Long Zhen was recognized as the number one general of the Imperial Marine Corps during the Great War, and compared to Han Shaofeng, he can be said to be out of the blue. can be different from Han Shaofeng, in the eyes of most people. Han Shaofeng belongs to the kind of general who is brave and resourceful, and he is the kind of general who can improve the morale of the front, invigorate the morale of the army, and inspire the fighting spirit of every officer and soldier. However, Long Zhen belongs to the kind of general who can charge with soldiers and show no mercy to the enemy, and can make any enemy fearful, to a greater extent, Long Zhen is more like a front-line commander. And not a commander in command of thousands of troops in the rear .

Arriving at the front line of David, it is true that Long Zhen has made the US military terrified in the Pacific, and now, the US military in Central America is also facing this fierce general. On the first day of arriving at the front line, Long Zhen called all the officers above the battalion level to a front-line meeting, and he only put forward one request at the meeting, that is, when the attack started, all the front-line commanders should lead by example, rush to the front line, and if the soldiers are charged first, they will be in the back. Then it will be dealt with by military law!

These Marine Corps officers who followed Han Shaofeng to Central America all knew that Long Zhendi was not joking, and they also knew that when the battle started, Long Zhen would only appear in the place where the battle was most intense, and would not stay in the rear headquarters. With such a general taking the lead in the charge, what else do those lieutenants and colonels have to hesitate about? Indeed, in the early morning of the 24th, before dawn, Long Zhen arrived at the ground position north of David City with his local guard battalion. This is the direction of attack of the Marine Corps, and Long Zhen did not disappoint his officers.

The fierce artillery preparation lasted for half an hour, and hundreds of artillery pieces from the three marine divisions and two other heavy artillery regiments in the field of fire fought non-stop for half an hour, pouring tens of thousands of shells into an area of less than 5 square kilometers. It has a population of less than 10 places in the Davie metropolitan area. The U.S. military has turned the entire city of David into a defensive position, most of the citizens are hiding in basements, and the U.S. military has also built a large number of underground positions. As soon as the shelling stopped, two tank battalions of the Marine Corps, in coordination with the infantry, launched an attack from the north and east.

On the morning of the same day, the U.S. military learned that the dragon was terrible, if the Marine Corps was still fighting with the U.S. military before. Then from this morning on, Long Zhen turned the Marine Corps into a butcher's knife.

"I said, if you don't surrender, you will be wiped out!" Long Zhen yelled loudly into the phone, "Don't call me again, as long as you don't surrender, you're still resisting. Wipe them all out, and not one of them will be left. Don't divide civilian soldiers. As long as it's all enemies that stand in our way, you know? ”

"Yes, General!" On the other end of the line came the voice of a front-line commander.

"In addition to supporting and firepower, don't call me directly for anything else!"

After hanging up the phone, Long Zhen walked back and forth in the front-line command post a few times, and finally stopped in front of the map." Where is our vanguard now? ”

"The 27th Division 112 in the north has broken through the defense line set up by the US army outside the city and is advancing towards the city." The operational staff officer promptly reported the situation." 33 and 028 to the east are sweeping the remnants of the enemy on the U.S. defense line outside the city......"

"Let them keep going, don't waste time outside." Long Zhen didn't wait for the staff officer to finish, "Send a camp reserve to go up and sweep the American positions, and the tank troops continue to advance, don't stop."

The operational staff officer immediately picked up the phone.

"Also, tell the 27th and 33rd Divisions that if they can't enter the city before noon today, Lao Tzu will withdraw from him!"

With the "battlefield engine" of Long Zhen, the Marine Corps attacked extremely fiercely, and the officers and men were also fighting desperately with the enemy on the front line. Although Long Zhen is not qualified to abolish the establishment of the Marine Division. But both division commanders knew Long Zhendi's temper. At noon on the same day, the 27th Division first entered the city. Street fighting with the U.S. forces began.33 It took nearly an hour late to break through the U.S. defenses on the edge of the city and enter the city of Davie from the east.

