In the days that followed while waiting for the large troops to gather at Xiamen, Gao Jianwu was not idle either.
The capture of Xiamen has impressed the Allied General Mike, so with the support of General Mike, Gao Jianwu began to work with General Demoor to clean up the periphery of Wanwan Island, first taking Jingmen Island, and then taking Taiwan and Penghu. Down.
The little devil never expected that Gao Jianwu and the others would counterattack so quickly. The fortifications built on these islands were far inferior to those on the Pacific side. An entire mountain could be hollowed out and a spider web-like tunnel constructed.
In these places, the little devils thought that no one could do anything to them. They just built regular fortifications, but they were not enough for General Demoore to shoot with a fleet of naval guns!
It is worth mentioning that due to General Demore's outstanding performance, General Mike transferred a Brooklyn-class cruiser Phoenix from the Pacific Fleet to General Demore as his new flagship, and cooperated with Gao Jianwu to complete the landing on the periphery of Bay Island. Attack plan, after all, the little devils still have a strong fleet in Kaohsiung Port.
At the same time, another heavyweight battle fleet also entered Xiamen Port and began to deter the little devils.
However, whether Gao Jianwu can fulfill his promise to regain Wanwan Island, General Mike will act as if he can operate it, provide sea and air support for Gao Jianwu's plan, and have brought most of the promised weapons and ammunition to Xiamen, except for the promised tanks. There is another batch on the way, waiting to be transported when Gao Jianwu lands on Wanwan Island, and the rest of the light and heavy weapons are basically in place.
All six attack groups of Gao Jianwu's Southeast Task Force were rearmed.
This action of the Allied Forces is almost as close as telling the other side personally that I am coming to take over your Wanwan Island.
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At the kid's base camp, there was a joint meeting between land and sea. The kid from the two factions almost started fighting again.
"Gentlemen, the attack plan of the Allied Forces and Gao Jianwu is already obvious. They have completed the assembly of troops and preparations for the perimeter. All our peripheral islands of Pengjin and Ma have fallen. It is time to show our sincerity and unity to overcome difficulties."
Tojo Chicken was confused by the quarrel between the two factions, so he stood up to smooth things over.
"This battle is related to the safety of our southern army and the transportation of resources in the southern occupied areas. It is absolutely impossible for us to lose this war. Therefore, I suggest that the navy dispatch the main fleet and the absolute strength of the naval aviation to attack the bay. A devastating blow to the Allied fleet in the Strait!"
"This is the core interest of the empire. You gentlemen cannot continue to argue endlessly."
"Tōjo-kun, our navy believes that this is a smoke bomb released by the Allies. Their main attack place is definitely not Bay Island, but somewhere else. According to the research and judgment of our intelligence department, their target is probably Luzon.
Intelligence personnel close to the Allied Forces Command in Hong Kong and Kowloon have obtained some information about the Allied Forces' plan to attack Luzon Island. "
"Our intelligence sources pointed out that at least nearly 300,000 Allied troops have begun to gather. They have targeted Leite Island and are preparing to launch a new round of fighting. By occupying Leite Island, they will gain a springboard to attack Luzon Island. To this end, the Allied forces launched the third The main forces of the Seventh Fleet and the Third Fleet have been assembled to escort this huge Allied force."
"Relatively speaking, the small actions carried out by the Allied forces on the other side of the strait should be a smoke bomb. They let out the news that the Southeast Task Force composed of all Chinese troops would attack Wanwan Island. To this end, they also made a gesture to We captured the past on the islands of Peng Kin Ma.”
"However, there is no intelligence that shows that the Allied Forces will participate in the combat mission of this Southeast Task Force. Based on the intelligence we have obtained now, this so-called Southeast Task Force is just a group that does not even have an official number. Just guerrillas.”
"I would like to ask you, our locust army has at least more than 200,000 people on Wanwan Island. How big a threat can the other party's guerrillas pose to us?"
The little Japanese sea minister retorted to the Tojo chick without hesitation.
I have to say that the little devil's information is still very accurate. They had approached a large part of the truth, but they did not expect that Gao Jianwu in the north also really wanted to attack.
It's just that Gao Jianwu proposed an attack plan, which not only caused an uproar within the Allied forces, but also made the outside world mistakenly believe that it was just a cover to deceive others, and it was also a fake at first glance, and it was not worth considering at all.
Since Gao Jianwu did not need much cooperation from the Allies, but only needed support from the navy and air force, it seemed that Gao Jianwu's plan was just an intimidation.
"Shimada-kun, the Southern Army has fully learned how powerful Gao Jianwu is, and what happened recently in Central China reminds us once again that Gao Jianwu cannot be underestimated, otherwise we will suffer big losses.
