After the end of the fierce fighting near Santa Clementi, the Ming troops moving south had to be completely defeated. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 They gathered a large number of defeated troops between Dana Point and San Juan, and established a defensive position.

In this fierce engagement, the 34th Armored Division of the Ming Army was surrounded by superior American armored forces (the numerical superiority of the American army and the close combat. ) was hit hard. The whole division, supported by the powerful fleet firepower, retreated to the Dana point in panic, and after counting, it was found that there were only about 50 still usable tanks left in the entire division, and the rest were abandoned on the battlefield.

The Ming infantry also suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the accompanying infantry of the 34th Panzer Division and other Ming infantry units that were later put into battle lost more than 10,000 people in the tragic battle of Santa Clementi! The American army had too many tanks, and many Ming infantry were blocked in the town of San Clementi and were killed and wounded.

Of course, the U.S. military side is not comfortable. When the U.S. armored forces raided the Ming army before, the two sides were almost able to fight a one-to-one battle loss, but when they arrived in the town, because the Ming infantry fought desperately, the use of anti-tank rockets and other weapons brought great threats and losses to the U.S. armored forces.

The biggest loss of the American army came from the heavy shelling of the Ming fleet near the end of the battle. Although the accuracy of shooting at ground targets at sea is not high, the number of the Ming naval fleet is large, and the number of naval guns of various calibers is as high as hundreds. The power and lethality of so many heavy artillery pieces covered an area that was not large enough brought hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of officers and men to the US army.

Although the Ming army and the American army were not afraid of casualties and equipment losses, they both had strong forces that could be quickly replenished. But at this moment, for the Ming army, which was thousands of miles away and landed on the American continent, such a huge loss was definitely a great setback. Because even one additional bullet would need to travel thousands of miles to be transported to the front line.

This battle forced the Ming army to abandon its plan to move south to San Diego for a short time. Moreover, it is necessary to devote troops to hold the southern front to defend against the offensive of the American army.

When the ground forces and aviation of the Ming army were fighting desperately in order to hold on to their landing areas, the Ming navy was also not watching the show, and they were also conducting a large-scale combat operation.

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Marbury Beach, Los Angeles.

Behind the sandy beach covered with fine sand is a steep wall tens of meters high, and on the edge of the steep wall a huge white building stands proudly here. This huge villa, with gardens, swimming pools and dozens of rooms, originally belonged to the owner of a large film company, but the big boss had already run away with the female stars as early as the beginning of landing day. Now this large villa belongs to the Ming army.

About a company of Ming officers and soldiers temporarily lived in this luxurious villa, and they had been ordered to come here to rest after a fierce battle in the city of Los Angeles.

When the empty glass wine bottle was thrown to the beach in the distance, the drunken Ming soldiers burped and continued to lie leisurely on the chairs in the garden and look at the blue sea in the distance.

"Don't drink it all." A Ming army corporal came to the side, looked at the scattered wine bottles and the smell of alcohol around him, and frowned slightly: "Leave some for the brothers who went to the hospital." ”

The Marine Corps company was evacuated from the battlefield, and many of the wounded were taken to field hospitals. And after they forcibly smashed open the door and expropriated the villa, they found a huge wine cellar in the basement. There were at least a thousand bottles of fine wine hidden in it, which made the eyes of this Ming army company reddened immediately, and a meal of eating and drinking was immediately staged here.

"Second Lieutenant Qian Zheng has already collected it." A Ming soldier said lazily: "There are several chests of good wine that have been collected and left for the injured brothers. Who would dare to touch it? Take a bite? ”

The corporal took two steps forward, took the bottle, poured it twice, and nodded vigorously, "It's really good wine." ”

"The lives of these rich people are such a *** waste." Several Ming soldiers around them complained loudly while enjoying other people's good things: "These must all be regarded as war reparations!" ”

"We are going to confiscate all the wealth of the Americans and give it to us soldiers who are going to war." A Ming soldier became more and more energetic, shouting loudly, "Everyone should also share at least 10,000 yuan!" You're right? The latter question was addressed to the corporal who was standing aside, but the corporal did not answer his drunken remarks, but looked straight at the sea in the distance.

"What's wrong?" Although they were all drunk, out of the intuition of the soldiers, the Ming officers and soldiers around them still stood up one after another. Follow the corporal's gaze towards the sea in the distance.

In the middle of the vast sea, a huge fleet of extremely powerful and almost endless fleets is slowly heading south!

