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Dingtian Novel House. The U.S. troops suffered a great loss in the Battle of Harlingen, and the boiled ducks flew, which gave them a sense of incomparable shame from top to bottom. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info╔╗Ella Book House.

MacArthur used four divisional engineer battalion units to repair the Brownsville Bridge, which had been blown up by the Chinese Emperor, in a week.

The Chinese Emperor was able to repair the Brownsville Bridge three times in a week, and even built a new steel bridge with greater difficulty in less than two days, compared with the difference in strength between the American engineering troops and the Chinese Imperial Engineer Corps, MacArthur could not help but shake his head and sigh bitterly, feeling at a loss for the first time about the future of this war. ╔╗

On 5 June, U.S. forces began to cross the Brownsville Bridge in preparation for further march toward Isabel with the intention of wiping out the less than 50,000 Chinese Imperial Airborne troops there.

However, after two armored divisions of the U.S. Army safely crossed the Brownsville Bridge to the opposite side of the canyon that day, a roar of fighter planes suddenly appeared in the sky, and about two squadrons of A-5 Fire Meteor strike aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Air Force were in the air.

More than 60 A-5 fighter planes took off from Isabel's temporary field airfield, evaded the detection of the US ground radar station in an ultra-low-altitude manner, and cut into the western side of the Brownsville Grand Canyon, thus avoiding the surveillance of ground reconnaissance troops arranged by the US military in the vicinity and being able to appear directly near the Brownsville Bridge.

"Enemy attack!"

When the huge roar characteristic of jet fighters sounded, the U.S. troops on alert near the bridge discovered the Chinese Emperor's fleet. ╔╗

Apparently. While the American military sounded the alarm, they already had no time to prepare anti-aircraft artillery. For the A-5 strike plane, which is close to the speed of sound, when the US sentry hears the sound, the fighter plane has already flown in front of their eyes.

When the pilots of the Imperial Chinese Air Force pressed the rocket launch button, armor-piercing rockets specially designed for anti-tank fire were fired one after another, dragging long smoke tails, and in the blink of an eye, they hit the Brownsville Bridge that the US military had just built.

"Boom! Boom! ”

A huge explosion rang out, and the Brownsville Bridge snapped apart under the blast wave of the explosion. ╔╗ There was a harsh sound of metal grinding and twisting, and then it collapsed. Thousands of American soldiers on the bridge, as well as dozens of tanks and trucks, fell into the bottomless abyss.

"Damn it!"

After receiving the report, MacArthur hurried to the scene, coincidentally in time for the collapse and destruction of the bridge. The bridge, which took a week to repair, was destroyed by the Chinese Imperial Air Force in the blink of an eye, which made him quite painful.

After the Imperial Chinese Air Force launched rockets to destroy the bridge. ╔╗ Immediately divided into multiple squads, roughly finished in battle formation. Began to use machine guns to attack the American troops on both sides of the bridge.

By this time, the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns of the American army were already in place. Quickly weave a huge net of fire to block the attack of the Chinese Imperial aircraft.

However, the US air defense forces obviously use medium- and low-speed propeller fighters as training targets in peacetime, and the ultra-high speed of jet fighters in the space of the Chinese Empire seems to be very unsuitable, and they have not been able to shoot down a single one after fighting for a long time, but instead let the planes of the Chinese Emperor break into the US army's bridge crossing procession, causing thousands of US soldiers to be killed and wounded.

The Chinese Imperial Air Force attacked for about fifteen minutes, and due to the fuel successively reached the cordon. So I had to rush to shoot all the shells and rockets, and then turn around and fly back.

Before leaving, more than a dozen A5 fighters used more than 20 rockets that did not shoot to further attack the Brownsville Bridge. ╔╗Focus on attacking the position of the bridge pier support points on both sides of the cliff and blow it up again. Make it more difficult for U.S. sappers to fix.

The Imperial Chinese Air Force flew away after the mission was completed, and the whole battle lasted less than 20 minutes, and the Imperial Chinese Air Force did not lose a single plane, but it successfully blew up the bridge, and caused thousands of US soldiers to be killed and wounded, causing a great shadow on the US military.

But what worried MacArthur was that the two American armored divisions that had previously reached the opposite side through the bridge were in a desperate situation, and their supplies did not follow, and if the American troops were not able to repair the bridge in a short time, the American troops on the opposite side would collapse due to the supply interruption.

What was even more dangerous was that the Chinese Emperor then sent five or six waves of helicopter gunships to attack the 103rd and 117th armored divisions of the US army.

Due to the lack of effective anti-aircraft firepower of the US tanks, they were almost powerless to fight back against the attack of the Hellfire helicopter gunship with the sound of tank killers.

In just three days, the US 103rd Armored Division lost one-third of its tanks, and the US 117th Armored Division lost more than half. In particular, their supplies were the key targets of the Imperial Chinese Army Air Force.

MacArthur was in a hurry, and the bridge repair work would take at least a week, but the two armored divisions on the opposite side would certainly not last more than a week. Moreover, according to the report of the US aerial reconnaissance plane, an armored division of the Chinese Imperial Airborne Corps is advancing to this side, apparently trying to eliminate the two lone US armored divisions on the other side of the cliff.

As a last resort, MacArthur had no choice but to order the 55th Mechanized Corps and the 87th Infantry Division of the US Army in the direction of McCarron to urgently reinforce in the direction of Harringen. At the same time, it was ordered to complete the task of repairing the bridge within three days at any cost.

Lei Tao in Isabel was about to lead his troops back and eat up tens of thousands of American troops isolated on the east side of the cliff, but soon the General Staff gave the order to retreat, and the other three airborne divisions had already boarded and left, retreating to Havana to rest. Considering that the soldiers were exhausted after the Battle of Harlingen, and the two flanks of American troops were rapidly approaching, Lei Tao gave up the idea of counterattacking and ordered a retreat.

On May 11, the 43rd year of Guanghua, the five airborne divisions of the Chinese Empire reinforcing Mexico were all evacuated from Port Isabel and returned to Cuba for rest.

With the withdrawal of the Chinese Emperor from the battlefield in Mexico, it was announced that the Chinese Empire's original strategic plan to use Mexico as a base to attack the United States had failed.

However, although the Chinese Empire lost on the battlefield in Mexico and failed to unite with the Mexican Army to hold back the main force of the American army and create fighters for the main force of the Chinese Emperor to attack the West Coast of the United States, this did not have much impact on the Chinese Emperor. Especially in the Battle of Haringen, the Chinese Emperor managed to break out of the encirclement of the US army and safely withdraw from the Mexican battlefield under the condition that his troops were absolutely weak and the battlefield environment was extremely unfavorable. Through this battle, the Chinese Emperor has tested the combat effectiveness of the US army, and brought its greatest mechanized advantage to the extreme, which provided valuable experience for the Chinese Emperor to launch a real offensive in the future, and the prelude to a war of mechanized troops was also opened. (To be continued).