The Battle of Los Angeles is a general term for a series of naval battles, land battles and air battles that took place in Los Angeles as the center, from the beginning of the Ming landing to the complete foothold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn this large-scale combat operation, the two sides have invested nearly 3 million troops in the battle.

Not just front-line combat units, this number includes all logistics as well as transport personnel. In today's mechanized warfare, the proportion of logistics and transport personnel in the military is rapidly expanding. And both sides were killed and wounded on the battlefield, missing, and the number of captured people was as high as nearly half a million people!

According to statistics, more than 20,000 artillery pieces were deployed in this battle, and most of them were destroyed in the battle. The various types of armored vehicles put into the battlefield on both sides are also huge, and most of them have not been able to leave the battlefield, becoming piles of burning ruins.

In the sky, the two sides have put in thousands of fighters of various types. Most of them are advanced jets. The number of warplanes destroyed on both sides exceeded 1,000, and a large number of excellent pilots were lost.

However, to everyone's surprise, the battle was not ended by the superiority of one side on land, but by a decisive naval battle thousands of nautical miles away. When the Ming naval fleet completely defeated the last fleet of the U.S. Navy, the battle in the Los Angeles area could not continue.

The morale of the US troops, whose morale had been severely hit, was no longer able to persist in continuing the battle, and had to temporarily retreat and choose to rest and recuperate. The Ming army, which also suffered heavy losses, seized the opportunity to rapidly expand its landing ground and did its best to send a large number of reinforcements to the landing field.

The Ming Dynasty prepared for this landing operation for a long time, and they hoarded a large number of military supplies and officers and soldiers on the Hawaiian Islands. After the last threat of the US Navy was removed, almost the entire Pacific Ocean was filled with convoys of Ming troops. These ships, loaded with all kinds of supplies and Ming officers and soldiers, marched happily towards the shores of the Americas, ready for the final victory to come.

Although the Ming landing force suffered heavy losses in the battle, their morale was very high. After all, everyone can feel that this crazy war that has lasted for years and involved countless people is finally seeing the end of it. And they are on the side of the winners.

"Here's your medical report." At the Los Angeles airport, the major medical officer of the Ninth Fighter Wing of the Ming Army handed a physical examination report to Sha Jin in front of him, and said softly, "Although the injury on your leg did not seriously affect your bones, it still has a great impact on your flying ability. As a veteran, you should also know the difference between flying a jet and flying a piston-engined aircraft. Your injuries are no longer fit to continue flying jet combat. ”

"Huh~~~" Although he already had a premonition in his heart, when Sha Jin really learned the news, he couldn't help but feel a touch of sadness. As a pilot who is very fond of flying combat, Sha Jin has been shot down twice on the battlefield before, but that time in a piston engine plane, and he was not seriously injured at the time.

This time, however, it was markedly different.

Flying a jet is physically demanding, and no one wants to be put on the battlefield again if a leg injury affects combat. If he hadn't maintained the ace pilot with the largest number of downed shots in the history of the Air Force, the Army Aviation would have directly transferred him to the rear a long time ago.

Although he was very reluctant in his heart, at this moment, Sha Jin's heart had a feeling of unloading the burden. After flying on the death line for many years, too much pressure has already accumulated in his heart. Now he has a chance to be liberated.

"Okay, I got it." Sha Jin clenched the physical examination report tightly and nodded vigorously.

Sha Jin's cooperation also relieved the military medical officer. A super ace like Sha Jin has an unparalleled importance in the army aviation. His medals were all awarded by Zhang Cheng! In the hearts of many officers and soldiers, these are the characters of the god of war. After all, being able to shoot down more than 200 fighters is an absolutely unimaginable miracle for ordinary people.

"The regiment has been arranged, and you can go to the regiment headquarters at any time to go through the formalities." The military medical officer stood up with a smile, raised his hand and gave a military salute to Sha Jin, "Thank you for everything you have done for the country." ”

Two days later, Sha Jin, who had packed his personal bags, got into a jeep accompanied by his adjutant and drove in the direction of the port. He had received the latest order to leave the landing site and return home to become the Army's training director, and was promoted to the rank of major general. This order was signed by Zhang Cheng himself.

The Director of Army Aviation Training is definitely a very important position, and it is very likely that he will continue to be promoted to the Chief of Staff of the Army Aviation, and the Chief of Staff will be the Commander of the Army Aviation.

However, this arrangement, which seems to many people to be a perfect arrangement, Sha Jin himself does not care too much. Rather than sitting in the office in a beautiful military uniform and blowing the air conditioner, he prefers to fly a fighter plane in the sky.

Sha Jin, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the jeep, took out a piece of scrap aluminum that had been twisted and deformed and had a dark body from his pants pocket. This is a memento of the downed fighter plane that he asked someone to retrieve. It also symbolized the end of his flying career.

All around were dense Ming officers and soldiers of all kinds of vehicles. The roar of engines and car horns resounded across the land. From time to time, there will be Ming fighter planes whistling in the sky, and a battlefield atmosphere will come to the face.

Looking at everything in front of him, Sha Jin sighed slightly in his heart and slowly closed his eyes.

Shajin arrived at Pearl Harbor a week later, then boarded a plane through Midway, Wake Island, Guam, Luzon, and Songjiang to reach the imperial capital. Zhang Cheng personally went to the airport to greet him and awarded him a medal.

In the years that followed, Sha Jin never returned to the blue sky. He joined the Air Force in the position of Director of Army Aviation Training, and successively served as Director of the Air Force Operations Department and Chief of the General Staff for nearly 10 years. And at the age of forty-three, he officially became the commander-in-chief of the Air Force. until he retired at the age of 60.

After retiring, Sha Jin returned to his hometown to plant flowers and grass, play chess and fish. He never returned to the blue sky for the rest of his life. And the number of air force downs maintained by Sha Jin has never been broken by anyone, and it has become a swan song in the true sense.

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"General, where are we going now?" In the harbor of Mornington, a small town in southern Chile, a U.S. military staff officer approached Spruance and asked him a question.

"Is there any other place we can go?" A haggard Spruance stood on the bridge and looked at the miniature fleet of five destroyers around him, his heart full of sorrow. The originally large main fleet finally escaped only these few small shrimps after fighting to the death with the Ming army. The slightly larger ships have been left on the bottom of the South Pacific forever.

And what made Spruance feel even more dissatisfied was that after changing his flagship three times in a row, he finally arrived at the Yukikaze destroyer, which originally belonged to the Japanese Navy.

After Japan was completely defeated by the Ming Dynasty and lost its homeland, it was changed to the 11th District. Some of their remaining warships were carrying magnates and large quantities of precious metals to the Americas. There were not many of these warships, and they were all light warships, which the powerful United States at that time did not look down on at all. So these remnants of the Japanese Navy have always been used as coastal escort anti-submarine ships.

Until a series of naval and air battles broke out between the US Navy and the Ming Navy, the Americans, who suffered heavy losses under the blow of the Ming Navy, watched a large number of warships be denaturalized, and the replenishment rate of warships was far less than the speed of loss. Subsequently, they incorporated many warships from the navies of other countries into their fleets, and the fleet of the 11th District was no exception.

After a series of brutal naval battles, the last fleet of the Navy, which was originally small in number, was also lost. Before the start of the Battle of the South Pacific, the Japanese Navy that had fled to the United States was left with only two destroyers, the Yukikaze and the Shiyu.

At this time, the Shiyu had sunk to the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean. Now only the last snow wind remains.

"Any news from Halsey?" Spruance, who no longer had any intention of continuing to change the flagship, returned to the bridge and looked at the Asian faces in the bridge, and frowned slightly. He immediately asked about Halsey's whereabouts. Although they belong to different groups of people, thanks to the Ming Dynasty's continuous colonization around the world for hundreds of years, both sides are able to speak fluently in the Chinese language.

"No telegrams have been received about General Halsey." The captain of the Yukikaze, Rear Admiral Masamichi Terauchi, who had been promoted to the rank of rear admiral by the Japanese government-in-exile as a destroyer captain because of the lack of warships, hurriedly replied: "Our ship has sent a series of telegrams. ”

"Keep connecting." Spruance shook his head and left the destroyer, which had participated in most of the major combat operations in the Pacific, but had not even been damaged in all the naval battles, landed in the harbor. Sometimes Spruance couldn't help but wonder if it would have been better to set the flagship directly on this destroyer if he had known that this destroyer was so magical.

Eventually, Halsey was contacted. It's just that compared to Spruance's fleet, Halsey's losses were even more severe. By the time Halsey arrived at the small fishing port two days later with two destroyers, all the officers and men of the navy knew that they had no chance of winning the war.

The remaining Allied warships rested in the small fishing harbor for a while, refueled, and headed south to the east coast of the United States, rounding the Drake Passage. The power of the Allied navies has since completely withdrawn from the war.

The sea belongs to the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )