Chapter 561: Landing in America (3)
"Bullets, bullets! My bullets are gone! Get the bullets! "In a hidden fortification on the shore of Teminal Island, the U.S. Army California National Guard 40th Infantry Division Sgt. Richard Brown. Simpson was operating a 30-heavy machine gun and raining bullets at the Ming officers and soldiers who were hunched over the beach more than 100 meters away. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info As the bullets quickly depleted, Sergeant Simpson shouted at his own ammunition hand to bring the bullets for himself.
"Donald! What are you doing?! "I saw that the chain was about to run out, but Donald, the ammunition man, never came back after going to look for it. Enraged, Sergeant Simpson shouted but received no response.
After Sergeant Simpson had emptied the chains, he hurriedly turned around and ran out of the trench behind the fortifications to find support. But as soon as he left his fortifications, he saw Donald, the young ammunitionman, lying on his back in the trench outside the fortifications, and the dirt around him had been soaked in blood and turned red.
The young soldier's chest was soaked with blood as the fluff on his lips had not yet faded, and a large crater not far away indicated that the soldier had been killed by shrapnel from a nearby shell.
"Oh God." Sergeant Simpson leaned over and closed the young soldier's eyes with trembling hands, his heart full of grief.
Both of them were fellow villagers from the San Fernandez Valley in California, and had been with Simpson's class since Donald joined the army, and their personal relationship was very good. At this moment, seeing his countrymen die in battle, Sergeant Simpson was extremely sad and angry in his heart.
Simpson stood up and looked around. Shells and bombs were scattered everywhere with explosions that stirred up a cloud of dust, and the thick smoke enveloped almost the entire island of Terminal. There were many officers and soldiers of the 40th Mechanized Infantry Division lying on the ground, and some of the wounded were crying out for the medics in pain.
At this time, the defenders on the front line had lost almost all of their fronts, and Simpson could even see that a large number of Ming troops had poured into the trenches in the distance, and were engaged in a brutal white-knuckle battle with the defenders. And in the rear of the defenders, there was nothing to see except explosions and gunsmoke, and even less reinforcements.
Simpson smiled miserably, knowing that his company was finished. At this time, there are no reinforcements, which means that there will be no more reinforcements. Moreover, the trenches on both sides have been breached, and even the large fortification where the company headquarters is located has been overturned by huge shells at this moment, and it is emitting raging flames and billowing black smoke.
Simpson knew he had no chance of escaping. It was at least a few hundred meters away from the retreat from the position to leave Terminal Island and go to the friendly position, and he couldn't run away at all when the Ming army had already broken through the trenches and killed him!
Rather than being shot in the back by the Ming army when he was fleeing, it is better to die here!
The red-eyed Sergeant Simpson returned to his fortifications. The iron gates of the fortifications were completely locked with iron chains. Dismantle the heavy machine gun that has no bullets, destroy the bolt, and push it away. Picking up a rifle and shooting through the shooting holes, he shot at the almost endless Ming army on the beach.
Sergeant Simpson was the last point of fire in the position. Until his fortifications were burned down by Ming sappers with flamethrowers, he killed and wounded at least 100 Ming officers and soldiers.
Battles like Sergeant Simpson's are many more on this battlefield. Many American officers and soldiers fought to the last moment, inflicting huge losses on the equally heroic Ming army. The defenders were much better than the 108th Infantry Division, which was also stationed in the Los Angeles area. Because these officers and soldiers are the local National Guard in California, which is their hometown.
The division headquarters was located in the rear of the Long Beach area, in the town of Lakewood, and the U.S. 40th Mechanized Infantry Division was not reluctant to provide reinforcements to its own troops at the front. It's that they have too many enemies to face. All the places were desperately shouting for reinforcements. There have even been cases of company-level troops directly bypassing their superiors to call for support from the division headquarters.
What is the total strength of the 40th Mechanized Infantry Division of the California National Guard? They defended such a long line from Santa Monica to Long Beach, and their commanders had already exhausted their forces by the time of the Ming army's ferocious attack on all fronts. The U.S. commander even organized the civilian staff and cooks in the headquarters and sent them to the front. Unfortunately, it is still not enough.
The artillery bombardment and bombardment of the Ming army was so tragic that most of the reinforcements in the rear were killed in the middle of the way. And many of the defenders stationed in the fortifications were reimbursed after being hit by the Ming army's shells and bombers.
