Chapter 1237: The War Begins

The U.S. military that invaded Grenada in the previous life also had the advantage that Grenada itself was in turmoil, and the coup that killed the prime minister was pitted against the other who supported the prime minister. This gave the US military an opportunity to take advantage of, and the side that supported the prime minister gave the US military great support.

The last factor that cannot be ignored is that the US military is well aware of Grenada's military facilities and military situation.

Some of the large military installations of the Grenada defenders were detected by the US military satellites in the sky, but more military information, especially about the army, was provided by the Americans in Grenada. These Americans were instrumental in the rapid occupation of Grenada by U.S. forces.

Guo didn't want to let them Americans easily send intelligence to their troops in this life. He even came up with a trick for Ouyang Zhijian for this reason: gather the Americans in Grenada and place them in one place to attract US troops to protect them, and then let the Georgian army and the Cuban army surround the point and send reinforcements, and slowly pack up the US troops.

On January 15, 1984, Admiral William McDonald, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, served as commander-in-chief in Washington, and Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalfe, commander of the 2nd Fleet, commanded nearly 20 warships and nearly 9,000 personnel, including the USS Independence aircraft carrier formation and the USS Guam amphibious assault ship formation, to launch a military operation against Grenada, codenamed "Angry Dolphins."

This is a force with strong naval and air combat capabilities, and there are less than 4,000 troops on its doorstep, including the Cuban troops and the Iranian military friendship exchange group, and no one doubts that the US military will achieve victory.

In particular, the US officers and men who participated in the battle were full of confidence and felt that they were killing chickens with knives, and some even thought that the US military was simply wasting taxpayers' money by doing so. Just half or even a third of the troops and weapons will do. This person's statement is very reasonable, in the previous life, the US army relied on more than 5,000 troops to take Grenada.

You must know that Grenada has almost no navy, and their naval force, which only has pitifully small torpedo boats, is not even an ant in the eyes of the US Navy, at most it is on a par with the US shore patrol police, as for the air force, Grenada does not have it at all, and the skies of Grenada are not defended against the US military.

Their only concern is the Cuban Army, after all, Cuba is in the process of independence. Their army was baptized by battle and had strong combat effectiveness. Thankfully, however, there are not many of them.

As for Iran's 400-member military friendship exchange group, it is not at all in the eyes of the US military that even the Iraqi army cannot defeat this army. Although it also participated in the Iran-Iraq war, its combat effectiveness is about the same as that of the Grenada army, so there is no cause for concern.

What they didn't expect was that Grenada, with the help of China, nay, it should be said that the Haleps had already prepared, and not only the number of its own troops (and militia) had already exceeded eight thousand. Cuba has more than 2,000 troops, as well as more than 400 Iranian volunteers. The Grenada military has secretly built a lot of fortifications and many firepower positions on several key points, some of which are anti-air. Some are against the sea, and some are specialized in dealing with the marines and paratroopers.

When the U.S. military thought that they would crush Grenada, Grenada was ready to close the door and beat the dogs.

Guo Shucheng, who knew the military strength of both sides, affirmed that the war in this life was much more tragic than in the previous life. Grenada won't fall so lightly. Because Grenada also has one of the most favorable conditions, that is, there is almost no opposition in Grenada in this life. The absence of opposing sides, at least the forces that openly oppose the current government, and the lack of civilians, officials, and troops who have helped the U.S. invasion cannot be described as a national unity.

Americans are not born again, they do not compare the current situation with the situation in their previous lives, and therefore they do not become so disappointed that they stop the pace of the war, or increase their troops before they start fighting.

Besides, they don't know the current situation in Grenada, so they can only plan based on the information they have before, and in order to cheer up the younger brothers of NATO and give their people the impression that the US military is not weaker than the Soviet army, they must start this war.

As the President of the United States said when approving the "Angry Dolphins" battle plan: the United States needs this war!

Ouyang Zhijian and others did not have much objection to the specific defense, and the military leaders of Grenada and Cuba did not have much objection, after all, only military experts knew where Grenada was going to defend, because Grenada only had a few important islands, and only a few important places were important, so they didn't think much about it.

All they discussed was how to defend, how to distribute troops, and if they sent troops.

In this regard, Ouyang Zhijian from China has a natural advantage and prestige, because China is now famous not only on the battlefield in Vietnam, but also in the Korean battlefield, and in the Iran-Iraq war and the battlefield in the Bekaa Valley.

