Chapter 635: Isabella's Great Retreat
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On the east coast of Mexico on May 7, although the sun was shining, the Mexicans there did not feel warm, but rather the arrival of American troops brought them great fear and made them feel hellish cold. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗
More than 20 U.S. battleships and 11 merchant converted escort aircraft carriers approached Alvarado Bay, sank three Mexican Navy heavy cruisers and four destroyers that rushed nearby to reinforce them, and then covered the successful landing of the 25th US Amphibious Mechanized Corps on the beach.
Caught off guard, the Mexican local defenses were quickly routed under the lightning attack of the American mechanized forces, and the American troops quickly advanced to the port of Alvarado, capturing and fortifying it at 11 a.m.
Subsequently, the huge transport fleet of the US Maritime Self-Defense Force quickly departed from Houston and carried 200,000 elite US troops to Alvarado Harbor in five batches.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the main fleet of the Mexican Navy departed from Cancun and arrived in Alvarado Bay, where it encountered the main force of the US Navy, and a fierce naval and air battle broke out between the two sides. ╔╗
Since the Mexican Navy does not have aircraft carriers, although it has 22 battleships, including four Mexican-class super battleships, as well as 18 heavy cruisers, 11 light cruisers and 35 destroyers, as well as 12 submarines, modern naval warfare is no longer the era of battleship domination, the US Navy was beaten the worst by the aircraft carrier battle group of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and the memory is the deepest, so they are also the most profound to learn the lesson, although the main aircraft carrier battle group of the US Navy was completely wiped out in the Battle of Nassau. But they also have hundreds of merchant ships converted into escort aircraft carriers, although the speed and combat power of these aircraft carriers are not as fast as the sunken capital aircraft carriers, but they are more than enough to deal with the main fleet of the Mexican Navy without aircraft carrier escort.
The US and Mexican navies fought fiercely in Alvarado Bay for more than an hour, and although the Mexican Navy's main battleships were strong and superior against US battleships of the same class with the great help of the Chinese Empire, the US aircraft carrier battle group sent more than 200 fighter-bombers to attack the Mexican fleet, causing heavy damage to the Mexican fleet's capital ships.
At 4:20 p.m., the 70,000-ton super battleship Morelia, the flagship of the Mexican fleet, was sunk by U.S. air forces amid a wail. ╔╗ Chaos in the Mexican naval formation. The U.S. fleet was divided into six combat detachments, interspersed with the Mexican fleet in depth, divided it into three major parts and four small parts, and adopted the tactic of concentrating superior forces and annihilating them.
Just after five o'clock in the afternoon, two more 60,000-ton super battleships of the Mexican fleet were sunk by torpedoes dropped by American aircraft. At the same time, the Mexican fleet had already lost seven heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and six destroyers. The bureaucracy of the Mexican military ** led to the extremely weak anti-aircraft firepower of its fleet, so it was powerless to fight back when American planes were raging.
Although at 4:49. A Mexican Navy-equipped Don-class submarine USS Tekpan fired four torpedoes to sink the 50,000-ton USS Austin, the capital ship of the U.S. military, but it no longer matters the big picture.
The heavy losses forced Vice Admiral Querétaro, commander of the Mexican fleet, to abandon the battle in order to save the ship. The Mexican fleet was ordered to withdraw from the theater of operations at full speed.
The U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force was victorious. But the commander, Vice Admiral Dallas, was overly cautious, believing that although there were no main warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy nearby, there were definitely submarines of the Imperial Chinese Empire. Dallas has always been deeply afraid of the submarine force of the Chinese Empire, even higher than the fear of the Chinese Imperial aircraft carrier battle group, so he did not pursue the Mexican fleet, so that the Mexican fleet was lucky to avoid the fate of being completely annihilated.
In fact, at this time, the Caribbean Command of the Imperial Chinese Navy had withdrawn all warships and submarines near the Caribbean Sea to the waters near the San Juan base for defense. At this time, the Chinese Emperor ** in the port of the San Juan base was busy salvaging and repairing the battleship sunk in the harbor. The main task is to restore the Caribbean Fleet at an early date.
In the San Juan air raid, although the Chinese emperor ** made the US military pay a heavy price. But dozens of warships of the entire Caribbean Fleet were sunk in the harbor, and the losses were also very large. At least when the U.S. Navy attacked Mexico. The Imperial Chinese Navy was powerless, and its impact on the entire Mexican theater later proved to be crucial. It was precisely because the Caribbean Fleet of the Chinese Empire was unable to reinforce the Mexican Navy that the US military was able to quickly complete the large-scale north-south flanking operation against Mexico, which eventually led to the tragedy of the fall of Mexico, which was a heavy blow to the strategic deployment of the Chinese Empire in the Americas. ╔╗
When the Mexican fleet was defeated, the U.S. transport fleet from Houston was able to bring the first batch of 50,000 U.S. troops to the port of Alvarado, along with weapons and equipment. At this time, the Mexican high command had already realized the huge strategic threat and hurriedly dispatched troops.
However, to the sadness of the Mexican High Command, the Mexican army's defeat in the Battle of the Rio Grande caused millions of Mexican troops to be pinned down by the U.S. military on the Monterrey-Torreón line. On the contrary, just yesterday, the Mexican High Command also considered that there was no danger in the rear and transferred 300,000 Mexican troops in Callap, a key place east of Mexico City, to the northern front in order to save the defeat of the main force of the Mexican army.
