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The 908th Battle of Wake Island (1)

The Chinese are going to attack Pearl Harbor!

The terrible news spread rapidly throughout the Pacific region as if it had wings. The Japanese in the coalition headquarters, who were planning to launch a winter offensive, were suddenly nervous, because once Pearl Harbor was destroyed, they immediately became alone. The Chinese Navy would truly circulate the southwest Pacific and trap them firmly. At that time, chrysanthemums burst from behind, which would be a tragic thing!

Not to mention how important Pearl Harbor is, it is their key transit station to extend to the Pacific Ocean and the most important defensive outpost on the West Coast. Destruction alone is unacceptable. If China is a little more ruthless and makes his 100,000 troops go up and completely occupy it, then it will be too difficult for the United States to retake it back!

"No! Never let the Chinese conspiracy succeed! In any case, we must also protect Pearl Harbor! Keep Hawaii!"

Roosevelt issued a serious order to the military, not only urgently mobilizing more aircraft to pile up in China, but also ordered the Marines to increase their transportation efforts, and must be ahead of the Chinese, reinforce Hawaii, and make the number of troops there enough to support an unprecedented blow.

The keen people have realized that whether it is the President or the Navy, they are generally not optimistic about the navy's defense operations. All response measures are formulated towards the complete defeat of the navy and the loss of maritime defensive power for a long time.

Not good! The powerful America is likely to be vulnerable! It is incredible that such a thing will happen!

In any case, the situation became tense in all directions! More than a thousand newest planes flew out from the United States in one breath and were stationed in Hawaii and Midway Island, and even Johnston Island. Tens of thousands of engineering troops were crazily constructing fortifications on several archipelagos day and night, and as many as 100,000 army soldiers hurriedly boarded the ship to Hawaii.

In order to ensure the speed of transportation, in addition to using military transport ships, a large number of fast destroyers are put into transportation operations. With their high speed of more than 30 knots, they can seize time as much as possible and enhance the defense capabilities of the war zone.

Among them, the armored division led by Patton became the first force to board the battlefield outside Shanghai. They were originally going to be sent to North Korea to fight, but now they are going to fight a local defense battle first.

Patton was full of confidence in this, and he even made no polite publicity that if Chinese boys dared to land on the beach, then he would command a group of brave and fearless powerful armored weapons to leave a deep impression on them!

General Kimmel was in Pearl Harbor, and General Nimitz commanded all the ships to take the initiative to fight, with two special mixed fleets of the 16th and 17th, as well as submarine troops, attacking three routes, setting up a stance in the waters between Midway and Marshall Islands, ready to face the battle!

As for Wake Island, they had no time to rescue it. Not to mention that it was too far from Hawaii, the place itself was too small and the number of aircraft stationed was too small, so they could not withstand the bombing of the opponent's powerful carrier-based aircraft and battleship heavy artillery, except for the increase in casualties.

In addition, judging from the performance of the Chinese fleet, they have no interest in occupying the island for the time being. The purpose of their operations is to completely destroy all military facilities and living forces on the island, so that they cannot play a strategic springboard role in a short period of time.

Of course, it can also be considered that it was his plan to solve Pearl Harbor without any worries, and then he turned around and calmly cleaned up and occupied the islands, becoming a stable transit station and military fortress. Or, there were other fleets behind him responsible for doing this.

It seems that both sides are trying hard to grab time.

Everything seemed to be following the Americans' guess. In just one day, Wake Island was indeed hit by a sudden blow. The missiles were still opening the way, bombing the simple radar, barracks and exposed airports. Then, the attack aircraft used heavy gliding bombs to smash the turrets with thick shelters and semi-submersible hangars, and killed and injured most of the Marines stationed on these three small islands, and hundreds of migrant workers who maintained the fortifications were killed and injured.

Seeing the little bit of defensive power left on the island completely disintegrated like a shattered destruction, the opponent's fighter planes rage in the sky as if they were in a no-man's realm. More than one ton of shells from the enemy's battleships hit the head, but the remaining few turrets could not even see the shadows of others. It was completely impossible to counterattack.

When the attack plane sent the flyer and the clearly coded telegram to surrender, Major James Defro sent a telegram to ask the Hawaii Command for permission and happily chose to surrender.

On the island, two 2,000-meter-long runways, respectively, were miraculously preserved. They were in a 10-meter-deep port in the bay. All destroyers and submarines had already escaped and the facilities were not destroyed. Except for those places where the smoke was coming, it can be said that the basic living conditions were still intact.

Major Defro led the remaining Marines and migrant workers to usher in a stunned manner more than a dozen helicopters descending from the sky. He watched more than a hundred fully armed Marines jump down with guns and issued orders to them in fluent English. They were all imprisoned in plastic handcuffs and transported them back to the ship.

The wounded were temporarily left on the hospital supply ship for rescue. After a brief bandage, the minor injured were stuffed into a huge semi-submersible ship that quietly floated up and threw it directly on an atoll in the Marshall Islands, and then told the coalition forces clearly about their location.

This move made the Americans stunned! In conjunction with the fact that the Chinese did not want to stay a prisoner, nor were they willing to even have a little time and supplies for them, leaving a lot of trouble for their opponents to distract them from solving the problem--the food, drink, defecation and urination of thousands of people is not a small amount, it is equivalent to a unit of a heavy cruiser. The Americans must find a way to save them, which is really fucking.

In this way, the US military became more and more determined. The other party must attack Pearl Harbor. They completely eliminated all worries for the next battle. And the information obtained from the surviving prisoners was obvious that the Chinese Navy deliberately retained some facilities on Wake Island, and it was definitely necessary to use this place as a springboard for the offensive!

Although Wake Island is only 10 square kilometers in total, it can only be parked with a thousand-ton destroyers in the bay. The number of troops garrisons is barely one battalion, and there are only dozens of aircraft garrisons.

It is more suitable as a transit station and attack springboard. It is 500 nautical miles west of Guam, 2,000 nautical miles east of Hawaii, and 1,025 nautical miles from Midway. They are all within the attack range of heavy bombers. If the fleet supplies and launches attacks from here, it can quietly touch the vicinity of two important bases overnight and launch a fierce attack with the Air Force!

This place is really important, but the problem is that the Pearl Harbor fleet is moving too slowly. It is only halfway through the journey, and there are still six or seven hundred nautical miles away from the place!

In response, General Kimmel said seriously to the entire army: "Gentlemen! No need to emphasize the importance of Wake Island anymore! We all know that with the Chinese's maritime engineering capabilities, they can build a super aircraft carrier that will never sink in the shortest time based on three atolls! By then, we will become very passive! Therefore, I demand that we must take it back as soon as possible at all costs, no matter what, no matter how!"

Think about it, there is no need to doubt this possibility. From the beginning, Zhu Bin created a maritime platform that was far beyond the age of at least forty years, and built a super floating base in the East Pacific Ocean, which has no land in the sea, on all sides. How difficult is it to create an unprecedentedly huge platform with a land foundation of 6.5 square kilometers and a 20-kilometer-long coastline?

Kimmel even suspected that the huge fleet of attacking had already prepared relevant building materials, and now the construction work was starting, so there was really not much time left for them!

Not to mention, he really guessed it! In the huge supply ship behind the Ocean Fleet, there are really a huge number of prefabricated module platforms, and a floating apron that can be laid on the ocean at any time for bombers to take off!

Zhu Bin's ideal naval battle main force will definitely not be as simple as the three fleets that just deal with errands. Each ship has shocking technical strength. The supply ship starting from 50,000 tons is even more crazy to use the gas turbine and diesel auxiliary engines that are generally standard in battleships! The speed is not only a dozen knots of ordinary freighters, but can reach 26 knots, keeping up with the terrible existence of aircraft carrier formation cruises!

Using segmented manufacturing technology, high-strength steel plates and armor are even comparable to cruisers, with 100,000 horsepower drive, three-axis and three-pillar equipment, and take-away combined multi-purpose missile launch system, which can defend against air to sea.

Such awesome thing, I brought two ships out this time. If it weren't for the lack of construction and the production of nuclear reactors, Zhu Bin would even want to get a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered multi-function support ship, which would be so easy!

...If the US military knew the truth, they would not know if they would vomit blood. But at least this time, Kimmel was right. He transported all the soldiers on the island away. More than 100 Marines were scattered into more than 20 assault teams. After searching the island, they confirmed that there were no hidden enemy troops, and the amphibious assault ships followed immediately rushed up, unloaded large engineering vehicles on the dock and landed, put out the fire, cleaned up dead bodies, cleaned up broken garbage, and then began to quickly build the split light steel skeleton floating platform!

These are all things made after designing according to the predetermined area. The hollow high-strength main beam column can easily penetrate deep into the reef, pour into quick-drying cement, and pull it firmly with basalt fiber cables. Then put the skeleton on it, and finally lay the basalt composite fiberboard on it.

With only half the mass of steel and basalt fibers, the composite panels manufactured can withstand the impact of hundreds of tons of heavy machinery and bombers, and take off and land at any time, and glide at any time. The two narrow runways were expanded several times in one go!

After all the land on the island is flattened, it is used as a centralized storage place for materials. As for the defense turrets, they are simply modularly built. After being tamped into the atoll with pile legs, they are arranged in a row around the entire three islands, and wired and wireless signals are connected to the omnidirectional radar command center set up on Wake Island, and attacks are launched at any time according to early warnings.

The entire construction project is so skillful to the army! I have been training from scratch for seven or eight years, and it is simply a pediatric department to do it based on the foundation of this place.

In just one day and one night, when the forwards of the US special mixed fleet arrived 300 nautical miles away, eight flight runways were successfully built here, a temporary apron that was enough to accommodate 500 aircraft, as well as ammunition, oil, spare parts, and two heavy bombing brigades and two regiments of flying shark-e fighters, successfully transferred and arrived with the tanker.

Behind them, there are at least one regiment of jet fighters, more bombers, flying sharks, tiger sharks and other main combat opportunities. At that time, the transformation of this complete non-sinking aircraft carrier will be completed, and it can even meet the long-term stationing and supply of an aircraft carrier formation.

The US military was completely unaware of this. At this time, the 16th special mixed fleet led by Major General Raymond Spruins was moving forward with all his strength. The fighter jets that took off on the three aircraft carriers of the York City, Enterprise and Bumblebee were already encountering the fighter jets on the "Yuefei". The two sides started a fierce air battle without saying a word!

Learning from the previous lessons of the failure of the Japanese and American navies, the 16-special mixed fleet carefully hid the battleship behind, and surrounded the heavy cruisers and destroyers with fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire in a ring array and placed them around, ready for defense at any time.

Major General Spruins also knew in his heart that this approach might not be very effective. The opponent's strike ability is too perverted. The best way is to simply not let their main warships approach the artillery distance, or even to 100 kilometers, so it can be said that it is safe.

In this way, the Air Force attack is particularly important, but the problem is that the fighter planes on the opposite side are too difficult to deal with, and it is not easy to seize air supremacy!

Air combat was launched in the airspace less than 100 kilometers away from the US fleet. The fighter jets fighting between the two sides moved over the front-driving ships from time to time. The broken bodies and the flow of bullets swept across the sea often swept across the warships, splashing sparks, and even causing damage of varying degrees of gravity.

Among them, most of the shot down were US F4U fighters and some Japanese versions of the Ultimate Zero Fighter. Occasionally, a "Flying Shark-e" dragged the rolling smoke and fell to the sea, which caused US soldiers on the ship to cheer.

Major McLasky, who was standing on the island of the Enterprise, was not happy at all. Through the large-scale observation telescope, he clearly saw the rapid combat process that was constantly appearing in the field of vision. He wanted to fly the fighter plane to help himself, but in fact he knew that it would not play a big role.

Next to it, Captain George Murray was also watching. He saw nearly ten of his own fighter planes falling down with his own eyes. His brows frowned and sighed regretfully: "Our plane is still not good enough, and it still cannot stop the Chinese people's attack. It seems that the situation is not very good!"

McLasky gritted his back teeth and said hatefully: "Who made the bureaucrats in the headquarters short-sighted and always refused to equip us with the best fighter jets in order to save money. Don't they know how fast the aircraft on the battlefields of Asia and Europe are and how powerful the firepower is? Even the army now has a variety of the latest high-speed fighter jets, but the most important thing is that we are still using these slow rags!"

Are the fighter jets now very slow? Colonel Murray doesn't think so. In his opinion, the Navy's update speed is actually very fast.

The already eliminated f4f wildcat fighter jet has only been in service for 37 years. As a result, it was proved to be very backward before it even came on the stage. In desperation, the f4u with major flaws was temporarily added. Although it was modified many times and could barely take off and land on the aircraft carrier, there were frequent accidents.

With the reference of Japan's ultimate zero war, the next generation of high-speed carrier-based aircraft has already taken shape, with thicker armor, stronger firepower, larger range, and good comprehensive capabilities. But if you want to serve, it will be next year's business, and you can't catch up!

To be honest, the latest ones in Ultimate Zero War and F4u have a maximum speed of 700 kilometers per hour, and are already the best among carrier-based aircraft. The US military has nothing to complain about when it comes to the door closed. However, the opponent is so cruel!

Murray sighed: "It can only be used to make up for it in quantity, and it will continue to lose the reserves of Chinese people. No matter what, their carrier-based aircraft are always limited, and it will be difficult to replenish them after they are exhausted."

The two special mixed fleets dispatched this time have a total of six aircraft carriers, and the number of carrier-based aircraft is already quite large, but they are only a part of them. The fighter jets taken off from Midway can arrive here on a long distance. Although the remaining fuel is unlikely to directly participate in the war, they can land on the aircraft carrier to supplement it, which can be said to be a continuous stream.

The United States, Hawaii, Midway Island, and Wake Island, a series of springboards form a continuous supply line. I believe that as long as there is enough time, hundreds of fighter jets can pile up the fighter jets from the other side from afar to death!

It sounds lightweight and makes people cry when they are done!

The combat damage ratio in the sky is normal, and a larger proportion is not uncommon, technology, fighter jets, and all-round advantages. Not to mention, before every war, the opponent is unsolvable, missiles are arguing for the first time. This is really too bullying!

However, the US military has no way to deal with it!

McLasky sneered: "I hope the Chinese people are really as legendary, with an incredible construction speed. Otherwise, I believe that the troops they land on Wake Island will soon become the result of our bomber strike!"
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