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As soon as the Germans made an unreasonable Wang Baquan, they immediately put the Joint Staff Committee into an almost crazy situation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Originally, according to the wishful thinking deduced by the staff officers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the German main fleet first escorted reinforcements to land in Rio, and then its army, navy, and air force cooperated all the way to the north to attack, and the U.S. Army let the strongest Roosevelt armored cluster top the first line, and the rest of the main forces were deployed in El Salvador and Recife, retreating and defending, although the German army had naval superiority and could choose the offensive location at will, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff was ready to transfer 3,000 combat aircraft to South America, and air supremacy could be guaranteed, and then the two sides launched a series of tug-of-war and war of attrition on the spot. The Joint Chiefs of Staff can calmly rely on the internal line to increase troops in South America.

Because the US reinforcements are much closer than the German reinforcements, and strategic airlift can also be used, while the German troops must be sent slowly from the front line in Europe, the Americans are not afraid of fighting a war of attrition.

Many people are still dreaming: maybe the losses of their own side will not be small, but then the new recruits of the US Army will become veterans while fighting, and the new young pilots will become old birds while fighting, and finally rely on the German army to achieve their own tempering and sublimation.

But as a master tactician, how could Rommel follow the rhythm of the Americans to fight tough battles and dumb battles? This set of routines of war of attrition and positional warfare was pierced by him on the first day:

On the Seguru-El Salvador-Recife long snake formation, Rommel did not make a move, but as soon as he made a move, he directly hit El Salvador, a key node, and used rockets, aircraft carrier formations, and artillery formations to forcibly eat the US army and air in El Salvador, and then launched a landing. This is not counting, he did not let go of Patton in Port Saiguru, taking advantage of the opportunity of the main fleet of Machar to contain and eliminate the main force of the US army in El Salvador, and directly ordered the air force to launch an air war from Rio and a ground offensive battle from the Victoria front. Rommel himself, who had made such a large-scale, campaign decision, was even adrift at sea.

On August 26, the U.S. military suffered an unprecedented setback:

El Salvador was bombarded by the approaching German artillery fleet, and more than 100,000 US troops first received missiles flying in the sky, then ate two rounds of aircraft carrier air raids, and then were bombarded by naval guns. There were even a large number of supplies and ships in the port that could not be unloaded in the future, which also became trophies of the German army. Although the US attack aircraft group in Recife rushed to attack the artillery fleet, it achieved very little success, except for adding a little more local trauma to these thick-skinned battleships, and was beaten down by the covering German carrier-based aircraft, more than 80 planes.

In the evening, Machar commanded the 4th Marine Brigade (Madagascar Brigade) to land and quickly seize the coastal line of Salvador under the cover of naval guns. Of course, the brigade was very measured, and once it approached the maximum range of the naval guns, it stopped and did not move, concentrating on consolidating the city defenses and collecting trophies. U.S. warehouses, airfields, cargo ships, and mountains of supplies and equipment are now all German. Even Clark's headquarters went in and sat down, and seized a pile of classified messages that would not have time to be destroyed in the future—the Japanese 442nd Regiment was still in the rear, and now no death squad rushed out to resist the German advance.

In the afternoon, the US troops in Port Seguru were violently attacked by the German air force in Rio, and the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft transferred from the Crankk detachment to the land base held their breath and desperately greeted Hewitt's transport fleet. Although there were no torpedoes in Rio, the Americans did not have any capital ships, at best a few escort carriers, freighters and destroyers, and 250 kg of bombs would be enough to deal with them.

The German Air Force in Rio was originally concerned about the assistance of the US Army and Air Force in El Salvador, but now that the latter has been directly defeated by the main fleet of Machar, the Air Force has become unscrupulous. The division of labor between the two sides was clear: the Air Force was responsible for dealing with the escort fighters on the U.S. transport fleet, the Navy carrier-based aircraft were responsible for air strikes on ships in the port of Segouru, and Air Force was responsible for air strikes against Patton's ground forces.

Poor Hewitt was really unlucky, he had the worst pilot skills in the entire TF48 fleet, and he had been siphoned out of 48 fighters by Nimitz beforehand - all pilots with some experience were drawn to the Nimitz fleet. As a result, the current pilots are simply unable to defeat the wolf-like Luftwaffe -- the first batch of German pilots to be sent to South America to fight are all veterans who have been fighting on the Eastern Front for many years and have become proficient in war.

There was a huge disparity in experience and numbers (more than 300 German troops vs. nearly 140 American troops), and as soon as the two sides clashed, the American pilots were shot down like turkeys, and Patton, Roosevelt Jr., and Hewitt, who were watching the battle on the ground, were stunned and did not know what to say -- all American planes that fell down were American planes with white stars painted on their wings.

In this battle, the Germans fought heartily and returned with a full load: not only did the carrier-based planes sink all the escort aircraft carriers and two-thirds of the freighters, but all the American planes that could fly on the sea were beaten into the sea.

