.Chapter 58: Embers of War

On August 14th, the particle storm ended.

To be precise, it is not the end, but the "past".

Standing a little further, for example, in the orbit of Jupiter, you can see that the high-energy flow of particles erupted by the sun swept across the eclipse like a broom, sweeping into inner planets such as the earth. This huge "broom" did not disappear, but followed the sun's autobiography.

According to some scientists' estimates, if the sun's eruption is not over, the particle storm will come to Earth again in eight months. Fortunately, the particle storm is indeed weakening, and most scientists believe that the sun's eruption will end within three months.

On this day, two landing fleets had arrived south of Okinawa Island.

According to the combat plan formulated by the Marine Corps Command, the Marine Corps boarded Keirama Island on the morning of the 14th and seized the bridgehead to attack Okinawa Island.

There were no garrisons on Keirama Island, and the Marines' operations were very smooth.

Using prefabricated parts, the Marines can complete the preliminary deployment work within one day. Most transport ships will unload the cargo here and after the landing operation begins, small ships, hovercraft, tilted rotary wing aircraft, helicopters, etc. will be sent to the beachhead position by small ships, hovercraft, tilted rotary wing aircraft, helicopters, etc.

If the weather does not change seriously, the combat operation to land on Okinawa will begin on the morning of the 15th.

To anyone's opinion, this is not a challenging combat operation.

Although Japan has increased its troops to Okinawa Island, during the high-intensity bombing that lasted for more than ten days, the Air Force threw nearly 50,000 tons of bombs on Okinawa Island, destroying all ground defense fortifications, and focusing on bombing several underground military facilities, completely paralyzing the island's defense system.

On the afternoon of the 14th, the Marine Corps also dispatched reconnaissance planes to survey the defense deployment on the island.

The Japanese army's defense deployment was completely aimed at inland operations, that is, they did not place heavy troops on coastal positions and had no intention of competing with the Marines for beachhead positions.

This is also easy to understand. Without air cover and firepower advantages, it is impossible for the Japanese army to fight the Marines on a completely exposed beachhead, let alone prevent the Marines from getting ashore. If they fight the Marines on a beachhead, the Japanese army will not be able to defend the inland defense line.

Obviously, the Japanese army only wanted to delay time as much as possible and did not think about defending Okinawa Island.

On the evening of the 14th, Mu Haoyang, as commander-in-chief, held a pre-war meeting on the flagship of the First Landing Fleet, mainly deploying landing operations by Pang Yuelong.

After the meeting, Mu Haoyang received a message from Ma Mingtao from the General Staff.

It was not news from the army, but news from Mu Haoyang's home, to be precise, news from Lu Wen.

With the cooperation of the military and intelligence agencies, Lu Wen has completed the gene sampling of domestic species and is now active in Southeast Asia to collect gene samples of species in tropical rainforests. According to the report submitted by Lu Wen on August 10, he will go to Eastern Africa at the end of the month and then to South Asia. Before the end of the year, the scientific expedition led by her will travel around the world to complete the sampling of nearly one million biological genes.

There is nothing to worry about about security issues. There are agents sent by the Second Department throughout the whole process, and the relationship between Lu Wen and China is not bad.

Behind the rear, a specially constructed biological gene bank has also been completed.

To be precise, it is to transform an underground nuclear weapons warehouse into a biological gene bank, mainly to add ultra-low temperature refrigeration equipment and biological gene detection laboratories.

According to Lu Wen's proposal, Li Pingkoo approved administrative documents for sampling and preservation of human genes at the beginning of the month.

Thinking of what Lu Wen was doing, Mu Haoyang felt a little ashamed.

What Mu Haoyang is doing is taking away thousands of lives, while what Lu Wen is doing is protecting tens of billions of lives.

Of course, Mu Haoyang did not lose his way because of this.

Whether Lu Wen's work is meaningful depends on whether he can end the war as soon as possible. If the war continues, no action to save human civilization will be implemented smoothly.

That night, Mu Haoyang did not sleep.

When it was almost dawn, he came to the combat command center of the landing ship.

The combat operation is fully commanded by Pang Yuelong, and Mu Haoyang is only responsible for coordinating the participating forces. Because communications have returned to normal, he can contact other troops during the day.

Before seven o'clock, the officers and soldiers of the First Brigade of the Third Land Division boarded the landing craft.

At this time, the last round of artillery fire was ready to begin before landing. The protagonist was not the warships, but twenty-four fire support ships modified by large merchant ships. According to Mu Haoyang's arrangement, the artillery formation led by Zhuo Yuming would only be put into battle after the Marines rushed to the beach. The main reason was that the artillery accuracy of the warships was much higher than that of the fire support ships, and the communication was more convenient, and it could provide artillery support to the Marines more timely and accurately, but the fire support ships of military ships were only responsible for regional artillery attacks.

At about eight o'clock, the login operation began.

The battle was unusually smooth, and the Japanese troops left behind the beachhead did not carry out large-scale resistance at all, and were soon defeated by the Marines' vanguard.

