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Port Isabel was destroyed by the US Navy, which led to the impact on the plans of the Imperial Chinese Navy to set up a strategic supply base there, which had arrived from the direction of Havana. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Although the Chinese Empire's engineering units tried to repair the cargo facilities at Port Isabel as quickly as possible, the land supplies to Lei Tao's department could not be delivered on time.

In the direction of Haringen, the U.S. military used wheel tactics to constantly compress the living space of Lei Tao's department, although the two airborne divisions from San Juan fell on the flank of Lei Tao's department, so that they could support each other as horns, but the sea supply line has not been able to open up, counting on the air force once a day airdrop materials are simply not enough to consume, soon the U.S. military also discovered the airdrop operation of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and sent a large number of fighters and bombers to sabotage, so that the four Chinese emperors on both sides of Harlingen ** The units of the airborne division received less supplies per day.

On the morning of the 24th, more than 10,000 fighters and bombers dispatched by the Hawaii Theater Command of the Chinese Empire flew to eastern Mexico to bomb the US ** team passing through Mexico. The heavy bombing of more than 70 Mexican air force airfields and areas where US ground forces are concentrated, effectively relieving the pressure on the Chinese emperor in the direction of Haringen. ╔╗

This time, the US military learned wisely and avoided engaging the Chinese Imperial Empire's fighter group head-on, allowing the bomber group of the Chinese Imperial Air Force to bomb the US ground forces, while the US ground troops only dug bomb shelters and air defense bunkers to hide.

The U.S. High Command knew very well that the U.S. Air Force could not compete head-on with the Imperial Chinese Air Force. So they don't fight, but that doesn't mean they sit still. The U.S. Air Force used only more than 4,000 fighter planes and bomber groups to continue to attack the four Chinese Imperial Airborne Divisions on both flanks of Harlingen.

The fall of Mexico in the blink of an eye has made a series of strategic deployments and operational plans formulated by the Chinese Imperial Empire to use Mexico as a springboard to attack the United States.

Hawaii's bomber fleet took too long to travel to and from Haringen. For the Chinese Emperor, who is fighting fiercely every second of Halingen, it is really difficult to quench his thirst. After the bombing of the Imperial Chinese Air Force passed, the US military reorganized the offensive, and the fighting was still fierce. ╔╗

In the face of the strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese Emperor, the offensive of the US army in wheel warfare suffered extremely heavy losses.

On the battlefield, the defense line built by the Chinese emperor was strong and tactical. With the powerful fire support points of the Chinese emperor's soldiers, the echelon fire points composed of assault rifles, heavy machine guns, rocket artillery, self-propelled (anti-tank) artillery, and armored combat vehicles. The high, medium and low cooperate in an orderly manner. Powerful fire bags were built in front of the U.S. troops, and all the U.S. tanks and infantry that entered the fire bags were destroyed.

In the Bamut Gorge northeast of Harlingen, the strength of a reinforced company of the Chinese Emperor stubbornly blocked the three-day onslaught of an entire armored brigade of the US army.

If it weren't for the bad weather and the dwindling supplies airdropped, this reinforced company would still be able to hold off the US army's attack for two days.

"Is this the formidable combat power of the world's No. 1 Army?"

The generals of the US army on the front line in Haringen are almost all saying the same sentence, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese emperor on the opposite side is too strong, and the firepower configuration of a regiment is equivalent to a division of the US army. ╔╗ And the same kind of weapons and equipment are more advanced than those of the US military.

It wasn't until many, many years later that the Chinese Empire launched the Second Gulf War. When a certain Gulf power, which claims to be the second largest in the world, was defeated in a one-sided situation, a well-known American military strategist said: "Decades ago. This is how the Chinese Empire defeated us, and at that time we also boasted of being the second military power in the world. In retrospect, the gap between the military strength of the Chinese and American armies had been widened for at least 20 years, but no one realized this at the time, including Roosevelt and Hitler, who did not understand what a generation gap was. ”

"No matter what the cost is, we will completely annihilate the forces of the Chinese Empire!"

Roosevelt, who had taken refuge in Chicago, issued a death order in his provisional presidential office, demanding that the American troops on the front line annihilate the five airborne divisions of the Chinese Empire in the direction of Harringen at all costs.

Everyone understands why Roosevelt gave this order, this is not just a campaign to avenge the Chinese Empire, three million American troops poured into Mexico, and they were thrown into the war of annihilation of less than 80,000 Chinese emperors, if the other side successfully escaped or the US military failed to attack, it would make the US government and the army become an international laughing stock, the US military could not afford to lose that person, Roosevelt could not afford to lose that person, and the spitting stars of more than 100 million American people would also drown Roosevelt. ╔╗

However, neither Roosevelt nor the US military was aware of a problem, that is, in an area less than 300 kilometers from the direction of Harlingen, there was no way to spread out 3 million US troops, and even the nearly 1 million US troops rushing to the front could barely form a battle formation. The battle-hardened Chinese Emperor ** made the best use of the terrain in the direction of Harlingen, which is the estuary of the Grande River, surrounded by steep cliffs, where the Chinese Emperor ** relied on natural dangers to resist the attacks of the US army, and the losses caused to the US army increased exponentially.

