1611 Chapter 1611 Elysium Island

On the fourth day, Nimitz still did not come, and Jiang Haoran sent several telegrams in succession, and the reply he received was that Nimitz was inspecting in Mariana and had not yet returned.

The battle for the Mariana Islands has been suspended, and he Nimitz is inspecting bullshit, which is clearly a pretext.

It didn't matter if he dragged it out, the resistance of the Yuanyi Army was getting stronger and stronger, and the heavy rain for several days caused the water surface of the Cagayan River to widen, and the operation of crossing the river was extremely difficult.

And, because of the virus, daily non-combat attrition is also continuing to increase.

Originally, after the cloud burst and bombardment, the enemy's defense line collapsed, the national army took advantage of the situation to press the border, and the airborne troops raided south of Manila, and the enemy suffered from the enemy on his back, and it was a matter of ten or twenty days to solve the battle.

Now that the best fighters have been lost, enemy reinforcements have arrived, and the defensive line has been strengthened and consolidated, which in itself has increased the difficulty of the campaign.

However, it is not impossible to win, although the enemy has four more divisions out of thin air, but the strength of the two sides is still at a considerable level, as long as the airborne division can quickly dispatch and attack Manila with a thunderous force, the island army will inevitably divide its troops to return to help, the frontal pressure of the Yuanyi Group Army will be sharply reduced, and the two armies will be in a position of corners, and the enemy can be defeated in a short period of time.

But if we wait until the enemy's second batch of reinforcements arrives, there will be no need for the airborne divisions to be airborne, because it is impossible for them to break through the Manila defense line again, and the whole campaign will fall into an extremely passive situation.

The worst-case outcome would be for the Far First Army to withdraw from the Philippines, while at the same time facing the enemy's fierce pursuit and casualties were immeasurable.

Originally, it was at the request of the Mi army to take over this battle, but now because of the malicious delay of the Mi army, the Chinese army is suffering unnecessary casualties every day, and Jiang Haoran can imagine how angry he is.

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Five days later, Palembang, the Provisional Command of the Pacific Fleet of the Mi Army.

In the office, Nimitz was sitting precariously, and sitting opposite him was Marshall, the chief of staff of the United States.

It turned out that five days ago, Roosevelt considered the stakes and was worried that Nimitz would not be able to carry out the intentions of the White House, and that he would not be able to deal with Jiang Haoran, a cunning fox, so he temporarily decided to send Marshall to Vientiane in person to meet with Jiang Haoran.

After Marshall arrived in Palembang, Nimitz happened to receive the latest news from the CIA agents on the Philippine campaign, and the island army had withdrawn to the defense line on the east bank of the Cagayan River, but scattered many bacteriological weapons along the way, and the national army seemed to be in trouble.

As soon as he heard the news, Marshall, who was originally in a hurry, suddenly stopped worrying, he wanted to see if Jiang Haoran would use nuclear weapons again.

To tell the truth, although the outside world rumors are true, and Oppenheimer and Einstein also corroborate it, Marshall did not fully believe that Jiang Haoran really possessed nuclear weapons, after all, this is not an ordinary conventional weapon, the technology content is too high, Jiang Haoran is quite demonic, but he is a mortal after all.

It is unscientific for a mortal to combine the identities of a super god of war with a super scientist, inventor, etc., and no one has this kind of energy.

Therefore, he also brought a mysterious expert in nuclear weapons this time, just to find an opportunity to find out.

It was obviously unrealistic to ask Jiang Haoran to take his experts to his scientific research institute, and Marshall was worried that there was no way, as soon as he heard that the attack of the national army was unfavorable, he suddenly felt that the opportunity had come, and waited for Jiang Haoran to use nuclear weapons again.

His experts can take a special plane to the sky over the battlefield to see what is going on, and they can always see some clues.

Who knew that they had been waiting for five days, but this opportunity had not yet come.

Marshall is not in a hurry, he knows that the current situation of the national army is getting worse and worse, Jiang Haoran will definitely not be able to hold back for long, he has always loved soldiers like children, there is no reason to put super weapons without them, and let soldiers die innocently.

Nimitz smoked his cigar silently, while Marshall watched the war briefing on Saipan with relish.

On the first day of the attack, more than 20,000 soldiers were sent to the landing site in just one day, and the casualties were only more than 2,000, which is very commendable.

The captured landing field was only half of the plan, and it was difficult to form an effective defensive posture.

That night, the Japanese army took advantage of the narrow landing ground of the coalition forces and their unstable foothold to launch a night attack in an attempt to drive the coalition forces into the sea in one fell swoop. The island army was covered by dozens of tanks, and a wing of infantry launched a charge, and the coalition forces had already taken precautions, and the flares were fired one after another, illuminating the entire landing site as if it were daylight.

The sneak attack of the island army was discovered as soon as it began, and the coalition forces immediately called for naval artillery fire support, and under the fierce and dense naval artillery attack, the island army lost more than 1,000 people in vain and gained nothing.

After crushing the sneak attack of the island army, the coalition forces supported the attack with escort aircraft carriers, naval guns, tanks and artillery, and the progress was very rapid, and the landing field was almost doubled that night, and the Charancanoa airfield was also captured.

The next morning, coalition reconnaissance aircraft and long-range bombers had already begun to land at the airfield.

Seeing that both the frontal attack and the night attack had failed, the island army knew that it was no longer possible to drive the coalition forces into the sea, so they had to change their tactics, ordered the island troops to rely on the favorable terrain to defend strongly, and tried to mobilize troops from Tinian Island to come to support.

However, the coalition navy controlled the sea area between Saipan and Tinian Island overnight, and the reinforcements on the island were wiped out by the coalition destroyers during the voyage, and they could not reach Saipan at all.

The coalition forces continued their offensive and in just two days they reached Marquiches Beach in southern Saipan and easily captured the island's largest airport-—— Aslilo Airport.

Two days later, Mi fighter jets began to station at the airfield.

The island army was forced to shrink its line and withdraw the defenders to Cape Nafutan to prepare for a lasting defense.

Had it not been for Roosevelt's urgent halt to the offensive, the situation of the island army would have been even worse.

However, the coalition navy has blocked all the outer seas of Saipan, and Saipan is effectively isolated, and it is only a matter of time before the island is destroyed.

Although the situation in Tinian and Guam is slightly better, after all, it is not the main direction of attack of the coalition forces, but the situation is still bad, hundreds of thousands of coalition troops are facing more than 100,000 island troops, where will there be little devils and good fruits to eat?

"Yes, good fight." Marshall closed the folder and said with a smile: "However, we urgently stopped the attack when the momentum was at its peak, and the officers and soldiers were not in a mood, right?" ”

"Moody?" Nimitz was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "No, no, no, they don't know how cheerful they are, the battlefield is about to become Elysium, I don't know that the Australian army is so ferocious, killing prisoners in front of the position every day for fun, the means are so cruel that people can't bear to look at them directly, and they only make the monkey army angry and scream, but they are helpless and very relieved." ”

Marshall smiled slightly and said, "Let them go, we need such allies." ”