Chapter 513: The Rise of MacArthur
The battlefield in the Americas has always touched the nerves of countries around the world, because this is the outbreak of war between the two most powerful countries in the world. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The outcome of the Sino-US war has a direct bearing on the outcome of the entire world war.
If the United States wins, the Entente will have an 80% chance of defeating the Allied bloc.
Conversely, if the Chinese Empire wins, there is a 100% chance that the Allied bloc will defeat the Entente.
However, at present, it seems that the main naval forces of the United States and Japan have been wiped out by the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the mainland of the United States has also been attacked by the Imperial Chinese Navy and Army, and it seems that the United States is not far from defeat.
The entire Entente bloc members were terrified and pessimistic sentiments were pervasive, causing the generals and soldiers of the Entente member states to fear for the future of their countries.
British Empire Prime Minister Ross, French Emperor Napoleon IV, and Russian Emperor Nicholas II sent notes to the office of the President of the United States, asking about the war situation with the greatest concern and expressing concern about whether the United States could hold back the attack of the Chinese Empire.
The international situation was very unfavorable to the Entente bloc, and more and more neutral countries had an ambiguous attitude and a tendency to lean towards the Allied bloc.
Under these circumstances, the Entente bloc desperately needed a victory in one or two battles to turn around the international image and prestige and deter those countries that were on the verge of action.
Roosevelt felt tremendous political pressure, both international and domestic, that made him feel suffocated.
"Take back New York, Norfolk and Mobile at all costs!"
Roosevelt gave Miles a death order to shoot Miles if he couldn't win.
Miles was very entangled, and it hurt even more, he had already achieved an overwhelming advantage in Rhode Island, if it wasn't for Roosevelt forcing him to mobilize the main force to reinforce New York, I am afraid that the American army would be able to capture Rhode Island in a few days.
But Miles is not a politician, and those who serve in the army will always be bullied by politicians, so he can only accept Roosevelt's order to retake New York, Norfolk and Mobile at any cost.
Fortunately, except for Mobile, New York and Norfolk have not been completely captured so far, and the landing force of the Chinese Imperial Army is all marines, and the number of troops is limited, which is not enough to completely eat these three cities.
Before the Imperial Chinese Army sent more troops to arrive, Miles was sure to recapture the three cities.
Dozens of M1893 automatic rifle production lines have been added to arsenals across the U.S. military, with a monthly output of 10,000 units, and with the completion of war mobilization, the output will be higher and higher.
The previous inventory of 300,000 M1893 rifles was transferred to Miles, and the remaining 200,000 were approved by Roosevelt to be fully armed with Miles' army.
At the same time, Roosevelt transferred twenty divisions from the Expeditionary Force battle sequence to supplement the Miles Army.
Together with Pedro's Fourth Army, 600,000 elite U.S. troops were assembled throughout the New York battlefield, of which 280,000 were armed with M1893 rifles (20,000 were lost in the Battle of Rhode Island).
This is a terrifying army, its firepower exceeds that of any army in the world, and even the Chinese Imperial Shence Army is temporarily inferior.
Miles swore that he calmly mobilized his troops to surround the entire New York City, from the outside in, step by step, trying to retake the lost neighborhood.
The 7th Marine Brigade of the Imperial Chinese Marine Corps in New York controlled one-third of the New York metropolitan area.
In the face of the frenzied counterattack of more than 600,000 elite US troops, Li Weijun did not panic at all, even though he had learned from Shi Dakai's telegram that the US military was equipped with advanced automatic rifles and had fierce firepower.
New York is a metropolis and is not suitable for large-scale army group engagements, so even 600,000 American troops fighting in narrow streets cannot be thrown into battle at once.
For each street, a maximum of a few hundred people on both sides to fight is already the limit.
The narrow streets, two heavy machine guns can be blocked, plus the rows of high-rise buildings on both sides, by the Chinese Imperial Army converted into pillbox turrets, put a few bloody heavy machine guns, you can cooperate with the ground individual troops, form a dense fire blockade line.
What's more, the Chinese Imperial Army has snipers, which the US military cannot compare, and even one sniper on a street is enough to discourage the US military.
In addition, Li Weijun was also the commander of the fleet, and hundreds of warships were located in New York Bay, which could directly provide artillery support.
The firepower of the naval guns is quite terrifying, and it can completely suppress the artillery support of the American army.
This is the advantage of the Chinese Imperial Army, and for the American army, their only advantage is the size of the force, and the ferocity of infantry firepower.
Of course, Miles also learned a new tactic from the Battle of Rhode Island, which was night fighting.
