Chapter 444: What a cat to play
Despite the all-out efforts of the US forces to block the attack, on the third day of the Bermuda air battle, the marines still launched a landing campaign, mainly with four landing ships, including the Gongtai and Zibu.
The warplanes of the enemy and us circled in the air, and the ship-launched missiles of the fleet behind them also rose into the air from time to time amid fireworks. More often than not, the "Brute Dragon" attack planes that carried out low-altitude strike missions, and the "Brute Dragons" on the four aircraft carriers of the First Fleet were almost fully dispatched to stage an alternative carpet bombing on Clearwater Beach and PankerBeach East Beach, which were already full of bomb craters and ruins.
The long-crowned Penguin-5 light air-to-air missile and the Ruby-2 precision-guided ground-penetrating bomb plowed the beautiful and leveled beach over and over again.
"Sweep down the beachhead fortifications of Meiping at any cost!" Lieutenant General Zhong Tianguo coldly gave an order to the attack aircraft group.
With the words of the chief of staff, I am afraid of being scolded as a "loser"! The pilots of the "Brute Dragon" threw valuable precision-guided munitions at the two beaches as if they were happy.
Bermuda is on the western side facing the U.S. military, with a tortuous coastline and dense islands and reefs. On the other hand, there are quite a few flat beaches on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
Commander Lu Yining of the First Fleet did not choose to land on Marley Beach and Elbo Beach, which were closest to the port of Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, but chose three small islands to the north, St. George and Morgan, to attack.
Bermuda is not huge, and all the islands combined are just over 50 square kilometres. If it weren't for the middle of the ocean, this would not be enough for the Marine Corps to run an hour in an amphibious armored vehicle.
After the occupation of Bermuda, the U.S. military also deployed its main defensive forces on the northern side of the islands. St. George's Military Port and Kendley Field Airport are both located on St. George's Island.
The Port of Hamilton, Bermuda's capital, is a natural harbor, but because it is located in the bay, it is a dead place from a military point of view, and is only suitable as a commercial port.
Therefore, for the Allies and the U.S. military, the greatest significance of Bermuda is only on St. George's Island, and whoever controls the free port and the airport has the strategic initiative.
The Jewish Brigade of the 1st Marine Division and the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Marine Division operated with the Combined Fleet as the only two Marine units. The Allies had many land forces in Europe, but before they completely seized control of Bermuda, the Allies did not have the prerequisites for landing on the east coast of the Americas, that is, a large enough landing base.
From this point of view, Bermuda, with a total land area of only 54 square kilometres, is not a good choice. The Chief of the General Staff, Marshal Ye Weixun, was built on the island of South Cuba, on the North Nova Scotia Peninsula. Of course, this will involve two other countries - Cuba and Canada.
Whether to land from the Gulf of Mexico or attack Canada first is not a matter for Guan Canghai.
The mission of Commander Guan and the Allied Combined Fleet was to destroy the U.S. Navy and the Atlantic Fleet.
It was the Jewish Brigade that launched the landing attack on Clearwater Beach on St. George's Island. As one of the most prestigious armed forces in the Jewish world, thousands of young Jews travel long distances to the base of the Jewish Brigade on Yizhou Island every year to sign up for the army.
Because when the Jewish Brigade recruited soldiers, it was not restricted to nationality, it was a veritable international column.
Within the Imperial Army, both Ye Luxun and Jiang Yunzhi have raised objections to this issue many times. As long as they are Jews, as long as they pass the physical and cultural tests, even Americans can join the Jewish brigade.
"This is not an international column, this is simply a concentration camp for spies from all over the world." Jiang Shuai was very incomprehensible to His Majesty's insistence on retaining the establishment of the Jewish Brigade and recruiting soldiers regardless of nationality.
But His Majesty has always insisted on his own opinion, "If God dares to join the Jewish Brigade to die for us, I will also dare to accept him!" ”
This is a bit blasphemous, Ye Weixun grinned, "Your Majesty, you are the son of God!" ”
"My god is not a god, the most bullish god among our Han people is the Emperor!" Zhong Yi rolled his eyes.
"I don't think so, the most awesome should be the Queen Mother, right?"
"Damn!" Zhong Yi and Ye Shuai raised their middle fingers at Jiang Yunzhi together.
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Whatever the controversy, the Jewish Brigade was preserved at the insistence of His Majesty.
"I don't want to know your nationality, and I don't want to know what you have done, I just want to tell you: this is the place where the Golden Dragon Banner of the Great Han and the Star of David fly side by side. The only people who can live here are Geralt (fanatic) and Sikari (daggers), only fearless Jewish warriors, you can have your own ghosts, you can be loyal or betrayal of your ancestors' beliefs in your heart, but as long as you want to stay here, you can only live or die in war! ”
At the training base of the Jewish Brigade on Jindao, Yizhou, Lieutenant Colonel Igor Aron insisted on shouting at every group of Jewish soldiers who came here! Until the end of the war, the Golden Island training camp was also preserved and developed. However, a few years later, the Golden Island Training Camp was renamed the International Hunter School, and it was better known as the "Cradle of Mercenaries".
