By the morning of the next day, the Ming landing force had reached nearly 200,000 men, and they had taken full control of a large area from Santa Monica to Long Beach, from downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, and had controlled and expanded more than a dozen airfields capable of taking off and landing jets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although on the surface it seems that the Ming army has gradually gained a firm foothold, in reality this is far from enough.

Los Angeles at this time was still a huge urban area with millions of people, a very large area, and with too many buildings and ordinary Americans. These Americans are not indigenous to Africa, they are propertied people with their own property.

Moreover, the United States, like the Ming Dynasty, did not prohibit civilians from owning firearms, which gave the local Americans a basis for resisting the Ming Dynasty. The American population in the Los Angeles area was frightened on the previous landing day, and no one came forward to organize resistance, so they didn't play a decent role.

However, after the complete defeat of the regular army National Guard and militia organizations, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty fought their way into the streets and towns. These ordinary local people began to defend their homeland. In the United States, almost every household owns a gun, and its performance may not be as good as that of military weapons, but it is still a weapon capable of killing.

The Ming army met with fierce resistance from locals in many places, especially in downtown Los Angeles and the Beverly Hills area. Locals set up barricades on the road and shot at Ming troops from houses everywhere. Even if the Ming army had a strong armored force, it was not able to intimidate everyone, and many locals attacked the Ming army's vehicles with homemade ******, which brought a lot of losses to the Ming army.

In the face of these sudden resistances, the Ming army suffered some losses in a short time. However, the gap between armed civilians made up of ordinary people and well-trained elite troops is not half a thing. Whether it is equipment, morale training, or combat will, the two sides are not on the same level. This is no longer the time when the militia will be able to stand up to the regular army.

The powerful Ming army quickly taught these armed civilians a good lesson with their guns and tanks and armored vehicles, so that they would not care if any buildings were destroyed in the battle. The resistance of the American militia was quickly crushed, and the remaining sporadic resistance did little to help the overall situation of the war.

Aside from the spontaneous resistance of ordinary citizens in the Los Angeles area, the American troops on the outside were not idle.

After a day and a night of relief, the US troops, somewhat blinded by the sudden landing strike, quickly recovered. As a formidable army, the U.S. Army immediately sent reinforcements from all over the mainland to the Los Angeles area to launch a counterattack. Trying to drive all the Ming landing forces that had not yet gained a foothold into the sea.

U.S. troops from San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, and other places gathered large numbers of troops and headed for the Los Angeles area. Like the Ming Army, the U.S. troops, all mechanized troops, marched extremely fast, and on the afternoon of the second day of landing, that is, on the afternoon of October 28, American reinforcements from San Diego approached the area of Lake Forest, southeast of Los Angeles.

Moreover, the previous Daming Naval Airlines' hard work was able to buy a day and a night for the landing force to be unaffected by the air, which was already a super-level performance. After dawn the next day, the warplanes of the US Army and Navy that rushed over from all directions immediately put tremendous pressure on the Ming army.

In the twenty-eighth day of the whole day. The fighter planes of the Ming Army's naval aviation were basically desperately fighting with the US air forces. The Americans invested a large number of jet fighters, but fortunately, the Ming army had already controlled many airfields capable of taking off and landing jet planes, and many jet fighters that had been urgently assembled joined the air combat to barely maintain air supremacy in the control area.

In addition to the double advantages of the Ming army's fighters and pilots, another reason is that the US army's counterattack was still in a hurry, and they did not gather all their forces. Over time, though. It won't be long before the Americans become more and more powerful.

In order to avoid this bad situation, the Ming army had to expand its control area as soon as possible and send all kinds of urgently needed military supplies ashore as much as possible. At this moment, the counterattack of the US army still brought a lot of trouble to the Ming army.

At this time, the only good news for the Ming army was that the troops deployed by the US army on the mainland were basically a group of rookies who had never been on the battlefield. Perhaps their training was not much different from that of the Ming army, but the vast majority of their officers and soldiers had never really been on the battlefield. Most of the U.S. expeditionary forces that had been withdrawn from Africa and Europe were now deployed around Panama and on the east coast. There are almost no here in California.

Moreover, a very important point is that the US command was confused by the sudden and fierce landing operation of the Ming army. They had no way of knowing exactly how powerful the Ming army was, and the U.S. intelligence service could not get any useful information from the well-defended Ming army.

The command of the US military can only obtain intelligence by listening to the radio statements issued by Daming. Daming said that one million Ming troops had landed on the US mainland in one day and one night, and this news was dismissed as nonsense by the US military high-ranking people, because they believed that it was at most 500,000 people. In fact, less than 200,000 Ming troops actually landed ashore. The reason for this situation is that the Ming army has a large amount of military supplies and equipment that needs to be disembarked, which greatly occupies the landing capacity of the Ming army.

Because the more time was feared, the stronger the Ming army became, so the US military top brass sternly ordered the US troops rushing towards the Los Angeles area to immediately launch an attack to restrict the movement of the Ming army. Such orders are meaningless and even counterproductive.

The total number of troops that the U.S. military can mobilize in various parts of California is about 350,000. These are the most orthodox regular armies, not counting the police and militia organizations everywhere. In addition to about 50,000 troops who have already been defeated in the Los Angeles area, the U.S. military can still send nearly 200,000 troops to Los Angeles from all over California in a short period of time.

And that's just the California garrison, and if reinforcements from other states arrive, their numbers will increase rapidly. You must know that the total strength of the first attack wave of the Ming army is only 500,000 people, and even if you add the second attack wave that has been rushing towards the Los Angeles area on the sea, it is only a million troops. It would take at least two weeks to get the next wave of reinforcements from the Hawaiian Islands.

Landing operations are not just about bringing people ashore. Even in the colonial era, landing in those wild areas that used bows, arrows and spears required a strong support fleet, not to mention the US army, whose armed forces were second only to their own? At this time, in order to carry out landing operations, the powerful fleet of the Ming Navy has been used to the extreme.

In addition, with the continuous progress of science and technology, the modern army's need for logistics is too great. The Ming army was not an army like the Japanese locust army, which allowed soldiers to eat grass or eat directly on the enemy, and only needed to carry a rifle and a batch of bullets. The Ming army of this era was prone to automobiles. Armored vehicles. Open the way is artillery, tanks, planes, and all kinds of luxuries to eat. As for the other kinds of materials, there are countless more.

Moreover, the power of modern science and technology is strong, and at the same time, it also needs to be guaranteed by the system. It's not like the Japanese Locust Army with a gun repair factory that can take care of all the logistics. The Ming army needed all kinds of vehicle repair lines, all kinds of weapons repair lines, all kinds of food that could be stored for a long time. There are far more parts and components than the official equipment, a large amount of fuel supplies, and even because the firepower systems of the Ming army and the American army are completely different, the Ming army also has to carry a huge number of bullets, shells and other materials for its own army.

Just like those jet planes that are disassembled and assembled, the tonnage of the ships that provide them with special aviation gasoline, various parts, and even the necessary materials such as cannons, shells, and rockets is at least ten times more than the tonnage required for these jet fighters!

This is the true meaning of modern warfare, and logistics determines everything. The Ming army not only needed transport ships to transport these supplies, but also needed a large number of warships to escort them.

The Ming army slowed down the landing because of the huge logistical pressure it needed. However, the U.S. military could rely on its own local advantages to launch a deadly counterattack against the Ming army during this time.

In two weeks, with the strong railroad and even air transportation capacity of the United States, the US military was enough to gather a powerful corps far larger than the Ming landing force near Los Angeles. They only need to be able to limit the Ming army within a certain area, and then use the numerical superiority to use the sea of people, tanks, seas, and planes to flood the Ming army. After all, no matter how powerful an army is, it needs to have enough depth to exert its strength.

Americans are not European countries. The United States, which has a strong industrial production capacity, can equip its army with sufficient weapons, even if it cannot be compared with the Ming army in terms of quality, but there is no gap between the times, and it can still achieve a crushing victory in quantity. However, the US military top brass did not adopt this prudent method, and chose to let troops approaching from different directions directly attack Los Angeles.

The units selected to participate in combat operations of this scale in the Ming army were basically elite in a hundred battles, and many officers and soldiers were veterans who had survived the battlefield. Their commanders were also excellent commanders who had passed the test of battle, and they quickly spotted the warplane. Those American troops who came separately could be completely broken by each of them, and there was a beautiful time difference.

As the absolute main force of the first landing force, the 34th Panzer Division was quickly mobilized to the Irvine area after the landing of all its troops. Because the closest U.S. reinforcements to Los Angeles were troops of about two mechanized infantry divisions from San Diego. They were almost arriving in the Lake Forest area.

The Ming landing headquarters, which had already placed its headquarters on Beverly Hill, immediately issued an operational order to prioritize the defeat of this support army after analysis. The 34th Panzer Division was the main force of the attack. (To be continued.) )

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