Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Unlike fleet aircraft carriers, these eight light aircraft carriers were converted from Cleveland-class light cruisers. They had a standard displacement of tons, a full load displacement of tons, a speed of 31.5 knots, and could only carry 12 fighters, 9 dive bombers, and 9 torpedo bombers.

The number of carrier-based aircraft is far lower than the sixty to eighty aircraft on fleet carriers.

The remaining sixteen aircraft carriers are escort aircraft carriers, all of which are Borg-class escort aircraft carriers. They are all converted from C-3 freighters, with a displacement of tons, a speed of 18 knots, and can carry 28 aircraft. They are mainly used for escort, anti-submarine and training.

Among the six battleships, the most eye-catching one is the Montana-class battleship Montana, which was built overtime at the Philadelphia Shipyard.

In this life, the Montana-class battleship finally stopped remaining on the drawing board and became a giant mobile ship sailing in the Pacific Ocean.

The remaining five ships were three Iowa-class and two Colorado-class battleships. The two Colorado-class battleships were antiques transferred from the Atlantic Fleet, but compared to the Japanese battleships, the Colorado-class battleships were not too old.

From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the defeat at Midway, in just over a year, the Americans rebuilt a huge fleet in the Pacific region.

Furthermore, several shipyards are still furiously building warships, with two Montana-class battleships and four fleet carriers expected to enter service by the end of the year. As for the Borg-class escort carriers, the Americans are expected to have converted and produced thirty of them by the end of the year.

In addition to these main battleships, destroyers and cruisers are being built at a faster pace, and it is expected that more than fifty destroyers and more than twenty cruisers will be launched by the end of the year.

The Americans were so crazy about "dumping dumplings". After Odalia was captured by the Japanese and used as a springboard, the Japanese were not willing to be outdone.

After taking Odalia as a springboard, the Japanese began to attack Pearl Harbor. In November last year, the reorganized Marine Corps landed on Pearl Harbor and occupied the naval base here, using it as a bridgehead for their attack on the US mainland.

Pearl Harbor was occupied by the Japanese, but the Americans did not fight back. Instead, they continued to endure it because the number of American fleets at that time was not large enough to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet.

However, the Japanese did not give up the attack. One month after taking Pearl Harbor, on Christmas Day in 42, they launched a new offensive, the Christmas Special Surprise Operation.

On Christmas Day, the Combined Fleet began to approach the west coast of the United States, preparing to bomb various American shipyards.

However, although the American fleet had not yet been formed, after the defeat in the Battle of Midway, they had already begun planning the defense of their homeland to prevent the Japanese Combined Fleet from bombing or attacking the homeland, and mobilized a large number of aircraft to various airports on the west coast.

When the Japanese combined fleet was discovered to be near the west coast, a large number of planes took off from the airport.

So on the long west coast of the United States, the Japanese planes and the American planes began a fierce battle.

This air battle lasted for about half a month. The Japanese combined fleet began to return and the Japanese achieved certain results.

First, the Yamato battleship showed its power and launched a sneak attack at night. It led more than 20 frigates and destroyers to a place about 25 nautical miles from the west coast and bombarded important cities on the west coast for two hours.

The main guns of the Yamato battleship fired a total of 109 rounds of ammunition, destroying about one-third of the most prosperous city on the west coast.

In the end, the Yamato was hit by several aerial bombs, suffered some minor damage, and returned to the Combined Fleet.

In addition, the Japanese shot down over 500 American fighters, while also losing over 300 of their own, and the Zero lighters continued to wreak havoc in the skies. (After losing Midway, the Americans didn't capture the Zero lighters, so they didn't find any weaknesses.)

However, many Japanese Zero-type aircraft were shot down, and more than ten of them were salvaged by the Americans for research after the war.

This time, the Japanese fleet bombarded the west coast of the United States. Although they failed to land, it was an unprecedented victory for the Japanese.

