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    The commander of the Pacific Campaign is Admiral Li Haitao, Commander of the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy. In addition, Admiral Li Hainan, Commander of the Marine Corps, is responsible for commanding ground operations.  To be precise, the Marine Corps is the main force in this Pacific Battle. The Navy's First Fleet only provides fire cover for the Marine Corps and ensures the safety of sea transportation lines!  After all, to completely eliminate the German troops entrenched in the Pacific, the Marine Corps still needs to attack the shore to eliminate all these German troops!

    Germany¡¯s most important colony in the Pacific was German Guinea, located in the northern part of the island of New Guinea.  Originally, troops could be sent directly from China's Nanyang Province to attack German Guinea.  However, the island of New Guinea has high mountains, dense forests, and swamps. Even if you send elite special forces, it is difficult to cross the island, let alone send a large force.  There are no roads at all on the island. It is simply impossible to attack from the west to the east of the island.  The only way is to implement a landing operation.  However, this is the area where the German army focuses its defense. Of the 200,000 German Army troops deployed in the Pacific, 100,000 were hit in the eastern and northern parts of New Guinea.  In addition, in the past few years, Germany has shipped a large amount of reinforced concrete and other building materials from the country, and almost the entire coastal area of ??New Guinea has been equipped with a fortress.

    The most important point is that German submarines are not only deployed on the island of New Guinea, but most of them are deployed on small islands in the Pacific. If you want to completely solve the threat of German submarines to China's Pacific routes, you must  Only by occupying all these islands.  Therefore, the Chinese Marine Corps had to engage in an island-by-island battle with the Germans.

    Fortunately, whether it is the navy or air force, as well as military strength.  China has the absolute upper hand.  Even if Germany had been operating on these islands for several years, it would be impossible to resist the attack of the Chinese army.  Their current approach is completely like a desperate struggle, hoping to rely on the islands in the Pacific to hold back China's military strength as much as possible, thereby reducing the threat on other battlefields!

    January 8th.  The 11th, 12th and 13th Task Forces of the Chinese Navy's First Fleet escorted the 1st and 10th Marine Divisions on their journey.  The fleet set off from Ryukyu and headed straight for the Northern Mariana Islands.  Because Guam is a Chinese colony and the Chinese navy has deployed heavy troops there, the German army did not deploy many troops on the Northern Mariana Islands.  The Marines targeted the Northern Mariana Islands as their first target.  It's just for practice.  This time the Marine Corps expanded, many units have recruited a large number of new recruits, and they need to be trained before they can bring out their combat effectiveness.  The Northern Mariana Islands, where Germany has weak military strength, is undoubtedly the best target!

    The core of the German army in the Northern Mariana Islands is Saipan. The German naval aviation has deployed hundreds of combat aircraft on the island.  However, after the war broke out.  The bombers deployed by the Chinese Navy on Guam destroyed the German base on Saipan and destroyed most of the German combat aircraft.  After that, planes taking off from Guam would bomb Saipan every day, making it impossible for the German army to repair the airport on the island, and those planes became decorations!

    On the morning of January 18, the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy arrived less than 200 kilometers away from Saipan.  Hundreds of bombers taking off from Task Force 11 once again bombed the airport and other military targets on Saipan.  At the same time, the 13th Task Force, which set off first, has arrived off the coast of Saipan.  Task Force 13 is a battleship formation.  Composed of two 'Empire-class' battleships and four 'Tang-class' battleships, their main role in this battle was to provide fire support for the Marine Corps.  The German army built countless fortifications on the islands in the Pacific, especially some strong fortresses, which required the large-caliber naval guns of battleships to knock them down!

    At 10 a.m., the 13th Task Force of the Chinese Navy launched an artillery bombardment on the German fortress on Saipan!  German troops in the western harbor of Saipan.  A fortress complex made of reinforced concrete was built and twenty large-caliber fortress guns were installed in an attempt to defend Saipan.  However, these solid fortresses are in front of the Chinese Navy's 'Imperial Class' battleships and 'Tang Class' battleships.  It seemed so vulnerable.  The 406mm naval gun of the 'Imperial Class' battleship fired armor-piercing projectiles weighing more than one ton. Under the influence of huge kinetic energy, it could easily tear open the German fortress.  The 381mm main gun of the Tang-class battleship is not much different in power. Under such circumstances, the German fortress is simply a joke!

