"Attack, continuous attack!"

Pershing's roar continued to be heard from the Manila headquarters, much to his annoyance that Dagupan's attack had been frustrated.

"Report to the general, the troops have already suffered more than five thousand casualties"

Pershing glanced at the staff officer with a blue face, and said angrily: "What I want is not the casualty figure, I just want the result, and the result is to drive the Chinese into the sea." ”

The staff officer said hesitantly: "But if the casualties are too large, the country cannot explain it."

Ishihara interjected on the side: "What the United States needs now is victory, and driving the Chinese into the sea is victory." In Indochina, China's military is overwhelming. In northern Vietnam, the northern line of the Chinese advanced to the line of the Red River, and the western front advanced to the line of the Heishui River Yuechi, and the Chinese army landed in Thanh Hoa, basically forming a joint encirclement of more than 300,000 troops in northern Vietnam; At the same time, the South China Sea Fleet landed in Hue, and the landed land forces were launching an attack on Da Nang, which was about to be defended; In the Siamese direction, the Chinese advanced more than 200 kilometers without much effort, and were storming Sukhothai, an important defense line in Siam; In the Burma direction, the Chinese Second Army has reached the outskirts of Mandalay, captured Myitkyina in the west, and is attacking the Assam region. In terms of the overall situation, the coalition forces are defeated, and both the United States and the coalition forces need a victory to boost morale and strengthen their confidence in victory. ”

Pershing waved away the staff officer, and his face was extremely ugly. Ishihara had said before that the infantry firepower of the Chinese army was strong, but he never expected it to be so strong, and a call from the front line said that the other party was simply a machine gun in his hand, and the bullets were as dense as raindrops. Charging again and again, attacking, it is like sending troops up to be slaughtered, and the front line says that it can no longer be called a battlefield, but a slaughterhouse.

Pershing slammed his fist on the table and said to Ishihara, "Your Excellency Ishihara, do you have any suggestions?" ”

Ishihara Waner thought for a while and said, "According to the telegram, the landing force of the Chinese has only one regiment, and I want to attack on multiple fronts." They are underarmed. Maybe there will be a chance. But he secretly sneered in his heart: idiot, at this time, the army of the people of China should have begun to land, and the only way to do this is to let the people land and engage in large-scale ground battles. Both the China and the Americans suffered heavy casualties. In this way, a blood feud between the two sides can be formed. and even never die.

"Good! I won't spare the damned Chinese. Pershing's face was hideous, he had already hated the Chinese to the bone. If it weren't for the air raid of the Chinese Air Force, the artillery and countless shells he brought with him would have been destroyed. The Chinese landing force could be wiped out in an instant, but the previous US troops in the Philippines were dealing with indigenous monkeys, and they did not prepare heavy artillery at all, even if there were only a limited number of 105 mm caliber guns, and they could not carry out a devastating artillery bombardment of Dagupan.

The military order was like a mountain, Pershing gave the order, and the American troops in Dagupan also quickly deployed, and almost except for the coastal line, the American army launched an all-out attack. Sure enough, the Marine Corps divided its troops into defense, and its firepower weakened a lot.

However, Chinese troop carriers have arrived at the docks, and a steady stream of army troops has poured ashore.

Li Dingxin, Sa Zhenbing and Shen Honglie saw that the U.S. military was actually besieging Dagupan on three sides, and Li Dingxin was angry and happy on the spot: "These bitches raised them, do you really think our warships are decorations?" ”

Sa Zhenbing looked at it and said, "The north and south sides are within the range of the main guns of our capital ship. ”

Li Dingxin snorted coldly and said: "I have already estimated, let the brothers be careful, don't hit your own position, and do what he was raised." ”

"Yes!" Shen Honglie answered loudly and immediately went to give the order. The main guns of the three main ships of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, the Jiangsu, Fujian, and Kirishima, began to turn one after another.

Sa Zhenbing smiled and said, "Calculate the time, the north should be successful." ”

Li Dingxin said with a smile: "The commander-in-chief is too careful, in fact, it is enough for us to go this way." ”

Sa Zhenbing smiled: "That's to make sure nothing goes wrong." ”

The "boom" cannon finally began to roar, and the monstrous flames swallowed out dozens of meters, and the US troops charging in the distance were instantly cleared out of a large area by the shelling of the giant artillery, and the entire area flew sand and rocks with a violent explosion

"What?" An urgent telegram reached General Pershing, and he lost color on the spot, the telegram in his hand slipped to the ground, and the whole person sat down on the big chair of the headquarters.

Ishihara was taken aback and said, "General, what's wrong?" ”

Pershing's face was extremely ugly: "The town of Laoag in the north was fiercely attacked, and the Chinese forcibly landed in Laoag with the cooperation of the sea and air. ”

Ishihara's face changed greatly, Laoag is an important coastal town in the north of Luzon, and it is the main docking place for merchant ships and fishing boats in the north, although it is also not suitable for large warships with deep draft to dock, but the defense force there is only one division, and with the support of the Chinese Navy's naval guns, it is difficult for the US troops who lack heavy firepower to resist, especially when I heard that China has a kind of landing ship that can directly send tanks ashore.

Ishihara said in a deep voice: "It turns out that they are striking the west. No, the Chinese only did this to ensure the success of the landing, and Dagupan's attack was not only a landing operation, but also to prevent American reinforcements to Raig. ”

"Damn!" Pershing trembled with anger, and with his military qualities, of course, he could see that Dagupan was definitely not a feint, and that Dagupan's Chinese army had already begun to land, and judging from the size of the troop carriers, the Chinese army was expected to have the strength of one army. In such a situation, would he dare to send reinforcements to Raag easily? Even if it's reinforcements, I'm afraid it's too late. In case it is impossible to repel the Chinese army in Dagupan, then the reinforcements sent will be cut off, and there is only a dead end.

Pershing tried to calm himself down and said, "Your Excellency Ishihara, do you have any other suggestions?" ”

Ishihara Waner sighed and said, "The Chinese's large-scale southward and all-out attack this time is undoubtedly carefully planned and deduced countless times to ensure that nothing goes wrong. The Chinese need a thunderous blow and a huge victory to show their countrymen that they can overcome and strengthen their confidence in victory. General, we never thought that the Chinese would dare to attack directly, even if we planned that the coalition forces were thinking about how to attack China, we were caught off guard. In this case, there is only one way. ”

Pershing said in a deep voice: "What way? ”

Ishihara said seriously: "Retreat." ”

"Retreat!" Pershing was furious and glared at Ishihara viciously, as if he was going to eat him alive. But Ishihara looked calm and unafraid. Halfway, Pershing gasped, "Tell me why!" ”

Ishihara said: "I have carefully observed that the last time the Chinese bombed Manila, although fighters were dispatched, the fighters stayed for less than ten minutes, and they left immediately after attacking the airport, which shows that the Chinese fighters can stay for a limited time, and I have calculated that the straight-line distance from the southernmost section of Taiwan to Manila is about 700 kilometers, which is almost the limit of the combat radius of Chinese fighters." ”

Pershing nodded: "I know that the Chinese fighter took off from a converted merchant ship, which is said to be a training ship for the Chinese naval aviation." ”

Ishihara said, "That's great." It seems that Manila is outside the combat radius of Chinese fighters. I believe that the general also knows the strength of the Chinese Air Force, and if the Chinese attack with sea and air cooperation, and the general's heavy weapons and anti-aircraft weapons suffer heavy losses, it will be very difficult to block them, not to mention that the Chinese army has a large number of extremely advanced tanks. ”

Pershing thought about it calmly, and had to admit that the other party was right, so he said, "What exactly do you want to say?" Please let me know directly. ”

Ishihara said with a sly smile: "What I mean is that I hope that the general will retreat and withdraw the troops to the combat radius of the Chinese fighters to fight unexpectedly, and the battlefield is Manila." Use street fighting to offset the Chinese's weapon superiority, and mobilize a group of fighters as soon as possible, I think that although the fighters of the coalition forces are not comparable to the Chinese's fighters, it should not be a big problem to deal with heavy bombers, right? ”

Pershing nodded and said solemnly, "I see what you mean." Although the Chinese H-1 Thunderbird bombers are faster than our fighters, if they want to bomb, our fighters have every chance to deal with them. If the Chinese cannot give full play to air superiority, then their ground forces heavy weapons are not strong, although they are stronger than we are now, but as long as the follow-up supplies arrive, our heavy weapons will definitely have an advantage. Trade the city of Manila for victory, I agree! ”

Ishihara Wan'er showed a smug smile, and said secretly in his heart: "Shina, you will definitely pay the price, and Manila will become your bloodshed."

Pershing immediately said: "Your Excellency Ishihara, you are worthy of being called a young Japanese strategist. I immediately ordered the Chinese to be driven out of the city, began to lay out the street fortifications, and I wanted to turn the city into a fortress of war. At the same time, I will also mobilize submarine forces to carry out a sabotage attack on the sea communication supply of the Chinese, so that the damned China will meet in Manila and break the blood! ”

Ishihara Waner hurriedly said: "General, the Chinese should be left behind, only then will they not dare to bomb Manila wantonly." ”

Pershing frowned and said, "Civilians have nothing to do with war, Your Excellency. And if we leave the Chinese expatriates in the city, who know the layout of the city, and engage in street fighting, our arrangement will lose most of its usefulness. Needless to say, it's settled. ”

Ishihara actually wanted to say that the Chinese had a terrifying cannon that could move with the army. But seeing that Pershing was so resolute, he didn't insist, he decided to let the Yankees suffer, so that he would follow his advice more. The kind of artillery of the Chinese is really terrible, but in any case, it is the Americans who die, and he will not take it to heart no matter how much he dies, and the more the Yankees die, the more the two sides will form a deep blood feud, and when China is defeated, the settlement of the great powers will be more complete.

One after another, orders were issued from the headquarters, and the American troops on the front line gradually retreated in an orderly manner (to be continued......