… Hsu and Pei Chengyi personally commanded and bombed the Mariana Islands to send ground troops to Russia to influence. 【Reading Network】From the beginning of April Knife Day to the end of the 7th of the month, the whole day. days. The bomber units of the Space Army made eight sorties, consuming more than 10,000 cruise missiles, destroying more than four targets and losing bombers. Frame. Casualties of pilots.

If you look at it only from the losses and results. This. The day of the bombing campaign was very successful.

In fact, in this set of statistics. The most noteworthy thing is the efficiency of the attack, that is, the ratio of the ammunition consumed to the target destroyed. No doubt. The current attack efficiency is not only not high. It's frighteningly low. You must know that in all previous local wars, including the Middle East war in direct confrontation with the United States, the attack efficiency of strategic bomber units was several times that of this figure, at least above the paste. Even though the intensity of a local war is limited and helpful in improving the efficiency of the attack, in the previous combat operations, that is, in the bombing operations on the mainland battlefield, the attack efficiency has never been lower than the habit, and basically it has remained above the silt. Some people may say that the mainland battlefield is facing Russia, and the Pacific theater is facing the United States, and it is normal for the attack efficiency to be a little low, but it is so low that it can only be destroyed by a missile, and it is very abnormal.

In the case at that time, the US military's perfect air defense and interception system did play a role.

The problem is that the main reason for such inefficient attacks is the Republican team itself.

According to some information released after the war, the combat consumption on the battlefield on the mainland far exceeded previous expectations, and it was originally estimated that the ammunition reserve could be used for half a year. As a result, it was depleted in the first 4 months. You know, the "ammunition reserve" here includes ammunition produced by the republican ** fire enterprises during this period. That is, by the end of April, the cruise missiles in the republican ** arsenal will be gone. Of course. This is not the case. Because the consumption is too expected. So at the beginning of the 2nd year, the Ministry of Defense adjusted the ammunition production plan and asked arms enterprises to increase production capacity.

The problem is that the production capacity cannot be increased quickly, that is, the newly built plant has not yet been completed, the newly ordered production line has not yet been put into operation, and the existing production line has been running uninterrupted for hours. The only way to increase productivity is to simplify production procedures. In this way, it will certainly reduce the technical specifications of the ammunition, that is, reduce the performance of the ammunition.

Exactly, in the Pacific theater. The cruise missiles used by the bombers are actually "simplified versions." of cruise missiles.

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According to an investigation report released by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic after the war, long before the outbreak of the war, the Republic's Celestial Army formulated a secret backup plan in view of the fact that during the war, all kinds of precision munitions, that is, precision-guided munitions, and the fact that the Space Forces were the largest buyers of precision-guided munitions, would pass the pre-war expectations, insufficient inventory, and insufficient production capacity. Quickly increase ammunition production capacity to meet the needs of war.

Take the heavy cruise missile designed for strategic bombers, for example, without a nuclear warhead. For example, the composite closed-circuit guidance system can be simplified into the most basic control system, that is, an electromagnetic field strength overload circuit breaker is used to automatically shut down the guidance system under the condition of forced electromagnetic interference, and the missile will fly the last tens of kilometers according to a fixed trajectory, thus eliminating the complex and expensive closed-circuit guidance system, greatly simplifying the production process and improving production efficiency.

The problem is that the guidance system is simplified. The accuracy of the missile's attack will definitely suffer.

What's more, the advanced guidance system is also of great help in improving the penetration rate. Still in the form of heavy cruise missiles curtain said, at the stage of penetration. Even in the event of forced electromagnetic interference, a set of optical sensors on the missile will continue to work, allowing the missile to evade when receiving high-energy laser irradiation, and after evasion, the missile will return to its original trajectory, so that the missile has the ability to cope with the laser interception system. After simplifying the guidance system, these functions are no longer there, or they are weakened, so that the effectiveness of the missile's penetration in front of the interception system is greatly reduced.

This is evidenced by the combat record of the US military.

According to the relevant evidence collected after the war, from April to 7 of April in the year of kicking, the US air defense forces and defense systems in the Mariana Islands shot down and intercepted nearly 60,000 targets of various types, including more than 10,000 interception systems. Even if the results of this battle were somewhat watery, the Celestial Forces of the Republic of China only admitted that the cruise missiles that were not vague were intercepted by the US military after the war, and only the cruise missiles dropped by strategic bombers could enter the interception range of the US defense system at that time, if the calculation is halved, it is enough to prove that the simplified cruise missiles do have serious performance defects.

