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Chapter 446: Capture of Alaska (III)

Over Elmendorf Air Base, the sky was covered by dense numbers of Imperial Chinese Air Force combat aircraft. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 With bursts of sharp whistling, one aerial bomb after another fell on the US military base.

Combat planes of the 13th Air Wing of the US Air Force took off in an emergency to make a final resistance. However, after the first wave of air battles, the combat aircraft of the 13th Air Wing of the US Air Force have been reduced from 1,500 to 667, because the runway was destroyed, so when the second wave of attack aircraft of the Chinese Imperial Air Force came, only 520 fighters took off, and the other planes were destroyed on the ground because they did not have time to take off.

The second wave of the Imperial Chinese Air Force dispatched 4,000 fighters and 800 bombers, and the US military was in a weak position both in terms of quantity and quality. However, there are many and weak points, in the limited airspace, 4,000 fighters can not be fully deployed, for this reason, the Chinese emperor's fighter group is divided into four echelons, each echelon of 1,000 fighters, using the advantage of climbing and speed to dive down from a high altitude to attack the US interceptor.

The first echelon has a large number of Hellfire fighters and Thunderbolt fighters, with the aim of using the superior firepower of these two fighters to eliminate as many American fighters as possible in the first round of attacks.

The Hellfire fighters first launched concentrated rockets, and the dense rockets were overwhelming, destroying more than 100 US fighters in an instant. Then six M2 heavy machine guns of the Hellfire fighter and one M2 heavy machine gun of the Thunderbolt fighter opened fire fiercely, and in an instant, bullets rained down. The 12.7 mm heavy machine gun bullet was completely unmatched by the 7.92 heavy machine gun firepower of the US fighter jets, and the fragile wooden hull fuselage was beaten all over the body in an instant. In the first round of dive attacks, more than 50 US fighters were shot down, and nearly half of them were scarred.

Then, the fighter groups of the two sides began to struggle, and in the face of the Chinese Imperial pilots, who were experienced in air combat, the US pilots were basically beaten in terms of unsatisfactory technical and psychological quality. In less than five minutes of the melee, half of the U.S. fighter jets were shot down.

In the sky, one after another US fighter planes painted with the Stars and Stripes logo either exploded in the air and turned into a fiery red, or the fuselage fell with black smoke swirling. ╔╗

Watching his fighter jets being shot down one after another, Karl, the commander of the US military base in the ground bunker, felt like a knife, but he had nothing he could do. In the face of the absolute superiority of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, he only hoped to gain some tactical experience in the great defeat, and did not accumulate experience in organizing counterattacks by the US forces in the future.

When the ammunition of the first echelon of fighters of the Chinese Imperial Air Force was about to run out, they quickly climbed to the airspace above 3,000 meters, while the US fighters could not climb to this height. Subsequently, the second, third, and fourth echelons successively dived down to attack the US Air Force, and by the time the fourth echelon dived down, the US fighters had already been wiped out.

It was a one-sided massacre at all, but it also took 7 minutes of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

After the fierce fighting, the 13th Air Wing of the U.S. Army was completely annihilated. At a modest cost of 45 fighters, the Imperial Chinese Air Force completely annihilated the US Air Force in Elmendorf and seized air supremacy in the Battle of Anchorage.

After seizing air supremacy, the Chinese Imperial bomber group could be reduced to 1000 airspace with impunity to carry out carpet bombing of Elmendorf Air Base.

High-explosive aerial bombs fell with a roar, accompanied by a thunderous explosion, and a violent blast wave swept through everything. In the midst of the earthquake, a column of sand and dust hundreds of meters high rose from the ground in an instant.

After 10 minutes of bombing, the US airbase in Elmendorf was razed to the ground, and the flames were scorching and the smoke obscured the sky. Tens of thousands of officers and men of the US military bases were killed in the air raids, except for a few military installations at the bases that were relatively remote, all other military facilities were destroyed, and the comprehensive bases that the US military spent $200 million and built in five years were destroyed in one fell swoop.

With the complete destruction of Elmendorf Air Force Base, the main Alaska Air Force force was eliminated, leaving only Els Base in the central region of Alaska with an air squadron and two hundred fighters, but it was too far from Anchorage to be reinforced. ╔╗

The loss of the Elmendorf Air Force Wing by the US forces in Anchorage is equivalent to the loss of air supremacy, and what awaits them is only to be beaten.

From 10 a.m., the Imperial Chinese naval aviation began to provide air support to the landing force. Thousands of fighters formed more than a dozen attack echelons, and every 10 minutes they carried out a dive attack on the US coastal positions.

Machine gun fire, rocket attacks, and US officers and soldiers were all over the ground looking for teeth. Then the bombers swooped down and dropped high-explosive aerial bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and petrol bombs, destroying the American fortifications, turning the earth into scorched earth and lakes and streams into steam.

Although Anchorage's U.S. 77th Army desperately resisted, they did not have air supremacy, and the casualties were too great, and by 11 a.m., the 77th Army had suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties. The U.S. military had no choice but to abandon the coastline and search for key points to be defended by its forces.

At 11:10 a.m., the 35th Chariot Regiment of the Chinese Emperor completed the landing and quickly advanced towards the city of Anchorage.

The U.S. forces successively set up six defensive positions on the periphery of Anchorage, but they could not stop the Chinese Imperial Chariot Force at all.

At 11:40, 40 M16 combat vehicles broke through the three blockade lines of the US army in succession. After many battles, the Chinese Emperor finally learned to work in tandem with the infantry and chariots, and when the chariot regiment attacked, the infantry followed and charged. The tank's artillery and heavy machine guns covered the infantry charge, while the infantry covered the vehicle's flanks and protected it from suicide attacks by American soldiers.

When the Chinese Imperial Tank Unit broke through the three blockade lines of the US army in a row, most of the US troops responsible for blocking the attack had already suffered casualties, and the rest were also wounded, and most importantly, the morale of the US troops became extremely low. Originally, the U.S. military had more than 100 tanks deployed in Anchorage, but these tanks were destroyed by the Imperial Chinese Air Force and anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns before they reached the front line, making it impossible for the U.S. military to face the steel torrent attack of the Chinese Emperor.

At around 12:20 p.m., the U.S. forces voluntarily abandoned the last three lines of defense, and the Chinese Emperor quickly occupied them, encountering only sporadic resistance. ╔╗

At half past one in the afternoon, the U.S. military concentrated the last reserve of 1,000 men on the northwest outskirts of Anchorage in an attempt to make a final resistance. But before the reserve arrived at the intended position, the American troops there had already fled, and the chariot regiment of the Chinese Emperor had already marched into the city of Anchorage.

As a last resort, the U.S. commander ordered street fighting, but was opposed by Anchorage Mayor Benn. Benn demanded that the U.S. forces surrender because he wanted to keep the citizens of Anchorage safe.

The commander of the US army, Lieutenant General George Henry, had no choice but to surrender to the Chinese Emperor with the remaining 700 US officers and soldiers.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Rear Admiral Chen Jing, the representative of the Chinese Emperor, reached an agreement with George and Benn. Benn paid $5,000,000 in compensation to the Emperor in exchange for his kindness to the American citizens of Alaska. At the same time, at the request of the Chinese Emperor, Benn declared that Alaska would secede from the United States Union, submit to the jurisdiction of the central government of the Chinese Empire, join the Great China Federation, and become an overseas territory of the Chinese Empire.

By the end of the Battle of Anchorage, the main American army in Alaska had been largely wiped out. However, the U.S. military also has an Els base in central Alaska, where there is also a U.S. military force.

The Chinese Emperor quickly sent 300 Hellfire fighters to escort the escort, and 200 H2N1 bombers made a long-distance attack on the Elson base.

At around 4 p.m., a group of Imperial Chinese attack planes flew over the Elson base. Since the US military believed that the combat radius of the aircraft of the Chinese Imperial Air Force could not reach the Elson base, the US military was not prepared in time. As a result, the Elson base was devastated, 200 Camel fighters and 30 Handley bombers were blown up in the tarmac and on the runway before they could take off, most of the 300 Renault-17 tanks were destroyed, and less than thirty were left in time to be evacuated. Thousands of US troops were killed or wounded at the base, most of the military facilities and half of the civilian facilities were destroyed, the command building of the base was blown up at the first time, and all the staff personnel, including the commander, were buried alive.

Over the next week, the Chinese Emperor flew 20,000 sorties of fighter jets and bombers to bomb the Elson base and the nearby city of Fairbank, killing and wounding American officers and civilians. ╔╗

At the same time, the Emperor of China quickly repaired the Elmendorf base so that the Imperial Chinese Air Force aircraft could take off and land again and be repaired.

On the morning of 10 May, the 33rd Tank Regiment, the 37th Tank Regiment, and the 92nd Infantry Division of the Chinese Emperor approached Fairbank City along the Alaska Highway after a long journey.

Since the Alaska Highway is the only outside highway in Alaska, the control of Anchorage by the Chinese Emperor is equivalent to pinching off the passage of American troops to flee.

As the Chinese Emperor approached the Elson base, the U.S. troops at the Elson base knew that they were invincible and could not escape, so they symbolically resisted for half an hour before surrendering en masse.

At this point, the Alaskan American army was completely annihilated, and in the following half a month, the Chinese emperor occupied the entire territory of Alaska, and the Alaska campaign was declared.

The US military has lost Hawaii, the Philippines, and Alaska, thus losing all the forward positions of the United States in the Pacific and seriously threatening the west coast of the mainland.

Although the U.S. military performed very badly in the Alaska and Philippine campaigns, and suffered very heavy losses, it bought time for the U.S. military to actively prepare on its own soil.

The U.S. military originally planned to mobilize the navy, army, and air force to reinforce the Pacific Ocean, but considering that the Chinese Empire controlled the passage of the Panama Canal, it was very time-consuming for the U.S. military to detour from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, the US High Command finally decided that the Navy would remain in the Atlantic, and the control of the Pacific Sea would be handed over to the Imperial Chinese Navy.

However, the well-developed railroads in the United States have provided great convenience for the US military. By mid-May, the U.S. military had sent 2 million troops to the Pacific coast. Although the Chinese Emperor occupied Hawaii, but the mainland to Hawaii thousands of miles away, from the mainland of the Chinese Imperial Army to Hawaii through the sea assembly is very slow, and Hawaii is still 3,000 kilometers away from the United States mainland, the army is different from the Marine Corps, a long time by ship greatly affects the combat effectiveness, so the Chinese Emperor had to adjust in Hawaii. ╔╗

On the other side, on the Atlantic. Since the fierce battle between the aircraft carrier fleet of the Chinese and American navies in the waters of Bermuda, the US aircraft carrier fleet has suffered heavy losses, while the imperial Chinese navy has only lost two early modified aircraft carriers, and the main aircraft carrier battle group is in the Pacific Ocean without any losses.

In order to defend the Bermuda base, the Imperial Chinese Air Force deployed more than 2,000 fighters to the Bermuda Air Wing within a month to assist the Bermuda defenders in the defense.

But the U.S. military attack was very strong, and the navy was not transferred to the Pacific, so all the strength was sprinkled on Bermuda.

For this reason, the Bermuda defenders of the Chinese Empire fought very hard. The main fleet of the US Navy used large-caliber naval guns to bombard the coastal fortifications of Bermuda to cover the US military's wave after wave of beach-grabbing landing battles. After a month of fighting, the U.S. military successfully took control of Gretel Bay at the cost of 190,000 men. If Bermuda is regarded as a fishhook, the US military has already captured half of the fishhook, and the tail of the fishhook on the other side is still under the control of the Chinese Emperor.

After landing on Bermuda, the U.S. military launched a land war with the Chinese Emperor. Although the Chinese Emperor was inferior to the US army in terms of numbers, the gap between the two sides was very large in terms of combat effectiveness. The defenders of the Chinese Empire relied on strong fortifications, light and heavy machine guns and artillery, and aircraft support, to suppress firepower. Moreover, the submarine force of the Imperial Chinese Navy would sneak into Harrington Bay every day to replenish troops, weapons and equipment, and ammunition, and transport the wounded and sick away, leaving no burden on the base.

After a month of fierce fighting, the defenders of the Chinese Empire suffered more than 10,000 casualties. Although the Chinese Emperor who held on to the northern part of Bermuda was able to be recharged, the overall supply was lower than the consumption. The frantic attacks of the U.S. military at all costs caused the Chinese emperor to constantly shrink the defensive circle. The reason is that the US military has already taken control of Gretel Bay, and the long-range artillery of the US Navy's super battleships can already strike at the St. David's air base, and the airfields and hangar facilities of the St. David's Air Wing of the Chinese Imperial Air Force are often destroyed, and many fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance planes are destroyed on the ground by heavy artillery fire.

