"Immediately mobilize three divisions to the north to reinforce Dagupan!"

Pershing, who hurried back to the command, immediately shouted as soon as he entered the command.

"General." Ishihara followed closely behind him, and when he heard this, he said urgently, "Three divisions are not enough!" ”

Pershing said in surprise: "Can't three divisions of nearly 50,000 troops crush the landing force of the Chinese?" ”

Ishihara said hurriedly: "If it is only the Chinese Marine Corps, of course, there is no problem, but since the Chinese dare to carry out such a military adventure, there is no doubt that behind their fleet is a huge army, and I guess they will at least invest the strength of one army at a time." Just like when they landed in Japan. ”

Pershing's expression became solemn, and the Japanese country was ruined, and there was no doubt that they hated the Chinese very much. Japan was originally a neighbor of China, imitated and learned from China for thousands of years, and after its rise in modern times, it was delusional and delusional to try to annex China, although the Japanese failed and the end was tragic. However, there is one thing that no one can deny, that is, Japan has studied China extremely carefully, and it is no exaggeration to say that Japan knows China best.

Thinking of this, Pershing said seriously: "How many troops do you think should be sent?" ”

"Six, no, nine divisions!" Ishihara said solemnly, "The standard equipment of the Chinese National Defense Forces is: semi-automatic rifles, assault rifles, squad machine guns, heavy machine guns of 7 and 62 calibers, and large-caliber heavy machine guns of 12 and 7 mm caliber, and its light weapon firepower is at least three times that of the US military's current caliber firepower, and the artillery is mainly 60, 82, and 105 mm caliber mortars, due to the simple production process of mortars. Light and practical, and can fight with the army in almost any terrain, this is the main component of Chinese artillery, as for 105 mm, 150 mm caliber howitzers, cannons, although China can also build, but the number is small, even the division level of troops will not be equipped with more than one battalion. However, on the battlefield, the Chinese will use the air force to suppress or destroy the opponent's artillery fire, so even if they have few artillery, they can fight to the fullest extent and exert their maximum power. ”

Pershing was deep in thought, as if considering Ishihara's words.

Ishihara Waner's face was a little distorted: "We Japanese and Chinese have national hatred and family hatred. It is no longer possible for us to take revenge ourselves. I stayed because I hoped to take revenge on the Chinese with the hand of the American army, and I didn't want any accidents to happen, let alone see the Chinese win. ”

“OK！” Pershing nodded. "Listen to you. Nine divisions. I don't want any accidents either. ”

"Thank you."

"At all costs. Drive the Chinese into the sea to feed the fish! ”

"Order, collect all the cars in Manila, whether they be cars, horse-drawn carriages, or ox carts. Everything must be in the service of the army! ”

Pershing, as the most outstanding general in modern America, was absolutely decisive, quickly mobilized nine divisions to rush north, all the vehicles in Manila were requisitioned to transport supplies for the army, and almost all the remaining artillery went north.

He has a firm belief that the Philippines must not be allowed to become the main battlefield of the United States, and in his eyes, Chinese mainland is the main battlefield of the US military. Although the Chinese "sneak attack" severely damaged the combined fleet, he firmly believed that the coalition forces would definitely be able to achieve sea supremacy, because even the size of the US Pacific Fleet, which is only half of the size of the Chinese navy, is above the size of China's navy, so what reason is there not to achieve sea supremacy?

Although he fully believes that the 500,000 US troops in the Philippines can defeat the Chinese landing force, what he is most worried about is not whether he can win, but after defeating the Chinese landing force, a large number of Chinese troops will persist in fighting in the tropical rainforest of the Philippines, then the entire Philippines will be unstable for a long time, and a large number of US troops will be pinned down.

But what Pershing never expected was that Dagupan was already about to fall at this time.

The Chinese Navy made up its mind to let the two warships run aground to provide accurate artillery support, and the navy's gunners were much more powerful than the army's artillery, and it was almost impossible to shoot at fixed targets with fixed batteries.

One by one, the firepower points that relied on to support the operation were pulled out, and the blocking positions were ravaged by artillery fire.

First of all, the inhabitants of Dagupan saw the artillery fire getting closer and closer, and finally they could not resist the fear and fled frantically. This kind of rout affected the morale of the US officers and soldiers, and the battlefield was ravaged by Chinese artillery fire, and the firepower of the Chinese infantry was far above them.

In fact, the struggle for hegemony in Europe during the Age of Discovery in the Western world did give birth to many elite troops in Europe. But with the white colonization of the world, a sense of superiority was born, and people were at ease, unless the homeland was invaded, and almost more and more greedy for life and fear of death (except for Soviet Russia), that is, they could only fight with the wind. Speaking of the Sino-French War from afar, the elite troops of the French mainland were almost beaten by Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and lost their armor; In the Boer War, the British army of hundreds of thousands could not deal with the Boers with a population of only a few hundred thousand, and suffered heavy losses; It was Hitler's German army, which almost swept Europe at the beginning with armored clusters, how high-spirited? But with the defeat of the Battle of Stalingrad, the army was quickly defeated.

On the other hand, in modern China, if the warlord troops are not counted, whether it is the Kuomintang and Communist forces, they fought to the end on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and the dead and wounded abounded, so it is said that the tiger division of the Chengde Defense War, a division reaches only a few dozen people, which is simply unimaginable in the West, such as on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, Luo Cheng is still fighting a bloody battle with only one person left, which is absolutely a myth in the West.

Once the US military has no superiority in firepower, but is suppressed by Chinese artillery fire, its morale will be like a deflated ball, directly flattened to the bottom and collapsed.

Lei Peng did not go to pursue, he and Chief of Staff Yu De directly ordered to repair the fortifications, ready to resist the counterattack of the US army, it is not a secret that a large number of US troops reinforced to Manila, hundreds of thousands of US troops are more than 100 kilometers away, according to the extreme march training of the Wehrmacht, that is, a day's journey, if the car transports troops, it will only take two or three hours.

As the time passed, the troops settled the overseas Chinese gathered in the surrounding area, and on the far sea, a fleet of ships slowly drove towards the wharf.

"It's finally here."

The fleeing U.S. troops also happened to collide head-on with the American forward who had been ordered by Pershing to rush to reinforcements, and this forward force called in thousands of vehicles from the remnants of the Manila military and all civilian vehicles to quickly come to reinforce them.

"The commander-in-chief, General Pershing, has mobilized nine divisions of troops to the north, demanding that we must drive the Chinese into the sea to feed the fish at all costs, and those who retreat will be dealt with by military law!"

At that time, their artillery fire was destroyed by the Chinese Air Force at the first time, after all, the troops were patrolled and stationed, but the artillery could not be pulled around every day, almost all of them were placed in the barracks, and as a result, the Chinese Air Force attacked the barracks and almost all of them were gone. However, they also saw that the reinforcements pulled a lot of artillery with cars, and as far as they knew, the Chinese were just a regiment, and the reinforcements had nine divisions. Is there any reason not to fight and the Judge Advocate General's Office squatting in a small black room?

As a result, the U.S. troops immediately changed their form, and rushed towards Dagupan with great momentum, and soon launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire.

The U.S. military is certainly not stupid, and the United States, as a maritime power, knows the navy very well, has colonized the Philippines for more than 20 years, and also knows the hydrology of the Philippines very well. The US military officers knew very well that although there was a port in Dagupan, it was only for merchant ships and fishing boats, and troop transports were also okay, but warships with a deep draft, especially large warships, wanted to dock? Don't even think about it, it's shallow sea.

China's large warships can only loitere a few kilometers away, and destroyers can barely get close to provide fire support to the troops on the shore, after all, the Chinese Navy must not be familiar with the waters here, and the warships are too close and have tentacles.

Sure enough, as expected by the US military, although the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Navy is here, the large warships are even more unable to provide fire support, and only destroyers and light cruisers of about 2,000 tons can get close to provide fire strikes, and the caliber of the guns of these warships is not larger than that of the army's artillery, and they estimate the distance and directly deploy the artillery outside the range of the naval guns, after all, across a town, as long as their shells can reach the Chinese defenders in the town, they can support the troops to counterattack.

Li Dingxin and Sa Zhenbing were so angry that they almost vomited blood, and Shen Honglie hurriedly said: "Chief of the General Staff, commander, we will immediately send sailors to dive to search the waterway." ”

Li Dingxin roared: "Go immediately." ”

Sa Zhenbing watched Shen Honglie go in response, looked at the troop transport fleet that had already approached the port, gritted his teeth and said, "Immediately urge the army to land as soon as possible." ”

The arrival of a large number of Chinese troop carriers naturally fell into the eyes of the US military, and the US military officers also knew that if the Chinese army really landed on a large scale, although they were still confident that they would drive them into the sea, who would dare to guarantee that the Chinese side would not have a second wave of land forces?

"Attack, charge me!"

Under the cover of artillery fire, the US troops reached nearly 100 meters and launched a large-scale charge, and at this moment, the Chinese positions were continuously attacked by US artillery fire, and the positions that were temporarily repaired had long since become unrecognizable, but after all, the army's artillery could not be compared with the giant artillery, and it could not achieve the effect of a devastating blow.

The remaining front-line marines and men began to shoot after the artillery fire. The combat mission of the Marine Corps is to land on the beach, and since it is a Marine Corps, it is naturally supported by fleet artillery, and the troops are pursuing strong firepower, and almost all of them are equipped with assault rifles.

The intertwined firepower of hundreds of assault rifles formed a terrifying rain of steel bullets, and countless US officers and men fell one by one like cutting straws, and then the naval artillery also shelled the deep and vertical of the US troops, and in a short period of time it became a massacre.

"The U.S. military officers already knew that the Chinese army had strong firepower, but they never expected it to be so ferocious, and they were all dumbfounded.

"Damn, do they have a machine gun in their hands?" (To be continued......)