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The powerful U.S. Navy suffered a heavy blow after the defeat in the Battle of Hawaii, not only lost the ability to compete for supremacy in the Pacific, but even the defense of its own territory from attack became an extremely serious matter. In fact, the biggest reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to form a crushing superior attack on the allies was because of the defeat of the US Navy in the Battle of Hawaii.

Because of the defeat in the Battle of Hawaii, the U.S. Navy lost the strength to compete with the Ming Navy for maritime supremacy and had to retreat to the home coastline. This greatly liberated the Ming army's sea, land and air forces, so that they could transfer their huge forces, including logistics supplies, material deployment, etc., to other battlefields, which greatly strengthened the strength of the Ming army on other battlefields.

Moreover, because of the defeat of the U.S. Navy, the Americans, who were facing a huge threat on their homeland, had to leave a large number of troops and supplies on their homeland to deal with the possible landing operations of the Ming army. This also greatly reduced the level of support for the Allies on other battlefields.

Although purely in terms of military combat effectiveness, the German army was undoubtedly the strongest among the Allied countries. However, if we take into account the country's overall strength and follow-up strength, the country with the strongest comprehensive combat effectiveness is the United States. Without the power of the Americans, defeat on the European battlefield was already doomed.

The United States, which is the most powerful in terms of numbers and logistical supply capacity, chose to focus on its homeland when the Ming army began to launch a large-scale counteroffensive on the European theater, and watched its allies be defeated one by one.

If the Americans were willing to provide strong support at any cost when the Ming army launched a strategic counteroffensive towards Europe, the Ming army would certainly not be able to sweep through Europe so easily.

The reverse is also true, if the Ming Navy is defeated in the naval battle of the Hawaiian Islands, then the main energy of the Ming army must be to turn to the Pacific Ocean, after all, rushing from Hawaii to the vital Ming mainland is just blocking some islands. Once the U.S. military is brought closer to the mainland, the Ming will even be at risk of defeat.

This shows the importance of the navy in warfare. The outcome of a naval battle determines the course of the war.

The industrial strength of the Americans is very strong, although it has not yet caught up with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is also a staggering existence. Their production capacity needs no more description. However, naval warships are not warplanes and tanks, which can be produced quickly in minutes.

Naval warships, which can often cost tens of thousands of tons, are systematic projects, and it takes a long time and a lot of resources and skilled workers to complete these complex construction work. And the only thing Americans lack in these is time.

It will take at least 14 months for Daming to build a new aircraft carrier of the latest type, from laying the keel to starting to enter service. This is still the day-fare shipyard of Daming, which operates in shifts around the clock, while adopting an advanced modular construction method. And even if the Essex-class aircraft carrier built by the US Navy on a large scale is less difficult to build than the Ming Army in terms of tonnage, it will take at least ten months.

In addition to aircraft carriers, other warships also need a lot of time to be launched to form combat effectiveness. And the U.S. Navy is also very bad because most of their shipbuilding capacity is concentrated on the east coast, that is, on the Atlantic side. After the battleship was launched, it had to go through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean. As a result, the U.S. Navy was not able to regain strength in the period after the Battle of Hawaii.

When the intention of the Ming Navy to land on the coast of America became more and more obvious, almost all the remaining naval forces of the US Navy were mobilized to the east coast to prepare for the landing operation of the Ming army.

Because of a strategic error in judgment, the US Navy top brass insisted that the Ming would inevitably land in Panama. Ignoring the strong opposition of the front-line commanders, they insisted on sending the main naval force to the waters near Panama to prepare for the landing fleet of the Ming Navy.

And what is even more exaggerated is that just when all kinds of intelligence showed that the Ming landing operation was about to be launched. However, due to the destruction of the Atlantic Fleet and the Combined European Fleet, the US Navy drew a part of its forces from the naval fleet that was preparing to meet it, crossed the Panama Canal and went to the Atlantic Ocean to prepare for a possible landing operation by the Daming Atlantic Fleet, which was still far away from Britain.

This decision, which was called the worst by the Navy's front-line commanders, caused the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, which was already under-strengthened, to lose another third of its strength. After the Ming Navy raided the Panama Canal and then landed in the Los Angeles area, the US Navy was dumbfounded.

Judging from the powerful combat strength displayed by the Ming Navy in this unprecedented landing operation, the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy, which was already lacking in strength, had no certainty of victory.

However, the U.S. Navy could not let the Ming army run rampant near its own home coastline with impunity. They still sent the commander of the front-line fleet, Admiral Spruance, an operational order to block the landing of the Ming army. (To be continued.) )