The U.S. Air Force is not idle, and although the U.S. aircraft carrier has lost seven, the remaining three aircraft carriers can still send more than 200 planes a day to attack Bermuda airport. The Imperial Chinese Air Force had a limited number of combat aircraft in Bermuda, and one was one less to knock out.

After a month of fierce fighting, only 77 combat aircraft remained of the Bermuda Air Wing of the Chinese Empire, and even the powerful Thunderbolt fighters lost a lot. Although the Thunderbolt fighter was not lost in the air, the US fighter jets could not shoot down the Thunderbolt fighter in the air. However, the number of fighters of the Bermuda Air Wing was too small, and the US military kept sending fighter planes to attack, and sometimes the Thunderbolt fighters of the Chinese Emperor had just landed, and the US planes pounced when they were refueling, and as a result, they were destroyed on the ground before they could take off.

Suffice it to say, the situation gets worse and worse as the number of fighters in the Bermuda Air Wing decreases. However, the U.S. military can continue to replenish fighter jets from the mainland, and what is even more terrifying is that the U.S. military suffered a big loss in the Pacific Ocean, so it put more bombers on the Atlantic coast.

After mid-May 1917, the U.S. military acquired a new bomber from the British Handley Company, codenamed Handley O-400.

Handley O, an improved version of the O/100, was delivered to the RAF units on 20 April 1917 and differed from the O/100 by the use of four 360 hp Roy-Royce Eagle VIII12-cylinder V-engines, with improved oil circuitry and radiators, and a compressed air-powered engine starter. Although the British Air Force produced only 46 O/400s, they were already operational before the end of the war (on the night of 1 May 1917, 40 O/400s bombed German targets in the Saarland, and it was during this period that equipment began). Moreover, the British army broke through the monopoly of the Imperial Chinese Air Force on aerial bombs, and developed an aerial bomb weighing 1,650 pounds for the first time, which became the largest aerial bomb used by Britain in World War I, which was very close to the one-ton aerial bomb carried by the latest H2N1 bomber of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

The O/400 first flew in March 1917 with a maximum payload of 13 tons, and the O/400 used by the 207 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force was produced by the Petti company, but with the peace talks between the Entente and the Central Powers, the British Air Force successively canceled the order. It was planned to produce 1,450 O/400s in 1917, but in the end Britain could no longer afford to pay for expensive bombers due to financial collapse.

However, after the outbreak of the Sino-American war, the United States actively introduced military technology to the Entente countries, including the O-100 and O-400 bombers. Among them, the O-100 bomber has achieved large-scale industrial mass production in the United States, which can meet the needs of the battlefield. However, because of the insufficient range, the US military urgently needed the British O-400 bomber, which could only compete with the H2N1 bomber of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

To this end, after negotiations, the U.S. military spent $10 million to obtain the O-400 bomber technology and production line from the British Air Force, and then carried out mass production in the United States. However, the U.S. military was unable to achieve local mass production in a short period of time, so it could only purchase ready-made bombers from the Pedy company. And the Pedy company has been preparing a large number of O-400 bomber production lines for the British Air Force, so it can meet the requirements of the US military.

Two and a half months after the start of the Sino-US war, the US military has acquired 100 O-400 bombers, which were delivered to the US Air Force on 20 May.

At this time, the U.S. military lost on all fronts in the Pacific, so 100 O-400 bombers were deployed to the Washington theater of operations, and they took off directly from Washington to carry out a heavy bombing of Bermuda once a day.

Since late May, a large number of aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Air Force have been transferred to the San Juan base in Puerto Rico, the stronghold of the Chinese Empire in the Caribbean, but due to the fierce attack on the Bermuda base by the US military, most of the facilities of the St. Davie Air Base have been destroyed, and it will be very unsafe for combat planes taking off from San Juan to land in the St. Davie Air Force Base.

Under these circumstances, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire decided to temporarily abandon the Bermuda base, and instead use the Bermuda base to contain the US Navy from entering the Caribbean. In this way, the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy will be transferred from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean through the Panama Canal, creating conditions for the subsequent decisive battle between the main ships of the Chinese and American navies.

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In recent days, there has been a break and I ask my friends to forgive me, because the cruiser's otitis media has been committed again, tinnitus, dizziness, and sleep is very bad.