Age of Conquest Reborn

"What nonsense!" Lieutenant Colonel Xu Zhihang, commander of the fleet's carrier-based aircraft formation, muttered contemptuously. He glanced at the ground of Iwo Jima. The dots of firelight exposed the location of the Japanese anti-aircraft gun positions. Only one attack by the bomber formation was needed.

Shut up immediately about the little Japanese's anti-aircraft firepower. However, your mission is not to compete with the little Japanese's anti-aircraft guns.⊙

"Report to headquarters, Japanese ground anti-aircraft artillery fire started, but no Japanese combat aircraft were found taking off to fight!" Xu Zhihang reported.

"Oh?" Tang Qiuquan, who was commanding the battle, was stunned and said to Tang Qiusheng: "Brother Qiu Sheng, the little devil's 85th Air Force is still calm enough. Order the second formation to start from the opposite direction of the first formation.

, cut into the sky above Iwo Jima, but the Japanese airfield can’t be found in a place as big as a palm! The third formation is ready to take off!”

At the command tower of the Japanese 85th Air Force, a Japanese combat staff officer reported to Colonel Zhonggu: "Commander, I have received a report from the ground radar station that more than a hundred carrier-based aircraft of the China Independent Division have entered Iwo Jima.

In the airspace, there are more than 60 fighter jets and the rest are bombers!"

"The number of carrier-based aircraft of the China Independent Division is less than our own!" Colonel Zhonggu was quite moved. He knew very well that with such a large area of ​​​​Iwo Jima, it was impossible for all the combat aircraft of the air force to disappear for a long time.

In the eyes of the pilots of the China Independent Division, it is certain that the location of the airport has been found. Combat aircraft can hide in the jungle, but where is the airport runway?

According to his plan, after the 109th Division's ground anti-aircraft artillery fire begins, it will attract the attention of the China Independent Division's aircraft group and play a role in covering its own aviation fleet. Now, the number of enemy fighter jets is less than its own. It is a sortie.

A good opportunity, but the medieval commander resisted this temptation and decided to continue hiding.

The distance of two hundred kilometers is only a matter of twenty or thirty minutes for combat aircraft. Once the follow-up carrier-based aircraft group of the China Independent Division fleet arrives, our own force is still no match. The only hope now is the China Independent Division.

The aircraft fleet bombed the ground anti-aircraft firepower and beachhead positions of the 109th Division before returning to prepare for the next landing.

However, the ground anti-aircraft firepower of the 109th Division was still firing wildly, but it did not suffer any bombings. The mixed aircraft fleet of the Independent Division was hovering over Iwo Jima. The dark clouds in the eyes of Zhonggu Colonel became more and more intense.

He vaguely felt that the purpose of the China Independent Division aircraft group was to find the 85th Air Force. The damn Chinese were coming towards him!

The report from the ground radar station soon confirmed Colonel Nakagu's worries, "Report to Commander. There is another batch of carrier-based aircraft of the China Independent Division, about one hundred aircraft. They are entering from the airspace west of Iwo Jima!"

"Order, all fighter jets to take off immediately to fight!" Zhonggu Colonel ordered angrily. He realized that if he did not give the order to take off, more than a hundred aircraft of the 85th Air Force would be covered at the airport and become alive.

target!

It's over. Iwo Jima is only a big place, and it can't withstand the search of more than 200 carrier-based aircraft of the independent division fleet. "Report to the headquarters that the Japanese airport has been found and is launching an attack!" Tang Qiuquan, who was directing the air combat, received the first call almost at the same time.

Reports from the commanders of the first and second formations, "Okay! The fight has been suppressed and a Japanese plane cannot take off. The third formation will immediately join the attack!"

The fighter jets of the Japanese Eighty-fifth Air Force had just been pushed onto the runway. Before the propellers could turn, the Japanese ground crews were still busy working. Countless heavy bombs rained down from the sky.

, "Boom! Boom! - Boom!" There was a violent explosion, and the Japanese airport and the combat aircraft on the airport were enveloped in flames and smoke!

The Zhonggu Colonel held the intercom and looked up at the bombs falling from the sky. They were magnified infinitely in his field of vision. Then, they exploded into balls of orange fire. The command tower turned into broken bricks and tiles flying all over the sky in the violent explosions.

Flying into the air over Iwo Jima.

Twenty minutes later, the field airport of the Japanese Eighty-fifth Air Force, together with more than a hundred combat aircraft, was completely turned into a ruin, burning wreckage. The fleet's carrier-based aircraft group used thousands of heavy bombs to

Wipe it from the ground forever.

"Report to the headquarters that the mission of bombing the Japanese airport has been completed. Not a single Japanese combat aircraft has missed the target! Do you want to return?" The commanders of the three formations began to call the fleet headquarters.

"Before returning home, attack the Japanese ground air defense positions. It is better not to bring back the remaining bombs!" Tang Qiuquan, who was in a very excited mood, gave the order with a rare joke.

Commander Ribayashi Tadamichi, lying in his hiding place, listening to the bursts of violent explosions coming from the direction of the 85th Air Force Airport, had already judged that the target of the China Independent Division aircraft group was not him.

It's the airport of that guy from Medieval Kagawa.

Judging from the number of carrier-based aircraft dispatched by the independent division fleet, Nakagawa's 85th Air Force is no match at all. Once the 85th Air Force is completely wiped out, he has to worry. After losing air supremacy, what will happen next?

In the anti-landing battle, the 109th Division will fight very hard.

The explosions had stopped, which meant that the air force of Nakagawa Kagawa was probably wiped out. However, the ground anti-aircraft artillery fire of the 109th Division was still carrying out unnecessary bombardments. The commander of the Kuribayashi Division became angry and turned to the staff officer.

The commander shouted loudly: "Order the idiots in the air defense force to stop shooting immediately and take cover immediately!"

It was still too late. The carrier-based aircraft group of the Independent Division on the way back dropped all the remaining bombs on the 109th Division's air defense positions. The explosion caused the soil to fly, the smoke to sky, and the fire to flash, enough to blow up Iwo Jima.

All the bombs were concentrated on the Japanese air defense positions, and the results can be imagined.

After receiving the call, Lieutenant General Kuribayashi Tadamichi was so angry that his hands and feet were cold. The entire anti-aircraft fire brigade was shattered. Not even an intact anti-aircraft gun or a complete soldier's corpse could be found on the position.

Bomb, completely turned the place over.

There was no time to grieve for Commander Kuribayashi Tadamichi. Next, the 109th Division had to face a ferocious attack by an independent division with powerful sea and air firepower, more than ten times more than its own.

The Japanese 109th Division on Iwo Jima, with more than 20,000 soldiers, was so nervous that they could not breathe, waiting for the independent division troops to land and attack, but the independent division fleet and troop transport fleet left the waters of Iwo Jima.

Go due north.

The commander of the Kuribayashi Division who received the report did not believe it at all. He summed up the actions of the independent division troops as a conspiracy. He might kill them at some point. The Chinese were accustomed to using tricks. The entire 109th Division

Officers and soldiers must not relax and rest on their laurels.

More than 20,000 soldiers of the Japanese 109th Division on Iwo Jima waited nervously on the position for more than three days. They were exhausted, but they did not wait for the attack of the independent division, but they never dared to relax.

The soldiers and officers were all fed and housed on the battlefield.

While Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was nervously waiting to be beaten, he reported the news that Iwo Jima was attacked by carrier-based aircraft of the China Independence Division fleet and all members of the 85th Air Force were shattered to the General Staff Headquarters.

And the report was given to Lieutenant General Kazuki Harukawa, commander of the Ogasawara Islands Defense Force and commander of the 105th Division.

Lieutenant General Harukawa Kazachi, who received the warning from the commander of the Kuribayashi Division, did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered more than 40,000 Chichijima garrison troops to enter the position. Although the war suddenly burned the outer defense circle in the southern part of the empire, Lieutenant General Harukawa

Not too worried.

I am very clear about the defense system of Iwo Jima. With Tadamichi Kuribayashi's command, the island's complex terrain conditions, and the solidity of the defense system, it is enough for the independent division troops to gnaw at it for several months. I have enough

time to improve the defense system on Chichijima Island.

But at dawn two days later, Lieutenant General Harukawa discovered that he was wrong, and he was very wrong. Just when the eastern sky was just showing a hint of fish belly white at dawn, the independent division's attack suddenly descended on Chichijima.

superior.

The dawn of this day was lit up in advance by the trajectory of the artillery shells and the fire after the explosion. The Southern Fleet of the Independent Division, with nearly two hundred main battleships, lined up on the sea south of Chichijima Island, firing shells from large-caliber naval guns.

It flew past with a roar, causing the rocks and sand to explode into plumes of smoke rising into the sky.

Tang Qiusheng chose two landing sites, both of which were on the southern beach of Chichijima, which was convenient for landing. This was also the key defense area of ​​the Japanese 105th Division. Lieutenant General Chunchuan of the division deployed a main brigade and three artillery units.

Team, put them all here

, the Japanese soldiers relied on solid reinforced concrete fortifications to form two lines of defense. According to Lieutenant General Harukawa's estimate, the China Independent Division troops that landed and attacked would not be able to break through their own defense line in the southern part of Chichijima without leaving tens of thousands of casualties.

defense system.

Lieutenant General Chunchuan's calculations were in line with reality, but what he failed to calculate was that the southern route commanded by Tang Qiusheng to attack the Japanese mainland troops was not intended to seize a few islands and disrupt the sight of the Japanese army's top brass. Therefore, a large-scale beach landing was

Fighting is optional. It would be better to capture Chichijima, but there is no rush.

More than 15,000 Japanese soldiers hid in reinforced concrete fortifications and endured the bombardment of large-caliber artillery shells. After more than an hour, the bombardment of the Independent Division fleet stopped. The Japanese commander thought that the infantry of the Independent Division was about to begin landing.

, hurriedly commanded the soldiers to go up to the surface position and prepare for counterattack.

Tang Qiusheng put down the telescope and said to Tang Qiuquan: "Qiuquan, according to battlefield practice, after the first round of artillery bombardment stops, it means that the infantry is about to launch an attack. The Japanese army will also consider this. Now, the second round of artillery bombardment can be launched!"

Tang Qiuquan nodded, picked up the phone, "Order, the fast gunboat detachment, all attack, the artillery fire covers the Japanese beachhead and deep positions!"

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