When this news reached Europe, De III personally sent a telegram to the Japanese army to celebrate, and decided to increase support for the Japanese army. He gave the design drawings of the Tiger and some new fighter planes to the Japanese army to enhance their military strength.

While the Japanese navy was bombing the American mainland on the front lines, shipyards across the country also did not stop and were also producing ships at full capacity.

However, the Japanese were not as fast as the Americans in producing aircraft, but the Combined Fleet still added six light aircraft carriers converted from cargo ships, two fleet aircraft carriers, three battleships and a heavy cruiser, and its strength was further strengthened.

After seeing the results of the Yamato's battle, the Japanese decided to increase the number of Yamato battleships again.

Just over a hundred shells can destroy one-third of a city, which is something that carrier-based aircraft can hardly do.

The Japanese are well aware that it is difficult to occupy the American homeland. The current focus of the battle is to force the Americans to withdraw from the battle by bombarding the American coastal industrial cities.

The Yamato battleship was the best weapon. A 460mm shell could raze a factory to the ground.

However, because all the Japanese shipyards were operating at almost full capacity, warship orders were already placed until 1945.

In the end, the Japanese looked around the shipyards in their sphere of influence, and only the Dalian Shipyard in the four northeastern provinces could take this order. After last year's expansion, the Dalian Shipyard now has the ability to produce battleships, but turrets, engines and other things need to be shipped from the Japanese homeland.

So in early January, after Dalian Shipyard completed the construction of a heavy cruiser, it began to build the Yamato battleship.

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Chapter 555 Li Yunlong, please take note of this.

The Japanese Combined Fleet, with its strength enhanced, now has a total of twelve fleet carriers, twelve battleships, twenty heavy cruisers, thirty light cruisers and one hundred and fifty destroyers. Together with various supply ships, the Combined Fleet has about three hundred and fifty warships.

In addition, there are more than sixty submarines.

After winning two naval battles in a row, the Japanese navy became extremely inflated. After learning that the United States had reorganized the Pacific Fleet, the Japanese Combined Fleet assembled at Pearl Harbor, preparing to attack the west coast of the United States again.

However, the goal of the Japanese combined fleet this time was not to attack cities on the west coast, but to destroy the American Pacific Fleet.

The Japanese even developed a detailed combat plan: after annihilating or severely damaging the American Pacific Fleet, the Combined Fleet would be divided into two squadrons.

The first fleet went north or south along the west coast, destroying the industrial areas on the west coast of the United States; the other fleet chose to bypass the canal, enter the Atlantic Ocean, and attack the east coast of the United States.

This crazy plan came from Yamamoto Shichihachi, the current commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and was approved.

There was even a proposal within the Japanese navy to transport a 20,000 to 30,000-strong marine corps to land in the United States, control some areas, and prepare for future landings.

At this time, the Japanese Combined Fleet had already set out, preparing to search for the traces of the American Pacific Fleet in the vast ocean.

The Americans also learned of this information, and the newly formed Pacific Fleet was actively preparing for war and revenge.

"Are you sure the Japanese navy can't be mobilized?"

Gu Ying asked again. Before a battle, Gu Ying would repeatedly verify all kinds of intelligence before formulating a battle plan.

"The navy can't come. Although the Japanese army has a navy, most of them are transport ships, not large warships!"

"The Japanese navy went to the Pacific to fight the Americans. The result should be known in the next few months. I definitely can't come!"

As Li Yunlong spoke, he walked to a table covered with black cloth and said, "Old leader, this is a gift I prepared for you!"

After saying that, Li Yunlong pulled hard, revealing what was underneath the black cloth.

A sand table, a detailed sand table of the four eastern provinces.

The sand table records in detail the various rivers, mountains, cities, Japanese military camps, and railways in the four northeastern provinces, and they are all reduced in size according to a certain proportion.

Even in some areas, the Japanese checkpoints and some of their strongholds are clearly marked.

The ability to create this sand table is also due to the brigade commander's outstanding intelligence work ability. In addition to vigorously developing underground workers this year, the Northeast Bureau has also been collecting a large amount of various intelligence about the four northeastern provinces.

With the help of the Japanese military map provided by Kota Kotera, the topography of the four northeastern provinces was reproduced on the sand table.

Gu Ying walked over to the sand table, circled it twice, and carefully examined the cities, villages, and rivers depicted on it. Finally, she looked up and said, "This is very detailed. Everything on the map is here, and everything not on the map is here too! Can you guarantee its accuracy?"

After hearing this, the brigade commander nodded and said, "Yes, we have collected a lot of intelligence, and our people have personally verified it. Especially some important places, they were all surveyed by our people and sent back."

As the brigade commander spoke, he walked over to the map and took out the ten divisions that had already moved south from the sand table: "The situation presented here is the current situation in the four eastern provinces."

Then, Li Yunlong took out the chess piece representing his own troops and handed it to Gu Ying: "Old leader, this is our unit. From now on, the command of our Heilongjiang-Jilin-Liaoning-Chahar Military Region will be handed over to you. From top to bottom, from me, Li Yunlong, to the soldiers in the company, everyone in the entire military region will obey your orders."

Gu Ying took the chess pieces from Li Yunlong, looked at them carefully, and then asked curiously, "Why are the pieces different?"

"Armored units, artillery, aircraft, infantry, and logistics units have all been differentiated so they can be clearly identified on the sand table."

"You kid, you really have a lot of tricks!"

After that, Gu Ying took out something that looked like a plane but also didn't look like a plane: "What is this?"

"This is a helicopter unit. There are only twenty of them currently, and they were just copied. Each helicopter is equipped with two rocket launchers, which can fire a total of sixteen 107 rockets. They can easily destroy an armored unit."

After hearing this, Gu Ying put the model aside and said, "I'm not familiar with this. If we need to deploy, you take charge!"

After saying that, Gu Ying checked the chess pieces in his hand again. After making sure that there was nothing beyond his knowledge, he walked to the Arshan area and began to think about how to deploy troops.

Li Yunlong, the division commander, deputy division commander, deputy political commissar, brigade commander, chief of staff, Li Chuan, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and others were all waiting quietly on the side. When they occasionally communicated, they would lower their voices for fear of disturbing Gu Ying's thinking.

"Xing Zhiguo!"

"To!"

"You are responsible for the logistics support of the armored forces for this operation. Notify the logistics team to depart immediately and ensure that there are no problems with the armored forces' fuel and ammunition supplies. Can you complete the mission?"

"can!"

"Remember, there must be a refueling station every thirty kilometers, equipped with maintenance equipment. Wherever the armored forces attack, your logistics forces must follow. You must not fall behind. Do you understand?"

"I understand!"

"Go!"

"Yes!"

"Li Chuan!"

"To!"

"You are responsible for the logistics of the remaining troops in this operation. I have only one request of you. After the battle, I want the soldiers on the front lines to receive ammunition and supplies immediately so they can continue fighting. Can you complete the task?"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"In addition to the consumption of our own troops, we must prepare at least 200,000 people of backup supplies. We may need to expand the army at that time, so this batch of supplies must be prepared in advance."

"Yes!"

"Go!"

"Yes!"

Gu Ying quickly placed the symbol representing the logistics troops on the sand table, and then placed the armored troops at the Baicheng location.

"Li Yunlong, remember this!"

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong quickly took out a pen and paper, pressed the notebook tightly, and began to prepare to take notes.

This time, Li Yunlong took the initiative to give up the command. You know, this is the command of 300,000 troops, and perhaps after entering the four eastern provinces, it may become the command of a million troops.

This was a very rare learning opportunity. Li Yunlong did not dare to slack off at all. He concentrated on learning every move of his old leader and quickly analyzed the reasons behind his actions.

Li Yunlong is now very clear that he has no problem formulating major strategies, but he is not yet able to command hundreds of thousands of people in battle. He needs to learn frame by frame from his old leader.

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