No one knows if it was because of this hunter school that His Majesty insisted on keeping the Jewish brigade until the end of the war, but if you have enough authority, then the top-secret archives of the Imperial National Security Service will tell you how important this hunter school is to the Empire's maintenance of colonial rule and the control of many island nations.
In fact, most of the miracles of the "Son of God" are spread by people who don't know the inside story of the worship of His Majesty. Zhong Yi's original idea for preserving the Jewish Brigade was that Jews were crazy and not afraid of death!
There are so many Jews who are willing to die for the Han people, why not?
Just as in the Battle of Bermuda, in the Battle of Clearwater Beach, Rao did not hesitate to shell the "Brute Dragon" attack aircraft group and the landing ships approaching, and when the Jewish Brigade finally succeeded in establishing a landing position on the beach after several hours of hard fighting, it also paid the price of nearly 400 casualties.
More than 200 Jewish soldiers were killed in the sea, and the American Marines on the coast stood stubborn against the bombardment of the dragons. The Jewish Brigade also pushed the landing site to the periphery of St. George's Town before dark, but was unable to launch a direct attack on Freeport Ireland and Kendalfield Air Force Base.
As a result, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Jewish Brigade who landed had to stay overnight on the beachhead, surviving the salty sea breeze and the night attacks of the American army.
After dawn, the commander of the Jewish Brigade, Colonel Igar Dolly, sent the 109th Regiment as a reserve to replace the 107th Regiment, which had not rested all night. These fresh forces, who had been holding back on the landing ship all day and did not even have a chance to fire a shot on the first day of the landing battle, were really violent. By sunrise, St. Georgetown, the main city in northern Bermuda, was largely behind the Allies.
The U.S. military planted a large amount of explosives at Kendry Air Force Base and Freeport. Obviously, the Americans meant that even if they could not hold Bermuda, they would throw the Allies a waste island, and the military facilities built by the US military and the British before would never give the Allies a chance to pick up ready-made ones.
At noon, after the Jewish Brigade soldiers broke through Bermuda Cathedral, the last American stronghold in St. Georgetown, the U.S. troops in Freeport detonated the explosives under the harbor, and more than 2,000 Bermuda, mainly black civilians, were wiped out in the explosion along with Freeport Air.
This made Lu Jining, the chief of staff of Zhong Tingguo and the commander of the First Fleet, who finally took St. George's Island, unable to see any smile on his face. Dead and wounded of the Jewish Brigade...... Forget it, but the Americans are too ruthless, right? Civilians also bombed?
Subsequently, the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Marine Division, which captured Pankbeech East Beach without much effort, advanced south along the road to the island, and the process of taking the capital Hamilton was also uneventful, and the threat posed to the 9th Marine Brigade by only a small number of American troops who were enough to maintain daily law and order was very limited.
Guan Canghai was very glad that the US military had not lost its heart to the point of blowing up the port of Hamilton. Guan Canghai was very troubled, the Battle of Bermuda had come to an end, and Admiral Kim's Atlantic Fleet had not moved at all.
The entire Norfolk military port and Portsmouth area have long been under martial law, and MI5 has been unable to obtain any intelligence from the Atlantic Fleet despite all its efforts.
"What kind of medicine is sold in this gourd by the Americans? Only supported by the Air Force, and the Navy sat back and watched Bermuda be captured, and there was nothing to say? This is not scientific! ”
On the command ship Zhongmou, after receiving a telegram that the 127th Regiment of the 9th Marine Brigade had stormed Hamilton City Hall, and that the Jewish Brigade had basically cleared the US troops on St. George's Island, Guan Canghai's brows tightened.
Bermuda's strategic role is undoubted, but the resistance of the US military is more like going through the motions, and there is no all-out effort at all. In other words, Guan Canghai was confident that the Combined Fleet could capture Bermuda, but it would never be so easy.
On the third day of the Bermuda air battle, the US Air Force reduced the scale of its sorties as if it were unable to follow up on the three days of the Bermuda air battle.
Of course, the U.S. Air Force will not have more than 100 fighters at its disposal, so what does it mean that the Battle of Bermuda was fought like this? Or what kind of temptation can make the U.S. military abandon the strategic role of such an important naval war?
Not to mention blowing up ports and airfields, the Americans should know very well that with the engineering capabilities of the Allies, it is not a difficult problem to build improvised field airfields and temporary ports.
Tearing ...... Uh, the old clock is not here, and Sister Allure can't tear it either.
Puzzled, Commander Guan sent his doubts back to the Allied General Command in Europe on the other side of the ocean. Please refer to Xiao Guoxing and his allied generals.
The answer soon came back, and the Washington government of the United States of America had sent a request to the Great China Alliance for armistice negotiations through the Red Shield royal family of the Kingdom of Judah, and proposed that with the participation of Germany, conduct multi-party negotiations on an armistice in North America!
This kind of news has caused an uproar among the governments of the major coalitions and all strata within the United States.
This battle has been fought like this, the Indian Kingdom and the Workers' Party government in the southern region are about to be formed, can they still negotiate? How to talk about it?