However, there is no lack of capable people in the U.S. military, MacArthur personally came to the Harringen front line to command the operation, he changed the traditional World War I tactics of the U.S. army's previous reliance on armored units to play the vanguard, and the infantry followed later, but adopted a small group of troops to disperse the attack to contain the firepower of the Chinese Emperor, and the large force detoured back to the flank of the Chinese Emperor.

MacArthur is very shrewd, he knows that the advantage of the Chinese Emperor is that the equipment is advanced and the firepower is strong, and it is impossible to fight with the Chinese Emperor with equipment and firepower. The Chinese Emperor ** took the route of elite soldiers, so they had few troops. MacArthur calculated that the Chinese Emperor would not take the initiative to counter-charge because of the shortage of troops, so he dared to make a bold strategic detour.

I have to admit that MacArthur made the right bet this time, and the Chinese emperor, who was short of troops, had to retreat step by step due to the daily loss of troops, shrinking the defensive line step by step, and the overall strategic intention of retreating to Isabel remained unchanged.

When the U.S. military adopted MacArthur's new tactics, Lei Tao on the opposite side was forced to fall into a tactical passive situation, and what was even more passive was that MacArthur was very aware of Lei Tao's strategic intentions, and he even guessed Lei Tao's plan to withdraw from Brownsville to Isabel. To this end, MacArthur concentrated all the bombers on the front line of the US army and carried out a saturation bombing of Brownsville, focusing on destroying the Brownsville Bridge and completely cutting off the retreat of Lei Tao's department.

When Lei Tao learned that the Brownsville Bridge had been blown up, it was like a bolt from the blue, because the bridge was the only way he could retreat to Isabel.

The back road was completely cut off, Lei Tao tightly sealed the news, looking at the heroic soldiers, Lei Tao had to sigh, he was going to make the final deployment.

"Major Li Lei, please swear that you will be fearless of hardships and dangers, at all costs, even if you sacrifice your life, you will bring back the number flag of the 19th Airborne Division (the 1st Airborne Division of the Hawaii Theater) and the number flag of the 33rd Airborne Division (the 2nd Airborne Division of the Hawaii Theater) of the Chinese Imperial Airborne Forces Group Army back to the motherland intact, and personally hand it back to His Majesty the Emperor, and apologize to His Majesty on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the two divisions!"

"I swear that I, Li Lei, will not be afraid of hardships and dangers, at all costs, even if I sacrifice my life, I will bring the flags of the 19th Airborne Division and the 33rd Airborne Division of the Chinese Imperial Airborne Forces Group Army back to the motherland intact, and personally hand them back to His Majesty the Emperor, and apologize to Your Majesty on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of our two divisions!"

After Major Li Lei took the oath in front of Lei Tao, he took over the divisional flags of the 19th Airborne Division and the 33rd Airborne Division from Lei Tao, and then carefully packed the two flags into a five-defense box made of stainless steel.

Then the chief of staff put a C4 plastic bomb in it, closed the lid and handed a remote control to Li Lei, saying: "Don't fall into the hands of the enemy!" Do you understand? ”

"Report to the Chief of Staff, I understand!" Li Lei carefully took the remote control, put it in his arms, and was relieved after repeatedly confirming that it was correct.

Lei Tao nodded and said, "I'll give you a battalion, you set off immediately, and you must bring me the military flag out!" ”

Li Lei was surprised: "General, your troops are running out, it's enough for me to bring a platoon, and the rest of the brothers will stay, one more person and one more strength." ”

Lei Tao was suddenly displeased: "Confused! Do you think this road will be safe? Tell you, the U.S. military was able to blow up the bridge so accurately and completely, and there must be someone from them on the ground to guide the coordinates. Do you know the sex of these two flags? ”

Li Lei suddenly said: "Report to the general, these two military flags are woven and embroidered by the concubines and concubines of the imperial harem, and they are the number flags awarded to us by His Majesty the Emperor himself, and each regular division of the empire has only one flag, which represents the supreme honor of our division. ”

Lei Tao nodded, stroked the box, seemed to be able to see the flag inside through the box, and sighed: "Although the imperial constitution does not clearly stipulate that the flag is destroyed by the person in the flag, but this flag and number are unique, the flag is destroyed or captured by the enemy, the number of our division will be revoked, and our number will never be our number in the emperor team, which is more uncomfortable than death for every emperor ** person." Therefore, every one of us will swear in front of this banner that the flag is in the people, and the flag is destroyed. Therefore, the burden on your body is heavier than ours, and giving you a battalion has another meaning, that is, to leave some blood and bones for our two divisions, and come back to avenge us in the future! ”

"I see! Please rest assured that the generals and chiefs of staff will resolutely complete the task! ”

"Go get ready!"

"Yes!"

Looking at Li Lei's departing back, Lei Tao and the chief of staff looked at each other and smiled, their expressions were much more relaxed. In their hearts, it is not terrible to die in battle, but the most terrible thing is that their military flag is gone. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )