Chapter 565: Landing in the Americas (7)

The officers and men of the 49th Armored Division of the US Army, who had been suppressed to the brink of collapse because of the heavy losses, immediately fell into collapse after seeing the tiger tanks with huge bodies like ancient mammoths rumbling over. The pen "Fun" Pavilion can't beat www.biquge.info leopards, and a group of powerful tigers will still spank after killing them.

The U.S. 49th Panzer Division, which had suffered huge losses, could no longer fight, and the officers and men of this division desperately fled from the town, completely giving up the last chance to enter the port area from land.

In fact, once the armored torrent of the 49th Armored Division of the US Army successfully broke through the Ming defenses and rushed into the port area, it would be a fatal blow to the entire Ming Army that was nervously loading and unloading. This is also the reason why the Ming army gave priority to unloading tank units to resist the American armored forces.

Fortunately, the Ming army finally blocked the counterattack of the 49th Armored Division of the US Army and successfully held the port area firmly in their own hands.

After a few hours, it was completely dark. However, the entire port area is still brightly lit and extremely busy. Several warships leaned against the outer edge, throwing thick cables ashore to provide electricity for the many lighting and lifting equipment in the port area. The power system in the port area has been almost destroyed during the previous battle, and it is not possible to repair it in a short time.

The scientific and technological suppression of the Ming Dynasty was very powerful, and the Ming army had extremely advanced radar that could enable fighters to carry out large-scale bombing operations at night. And even the Ming army can only install this kind of radar on the fighter to make it a night fighter, but the Americans can't do it at all.

Although the Americans have studied this aspect, they are far inferior to the Ming army, which has been put into actual combat.

However, after all, the US military is fighting on its own soil, and there is no shortage of smart people in its army. During the day, because of the fierce fighting and the suddenness of the incident, you may not be able to remember, but at night, if you don't come back to your senses, it will be too, and I'm sorry for the military uniforms on their bodies.

At night, the Americans mobilized groups of large four-engine heavy bombers from other places to fly toward the Los Angeles area, preparing to use large-scale bombing to destroy the landing equipment of the Ming army and delay the progress of the Ming army's landing. However, because there was no night radar, they did not send any escort force.

These heavy bombers are very similar to the Ming Dynasty's Flying Fortresses, and they are also sturdy in their fuselages and have an extremely high range. And even at night, because you are very familiar with the coordinates at home, you can still carry out large-scale long-range bombing operations. As long as you have a good enough pilot.

The Ming Dynasty itself had the most powerful heavy bomber force, and established unprecedented feats in the war. Naturally, they had already taken this into account when drawing up their battle plans. Therefore, their first request after the landing was to capture and repair numerous airfields. So that a large number of fighters can be stationed at the airfield to provide cover for the troops.

During the daytime fighting, the U.S. California National Guard and the 108th Infantry Division were nearly crippled, and most of the heavy casualties were inflicted during the fierce fighting with the Ming landing force in Long Beach and its vicinity. The final counterattack launched by the 49th Panzer Division also ended in failure. As a result, the defenders of the Los Angeles area lost their main combat force in just one day.

The remaining remnants of the defeated generals and the local militia were powerless to resist the surging Ming elite landing force after dark. The fully mechanized marching Ming troops captured all 11 airfields in the Los Angeles area in just a few hours.

After having the airfield, the Ming army sappers entered the busiest stage. These hand-picked sappers drove a variety of machinery and equipment to restore the airport to operational capacity as quickly as possible.

Perhaps many people think that the night is short. Actually, that's because of sleep. Nights are as long as they are during the day. Because it is autumn, it is more than ten hours from dark at night to the next day.

For the Ming sappers, who are all mechanics and even engineers, they miraculously repaired many airport runways in these more than ten hours with sufficient materials and mechanical tools.

Because of its strong national strength, Daming is the only country in the world that can popularize national education. And the Ming Dynasty, who attached so much importance to education, also gained a huge advantage in the war. The national education of the Ming Dynasty is not to read the Four Books and Five Classics. Although there will still be Chinese studies in Daming's schools, it is still a very important subject. However, those who specialize in liberal arts are basically preparing to become officials.

