Victory is always a joy, especially for soldiers, and every victory is a festival.

When the last fighters who participated in this sudden air battle returned, although they all had scars on their bodies, some even had a large piece of their skin peeled off, and some flew back with oil leaking all the way, and the engine was punctured.

It was a victory, albeit at a cost, but relative to the losses of the Americans, the Wehrmacht, albeit in the same haste.

"Haha, Lao Gao, let's go, let's go meet these warriors."

Admiral Ge Yunsheng, commander-in-chief of the fleet, and Vice Admiral Gao Xiaochuan, the deputy commander, personally came to the deck and shook hands with the last group of returning pilots.

After the last group of pilots got off the plane, they walked to the deck and finished their formation, and then silently saluted in the direction they had just set out.

This is the silent farewell of the Triumphant to those comrades who failed to return.

Everyone knows that in the vast sea, once you crash, even if you successfully parachute and be rescued, the chances of being rescued are very small.

A Baath Party officer in a colonel's uniform presided over the meeting, with a platoon of soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, standing next to the pilot platoon, and the Baath Party officer also faced the direction of the air battle just now, and whispered: "The spirit of the Chinese war, return to the future, may you cross the ocean and go home first, the Chinese Martyrs' Shrine has your place of rest and eternal rest." ”

"Stand upright, salute, release!"

As the officers shouted their orders, the soldiers' phalanx raised their rifles and fired their guns neatly into the sky, which was the final farewell to the fallen Sky Eagles.

After the ceremony, Ge Yunsheng and the others personally expressed their condolences to the last group of pilots who had returned to the country, and the final battle was the hardest.

The scale of this air battle was not large, and the total number of planes participating in the battle on both sides did not exceed 300, but because both sides collided suddenly, the early warning time provided by the radar could not alleviate the tragedy of this kind of encounter.

"Everyone's worked hard." Ge Yunsheng didn't say anything more, waved his hand and said, "Let's all go down and take a good bath, I approve it, serve a big meal after taking a bath, and allow you to have a small-scale party to celebrate." ”

The pilots left after saluting, they were not pretentious, and they knew in their hearts that such a celebration was the glory of the triumphants.

Subsequently, Ge Yunsheng and the others came to a small conference room, in which in addition to a staff officer and technical officer, there were also four pilots who carried out the mission of launching the Sturgeon anti-ship missile in the air.

During the daytime air raid on the US detachment, they flew HH-3 Jingwei medium-range bombers, each carrying two Sturgeon air-launched anti-ship missiles, and at the very beginning of the raid, they used high-altitude missiles that the Americans had never seen before, and hit the two main warships of the Americans, including the aircraft carrier, in one fell swoop.

An adjutant briefly said a few opening remarks, and Ge Yunsheng asked first: "Comrades, how does it feel to use the new weapon?" Who can answer me most simply. ”

"Report."

An officer with the rank of major in naval aviation stood up and said, "Report, the launch and homing process of the anti-ship missile is working normally, the missile hits with high accuracy, it does not encounter any effective air defense means, it is powerful, and four sturgeon can send one of the main aircraft carriers of the Americans into the sea." ”

"Good." Ge Yunsheng nodded, the surname of the Sturgeon anti-ship missile is very clear to him, and he has also paid very high attention to it before, and the era of automatic weapons, which is completely different from the torpedo era and dive bombing and horizontal bombing, is coming, and as a commander, he attaches great importance to it.

Moreover, the Sturgeon air-launched anti-ship missile is an anti-ship missile with a large warhead, and the warhead of several hundred kilograms is very powerful, and four of them can sink the Americans' 20,000-ton aircraft carrier.

At his suggestion, everyone spoke again.

"I aimed at the American warship, the missile automatically locked onto the target, and after breaking away from the carrier aircraft, the sturgeon quickly hunted the target under the guidance of the airborne radar and got into the hangar of the enemy ship in a very short time."

"I'm a fourth-series launch. After the two sturgeons I launched burrowed into the enemy aircraft carrier, there was a secondary explosion that blew the entire hangar open. ”

…… At least for the time being, it is almost impossible for the Americans to possess anti-ship missiles, let alone air-launched anti-ship missiles, which is one of the most secret weapons prepared by the Pacific Fleet for the US fleet.

The huge power hidden behind the huge cost of the Sturgeon missile, almost ahead of the combat mode of a small era, gave the two the confidence of the next large-scale sea confrontation.