It is difficult to capture a street in the hands of the Chinese Imperial Army during the day, but it can launch a night attack, because the snipers of the Chinese Imperial Army cannot shoot accurately at a long distance at night.
Miles's tactics were to kill 50 enemies and lose 300 by themselves, with a battle loss ratio of 1 to 6, and in the early stage of the defense of New York, it did achieve tactical results.
But soon Miles was in pain, because the Chinese Imperial Army buried radium and radium everywhere, and the ruins of those buildings contained a large amount of steel and other metal building materials, and the metal radium detectors of the US army were completely useless, and the US soldiers were blown up and howled.
Bang bang!
On a commercial street in Brooklyn, a team of U.S. troops accidentally touched radium when they wanted to sneak attack the position of the Imperial Chinese Army.
Three people were killed on the spot, six were slightly injured and two were seriously injured.
The lightly wounded wanted to carry the seriously injured back, but at this time, the sniper rifle went off, and the six lightly injured people were shot and fell to the ground.
This time, instead of blowing the heads of the American soldiers, the snipers of the Imperial Chinese Army hit them in the legs and arms, causing them to lose the ability to crawl and walk, and they could only wail in the middle of the street.
“help!”
“help!”
……
Eight U.S. soldiers kept shouting for help, and the U.S. officers in the distant position then ordered fire cover and sent a team of U.S. troops to the rescue.
Bang bang bang......
The Chinese Imperial snipers in the shadows opened fire, and the American troops who came to the rescue came and shot one by one, blood splattered, and the corpses fell to the ground.
This is a typical sniper booby trap tactic, as long as the prey does not die, the US military will continue to send people to the rescue, paying a greater price for casualties.
“fuck!”
“fuck! fuck!”
……
The U.S. troops began to curse, they listened to their comrades wailing for help, but they did not dare to go up to the rescue, as long as they were exposed in the middle of the unobstructed street, it was a dead end.
The inner struggle almost made these American soldiers go crazy.
The only way is to climb until dark, but those wounded American soldiers who were shot will not stop bleeding and will not survive the darkness at all, and some will die within a few minutes, and the slowest will not exceed two hours, and they will die if they are not treated.
Scenes like this are happening on every street.
As a result, the US troops rushed forward and in the blink of an eye, they were beaten into a beenet's nest by the heavy machine guns of the Chinese Imperial Army hidden in the shadows.
In this way, the Chinese and American armies fought back and forth, fighting street by street, losing it at night and retaking it during the day, losing it during the day and retaking it at night.
The casualties on both sides are surging, although the battle losses are greater than those of the American army, but the advantage of the American army is that there are more people, Li Weijun has too few troops in his hands, and there is only one marine brigade, so he can only continue to shrink his forces and give way to one street after another.
Of course, the Chinese Imperial Army will not leave the complete streets to the US army, and the retreat is also to first loot the shops and rich American families on both sides of the street, and then blow up the buildings, and then bury the ground radium and treacherous radium, so that the US army can only take the infantry to go to the ground.
At this time, the U.S. military, who had obviously regained control of the streets, was also so painful that they even vomited blood.
Li Weijun is undoubtedly delaying time, but what Miles lacks most is time.
So Miles can only do whatever it takes to fill this big hole with human lives.
Looking at the surging casualty numbers every day, Miles felt the urge to hit his head against the wall.
Li Weiguo approved Li Weijun's request to transfer troops from Cuba, the closest to the United States.
However, the battlefield situation changed rapidly, and the reinforcements that were originally planned to be given to Li Weijun had to be reinforced, but all the Norfolk battlefields had to be reinforced halfway.
This is because on the battlefield of Norfolk, Lin Tai, who was in charge of the operation, once met a cunning American commander - MacArthur.
MacArthur was supposed to stay with Miles and participate in the Battle of Rhode Island. When Myers moved troops to reinforce New York, he promoted MacArthur to chief of staff of the Norfolk Front, where he cooperated with General George Patton in attacking the 11th Brigade of the Imperial Chinese Marine Corps that had invaded Norfolk.
Although Lin Taizeng completed the combat mission of destroying the ports and dockyards along the coast of Norfolk, the campaign to attack Norfolk was not smooth.
After all, Norfolk is different from New York, Norfolk is the largest military base of the US Navy, there are many garrisons and fortifications, even without the help of the US Navy, the US Army and fortress artillery at the base alone can block the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army.
Because it was a surprise attack, in the early stage of the battle, the Chinese Imperial Army had the advantage of surprise attack and caught the American army by surprise.
But soon the U.S. army fought back frantically, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides in Norfolk, and the U.S. fortress artillery posed a considerable threat to the Chinese Imperial Navy and Army.