The problem is that during the war, it is always much more important to guarantee yield than to guarantee quality.

As a very simple example, during the Second World War, the German production of "Panthers." The tank is considered to be the finest medium tank. The performance far exceeds that of the Soviet Union. However, its production is much lower than that of the concave, even if you do not consider the high failure rate of the "Panther" due to excessive precision. Faced with a near-old car dent, such a quantitative disparity is enough to wipe out any performance advantage.

Of course, the defects in sexual intelligence cannot be avoided.

It can be seen from this that during the war, the republic successively eliminated cruise missiles and replaced strategic bombers with air-space bombers that used relatively simple unguided munitions and kinetic ammunition, which also had a lot to do with the shortcomings of cruise missiles themselves, especially the difficulty of greatly increasing production capacity on the premise of ensuring performance.

Merely. No one can deny this. The bombardment of the sky achieved decisive results.

Don't look at the bombing of only four or so targets, and more than half of them are mobile targets, i.e. vehicles, ships, not infrastructure. But don't forget, the bombing range is that large. Even if you count all the islands, the Mariana Islands are just over a square kilometer in land area, about the size of a city with a population of 10,000 people, and there are certainly no real bombing targets and vital infrastructure in such a city. Piece. Not even a day.

Judging by the results of the bombing announced by the Celestial Army of the Republic, here it is. After the bombardment, the US military bases on the Mariana Islands were basically completely paralyzed. To be precise, it is that the infrastructure exposed to the ground has been completely destroyed, or has lost its repair value. That is, the Celestial Forces completed the bombing mission according to the plan. Although, given the situation at the time, the intelligence system of the Republic must have had information on some of the underground facilities of the US military. And the Celestial Army also has ammunition to deal with underground facilities, but judging by some of the materials published after the war. The Celestial Army did not bomb the island's underground facilities.

It can be said that this is a relatively big mistake.

You know, for the landing force. The real threat certainly does not come from the surface, but from the underground.

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From a tactical point of view, before landing, the navy of the Republic of China must seize sea supremacy, or at least during the landing period, otherwise the safety of the amphibious fleet transporting the landing force will not be guaranteed, and the offensive operations of the marines after they go ashore will not be guaranteed. With the firepower of the Republic's navy and the Marine Corps, if they are able to start a landing campaign, they will have enough ability to destroy the military installations on the island, to be precise, military installations on the ground. Among other things, as long as there is an escort warship of an aircraft carrier battle group operating near the landing site. can destroy ground military installations on any of the Mariana Islands with naval artillery. Relatively speaking, the underground facilities of the US military are very strong, which cannot be dealt with by the tactical weapons of the Navy and the Marine Corps, and they must use high-power weapons, which is also the strength of strategic bombers.

In fact. Once the Marines are ashore, the greatest threat comes from below the surface.

Later, for this matter, the Celestial Army also dealt with several senior staff officers who were specifically responsible for tactical planning.

In any case, this mistake cost both the Navy and the Marine Corps.

While the bombers were in full swing, the Navy's First Pacific Fleet and Third Fleet were also on the battlefield, with the First Fleet operating in the western waters of the Mariana Islands and the Third Fleet operating in the waters of the Volcanic Islands to the north. In this way, the relatively weak Third Fleet could be covered by shore-based aviation, while the First Fleet would take on the heavy responsibility of seizing sea supremacy and supporting the Marines ashore, while also clearing the route for the amphibious fleet and transport fleet before the battle began, ensuring that the landing force reached the battlefield.

It is somewhat incomprehensible that the U.S. Navy did not act accordingly.

Until March? The Third Fleet, the First Fleet, and the Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Pacific Fleet did not appear in the waters of the Mariana Islands, with the Third Fleet covering the transport fleet in the South Pacific between Australia and New Zealand, the Fifth Fleet protecting engineering units working on the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific, and the Seventh Fleet retreating to Pearl Harbor to reorganize the newly mobilized reserve officers and men. There is sufficient evidence to prove that the US military has no intention of dispatching its fleet to compete with the navy of the Republic for sea supremacy.

Of course, this does not mean that the United States will abandon the Mariana Islands.

Judging from the situation at that time, the fact that the US military did not send a fleet over was directly related to the situation of the war. That is, under the threat of the bomber forces of the Space Forces of the Republic, the US Navy did not dare to let the fleet rashly approach the Mariana Islands. Anyway. With more than four bombers at the same time, plus a few elusive submarines, it would be difficult for any fleet to withstand a combined attack from the sky and the sea.

In fact, during the bombing, the U.S. military had been sending additional combat forces to the Mariana Islands.

On the day of tomorrow, the U.S. military deployed a marine base composed of modular ships in the waters near Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. Then a number of VTOL transport aircraft were dispatched. They worked around the clock to deliver war materials, weapons, and military equipment to Guam, which was many kilometers away. According to the records of the US military, before the 7th of the month. At least * women were shipped to the Mariana Islands. The regional air defense missiles are all packaged in containers, and they can be used after being transported to the firing position and matched with the fire control system, otherwise the regional air defense system on the island would not be able to shoot down nearly 10,000 targets. During this period, the U.S. military delivered at least 10,000 tons of ammunition to the island, and most of them were shells specifically for the Marine Corps artillery units. More importantly, the U.S. military has at least sent more troops to the Mariana Islands. And they're basically veterans drawn from other units of the Marine Corps.

It can also be seen from this that the US military not only does not intend to abandon the Mariana Islands, but is also ready to defend it to the death.

In the same way, the Navy of the Republic will not back down.

Tomorrow on the night of the 7th, preparations for fire before landing began.

Compared with the bombing in the early stage, the pre-landing firepower preparation has a very clear direction, that is, it is aimed at the landing island, or even a specific area on the landing island. For example, landing on the beach to prepare fire, focusing on striking the enemy in the area, as well as the enemy's anti-landing facilities.

If before that, the bombing campaign of the Celestial Army of the Republic could be regarded as clear-eyed. It was a surprise that the Republican Marines chose to land on Saipan and set the landing ground at Cape Sabaneta, the northernmost point of the island. You know, a kilometer south of Cape Sabanetta is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, the city of Saipan. To be precise, Cape Sabaneta is a very famous tourist attraction on the outskirts of Saipan. It is also one of the three beach bathing beaches on the island that are open to tourists and have a full set of infrastructure. If it weren't for the outbreak of war, at the beginning of each year. At least 10,000 visitors from all over the world gather here.

There is no denying landing at a picturesque beach bathing beach. The officers and men of the Republican Marine Corps were greeted not by tanned blonde beauties in bikini swimsuits, but by merciless bullets and traps on the soft sand. Although, in terms of suddenness, it was difficult for the defenders of the island to expect the Republican Marines to be so bold and go ashore so close to Saipan, that is, so close to the center of the defenders' defenses, it was perhaps not difficult for the landing force to go ashore. But it will not be easy to gain a foothold after going ashore. Don't say anything else. After storming the beach, because the width of the landing ground from east to west is less than 1,000 kilometers, the Marine Corps must advance to the south and expand the depth of the landing ground; otherwise, it will not be possible to allow more troops to go ashore The size of the beachhead determines the number of landing troops, and no Marine Corps commander will let the officers and men of a division squeeze on a beach that is less than 1,000 kilometers long.

The problem is that the defenders will definitely defend the city of Saipan in the terrain of the old northern Yunchuan, and the landing force will be in the follow-up Yi Yi "Chau Kai; , it will be very difficult to storm a well-fortified city. It's not that there is no solution, but it needs to take a big risk, such as turning Saipan into a battlefield and letting the old citizens be buried with the US military.

Tactically. There is nothing wrong with landing on Saipan first.

In any case, it is certainly not realistic to land on Guam first. You know, Guam is the most densely armed island in the entire archipelago and the most well-defended island. Looking at it from another angle, if the Marines had the ability to take Guam in one fell swoop, they would not have been so aggressive. Although no one will deny the combat effectiveness of the Republican Marine Corps. However, in the early stage of the war, the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps would certainly not be much higher, and the fighting style would not be as strong as that of the back. If you can't land directly on Guam, you have to occupy an island that would be large enough to be an advance base for an attack on Guam, that is, an island large enough to accommodate enough marines and ammunition supplies. Of course. For logistical reasons, especially for transport safety reasons, the island should be close enough to Guam. And so it goes. The only islands that meet the conditions are Rota, Tinian and Saipan. Rota is the closest to Guam, but millions of tons of ammunition are stored on the island, even if the Republic does not consider that the island will be used as a springboard to attack Guam. Out of secrecy, the US military will also detonate the ammunition depot before it is lost, and send the officers and men of the Republic of China Marine Corps who have landed on the island into the sky with ammunition no less powerful than a strategic nuclear warhead. It also made Rotau disappear from the sea. Tinian Island's defense strength will not be much lower than that of Guam, and there are also a lot of ammunition supplies on the island, so the U.S. military will definitely make the same move. Relatively. Saipan had the fewest defenders and was influenced by the large number of inhabitants of the island. There wasn't much ammunition in stockpile, and the U.S. commander must have thought about the tens of thousands of civilians on the island before making a suicide decision. Of course, Saipan is not without its shortcomings, the biggest problem is that it is too far away from Guam, and there are Tinian Island and Rota Island in the middle, so before entering Guam. The Republican Marines also had to consider whether to occupy Tinian Island, or use the heavy weapons deployed on Saipan to carry out a focused attack on Tinian Island and Rota Island, so that the U.S. forces on the islands would be denied.

Objectively speaking, attack Saipan first. Definitely related to the exercise of the Marine Corps.

Although historically, the Marine Corps came from the Republic Army, in fact, the Navy and Air Force both came from the Army, and only the Space Army had little to do with the Army. But compared to the Army, the history of the Marine Corps is not so glorious, one can even say. The Marine Corps is for the most part dispensable. In a number of local wars over the past many years. The Republican Marines had only performed well during the Tokai War and the Japanese War, and both of those wars had largely nothing to do with the Army. Thus. In a war dominated by the Army, there is no part of the Marine Corps at all. Or the Marines simply can't sing the lead. It must be admitted that the Republican Marine Corps lacked experience in warfare. Especially the experience of large-scale wars. In fact. In terms of scale. The Republican Marine Corps is not only much smaller than the U.S. Marine Corps, but also lower than the French and British in terms of its strength ratio to the Army.

Arguably. Even the officers and men of the Republican Marine Corps are not afraid of death. Nor can they be allowed to shed their blood and die in meaningless battles. And so it goes. It is necessary to let the marines gain experience in the slightly less intense battles, learn from the lessons, and train a group of veterans with rich combat experience. In view of the irreplaceable importance of the Marine Corps in the Pacific theater, the authorities of the Republic had to carefully plan the previous landing operations, that is, to ensure the intensity of the battles, to minimize casualties, and to let those officers and men who had never been on the battlefield know the true face of war.

It is clear that Saipan is certainly the ideal battlefield.

Even if there are enough enemies, there will be no overly fierce battles.

Of course, another key factor in reducing combat casualties is timely, accurate, and powerful fire support. Not to mention the Marines, even on the ground battlefield. The army of the republic, which has rich experience in actual combat, can defeat the enemy in a devastating manner only with strong fire support.

It was in this way that while the fleet was preparing for fire before landing, other support forces rushed over.

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In terms of distance, the first is the fire support fleet that follows the fleet, that is, the two fire support fleets composed of firepower ships. Among the fireships, in addition to the six that hit the naval base in the Russian Far East after the start of the war, there are also those that were completed and put into service at the end of March. Although the 6 new ships in service have been appropriately improved, the advantages and disadvantages of firepower ships have not yet been summed up. So the changes are not very large, and the main performance is not much different from the 6 ships built before the war. Even the firepower is exactly the same.

Relatively speaking, there is another type of support force that is more important to stay outside the battlefield, and that is the sea base.

At that time, the Navy of the Republic used a total of three sea bases. Among them, the one deployed in the waters of the Volcanic Islands is the "Changxing Island" that participated in the attack on the Kamchatka Peninsula before. "Deployed in the waters near the east longitude and north latitude is the island of Taiwan, which is composed of necessary module ships." Sea Base. Deployed in Tokyo! Yudu, north latitude, and the waters near 2 degrees are also the "Hainan Island" sea base composed of modular ships. Because at that time, the Navy of the Republic only had a fourth-generation sea base, and the other three third-generation sea bases were all in other directions, so it can be seen. The Navy of the Republic mobilized almost all of its forces for the attack on the Mariana Islands.

Sea bases are just platforms, not combat weapons.

In order to play the role of a sea base, the Navy of the Republic spared no expense and transferred 2. The tactical air force is larger than the wing in wartime, and its specific size is determined by the needs of the battle, and it can be a single wing or dozens of wings. They were deployed on two fourth-generation offshore platforms, and a support air team was also mobilized to deploy on "Changxing Island." number. According to the operational records of the Navy of the Republic of China, these three air groups have a total of various types of aircraft with close knife and knife racks, including about four tactical fighters, vertical take-off and landing transport planes, and early warning planes, anti-submarine patrol planes, electronic reconnaissance planes, and other support and auxiliary aircraft. Let's not talk about how much of a role so many fighters can wield. The pilots and crew members of these aircraft alone are over, concave. Person!

Of course, it cannot be used to measure the combat effectiveness of these three air forces

The reason is simple, these three air groups are actually mobilized reserves. Of the many fighters, only a number of heavy fighters dedicated to air defense are the latest models. A number of vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft are even older models, even if the main performance indicators are not backward, the sortie rate is not as good as the active model, in fact, the sortie rate is one of the main performance indicators of the transport aircraft, and there are many support aircraft. In addition to the anti-submarine patrol aircraft and AWACS aircraft, which are quite passable, the others are even older and old. For example, two electronic reconnaissance planes were improved from the planes used by the civil aviation department to test ground navigation radars, and their performance was much worse than that of military electronic reconnaissance planes.

As already mentioned, large-scale wars. Quantity is more important than performance.

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Anyway. The Navy of the Republic has understood this.

In fact, the U.S. Navy understands this as well.

In the Navy of the Republic deployed sea-based ones to the front line. While the U.S. Navy is doing the same, the U.S. Navy is doing the same thing, adding a second sea base to Micronesia, south of the Mariana Islands. Although this is only a large sea base composed of no modular ships, not a giant like the Western Generation Naval Base, but with the "Big Mac" composed of modular ships that operated in the sea area and several US military bases in Micronesia, the US Navy will definitely not be able to put in much less fighter planes than the Republic Navy. Of course, the U.S. Navy has to solve the problem of how to get it out. Multiple warplanes. You must know that before the outbreak of the war, due to congressional restrictions, the United States did not mothball a large number of decommissioned equipment like the Republic, and some equipment was decommissioned and mothballed before it even reached the retirement period, and could only give away or sell most of the decommissioned equipment to allies. For this. The solution that the US Navy came up with was to requisition combat aircraft from its allies.

According to the operational record of the US Navy. By the 8th of the month. Fighter jets from the Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Navy, support fighters from the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Navy, and fighter jets from the Mexican Air Force and Navy have been requisitioned. and the RAF and Royal Navy fighter jets, plus the U.S. Navy's sight fighters, and the U.S. Air Force's support of the Reefer fighters, a total of which were mobilized to the Ugly Mouth fighter, of which at least two-thirds, or about the persuasion fighter, was sent to sea bases and military bases in Micronesia. Because the US military does not need to send additional ground troops to the Mariana Islands. There is also no need to send supplies to the front, theoretically. If the US military can seize air supremacy. Airlift troops and supplies to the front line. Then the Republic's offensive has already failed, so the US military does not need to send tactical transport aircraft and too many support aircraft to the front line for the time being.

It can be seen that both sides are actively carrying out final preparations.

On the night of the 8th, the firepower of the Gonghe County Navy entered its peak state. According to the combat records, before dawn, the various participating forces of the Republic Navy dropped nearly 10,000 tons of ammunition of various types on Saipan and the adjacent islands, including more than 10,000 tons of bombs and missiles invested by the air force deployed at the sea base. Before dawn. The fire strike ushered in the final **, and in just a few blade minutes, "the six firepower ships of the fire support fleet threw all the ammunition they carried, including tactical ballistic missiles, because the shelling had been going on all night, so all the remaining shells were fired in the last minute of the blade."

