Chapter 542: Island Hopping
Having secured its position in the South Pacific and denied the Japanese fleet a single island, the German Colonial Forces decided the time had come to push inland.
Inspired by the strategy that won the Pacific theater in the second world war of Bruno’s past life. German Marines began preparing for deployment via an island-hopping campaign.
The goal was to slowly invade the small islands in the Pacific that Japan had seized over the course of the Great War. Eventually creating a bridge straight to the Japanese mainland.
All the while, the Russian Army fought for control over the Korean peninsula, giving their alliance the means to force Japan into a position where they would inevitably face an invasion of the mainland.
And hopefully in the process compelling them to surrender before such a campaign needed being waged.
Bruno was now in Berlin, looking over the map that was corrected in the moment by intelligence reports received over the wire from the field.
He deployed a small fleet of forces, a few destroyers, one cruiser, but mostly landing craft. Each landing craft was designed to carry combined arms units onto the beaches.
There was, of course one problem with this: the island’s coastlines were riddled with barbed wire and tank traps.
As a result, Bruno shifted another much smaller series of figures into position ahead of the fleet.
"The objective is simple: drop our airborne forces over the islands and send in our raiders via the coastline. Dismantle the fortifications under the cover of darkness and begin waging asymmetric warfare in preparation for the arrival of our primary force. Thoughts?"
The other generals surrounding Bruno, Heinrich included, gazed upon the man with varying expressions.
Heinrich was proud. He understood that Bruno’s thinking when it came to warfare had always been revolutionary.