europe  The British Empire has also touched the setting sun.

    The old world is accelerating its collapse as planned, but just as he and the United States of America are waiting for the harvest, there is someone in the East who strikes faster!  There is a crisis in the Pacific strategy, but trying to challenge it is not a Nazi day!  In fact, looking at it now, his strategy was not wrong. Promoting Philippine independence during President Hoover's period was not only in line with the wishes of American citizens at the time, but also in line with Congress's desire to abandon the big burden of the Philippines.  So he did it and gained a huge reputation as a result, laying the foundation for a successful campaign.  Regardless of selfishness, deliberately withdrawing from the Southwest Pacific was also a clever move. It not only attracted domestic isolationist votes and helped him easily win two re-elections, but also made Japan more greedy and arrogant, destroying the power of Britain and France in the Southwest, and finally made Sino-Japanese hostility erupt.  war.  In a war between two world powers, it is impossible for one side to suffer no losses, especially as a young naval country, there will be many, many more major losses like the Chinese Navy Fleet 23.  His real mistake was to underestimate Beijing¡¯s outstanding capabilities in technology, especially in the use of technology!  This is like a military force using the latest technology from American laboratories, but mastering the most advanced warfare tactics comparable to Germany's blitzkrieg tactics.

    As I said before, all the current technologies of the Republic of China.  The United States has it all, and it can even do it better, with a larger scale of equipment!  The problem is that the United States has not yet entered the war. No matter how powerful it is, it cannot allocate unlimited funds to produce equipment.  Yang Qiu's advantage is that his prestige in the country is higher than his own. As long as he doesn't go too far, the Congress will not oppose him.  For example, according to the U.S. Army's assessment, taking the B17 and H-7 bombers of the same level from China and the United States as an example, if the United States grits its teeth, it can produce 10,000 or more bombers in a year.  Even if China stops manufacturing other large aircraft, the maximum annual output can only reach 5,000.  So what is really amazing is that even if the current US Army is given 10,000 aircraft, they will not be able to exert their full effectiveness. However, China has experienced several local wars and a year-long war against the Soviet Union.  Finding ways and tactics to maximize the performance of the most cutting-edge weapons, coupled with unfettered and unconstrained strategic thinking, it was possible to achieve a goal that could only be achieved by 10,000 or even tens of thousands of aircraft with only 5,000 aircraft.  This is just like Guam. The United States currently has the same number of various seaplanes as China, but no one has thought that seaplanes that they think can only be used for reconnaissance and communication can actually be used for long-distance island landing operations, even if  Taking advantage of sneak attack.  This is beyond imagination.

    Americans have always believed that they sit in the stands of the Colosseum, leisurely making a cup of coffee and holding a girl in their arms.  Watching the beasts fighting each other in the cage, until both were injured, they were covered in heavy armor, holding the most powerful weapons, and opened the iron bars thicker than their arms.  Get into the cage and become a dragon-slaying knight.  But from the perspective of beasts, aren't the American knights locked out by iron fences?  They didn't find out until the knights entered.  The beast inside is actually wearing the same heavy armor, using the same most powerful weapons as you, and has sharpened its teeth through fighting. It is cruel and cold, standing there covered in blood, belching, and picking out shreds of flesh with its bloody claws.  , glared at the knight: "You have nothing to do here, just go and have fun."

    Roosevelt didn¡¯t want to go off to play, and Hopkins didn¡¯t want to be regarded as a hairless child!  So that afternoon, when Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the United States, an outstanding female politician, social activist, and Roosevelt's most important campaign staff, attended a women's rights event, she expressed that she would visit the United Kingdom to help the suffering Britain.  Women and children brought with them ¡°American warmth.¡±

    At an important moment with two months left before the start of the presidential campaign, this statement instantly aroused concern among American voters. The Republican Party even directly called Roosevelt "Wilson II."

    Guam, a small island located at the crossroads of the Southwest Pacific, quietly asserts its dominance in the Pacific.  The battle for the distribution of benefits in the new world has begun!  From this moment on, leaders of various countries need to consider not only victory in the war, but also the aftermath and the next hundred years.

    Of course, all this has nothing to do with Japan.

    ¡°While the U.S. is arguing over whether to break the cage or tighten the fence, the Japanese naval base in Yokosuka no longer even needs to guess the other side¡¯s strategic intentions.  Shangoliu and Nagano Shushen sat in the middle and whispered quietly. The officers and staff gathered around the navy sand table to play war games. Whenever a warship model was taken away, they would become red-faced and the whole world would turn upside down.  Black Island Turtle Man God ?There was a nagging stench, Genda Minoru kept studying how to travel through space, but Ugaki Matoi, the chief of staff of the combined fleet who should stand up and lead everyone to work together, was hiding on the side, drawing on the chart with a compass.

