When Nakamura Taiki was trying to rally the more than 4,000 surviving troops, the base of that B-class division in the northern part of the main island, dozens of kilometers to the north, also came under attack from the Australasian Air Force.
In the interests of fairness and justice, the Australasian Air Force launched an air raid on the B-class division's infantry regiment on the same scale as the one against the A-class division, dropping at least several hundred bombs and more than a hundred missiles.
After a full round of heavy bombardment, the B-class division's infantry regiment suffered heavy losses as well. More than half of its men were killed or wounded, and the vast majority of the casualties were either seriously wounded or dead.
What Nakamura Taiki had not expected was that they had placed their hopes on the B-class division's base, yet the B-class division's casualties were scarcely any better than theirs.
More importantly, because the B-class division controlled a small coastal fleet, the attack did not come from the air force alone. A naval formation took part as well.
Even to guard against possible support from the Japanese Navy, the Pacific Fleet had practically deployed its entire main force, while a large number of submarines had been stationed in the surrounding waters, quietly waiting for a possible Japanese fleet to arrive.
What was somewhat disappointing was that the Japanese Navy clearly had no intention of fighting a decisive battle with the Australasian Navy just yet.
But thinking about it, that was only natural. For an island nation like Japan, a decisive naval battle also meant that the war was about to be decided.
Once Japan lost a decisive naval battle, its mainland would be completely blockaded by the Australasian Fleet. No matter how powerful its army