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On the night of May 2, the 17th year of Guanghua, the Supreme Command of the Pacific Theater of the Chinese Empire issued an order to attack Alaska. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info (full text e-book free download)

In the early morning of 3 May, the advance fleet of the Chinese Emperor ** penetrated deep into Cook Bay on the Alaska Peninsula, and ten submarines secretly sent 200 elite special forces from the Marine Corps to a remote area southwest of Anchorage.

Although Anchorage is the outlet of the Alaska Railroad of the United States, it has no beaches, only mudflats and coastal highlands, so it is not suitable for the Chinese Emperor ** beach landing operations.

For this reason, the Chinese Emperor ** chose to first capture the seaside town near Anchorage, and then encircle Anchorage from both flanks. The left and right flanks were planned to be feints on the left flank and the right flank as the main attack. But in fact, it is necessary to adjust it at any time according to the situation on the battlefield, and the Chinese emperor needs to know which direction the main force of the US army will be transferred to, and then he can determine the general attack from the other direction.

The 200 elite Marines who landed secretly quickly took down the U.S. sentry in southwest Cook Bay. According to the CIA's pre-war report, U.S. military posts had to be contacted every hour or the alarm would have to be sounded. Therefore, the special forces immediately made a secret sortie to Heights 13 after terminating the US coast posts in the area.

In the darkness of night, the 2nd Commando Team quietly touched Heights 13, where there was a coastal fortification of the American Army, which was guarded by more than 400 American soldiers. If the highland fortress is captured, it will greatly reduce the losses of the landing force of the Chinese Emperor.

The vicinity of Highland Fortress 13 is riddled with mines, and without a road map from the U.S. military, it would be difficult to safely pass through the minefield without stepping on it. However, the U.S. military has laid electric mines here, that is, manually controlled electric switches to detonate mines. The biggest disadvantage of this type of mine is that once the motor room is controlled, the minefield will be defenseless. But the U.S. military's motor room is very hidden and cannot be easily found.

The U.S. military in Anchorage does not have much sense of war, although China and the United States have started a war, but the U.S. military here believes that Alaska is a barren land, and after the Chinese Emperor ** captured Hawaii, the next combat target should be aimed at the west coast of the United States mainland, so the U.S. military in Alaska has not made sufficient preparations for war. The U.S. troops on duty drank and played cards as usual, visiting brothels, and neglected their guard.

Of course, even if the U.S. military neglects to take precautions, it is not easy for the Chinese emperor to succeed.

For this reason, Major Chen Jun, the leader of the advance team of the Chinese Emperor, who served as the leader of the Chinese Emperor's ** advance team, came up with a plan to lure the US troops on duty to come out, and as long as they came out, they would briefly turn off the electric mine system.

Chen Jun divided more than a dozen people, and hid from a distance to shoot black guns at the American military fortress. The sporadic gunfire initially aroused a high alert of the US military, thinking that the Chinese Emperor ** had called, but then when it was discovered that there were only a few people shooting, they thought it was a local ** armed disturbance, so the alarm was quickly lifted. However, a team of U.S. troops was sent down to hunt down the troublemakers.

In the dark of night, more than 20 US officers and men chased after each other.

When passing through a narrow area, more than a dozen astigmatism bullets suddenly flew out, and the US troops were instantly blinded, and then the Chinese Emperor ** special combat team members lurking on both sides suddenly killed and quickly captured these US troops.

The captives knelt on the ground in rows, and Chen Jun swept his eyes twice, and then ordered his men to kill the three in a silent manner, which immediately frightened the other American soldiers and begged for mercy. But when Chen Jun asked these American troops to cooperate with them to control the fortress, they all shook their heads and said no.

Chen Jun picked one of the most cowardly American Army Private Jack, and as soon as he made a look, his subordinates immediately killed the others one by one in front of him, and soon he was so frightened that he agreed to cooperate.

In this way, Chen Jun led a team of special combat personnel who changed into US military uniforms and deceived the US military patrol officers through Jack.

The moment he entered the US position, Chen Jun winked, and his special combat team members quickly showed their light machine guns and shot the unsuspecting US troops. The U.S. forces resisted, but the internal passage of the position was narrow, which was not suitable for a large number of fighters. The light machine gun of the Chinese Emperor was strong, and in the local fierce fighting, it was difficult for the US troops to form a firepower advantage with rifles alone, and their positions were constantly lost.

At 4:03 a.m., a team of special combat personnel occupied the motor room and cut off the power supply to the minefield, so that the mines and barbed wire power grids in the minefield were incapacitated.

At 4:27 a.m., Chen Jun's special combat team eliminated the US troops in the No. 13 heights, and at the same time sent out a signal flare for a safe landing.

The left flank attack echelon, which had been waiting in the bay, immediately launched a landing operation after spotting three red flares in the sky.

The gunfire in the dark night was heard by the defenders of Anchorage, who heard the gunfire near Heights 13 and quickly reported it to Lieutenant General Reeves, the commander of the Alaska base. Reeves learned of an accident on Heights 13 and quickly ordered the U.S. cruiser fleet in Anchorage Harbor to set off to check it out. At the same time, the 77th Regiment under the 771st Army of the US Army was sent to the 13th Heights for reinforcements.

At five o'clock in the morning, the 29th Division of the Army took charge of the attack echelon on the left flank of the Chinese Emperor, and the 531st and 532nd regiments landed on the four beachheads of A, B, C and D in the left flank area respectively. Since the US shore fortifications in the area had already been occupied by the Chinese Emperor, the landing operation was very successful.

The 771st Regiment of the U.S. Army quickly reinforced Area 13, but was blocked by the special combat team led by Chen Jun 20 kilometers away from the landing site. Although Chen Jun's special combat team was strong, they were not suitable for a head-on battle with the regular US troops, so they fought and retreated, planted mines everywhere, set up sniper points, and resisted step by step, and finally delayed the US reinforcements for two hours.

At about half past six in the morning, the infantry units of the 531st and 532nd regiments of the Chinese Emperor ** had completed the landing and quickly entered the No. 13 highland fortress to build a beachhead defensive position. Sappers built temporary trestle bridges, and large landing ships then transported heavy weapons and ammunition such as combat vehicles and artillery to the beachhead.

In order to intercept the US Navy cruiser, 12 battleships, 8 heavy cruisers, 9 light cruisers, more than 30 hunting destroyers, and more than a dozen submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy intercepted 8 nautical miles northwest of Cook Bay.

At 5:13 a.m., the navies of China and the United States encountered. The Imperial Chinese Navy's Zhu Di was the first to fire, and the 18-inch cannon roared like thunder, starting the Battle of Cook Bay.

At this time, the sky was still very dark, the two fleets were 25 kilometers apart, and the American cruiser fleet was far from reaching the effective artillery range, but the Ming-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy already had a radar system, although the accuracy was still very poor, with an error of more than 100 meters, but it could use the darkness to prepare for over-the-horizon artillery fire.

In the night, I saw the flickering firelight, and then the deafening sound of cannons came, and huge water columns hundreds of meters high were stirred up on the sea, and the calm sea surface of Cook Bay instantly boiled.

"What a powerful artillery fire!"

On the US fleet, the officers and men of the US military felt palpitations. They could only see the flickering fire in the northwest direction of the sky, and they could not see the specific situation of the opponent's battleship at all, but they could judge the caliber of the shells by the huge column of water stirred up by the shells falling on the nearby sea. Obviously, the officers and men of the American cruiser fleet knew very well that they were encountering a powerful battlefleet.

Whether or not to continue to advance has become a question in the minds of all US officers and men. Fighting the Imperial Chinese Navy, which is experienced in naval warfare, is already in a weak position, and it is even more unwise to rely on cruisers to go head-to-head with the super battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

However, the commander of the U.S. fleet, Colonel Smith, believed that it was impossible for the Imperial Chinese Navy to hit them in the dark, so he ordered the entire fleet to move forward and be sure to stop the landing force of the Chinese Empire.