    The news that the Chinese Marine Corps had landed on Guam was like a thunderbolt hitting the foreheads of Yamagoroku and Hideki Tojo, who had just come to power.  Only the War Department showed no concern and instead gloated about the misfortune.  The Navy is also divided into two factions. One faction believes that Guam is insignificant. It is enough to send Truk's Ryujo and Shoho to cooperate with the Fifth Fleet on Saipan. Even if they lose, it will not be a big problem.  The other faction believes that they should use their main force, with Akagi, Kaga, and Xianghe and Zuihe on the way back, to bring two Nagato ships and fight the Chinese navy here.  Both factions have their own reasons. The former believes that Ryukyu is more important than Guam, so the six main aircraft carriers should ensure the safety here before the mainland's aviation strength is restored.  They believe that Guam is just a small problem. As long as there are the Philippines and Saipan, it is nothing more than a difficulty point and the waterway will not be interrupted.  The other group believes that Guam is very important. On the contrary, Ryukyu has a large number of troops defending the island. Even if China launches a landing operation on the island, it can defend it for at least a year.  Therefore, we should take advantage of the opportunity when three of the four battleships of the 23rd Fleet were killed and one was injured, and use our main force to attack Guam to eliminate the Chinese fleet that is reinforcing Guam.  As long as it wins, the Chinese navy will not be able to threaten Japan's maritime security for at least a year. On the contrary, it will wait for the Indian Ocean Fleet to open up Andaman and Singapore.  The days of internal and external attacks are over.

    "Then who is going to deal with three or not four Peking-class battleships?" Fleet Deputy Chief of Staff Shigeru Fukuru glared at Kuroshima Kameto who proposed the decisive battle on Guam. He remembered that the fourth modified Peking-class battleship had been launched into the water for sea trials yesterday.  At critical times, it is not ruled out that the Chinese Navy will learn from the Anton aircraft carrier and cancel the sea trials and put it into service directly, so it changed its tone to address the key issues.

    ??The Chinese Navy currently has ten battleships, two are in the Indian Ocean, two are injured and in dock, two French Dunkirks are being refitted, and there are only four Beijing-class ships left.  It looks like there are four more King Kong ships.  There is a gap between the two Nagato ships.  But that¡¯s not how it works!  The Beijing-class is a pure battleship, not a halfway decent battleship like the King Kong-class.  What's more, this modification also replaced the 380mm naval gun with a 45-fold barrel with a 55-fold barrel. Except for Nagato, who can suppress it with a caliber, Kong can only run away when he encounters it.  Fukudome Shigerai is the most determined battleship faction, and when he heard that Kuroshima wanted to take Nagato away.  There is no need to be in a hurry.

    Even Yama Isoroku couldn't accept the transfer of two Nagato ships. He turned to look at Ugaki Matoi who was silent and said with an unhappy look on his face: "Ugaki-kun, what are you drawing?" Everyone in the navy knew that Yama didn't like Ugaki.  Matoi, because Ugaki Matoi always doesn't look at people, especially his attitudes towards superior and subordinate officers are completely opposite.  He just wanted to live with a mask every day, so everyone called him the "Golden Mask" in private.  Why gold?  Because he is indeed a troubled person.  At this critical moment, even Nagano Shushen was very anxious and asked: "Ugaki-kun. What do you think of sending troops?"

    Ugaki Matoi was very direct and immediately held up the sea chart he drew.  On the chart, there are five strange circles with Guam as the center. The largest one even covers Rabaul, the Philippines and Japan.  Because there is no explanation.  So Nagano couldn't understand and asked: "Ugaki-kun. What is this?"

    "This is the Guam Fleet activity circle I made." Ugaki Matoi introduced.  In fact, the meaning of the five circles is very simple. The radius of the first circle is two hundred kilometers, which is the activity range of the torpedo boat.  The second circle is six hundred kilometers, the patrol radius of destroyers and fighter jets.  The third circle of 1,000 kilometers, the radius of the bomber.  The fourth two thousand kilometers is the cruising radius of cruisers and submarines.  The last two thousand five hundred kilometers is the maximum combat radius that the fleet can radiate.

    Five circles will encircle most of the southwest Pacific Ocean.

    If the combat radius of Taiwan's aircraft and warships is also drawn, that is to say, if China gains a foothold in Guam and follows the southward strategy, all its achievements will be wiped out in an instant!  Including Rabaul, the Philippines, Micronia, the Marshall Islands, Rabaul, the Ogasawara Islands and even the Nitto coast, all will be under attack by the Chinese navy!

    This is Guam, the crossroads of the Southwest Pacific!

    Ugaki Matoi didn¡¯t say a word about beating, so he told everyone in five circles.  If we don't fight, the backbone of the empire will be broken!

    Then let¡¯s fight.

    It¡¯s not that easy to fight. The ship still has some wealth, but where will the island combat troops come from?  The Marine Corps has been deployed on the Ryukyu front line due to "Operation Z Plan", and moving now will definitely expose the target.  The aircraft carrier Shuang Hor is also on its way back and must first return to Yokosuka to refuel.  "Let the Army get involved." Nagano held it in for a long time and made a decision with twitching eyes.

    It¡¯s so shameful that you need help from horse dung!

    Nagano Shu mentally cursed himself, but still asked Shan to come up with a plan as soon as possible.  Shan lived up to expectations and immediately came up with a plan.  Nagato-class battleship definitelyAble to move, this was Yamato's national treasure before he entered service.  The Shuangzu aircraft carrier had to come back for refueling first, so he dispatched four heavy cruisers: the battleship Haruna, the battleship Kirishima, the aircraft carrier Akagi, the aircraft carrier Kaga, Mogami, Mikuma, Suzuya and Kumano, and also the heavy cruisers Trunk  The aircraft carriers Ryujo and Shoho were also brought in and organized into the Fourth Fleet. Together with Saipan's Fifth Fleet and the Philippines' Third Fleet, they are collectively known as the Southern Expedition Special Fleet, which has jurisdiction over the Third, Fourth and Fourth Fleets.  The Fifth Fleet also organizes warships in Singapore and the Indian Ocean into the Seventh Fleet, which is also controlled by the Southern Special Fleet.

    After the formation of the special fleet, Shangoliu ordered the Sixth Fleet and the aviation forces from Saipan and other places to dispatch first to protect the Marine Corps and the main force of the Army's 55th Division to support Guam first. At least they must hold back the Chinese Marine Corps on the island, otherwise South Korea  If a special fleet is sent over but the island is gone, why fight?  Ugaki Matoi was also asked to come forward to find the army, deploy four or five divisions from Turkey, the Philippines and Guinea to strengthen the security of Marina Asia and Micronesia, and recapture Guam in one fell swoop.  In the end, Osawa Jisaburo of the Fifth Division of the First Air Fleet (Ryujo and Shoho) became the commander-in-chief of the Southern Special Fleet, the former Chief of Staff of the First Air Fleet Kusaka Ryunosuke became the chief of staff of the fleet, and Eikichi Katagiri became the commander of the Fourth Fleet.  Commander, Nobutake Kondo is the commander of the Fifth Fleet, and Narumi Inoue is the commander of the Third Fleet.

    Finally, in view of the serious shortage of aircraft carriers, Yamagoriku also personally ordered Chitose and several other seaplane carriers and a dozen merchant ships to be converted into aircraft carriers. Finally, he also requested that the ten Unryu-class aircraft carriers that had been planned for a long time be immediately ordered.  Such a large emergency shipbuilding plan scared Tojo Hideki and scolded him. However, he suffered a huge defeat as soon as he came to power. He always wanted to give the Navy some face. Whether he could build it or not is another matter.

    The mountain side was busy mobilizing, and Chen Shaokuan did not show any weakness. He sent more than 300 seaplane sorties for two consecutive days, and also asked the Air Force to use the longest range transport to dump 500 tons of supplies into the lagoon.  It also transferred the 3rd Borneo Marine Division and the 4th Marine Division from Hainan to Keelung. It also mobilized 70 10,000-ton ships and more than 100 warships from the coast to be on standby in Penghu, and then mobilized 50 transport ships and landings in Guangdong.  The ship went to Cam Ranh Bay in Annan to stay on standby, and finally discussed with the army to withdraw Annan's Second Division and Sumatra's Fifth Division and be ready to set off at any time.  The army also dispatched the 24th, 26th and 40th armies from the garrison group army and the reserve group army in the southeast to rush to Shanghai and Hangzhou Bay overnight to prepare for the attack on Ryukyu.

    On August 30, the 23rd Fleet Heavy Patrol Formation was the first to arrive in Guam, and 11,000 soldiers from the 1st Marine Division were sent to the island by 11 fast cargo ships.  In the afternoon of the same day, the heavy patrol formation had its first encounter with the Japanese Navy's Sixth Fleet, sinking a Japanese destroyer and a troop transport, forcing the Japanese troops to fail.  In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese Sixth Fleet made a comeback.  During the fierce battle, the heavy patrol formation lost a destroyer, four destroyers of the Japanese Sixth Fleet were destroyed, and two troop transports were sunk by submarines, resulting in the deaths of more than a thousand Japanese soldiers.  However, more than a hundred fighter planes arrived from Saipan after dawn, so the 23rd Heavy Patrol Formation had to temporarily avoid the front line. Taking this opportunity, the Sixth Fleet sent more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers to the island from the northeast corner
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