You know, we have just lost a division in Xiamen and two more brigades in Jingmen Island and Penghu. We have learned enough lessons. If Gao Jianwu's legion is allowed to land, who can stop his attack with our troops scattered on Bayan Island? "Tojo Chicken directly laid out the actual situation.
It has to be said that Gao Jianwu left a huge shadow on them, and now they all feel powerless when talking about this man.
"Tojo-kun, Gao Jianwu is a human being, not a god. If he really dares to land, we will definitely find a way to deal with him on the island.
However, the combined fleet must not waste time on this side of the strait. Instead, it must go south to concentrate the main Allied fleet for a decisive battle. We must destroy the Allied fleet before we can gain a foothold in the south. If we lose Luzon.
This would mean that we single-handedly pushed the Southern Army into a dangerous situation. After the Allied forces occupy Luzon Island, they can cut off our southward passage at any time. Our supplies in the south cannot be transported back to our homeland, and at the same time, our supplies to the Southern Army cannot be transported to them. "
The little devil's sea phase continued to retort.
Regarding the intelligence obtained by their navy, the little devil's sea minister was convinced. In fact, this information was true, and he couldn't help but believe it.
Seeing that the meeting was about to break up unhappily again, Tojo Chicken frowned. He wanted to find a foolproof solution, but it was impossible now.
After several sea and air battles in the Pacific, the Little Japanese's combined fleet has been greatly weakened. It is already very difficult for their troops to cope with one aspect, let alone to distribute them in two places.
If the Allies really dispatch the 3rd Fleet and the 7th Fleet, the Little Japanese's combined fleet and other major squadrons must be concentrated to have any chance of winning.
It is more than 1,000 kilometers from the Strait to Lat Bay, and there is absolutely no way to have both sides.
Frankly speaking, Tojo Chicken also received intelligence about the Allied attack on Luzon Island. After all, the Army Intelligence Department of the Little Devil is also quite powerful, and its penetration of the Allied Forces is no worse than that of the Navy Intelligence Department.
It's just that Gao Jianwu really left too many shadows on Tojo Chicken. A series of battles from Jin Dynasty to Burma and Britain, to the Southeast Asian Peninsula, and South and Central China caused the Locust Army to suffer extremely heavy losses.
If it weren't for Gao Jianwu, Tojo Chicken would not pay attention to the Southeast Task Force at all. Now there is no Chinese who can defeat the Locust Army like Gao Jianwu with the same force.
The differences in the Little Japanese Base Camp also spread to Wanwan Island.
The commander of the Little Japanese Fleet stationed in Kaohsiung received a strict order from the Navy, requiring the fleet to never be allowed to engage in combat outside the port. Instead, it relies on the air defense of the port and the air defense of the fleet itself to ensure the safety of the army.
Now both the Army Air Force and Hainan Airlines of the Locust Army over the strait have been unable to gain air superiority. Hainan Airlines just destroyed a flying team over Xiamen.
There is only one Zero fighter flying team left, and the other ones are dozens of Nakajima-1 fighter jets of the Army Aviation. There is no way to fight against the Allied Forces' Mustang fighter fleet.
Therefore, the Navy requires the fleet to rely on a three-dimensional air defense network composed of port air defense artillery and destroyer air defense artillery, and cooperate with HNA's Zero fighter flying team to counterattack any enemy air force that dares to bomb the fleet.
Judging from the combat strategy of the Jaap Navy, their orders are understandable. After all, whether it is a temporary fighter flight team or a naval fleet, it will be beaten when it comes out.
After adding a cruiser to Rear Admiral Demore's destroyer, its attack capability on the ship has increased significantly, not to mention that a squadron with battleships is stationed in Xiamen.
It can be said that the Allied forces completely overwhelmed the Kaohsiung fleet of the Japanese in terms of fleet combat effectiveness. Whether it was air force versus air force or fleet versus fleet, the troops on Xiaoguiziwanwan Island were at a disadvantage.
So I had to adopt a defensive posture.
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"Our plan is very simple. On Day T, we will send our troops from Pengdao to the island on the other side. To this end, we will gather more than 500 fishing boats to assist in the landing.
In terms of the Air Force, Major General Smith's Air Force and our Southeast Task Force Air Force have dispatched a total of more than 200 Mustang fighters and more than 20 B-17 bombers. On the one hand, they bombed the airport on the other side of the river, and on the other hand, they searched for the Air Force to fight decisively and protect us. The Fang transport fleet is not interfered by the Japanese air force. "
"And your fleet and General Hutt's squadron are located one in the north and one in the south, respectively, to prevent the intervention of the Japanese fleets from the north and south. At the same time, they are close to the coastline and provide artillery support for our landing."
After Gao Jianwu showed his draft plan to Major General Demore, Major General Demore felt that it was a bit hasty.
Gao Jianwu's plan was very simple, which was to secretly transport troops to the vicinity of Penghu Island. Using the nearly 500 fishing boats recently searched, plus more than a dozen Allied transport ships near Hong Kong, people can be transported to the other side in one go.
The entire landing zone is more than 40 kilometers long. Gao Jianwu chose an area where the Air Force reconnaissance team had no fortifications as the main landing site. Infantrymen carrying mortars, heavy machine guns and other light and heavy weapons would go up first.
Next, with the support of the air force and fleet artillery fire, the infantry surrounded the Little Japanese port position from behind!
The battle was so simple and rough that Major General Demol even shook his head.
However, Gao Jianwu did not tell them that the assault brigade would sneak in in advance this time, and they would seize part of the Japs' artillery positions to provide initial artillery support for the attacking forces.
As an increasingly mature special operations force. Song Tiecheng's assault brigade has now been battle-hardened for a long time and has performed well in the battles to seize islands such as Xiamen, Jingmen Island and Penghu.
It already has the flavor of a special operations force in Gao Jianwu's mind. Compared with the current little devils, its combat effectiveness is not a bit stronger.
Especially when they are fully armed with Type 43 assault rifles, their assault brigade of more than a thousand people is not much worse than a brigade of little devils.
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The plan given by Gao Jianwu to Major General Demore was rough, but the plan formulated internally was not rough at all. Each assault group had its own combat goals and missions. According to the information obtained by the Air Force's continuous reconnaissance, in these more than 40 kilometers Between the two cities in the zone, the Little Devils have three brigades garrisoned.
The main force is concentrated on the defense of cities and ports.
Therefore, Gao Jianwu is not worried at all about the problem of landing on the middle coastline. Using fishing boats to land, almost all can be driven directly to the beach on the coastline without the need for deep-water port support at all.
This allows Gao Jianwu to choose areas that avoid the heavy defense of the Japs and only defend at the squad level or squadron level. Now there is almost no pressure for large-scale attacks.
The vanguard has a Browning machine gun and a bazooka, which can quickly turn little devils into real devils.
The infantry organized according to the American main force, even if it does not have artillery, the task force with a full set of infantry offensive weapons is almost the most peak light infantry at present.
The same number of troops can rub all the allies with the same equipment on the ground. This is not a big statement. These direct and quasi-direct troops trained by Gao Jianwu are top-notch in terms of tactics, not to mention their fighting will. They can definitely defeat them. The last remaining steel trooper will continue to fight.
Therefore, Gao Jianwu is not worried about infantry fighting. For him, the most important thing is to capture the port with the support of the Allied fleet and send heavy weapons such as tanks and heavy artillery!
And the most critical link in this plan is this: Gao Jianwu sits in the fleet and commands the naval guns to deal with the Japanese port defense artillery fire!
If a commander were replaced to command the naval guns, although the little devil's defense could be solved, it might not be that fast in terms of time.
The most unexpected thing is to quickly eliminate the port's defense capabilities, thereby seizing the port and transporting heavy weapons up there.
Once the heavy weapons are in place and Gao Jianwu comes ashore to take command, there will be no more surprises.
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On the other side, the plan code-named S-Day is still being improved day after day. As the plan became more and more complete, more and more people came into contact with him.
So in the little devil's base camp, more and more information about this plan was received.
Although the Little Devil also received a transport fleet full of supplies from the Allied Forces in Hong Kong and Kowloon towards Xiamen, the size of this fleet was only a dozen small and medium-sized transport aircraft and a few escorting destroyers.
In terms of scale, it is a bit like a supply team.
A concerned southeast task force from the base camp has been going in and out of Xiamen Island for training. However, after regaining Pengjinma, more and more people are fishing in this sea area. There are probably hundreds of boats coming and going every day. .
Although this situation is a bit abnormal, when I returned to Xiamen Island Pier, I really brought back a lot of sea goods.
So now, even Tojo Chicken thinks that he is worrying too much? Is the so-called Wanwan Island strategy plan on the Allied side actually just a cover?
Moreover, according to news from within the Allied Forces, no one on the staff around General Mike and General Steven was involved in the planning of the so-called Bay Island strategy plan.
If it is a simple city attack plan, it does not require much advance planning at all. However, facing a complex battle involving tens of thousands of people attacking an island and requiring the use of dozens of ships for large-scale transportation, it is almost impossible to implement without a detailed plan.
Just dispatching and transporting troops will be very time-consuming. If nothing else, even tens of thousands of people lining up to board the ship will take a long time to complete.
But now, the little devil has not received any of the information that requires preparation in advance. In the military camp on Xiamen Island, the troops of the Southeast Task Force come in and out as usual every day.
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"Company Commander, why do we go out for training every day and sneak back at night?" After three days of training, a recruit from the 7th Attack Group of the Southeast Task Force finally couldn't help but ask the company commander who led the team.
"This is one of our tactical trainings. For new recruits, the most important thing is to obey orders!" the company commander said angrily.
If anyone has come into contact with He Ming's independent security brigade, they will recognize this company commander, who was a platoon commander not long ago. As for the company under his command, except for the two squads which are old guerrillas, they all now have a squad or a machine gun squad, and the remaining recruits have just become regular members from the puppet army.
And those who have been coming in and out of the military camp in the past few days are more than 7,000 of them. They come out in groups during the day, wait to sneak back at night, and then come out again during the day. This makes it seem like there are tens of thousands of people in the military camp who cannot get out at all. Exactly the same.
Not only the little devil's informants, but also some local people in Xiamen did not notice these traitors and puppet soldiers who were notorious here not long ago.
Because they put on new military uniforms and did a lot of ideological transformation work, not to mention anything else, there were great changes in their military appearance and spirit!
When Zhao Dalei finished cleaning the battlefield, he immediately followed Gao Jianwu's deployment to educate the captured puppet soldiers who were about to be reformed in groups. He selected the most experienced soldiers and cadres and conducted them simultaneously in platoon units. This allowed the mind to Transformation goes far beyond military training.
That's why in just over ten days, a reserve team mainly composed of puppet troops was transformed into the seventh attack group. As the commander and leader of this attack group, He Ming served as a suspected soldier of Gao Jianwu's T plan and pretended to be a soldier in several military camps. The main force moved in and out.
The real main force followed the fishing boats out to sea and secretly transported them to the Penghu Islands to hide.
For more than 60,000 people, if they are gathered together, it will be an extremely large team. But if each fishing boat transports 30 to 50 people at a time, or more than ten people, it will basically spread to various places silently. On the island.
As for the Southeast Task Force, Gao Jianwu told them that it was an exercise, so even if some people were not strict enough to tell the story, not many people doubted that this large-scale boat exercise was related to the landing on Wanwan Island.
What no one knew was that Gao Jianwu could find so many fishing boats along the coast to cooperate in doing this.
To make this clear, we have to start with the construction of the base areas of Chu Yunfei and Ding Wei.
Because most of these fishing boats came from places affected by these two bases, and some of them were local snakes like He Ming, in order to achieve tactical surprise.
When Chu Yunfei and Ding Wei mobilized these fishing boats to come over for support, they did not say anything about the T-Day operation. They only told them that a large number of fishing boats were needed to carry the soldiers for cross-island exercises, and that after the transportation was completed, they should fish. Still fishing there.
Since the little devils have occupied Wanwan Island for many years, they have long managed this strait as their own home. The fishermen on the mainland have long banned them from fishing, so there are more fish in these places, and the fishermen also have a good harvest. reward.
Although the large amount of fish caught was a bit overwhelming for the local fish market in Xiamen, when Gao Jianwu discovered this problem and instructed a special seafood company to purchase, process and transport it to the base area, the last concerns of the fishermen were eliminated.
They worked peacefully in the strait, fishing while sending the trained soldiers to the islands.
Except for the senior commanders of the Southeast Task Force, not many people now know that Gao Jianwu has completed the great shift of the army through this method!
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As for the large quantities of weapons and equipment, they have long been installed on the Allied transport fleet through exercises and drills without being unloaded, and the final preparations have been completed.
So in the early morning before T arrived, when the two Allied fleets and the transport fleet left the port and sailed out to sea at the same time, even if the intelligence personnel of the Little Devils discovered this abnormal situation, they did not attract much attention and only sent a regulation. After reporting the fleet's departure from the port, there was no follow-up.
For them, this situation was of little value at all. No one expected that most of the fishing boats would stay around Penghu that night, and few would return to Xiamen.
And Gao Jianwu was sitting on General Demol's new flagship. Their target was the port near Jiayi on the other side!
"Gao, are you sure your troops can be sent to the other side by fishing boats?" Demoore found out Gao Jianwu's real plan after going to sea, and he was a little stunned.
For him, a fishing boat that has no ability to protect itself should have nothing to do with fighting. After all, this is war, and fishing boats are vulnerable to attacks from any aspect.
"No problem, we have already tested it and have transported people to Penghu. Then they will set off from there to the other side. Now they have set off, almost at the same time as we arrived on the other side. It will be dawn soon. When the time comes, we’ve arrived!”
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