At 6:00 a.m. on April 9, a shrill alarm sounded over Okinawa Island. The People's Liberation Army commanders and fighters who had been prepared for order immediately began to enter the stall position in steps according to the pre-exercise process.

In order to confuse the enemy, the Okinawan troops of the People's Liberation Army have not consolidated their positions on a large scale on the ground these days, but have made some strengthening in the core areas.

At 6:30, the first wave of Japanese fighter jets flew over Okinawa. At the same time, the new fighter jets of the PLA Air Force on Okinawa Island have also soared into the sky. Although the PLA fighter jets are very advanced and extremely brave in combat, they annihilated the first wave of Japanese attack aircraft in a very short period of time. However, after all, there are only more than twenty PLA fighter jets on Okinawa Island. After killing more than 100 enemy aircraft, the missiles and ammunition have been exhausted. The batch of fighter jets have had to turn to Taiwan because the Okinawa Air Force airport has been blown up by Japanese bombers and the jet fighter jets can no longer land.

At this point, the Japanese army gained a brief air supremacy over Okinawa. Starting from 7:30, the first wave of Japanese landing ships began a landing battle against the beach under the cover of large gunboats such as naval battleships.

At this time, the real fierce competition had just begun. When the Chinese People's Liberation Army's bullets and artillery fire were covered indiscriminately at the Japanese landing on the beach, the Japanese army's dance of death had already begun.

Although the Japanese army temporarily obtained air supremacy, the PLA's anti-aircraft artillery was not vegetarian. It was difficult for Japanese fighter jets and bombers to get close to the PLA's beachhead positions and artillery positions. The Japanese army lost more than ten large bombers and dozens of advanced combat attack aircraft just to complete the task of bombing the Okinawa Air Base. In addition, more than 100 fighter jets destroyed by the PLA's Okinawa Air Force, the Japanese army had lost more than 200 fighter jets within more than an hour of the initial attack.

Such losses were simply unbearable for the Japanese army, because although the Japanese army drove away dozens of fighter jets from the PLA on Okinawa Island, the PLA fighter jets did not cause much loss, and the battle had been outbreak for more than an hour. Even if the PLA responded after the outbreak of the battle, advanced fighter jets with combat radius of thousands of kilometers taken off from several PLA air forces in Taiwan were about to fly over Okinawa.

Therefore, Japan took off the second wave of fighter jets from the aircraft carrier and had to throw bombs at our positions outside the range of our air defense fire, just like scratching the surface. A small number of Japanese fighter jets were very brave and tried to launch a suicide attack on our positions. However, every time before we could get close to our positions, they were sieve by fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire and exploded on the spot in the air and disintegrated.

Therefore, Japanese fighter jets did not pose much threat to important military sites such as the frontier beachhead positions and artillery positions of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The person responsible for defending the Nancheng position in southwest of Okinawa is the 323rd Division of the 32nd Army. Zhou Zhidao, deputy commander of the 32nd Army, personally took charge of the 323rd Division headquarters to command the front.

The Japanese army invested strong landing forces in the Nancheng position. Although a large number of landing ships were sunk by the powerful artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army before they reached the mudflat position, many landing ships rushed to the beach. As several large Japanese landing ships rushed to the beach, the huge cabin door in front of the landing ship opened, and more than a dozen Japanese amphibious armored combat vehicles rushed out in each landing ship. Then, countless Japanese soldiers began to rush out from the landing ship, and began to rush towards the beachhead position that the Chinese army was defending.

This is the time, and the real battle has just begun, but the battle is not as fierce as expected. As dozens of amphibious tanks that the Japanese army rushed to the beach were destroyed by the Chinese army with anti-tank weapons one by one, the Japanese landing troops that were difficult to deploy at the beach were simply a living target. The soldiers of the Chinese army almost didn't need to aim, and each shot was shot, and they could knock down a Japanese devil.

In the end, the Japanese army could only lie in the pile of corpses and barely lifted their guns and fired aimlessly, which caused very limited damage to the Chinese army.

However, the most tragic time of the Japanese army had not arrived yet. As the Japanese army subsequently modified a large number of warships that were barely called landing ships, they approached the mudflats and began to rush to the beach like suicide. The casualties of the Japanese army suddenly increased. The entire sea area of ​​the Nancheng area were all the bodies of Japanese soldiers who were either bombed or shot dead.

Because at around 8 o'clock, the fighter jets that took off from Taiwan, China had already arrived over Okinawa. After successfully destroying and repelling the second wave of more than 100 Japanese fighter jets, they began to regain air supremacy in Okinawa.

Immediately, bombers taking off from Taiwan also came over Okinawa. At this time, it was the doom of a large number of Japanese landing ships and frigates. With the insurgency of the Chinese Air Force, the casualties of various Japanese landing ships became increasingly serious. It was not until the first wave of Chinese Air Force fighters were exhausted. At the same time, the third wave of Japanese fighters flew over Okinawa that the Chinese Air Force withdrew from the Okinawa battlefield. The Japanese army regained air supremacy, and the Japanese landing ships and frigates were able to breathe through a breath. However, when the landing ships approached the landing ground, it was still difficult to escape the fierce bombardment of Okinawa artillery artillery fire.