At noon in the morning of the battlefield time, the first units of the Republican Marine Corps landed on Saipan.

As the officers and men of the 7th Marine Brigade Battalion set foot on Saipan, the US military figured out why the Republican Marine Corps decided to land on Saipan and why it chose to go ashore north of Saipan City, because the Republican Marine Corps did not use traditional landing tactics, but attacked in the form of a low-altitude assault like the invincible Republic Army, that is, the landing battle was started with a three-dimensional landing.

As a matter of fact, there is nothing unusual about a three-dimensional landing operation.

Although in the previous year, it was difficult to get heavy equipment into the hands of the landing force because only helicopters and tilt-rotary-wing aircraft with very limited carrying capacity could bring the marines ashore. In a harsh landing operation, it is almost inconceivable that the landing force will be left without heavy equipment. According to the experience of the US military in World War II. Tanks and amphibious combat vehicles are the key forces that determine the success or failure of a landing operation. But by the middle of the century, with the heavy equipment and lightweight, as well as the vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft with very good carrying capacity, the troops were massively equipped to "not get their feet wet." There are no longer any technical obstacles to landing tactics to bring the Marines ashore. In fact. In an era when the army was dominated by low-altitude assaults, it was not surprising that the marines took the express train of low-altitude assault.

Since there is no need to rush the beach, then the obstacles set up by the US military on the beach are of no value.

More importantly, low-altitude assaults do not have great restrictions on landing sites, and it can even be said that there are no restrictions. That is, the landing force can decide the landing site according to the situation on the battlefield, and not necessarily go ashore on a certain beach. Because in the early fire strike. All the ground military facilities of the US military were blown up. Therefore, when the Republican Marine Corps attacked, it was difficult for the US military to resist effectively, and it was impossible to prevent the Marine Corps from landing. With the idea, the U.S. military had to huddle underground and wait in the city. The Navy of the Republic can dispatch unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, with little regard for threats. Accurately grasp every move of the US military on the island. Allowing the Marine Corps to engage in the most ideal way

Fight.

This landing operation completely brought out the characteristics of the Republic Marine Corps.

Even decades later. There are still many people who are commenting on this landing operation and regard it as a model for island landing operations.

In the final analysis, the Republican Marine Corps made the most of its strengths and avoided its weaknesses.

As mentioned earlier, in the large-scale local wars of the Maeda year of the induction of the century, the Republican Marines had few opportunities to perform, and even when they did, they rarely became the protagonists, and there were not many opportunities to fight in large corps. The problem is that this does not mean that the Republican Marines have not fought. The army specifically refers to the army that deals with large-scale wars, and the use of the army often becomes the main feature of war, that is, if the army is not used, it is often defined as a conflict. Therefore, the authorities of the Republic will certainly not use the army unless they are forced to do so or have a limited purpose. The problem is that the republic is facing no small number of external threats. There are not many opportunities for the need to use the military, especially small ground forces. At this time, the Marine Corps came in handy. According to the official information released by the Republic, after the successive years, excluding the Middle East War, the Marine Corps participated in many times more combat operations than the Army, that is, most of the time, the authorities of the Republic regarded the Marine Corps as the only ground force that could be used at will. Among other things, in the military operations in the African region, even if it is necessary to penetrate deep into the mainland, the authorities of the republic have never considered the army, but have used all the marines.

From this, it follows that the Republican Marine Corps is a unit that is very good at conducting skirmishes.

It can be said that it has long been believed that the republican authorities are reluctant to expand the size of the Marine Corps. During the Stockholm negotiations, for example, the Republic had the opportunity to secure a larger share of the Marine Corps, only to make a fuss about the Army. The main reason for giving up the opportunity to expand the Marine Corps was to build the Marine Corps into an elite force. That is, a standing military force whose combat effectiveness is between the regular army of the army and the special forces, but the scale is much higher than that of the special forces.

This is also fully in line with the interests of the republic.

You know, in the year of the knife from the year of injury to the year of the sword, excluding the wars in the Middle East in the infancy, most of the time the Republic faced non-traditional threats. There is no need to use heavy armies at all. And the cost of using special forces is too huge or too sensitive, so the only way to use the Marine Corps is to use it.

