Chapter 5001: Guam Blockade

At 1:17 p.m. on November 10, the U.S. Western Pacific Fleet arrived northwest of Guam. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lieutenant General Domilek said with some doubts: "Lieutenant General Georgia, are we a little too smooth. ”

Lieutenant General Georgia nodded and said, "Your Excellency, we are indeed a little too smooth. Perhaps, the danger is not far away. ”

Lieutenant General Domilek suddenly burst out laughing and said, "That's exciting, old fellow, let's get ready for battle!" ”

At 1:28 a.m., Domilek ordered the 9th Marine Division of the U.S. Army to land in the northern part of the peninsula near Ajana. The 5th Division of the U.S. Marine Corps, landed on both sides of the Cape Auro Peninsula in western Guam. The 2nd Marine Division of the U.S. Army landed in the south near Agat.

It was very difficult for the US troops to land in all three directions, because the terrain around the island was complicated, so the soldiers of the US Marine Corps, after leaving the landing craft, almost all waded through the water full of reefs.

When the US landing ships began to land, they were blocked by the Chinese marines who had been waiting on the island for a long time, and the artillery fire of the Chinese marines sank three US landing ships at the beginning.

Since the U.S. landing ships could not get close to the reef hundreds of feet from the beach, the U.S. supply also had difficulties at the beginning of the campaign.

The Chinese Marine Corps defending the island did not give the US troops a chance to breathe, and the first US troops to arrive at the shore were forced by heavy artillery fire on the edge of the island's shallows.

They could neither attack forward nor meet the fleet, so they could only rely on some reefs as shelter to avoid the heavy shelling of the Huaxia navy defending the island.

Vice Admiral Domilek, commander of the U.S. fleet, was exhausted by the Chinese Navy's blockade at Guam's beachhead.

After an afternoon of fierce fighting, the two armies attacked the US Marines on Guam without the slightest progress.

Lieutenant General Domilek was in a stalemate in front of the battle situation, and he was a little anxious.

Because, behind him, on the left and right were the fleets of the Huaxia Empire, and the landing battle in front of him showed no signs that he could look at.

It was 8:19 p.m., and the American landing force had almost lost more than half of its casualties, and Domilek knew that it was a battle with zero chance of victory, so to speak.

However, even so, he hopes to delay the total rout for a while, so that he can wait for the arrival of American reinforcements, and perhaps there will be a chance to turn the tables around.

Although Guam was occupied by the United States for more than ten years before the war, the U.S. military still had a very rough understanding of Guam's geography and other related information.

Therefore, it was not until the beginning of the landing on Guam that Lieutenant General Domilek realized that they must have made a wrong decision.

But if you don't attack Guam and gamble your luck, what else can you do but flee back to the United States? The fleet he led still could not escape the fate of annihilation.

Domilek, commander of the US Western Pacific Fleet, originally planned to carry out a forced landing on Guam, but through the fierce fighting of the whole afternoon, the landing force was most violently blocked by the marines of the Chinese Empire.

Obviously, their strength and armament are inferior to the Huaxia Navy, and it will take some time for reinforcements to reach the battlefield, plus the naval fleet in the western Pacific is also facing from behind and on the left and right, which may attack their Huaxia naval fleet at any time.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Domilek decided to use these three Marine Infantry Divisions to delay time to deal with the troops of the Chinese Empire. to wait for the U.S. fleet to arrive from Hawaii.

The U.S. Department of Naval Operations, the improvised fleet, was led by Vice Admiral David Quake. In the fleet, there are 18 giant battleships, 35 cruisers, 53 destroyers, 12 frigates, 35 landing ships, 11 transports, plus minesweeping logistics and other ships, a total of 195 ships.

After half a day of fierce fighting, during the night truce, Commander Domilek made some adjustments to the deployment of the fleet.

He ordered the fleet to be divided into three formations, left, center, and right, and the four giant battleships "Jogland", "Baleski", "Lannicon", and "Macvins" were divided into three formations.

This arrangement was to prevent these two fleets of the Chinese Imperial Navy from launching a surprise attack on them.

Domilek also ordered the ships on the periphery to pay attention to the attack of underwater submarines. To this end, he ordered the observer troops to organize a special detachment to conduct round-the-clock uninterrupted surveillance of underwater submarines.

The four underwater demolition teams of the fleet were ordered to carry out underwater blasting at night on the beachhead where the marines had landed, blowing up reefs and obstacles, clearing the way for the landing ships.

At 12:34 p.m. on 11 November, all the warships of the US military that were serving as naval artillery fire support carried out extremely heavy shelling of the landing site.

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Vice Admiral Domilek personally took the flagship "Slang Wick" to the Guam landing site to supervise the battle.

The fierce fighting continued until the evening, and the marines of the Chinese army launched a fierce counterattack against the American army.

At 1:39 p.m., when the sky was clear and the wind and waves were calm on Guam, the US military used six battleships, eight cruisers, and 12 destroyers to provide direct fire support for the landing of the marines.

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At 3:43 p.m., the US Marine Corps, supported by heavy artillery fire, began another surprise landing on Guam.

The 3rd Marine Division of the US Army began to land on the island at the same time, attacking side by side on a 1,800-meter-wide beachhead, due to the large number of coral reefs on the coast.

On the first day of the landing, the US troops were blocked off the island and could not land on Guam because of these natural geographical reasons.

After a night of blasting on the periphery of the island, the extremely unfavorable terrain of the landing beachhead could not be completely changed. The front is the high ground, the back is the sea, and the two wings are steep cliffs.

The marines of the Chinese Empire, the artillery deployed on the top of the hill on three sides and on the anti-slope condescendingly covered the entire landing beachhead.

More than 20,000 U.S. Marines crowded the narrow landing beachhead. Every shell fired by the Chinese army defending the island inflicted huge casualties on the American troops.

The landing battle on the Agata beachhead in the south was also particularly fierce, with more than half of the US landing force losing more than half.

Although the U.S. landing force on the Asan beachhead in the north began to advance with the support of naval artillery fire, it suffered heavy casualties and made slow progress, and after repeated reinforcements, it was unable to take a bird's-eye view of the landing beachhead.

Although the US military on the beachhead in the south of Guam has gone through a bitter battle, it still cannot knock on the southern gate of the island.

Fierce fighting continued into the evening, when the marines of the Chinese army launched a fierce counteroffensive against the American troops.

The Chinese army's counterattack against the US Marine Corps was aimed at the gap in the US defense line, first by concentrated artillery bombardment, and then by infiltrating and assaulting small units.

The U.S. Marine Corps also landed on the island with all their might, regardless of casualties, and attacked wave after wave.

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The Chinese Imperial Marine Corps, relying on the condescending terrain of Guam and the many artillery batteries built on Guam, dealt the most fierce blow to the invading US Marines.

The battle lasted nearly three days, and Lieutenant General Domilek, already in this landing battle, felt a sense of despair that he had never felt before.