However, the Chinese imperial government overestimated Mexico's military strength, and although the Mexican army was equipped with all the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese armed forces, the Mexican military's ** led to the fact that the well-equipped Mexican army was actually fundamentally weak in combat effectiveness. The Mexican military even deliberately created a so-called trump card unit to prevaricate the personnel sent by the Chinese imperial ** side to Mexico to verify Mexico's combat effectiveness, and the Mexican military's concealment of combat strength led to a mistake in the judgment of the Chinese Imperial General Staff in judging the situation on the battlefield in Mexico. ╔╗
The 500,000 National Defense Forces of the Chinese Empire were ready to deploy from the major military bases of the Chinese Empire on the third day after the declaration of war on the United States, and assembled in the Hawaii Theater. Among them, the officers and men of the Chinese Emperor arrived at the Hawaii base ahead of schedule by transport planes, and the equipment of the 500,000 troops was transported to Hawaii by the navy, which took at least 20 days. The expeditionary force is arriving in Mexico from Hawaii, and it will take at least a month to go directly to the war without rest.
When the U.S. Army blitzed the Mexican Army and won a great victory in the Battle of the Rio Grande within two days, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire believed that it had underestimated the combat strength of the U.S. Army and overestimated the strength of the Mexican Army. According to the reassessment of the Imperial General Staff, the Mexican army may not hold out for a month.
As a result, the Hawaii Theater Command urgently dispatched two airborne divisions, airdropped them to Victoria City in advance, and moved closer to Monterrey to prepare to support the Mexican Army. The two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet, which were covering the air attack on Washington at the same time, immediately moved south to support, but the situation deteriorated quickly, and the Mexican army was almost powerless to fight back, and was beaten by the US military and retreated all the way. Seeing the urgency of the situation, the Hawaii Theater Command dispatched two standing army armored divisions from the theater to Mexico ahead of schedule, but it would take at least a week for the two armored divisions to arrive in Mexico and be engaged in combat.
Until then, it was all up to the Mexican Army to support the situation independently. However, the Mexican Command did not realize that the American army would land in Alvarado Bay, which is the flank and rear of the Mexican capital, and it happened that the Mexican army that was originally stationed there to guard was transferred to the northern front, resulting in the loss of Alvarado.
The loss of Alvarado immediately shocked the Mexican authorities, Mexican President Valdés immediately ordered the capital to be lifted, Secretary of State Miguel persuaded Valdés to immediately transfer back the Mexican Sixth Army Group that was heading north, but Valdés did not listen to the persuasion, he believed that with the Mexican capital garrison and the surrounding local garrisons were enough to repel the invasion of the American army, he also said that the Chinese emperor ** was about to arrive in Mexico, as long as he could hold on for a week, then he would drive the American army out of Mexico in one fell swoop, It's very easy to do.
Of course, Valdés's words do have some basis, and with the powerful military power of the Chinese Empire, it is only a matter of time before the American army is driven away. But what he never expected was that the Mexican garrison and the garrison around the capital in his mouth were too weak, and the Mexican military officers did not dare to say that they usually ate empty salaries and embezzled ordnance and materials, so they could only stubbornly say that there was no problem.
After the successful landing of the US military in the Gulf of Mexico, in order to compete with the Chinese emperor, the US army launched an attack at any cost, even exposing the danger of supply difficulties in the rear, and also crushing Mexico before the expeditionary force of the Chinese Empire arrived in Mexico.
Immediately after the landing on 7 May, the U.S. forces attacked in two directions, one toward Galapu and the other toward Córdoba.
After four hours of fierce fighting between the U.S. military and the Mexican defenders of Córdoba, the Mexican defenders of Cordoba were completely annihilated, and the U.S. military took control of the military base and airfield of the Mexican Army in Córdoba. Because the U.S. 25th Army was anxious to march to Mexico City, there was a shortage of supplies, but fortunately, the U.S. military found a large amount of hoarded advanced weapons and equipment donated by the Chinese Empire to the Mexican Army in the warehouse of the Mexican military base in Córdoba, which were all materials secretly hidden there by Mexican military officials to be resold.
The U.S. military was worried that the ammunition supply in the rear had not yet arrived, which would affect the speed of the march, and as a result, it was just right to use this batch of military supplies from the Chinese Empire to solve the urgent need.
In the warehouse of the Cordoba base, from the H6N4 strategic bomber and the M28A3 main battle tank, to the small, the Chinese armament and equipment of the entire reinforced division fell into the hands of the US military.
Lieutenant General Davis, commander of the US 25th Army, laughed happily for more than ten minutes, and then immediately assembled all this batch of Chinese weapons and equipment to his three armored brigade units. At the same time, Davis picked up a Mexican military uniform and suddenly had a new idea. Because the Mexican army completely imitates and learns from the Chinese Emperor, from training, to equipment, to food and service, almost all of them copy the training system of the Chinese Emperor. Therefore, in addition to the collar and epaulettes of the Mexican army, the other parts of the military uniform are the same as the military uniforms of the Chinese emperor. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )