"The casualties are not small!"

Yang Feng looked at the latest casualty report and said.

In the first half month of participating in the war, the Ming army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, lost more than 50 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, shot down eight Cobra helicopter gunships, lost two ghosts and two tiger sharks in air combat, and three flying leopards were shot down by ground fire. In particular, these three flying leopards were shot down in the area controlled by the Japanese army, and the wreckage of one of them did not have time to be destroyed, and it is very likely that the latter obtained it, and the avionics system does not have to worry about leakage, but if the two turbofan engines are not good, they will fall into the hands of the Soviets.

Although such losses are not worth mentioning compared to the American army, they are already shocking to the generals of the Ming army.

"According to this situation, if we want to drive the Japanese army out of Tokyo, we have to prepare at least 3,000 casualties, and it is possible to reach 5,000 if we don't get it, and if we really want to drive them back to the north of the 39th parallel, then I am afraid that there will be more than 20,000 casualties.

Chen Hu said.

Half a century later, what can you ask me to solve the problem that the people of the United States can't really solve?

Yang Feng thought to himself.

"Unless we also use campaign-tactical missiles."

Chen Hu continued.

"Explain."

Yang Feng said.

"It's very simple, the missile launch bases of the Japanese army are in Fukushima, Koriyama, and Aizu, because it is a mobile launch, they have multiple missile launch sites that can be used, and no one knows where to hide in normal times, and once they need to launch, they suddenly drive to the launch site to deploy. It doesn't take an hour to complete the launch and evacuate. We can't know before they launch. This area is not only densely patrolled by their MiG-21s. Moreover, there are also a large number of camouflaged ground-to-air missile positions, and our large aircraft groups used to be able to conduct targeted operations, but small aircraft groups patrolling were easily besieged by their air-ground coordination. So only after they launch the missile, can it be determined from which position it was launched, but even if the aircraft takes off from an aircraft carrier at sea, it cannot arrive before they withdraw from their position.

And if campaign-tactical missiles are used, then the time should be about the same, and we can deploy several sets of launchers. A set of preset positions aimed at a Scud, all missiles are ready to be launched at any time, and once they determine which launch position they are using, they immediately fire missiles at this position, and two missiles use cluster warheads, scattering nearly 2,000 submunitions, enough to destroy one of their launchers. ”

Chen Hu said.

The Ming army's campaign and tactical missiles are quite advanced, and in fact, they are directly installed in this rocket launcher box, just like the genuine version of the steel rain rocket artillery system, except that a group of launch units originally containing six rockets can only hold one solid-fuel missile. The firing range is not very far, only one hundred and fifty kilometers. But it is not as accurate as the original MGM140, which is guided by satellites, while the accuracy of the Ming army's campaign-tactical missiles can actually only reach fifty meters.

But that's enough.

A steel rain rocket launcher can launch two such missiles, each missile carries 950 submunitions, and 1,900 submunitions are dropped, and it is estimated that one Scud missile battalion will be finished.

What's more important is that it is fast, and the missile with five times the speed of sound will pass in more than a minute, and if it is aimed well in advance, it will be launched as soon as the target is found, and the missile battalion of the Japanese army will definitely not have time to move.

"Then use it!"

Yang Feng said immediately.

"But we need to land at Hitachi first, and we don't have enough range from our zone of control in Tokyo."

Chen Hu said.

"Then do a landing, and it happens to be used as a publicity stunt!"

Yang Feng said.

At the same time, the Eighth Army of the Ming Army also announced that in order to end the war as soon as possible, and at the same time, it was also a gift to the people of the United States during the visit of the Führer, and the Ming army would carry out a flank landing behind enemy lines.

Even the battleship Huaxia, which had just completed repairs, rushed north for reinforcements.

At the same time as the Huaxia set sail, Yang Feng also boarded his Air Force No. 1 special plane in Yingtian, because this was an official visit, so of course the Führer's wife also accompanied, in fact, this is Yang Feng's first visit to the United States as a leader of a country with diplomatic relations since Eisenhower came to power, although he went back to the United States several times a year, but it was all informal in a private capacity, but there was no official visit.

Air Force One's first stop is Guam, the second is Hawaii, the third is San Francisco, and the fourth is Washington.

This plane is an Airbus A310 and not a 380, it is impossible to fly directly over the Pacific Ocean, Guam's welcome ceremony is just like that, after all, it is a small place, but the welcome scene in Hawaii is quite warm, when Air Force One landed at Honolulu Airport under the escort of eight handsome F106 interceptors, hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting to greet this best friend in the United States.

Although he is always changing roles between friends and rivals in the United States, at least for now, he is indeed the best friend of the United States.

"I was advised not to come to the United States at this time, because there is a good chance that the evil witch will prepare an atomic bomb for me."