At 5:22, the sky was already somewhat cloudy, and the fleets of the two sides were 15 kilometers apart. This distance was still not the distance that the American cruiser fleet could prepare for artillery fire, so Smith continued to give the order to advance.

However, the artillery preparations of the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet have become more and more precise, and the shell impact point is getting closer and closer to the US warship, and the sea water stirred up by the violent explosion is poured on the US warship, and the icy sea water has intensified the tension of the US officers and men.

At 5:25 a.m., the 1st Battleship Detachment of the Imperial Chinese Navy's Task Force fired its seventh salvo, and 48 shells weighing 1.8 tons swept across the sky and smashed into the US fleet with a roar. After several rounds of fire, this round of shelling hit the US warship for the first time.

"Boom!"

With a loud explosion, three American cruisers and one American destroyer were hit. In an instant, huge flames rose from the US warship, which instantly lit up the sky. The violent explosion of 18-inch shells inflicted heavy damage on the American warship. The cruiser USS Monroe was hit on the island, and the entire island was razed to the ground, killing and wounding more than 100 American troops. The hull of the ship burst into flames. The cruiser Boone was hit simultaneously by three 18-inch bombs, and the devastating explosion blew the light cruiser, which was less than 102 mm armored, to shreds. Another old armored cruiser of Spartanburg was hit by a single shot, and despite being an armored cruiser, the ship had 254 mm armor protection, but could not escape the fate of sinking, and was hit by a 481 mm armor-piercing shell that pierced the port side waterline and sank in less than 3 minutes. Compared to the DD39 destroyer, which was blown into air and soot by a single shot, she sank more decently.

As the U.S. warship was hit, the skyrocketing flames from the explosion revealed the position of the U.S. fleet, and the Imperial Chinese Navy observers could use these fires to relocate the shell impact, followed by more intense and precise artillery strikes.

At 5:27 a.m., Smith's ship, the cruiser Aiken, was hit by three 16-inch shells from the battleship Zhao Kuangyin, two of which hit the island, blowing up more than half of the island. Another shell pierced through the central deck and exploded under the four decks, instantly blasting open a hole more than three meters wide on the bottom of the ship, and the sea water poured into it violently, and the bow of the ship sank rapidly, and the stern was cocked. The American troops above fell into the sea one after another, but before they could swim away, the Aiken quickly sank and caused a whirlpool, sucking hundreds of American officers and soldiers, including Smith, into the bottom of the sea, and only a few escaped.

The flagship sank, and the US Navy no longer had the fighting spirit. In the next 20 minutes of shelling, seven U.S. Navy warships were sunk one after another, and the remaining five warships turned around and fled. As a result, it was ambushed by the Chinese Imperial Submarine Fleet, which had been ambushed nearby, four American cruisers and destroyers were sunk, and the light cruiser USS Lockheed hit a reef and ran aground in desperation, and the captain ordered the ship to be abandoned.

The half-hour Battle of Cook Bay came to an end, and the Alaska Fleet of the US Navy was completely wiped out. The Imperial Chinese Navy suffered zero casualties, because until the end of the naval battle, the US ships did not fire a single shell, which became the most sloppy naval battle in the history of the US Navy, and has been cited as a great shame by the US Navy for hundreds of years since then.

On the right flank attack direction, the 71st Division of the Chinese Emperor ** served as the main attack, attacking the No. 7 height. Before the attack was launched, a special combat team was also dispatched to the area to carry out a surprise attack, but the plan failed, and the US military detected that the sneak attack failed, and the attack was changed to a frontal attack.

The 3rd Battleship Detachment and the 6th Cruiser Squadron of the Imperial Chinese Navy were responsible for artillery cover, and at 5:33 a.m., the 822nd Regiment successfully landed on the beach and controlled the beachhead of E, but the American counterattack was very fierce, and the fierce machine gun fire suppressed the 822nd Regiment on the mudflats and could not move forward.

In order to alleviate the attack losses of the 822nd Regiment, at 5:50 a.m., the 702nd Regiment carried out a landing battle on the Haizi mudflat, pinning down the US troops, and reducing the pressure on the No. 7 Heights.

At dawn, when the first rays of sunlight penetrated the clouds, the second, third, and sixth carrier battle groups of the Chinese Imperial Navy were ready, and the naval aviation dispatched 1,500 fighters and 200 bombers to carry out a fierce attack on the US coastal defense positions to cover the operation of the Chinese Imperial ** landing force.

In addition, about 3,500 fighters and 600 bombers went to the air raid on the US Elmendorf Air Force Base, planning to eliminate the US air force in Alaska and seize air supremacy.

At 6:32 a.m., Elmendorf Air Base received a report from a ground post that a large number of Imperial Chinese Air Force planes were flying in, so 300 Camel fighters and 1,200 Newport fighters of the 13th Air Wing of the US Army rushed into the air to intercept the attack group of the Imperial Chinese Air Force. At the same time, 100 Handley O-100 bombers of the US military also took off and flew to Cook Bay to attack the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

At 6:51 a.m., a group of attack planes of the Chinese Empire flew over Elmendorf Air Base. In order to ensure the safety of the bomber group, Major General Liu Jinnan of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, who was in charge of the air raid, ordered the bomber group to stay at an altitude of 4,000 meters, because this altitude could not be reached by the US planes, and it was very safe to drop bombs. However, the drawbacks are not small, there are many clouds at this altitude, it is somewhat difficult to aim at US ground targets, and the hit rate is greatly reduced.

At 6:54 a.m., the Imperial Chinese Air Force battle group swooped down and engaged in a fierce battle with the US fighter group. The number of fighters on both sides is the same, but the difference in quality is too great. The Cat Demon Fighter, Thunderbolt Fighter and Hellfire Fighter of the Imperial Chinese Air Force have advanced performance, plus the pilots of the US Air Force have no actual combat experience, often the US Army's three Camel fighters or Newport fighters can spell out a Cat Demon fighter, and eight US fighters can barely spell out a Thunderbolt fighter, and in the face of the Chinese Imperial Air Force's all-metal ultra-high-performance Hellfire fighter, regardless of speed, maneuverability or firepower, the gap between the US fighters is too large. Most of the time, the U.S. pilots were suddenly killed without seeing each other. In particular, although the hit rate of the rockets mounted on the Hellfire fighters is too low when fighting alone (basically they can't hit the enemy planes), the US Air Force has no experience and is still in a large-scale group combat mode, so before the two sides were in a scuffle, all the Hellfire fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force shot more than 2,000 rockets at the US military plane group in one go, and as a result, 144 US fighters were knocked out at once, making a good start.

The US fighter plane group was suddenly attacked by a large area of rockets, and while suffering heavy losses, it was even more frightened. Originally, the U.S. military did not have much confidence in fighting the battle-hardened Chinese Emperor**, and it was even more frightened when it encountered unknown Chinese Imperial Air Force fighters and attack methods.

After 15 minutes of engagement, the U.S. military had lost more than 360 fighters, while the Imperial Chinese Air Force had lost only 52 fighters.

At 7:20 a.m., the Chinese Emperor ** bomber group dropped bombs at an altitude of 4,000 meters, destroying one-third of the military facilities at the Elmendorf Air Base on the ground, but failed to achieve the expected results. However, many aerial bombs fell on the runway of the US military, blowing up huge craters one after another, and although the US military on the ground rushed to repair them, they did not have four hours to repair them.

However, the US fighter planes stayed in the air for no more than two hours, and it was simply impossible to hold out until the runway was repaired before landing, and this became a fatal wound for the US Air Force.

Half an hour after the fierce battle, the Chinese Imperial attack aircraft began to return one after another. The first to be evacuated were the early Catdemon fighters, as they were the only ones who had the shortest time in the air and needed to return to the aircraft carrier before running out of fuel. The Thunderbolt fighter group retreated for the second wave, and the Hellfire fighters with the strongest endurance continued to fight with the US fighters.

At 8:12, the first wave of air raids by the Chinese Empire was over. A total of 131 Catdemon fighters and 42 Thunderbolt fighters were lost, and there were no losses of bombers and Hellfire fighters. The US military lost 533 fighters in the air battle, but because the runway of the ground airfield was blown up, the US fighters had to make a forced landing in the nearby lawn area, and as a result, 203 fighters were lost in non-combat, of which more than half of the forced landing failed, the plane was destroyed and people died, and the other planes also caused more or less damage to the airframe, and more than half of the planes could not take off in a short time.

The commander of the Elmendorf Air Base, General Karl, was so angry that he almost vomited blood, he knew that it would not be long before the second wave of air raids by the Imperial Chinese Air Force would come, and at that time the runway would not have time to be repaired, and a large number of planes could only barely take off from the lawn, but it would definitely cause very great damage to the planes.

On the other side, 100 Handley O100 bombers taking off from Elmendorf Air Force Base flew over Cook Bay at 7:30 a.m. The fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was carrying out heavy artillery bombardment of US shore fortifications, was bombed. Although the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force sent more than 300 fighters to intercept it, and several Chinese Aegis air defense cruisers carried out fire interceptions, two destroyers were still sunk, one troop carrier was severely damaged, and more than 300 Imperial Chinese soldiers on board were killed.

Although all 100 bombers of the US military were shot down, the attack by the US bomber group this time reminded the Chinese Imperial Air Force that in the field of bombers, the Chinese Empire could no longer bully the United States as one-sidedly as before, and the US Air Force also had the ability to counterattack.

The U.S. Army's O-100 bomber was developed by British aviation pilot Page, who had been designing a twin-engine bomber as early as 1911, and by December 1914, according to the technical requirements put forward by the British Admiralty, Petti used the previous design to develop a large twin-engine patrol bomber, which was originally named Handley-Petty O, and then changed to O/100, where the number 100 represented the wingspan of the aircraft in feet. The O-model was larger than any aircraft produced by Pédge before, and on 7 December 1915 the prototype of the O/100 made its first flight, making it the largest aircraft ever built in Britain at the time.

The O/100 is a traditional wooden structure with cloth skin, a main wing with an upper reverse angle that can be folded back, a rectangular fuselage cross-section, two wheels for each main landing gear, and a skid-type landing gear at the tail. The aircraft was powered by a 266-horsepower Roy-Royce Eagle II engine housed in an armored engine nacelle.

After the British developed this bomber, because the local economy had collapsed due to World War I, they had to transfer to the United States for domestic production, relying on the strong industrial capacity of the United States, and soon achieved large-scale industrial production. After the start of the Sino-US war, in order to avenge the revenge of Pearl Harbor, the US Air Force invested money to expand the production lines of various combat aircraft, of which the production line of the O-100 was expanded by 100 in one month, so that the US Air Force got 1,000 bombers of this type in May, plus some bombers produced for the Entente before the war, the US bombers have reached 2,000. However, because the US High Command believed that the Chinese Emperor would attack the west coast of the US mainland next or launch an attack on the southern part of the United States in the Caribbean, the US military assigned most of its bombers and fighters to the West Coast and Cuba, followed by the Bermuda campaign on the east coast of the United States, so not many were deployed to Alaska.

In order to retaliate against the US bomber group, at 9:03 a.m., the second wave of air raid planes of the Imperial Chinese Air Force arrived over Elmendorf Air Base. The Imperial Chinese Air Force dispatched 4,000 fighters and 800 bombers, and they received orders to completely raze Elmendorf Air Force Base to the ground and completely wipe out Alaska's air resistance.

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