German losses were ridiculously low: only 6 Air Force fighters, 2 HNA Bf-319s, 4 HNA Ju-198 attack aircraft, and only 12 aircraft.

On the night of 26 August, the Americans were also forced to land: Hewitt, who was crying without tears, decided to abandon all ships and let Patton send troops to cover the retreat of the German ground forces while they were still advancing. He thought very simply, anyway, the planes were lost, the materials and army forces had all been unloaded, and the escort aircraft carriers, cargo ships, and destroyers had lost seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and there was no point in fighting again. Moreover, the remaining ships did not even have a place to retreat -- if they went to El Salvador they were targeted by the Germans, if they went to South Africa, not to mention whether they would run into the terrible German submarines, the lack of fuel alone would be enough for these warships -- it was equivalent to a direct dead end.

He did not stop doing anything, and single-handedly let all the remaining freighters sink into the sea, and the destroyers all rushed to the beach and ran aground into fixed batteries to provide part of the fire support for the army.

Although these naval officers and men are inexperienced, they still have actual combat experience, not to mention the fact that more than 60 pilots who fell overboard were fished out of the sea after today's air battle, and this is a valuable asset.

Patton fully agreed with this, and not only sent three battalions to cover the retreat of more than 4,000 naval officers and men, but also gritted his teeth and pulled out all the idle cars that Roosevelt's armored cluster could find—those pulling guns and transporting baggage. Fortunately, the US imperialists have always had a lot of money, and there are thousands of cars in ordinary infantry divisions, and there are more than 2,000 Roosevelt armored cluster vehicles, so there is room for Patton to move around.

"George, I'll stay." At the time of separation, Hewitt felt very sorry and refused to go with the troops, because he knew very well that Patton could also retreat, but now in order to cover Haiju, Patton had to hold on to Port Seguru for a few days before retreating, and the risk was greatly increased.

Roosevelt Jr. also advised Patton: "Sir, go to El Salvador to command the Fifth Army, they are really in chaos." ”

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and let me go, be quick, don't mess with me here." Barton reprimanded Hewitt with a straight face, "It's really unlucky that every time I partner with you, I always encounter a shipwreck." The next thing is the matter of the army, and the navy hastened to retreat. ”

Finally, Hewitt boarded a jeep and left, and after driving a few dozen meters, the adjutant muttered dissatisfiedly: "Sir, how can he talk like that?" It's too much! If we hadn't retreated quickly with him, the army wouldn't have even had a chance to land successfully at the port of Saiguru and fully deploy. ”

Hewitt shook his head: "You don't understand George, he's not such a person, he's deliberately driving me away, you can look back." ”

The adjutant turned his head and saw Patton and Roosevelt Jr. behind him waving goodbye to them.

When the retreating Navy disappeared from sight, Roosevelt Jr. asked Patton, somewhat bewildered, "What now?" I don't think I can save El Salvador. ”

"A bunch of rice buckets!" Patton was very annoyed with the situation in El Salvador, and even more so with Clark, who was currently acting as commander of the South American theater. In Patton's view, no matter how you say it, El Salvador also has 6 divisional numbers, more than 100,000 troops, even if there is a group of troops without heavy equipment (Patton took the equipment and gave it to Roosevelt's armored cluster), at least there is light equipment, and if you take another 10,000 steps back, even if you don't count these troops, the 5th Army also has 3 complete divisions.

Now it's good, as soon as the German aircraft carrier formation is bombed, the artillery formation is bombed, and the landing force comes ashore, the 5th Army, which is 10 times larger than the enemy, actually retreats like a frightened rabbit.

He sent three sternly worded telegrams in succession, urging the troops to launch a counteroffensive without fear of sacrifice, but it did not take long for the counterattack to be unsuccessful, without exception, and complained to him vigorously: "The enemy ships are too fierce for us to rush through...... and "The enemy planes are too fierce for us to attack." ”

All in all, this group of young master soldiers believed that they could not fight back without aircraft cover overhead, and there was nothing next to them that could compete with naval artillery, and they would be sent to death if they went.

In addition to organizing a few combat-ready divisions to retreat to build a defensive line and speeding up the transfer of the poorly equipped troops to Recife, Clark did not mention a counteroffensive at all, while letting Patton resist at Port Seguru, asking him to "fight and retreat, and join the main force", while desperately sending a telegram to the country asking for reinforcements by aircraft.

Finally, he still had a little conscience, and he didn't say such shameless words as "let the Roosevelt Jr. armored cluster withstand and create opportunities for the transfer of the main forces".

The best time for the U.S. troops to counterattack slipped away in this way, and by the evening of the same day, the German Madagascar Brigade that had landed was deployed on all fronts, and all the artillery positions and tanks abandoned by the U.S. troops were used to quickly build a defensive line.