They don't know whether the Sturgeon will be able to create a record as easily as it is today in the next battle, but they understand that once the Americans still adopt the traditional air defense thinking, then a considerable number of US main warships will be blown into the sea by anti-ship missiles to feed the fish.

Although a missile is expensive, it is still not worth mentioning compared to a capital warship.

When the Wehrmacht fleet held a summary meeting, the Hawaiian Islands were also blown up by a bomb.

"Humph! 20 state-of-the-art Poseidon jet fighters, an aircraft carrier squadron was wiped out, followed by the loss of more than 60 F4U Corsair carrier-based aircraft. Had it not been for the imposition of wartime controls, today's losses would have reached Washington tomorrow morning.

They will immediately besiege Congress and accuse you cowards! ”

In the Hawaiian Islands, the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on Oahu, Admiral MacArthur is furious.

In his opinion, it was just an ocean-going training of new weapons, and why did it turn out to be a defeat with heavy losses.

In fact, how much the Chinese lost, this detachment lost, he didn't particularly care. Most critically, the supporting fleet was eventually driven out, and the follow-up support fleet found no trace of the Chinese fleet at all, and the loss of 20 F-86F Poseidon jet fighters reduced the number of Oahu's trump card fighters by a quarter.

Only MacArthur really knew how many F-86Fs there were in the hangar at the air base on Oahu, a full 80, and that was an almost top-secret number.

The U.S. political axe used a huge amount of power, under the guise of the scale of 3 or 40 advanced Poseidon fighters, but the actual number reached a terrifying number of 80.

According to the calculations of the military combat staff, one F-86F is equivalent to at least 1.5, or even two Chinese HJ-3 Blue Shark carrier-based aircraft, that is, at a critical moment, these 80 jet fighters will provide the same help in the sea battle around the Hawaiian Islands.

In MacArthur's imagination, once these 80 state-of-the-art jet fighters suddenly appeared over the battlefield, the Chinese would have a look on their faces.

But now, 20 jet fighters have been lost.

As a high-quality commander, on the premise of having a high degree of mastery of the surnames of the F-86F and HJ-2 and 3 fighters, he knew very well that if he could eat all 20 trained F-86Fs and none of them could escape, the Chinese must have used fighters with the same surname.

"The legendary Eastern jet fighter, maybe the Germans are playing tricks." MacArthur still tends to believe that even if the Chinese have risen, even if the Chinese have advanced science and technology, advanced products, and comprehensive economic and industrial development, but the jet fighter is such a world-leading product, he still does not believe that the Chinese can independently develop.

However, just thinking about it, if the F-86F exceeds a top speed of 900 kilometers per hour, it cannot escape at full speed, then the opponent's jet fighter will not be worse than the F-86F at least.

Could it be that the future superior fighter codenamed X-machine in Chinese can really compete with the technological crystallization of the United States?

You know, in today's world, except for China and the United States, as well as the Germans, everyone else is still in the era of full-scale propeller fighters.

Thinking about it, MacArthur held back his anger in his heart, and immediately called the senior staff of the Pacific Fleet to prepare a plan for a counterattack in the short term.

In the quiet war room meeting, MacArthur said in his most stern voice, "Gentlemen, although the Chinese can no longer attack Pearl Harbor as brazenly as they do, a decisive naval battle is still inevitable.

Before the decisive battle, I decided to immediately organize an underwater defensive battle, and it was time for our new ocean-going submarines to come in handy, they would be sent out, waiting for the Chinese near Hawaii to crash into them, and then sink them with torpedoes. ”

As a result, the U.S. Pacific Fleet Command began to urgently formulate an underwater defense/counterattack plan that must be launched in the short term, relying on a certain type of ocean-going submarine newly equipped by the U.S. military.

This new type of Seahorse-class ocean-going submarine can fight 1,000 to 2,000 kilometers away from the coastline, and because it adopts a new type of combined power propulsion mode and has a large hull support, this new type of submarine has an underwater endurance of 130 kilometers.

Although the Americans never showed themselves to be as good at designing submarines as they were in World War I and World War II, and were far less well-known than the Germans, the new submarines were quickly and smoothly launched into service with the support of the United States' strong industrial and technological system.

MacArthur understood the German wolf pack tactics, but he still did not think that these wolf packs could play a decisive role in the face of a supersized fleet, but if these submarines operating in a defensive/limited sortie manner could achieve some flash results, it would be very beneficial for the whole difficult situation.

