Chapter 559: Landing in America (1)

The Ming Dynasty has a long history of planning landing operations on the mainland of the United States, and even when the United States got rid of the rule of the Ming Dynasty, it chose to be independent. After its establishment, the General Staff of the Ming Dynasty began to constantly formulate various plans for fighting the United States. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info And one of the most important points is the battle plan for landing on the U.S. mainland.

The American continent is separated by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and its geographical environment is simply unique. If you want to attack the American continent from the Pacific Ocean, it will be very difficult. Because there is no suitable large forward base in close proximity to the American continent.

If we want to land and fight on the soil of such a military power as the United States, it will inevitably be an unprecedentedly powerful offensive. The number of troops mobilized and the logistical support personnel must be calculated in at least one million. Moreover, in terms of the science and technology of this era, the various military materials that need to be invested are as huge as mountains and seas. Without a huge forward base, everything is utopian.

Geographically, the Alaska region is a good fit. It's big enough, and it's the territory of the American continent. If you land from here, you can go all the way south and head straight to the mainland of the United States. But in reality, Alaska and the northwestern part of Canada have little access to roads. It is a truly pristine landscape and no man's land.

It is almost impossible to get a large-scale mechanized corps through such a huge no-man's land. And that's not even counting the impact of the harsh winter weather here. The cold air coming south from the North Pole is enough to turn the entire region into a bone-chilling ice field.

With the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed possible to push all the way south from the Alaska region, but the resources and time that need to be invested are simply bottomless. And Zhang Cheng has no time to waste now.

The Ming Dynasty's closest major forward base was in the Hawaiian Islands, and the distance from the Hawaiian Islands to the continental United States was at least 2,000 nautical miles. None of them, including the senior commanders of the Ming army or the Allied forces, would have thought that the Ming would land directly on the west coast of the continental United States. Because it's not common sense.

Even if the first wave of attacks is successful, such a long logistics supply line is simply hellish for the logistics troops. Everyone believed that the first thing to do was to land in Mexico, south of the United States, and then occupy a solid landing point before attacking the continental United States from south to north. Or through the Panama Canal, sea transport troops attacked the southern regions of the United States from the Caribbean. And the battle plan of the Daming General Staff is also formulated in this way. Even the Americans themselves know this. After all, there is no complete secrecy in an operation of this magnitude.

From the Gulf of California all the way to Panama, all of them were targets that the Ming army could choose from. The original target of the Ming General Staff was Panama. Once they were able to successfully seize the Panama Canal, they would be able to ship troops into the Caribbean Sea and then use Panama as a base to land north in the southern part of the United States.

However, when this plan was handed over to Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng rejected it.

The reason for Zhang Cheng's refusal is simple. If you land from southern Mexico or other places, it will take too much time. Keep in mind that most of Mexico is mountainous and highlands, and its transportation infrastructure is a shambles. The fully mechanized Ming army will inevitably have to spend a lot of time here, and it will be a disaster. As for the Panama Canal. As long as the Americans are not stupid, it is impossible to leave the Ming intact to the Ming Dynasty.

It is very likely that by the time the Ming army invaded the US mainland from the south, the Americans had already successfully developed the atomic bomb. At that time, once the red-eyed Americans used the atomic bomb in the middle of the war, the casualties of the Ming army were simply incalculable.

Zhang Cheng personally gave operational instructions to the General Staff, asking them to choose the landing site along the California state of the United States. Although the high-ranking generals of the Ming army were opposed. Think it simply won't work. But Zhang Cheng's mind has been decided, and he still stubbornly gives orders.

The high-ranking officers of the Ming army said one after another that if they landed directly on the US mainland, even if they succeeded in occupying the landing site, they would inevitably have to pay a huge price. The casualty figure also starts at least in the hundreds of thousands. This was too tragic for the Ming army.

However, Zhang Cheng's answer was very simple: once the Americans were given time to develop the atomic bomb, and when they put the atomic bomb into actual combat, the price that the Ming army would have to pay would far exceed this figure. Rather than suffering heavy casualties after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb, it is better to strike a heavy blow now.

The order from Zhang Cheng cannot be violated. The General Staff of the Ming Army could only readjust the battle plan.