Because of the popularity of science and nature education, Daming has the largest number of technicians and engineers in the world. Almost every household in the wealthy Ming Dynasty owned a car, which made the Ming armored force have a terrifying number of reserves suitable for service when they were formed. Neither driving nor maintenance was a problem for the Ming army.

In modern time and space, knowing words is a very common thing. After all, the penetration rate of education is very, very high. However, in this era, most countries except the Ming Dynasty have a huge number of illiterates. In some countries, the illiteracy rate is as high as more than 90 percent.

The main reason for this state of affairs is that education requires huge investment, and in this era of scarcity, only Daming dared to make a large-scale investment in education with hidden wealth. Even the United States and Germany are slightly better than other countries.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to find so many vehicle pilots, aircraft pilots, naval crews, and maintenance personnel of all kinds. These require professional knowledge, and it is far from being something that can become a well-trained army by just bringing people over for training.

You can pull people at will, but the result is that you can only barely drive it and barely shoot the shells. This ability comes when you meet a truly battle-tested elite opponent. It's basically food delivery. This was very evident during World War II. This was true both the Soviet armored forces, which won completely by numbers, and the Japanese air forces in the later period.

It is also important to note that the powerful classes in many countries are unwilling to allow the intellectual emancipation of ordinary people, and they try to consolidate their dominance by monopolizing knowledge. However, with the great intensification of world exchanges, it has become increasingly difficult to do so, unless it is to close the country to an unprecedented intensity.

When the sappers of the Ming Dynasty were repairing the airport, the special containers that had been transported all the way by large trailers had already been opened in the hangar. A large number of excellent ground crews swarmed up and were able to assemble the latest model of fighter in a matter of hours.

With the continuous advancement of science and technology, the dependence of various new weapons on logistics has become more and more huge. It's like a jet plane, which requires at least dozens of ground crews to provide it with full ground support.

That is, behind one pilot there must be at least dozens of ground crews. Although these ground handlers cannot serve only one aircraft. However, this is still a side proof of the dependence of new weapons on logistics.

The assembled planes immediately begin to reload and refuel, and then rush into the darkness of night under the pilot's pilot. These jets are equipped with advanced night combat detection radars. Although it is not equipped with missiles as a high-tech product, the huge attack capability of four machine guns and two honeycomb rocket launchers poses a deadly threat to the US heavy bomber group with an unusually strong body and strong self-defense capabilities.

Ming army jet fighters equipped with advanced radars could spot groups of heavy bombers of the US military at great distances. Then, outside the range of the self-defense fire of the US fighter planes, all the rockets in the rocket nest were launched. These rockets, loaded with a large amount of explosives, were very dense, and when loaded with the same dense formation of American bombers, they were able to inflict huge damage on the Americans.

The sturdy armor of the American heavy bombers may be able to resist the attack of machine guns, but the damage caused by the rocket attack is heavy. From Beverly Hills, the dark sky was filled with flickering bright spots of light and long tail flames. Every now and then, warplanes with long flames in tow would fall from the sky.

During the long night of the day of the landing, the U.S. forces hardly stopped launching fierce attacks on the Ming-controlled areas of the Los Angeles area. However, under the strong resistance of the Ming army, the losses were heavy.

That night, the US military lost more than 200 heavy bombers, and you must know that the crew of a heavy bomber formation has more than 10 members. Once the bomber is destroyed, the vast majority of these members will not be able to escape. However, they did not achieve any decent results, and the losses of the Ming army in the port area were minimal.

After the complete rout of the main forces of the US ground forces, the entire Los Angeles region soon fell into the hands of the Ming army. They rode in their own military vehicles and all kinds of vehicles requisitioned from all over the country, carrying a large number of military supplies, along the highways in all directions. Their mission is to expand the area of the occupied territory as much as possible, and not to stop until they encounter an invincible resistance.

The area of Los Angeles is huge. However, at this moment, the main force of the American army stationed here has been defeated, and the remaining remnants of the defeated generals and local militia cannot stop the torrent of Ming army attack troops.

The entire bustling city of Los Angeles is filled with gunpowder smoke and blazing fires, and countless citizens try to flee outside the city but are consumed by the flames of war. Many more hid in their homes, trembling and waiting for the war to end. (To be continued.) )

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