This is also the only initiative that MacArthur can make, as for the naval Armageddon, with the Hawaiian Islands as a backing, of course, it cannot be hastily transferred by the Chinese fleet.

…… What is it like to have more than a hundred battleships floating on the sea?

The sea level you can see with the naked eye is almost full of warships, and even if they are orderly divided into as many as five heavy aircraft carrier battle groups A, B, C, D, and E, which look messy with each other, but in fact act in an orderly manner, you will still feel that there are too many of them.

Three days have passed since the first large-scale jet battle in human history, and during these three days, China's navy has constantly changed positions, and at its farthest point, it is nearly 500 kilometers away from the Hawaiian Islands in the opposite direction, which has exceeded the air patrol and reconnaissance radius of almost all US warplanes.

The three days did not wait out of thin air, and he finally could no longer hold back, and the huge combined fleet advanced from the North Pacific all the way to the west coast of the United States.

In order to resist the attack and harassment of the people and dispel the extreme panic of the people at home, the US political axe announced that it would transfer an aircraft carrier fleet from the Pacific Combined Fleet to carry out a warning on the west coast as a mobile deployment force at sea with the cooperation of the land-based air force, and to cooperate with the land-based air force to launch a defense war on the homeland in the event that the Syrian army might attack and harass the west coast.

The Chinese fleet appeared near Hawaii and the ghost lingered. The suddenness of the possibility that his fleet might raid the entire West Coast brought great consternation to the United States.

Prices began to rise in panic, and even domestic trade and freight went down. Residents of the West Coast began to flee one after another, all rumors that they were going to land on the West Coast and bomb a certain coastal area when the US land-based air force was overwhelmed.

However, at this time, there were very few remaining warships that the Atlantic Fleet could draw, and a large number of warships gathered in the Pacific Fleet to form the Pacific Combined Fleet, which was to prevent the Chinese from winning the Pacific naval battle with one blow.

In the eyes of the American political axe, it would be a hundred times more serious than Jean himself bombing several West Coast cities.

Therefore, only a detachment was drawn, and most importantly, the land-based bomber group could no longer massively support the naval battle in the direction of Hawaii. Although the probability of high-altitude horizontal bombing is too low.

This is exactly the opportunity that China is waiting for, and the Chinese fleet, which is hundreds of kilometers away from Hawaii, has begun to maneuver at sea in a premeditated manner.

All Americans, including the President of the United States, MacArthur were waiting, waiting for when China would attack Hawaii.

President Roosevelt even openly declared in the White House: our combined Pacific fleet is ready, and we will fight a fair battle with the Chinese fleet.

In fact, however, the United Pacific Combined Fleet, which has been specially strengthened, is cautious, relying on the advantages of Hawaii's bases, and is easily unwilling to take the initiative to attack a decisive battle.

If you win, then it is a good thing, but in case of huge losses, what do you use to resist the threat of yourself or from the Atlantic?

At this time, the ambivalence of the American political axe was vividly manifested.

Instead of making the Americans resolve to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese fleet, he ordered the war to be slowed down and rely on Pearl Harbor to conduct the war in a more steady manner.

During this period, the only collision between the Chinese and American navies was sporadic submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare, and the Chinese fleet was not only equipped with the latest active towed sonar, but also a number of motherships loaded with small submarines, although China only lost two old ships, while the American submarines lost a lot, knocked out piecemeal.

Perhaps thinking that the Chinese fleet may be equipped with some new type of sonar, this plan was gradually halted shortly after the submarine sneak attack began, and the American submarines scattered like sheep began to be withdrawn secretly.

The losses on both sides are not large, and if nothing else, it will be extremely difficult for submarines to catch up with the Grand Fleet at sea, or to meet the Grand Fleet, unless they are waiting in the strait or near the sea. And it is also whimsical for the fleet to search for submarines in the ocean, unless it happens to be near the fleet's shipping lane.

Then, just as almost everyone thought that the Chinese would definitely go to Hawaii, where the Pacific Fleet was stationed, the US reconnaissance planes occasionally captured reports of the giant fleet at sea, which also confirmed that the Chinese had always wanted to complete the decisive battle at sea.

Just when the Americans were worried and said that they were preparing for a naval offensive again, and the whereabouts of the Chinese fleet were erratic, news came from Asia that made the Americans depressed again.

Chinese in the early morning of July 2, 1944, a large number of Chinese marines, under the cover of the South China Sea Fleet, took advantage of the darkness of the night to sail to the Philippines.

As soon as dawn came, the landing fleet arrived at the outskirts of Manila Port, and then, under the air cover of carrier-based aircraft, the squadron launched a fierce attack on the US forces in Manila, and then forcibly landed at Manila Military Port.

…… Port of Manila, Philippines.

The entire port of Manila is full of rising gunsmoke, and the US military in the Philippines does not have many troops, and 20,000 US troops are just a little more than a division.

In early 1944, in order to cover up the occupation of the Philippines, the United States political axe supported the establishment of the Republic of the Philippines, and the American military enjoyed permanent power to station troops in strategic locations such as Manila.

Throughout the war, the Philippines has been at the forefront of the US military's surveillance of Asia, its analysis of its military strength, its stealing intelligence from various countries, its grasp of the latest trends in Asia, and its monitoring of China's navy movements.

The Philippines, which is far away in Asia, has never thought of using it as a forward military base after China has grown step by step, and this is unrealistic. Because, the Philippines is too close to China and Yuebendu, and deploying too many troops is tantamount to death.

In the past two years, in order not to overly provoke the United States, China has not attacked the Philippines for the time being, and this has resulted in the whole of Asia being the sphere of influence of China, while the Philippines is 'under occupation' by the United States.

As the United States relinquishes its colonial rights and supports the local political axe in the Philippines, the United States intends to build the Philippines into an Asian puppet, and at the same time maintain its military presence without overly provoking it, so that it can not only monitor Asia, but also make the Philippines a forward military base when necessary.

However, China clearly can't wait.

"Huh... Shout... Phew..."

The infantry guns, which had just been unloaded from the landing ship, were quickly towed away, and just after adjusting the shooting points, these on-the-go guns opened fire on the few US military camps that were still stubbornly resisting, and in the sky were carrier-based aircraft/carrier-based bombers constantly flying by.

China's aircraft group took advantage of the dawn to launch an air attack on Manila Airport, although the US radar found the target, but the inefficient Manila Airport was still unable to respond quickly, the pilots moved slowly, or the ground support was repeatedly malfunctioning, and finally only more than 10 US planes were able to take to the air for combat, and after being shot down quickly, Manila Airport was bombed into a sea of fire by the follow-up Chinese bomber group.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

A helicopter took off from the distant offshore fleet and then landed at a landing ground carved out in the port of Manila.

"Salute!"

Amid the salute of the guards, a F-FDTL lieutenant general stepped off the plane, followed by several mid- and high-ranking officers.

When the Marine Corps was first founded, he served as the commander of a certain Marine Brigade of the South China Sea Fleet, and participated in the suppression of anti-Chinese riots and riots in Indonesia, and achieved considerable results.

Today, with the rapid development of the Marine Corps, he is already the commander of the First Marine Corps of the Reading Force, commanding three Marine Divisions and fully commanding the occupation of the Philippines.

In this operation, the 1st Marine Corps was responsible for landing/attacking Manila, eliminating the 20,000 American troops in the Philippines, as well as the newly armed Philippine Native Army.

"Map!"

As soon as Xu Changming stretched out his hand, the staff officers next to him immediately assisted in opening the battle map for Xu Changming, the chief of staff, Major General Haitian, and many other officers to see.

"Commander, there are still two U.S. military barracks that have not been taken down, and about two battalions of U.S. troops are still resisting. The garrison in the port of Manila originally had a regiment of American troops, and these were the remnants of enemy troops. ”

Major General Haitian, chief of staff, pointed to the barracks that had been bombed in the distance. The barracks in the port have always attached great importance to defensive operations. Unfortunately, the fleet's air force was to be used to prioritize attacks on Manila airfield and other important facilities, including a nearby field airfield, and not much time was wasted on these two barracks, which had relatively weak resistance.

Xu Changming: "The purpose of this operation is to quickly and fully occupy Manila and open up a bridgehead for the subsequent full-scale occupation of the Philippines."

The Pacific Fleet of the Americans is being held back by our fleet, and now is the best time to take the Philippines. ”

This Marine Corps commander was not airborne, but steadily rose to the position of commander year after year, and when he went to the South Seas, the Marine Brigade he commanded performed very well, which directly made him serve as the commander of the first batch of Marine Corps divisions.

Immediately, Xu Changming pointed to the two dilapidated barracks in the distance, "Manila is really broken, the Americans don't need to count on this low building to provide them with street fighting protection, call a naval artillery support, 10 minutes, take it for me!" ”

"Yes!"

"Woo Woo ......"

Denser infantry shells began to fall, and then the Coastal Fleet, a landing support fleet of destroyers and heavy cruisers, was also fired, and the Offshore Fleet was launched.

After receiving the request for support, the fire support fleet had already adjusted the guns that fired at Zhu Yuan, and once again slightly adjusted the firing angle, and then the main guns roared.

The main guns of heavy cruisers were 200mm caliber, and the main guns of destroyers were 150mm caliber, and more than a dozen large and small battleships provided landing fire support at the same time, which immediately turned the American barracks into a sea of fire.

As soon as the artillery support was completed, the landing marines already had the size of more than one regiment, and after quickly assembling them, under the orders of this commander, they launched an attack on the two barracks that were still resisting, led by a number of light armored vehicles.

Unfettered by the complex terrain, these marines moved rapidly among the ruins and walls, while the armored vehicles forced their way in, using the machine guns on board and the infantry firing holes on the vehicles, and began to suppress the scattered firepower of the American troops.

At this time, the U.S. military was already dizzy. First they were bombed by planes, then by infantry artillery, and then by naval artillery, and after one turn came down, the American troops had just been killed dozens of people, and they all raised their hands and surrendered.

Small groups of people came out of the rubble, carrying white panties or shirts.

For them, far away in Asia, there is no shame in surrendering, because it is not about defending the United States. Moreover, they also understand that at this time, God is not on the side of the United States at all, and surrender is the way out.

What's more, surrender is not a particularly taboo thing, even an officer will take the lead in doing it.

After all, for them, being sent to war-torn Asia is the same as abandonment.

The battle in Manila was quickly resolved, and after the larger landing ground was cleared, the troops landed faster, and it was not until the second and third landing sites were opened up that before 12 o'clock in the morning, the landing troops, weapons, equipment, and combat materials of one and a half divisions were all landed, and in a few hours, Xu Changming had one and a half divisions in his hands and nearly 30,000 usable marines.

So, the offense escalated.

Before the landing of the main force was completed, Xu Changming had already ordered the concentrated use of light tanks and light armored vehicles, with a total of more than 50 armored vehicles as the vanguard assault force, and a regiment of troops followed up by trucks to quickly launch an attack in the direction of Manila City.

As soon as the reinforcements came up, the follow-up divisions of more than one division were quickly thrown into the battle in Manila, and the armored units were already engaged in the exchange of fire with the American forces in Manila.

When the remaining division and heavy equipment had also landed at about four o'clock in the afternoon, the fiercest attack of the Marines on Manila began.

The 10,000-strong U.S. defenders in Manila and the more than 10,000 Filipino indigenous troops with almost no combat effectiveness faced a fierce attack by 20,000 or 30,000 Chinese Marine Corps officers and men.

They were bombarded by the roaring Chinese carrier-based aircraft, and sometimes they had to be volleyed by the long-range naval guns of heavy cruisers, and the casualties began to increase rapidly.

The three divisions launched fierce attacks from the front and flanks respectively, and the more than 10,000 American troops in Manila were in extremely poor equipment conditions, with zero support and lack of logistical supplies, after a day and night of hard fighting, it was finally difficult to resist the fierce attack of the [***] team.

China's marines are much more elite than their main force, with fierce firepower and strong support from carrier-based aircraft, and their artillery is much stronger than that of the American army, which has only one artillery regiment and was blown up early.

The three divisions attacked almost non-stop, and the American troops finally collapsed after holding out for an afternoon and a night.

When some of the U.S. troops wanted to escape, they were blocked by a battalion of Marines who had already completed the detour of the battlefield, and then the main force arrived, and after more than 2,000 U.S. troops were killed and wounded, the remaining more than 9,000 U.S. troops surrendered to the squadron with all the Philippine troops.

Later the next day, when the situation of the naval battle was unclear and the two sides had their own intentions, which attracted the attention of almost everyone, China officially announced that it had entered the Philippines and completed the disarming of the US forces in Manila.

The outbreak of this war officially announced that when the war between China and the United States was about to break out in full force, the land war also officially began.

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