In the previous war, the Republican Marine Corps and Navy ordered a lot of prefabricated parts. [No pop-up novel network] can quickly repair the port damaged by the war. So during the combat operations against Portland and Boston, the Republican Marines did not care too much about the port infrastructure.

Under the circumstances, the Marines were unable to focus on the port's infrastructure.

After the battle at Portsmouth, the Republican Marines had a little bit of a bottom about the combat operations in the United States, and realized that the next battle would not be easy, and they were ready for a fierce battle. It was this that the Marines marched to Portland on the fifth day after the landing, and Boston on the seventh, because it was only by this time. Reinforcements arrived, and the Marines were strong enough.

The problem is that the Marine Corps officers and men still grossly underestimate the will of the American military and the Americans to resist.

During the advance into Portland, the Marines were stubbornly resisted by the U.S. Army and the U.S. militia, the enlarged National Guard, after leaving Pontsmouth, with an average advance of less than kilometers per hour! It's about four kilometers from Phuntsmouth to Portland, and it's a good day. And it was achieved after paying a huge price of nearly a thousand casualties.

There is no doubt that the attack on Portland was also very difficult

In fact, it was precisely because the battle for Portland was much more difficult than expected that the Marines were forced to send a brigade that was supposed to go south, thus delaying the operation time of the southward attack on Boston.

In a sense, postponing out the hour is not a bad thing.

Although Portland is the largest city in Maine and the northernmost large port city in the continental United States, in the northeastern United States, Portland, with a population of only Liwan, can only be barely regarded as a large city, and there are no decent large and medium-sized towns in the surrounding area, so it is much less difficult to enter Portland than to attack Boston. You know, Boston is the site of the American Revolution, and it is one of the most important port cities in the northeastern United States. It is also the capital of Massachusetts and the seat of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Within kilometers of Boston, there are large and medium-sized cities with populations of about 10,000, such as Mancester and Nasuhe, which belong to New Hampshire, Lens, Lynn, Brockton, Worcester, New Bedford, and Princefield, which belong to Massachusetts, Providence, which belong to Rhode Island, and Hartford, New Haven, and Titbury, which belong to Connectiqiug, as well as many small and medium-sized towns with populations of only tens of thousands. In the words of some Republican Marines, the march from P. Tsmouth to Boston was in fact a march through the city, one city after another.

The troubles encountered in the march to Portland caused great attention among the Republican Marines.

When marching to Boston, the commander of the Marine Corps did not hold it any longer, but put the fire cover in place from the beginning, not only let the fire support fleet that followed the actions of the Marine Corps Although the fire support fleet belonged to the navy, but when supporting the landing operation, the Marine Corps directly commanded the approach to the coastline, shortened the artillery distance and shortened the firing range, which was equivalent to reducing the output energy of the electromagnetic gun, which could also reduce the heat emitted by the reducer, so that the electromagnetic gun could fire faster, or continue to shell for a longer time, and also contacted the navy. It is required to send all the forces that can be sent to cover the attack on Boston by the Marines at all costs.

In any case, the Navy and the Marine Corps are ants tied to a rope.

According to information disclosed after the war, long before the invasion of the Atlantic, the Navy and the Marine Corps reached a secret agreement, that is, the Marine Corps unconditionally supported the combat operations of the Navy in the Atlantic, in return. The Navy will unconditionally support the Marines' combat operations on the U.S. mainland. Although the Navy and Marine Corps have never admitted to having such a honeymoon. Moreover, with the announcement of the dissolution of the navy shortly after the end of the war, to be precise, it was reduced from a branch of the military to a single species, and there is no way to confirm whether there is such a secret treaty, but one thing is certain, that is, when the navy marched into the Atlantic. It was indeed selflessly supported by the Marine Corps. For example, during the attack on the Cape Verde Islands. The Marines sent two brigades of troops, at the disposal of the Navy, and became the main force of the Navy to capture the Cape Verde's Islands, rather than allowing the Army to intervene in naval operations. In fact, when it came time to march into the United States, even without this secret treaty, the Navy would unconditionally support the Marine Corps. Because whether it is attacking Boston or advancing south, it is helping the Navy achieve the purpose of the war, that is, to fundamentally defeat the United States. In a sense, the ground operations of the Marine Corps are only consolidating the gains of a strategic strike, and therefore the Navy has every reason to comply with the request of the Marine Corps. Adjust the strategic strike arrangement.

With the support of the Navy. The assault on Boston turned into a devastating war.

Along the way, it can be said that the Navy paved the way for the Marines with shells and bombs.

Two days later, when the vanguard of the Marines reached outside Boston on the old day of July, the area between Peachmouth and Boston had been almost completely leveled by artillery fire, with only a few facilities recognized by the authorities of the Republic and protected by the High Command of the Republic had been preserved. For example, there are dozens of universities north of Boston.

This time, the Marines did not storm the city in one go.

Over the next 2 days, the Marine Corps mobilized hundreds of aircraft, including those belonging to the Twin Wings. In July, many of the soldiers were sent to the Greater Boston area by a large number of large-scale strategic slurs that ironically made up the bulk of these leaflets were made up of voluntary labor. and printed by American prisoners who had acquired the citizenship of the Republic by labor, and clearly declared. A general offensive will be carried out on the day of July. Other words. If the inhabitants of Boston want to live. It's best to leave the city before then. In an effort to speed up the evacuation of civilians and create a more tense atmosphere of terror, the Republican Marines also announced the establishment of a civilian evacuation point north of Boston. By the time the Republican Marine Corps had set up several camps in Newfoundland and Anticosty, enough to accommodate tens of millions of war refugees, using military equipment, including vertiports, to transport civilians willing to evacuate to safety, namely the camps in Phuntsmouth. The reasons for allowing the Marines to set up camps for the Republic, or for the fact that the Republican authorities used the help of the Marines, are very complex. At the time, in addition to sheltering refugees, preventing a humanitarian catastrophe, and avoiding giving Europe an excuse, it also weakened the will of Americans in New England to resist and reduced the likelihood of an uprising. Postwar. It has even been argued that this is a republic's action against the Jews, i.e. that all refugees who are resettled will be distinguished according to their ethnicity, nominally. This was to prevent racial riots in the concentration camps, but in fact it was to put some "high risk." The peoples were centrally controlled, including the Jews, and the people who were resettled at that time. Of the 10,000 Jews, less than Jinwan chose to stay in the United States after the war, and the rest chose to leave for their new Jewish homeland, Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. As a result of this, many believe that this was a deliberate act by the authorities of the republic. And the establishment of war refugee camps in wartime was aimed at the Jews, and the Jews were to be separated from Western civilization. Of course, no matter how much blame is received, almost everyone admits it. The establishment of special camps for the resettlement of war refugees is an effective way to reduce the casualties incidental to the war.

Mother Trump, God, enough to make the choice of more than 10,000 Americans in the Boston area.

In July, the assault on Boston began. Because the tactical intelligence provided by the navy shows that at least there are still Li Wanmei ** people and militia guarding the city, and almost all roads have set up defensive lines, if they simply attack on the ground. The casualties of the Marines would be enormous, so before the offensive began, the Marines called for artillery support, which lasted for several hours. You must know that at this time, in addition to the four fire support fleets commanded by the Marine Corps, were staying in the waters off the coast of the United States. There is also the old main fleet of 4 fleet groups. With the Chanji air fleet with a group of 4 sea bases. Even without taking into account the air forces, the fire support fleet and the main fleet alone could wipe Boston off the ground.

And so it was, and by the time the shelling was over, Boston no longer existed.

According to the combat records of the Republican Navy and Marine Corps, in these few hours, the fire support fleet and the main fleet dropped a total of 10,000 tons of artillery shells on the Greater Boston area, and the air force also dropped about 20,000 tons of bombs, and the heavy artillery fire covered the entire Greater Boston area three times.

There is no doubt that when the Marines go on the offensive, all that remains is the task of cleaning up the battlefield.

Heavy firepower made it easy to occupy the Greater Boston area, but it made it extremely difficult to clean up the battlefield after the occupation.

For this reason, the Marine Corps not only organized the engineering battalions of the Marine Corps deployed to the front line, but also had several times the number of personnel of the combat battalions. It also has more than 1,000 units of large-scale engineering equipment, the total mass of which is equivalent to an infantry brigade, and 2 marine brigades remain.

Even so, it still took a full amount of time to clear the battlefield.

According to the remains of U.S. officers and soldiers found by the Marines in the rubble, as well as equipment and other relics, the U.S. troops guarding the Greater Boston area at that time must not have been as small as that, or even less than half of that number. According to data released after the war, the Republican Navy adjusted its tactical assessment after the battle, that is, admitting that it had made mistakes in attacking the Greater Boston area and overestimated the strength of the American army. In the case of an investigation report submitted by the Navy to the High Command after this battle. Because American civilians have a lot of guns. That is, the United States has a large number of armed civilians, and some of the US troops deliberately disguise themselves as civilians when carrying out combat missions, so it is not surprising that the Navy's reconnaissance system fails to accurately distinguish between civilians and soldiers, that is, the responsibility is not on the Navy. In fact, the Supreme High Command did not hold the Navy accountable, but insisted on the Navy's tactical judgment that armed civilians had posed a mortal threat to the Republicans on combat missions, and should be treated as military personnel, not civilians.

As a result, it is probably impossible to say how many military personnel there were in the Greater Boston area at that time.

Just 2 days later, the Republican Marines "captured" Boston Harbor.