    After an hour of shelling, the fortress built by the German army was in ruins.  A regiment of troops from the 1st Marine Division began landing.  Although the remaining German troops are still fighting back, this andThere is no difference if the arm is used as a car.  Fighters taking off from the aircraft carrier provided sufficient fire support for the landing troops. One after another, the H9C "Canghu" dive bombers blasted the German defenses into the sky with shrill roars.

    The battle on Saipan ended in only three days.  Two divisions of the Chinese Marine Corps landed. With the support of fleet and air firepower, the landing of the Chinese Marine Corps went very smoothly.  In addition, the German army did not deploy many troops on the Northern Mariana Islands. There were only more than 5,000 troops in total, so the battle ended quickly!  After that, the Chinese Navy¡¯s First Fleet spent two days occupying the entire Northern Mariana Islands.

    After resolving the German forces on the Northern Mariana Islands, the Chinese Navy¡¯s First Fleet headed south and attacked the Palau Islands, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands in the east.  Although the German army launched a heroic counterattack on these islands, due to the huge strength gap between the two sides, their counterattack could not change the progress of the war at all.

    In order to change the decline, the German Navy's submarines in the Pacific launched an attack on the Chinese Navy's First Fleet.  However, with the cooperation of the Chinese Navy's anti-submarine patrol aircraft and anti-submarine warships, the German plan was quickly shattered.

    The Chinese Navy¡¯s ¡®City-class¡¯ destroyers and ¡®Erhai-class¡¯ frigates are equipped with sonar, which is much more advanced than the sonar originally used on the ¡®Lop Nur-class¡¯ frigates.  It was difficult for German Navy submarines to escape capture.  And once the submarine is exposed, the consequences can be imagined!

    German submarines may be good at attacking defenseless merchant ships, but if they encounter Chinese navy warships, they will be dead!  Within a month after the Chinese Navy launched the Pacific Campaign, 70% of the submarines deployed by the German Navy in the Pacific were wiped out.  Most of these submarines were found and destroyed by the Chinese Navy's "City-class" destroyers and "Erhai-class" frigates.  Some of them were discovered by anti-submarine patrol planes and then sunk!  The remaining submarines of the German Navy were also eliminated one after another in the following months!

    As for the fleet of light surface warships deployed by the German Navy in the Pacific, facing the main force of the Chinese Navy's First Fleet, it has no ability to resist!  Task Force 13 alone is enough to easily wipe them out!

    By the end of February 1919, the front had advanced to the Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands, approaching Germany's core in the Pacific.  The German army was particularly well-prepared in the Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands, deploying heavy troops on the two islands and hoarding a large amount of combat supplies.

    The Chinese Marine Corps discovered that if they want to capture the Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands, they will have to pay a lot of money, and it will also take a lot of time.  At this time, the Marine Corps staff officer suggested that they bypass the heavily deployed islands in the Bismarck Islands and Solomon Islands and attack those islands with weaker defenses to ensure that the road to German Guinea was quickly opened.  As for those islands heavily guarded by German troops, siege methods were adopted!  With the navy and air force having an absolute advantage, and the German aircraft being basically destroyed, even if the German army could defend these islands, it would not have much impact on the battlefield.

    General Li Hainan, commander of the Chinese Marine Corps, adopted this suggestion, which increased the progress of the Chinese Marine Corps in the Pacific battlefield.  By late March, most of the islands in the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Islands were under the control of the Chinese Marine Corps.  The islands where the German army deployed heavy troops were also surrounded!

    In late April, the Chinese Marine Corps landed in German Guinea. Three task forces of the Chinese Navy¡¯s First Fleet provided all-round fire support for the Marine Corps.  In order to capture German Guinea, the Marine Corps also invested 5 divisions and nearly 100,000 people.

    In the end, the Battle of German Guinea lasted for a full month before it ended. Most of the 100,000 German troops deployed on German Guinea were wiped out or captured, and a few fled to the virgin forests of the island.  .  Until long after the war, explorers continued to discover traces of the lives of German soldiers in the island's primeval forests.

    After German Guinea was occupied by the Chinese Marine Corps, the German forces in the Pacific suffered a heavy blow. Although there were still German troops on some of the remaining small islands, they could not withstand the Chinese navy's purges.  The subsequent Pacific Battle lasted for three months. All Germany's colonies in the Pacific were occupied by China!
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