Norfolk is not New York, there are not so many high-rise buildings, so the American fortress artillery can be easily used to strike at the Chinese Imperial Army that invades Norfolk.
After MacArthur arrived in Norfolk, he played a conspiracy to deliberately defeat the American army, constantly giving up the streets of Norfolk.
At this time, Lin Taizeng underestimated the enemy, and the officers and soldiers of the 11th Marine Brigade of the Chinese Imperial Army on the front line also underestimated the enemy, and quickly occupied the streets vacated by the American troops, and as a result, the troops were constantly dispersed.
MacArthur reduced his forces, and with the addition of more than a dozen U.S. divisions and regiments that had been urgently reinforced from various states on Friday, he had a local advantage of several times the strength of the Chinese Imperial Army.
On the night of the seventh day, the U.S. Army frantically counterattacked, and the 11th Marine Brigade of the Chinese Empire was forced to search for troops because of the scattered forces and the continuous loss of battles.
At this time, MacArthur boldly interspersed detours overnight, and after paying a huge price, cut off the retreat of the Chinese Imperial Army, and surrounded the 11th Marine Brigade of the Chinese Imperial Army in the city of Norfolk.
Lin Taizeng panicked and hurriedly asked for reinforcements.
It just so happened that the first reinforcements arrived on troop carriers, four troop carriers totaling more than 2,000 people, and Lin Tai quickly threw them into the battlefield to rescue the encircled brother troops.
But MacArthur seemed to be determined to annihilate the 11th Marine Brigade, so he desperately blocked the reinforcements of the Chinese Empire.
There was no way, Lin Taizeng had no choice but to detain all the eight troop carriers that were originally planned to go to New York, and more than 4,000 soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army were also thrown into the Norfolk battlefield.
Knowing that his reinforcements were detained by Lin Taizeng, Li Weijun was also furious, but after understanding that the 11th Marine Brigade was deeply surrounded and in danger, Li Weijun did not go crazy, but asked Lin Taizeng to rescue the 11th Marine Brigade, because this involves the face of the Chinese Imperial Army, if the US Army fights a total annihilation campaign, it will be laughable and generous.
Fortunately, the U.S. military in MacArthur's hands was not equipped with the most advanced M1893 automatic rifles, and was inferior to the Chinese Imperial Army in infantry firepower, and suffered losses in small urban street battles.
And the ubiquitous snipers of the Chinese Imperial Army drove the U.S. military crazy, and the casualty rate of officers soared.
With the landing of 6,000 reinforcements from the Chinese Empire, under the cover of the fierce artillery fire of Lin Taizeng's fleet, the 11th Marine Brigade chose to break through in time and finally succeeded.
After breaking through, the 11th Marine Brigade suffered more than one-third casualties, that is, more than 2,500 casualties.
However, the U.S. military suffered more casualties, with a battle loss ratio of 20 to 1, and more than 50,000 casualties.
Lin Taizeng had to be held accountable for this matter, and he took the initiative to send a telegram to the Imperial Military Department to plead guilty, and resign as commander.
Therefore, before the new commander's order was issued, the Chinese Imperial Army in the direction of Norfolk suspended the offensive, because reinforcements were needed in the direction of New York, so these 6,000 reinforcements had to immediately set off north to reinforce the New York battlefield.
Therefore, after the destruction of the coastal factories and urban areas of Norfolk, the Chinese Imperial Army all withdrew to the sea.
In this way, MacArthur announced that the American army had successfully defeated the Chinese Imperial Army and recaptured Norfolk.
Although the losses were heavy, Roosevelt needed such a victory to show the Americans and the world that the Chinese Empire was not invincible, and the American army won the Battle of Norfolk.
Of course, the Chinese Empire simply referred to them as having completed the objectives of the Battle of Norfolk and won the Battle of Norfolk.
The 11th Marine Brigade nearly brought down Norfolk, much to the annoyance of the Imperial Chinese military, and then appointed Lin Yongsheng, captain of the battleship Fury, as acting fleet commander.
Lin Yongsheng immediately ordered retaliatory action, and more than 200 warships left Norfolk and entered the inner bay of the Chesapeake Bay, where they shelled Newport News, Hampton and other coastal cities, and set these two cities on fire.
Although the Chinese Imperial Army did not lose in the Battle of Norfolk, but was victorious, but it achieved a person, that is, MacArthur, although he had the ability, but lacked prestige, after the recovery of Norfolk, MacArthur's position in the US army was quickly consolidated, and a famous American general was born, and it is unknown what kind of variables he will bring to the Chinese Empire and the whole world in the future. (To be continued.) )