Because the landing scale was huge, two Marine divisions needed to be sent ashore. After controlling the beachhead, the Marine Corps pioneers did not rush to advance inland, but instead built defense lines on the periphery, and then assisted the engineering troops to get ashore and build a temporary dock on the beach.

Before noon arrived, Mu Haoyang received the first combat report.

"The situation is even more ideal than expected, and Japan's combat effectiveness is very poor." Pang Yuelong walked over and said, "According to the frontline troops, the Japanese troops killed were all subjected to severe particle radiation, and their health was very bad, and many of them did not even have the strength to enter the position."

"Don't underestimate the enemy."

Pang Yuelong smiled and said, "I have ordered the First Brigade to stop advancing and wait for the successors to come ashore. It is unlikely that the Japanese army will launch a counterattack during the day, and there will be fierce battles at night."

"How long will it take to destroy the Japanese troops on the island?"

“Maximum five days.”

Mu Haoyang glanced at Pang Yuelong and said, "I'll give you a week. Are you sure?"

"If the Japanese army's health is really bad, it will definitely take less than a week. What we should consider most is not how strong the Japanese army is, but how to deal with the aftermath."

"What's the meaning?"

“More than one million civilians on the island.”

Mu Haoyang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I will contact the General Staff as soon as possible. After seizing Naha Port, I will ask the ships to send the rescue supplies."

“There is also a refugee camp.”

"You go and draw up a list of materials and submit it directly to the General Staff. Mr. Teng has already said that no matter what the requirements are, he will try his best to meet them."

"Okay, I'll send the list of supplies to the General Staff as soon as possible."

Mu Haoyang nodded and said nothing more.

Pang Yuelong didn't talk anymore because he could see that Mu Haoyang was not in a good mood.

The battle on the fifteenth day showed that it would be better to say that it was to save Okinawa than to attack Okinawa.

During the day, the Japanese army did not launch any decent counterattacks, nor even harassed the Marines operating on the beach, and kept hiding on the inland defense.

At night, the Japanese army launched two large-scale counterattacks in a row, but they were defeated by the Marines.

On the morning of the 16th, when cleaning up the battlefield, the Marine Corps buried and burned more than 6,000 Japanese officers and soldiers' bodies, most of which had severe symptoms of radiation. Many Japanese officers and soldiers died not in the battle, but died of physical overdrawn during the counterattack.

It can be said that on the second day of landing operations, the biggest problem was how to deal with the piles of Japanese corpses.

At the beginning, the Marines were still trying to find a way to bury them, but at that time only one engineering battalion came ashore and had to build a temporary dock. There was no enough manpower to bury Japanese corpses. In order to prevent the corpses from rotting and causing a plague, the Marines had to burn Japanese corpses.

On the 17th, the Marines attacked Naba.

As Pang Yuelong expected, the biggest problem was how to settle civilians.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the Marines controlled Naha Port, the first freighter carrying humanitarian aid supplies approached the dock.

But the rescue operation came too late.

According to post-war statistics, less than 10,000 of the 1.17 million civilians on Okinawa Island lived to two years later, before the end of October 2035, 740,000 civilians died of severe radiation diseases, and about 400,000 civilians died of illness in the next two years.

However, the rescue work still needs to be carried out.

Before the battle ended, the Marine Corps opened four refugee camps in the city of Naha to provide housing, food, medicine and other assistance to civilians, and arranged more than a thousand medical staff to provide medical assistance to civilians suffering from severe particle radiation.

At that time, all four medical ships of the Navy were transferred to Okinawa Island.

The disaster has just begun and is far from over.

According to the recollections of some officers and soldiers who participated in the Battle of Okinawa, Okinawa was a hell on earth at that time, and civilians died at any time and anywhere. In addition to rescuing the terminally ill civilians, the Marine Corps also had to clean up the bodies. Many officers and soldiers with relatively fragile will even get mentally ill.

The situation on Okinawa Island is a microcosm of Japan.

Although the four islands in Japan are further north and are much smaller than those in Okinawa due to particle storms, more than 100 million Japanese people still suffer the most cruel torture.

It can be said that the Chinese army did not capture the Japanese mainland, but rescued the Japanese civilians who were destined to be destroyed.

On August 19th, the battle on Okinawa Island was basically over.

Although the Japanese army sent more than 10,000 officers and soldiers to Okinawa, the health of the additional troops was very bad, just like the defenders on Okinawa. At that time, the Japanese army lacked not food and other daily necessities, but anti-radiation drugs and drugs to alleviate radiation diseases. Even if the Japanese officers and soldiers were able to fill their stomachs, they did not have the strength to pick up weapons and fight against Chinese soldiers under the influence of severe radiation diseases.

With the fall of Okinawa, the war also entered its final stage.

No matter how clamored by militarists such as Yasuji Nakajima, in the face of cruel reality, it has to be admitted that Japan has lost the capital to continue to conquer. Not to mention using 11 million troops to defend the local area, it would be useless even if all 120 million Japanese were armed.

More importantly, on this day, China and the United States reached the first substantive agreement on responding to natural disasters...
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