By this time, with the port of Portland already occupied, the Republican Marine Corps had captured two more large ports in the northeastern United States with a throughput capacity of more than 100 million tons.

Of course, because the port infrastructure was badly damaged in the fighting, it will take some time to repair the damaged facilities before they can be put into operation. The first fleet to enter the Portland Marine Corps Brigade was given a gamble, including two armored brigades that are very rare in the Marine Corps, because the Marine Corps mainly carries out landing combat missions. Moreover, before that, it was mainly fighting on islands with limited areas, and due to the basic situation, the Marine Corps did not form a special armored unit like the army, and when necessary, strengthen the armored force for the front-line combat units. It was not until the end of the year, as the day of the march into the United States was getting closer and closer, that sooner or later the Marines would have to be the first to land on the North American continent, so the Republican Marines, with the support of the Navy, established several armored brigades. To be precise, several highly decorated units were reorganized into armored units.

4 days later. On August 3, the Port of Boston welcomed its first large convoy. In addition to the much-needed weapons and equipment for the Marine Corps, this fleet also sent the first batch of army units: 4 main battle positions of 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Near Yang Army and all weapons and equipment!

Thankfully, before that, the Marine Corps and the Army had reached a tacit understanding about the marching operation.

With the intervention of the Navy and the Space Army, the High Command made a distinction between the combat operations of the Marine Corps and the Army, that is, the Marine Corps operated in the coastal area and was supported by the Navy, and the Army operated inland, supported by the Space Army, and the dividing line between the coast and the interior was the dividing line between the eastern and central eastern regions of the United States, that is, the Arapachian Mountains. There is no doubt that this arrangement must be the result of the Navy's strong intervention, as it would be tantamount to leaving the Army with no choice. You know, at that time, the U.S. Army had blocked the St. Lawrence River, and it was impossible to go upstream into the Great Lakes region, so the Army would definitely have to rely on the ports controlled by the Marines to fight inland. In this way, even if there is no need to look at the navy's face in combat operations, it is still constrained by the navy in terms of material support and troop mobilization. To put it mildly, even if the Army landed on the U.S. mainland, the Navy could still use the influence of the Marine Corps to make the Army insignificant.

It can be said that at this time, the contradiction between the army and the navy has reached an uncontrollable poison.

According to some information released after the war, Pei Chengyi was no longer able to control the internal struggle of the army led by Yuan Chenhao and Hua Jianfeng at that time. In fact, it was this struggle that led to the post-war "tragedy", that is, Pei Chengyi's fifth military reform before leaving office, and the complete abolition of the military branches. The Army and Marine Corps were merged into a ground combat force, and the Navy was downgraded to a maritime combat force. The space army has become a three-dimensional combat force, and the new armies at the level of these arms have to obey the dispatch and command of the Yuan Government, the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff, and when carrying out combat tasks, they will obey the command of the theater command or the front-line command, and some of the powers previously held by the military branches, such as budget power and personnel power, have been transferred to the Ministry of National Defense. In other words, the republican ** team has become a monolithic force, and no longer a combination of individual units. Of course, for the big war that is going on. The post-war changes had little effect.

The Army went ashore and the Marines advanced from north to south as usual.

In mid-August, the old combat brigade of the Republican Marine Corps surrounded the largest city in the United States, or more precisely, the largest urban area in the United States, the greater New York area. In terms of population, regional area, economic aggregate, influence, and other aspects that determine the status of the city, the Greater New York area is among the best in the world, second only to the Yangtze River Delta region of the Republic, and before the Greater Paris of Europe. Nearly 40,000 people live in this area, which is about four square kilometers in size, including Americans living on Manhattan Island alone, 20,000 residents on Long Island across the ocean, Jinwan residents on Staten Island to the south, and Newark, New Jersey, across the river. 40,000 people. It can be said that Manhattan Island is definitely the most densely populated area in the world in terms of the number of people per unit area! Of course, by the time the Republican Marines arrived, two-thirds of the population had already left their homes, some fleeing south to the area around the Chesapeake Bay, which had recently been shelled, and many more heading west to the interior, especially the towns and villages of the Arapachian Mountains.

In order to find out how many people are still in the greater New York area, the Republican Space Force has also launched a group of small satellites to detect life. It took a week to collect data and finally determined that the people operating in the area would definitely not be overly popular. Ten thousand.

It was the results of this probe that helped the authorities of the Republic to make the decision to attack the greater New York area.

Militarily. The Occupy of New York was not worth much. Although New York has the largest port in the United States, the Republican Marine Corps needs a port. It's better to go south and capture Philadelphia. Besides. Boston is only a few hundred kilometers away from New York, and with Boston Harbor, New York Harbor has little value.

Obviously, this was an offensive operation in the service of politics.

In a sense, New York can be seen as a symbol of the United States, or a symbol of American prosperity, and New York is more than Washington in the hearts of Americans!

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