Chapter 059: Air Support
Truman breathed a sigh of relief, although MacArthur had never won any battles, but he had seen MacArthur, although arrogant, but indeed capable,
Chennault is also a very capable air force general, and he cannot be relied on for the destruction of the air force, and no general in the United States today can prevent this tragedy from happening.
However, looking at MacArthur's statistics, there were only about 2,000 hungry and dying American troops, Truman still gasped, how powerful the Alaskan Army was, 400,000 horses, and now there are two thousand left, although Truman knows that there must be others who have survived, but there will definitely not be many, even if there are one or two thousand, compared to 400,000, the number of survivors is too small,
Truman is now thinking about how to give an account to Congress and the people, if this matter is not handled well, she is likely to step down as president.
However, it is the most important thing to suppress or go all out to search for those US officers and soldiers who are still alive.
Thanks to the efforts of the Allies, a large number of planes soon appeared in the area, and at the same time airdropped a large amount of food and water.
The unreachable U.S. troops ran towards the airdrop of food and water, they were really hungry, and now they didn't want anything but to fill their stomachs.
Naturally, the Chinese Air Force would not leave easily, and soon the plane cruised again and found these U.S. troops in the U.S. military.
The Chinese pilots did not expect that there were still quite a lot of American troops alive, and the two pilots rushed down in the plane, and then shot at these American troops who were running without realizing the danger, and many American troops were instantly knocked to the ground.
The huge machine gun bullets sometimes directly cut the American troops in two, and sometimes left a hole with a large bowl mouth on the American soldiers.
"Get down, get down." The U.S. military who reacted shouted to his companions,
They were so excited about the airdrop of food and water that they subconsciously thought that the planes in the air were theirs.
When the U.S. military heard the voice, saw their comrades being knocked to the ground, and watched the two planes in the air fire bullets at them, these people immediately understood what was going on, they quickly lay down, and then looked left and right to see if there was any better place to hide.
Although they have already fallen down, but it didn't take long for many of them to escape this catastrophe, although it increased the difficulty of the Chinese Air Force's attack after lying down, but the Chinese Air Force, which did not have any threat, could concentrate on attacking them, and at the same time, the airborne rockets above were also fired at these US troops, and they exploded all at once.
"Oh my God, there are still people alive in this group of Americans after such a big fire."
"yes, these Yankees have really hard names."
"No, by the way, send a telegram to headquarters."
"Ah, I almost forgot."
"You're playing too hard."
"Rub, you're not the same, seeing that the Americans don't have weapons, you bully others."
"Okay, hurry up and send a telegram, it is estimated that there will be no fewer Americans who will survive, and no one can be spared."
"Okay."
When these two pilots discovered these American troops, other air forces also discovered some American troops one after another, and at the same time, they also discovered the American air force.
The Chinese Air Force received the report, and a large number of air forces flew over at the first time, and such a large-scale American plane suddenly appeared here, and there was no need to think that it must have come to find survivors, and the report sent back by the Air Force said that the US military was found, which means that these US Air Force is likely to be in contact with these surviving US troops.
Now the U.S. Air Force should come to support these U.S. troops, and at the same time give some living supplies to these U.S. troops.
Wang Hanzhang was very surprised, there were still so many American troops who survived without food or drink in the fire, you must know that this is a full week, it is really unbelievable,
Chen Cheng has already sent the helicopter unit to encircle and suppress these Americans, and with the full support of the Air Force, I believe there will not be much of a problem.
An hour later, the helicopter unit began to land in the area where the American troops were found, a one-sided massacre was inevitable, but most of the American troops usually surrendered at this time, resistance is meaningless, the squadron has powerful helicopters hovering over their heads in the sky, and there are well-equipped Chinese soldiers on the ground, armed to the teeth attacking them, and most of them only have a pistol, how to fight with such a powerful army, so surrender is their only way out, otherwise there is only a dead end,
The U.S. Air Force also discovered this Chinese helicopter unit when it was fighting with the Chinese Air Force.
There is no doubt that this is the unit sent by the squadron to pursue, and the US Air Force quickly reported the situation,
Li Qiwei, the deputy commander of the Allied forces in Canada, did not hesitate to send air force support, and at the same time he planned to send an airborne division to the rescue.
"General, I don't recommend this, or even oppose it, there are few bare, there are no roads, and our airborne troops are probably not enough supplies to be thrown there."