Long Zhen was not entirely brave and resourceless, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, he threw the third division, the 42nd Division, into battle. The 42nd Division, which had two tank battalions in front of the city, directly bypassed the US defense line west of the city and captured the defensive position west of David's city in the evening of the same day, completing the operation of encircling David. By about eight o'clock in the evening, except for the coastal plain area, which had not yet been sealed, the city of David had been completely surrounded by marines, and more than 10,000 American officers and soldiers in the city had become turtles in the urn.

On the afternoon of the 26th, when the ammunition and food were exhausted and the back road had been completely blocked, the US commander . An army brigadier general surrendered to Long Zhen, and nearly 3,000 U.S. officers and soldiers surrendered their weapons. At the end of the battle, which lasted two days, a total of 2,517 officers and men of the three marine divisions were killed, 4,783.

In the afternoon. Han Shaofeng also followed the landing fleet to Limon Bay, and as soon as he arrived, he rushed to the aircraft carrier "Longganhu".

"This is the battle report sent by Long Zhen." Han Shaofeng gave a document to Tan Renhao, "The Marine Corps has taken Davy City and is now clearing the battlefield."

"So fast?" Tan Renhao immediately picked up the document, Han Shaofeng had been fighting there for a few months before, and the progress was not very big, but he didn't expect that it only took Long Zhen two and a half days to defeat this city that the US army had been holding for months.

"It was indeed much faster than we expected, but the losses of the Marine Corps were also very large, the three divisions were reduced by nearly 20 percent, and we even suffered more officers and soldiers than the American troops killed." Han Shaofeng sat down, "I knew it would be such a result, Long Zhen is this virtue when he fights. He has always only cared about the results of the battle, regardless of the damage of the battle. I have said that he has been many times, and there is no need to fight with the enemy for casualties, but every time I say it, it is equivalent to the wind in my ears! ”

Tan Renhao's expression also sank, the losses of the Marine Corps were indeed quite huge, and Han Shaofeng had been commanding here for several months. With a total of less than 5,000 casualties, Long Zhen > within two days: this record is achieved, and if it really goes on like this, I am afraid that no marine division will be able to hold out until the end of the battle.

I have sent him a telegram asking him to pay attention to the casualties of the troops. Han Shaofeng took out a cigarette, we are not fighting near the empire mainland, how can we make up for such huge casualties? The 27th Division suffered the greatest losses. The division commander is already complaining to me that if they continue to fight like this, they will have to return home early.The losses of the 33rd Division are not small.Three infantry battalions have been formed into infantry platoons, which makes the other troops a little scared."

"But in this case, the effect should be good, right?" Tan Renhao looked at Han Shaofeng.

"The U.S. military is already deploying troops. It has already been mentioned in the ground reconnaissance report two days ago. U.S. troops deployed in Nicaragua are moving southward." Han Shaofeng took two puffs of his cigarette. Tomorrow there will be a reconnaissance report on Xindi, and if the U.S. troops on the Honduras and Guatemalan sides also start moving south, then we can go."

The next day at noon. The first batch of photographs of the reconnaissance planes were delivered, and the US troops deployed in Honduras and Guatemala were being assembled, and Long Zhen's offensive in David City was successful. However, on the same day, Long Zhen sent the other two Marine Divisions to enter Costa Rica along the coastal plain area south of Mount Baroo, and the three Marine Divisions that participated in the attack on David City moved to Rovalo on the north side of Mount Baru on the 26th. There are also two more Marine divisions assembled here.

Long Zhendi's next plan is to contain the main force of the US military in the coastal plain area to the south. The onslaught of those two Marine Divisions forced the U.S. Army to assemble heavy forces in the south for defense, and then put heavy Marine forces in the north to attack the eastern part of Costa Rica, facing the Caribbean Port of Limon, so that the Marines needed combat materials did not need to be transported through muddy roads, but could be sent directly to the Port of Limón by transport ships. Also, after the capture of the port of Limon. The Marines don't need to face the mountains. To the north is the Lake Nicaragua Plain. Marines can be more powerful on the plains.