How many soldiers are left on the position, if you add soldiers, there is the focus of the soldiers, and there is something that can be abandoned, Ouyang Zhijian has an account in his heart, on the one hand, he learned it from Guo Zhuocheng, or Guo Zhuocheng told him, on the other hand, he himself thought about it in combination with the topography of Grenada and the characteristics of the Grenada army.

Seeing Ouyang Zhijian's arrangement, the Cuban general nodded, and the plan was quickly consistent.

When intelligence officers told us that the U.S. military was likely to take action in the next few days, the Grenadan army was prepared. A lot of fake soldiers and fake air defense weapons began to be quietly placed on the main positions. Residents of Grenada, organized by government agents, began to dig trenches, cut roads, build bunkers, and build machine-gun bunkers with sandbags......

When the US reconnaissance plane detected these situations, it was very contemptuous of the military personnel in Grenada, feeling that they were still fighting World War II and were still using positional warfare to deal with the US military with powerful air power.

At 3 o'clock in the morning of 15 January, the A-6 and A-7 carrier-based attack planes of the US military taking off from the "Independence" aircraft carrier rushed into the skies over Grenada from the sea and began to prepare for the defense of the airport.

The violent rain of bullets almost completely swept away the anti-aircraft fire below, only some sporadic firepower, especially the anti-aircraft machine guns rang out in the east and west, because these bullets were fired from the smoke, the attack aircraft flew at a high altitude and the interference of the sky and thick smoke, the pilots could not see the source of these anti-aircraft machine guns, so they had to ask the AC-130 to come to support, in order to completely eliminate the resistance of the defenders and clear the threat for the follow-up troops.

AC-130 is commonly known as the air gun, is a kind of C-130 transport aircraft on the basis of the improved armed attack aircraft, can fire from the fuselage to attack ground targets, mainly used to perform close air support, air interdiction and air cover and other tasks, can also be used to carry out reconnaissance, simple command and control and combat search and rescue and other tasks.

The aircraft is equipped with eight heavy machine guns, two 40mm cannons, a forward-looking infrared radar, a digital fire control computer, an ASQ-145 low-light TV, and an AVQ-18 laser pointer/rangefinder.

If this aircraft is used to fight enemy fighters, then it will be vulnerable because it is too large and too slow. However, when it is used against defenders who do not have air supremacy, it is almost invincible, it can easily destroy the armed forces on the ground in a large area, the fortifications, vehicles, and personnel on the ground will all be enveloped by the fire it fires, the dense fire on both sides of its fuselage can sweep a qiē, and its bottom is equipped with thick armor, which can withstand direct fire from anti-aircraft guns on the ground.

Seeing this behemoth appear in the sky, Ouyang Zhijian immediately ordered the soldiers who had just shot into the sky to immediately enter the air defense tunnel, leaving only the personnel on duty in a few positions, and at the same time continuing to shoot indiscriminately at the sky with the automatic device firing device, giving the US army the feeling that the defenders were still not dead, which was used to increase the sense of realism.

After several blows from the AC-130, the Pearl airfield was basically overturned by artillery, there was fire everywhere, smoke everywhere, and only a little bit of fire was left in the resistance.

At this time, in the sky less than fifty kilometers away from the airport, there flew a black mechanical monster, both small to flexible transport helicopters, and huge C130 transport planes, in their bellies loaded with heavily armed American **, they were full of spirit and high morale.

In their minds, going to Grenada to fight is easier than the usual training. In normal training, they were scolded and even punched and kicked by the instructors from time to time, but this time when they went to fight, those who were officers would no longer move their hands and feet, but would continue to encourage and comfort them, and they could also eat and drink spicy food. As for the danger? Will there be? As for those bear soldiers in Grenada, if they don't surrender immediately under the bombardment of such heavy artillery fire from the air force, even if they are bold enough, where do they still have the courage to shoot at the US army?

"Attention everyone, the plane is about to enter the war zone, please be prepared to parachute. Repeat, the plane is about to enter the war zone, be prepared to parachute. At this time, the voice of the airborne commander was heard from the loudspeaker in the cabin.

It can also be heard from the voice of the airborne commander, although he is reminding his subordinates to prepare to parachute, but his tone is very relaxed, and he regards entering the air directly over the enemy airfield as entering the war zone, and the previous airspace is regarded by him as a safe area outside the war zone, which can be seen to be extremely arrogant.