There is no doubt that low-altitude assault operations relying on vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft are definitely skirmishes.

Taking into account the actual environment of Saipan. That is, the battlefield is relatively narrow, and the sites that can be used for troops to land and land will not be very large. Therefore, the landing force was put into battle in a company and platoon unit, and rarely concentrated its actions. Although after the landing. It was necessary to contact nearby troops as soon as possible to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, but during the crucial landing phase, the Marine Corps was adept at conducting small-scale assault warfare.

In contrast, the US military is not very suitable for this mode of warfare.

Although Saipan is also guarded by the Marine Corps, and the combat effectiveness of the American Marine Corps is not to be underestimated. According to the internationally recognized statement, the combat effectiveness of the US Marine Corps even surpasses that of the US Army, especially under unfavorable conditions, the US Marine Corps has always been known for its tenacity and good fighting, but the US Marine Corps is better at attacking, rather than facing the enemy on the ground in a low-altitude assault mode, and is still less good at small-scale battles in which the quality of individual soldiers determines victory or defeat in complex battlefields and chaotic battle situations.

It can be said that the Republican Marines fought with ease. The U.S. Marine Corps is in a hurry.

The fighting continued into the afternoon, when the U.S. forces largely abandoned their defensive positions in Saipan. Began to retreat on its own initiative to Mount Tapocho in the center of the island.

This is also something that cannot be helped, if not retreated. U.S. troops would be trapped in Saipan.

Although the U.S. military can hollow out the entire Mount Tapocho. Turn it into a granite military fortress. However, the US military did not have the right to dig underground fortifications under the houses of the residents of Saipan, and it had to admit that the US ** team was indeed a very disciplined army and very respectful of the law, so it was impossible for them to hide in the underground fortifications and continue to resist. As the Republican Marines gradually surrounded Saipan and began to sweep the city, the American troops, who had long lost their heavy equipment, had no choice but to retreat. Avoid heavy casualties in urban areas.

Of course, retreating to Mount Tapocho doesn't mean all is well.

The fact that the republican team did not use high-power weapons of destruction before this does not mean that there is none, nor does it mean that they dare not use them in war.

Even if a single ground-penetrating bomb cannot penetrate the ceiling of the US military's underground fortifications, as long as several or even dozens of ground-penetrating bombs are dropped in a row, even if the US military's underground fortifications have armor steel plates on their heads, they will be blown through. In fact, from the point of view of destruction, in many cases, it is not necessary to blow through the ceiling of the underground fortifications, and it is completely possible to use the seismic waves generated by the explosion to collapse the underground fortifications to kill the enemies inside, or to generate high-intensity infrasonic waves to shock the enemies hiding in the underground fortifications. You know, only during the war in India, the Republic Army proved in actual combat that as long as the ammunition was powerful enough. The seismic waves generated by the explosion are capable of collapsing almost all underground fortifications that have not been particularly reinforced. If a bomb is detonated in a special way, such as a precise control of the detonation of several bombs, it can produce high-intensity infrasound waves in a specific area in a coherent manner that can kill people, and the earth is the ideal medium for sound waves, so it is easier to use infrasound waves against people in underground fortifications than to blow up underground fortifications directly.

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It can be said that even advanced technology is beneficial to the defending side. Passive defense also does not bring victory.

This is also the core military thinking, that is, no matter at any time, even when it is far weaker than the enemy, only by grasping the initiative and taking the initiative to strike at and consume the enemy can we achieve victory.

It is obviously a lie to say that the US military does not understand this truth.

To know. The United States itself is a nation built on guns, and it was one of the countries that experienced the most wars during the industrial age, and was one of the countries that won the most wars.

The fact that the United States was able to replace Britain as a global hegemon and stay there for more than four years has nothing to do with its advanced military thinking.

It can be said that the Republican Marines occupied the city of Saipan, and the offensive and defensive battles on Saipan had just begun.

For the US military, which loses one move first, it is not that there is no chance to turn defeat into victory, but it is just to see if the opponent will give them this opportunity.

While the Republican Marines began to advance south, the U.S. forces were also preparing for a defensive counterattack.

It's just that tomorrow evening, almost no one would have imagined that the first battle for islands in the Pacific theater would become a bloody battle written with tens of thousands of lives and blood!