Long Zhendi's attack plan was originally formulated by Han Shaofeng. Therefore, Han Shaofeng did not revise the battle plan, but only told Long Zhen again, don't fight with the enemy, the offensive on the southern front only needs to play a diversion role, and even if the task is completed by attracting the US army, it doesn't matter how far it can advance. As for whether Long Zhen will listen to Han Shaofeng, that's another matter, at least after Han Shaofeng sets off with the landing fleet, no one will be able to restrain Long Zhen.

The 1st Task Force left the Bay of Limon on the night of the 27th. In fact, the Bay of Limon itself is a huge harbor, although there are not enough docks for ships to dock, but it is an ideal deep-water harbor that can accommodate hundreds of ships to anchor here, and two breakwaters built on the north side of the harbor to block the Caribbean wind and waves, even small landing craft can be safely anchored here.

Before the fleet departed, Tan Renhao received the last photo taken by the reconnaissance plane. U.S. troops deployed in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and other places are heading south at full speed, and the roads are densely packed with U.S. military convoys. The bomber group of the Navy has been fully dispatched, and even most of the fighters are flying with bombs and rockets. The poor transportation conditions in Central America once caused great problems for the Imperial Marines, and now they also create great difficulties for the American army. With the full deployment of the HNA force, it became extremely difficult for the US military to quickly reinforce the southern front. In order to concentrate the US troops on the battlefield in Costa Rica as much as possible, Han Shaofeng also had to ask the HNA to reduce the intensity of the bombing on the 28th, otherwise the US troops would be blocked in Nicaragua and return at speed, which would not do any good to the landing operation.

On the night of the 27th, that is, at Tan Renhao, they left the bay of Limon and entered Gallehou, and the vanguard troops sent by Long Zhen had arrived at the periphery of the port of Limón. There were less than 5,000 American troops here, and the main force of the 42nd Division arrived at the port of Limon before dawn, and by noon 53 on the same day, the two Marine Divisions surrounded the port of Limón. The offensive battle was started in the afternoon with ground artillery of the Marine Corps. As well as not going to the rear of the enemy's line to carry out the task of deep interdiction, the tactical bombers of the naval aviation were all concentrated near the port of Limon. The small port was shelled and bombed for hours.

When it was dark, Long Zhen still did not let the Marines attack, but continued to shell the port area, and the HNA bombers also made several sorties during the night, dropping a large number of incendiary bombs in the port area. Standing on the hillside to the west of the port area, Long Zhen was even able to reach the sea surface of the port area and burn in flames, as if the entire sea had been set on fire.

"General, when are we going to attack?"

"What's the hurry?" Long Zhen put down the binoculars, "Didn't General Han order us many times not to fight with the enemy for casualties?" Then we'll have to be a little patient, and we won't have to worry about the supply area after we get to the port of Limon anyway. Go and tell the artillery units that if they can't shoot all the shells tonight, then don't take part in the later battles! ”

The shelling continued until dawn, and the artillery shells brought by the four artillery regiments were almost exhausted. Someone counted it later. On the night of the 28th, the Marines fired more than 5 shells at the port of Limon, and the naval bombers dropped more than 2,000 bombs with a population of less than 200,000. It is only a small port that can accommodate thousand-ton cargo ships, and it is a military fortress that is heavily fortified.

After such a high-intensity firefight, the Marines were able to lighten the city of Port Mong on the morning of the 29th, and the battle ended by the evening of the same day. This time Long Zhen was very obedient, he really did not fight with the American army for casualties, and in the whole course of the battle, the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps had not broken the number of gun barrels. However, when Han Shaofeng learned that Long Zhen had used up tens of thousands of shells in Limón Harbor in one go, he didn't know what he would think.

When the dragon earthquake laid down the port of Limon. The fleet is heading towards the heart of the Caribbean. After the fleet left the Limon Bay, Tan Renhao issued the battle order, and the battle plan had already been formulated, and now he was waiting to complete this ground combat operation.

Tan Renhao didn't care about the battle on Long Zhen's side, judging from the situation in the past few days. In addition to the excessive casualties, the consumption of ammunition is quite a bit . Long Zhen is indeed a trustworthy general. For Tan Renhao. What worries him the most is the military bases set up by the United States and Britain and other countries in the Caribbean, especially the airfields where air forces are deployed.