Yamada's suggestion was called "z" by the Japanese army. Its main strategic goal is to establish a "navigation and 6-air base complementary system". In short, it is to turn the island and its airport into "never sinking aircraft carriers" without aircraft carriers to preserve strength, strengthen positions, confuse the enemy. If necessary, it will also send a joint fleet to engage in a long-awaited decisive battle with the US fleet and other means to drag down or even defend the Marshall Islands. ([

But in fact, Koga Fengichi was very clear that it was basically impossible for the Japanese army to defend the Marshall Islands. The reason was not only because of the comparison of the forces between the Japanese and American armies, but also the huge industrial capacity gap between the two countries behind the Japanese and American armies... If a fighter jet is shot down, it is very likely that two fighter jets will fly into the sky, but the Japanese army in the Marshall Islands can no longer transfer one soldiers from the country, let alone fighter jets.

So, Koga Fengyi’s current plan is to delay as long as he can.

But sometimes, Koga Fengyi didn't know whether his approach was right or wrong.

If Japan will eventually lose, what Koga Fengyi is doing now is to delay the day when Japan faces failure as much as possible, which is actually extending Japan's painful time and further consuming the few remaining war resources in the country.

If Japan will not lose... then, what can make Japan persist? What can make Japan win?!

Koga Fengichi could only sigh at the sunset on the distant seaside. All he could do now was to take one step at a time.

The Japanese's actions naturally cannot escape the eyes of the US military.

In fact, before the end of the Battle of Tarawa, the US military's reconnaissance of the Japanese troops in the Marshall Islands had already begun.

The US military's reconnaissance of the Japanese army includes two aspects:

On the one hand, submarines approached various islands to reconnaise, and this reconnaissance method is relatively easy. After all, submarines are operating underwater, and the Japanese joint fleet has been hiding itself because they are worried about being bombed by the US military... At this time, only part of the air supremacy of the Marshall Islands is in the hands of the Japanese army. The US military has used a powerful group of aircraft carriers to greatly compress the Japanese air range.

This is not intentional by the US military, but Tarawa is only about 250 kilometers away from the Marshall Islands, which is definitely within the attack radius of the Japanese Zero fighter jets.

Therefore, in order for the Tarava Battle to go smoothly, the air control range of the Japanese Marshall Islands must be reduced; at the same time, the deployment of the US military on the Tarava, Makin, and Abemama Islands must be reduced.

This caused the Japanese joint warships to be hidden everywhere, and even supply at their own ports had to be carried out secretly at night.

Of course, the Japanese army's approach is correct... The warships lost the cover of aircraft carriers and fighter jets and were almost the target of enemy fighter jets. The Japanese 6-base aviation force was so fragile, with only more than one hundred fighters in total, and these more than one hundred fighter jets are still scattered on various islands.

In this case, once the US military knows the location of the Japanese joint fleet, it will send a large number of fighter jets to cover the bomber to make a tough fighter for the Japanese joint fleet. Even if the entire Japanese 6-based aviation force is dispatched, it is afraid that the Japanese joint fleet will not be able to save it.

The result is that US submarines can cruise and reconnaise in the Marshall Islands with confidence.

On the other hand, it is the US military's aerial reconnaissance.

The advantage of seizing the air control is that fighter jets can often fly near or even fly over the islands. Of course, the US military will not be too stupid to give up this opportunity. When flying over the islands, they took photos to make an offensive plan or make combat maps for use.

So the US military discovered that the Japanese army was expanding airports in various islands, and even built emergency airports on some islands.

Halsey was shocked when he got this information, because it seemed that it meant that the Japanese army would have more fighter jets to enter the Marshall Islands, which might be as numerous as the six existing airports in the Marshall Islands could not accommodate them.

"How many fighter jets can these six airports accommodate after they are widened?" Halsey asked.

"It is impossible to make accurate judgments at the moment!" The staff officer replied as he looked at the picture: "However, if we calculate that each airport can accommodate 100 fighter jets, there should be 600 fighter jets!"

This is just a preliminary estimate, because the Japanese army can accommodate more than 70 fighter jets just one aircraft carrier, and an island much larger than an aircraft carrier can naturally accommodate more fighter jets.

After thinking for a while, Halsey said, "It seems we can't wait any longer!"

Halsey was not in a hurry to start a war, because the first reason was that the 6th Navy team was not prepared. The 1st Division of the 6th World War was stationed in Guado. The 2nd Division of the 6th World War had just finished the Battle of Tarawa. The two regiments that participated in the battle and suffered heavy casualties were sent back to Hawaii for vacation, leaving behind a 6th World War 6th Regiment that had basically not participated in the battle to station in Tarawa. The 3rd Division of the 6th Navy was being formed again...

Therefore, the US Navy has no amphibious combat troops except Chinese troops that can be used for the Ding6 operations in the Marshall Islands.

Of course, the Chinese team must be engaged in the battle, because even if the Third Division of the 6th War is formed, it will be a rookie unit with no combat experience. If there is no Chinese troops participating in the battle, Halsey would not be relieved, but Halsey believed that at least the Chinese troops should be allowed to rest for a while.

The second reason is that there are still some problems in the formulation of combat plans.

In fact, the combat plan to attack the Marshall Islands was formulated long before the Battle of Tarava, and this plan was called "Operation "Flintski".

But the problem is...

The "Flintlid" operation is mostly based on plans similar to the attack on Tarava Atoll.

Simply put, the "Flintlid" operation is an expanded version of the attack on Tarawa. The US Navy intends to attack Tarawa, that is, to first carry out long-term and large-scale bombing of the Japanese army, and then easily occupy the islands stationed by the Japanese army one by one, so the Marshall Islands belong to the US army.

This plan will not have any problems before the Battle of Tarawa, but after the Battle of Tarawa, no one will think it is fine because there are many atolls similar to Tarawa in the Marshall Islands.

As Nimitz said: "It turns out that bombing cannot effectively destroy the Japanese offensive; the hydrology of the Marshall Islands is like Tarava, which means that our Hiskin ship will still be stranded; the communication problem has not been solved... So, the operation of the 'Flintshu' is a bullshit!"
Chapter completed!