In this way, the Chinese island guards suffered not much loss in one day, but the Japanese landing forces suffered extremely heavy losses. Of course, what made Yamamoto Iroku feel relieved was that during the first day of landing, the Japanese army paid 50,000 or 60,000 lives, but more than 20,000 people successfully boarded Okinawa Island and seized a beachhead.

After losing this beachhead position, the Chinese army launched several counterattacks, but because the Japanese army was tenacious and brave in fighting and fearless, it seemed that the Chinese army was a little afraid of war and death. Therefore, after paying a part of the casualties, the Chinese army no longer competed with the Japanese army for this mudflat position, but retreated to the second-line position to defend.

This made Yamamoto Izuru inevitably feel a little lucky. Of course, Yamamoto Izuru did not know how many troops the PLA currently has in Okinawa. According to the original military intelligence of the Japanese army, Yamamoto inferred that the PLA was at most a group of army and some marines in Okinawa, with more than 100,000 people. Judging from the situation of the Japanese army confrontation with the PLA on the first day, the Chinese army did have only a hundred thousand people in the Okinawa area, which made Yamamoto Izuru have a glimmer of hope for victory in the Okinawa battle.

Therefore, Yamamoto firmly ordered the subsequent troops to speed up the Okinawa area. Yamamoto believed that even if his first and second waves of more than 300,000 troops would be consumed with the People's Liberation Army, and would consume more than 100,000 troops on Okinawa Island. By the time his third wave of more than 100,000 troops arrived in Okinawa, Okinawa would be the world of the Japanese army.

At that time, even if the Chinese naval aircraft carrier arrives in the Okinawa waters, as long as several aircraft carrier formations do not undertake escort tasks, they will have room for maneuver. Even if they fight with the Chinese navy, there will be heavy casualties, but they may not be wiped out, and it may also cause severe damage to the Chinese navy.

Because the Okinawa area is not far from Japan, the lost aviation power can be replenished nearby when approaching Japan, this has a hint of luck for Yamamoto Izuru.

Unfortunately, Yamamoto Izuru did not know that the People's Liberation Army's garrison in Okinawa was not more than 100,000, but a terrible 200,000. Moreover, the Chinese Navy, Taiwan's fourth and fifth aircraft carrier formations and the Fiji sixth aircraft carrier formations had arrived near Okinawa, lurking in the predetermined waters, waiting for the third wave of Japanese landing troops departing from the Philippines and two aircraft carrier guards to arrive in the war zone, which would bring a devastating blow to the Japanese Navy.

The battle the next day was still fierce. Although the Japanese army obtained a landing position on the tidal flat, as the landing field, greatly alleviated the pressure that the Japanese landing ships could not get close to the beachhead, after all, a landing range of a beachhead position can be too small, and the Japanese army had to launch feint attacks on other tidal flats to prevent the People's Liberation Army from transferring all the main troops to annihilate the beachhead position that the Japanese army had just consolidated. Therefore, the next day, the Japanese army was still playing a shrill music in the symphony of death.

The next day, the Japanese army once again paid the price of more than 40,000 people and successfully landed more than 20,000 people. At the same time, the Japanese army also seized a temporary landing field on the beach in western Okinawa. Although the Japanese army tried desperately to expand the scope of this temporary landing field, under the shooting of secret bullets of the People's Liberation Army's fierce artillery fire, all the efforts made by the Japanese army ended in failure.

This brought great opportunities to the Japanese army's third-day landing operation. However, Sanben Fifty-six did not be happy for long.

That night, a counterattack attack by the Chinese Marine Corps caused the Japanese army to capture the temporary landing ground the next day to be recaptured by the Chinese army. More than 10,000 Japanese soldiers who were holding the beachhead were all shot dead by the Chinese army. This made Yamamoto Iroku very crazy and wished he could hit the nail on the iron plate of the Yamato battleship.

However, for Yamamoto Izuru, the Japanese army had no way out and could only continue to attack Okinawa with all its strength. Either the entire army was destroyed or successfully captured Okinawa, and survived for a few days was Yamamoto Izuru's only choice.

On the third day, the battle situation was also fierce. Under the continuous bombing of the Chinese Air Force, all kinds of landing ships of the Japanese army had been killed or killed. However, no matter what, on the third day, the Japanese army successfully sent more than 20,000 soldiers to the beachhead and successfully opened the second landing ground again. Since then, the first wave of 180,000 troops has killed more than 130,000 people in battle. All kinds of landing ships have been lost, and the ships serving as landing guards have been exhausted.

However, what made Yamamoto Iroji feel lucky was that after all, more than 50,000 troops successfully landed, and they also controlled two landing sites, which brought great convenience to the subsequent landings of the second and third waves of troops. It can greatly reduce the casualties of the Japanese army.

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