The Führer said into the microphone at the airport.

There was an awkward smile underneath.

"But I have to come, I just want to tell you, to tell the people of your country, no matter what danger, no matter how terrible the enemy, I and the people of the Ming Empire will face it together with you, and the Ming and the United States will always fight side by side to face all enemies, whether it is those evil countries, the Liu rogue regime or the terror fenzi, they will all be wiped out under the sword that we hold together, and the ship of Mingmei friendship will not be afraid of any stormy waves!"

Immediately afterwards, Yang Yuan pretended to shout very forcefully.

There was immediately a scream of excitement in front of him, especially those enthusiastic girls from the United States, who were even more crazy to throw flying kisses at him. For a moment, the scene almost got out of control.

Of course. Führer Yang did not stay in Hawaii for long. After a few tours, meeting with the Governor and Speaker of the House of Hawaii, as well as local Chinese celebrities, and personally unveiling the newly built Chen Fang Memorial Hall, the next day flew aboard Air Force One to San Francisco, and then spent a day in North America's largest Chinese community before flying to Washington.

Just as he stepped off Air Force One and shook hands with the welcoming Secretary of State Lux, a huge fleet had already appeared off the coast of Hitachi. Immediately after that, twelve Yinglong bombers appeared under the protection of fighter jets and dropped twenty-four bombs on the coast, using this terrifying weapon to instantly create a large area of no man's land in and around Port Hitachi. At the same time, the four battleships of the Ming Army, the Huaxia, Yanhuang, Iowa, and Wisconsin, plus dozens of light and heavy cruisers, began to bombard the shore in a depth of 10 kilometers, and the terrifying 406 mm and 356 mm naval guns easily created a death barrier.

And then there's the landing ship.

Air-cushion landing craft for transporting Leopard tanks, crocodile infantry fighting vehicles for direct floating. Under the cover of a large number of destroyers, they quickly sailed out from one landing ship after another and went straight to the coast.

And at the same time. Elephant helicopters full of soldiers also flew off the deck of the amphibious assault ship one after another, and landed on the beachhead before the air-cushion landing craft arrived, opening up the landing ground as quickly as possible, and clearing up the remnants of the enemy army. Although there are also some shore fortifications here, this kind of thing is just a reinforced concrete coffin in front of the cloud bomb, and there is hardly a living person in the entire Hitachi coast, let alone any soldiers.

"Three-dimensional landing, these guys' sets of things are getting more and more beautiful, compared to their landing, we are like a low-budget bad movie from a third-rate Hollywood director in Incheon!"

On the battleship Iowa, Westmoreland held a telescope and said, it is obvious that the first immersive experience of the Ming army's three-dimensional landing operations made the American general very stimulated, although the Ming army's landing tactics have been used countless times, but the description of the text and the impact brought by what you have seen with your own eyes is not a grade after all, especially the scene of the air-cushion landing craft rushing to the beach with a high-speed main battle tank at a high speed of fifty knots, and then continuing to soar on land, which is absolutely shocking.

"Fortunately, it won't be long before we all have what they have."

The general beside him shrugged and said.

The US military's Tarawa-class amphibious assault ships have been launched, and they will join the Navy at the end of next year at most, and the first batch will be built with four full ones, in addition to the entire twelve Austin-class dock landing ships that will soon be completed and put into service, it can be said that soon the US military will also have amphibious combat capabilities that are not inferior to those of the Ming army.

"Do we have this?"

Westmoreland said expressionlessly pointing to a Sea Harrier attack aircraft taking off vertically on the deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Loyalty.

"Well, this one doesn't, but we should be able to buy it from Britain, right?"

The general said.

"What about this?"

Westmoreland said, pointing to a fleet of Cobra gunships flying overhead.

"Well, if our Cheyenne completes development, it should be better than a Cobra, right? Although its development speed is a little slower, it can definitely be developed. ”

"What about this?"

Westmoreland said, pointing to an air-cushion landing craft with a Leopard tank and a large bunch of additional infantry.

"Well, this one of ours is indeed a little smaller, and it can't fit tanks, but it's still no problem to load infantry and trucks, and the next generation of main battle tanks that can transport them is also being developed."

The general said.

The United States did develop an air-cushion landing craft, but because of the lack of technical strength in this regard, coupled with the performance problems of Lycomingming's gas turbine, it is much smaller than that used by the Ming army, and it cannot be loaded with M60 tanks, and even the lighter M48 cannot be installed, only M41 light tanks can be installed, but the problem of whether there is or without has been solved.

"Well, it's all there, but do we have nearly ten years of experience? Have we had countless combat experiences? Do we trade our lives for perfect tactics? ”

Westmoreland said.

"Well, that's not true."

The general said honestly. (To be continued.) )