"Okay." Lin Feng nodded and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air: "Let's begin."

"yes!"

Yang Wenhai stood at attention and saluted, then picked up the radio and said, "Order all transport ships to lower their landing craft..."

"clear!"

"Attention all ships, lower the landing craft..."

"clear!"

As the order was given, transport ships launched landing craft, engineers and soldiers, tons of supplies, tanks, mortars, and trucks, heading towards a small island not far away.

This island is Awaji Island, the largest island in the Seto Inland Sea, located between Shikoku and the Kinki region.

Awaji Island is bordered by the Akashi Strait to the north, the Ki-Awa Strait to the east, the Naruto Strait to the southwest, the Kii Channel to the south, and the Harima Shoal to the west. It has an area of ​​593 square kilometers, totaling 596.4 square kilometers including its smaller islands.

The islands are mostly low mountains, with the highest mountain being Yuheyu Mountain at an altitude of 608 meters.

Legend has it that Awaji Island is the birthplace of the land of cherry blossoms, home to the Shinojima Shrine, one of the three great torii gates of the land of cherry blossoms, Senzan Senko-ji Temple, and the Iwato Shrine, where a giant rock once stood where Amaterasu Omikami hid.

At that moment, a large number of engineers and soldiers from the Minmeng fleet landed on Awaji Island. They acted swiftly and launched a fierce bombardment on Zining Island Shrine, Senzan Senkoji Temple, and Iwato Shrine.

Boom! Boom! Amidst the deafening explosions, the ancient sites that Japan was so proud of were destroyed one after another, and thick smoke rose from shrines, temples, and the mountaintops behind them.

The tens of thousands of residents on the island were terrified; some fled, some cried, and some shouted, creating complete chaos.

In the end, without exception, they were all reclaimed from the sea by the National League Army.

Immediately afterwards, more and more landing craft unloaded supplies on the coastline of Awaji Island, and engineers began to plant explosives in various hillsides. Heavy tanks were transformed into bulldozers. Their goal was clear: to hollow out the mountains and turn the area into a solid military fortress.