Li Qiwei said: "Of course I know this, but don't worry, we can airdrop supplies to them." ”
"However, I don't think we should give up our military strength here, it's unnecessary, those troops are not poor, we just need to give them airborne weapons, let them organize themselves to fight against the squadron, if we airborne a division of troops to protect them, it is very likely that there will be a cause, when the time comes to face the bombing of the Chinese Air Force, they will lose more, and at that time should we send more soldiers to protect them."
"If we do, I think we are fighting the wrong war at the wrong time and in the wrong place, and this war has no advantage for us, so why don't we use our forces and energy in the right place."
Li Qiwei thought about it for a while, and felt that he was just thinking about rescuing MacArthur, but he never thought that this would invisibly drag down the US military, and it was very likely to disrupt the current military deployment at that time.
Li Qiwei moved, the Chinese attacked with helicopters, the US military is not the same as using helicopters to save people,
"By the way, I think we have helicopters too, right?"
"Yes, General."
"That's good, the people of Zhiguo can use helicopters to carry troops to attack, why can't we use helicopters to rescue them."
"Shhh...... Yes, I should have thought of it a long time ago, the Chinese people have attacked with helicopters for so long, and they have also fought the Soviets, and our country has long developed helicopters for us, but they have not played any role in our hands, only occasionally used to transport supplies for short distances, or as a means of transport for high-ranking officers. ”
"Okay, that's it, mobilize all the helicopters, immediately, we will try to finish it before dark, we must take over as many American troops as possible when it gets dark, and at the same time let the Air Force drop radio and basic instruction manuals for these troops, weapons and ammunition are also essential."
"Yes."
According to Ridgway's order, the US military immediately mobilized all helicopters, and contacted all the US troops in Alaska as much as possible, airdropping radio stations, weapons, ammunition, and daily necessities.
Although few of these U.S. troops basically don't use radios, they only need to simply send a few radio waves, of course, these will be airdropped to them, and when the time comes, they will send these radio waves, and helicopters will be able to find them.
The Chinese and American air forces are still learning from the war, but neither side has an advantage, it can be said that it is half a catty, and after the Chinese Air Force attacked for half an hour, they figured out that the Americans spent so much effort to save their remaining officers and soldiers, and the Chinese Air Force thought that they could start in this regard,
At this time, the Chinese Air Force changed its tactics, and they sent some planes to attack the remnants of the US ground forces to attract the support of the US Air Force, and then the other part of the Air Force came out of the clouds.
At this moment, China's AWACS aircraft once again played the role of early warning, and the Americans did not have this, so the Chinese Air Force took the lead, and the number of US Air Forces, where was clearly felt by the Chinese Air Force, and now as long as a plan is formulated to eliminate these US Air Forces,
At this moment, in order to be able to meet MacArthur's troops, the U.S. military is still fighting to the death at Fort Coi, in fact, they are inferior in terms of land.
Li Qiwei looked at the loss of the army at Fort Coi, looked at the loss of the air force, his cold sweat kept coming out, the squadron was too strong,
From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., the squadron has taken out three hundred and twenty U.S. planes, and it is still proliferating, compared to less than a hundred planes shot down in China.
Ridgway knew that these Chinese pilots were trump cards, but the 1:3 battle losses were too high, and the United States also had generally experienced pilots, and he didn't understand why the air combat losses were so large.
After careful consideration, Li Qiwei finally made up his mind: "Let the Air Force stop supporting." ”
Li Qiwei decided to do this because the weapons and ammunition and other materials had been delivered, and he could no longer bear this huge price.
"General, this is tantamount to letting General MacArthur and others be bombed by the Chinese Air Force."
Li Qiwei said: "We have lost more than 300 fighters, a few hours, just so many losses, we have lost there." ”
The dissuaded officer also frowned slightly, this loss is indeed very large, there are still two hours after dark, it is obviously inappropriate to give up air support, but if you don't give up, maybe you have to lose more than two hundred.
The soldiers of the Air Force are tired of war, and it seems that there is no return, and now the pilots are particularly afraid.
"General, I think we should change our tactics, so that the air force only needs to attack and disturb, and there is no purpose, so that our losses will not be so big, you know that if the Chinese air force is allowed to bomb them, and the squadron is allowed to attack them, I estimate that we will not be able to pick up many people at night."
Li Qiwei thought about it for a moment and said, "Then so be it." ”