The elite talents in the General Staff of the Ming Army quickly came up with a new combat plan. They came up with a plan to hide the sky. That is, all the preparatory work is still based on the premise of landing in Panama. Try to trick the Americans into focusing their forces and attention on the Panama region as much as possible. And the Ming army itself did not inform California of its final destination until after they set out from Hawaii!

In order to complete this strategic deception, the Ming army adopted the strictest means of secrecy. All the forces at their disposal were used to fool the Americans and convince them that the choice of the Ming army was in Panama. Spies on both sides did their best, and then. The strategic deception of the Ming army succeeded.

The Americans believed that the Ming would land in Panama or La Paz. As a result, the Americans deployed numerous troops over a vast area from the Baja California Peninsula to the Panama line.

Although the Americans have mobilized a huge army with a large scale and a large number of weapons, at this moment, when the great Ming is in the world, those countries in the south have begun to have two hearts. The Americans, who did not dare to take it lightly, did not station troops on a large scale in the southern countries to prevent the betrayal of these countries and to guard against possible landing operations of the Ming army. And in doing so, it would greatly distract the combat forces of the Americans.

Another point is that the Americans are fighting on two fronts.

Although for a long time before, because of the vast ocean on both sides, it was very convenient for the Americans. However, after the complete defeat of the Allies in the European theater, especially after the European Combined Fleet and the American Atlantic Fleet that had gone to meet them were almost completely wiped out, the great threat to the east coast of the United States was immediately exposed.

The Americans were almost certain that the Ming would land on its east coast. They had to again deploy large numbers of troops on the long defensive line on the east coast to defend against the Ming army's landing operations.

Although the Americans mobilized a large number of troops, they had too many areas to guard against. Especially after they judged that it was impossible for the Ming army to choose the mainland as a target in the first attack wave. The number of troops deployed in California is actually not very large.

Moreover, because of the emptiness of the East Coast, the US top brass disregarded the strong opposition of the front-line commanders and transferred troops from the Pacific Fleet to the East Coast through the Panama Canal to resist the attack of the Ming army. And this approach is exactly what Daming needs.

In order for this attack to be successfully completed. The Ming army prepared a large amount of supplies on the Hawaiian Islands. There are enough of them to bankrupt small countries. And the number of troops in the first attack wave was as high as nearly half a million people!

With the Ming Dynasty's strong maritime capabilities, they can also provide such a large number of officers and soldiers for the first attack wave. At the same time, a fleet of ships secretly departing from the ports of the mainland and the 11th Region at different times and speeds for some distance secretly converged in the waters north of Midway, and then sailed along the North Pacific route in the direction of the continental United States.

This fleet is the real second wave of attack. The fleet was loaded with hundreds of thousands of troops and a large amount of material and equipment. They had set off separately and announced that their destination was the Hawaiian Islands, and both the Ming and American spies regarded it as a reserve for the landing operation, and went to the Hawaiian Islands to prepare first. No one thought that they would be directly resupplying from the sea and then going straight to the United States.

In order to successfully achieve this unprecedented grand battle plan. The Daming Navy, the Pacific Fleet and the Army carried out preparations that lasted for several months and nearly a year. From the mobilization of troops to the development of tactics, from the replenishment of equipment to the preparation of supplies. The Ming military has made extremely thorough preparations. After all, this is a combat operation that allows only success and no failure.

In order to provide sufficient support for the landing force, the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy assembled almost all of its aircraft carriers that could be mobilized to join the escort fleet.

After learning that the Americans had already drawn part of their naval fleet to the East Coast, and that the Americans' new jets had begun to go into mass production. Zhang Cheng decisively gave the order for the official start of the campaign.

When the Ming army swept through the British army in England, the scale was huge, and the huge fleet of ships totaling more than 1,000 had already begun to enter their respective combat areas. The first to attack was the 16th Task Force of the Ming Navy.

The four-aircraft carrier task force operates in the Panama area. However, their first task was not to fight the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, which was stationed in the waters near Panama, but to paralyze the Panama Canal.

The Americans mobilized a decent fleet to the west coast, and the Ming army would not let this fleet return after the landing operation had been launched. They sent an aircraft carrier formation aboard thirty-two medium-sized bombers from both sides that had undergone extensive modifications. Take off from a distant place and bomb the Panama Canal, paralyzing it for at least a month. (To be continued.) )

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