"Is this a choice for me?" Zhang Chi said: "Would the New Seventh Army put tens of thousands of people in danger like the Myanmar battlefield, or would it kill this danger in the cradle? The major should know which choice is right."

"Is there no other way to master's seat?"

Zhang Chi smiled: "I should say that this is the battlefield. The battlefield itself is cruel second. If the new 28th Division is a qualified unit, then they will survive on the battlefield, otherwise they will be eliminated by the battlefield. We are the same. You should think of this on the day you receive the order to go to the battlefield. This is the reality, do you understand?"

"Yes" Liu Ting responded helplessly.●⌒,

"You can leave now"

"yes"

Looking at Liu Ting's back as she left, Zhang Chi couldn't help but shake her head. Maybe the war should really let the women go away because they are not suitable for this cruel environment.

On the other hand, Zhang Chi believes that Liu Ting will not tell others about this, because she knows that although Zhang Chi's actions can be said to be cruel, they are undoubtedly correct. Moreover, even if she tells the truth, it will not change anything, and it will even make things worse.

Although the New Seventh Army was a reserve force when the New Seventh Army was conducting intense training for the upcoming war, war always had to be prevented before it happened. Moreover, this was the first time that the New Seventh Army organized actual combat between the navy, army and aviation, so Zhang Chi did not dare to be careless.

At the same time, the US military is also making active preparations for the war.

However, the preparations of the US military are mainly strategic and naval. In this regard, it should be said that the US military has done a very successful job.

For example, the US military set out from the Samoan Islands and gradually advanced along the "absolute defense circle" of the Japanese army in the Tuvalu Islands.

The "gradual advancement" here naturally refers to the span of fighter jets. The occupation of one island is not to mention why the combat radius is required. The US Navy's operations are carried out under the cover of fighter jets. If there is no cover of fighter jets, it is undoubtedly quite dangerous and very stupid, at least for the US military. When talking about this, the Americans seemed to have forgotten that Zhang Chi had no cover of fighter jets when he captured Rabaul.

Then the United States first occupied Funafuti Island, 1,260 kilometers away from Tarava Atoll, and it was very easy to occupy the island. At this time, the Japanese army basically retreated to the "absolute defense circle" to take a defensive posture. Most of the islands outside the "defense circle" only left a dozen or dozens of Japanese troops as observation posts.

After occupying Funafuti Island, the US military quickly built an airport and a port on it. With the efforts of the US military's modern equipment and engineers, Funafuti Island became the most important forward supply base and aviation base for the US military in just half a month.

However, the distance of 1,260 kilometers is still too far. Although it can make the combat radius of the US land-based bomber b29 cover Tarawa Note: The combat radius of the b29 is about 2,600 kilometers, it is still out of reach for fighter jets such as the "Wild Cat".

So the US military then occupied Baker Island 860 kilometers east of Tarawa with Funafuti Island, captured the Nanomea Islands and the Nukufetao Islands, and also built airports on the island. The US military even sent submarines to carry engineers, secretly occupying the Holand Island, which is only 500 kilometers away from Tarawa and built a simple airport. This simple airport is for injured aircraft to land urgently.

From this point of view, the US military is indeed more humane when formulating combat plans.

If it were the Japanese army, they would not care whether the injured plane would land in an emergency. If the plane was injured, it would not have to come back and directly crashed into the enemy's warship and pulled it down. However, the US military paid great attention to the safety of the pilot's life.

Everything seemed to indicate that the US military would attack Tarawa, and at the beginning, the Japanese army thought so.

This seems like a bad plan, because strategic intentions were exposed to the enemy before the war began.

But the United States learned what China's military strategy said is "virtual, real, real, real, virtual, and virtual". Just when the Japanese thought the US military would attack Tarawa, the US aircraft carrier first launched an attack on the Marshall Islands.

It was the US rapid aircraft carrier formation, with 3 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship, 2 cruisers and 10 destroyers. From Pearl Harbor, they headed straight to the Marshall Islands and then attacked Nanbird Island. They dispatched six waves of attack and takeoff fighter jets, eliminated all the Japanese planes on the island, destroyed the 400 barrels of aviation gasoline stored on the island and destroyed the airport runway. The US military lost only four aircraft, which fully demonstrated that the Japanese army's zero war was no longer in power.

At this time, the Japanese army suddenly realized that the US military had pointed its finger at Tarawa before, and their real goal was to the Marshall Islands in the "absolute defense circle".

So the Japanese army urgently dispatched all their troops and ships to the Marshall Islands, and even some of the fighter planes that could reinforce the Nauru Island Airport, which could reinforce Tarava, were transferred to the Marshall Islands.

Of course the Japanese don't know that this is just a fake shot from the US Navy.

When the Japanese were gathering in the Marshall Islands, the fleet of the Sino-US coalition forces set out in a mighty direction towards Tarava.

However, compared with such strict strategic preparations, the preparations of the US ground offensive forces can be described as cold as a 2nd Marine Division. After all, they are Marine Corps and have fought wars before. Although more than a thousand people were hospitalized due to climate and environmental discomfort when they were stationed in Guadalam, they had some experience, so the assembly speed was quite fast.

The 27th Infantry Division of the US Army would be deadly. Their assembly areas range from Hawaii to New Zealand in the north. They are extremely scattered and far away from each other. They are piled up here and there, resulting in the length of their assembly time being varyingly chaotic.

If MacArthur was in front of him, Zhang Chi would definitely mock him: "So this is what you said to be the army that is ready to easily capture the Japanese island."

From this point of view, it can be seen that the US Army did not take this battle seriously at all. They always believed that the battle was mainly bombed by the navy and aviation, and the army only landed on the island to collect corpses and build fortifications.

On the contrary, the soldiers of the New Seventh Army were all on high alert. Although their mission this time was just a reserve team, because Zhang Chi told them early in the morning that the battle that was about to come would be a tough battle, everyone was mentally prepared.

There is only one exception among them, that is, the two battalions in Wu Shimin's hands.
Chapter completed!