In just over two hours, by noon on the 27th, the California National Guard, with a total strength of nearly 17,000 troops, had lost all of its front-line positions. The divisional headquarters was able to contact less than 5,000 troops.
The desperate commander of the 40th Mechanized Infantry Division even sent a telegram to the White House saying that the California National Guard was about to be wiped out.
The enraged president called the Joint Council Chief of Staff and the War Department, angrily asking them why the Ming Army had landed in California. And not in Panama, which they swore by? His Excellency the President also asked the middle and senior members of the army, where are the reinforcements!?
At the moment, the top brass of the US military is also completely ignorant, and they feel that they are dogs. This script is completely wrong.
How did the Ming army deceive the whole world, including themselves? You must know that the Americans had already spent a lot of effort and cost in the early years to plant high-level moles in the Ming army. However, these moles who have access to confidential documents have always sent the Ming army's combat target to Panama!
But after the incident came to an end, I realized that the Ming army had actually come to steal the day! If it was a mole who said that, it could have betrayed, but all moles said so. The only explanation is that Da Ming played them.
Anger is anger, and the reality is to solve the problem as soon as possible. Because of a mistake in judgment, the number of US troops stationed on the West Coast was not large. The main unit stationed in the Los Angeles area was the California National Guard, the 108th Infantry Division. and the 49th Panzer Division as the main force. There are also some California militia forces. This is because Los Angeles is the largest city on the West Coast of the United States, which is why it has so many troops. If the Ming army had landed in another city, it would have faced fewer defensive forces.
The reason why the Ming army chose Los Angeles is because the city has the largest port and the most complete facilities on the west coast of the entire Americas. Once the Ming army succeeded in capturing this place, they could send a large number of troops and various equipment and military supplies ashore in a short period of time through ports and facilities. That's where the most important factor comes in.
Once the Ming army gained a foothold here, and then sent troops and material resources to the American continent through its incomparably powerful maritime force, the Americans would be doomed. Although I don't want to admit it, if the two sides fight head-on with army and air power, then the US military is not an opponent.
In this grim situation, the top brass of the US military began to mobilize reinforcements from all over the country to support.
The first is the Navy. The Navy's fleet deployed near Los Angeles was not very strong, and by mid-morning the ships had been largely overwhelmed by the Ming Army's naval fighter forces. The fleets that were relatively close to each other were the local garrison fleets stationed in San Francisco.
The local garrison of San Francisco was weak, consisting of small ships such as destroyers, frigates, and the largest being a light cruiser. This kind of power went to Los Angeles, let alone help. It's just a matter of delivering food by yourself.
The really powerful fleet is at San Diego Naval Harbor, south of Los Angeles, where there is a sizable fleet. But San Diego is too close to Los Angeles and is a large military port. The Ming army had already noticed there.
At the same time that the Ming army launched an attack on Los Angeles in the morning, a task force had already dispatched an attack formation of the Navy off the coast of San Diego to inflict heavy damage on the US fleet docked in the port of San Diego. They no longer have the ability to rescue Los Angeles.
There was no longer a fleet near Los Angeles that could support in a short time. The only hope was that he was sent to the Spruance fleet near Panama early because of a mistake in judgment.
Remembering that when Spruance strongly opposed the previous decision to send the main naval force south to Panama, he kept insisting that the main fleet should be left on the west coast and could not be dismantled no matter what, and the US military top brass felt a pang of shame. Sure enough, it was the sharp judgment of the front-line commanders.
The U.S. Admiralty hurriedly launched a telegram to Spruance, who was still silently radio off the coast of Panama. He was asked to rush back to the West Coast immediately for rescue. It's just that getting back to the West Coast from Panama isn't a one-time thing. Moreover, the affairs of Spruance's fleet in the waters near Panama have long been clear to the Ming army, and they must have deployed a powerful fleet on the path of Spruance.
In addition to the Navy, there is aviation. Because of the surprise attack by the powerful Ming naval air force in the morning, most of the planes in the whole of California have been destroyed in the raid. At this time, the U.S. Army did not have a strong presence in California. And because the front-line airfields were heavily damaged, the reinforcements sent from neighboring areas had nowhere to stay.
It would take at least 24 hours for the U.S. Army to go into large-scale combat to repair the frontline airfields and then bring in new troops from other states. And if you want to fight for air supremacy with the Ming army on a large scale, it will be at least forty-eight hours later. This time was still on the premise that the Ming army would not continue to carry out supplementary bombing of various airfields.
The Ming army is not a fool, how could it not be a supplementary bombardment? (To be continued.) )
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